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Neoconservatism and paleoconservatism are two major branches of the American conservative political movement. Representatives of each faction often argue that the other does not represent true conservatism. Disputed issues include immigration, trade, the United States Constitution, taxation, budget, business, the Federal Reserve, drug policy, foreign aid and the foreign policy of the United States.

Conflict of values

The phrase Paleoconservative ("old conservative") was originally a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder used in the 1980s to differentiate traditional Conservatives from Neoconservatives and Straussians. Pat Buchanan said the conservative movement had been captured by "a globalist, interventionist, open borders ideology" in an edition of Buchanan and Press in 2002. He was co-founding The American Conservative magazine as a challenge to what he saw as dominant neoconservatives, and for Buchanan, a corrupter of real conservative values.

The roots of this conflict predate both the Paleocons or the Neocons, which both came to prominence in the 1970s and '80s. In 1950, essayist Lionel Trilling said that liberalism is the "sole intellectual tradition" in the United States. He dismissed Old Right conservatives as expressing "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas". Three years later, Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind challenged this thesis by arguing that American Conservatism had a long and distinguished pedigree in the history of ideas.

The Neoconservative movement, as it rose in the 1970s, articulated a different vision from the Old Right. While Neoconservatives were not opposed to the New Deal as were the Old Right, they thought the subsequent developments in the Great Society and the New Left went too far. Neoconservatives embraced an interventionist foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. They espoused especially strong support for Israel and believe the United States should help ensure the security of the Jewish state.

In a feature article called "The Democracy Boosters" in the March 24, 1989 issue of National Review, Claes G. Ryn warned of the uncritical advocacy of democracy and abstract universalist principles among so-called Conservatives, including Michael Novak, Allan Bloom, Ben Wattenberg, and Richard John Neuhaus. These sentiments, Ryn argued, were more akin to leftism than to Conservatism. In the ensuing controversy Ryn was attacked at length in National Review by the democratic socialist Sidney Hook, as well as by others aligning themselves with the exceptional notion that America is called by history to advance its principles in the world. In 1991 Ryn argued in a book, The New Jacobinism, that Neoconservatism bears a close resemblance to the ideas behind the French Revolution. The French Jacobins of the late 1700s appointed France the agent of universal principles; the new Jacobins of the late 1900s had similarly selected the United States for the task of transforming the world. Ryn thus warned of the dangers of ideological imperialism.

Paleo historian Thomas Woods elaborated on the divergence in the Conservative movement, and the ascent of the Neoconservatives, and their distinguishing features from more traditional Conservatives:
The Conservative's traditional sympathy for the American South and its people and heritage, evident in the works of such great American Conservatives as Richard M. Weaver and Russell Kirk, began to disappear ... [T]he Neocons are heavily influenced by Woodrow Wilson, with perhaps a hint of Theodore Roosevelt. ... They believe in an aggressive U.S. presence practically everywhere, and in the spread of democracy around the world, by force if necessary. ... Neoconservatives tend to want more efficient government agencies; Paleoconservatives want fewer government agencies. [Neoconservatives] generally admire President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his heavily interventionist New Deal policies. Neoconservatives have not exactly been known for their budget consciousness, and you won't hear them talking about making any serious inroads into the federal apparatus.

In discussing Neoconservatives' distinctive positions on state power, Irving Kristol wrote in 2003:
Neocons do not like the concentration of services in the welfare state and are happy to study alternative ways of delivering these services. But they are impatient with the Hayekian notion that we are on "the road to serfdom." Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government. Neocons feel at home in today's America to a degree that more traditional Conservatives do not. Though they find much to be critical about, they tend to seek intellectual guidance in the democratic wisdom of de Tocqueville, rather than in the Tory nostalgia of, say, Russell Kirk.

What made the Neoconservative movement so potent was the number of influential intellectuals who attained positions of power in the government and media. Paul Gottfried argued that the neocons funded their efforts using funding originally intended to fight the New Deal or the Great Society. Kristol remarked that "one can say that the historical task and political purpose of Neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American Conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of Conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy."

By comparison, the Paleocons were marginalized. Samuel Francis wrote,
Contemporary Paleoconservatism developed as a reaction against three trends in the American Right during the Reagan administration. First, it reacted against the bid for dominance by the Neoconservatives, former Liberals who insisted not only that their version of Conservative ideology and rhetoric prevail over those of older Conservatives, but also that their team should get the rewards of office and patronage and that the other team of the older Right receive virtually nothing.

Francis also argued that many on the Left misunderstood both the Neocons and Paleocons, as well as the conflict between the two. He said they disregarded the Paleocons' critiques and over-emphasized the influence of Leo Strauss on the Neocons:
This silence about the Paleocons was the result, in part, of the abysmal ignorance of the writers of most such articles but also of the hidden purpose that lurked beneath much of what they wrote. That purpose was not so much to "deconstruct" and "expose" the Neocons as to define them as the real Conservative opposition, the legitimate (though deplorable and vicious) "right" against which the polemics and political struggle of the left should be directed. The reason the left prefers the neocon "right" to a paleo alternative is, quite simply, that the neocons are essentially of the left themselves and, thus, provide a fake opposition against which the rest of the left can shadowbox and thereby perpetuate its own political and cultural hegemony unchallenged by any authentic right.

Further, Francis also complained that the Neocons never fought the left with anything more than elegant reprimand. If they saw serious criticism in return, they issued charges of antisemitism. He also said that if "the point is to wipe out Israel's enemies," such as in the Iraq invasion, "the [neocon] Likudniks don't care about American casualties very much."

Claes Ryn places Neoconservatism in a larger historical and philosophical context. In America the Virtuous (2003) he argues that America's traditional civilization, specifically, its constitutionalism and liberty are rapidly eroding and that neoconservatives exemplify and aggravate this development. Their abstract moral principles, summarized as "virtue," constitute a break with older Western values. Though speaking in the name of America and patriotism and even Conservatism, the neoconservatives are replacing attachment to America's older religious, moral, intellectual and cultural traditions with a form of universalism that has roots in leftist thinking. Additionally, Ryn argues that what he terms "Neo-Jacobin imperialism" threatens to produce interminable wars and poses a serious threat to American constitutionalism.

Politics and Jewish identity
Some Paleocons say they are honest Conservatives who were bullied and smeared by a corrupt ideology tied to Social democracy and globalism.

Historian Edward S. Shapiro, tracing the debate back to the 1960s, wrote that many Neoconservatives saw their new political philosophy within a specifically Jewish context. This became an element in the dispute with the Paleocons. He said that at first these Jewish neocons equated Conservatism with country club exclusion, racism, and the "Protestant hinterlands," and so shied away from applying the label to themselves. They also considered the Burkean social order as a "premodern social order revered by Edmund Burke and the other pioneers of Conservative thought, a world which had ostracized Jews to the fringes of society." He continued:

"For the Jewish Neoconservatives, children and grandchildren of immigrants from Eastern Europe, this was far too narrow a view of American culture. They emphasized the pluralism and openness of America and claimed that Americanism was less a matter of biological descent and European culture than of civic values and political ideology. Just as the neoconservatives stressed the ideological content of American diplomacy and asserted that American political ideology had well-nigh universal applicability, so they underscored the plastic character of American identity. Anyone was potentially a good American just as long as he or she affirmed the fundamental American political precepts of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address. The Neoconservatives, the traditionalists responded, exaggerated the appeal of American political principles to the rest of the world, and they underestimated the powerful hold which culture has, or should have, on its citizens.

