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IU basketball: Nebraska at Indiana game day essentials
December 7, 2022 Donald Kane IUBB 9
Game Day Essentials:
Nebraska (6-3, 0-0) at No. 14 Indiana (7-1, 0-1)
Tip Time: 8:30 p.m. Eastern
Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222), Bloomington, Indiana
Television: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Stephen Bardo)
Stream: Fox Sports
IU Radio Network: IU Radio Network
Point Spread: Indiana is a 13-point favorite
KenPom Projected Score: No. 10 Indiana 72 No. 83 Nebraska 60
Series: Indiana leads 18-7. IU won last meeting 78-71 on Jan. 17, 2022
Nebraska's Fred Hoiberg:
Fred Hoiberg is in his fourth season as head men's basketball coach at Nebraska. He has an overall record of 30-70.
Although his first three years have been a struggle, posting seven, seven and 10 wins, respectively, the team is off to a 6-3 start to begin this season. That includes a 10-point road win at then No. 7 ranked Creighton.
Hoiberg brought a bevy of experience to Lincoln that includes four years as an NBA front office executive, five years at Iowa State and four years as an NBA head coach.
During his time at Iowa State he had a 115-56 record, good for the top winning percentage (.673) in Cyclone history.
Hoiberg also led Iowa State to a program-record four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, while tying the school record with four NCAA Tournament coaching victories.
Coaching success wasn't just found on the collegiate level for Hoiberg, but also in the NBA. In his first season with the Chicago Bulls, he posted a 42-40 record, becoming just the fifth coach in franchise history to have a winning record in his debut season.
Before entering the front office and coaching ranks, Hoiberg played in the NBA from 1995-2005 for the Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves. He had career averages of 5.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.
Nebraska results and roster:
After beginning the season 3-3 with wins over Maine, Omaha and Arkansas-Pine Bluff and losses to St. John's, Oklahoma and Memphis, the Cornhuskers have strung together three consecutive double-digit high major victories. Those include defeating Florida State 75-58, Boston College 88-67 and then No. 7 ranked Creighton 63-53 on the road.
Nebraska 2022-23 KenPom Highlights:
Tempo – No. 291 (Offense No. 239 / Defense No. 191)
After leading the Big Ten in overall pace each of the last three seasons, the Huskers have slowed it down considerably this year.
Offensive Efficiency – No. 103
Nebraska's effective FG percentage of 52.5 percent is No. 97 nationally and consists of the No. 233 percentage from three (32.1) and No. 43 percentage from two (55.0).
The Cornhuskers do a decent job crashing the glass, with an offensive rebounding percentage of 33.9 (No. 55).
Nebraska relies more on two's than three's, with three-point attempts accounting for 36.0 percent of field goal attempts, No. 221.
Turnovers can get Nebraska in trouble at times. Their 19.7 percent turnover rate is No. 218.
The Huskers are awful at the free throw line, making just 62.2 percent — No. 337 nationally.
Defensive Efficiency – No. 74
Nebraska ranks No. 144 in overall opponent effective field goal percentage (49.0), including No. 168 in three-point percentage (33.3) and No. 137 in two-point percentage (48.3).
The Cornhuskers are playing defense without fouling, as free-throw attempts account for just 16.1 percent of field goal attempts (No. 3).
The Huskers are able to create turnovers at a respectable rate — 21 percent of possessions (No. 87).
Nebraska doesn't block many shots. Their 5.0 block rate is just No. 334 nationally.


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Craig " KLC" Lawson is a rap music producer.


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Punitive Damages in Maritime Injury Lawsuits
By Eileen 09, 25, 2014
Several rulings with significant impact have recently been made with regard to how maritime injury lawsuits are handled in court. One of these deals with the question of punitive damages, and when they may be awarded in maritime injury lawsuits.
Punitive damages are not always awarded in standard personal injury cases because they are not meant to compensate the victim; rather, they are designed to punish the defendant, hence "punitive." It is appropriate in some cases but not in others, depending on the nature of the defendant's behavior that led to the civil action in the first place. In most cases, punitive damages are levied against defendants that willfully and recklessly acted without regard for others i.e. speeding through a busy intersection.
A seaman who has sustained a work-related injury due to the negligence of the employer is entitled to sue for the usual economic and non-economic damages typical in standard personal injury cases, but it was only recently that the Supreme Court deemed that punitive damages may also be appropriate in some maritime injury cases, specifically claims for the willful nonpayment or inadequate provision of maintenance and cure benefits. Maritime employers are required by law to pay maintenance and cure benefits to employees who acquire work-related injury or illness regardless of fault. Failure to do so according to the law renders them liable for a maintenance and cure lawsuit, which may include punitive damages.
However, the issue is less clear cut for cases involving a claim of negligence or unseaworthiness. Different judges have interpreted the law in inconsistent ways therefore making conflicting decisions regarding punitive damages. No two cases are exactly the same, and this is definitely applicable when it comes to awarding punitive damages in maritime injury cases.
If you have incurred a serious work-related injury or illness, make sure that you consult with an experienced maritime lawyer. You will have a better chance of getting what is rightfully yours.
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Edward Kuczyński (ur. 20 października 1905 w Worończy, zm. 23 sierpnia 1958 w Gdańsku) – polski grafik specjalizujący się w drzeworytnictwie, ilustrator książek (m.in. dla Wydawnictwa Polskiego R. Wegnera i Drukarni i Księgarni św. Wojciecha), projektant znaczków, ekslibrisów i innych grafik użytkowych.
Studiował na Wydziale Sztuk Pięknych Uniwersytetu Stefana Batorego w Wilnie (1927–1934), po czym rozpoczął pracę jako nauczyciel rysunku w Szkole Rzemiosł i Przemysłu Artystycznego. Dyplom grafika uzyskał w roku 1939. Po II wojnie światowej pracował w Katedrze Grafiki na Wydziale Sztuk Pięknych Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, gdzie w latach 1952–1954 był prodziekanem, a następnie dziekanem (1954-1956).

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drivers: yes, we have problems with this, this this and this.
drivers: oh yeah and that guillotine that's next to the belt, @Future almost cut his pinkie off, can we see about getting that moved to the sup lounge?
Good, safety committee in my building is just a bunch of people who don't want to work so they do "Safety" for 2 hours and go home early. Curious as to what happened though.
They have to have so many safety hours to be OSHA compliant.
I heard about them. Local 177 is known around the country as a powerhouse E-board.
Probably trying to push driver in ridiculous weather conditions... union needs to go to state and federal Ohsa and file reports..... absolutely ridiculous ups!!
Lol, our safety committee is on again, off again all the time. Never know if we have one or not!
Cmon, someone must know the story behind this.
31 year driver in the Teaneck center had a sup with him for a one day OJS last Friday. Sup told him that he had to work with the doors open. Sup wouldn't close his door and any time the driver was out of the truck the sup would open the drivers side door to let any possible heat out. Our business agent also said something about the bulkhead door open too. Manager was called and backed the sup up with threats of termination to the driver if he failed to work as directed. RTB and the driver called 911. Taken via ambulance to the hospital for exposure related symptoms. All as per a 177 business agent.
That's beautiful. Best way to leave is by ambulance, love it!
I hope there are many charges filed against those 2members of management!
Work as directed wouldn't trump working unsafe anyways. Those managers better be fired!
Also, why in the world is a 31 year driver allowing himself to get rag dolled as such?
I wanna buy that driver a beer. I'll be headed to Meadow in a little while after meal. Gonna do some sniffin around.
If it was a day where it was -30 below then I might be looking into a lawyer.....yes it is cold out, yes we work in this kind of weather but to not do everything in your power to keep somewhat protected from the elements seems absolutely ridiculous.... sup and manager should be fired.... no call for that kind of abuse.... I wouldn't even do that to @IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U !!!


