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speaks also, and with equal truth, of "the greater delicacy and spirituality of the Celtic peoples." They are neither so hard nor so gross as the AngloSaxon races; and they have in a high degree the splendid virtues of courage and generosity. Loyalty, too, is a virtue for which the Celt has always been remarkable. Finally, the Celt is essentially a social creature, loving society and hating solitude; and this trait has determined to no small extent his career as a citizen of the United States.
It must be remembered, furthermore, that our Irish immigrants belong not only to the Celtic, but also to a conquered race. They belong to a race which for many years was subjected to a galling persecution. Our immigrants are Catholics; and for a long period the Catholic religion was proscribed in Ireland. Its priests were concealed in the cottages of the peasantry, and mass was said in hiding-places. Resistance by the Irish to England and to the government set over them by England necessarily took the form of conspiracy, sometimes of treachery. And from this long and cruel subjection the Irish character has suffered. It has acquired a quality of deceit, of unveracity, such as is always found in a race long under subjection. The Christians of the East, at this day, are notoriously untruthful. Moreover, in this country, the Irish, notwithstanding their intense love for Ireland, have always exhibited a certain shame at being Irish instead of American. Partly this may have been simply a reflection from the feeling of superiority which the native American felt and showed; but certainly the Irish brought with them a consciousness of inferiority to the AngloSaxon race, not necessarily an inferiority of nature, but an inferiority of condition. Mr. William O'Brien relates a striking illustration of this. "A great prelate," he says, "of distinguished attainments in Irish, was on his way to the visitation of a parish where almost
everybody understood that language. I asked, should we have the advantage of hearing him address the people in Irish? The answer was that nothing would give him greater pleasure, but that one could not insult an Irish-speaking congregation more effectively than by addressing them in Irish; that they would take it as a suggestion that they were a pack of barbarians who knew no English." "Paddy" is a term of opprobrium in this country, even when addressed by one Irishman to another.
Another Irish trait, often exhibited in American life, is a morbid sensitiveness, a readiness to take offense and to suspect insult or unkindness when none is intended; and this, too, is the badge of a conquered race. This failing has been shown most conspicuously in political matters. When Mayor Hewitt, of New York, refused to permit the Irish flag to be hoisted over City Hall upon St. Patrick's Day, the Irishmen of New York received the refusal with a tirade of abuse. A Democratic governor of Massachusetts once declined to review an Irish society because its members paraded under arms, which was contrary to the law of the State. This was a just and manly act on his part, and one from which he, being a Democrat, could gain no possible advantage; but the Irish, with Celtic impetuosity and with the supersensitiveness of a conquered race, overlooked the motive, and took the act as an intentional insult.
Finally, our Irish immigrants have been almost universally Catholic in religion, and to the difference in religion between them and native Americans, more than to difference of race or of temperament, is due the fact that they still form a distinct though integral part of the community. However, the American people, though Protestant, had ceased, at the time of the great Irish immigration, to be aggressively Protestant. They had also become much easier to live with, more flexible, more open-minded, than
the Englishmen from whom they were descended; and, on the whole, the two races Anglo-Saxon, American, Protestant, on the one hand, and Celtic, Irish, Catholic, on the other have lived and labored side by side with astonishingly little friction. There was, to be sure, the Know-Nothing movement of 1854-55, but that was a short-lived affair, and the present efforts of the A. P. A. are less effective, and bid fair to be equally transitory. The argument against the Irish, as Catholics, is that they owe allegiance first to the Pope, and only secondarily to the government of the United States; but if these two powers ever come in conflict, it is safe to assume that national feeling will prevail, and that the Pope will be disregarded. In the Middle Ages, the authority of the Pope was far greater, national feeling was far weaker, than is the case now; and yet the history of the Middle Ages is full of instances where the Pope attempted to carry out some anti-national policy and failed. To what, indeed, is the present isolated position of the Holy Father due except to his vain resistance of that national feeling which produced United Italy!
Such, then, was and is the character of our immigrants from Ireland: Celtic in race, with the faults of a conquered and oppressed nation; Catholic in religion; agriculturists or "unskilled laborers" by occupation. They have come to us mainly since about the middle of the present century. From 1820 to 1830 the immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland averaged only 6000 per annum; but about the year 1832 the number began to increase, and when the Irish famine of 1846 occurred it suddenly became enormous. It reached a climax in 1854, when the total immigration to this country, about half of it being Irish, was 427,833.1
1 Then there was a decline; but after the civil war the Irish immigration began to increase again, until, in 1883, it reached the number of 81,486. After 1883 it fell off somewhat. For 1895 it was 46,304. Of the foreign
The early emigration, between 1846 and 1855, was attended with a vast deal of suffering. The emigrants crossed the sea, it must be remembered, not in steamships, but in sailing-vessels, and the average length of the voyage from Liverpool to New York was about thirty-five days. In the winter of 1849-50 several emigrant-ships were forced to put back after having been out for seventy days, and their passengers, being soon transferred to other ships, sailed upon a second voyage, weakened and demoralized by the hardships of the first. Ship fever soon broke out among them, and carried off many. In some cases the provisions were exhausted, and there was famine upon the sea as well as upon the land.
The London press fired parting maledictions at the fleeing emigrants: "Ireland has no snakes or vermin except among its peasantry and clergy." "Ireland is boiling over, and the scum flows across the Atlantic." Such were the gentle words with which these emigrants, flying from famine, were speeded on their way. And what was their reception in this country? We permitted them to land. If any were imbecile, crippled, or helpless, we sent them back. To the able-bodied we gave a fair field, but no favor and no assistance or even advice. They arrived in New York, Boston, or Philadelphia (at least three quarters of the whole in New York) with little or no money. As a rule, they knew how to till the soil, and they knew nothing else. Land in unlimited quantities, rich farm land, was lying idle at the West, and could these immigrants have been transported thither, with some aid, perhaps, from temporary loans of money, their prosperity would have been assured, and a source of great danger to our Eastern cities removed. In this emergency, what
born population in the United States, the Irish are now only about 20 per cent, whereas in 1850 they were over 40 per cent. This decrease affects the power of the Irish vote, a subject touched upon later.
was done by the national government or by the state governments concerned? Nothing. The Irish seem to have been overlooked even by the philanthropists, though one voice, at least, was raised in their behalf. In a series of interesting letters (afterward published in a pamphlet) dealing with the Irish immigration, the Rev. E. E. Hale wrote in 1851: "Here in Massachusetts we writhe and struggle. . . lest we return one fugitive slave who can possibly be saved from Southern slavery; but when there come these fugitives from Irish Bastilles, as they call them, we tax them first, and neglect them afterwards."
This was our first great mistake in dealing with the Irish: we gave them no opportunity to do that for which they were best fitted, to become farmers. Lacking money and skill and information, they remained largely in the great cities where they landed. The Irish who came later have followed a similar course. Partly from necessity and partly from choice, -the Celt being, as I have said, eminently a social creature, they have become dwellers in cities; and a great proportion of them are found in the chief cities of the Atlantic seaboard. In this tendency the Irish are surpassed only by the Italians. Nearly two thirds of our whole Irish population are in the five States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and more than one quarter of the whole are found in five large cities, namely, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Boston. The only Western State which has a considerable percentage of Irishmen, 3.25, is Illinois; and this percentage is due to the Irish population in Chicago.
The Irish immigrants, being unskilled and uneducated, naturally took their place at the very bottom of the social
1 The immigrants who settle in our large cities are, of the Irish, 45 per cent; of the Germans, 38 per cent; of the English and Scotch, 30 per cent; of the Italians, 60 per cent.