The Conservative War

1981: National Endowment for the Humanities
The beginning rift is often traced back to a dispute over the directorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities by the incoming Republican administration in 1981. Senator John East proposed literary scholar Mel Bradford, a former Dixiecrat. Bradford withdrew himself from consideration after Neoconservatives argued that his record of academic articles criticizing the actions and thought of Abraham Lincoln ill-suited a Republican nominee. They circulated quotes of Bradford calling Lincoln "a dangerous man," and saying, "The image of Lincoln rose to be very dark" and "indeed almost sinister."

Historian Paul Young described Bradford's view of Lincoln as follows:
Bradford cast all of Lincoln's life in the most sinister of terms. He gave Lincoln no credit for any intellectual or moral progression from his pronouncements in the 1840s to the years of the Civil War. Rather, Bradford freely juxtaposed the young Lincoln's comments on race and slavery, whether on the political hustings or otherwise, with his later statements and actions in order to convict him of hypocrisy. Neither did Bradford afford any consideration to the expediencies of politics; no sin by Lincoln could ever be justified by an appeal to political necessity. Bradford's Lincoln was a paragon of venality: hypocritical, corrupt, racist, unscrupulous, and duplicitous in his rhetoric. He was motivated by his own ambitions and thirst for power, provoking sectional conflict in order to attain his goals. Lincoln was guilty of war crimes for denying medicine to the South, complicit in the under rationing of his own troops, given to locking up political opponents in a "Northern 'Gulag, and, in general, an apt model for the twentieth-century dictator. Noting the dyspeptic Edmund Wilson's comparison of Lincoln to Bismarck and Lenin in Patriotic Gore (1962), Bradford added Hitler for good measure.

The Neoconservative choice, William Bennett, was nominated on November 13, 1981. Curiously, a few leaders, whom the Paleocons would later oppose, supported Bradford: Dan Quayle, William F. Buckley Jr., and Harry Jaffa. Former Bradford associate Thomas Landess wrote in 2003 that today's Neocons "are too busy running the world to tilt with Mel Bradford."

1983: The John Birch Society
Democratic congressman from Georgia  Larry McDonald was elected second president of the John Birch Society upon the retirement of first president, Robert Welch. Shortly after, McDonald was reported killed when the passenger plane he had boarded to take him to the 30th year commemoration of the U.S.-S. Korea Mutual Defense Treaty, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was shot down near Moneron Island by the Soviets. Three months earlier, McDonald had appeared as the guest of Pat Buchanan's Crossfire T.V. show, on which Buchanan and journalist Tom Braden discussed with him the John Birch Society's position with regards to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and conspiracy. Speaking of the Rockefeller family, McDonald had written in the introduction of a book:
The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

1986: Intercollegiate Review and Philadelphia Society
The real genesis of the Paleocons came in 1986 when the Paleoconservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute's journal Intercollegiate Review ran a "State of Conservatism" symposium. Some of the contributors complained about growing Neoconservative dominance. Historian Clyde Wilson wrote of being "crowded out by overwhelming numbers." Gregory Wolfe argued that true Conservative scholars valued "order and organic community, class and natural aristocracy" and considered "Christian belief as the foundation of morality and law."

Soon after, a Conservative group called the Philadelphia Society held a symposium on Neoconservatism at its 1986 annual meeting. Among the critics was historian Stephen Tonsor (who does not accept the paleo label), who said:

It has always struck me as odd, even perverse, that former Marxists have been permitted, yes invited, to play such a leading role in the Conservative movement of the twentieth century. It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far.

Tonsor also argued that the movement divided "techniques from ends in an effort to maintain their cultural modernism while rejecting its social and political implications." He said it couldn't be done.

Neoconservatives are, as Irving Kristol remarked, "liberals who have been mugged by reality," but while they have been detached from their social and political myths they have not located themselves in a body of principle that makes life worth living, or that one would die defending.

1987: The Catholic University of America
Paul Gottfried says that Neoconservative lobbying kept him from a professorship in classical political theory at The Catholic University of America. David Frum claims this allegation is  "relentlessly solipsistic."

1988: The Heritage Foundation
Russell Kirk found himself in the minority on December 15, 1988, when he gave a lecture at The Heritage Foundation. The title was "The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species."  As Chronicles editor Scott Richert described it,
[One line] helped define the emerging struggle between Neoconservatives and Paleoconservatives. "Not seldom has it seemed," Kirk declared, "as if some eminent Neoconservatives mistook Tel Aviv for the capital of the United States." A few years later, in another Heritage Foundation speech, Kirk repeated that line verbatim. In the wake of the Gulf War, which he had opposed, he clearly understood that those words carried even greater meaning.

Neoconservative commentator Norman Podhoretz, called Kirk's line "a bloody outrage, a piece of anti-Semitism by Kirk that impugns the loyalty of Neoconservatives." She claimed that Kirk "said people like my husband and me put the interest of Israel before the interest of the United States, that we have a dual loyalty." She had previously denounced Joseph Sobran and the Intercollegiate Review symposium as anti-Semitic as well. She told The New Republic, "It's this notion of a Christian civilization. You have to be part of it or you're not really fit to conserve anything. That's an old line and it's very ignorant."

Conversely, Paleocon Samuel Francis called Kirk's "Tel Aviv" remark "a wisecrack about the slavishly pro-Israel sympathies among Neoconservatives." He called Decter's response untrue, "reckless" and "vitriolic."

1989: The Rockford Institute
Another defining incident came on May 5, 1989, when the Rockford Institute fired Richard John Neuhaus, who went on to launch the religious journal First Things. One issue between them was that Neuhaus claimed that Chronicles, Rockford's magazine, tilted toward nativism and was "insensitive to the classic language of anti-Semitism." Allan Carlson, then Rockford's president, called the allegations "egregious and potentially damaging." Fourteen years later, Neuhaus called Chronicles "racist and anti-Semitic," joked about "Schadenfreude" and said he holds a "gala staff luncheon" every year to commemorate his termination.

John Judis, a left-wing author and journalist, described the incident:
Under the Rockford Institute's name and funding, Neuhaus published a regular newsletter out of his Center for Religion and Society in New York. But in March 1989, Neuhaus and Podhoretz took strong exception to two articles published in Rockford's glossy journal, Chronicles. In one of them, Chronicles editor Thomas Fleming called for stricter quotas to prevent the United States from "being dominated by Third World immigrants," and in the other, novelist Bill Kauffman defended Gore Vidal, who had earlier attacked Podhoretz for putting Israel's interests before America's. In a letter, Podhoretz wrote Neuhaus, "I know an enemy when I see one, and Chronicles has become just that so far as I am concerned."
In May the Rockford Institute made the next move by locking Neuhaus out of the center and confiscating his files. When Neuhaus left, three foundations linked to the Neoconservatives, Olin, Smith Richardson, and Bradley, withdrew their funding for the Rockford Institute, costing an estimated $700,000 a year.

1990: The McLaughlin Group
Pat Buchanan's Paleoconservative views soon became a point of dispute. The major controversy began with the August 26, 1990 The McLaughlin Group television broadcast. He said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East—the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States"—and was accused of antisemitism.

1993: The National Review
A further event was the demotion and eventual firing in 1993 of Joseph Sobran from National Review, who had criticized American supporters of Israel. One such comment was that the New York Times "really ought to change its name to Holocaust Update." Neoconservative Norman Podhoretz vehemently objected to such writing, saying they were "anti-Semitic in themselves," His wife, Midge Decter, told Sobran she felt "shock and disgust—and contempt—at the discovery that you are little more than a crude and naked anti-Semite."