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The 1997 Raghopur massacre was an incident in a series of caste related violence in the Eastern Indian state of Bihar. Raghopur is a village located in Patut Panchayat of Bihta block of Patna district which is also home to the state capital Patna. On the night of 21 April 1997, an armed squad of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Party Unity entered the village and selectively killed 6 men after identifying them as members of Bhumihar caste. The house of Janardhana Sharma, a local member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, was blown up twice by explosives.

Masscare
At the time of the massacre Raghopur consisted of 150 households with Bhumihars and Musahars being the predominant castes in the village. There were around 50 Bhumihar households and 50 Musahar households. Other major castes living in the village included Dusadhs and Kanu Saus with one or two households belonging to other castes including a Muslim household. Most of the land in the village was owned by Bhumihars with two families owning more than 20 acres and all other families owning 5-10 acres of land.

The attack took place after midnight. In first strike, at around 12:30 AM the unoccupied house of Janardhana Sharma was blown up with explosives. Pawan Singh (25 years), who was sleeping inside the house, was pulled outside and shot after ascertaining his caste and identity. Post the explosion the Naxals circled the village and gathered as many people as possible to kill. Some were killed at sight after making attempt to warn the villagers while others were taken outside the village to be killed collectively .

Three men were also picked to be killed but let go after they claimed to not be Bhumihars. Mr Janardhana Sharma's house was blown up once again at 12:50 AM.

Greater casualties in the massacre was prevented due to the Naxal's inability to account for new phone lines that had been installed in the village a few months before the attack. Members of the village were able to contact the police in neighboring Nagahar village and the first squad of police were in village by 1:15 AM.

Aftermath
FIRs against 25 people were lodged in the nearby police stations of Bikram, Rania Talab and Paliganj. A police camp with 12 poli

cemen was set up to provide round the clock security to the village after the incident. The families of the deceased were given an ex gratia compensation of Rs 10,000.

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Massacres of men
Violence against men in Asia
1997 crimes in India


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1970 – The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on the Moon, becoming the first remote-controlled robot to visit the surface.
1968 – A customized version of the BAC One-Eleven, the 1-11 510ED, enters service with British European Airways.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport.
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A young family trying to reconnect with each other on a camping trip runs afoul of a group of fugitive bank robbers in this harrowing thriller. Stashing their loot with the family's belongings, the crooks make a plan to reclaim it while avoiding the law, but things don't go quite as planned when they reunite in the sticky Louisiana bayou. Starring Jim Caviezel, James Frain, Diora Baird, Elisabeth Rohm, Ryan Donowho, Sterling Knight with Harold Perrineau and Jake Cherry. Directed by Antonio Negret; screenplay by Michael Gilvary.


An inspection that's not done by an experienced plumber in Henderson can result in inaccurate readings, which can be dangerous. Therefore, any time you have an inspection, a city official must sign off to ensure that the inspection was performed correctly.
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The gas that flows into your home connects to a gas meter. The gas meter has a gauge that tells you the system's current pressure. In most homes, gas pressure is somewhere between .25 pounds and one pound of pressure. Any number outside of this range warrants a call to a Henderson plumber, as it could mean there's an underlying problem.
If you're still wondering why gas pressure is so significant, having an improper amount can cause a fire. The gas lines connect directly to the furnace. If there is too much pressure, the gas burners can overheat and cause a fire. A gas water heater and a gas-powered dryer can also overheat from excess pressure.


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Trees Planted at Ziegler's Grove
Volunteers from the Gettysburg Foundation planted trees in Ziegler's Grove this month. The orange flags mark their locations. We're standing in the old Cyclorama parking lot.This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:50 PM on Sunday, April 2, 2017.
The trees were planted as part of the National Park Service's efforts to restore Ziegler's Grove after the removal of the Cyclorama Building.This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:50 PM on Sunday, April 2, 2017.
Normally this is where we would say, "restore Ziegler's Grove to its 1863 appearance," but the aesthetics of the restoration and the Hancock Avenue Gate are from the Park's "Commemorative Era," when Gettysburg's battlefield was managed by the War Department.The monument to the 126th New York is in the center background. This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:50 PM on Sunday, April 2, 2017.
The trees that were planted this month are located on the north side of this stone wall. At Thursday night's Gettysburg National Military Park Advisory Commission meeting, it was mentioned that there are still "some pathways" that need to be placed in the area, but that the Park's plan is in its final phase.This view was taken facing west at approximately 2:50 PM on Sunday, April 2, 2017.
Trees were also planted along Hancock Avenue by the recently constructed stone walls. The 126th New York monument is on the left.This view was taken facing east at approximately 3:00 PM on Friday, April 14, 2017.


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Kollicoat IR is a graft copolymer composed of polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol. It is extremely flexible and does not require additional plasticizer. The polymer dissolves rapidly in the stomach, resulting in prompt release of the active substance and rapid onset of action after the tablet is swallowed.
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The idea of ready-made food is of course fast food, ready-to-eat and supplied. But, it's not the easiest to persist with, especially if you're in the habit of consuming out on a regular basis, as plenty of common fast food choices are loaded with carbs and hidden sugar.
It's important to note that a disclaimer on Taco Bell's site states that they are not a gluten-free surroundings and can't assure that any of their meals will really be really freed from gluten. The survey is predicated on interviews with 250,000 customers annually who're requested about quality of products, services and satisfaction with greater than 380 companies in 46 industries and ten economic sectors, ACSI says.
The only factor quicker than the meals these companies serve is the lightning-quick pace you'll be able to transfer up their job ladders. Coupled with low nutritional worth, the high fat, calorie and sodium content of those foods can result in quite a lot of health issues. While SMBs won't have the luxury or budget to launch these internal tech centers, all service companies can watch these fast food trends carefully.
However have you ever ever driven past a Wendy's, perhaps late at evening, and abruptly turn into obsessive about the considered scrumptious, sizzling sea-salted fries? The type of grease that they're making those fries in? He did, and the following week when he excitedly requested her if she wished to return, she said, "I suppose that's the type of thing you want solely once each forty years." Even grandma bought the Crave generally.
What's the best attainable pay for jobs that hire at 15 years previous? Ever been to a mall meals court? Some people have such little free time that they've to show to fast food simply to get one thing to eat.
Nebraska comes in second, with 5.4 restaurants per 10,000 residents, closely followed by West Virginia and Oklahoma at 5.3 areas per 10,000 people. There are over 200,000 fast food restaurants within the United States and it's estimated that fifty million Americans eat at one in all them each single day.
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Braid raspberry, candy and Bagels are accountable for power and a donut in fats, however in the event you need, go to the common pressure is hard, 220 power, 9 g fats, 12 G sugar. You already know Denny's as America's diner, however did you comprehend it started out as a donut stand in 1953. Danny's grew to become Denny's and the chain grew, immediately with over 1,seven-hundred areas throughout the United States.
Fast food is best some times and worst in some situations. What is it wish to manage a fast food restaurant? At six bucks and all adding as much as 1500 calories and loaded with carbs, it's a fantastic instance of American fast food at its best.
Most importantly is the call for water, not excessive sugar tender drink to be the default menu possibility for all kids' meals and for the calorie laden meal deals to have their overall calories and sugar ranges lower.
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Problematic meals preparation was also a trigger for concern. The weight loss program purists will frown on you eating these kinds of foods, but it did help me to alter my taste in the direction of higher foods. Will you change your eating habits due to this? In the final 4 years, Taco Bell has pledged to chop artificial substances and use cage-free eggs, and has introduced a lower-calorie menu.
Nine important markets-Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the United States-account for 80 share of the restaurants and shares seventy-5 share of total revenue. The idea is to focus on the early adopters and let them unfold the phrase in regards to the services or products. 5g net carbs Without caramel sauce.
I really like their honey mustard sauce they offer with them. Repping the savory and the candy, this lunch is a low-calorie Thanksgiving meal with out the trouble or awkward dialog with your inlaws. Kim seemed the worst, she was almost in tears. These can't be jeans or leggings but correct trousers.


