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The Counterfeiting Couple April 24, 2020 February 16, 2021 ~ Shayne Davidson Counterfeiting is a serious crime in America, but it’s nowhere near the problem it was in the nineteenth century. According to the National Archives, in the years after the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all currency that changed hands in the United States was counterfeit. That’s an astonishing statistic! Imagine how you’d feel if there were a 50% chance you’d be given fake money in your change when you went shopping. The United States Secret Service was born out of the need for a federal law enforcement agency to combat this rampant counterfeiting. Andrew L. Drummond was an early Secret Service detective who later became an author. One of the stories in his 1909 book, “True Detective Stories,” was about his arrest of a counterfeiter named Cooper Wiltsey: A big powerful man, he had about as wicked eyes as I ever saw in any human being. Men generally hated him. Such women as he met invariably liked him. He was about fifty years old, but the sprinkling of gray in his hair did not handicap him. Always there was some woman to be found who would swear that Cooper Wiltsey was all right. Drummond sounds a little envious of Wiltsey’s success with the ladies, doesn’t he? At any rate, in 1878 Drummond got word that Wiltsey was running a counterfeiting operation out of a house in Philadelphia. He worked with the local police to investigate and they located the house where they believed Wiltsey was making counterfeit coins in a room on the second floor. He gave a dramatic description in his book of the scene that unfolded the night the couple was arrested: As I burst into the room my eye quickly caught two figures—that of a woman standing as if she were cast in bronze and that of Wiltsey leaping at me with a fifteen inch stiletto-like carving knife clasped in his hand. I leveled my revolver at his head and told him to stop or I would kill him. He stopped. As I called, Wiltsey’s eyes shifted from me to the head of the stairs. Thinking he had the situation under control, Drummond foolishly put his gun in his pocket and grabbed Wiltsey’s wrist. But Wiltsey refused to give up the knife and tried to cut Drummond’s fingers with it. Fortunately for the detective, his police back up appeared at that moment with their guns drawn. Wiltsey dropped the knife. Wiltsey and his partner, Sarah Page, were in the process of melting a mixture of tin and antimony and pouring it into molds when they were arrrested. After the metal cooled and was removed from the molds, they planned to use an electric battery to add a thin layer of silver-plating to the fake coins. One silver dollar had enough silver in it to plate five hundred of the coins. Each “dollar” would be sold for between 25 and 35 cents. Wiltsey was convicted of counterfeiting. Page was acquitted. The Times of Philadelphia claimed that Sarah Page was Wiltsey’s mistress. But based on genealogical records, it seems more likely that she was his wife. Cooper Wiltsey was born in New Jersey in 1833. In 1853 he and his wife Sarah had their first child, Benjamin. By 1864 they’d added another five children to their family. Wiltsey served in the 24th New Jersey Infantry during Civil War, achieving the rank of 2nd lieutenant. The big surprise is that Wiltsey, the future counterfeiter, was employed as a constable in Gloucester City in 1870. In 1882 Sarah listed herself as “widow of Cooper” in the Camden City Directory, but this was a little face-saving fib. Her husband was still alive and serving his sentence at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. By 1885 Wiltsey was back at home with Sarah and the kids, according to the New Jersey State Census. By 1891 he had his own restaurant in Gloucester City. Sarah Wiltsey died in 1902. Cooper passed away “after a lingering illness” in May 1904. Both are buried in Gloucester City’s Cedar Grove Cemetery. The perplexing question is why the Wiltseys, who appeared to be upstanding citizens, decided to become counterfeiters. Possibly enforcing the law somehow enticed Wiltsey into breaking it. As to his great success with the ladies, it seems that Drummond took some artistic license with his story, because Wiltsey seems to have been more of a family man than a Casanova. Featured photos: Sarah Page, CDV mugshot from the National Archives Collection and Cooper Wiltsey, photo from the Vancouver Daily World, December 26, 1908 Posted in 1870s bad copcounterfeitcounterfeiterfemale criminalNew JerseyPhiladelphiaUnited States Secret Service ‹ PreviousTaking Her Oath Next ›How Mabel Got Away With Murder 11 thoughts on “The Counterfeiting Couple” A very intriguing story! Drummond’s account seems a bit on the yellow journalism side–very exciting! Thank you, Liz! I think that was the preferred writing style of lawmen-turned-authors in those days. Come to think of it for criminals-turned-authors too! I do get a big kick of it! Eilene Lyon says: For some people, making money illegitimately, if highly profitable, trumps doing it the hard, honest way. Certainly Drummond knew how to embellish to sell a book. Hmm, a bit of his own counterfeiting. I hadn’t thought about it that way, Eilene, but you’re right! Of course it had been more than thirty years between the events of that night and the time he published his book, so possibly he had lapses in his memory. Tokens of Companionship says: Sarah and Cooper’s partnership–in life and in crime–would make a great TV series, à la “Ozark”! “Ozark” in corsets and derby hats. That’s hilarious! Thanks, Brad! Thanks for sharing this interesting story. In my historical research using the U.S. census, on two occasions I’ve had men list “widower” when, in reality, they had been divorced. Their former wife was very much alive. I’m still not sure why. Was it a face-saving maneuver? Was the former wife dead to him? Could be! My great grandparents lived separately late if their lives. She claimed on the census to be a widow. If the couple wasn’t actually divorced (and my ancestors never got divorced) maybe it seemed safer to claim your spouse was dead? You’re reminding me how sometimes we don’t understand or remember the social factors of the times we’re researching. A census is only part of the big picture. Thanks. Exactly! Thanks for your comments, Jim!	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6370919346809387, "wiki_prob": 0.3629080653190613, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1713606"}
Home » TV & Movies » Love Island couple chaos as Curtis and Michael crack on with new girls Love Island couple chaos as Curtis and Michael crack on with new girls Love Island could be thrown into complete chaos tonight as both Curtis and Michael admit they're having doubts about their partners. Curtis is coupled up with Amy and Michael is coupled up with Amber, and they've long been considered two of the strongest relationships in the villa. But after the girls were sent to Casa Amor with a load of hunky new lads and a gang of sexy new girls moved in with the boys, they found themselves being tested. And in a first look at tonight's episode of the ITV2 dating show, it seems Curtis and Michael aren't as besotted as they've let on. Over in Casa Amor, Amy is lying in the bedroom and says she's just hot when Amber asks what's wrong. But she confesses: "I'm just visualising me walking into the firepit and then him being sat there with some f**ing bird." The scene then cuts to the main villa, where Curtis is sat chatting to new girl Jourdan. He asks how she's doing before telling her he wants to "get to know" her. She's flattered. The dancer says in the Beach Hut: "Me and Amy are good, I can see a future with her and I enjoy spending time with her and everything, but why am I having doubts?" Keep up with all the Love Island gossip with daily WhatsApp alerts Click here to subscribe to the Mirror's Love Island updates Don't miss Love Island news Want to make sure you get the latest updates from the villa? Or just can't wait 23 hours to find out what happens next? Sign up using this form to receive daily updates directly to your phone – and we'll send the big breaking news to you as well. Amber also shows a lot of strength when one of the new boys asks her where her head's at. She says: "I like Michael a lot. I'm not going to force something with someone here just because I'm worried about what he's doing." During a chat with Amy and Molly-Mae, who's coupled up with Tommy, Amber admits she's worried about what's going on at the villa. And Amy says she's concerned their boy will be nice to the new girls, and that they'll read it as "cracking on" when it isn't. Sadly for Amber, Michael isn't showing the same willpower she is. As he sits for a chat with Joanna, she tells him firmly she's into him but needs to know where he's at. Firefighter Michael says: "Over the past two day I've been able to be myself, and I like to say if I've got a problem and I feel like I can say that with you, like if I had something to say to you I could say it, where as I don't feel the same when I speak to Amber. "So in the sense of that, the scales are tipping." Meanwhile, Jordan is seen telling Danny about how much he misses Anna and how it would take a lot to turn his head. But in Casa Amor, Anna snogs new boy Ovie after a heart to heart. Love Island airs at 9pm on ITV2 * Do you know any of the Love Island cast? Contact [email protected] to tell your story RHOC Season 14 Trailer Teases Tears and Tension Between Kelly Dodd and Vicki Gunvalson ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake Officially Has Human Cast Members	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9165107011795044, "wiki_prob": 0.9165107011795044, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line762941"}
Trump Reluctant To Share Intelligence With Democrats Because Of ‘Crooked, Corrupt’ Adam Schiff David Krayden Ottawa Bureau Chief January 11, 2020 12:54 PM ET President Donald Trump said Friday that he has serious concerns about sharing intelligence with Democratic leaders because of lawmakers like “crooked, corrupt” California Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the congressman who led the impeachment inquiry. Speaking of the recent attack that he ordered killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “Can you imagine they want us to come up and speak to crooked, corrupt politician Adam Schiff? ‘Oh, Adam, we have somebody we have been trying to get for a long time. We have a shot at him right now. Can we meet to get your approval, Adam Schiff? Well, let’s do it in a couple of days.’ Oh, okay, it doesn’t work that way.” During a Toledo, Ohio rally on Thursday Trump said Democrats cannot be trusted to share intelligence with before a major action because they “call up the fake news” and share the information. Trump suggested again during the Friday interview that Democrats leak intelligence to friendly media. “They leak. Anything we give will be leaked immediately,” he told “The Ingraham Angle.” (RELATED: ‘You Little Pencil Neck,’ Trump Criticizes Adam Schiff At Toledo, Ohio Rally) Ingraham asked Trump why the national security briefing offered to Congress this week had failed to impress not only House Speaker Nancy Pelosi but Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee. “He is a great supporter and a friend that called me a little while ago. He said I wanted to get more information. Look, I have also had calls from the senators, congressmen who said it was the single best briefing … they ever had.” (RELATED: Michael Moore Offers Personal Assistance To Iran To ‘Fix This Peacefully’) WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 27: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, questions Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was called back to testify about claims by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Andrew Harnik – Pool/Getty Images) Lee left the briefing in a rage, saying, “What I found so distressing about that briefing was that one of the messages we received from the briefers was, ‘Do not debate. Do not discuss the issue of the appropriateness of further military intervention against Iran. And then if you do, you’ll be emboldening Iran,’” Lee told reporters in a scrum after he left the briefing. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio disagreed, saying he was entirely satisfied with the briefing and suggesting people who weren’t “just oppose everything [President Donald] Trump does.” Tags : adam schiff donald trump iran laura ingraham mike lee David Krayden Follow David on Twitter. Send tips to [email protected]	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5483436584472656, "wiki_prob": 0.4516563415527344, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1103263"}
SUHSD saves millions during pandemic Stakeholders agree ‘No ulterior motive’ Isaac Lozano Sweetwater Education Association (SEA) President Julie Walker believes that SUHSD is using the funds saved from school closures for good use but that the district must also be held to scrutiny. Isaac Lozano, Features Editor Since March 13, 2020, schools in the Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD) have remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to reduced expenditures, the district saved over 18.3 million dollars during the 2019-2020 school year. SUHSD Director of Grants and Communications Manuel Rubio was unable to provide the total number of funds the district saved for the 2020-2021 school year. The Crusader’s findings reveal that these funds, in addition to federal aid from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, were largely utilized for student and staff needs during distance learning, including academic, technological and logistical necessities. SUHSD will provide a numerical breakdown of expenditures on Dec. 12, 2020, during the next district board meeting. According to Rubio, due to school closures, saved funds were used to purchase laptops, Wi-Fi hotspots, personal protective equipment, additional supplies needed for on-campus instruction and other accommodations needed to facilitate both distance learning and Phase 1 of SUHSD’s reopening plan. “There’s a lot of things we’ve had to step up our expenses on. Things are changing and [they] are going to change over the next couple [of] years in terms of enrollment and attendance. We [SUHSD doesn’t] know where the state [is] going to go as far as how they’re going to fund [the expenses of the pandemic for schools]. We need to be prepared for when this does happen. Our goal is to make sure that we’re transparent about what those funds are,” Rubio said. Never be afraid to reach out to your teacher, counselor, administrator, uncle [or] parent. No one has to suffer in silence.” — Advanced Placement US History teacher Don Dumas The district is currently under investigation by the district attorney due to the mishandling of 30 million dollars and allegations of financial fraud under SUHSD’s former superintendent, who has since been terminated. Some parents and community members speculate that SUHSD used saved funds to address budgetary deficits. Rubio says these claims are false, as the district’s main priority is to keep students safe. Because the South Bay region continues to have high COVID-19 infection rates, SUHSD deemed in-person instruction unsafe. “We are not closed for the sake of saving money. There have been savings and additional funds but we want to extend [those funds] in the most responsible way towards making sure that our schools are [safe and] better. [We agree] that the best way to learn is in person, [but] the South County is really the hub of where this pandemic is. Our commitment is: you have to be healthy to learn, so we want to make sure we continue to be safe,” Rubio said. According to Bonita Vista High (BVH) Principal Roman Del Rosario, Ed.D., BVH received 210,000 dollars from the CARES Act to address school needs during the pandemic. These funds have been used to address student and staff needs during the pandemic, including Wi-Fi hotspots, laptops, meal services, instructional materials for remote learning, school staff to support academic and mental needs of students and additional employees to assist in on-campus virtual learning per Phase 1 of BVH’s reopening plan. “What I try to do as a principal is identify priorities. I try to look at [BVH] holistically as opposed to in compartments. Then I try to see where the greatest needs [are], where we should focus our funding and what funding is available to support that need,” Del Rosario said. BVH also utilized Title 1 funds, money given to schools with greater proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged students, to facilitate BVH’s reopening plan and online classes. Over 200 students are receiving in-person instruction with cohorts of 42 students coming on weekdays. Teachers receive additional payments for the individual academic support they provide students on campus and online. According to Del Rosario, these funds come as BVH reports a sharp uptake in D’s and F’s, as many students struggle with cramped home conditions, mental health problems and family losses due to the pandemic. Del Rosario believes that learning losses are inevitable but that “things could be way worse.” “There is a learning loss that’s taking place. Things could definitely be better [but] I believe that the teachers have helped mitigate the impact by being open to meet with students during office hours and providing tutoring. I’m seeing a faculty that is deeply engaged and is working very diligently on supporting students. I think it’s a testament of the type of teachers that we have at [BVH],” Del Rosario said. Across all SUHSD schools, Sweetwater Education Association (SEA) President Julie Walker believes the district is using the funds saved from school closures for good use and that SUHSD has no financial or ulterior motives. However, she thinks the district should always be questioned and held accountable in their financial decisions. “[SUHSD] is not just throwing money out, and I’m seeing very open communication. I’m glad they’re using the money on services and kids [who] are really struggling,” Walker said. “[But] I think [SUHSD] [needs] to consistently be questioned by county officials [and] the community. We want to take a look at what [SUHSD is] spending on. How much is personnel? How much is equipment? What are we needing? Anybody can ask under the Public Records Act. Those numbers tell what your priorities are.” Walker wishes for SUHSD to be fiscally conservative in order to avoid overspending available funds when schools reopen. She believes that once schools reopen, the district may ask teachers to increase class sizes due to a lack of state funds. [It’s] the economic reality. We went through this in the last recession, and they’re likening this to a potential depression. It’s a big picture,” Walker said. Advanced Placement U.S. History teacher, basketball coach and SEA member Don Dumas believes the district has good intentions in its use of federal and saved funds, though he hopes to receive more specific breakdowns of Cares Act funds reported by SUHSD. “I think we can trust our district leadership and our district board. They’re not doing this by themselves and not working alone; they are in constant negotiation with the union. I have confidence that our union and our district are working well together right now in trying to figure out the best way to provide quality education for our students and our community while keeping us safe,” Dumas said. SUHSD will continue remote learning for the rest of the semester and provide updates on finances and school reopenings in the next district board meeting. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic for staff and students, Rubio hopes that staff and students remain optimistic with SUHSD’s support. “I think we all need to continue to be optimistic. It is hard to watch friends and people [be] affected by COVID-19 and [lose] jobs. School [is a] hub for people’s activities, especially students. They need socialization. [But] I think over the last nine months we’ve come together and figured out new ways of teaching [and supporting] our students to maintain a sense of community,” Rubio said. “Let’s keep trying.” suhsd As a senior, I’m excited to return to the Crusader staff for the second year. I believe in journalism’s ability to highlight the key issues, trends,... How do you feel about the recent district-wide internet outages? I dislike it because it takes too much time from class. (35%, 47 Votes) I'm definitely not mad about it, but it gets a bit annoying. (28%, 38 Votes) I cannot deal with it, it negatively affects my school and home life. (23%, 31 Votes) It doesn't impact me/I use my own internet and hotspot. (8%, 11 Votes) I feel great; we don't have to do work. 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Current languageen Financial assistance in EU Member States Policy and surveillance Databases and indicators Economic Governance International economic issues EU Economic situation Stability and Growth Pact Analysing structural reforms and EU policies Economic databases and indicators Eurogroup and ECOFIN Graphs of the week EU response to the crisis News on Anti-counterfeiting Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) signed 11.07.2011 - The signing of the Treaty paves the way for the ESM to take over from the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism in July 2013 On 11 July, finance ministers of the 17 euro-area countries signed the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The Treaty follows the European Council decision of 25 March 2011 and builds on an amendment of Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). In July 2013, the ESM will assume the tasks currently fulfilled by the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). Although the Treaty was signed by the 17 euro-area countries, the ESM will also be open to non-euro area EU countries for ad hoc participation in financial assistance operations. Financial assistance under strict conditions Based in Luxembourg, the ESM will will provide financial assistance to euro-area Member States following mutual agreement and under strict conditions. Financial assistance will only be provided if it is considered as necessary to ensure the financial stability of the euro area as a whole. Any euro-area Member State receiving assistance must implement a macro-economic adjustment programme and a rigorous analysis of public-debt sustainability, and foresee IMF participation in liaison with the ECB. The ESM may, exceptionally, decide to purchase bonds issued by an ESM Member on the primary market if this maximises the cost efficiency of the financial assistance. Strengthened effective lending volume The ESM's initial maximum lending volume, after the EFSF has been completely wound down, is set at €500bn. Its capital stock of €700bn will ensure that lending can effectively be made up to this amount and consists of €80bn in paid-in shares and €620bn in callable shares. National contributions are established with a contribution key and would increase automatically if a non-euro-area country were to join the euro area. Provisions for negotiations with creditors Collective action clauses (CACs) will be included as of July 2013 in all new euro-area government securities with maturity above one year. However, ESM financial assistance based on assistance programmes that were already in place before the signature of the ESM Treaty are exempt from this provision. The standardised form of CACs will ensure an equal legal basis for all countries in their negotiations with creditors, so that creditors can decide by qualified majority on case-by-case changes to the terms of payment. As of 1 July 2013, the ESM will enjoy preferred creditor status similar but junior to the IMF. Euro-area Member States will support equivalent creditor status of the ESM and that of other EU Member States lending bilaterally alongside the ESM. Financing ESM assistance Borrowing on the capital markets, ESM financial assistance pricing will cover ESM funding costs plus an additional margin determined by the ESM Board of Governors. As of 2013, euro-area countries will pay the initial paid-in shares in five annual instalments ensuring to maintain a minimum 15 % ratio between paid-in capital and the outstanding amount of ESM issuances. A temporary exemption to the contribution key would be granted to new euro-area countries with a GDP below 75% of the EU average. The treaty now needs to be ratified by the euro-area Member States before 31 December 2012 to enter into force following approval of signatories representing no less than 95 % of the total subscriptions. Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Press release 11/07/2011 - Statement by the Eurogroup Found what you wanted? What were you looking for? Last update: 29/July/2015	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7378557324409485, "wiki_prob": 0.2621442675590515, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1354373"}
Date set for Magdalen Road permanent one-way system work Devon County Council has revealed work will begin on Monday, 16 January and take around three to four months to complete. Ollie HeptinstallLocal Democracy Reporter Backed proposal For Magdalen Road (Image: Devon County Council - free to use by all media partners) (Image: Copyright Unknown) Sign up for our Exeter newsletter and you'll never miss a big story again A permanent scheme to make Exeter’s Magdalen Road one-way will start in January. In a letter to local residents, Devon County Council has revealed work will begin on Monday, 16 January and take around three to four months to complete. It will involve widening the northern footway to approximately match the existing temporary barriers, retaining the one-way (westbound) restriction for vehicular traffic and adding an advisory contra-flow cycle lane. During the construction works, businesses will remain open as usual but sections of the road will need to be closed to motor vehicles at different stages of the project. Popular for its independent shops and restaurants, Magdalen Road was temporarily made one-way in June 2020 to support social distancing and encourage cycling and walking. Like many of the other one-way road trials along the new E9 cycle route, which connects the Newcourt/Pynes Hill area to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital and city centre, councillors voted to keep the layout in the summer following a public consultation. Read More - Controversial Sidford Business Park site on the market for £4m It found nearly 75 per cent of respondents agreed with reducing through-traffic on the road. However, only half the traders who responded backed the plans. The scheme also features other alterations along Magdalen Road, including a raised hump uncontrolled crossing point at the junction with Denmark Road, public realm enhancements, and three new loading bays to be incorporated into the widened footpath. The work is expected to cost around £1 million, half of which will come from the Department for Transport. Funds from the county council’s local transport plan make up the rest. Magdalen Road temporary layout (Image: Ollie Heptinstall) Writing in support of the scheme before it was given council approval in June, Devon’s director of climate change, environment and transport Meg Booth described it as “well-aligned with a range of actions within the strategic plan, insofar as it would prioritise walking and cycling over vehicular traffic, and therefore encourage more people to walk and cycle.” She added: “The scheme is also designed to improve the urban environment on Magdalen Road, making it a more attractive destination for shopping and dining, and providing additional space for community activities.” Ms Booth “acknowledged that some car journeys will be made longer by the proposals,” while there “may be an increase in traffic on some adjacent roads.” However, she concluded: “In view of the significant potential for modal shift from car to active travel, there is expected to be an overall benefit in relation to pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.” The contractor is expected to establish a presence on site from Tuesday, 3 January to begin preparation for the works. Get the best stories delivered to your inbox every day. Choose what you love here Government 'extremely concerned' over Devon's failing children’s services Act now warning as Devon battered by rain and floods Decision made on Exmouth Christmas Day swim Torquay harbourside landmark springs back to life Exeter Asda rumours could be sparked by Marsh Barton supermarket plan Devon County Council Met Office UK weather: 'Beast from the East'-like snow could fall as start of 'major' warming event indicated A repeat of the 2018 blizzards that sent the country into chaos could be on the cards with the beginning of a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) indicated	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.652042031288147, "wiki_prob": 0.652042031288147, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line385844"}
The Hermetic Hour http://chsota.org http://www.twitter.com/TheHermeticHour http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Hermetic-Hour/110476848974214 Tune in, turn on, and get magick with Poke Runyon, Archimage of the Ordo Templi Astartes. The O.T.A. is the oldest continually operating magical lodge in the US. "Poke Runyon is the real deal ... an international magical treasure!" ~ Lon Milo DuQuette "Caesar's Messiah" by Joseph Atwill On Thursday February 2nd, 2023 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and Discuss the controversial 2011 book Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill. The subtitle of this work is: "The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus and Atwell presents convincing evidence that the Flavian family of Roman patricians with the help of renegade Jewish historian Josephus, may have done exactly that.Atwell purposes that the Gospels were written by members of the Flavian family to make the Jesus story correspond with Titus's conquest of Judea and Jerusalem. He presents quotes from Josephus "War of Jews" to back this up. This will be a hard book for fundamental Christians but not for Gnostic Christians. Atwill holds off presenting his Imperial time-line until page 302, keeping the casual reader unaware that Christianity was flourishing and perishing in Rome long before the Gospels were written. So even though he may be correct about Roman influence on the Synoptic Gospels, he is wrong in assuming that Christianity began in Rome as a False-Flag operation. Perhaps the most shocking event described in the book is the alleged origin of the Christian Eucharist. Josephus recounts a wealthy Jewish mother killing and eating her infant son and offering part of him to her neighbors. Saying that he will be "A myth to the world." Of course Atwill is nice enough to suggest that Josephus wrote the dialogue but it still sent me to my copy of Josephus to make sure he wasn't exaggerating. He wasn't. So join us for an hour exploring gaslighting and false news in the first century. by The Hermetic Hour in Spirituality Fri, Feb 3, 2023 04:00AM UTC The Tomb of Prester John, Chapters 5 and 6 On Thursday April 21st, The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a dramatic reading of Chapters Five and Six of the magical adventure novel. In these chapters we will follow Doc Roland and his beautiful lady archaeologist... more The Red Goddess by Peter Grey (re-broadcast) On Thursday May 4th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss "The Red Goddess" (2007) and "Lucifer Princeps" (2015) by Thelemic magician Peter Grey. The Red Goddess is devoted to establishing the... more Lucifer's Court by Otto Rahn, Part 2 of 2 (re-broadcast) On Thursday April 2Oth, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will continue to review and discuss the modern English (2004) translation of Otto Rahn's 1937 Lucifer's Court. This was Rahn's travel journal from Southern... more On Thursday April 13th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss the modern English (2004) translation of Otto Rahn's 1937 Lucifer's Court. This was Rahn's travel journal from Southern France to Iceland... more Holy Blood, Holy Grail (re-broadcast) On Thursday March 30th the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon (or Roygnon) will review and discuss the 1982 Bestseller "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. This is the book that generated "The... more On Thursday March 10th, 2022 the Hermetic Hour with Host Poke Runyon will present a dramatic reading of Chapters Four and Five of his magical adventure novel The Tomb of Prester John. This will be of particular interest to those... more Thrice Greatest Hermetica by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell (re-broadcast) On Thursday March 16th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss Joseph P. Farrell's 2014 book "Thrice Greatest Hermetica and the Janus Age".This is a confusing title for a sometimes confusing book, but it... more The Tomb of Prester John, Continued On Thursday February 24, 2022 the Hermetic Hour with Host Poke Runyon will continue reading his magical adventure novel "The Tomb of Prester John". Thus far we have followed archaeologists Doc Roland and Sophie... more Arabian Nights Magical Novels On Thursday February 17th, 2022 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will discuss and review the current trend in Fantasy novels involving themes and characters from The Arabian Nights mainly the Jinn which King Solomon... more Paddy Chayefsky's Prophetic Masterpiece - Network (re-broadcast) On Thursday March 9th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar Winning 1976 motion picture Network. Network is a scathing satire on the intellectual and moral corruption of... more	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6620147824287415, "wiki_prob": 0.6620147824287415, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line753666"}