Sobran himself claimed that founder William F. Buckley told him to "stop antagonizing the Zionist crowd," and Buckley accused him of libel and moral incapacitation. Buckley had previously said that an outsider "might reasonably conclude that those [Israel] columns were written by a writer inclined to anti-Semitism." Before his firing, Sobran discussed the issue in National Review, saying:
I'm responding to an obsession—a more or less official national obsession with a tiny, faraway socialist ethnocracy, which, I agree, ought to be a very minor concern of American policy-makers, but isn't. The orthodox view that Israel is a "reliable ally" is so brittle that a single maverick can ignite a frenzy. The reason, I repeat, is not that critics of Israel are so numerous, but that even one, as far as Israel's claque is concerned, is one too many. There is the terrible danger that the public may be more interested in what he has to say than in the party line the rest of the chorus is emitting.

1997: The New York Post
Paleoconservative Scott McConnell was fired as the [[New York Post|New York Post'''s]] editorial page editor on September 4, 1997 after writing editorials critical of Haitian immigration and Puerto Rican statehood. About the latter, he had cited statistics that "half the island's 3.7 million inhabitants receive Food Stamps" and "59.4 percent of Puerto Rican children born on the U.S. mainland are born to unwed mothers." He concluded:
We believe that the looming vote on Puerto Rico's status is yet another sign of how the congressional GOP has lost its way. The current leadership seems more interested in trying to placate the liberal Washington establishment—or hatching schemes it imagines are popular with minority voters—than in protecting the interests of the voters who elected it. This is a feckless way to guide America's destiny.

McConnell later remarked that "our society had developed an expected script of white Anglo contrition and apology ... and that I had failed to follow it." He found himself replaced by John Podhoretz.

Two years after the incident, McConnell said he had changed his mind about Pat Buchanan and joined his campaign as an adviser. He once dismissed his presidential hopes as "not worth discussing." Soon he helped found The American Conservative.

A protracted conflict
The ongoing conflict

Since the end of the Cold War, the rift within the conservative movement has deepened with the neoconservatives' ascent and the paleoconservatives' marginalization. For example, there were no prominent paleoconservatives in the Bush administration. Charles Krauthammer called Paleoconservatism a "philosophical corpse" and "a mix of nativism, protectionism and isolationism." However, the Trump administration saw a resurgence in paleoconservatism, with Steve Bannon serving as White House Chief Strategist until his dismissal in August 2017, and Stephen Miller continuing to hold a prominent advisory post.

On domestic affairs, The Weekly Standard claimed that "the paleos' radical dissatisfaction with contemporary America could eventually veer into an anti-Americanism almost indistinguishable from the more familiar variety on the left." David Brooks, in the same magazine, claimed that the movement combines "high principle and bad-boy bravado," along with melding good ("longing for the old virtues") with bad ("race and sex roles"). He concluded that paleocons replace "the universalist ideas of the Founding" with "blood and soil." Brooks also described Pat Buchanan's campaign supporters as "people who thrived in the machine age" but who "are not going to thrive in the new economy."

Lew Rockwell once illustrated the depth of paleo/neo schism with the story of an encounter between a Paleocon and a Neocon. The Neocon complained that the Paleocon made an "insensitive remark" about AIDS and said, "How can you say that, when we all have so many close friends who have been struck down by this terrible disease?" The Paleo replied, Close friends?' I don't know anyone who has AIDS. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who has AIDS." After that, the Neocon stopped speaking to the Paleocon.

 March 2003: The Crossfire
David Frum of National Review and Pat Buchanan of The American Conservative exchanged harsh words just before the Iraq War began. Buchanan wrote that Neocons influence the U.S. government toward the pursuit of global empire and the benefit of pro-Israel hawks. Frum charged that Paleocons have become unpatriotic, racist, and antisemitic. He also hinted that Paleocons were subversives, claiming they "made common cause with" international Islamists and "deny and excuse terror." (Though a year later, National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. described The American Conservative as "highly literate" and "wonderfully well edited.")

In his article, Buchanan wrote:
This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the Neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, "Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight."

Frum wrote that:
Having quickly decided that the War on Terror was a Jewish war, the Paleos equally swiftly concluded that they wanted no part of it. It's odd: 9/11 actually vindicated some of the things that the Paleos had been arguing, particularly about immigration and national cohesion. But the Paleos were in no mood to press their case. Instead, they plunged into apologetics for the enemy and wishful defeatism.

Beyond Paleo and Neocons

In 2003, Paleocon Clyde Wilson speculated that their critique of this "nasty little cabal" might be "belated and repetitive—a diversion from more fundamental problems," namely "a fatal defect of national character." He wrote that the Neocons are courtiers who saw "the chance presented by the vast gaping vacuum of ideas and principles that is the Republican Party." He concluded that Middle America is too willing to "clamber aboard" a GOP bandwagon "and hosanna their way down the road to perdition," instead of creating a populist replacement that might preserve "some semblance of civilized order and liberty."

In addition, while Paleos and Neos quarrel over Middle East policy, Paul Gottfried argued that domestic equality and the exportability of democracy are greater points of contention between them. He wrote that the neocons' call for "permanent revolution" exists independently of their beliefs about Israel, characterizing the Neos as "ranters out of a Dostoyevskian novel, who are out to practice permanent revolution courtesy of the U.S. government". Also, Paleos, while not wanting the US tied to Israel too strongly, freely disagree with one another about certain Israeli leaders. Pat Buchanan supported Yitzhak Rabin, while Gottfried, who criticizes "truculent [neoconservative] Zionism," admires Ariel Sharon.

See also

 Managerial state

References

Further reading
 Paleoconservative criticism of neoconservatism
 Claes G. Ryn, America the Virtuous (2003)
 Claes G. Ryn, "The Ideology of American Empire". Orbis'' 47 (2003), 383–97. A longer and more scholarly traditional conservative critique.
 Zmirak, J.P., "America the Abstraction," A conservative critique of neoconservatism.
 Why do NeoCons hate France? Why real conservatives should be pro-France.
 Nation or Notion? by Patrick J. Buchanan
 Strauss & the Straussians by Paul Gottfried.
 Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator by Claes G Ryn.

History of United States isolationism
Neoconservatism
Paleoconservatism
Political movements in the United States