The Big NaNoWriMo Book Sale!
November is here again and you know what that means! Thirty days (*cough* Twenty-Nine now) of manic scribbling with the desperate hope of reaching 50,000 words before December arrives. It's a slow start for me this year because I'm working like crazy until Monday, but I'm hoping to get ahead in the week. If you want to follow my progress, you can look me up here: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/illogicology.
Once again I'm kicking off NaNoWriMo with my Big Book Sale. For the next few days, Christmas Past, Time Trial and The Octopus of Suspense will all be free on kindle. Grab them now from the link below, but don't let them come between you and your novel!
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Well, I finally did it. I stuck with a blog to 100 posts.
I'm an old hat at the internet, I've been making websites (terrible, terrible websites) since my first year of High School and I've been running blogs since LiveJournal was relevant. But in the past I never stuck with my blogs, maybe they were too trivial, too personal or too specific to last long. The Owen Adams Project has always been different though, I put my name on it and I decided to write each post as if it were an important piece of writing in itself. What started as a simple way to promote my work has become a place where I can share ideas, discuss my work, or moan about Man of Steel.
This isn't actually my 100th post, I've been so embroiled in NaNoWriMo that I didn't notice my last post was actually the big number. Still, it has been a lot of fun sharing this blog with you.
Here's to 100 more posts.


We finally got our, much needed, weekend away! On Friday we left Toronto in what Boyfriend had affectionately deemed, 'The Batmobile,' because the car was a black Mazda 3 and all black cars should be referred to as The Batmobile, naturally.
When we finally arrived at 9 o'clock on Friday night we were starving and fortunately for us Viamede's BoatHouse Pub was open; there is literally nothing bad I can say about the food at Viamede from the pub to the dining room everything is incredible. I have no pictures from our first night because we were famished and the minute the boat (get it) of deep fried pickles arrived they were gone; there is no time for foodstagraming when you're HANGRY!
The next morning we dined on blueberry pancakes and french toast in the dining room and headed for a soak in the hottub and a steam in the sauna; it was at this moment that I really started to relax and feel better about how busy I've been lately.
Because I like to do things backwards after we hit the sauna we decided it was time to go for a hike around the resort. There are 6KM of private hiking trails surrounding Viamede and we enjoyed most of them with a game of left, right or straight – WILDERNESS EDITION! We got lost once or twice and may have ended up on someone's property either that or we found a murder trailer… or I've seen Deliverance one too many times? I felt like I was a little girl again, exploring the woods around my grandparent's farm house and climbing on top of rocks to declare myself queen of everything, yes I really did that.
Dinner that evening was as wonderful as the previous night, but this time we did it up like classy folk in the dining room.
Everything from the delicate scallops to the thyme and lemon infused chicken was wonderful but I don't think I've ever had a better dessert than the tiramisu cake and homemade goat's milk cappuccino ice cream.
All in all Boyfriend and I had an amazing time and we both really needed to get away for a couple days but what we're really looking forward to is going back this summer; we've decided that we're going to have a Jet Ski race, swim and BBQ at some point in July. I think in the Summer we'll try and rent one of the cottages because Boyfriend has never been to a cottage and I'd love to share those first time memories with him.
I loved the seclusion of Viamede in the winter but I really can't wait to see how much they have to offer in the summer season… or maybe I'm just really excited for +30 and sunshine?
Disclaimer: This weekend was provided to us by Charming Media for review.


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It's been a while since I blogged - I've spent the last three evenings helping my neighbour set up his new computer and I've told him not to call me this weekend. I need to finish a swap and mail it out on Monday or I'll miss the deadline; plus I have other swap deadlines looming. It's late Saturday afternoon and I have a total block on the one that's due on Monday so I hope something will come to me when I relax in a hot bath.
I've just come in from a solid two hours of tidying up the garden, prepared dinner (beef casserole, which is cooking on the stove as I write) and am now catching up on email. Today I also went grocery shopping at 8am, went to the chiropractor, finished making two postcards, listened to some cantatas, and buried the contents of my bokashi bucket in the garden. I thought Rufus was stalking a mouse under the fridge, but it turned out to be a dust bunny, so I suppose it's time to vacuum. Tomorrow.
Glorious weather this weekend - sunny and temps in the low 20s. Chilly wind though. This week I had my ceilings re-strapped so that they don't cave in, and also had insulation batts installed in the roof. It's hard to tell if it's making any difference. The two bare-chested boys doing the installation were so so cute but they made a real mess in the garden with bits of plaster everywhere.
Off for a long hot soak in my bath, then dinner.
Yes! I have read a couple of entries in your blog, and now I know what all the squeaking is in my house! Bats!!!!


hxDeploy is an executable (from neko) and a "tpl" folder.
You can download hxDeploy.zip here.
There are templates for building Flash (using or not swfmill), Js and Neko projects.
If projectTemplate is missing, it will display you all the project templates available.
className is optional. If specified, it will be the class name of the main class.
You get 3 folders : src, lib, bin and a Haxe build file named Test.hxml, on the root.
src contains the Test.hx file which contains the right class.
lib contains an assets folder (to store media assets for the flash), a Swfmill XML and a build file for it.
bin will contain the binary file, once compiled.
Since now, you just have to execute the Haxe build file on the root, to get your binary.
You can easilly create your own templates too.
I haven't tried it on Linux or Mac, I hope it works the same way as on Windows (It should).
If you have ideas to improve that or any suggestions, don't hesitate ! .
I've thought maybe an extension for puremvc, or multiple source directories would be nice. Saves on boilerplate.
Where can I find more templates for building Flash? I need them badly! Thanks.