ladder; and they have done the hard
manual work of the country. They be-
gan to come at an opportune time, when
our mining and manufacturing industries
were ready to receive a great accession
of workmen, and when railroads were
beginning to be built. Since 1830 one
hundred and fifty thousand miles of rail-
road have been constructed in the United
States, and doubtless the greater part of
the rails were laid by Irishmen. Irish
girls took the place of Yankee girls in
the cotton-mills of Lowell and Lawrence;
and in the course of a few years the do-
mestic service of the country was revo-
lutionized by the substitution of Irish for
native-born servants. In the case of the
men this answered well enough. The
typical "hired man" of New England,
the man employed in towns and villages
by people of moderate means who keep
a cow, a horse or two, and have a small
garden, has been for many years an Irish-
man; and barring an occasional spree, no
more faithful or pleasanter servant could
be desired. In the case of the women the
results have not been so good.
has an almost innate knowledge of a
horse, a cow, and a garden; but Bridget,
having never been taught, knows little of
cooking or neat housekeeping. Then,
too, the difference of race and of reli-
gion creates more friction between women
than it does between men. But Bridget,
despite the fact that her shortcomings
have been the theme of comic papers for
half a century, has some excellent quali-
ties. She breaks contracts, but she does
not steal; and if the little people of the
country were interrogated upon the sub-
ject, I am sure that they would declare
in her favor. Now, a servant to whom
a whole nation safely entrusts its house-
hold property and its children is not ut-
terly to be condemned.
What became of the native American
2 These are the largest five cities in the country, except that St. Louis should stand in the fifth place, that city having about 3000 more people than Boston.
servants and mill hands who were displaced by the Irish it would be hard to say. Of the men, many emigrated to the West, and many were employed in shops, or as foremen and superintendents in factories, foundries, and stables, and as brakemen, conductors, and the like upon railroads. Of the women, many became shop-girls and seamstresses. In recent years, the Irish, in their turn, have largely been displaced. They have abandoned to the French-Canadians the woolen and cotton factories of New England. Where one used to see Irishmen digging up the streets one now sees Italians; and the imps of the sidewalk in New York and Boston, the newsboys and bootblacks, are now more often Italian than Irish. In the coal regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Irish have given way to Hungarians, Poles, and Russians. Many Irish are at present employed as salesmen in shops; and no doubt the influx of other nationalities, especially in the last five or ten years, has raised the Irish in the social scale, but a large proportion of them are still unskilled laborers or domestic servants.
Of the children born in the United States of Irish parents, according to the census of 1880,1 there were occupied in dustrially 978,854 persons, distributed as follows: rendering personal service, 415,854; in mechanical and mining industries, 284,175; in agriculture, 140,307; in trade and railroads, 138,518. Thus it will be seen that only a very small proportion are engaged in agriculture, and a very large proportion are servants of one kind or another.
Despite the small number of Irishmen who are engaged in agriculture, the Irish as a whole, and especially the Irish immigrants, have shown a fondness for land. When an Irishman acquires a piece of
1 The corresponding figures for the census of 1890 are not yet available.
2 Between 1880 and 1890 the city population in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont showed a greater increase
real estate, even in a city or a large town, it is hard to dislodge him from it. The very fact that in Ireland it was almost impossible for him or for any member of his class to obtain land may be the reason why he is so ambitious of owning it in America. In the Northwest, the Irish farmers have done exceedingly well, and in New England, since the civil war, many farms that were thrown on the market or abandoned by their American owners have been taken up by Irishmen. In the Northwest, the Irish of the second generation usually remain upon the land; but in New England the children of the Irish are just as prone as children of native Americans to exchange country for city life.2 Norwegians, Swedes, and even Italians are taking their places.
I happen to know the history of one farm situated about twenty miles from Boston. Thirty years ago it was sold by the American owner, to whom it had descended through his ancestors for two hundred years back. He moved to Boston and opened a shop. The purchaser was an Irishman, who made the farm profitable, and, when he became old, retired with a competence to a house in the village. His sons grew up and went to the city, one of them becoming a coachman; and the farm is now owned by a Norwegian. His children will probably sell it, perhaps to an Italian. In many cases the Irish immigrant and his sons have done well in business, acquiring a good deal of property; and it is noticeable, but not surprising, that in almost all of these cases the business is of what might be called a gregarious kind. Irishmen prefer, and succeed best in, those occupations where a man can be lively and sociable and can move about, and especially where he can have to do with horses. Contractors, blacksmiths, stable
than did the total population of these States respectively; so that in these States, from 1880 to 1890, the rural population actually decreased.
keepers, and hackmen are largely Irishmen. Some of the most noted trainers and drivers of trotting horses have been Irishmen. I know one Irishman who began life as the driver of a coupé for a liveryman. Before long he had a horse and coupé of his own. Then he bought another horse and coupé, and hired a man. And from this small beginning he has become, in twenty years, the owner of a large stable and of much valuable real estate. He still attends vigorously to business, but indulges himself in the ownership of a few running horses. This is not an isolated case of prosperity. Saloon -keepers are notoriously Irishmen; and what more social occupation could there be than keeping a saloon! In the Boston Directory are the names of 526 persons who sell liquor at retail, and of these names 317 are unmistakably Irish.1
The same principle holds good in an Irishman's choice of a profession. Very seldom does he become a doctor: the severe course of study is repugnant to him, and the practice of medicine, though it involves seeing people, does not involve seeing them in a sociable way. On the other hand, there are many Irish lawyers. To become a really good lawyer does indeed require hard study; but a man can make a creditable appearance before a jury without knowing much law, and it is easy for an Irishman to be eloquent and quick at repartee. In some cases, where sound judgment and the power of application are united with Celtic liveliness and eloquence, we find Irish lawyers of the first rank; and these men have a suavity and courtesy of their own. But they are not numerous. Nei ther in the professions, nor in politics, nor in trade does the Irish-American
1 The stranger passing down Broadway, in the city of New York, finds himself in a desert of dry-goods merchants, who seem to be all Jews: Elias Brothers, Solomon Isaacs, Hamerstein, and the like are the names which decorate the signs. And yet there is an oasis in this
often rise to a high position. A recent traveler in the West, whose object was to procure investments for foreign cap‐ ital, states that he found very few Irishmen at the head of industrial enterprises. The managers of such concerns were usually native Americans, Scotchmen, or Englishmen.
The herding of the Irish in our large cities, and their sudden contact with new social and political conditions, have made the average of pauperism, crime, and mortality very high among them. For example, in the year 1890 the number of white paupers born in the United States, but having both parents foreign-born and both parents of the same nationality, was, so far as it could be ascertained, 3333. To this number the Irish contributed 1806, whereas the Germans contributed only 916, although the Germans in this country outnumber the Irish by more than a million. A table which indicates, not the pauper, but the criminal element is even more significant. In 1890, the number of white prisoners who were born in the United States, but who had both parents foreign-born and both parents of the same nationality, was 11,327. These were distributed, so far as the Irish and Germans are concerned, as follows: Irish, 7935; German, 1709.
However, in this matter one need not resort to such unsatisfactory evidence as statistics. It is plain from observation and experience that, on the whole, the Irish in America, of the second generation, degenerate. The children of Irish birth, born and brought up in this country, are morally inferior to their parents. This is a hard saying, and perhaps it bears harder upon Americans and upon American institutions than it does upon the Irish. Perhaps, also, it
desert, for about halfway down one comes suddenly upon a liquor saloon, and above it stands the familiar name "John Flynn."
2 The Jewish element among the Germans accounts in part for their low average of pauperism.