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Make the most out of your trip to paradise with the Go Oahu Pass, available for 1- to 7-day use over the course of two weeks. This Oahu pass offers free admission to over 30 attractions, beach activities, and tours—all to be enjoyed at your own relaxed pace. You'll also receive discounts to local restaurants and shops, along with a free pocket guidebook. No redemption is required with your pass, just save your pass (ticket) on your mobile device and explore Oahu at your leisure. Please note: Enjoy the extra flexibility in case your travel plans need to change: All passes are valid for two year from purchase date and only become activated with your first attraction visit. After activation your pass will be valid for 30 days and/or the remaining number of attraction choices purchased.
Pearl Harbor Ultimate Passport
Passport to Pearl Harbor Tours includes a Visitor Center, admission to all activities such as USS Arizona Memorial, Battleship Missouri Memorial, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, and Park, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. Turn back time as we explore WWII history at Pearl Harbor and relive the infamous Sunday morning of December 7, 1941. A visit to the visitor center and the accompanying "Road to War" and "Attack" exhibit galleries that display pictures and recovered items from the events which transpired at Pearl Harbor and WWII. Then, watch a short film explaining the fateful day and its significance. Followed by a boat ride to the USS Arizona Memorial, the final resting place of the ship's 1,177 crewmen. • The most visited attraction on Oahu Island • Enjoy 8 Hour tour from Honolulu or Ko Olina • Visit some of Hawaii's most popular & landmarks • Small group ensures personal attention
Pearl Harbor WWII Heroes Adventure Tour
Immerse yourself in World War II history during this full-day tour on Oahu. Visit the USS Missouri and the site of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to walk in the footsteps of the country's war heroes. Climb aboard the USS Bowfin and learn about its important role in battles during WWII. View the sunken USS Arizona, the watery resting place for over 1,000 brave soldiers, and visit the Pearl Harbour Aviation Museum. Round-trip transportation from Waikiki hotels is included.
Your Private Multi Day Tours
This private, multi-day tour of Oahu lets you completely customize your vacation with the benefit of a guide. Your guide not only provides information and helps you create an itinerary that matches your needs, but also provides all transportation, so there's no need to rent a car. This tour offers an immersive option for first-time Oahu visitors looking to make the most of their time on the island.
Your Private Mix Plate (Combination) Tours
This private tour of Oahu lets you completely customize your sightseeing experience to include hiking, swimming, shopping, and more. From Pearl Harbor to off-the-beaten-track vista points to family favorites like Dole Plantation, let your guide know what you want to see, and then arrive with the comfort and efficiency of private transportation.
Your Private Pearl Harbor Tours
Benefit from personalized attention and a flexible itinerary on this private tour of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. With a guide leading you through a carefully curated itinerary, you'll be sure not to miss a thing on this tour that includes tickets to the USS Arizona Memorial (if booking for early morning pickup times). Other activities and entrance fees are to be purchased by guests separately.
Best Of Pearl Harbor: The Complete Small Group Tour Experience
This is a small group tour. Max 12 guests. Calling all WWII history fans! Pearl Harbor Tours' most comprehensive day tour of the Park allows you to experience and explore! It's almost like turning back the clock to that very day. You'll visit the USS Arizona Memorial, the world-famous stark-white structure that straddles the great battleship. On the first day of the war, it suffered catastrophic damage, becoming a tomb for many. Also on this tour, you will get the opportunity to see the USS Battleship Missouri and the very spot where the Surrender Documents were signed to mark the end of WWII. Then we're off to the Bowfin Submarine and the always amazing Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. Planes of all ages, types, and sizes are here, as well as several bullet holes from the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It was this single attack, on American soil, that rallied the people behind FDR and brought the US into WWII… where we would face America's greatest challenge to date.
Your Private Community Tours
Give back to the community with a hands-on, authentic travel experience and save money in exchange on this private Oahu community service tour. Spend up to 90 minutes volunteering with activities like beach clean ups—the discounted rate is automatically applied to your chosen Pearl Harbor, North Shore, or Circle Island private tour, which is minimally modified to accommodate your volunteer experience.
Ensign's Warbird Experience
Take flight over Oahu aboard a vintage warbird aircraft—the only one of its kind used for aerial tours on the island. Discover the World War II history of Pearl Harbor as you soar above memorial battleships, then venture to Honolulu, Waikiki, and Diamond Head. This is a must-do for aviation enthusiasts visiting Hawaii.
What are Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum hours of operation?
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum hours of operation: Open daily 8am-5pm. Buy tickets in advance on Viator. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund.
Should I book Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum tickets in advance?
We recommend booking e-tickets ahead of time to secure your spot since Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum can get crowded. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund. See all 9 Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum tickets and tours on Viator.
How much does it cost to visit Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum 2021?
Currently, an entrance ticket to Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum costs USD 82.00. Guided Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum tours start around USD 82.00 per person. See all 9 Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum tickets and tours on Viator.
What's the best way to experience Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum?
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The name of the Association is The Finnish International Mölkky Association (FIMA) and its home is in Lahti, Finland.
Meaning of FIMA is to stimulate and up date Mölkky game and with a sense of purpose to make Mölkky known in the world.
acts in other ways also to fullfil the meaning of FIMA.
For its activities FIMA can own and control premises and get wills and donations, practise cafe and restaurant business, publishing, selling memorial items and arrange lotteries and collections.
FIMA will supply the necessary permissions and insurances for its activities.
Domestic associations or foreing national Mölkky associations, who accept the meaning of FIMA, can be accepted as a true members in FIMA.
As a supporting member can be accepted domestic or foreign privat person or community, who wants to support FIMA's meaning and activities.
True and supporting members are accepted by the Government of FIMA after application.
As the Honorary Chairman or Honorary Member can be invited after Governments proposal a person, who has remarkably promoted and supported FIMA's activities.
A member has right to resign from FIMA by literally informing the Government or the Chairman or getting it to the minutes of meeting in Mölkkykonventti (annual members meetings).
The Government may dismiss a member from FIMA if the members has failed to fulfill his/her responsibilities where he/she has committed when joining FIMA or if a member by acting in FIMA or outside FIMA has remarkably damaged FIMA or doesn't fill the demands of a member stated in the law or in FIMA's rules.
A member will be considered resigned if he/she has not payed membership fee during two years.
Entering and membership fees for domestic members will be desided by Autumn Konventti (members meeting). International fees will be decided by Mölkky Council. Honorary Chairman and Honorary Member don't pay membership fee.
The deciding bodies of FIMA are the Mölkky Council, two konventti (members meetings) and the Government.
The Mölkky Council decides those international matters mentioned in these rules. Konventti decides other matters and the Government is executive body.
Spring Konventti is held in January-May and Autumn Konventti in September-November on day decided by the Government.
An extra Konventti is held when Mölkky Konventti so decides or when at least one tenth part (1/10) of members entitled to vote so demand it for a special reason literally from the Government. An extra Konventti must be hel during thirty (30) days from that when the demand has been presented to any member of the Government.
Registered associations one (1) representant per each beginning 100 members, highest 10 representants.
Other law fit communities mostly five (5) representants.
In Mölkky Konventti each representant has one vote. Honorary Chairman and Honorary member as well as supporting members have a right for precense and speak.
The decision of Mölkky Konventti will be, if not otherwise decided in the rules, that opinion, which get more than half of the votes. If the voting is even, the Chairmans vote will decide, in elections by lot.
The Government has to invite members to the Konventti at least seven days before with a letter or email.
Deal the other matters named in the invitation of the Konventti.
If a member wants to get some matter to the Konventti, he/she must literally inform the Government in due time, that it can be included to the invitation to the Konventti.
Highest deciding body in international matters in FIMA is used by Mölkky Council.
All national Mölkky Associations have right to send two representants to Mölkky Counsil's meetings and in addition to this, the country that is arranging the World Championships has two extra representants. The meeting can allow right to stay in the meeting and to speak also to other present. Mölkky Council has its meeting every year during the World Championships of Mölkky. The Government has to send invitation two months before the meeting by email.
To be active in touch with the international relationships and contacts, to be active in touch with the Government, develop the tournament arrangements with competition arrangers and attend the international tournaments if needed.
In the FIMA matters are taken care of by the Government, which forms from the Chairman and 4-8 other members chosen by the Autumn Konventti. Two extra members are also chosen and they will be always invited to the meetings and will be actual members with the right to vote, if all actual members are not in the meeting. Extra members will be numbered 1 and 2.
The Government and the Chairman is valid for 2 (two) calender year, so that half of the government changes every year. In the first time there will be draw, about the demission turns.
The Government will choose the vice Chairman from inside the Government and from the Government or ouside secretary, treasurer and other necessary functionaries.
The Government will gather by the invitation of the Chairman or vice-Chairman, when they think a meeting is needed or when at least half of the members demand it.
The Government has the authority to decide when at least half of the members are present. Votings will be solved with single majority of votes. If votes are even, the Chairmans vote will decide, in elections lottery.
takes care of all the other tasks, which belong to the Government according to these rules and law and with are given to it by the Mölkky Council and Mölkky Konventti.
All National Mölkky Associations can apply for arranging of Continental Championships. The application must be given at least four (4) months prior to the meeting of the Mölkky Council to the Government. Mölkky Counsil will decide the point of time of competitions.
The forms of the tournaments are: single, duppel, trippel or teams of 4 players.
The arranging country will pay commission to FIMA confirmed by the Government and pays the expenses of the President of Mölkky Council if attending the tournament.
The arranger of the World Championships must fullfil FIMA's criteria for becoming the arranger.
World Championships will be arranged in Finland till FIMA has 6 National Mölkky Associations as members. After that all National Mölkky Associations can apply for arranging. After this the Wolrd Championships are held anyway in Finland every third year.
In the World Championships there are teams of 4 players + 2 extra players.
The arranging country will pay commission to FIMA confirmed by the Government.
The Chairman, vice-Chairman, secretary or treasurer has the right to write FIMA's name. In legal matters two of the above together.
The calender period of accounts is calender year.
The end of year books with necessary accessories and the annual story by the Government must be given to the auditors latest three weeks before the Spring Konventti. The auditors must give their written statement latest two weeks befor the Spring Konventti to the Government.
The decision of changing the rules and the decision of cancelling/finishing the FIMA must get at least three fourparts (3/4) of the votes. In the invitation must be mentioned the chancing of the rules or finishing the FIMA.
In case FIMA is cancelled, its funds will be used by the way Konventti decides. In case FIMA is finished, the funds will be used to the same kind of activity.