Advice from the heterodox Miguel de Molinos to focus on the essentials by Donna Dunlap Miguel de Molinos (Muniesa, Teruel, 1628-Rome, 1696) is a character that appears regularly when talking about the Spanish heterodox tradition. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo included him in his critical canon; María Zambrano and José Ángel Valente, from an intellectual position in the antipodes of Don Marcelino, claimed it. Valente promoted an edition, in Barral Editores, of the Spiritual guide de Molinos, accompanied by an essay on his thought, which received much comment when it appeared in 1974. Molinos, a priest residing in Rome since 1663, championed the doctrine of quietism, a meditative and highly introspective religiosity that sought inner emptiness. He was a reference spiritual teacher in the Italian capital, where he directed a School of Christ, and also a successful writer: the aforementioned Spiritual guide (1675) went through eight editions in the years after its appearance, and was translated into several European languages. ⁄ His defense of contemplation and “static nihilism” was viewed with caution by the Society of Jesus and the Dominicans. The figure of the Aragonese was magnified by the price he paid for his ideas. His defense of contemplation and “static nihilism” was viewed with caution by the Society of Jesus and the Dominicans. His attractiveness to the ladies of the nobility aroused malice. “It began to be whispered that the quietists formed a Pythagorean sect, with esoteric initiations and secret cabals,” writes Menéndez Pelayo. In 1685 he was arrested, tried by the Inquisition court and, after publicly abjuring his “errors”, he was sentenced to life imprisonment; he died in jail. To Sergio Rodríguez López-Ros from Barcelona, historian and former director of the Cervantes Institutes in Milan and in Rome, a new approach to the character is owed. He just got his Cards for the exercise of mental prayer , published in 1676 and out of circulation ever since. The new edition of Herder has a prologue by the essayist and Jesuit Javier Melloni and an epilogue by Rodríguez himself. Mills, ‘chief of the quietists’, arrested, in an engraving printed by John Overton The current vice-chancellor of the Abad Oliba CEU University tells me that the discovery occurred “almost by chance. Searching in the Vatican Apostolic Library for a work by Martín de Azpilicueta, an economist from the School of Salamanca, I asked to consult the collection of books seized by the Inquisition. He had read the Spiritual guide but I was looking for the missing ones for a long time Cards , which had not been republished since the originals were confiscated. And there, in a Roman sunset, this lost work of one of the most original Spanish thinkers appeared before me”. For Rodríguez the text, whose baroque original title was Letters written to a discouraged Spanish gentleman to help him have mental prayer by giving him a way to exercise it It is a little treasure. “His letters go beyond the discursive method typical of the spirituality of the time to propose an eastern path of simplification, surrender and unity” “They overflow -he points out- the discursive method typical of the spirituality of the time to propose an oriental path of simplification, dedication and unity. For Molinos, selfishness constitutes ‘the seven-headed dragon’ that prevents a person from growing in their spiritual life. Hence, he bets on turning off desire, suspending the will and letting himself be carried away by God. These letters, located between the Spiritual guide and the defense of contemplation (1682) constitute the mystical axis of his work”. In the current context of interest in meditation, whether Christian or oriental-inspired, the historian considers Molinos’ thought valid. “He suggests that confusing the priority with the important, setting unattainable goals every day, commodifying human relationships and removing transcendence from the existential horizon is what ties us to materiality and causes us suffering -he adds-. His lesson, despite the 346 years that have elapsed, is deep but simple, with a method within everyone’s reach: it is enough to want to focus on what is essential. There are traces of Molinism in Schopenhauer’s critique of the will, in Heidegger’s notion of nothingness, and in Raimon Panikkar’s concept of emptiness. Rediscovering it is today, more than an act of justice, quite an adventure”. A teenage faith La ayahuasca y otras medicinas psicodélicas contra las adicciones "The White Lotus": the creator gave clues about the third season Categories Characters Tags advice, essentials, focus, heterodox, Miguel, Molinos Tirailleurs, That summer, The survivors…: the cinema outings of the week ¿Qué personajes murieron en 2022? Un recuento por meses	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6117746829986572, "wiki_prob": 0.6117746829986572, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1806355"}
Print December 4, 2015 5 comments Daniel Friberg: Sweden & the Real Right German translation here Daniel Friberg The Real Right Returns: A Handbook for the True Opposition London: Arktos, 2015 As with any revealed religion, you have to be skeptical when a political text promises to show you the Way. Ah, so you know a secret about power relations in society that isn’t apparent to the naked eye? Where have we heard that before, Comrade? Daniel Friberg’s recent mini-hit The Real Right Returns—billed as “A Handbook for the True Opposition”—sounds, at first glance, a bit too historically inevitable. But (disclosure) I’ve been working with Friberg at his new website Right On for a couple of months, and he seems down-to-Earth. He told me The Real Right focuses on European cultural preservation from a Swedish viewpoint, a subject about which I know far too little, so I figured at least I would learn something if I gave it a chance. (Also, I will dip into anything if you send it to me free of charge.) As it turns out—though the Swedish mainstream will tell you that every native Swede who questions the Left is a kerosene-breathing Nazi sideshow freak—this is one of the most well-moderated, least ideologically shrill books I’ve read about politics. Though it is charming, with a clear and wry wit, there’s precious little of the messianic; in fact, it works hard to debunk the more mystical facets of contemporary politics—including White exceptionalism—in favor of common sense and paying attention to the facts on the ground. For instance: even as millions of people who do not speak European languages pour into their continent, why is it still unthinkable to suggest that European peoples defend themselves, as we concede everyone else the moral right to do? As humorous podcaster The Bechtloff likes to say: I know people hate it when you say that Liberals are “the real racists,” but . . . they kind of are. What besides racism would lead you to assert that White people are especially powerful and evil? Why would you assume that White countries, in their infinite might, are immune to hostile invasion and colonization—and that all other groups are packs of lambs to be led dopily off to slaughter? Sub specie aeternitatis, these ideas will seem as goofy a few decades hence as thinking Black people have magic voodoo powers—especially if native Europeans are thoroughly overrun, as per the most dire predictions, and reduced to living on reservations and dancing polkas in Lederhosen for Chinese tourists between downing bottles of rubbing alcohol. Won’t we feel silly then? As a White American, perhaps I failed to grow up on the magical dirt of the homeland and absorb its juju, but my experience is this: I don’t have any evil wizard powers, or any other supernatural attributes; I seem to be as vulnerable as anyone to death, domination, and especially taxes. Only a strange and noxious combination of white supremacy and white guilt would make me try to claim otherwise (as much as I enjoy those dreams where you can fly and shoot fire out of your eyes). As Bill Burr said at Thanksgiving about the Native Americans: they really screwed up when they didn’t let the Pilgrims starve. And European White Leftists, in their smug belief in their own all-powerfulness, seem to have failed to learn anything from the Indians’ mistake. “You can’t be racist against White people, because we are as gods!” Friberg, on the other hand, despite being an irrational bigot himself in the eyes of the Left, tends to think of White Europeans as just another ethnic group. This group faces, has faced, and will continue to face the same dangers and pressures as any other in history, with the same right to defend itself, but with no guarantee that it will go on existing; Friberg happens to love it because it is his. Which is pretty ordinary for a primate, like it or not. In fact, in the educational glossary of metapolitics included in the book, Friberg shares Alain de Benoist’s term for the New Right’s version of anti-racism: differential anti-racism, as opposed to the Left’s universalist version. Differential anti-racism is the answer of the New Right . . . to what is viewed as a lack of respect for differences which is characteristic of universal anti-racism. . . . Benoist proposes a differential anti-racism that opposes racial hierarchies and respects the differences between different peoples. He rejects all attempts to assign value judgments such as ‘better’ or ‘worse’ to races. Such a wild idea: that peoples should respect each other’s differences without having to crawl up inside each other’s infidel fundaments. Friberg argues for the preservation of European culture, but not at the expense of everyone else; his prescription for avoiding external entanglements, for example, should fit any sane person’s politics, both pragmatically and morally: The fanatical group of warmongers who, while mouthing platitudes about human rights and democracy, kill millions throughout the world . . . must be deprived of any influence on the foreign policy of the West. Opinions on the way other peoples handle their affairs should be expressed solely through diplomacy and example, not through the wars of aggression and attempts at subversion which time and again in recent decades have come back to haunt us. On the other hand: Mass immigration to Europe must cease. The Americanisation and the importation of stupid political ideas and an infantilizing popular culture must be limited. My fellow Americans: we’re right up there with the jihad. (I’m not entirely joking; for more in this vein, check out the chapters on Americanization in Éric Zemmour’s Le Suicide français.) The main strategic thrust of the book is metapolitics, which Friberg defines as “a war of social transformation, at the level of worldview, thought, and culture”; metapolitics must be dealt with before anyone can tinker with political power. Friberg cites Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks as a crucial source for the Left’s success on this turf—and also as a source from which the Right can learn. Till now the Left has painted anything outside its accepted range of thought as nefastus: hateful, filthy, and most important, unholy. The concepts of fastus (holy) and nefastus have been primal to human social behavior for a very long time; without them we would have died from rolling in our own feces. But when they’re attached to political ideas, then even where there is nominal free speech, they choke the debate. Thus the Right must work to remove the stigma of nefastus from any and all political ideas within the culture—preferably in order to transfer the stigma to those who would gag their enemies with it. Though the volume is a lean 117 pages, Friberg crams in a primer on the history and prehistory of the contemporary European Alt-Right, and the slow rise of oppositional metapolitics in Sweden. But he also offers two separate and refreshing guides to reclaiming your power as a man or as a woman. In the name of freeing us from gender roles, postmodernity has crammed us into a unisex mold that fits nobody, and an invitation to escape it is a relief. There’s a gem of observation on nearly every page; I don’t stick my neck out and say such things lightly (or out of cronyism). Friberg is even moderate when it comes to everyone’s favorite false dichotomy: Laissez-faire or socialism? Instead of harping on the glories of untrammeled market jungle-craft or the evils of unequal outcomes, he echoes de Benoist’s affection for economic pragmatism: Economics is not the absolute fundament of society, and a dogmatic approach to its functions is never prudent. Alain de Benoist’s words are ours as well: we’ll gladly welcome a society with a market, but not a market society. Conversely, demands for economic equality for the people of Europe for its own sake must not be allowed to limit the positive, wealth-generating effects of market forces. He points out the failure of Marxist income redistribution in no uncertain terms, however. Instead of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, modern socialism has taken from the middle, working classes to dole out booty to the poor and the rich alike. Despite the Left’s stranglehold on discourse, it “achieves little more than to fill the role of global capitalism’s court jester.” He goes on to note that the Right here has a tactical advantage in that its ideas are more in tune with regular people’s experience, by contrast with the airy-fairy, top-down Utopias of the Left. (The fact that the Left has parted ways with free speech in Europe doesn’t help their cause either.) What he hints at but doesn’t spell out is the fact that, in vital ways, the Left has swung further right than the Right, if by right you mean Libertarian—for example, in its merciless cheerleading for globalized economic liberalism and the devastation of the Western working livestock. In a healthy social order, genuine and sincere Left and Right partisans work to balance each other’s more extreme tendencies. In a hellscape such as ours, opportunists wave the “Left” and “Right” team flags, shouting platitudes. They cobble together whatever bits of each ideology will score them the most points with the super-wealthy while drawing enough voters to the booths to make the eerie puppet of democracy jerk its legs about. The Left appears to be so detached from reality that they’re beyond hope. But Friberg offers a prescription for a healthy and vital Right. I’m no optimist, but there’s a slim chance this may succeed. Alain de BenoistAnn Sterzingerbook reviewsDaniel FribergethnonationalismEuropean New RightmetapoliticsracismSwedenwhite nationalism « Innocence des musulmans, culpabilité des juifs, intérêts des Blancs Arno says: (The book) “works hard to debunk the more mystical facets of contemporary politics—including White exceptionalism” But Europeans ARE exceptional. The only way to appeal to the (Aryan) meritocratic, (Christian) universalist mind is to appeal to a universal standard of merit. Not base tribalism. Tribalism is not our enemy, but it is not enough. LT says: But one can easily argue that other races are just as exceptional as whites, in their own way if not in exactly the same way as whites. This is why I always found arguments about white exceptionalism to be a waste of time, plus it can so easily degenerate into chauvinism. Nobody is saying that we should promote “base tribalism.” If you know anything about the European New Right and its philosophical complexity and sophistication, then you would know that there is nothing “base” about it or what it promotes. Just to build off of what I said, in case it needs further clarification, we are not just fighting for mere tribalism here or for just base ethnic separation. We are fighting for a healthier culture, safer and more peaceful communities, a place in which our people are happier and psychologically better off, a place in which they are spiritually and socially better off as well, a place in which they have leaders and states they can trust, a place in which they are freer (because having assurance that your people have a decent future is a crucial part of freedom). So you see, this fight that the New Right has taken on is far more extensive than just “base tribalism.” And I think it is enough to satisfy the “Aryan/Christian mind” that you speak of. Mark Gullick says: A clarion-call of a book. Glad you’ve covered it, it’s part of a growing library for the return of the Right. My take on it is http://www.postcardsfromtraumaville.blogspot.fr/2015/10/what-is-metapolitics-real-right-returns.html	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6672613620758057, "wiki_prob": 0.33273863792419434, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1854399"}
How do psychological characteristics of family members affected by substance use influence quality of life? Vederhus JK, Kristensen Ø, Timko C. How do psychological characteristics of family members affected by substance use influence quality of life? Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2019 Aug 1; 28(8):2161-2170. PURPOSE: Addiction is a major health stressor for families, representing an under-researched area with important policy implications. The current aim was to validate the Composite Codependency Scale, which captures the psychological characteristics of affected family members, and assess quality of life as mediated by family functioning. METHODS: Close relatives (n? = 271) of patients in treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) participated in a 4-day psychoeducational program. We also recruited a general population sample (n? = 393) via an online social media site. Data were analyzed using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) and a latent regression model. Differences in subscale latent means were applied to ascertain how the scale discriminated the two populations. RESULTS: MGCFA yielded a shortened, nine-item partial scalar invariant scale (SCCS) that allowed comparison of latent means. The SCCS discriminated between family members and the general population, with family scoring higher on all three scale dimensions. By effect size, family had higher means (mean differences; 95% confidence intervals) for ''emotional suppression'' (0.48; 0.36-0.59; p? < 0.001; effect size, 0.92), ''interpersonal control'' (0.47; 0.36-0.59; p? < 0.001; effect size, 0.97), and ''self-sacrifice'' (0.20; 0.10-0.29; p? < 0.001; effect size, 0.43). Higher SCCS scores were associated with greater family dysfunction (ß? = 1.00, 95% CI 0.63-1.36; p? < 0.001) and worse quality of life (ß? = -?0.23, 95% CI -?0.30 to -?0.16; p? < 0.001), confirming the concurrent validity of the SCCS. CONCLUSION: When family members of people with addictions had the psychological characteristics of suppressing their emotions, believing they could fix others'' problems, and neglecting their own for others'' needs, they also had more family dysfunction and poorer quality of life. The SCCS offers a valid instrument for addressing the life situation of affected families. This scale can help clinicians focus on family members within health services, especially within SUD treatment services.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5838367938995361, "wiki_prob": 0.41616320610046387, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1705056"}
VCU News Publications › VCU today (1975-12-17) City/State: Richmond (Va.) VCU today (1975-12-17). Virginia Commonwealth University. Office of University Relations/Publications Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit color, 600 ppi. Volume/Issue Number: v.5:no.8 (1975:Dec. 17) (voliss) CONTENTdm ID: vnp/id/553 (CONTENTdm ID) Headlines: Lines stretched all the way back to the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, but once inside, President T. Edward Temple didn't feed anyone any lines with his inaugural address. Title Publication Dates: Vol. 1 (May 1972)-v.17,no.2 (Aug. 24, 1988) Special issues for parents published [1977-1979]. Issues were undated but numbered vol. 7A, 8A, 9A corresponding to the regular volume numbering for the student paper. LD5651.V85 Collection: VCU News Publications. Succeeding Title: Continued By: VCU voice. Source: Original text: VCU today, v.5:no.8 (1975:Dec. 17), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU News Publications	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.686739981174469, "wiki_prob": 0.313260018825531, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line2780"}
coast guard maldives [24], Welfare of the MNDF personnel has always been of paramount importance from the early days of the establishment of the security force and an established Medical Clinic came into existence in 1992. Latest; Popular; Feature & Comment 10 months ago. Co-ordinating training activities of all units, Candidate must have completed GCE Ordinary Level or Grade 10 ( or an equivalent vocational training ), Candidate must have a minimum height of 5’ 5"/165.10, Candidate must be between 18 and 25 years of age, Candidate should not have any police records for past five years, Candidate must not be registered in a Political Party, This page was last edited on 13 December 2020, at 11:15. Basic Entry Criteria for Maldives National Defence Force: The ranking system of the MNDF is based on the traditional British military system and U.S. military system. It has grown in terms of its fleet, reach and capabilities. August 2, 2016 - MALDIVES - Members of a U.S. Coast Guard International Port Security team visit the Maldives Transport Authority to observe implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code at three port facilities in the capitol of Male and south in Addu Atoll, Aug. 2, 2016. As the new Government took power in 2008 the Coast Guard has been the highest priority of the Defense sector in Maldives. Already all over the country people are trained in fire fighting skills and community based civil fire fighting sub stations are established in various regions. Today the MNDF Coast Guard is a versatile and modern force that is capable of dispelling a range of maritime threats by identification and interception well before they reach the shores. [2], Its capabilities were strengthened and modernised after the 3 November 1988 attack by PLOTE terrorists. It is commanded by Lieutenant Ahmed Fathih. The Coast Guard is one of the most important part of the military force of the Maldives. Comments Off on Coast Guard Assists in Dedication of Maldives Port Security Organization NALAGURAIDHOO, Maldives — A new organization dedicated to Indian Ocean regional port and maritime security was inaugurated here today by the Maldivian President and seven of his ministers with help … The supporting units take the role of support arms in the modern armies. Training centres are established to train MNDF personnel from basics leading up to specialized training. Maldives Police Service MNDF Coast Guard Maldives National Defence Force Uz. The geographic location and formation of the country provides ideal conditions for the smugglers to carry out their activities taking Maldives as a covert route to their destinations. Health 10 months ago. The Maldives and Japan on Sunday signed an agreement for a Japanese grant of $ 7.6 million to be extended to the Maldives Coast Guard and the … [23], Furthermore, selected personnel are trained in overseas training establishments and institutions in academic, technical and other professional areas to enhance the professionalism of the MNDF. 5th Floor, Velaanaage Ameeru Ahmed Magu Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture. Call 191. [5], With the separation of police as a civil body, the mission and duties of the NSS had to be revised. [25], The Ministry of Defence shall notify the time and place of interview for those who had expressed their interest. Here the three bearers of high office designated as Maafaiy, Faamuladheyri, and Dhaharaadha were responsible for organising the security of the country. Service Corps The Maldivian Coast Guard is the naval or maritime arm of the Maldivian National Defence Force. Mariya Ahmed Didi Minister of Defence The CGS also acquired a 17 meter fire fighting vessel. Such boats to have actual sails to harness the power of wind could be the last thing you may think. Photo about Male, Maldives - November 17, 2017: The Coast Guard boats moored at the pier of the Male island, Maldives, Indian Ocean. This specialised group of men forms the lethal special forces unit of the MNDF as they are highly trained and ready for any challenge facing the nation. Special Forces Their primary tasks involve Counter Terrorism (CT), and national intervention operations, and as essentially the SF is an intense versatile group, their missions include, but are not limited to, hostage rescue, sabotage, raids and critical intelligence gathering. [19], Article 43 of Act no: 1/2008 Armed Forces Act states that the Minister must establish military police from within the Armed Forces who shall be responsible for investigations into offences committed by members of the Armed Forces, the investigation of different problems arising within the Armed Forces and the taking of the necessary actions in such matters, the maintenance of security of the centers of the Armed Forces and of the activities carried out by the Armed Forces, the locating of service-men who desert their duties, and the administration of all matters related to captives captured during times of war. Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid signed the agreement on behalf of the Maldives while Japanese Ambassador to the Maldives Keiko Yanai signed the agreement on behalf of Japan. “Bring out the Coast Guard. Advertisement. Fathmath Shaahunaz. [12], Band and Music Wing (BMW). The Marine Corps is composed of Marine Deployment Units (MDUs).[7]. They have the authority to check on any such item at any time which is entrusted to any unit of the MNDF. ... Maldives 54th Independence Day Event MNDF Segment - Duration: 15:53. Being a sea bound and a scattered island nation, much of the communication network depends upon proper transportation. Marine Corps Since then, SF has been organized in such a manner that they can conduct missions demanding rapid response and surgical applications. These were 4 Tracker II class, 1 Dagger class and 1 Cheverton class ships. Medical Service The National Security Service (NSS) remained a multi-functional force, directly under the command, direction and supervision of the Minister of Defence and National Security. Coast Guard. Furthermore, opportunities for training in the medical fields are being afforded to competent applicants as and when possible. They are armed with the most advanced and state of the art weapons and gear, and will not hesitate to use them when the situation demands it. MNDF MNDF remains tight lipped on contentious photo . 22 November 2020, MVT 11:48. Hence, for carrying out these functions, it is the Coast Guard that plays a vital role. They are; The mandate of MNDF's Air Wing will be to protect and safeguard the Maldivian Airspace, to monitor the illegal and suspicious activities within Maldivian waters and to conduct search, rescue and surveillance operations. [21], Defence Institute for Training and Education (DITE) is the officiating unit. He assured continued support of the Indian Navy to the Maldivian Coast Guard. It is for this reason that the Minister of Defense established the Military Police within the Maldives National Defense Force (MNDF) as required by the Armed Forces Act. Maldives Coast Guard. Coast Guard , Maldives National Defense Force. [21], The aircraft of the Air Wing are also used in transporting the Special Forces to areas of counter terrorist attacks. HEAD OFFICE. Maldives Coastguard are responsible for co-ordinating Search and Rescue operations within the Maldives Search and Rescue Region. [24], Special medical provision is made to those patients with illnesses that cannot be cured or treated in the Maldives by sending them abroad for further treatment. [25], When the advertisements seeking for potential recruits appears in the media, interested candidates can submit their “expression of interest” to the Ministry of Defence. The Maldives Coastguard on Wednesday stopped, searched and brought back to shore a group of seven tourists at sea on board a fishing vessel in southern... More Posts. [20], The establishment of a Military Police within the MNDF will further improve law enforcement, and will enable the members of the Armed Forces to enhance their respect for human rights and their trustworthiness in their national service.[20]. The President was the Commander-in-Chief of the NSS, and the Minister of Defence and National Security was the Deputy Commander-in-Chief. To provide timely security its patrol boats are stationed at various MNDF Regional Headquarters. In addition to these, the Coast Guard operates some small in-shore patrol craft. The Sultan was impressed by a group of young men practicing marching in step while they were at the Sultans Palace to learn a traditional form of Maldivian martial arts. Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, http://www.maldivesroyalfamily.com/maldives_nss_jet.shtml, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Maldivian_Coast_Guard?oldid=4687145, Brigadier General Ahmed Shahid (Principle Adviser on Maritime Operations), Defending the nation and its territorial integrity, Protecting the territorial waters and securing the resources of the, Safeguarding the marine environment and Coastal Area, Assisting the people and conducting search and rescue missions, Responding to national emergencies and crises, Providing support and mobility to other services of the, 2 x Israeli Shaldag class WPB 24m - similar to, 1 x 17m fire rescue boat - modified patrol boat. [5], During Sultan Ibrahim Nooraddeen Iskandhar's brief reign, he enlisted selected youths and taught them Hevikan (a Maldivian form of martial arts) and made them participate in royal ceremonies. This revision envisaged a totally different turn for the organization. Maldives National Defence Force Coast Guard ship CGS Huravee, an off-shore patrol vessel. The police remained as an integral part of it until it was declared a civil body under Ministry of Home Affairs and renamed as the Maldives Police Service on 1 September 2004. [2], Consequently, The MNDF Coast Guard has a dual role, with the strategic military application settling within the parameters of national defence and territorial integrity as the primary task while its secondary role is aimed at relatively non military aspects of maritime security which covers areas such as maritime terrorism, transnational crime, drug trafficking through maritime routes, smuggling, piracy and so forth. This engagement involved sharing best practices and visiting with the Maldives Transport Authority to observe the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code at three port facilities in the capitol of Male and south in Addu Atoll. Therefore, the Coast Guard is documented as the custodian of the Maldives … [6], Therefore, the duties assigned to the MNDF of maintaining surveillance over Maldivian waters and providing protection against foreign intruders poaching in the EEZ and territorial waters, are immense tasks from both logistical and economic view points. [2], Patrol craft of the Maldivian Coast Guard, After the 2004 Tsunami, the need for larger vessels with off-shore patrol capabilities were given a high priority. The roots of the MNDF Coast Guard lie in the 1570s Kalhuoffummi, as its insignia symbolizes, the legendary sailing boat used by the heroic Mohamed Thakurufaanu and his allies in his guerrilla battle to free the country from the invasion of the Portuguese. [4], The Maldives being a water bound nation, most of its security concerns lie at sea. Iyaz on Female Circumcision . [23], Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) shoulders the responsibilities of providing fire-fighting and rescue services to the public. Coastguard Man injured after fall from boat passes away. At first they were known as the Special Guards with a group of well-trained MNDF soldiers. In the future, Air Wing would be used in taking Special Forces across the country to counter terrorist attacks within the area. Foreign Ministry stated that because of. coast guard maldives. Maldives Post Limited Maldives Post Building 26, Boduthakurufaanu Magu Male' 20026 Maldives Fax: +960 3321559 Tel: +960 3315555, +960 3324447 [17], Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (EME) deals with every matter related to the repair, maintenance, modification, production of spare parts, and electrical and mechanical equipment of MNDF. Today the able men and women of MES have the potential to do everything related to construction of buildings from its designing phase to the completion of construction. Hence, to carryout the newly derived mission and tasks, the core of its structure had to be modified and redesigned. [20], The existence of Military Police (MP) within the Armed Forces is highly crucial to the implementation of military discipline within the Armed Forces and to the discipline and conduct of members of the Armed Forces. Flight Information. Over the years, the support services have developed to cater for the changing needs and demands of the MNDF. 24 Hrs Flight Information . Apart from this they are also entitled for marine engineering, fibre glassing, air-conditioning, production of various metal structures and to bring required modifications to the weapons used in MNDF. Corps of Engineers Hence, it is the strategic asset of the MNDF which will be utilized in exceptional situations and unquestionably with the order and direction of the highest civil authority. Assistance to Coast Guard in maritime operations. [13], Military Engineering Service (MES)s main function is to design and build all new buildings of the MNDF and to maintain the existing infrastructure of the MNDF. All these new implementations created more of an infantry organization and was renamed the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF), on its 114th anniversary, on 21 April 2006 by the president Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom. Wikipedia. Under Phase-II of the project, which is currently under way, 38 static radar stations and four mobile radar stations are being set up by the Coast Guard and is in advanced stage of completion. Most of these services are provided to MNDF by contracting out to private sector. Maritime pollution control exercises are conducted regularly on an annual basis for familiarization and handling of such hazardous situations. [19], Medical Service (MS) is the authority responsible to provide medical assistance to men and women of the MNDF. Report this profile Experience cpl coast guard maldives View mohamed’s full profile See who you know in common Get introduced Contact mohamed directly Join to view full profile Others named mohamed waheed. Special Protection Group English: 090221-N-4774B-002 MALDIVES (Feb. 21, 2009) Members of the Maldives National Defence Force Coast Guard approach the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain. [26], Communication, Electronics and Information Technology Service, Defence Institute for Training and Education, Discussion of this nomination can be found on the, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Defence institute for training and education", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maldives_National_Defence_Force&oldid=993955625, Articles containing Dhivehi-language text, Articles needing POV-check from August 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The Ghazee was renamed CGS Nooradheen after the Sultan who first founded the Maldivian armed forces on 21 April 1892. Specifically their involvement comes in situations where it is impediment to regular infantry forces.[8]. The Maldives coast guard opened fire on and sank a vessel carrying suspected Tamil Tiger rebels and a cargo of weapons on Thursday after a … The Maldives and Japan today signed the Exchange of Notes under the Economic and Social Development Programme of the Government of Japan, for a grant aid of 800 million Japanese Yen (USD 7.6m) to be extended to the Maldives Coast Guard and the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center. Background: A small island off the coast of Washington State, the U.S. Navy purchased land on Indian Island in 1939. The Maldives and Japan today signed the Exchange of Notes under the Economic and Social Development Programme of the Government of Japan, for grant aid of 800 million Japanese Yen (USD 7.6m) to be extended to the Maldives Coast Guard … Carrying out collective and individual training. The Coast Guard was officially established as a separate wing of the defence forces on 1 January 1980 with the late Colonel Hussain Fulhu as its first Commanding Officer. And a Strategic Reserve is established at the Capital Male'. Following the first trilateral meeting, the India-Maldives “DOSTI” joint coast guard exercise in 2012 added Sri Lanka and was held as a trilateral exercise. This also includes the servicing and repairing of communication equipment. Issue of Q items and provision of all food and ration requirement of MNDF are the main concerns of this unit. [4], Hagubeykalun the first known reference to the Maldivian defenders dates back prior to the reign of Sultan Al-Gazi Mohamed Thakurufaan ( ruled 1573-1585 AD/CE ). Report this profile; About. Speaking about the Fast Interceptor Craft Coast Guard Ship Kaamiyaab, Modi said it will help in enhancing Maldives’ maritime security, and promote blue economy and tourism. Security \| 05/12/19. [11], Quarter Master Service (QMS). Hulhumale' irumatheefaraathun kanduge sarahadhdhugai hingaa mi exercise gai Japan Navy ge Flight akaai MNDF CGS Shaheed Ali … [5], Sultan Al-Gazi Mohamed Thakurufaan reorganised the existing security force at that time and appointed a "Dhoshimeynaa Wazir" (a Minister) as the head of the security force. Branches: Maldives Military Police consists of 6 main branches. [9], Communication, Electronics and Information Technology Service (CEITS) caters all communication related needs of MNDF. With the absence of a navy in the country, the MNDF Coast Guard functions as the armed maritime force of the nation with a charter to contribute to national defence and by and large to respond to issues related to the maritime security of the nation. Two Coast Guardsmen and a scientist walk on the frozen Arctic Sea from the Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) to conduct an ice survey Oct. 2, 2018, about 715 miles north of Barrow, Alaska. [6], The Marine Corps (formerly known as Quick Reaction Force) are established at various strategic locations and vulnerable areas to enhance the force projection to provide their services throughout the country. Four Coast Guard Squadrons are deployed to South, Central and North of Maldives. Almost 90% of the country is covered by sea and the remaining 10% comprising land is scattered over an area of 415 km x 120 km, with the largest island (altogether 1192 islands) being not more than 8 km². BMW takes part in the ceremonial parades and at all the MNDF and national level ceremonies. The Sultan gave his blessings to their new drill and facilitated their training. [18], Special Protection Group (SPG) too undertakes all these responsibilities, but their primary mission remains to protect and safeguard the Head of State as well as visiting dignitaries. The Sultan became the Commander-in-Chief of the security force. 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Home Ask Legit Сelebrity biographies Wizkid and Davido's net worth: Who is the richest in 2023? Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 5:36 PM by Jackline Wangare Adrianna Simwa Wizkid and Davido are inarguably two of the biggest names in Nigeria and Africa's entertainment industry. These two figures are as well-known for their music as they are for other endeavours such as brand endorsements, commercials, and business ventures. For the time Davido and Wizkid have graced the Nigerian music industry, they have made quite a fortune. Between WizKid and Davido, who is the richest? Davido (left) and Wizkid (right). Photo: getty.com (modified by author) The renowned singers have made fortunes from their music sales, performances, licensing fees, brand endorsements, and investments. Wizkid's profile summary Full name Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun Nickname Wizkid, Starboy, Lil Prinz Place of birth :Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria Current residence Surulere, Lagos Mainland, Nigeria Nationality Nigerian Height in feet and inches 5'4 Height in centimetres 162.5 Weight in kilograms 65 Weight in pounds 143 Parents Alhaji Olatunji Balogun and Jane Balogun Siblings 12 Profession Singer and record producer Instagram @wizkidayo Twitter @wizkidayo Facebook @Wizkid Dreka Gates’ biography: what is known about Kevin Gates’ wife? What is Wizkid's net worth in 2023? According to Celebrity Net Worth, the net worth of Wizkid is estimated at $4 Million in 2023. Wizkid's sources of wealth Wizkid performs at The O2 Arena on November 28, 2021 in London, England. Photo: Joseph Okpako Here is a look at how the renowned singer made his wealth. Wizkid has had an illustrious music career that began when he formed a group known as the Glorious Five. While the group broke up shortly after, Wizkid's solo career has seen him produce five studio albums and numerous tracks. The singer's albums include Made in Lagos (2020), Wizkid (2018), Sounds from the Other Side (2017), Like This, The Remixes (2017), Ayo (2014), and Superstar (2011). Besides album sales, the singer has also made quite a fortune from live performances, licensing deals, and music streaming. Brand endorsements Wizkid has had brand endorsement deals with numerous companies throughout his career. Here is a look at some of the most prominent ones. Abby Berner's biography: age, height, high school, net worth Tecno Mobile: In 2019, the smartphone manufacturing company unveiled Wizkid as their new brand ambassador. This deal came at a time when Tecno was launching numerous new devices in the Nigerian market. United Bank for Africa: In 2019, the renowned singer signed a brand partnership deal with UBA, which is one of his biggest endorsement deals to date. Pepsi: At the beginning of 2022, Wizkid signed a one-year contract with Pepsi worth $350,000. The singer will be the face of the beverage brand in Nigeria and appear in commercials, both in print and visual media. Globacom Group: Globacom is one of the major network providers in Nigeria and is owned by renowned business mogul Mike Adenuga Jr. In 2015, the company appointed Wizkid as one of its brand's ambassadors. The deal saw the singer travel to numerous destinations in a bid to promote the telecom company. Cîroc: This is a premium vodka brand produced & distributed by a multinational alcoholic beverage company based in England. Cîroc has always had a thing for leveraging the fame associated with singers to create brand awareness. In 2018, the brand partnered with Wizkid in an endorsement deal. Nike: In 2018, the renowned singer partnered with Nike's designers to come up with the Nike-made Super Eagles jerseys. The collaboration saw the jerseys sell out in no time, making it one of the best deals in terms of returns. Carson Roney’s biography: age, height, boyfriend, net worth Besides music and brand endorsements, Wizkid founded Starboy Entertainment, a hugely successful record label producing music for numerous Nigerian singers. Wizkid's music is also produced in-house, significantly reducing the music production expenses incurred by artists relying on external record labels. Wizkid is among the wealthiest musicians in Nigeria today. As one might expect, he has several properties to his name. Here is a look at today's vehicles in the renowned singer's car collection. Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible Jesus Ortiz Paz's biography: age, height, girlfriend, net worth Wizkid reportedly owns a 13-million-naira house in Surulere, Lagos Mainland. Besides this mansion, he reportedly owns a luxurious home in Los Angeles, California, United States. While the exact cost of the Los Angeles house is not publicly known, it is said to be worth millions of dollars. Davido's profile summary Full name David Adedeji Adeleke Nickname Davido Date of birth November 21, 1992 Place of birth Atlanta, Georgia, United States Current residence Osun State, Nigeria Height in centimetres 168 Parents Adedeji Adeleke, Veronica Adeleke Siblings 2 Profession Singer, songwriter, record producer Instagram @davido Twitter @davido What is Davido's net worth in 2023? Ibrahim Chatta’s biography: age, family, net worth, movies Davido performs at the O2 Arena on March 5, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Photo: Joseph Okpako According to Celebrity Net Worth, Davido's net worth in 2023 is estimated at $10 million. Sources of wealth Here is a look at the different ways Davido created his wealth. The renowned musician has made quite a fortune from his music. Some of his most prominent music income sources include streaming royalties, licensing fees, live performances, and album sales. Davido has five studio albums to his name. These include Omo Baba Olowo (2012), Son of Mercy (2016), A Good Time (2016), Best of Davido (2020), and A Better Time (2020). The singer reportedly charges a whooping 10 million naira for a show in Nigeria and about $90,000 for shows in foreign countries. Numerous companies have worked with Davido over the last few years. These companies leverage the singer's fame to raise their profile or push a product or service. Here is a look at the most prominent deals the singer has ever signed. Kat Stickler’s biography: age, nationality, partner, net worth PUMA: In 2021, Davido and sports company PUMA signed a long-term endorsement deal, underscoring the company's commitment to the rapidly growing African market. It is worth noting that Wizkid preceded Davido as the brand's ambassador in Nigeria. Martell Blue Swift: In 2021, the world-famous dry-gin firm penned a multi-million-naira endorsement deal with the Nigerian songwriter and singer. The firm and the singer announced the deal on their respective social media platforms. Pepsi: In 2016, Davido signed a deal with Pepsi to become one of its Nigerian brand ambassadors. The deal was among the biggest Davido has ever signed and contributed significantly to his current net worth. Guinness Nigeria: In 2013, Davido was among the three artists who signed deals with Guinness Nigeria to become brand ambassadors. MTN Pulse: This was one of Davido's earliest endorsement deals. The singer signed the deal in 2012 and became the face of MTN Pulse in Nigeria. At the time, he was not as well-known and influential as he is today. Infinix Mobile: The singer has worked twice as a brand ambassador for the phone manufacturing company in the last five years. The first deal came in 2018, and the second in 2021. 1Xbet: The singer signed a lucrative deal with the renowned multinational betting firm in 2021. The deal was intended to raise 1XBet's profile and help it counter the competition in Nigeria's fast-rising betting industry. Korra Obidi’s biography: age, husband, children, net worth Davido performs during YAM Carnival 2021 at Clapham Common on August 28, 2021 in London, England. Photo: Lorne Thomson The renowned singer sits on the board of directors of Pacific Holdings, a well-established Nigerian firm with interests in various economic sectors. The company has six subsidiaries dealing in gas supply, freight and logistics, venture capital, warehousing, farming, and oil drilling. Like numerous other wealthy Nigerian singers, Davido has numerous properties to his name. Here is a quick look. The singer recently gave his fans a virtual tour of his new house in Banana Island, Lagos. The renowned musician called the milestone a huge blessing when talking about the house on Instagram. The beautiful mansion is reportedly worth $1.5 million. Here is a look at the singer's current car collection. Lamborghini Huracán Porsche Panamera Turbo S Mercedes-AMG GLS63 Who is the richest between Wizkid and Davido in 202? Now that we have looked at the two singer's sources of wealth, businesses, and properties, who is richer between Davido and WizKid? Well, from WizKid and Davido's net worth figures, it is clear that Davido is $6 million richer than Wizkid. Candy Asmus’ biography: age, height, zodiac, siblings, net worth Is Davido richer than WizKid? Yes, Davido's net worth is $10 million, while Wizkid's is $4 million. WizKid and Davido, who is the richest? This question is on numerous fans' minds, given the remarkable fame enjoyed by the two singers. While both have enjoyed significant success in the Nigerian music industry, Davido is significantly wealthier than Wizkid. 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MQI Victoria holds ‘Zikr-e-Hussain (RA)’ Conference Dated: 03 December 2011 Minhaj-ul-Quran International (Victoria chapter) held the Zikr-e-Hussain (RA) conference on 3rd December 2011. The purpose of this spiritual gathering was to pay tributes to the great sacrifice of the grandson of Holly Prophet (SAW), Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA). The intention was to promote the spirit of association and love with Allah Almighty and his beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his kindred. Hundreds of men and women participated in the programme to pay respect to Shuhda-e-Karbla (martyrs of Karbala) and to show the spirit of love, peace, harmony, integration, and unity in Muslim community in particular and mainstream community in general. Everyone in audience appreciated the efforts of Minhaj-ul-Quran International Victoria for organising such a prestigious conference of Zikr-e-Hussain (RA). The conference won fame throughout the state of Victoria. The conference started after Asar prayer with the recitation of the Holy Quran by respectable guest scholar Shaykh Muhammad Hamili from Lebanon followed by the Naat Shareef by Abd-ul- Qadeer, followed by another Naat Shareef by Muhammad Mehfooz Rafat. Then Aga Noor recited another beautiful Naat Shareef and it was followed by very nice Munqbat recited by Muhammad Khubair. After that, the last Munqbat of the programme was recited by Khuwaja Nizam-ud-Din. Afterwards, Muhammad Khubair addressed the audience about the services of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (Victoria) and threw light on the life and work of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. Before the speech of respectable Sahabzada Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, President of Federal Council of MQI, Farrukh Hussain, who is president of Peace and Integration, briefly explained the new construction project of “Minhaj Centre for Peace and Integration in Melbourne Australia”. Sahabzada Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri started the speech in his unique, distinguished and impressive way and talked about the “Munaqib of Imam Hussain (RA) and Ahl-e-Bait”. Everyone in audience appreciated the breathtaking speech delivered by honourable Sahabzada Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri. Respectable scholar Shaykh Muhammad Hamili, who belongs to the Lebanese community, expressed his views about the programme and appreciated it very much. Minhaj-ul-Quran International (Victoria) also put up stalls of books, CDs, and DVDs of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. People took keen interest in the literature. Reported by: Mohsin Murtaza Home About Featured News All News MWL News MWF News Contacts Urdu Home Danish translation of Irfan-ul-Quran completed Shaykh ul Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri's message on New Year MQI Canada hosts dinner for guests attending marriage ceremony of Shaykh ul Islam's granddaughter Marriage ceremony of granddaughter of Shaykh ul Islam held in Toronto	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5616800785064697, "wiki_prob": 0.5616800785064697, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line822506"}
Home » Visit from the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) Scotland Visit from the Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) Scotland Fiona Dyer, Deputy Director CYCJ Scotland, Prof Ray Friel, Director of Research, School of Law, UL and Nina Vaswani, Head of Research, CYCJ Scotland Wednesday the 4th of October saw the visit of Fiona Dyer, Deputy Director CYCJ Scotland, and Nina Vaswani, Head of Research, CYCJ Scotland to the School of Law for collaborative discussion with the REPPP team. CYCJ Scotland is located in the University of Strathclyde and funded by the Scottish Government. They undertake research to inform youth justice policy and practice, work directly with practitioners and policy-makers in developing, supporting and coordination activities and support the sharing and dissemination of knowledge in the area of youth justice. Productive discussions took place which included the adaptability of Greentown methodology and engaging with practitioners to develop practice based knowledge. The REPPP team look forward to working with CYCJ Scotland in the future on a number of agreed projects.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7457475066184998, "wiki_prob": 0.25425249338150024, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line787047"}
The audio market Why use radio? New national radio brands, the advent of smart speakers and a surge in streaming and podcast listening has led to an audio revolution. Radio and the audio revolution The future of radio Ad Revenues and Forecasts Top Radio Spenders Whether new to radio or wanting to use radio better, here's why radio will be an effective advertising medium for your brand Commercial radio at a glance Radio for specific sectors Radio effectiveness Getting your radio campaign to air has never been easier. Here's what you need and how to make it creatively brilliant. Planning your campaign Measuring your campaign To enquire about ad clearance call 020 7010 0608 in office hours, 07710 400276 outside of hours or [email protected] Submit Script Copy Guidelines Ts&Cs May Not Always Apply Radiocentre’s Matt Payton talks BBC, smart speakers and the future of radio 5 September 2022 \| RADIOCENTRE NEWS The below was written for Campaign Magazine The industry body’s CEO was appointed in April of this year, following Ian Moss’ departure. Matt Payton hands over a paper press release. “There you go, old school,” he says. Old school isn’t quite the word though. Methodical seems more fitting, which is perhaps the best word to describe the new chief executive of Radiocentre. Each of Payton’s words is carefully considered and thorough. Later, I speak to Lucy Barrett, client director at the company, who says Payton doesn’t “say or do anything without proper due diligence”. It seems that diligence and a panoramic knowledge of the company have been very much welcomed. Payton’s appointment came without a formal interview process and after a period of turbulence for Radiocentre. When long-term chief executive Siobhan Kenny left in April 2021, former civil servant Ian Moss was appointed to the role. A source close to Radiocentre described Moss’ tenure as a “year of uncertainty” for a team in danger of becoming demoralised. Payton is quite the opposite of uncertainty. His career at Radiocentre could be characterised only as steady. Having started as head of policy in 2009, three years after the trade body was founded, he moved through different roles until eventually being named chief executive in July 2022. Now, Payton has taken the reins with a steady hand, which he’ll definitely need if the audio industry continues to be stretched and re-configured. “It’s easy to think all the sexy stuff is happening in on-demand audio or the digital audio market. You forget that radio is still the biggest part of audio listening,” he says. And the facts are there to back him up. Radio reaches nearly 49 million people in the UK, according to the most recent quarterly Rajar results. Rather than threatening radio’s popularity, Payton says “the cake has grown for everybody”. However, his job is to make sure that Radiocentre reflects those ever-changing needs. The press release he handed over at the start, for instance, was the news that Radiocentre has appointed creative agency Fold7 to rejig the organisation’s identity. New Threats But it’s not just the creative platform, Payton is anticipating new threats which come in the innocent-looking form of devices such as the Amazon Echo (“Alexa”) and Google Nest. Figures for listeners via speaker continue to grow. In Q2, Rajar’s data revealed that smart speakers accounted for 10.8% of listeners, up from 9.9% in the previous quarter. “What we’re concerned about is in a world where a significant portion of your listening is reliant upon Amazon to play fair.” So far, he says, they have. But the content played on the speakers is unregulated. There is nothing stopping Amazon, for instance, from charging a broadcaster to play on there, to insert their own ads before radio shows, or to develop their own shows through gathering data from listeners. Payton clarifies, repeatedly, that companies such as Amazon and Google have “played fair” – so far. “It’s about what may happen in the future,” he adds. Luckily, Payton’s Mastermind subject is liaising with the government. Payton initially started as a parliamentary researcher at the House of Commons in 1995, before becoming an executive officer for the Department of Trade and Industry. Soon though, he switched to the other side, and took on roles such as head of research for the Communication Workers’ Union and a senior research and parliamentary advisor at Equity UK. So, much like his understanding of Radiocentre, he has a thorough understanding of government communications. Last October, Radiocentre completed the “Digital Radio and Audio Review” and recommended that legislation be brought forward to regulate speakers. Radiocentre’s “hope”, Payton said, was that the review would be included in a White Paper published by the government in April and, later, for Radiocentre’s recommendations to be included in the Media Bill. The White Paper, while it agreed that “new measures” may be necessary, said that the government would need a “deeper understanding of the policies and practices of the smart speaker platforms”. From Payton’s understanding, the Media Bill is ready to go, but he acknowledges with a smile that the government is “somewhat distracted”, and the issue of smart speakers remains suspended in midair. Old Threats When Payton started at Radiocentre in 2009, the issues the body was tackling then were markedly different from now. “When I first came in, we were lobbying about the levels of regulation on commercial radio.” The rules for radio had been set in the 1980s, and it meant you had to have a radio station to be able to broadcast. Increasingly, though, it didn’t matter where you were “spinning the decks from”. Over time, through the Digital Economy Act, Ofcom and various legislation, Radiocentre helped bring radio to where it is now. Bauer and Global have consolidated various brands under their (huge) umbrellas. Global’s Heart Radio, for instance, has a network of 33 stations across the country. Talking to an industry insider, they mentioned that the consolidation of these brands means there is a risk of losing regional programming, which is valuable to many listeners. Payton himself grew up in the Midlands listening to BRMB, and he said there was “uproar” when it changed to Free Radio. He’s not immune, then, to the controversy that comes with centralising programming. Payton doesn’t see it that way, though. Although stations will retain local news and “local voices”, he adds: “We’ll have a more coherent national proposition. Before that, there were hundreds of little licences, which, on their own, probably weren’t viable.” He views it as simply a different business model, but Radiocentre still retains an advisory group for the smaller stations to ensure that their voices are heard in the conversation. Existing threats Payton seems somewhat unflappable. He bounces easily between opinions on industry issues, to statistics, to insights into the audio sphere, and each answer seems off-the-cuff, but measured and carefully thought through. The closest he gets to churlish is answering “How do I put this politely?” when asked about the remit of the BBC and whether it overlaps with commercial radio. Ultimately, though, his answer remains comfortably on the side of diplomacy. “There’s a lot more that unites us rather than divides us on the key policy issues,” he says. “Overall, we think the BBC is a good thing, it keeps standards high and is good for competition, but it needs to make sure it’s distinctive and not overlapping with commercial radio services.” He adds that BBC Radio 1 and 2’s daytime programming often sounds too much like commercial radio. “They get given their funding to do something that’s distinctive and different.” In terms of a solution, however, pickings are slim. He describes the licence fee as the “least worst” way of funding the BBC, which is the least desirable way of describing the best answer to a very big, very expensive problem. Advertising definitely isn’t a solution in Payton’s eyes either. Following economic modelling by Radiocentre, it found that BBC Radio 2 and 6 would break even, while other BBC stations would become loss-making by “quite a significant margin”. It would also decimate advertising revenue for other stations, because, by adding a huge load of advertising inventory, the price of radio advertising would plummet. Whether Payton is concerned is another question. He seems positive about “productive” conversations with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Whether a better solution is reached remains to be seen, but with Payton at the helm of Radiocentre, it seems like commercial radio at least is in safe hands. Five Things That Made Me Radio: always number one for music discovery Radio was always my first place to listen and discover music, from recording the chart show on my parents old tape recorder to listening in avidly to Pete Tong as he curated the dance music soundtrack of my youth. Although, these days, I’m more likely to be singing along to the radio in the car with the kids than throwing shapes. Politics up close Early in my career, I was fortunate to work in parliament and government in the late 1990s during a period of great change. Contrary to the popular image, I found the vast majority of politicians on all sides to be dedicated public servants trying to do the right thing. This has stuck with me to this day as I work with some great people across Whitehall and Westminster. Commercial radio transformation One of the biggest changes in radio in the past 10 years was the reform of Ofcom localness rules, advocated successfully by Radiocentre. This change, along with significant investment, helped support local stations and enabled the growth of national brands like Heart and Hits Radio. This gave commercial radio the scale and reach to take on the BBC and other digital competitors. Radio’s use of digital platforms and smart speakers provides an opportunity to build on this achievement. Radio was a lifeline to millions of us during lockdown, providing trusted news, information, entertainment and companionship during the big shift to homeworking. It was not only able to demonstrate its public service credentials but also its power as a force for good. At Radiocentre we were proud to highlight this role and help ensure a continuous service despite the difficult environment. Discovering running Life can be busy and challenging sometimes, especially with three children. Running is a brilliant form of escapism for me (only radio listening comes close). It not only benefits my physical and mental health, but also provides the basis of some fun and healthy competition with other members of the Radiocentre team. This was first published on Campaign Monday 5th September NEWS 2 Feb 2023 Commercial radio records strong audience growth read more Commercial radio records strong audience growth Radio industry renews official guidance on tackling lengthy terms and conditions in radio ads read more Radio industry renews official guidance on tackling lengthy terms and conditions in radio ads Radiocentre shortlisted for Mediatel Media Research Award read more Radiocentre shortlisted for Mediatel Media Research Award Sign up to our fortnightly newsletter and Daily Press Summary so we can keep you up to date with what's going on. 