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We Have 6 acres planted - 3 acres of Syrah and 1.5 each of Grenache and Mourvedre. We practice sustainable agriculture, which means we use the barest minimum of any chemicals.
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Government Urged To Give All UK Adults £500 To Spend On High Street
by : Julia Banim on : 05 Jul 2020 18:01
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Independent think-tank Resolution Foundation is urging Chancellor Rishi Sunak to consider giving each British household vouchers to spend at high street shops, with vouchers worth £500 per adult and £250 per child.
The purpose of this scheme would be to kickstart economic recovery in UK in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, focusing support on sectors which have suffered greatly due to the economic impact of coronavirus. For example, those in the retail and hospitality industries.
This proposal is part of the wider fiscal stimulus package proposed by the Resolution Foundation, which produces research with a focus on improving living standards for those on low-to-middle incomes.
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Researchers at the Foundation believes a £30 billion 'High Street Voucher' scheme could effectively deliver targeted support to firms which need the most help right now.
This voucher scheme proposal has been described as 'tailor-made' for the current unprecedented crisis, focusing attention on specific sectors, rather than companies across the wider economy.
Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, James Smith, said:
While every part of the economy has been affected by the current crisis, the stand out feature of this recession is that some areas are far more affected than others.
Social distancing has huge implications for firms in sectors like retail, hospitality, tourism and leisure that will last into the forthcoming reopening phase.
That is why the jobs of so many workers in these sectors are in the firing line. The Chancellor's recovery package on Wednesday should reflect this unique economic challenge.
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Smith continued:
As well as setting out the biggest ever peacetime job support programme, the Chancellor should get Britain spending in places where it's needed most.
A universal 'High Street Voucher' scheme – worth £500 per adult and £250 per child – to be spent only in these sectors would kickstart demand in the right parts of our economy, boost living standards and deliver targeted support to the businesses that need help the most.
The Chancellor has already shown that big, bold measures like the Job Retention Scheme are welcome and necessary in the current economic climate. He should take this same approach as we enter the crucial recovery phase of the crisis.
This would be a universal scheme, delivered through vouchers or smartcards that could be activated over a fixed time period. For example, the Foundation has recommended a time period of 12 months.
The Foundation has explained that the scheme could be easily deactivated should the targeted sectors be required to close once again following a potential second wave of the coronavirus.
As per the Foundation, hospitality activity was down by over 90% in April, whilst industries reliant on face-to-face contact are continuing to be impacted substantially due to social distancing measures.
In countries such as Germany or France, which have already seen the easing of lockdown restrictions, leisure and retail trips remain more 10% compared with pre-pandemic levels.
The proposal has been outlined ahead of Chancellor's financial statement on Wednesday, July 8, where he will outline policies aimed at addressing the UK's recovery from the outbreak.
As reported by the Financial Times, the economic impact of coronavirus has led to the UK's debt-to-GDP ratio breaking the 10& mark for the first time since 1963, with the economy shrinking a record 20% back in April.
Sunak has pledged that the upcoming announcement will be a 'fiscal plan' as opposed to an 'emergency budget', and will see him laying out a roadmap for economic recovery.
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Jules studied English Literature with Creative Writing at Lancaster University before earning her masters in International Relations at Leiden University in The Netherlands (Hoi!). She then trained as a journalist through News Associates in Manchester. Jules has previously worked as a mental health blogger, copywriter and freelancer for various publications.
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Samsung is turning pro with its new Galaxy Buds Pro true wireless earbuds by putting in a number of new features to take them to the next level. This is both new and familiar territory all at once for Samsung. Familiar in that the Galaxy Buds Pro resemble the previous Galaxy Buds+, yet new in that they function considerably differently. It's also a more seasoned effort for the company, having learned from past mistakes. It's just that you have to temper all that newer features with the sacrifices made along the way.
Samsung chose to go with a more traditional design with these earbuds compared to the more recent Galaxy Buds Live, which were radical by design. In this case, the earbuds have drivers that protrude into the ear canal—much like many others do. The difference, however, is that there's much more going on under the hood.
I'll get to that a bit later, but the main standouts off the bat are the overall size. The case is smaller than any other one Samsung made to date. No small feat considering the earbuds themselves are slightly bigger than the Buds+. I say 'slightly' because the size difference is relegated to one key spot that impacts how well they work.
Somewhat surprisingly, they don't come in bronze, which was a hot colour for Samsung in 2020. Instead, phantom violet is the colourful option, though there's always the chance new ones may come out.
What makes these earbuds 'Pro'
To compete with the best in the industry, Samsung had to address two key features that were either previously missing or lacking in performance. Chief among them was active noise cancellation (ANC). While the Buds Live did have ANC built-in, the open design handcuffed the feature from truly blocking out background noise. In this case, the feature is not only robust, but also dynamic.
For example, you have two levels to choose from: high or low. Additionally, it also works in tandem with Ambient mode through Voice Detect. Basically, the ANC tamps down, while Ambient mode kicks in whenever you start talking, so you can hear both yourself and others. It then goes back to the previous volume level after 10 seconds without talking.
Samsung claims the ANC can block out up to 99% of background noise at the high level, but I'm skeptical about that. While that does cover low-frequency noises on paper, which typically go up to 100 Hz, Samsung is saying the cancellation goes up to 118 Hz. That would then include some higher-frequency sounds, yet in my testing, I would quantify that more than 1% of the background seeped through.
There is also 360 Audio using Dolby Head Tracking technology, which is a fancy of saying that the earbuds can simulate surround sound in your ears. Watch a movie or show coded in 5.1 or 7.1 surround, and you will hear that spatial sound resonate.
There's also a neat integration with multiple Galaxy devices. Pair the Galaxy Buds Pro with a Galaxy phone and tablet, for instance, you can watch something on the tablet, and automatically switch to the phone once a call comes in. I've asked Samsung to clarify which Galaxy devices work with this feature, and will update once I hear back.
Connectivity and controls
As always, the Galaxy Wearable app is the go-to for managing the earbuds. It was super easy to pair them with any phone through the app, including the iPhone. This is where you customize and control what they can do, including the newest features. They are all effectively optional, so you don't have to turn ANC on or use Voice Pickup if you don't want to.
Aside from the two levels of ANC, there are four levels of Ambient mode, giving you real latitude over how much of the background you want to hear. Unfortunately, Samsung still doesn't include a manual equalizer to tinker with the sound. You do get the same six presets, but no way to create your own.
The onboard touch controls are also optional because you can turn them off completely. They are "touch and hold" controls, so should you use them, you have four choices for either side. By default, they switch between ANC and Ambient. Or you could choose to launch Bixby, Spotify or adjust volume. A simple tap plays/pauses, whereas a double tap answers/ends a call or skips to the next track, while a triple tap repeats it.