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Q: Selecting Random value from Excel column data using vbscript NOT working Here is my code below. I'm trying to select a random value from one column of excel sheet. there are 30 rows in one column and i need select random value each time during execution.
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    Sheet1Name="GCNumber"

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    objAdodbCon.Provider = "MSDASQL"
    objAdodbCon.ConnectionString = "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};" & _
            "DBQ=" & strFullExcelPath & ";Readonly=True"

    objAdodbCon.Open

    Set objAdodbRecSet = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
    objAdodbRecSet.CursorLocation=3

    strSQLStatement =  "SELECT * from [" & Sheet1Name & "$]"

    objAdodbRecSet.Open strSQLStatement, objAdodbCon

    RowCount = objAdodbRecSet.RecordCount

    Min = 1 : Max = RowCount

    Randomize
    GC_Numbers = Int(((Max - Min) * Rnd) + Min)

I am trying to use below line to get the value of column. But not working to get what i want. Please suggest.
    objAdodbRecSet.fields(GC_Numbers)


Chris Jackson, editor of Marine Modelling International magazine, is an experienced racing skipper in his own right. Join Chris at five championship events as he examines the boats, the technology and the tactics used by top competition skippers as they battle for success. Run time approx: 80 minutes.


The Gambia Immigration Department has rejected claims that it has been dispatching its officers to countries in Europe to identify Gambians for deportation.
Gambian immigrants in Europe have been gripped by apprehension as the EU continues to work with the Gambia government to send them back.
"We have not deployed any of our personnel to anywhere to be identifying Gambians for deportation. What we can authoritatively tell our viewers is that we have our officers at some embassies in Europe where these officers will help authorities to confirm, I want people to understand the thin line between confirmation and identification," Mamanding S Dibba, the spokesperson of the Gambia Immigration Department exclusively told Gambia Talents last week.
"…Some two or three years ago when this country was not democratically ruled and most people fled this country to look for better lives elsewhere, lot of citizens of other countries have used this opportunity to claim our citizenship. As a result, complaints have been coming to us so much that we seen the necessity to have our liaison officers to help verify such claims made in respect of Gambian citizenship," Dibba said.


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Barasat (en bengalí: বারাসাত ) es una ciudad de la India, centro administrativo del distrito de 24 Parganas norte, en el estado de Bengala Occidental.

Geografía
Se encuentra a una altitud de 12 msnm a 23 km de la capital estatal, Calcuta, en la zona horaria UTC +5:30.

Demografía
Según estimación 2010 contaba con una población de 255 400 habitantes.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Localidades de Bengala Occidental


The Inquiry has published a protocol for considering applications for Core Participant status, which are due by 8 September 2017. This can be viewed on the key documents page.
Please see attached press notice [PDF version, 3 pages – 367kb] and the Inquiry website's FAQs for more information.


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Q: can I use mailto in  tage to open the body of outlook template? I have an outlook template, which is an email the user has saved.
I have also a  tag, i know that i can use the  tag to open the mail, with a body and a subject
my problem is that i just know how to send a text body, like this:
Send email

i would like to know if there is any way to send html body

A: Section 2 of RFC 2368 says that the body field is supposed to be in text/plain format, so you can't do HTML.


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Robbin's Definition of Economics
Unit: Extra
The modern economist Lionel Robbins has highly criticized Marshall's definition of economics. He gave the most scientific and logical definition of economics in his book (An essay on the nature and significance of economic science) in 1932 A.D. According to him, "Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scares means which have alternative uses". His argument is that economics is concerned with the problems arising from scarcity. People solve the problem of scarcity by allocating scarce resources to the best possible use. Most of the man's economic activities are moving around the problem of scarcity and choice. This is the central idea in Robbins's definition. The main points or ideas in Robbins's definition are as follows:
Unlimited human wants or use.
According to Robbins's, human wants are unlimited. These unlimited wants are not possible to satisfy at a time. If one want is satisfied, another arises in our mind immediately. Thus there is a chain of wants, one want chasing another. There are no ends of human needs.
Limited resources.
Human wants are unlimited but the means to satisfy them are limited relatively. The wants are more times than means. We called such a resource as a limited whose supply is less than demand. Limited resources mean time, money, wealth, etc.
Scarce resources have an alternative use.
Human wants are unlimited but the means to satisfy this wants are scare but the scare means have alternative uses. For example, money can be used to buy food, a book or to go to the cinema.
All wants are not equally urgent.
According to Robbins's, all wants are not equally urgent. They differ in urgency. Some wants are more urgent than the other ones. So, more urgent wants need more immediate satisfaction and others can wait. Current wants are more important than future wants. For example – Medicine is more important than cosmetics for a sick girl.
Problems of choice
Although human wants are unlimited, all the wants are not equally important or urgent. More important wants have to be fulfilled immediately and less important wants have to be fulfilled immediately and less important can be postponed. So, human beings make a choice of wants to derive maximum satisfaction. So, according to Robbins's, choice making is really an economic problem.
Criticism of Robbin's Definition of Economics
The definition of economics given by Robbins is analytical, logical and scientific. Robbins's definition is regarded as a superior definition to the rest of all definition of economics because he has provided newness in his definition. But several economists like Fraser, Samuelson, Wotton, etc have strongly criticized in the following points.
Hidden concept of welfare.
Robbins has criticized the concept of Marshall but critics claimed that his definition itself includes the concept of welfare through the back door. Robbins's definition of economics is concerned with the choice between wants and allocation of resources for maximum satisfaction. In fact, maximum satisfaction is a sign of welfare.
The economic problem arises not only from society.
According to Robbins's definition, an economic problem arises due to the scarcity of resources. But the problems like inflation, unemployment, etc. arise due to the abundance of resources. The problem of unemployment is due to the abundance of manpower. So, it is not correct that economic problem arises due to scarcity only.
Confusion between means and end.
Robin believes that means and end are easily separable. But in practice, it is difficult to distinguish between means and end for example:- an M.A. student aims to get M.A. degree. This is an end for him. Once he gets it, he uses it as a means to get employment. Thus the same thing may be means in one situation and the end in another.
Wider scope than need.
Robbins's definition includes the study of all human activities related to alternative uses in economics. Since all of the activities of human life are included, its scope is being varied vastly. It makes difficult to draw the line of demarcation of economics.
It ignores the theory of economic growth.
The theory of economic growth has recently become a very important branch of economics but Robbins's definition does not cover it. Economics of growth explains how an economy grows by increasing the national income and productive capacity of the economy. But Robbins takes the resources as given and discusses only there allocation.
Although, it was unable to address hot issues of the present-day economy such as unemployment, inequality, economic growth, national income, etc. Robbins's definition is more scientific, logical, and universally acceptable than other definition of economics.