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Krypton: Colin Salmon's Zod Shows What Happens when Villains Win
Krypton: Colin Salmon's Zod Shows What Happens when...
By Tim Beedle Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
For over fifty years, General Dru-Zod has been making life hard for Superman. He did it in the Man of Steel's blockbuster debut in Superman and Superman II, opposite Tom Welling on Smallville and at the start of the DC Extended Universe in Man of Steel. Now, the infamous Kryptonian baddie is doing it before Superman is even born on the Syfy hit, Krypton.
Of course, we didn't realize that right away. It wasn't until halfway through the first season, in one of the series best moments to date, that we learned Colin Salmon's mysterious Kryptonian was actually Superman's time-traveling mortal enemy. We also learned that Zod's parents are Lyta-Zod and Seg-El, the latter of whom is also Superman's grandfather. But while General Zod's lineage on Krypton may seem confusing for the uninitiated, fans of the show know that it's led to intriguing new layers for the longtime villain, who loathes Kal-El, while also feeling some real affection towards Seg-El. Will Seg ultimately see Dru-Zod the same way his grandson does? Could actions here in the past permanently change things for Superman in the present day (if Superman is even born…something that seems no way guaranteed). They're some enticing questions, made all the more fun to ponder thanks to Salmon's impressive performance.
With General Zod currently calling the shots on Krypton, we couldn't resist the opportunity to sit down with the big guy. On a recent trip to LA, Salmon stopped by to discuss how he managed to keep his true role on the series a secret, how following in the footsteps of Terrence Stamp and Michael Shannon is quite liberating and what General Zod really thinks about being the son of an El.
First off, how hard was it keeping the fact that you were playing General Zod secret last year?
When I first auditioned for it, it was for the part of "The Dark-Haired Man," so nobody knew. I didn't even know that I was auditioning for Dru-Zod. So, when I discovered it, that was a bit of a jolt. Then I had to come into my first scene, and it still wasn't known by the crew or certain members of the cast, so we had to keep that under wraps. I remember we had a press dinner where we had all of these journalists who are all super bright. I sat on the outskirts next to this one who kept asking me and I just had to play it down. It was difficult, but well worth it because I think when that revelation comes out in season one, it has some real impact.
Is that something you have a lot of experience with over your career as an actor—having to stay mum on the role that you're playing?
It's becoming more and more important with regards to social media. Leaks can really spoil things. There were never those avenues when I first started, but now if you can't keep a secret, you'd better change your career, man. The plot points—all that stuff—it's all so key. So, we're all trained in it now.
When in the process did you learn that you were actually playing Zod?
I had that knowledge before starting the shoot, but the other actors and the crew, they weren't aware. That didn't come out until it came out in the script, so that was fun.
Zod has been brought to the screen a few times before, and for many, Terence Stamp's take on the role is iconic. Have you played a character that has such a strong previous association before?
No, not really. I think with Resident Evil that was kind of a new character. With Bond they created a new character for me as well, so I never had that issue. Of course, I love Terrence Stamp's Zod. That's my generation. I grew up watching that Superman. And then with Michael Shannon, I'm just a massive fan of him as an actor. That was really where I came to understand Zod. Just that little glimpse, which I think was one of the inspirations for the series. That's how much Michael can do with his performance. He just took us to this place that I've used as a touchstone.
I think when you're inspired by great actors, they liberate you rather than constrain you. They really help you understand the character.
The end of last year's season finale gave me chills. What's it like this season now that General Zod has won?
He's building a Krypton in his image. Kandor is totally affected by my design, my wants, my needs and my orders. You have this scenario with the rankless, which on paper looks like he liberated them, but I suspect he's turned them into builders, slaves and soldiers, and he will build it on their bones. He feels driven and justified because of his passion for saving Krypton.
But it's not just about Krypton. It's about his family and his life. His love for his mother. He wants to fill in the gaps. He's just driven on so many levels. He's an overlord in overdrive, and he'd better get over himself because he's a bad boy.
This season you need to share the villain's chair with not only Brainiac, but Doomsday. How does Doomsday fit into Zod's plans for Krypton?
In episode one, you hear him talking with Lyta about why Dru-Zod's so committed to finding Doomsday. He's realized that Doomsday is Krypton's atomic weapon. He knows that if he can get hold of him and get him under his control, he can just drop Doomsday in to Wegthor to cause absolute carnage without having to sacrifice any of his army. So, he's desperately trying to find him.
I think it's a very dangerous thing that Zod's toying with because Doomsday is Doomsday. I just watched Chernobyl and you see the core and you have to think, Doomsday is the core. Do you think you could control the core? I think Zod does.
But I also think people forget that Dru-Zod has a scientific base. He's an intellectual. He has knowledge of science, and he did run around in Metropolis, which we alluded to in the first season. I'm really interested in what he discovered over that period.
But does he get his hands on Doomsday? I'll let you watch it unfold, but it's pretty operatic.
We only got a small glimpse of Doomsday last season. What can we expect from him when we see him onscreen?
One of the exciting things about this series, and I think everyone would agree, is it's the best Brainiac we've had. I think Doomsday is extraordinary. I was totally moved by the effects and the design. It's all top secret, but I'll tell you, it's awesome. People use that word all that time, but this really is awesome. Our effects team is just extraordinary, and I think you can see it. The production values on this show are huge, and the studio's gotten behind that. I think fans are going to be happy.
How would you describe Zod's relationship with Seg-El? He's his father, but he hasn't rallied to Zod's cause the way that Lyta has.
Like any child who doesn't know his father, to discover his father is an emotional event. It doesn't weaken him, but it's created a question. I think like any child, he wants his father to be proud, and he really alludes to that in his first scene with Cor-Vex. He sees him as family.
I think he wants Seg-El on his side. It does create emotion. Every scene we do together has an emotional level to it, and I'm really enjoying that from an acting point of view. Cameron does elicit genuine feelings of warmth. It's just him. He's a good guy. But that's puzzling Zod. Dru-Zod is struggling, but it's in him. Every time he meets Seg, a bit of that emotion comes out, and I don't think he's ever actually accessed that before.
There's something I've discovered recently. It's about the elders, it's about wisdom, and it's about the word "ambivalence." The word "ambivalence" comes from "ambi" and "valiance." "Ambi" means either side—both sides. And "valiance" means strength. So, it's the ability to be strong in not knowing. Our world needs to learn to be more ambivalent because we don't really know. We're living in a time of certainty, and Zod is very certain until Seg comes into his world. Then he starts to question that judgment, and that's a fantastic metaphor because you have the thesis, the antithesis, and then you'll have the synthesis. I'm really interested to see that synthesis with that character.
Do you think Zod loves his family? In the season two premiere, Nyssa seemed to suggest that he loves power more and would turn on them on a dime.
Absolutely he loves them. It's all he has. He's isolated, so it's all about his family. I liken it to chivalry. He sort of comes from the chivalric code—that thing of "I am a warrior. I fight for what's right, for justice, for my family, and my family is Krypton."
He's been isolated for a long time, and he's now back on his home planet and there are family members around, and I really do think he wants to throw the cloak over them and get to know them, and in the process, learn more about himself. I think another clue is the scene where you see him witness the warmth between Seg and Lyta, when the three of them are off together looking for Doomsday in the first season. You just see a puzzled look on his face, and he says to his mother, "I've never seen you happy before."
For any child, to see your mother happy is the most important thing, so the man who makes my mother happy really interests me. I'm keen to explore that.
Krypton airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. (9 p.m. CST) on Syfy. For more news, features and conversation on Krypton, click here.
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Shinya Tasaki (, né le ) à Tōkyō est un sommelier japonais élu « Meilleur sommelier du monde 1995 ».