There is a Gaming mode that's still under the "experimental" phase, but the gist is that you can play mobile games without worrying about latency. Other staples, like Find My Earbuds and Read notifications aloud are back again, too.
There's actually a lot going on under the hood to produce the sound, starting with the dual driver design. The 11mm woofer and 6.5mm tweeter are shaped differently coming out of the earbuds themselves, which means the silicone ear tips are oval-shaped. The bigger design consequence, however, is the thicker inner body that doesn't sink into the ear quite as much. I found these earbuds wiggled more than the Galaxy Buds+ did.
Samsung claims it boosted the audio quality, and while that is demonstrable, it's not what I'd call a leap forward. There is a cleaner sound here, with a nice balance between the bass, treble and mids. The default sound profile is okay, but I highly recommend playing around with the custom EQ presets in the Wearable app. My personal two favourites are Dynamic and Bass Boost for the extra depth they add to every track.
The 360 Audio is also nice for movies and shows, adding a totally different level of depth. Action scenes feel bigger because of it, but it also helps dialogue feel closer to your ears. It appears to only work with content actually coded in surround sound, rather than with anything you're listening to. Kind of a shame, since it would give music a concert-like feel, especially if you were to watch an actual concert on YouTube, for example.
Key to getting the best sound throughout is the fit. I've said it before, but it bears repeating—the tighter the seal, the better the bass. The Galaxy Buds Pro are no exception. The Galaxy Buds+ and Buds Live were two of the comfiest earbuds released in 2020, and while these are up there, you may find they need a little more adjustment along the way.
Great for phone calls
I'm always impressed when true wireless earbuds perform really well with phone calls. Given the microphones are nowhere near your mouth, it's a nice engineering feat. Samsung played this up with the Galaxy Buds Pro, and so far, it's hard to argue. Callers had no idea I was talking to them using earbuds, assuming I had the phone to my ear.
That wasn't necessarily the case if I was out in public, but callers also found they could barely hear any background noise. That's the ANC at work in tandem with Ambient mode. It cuts off background noise for them, while leaking it in for you. It's not perfect, and could use some refining, but is still no less impressive.
Samsung took a major step forward in battery life with the Galaxy Buds+, but don't expect that here. With ANC on, the best you'll get is five hours per charge (it's eight hours with ANC off). Once you raise the volume, however, that number goes down. I often cracked four hours, but that was it. The case has 18 hours (ANC) or 28 hours (ANC off), depending on how you listen, basically giving you at least three full charges.
Those aren't great numbers when compared to competitors, though they are in line with Apple's AirPods Pro. On the bright side, the case is smaller for much easier transport, and does support wireless charging. In a pinch, with the right Galaxy phone, you can charge these by placing them on the back of that device. With a quick charge via USB-C, plugging in for five minutes can get you an hour of playback.
Samsung often positions its earbuds as part of device ecosystem, but you don't have to be part of that to enjoy the Galaxy Buds Pro. They work just fine with other Android devices and the iPhone through the Wearable app. The Auto Switch feature between Galaxy devices is exclusive to Samsung's products, but otherwise, the other stuff works the same.
Rather than a huge leap, Samsung took an iterative step from its two previous wireless earbuds by adding some features. There are a couple of fundamental changes, particularly in what the microphones can do, but these aren't a must-have upgrade if you're already sporting either of the other two—unless you really want whatever was introduced here. If you are in the market for true wireless earbuds, these would be worth a look.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are available now in phantom black, phantom silver and phantom violet.
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Hannah February 16, 2021 At 10:50 am
The noise cancellation feature looks amazing.
Peter C February 16, 2021 At 9:48 am
I would really like the Ambient mode so I can hear well when someone talks to me
Paul February 16, 2021 At 9:46 am
Best feature for me is the noise cancelling feature
Mary February 16, 2021 At 9:45 am
The battery life is so important
Micheal February 16, 2021 At 9:26 am
ANC would be the feature for me as my current headphones lack it, I would love these!
Joanne Taggart February 16, 2021 At 9:17 am
Definitely the wind noise reduction so I can use the phone outdoors!
Sarah February 16, 2021 At 9:08 am
Battery life is most important to me.
Andrew February 16, 2021 At 8:33 am
I like the wind noise reduction.
Clayton February 16, 2021 At 6:00 am
I like the improved active noise cancellation to block out household noise when working.
DebH February 16, 2021 At 4:31 am
I like the wind noise reduction so I can use the phone outdoors!
JAMES DASILVA February 16, 2021 At 2:45 am
I like the active noise cancellation feature.
Owenn February 16, 2021 At 2:36 am
I'm a fan of the IXP7 rating so I don't have to worry about accidentally getting them wet
Mayda February 16, 2021 At 2:24 am
I like the sound of ambient mode so that I can talk and listen at the same time
Nancy February 16, 2021 At 2:03 am
Ambient sound mode
Ron C February 15, 2021 At 11:42 pm
Extra battery life
Matt W February 15, 2021 At 10:31 pm
The noise cancellation is the feature I'm looking forward to the most, especially while mowing the lawn!
AD February 15, 2021 At 9:23 pm
As someone who travels for work and is on airplanes A LOT and work remotely in public spaces, the one feature of the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro which I love is the intelligent active noise-canceling and adjustable ambient sound mode. Thanks!
Maureen C February 15, 2021 At 7:47 pm
Auto Switch, for sure.
Michelle Conn February 15, 2021 At 6:27 pm
2 words … noise cancellation!
Katherine Dubreuil February 15, 2021 At 5:53 pm
Battery life and noise cancellation .
Darryl Arthur Arsenault February 15, 2021 At 5:44 pm
Battery life is important.
Melissa Watkins February 15, 2021 At 5:30 pm
Noise cancellation would be top of the list feature and then extended battery life
Muhammad Arif February 15, 2021 At 3:43 pm
I like the ANC and the 360 Audio features the most on the Galaxy Buds.
Stephanie Snow February 15, 2021 At 3:40 pm
the Intelligent active noise cancellation is a feature I would love with these ear buds
Sandra J Lebeau February 15, 2021 At 3:00 pm
The feature of the Galaxy Buds Pro that got my attention is the three-mic system with wind noise-reduction as I spend lot's of time outside and often have to find a spot out of the wind.
Doug M February 15, 2021 At 1:50 pm
I like the improvements in Active Noise Cancellation that allow for better elimination of outside noise and they tamp down when you start talking because we all know our tranquility will get interrupted!
Simran Pannu February 15, 2021 At 1:46 pm
My favourite feature is that the Samsung galaxy buds pro has great noise-cancelling technology. It would really take me when I need to study and listen to music without hearing any background distractions. I would love to have these buds.
Michael February 15, 2021 At 12:38 pm
My favourite feature is the noise cancellation so I can block out noise interference.
Marjory Turner February 15, 2021 At 12:24 pm
I like the size of them and the fast rechargeing
Nicolas B. February 15, 2021 At 10:33 am
I like the ANC feature!
Stanley C February 15, 2021 At 10:26 am
I like that it's equipped with a three-mic system with wind noise-reduction, so I should be able to take phone calls outside or even in driving in the car with the windows down.
Tyler Gabora February 15, 2021 At 9:14 am
ANC can block out up to 99% of background noise is a cool feature
Rhonda Prince February 15, 2021 At 9:09 am
the noise cancelling feature is the best
David February 15, 2021 At 8:39 am
I'm most interested in the Ambient mode that works with the active noise cancellation so you can speak to someone else and still hear their reply.
Beverly February 15, 2021 At 7:56 am
I like the connectivity features. I think it would really pair well with the Samsung Note 10! Greatly appreciate it!
Betty Spry February 15, 2021 At 6:34 am
I love the noise-canceling feature and they will adjust when you are speaking
Clarissa Jorquera February 14, 2021 At 8:40 pm
Whoa, the ambient mode is pretty cool!