Many parents encourage kids to pursue STEM-related careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and youth robotics programs offer one such option. Along with learning how to build "bots", involved participants (and their parents) are often pleasantly surprised that robotics experiences involve much more than simply developing technical skills.
All participants—whether STEM-driven or otherwise—will benefit from the wide range of life lessons and practical skills honed in robotics.
Kids can become part of a competitive team, learn from professional mentors, improve problem-solving abilities, participate in fundraising, increase time management skills, recruit new members, experience leadership, strengthen communication skills and qualify for millions of dollars in college scholarships.
Globally, more than 400,000 kids (grades K-12) are involved with FIRST's robotics programs, comprising more than 44,000 teams. Kids prepare for and compete in exciting, annual challenges that combine the thrills of sports competition with the rigors of science and technology.
High school sophomore Sarah Parkes, who participated in FIRST during the 2015-16 school year as part of San Dieguito Academy's Team Paradox, discovered a newfound love of robotics. It was an exciting time to join; the team placed first in San Diego's regional competition at the Del Mar fairgrounds, ultimately traveling to compete at the annual FIRST world championship event in St. Louis in April.
Team Paradox is one of thousands of teams involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) division, designed for grades 9-12. Teams of 10+ members design, build and compete with 120-pound robots. Working alongside professional mentors—including engineers and computer programmers—they develop both hardware and software skills. Team members are also responsible for non-technical competition elements, such as overall project management, marketing, general operations and strategic thinking skills.
According to FIRST, the documented benefits of FRC involvement are clear. Participation results in over 88 percent of members having more interest in school; 90 percent having more interest in challenging math and science courses; and 90 percent showing more interest in attending college. Participants are twice as likely to major in science or engineering.
It's never too early to get involved; there are three other FIRST program options for younger children: FIRST Lego League Jr. (Jr. FLL) offers kids in grades K–3, the opportunity to design and build models out of Legos, using motorized elements. For grades 4–8, FIRST Lego League (FLL) teams build robots using the Lego Mindstorm-based platform and develop a related research project. Core values, such as gracious professionalism and teamwork are emphasized and awarded. The FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) encourages kids in grades 7–12 to develop innovative engineering skills by building and programming robots from reusable kits.
In addition to FIRST programs, there are many other quality robotics opportunities across the county, including school electives, afterschool programs and camps. If your child's school doesn't have a program, check with community recreation centers, technology hubs or visit www.FirstInspires.org to get involved. Many teams start forming in September to plan the year's activities.
Lisa Pawlak is a contributing writer and enthusiastic robotics volunteer.


As a commercial insurance carrier, when an insured calls to report a loss incident, you have no time to lose. You need a thorough and fair analysis of the financial impact so you can reach a mutually satisfactory resolution to the claim.
At the heart of property and business interruption claims is one basic question: What would the business have earned if this event had not occurred?
This seemingly simple question involves an in-depth and thorough analysis of the company's operations and financial performance. Simply reviewing historical profit-and-loss statements won't suffice. Other factors can have a dramatic impact on the final calculation-factors such as the planned introduction of new service lines, entry of new competitors or other market changes that could affect the performance of the insured's business.
Our CPAs and forensic accountants have represented insurance carriers throughout the United States as well as internationally. This combined experience means that we thoroughly understand the circumstances that can affect the financial impact of a loss event, and we can provide the insight that will enable you to achieve a timely and amicable resolution.
For comprehensive support throughout the claim life-cycle, contact Chris Frederick or Kyle Aldridge, or call 770.396.2200 to schedule a consultation.


Framework7 CLI is an extremely powerful tool and the most recommended way to start Framework7 app development.
Program will prompt for few questions about framework and template you want to start with.
That is all, script will generate all required sizes of icons and splash screens and place them automatically where they need to be.


If you are using a Windows operating system, insert the CD-ROM leads to its automatic opening. But sometimes, due to various reasons, the AutoPlay can be disabled. To restore it you must start the appropriate service or correct line of the system registry.
The autorun CD is usually turned off for security reasons – in this case, there is no threat of automatic download of malicious software. However, on disks with the programs, especially the license, automatically download the virus and Trojans are rare. So disabling AutoPlay gives the user quite a few advantages, but brings a lot of trouble.
To enable auto-start, you must start the appropriate service. If you are running Windows XP, open "start" - "control Panel" - "administrative tools" - "Services". Locate the service "shell hardware detection" and double click it with the mouse. In the opened window, select the startup type is "automatic". Start the service by pressing the "start" button. Insert the CD, it should start automatically.
If you are using Windows 7, open the "start" - "control Panel" - "System and security" - "administrative tools" - "Services". The service itself runs exactly the same as in Windows XP.
You can configure the behavior of the drive when you insert a CD with certain files. To do this, open "My computer", click your right mouse button and select in the context menu item "Properties". In the opened window select the tab "AutoPlay". Next, select the file type and assign the desired action of the drive. Confirm the change by pressing "Apply". After that, configure the following type of file etc.
In that case, if for some reason enable auto-start fails, check in the registry a responsible option. To do this, start the registry editor: start - Run, type regedit, and press Enter. Next, open the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlsetservicescdrom and select the folder CDRom. In the right part of the window, view the value of the parameter Autorun, it should be equal to 1. If it is 0, click parameters, right-click, select "Modify". Enter in the Value field 1.
If the value is already equal to 1, you should see the string registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftwindowscurrentversionpoliciesexplorer. Scroll to the folder Explorer and look at the value of the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry entry, it should be equal to 91. If there is more, click parameters, right-click, select "Modify" and type 91 in the Value data field.


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We are proud to offer extra opportunities for students of Summerscales Performing Arts. Students from the school showing progress and studying at least three subjects including Ballet, will be considered by the Principal and Artistic Director and then invited to become a Summerscales Performer.
Senior Summerscales Performers.
The performers take on an extra commitment to their performance as a dancer, singer and actor. Performing at a range of displays for local community events or charity events, representing Summerscales in competition including at the All England Dance Festival and the Dance World Cup. Summerscales Performers have also performed at the dance convention Move It 2016 and at the Royal Albert Hall for several years from 2012-2017 in the Dance Proms.
To read more about the Summerscales Performers please click here
The performers most memorable moments were in Australia 2000 for the Sydney Olympic Games where they were the only entertainment from the UK to be Ambassadors for the country. After fund raising and advertisement they were able to live the dream and performed at many venues around Sydney, including the Olympic Village and Stadium.
Other notable successes were a group of 41 performers who travelled to Paris, France for a special performance for Disney at the Disneyland Paris Resort as part of the Magic Music Days in Summer 2002. Then the Performers travelled to Spain and performed at many locations around the Costa Dora.
Further successes in Holland and Germany witnessed standing ovations for their performances in Summer 2004, and this summer they are again venturing abroad to Disneyland Paris and the Black Forest in Germany.
The Performers are unique, they are amiable, and professional, giving fantastic performances every time, any time and whatever the weather, space, or day. The Performers are malleable by even changing in the smallest places.
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Q: PrintWriter autoflush puzzling logic public PrintWriter(OutputStream out, boolean autoFlush):

out - An output stream
autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the println, printf, or format methods
will flush the output buffer

public PrintStream(OutputStream out, boolean autoFlush):

out - The output stream to which values and objects will be printed
autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the output buffer will be flushed
whenever a byte array is written, one of the println methods is invoked,
or a newline character or byte ('\n') is written

What was the reason for changing autoflush logic between these classes?
Because they are always considered as identical except for encoding moments and "autoflush" without flushing on print() hardly corresponds to principle of least astonishment, silly bugs occur:
I created a PrintWriter with autoflush on; why isn't it autoflushing?