Biographie
Shinya Tasaki a été sommelier puis chef sommelier à Tōkyō, successivement aux restaurants « Bell France », « Kissou », « Hotel Seiyo Ginza »…

Palmarès
1981 - Second Meilleur sommelier du Japon
1983 - Meilleur sommelier du Japon
1995 - Meilleur sommelier du Monde (ASI)

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My 2004 Kodiak Skamper 25QB tub has cracked. It's a 32in x 24in step tub, right hand drain. I tried a ghetto repair and it did not hold. I decided to remove the shower surround and the tub to assess my options.
The tub is removed and the crack is fairly substantial. The tub is original to 2004 and is fiberglass over plywood.
I've been searching aftermarket options and I cannot find a 32x24 step tub. Plenty of 36 but no 32. I'm waiting on a call back from dutchment for sourcing a new one.
I can easily find a 32x24 full tub but I have to do some serious modification to plumbing that runs under the step.
Anyone on here run into similar issues? I suppose option three is to bring the tub somewhere and have it professionally repaired, but I know it will never look good.
I would convert it to a shower stall. We never use the thimble tub anyway.


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Responding affirmative answers to the above questions, my new friend was excited and talked and talked.
He was the handy boy for our driver in the microbus driving towards Kathmandu. He sat on my left, right by the door and would open the window and yell "Kathmandu, Kathmandu," until the vehicle was packed with passengers and he was up on the roof. Then I missed him.
He knew his roads. He pointed towards the forest fire and said it had been purposefully lit for soil fertility. He pointed towards the bus mishap location that had killed five and 40 were still missing as the wrecked bus lay on the banks of Trishuli River. He laughed and told us about the walking group of patriots clad in red daura suruwal who were supposedly on a peace march across the country. He hushedly told of the Maoists involvement regarding the burnt truck on the side of the road that was in flames when they drove by the other morning.
He said he liked his job. His family lived in the village near Daman and his parents wanted him to get married but he thought otherwise. He left home and searched his own path. Wanted to be self-sufficient before having to take care of somebody else's daughter (that's exactly how he put it).
At one point, he was even weaving carpets in Kathmandu. It was his "training" period and all he got was food and accommodation though he had to wake up early morning at 3:00am and go to bed around 11:00pm. He said it hurt his fingers. He's glad he changed gears.
He also seemed to be enjoying his job and doing well at it. Accommodating twenty-one people in an eighteen-passenger van was sheer knack in the business. Addressing the army security as "sirs" was to bolster their ego, he said.
He knew his contacts too. From Dumre to Munglin, he provided live entertainment to passengers on 7587 as he hauled a gaine with a sarangi. He even knew the songs and sang alongside our entertainer. It rocked.
He gave me a business card. It was of Sagun Yatayat, his employer and said that our driver's name was Pashupati. But he didn't tell me his name. (Nor did I ask for it).
Nevertheless, he has become my friend.
He reminded me of my driver friend from NJP to Gangtok. We didn't exchange names but we chatted a whole lot about life in the hills and our peoples' mindset. He had been driving for almost eight years and was only a year older than me. He told me that he never forgets faces and people come and go but if he were to see me after five years or so, he would remember me.
Next time I see my new friend, I am sure we'll have plenty to chitchat about the road, the weather, the army, the Maoists and life happenings en route.
"We either die by the Americans, the insurgents in the name of jihad, the security companies, which kill you and leave you laying in the street, the Iraqi police or…the death squads.
Three years after the American invasion of Iraq, I have only one wish.
I do not want democracy, food, electricity and water.
– Laith Muhammad, an Iraqi student.
"Living History" by Hillary Rodham Clinton had my full interest when I heard faint chants nearing my attention… I went up to the terrace and looked towards the road. Red banners and flags were followed by a group of demonstrators.
There was a protest rally.
My cousin and I rushed to the area with a very humble camera. It was my aunt's Olympus Zoom 35-70mm point and shoot that I didn't realize had a zoom till we got back.
We stood behind the army security vehicle. (which was probably not the best place because the rebels usually target these trucks).
But we drew attention from the soldiers who decided to give studly poses for the photo shoot. Almost all nine of them from the back of a pick up had looked at us when they got radioed and two of them got off the vehicle with their sticks.
They had been summoned for lathi charge.
They ran towards the crowd and followed the protestors while waiting orders for time to strike?
Today, we got news that the Maoists have called off the blockade after six days of restlessness.
On the way to Kathmandu airport, we got stuck in traffic.
On the way out of Pokhara airport, there was no traffic.
Pokhara remains watchful and anxious.
It is the fourth day of the 21-day nation wide blockade called by the Maoists.
Road transports in all major highways cease to exist. Every city, every town in Nepal is their own working entity. The country is concerned and nervous.
What? I didn't know there was a blockade.
When? I thought that was last month.
Where? We have access to public transport.
It finally rained in Kathmandu and many of us hope that it pours down in buckets?
The reality is the fact that Kathmandu haven't had any rain since October 2005. The dry spell had drained the water reservoirs and the capital residents' have been suffering from a 5-hour load shedding on a daily basis. It was even reported in Thursday's TKP that two more hours were to be added in the daily power cut.


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Q: We got the following error: null, while trying to run this SQL script I get the above error coming from Play Evolutions while running activator run on a new Scala Play-Slick project. I'm using Postgres server version 9.3 and the latest JDBC driver 9.4. My 1.sql file looks like this:
# schema

# --- !Ups

CREATE TABLE country (
    id BIGINT,
    name VARCHAR(100),
    iso2 CHAR(2),
    modified TIMESTAMP DEFAULT now(),
    PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_modified()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
BEGIN
    NEW.modified = now();
    RETURN NEW;
END;
$$ language 'plpgsql';

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_country_modified BEFORE UPDATE ON country FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE update_modified();

# --- !Downs

DROP TABLE country CASCADE;

DROP FUNCTION update_modified_column;

By trial and error I see that Evolutions doesn't understand well the native Postgres trigger function update_modified. How can I solve or circumvent this issue?