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Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria ME van Wolfswinkel, Dennis Hesselink, Ewout Hoorn, Yolanda de Rijke, R Koelewijn, Jaap van Hellemond, Perry van Genderen Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Background: Copeptin has recently been identified to be a stable surrogate marker for the unstable hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). Copeptin has been shown to correlate with disease severity in leptospirosis and bacterial sepsis. Hyponatraemia is common in severe imported malaria and dysregulation of AVP release has been hypothesized as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of copeptin as a predictor of disease severity in imported malaria. Methods: Copeptin was measured in stored serum samples of 204 patients with imported malaria that were admitted to our Institute for Tropical Diseases in Rotterdam in the period 1999-2010. The occurrence of WHO defined severe malaria was the primary end-point. The diagnostic performance of copeptin was compared to that of previously evaluated biomarkers C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lactate and sodium. Results: Of the 204 patients (141 Plasmodium falciparum, 63 non-falciparum infection), 25 had severe malaria. The Area Under the ROC curve of copeptin for severe disease (0.66 [95% confidence interval 0.59-0.72]) was comparable to that of lactate, sodium and procalcitonin. C-reactive protein (0.84 [95% CI 0.79-0.89]) had a significantly better performance as a biomarker for severe malaria than the other biomarkers. Conclusions: C-reactive protein but not copeptin was found to be an accurate predictor for disease severity in imported malaria. The applicability of copeptin as a marker for severe malaria in clinical practice is limited to exclusion of severe malaria. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 699.pdfFinal published version, 246 KB van Wolfswinkel, ME., Hesselink, D., Hoorn, E., de Rijke, Y., Koelewijn, R., van Hellemond, J., & van Genderen, P. (2012). Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria. Malaria Journal, 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 van Wolfswinkel, ME ; Hesselink, Dennis ; Hoorn, Ewout et al. / Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria. In: Malaria Journal. 2012 ; Vol. 11. @article{80f78c91053340c6bcb5859a51d499cd, title = "Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria", abstract = "Background: Copeptin has recently been identified to be a stable surrogate marker for the unstable hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). Copeptin has been shown to correlate with disease severity in leptospirosis and bacterial sepsis. Hyponatraemia is common in severe imported malaria and dysregulation of AVP release has been hypothesized as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of copeptin as a predictor of disease severity in imported malaria. Methods: Copeptin was measured in stored serum samples of 204 patients with imported malaria that were admitted to our Institute for Tropical Diseases in Rotterdam in the period 1999-2010. The occurrence of WHO defined severe malaria was the primary end-point. The diagnostic performance of copeptin was compared to that of previously evaluated biomarkers C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lactate and sodium. Results: Of the 204 patients (141 Plasmodium falciparum, 63 non-falciparum infection), 25 had severe malaria. The Area Under the ROC curve of copeptin for severe disease (0.66 [95% confidence interval 0.59-0.72]) was comparable to that of lactate, sodium and procalcitonin. C-reactive protein (0.84 [95% CI 0.79-0.89]) had a significantly better performance as a biomarker for severe malaria than the other biomarkers. Conclusions: C-reactive protein but not copeptin was found to be an accurate predictor for disease severity in imported malaria. The applicability of copeptin as a marker for severe malaria in clinical practice is limited to exclusion of severe malaria.", author = "{van Wolfswinkel}, ME and Dennis Hesselink and Ewout Hoorn and {de Rijke}, Yolanda and R Koelewijn and {van Hellemond}, Jaap and {van Genderen}, Perry", doi = "10.1186/1475-2875-11-6", journal = "Malaria Journal", van Wolfswinkel, ME, Hesselink, D, Hoorn, E, de Rijke, Y, Koelewijn, R, van Hellemond, J & van Genderen, P 2012, 'Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria', Malaria Journal, vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria. / van Wolfswinkel, ME; Hesselink, Dennis; Hoorn, Ewout et al. In: Malaria Journal, Vol. 11, 2012. T1 - Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria AU - van Wolfswinkel, ME AU - Hesselink, Dennis AU - Hoorn, Ewout AU - de Rijke, Yolanda AU - Koelewijn, R AU - van Hellemond, Jaap AU - van Genderen, Perry N2 - Background: Copeptin has recently been identified to be a stable surrogate marker for the unstable hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). Copeptin has been shown to correlate with disease severity in leptospirosis and bacterial sepsis. Hyponatraemia is common in severe imported malaria and dysregulation of AVP release has been hypothesized as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of copeptin as a predictor of disease severity in imported malaria. Methods: Copeptin was measured in stored serum samples of 204 patients with imported malaria that were admitted to our Institute for Tropical Diseases in Rotterdam in the period 1999-2010. The occurrence of WHO defined severe malaria was the primary end-point. The diagnostic performance of copeptin was compared to that of previously evaluated biomarkers C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lactate and sodium. Results: Of the 204 patients (141 Plasmodium falciparum, 63 non-falciparum infection), 25 had severe malaria. The Area Under the ROC curve of copeptin for severe disease (0.66 [95% confidence interval 0.59-0.72]) was comparable to that of lactate, sodium and procalcitonin. C-reactive protein (0.84 [95% CI 0.79-0.89]) had a significantly better performance as a biomarker for severe malaria than the other biomarkers. Conclusions: C-reactive protein but not copeptin was found to be an accurate predictor for disease severity in imported malaria. The applicability of copeptin as a marker for severe malaria in clinical practice is limited to exclusion of severe malaria. AB - Background: Copeptin has recently been identified to be a stable surrogate marker for the unstable hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). Copeptin has been shown to correlate with disease severity in leptospirosis and bacterial sepsis. Hyponatraemia is common in severe imported malaria and dysregulation of AVP release has been hypothesized as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of copeptin as a predictor of disease severity in imported malaria. Methods: Copeptin was measured in stored serum samples of 204 patients with imported malaria that were admitted to our Institute for Tropical Diseases in Rotterdam in the period 1999-2010. The occurrence of WHO defined severe malaria was the primary end-point. The diagnostic performance of copeptin was compared to that of previously evaluated biomarkers C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lactate and sodium. Results: Of the 204 patients (141 Plasmodium falciparum, 63 non-falciparum infection), 25 had severe malaria. The Area Under the ROC curve of copeptin for severe disease (0.66 [95% confidence interval 0.59-0.72]) was comparable to that of lactate, sodium and procalcitonin. C-reactive protein (0.84 [95% CI 0.79-0.89]) had a significantly better performance as a biomarker for severe malaria than the other biomarkers. Conclusions: C-reactive protein but not copeptin was found to be an accurate predictor for disease severity in imported malaria. The applicability of copeptin as a marker for severe malaria in clinical practice is limited to exclusion of severe malaria. U2 - 10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 DO - 10.1186/1475-2875-11-6 JO - Malaria Journal JF - Malaria Journal van Wolfswinkel ME, Hesselink D, Hoorn E, de Rijke Y, Koelewijn R, van Hellemond J et al. Copeptin does not accurately predict disease severity in imported malaria. 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Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency Maurizio Averna, Grazia Ida Altieri, Davide Noto, Tania Tomaselli, Luisa Spadaro, Roberto Scicali, Giuseppe Fede, Graziella Privitera, Salvatore Piro, Francesco Purrello, Salvatore Piro, Francesca Fayer Promozione della Salute, Materno-Infantile, di Medicina Interna e Specialistica di Eccellenza “G. D’Alessandro” Backgrounds and aims: Adrenal insufficiency (AI) has been reported in patients with stable cirrhosis. A lack of substrates has been suggested as a possible contributing pathogenic mechanism leading to glucocorticoid deficiency in these subjects. To better explore this hypothesis, we studied lipoproteins in cirrhotics with and without AI. Methods. A total of 81 cirrhotic patients and 30 normal volunteers were enrolled. The severity of liver disease was graded by Child-Pugh score. Total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglyceride (TG), and apolipoprotein AI (Apo-AI) levels were evaluated. HDL subfractions were measured by gradient gel electrophoresis. Adrenal function was assessed by the Low-Dose Short Synacthen Test. Results. Cirrhotic patients showed a significant reduction of TC, HDL, LDL, TG, and Apo-AI levels compared with controls. HDL3 was significantly lower, while HDL2 was higher, in cirrhotics compared with the controls. AI was observed in 26 patients. TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI were significantly reduced in cirrhotics with AI compared with those with normal adrenal function. HDL2 and HDL3 did not differ between these two groups. Delta cortisol was related to TC (r = 0.30, p < 0.01), TG (r = 0.22, p = 0.05), and Apo-AI (r = 0.37, p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that Apo-AI and HDL were independently associated with AI. Conclusion. Our study shows that TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI are reduced in cirrhotics with AI. In particular, because both HDL and Apo-AI play a primary role in providing substrates for steroidogenesis to adrenal cells, this deficiency may contribute to the pathogenesis of AI in these patients. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology Entra nei temi di ricerca di 'Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency'. Insieme formano una fingerprint unica. Adrenal Insufficiency Medicine & Life Sciences 100% Apolipoproteins Medicine & Life Sciences 92% HDL Lipoproteins Medicine & Life Sciences 82% Glucocorticoids Medicine & Life Sciences 71% Apolipoprotein A-I Medicine & Life Sciences 67% HDL Cholesterol Medicine & Life Sciences 35% Triglycerides Medicine & Life Sciences 23% low density lipoprotein triglyceride Medicine & Life Sciences 23% Averna, M., Altieri, G. I., Noto, D., Tomaselli, T., Spadaro, L., Scicali, R., Fede, G., Privitera, G., Piro, S., Purrello, F., Piro, S., & Fayer, F. (2015). Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 50, 347-354. Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency. / Averna, Maurizio; Altieri, Grazia Ida; Noto, Davide et al. In: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 50, 2015, pag. 347-354. Averna, M, Altieri, GI, Noto, D, Tomaselli, T, Spadaro, L, Scicali, R, Fede, G, Privitera, G, Piro, S, Purrello, F, Piro, S & Fayer, F 2015, 'Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency', Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 50, pagg. 347-354. Averna M, Altieri GI, Noto D, Tomaselli T, Spadaro L, Scicali R et al. Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. 2015;50:347-354. Averna, Maurizio ; Altieri, Grazia Ida ; Noto, Davide et al. / Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency. In: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. 2015 ; Vol. 50. pagg. 347-354. @article{1b29f8119355419294feb46e194e17c6, title = "Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency", abstract = "Backgrounds and aims: Adrenal insufficiency (AI) has been reported in patients with stable cirrhosis. A lack of substrates has been suggested as a possible contributing pathogenic mechanism leading to glucocorticoid deficiency in these subjects. To better explore this hypothesis, we studied lipoproteins in cirrhotics with and without AI. Methods. A total of 81 cirrhotic patients and 30 normal volunteers were enrolled. The severity of liver disease was graded by Child-Pugh score. Total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglyceride (TG), and apolipoprotein AI (Apo-AI) levels were evaluated. HDL subfractions were measured by gradient gel electrophoresis. Adrenal function was assessed by the Low-Dose Short Synacthen Test. Results. Cirrhotic patients showed a significant reduction of TC, HDL, LDL, TG, and Apo-AI levels compared with controls. HDL3 was significantly lower, while HDL2 was higher, in cirrhotics compared with the controls. AI was observed in 26 patients. TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI were significantly reduced in cirrhotics with AI compared with those with normal adrenal function. HDL2 and HDL3 did not differ between these two groups. Delta cortisol was related to TC (r = 0.30, p < 0.01), TG (r = 0.22, p = 0.05), and Apo-AI (r = 0.37, p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that Apo-AI and HDL were independently associated with AI. Conclusion. Our study shows that TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI are reduced in cirrhotics with AI. In particular, because both HDL and Apo-AI play a primary role in providing substrates for steroidogenesis to adrenal cells, this deficiency may contribute to the pathogenesis of AI in these patients.", keywords = "Adrenal insufficiency, Apolipoprotein AI, Cirrhosis, Gastroenterology, HDL cholesterol, Adrenal insufficiency, Apolipoprotein AI, Cirrhosis, Gastroenterology, HDL cholesterol", author = "Maurizio Averna and Altieri, {Grazia Ida} and Davide Noto and Tania Tomaselli and Luisa Spadaro and Roberto Scicali and Giuseppe Fede and Graziella Privitera and Salvatore Piro and Francesco Purrello and Salvatore Piro and Francesca Fayer", journal = "Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology", publisher = "Informa Healthcare", T1 - Apolipoprotein AI and HDL are reduced in stable cirrhotic patients with adrenal insufficiency: A possible role in glucocorticoid deficiency AU - Averna, Maurizio AU - Altieri, Grazia Ida AU - Noto, Davide AU - Tomaselli, Tania AU - Spadaro, Luisa AU - Scicali, Roberto AU - Fede, Giuseppe AU - Privitera, Graziella AU - Piro, Salvatore AU - Purrello, Francesco AU - Fayer, Francesca N2 - Backgrounds and aims: Adrenal insufficiency (AI) has been reported in patients with stable cirrhosis. A lack of substrates has been suggested as a possible contributing pathogenic mechanism leading to glucocorticoid deficiency in these subjects. To better explore this hypothesis, we studied lipoproteins in cirrhotics with and without AI. Methods. A total of 81 cirrhotic patients and 30 normal volunteers were enrolled. The severity of liver disease was graded by Child-Pugh score. Total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglyceride (TG), and apolipoprotein AI (Apo-AI) levels were evaluated. HDL subfractions were measured by gradient gel electrophoresis. Adrenal function was assessed by the Low-Dose Short Synacthen Test. Results. Cirrhotic patients showed a significant reduction of TC, HDL, LDL, TG, and Apo-AI levels compared with controls. HDL3 was significantly lower, while HDL2 was higher, in cirrhotics compared with the controls. AI was observed in 26 patients. TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI were significantly reduced in cirrhotics with AI compared with those with normal adrenal function. HDL2 and HDL3 did not differ between these two groups. Delta cortisol was related to TC (r = 0.30, p < 0.01), TG (r = 0.22, p = 0.05), and Apo-AI (r = 0.37, p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that Apo-AI and HDL were independently associated with AI. Conclusion. Our study shows that TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI are reduced in cirrhotics with AI. In particular, because both HDL and Apo-AI play a primary role in providing substrates for steroidogenesis to adrenal cells, this deficiency may contribute to the pathogenesis of AI in these patients. AB - Backgrounds and aims: Adrenal insufficiency (AI) has been reported in patients with stable cirrhosis. A lack of substrates has been suggested as a possible contributing pathogenic mechanism leading to glucocorticoid deficiency in these subjects. To better explore this hypothesis, we studied lipoproteins in cirrhotics with and without AI. Methods. A total of 81 cirrhotic patients and 30 normal volunteers were enrolled. The severity of liver disease was graded by Child-Pugh score. Total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglyceride (TG), and apolipoprotein AI (Apo-AI) levels were evaluated. HDL subfractions were measured by gradient gel electrophoresis. Adrenal function was assessed by the Low-Dose Short Synacthen Test. Results. Cirrhotic patients showed a significant reduction of TC, HDL, LDL, TG, and Apo-AI levels compared with controls. HDL3 was significantly lower, while HDL2 was higher, in cirrhotics compared with the controls. AI was observed in 26 patients. TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI were significantly reduced in cirrhotics with AI compared with those with normal adrenal function. HDL2 and HDL3 did not differ between these two groups. Delta cortisol was related to TC (r = 0.30, p < 0.01), TG (r = 0.22, p = 0.05), and Apo-AI (r = 0.37, p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that Apo-AI and HDL were independently associated with AI. Conclusion. Our study shows that TC, TG, HDL, and Apo-AI are reduced in cirrhotics with AI. In particular, because both HDL and Apo-AI play a primary role in providing substrates for steroidogenesis to adrenal cells, this deficiency may contribute to the pathogenesis of AI in these patients. KW - Adrenal insufficiency KW - Apolipoprotein AI KW - Cirrhosis KW - Gastroenterology KW - HDL cholesterol UR - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00365521.asp JO - Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology JF - Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7850403189659119, "wiki_prob": 0.7850403189659119, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line456800"}
1 October 2015, 6-8pm Kick Gallery 4 Peel Street, Andrew Sibley - Early Paintings Last Drawings 1 October 2015, 6-8pm (October 1 - October 18) Kick Gallery 4 Peel Street Collingwood ‘The first time I met Andrew Sibley I was not aware of his extensive reputation. I met Andrew in 1975 as an RMIT student and I was coming of age at the tail end of Whitlam-era experimentation. It was a glorious unhurried time and along with Andrew were Jan Senbergs, George Baldessin, James Meldrum, Peter Clarke and Les Kossatz as his formidable teaching colleagues. I did not yet know that he was a significant Australian artist who from the late 1950’s was regarded as a prodigious talent. Nor had I yet encountered his unique ability as a teaching artist to raise in his students a curiosity for the ironies of life and the psychologically dark terrains of human nature. By the time I had met Andrew he had already moved well beyond the simpler narrative and expressionist impulses of his early works and was completely absorbed in developing ambitious multi-layered human entanglements painted on sheets of Perspex. To us, his work looked all at once powerful, innovative, funny, tender and kind of dangerous. He was a huge figure in our young lives – a mischievous and charismatic force. By 1980, the earlier 1960’s paintings of Andrew Sibley such as those presented here at Kick Gallery became of increasing interest to our artists’ cohort. Unexpectedly the world of contemporary art began to turn back to painted expressionistic images, utilising the figure once more. The early eighties zeitgeist was such that many young artists world-wide had embraced a version of what became known variously as ‘neo-expressionism’, ‘trans avant-garde’ and ‘bad painting’. For those of us who at the time followed Andrew’s work as ex-students we found a prescient quality in these early works. In particular, there was Andrew’s unwavering commitment to painting itself, to painting the human condition (in the face of dominant formal abstraction and conceptual art) and his obsession with what he referred to half-jokingly as ‘the gestalt moment’. And yet Andrew was not particularly feted or even included in this important wider return to figurative painting. Perhaps with an artist like Andrew Sibley the singularity of style and vision marked him forever as a lone wolf. He was not one for shifting even slightly to align with the times. Looking back now on a work like ‘Couple’ from 1968 for example, I can see clearly how influential he was for us in terms of marking out the joys and sorrows of human encounter and yet the work seems entirely of its own world. The biomorphic forms, the proscenium-like space and the moment of trepidation before touching another human being are forever his. But also there was also and continuously an underlying sense of acute simple observation. And so, turning to the very late drawings presented here, coming as they have right at the end of a very long life of making, we see the artist re-setting and returning to a much earlier mode of looking and putting. Sad as the circumstances of their making are, these drawings properly close the circle. They are immediate, beautiful and insightful renderings that show to the very end his ever-present desire to draw out inner psychologies. Andrew used to say that ultimately painters make the same picture over and over again. He may just have been right.’ Jon Cattapan \| Artist \| September 2015 Private: Homage to Paul Klee, 1968 Oil and enamel on linen Grey Lady Seeks Grey, 1965 Oil and enamel on board Two Figures, 1968 Couple, 1968	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6311101317405701, "wiki_prob": 0.6311101317405701, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1317032"}
Home > A&S > History > History Publications > 114 History Faculty Publications and Presentations The Best Police Officer in the Force: Chief Constables and Their Men, 1900-39 Joanne Klein, Boise State UniversityFollow Contribution to Books During the early twentieth century, police views shifted on who made the best Chief Constables. In the nineteenth century, most policemen were from the lower working class and not sufficiently educated to rise to the top ranks. As highlighted in previous chapters, forces recruited Chief Constables from the military, the colonial police, and the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). The passage of the Police Act 1890 granted pensions to policemen, a rare benefit for working-class occupations at that time. This attracted a better quality of policemen with better educations. Constables now could have strong enough credentials to support ambitious goals. By the 1910s, constables began to insist that only career policemen understood policing well enough to lead forces. The Police Act 1919 introduced even higher standards, creating a supply of internal Chief Constable candidates which were eventually relied on exclusively. Complicating this transition were 'clerk constables', men who spent most of their careers behind desks at head-quarters. They might have risen from the ranks but the men who walked the beats viewed them with suspicion. Many policemen insisted that education alone was not enough; only Chief Constables who had 'tackled the rough side of his work' understood the realities of policing. By the 1940s, hiring Chief Constables who had risen through the ranks of British police forces became the new standard. Klein, Joanne. (2018). "The Best Police Officer in the Force: Chief Constables and Their Men, 1900-39". Leading the Police: A History of Chief Constables 1835-2017, 125-140.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7805344462394714, "wiki_prob": 0.7805344462394714, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line857954"}
TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” so you don’t have to \| Elon Musk by James · December 14, 2022 Tthe threat model for a social network is complex. Your security team must deal with conventional hacking attacks, as hostile actors look for technical flaws in your apps and servers that they can use to extract valuable private data, inject malicious code, or simply wreak havoc for fun. They also have to deal with people using the site’s own capabilities in destructive ways, from simple-minded spambots to nation-states engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior”. They have to protect users from account takeovers due to password theft, and they have to do it all while navigating the minefield that is content moderation. And then the site is bought on a whim by a capricious billionaire and the threat comes from the house. What is The Twitter files? Elon Musk has pushed the “Twitter Files,” a series of Twitter threads from friendly journalists who use material provided by the company to rehash the company’s role in the previous culture wars. Usually big news stories that claim to be [something] “files” are based on enormous leaks, and provide a previously impossible look at the organization’s inner workings under the microscope. It is less typical for a huge leak to have been ordered by the company’s CEO, and executed by their subordinates who openly work with the journalists reporting on the story. But little about Elon Musk’s Twitter is typical. What about the files themselves? After a week and a half, there have been four releases, from three authors: Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger, all largely part of a wave of “postliberal” newsletter writers from Substack. It is unclear how they were selected to receive the documents. One requirement, however, was that everything they published be shared on Twitter itself, Taibbi has said, but beyond that, “we’ve been encouraged to look not only at historical Twitter, but also the current iteration. I was simply told I could write whatever I wanted, including anything about the current company and its new boss, Elon Musk. At the same time, the reporting was done inside Twitter’s offices, with assistance from Twitter employees. See also How to install AppValley for iOS And all three have focused on the areas one might guess, given their previous statements about the social network. Taibbi’s first thread covered Twitter’s attempt to respond to the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop; his other thread, as well as Shellenberger’s, looked at the events surrounding the suspension of Donald Trump and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Weiss, meanwhile, reported on what she described as “Twitter’s secret blacklists”.‌ Freedom of speech v ‘freedom to reach’ So most of the material so far has been focused on what are actually two extremely high individual moderation decisions, one deemed a mistake in retrospect (hiding stories about Biden’s laptop), and the other just as divisive as any. would have guessed beforehand (Trump’s ban). The documents shared by Taibbi and Shellenberger largely support this reading. The excerpts of internal emails and chat messages that they have released, without the conspiratorial framing of the two authors, appear to show employees coping with the enormous burden that has been placed on them with a crude mixture of panic and determination. In the days following the publication of the Post’s story about Hunter Biden, it was not enough. Clearly aware of the prospect of a repeat of 2016’s WikiLeaks dump of hacked Democratic Party documents, the leaders cited by Taibbi are moving quickly to discuss enforcing a policy against sharing hacked material. But the material was not hacked, and while the chain of custody of Biden’s laptop remains unclear, it quickly became clear that the policy was being misused. Twitter’s top executives were too slow to lift the ban when it became clear, and, in Taibbi’s words“err on the side of … continues to err”. See also Criminals may be targeting your food ordering apps - NBC Boston Just two months later, the same group was convened to discuss Donald Trump. The president had used social media to instigate a protest in Washington DC that turned violent when his supporters decided to storm the US Capitol building. In the days after the election, Twitter had aggressively applied its “newsworthiness” policy, slapping a label on posts that would be deleted if not for the writer’s prominence, but by January 7 it was clear that it was unsatisfactory in the case of Trump . A series of Slack posts shared by Shellenberger show the team, led by former trust and security chief Yoel Roth, desperately trying to invent policy on the fly (all employees except Roth are anonymized in the posts Shellenberger shared). Trump had been given special treatment, lingering on the site for months after a typical user would have seen his account deleted: at what point does this approach cease to be viable? The answer was quite clear on January 6. But if you give someone special treatment without admitting it, it only makes it all the more difficult to take it away. Weiss’s part of the saga is different. Instead of focusing on the narrow world of American electoral politics, her thread takes a more systemic look at Twitter’s moderation practices. Working with Ella Irwina trust and safety officer at Twitter, Weiss published screenshots of the moderation pages for some of the site’s most notorious users. Jay Bhattacharya, a Covid skeptic, was placed on a “trend blacklist”; Dan Bongino, a right-wing media personality, on a “search blacklist”; Charlie Kirk, whose decision to attend a protest wearing a nappy caused such embarrassment that it effectively destroyed the republican youth movement he founded, was set to “not enhance”. See also 7 basic rules of sexting: Be careful while having fun - check the dos and don'ts! \| News about love, relationships The tags are various examples of what Twitter calls “visibility filtering”, a form of moderation intended to affect “freedom of reach” without affecting “freedom of expression”. Filtered users can post what they like, but their involvement in the algorithmic amplification of the site is limited. Some will not appear in search results or trends; others will not be recommended for users to follow. The most aggressive form of visibility filtering, which didn’t affect any of the prominent accounts Weiss highlighted, means that new posts aren’t even shown to followers, and are only visible to people who navigate directly to the poster’s profile. Not all users Weiss surveyed were harmed by the moderation. One, LibsofTikTok, was given special treatment, warning moderators not to do anything about it without consulting the site’s senior team. Despite that, it had still received two strikes for abuse, and had been placed on the trending blacklist. What did we learn? I think it’s important to distinguish between the Twitter files and the “Twitter Files”. The latter, a large, hyped, coordinated publication, has so far failed to achieve its ostensible goals. The average of the whole exercise is that Twitter is a hotbed of left-wing bias, explicitly aligned with the US Democratic Party, and takes unjustified action to censor speech for politically motivated purposes. The posts themselves show little of that kind. Some, like Weiss, don’t even try: individual examples of right-wing users who are on the receiving end of light-touch moderation say little about general bias. Did left-leaning users also get visibility filters? Weiss doesn’t say that. Did right-wing users get more filters? Weiss doesn’t say that. Alex Hern’s weekly dive into how technology shapes our lives Privacy statement: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online advertisements and content funded by external parties. For more information see our Privacy statement. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and Google Privacy statement and Terms of Use apply. Others show almost the opposite. There were plenty of simple reasons to remove Donald Trump from the social network in January 2021, but the posts seem to reveal Twitter staff methodically working through their actual rulebook, trying to understand how to respond to unprecedented events in a way which doesn’t just throw precedent out the window. As with so much in American politics, the files fall flat if you view the American right as an outlier. If you have rules against misinformation about elections and only one party participates in a systematic campaign of misinformation about elections, it is not an unreasonable result for one party to be the focus of moderation efforts. But the small letters, the documents themselves, are nevertheless an interesting historical object. They show that during periods of global crisis, those who made the decisions on Twitter were very aware of, and uncomfortable with, the power they had. Even as a set of selected examples, they show that the effort to create and use a consistent rulebook was driven as much by a desire to avoid criticism as by a belief that it was important to protect users. They give us an insight into what kind of discussions were probably taking place on Facebook and YouTube at the same time. And they show that we should never trust Elon Musk. Insider threat Musk has promoted the series as an exercise in “transparency,” and if you’re Weiss, Taibbi, or Shellenberger, that’s what it is. But that’s the kind of transparency companies get when their database is hacked and sold on the darknet. In this case, the database cost $44 billion, and came with control of the website to boot. Marcus Hutchins, the ethical hacker who stopped the WannaCry ransomware infection, posted on Mastodon about the documents. “As a security professional, not much scares me,” he said. “I’ve seen my personal data stolen multiple times, seen national hackers spray zero days across the internet, and I’m a shameless TikTok user. “But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of billions of users, someone with a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone with an ear to the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal corporate data to score political points. It scares me a lot.” The Shellenberger posts named only one person: Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yael Roth. When Musk bought the company, Roth was initially forthcoming: one of the few employees willing to speak up for his boss publicly, and a much-needed source of internal expertise after the immediate firing of Vijaya Gadde, the longtime head of Twitter’s platform security effort. But the relationship clearly soured. On November 10, Roth quit, reappearing a week later to write a New York Times op-ed arguing that “although he criticizes the capriciousness of platform politics, [Musk] perpetuates the same lack of legitimacy through its impulsive changes and tweet-length statements about Twitter’s rules.” In doing so, he appears to have become a bete noire for his brief boss, and then for the wider right-wing media ecosystem that Musk now leads. The day before Shellenberger shared his share of the Twitter files, Musk posted an out-of-context excerpt of Roth’s decades-old doctoral dissertation, which looked at whether services like Grindr caused harm by forcing teenagers to pretend they were adults to access dating sites. To an audience of hundreds of millions, Musk accused Roth of being “for children to be able to access adult Internet services,” and indirectly accused him of personally deciding to make Twitter a safe place for pedophiles. The accusation is nonsense, but the accusation, in an atmosphere of right-wing panic over “groomers” in the media, is life-changing. On Monday, Roth and his partner were forced to flee their home after a sharp increase in credible threats against him. For insufficient loyalty, he must spend the rest of his life checking over his shoulder. What will happen to the next person who annoys Elon? 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December 2021 — Volume 5, Issue 2 Back Mixed Methodology Study The C.O.P.E. Typology of Coping with Stressors at Sea among Filipino Merchant Marine Ratings: A Q Methodology Study Clarissa M. Mendoza, Maria Minerva P. Calimag, Susannah O. Salvador Dec 2021 DOI 10.35460/2546-1621.2021-0156 The Philippines is the leading source of merchant marine ratings serving the world merchant fleet according to the BIMCO Manpower Report (BIMCO 2015). [1] Filipinos are particularly attracted to seafaring because of the financial stability that it brings. However, seafaring is a high-risk profession as stress abounds and is inevitable. The stressors were broadly described as chemical, physical, biological, as well as psychological/psychosocial.[2,3] The significant toll on physical and mental health that these stressors cause are inevitable[3-5] but variable as the transactional model of stress and coping suggests.[6] Seafarers' stressors stem from a myriad of interrelated factors. Foremost among them is globalization which increased trade volume, heightened competition in the international market, and spurred technological innovations. Strong competition and high trade volume resulted in faster turnaround schedules in ports.[7] These resulted in a loss and lack of sleep, seafarer fatigue[8-13], and lack if not loss of shore leaves.[13,14] Technological innovations like computerized systems in the engine room and on the bridge challenged seafarers to step out of their comfort zones and learn new skills.[12,15,16] The potential down-sizing of crew that these technological changes bring[15] are perceived as a threat of impending redundancy or early retirement which the seafarers judged as moderately stressful.[12] Seafarers also live for months on end in the small confines of a ship. Tension in a closed group of people and onerous physical conditions of work like rocking, vibrations, noise, changes in climate, and time zones contribute to their stress.[2] On the extreme were mental and physical overloads associated with performing work in difficult weather conditions like storms[5] and loss of sleep, especially with longer duration of work at sea.[17] The long months on sea duty also give rise to prolonged separation from family and friends,[18] considered by Filipinos as highly stressful.[12] These prompted recommendations to improve telecommunication on board. [19] Digital technology on board decreased the homesickness of seafarers albeit fragmented in some respects.[20] While internet accessibility promoted satisfaction and health,[21] it can bring a different kind of stressor as simple family problems come to their knowledge and engender worries and anxieties [22] that derail them from their focus on work. There is also a loss of close relationships and camaraderie of coming together after work or after meal time as these were replaced by the cellular phones, tablets, and laptops.[23] Studies on stressors are important because of its association to mental health. Iversen emphasized that stressors on board result in anxiety and depression, and for some, suicide.[13] While studies on stressors draw attention to the physical, social, and pyschosocial problems on board and has brought to the fore recommendations like the need for more socialization and shore leaves and the importance of an equal and fair work environment, [14] a more holistic approach would be to study these in relation to coping. If this job is so stressful, how can a significant number have a successful career as seafarers, spending years of their lives away from home? How did they cope? There is a paucity of studies combining stress and coping among seafarers and the use of Q methodology. E. Gregorio (2012) studied stress and coping among Filipino seafarers using phenomenology.[24] Oliver (2017) used Q methodology but the study focused on shared viewpoints about motivations, expectations, work attitudes, and social relations on board the working lives of Filipino cruise ship employees.[25] This study was undertaken to bridge this research gap and provide an answer to the central question: "What are the typology of seafarers in terms of what they view as stress and the coping mechanisms they employ while on board vessels?" The implications in terms of addressing mental health issues will be drawn from the typology which may improve paradigms that promote seafarers' mental health. Anchored on the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, this study posits that mental health is a balance between stressors and one’s coping mechanisms. By putting together, the stressors and coping mechanisms in a concourse and allowing the seafarers to perform a forceful ranking according to their perceptions, the typology and its implications to mental health can be derived. The Q methodology made this possible by making the concourse grounded on the model. A published work of Baqutayan provided a review of the various definitions of stress and coping mechanisms as well as a model that integrated the various coping mechanisms.[26] This framework combined the coping mechanisms forwarded by Lazarus and Folkman[6] and that of Carver and Weintraub.[27] This study utilized a mixed methods sequential explanatory design using the Q methodology. [28,29] The concourse consisted of 25 statements generated from review of existing literature on stressors of seafarers and review of theoretical frameworks on stress and coping mechanisms. There were four categories of statements namely: stressor statements, problem-focused coping statements, emotion-focused coping statements, and dysfunctional coping statements (Table 1). Thirty-seven merchant marine ratings, 24-60 years old, with mean age of 36 years, and average stay on board of 10.9 years were included in this study. They met the inclusion criteria of having worked on board the vessel for at least 1 year and were willing to participate in the study. Convenience sampling was used. All were able to finish the Q sorting. The study was done in selected pre-employment medical examination (PEME) clinics from May-Aug 2019. They were waiting for the release/print-out of their PEME certificate when the consent was obtained and the Q-sorting and interview were done. They were asked to Q sort 25 statements printed and cut into cards and randomly numbered. The respondents were asked to sort the statements on the Q Sort Table (Figure 1) according to their degree of agreement (+4) or disagreement (-4) to the statements that answer the question, “While on shipboard duty, what are your major/significant stressors? What do you usually do when you experience a stressful event?” After the Q sorting, an interview followed to elucidate their most agreed (+4) and most disagreed (-4) statements and on what statements they would have wanted to be included in the Q sort. A debriefing followed, patterned after the “Debriefing Form for Participation in a Research Study” of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[30] None of the seafarers were distressed by any of the statements. The implementation of the study was undertaken by the research investigators. To eliminate bias, none of them performed it in their own clinics. Data Analysis and Interpretation The respondents’ Q sorts were entered into the PQ Method software version 2.32 that performed by-person factor analysis (centroid factor extraction) and rotation with Varimax. Factor analysis was used to correlate the respondents’ Q-sort, to identify which cluster was together. Principal component analysis was used to maximize the similarities within factors and identify differences between them. The factors were interpreted using the inductive approach to determine the prevailing themes. This was done by considering the characterizing statements. The distinctive statements defined as those with statistically significant different factor scores compared to all factors (p<0.05), together with the anchors and phenomenal referents were used to determine the chief characteristics for each factor profile.[31] Ethical Consideration The study was conducted after the University of Santo Tomas Hospital Research Ethics Committee approval (REC-2019-01-008-MD) was obtained and conducted in accordance with applicable guidelines like the Declaration of Helsinki 2013, WHO Operational Guidelines, International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines on Good Clinical Practice Guidelines (GCP), and the National Ethical Guideline 2017 Edition. Table 2. shows the demographics of the participant marine ratings classified according to age and number of years engaged as a seafarer. There were four factors generated from the sorting of 37 merchant marine ratings. The average relative coefficient was 0.80 with composite reliability of 0.92-0.98. Table 3 lists the distinguishing statements of different factors from which the typology was generated by induction. Factor 1: Solution-Focused Seafarers Factor 1 refers to the Filipino Merchant Marine Ratings as the problem solvers. They focus their energy through a positive orientation as personified by the tack that enables them to navigate the changing wind directions through active engagement with the problem and finding solutions. Seafarers in this typology employ problem-focused strategies, both seeking external help in the form of advice and actively doing something to alleviate and eliminate the stressor. They also harness the learnings that the stressors provide to improve and be ready for whatever stressors that may arise. They are satisfied with what they receive for their work. Factor 2: Stressor-Focused Seafarers Factor 2 refers to the Filipino ratings as focused on the stressors. They have a negative orientation as personified by being constantly affected by the wind and the constant challenges to maintain direction. There is passive drifting and a lack of self-efficacy to confront the stressors. These seafarers are keenly aware of their stressors – fatigue, excessive workloads, sleep deprivation, and discrimination by superiors. Their coping mechanisms are dysfunctional. They use mental disengagement and avoidance as they are geared towards warding off the thought through work and social media. Although the coping may be viewed as dysfunctional, if the stressors are analyzed, it may be the best that can be done, given the circumstances. Interestingly, while their work is their source of stressors, it is also their balm. Factor 3: Self-Management-Focused Seafarers Factor 3 refers to the Filipino Merchant Marine Ratings as focused on self-management and self-enhancement. They have a positive orientation as personified by the keel that provides stability. This typology leads to personal assertiveness that engenders grit and resilience in the face of stressors. These seafarers use positive reinforcement and growth as their coping mechanisms. They also use humor to cope. These are both emotion-focused coping strategies. It is no wonder that no stressor predominates in the sorting as they are “accepted”. For them, the stressors are the healthy impetus to becoming a better person. One seafarer said, “I want to become a better person to learn some other things, to develop your maturity as a person and good person.” “I try to learn to accept the stressor and try to learn from my mistake and try to grow from them.” Factor 4: Social Milieu-Focused Seafarers Factor 4 refers to the Filipino Marine Ratings as focused on the social milieu at sea. Sorely missing the familiar support of family, he has a predominantly negative orientation as personified by wallowing in self-pity amidst the expansive sea of stressors. This typology portrays emotional desolation. These are the typical seafarers, stressed by being away from their family and conscious of what they have lost and of what distance has wrought, as one respondent verbalized, “I chose this (statement) because I am not part of most of their memories and during vacation, they are aloof because they do not recognize me, especially when they were very young.” The dissatisfaction with the salary can be related to the strong family concern and needs. Consensus Statements: Supplication-Focused Seafarers The Filipino Merchant Marine Ratings’ consensus statement resonates with a positive orientation towards God as the anchor that provides grounding when lowered, while allowing a new journey to commence amidst all challenges in life once the anchors are raised (anchor aweigh). The respondents’ verbalizations exemplify this typology: – “I meditate, pray and seek God’s help.” This reflects the deep faith and trust in God that is typical of Filipinos. This is the typical coping mechanism that the Filipino seafarer employs. “In everything else, stay calm and do not forget to pray, so that God will guide you through everything;” “To be safe every day because our work is prone to dangers and accidents;” “Of course, God first, to be safe from squabbles and dangers. He is my way and guide every day.” For the Filipino seafarer, the meaning of life is GOD. Table 4 summarizes the different factors according to center, orientation, persona, and essence (C.O.P.E). Coping mechanisms are ways in which external or internal stress is managed, adapted to, or acted upon. Susan Folkman and Richard Lazarus defined stress as “a product of a transaction between a person (including multiple systems: cognitive, physiological, affective, psychological, neurological) and his or her complex environment” while coping as "constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing".[6] This study echoes the commonly identified and reported stressors but more than identifying them, it painted the persona of seafarers as a product of the rich interplay of what they view as stress and how they cope with it. The typology pictures the gradation of coping that the seafarers possess. Implications of the Typology to Mental Health The solution-focused seafarers are engaged in "proactive coping", aimed at ensuring a successful encounter with a future stressor. In the context of the salutogenesis model of Antonovsky,[32] they have a strong sense of coherence and embody the characteristics essential for effective tension management. This is manifested in the way they try to understand the problem (comprehensibility), manage and solve it, or ask for help (manageability). They capitalize on the strength and growth opportunity that the stressor provides (meaningfulness). They can be an effective social support to other seafarers. Social support fosters not only mental health but physical health as well.[36] The provision of positive social support will certainly help build psychological resilience in those who are not in possession of these qualities. The stressor-focused seafarers need help. They resort to social media and work to help them cope. They use task-oriented avoidance coping [33] with distraction as a response to a stressor. In the COPE scale, this is termed mental disengagement [34] and is at the negative end of the problem solving - problem avoidance dimensions of "The Coping Circumplex Model".[35] This coping style stems from the belief of inadequacy to meet and control the stressor.[36] Various types of support like stress management interventions, a venue where the stressors can be aired and addressed (instrumental support) and social support through a close association with an identified solution-focused seafarer may help address problems and improve coping. The self–management-focused seafarers are as well adapted as the solution-focused seafarers, but the focus is on improving themselves. The resolution of stress is not so much as getting rid of it but in using it to make themselves better persons. Stressors are therefore seen as challenges, not burdens. This has been termed “stress-related growth” described as a “dispositional response to stress that enables a specific individual to see opportunities for growth as opposed to threat or debilitation”.[37] They are engaged in "proactive coping" because the response is aimed to prepare them for future stressors.[38] Thus, the stressor-focused seafarer may also benefit from a close association with this type of seafarer. The social milieu-focused seafarers depict the role of social relationships in mental health.[39] The internet can bring them close to their family and may help prevent feelings of desolation and isolation. Feelings of social isolation must be prevented as these may lead to psychological and physical disintegration.[39] Scheduling a time each day to connect with family and friends through a phone or video call will be beneficial. However, he must be drawn into the mainstream of life on the ship (social integration), so that he can find a surrogate family and support. Opportunities for social interactions must be planned and provided regularly. They must also be equipped with other strategies like self-soothing strategies, mindfulness activities, and using positive self-statements. It helps that many ratings on board a ship are Filipinos, and they can find solace in intracultural coping. Stress is often viewed as an inevitable part of life at sea.[40] The consensus statement, “I meditate, pray and seek God’s help”, speaks highly of the deeply spiritual culture of Filipinos. It supports the role of port chaplains in providing welfare for seafarers.[41] All the typology look to God for help, mercy, and guidance. Deeply aware of a turbulent life at sea, they still pursue this career because they believe that there is a God they can turn to and who will never fail them. All of them used faith and faith-based coping strategies to help them meet challenges. Most of the respondents interviewed in this study sought relief from stressors by turning to their religions. Many of them expressed the strength of prayer to help them get through difficult times. Implications to Human Resource Management The reported typology has important human resource implications (Table 5). This is especially true for ratings which are new or still adjusting to life at sea. The typology highlights differing needs of seafarers to be able to cope but they also bring out how others successfully cope. Administrators should encourage the adoption of culturally appropriate interventions without losing sight of their typology-specific needs. Implications for Future Research The typology can be used to generate individualized or personalized health-promotion interventions geared towards mental health. Implementation and outcome of such interventions can be used as subjects of future research. The prevalence of the typology can also be studied. A typology for seafarers according to their stress and coping mechanisms was generated. This typology can be a tool to better understand a seafarer’s outlook on stress and coping and may help the concerned parties craft individualized strategies to help improve their coping mechanisms and overall mental health. Occupational health research must continue to focus on understanding the role of culture and adaptation on stress and coping behaviors to be able to retain quality seafarers and promote a healthier workplace. Limitations of the Study This is a Q methodology study that aims to bring out typology but does not give the prevalence of the typology in the general population of seafarers. Such prevalence is better studied using surveys with random sampling. However, it brings to the fore the importance of subjectivity when studying stressors and coping and how subjectivity can be viewed objectively using the Q method. All the investigators declare no conflict of interest. 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Tag: Extra Judicial Killings Controversy over Dr Yunus, political issues ignored I HAVE recently returned from Jhalokathi. I had gone there as part of a citizens’ group to lend support to seventeen year old Limon Hossain, shot and maimed by a RAB bullet. It was a case of mistaken identity but this simple truth is denied by the government, by the ruling party’s top-ranking leaders and high-ranking police and RAB officials, who viciously keep insisting that Limon is a ‘terrorist.’ All because the government’s elite anti-crime, anti-terror force, can do no wrong. Never, ever. A state of affairs that we, as citizens, contest. After returning to Dhaka, I flipped through news reports of our visit. Many had characterised our group as being, one of ’eminent’ citizens. Very elitist. Others, of being composed of ‘human rights leaders and activists’, implying a total disregard for its political and ideological diversity since the group consisted of members, including I myself, keenly aware of the politics of human rights. Of, for instance, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr Yunus’ notion of credit as being a fundamental human right. Its absurdity, sharply pointed out by anthropologist Lamia Karim who asks, if credit is replaced with the word debt, how can debt, ?a relationship of power and inequality between the loan institution and the borrower? — be construed as a human right? Continue reading “Controversy over Dr Yunus, political issues ignored” Author Shahidul AlamPosted on September 4, 2012 Categories Bangladesh, development, economy, Global Issues, Governance, Imperialism, media, politics, Rahnuma AhmedTags Dr Yunus, Extra Judicial Killings, Grameen Bank, Limon, RABLeave a comment on Controversy over Dr Yunus, political issues ignored Obama's drone wars and the normalisation of extrajudicial murder The Guardian, Monday 11 June 2012 Executive privilege has seduced the president into a reckless ‘kill first, ask questions later’ policy that explodes the US constitution by Michael Boyle A Pakistani protest in June 2012, after two recent US drone strikes killed 12 people. Photograph: SS Mirza/AFP/Getty In his first campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised to reverse the worst excesses of the Bush administration’s approach to terrorism ? such as the use of torture, the rendition of terrorist suspects to CIA-run black sites around the globe, and the denial of basic legal rights to prisoners in Guant?namo ? and to develop a counterterrorism policy that was consistent with the legal and moral tradition of the United States.?In an address at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2007, Obama criticized the Bush administration for putting forward a “false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand”, and swore to provide “our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom”. As a candidate, Obama also promised to restore proper legislative and judicial oversight to counterterrorism operations. Rather than treat counterterrorism policy as an area of exception, operating without the normal safeguards that protect the rights of the accused, Obama promised that his approach “will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that?justice is not arbitrary.” Four years later, it is clear that President Obama has delivered a very different counterterrorism policy from that which he promised on the campaign trail. (Full disclosure: I was an adviser on the Obama campaign’s counterterrorism expert group from July 2007-November 2008.) In fairness, he?has?delivered on a few of his promises, including closing the CIA-run “black site” prisons abroad and ordering that interrogations of all suspects be conducted according to the US army field manual, which proscribes?many of the tactics widely considered torture. And some failures were not wholly his own: Obama’s inability to close Guant?namo Bay was due more to congressional opposition and to an array of legal obstacles than to his own lack of initiative. Continue reading “Obama's drone wars and the normalisation of extrajudicial murder” Author Shahidul AlamPosted on August 11, 2012 Categories Governance, Human rights, Killings, Law, politics, security, South Asia, Technology, Terrorism, USA, war on terror, WorldTags al-Qaida, Constitution, drones, Extra Judicial Killings, Obama, Pakistan, USA, YemenLeave a comment on Obama's drone wars and the normalisation of extrajudicial murder Tribunal against Torture The session, organised on June 26, 2012 at the BRAC Centre Inn, Dhaka by Odhikar in collaboration with European Union includes statements by victims and legal expert?s analysis. Speakers include ? Abdul Matin Khasru, MP and Former Law Minister ? Haider Akbar Khan Rono, Presidium Member, Communist Party of Bangladesh ? Abu Sayed Khan, Managing Editor, The daily Shomokal ? Advocate Abdus Salam, Member, Central Coordination Committee, Gonosonghati Andolon ? Rajekuzzaman Ratan, Member, Central Committee, Socialist Party of Bangladesh ? Mizanur Rahman Khan, Associate Editor, Prothom Alo ? Kalpona Akhter, Executive Editor, Bangladesh Centre for Workers Solidarity There is a paper presented by Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary, Odhikar which Nurul Kabir, Editor, New Age presides over. Welcoming address given by Dr. C R Abrar, President, Odhikar A set of posters of the exhibition on extra judicial killings “Crossfire” by Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam of Drik is on display. Sets of the posters have been given to human rights activists to use at grassroots level. The show was recently shown at the Queen’s Museum of Art in New York. Author Shahidul AlamPosted on June 25, 2012 Categories Bangladesh, Crossfire, Human rights, Killings, Law, Photography, politics, Shahidul AlamTags Bangladesh, crossfire, disappearances, Extra Judicial Killings, Governance, impunity, killings, Odhikar, RAB, Rapid Action Battalion, torture1 Comment on Tribunal against Torture Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Vijay Prashad 21 October 2011 ??The Greanville Post ? Qaddafi, From Beginning to End NATO?s Agenda for?Libya On the dusty reaches out of Sirte, a convoy flees a battlefield. A NATO aircraft fires and strikes the cars. The wounded struggle to escape. Armed trucks, with armed fighters, rush to the scene. They find the injured, and among them is the most significant prize: a bloodied Muammar Qaddafi stumbles, is captured, and then is thrown amongst the fighters. One can imagine their exhilaration. A cell-phone traces the events of the next few minutes. A badly injured Qaddafi is pushed around, thrown on a car, and then the video gets blurry. The next images are of a dead Qaddafi. He has a bullet hole on the side of his head. These images go onto youtube almost instantly. They are on television, and in the newspapers. It will be impossible not to see them. The Third Geneva Convention (article 13): ?Prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity.? The Fourth Geneva Convention (article 27): ?Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honor, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.? One of the important ideological elements during the early days of the war in Libya was the framing of the arrest warrant for Qaddafi and his clique by the International Criminal Court?s selectively zealous chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo. It was enough to have press reports of excessive violence for Moreno Ocampo and Ban Ki-Moon to use the language of genocide; no independent, forensic evaluation of the evidence was necessary. [Actually, independent evaluation was soon forthcoming from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, decisively debunking Ocampo?s charges. AC/JSC.] NATO sanctimoniously said that it would help the ICC prosecute the warrant (this despite the fact that the United States, NATO?s powerhouse, is not a member of the ICC). This remark was echoed by the National Transitional Council, NATO?s? political instrument in Benghazi. Humanitarian intervention was justified on the basis of potential or alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions. The intervention?s finale is? a violation of those very Conventions. It would? have been inconvenient to see Qaddafi in open court. He had long abandoned his revolutionary heritage (1969-1988), and had given himself over to the U. S.-led War on Terror at least since 2003 (but in fact since the late 1990s). Qaddafi?s prisons had been an important torture center in the archipelago of black sites utilized by the CIA, European intelligence and the Egyptian security state. What stories Qaddafi might have told if he were allowed to speak in open court? What stories Saddam Hussein might have told had he too been allowed to speak in an open court? As it happens, Hussein at least entered a courtroom, even as it was more kangaroo than judicial. No such courtroom for Qaddafi. As Naeem Mohaiemen put it, ?Dead men tell no tales. They cannot stand trial. They cannot name the people who helped them stay in power. All secrets die with them. Qaddafi is dead. As the euphoria dies down, it might be important to recall that we are dealing with at least two Qaddafis. The first Qaddafi overthrew a lazy and corrupt monarchy in 1969, and proceeded to transform Libya along a fairly straightforward national development path. There were idiosyncrasies, such as Qaddafi?s ideas about democracy that never really produced institutions of any value. Qaddafi had the unique ability to centralize power in the name of de-centralization. Nevertheless, in the national liberation Qaddafi certainly turned over large sections of the national surplus to improve the well-being of the Libyan people. It is because of two decades of such policies that the Libyan people entered the 21st century with high human development indicators. Oil helped, but there are oil nations (such as Nigeria) where the people languish in terms of their access to social goods and to social development. By 1988, the first Qaddafi morphed into the second Qaddafi, who set aside his anti-imperialism for collaboration with imperialism, and who dismissed the national development path for neo-liberal privatization (I tell this story in Arab Spring, Libyan Winter, which will be published by AK Press in the Spring of 2012). This second Qaddafi squandered the pursuit of well-being, and so took away the one aspect of his governance that the people supported. From the 1990s onward, Qaddafi?s regime offered the masses the illusion of social wealth and the illusion of democracy. They wanted more, and that is the reason for the long process of unrest that begins in the early 1990s (alongside the Algerian Civil War), comes to a head in 1995-96 and then again in 2006. It has been a long slog for the various rebellious elements to find themselves. The new leadership of Tripoli was incubated inside the Qaddafi regime. His son, Saif al-Islam was the chief neoliberal reformer, and he surrounded himself with people who wanted to turn Libya into a larger Dubai. They went to work around 2006, but were disillusioned by the rate of progress, and many (including Mahmud Jibril, the current Prime Minister) had threatened to resign on several occasions. When an insurengy began in Benghazi, this clique hastened to join them, and by March had taken hold of the leadership of the rebellion. It remains in their hands. What is being celebrated on the streets of Benghazi, Tripoli and the other cities? Certainly there is jubilation at the removal from power of the Qaddafi of 1988-2011. It is in the interests of NATO and Jibril?s clique to ensure that in this auto-da-f? the national liberation anti-imperialist of 1969-1988 is liquidated, and that the neoliberal era is forgotten, to be reborn anew as if not tried before. That is going to be the trick: to navigate between the joy of large sections of the population who want to have a say in their society (which Qaddafi blocked, and Jibril would like to canalize) and a small section that wants to pursue the neoliberal agenda (which Qaddafi tried to facilitate but could not do so over the objections of his ?men of the tent?). The new Libya will be born in the gap between the two interpretations. The manner of Qaddafi?s death is a synecdoche for the entire war. NATO?s bombs stopped the convoy, and without them Qaddafi would probably have fled to his next redoubt. The rebellion might have succeeded without NATO. But with NATO, certain political options had to be foreclosed; NATO?s member states are in line now to claim their reward. However, they are too polite in a liberal European way to actually state their claim publically in a quid-pro-quo fashion. Hence, they say things like: this is a Libyan war, and that Libya must decide what it must do. This is properly the space into which those sections in the new Libyan power structure that still value sovereignty must assert themselves. The window for that assertion is going to close soon, as the deals get inked that lock Libya?s resources and autonomy into the agenda of the NATO states. VIJAY PRASHAD?is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, CT His most recent book,?The Darker Nations: A People?s History of the Third World,?won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize for 2009. The Swedish and French editions are just out. He can be reached at:[email protected] Author Shahidul AlamPosted on October 23, 2011 Categories Capitalism, Colonialism, Democracy, Elections, Genocide, Global Issues, Governance, Human rights, Imperialism, Killings, Law, Media issues, Oil, politics, security, Terrorism, WorldTags Extra Judicial Killings, Gaddafi, Libya, Military, NATO, Oil, Qaddafi1 Comment on Dead men tell no tales Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh Amnesty International Report. Bangladesh-Crimes Unseen Aug 2011 ” href=”http://www.amnesty.org/sites/impact.amnesty.org/files/bangladesh-fakir-560.jpg”> Bangladeshi journalist Masum Fakir was arrested and tortured by the RAB?? Masum Fakir The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings, Amnesty International said today in a new report. Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh also documents how the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) justify these killings as accidental or as a result of officers acting in self-defence, although in reality many victims are killed following their arrest. ?Hardly a week goes by in Bangladesh without someone being shot by RAB with the authorities saying they were killed or injured in ?crossfire? or a ?gun-fight?. However the authorities choose to describe such incidents, the fact remains that they are suspected unlawful killings,? said Abbas Faiz, Amnesty International?s Bangladesh Researcher. The RAB has been implicated in the killing of at least 700 people since its inception in 2004. Any investigations that have been carried out into those killed have either been handled by RAB or by a government-appointed judicial body but the details of their methodology or findings have remained secret. They have never resulted in judicial prosecution. RAB has consistently denied responsibility for unlawful killings and the authorities have accepted RAB claims. ?It is appalling that virtually all alleged instances of illegal RAB killings have gone unchallenged or unpunished. There can be no justice if the force is the chief investigator of its own wrong-doings. Such investigations cannot be impartial. There is nothing to stop the RAB from destroying the evidence and engineering the outcome,? said Abbas Faiz. Former detainees also told Amnesty International how they were routinely tortured in custody, suffering beatings, food and sleep deprivation, and electric shocks. At least 200 alleged RAB killings have occurred since January 2009 when the current Awami League government came to power, despite the Prime Minister?s pledge to end extrajudicial executions and claims by the authorities that no extrajudicial executions were carried out in the country in this period. In addition, at least 30 people have been killed in other police operations since early 2010, with the police also portraying them as deaths in ?shoot-outs? or ?gun-fights?. ?By failing to take proper judicial action against RAB, successive Bangladeshi governments have effectively endorsed the force?s claims and conduct and given it carte blanche to act with impunity. All we have seen from the current government are broken promises or worse, outright denial,? said Abbas Faiz. In many cases the investigations blamed the victims, calling them criminals and portraying their deaths as justified even though available public evidence refuted that. ?The Bangladesh authorities must act now and take concrete steps to protect people from the alleged unlawful killings by their security forces .The government must ensure independent and impartial investigations into all suspected cases of extrajudicial executions and bring those responsible to justice.? Bangladesh?s police and RAB continue to receive a wide range of military and police equipment from overseas, including from Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and USA. In addition, diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Dhaka, obtained and released by Wikileaks in December 2010 alleged that UK police had been training RAB officers. Amnesty International calls upon these countries to refrain from supplying arms to Bangladesh that will be used by RAB and other security forces to commit extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations. Any country that knowingly sends arms or other supplies to equip a force which systematically violates human rights may itself bear some responsibility for those violations. RAB was created in March 2004, to much public acclaim, as the government?s response to a breakdown in law and order, particularly in western and central Bangladesh. In Rajshahi, Khulna and Dhaka districts, armed criminal groups or powerful mercenary gangs colluded with local politicians to run smuggling rings or extort money from local people. Within months of its creation, RAB?s operations were characterized by a pattern of killings portrayed by the authorities as ?deaths in crossfire?, many of which had the hallmarks of extrajudicial executions. They usually occurred in deserted locations after a suspect?s arrest. In some cases, there were witnesses to the arrests, but RAB authorities maintained that victims had been killed by ?crossfire?, or in ?shoot-outs? or ?gunfights?. Bangladesh?s two main political parties ? the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League ? have shown no commitment to limiting the powers of RAB. In the first couple of months of coming to office, the Prime Minister spoke of a ?zero tolerance? policy toward extrajudicial executions. Other government authorities repeated her pledge. These hopes were dashed in late 2009 when the authorities, including the Home Minister, began to claim that there were no extrajudicial executions in the country. An exhibition on extra judicial killings by Shahidul Alam Guardian report on torture by MI5 in collaboration with RAB Rahnuma Ahmed’s column on the shooting of Limon Hossain by RAB Amensty’s Abbas Faiz on RAB impunity Rahnuma Ahmed’s column on militarisation and the women’s movement Rahnuma Ahmed’s column on the ‘death squad’ Guardian article on ‘death squad’ being trained by UK Government Guardian claim of Briton being tortured in Bangladesh Representing “Crossfire”: Politics, Art and Photography Author Shahidul AlamPosted on August 25, 2011 Categories Bangladesh, Crossfire, culture, Governance, Human rights, Photography, Photojournalism, politics, security, Shahidul Alam, South Asia, TerrorismTags amnesty international, crossfire, Extra Judicial Killings, Governance, murder, Photography, RAB, Rapid Action Battalion, Shahidul AlamLeave a comment on Crimes unseen: Extrajudicial executions in Bangladesh Attack on "Solidarity for Limon" rally The regular weekly “Solidarity for Limon” rally had been steadily attracting bigger crowds, despite the monsoon rains. The gathering this Friday the 24th June 2011 was especially large. The street plays were popular and since this was not an event aligned to either of the main political parties, it attracted ordinary people who came to express solidarity, or merely to enjoy the performance. This week’s performance, a drama called Khekshial (Jackal), performed by Aranyak Natyadal in front of the National Museum at around 4:30pm, was however disrupted when two men burst through the surrounding crowd and began wrecking the props. Screengrab from video: 9 mins 0 secs? Screengrab from video: 9 mins 06 secs Attack visible from 8 mins 58 secs onwards. The audience, intially slow to react, as they thought it was part of the play, soon went after the men, but they disappeared into the crowd. Later a young man called Al-Amin was caught by the crowd and accused of being one of the attackers. The man was taken away by Shahbag police, who arrived sometime after the event. The police are reported to have released Al-Amin as he was an innocent by-stander. The organisers have pledged to continue their protests until the government withdraw the false cases against Limon Hossein and provide adequate compensation for the loss of his leg. `Attack on demo for Limon,’ bdnews24 Fri, Jun 24th, 2011 8:23 pm BdST http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=199289&cid=2 and, `Goons attack demo for Limon,’ New Age, 25/06/2011 00:42:00 http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/frontpage/23806.html Author Shahidul AlamPosted on June 25, 2011 Categories 1971, Bangladesh, Crossfire, culture, Governance, Resistance, South AsiaTags Arts, culture, Extra Judicial Killings, Governance, justice, performing arts, politics, protest, RAB, Rapid Action Battalion, resistance, torture2 Comments on Attack on "Solidarity for Limon" rally Meeting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina By Abbas Faiz ? South Asia researcher for Amnesty International It was a welcome opportunity to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her official visit to the UK. Three of us, Lord Eric Avebury of the UK House of Lords, Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch and I met the Prime Minister on 30 January at her hotel suite in London. Bangladesh Foreign Minister, Dr Dipu Moni and the Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, Dr Sayeedur Rahman Khan were also present at the meeting. We began with a discussion on the war crimes trials, restrictions on human rights groups visiting Chittagong Hill Tracts, and the continued delay in implementing the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord (CHT) that was signed in 1997 during Sheikh Hasina?s previous tenure as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said she was committed to implementing the CHT Accord and had set up a committee to advise her on how to implement it. The Foreign Minister said the government was aware of the concerns the International Bar Association had raised about the law under which war crimes will be tried. She said the government had sought the opinion of legal experts on those concerns and that the amended law incorporates their advice. She said the process is to heal wounds, and the government is looking at all issues in relation to the trials, and the rule of law would be followed. The law denies, among other things, the right to challenge the jurisdiction of the Tribunal and the right to the possibility of bail but it was not clear if the government would move to amend the law. I told the Prime Minister that Amnesty International welcomes the government?s move to make the National Human Rights Commission permanent and asked for her assurances that it would remain independent and well resourced. Also, the government?s move to try Bangladesh Rifle mutineers in civilian courts, as against courts martial, was welcome. I expressed concern that the government?s move to address some of the human rights concerns appear to favour only members of her own party, the Awami League. There is a long, unwelcome legacy in Bangladesh for governments to go soft on the criminal activities of members of their own party and harsh on the opposition. I asked why the only known cases of the government pardoning death penalty convicts were 20 convicts, 19 of whom were members of the governing Awami League. I also expressed concern about the activities of the Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL), the student wing of the Awami League, and the serious allegations of human rights abuses by this grouping, which have gone unpunished. The Foreign Minister said the deaths sentences had been politically motivated and for that reason the prisoners have been pardoned. I was dismayed as I had hoped to hear a commitment to pardoning more death penalty convicts and the exercise of utmost impartiality in choosing who to pardon. The Prime Minister said she had taken action against the BCL members. Some have been arrested for committing crimes and some have been expelled from the Awami League. I explained that torture continues to be widespread and asked the Prime Minister if her government would consider implementing the 2003 Supreme Court ruling that provides guidelines for torture free investigation of suspects. This question remained unanswered. I referred to statements the Prime Minister had made before and after the 2008 elections that extrajudicial executions would end. Yet, they continue and nothing seems to be done to stop them. The Prime Minister said extrajudicial executions have been happening since 2004 and she has been very vocal on the issue from that time. She said they could not stop overnight. She said all incidents are investigated, and if any officer is found to have committed a crime ?immediately we take action against it?. I agree that extrajudicial executions cannot stop overnight, but work to stop them can begin straight away. While the Prime Minister?s comments generate the hope that the government might be prepared to address the issue, the Home Minister?s comments last week that extrajudicial executions were not happening undermines that hope. Author Shahidul AlamPosted on February 4, 2011 Categories Bangladesh, Governance, Human rights, politics, South AsiaTags Death, disappearance, Extra Judicial Killings, judiciary, LawLeave a comment on Meeting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government Rapid Action Battalion, accused of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, received training from UK officers, cables reveal By Fariha Karim and Ian Cobain guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 December 2010 21.30 GMT The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a “government death squad”, leaked US embassy cables have revealed. Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have received training in 'investigative interviewing techniques'. Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), which has been held responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial killings in recent years and is said to routinely use torture, have received British training in “investigative interviewing techniques” and “rules of engagement”. Details of the training were revealed in a number of cables, released by WikiLeaks, which address the counter-terrorism objectives of the US and UK governments in Bangladesh. One cable makes clear that the US would not offer any assistance other than human rights training to the RAB ? and that it would be illegal under US law to do so ? because its members commit gross human rights violations with impunity. Since the RAB was established six years ago, it is estimated by some human rights activists to have been responsible for more than 1,000 extra-judicial killings, described euphemistically as “crossfire” deaths. In September last year the director general of the RAB said his men had killed 577 people in “crossfire”. In March this year he updated the figure, saying they had killed 622 people. The RAB’s use of torture has also been exhaustively documented by human rights organisations. In addition, officers from the paramilitary force are alleged to have been involved in kidnap and extortion, and are frequently accused of taking large bribes in return for carrying out crossfire killings. However, the cables reveal that both the British and the Americans, in their determination to strengthen counter-terrorism operations in Bangladesh, are in favour of bolstering the force, arguing that the “RAB enjoys a great deal of respect and admiration from a population scarred by decreasing law and order over the last decade”. In one cable, the US ambassador to Dhaka, James Moriarty, expresses the view that the RAB is the “enforcement organisation best positioned to one day become a Bangladeshi version of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation”. In another cable, Moriarty quotes British officials as saying they have been “training RAB for 18 months in areas such as investigative interviewing techniques and rules of engagement”. Asked about the training assistance for the RAB, the Foreign Office said the UK government “provides a range of human rights assistance” in the country. However, the RAB’s head of training, Mejbah Uddin, told the Guardian that he was unaware of any human rights training since he was appointed last summer. The cables make clear that British training for RAB officers began three years ago under the last Labour government. However, RAB officials confirmed independently of the cables that they had taken part in a series of courses and workshops as recently as October, five months after the formation of the coalition government. Asked whether ministers had approved the training programme, the Foreign Office said only that William Hague, the foreign secretary, and other ministers, had been briefed on counter-terrorism spending. Continue reading “WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government” Author Shahidul AlamPosted on December 22, 2010 Categories Bangladesh, Governance, Human rights, security, Terrorism, war on terrorTags Extra Judicial Killings, Human rights, Imperialism, MI6, Pathshala, RAB, Rapid Action Battalion, torture, UK, USA2 Comments on WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government … for the missing From Groundviews By Gypsy Bohemia A solitary lamp perched on a desk top lights a room. A man scribbles feverishly on paper, hunched over the light as if he?s jealously guarding what little he has. His desk is cluttered with cartoons and drawings ? some of a President, others of two small children. He holds down his paper with one hand and writes with the other, so violently that other loose papers and articles shuffle with his movements. He is breathing hard, as if he?s run to his desk from sleep, taken by wild inspiration. He has forgotten to switch on the fan, and the heat of that December night hangs in the air, thickening like spoiling milk. Small explosions of sweat begin to burst from the pores of his forehead, drip darkly onto his fast-moving hand, and trickle onto the paper, blotting the ink. This frustrates him but he doesn?t stop to soak up the liquid, just writes on, faster. His wife lies in bed in the next room. She is awake, some inexplicable worry vaulting the sleep away from her eyes whenever it threatens to close them. She watches the empty space next to her, willing her husband to come back to bed but knows he won?t. She wonders what he felt the need to write about in the middle of the night, leaping out of bed as if possessed. She was afraid he?d knock something over in the dark and wake the children, but that walk from bedroom to desk is so familiar that he doesn?t. It is only when he feels that familiar cramping in his fingers that he pauses. He looks around the room, fighting to make out familiar shapes in the blackness outside his little circle of light. His house is modest and unadorned for the most part ? the only exceptions are the sketches of his children that he has been drawing since they were born. Some have been framed; others lie strewn around the house ? on bits of furniture, stuffed carelessly into vases by the children, folded within the pockets of well-worn wallets, dog-eared between the pages of story books. He wiggles his fingers to give them a stretch and picks up one of the drawings on his desk. His little boy is growing up quickly and sometimes he feels like he?s missing it, so caught up is he in his work. Sometimes he sees print in his sleep. Sometimes he finds himself talking to his little ones about his work and has to stop mid-sentence, realizing they don?t understand most of what he?s saying. He shoots a guilty glance in the direction of his bedroom, knowing he woke his wife in his mad midnight rush to get to his desk. She worries for him, he knows. He doesn?t take enough time to relieve her of those worries, to comfort her. He resolves to, as soon as he finishes this article. After this brief pause, he goes back to his article, crossing and re-crossing the lines, scribbling out careless mistakes, cursing his own pen which writes far slower than the thoughts run in his head. He longs for the computer at his office but knows it is too late to go there now and besides, to leave now would be to disrupt the flow of his writing. The flow in tonight?s case is a torrential storm of words, figures and damning evidence. His wife gives up a losing battle and comes to the doorway of the bedroom, which is always open ? just in case. She leans against the frame, appreciating the cool wood against her hot skin, and watches her husband as he works. She knows every telltale movement of his obsessive inspiration so well. Watching him from behind, he looks the same as he did when they first married. He would stop every now and then to shuffle through printed sheets of information and look up to stare unseeingly at some point on the wall, piecing parts of it together in his head. His back would periodically straighten and then fall into that characteristic hunch every time he was struck by something new that he simply had to write down. Even through the dull ache of worry in her stomach, she can?t help but smile. She knows the value of what he does, but it isn?t the easiest thing to live with. The warnings, the childrens? questions, her own engulfing fear. When they came with ropes and iron rods to take him away she expected that fear to kill her on the spot. It stuck in her throat and seemed to expand outwards, threatening to burst vocal chords already strained with soundless screams. There was an awful moment before he was dragged away, when she looked from her husband?s eyes, smoldering with helpless anger, to the terrified ones of her children. Seconds later, she caught sight of her own in a mirror and saw only naked panic. 