A: I think the answer lies in the history of Java. The trio InputStream, OutputStream and PrintStream in java.io date back to Java 1.0. That is before serious support for file encodings and character sets were built into the language.
To quote the Javadoc:

"A PrintStream adds functionality to
  another output stream, namely the
  ability to print representations of
  various data values conveniently. Two
  other features are provided as well.
  Unlike other output streams, a
  PrintStream never throws an
  IOException; instead, exceptional
  situations merely set an internal flag
  that can be tested via the checkError
  method..."

To summarize, it is a convenience for generating textual output, grafted on top of lower level IO.
In Java 1.1, Reader, Writer and PrintWriter were introduced. Those all support character sets. While InputStream and OutputStream still had a real uses (raw data processing), PrintStream became far less relevant, because printing by nature is about text.
The Javadoc for PrintWriter explicitly states:

Unlike the PrintStream class, if
  automatic flushing is enabled it will
  be done only when one of the println()
  methods is invoked, rather than
  whenever a newline character happens
  to be output. The println() methods
  use the platform's own notion of line
  separator rather than the newline
  character.

Put another way, PrintWriter should only be used through the print*(...) APIs, because writing newline characters etc should not be the caller's responsibility, the same way dealing with file encodings and character sets are not the caller's responsibility.
I would argue that PrintWriter should have been java.io.Printer instead, and not have extended Writer. I don't know whether they extended to mimic PrintStream, or because they were stuck on maintaining the pipe design idiom.

A: The reason it wasn't the same at start was probably just an accident. Now it's backwards compatibility.


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Last Saturday, tens of thousands of far-right demonstrators marched through Warsaw to mark Poland's Independence Day. About 60,000 people carried signs that expressed their fascist tendencies, with some saying "Pure Poland, White Poland," "Pray For Islamic Holocaust" and "Refugees Get Out!" on them.
It has been reported to be one of the biggest gatherings of far-right movement in Europe during the last few decades. The move did not only include Polish people — American white supremacist Richard Spencer, who was considered too extreme by the Polish government, attended the rally as well as other far-right leaders from Italy and the UK.
"The numbers attending this year seem to be bigger, and while not everyone at the march is a far-right activist or fascist, it is undoubtedly becoming more significant and is acting as a magnet for far-right groups around the world," said Nick Lowles, a member of one of Britain's anti-extremism movement.
An anti-fascist movement launched a small-counter protest on the same day. While it has been reported that most of the rallies were peaceful, some far-right protesters kicked more than a few individuals who had a banner saying "Stop Fascism" while chanting anti-fascist slogans.
While the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, has aggressively condemned the demonstrators' expression of xenophobia and racism, it has been praised and seen as patriotic by the rest of the government. "There is no place in the country for sick nationalism," said president Duda.
It's quite shocking to see the rise in xenophobic occurrences in Poland. It went from 20 a month to 20 a week in 2016, as reported by the Never Again Association.
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Welcome to the world of Heidi Happy
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Singer-songwriter Prisk Zemp, otherwise known as Heidi Happy, is a delightful exponent of today's Swiss indie music scene, delivering a fresh, cheeky, homemade lo-fi folk/pop with an electronic edge. Her ethereal voice is seductively irresistable and has been entrancing audiences in and around Switzerland for the past 10 years. Her latest LP, Golden Heart (Silent Mode/ Irascible), is a creative project of 14 compact songs that float by like a breeze, each full of deep, beautiful melodies as well as a hint of melancholy and "sonic heartbreak". The album's received very warm reviews, has sold out and is currently being re-pressed.
Is the name 'Heidi Happy' some kind of strategic Swiss marketing trick?
Heidi Happy Funnily enough no, though I did love the Heidi stories as a kid. It was more a question of visual design because my first ever solo live performance was at a party of some graphic designer friends who wanted my stage name to look good on their flyers. There were many to choose from but they decided that Heidi Happy had a nice symmetry to it.
You're from a small village outside Lucerne, what kind of music did you grow up listening to?
Heidi Happy Everyone is musical in my family: my father is a choir singer, my mother is a classically trained soprano, all my siblings play instruments, music was always happening in the house. As a teenager I loved everything soulful like Aretha Franklin and the funky jazz sound of Jamiroquai and Incognito. My first group was a funk band, I sang, wrote the lyrics and arranged the horn section. During my exchange year in America at 17, I discovered Jimi Hendrix and got into a dirtier, rockier sound which I still appreciate now. In recent years I've been very inspired by singers like Feist and Wallis Bird, at home I usually listen to old vinyl records with big voices and orchestra, like Lee Hazlewood or Nina Simone.
How did your career take off?
Heidi Happy I recorded my first CD with the funk band in 1998. Then in 2003 a producer asked me to do an album with him based on my own material. I learnt a lot about what I can/can't do, what I really want to do and what I'm best suited to. I did so many things on that record that I'm still deeply ashamed of that I decided to not let others convince me to do things (like rapping!) if I'm not sure about it myself. It helped me to listen to my heart and trust my intuition and hence, I have produced all my subsequent LPs. I've been lucky to receive some funding from the city and canton of Lucerne which has allowed me to do my own thing. After having released my records on labels like Little Jig and Two Gentlemen, I set up my own label Silent Mode in 2012 on which I have released my records abroad (often in collaboration with other labels and promotors) and in Switzerland.
You've been described as "one of the most influential Swiss voices of the moment". How would you describe your sound/your voice?
Heidi Happy I had a distinctive folk/pop sound at the start that was rather safe and constructed, but now that I've branched out into electronic music things feel freer, more open to surprises. My voice is very precious to me after surgery to remove a polyp on my vocal chords in 2001. The operation has given it a slightly more crackly tone, but I've learnt to like it and appreciate it more. I always take care of it nowadays and warm up before going on stage.
You are quite a multi-instrumentalist powerhouse on stage.
Heidi Happy Each tour is different. I've had duo shows where I sang, played guitars, drums, melodica, piano, glockenspiel and used a loop station, or shows with an entire symphonic orchestra where I just sang and played the guitar. It all depends on the songs, location, audience and financial possibilities. Right now I usually perform with my four-piece band or solo with my loop station, guitars, glockenspiel and a synthesizer.
How is Heidi Happy received abroad?
Heidi Happy I've played the most abroad shows in Germany, Holland, Canada, England and in Russia. People abroad seem to really appreciate our music – we get very enthusiastic feedback. Radio stations in France, Germany, Austria and USA have put my songs on their playlist. Thanks to my collaboration with Yello, some people know me without me ever having played there. We've just been on an Austria tour with Clara Lucia, an Austrian singer very similar in style to me. We've been friends for a few years and it was a wonderful, perfectly matched tour.
What are you working on at the moment?
Heidi Happy I'm currently writing some film music which has always been a big love of mine. I'm also rearranging my repertoire for a big show in spring next year where I'll be playing in my hometown Dagmersellen with the local brass band. I'm constantly gigging, writing and looking for new distribution deals abroad to get my music heard.
Forthcoming gigs:
12.12.2014 Zauberwald Lenzerheide (solo)
24.01.2015 Filmtage Solothurn (band)
29.01.2015 Gaskessel Bern (band)
30.01.2015 Moods Zürich (band)
31.01.2015 Kreuz Nidau (band)
27.02.2015 Kulturkarrousel Stäfa (band)
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Barshefsky served under President Clinton as deputy U.S. trade representative. She has also served as vice-chair of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association, as a member of the American Bar Association's Governing Council and the chair of the American Bar Association's Publications Committee. As the USTR and a member of the president's cabinet, Barshefsky was responsible for the negotiation of hundreds of complex market access, regulatory and investment agreements with virtually every major country in the world. She is best known internationally as the architect and chief negotiator of China's historic World Trade Organization agreement, as well as global agreements in financial services, telecommunications, intellectual property rights, high-technology products and cyberspace. She is recognized as a central figure for international business and international economic and trade issues. Her 25-year legal career in the field has encompassed international litigation, commercial negotiations, investment and regulatory advice, and dispute resolution; and she has written and lectured extensively both in the U.S. and abroad.
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Seagle Air filed for bankruptcy – Air carrier Seagle Air admitted it was in default and filed for bankruptcy at the Banská Bystrica District Court in early April. Following the demise of SkyEurope (in 2009) and Air Slovakia, Seagle Air became the third air carrier to disappear from Slovak skies.
The failure of three Slovak airlines, SkyEurope, Air Slovakia and Seagle Air, emptied airports in Slovakia. (Source: SME)
New complex opened in Bratislava – Eurovea, a modern multi-functional complex consisting of a shopping gallery, a five-star Sheraton Hotel, a multiplex, offices and apartments located on the north bank of the Danube River, was gradually opened through the spring. Ballymore Group, the developer of the complex, received one of the most prestigious architecture awards, a CE.ZA.AR, for the promenade it built flanking the river.
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That's a stance Verb has in common with Idris Goodwin, the gifted dramatist who wrote "Hype Man,'' and also, crucially, with Company One Theatre and its artistic director, Shawn LaCount, who is helming the outstanding world-premiere production of Goodwin's new play-with-music.
"Hype Man'' has things to say and it says them, emphatically, without shortchanging the imperatives of storytelling and characterization. Company One's production sizzles with the kind of dynamism that can result — if we're lucky — when a playwright with a distinctive voice and an urgent message teams up with a theater troupe whose aesthetic and sense of mission are as sharply defined as his.
Bennett is ably complemented by superlative work from Michael Knowlton as a white rapper named Pinnacle, the leader of their trio, who bitterly opposes Verb's social activism on the grounds it could harm their commercial prospects just as they are preparing for an appearance on "The Tonight Show''; and from Rachel Cognata as Peep One, a beat maker of mixed race who is the newcomer to the group.
Under LaCount's boldly assured direction, the cast meshes together beautifully. The ties that bind their characters and the fissures that open between them are made equally palpable onstage at the Plaza Theatre, and the trio also teams up for some scorching musical performances. (The verstatile Bennett also shouldered the duties of music director and beat maker.) "Hype Man'' unfolds on a set, designed by Lawrence Moten, that features irregular gray columns affixed to a blue wall, like fluctuating sound waves.
Two years ago, Lowell's Merrimack Repertory Theatre staged Goodwin's less successful "The Realness: a break beat play,'' set in the mid-1990s, about a male college student who becomes smitten with a female rapper.
"Hype Man'' finds Goodwin again exploring the hip-hop milieu, but this time very much in the present day, blending a torn-from-the-headlines, Black Lives Matter immediacy with the razor-sharp characterizations that have been among his consistent strengths. In "Hype Man'' Goodwin makes perhaps his strongest case yet for hip-hop culture as a crucible where issues of racial identity, gender inequity, career ambition, and friendship converge and collide in illuminating ways.
Bennett and Knowlton are thoroughly convincing as longtime friends who are now fiercely clashing, their bond coming apart at the seams, although Pinnacle's reaction to the shooting seems a bit too obtuse. ("I'm not political like that,'' he says after Verb seizes an opportunity to stage a very high-profile protest of the teenager's death. "That's not my brand.''). The complicated history shared by Verb and Pinnacle includes a racially fraught episode from the summer after they graduated high school that, tellingly, was marked by a key detail that the latter doesn't appear to remember — but the former will never forget.