A: The Play evolution plugin splits your .sql files into a series of semicolon-delimited statements before executing them one-by-one against the database.
As you are using semicolons within the function update_modified() code, you have to escape it by entering it twice ;;. See below:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_modified()
RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
BEGIN
    NEW.modified = now();;
    RETURN NEW;;
END;;
$$ language 'plpgsql';

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Roots of John Fogerty
In a way, Creedence Clearwater Revival was fortunate. Primarily based in the terminally unhip East Bay suburb of El Cerrito, on the lookout to vintage rock & roll and the Beatles for inspiration in their early incarnation as the Golliwogs alternatively of the folks-rock which powered the San Francisco scene's massive-name bands, they ended up shunned by the psychedelic ballrooms and had loads of time to refine a sound that was fully their have. The final result was a run of 9 Leading 10 singles (and one, "Suzie Q," which peaked at selection 11) of a directness and simplicity that the other bands missed. For this, they ended up derided by the hipoisie, who seem to be to have forgotten that well-known songs was intended to be, um, well-known.
Undoubtedly their songwriting powerhouse, John Fogerty, did not head at all. He was much too occupied crafting potent tracks that the nation reacted to quickly, honing songwriting, singing, and guitar techniques that turned Creedence into one of America's top bands. Just after they broke up, Fogerty ongoing to go after his vision, including a sprint of nation songs which only broadened his enchantment, despite the fact that legal challenges and shifting preferences intended that his profits could possibly not have mirrored his mastery as they the moment could possibly have.
Creedence's tracks performed on a mythology which had now been established in spot by the performers whose songs they covered and whose legacy they extended. Very pleased Mary steamed up the Mississippi River, Fogerty sang about currently being born on the bayou (which he obviously wasn't), and characterised the band as Willie and the Bad Boys, just pickin' and grinnin' for spare change. This manufactured the band a thing of a pop Rorschach take a look at, in which listeners noticed an image significantly a lot more democratic and doing the job-class than the band in fact was. The misleading simplicity of Creedence's songs, much too, was in stark distinction to the significantly virtuosic-for-its-have-sake songs coming from across San Francisco Bay, and the flannel-shirted, jeans-wearing image the band projected in shots and on phase was the opposite of the rock star poses adopted by so quite a few of their contemporaries.
This democratic impulse has manufactured Creedence's and Fogerty's work survive with out seeming dated. Deeply educated by what arrived ahead of, imbued with the values of directness and simplicity, it has served to influence innumerable similarly-minded performers who arrived later on. In shorter — and with out obtaining nearly anything to do with the promoting phrase — it is vintage rock.
Rock Classics Quantity I
Artist: Different Artists
Launch Day: 2007
Creedence blasted onto the scene with a lengthy meditation on Dale Hawkins's most significant strike, "Suzie Q," which had highlighted a guitar aspect by James Burton, one of the good unsung string-benders of his period. Hawkins had an eye for good guitarists — later, he normally employed Roy Buchanan — but he by no means had a strike as massive as this one. He moved to Dallas and received into manufacturing work, with credits like Bruce Channel's "Hey, Infant," whose harmonica aspect, by Delbert McClinton, inspired the Beatles to use one on "Like Me Do." He created the Leading 10 strike "Western Union" by nearby band the Five People, and in 1970, became a consultant for Houston-centered International Artists, dealing with the thirteenth Ground Elevators. The persistence of Creedence's "Suzie Q" as an FM radio staple revived his doing career, and he carries on to accomplish sometimes to delighted audiences.
Artist: Screamin' Jay Hawkins
If blues singer Jay Hawkins hadn't gotten very drunk whilst making an attempt to record a song he did not particularly like, would he have turn out to be the icon he became? Hawkins generally preserved that he did not even remember the consider that resulted in his infamous 1956 underground strike "I Set a Spell on You," which, despite the fact that it by no means manufactured the charts, was one of all those data teenagers handed all-around, marvelling at his grunts, snorts, bellows, wails and shrieks, as he stumbled his way through a song that was quite inherently spooky to start out with. Creedence re-released it into the rock repertoire as the opening track on their debut album, and it is stayed there at any time because. As for Screamin' Jay, he embraced the record, generating it the centerpiece of a stay act that noticed him carried onstage in a coffin, brandishing a flaming skull, and wearing outrageous clothing whilst he sang this kind of memorable figures as "Constipation Blues," which became a significant strike in Japan.
The Vital Collection
Artist: Tommy McLain
No person in Creedence was, in simple fact, born on the bayou, not even one of the bayous on the Sacramento River, but there was a prosperous body of rock songs that was. Louisiana and east Texas was the touring floor of swamp pop demonstrate bands like the Boogie Kings and Randy and the Rockets. Masking soul and nation hits of the moment, driven by crackerjack horn sections, and fronted by adaptable vocalists, most of these bands ended up doomed to nearby obscurity right until several British followers rediscovered them in the 1980s. Among the the vocalists ended up this kind of greats as Rod Bernard and Johnnie Allen, but probably the finest was pint-sized Tommy McLain, whose version of Don Gibson's "Sweet Goals" cracked the nationwide charts in 1969, and whose impossibly pure high voice was — and is — an outstanding expressive instrument, and his backup recording bands had some of the most effective veterans of the swamp pop circuit. Pay attention to him and you'll listen to a doable resource for John Fogerty's singing style.
The Entire Sunshine Singles
Artist: Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins influenced Creedence because Carl Perkins was one of any real rocker's influences. Someone who could compose a song about a thing as silly as blue suede footwear and then play it with this kind of passion that it by no means occurred to you that his lifetime did not depend on them was obviously on the ideal track. His qualifications, much too, was excellent: born to filth-poor Southerners who labored the fields up coming to their black neighbors, Carl absorbed the nation songs and blues all-around him and cast it into a style that was so restricted that there was a week when he had the top record on the pop, nation, and rhythm and blues charts — "Blue Suede Sneakers," in simple fact. Even a lot more germane to the Creedence/Fogerty relationship was his guitar style, in which nation and blues factors arrived together in absolute simplicity, but thrilling originality. Despite the fact that it is not as easy as it could possibly seem to be: just question the Beatles, who genuinely had to work at coming near when they covered his things.
Artist: Arthur "Significant Boy" Crudup
The moment all over again, any one who plays rock & roll owes a thing to this Mississippian who started playing the blues when he landed in Chicago in the late thirties. Elvis Presley's whole reworking of his "It's All Ideal, Mama" was the start off of the King's career (and induced a grateful Elvis to fork out for an RCA Records session for Crudup right after he became a star), but numerous other of Crudup's tracks also discovered their way into the rock repertoire, like "My Infant Left Me," which showed up on Creedence's album Cosmo's Manufacturing unit. Crudup, in popular with quite a few artists on RCA's "race" subsidiary Bluebird, overrecorded like mad in the thirties, but he was a well-known performer in Chicago clubs, playing to transplanted Southerners like himself, and as blues models in the Windy City adjusted, he moved again home, where he was a prosperous bootlegger by the time Elvis brought his name again into community recognition. He died in 1974, obtaining noticed his career revived by a youthful era.
Totally The Greatest
Artist: Lead Belly
Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter was also a potent influence on rock & roll, but he entered through a distinctive door from most blues singers, obtaining been aspect of the first American folks revival of the late forties, and contributed the first massive urban folks strike, "Excellent Night, Irene," to the Weavers. The story of his discovery by folklorist Alan Lomax, his subsequent launch from prison, and his adoption by the folkies all-around the remaining-wing scene which also bundled Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie is effectively-recognized, and this led to his generating dozens of data of his songs, most of which, it should be said, is just not genuinely vintage blues. Creedence bundled two of his most effective-recognized tracks, "Midnight Distinctive" and "Cotton Fields," on their Willie and the Bad Boys album, and manufactured them their have, which is unsurprising because Creedence, despite the fact that they recorded the occasional blues song, ended up a lot more intrigued in the song aspect of that phrase than the blues aspect.
The Greatest Of Booker T. And The M.G.'s
Artist: Booker T. And The M.G.'s
John Fogerty was the moment questioned, who was the most effective rock & roll band in the earth? "Booker T and the MGs," he replied, with out hesitation. Superficially, you will never listen to much of the Memphis quartet's songs in Creedence or Fogerty's later solo work their contribution is subtle. What you listen to when you listen to one of their minimal masterpieces, tossed-off jams on the floor but with surprising depth, is a four-piece device in excellent doing the job buy. It's practically the platonic ideal of how to consider four good players and make a single sound, a thing that Creedence did, at the very least in the beginning. Sure, there are solos — Steve Cropper's guitar in specific — and certain, Booker T's organ qualified prospects the way with the melody, but it is apparent they're listening to each other all the time and the exuberance and pleasure of it all will come shining through.
Burnin'
Artist: John Lee Hooker
Mr. Hooker proposes "boogie." Messrs. Fogerty and company propose "chooglin'." Is there a change, class? Examine, and demonstrate your work. You can find no doubt that the rhythmic, but harmonically static, work of John Lee Hooker performed a significant purpose in shaping the jam lifestyle that 1960s rock songs gave to the earth. Setting up with "Boogie, Chillen" in 1949, Hooker's deceptively primitive-sounding blues, generally just his voice and his guitar, was well-known with a major sector of the blues viewers, as if it was a stern warning versus acquiring much too extravagant. In the late 1960s, when American guitar bands rediscovered the blues, Hooker's blueprint was one of the most important types they employed for their extended routines, and Creedence was no exception, because they served up numerous Hooker addresses on their early albums. As generally, they were not straight copies of the original, and the Stu Cook-Doug Clifford rhythm segment arrived up with the rhythm they identified as "chooglin'," which became one of their emblems.
The Vital Little Richard
Artist: Little Richard
As with Carl Perkins, any rocker who doesn't claim Richard Penniman as an ancestor is lying. He pioneered matters that individuals nowadays consider for granted: wild onstage habits, ambiguous sexuality, a driving beat, insane shrieking vocal tics, goofy lyrics. On his data, Earl Palmer took just adequate swing out of conventional blues beats to invent rock & roll drumming. The Beatles covered his things, and, of course, so did Creedence, recording "Excellent Golly, Pass up Molly" on Bayou Nation. Hard as it may perhaps be to consider now, by 1969, when that album arrived out, Richard had slipped into the shadows (despite the fact that some understood Jimi Hendrix had toured as his guitarist), but this was as much owing to his obtaining expended time in the ministry and renouncing rock & roll — if only for a shorter whilst — as nearly anything. His obscurity did not past extended, and as of 2007, he was nevertheless likely robust, showing up in films, on television, and occasional stay demonstrates, reminding the kids how it is completed.
The Greatest Of Hank Williams
Artist: Hank Williams
Just after Creedence broke up, John Fogerty turned up the "nation" knob, first with his one-male bluegrass band, the Blue Ridge Rangers, and later in his solo albums. (It had generally been there, but the band wasn't the most effective spot for it.) And if you're likely to be nation, your work will bear echoes of this inventor of present day nation songs. Williams was the first to increase a private touch to his lyrics, a final result of hearing a ton of blues in his youth this innovation propelled him to the stardom which would extended outlast his death at age 29. He also wrote compelling melodies to match all those lyrics, which noticed his tracks covered by pop artists and even rockers like Fats Domino, whose version of "Jambalaya" was the first quite a few individuals listened to. His small body of work is a cornerstone of American well-known songs, and alt-nation types are nevertheless finding out how complicated this kind of simplicity can be.
Typical Sides
Artist: Jimmie Rodgers
Prior to Hank Williams, there was Jimmie Rodgers, a Mississippian who'd been schooled in the blues and then long gone on to hone a repertoire which deftly mixed them with a wide streak of sentimentality. Country's first superstar, his "blue yodel" and use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in his recordings would sort a template for nation that lasted right until Hank Williams' improvements expanded the genre's vocabulary. Nor was it only nation musicians who ended up influenced: Howlin' Wolf famously said that his trademark "Ah-ooo" was his failed try to imitate Rodgers' yodel. Rodgers' credit card debt to black songs was not only in the "floating verses" from traditional blues he employed in some of his tracks, but also in his well-known recording session with Louis Armstrong, not to point out his friendship with the Carter Family members, who ended up found out at the identical RCA Records audition as he was, and who also partook of black instrumental and lyrical influences.
Sunshine Recordings
Artist: Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison was all about The Voice. Despite the fact that his most effective-recognized tracks, hits like "Running Terrified" and "Crying," can be practically operatic in their tension in between backing orchestra and vocal, Orbison began as a thing of a rockabilly, which is why these lesser-recognized Sunshine tracks make sense when we are speaking about John Fogerty. It was very clear that Orbison's band, the Teen Kings, were not able of likely all the way with him, but the combination of their enthusiastic rocking and Roy's singular voice is a model from which Fogerty could have extrapolated the two Creedence and his later solo career. At a stage where instrumental experience appeared to be a lot more extremely valued than vocal prowess, Fogerty's singing could grab you by the ears and make you re-appraise that. Like Orbison, the thought of a hook was by no means significantly from his head, despite the fact that his songwriting chops ended up a little bit a lot more subtle than "Ooby dooby, ooby dooby, doo-wah, doo-wah, doo-wah." Not that there is nearly anything incorrect with that!
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The Coast Guard urges the public to remove all ice fishing shacks as soon as safely possible from the Kennebec River as the Coast Guard begins ice breaking operations Thursday.
Crews of four Coast Guard ice-breakers are scheduled to begin the operation known as "Spring Breakout" to reduce the risk of land-side flooding as snow and river ice begin to melt and spring rains arrive. Individuals should refrain from being on the river when the tugs are breaking ice.
"Our ice-breaking crews have done a tremendous job ensuring the waterways of Maine and New Hampshire remained open and safe throughout the season," said Lieutenant Matthew Odom, Chief of the Waterways Management Division for Coast Guard Sector Northern New England. "As temperatures rise, we intend to clear significant portions of the Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers of ice to mitigate flood risks."
Coast Guard ice breaking operations will be visible from the shoreline and bridges that span the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers. All media queries should be directed to LTJG Chellsey Phillips at (207) 347-5009.