4 pairs of eyes, a thousand different emotions. Darting urgently from one to the other, trying to comprehend, trying to rebel, trying to say goodbye. Moments later, he was gone and they were alone. When he came back, she couldn?t believe it. She wildly kissed each purpling eye, each ugly bruise and held him tightly against her, not caring even as he cried out in pain when her arms circled sensitive, injured skin. She tried to make him swear never to put himself in danger again. For her. For their children. He refused. The truth is more important, he kept insisting, and his eyes suddenly became distant and withdrawn and she knew he was already thinking of something to write. At that moment she felt a mixture of searing frustration and aching love so strong, she almost choked. Today, as she watches him write, she feels a similar emotion. She looks down the hall to her children?s shared room, listening in the stillness for any indication that they?re awake. Her little girl has been having nightmares of late. She never says what they?re about, but insists on crawling into bed with them for the rest of the night. She only falls asleep when her head is nestled safely against her father?s chest. He?s been writing so hard and so long, he doesn?t notice she is standing behind him. Suddenly though, in a rare lapse of concentration, he feels the pressure of her stare on his back and the weight of her worry cloaking his skin ? another layer of heat on an already hot night. He turns around and looks for her in the darkness, finding her barely visible in the shadows of their bedroom doorway. ?Come to bed? she says quietly and her eyes linger on him for a moment or two before she turns to go back inside. He looks at his unfinished article for a moment, hesitating. Then he wonders how many times he will get to hold her after this article comes out. He lives under no illusions ? they came before. They will come again. He puts down his pen as if putting down a heavy weight. The truth can wait for a few hours, he thinks. The truth can wait until morning. He gets up, switches off the lamp, and as the room dissolves into darkness around him, walks that familiar path back to bed. Authors note: Journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda went missing on the 24th of December, days after writing several critical articles regarding election malpractices by the Government. He remains missing to this day. Like him, hordes of journalists have been arrested, abducted, jailed, tortured and murdered for reporting the truth and expressing dissenting views. Some have been returned to their families. Others, like Ekaneligoda, have simply vanished without a trace, leaving their families with the horror of not knowing whether to hope or grieve. These attacks are not simply hits against the media. They are a direct violation of our rights: the right to know the truth of what is out there, the right to ask questions of those who should answer to us, and the right to simply have a different point of view. For every voice that is silenced, more must shoulder their burden, wear their courage and take their place to end this cycle of insidious violence. This is my tribute, for The Missing. Author Shahidul AlamPosted on March 12, 2010 Categories Human rights, media, Media issues, PeopleTags creative writing, Extra Judicial Killings, Journalism, media, Sri LankaLeave a comment on … for the missing RAB's Photo Sessions and the Visual Construction of Criminality The title of my column is somewhat misleading, I think it’s best to state that right away. Intrigued by the press briefings that RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) offices hold every so often where `criminals’ are displayed alongwith crime artefacts laid out on long rows of tables?guns, machettes, grenade-making equipment, stolen cash?as evidence of their criminality, images which are served up on the news of all private TV channels, which are printed a day later in the newspapers, I had thought of conducting research on these photo op sessions. I had wanted to examine these as `sites’ that are organised and arranged by the organs of the state, by the functionaries of the state, ones that construct criminality through visual means, i.e., still photos and video recordings of criminals, their tools, the loot. RAB, for the few who may not know, falls under the jurisdiction of the ministry of home affairs, its members are seconded to the battalion from the army, navy, air force and police, a measure which, according to its critics, eases in the carry-over of its culture of gross abuses and impunity to other parts of the security forces. RAB Photo Session My interest in RAB and its activities, as many of my readers probably know, is not new. It re-surfaced recently, however, because of several incidents which gave rise to thoughts, ones that not only refused to go away but dug deep into the soil and grew shoots. It surfaced as I poured water over a waterproof camera that Shahidul Alam, my partner, held underneath. He was working on re-creating images of water-boarding for his upcoming photo exhibition on torture. I concentrated on carrying out his instructions, on not thinking about how I would have felt if an actual head had been in the bucket. It surfaced languidly as I heard Nurul? Kabir ask third year students of photography?he is currently teaching a course on Media and Politics at Pathshala?to reflect on how the Bangladeshi media participates in non-violent means of ruling. On how it seeks and gains people’s consent to ideas which work against their interests. Drawing instances from how the media had significantly contributed to making Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, women with no political experience, into `national’ leaders, on how intellectuals, writers and journalists gratuitously offer the view that the nation’s problems would be solved if only the two women would meet and talk to each other, Kabir moved on to a discussion of ideological state apparatuses (the ISA’s, as those familiar with the French Marxist theorist Louis Althusser’s ideas, know). While listening to him, I thought of RAB’s crossfire deaths and how it had simultaneously constructed, and cashed in on an idea of meting out instant justice in a situation of deteriorating law-and-order and a failing criminal justice system, a situation for which the government, of course, was ultimately responsible. I then thought of how it was increasingly becoming difficult for crossfire deaths to garner public support, even of people who supported the government on all other counts. But what about RAB’s press briefings? What did they construct, and what did we consume by watching images of these on television, or through seeing printed pictures? Mug shots, or photographic portraits of arrested people, taken by police photographers at the police station is not something that is practised in Bangladesh. The genre of photography and framing that has developed since RAB (inaugurated in March 2004) began its press briefings seems unique to Bangladesh, and to its visual history. Through my network of photographer friends I got hold of about sixty photographs, and sat looking through these, scribbling notes while I did: RAB officials conducting security searches on buses. Squad dogs snarling at each other. A pair of startled eyes of a young man, the alleged criminal, in front of whom lay a table full of machettes. He seemed to have been hauled up and planted in front of the table. Three young men, guarded on either side by two RAB officials, but although they seemed to be in the middle of a forest, strangely enough, they had A-4 sheets with their names, computer-composed and printed, hanging on their shirt fronts. I then turned to dozens of photographs of press briefing sessions. These invariably, with one or two slight variations, had `criminals’ standing behind a long table, covered with a white table cloth, a banner behind announcing the number of the battalion (twelve in all), the alleged criminal or criminals guarded by armed RAB members on either side, criminal artefacts in front. The names of those caught, `Mohd Rafiqul Islam, illegal woman trafficker,’ a meticulous description of what was recovered, `125 bhori gold ornaments,’ `ten thousand US dollars,’ often neatly affixed. To the person. To the object. Reminiscent of colonial inventories. I spoke to a photographer who has covered nearly a hundred RAB events in the last 4 years. He spoke to me on condition of anonymity. So what happens, I asked. Well, the press, from the channels, from the dailies, we all go at the appointed time. We go to a large room, a hall room. There are chairs for us. It takes about half an hour, the criminals are brought, we are briefed on the crime, what happened, who was caught, with what. We take photographs. I prodded and he said, well, what the RAB official says, and what the alleged criminal says seem to be based on the same script. Does anything ever untoward happen? Have you seen any such thing happen? Oh no, he replied. It’s all very neat, very well-organised. No ruffles, none whatsoever. So, why do they do it? Why do they go to the trouble? I think because they get free publicity. I wondered to myself whether it had made crime reporters and investigative journalists lazy. So, you mean, it’s a package? Yes, his eyes lit up. It’s all pre-packaged, you get everything all at once. Sometimes, he said, I think, it is arranged to divert attention. Whose? Well, the media’s, and thereby that of the public. For instance? If you remember the whole Yaba thing, when it blew up, most of those who were paraded before us were Yaba addicts, there was such a big circus over it but none of the really big fish were caught. So, what makes you think it’s stage-managed? Well, two things. If we see something happening on the street, and RAB is there, in action, and we go up to take photographs, they behave very badly. They’ll snarl and say, `Do you have any permission?’ They beat up a Jugantor photographer once. But then the next thing you know, they’ll organise this elaborate press briefing at their offices and parade these so-called criminals with ten-or-so Phensedyl bottles laid out on the table. And they also offer us tea, snacks. We don’t want their nasta, we want to work, I want to take photographs because I think I am accountable to the public. As he spoke I thought to myself, surely, these staged photo ops violate constitutional rights? What does one call them, a sort of media trial, held in what, RAB’s court? Aloud, I asked, what strikes you as most odd about these sessions? Well, when they put on their sunglasses, I mean we are inside the building, inside a room, there’s no sunlight but these guys put on their dark glasses just before we start taking photos. I return to examining the photographs. There is one set missing, I think. A set that none of us will probably ever get to see. Those that RAB officials are said to have taken of New Age’s crime reporter F Masum after they beat him up outside his house for failing to open the gate with alacrity. According to him, they later dragged him into his bedroom, placed six Phensedyl bottles in his pillow case, stood him beside it. The camera clicked. First published in New Age on Monday 16th November 2009. High Court orders government to explain killings. Author Shahidul AlamPosted on November 16, 2009 Categories Bangladesh, GovernanceTags contempt of court, criminal, Death, Extra Judicial Killings, impunity, Law, media, media trial, Photography, RAB, Rahnuma Ahmed, torture4 Comments on RAB's Photo Sessions and the Visual Construction of Criminality	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6053703427314758, "wiki_prob": 0.6053703427314758, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line659900"}
Kogi Region By John Kehinde Alao, James Onyemah Aromeh, and Daniel Egwu John Kehinde Alao James Onyemah Aromeh Daniel Egwu First Published: December 5, 2020 Authored By John Kehinde Alao Authored By James Onyemah Aromeh From West-Central Africa Division Church Administrative Unit SDA Yearbook Current Statistics Kogi Region is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nigeria. It was organized in 2013 and covers Kogi State in Nigeria. Kohi State is part of Western Nigeria Union Conference in the West-Central Africa Division of the Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria. Statistics (June 30, 2019): Churches, 7; membership, 675; population, 4,788,040.1 The first Seventh-day Adventist church in Kogi State began at Isanlu in 1933, and it was started by Elisha Omole, a native lay Adventist worker, along with some members from Ilesha living in the community.2 The church was later visited by a medical team from Ife hospital, which further enhanced the work in the community. In 2003 Pastor Joseph Adebomi was the pastor of the church. The growth rate of the church in Isanlu has been very small.3 Establishment of Adventist Churches Between 1975-1990 The church began in Mopa in 1977, the hometown of David Abejide Babaagba after his return from the SDA hospital, Ile Ife, after 20 years of service there. He engaged in house to house ministration without any converts for a long time except his children. In 1982 another branch was opened in Ajaokuta in the residence of Elder J. C. Nwankwo (popularly known as prison evangelist) along with Duro Afolabi and late Chidi Joseph. The Ajaokuta church was organized on December 1, 1985, by Pastor D. O. Babalola (the then president of West Nigeria Mission). The first district pastor was Pastor C. A. Ojulari. The Okene church was the first church to be organized in Kogi Region, and it was organized on September 30, 2006, by Pastor Onaolapo Ajibade (the then president of the West Nigeria Conference). The church had begun in 1989 with Elder Nwadike Raymond as an Adventist and a businessman who had settled there.4 Establishment of Churches Between 1991-2011 The evangelistic outreach at Idah that took place from April 28-June 1, 1991, brought the message to Igala land. Pastor James Aromeh was the anchor man while Pastor Henry Anukam was the speaker. It was sponsored by Elder Solomon A. Nwaejike, who also sponsored the first evangelistic outreach in Ibaji land, which was held at Nwajala December 24, 1991-January 6, 1992. Pastor Dele Adelakin led out. In a ceremony held at Idah on May 23, 1992, the entire Igala land was handed over by the East Nigeria Conference president, Pastor J. O. Achilihu to Pastor J. A. Ola, president, West Nigeria Conference. Lokoja church started in January, 1995, with the late Ezekiel Agbara as the leader. Its church building was completed in June 1999. Between 1992 and 1999, more than fifteen other branches were opened in Ibaji land (Lowland) with the Global Mission and efforts of some individuals.5 In a Global Mission project, the West Nigeria Conference deployed about fifty trained pioneers to Ibaji land for a groundbreaking program in October 2001. This was followed with reaping efforts in 42 centers in January/February 2002. Forty-two companies were thus established at the end of the reaping campaigns. Eventually a total of twenty-three lamb shelters were erected for twenty-three of these companies. The financial assistance that made this gigantic Global Mission effort possible came through the Three Angels Broadcasting Network–specifically through its director for Africa, Elder Own Troy. Churches in Upland Ibaji include Felele Company, started in 2003, Kabba Company, also started in 2003, Obangede Company, started in 2004, and Anyigba Company, started in 2007/2008.6 All these led to further increases in membership. Developments Between 2012-2019 In the Kogi Region was the North Western Nigeria Conference; the Kogi Region was an attached field to the union. On January 28, 2012, at Odogwu, Ibaji, Kogi Region was inaugurated by Pastor Oyeleke Owolabi (the union president), with the executive committee of the West Nigeria Conference in attendance. Pastor Kehinde Alao was dedicated as the administrator and Pastor Nurudeen Agbabiaka as the secretary-treasurer.7 Pastor Agbabiaka was later replaced by Mr. Samson Babatunde Okunlola. By the grace of God as the gospel spread further, other worship centers were established. These included Ogaminana in April 2012 with Elder Harisson Offosu as leader, Obajana in August 2012 with Daniel Koko as global mission pioneer in charge, Revini on May 27, 2012, with John Onubi as the global mission pioneer in charge. Kabba Junction (Zariagi) church started in October 2013 with the relocation of the family of Mr. Remah Emmanuel (after a long time as a member at Lokoja during which time he built Lokoja church as a bricklayer). By April 2014, Pastor John Onubi was deployed to Sheria for groundbreaking exercises. This was followed by three weeks of an evangelistic program in the community sponsored and conducted by the Alive Nigeria team.8 District Inauguration: Okene district was created out of Ajaokuta district in January 2013 and was officially inaugurated on April 20, 2013, by Pastor Kehinde Alao (Kogi Mission administrator). Pastor Augustine Ojomah was the first district pastor.9 Centenary Celebration: Kogi Region joined other fields in the union to celebrate the centenary anniversary of the church in the union on March 29, 2014. Pastor Oyeleke Owolabi led out in the program. All the union officers were in attendance, along with the ministerial secretary.10 Ordination of Ministers: Two of our outstanding ministers (Pastors Kolawole Adebayo and Micheal Ajide) were ordained into full ministry on May 30, 2015, at Lokoja. The union president and the union ministerial secretary were present.11 Church Organization and Dedication: With the completion of the Idah Church, the church was organized and dedicated on July 18, 2015. The region’s administrator (Pastor Kehinde Alao) led out in the service.12 First constituency: The first ever constituency meeting was held at Lokoja March 22-24, 2019. Pastor Augustine Confidence Ojomah served as the new administrator. Departmental directors appointed includes: Pastor Caleb Alu (evangelism, Global Mission and Sabbath School), Pastor Kola Adebayo (youth), Elder Daniel Egwu (legal adviser, AMO), Mrs. Rita Agene (AWM), Elder Bestman Philip (stewardship).13 President: John Kehinde K. Alao (2013-Present)14 Program of inauguration of Kogi Region, in the authors' private collection. Program of the organization of Okene Church, in the authors' private collection. Seventh- day Adventist Yearbook. Various years. https://www.adventistyearbook.org/. Western Nigeria Union Conference Minutes, May 30, 2015, Western Nigeria Union Conference archives, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. “Kogi Region,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (2020), accessed September 22, 2020, https://www.adventistyearbook.org/entity?EntityID=52363.↩ Interview with Mr. Amos Omole son of late Pa. Elisha Omole by Pastor Kola Adebayo January 20, 2014 at Isanlu↩ An interview with the Adana of Isanlu Land, Oba Ikubolaje, the Onisanlu of Isanlu by Pastor Kehinde Alao September 23, 2014.↩ Program of the organization of Okene Church, in the authors' private collection.↩ An Interview with Pastor James Aromeh by Pastor Kehinde Alao March 2012 at Idah.↩ An Interview with Mr. Davidi Gebi by Pastor Kehinde Alao on January 27, 2012 at Idah.↩ Program of inauguration of Kogi Region, in the authors' private collection.↩ Personal knowledge of Pastor Kehinde Alao as the Director of the Region.↩ Western Nigeria Union Conference Minutes, May 30, 2015, Western Nigeria Union Conference archives.↩ Personal Knowledge of Kehinde Alao.↩ “Kogi Region,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (2014-2020), accessed September 22, 2020, https://www.adventistyearbook.org/old-yearbooks.↩ Alao, John Kehinde, James Onyemah Aromeh, Daniel Egwu. "Kogi Region." Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. December 05, 2020. Accessed February 09, 2023. https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=6C2E. Alao, John Kehinde, James Onyemah Aromeh, Daniel Egwu. "Kogi Region." Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. December 05, 2020. Date of access February 09, 2023, https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=6C2E. Alao, John Kehinde, James Onyemah Aromeh, Daniel Egwu (2020, December 05). Kogi Region. Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. Retrieved February 09, 2023, https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=6C2E.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8816748261451721, "wiki_prob": 0.8816748261451721, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line18958"}
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Exploring the New Era of Wireless Tech Innovation Wireless communications technology applications will gain new momentum in 2022. Looking ahead, wireless device connectivity innovations such as Wi-Fi 6 and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology adoption will accelerate new growth. According to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research, next year Wi-Fi 6 will reach over 1.5 billion annual chipset shipments, while 6 GHz enabled Wi-Fi 6E chipsets are forecasted to nearly triple. Meanwhile, Ultra-Wideband devices are expected to reach nearly half-a-billion units as adoption increases within smartphones, wearables, speakers, personal trackers, and RTLS applications. Wireless Innovation Market Development "The wireless connectivity landscape continues to evolve thanks to the emergence of new technologies, enhancements to established technologies, and continued innovation and competition across the chipset, module and device ecosystems," said Andrew Zignani, research director at ABI Research. 2022 will be a critical year for wireless innovation as the rollout of Wi-Fi 6 rapidly accelerates well beyond flagship Wi-Fi devices, more and more devices support the 6 GHz band via Wi-Fi 6E, and UWB is embedded within increasing numbers of mainstream consumer devices. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi 6 adoption grew across the board in 2021. High-volume smartphone devices from leading vendors have all adopted the technology. This is expected to continue into 2022, while the growing availability of mobile Wi-Fi 6E chipsets and platforms from leading semiconductor vendors will accelerate the transition to 6 GHz capable devices. The PC market is also rapidly transitioning toward Wi-Fi 6 and 6E technology. Intel launched its Wi-Fi 6 solution as a configuration option in 2019 and has been partly integrated into all its PC platforms since then. Hundreds of PC models from leading notebook vendors now support Wi-Fi 6 technology. In addition, PC connectivity chipset suppliers have all had Wi-Fi 6 design wins within notebooks over the last couple of years. Alongside this, Wi-Fi 6E is projected to see considerable growth within the notebook space throughout 2022 and beyond, following initial traction in 2021 and the development of new chipsets and strategic partnerships. Wi-Fi 6 is also seeing increased adoption across several home entertainment devices. In March 2020, MediaTek and Samsung partnered to introduce the first Wi-Fi 8K TV, while in April 2021, the two combined again to introduce the first Wi-Fi 6E 8K TV based on MediaTek’s MT7921AU chipset. ABI Research expects a greater ramp-up for Wi-Fi 6 in 2022 and beyond as new models support the technology. In addition, Wi-Fi 6 is beginning to ramp up within the media streaming adapter market. Apple’s latest Apple TV 4K model supports Wi-Fi 6 technology, as does Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max. Further traction for Wi-Fi 6 is expected over the next 12 months. Apple’s decision to deploy UWB technology in its smartphones has accelerated the adoption of this technology, as has the support from Samsung, Xiaomi, and Google within their new smartphones. Outlook for Wireless Device Applications Growth According to the ABI assessment, UWB will be incorporated in nearly one-quarter of all smartphones that will ship in 2022 as more models support the emerging wireless connectivity technology. "By 2026, ABI Research forecasts there will be over 7 billion Bluetooth, 5 billion Wi-Fi, and well over 1 billion UWB annual device shipments. Greater availability of IoT-centric Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E chipsets, combo ICs, and innovations in performance and power consumption will combine to help the market to scale to new heights," concludes Zignani. That said, I anticipate we'll see more vendors fully understand the timeline for the transition from legacy Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies towards Wi-Fi 6 and BLE in both consumer and IoT applications, and be able to effectively plan for the introduction of new chipsets and products accordingly.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5052117109298706, "wiki_prob": 0.4947882890701294, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1662735"}
D.O.D Links Up With Raphaella For Infectious Piano House Production: ‘Like You Do’ By Akshay Bhanawat – September 30, 2022 0 Following the success of tracks such as ‘Still Sleepless’ (feat. Carla Monroe), ‘Every Step’ and ‘All Mine’, DJ and producer D.O.D (Dan O’Donnell) returns to Armada Music with another contagious piano house record ‘Like You Do’. Written in tandem with London-based Raphaella (who most notably co-wrote and features on ‘One Night’ with MK and Sonny Fodera, and vocal produced Little Mix’s ‘Confetti’ album), Disciples co-founder Duvall and ‘Still Sleepless’ co-writer Laura Welsh, ‘Like You Do’ is a true coming together of British talent. Exploring reciprocated love, boundless passion and hearts entwined and set aflame, ‘Like You Do’ cements D.O.D and Raphaella’s spot among dance music’s rising stars. Marrying the catchy vocal with an infectious punchy piano sound, this track will have its listeners belting out the lyrics. “’Like You Do’ is pretty special to me”, D.O.D says. “I made the instrumental two days before my son was born in a moment of excitement, knowing what was going to happen in the days ahead. The chords are some of my favourite I’ve ever written, and Raphaella vibed off them straight away.” “The final vocal stemmed from hearing the sample ‘come on baby, show it all to me yeah’”, Raphaella adds. “I remember being at the studio in Brixton and immediately starting to freestyle what is now the hook melody. The odds were really against us that day; tube strikes meant it took three hours instead of thirty minutes to get down there to work on this, but it all worked out and ultimately felt as though it was meant to be!” D.O.D (Dan O’Donnell) has well and truly found the sweet spot between fun and fame after starting off his DJ career playing in local bars and clubs in his hometown of Bury in Manchester. He chalked up multiple #1s on Beatport and gathered well over a hundred million plays across the most popular streaming portals. Although much of his success on the live front happened overseas with spots at gargantuan festivals such as Tomorrowland, Ultra and Creamfields, he also cultivates a commendable list of UK events, clubs and festivals he’s played at, including Ministry of Sound, Cream and Warehouse Project. Trail blazing as one of the few female producers in the industry, Persian-British Raphaella has been one of dance music’s most sought-after artists for some time now. Through collaborations with emerging and heavyweight talents such as MK, Sonny Fodera, Little Mix, Rudimental, Wilkinson, and Armin van Buuren, her vocals and vocal production have graced numerous releases that gained support at BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra and KISS. Solo projects draw on Raphaella’s mixed heritage, introducing new timbres and textures to her UK alt-pop-electro setting through the experimental use of traditional Persian instruments and her obsession of synths. An aptitude for bringing this sound to life has been demonstrated across shows of both intimate and large-scale settings at venues such as The Roundhouse and BBC Maida Vale, to various UK festivals. Previous PostPrevious SOLA’s Spotify Playlist Takeover Next PostNextAndrew Bayer Teams Up With Kaleena Zanders On LGBTQ+ Anthem ‘Break The Rules’ two + = 5 lyrics https://lyrics.az/kevin-gates/-/drugs-remix.html lyrics https://lyrics.az/kevin-gates/-/trust-you.html lyrics https://lyrics.az/lil-lotus/-/wasting-your-time.html https://azlyrics.com.az/lyrics/george-shelley-soldier/ https://azlyrics.com.az/lyrics/gesetzlos-ep-18-karat-2017/	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9610358476638794, "wiki_prob": 0.9610358476638794, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1776259"}
Acassuso 5 - 0 Colegiales Stadium : Estadio República de Italia Argentina - Prim B Metro Overall W W D L D Home W L W W Away W D D L L Goals 1.5 1.75 1.33 Conceded 0.7 0.25 1 Both Teams to Score 10% 0% 17% Overall D L D W L Home D D L W L Away L W D W L Goals 2.1 2.6 1.6 Scored 1 1.2 0.8 Conceded 1.1 1.4 0.8 Acassuso - Last Matches 03/11/2017 San Telmo 0 : 1 Acassuso 27/10/2017 Acassuso 2 : 0 Comunicaciones 13/10/2017 Villa San Carlos 0 : 0 Acassuso 07/10/2017 Acassuso 0 : 1 UAI Urquiza 01/10/2017 Fénix 0 : 0 Acassuso 27/09/2017 Platense 2 : 0 Acassuso 16/09/2017 Acassuso 1 : 0 Sacachispas Colegiales - Last Matches 03/11/2017 Colegiales 3 : 3 Sacachispas 27/10/2017 Defensores de Belgrano 1 : 0 Colegiales 14/10/2017 Colegiales 0 : 0 Talleres Remedios 07/10/2017 Barracas Central 1 : 2 Colegiales 30/09/2017 Colegiales 0 : 1 Tristán Suárez 24/09/2017 Estudiantes Caseros 1 : 1 Colegiales 16/09/2017 Colegiales 2 : 0 San Miguel Acassuso is +17% better in terms of Form 1/Match Acassuso is +88% better in terms of Goal Scored Acassuso (0) UAI Urquiza (0) Sacachispas (1) (3) Colegiales (0) Defensores de Belgrano (2) Barracas Central (1) Estudiantes Caseros Acassuso is +57% better in terms of Goals Conceded San Telmo (0) Villa San Carlos (0) Fénix (0) Platense (2) (3) Sacachispas (0) Talleres Remedios (1) Tristán Suárez (0) San Miguel Both Teams are equal in terms of Expected Goals Both Teams are equal in terms of Expected Goals Against Acassuso is +44% better in terms of Forms 1st Half Match Corners are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team corners of Acassuso and Colegiales during the Argentina Prim B Metro 2017/2018 season. San Telmo (-1) Comunicaciones (-1) Fénix (10) (-1) Sacachispas (-1) Defensores de Belgrano (10) San Miguel 3.7 Cards / Match Match Yellow Cards are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team yellow cards of Acassuso and Colegiales during the Argentina Prim B Metro 2017/2018 season. Match Shots on target are calculated with the sum of the averages between the team shots on target of Acassuso and Colegiales during the Argentina Prim B Metro 2017/2018 season. (10) Talleres Remedios 09/09/2017 Acassuso 3 : 0 Talleres Remedios 15/09/2017 Almirante Brown 0 : 1 Colegiales 05/09/2017 Atlanta 1 : 0 Colegiales Talleres Remedios (3) (1) Almirante Brown (0) Atlanta Acassuso is +220% better in terms of Goals Conceded 2/1st Half Acassuso is +100% better in terms of Forms 1st Half 2.3 Corners / Match (-1) Almirante Brown Acassuso - Home Colegiales - Away 21/03/2017 Acassuso 1 : 1 Colegiales 07/09/2016 Colegiales 0 : 0 Acassuso Find Out More About the Match of Acassuso vs Colegiales When and where is the Match for Acassuso vs Colegiales The Match between Acassuso and Colegiales takes place at the home of Acassuso, in 10 November 2017, at 23:00. The match is part of the 11th round of the Argentina - Prim B Metro. The match will will take place at the Estadio República de Italia. Acassuso Performance Acassuso has played 10 matches in the Argentina - Prim B Metro, with a total of 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. Acassuso averages 1.4 Points Per Match in the Argentina - Prim B Metro with a total of 8 Goals Scored and 7 Goals Conceded. Playing at home, Acassuso have played 4 matches in total with 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. Acassuso averages 2.25 Points Per Match in Argentina - Prim B Metro at home with 6 Goals Scored and 1 Goal Conceded. Colegiales Performance Colegiales has played 10 matches in the Argentina - Prim B Metro, with a total of 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. Colegiales averages 1.2 Points Per Match in the Argentina - Prim B Metro with a total of 10 Goals Scored and 11 Goals Conceded. Playing away, Colegiales have played 5 matches in total with 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. Colegiales averages 1.4 Points Per Match in Argentina - Prim B Metro at away with 4 Goals Scored and 4 Goals Conceded. What is the Form of Acassuso? In the past 5 matches, Acassuso has won 2, drawn 2 and lost 1. They averaged 1.6 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 1.4 average in the competition. At home, Acassuso has won 3, drawn 0 and lost 1 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 2.25 Points Per Match at home in the past 5 matches compared to their 2.25 average in the competition. What is the Form of Colegiales? In the past 5 matches, Colegiales has won 1, drawn 2 and lost 2. They averaged 1 Points Per Match in the past 5 matches compared to their 1.2 average in the competition. Away, Colegiales has won 2, drawn 1 and lost 2 in the past 5 matches. They averaged 1.4 Points Per Match at away in the past 5 matches, compared to their 1.4 average in the competition away. Head 2 Head between Acassuso and Colegiales In the past five years, Acassuso and Colegiales have played 3 times against each other. Acassuso has won 1, and Colegiales has won 0 with 2 matches ended in a draw. When the match is played at Estadio República de Italia, there were 1 win for Acassuso, 0 wins for Colegiales and 1 match ended in a draw.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5644139647483826, "wiki_prob": 0.5644139647483826, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line286549"}