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'Enough is enough:' Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement take message to Menomonee Falls
Suburban protests
MENOMONEE FALLS -- A group of protesters in support of the Black Lives Matter movement took their message to the suburbs on Sunday, June 14.
For a little more than two-and-a-half miles, that group of protesters gathered to make their voices heard. They marched down Appleton Avenue, north on Pilgrim Road, and then traveled east on Main Street until they returned to their starting place.
Protest in Menomonee Falls
"We're still out here to bring awareness and have a presence in the suburban areas," said Kira Sanchez, protest organizer.
The protesters held signs of support -- and voiced calls for justice.
"I came out today because it's important to be out here," said Ken McNair, protester.
McNair told FOX6 News he wanted to show his daughter and son what it means to fight for change. He said he hopes this is not a burden they will continue to bear.
"My parents fought these fights, my grandparents fought these fights, my great-grandparents fought these fights and those before them fought these fights. Enough is enough. I want to be the last one to fight this fight," McNair said.
Sunday's protest was originally organized in response to an event called "Brookfield Defend the Police Demonstration." That event, organized by Trump Victory, was set to take place outside of the Brookfield Police Department. It was later canceled by its hosts. A reason for the cancellation was not provided.
"It's already a success. It shows that we have them shaken up a little bit," Sanchez said.
Still, this group carried on with a message to deliver.
"I feel that minorities, we're marginalized as people, as a group, and we kind of need to come together, specifically the black community, they are victims of many social injustices," Sanchez said.
Menomonee Falls police officer and Waukesha County sheriff's deputies were positioned in front, along the sides, and behind the protesters blocking traffic. The entire march lasted about an hour.


Gakuen Alice – Mikan Sakura is a normal 10-year-old girl. Optimistic, energetic, and overall a very sweet child, Mikan is the complete opposite of the aloof, intelligent, and somewhat cold-hearted, Hotaru Imai. Despite their glaring differences, the two girls have been best friends for a very long time. So when Hotaru suddenly transfers to Alice Academy, a prestigious school in the city, her best friend is devastated—especially when she hears of the horrible rumors regarding the academy's harsh treatment of students. Beset with worry, Mikan runs away to see her best friend!


Charleston, like so many places (and people) that I love, is beautiful and wonderful with a deeply conflicted and problematic history that isn't really over yet. This is not the first time a racially-motivated crime against humanity has been committed there, and I doubt it will be the last. History will vindicate the 9 victims of this shooting, as it has vindicated the countless human lives that were trafficked through the city market.
But we don't yet have the sober lens of time through which to view this event; for now, we only have pain, and uncertainty, and yet paradoxically, we have the assurance that the victims are in a place of peace and rest, in a place altogether more blessed than this vale of tears they left behind all too soon. My prayers are with the families of the victims, who must learn to carry on in this bitter world without the ones they love. My prayers are with all of humanity, that we may someday learn to get by without hurting each other.


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Peggy R. Cook (July 8, 1939 – December 24, 2011) was a politician in Flint, Michigan.

Cook was a community organizer on the East side of Flint in its 4th Ward, where she involved in  neighborhood associations and starting neighborhood foot patrol.

In 1991, Cook was elected to the Flint City Council. She continue to get reelected and served until July 2003.  At that time, Flint Mayor Don Wiliamson appointed Cook as City Administrator.  In 2007, Cook was on extended sick leave for six months while a councilman, Scott Kincaid, question whether or not she had enough sick time accumulated.  The Flint City Benefit Manager indicated that a city ordinance allows for extended sick pay at 75% pay.  Her husband Bob was also serving as the City's director of parks and recreation.

In December 2007, Cook was replaced as Flint City Administrator,  only to return in March 2008 as governmental operations director replacing former State Senator Joe Conroy until Williamson resigned from office of the Mayor in 2009.

On December 24, 2011, Cook died at Genesys Regional Medical Center, Grand Blanc Twp. and was buried in Alabama.

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