I've always been a shy person. One of my friends described me as outgoing but it's hard for me to picture myself that way because I've always seen myself as timid and introverted. I guess that's where the problem is, the way I view myself. Back in grade school I had my sister with me so we hung out a lot and we had our own circle of friends. We didn't really worry about being loners just because we had each other. And it's not like I didn't talk to other people. I was more outgoing with my friends as how it always is with everyone. I was talking to one of the teachers who works at the high school I went to and he told me that I was very quiet and didn't really talk to anyone. I wasn't really a confident person and now I'm trying to break out of that shell. I was a bit nerdy back then and I didn't really like wearing girly clothes. I had my hair tied most of the time and wore pants. It wasn't until college that I actually dressed better. I even started wearing a little bit of make up. I don't now though just because I don't think I really need it. I started letting my hair down and changed my fashion. A friend of mine helped me. I guess it was in college that I began to find myself and figure out who I was. I guess you could say that I lived sort of a sheltered life when I was younger. I didn't date until I was in college. The years I spent in college (right after high school) were very memorable and I learned a lot of things. Even now I'm learning a lot with life's experiences.
It was Nursing though, that changed me the most. The things we had to do, like talking to complete strangers, helped me grow as a person. I got louder, I used to be really quiet. I spoke out more, I didn't use to do that. I became more confident in myself. That's why I always believe in the saying that things happen for a reason even though we do not see the reason at first. The things that happened and the people I met changed who I was into the person I am today. Now, I'm not saying that I'm not introverted anymore. I'm still a little bit on the introverted side but I know I'm not the same person I was.
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The chuppah represents a Jewish home symbolized by the cloth canopy and the four poles. The chuppah has no sides or "walls', only a cover over the top to show to all that this home is one that will always be open to family and friends. This "home" initially lacks furniture as a reminder that the basis of a home is the people within it, not the possessions. A chuppah symbolizes the home the couple will build together. Today, couples of all faiths enjoy this beautiful wedding tradition.
A Wedding Chuppah has a roof or ceiling. We offer a variety of ceiling fabric colors, styles and textures. A Chuppa used in the evening is often decorated with accent lighting. Beautiful washes of color can provide theatrical highlight or light strands and twinkle lights are also used.
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Neville is the Managing Director of Woodward Partners Securities Limited. He's been involved in institutional broking since 1987 and was previously Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney (New Zealand), which merged with Citibank. He was the Founding Director of Milford Asset Management and is a former Member of the Securities Commission of New Zealand and the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Neville is an accredited NZX Advisor and has a Bachelor of Commerce from Otago University.
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Jack Henry Pollock (1 August 1930 – 10 December 1992) was an author, painter, art educator and art dealer who was a fixture on the Toronto art scene for over 3 decades. Pollock was the flamboyant founder and owner of The Pollock Gallery in Toronto. He was widely reputed to have a skilled eye for identifying talent in young artists and was instrumental in the careers of many notable artists that he represented including David Hockney, Susan Ross, Ken Danby, Norval Morrisseau, Roy Thomas, Catherine Senitt, Arnold Shives, Charles Pachter, Robert Bateman, Robert Kost, and Willem de Kooning.

Professional life
Pollock graduated from the Ontario College of Art (OCAD) in 1954 and subsequently studied at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Afterwards, he returned to Canada and was employed as a colour consultant for a paint company. Pollock's employment was terminated after he had a psychological breakdown requiring hospitalization. During his time in hospital, Pollock experienced the benefits of art therapy which led him to open the Pollock Gallery in 1960.

In 1962, while teaching art classes in Northern Ontario funded by the Ontario Government, Pollock met Norval Morrisseau, a local Ojibwa artist. Pollock immediately recognized the artist's genius and arranged for a solo exhibition at his gallery in Toronto. The response was a sold-out show and brilliant reviews declaring Morrisseau a "genius." Morrisseau went on to become arguably Canada's most important indigenous artist.

In 1966, the National Gallery of Canada acquired a print of Pollock's Remembered Image No.82 for its permanent collection. Pollock had become well respected as an artist despite the overshadowing talent of Morrisseau. Pollock's painting styles were abstract and expressionistic. His later works were highly colourful, simple studies of scenes from his everyday life.

"I'm sure that, if I were to die tomorrow, the single most important thing people would remember me for is, damn it, the discovery of Norval Morrisseau. I'd like to think that I've done other equally important things. However, that's the way it is."  Jack Pollock (May 20, 1984)

Although Morrisseau made Pollock famous, the artist proved troublesome at times. In 1973, Pollock found himself accused of theft by Indian Affairs of Canada employee Bob Fox who was "managing" Morrisseau on the side while the artist was incarcerated. Morrisseau had instructed Pollock to take several paintings to Toronto to be sold; Fox accused Pollock of stealing the paintings. Pollock was found not guilty of the charge and in an unusual occurrence, he was complimented at length in the resulting judgement issued by the Court.

"He's eccentric, mad, brilliant. He's an extraordinary human being. I love him and I can't stand him. He's caused me more problems that any other single human being on the face of the earth. Every once in a while he hates me, he'd screw me around. But he loves me. There's a bond between us. Amazing." Jack Pollock (May 1, 1984)

Despite his success and Canadian art world celebrity, Pollock admitted he was not business-minded. Pollock began having serious health and financial difficulties in the late 1970s. In 1976, after having speculated on real estate located around the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and taken on mortgages, he saw the AGO close for construction and his real estate opportunity evaporate. Under enormous financial pressure, he was admitted under psychiatric care to the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. He recovered after 3 months and re-opened the Pollock Gallery on Scollard Street where, rather than declare bankruptcy as suggested by friends, he began to repay his debts.

In 1979, with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personality Lister Sinclair, Pollock wrote one of Canada's more notable art books: The Art of Norval Morrisseau. Pollock figures prominently in Derek May's 1981 documentary film on the Toronto art scene, Off the Wall.

Drug addiction and recovery
Some time around this period, Pollock developed an addiction to cocaine, which exacerbated his financial difficulties. Worse still, his relationship with Norval Morrisseau appeared to be undermined by Morrisseau's involvement with alleged mafioso Albert Volpe. Adversely affected by changing economics in the art world and Pollock's lack of business management skills, the Pollock Gallery closed for business in December, 1981.  In 1982, Pollock underwent heart surgery at Sunnybrooke Hospital (Toronto, Ontario).

In April 1984, Pollock was exhausted, depressed and attempting to break free of his addiction to cocaine. He had considered suicide and had himself committed under psychiatric care. Afterwards, Pollock fled to a residence he partially owned with friends located in Gordes, southeastern France. During this time period, he began recuperating and trying to come to terms with his life, his relationships and his failures. He concentrated his efforts on personal recovery and rediscovered art therapy. Pollock's choice to refocus on his art led to successful exhibitions. He held exhibitions in Gordes (September, 1984), Marseille (April, 1985) and Vichy (June, 1985). Pollock's warm reception by the French people inspired him immensely and he created 200 paintings, painting almost daily.  Also during this time, Pollock was corresponding with a Toronto-based psychiatrist.  These letters would later become the basis for an autobiographical book.