Tannis W February 14, 2021 At 8:12 pm
The ambient sound mode feature sounds cool!
Yung L February 14, 2021 At 8:05 pm
I love the Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) feature which is so important when I'm on my Zoom meetings
Kaylah Jones February 14, 2021 At 8:01 pm
I have a house filled with teenagers the notice cancelling feature of these headphones would be great in my loud busy house.
Jason Outmezguine February 14, 2021 At 7:56 pm
I like the noise reduction feature.
Dennis Smiljanic February 14, 2021 At 6:58 pm
I love the Active Noise Cancelation (ANC) feature which would be great for Zoom work meetings and listening to music for a little "me time"
Nicole A February 14, 2021 At 6:25 pm
My favourite feature is the noise canceling.
B. Robinson February 14, 2021 At 5:11 pm
I love the Voice Detect feature of the ANC, this is great!
Jessica M February 14, 2021 At 3:39 pm
I like the noise reduction on phone calls from the ANC at work with the Ambient mode. This would be great for all phone calls.
Craig Olson February 14, 2021 At 3:17 pm
I would love the active noise cancelling. I hate not being able to take work calls outside so that feature would be great to cancel out the sound from wind etc.
Brad K February 14, 2021 At 2:56 pm
Intelligent active noise cancellation is a feature I would enjoy.
Janet L February 14, 2021 At 2:53 pm
I think cutting out of the background noise .
Keith February 14, 2021 At 2:40 pm
I would like the improved active noise cancellation to block out background TV noise.
Bonnie C February 14, 2021 At 1:25 pm
my favorite is the noise cancelling feature.
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Shogun. Not sure what model. Has 105 groupset.
73 competition. Is a total repaint. May put it back to origional drop config. Not sure yet. Could also be a repaint in black as it was origionally.
Went Saturday to pick up my 73 Raleigh Competition. Was excited and put in the wrong address. The address was 203 and I put in 302. Went to 302 knocked on the door. The nice lady who answered said when asked if David was in "There's no David here. David lives at 309." Apologies nice lady! Went to 309 and rang the bell. Hello David I am Bill. Good to meet you. "Hi Bill, great to meet you also!" Then the crickets started. " I am here to look at the bike" . Dave says " What bike?" Crap. Here we go again. Told him about the Raleigh and he says "Don't have a Raleigh but I got a couple decent bikes, want to see em?" First brought out a real nice condition Centurion Le Mann's RS.
Then Dave says I have a nice blue bike too. Ok, will look. Shogun with 105. Not sure what model but a pretty nice bike also.
Then Dave says give your number. I have some Italian bikes in storage. I will call you when I pill them out!
We then proceed to the real Dave and pick up my 73 Competition. Very nice! Came with the original wheels and drop bars. Also the how to maintain your Raleigh bike and the Raleigh hat that came with the bike.
All in all not a bad day!
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That's pretty hilarious. Maybe I should go knocking on random doors to try to find my next project?
That is great! Mike Wolfe of the TV show American Pickers used to run a bike shop and collect and trade antique bicycles. It was how he got started picking. He has always said that classified ads and flyers never worked. What worked was just knocking on doors and asking if people had bikes or other things they didn't want anymore. I guess people don't have the time to try to find buyers, but if someone shows up to buy them, then perfect! They didn't have to do anything but answer the door.
It also makes me realize how my bad my attitude is- I don't want people knocking on my door. Then again, the only times my doorbell has rung it was someone whose car crashed in my yard or they broke down and decided to park in my driveway for the night. Gee thanks! I should have asked for Japanese or Italian bikes in return.
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I've never been a big fan of the State of the Union addresses, whether I support(ed) that President or not. And now in the 2000's, it's become a masterfully crafted art of theater, rivaling classic Broadway hits like Fiddler on the Roof.
However, we have no way of knowing how many people use the SOTU as their only news source. How many have their views shaped by this one speech alone, this limited engagement without all of the facts? How many changed their future support and votes because the President wore a red tie instead of a blue one? How many were affected by the optics alone, the acting proficiency of the speaker, for this just one single performance?
I suspect very many, and that's pretty scary.
Granted, I claim to have slept through this year's SOTU, but that doesn't mean I didn't record it, nor see a gazillion clips and analyses during the ensuing week. (Unfortunately unavoidable.) This is what annoys me the most about the SOTU, any SOTU, for a president I support or not.
It's become a political rally for the opposing side, and this year's disgusting show by the Democrats confirmed this for me yet again.
I happen to be an avid Trump supporter because I believe this country has never been stronger, more prosperous, fairer, or safer. However, according to the Dems, the U.S. is in worse shape than Uganda. The "Ladies in White" was emblematic of this nonsense, because no one really understood what wearing white was supposed to actually represent.
They also should have known that the Ladies in White is a group in Cuba which, for many years, have protested the imprisonment, murder and disappearance of their husbands and sons by Castro.
But didn't they realize that "Let's all dress alike!" sounds like some college sorority prank, or worse, the populist "Let's all wear red!" which Venezuela's Chavista socialists used? Or the Nazi Brownshirts? Are uniforms their answer!? Pretty childish, and a bad attempt at positive optics.
Will I sleep through next year's SOTU as well, and simply review bits and pieces in the following days? Probably, because I never slept better than I did that one night last week.
The Air Heads in White!
Noted that you state most who pay any attention at all KNOW what is going on in the country? Really? Have YOU ever watched when reporters hit the streets and ASK our citizens the most common every day questions? Questions that unless they are comatose should know…like "do you think President Clinton would have been more effective if he were not black"?? As far as History, most know NOTHING about the History of this country or any other country for that matter. Most have no idea where in relation to the world they live or even how many states in the US! The list just goes on….so NO I would say anyone who "slept through the SOTU" is an idiot. AKA SHEEP! Listening to others recant what was said is about as reliable as RAIN today! What YOU hear is what you know! Especially THIS year's SOTU! With the media on both sides doing nothing but campaigning it is of the utmost important to LISTEN to what the President had to say. This year MOST all of what he said was not only factual but interesting and inspirational. Americans have become too self involved and suffer from persecution complexes! Everyone's little nothing problems are blown so out of proportion it is pathetic! Fortunately NONE of them were alive during the time when TIMES WERE HARD! I was not alive either but MY parents were and had I been as disrespectful, selfish and completely stupid as too many ARE today they would have thrown ME out of their house! Though I would like to see this President take some of the drama less seriously, I do not walk in HIS shoes therefore I do not really know how I would react to such vile horrible treatment. Overall I have seen way too many Presidents especially those who became President for ALL the WRONG reasons and THIS President is not one of them! He loves the country and the PEOPLE..does not need the money, the notoriety nor the enormous headache however he has stepped up to DO what far too many refused to do! And has done it! He relates to the average everyday person and HAS his entire life. Americans who truly want to see this country prosper, live without constant govt intervention, and feel safe living HERE WANT this President.
Well, Ira, I only speak for myself, but I did not sleep through the SOTU, this time; I prefer to hear from the Prez, directly and not have to "analyze" the lamestream media's propaganda drivel. As for the political whores in white (they are NOT ladies), a big part of their "uniform/costume" was missing- -it was the little, pointy white hoods that are so perfectly tailored to fit their little "pointy heads"!
You missed the most positively moving tribute to the goodness of America and Americans in my lifetime. I am 73 years old.