In 1988, Pollock returned to Toronto permanently after experiencing significant heart-related health problems. Upon his return, he learned he had contracted HIV. Ever defiant, he held his first major exhibition in five years at the Brownstone Hotel.

Dear M
In 1989, his edited letters to his psychiatrist ("Dear M") were published as a book titled Dear M: Letters from a Gentleman of Excess. :"What that poor bastard was letting himself in for when he said 'Write me'!"  "It all just poured out. I don't think I could have made it without those letters." The book was launched at the Bermuda Onion (a leading Toronto jazz restaurant which closed in 1992) and was well received by critics and the public alike. It was shortlisted for the City of Toronto's Toronto Book Awards in 1990. Although the identity of "Dear M" was not acknowledged in the media, his identity was well known within Toronto's gay community. "Dr M" was, in fact, Dr. Murray Wilson (1924–2010), an openly gay senior staff psychiatrist at Toronto's Wellesley Hospital from 1969 to 1985 and a former teacher of psychiatry at University of Ottawa and University of Toronto. Dr. Wilson was also a serious artist.

Death
Jack Pollock was openly gay, writing about his homosexuality in both The Art of Norval Morrisseau and Dear M: Letters from a Gentleman of Excess.  He eventually was diagnosed with AIDS and became a vocal advocate for AIDS research and for those suffering from the disease. He spoke openly about his diagnosis and its impact on his life:

"Because my immune system is gone, I was given very potent antibiotics that saved my life but destroyed my middle ear. Now I have no sense of balance, need to walk with a cane and can't go out alone. I miss my old mobility. It's extremely frustrating to wither away."  "It didn't seem fair that after I'd gotten my life together, I was hit by AIDS, so I decided to paint my rage.  You can lash out on paper, violate it, and it just absorbs the anger.  No one gets hurt."

On the eve before his death, Pollock was scheduled to speak at a benefit for an AIDS hospice at what was billed to be his last public appearance. Unfortunately, Pollock was too ill to leave the hospital and succumbed to his illness the next evening on December 10, 1992. "I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge."  The last known photograph of Jack Pollock was taken shortly before his passing in 1992 at the Kinsman Robinson Galleries (Norval Morrisseau's principal dealer since 1989) beside a Morrisseau painting. As Pollock himself had predicted in 1984, he is still mostly recognized for his association with Norval Morrisseau.

Pollock Gallery locations
One - 205 Elizabeth Street, 1960-1961
Two - 201 Elizabeth Street, 1961-1963
Three - 599 Markham Street, 1963-1971
Four - Phase II, Portland Street 1966-1968
Five - 356 Dundas Street West, 1972-1975
Six - Toronto Dominion Centre, 1972-1973
Seven - 122 Scollard Street, 1975-1982
Eight - 209 Adelaide Street East, 1980-1983

References

Further reading
 Jack Pollock, Lister Sinclair, "The Art of Norval Morrisseau", Methuen & Co., 1979, .
 Jack Pollock, "Dear M: Letters from a Gentleman of Excess", McClelland & Stewart, 1989, .
 Jack Pollock, "We All are All (and Other Thoughts on Days Alone)", Martin Se, 1981, Private Publication.

1930 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Canadian painters
Canadian male painters
Canadian gay artists
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Artists from Toronto
OCAD University alumni
20th-century Canadian male artists


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Infowars been reliable a supplier of conspiracy theories -- from 9/11 "trutherism" to the false claim that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. Such radical beliefs long kept Jones in the fringe, largely shunned by high-profile politicians. But in Trump, Jones found a kindred spirit with a mainstream audience.
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Gerber's Shard is a cut down version of the Artifact, without the hair-trigger craft knife in the hilt, which it's best to think of as a bottle opener with edges for levering things and cutting tape on boxes. Despite being smaller but still nicely hefty in proportion, it's pretty cute and something to keep on the desk to fiddle with.
There was a bit of controversy about Gerber taking their influence from Peter Atwood designs, which change hands for large sums amongst collectors who take this EDC lark worryingly seriously... personally I think the idea of geometric alterations to bars of metal being intellectual property is a scary concept and that there's a big difference between making your own tools and paying someone else to make them; whether they're mass-produced or short run is just novelty and price.
The 'Pico Widgy Bar' is an example of mass-produced minimalism, smallest of a series of prybars produced by CountyComm for military users. About the size of a key, it's better than using the blades or screwdrivers on a small multi-tool to poke/score/lever things and the metal should stand up to some abuse when trying to get leverage.
Anyone preferring the Atwood designs might like to look at the Chinese-made Navy CUI Pry Tool, which is a blatant rip-off of a G3 Prybaby.
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The robbery was reported just after 9 p.m. Riverside County sheriff's deputies are searching the area of Highway 111 and Bob Hope Drive.
Wells Fargo robbed in Rancho Mirage; some entries to The River mall blocked by deputies The robbery was reported just after 9 p.m. Riverside County sheriff's deputies are searching the area of Highway 111 and Bob Hope Drive. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2019/06/10/wells-fargo-robbed-rancho-mirage-near-river-mall/1409624001/
Colin Atagi, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 9:57 a.m. PT June 10, 2019 | Updated 5:12 p.m. PT June 10, 2019
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Riverside County sheriff's deputies swarmed the Wells Fargo bank in Rancho Mirage after a robbery there Monday morning, June 10, 2019. Authorities were looking for the robber in the surrounding area, which includes The River shopping center. Colin Atagi/The Desert Sun
Riverside County sheriff's deputies blocked off entries to The River shopping center in Rancho Mirage after the Wells Fargo bank across the street was robbed Monday morning, June 10, 2019. Colin Atagi/The Desert Sun
Riverside County sheriff's deputies swarmed The River shopping center in Rancho Mirage after the Wells Fargo bank across the street was robbed Monday morning, June 10, 2019. Colin Atagi/The Desert Sun
Deputies received report of possible bank robbery on the 42-000 block of Bob Hope Drive. The River shopping center was shut down while a search of the area was conducted. Courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department
Riverside County sheriff's deputies have surrounded an area near The River shopping center while searching for a bank robber Monday morning.
A robbery was reported just after 9 a.m. at the Wells Fargo bank in the 42-000 block of Bob Hope Drive, Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman Mike Vasquez said.
Wells Fargo is across the street from The River in Rancho Las Palmas shopping center. It remains open, but driveways nearest the bank are blocked and the public is being detoured to other entrances.
Vasquez said authorities were searching for the robber and that officials are "asking the public to stay away."
Palm Desert resident Victoria Dominguez was among the would-be customers turned away at The River and she said the sheriff's presence alarmed her.
"I assumed someone was shot," the 19-year-old said. "It's scary this happened and it's hitting too close to home."
No roads in the area were closed and the mall was later reopened.
Check desertsun.com for updates as they become available.
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