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A forgotten hero of South African journalism
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A FAMOUS GROUSE
IT was George Steer's birthday on Monday. A forgotten hero of South African journalism, he reported on three wars in the last ten years of his brief life before dying in a fourth when he crashed his overloaded jeep in wartime Bengal on Christmas Day 1944. He was just 35 years old.
His crowning achievement as a foreign correspondent was to break the real story of Guernica. He revealed to the world that the aircraft that had firebombed the historic Basque town on 26 April April 1937, a busy market-day afternoon, and then machine-gunned civilians as they fled into nearby fields were German, flown by pilots of the Nazis' Condor Legion.
With that, Adolf Hitler's dirty secret was out: the Nazis were deeply involved in the Spanish Civil War. They had not only thrown their weight behind Franco's nationalist forces, but were were doing so to field-test their own war machine in a dress rehearsal for blitzkrieg.
Steer's sensational front-page report, published simultaneously in The Times of London and the New York Times, sent shockwaves around the world. One American diplomat said the news had been received with "utmost horror" in the US where it was viewed as "a practice for the bombing of London and Paris". More importantly, it laid bare the folly of the policies of appeasement of Nazism and Italian fascism practiced by successive British governments in the 1930s. ___STEADY_PAYWALL___
Steer's biographer, Nicholas Rankin, would later write that the bombing of Guernica "brought the brutality of colonial warfare home to white people. Since the First World War, when a few European civilians had been bombed, the tactic had mostly been used in faraway places to punish tribal dissidents. This warfare abolished geography. Death could drop from the air, at any time, to destroy a town without warning and to burn women and children at home in their beds. In this kind of war, civilians were the front line. Guernica, like Hiroshima, like 9/11, marked a terrible new order of things."
That "order" is still with us: this week, for example, the Financial Times revealed that US intelligence agencies were caught off guard in July by reports that China had tested a hypersonic glide vehicle capable of firing a nuclear missile as it approached a target travelling at least five times the speed of sound — a capability no other country has previously demonstrated.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. George Lowther Steer was born in East London in 1909 and raised in a liberal "newspaper" household; his father, Bernard Steer, was the managing editor and future chairman of the Daily Dispatch. When he was 11, the boy was packed off to complete his education in England. A gifted scholar, he'd won both public schools and university scholarships. Though ensconced in its bosom, he did not care much for the English establishment being, at heart, an African and "a natural ally of the underdog", as Rankin put it. At Winchester College, this "South African Englishman", as he called himself, reportedly "showed a colonial disregard for the conventions of this country". In 1931, he helped set up the African Society at Oxford.
After securing a double first in classics at Christ Church, Steer returned to South Africa for a journalistic apprenticeship at the Cape Argus, working briefly as a crime and baseball reporter. He returned to England in 1933, where he worked in the London office of the Yorkshire Post.
In January 1935, he reported on the rigged referendum in which the people of the Saar borderlands voted overwhelmingly to join Nazi Germany. The bitter European winter left him longing for the African sun, and he persuaded The Times to give him a position as a special correspondent in Addis Ababa, convinced that the Italians were about to invade Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then called). He left London for Addis Ababa in June 1935. The Italian offensive began on October 3 that year.
Steer's coverage of the seven-month Second Italo-Ethiopian War established his reputation as a war correspondent. In addition to his reports, he detailed the atrocities committed by Mussolini's armies in his first book, Caesar in Abyssinia (1936). It was the first of three volumes he was to write on fascist Italy and what has been described as the last great episode of armed colonial conquest in Africa.
Unsurprisingly, Steer was expelled from Ethiopia shortly after the Italians entered Addis Ababa on 5 May 1936. In addition to the Italians, Steer had also earned the resentment of Evelyn Waugh, who felt it was he, and not Steer, who should be filing for The Times.
Waugh had, after all, famously visited the country in 1930 to cover the coronation of Haile Selassie for the newspaper and would go on to satirise the Ethiopian monarch as the cannibalistic Emperor Seth of Azania for his comic novel, Black Mischief (1932).
It didn't help that, when Waugh arrived in Addis Ababa in August 1935 as a correspondent for the pro-fascist Daily Mail, Steer failed to recognise him at their first meeting. Their ideological differences now widened. Unlike many of his colleagues, Waugh was fiercely pro-Italian, or as he put it, "slappers with the wops". In language not unfamiliar to present day Twitter users, he wrote to his friend, Lady Diana Cooper: "I have got to hate the ethiopians more each day goodness they are lousy & I hope the organmen gas them to buggery." (The historian Paul Preston later commented, "Waugh was as deficient in typing skills as in the milk of human kindness.")
Waugh didn't take his reporting duties very seriously. Unlike Steer, he never made it to the frontline. To break the tedium of loitering at his hotel, Waugh once purchased a "very low-spirited baboon" which masturbated all day. In the evenings he took the animal to the local nightclub where it molested the whores. Drunk most of the time, he claimed that the heaviest fighting he saw was among journalists at the hotel bar. Steer, in particular, was a "very gay South African dwarf" who was "never without a black eye. Some say it is the altitude more than the bottle."
His loathing of Steer's anti-fascist stance was evident in the savage review he gave Caesar in Abyssinia. "It is not enough that he thinks the war unjust," Waugh wrote. "He will not allow the Italians the credit of working their destructive machinery with any skill." Later, in his novel Scoop (1938), Waugh characterised Steer as an overly diligent journalist working for the Twopence, a fictitious newspaper, and gave him what he assumed was the Afrikaans-sounding surnname of Pappenhacker.
It's not known what Steer made of Waugh's spiteful ravings. In May 1936, shortly before his expulsion from Addis Ababa, he married Margarita Trinidad de Herrero y Hassett, a correspondent for the Paris-based Le Journal. The couple had barely settled into their London flat, however, before Steer travelled to Spain, again as a special correspondent for The Times. Steer would not see his wife again; she died in childbirth in January 1937 as Steer was returning home. He returned to Spain, grief-stricken, after her funeral.
The Spanish civil war began in July 1936 when General Francisco Franco led a right-wing military insurrection against the Republic's newly elected left-wing government. On one side were the Nationalists, as Franco's rebels were known. They comprised the Roman Catholic establishment, high-ranking military leaders, landowners and upper class businessmen. On the other were the Republican loyalists, a fractious grouping of working and middle class elements. Political and ideological differences between the sides were vehement and extreme, to say the least.
Once war was joined, a bewildering array of some 35 000 idealistic men and women raced to Spain to join the International Brigades and defend the Republican cause. Ill-equipped and untrained, they included trade unionists, liberals, communists, artists, anarchists, socialists, writers, teachers, students, doctors and nurses. Very soon, they'd be pitted against Franco's crack colonial troops, the Ejército de África, or Army of Africa. They stood no chance.
Hot on the volunteers' heels, however, came a small army of foreign correspondents. With their arrival, the war became one of the very first of the 20th century's conflicts in which mass propaganda would play a very significant role.
Tales of enemy atrocities related by press officers provided sensational copy but were often difficult to verify, especially in the early days of the war. These wild, hastily reported accounts of barbarism by "Reds" and "atheists", in which nuns were raped, priests beheaded and churches razed, damaged the Republic's foreign relations at a time when it needed to buy arms to defend itself against Franco. The alleged excesses by Republicans recounted in newspapers, whether true or not, reinforced what the historian Antony Beevor called "that distaste for revolution … which ran strongly in British conservative and diplomatic circles".
It was not until the bombing of Guernica, in April 1937, that world opinion would begin to shift in favour of the Republicans. But by then they were already losing the war.
George Steer was sympathetic to the Basque cause. When the war broke out, the Republic offered greater autonomy to Spain's various regions in return for military support. The two richest industrial areas in the north-west and north-east, Basque Country and Catalonia, agreed to the deal. Citizens in both regions spoke their own language, had their own distinctive cultural traditions and had long yearned for greater independence. Franco's nationalists, claiming to speak for a unified Spain, were violently opposed to any form of devolution and vowed to destroy the "Red separatists".
Steer was in the Basque capital of Bilbao on April 26, dining at a hotel, when a distraught official broke the news that Guernica was burning. Together with a handful of other reporters, he raced to the nearby town, which was still ablaze at 11pm. Unlike the other correspondents, who then returned to Bilbao to file their stories, Steer remained in the town as soldiers frantically dug up bodies from the smouldering ruins. Sifting through the rubble he picked up the silver tubes of German incendiary devices. Back in Bilbao he interviewed many of the refugees who'd reached the capital. He then returned to Guernica to view the damage in daylight.
Back in Bilbao, he sat down to write his report in which he correctly identified the three German types of aircraft that took part in the raid — Heinkel and Junkers bombers accompanied by Heinkel fighters. About 3 000 incendiary devices, he said, had been dropped on the town, as well as bombs weighing as much as a thousand pounds apiece. "The fighters," he wrote, "plunged low from above the centre of the town to machine-gun those of the civilian population who had taken refuge in. the fields."
The attack, he continued, was an "unparalleled" atrocity: "Guernica was not a military objective. A factory producing war material lay outside the town and was untouched. So were two barracks some distance from the town. The town lay far behind the lines. The object of the bombardment was seemingly the demoralisation of the civil population and the destruction of the cradle of the Basque race. Every fact bears out this appreciation…"
Steer's report was published on Wednesday, April 28. The next day, it was reprinted in the French Communist daily, L'Humanité, where it was read by the artist Pablo Picasso. Deeply affected by the account, he abandoned his initial plans for a commissioned mural for the 1937 Paris Exhibition and began work on an enormous canvas that would be his greatest painting and arguably one of the 20th century's most powerful works of art, "a single flash of chaos and terror", as Rankin put it.
Picasso completed the work in just three weeks. During that time, Steer endured an extraordinary campaign of vilification. The Nationalists had immediately denied that Guernica had been attacked. The Francoist foreign press bureau claimed that the Basques had dynamited the town themselves. Greatly angered, the Germans had meanwhile expelled The Times's Berlin correspondent. Extraordinarily, Nazi propagandists had noticed that "Times" spelt backwards is "Semit", proof that the newspaper for which Steer wrote was a Jewish-Marxist operation.
Meanwhile, English journalists who supported Franco launched an extensive campaign to attack Steer's professionalism.
After the Nationalists occupied the town, they would conduct carefully chaperoned tours of the ruins for foreign journalists, propaganda exercises in which it was once again claimed that the Basque had bombed themselves. Shamefully, and to Steer's dismay, The Times published an account of one such tour written by another reporter, James Holborn. Enraged, Steer would issue a rebuttal of Holborn's report.
His relationship with the newspaper deteriorated sharply. The anti-fascist tone of Steer's work had embarrassed The Times, which then dispensed with his services. The newspaper's stance on the civil war was anti-Republican, and its editor, Geoffrey Dawson, privately sympathised with Franco.
Steer would never write for The Times again. After the fall of Bilbao, he returned to South Africa, where he finished what many regard as one of the best accounts of the conflict, The Tree of Gernika: A Field Study of Modern War (1938). There is no mention of the newspaper in the book, which uses the Basque spelling of Guernica. He then immediately began work on Judgment on German Africa (1939), a study on the Nazis' colonial ambitions on the continent.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, the Daily Telegraph sent Steer to Finland to report on the short-lived Winter War, when Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union in November 1939. Here he once again reported on the aerial bombing of towns. Unlike Guernica, however, western countries like France and Britain — and even Germany — were now only too eager to offer arms and equipment as well as volunteers to assist the Finns.
Steer joined the British army in June 1940, and saw action in Ethiopia. He was later sent to Burman where, ironically, he commanded a field propaganda unit which had attempted to undermine the morale of Japanese troops in the jungle with loudspeakers broadcasting sentimental music and speeches. He was on his way to a Christmas party when he was fatally injured in an accident. After the war, Steer's name was found in the Gestapo's Special Wanted List of 2 820 people who were to be detained should the Germans invade and occupy Britain.
He has been honoured in Basque Country. In 2006, the town of Guernica unveiled a bronze bust of Steer in the town square and named a street after him. Four years later, another street was named after him in the capital, Bilbao.
Finally, there is an intriguing anecdote about Pablo Picasso. During the war, it is said that the artist was approached by a German officer in occupied Paris, who asked him, "Did you do Guernica?" He replied, "No, you did."
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent by Nicholas Rankin (Faber and Faber, 2003)
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 by Antony Beevor (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006)
The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War by Giles Tremlett (Bloomsbury, 2020)
The Tree of Gernika: A Field Study of Modern War by G L Steer (Faber and Faber, 1938; reprinted in 2009 with an introduction by Nicholas Rankin)
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston (Constable & Robinson, 2008)
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Something is in the lake. What Lies Below starring Ema Horvath, Trey Tucker and Mena Suvari is coming home on December 4 from Vertical Entertainment and looks to put some chills into the holiday season. We've got an exclusive look below at the upcoming horror movie you can sink into right now.
In What Lies Below, Liberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her Mother's fiance&́e, John Smith, whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.
Director Braden R. Duemmler said that while writing the screenplay, he aspired to tell a story that was not just Horror, or Sci-Fi, or Family Drama, or Mystery, or Teenage Angst, but rather all at once. A film that navigates these genres by grounding the narrative in its characters, specifically, the perspective of our female protagonist, Libby Wells (Ema Horvath). While researching Libby's character, he was struck by the depth of rationale and emotion girls jockey through during their teenage years, but also recognized the same awkwardness, doubt, and discovery we all experience as our sexuality blossoms.
"I believe that fear and anxiety implicit within teenage sexuality allows all viewers to simultaneously relate to Liberty and fear for her."
While directing What Lies Below, Duemmler sought to cultivate this empathy visually by creating a Female voyeur/Gaze, in Liberty, and a Homme Fatale, in John Smith (Trey Tucker). Through the outset of the film, Libby ("the looker") watches the world and stares at John as the object of her desire and, whether focused on a part of John (such as his hip flexors, chiseled abs or perfect smile) or capture him whole (i.e. his introduction in/from the lake) he conveys, what film theorist Laura Mulvey referred to as, a "to-be-looked-at-ness."
"As filmmakers, we want you to see him, we want you to stare at him, we want you to want more from him and, in so doing, we want you to question him."
What Lies Below is on demand and on digital December 4, 2020.
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