Title: The Daughter of Time Author: Tey, Josephine [Elizabeth MacKintosh] (1896-1952) Date of first publication: June 1951 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Peter Davies, September 1952 [fourth printing] Date first posted: 20 November 2013 Date last updated: 20 November 2013 Project Gutenberg Canada ebook #1129 This ebook was produced by Pat McCoy & the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net [Pg 3] THE DAUGHTER OF TIME TO LOVE AND BE WISE BRAT FARRAR THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR MISS PYM DISPOSES A SHILLING FOR CANDLES THE DAUGHTER OF TIME “Truth is the daughter of Time” Old Proverb LONDON: PETER DAVIES FIRST PUBLISHED JUNE 1951 REPRINTED JULY 1951 REPRINTED OCTOBER 1951 REPRINTED SEPTEMBER 1952 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN FOR PETER DAVIES LTD. AT THE PITMAN PRESS, BATH Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling. Stared at it with loathing. He knew by heart every last minute crack on its nice clean surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He had made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it. He had suggested to The Midget that she might turn his bed round a little so that he could have a new patch of ceiling to explore. But it seemed that that would spoil the symmetry of the room, and in hospitals symmetry ranked just a short head behind cleanliness and a whole length in front of Godliness. Anything out of the parallel was hospital profanity. Why didn’t he read? she asked. Why didn’t he go on reading some of those expensive brand-new novels that his friends kept on bringing him. ‘There are far too many people born into the world, and far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It’s a horrible thought.’ ‘You sound constipated,’ said The Midget. [Pg 8] The Midget was Nurse Ingham, and she was in sober fact a very nice five-feet two, with everything in just proportion. Grant called her The Midget to compensate himself for being bossed around by a piece of Dresden china which he could pick up in one hand. When he was on his feet, that is to say. It was not only that she told him what he might or might not do, but she dealt with his six-feet-odd with an off-hand ease that Grant found humiliating. Weights meant nothing, apparently, to The Midget. She tossed mattresses around with the absent-minded grace of a plate spinner. When she was off-duty he was attended to by The Amazon, a goddess with arms like the limb of a beech tree. The Amazon was Nurse Darroll, who came from Gloucestershire and was homesick each daffodil season. (The Midget came from Lytham St Anne’s, and there was no daffodil nonsense about her.) She had large soft hands and large soft cow’s eyes and she always looked very sorry for you, but the slightest physical exertion set her breathing like a suction-pump. On the whole Grant found it even more humiliating to be treated as a dead weight than to be treated as if he was no weight at all. Grant was bed-borne, and a charge on The Midget and The Amazon, because he had fallen through a trap-door. This, of course, was the absolute in humiliation; compared with which the heavings of The Amazon and the light slingings of The Midget were a mere corollary. To fall through a trap-door was the ultimate in absurdity; pantomimic, bathetic, grotesque. At the moment of his disappearance from the normal level of perambulation he had been in hot pursuit of Benny Skoll, and the fact that Benny had careered round the next corner slap into[Pg 9] the arms of Sergeant Williams provided the one small crumb of comfort in an intolerable situation. Benny was now ‘away’ for three years, which was very satisfactory for the lieges, but Benny would get time off for good behaviour. In hospitals there was no time off for good behaviour. Grant stopped staring at the ceiling, and slid his eyes sideways at the pile of books on his bedside table; the gay expensive pile that The Midget had been urging on his attention. The top one, with the pretty picture of Valetta in unlikely pink, was Lavinia Fitch’s annual account of a blameless heroine’s tribulations. In view of the representation of the Grand Harbour on the cover, the present Valerie or Angela or Cecile or Denise must be a naval wife. He had opened the book only to read the kind message that Lavinia had written inside. The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthy and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas’s last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the hay-loft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas’s fault that its steam provided the only up-rising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it. Under the harsh shadows and highlights of Silas’s jacket was an elegant affair of Edwardian curlicues and[Pg 10] Baroque nonsense, entitled Bells on Her Toes. Which was Rupert Rouge being arch about vice. Rupert Rouge always seduced you into laughter for the first three pages. About Page Three you noticed that Rupert had learned from that very arch (but of course not vicious) creature George Bernard Shaw that the easiest way to sound witty was to use that cheap and convenient method, the paradox. After that you could see the jokes coming three sentences away. The thing with a red gun-flash across a night-green cover was Oscar Oakley’s latest. Toughs talking out of the corners of their mouths in synthetic American that had neither the wit nor the pungency of the real thing. Blondes, chromium bars, breakneck chases. Very remarkably bunk. The Case of the Missing Tin-opener, by John James Mark, had three errors of procedure in the first two pages, and had at least provided Grant with a pleasant five minutes while he composed an imaginary letter to its author. He could not remember what the thin blue book at the bottom of the pile was. Something earnest and statistical, he thought. Tsetse flies, or calories, or sex behaviour, or something. Even in that, you knew what to expect on the next page. Did no one, any more, no one in all this wide world, change their record now and then? Was everyone nowadays thirled to a formula? Authors today wrote so much to a pattern that their public expected it. The public talked about ‘a new Silas Weekley’ or ‘a new Lavinia Fitch’ exactly as they talked about ‘a new brick’ or ‘a new hairbrush’. They never said ‘a new book by’ whoever it might be. Their interest was not in the book[Pg 11] but in its newness. They knew quite well what the book would be like. It might be a good thing, Grant thought as he turned his nauseated gaze away from the motley pile, if all the presses of the world were stopped for a generation. There ought to be a literary moratorium. Some Superman ought to invent a ray that would stop them all simultaneously. Then people wouldn’t send you a lot of fool nonsense when you were flat on your back, and bossy bits of Meissen wouldn’t expect you to read them. He heard the door open, but did not stir himself to look. He had turned his face to the wall, literally and metaphorically. He heard someone come across to his bed, and closed his eyes against possible conversation. He wanted neither Gloucestershire sympathy nor Lancashire briskness just now. In the succeeding pause a faint enticement, a nostalgic breath of all the fields of Grasse, teased his nostrils and swam about his brain. He savoured it and considered. The Midget smelt of lavender dusting powder, and The Amazon of soap and iodoform. What was floating expensively about his nostrils was L’Enclos Numéro Cinq. Only one person of his acquaintance used L’Enclos Number Five. Marta Hallard. He opened an eye and squinted up at her. She had evidently bent over to see if he was asleep, and was now standing in an irresolute way—if anything Marta did could be said to be irresolute—with her attention on the heap of all too obviously virgin publications on the table. In one arm she was carrying two new books, and in the other a great sheaf of white lilac. He wondered whether she had chosen white lilac because it was her idea of the[Pg 12] proper floral offering for winter (it adorned her dressing-room at the theatre from December to March), or whether she had taken it because it would not detract from her black-and-white chic. She was wearing a new hat and her usual pearls; the pearls which he had once been the means of recovering for her. She looked very handsome, very Parisian, and blessedly unhospital-like. ‘Did I waken you, Alan?’ ‘No. I wasn’t asleep.’ ‘I seem to be bringing the proverbial coals,’ she said, dropping the two books alongside their despised brethren. ‘I hope you will find these more interesting than you seem to have found that lot. Didn’t you even try a little teensy taste of our Lavinia?’ ‘I can’t read anything.’ ‘Are you in pain?’ ‘Agony. But it’s neither my leg nor my back.’ ‘What then?’ ‘It’s what my cousin Laura calls “the prickles of boredom”.’ ‘Poor Alan. And how right your Laura is.’ She picked a bunch of narcissi out of a glass that was much too large for them, dropped them with one of her best gestures into the wash-basin, and proceeded to substitute the lilac. ‘One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn’t, of course. It’s a small niggling thing.’ ‘Small nothing. Niggling nothing. It’s like being beaten with nettles.’ ‘Why don’t you take-up something?’ ‘Improve the shining hour?’ ‘Improve your mind. To say nothing of your soul and[Pg 13] your temper. You might study one of the philosophies. Yoga, or something like that. But I suppose an analytical mind is not the best kind to bring to the consideration of the abstract.’ ‘I did think of going back to algebra. I have an idea that I never did algebra justice, at school. But I’ve done so much geometry on that damned ceiling that I’m a little off mathematics.’ ‘Well, I suppose it is no use suggesting jig-saws to someone in your position. How about cross-words? I could get you a book of them, if you like.’ ‘God forbid.’ ‘You could invent them, of course. I have heard that that is more fun than solving them.’ ‘Perhaps. But a dictionary weighs several pounds. Besides, I always did hate looking up something in a reference book.’ ‘Do you play chess? I don’t remember. How about chess problems? White to play and mate in three moves, or something like that.’ ‘My only interest in chess is pictorial.’ ‘Pictorial?’ ‘Very decorative things, knights and pawns and whatnot. Very elegant.’ ‘Charming. I could bring you along a set to play with. All right, no chess. You could do some academic investigating. That’s a sort of mathematics. Finding a solution to an unsolved problem.’ ‘Crime, you mean? I know all the case-histories by heart. And there is nothing more that can be done about any of them. Certainly not by someone who is flat on his back.’ [Pg 14] ‘I didn’t mean something out of the files at the Yard. I meant something more—what’s the word?—something classic. Something that has puzzled the world for ages.’ ‘As what, for instance?’ ‘Say, the casket letters.’ ‘Oh, not Mary Queen of Scots!’ ‘Why not?’ asked Marta, who like all actresses saw Mary Stuart through a haze of white veils. ‘I could be interested in a bad woman but never in a silly one.’ ‘Silly?’ said Marta in her best lower-register Electra voice. ‘Very silly.’ ‘Oh, Alan, how can you!’ ‘If she had worn another kind of headdress no one would ever have bothered about her. It’s that cap that seduces people.’ ‘You think she would have loved less greatly in a sun-bonnet?’ ‘She never loved greatly at all, in any kind of bonnet.’ Marta looked as scandalised as a lifetime in the theatre and an hour of careful make-up allowed her to. ‘Why do you think that?’ ‘Mary Stuart was six feet tall. Nearly all out-size women are sexually cold. Ask any doctor.’ And as he said it he wondered why, in all the years since Marta had first adopted him as a spare escort when she needed one, it had not occurred to him to wonder whether her notorious level-headedness about men had something to do with her inches. But Marta had not drawn any parallels; her mind was still on her favourite Queen. [Pg 15] ‘At least she was a martyr. You’ll have to allow her that.’ ‘Martyr to what?’ ‘Her religion.’ ‘The only thing she was a martyr to was rheumatism. She married Darnley without the Pope’s dispensation, and Bothwell by Protestant rites.’ ‘In a moment you’ll be telling me she wasn’t a prisoner!’ ‘The trouble with you is that you think of her in a little room at the top of a castle, with bars on the window and a faithful old attendant to share her prayers with her. In actual fact she had a personal household of sixty persons. She complained bitterly when it was reduced to a beggarly thirty, and nearly died of chagrin when it was reduced to two male secretaries, several women, an embroiderer, and a cook or two. And Elizabeth had to pay for all that out of her own purse. For twenty years she paid, and for twenty years Mary Stuart hawked the crown of Scotland round Europe to anyone who would start a revolution and put her back on the throne that she had lost; or, alternatively, on the one Elizabeth was sitting on.’ He looked at Marta and found that she was smiling. ‘Are they a little better now?’ she asked. ‘Are what better?’ ‘The prickles.’ ‘Yes. For a whole minute I had forgotten about them. That is at least one good thing to be put down to Mary Stuart’s account!’ ‘How do you know so much about Mary?’ [Pg 16] ‘I did an essay about her in my last year at school.’ ‘And didn’t like her, I take it.’ ‘Didn’t like what I found out about her.’ ‘You don’t think her tragic, then.’ ‘Oh, yes, very. But not tragic in any of the ways that popular belief makes her tragic. Her tragedy was that she was born a Queen with the outlook of a suburban housewife. Scoring off Mrs Tudor in the next street is harmless and amusing; it may lead you into unwarrantable indulgence in hire-purchase, but it affects only yourself. When you use the same technique on kingdoms the result is disastrous. If you are willing to put a country of ten million people in pawn in order to score off a royal rival, then you end by being a friendless failure.’ He lay thinking about it for a little. ‘She would have been a wild success as a mistress at a girls’ school.’ ‘Beast!’ ‘I meant it nicely. The staff would have liked her, and all the little girls would have adored her. That is what I meant about her being tragic.’ ‘Ah well. No casket letters, it seems. What else is there? The Man In The Iron Mask.’ ‘I can’t remember who that was, but I couldn’t be interested in anyone who was being coy behind some tin-plate. I couldn’t be interested in anyone at all unless I could see his face.’ ‘Ah, yes. I forgot your passion for faces. The Borgias had wonderful faces. I should think they would provide a little mystery or two for you to dabble in if you looked them up. Or there was Perkin Warbeck, of course. Imposture is always fascinating. Was he or wasn’t he. A lovely game. The balance can never come down[Pg 17] wholly on one side or the other. You push it over and up it comes again, like one of those weighted toys.’ The door opened and Mrs Tinker’s homely face appeared in the aperture surmounted by her still more homely and historic hat. Mrs Tinker had worn the same hat since first she began to ‘do’ for Grant, and he could not imagine her in any other. That she did possess another one he knew, because it went with something that she referred to as ‘me blue’. Her ‘blue’ was an occasional affair, in both senses, and never appeared at 19 Tenby Court. It was worn with a ritualistic awareness, and having been worn it was used in the event as a yardstick by which to judge the proceedings. (‘Did you enjoy it, Tink? What was it like?’ ‘Not worth putting on me blue for.’) She had worn it to Princess Elizabeth’s wedding, and to various other royal functions, and had indeed figured in it for two flashing seconds in a newsreel shot of the Duchess of Kent cutting a ribbon, but to Grant it was a mere report; a criterion of the social worth of an occasion. A thing was or was not worth putting on ‘me blue’ for. ‘I ’eard you ’ad a visitor,’ said Mrs Tinker, ‘and I was all set to go away again when I thought the voice sounded familiar like, and I says to meself: “It’s only Miss Hallard,” I says, so I come in.’ She was carrying various paper bags and a small tight bunch of anemones. She greeted Marta as woman to woman, having been in her time a dresser and having therefore no exaggerated reverence for the goddesses of the theatre world, and looked askance at the beautiful arrangement of lilac sprays that had blossomed under Marta’s ministrations. Marta did not see the glance but[Pg 18] she saw the little bunch of anemones and took over the situation as if it were something already rehearsed. ‘I squander my vagabond’s hire on white lilac for you, and then Mrs Tinker puts my nose out of joint by bringing you the Lilies Of The Field.’ ‘Lilies?’ said Mrs Tinker, doubtfully. ‘Those are the Solomon in all his glory things. The ones that toiled not neither did they spin.’ Mrs Tinker went to church only for weddings and christenings, but she belonged to a generation that had been sent to Sunday school. She looked with a new interest at the little handful of glory incased by her woollen glove. ‘Well, now. I never knew that. Makes more sense that way, don’t it. I always pictured them arums. Fields and fields of arums. Awful expensive, you know, but a bit depressing. So they was coloured? Well, why can’t they say so? What do they have to call them lilies for!’ And they went on to talk about translation, and how misleading Holy Writ could be (‘I always wondered what bread on the waters was’, Mrs Tinker said) and the awkward moment was over. While they were still busy with the Bible, The Midget came in with extra flower vases. Grant noticed that the vases were designed to hold white lilac and not anemones. They were tribute to Marta; a passport to further communing. But Marta never bothered about women unless she had an immediate use for them; her tact with Mrs Tinker had been mere savoir faire; a conditioned reflex. So The Midget was reduced to being functional instead of social. She collected the discarded narcissi from the wash-basin and meekly put them back into a vase. The[Pg 19] Midget being meek was the most beautiful sight that had gladdened Grant’s eyes for a long time. ‘Well,’ Marta said, having finished her arrangement of the lilac and placed the result where he could see it, ‘I shall leave Mrs Tinker to feed you all the titbits out of those paper bags. It couldn’t be, could it, Mrs Tinker darling, that one of those bags contains any of your wonderful bachelor’s buttons?’ Mrs Tinker glowed. ‘You’d like one or two maybe? Fresh outa me oven?’ ‘Well, of course I shall have to do penance for it afterwards—those little rich cakes are death on the waist—but just give me a couple to put in my bag for my tea at the theatre.’ She chose two with a flattering deliberation (‘I like them a little brown at the edges’), dropped them into her handbag, and said: ‘Well, au revoir, Alan. I shall look in, in a day or two, and start you on a sock. There is nothing so soothing, I understand, as knitting. Isn’t that so, nurse?’ ‘Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. A lot of my gentlemen patients take to knitting. They find it whiles away the time very nicely.’ Marta blew him a kiss from the door and was gone, followed by the respectful Midget. ‘I’d be surprised if that hussy is any better than she ought to be,’ Mrs Tinker said, beginning to open the paper bags. She was not referring to Marta. [Pg 20] But when Marta came back two days later it was not with knitting needles and wool. She breezed in, very dashing in a Cossack hat worn at a casual rake that must have taken her several minutes at her mirror, just after lunch. ‘I haven’t come to stay, my dear. I’m on my way to the theatre. It’s matinée day, God help me. Tea trays and morons. And we’ve all got to the frightful stage when the lines have ceased to have any meaning at all for us. I don’t think this play is ever coming off. It’s going to be like those New York ones that run by the decade instead of by the year. It’s too frightening. One’s mind just won’t stay on the thing. Geoffrey dried up in the middle of the second act last night. His eyes nearly popped out of his head. I thought for a moment he was having a stroke. He said afterwards that he had no recollection of anything that happened between his entrance and the point where he came to and found himself half-way through the act.’ ‘A black-out, you mean?’ ‘No. Oh, no. Just being an automaton. Saying the lines and doing the business and thinking of something else all the time.’ ‘If all reports are true that’s no unusual matter where actors are concerned.’ [Pg 21] ‘Oh, in moderation, no. Johnny Garson can tell you how much paper there is in the house what time he is sobbing his heart out on someone’s lap. But that’s different from being “away” for half an act. Do you realise that Geoffrey had turned his son out of the house, quarrelled with his mistress, and accused his wife of having an affaire with his best friend all without being aware of it.’ ‘What was he aware of?’ ‘He says he had decided to lease his Park Lane flat to Dolly Dacre and buy that Charles The Second house at Richmond that the Latimers are giving up because he has got that Governor’s appointment. He had thought about the lack of bathrooms and decided that the little upstairs room with the eighteenth-century Chinese paper would make a very good one. They could remove the beautiful paper and use it to decorate that dull little room downstairs at the back. It’s full of Victorian panelling, the dull little room. He had also reviewed the drainage, wondered if he had enough money to take the old tiling off and replace it, and speculated as to what kind of cooking range they had in the kitchen. He had just decided to get rid of the shrubbery at the gate when he found himself face to face with me, on a stage, in the presence of nine hundred and eighty-seven people, in the middle of a speech. Do you wonder that his eyes popped. I see that you have managed to read at least one of the books I brought you—if the rumpled jacket is any criterion.’ ‘Yes. The mountain one. It was a godsend. I lay for hours looking at the pictures. Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.’ [Pg 22] ‘The stars are better, I find,’ ‘Oh, no. The stars merely reduce one to the status of an amoeba. The stars take the last vestige of human pride, the last spark of confidence, from one. But a snow mountain is a nice human-size yard-stick. I lay and looked at Everest and thanked God that I wasn’t climbing those slopes. A hospital bed was a haven of warmth and rest and security by comparison, and The Midget and The Amazon two of the highest achievements of civilisation.’ ‘Ah, well, here are some more pictures for you.’ Marta up-ended the quarto envelope she was carrying, and spilled a collection of paper sheets over his chest. ‘What is this?’ ‘Faces,’ said Marta, delightedly. ‘Dozens of faces for you. Men, women, and children. All sorts, conditions, and sizes.’ He picked a sheet off his chest and looked at it. It was an engraving of a fifteenth-century portrait. A woman. ‘Who is this?’ ‘Lucrezia Borgia. Isn’t she a duck.’ ‘Perhaps, but are you suggesting that there was any mystery about her?’ ‘Oh, yes. No one has ever decided whether she was her brother’s tool or his accomplice.’ He discarded Lucrezia, and picked up a second sheet. This proved to be the portrait of a small boy in late-eighteenth-century clothes, and under it in faint capitals was printed the words: Louis XVII. ‘Now there’s a beautiful mystery for you,’ Marta said. ‘The Dauphin. Did he escape or did he die in captivity?’ [Pg 23] ‘Where did you get all these?’ ‘I routed James out of his cubby-hole at the Victoria and Albert, and made him take me to a print shop. I knew he would know about that sort of thing, and I’m sure he has nothing to interest him at the V. and A.’ It was so like Marta to take it for granted that a Civil Servant, because he happened also to be a playwright and an authority on portraits, should be willing to leave his work and delve about in print shops for her pleasure. He turned up the photograph of an Elizabethan portrait. A man in velvet and pearls. He turned the back to see who this might be and found that it was the Earl of Leicester. ‘So that is Elizabeth’s Robin,’ he said. ‘I don’t think I ever saw a portrait of him before.’ Marta looked down on the virile fleshy face and said: ‘It occurs to me for the first time that one of the major tragedies of history is that the best painters didn’t paint you till you were past your best. Robin must have been quite a man. They say Henry the Eighth was dazzling as a young man, but what is he now? Something on a playing card. Nowadays we know what Tennyson was like before he grew that frightful beard. I must fly. I’m late as it is. I’ve been lunching at the Blague, and so many people came up to talk that I couldn’t get away as early as I meant to.’ ‘I hope your host was impressed,’ Grant said, with a glance at the hat. ‘Oh, yes. She knows about hats. She took one look and said “Jacques Tous, I take it”.’ [Pg 24] ‘She!’ said Grant surprised. ‘Yes. Madeleine March. And it was I who was giving her luncheon. Don’t look so astonished: it isn’t tactful. I’m hoping, if you must know, that she’ll write me that play about Lady Blessington. But there was such a to-ing and fro-ing that I had no chance to make any impression on her. However, I gave her a wonderful meal. Which reminds me that Tony Bittmaker was entertaining a party of seven. Magnums galore. How do you imagine he keeps going?’ ‘Lack of evidence,’ Grant said, and she laughed and went away. In the silence he went back to considering Elizabeth’s Robin. What mystery was there about Robin? Oh, yes. Amy Robsart, of course. Well, he wasn’t interested in Amy Robsart. He didn’t care how she had fallen down stairs, or why. But he spent a very happy afternoon with the rest of the faces. Long before he had entered the Force he had taken a delight in faces, and in his years at the Yard that interest had proved both a private entertainment and a professional advantage. He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking for the one they hoped to recognise. ‘Which is Chummy, do you know?’ the Super had whispered to him. ‘I don’t know,’ Grant had said, ‘but I can guess.’ ‘You can? Which do you make it?’ [Pg 25] ‘The third from the left.’ ‘What is the charge?’ ‘I don’t know. Don’t know anything about it.’ His chief had cast him an amused glance. But when both the man and the woman had failed to identify anyone and had gone away, and the line broke into a chattering group, hitching collars and settling ties preparatory to going back to the street and the world of everyday from which they had been summoned to assist the Law, the one who did not move was the third man from the left. The third man from the left waited submissively for his escort and was led away to his cell again. ‘Strewth!’ the Superintendent had said. ‘One chance out of twelve, and you made it. That was good going. He picked your man out of the bunch,’ he said in explanation to the local Inspector. ‘Did you know him?’ the Inspector said, a little surprised. ‘He’s never been in trouble before, as far as we know.’ ‘No, I never saw him before. I don’t even know what the charge is.’ ‘Then what made you pick him?’ Grant had hesitated, analysing for the first time his process of selection. It had not been a matter of reasoning. He had not said: ‘That man’s face has this characteristic or that characteristic, therefore he is the accused person.’ His choice had been almost instinctive; the reason was in his subconscious. At last, having delved into his subconscious, he blurted: ‘He was the only one of the twelve with no lines on his face.’ They had laughed at that. But Grant, once he had pulled the thing into the light, saw how his instinct had[Pg 26] worked and recognised the reasoning behind it. ‘It sounds silly, but it isn’t,’ he had said. ‘The only adult entirely without face lines is the idiot.’ ‘Freeman’s no idiot, take it from me,’ the Inspector broke in. ‘A very wide-awake wide boy he is, believe me.’ ‘I didn’t mean that. I mean that the idiot is irresponsible. The idiot is the standard of irresponsibility. All those twelve men in that parade were thirty-ish, but only one had an irresponsible face. So I picked him at once.’ After that it had become a mild joke at the Yard that Grant could ‘pick them at sight’. And the Assistant Commissioner had once said teasingly: ‘Don’t tell me that you believe that there is such a thing as a criminal face, Inspector.’ But Grant had said no, he wasn’t as simple as that. ‘If there was only one kind of crime, sir, it might be possible; but crimes being as wide as human nature, if a policeman started to put faces into categories he would be sunk. You can tell what the normal run of over-sexed women look like by a walk down Bond Street any day between five and six, and yet the most notorious nymphomaniac in London looks like a cold saint.’ ‘Not so saintly of late; she’s drinking too much these days,’ the A.C. had said, identifying the lady without difficulty; and the conversation had gone on to other things. But Grant’s interest in faces had remained and enlarged until it became a conscious study. A matter of case records and comparisons. It was, as he had said, not possible to put faces into any kind of category, but it was[Pg 27] possible to characterise individual faces. In a reprint of a famous trial, for instance, where photographs of the principal actors in the case were displayed for the public’s interest, there was never any doubt as to which was the accused and which the judge. Occasionally, one of the counsel might on looks have changed places with the prisoner in the dock—counsel were after all a mere cross-section of humanity, as liable to passion and greed as the rest of the world, but a judge had a special quality; an integrity and a detachment. So, even without a wig, one did not confuse him with the man in the dock, who had had neither integrity nor detachment. Marta’s James, having been dragged from his cubby-hole’, had evidently enjoyed himself, and a fine selection of offenders, or their victims, kept Grant entertained until The Midget brought his tea. As he tidied the sheets together to put them away in his locker his hand came in contact with one that had slipped off his chest and had lain all the afternoon unnoticed on the counterpane. He picked it up and looked at it. It was the portrait of a man. A man dressed in the velvet cap and slashed doublet of the late fifteenth century. A man about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, lean and clean shaven. He wore a rich jewelled collar, and was in the act of putting a ring on the little finger of his right hand. But he was not looking at the ring. He was looking off into space. Of all the portraits Grant had seen this afternoon this was the most individual. It was as if the artist had striven to put on canvas something that his talent was not sufficient to translate into paint. The expression in the eyes—that most arresting and individual expression—had[Pg 28] defeated him. So had the mouth: he had not known how to make lips so thin and so wide look mobile, so the mouth was wooden and a failure. What he had best succeeded in was in the bone structure of the face: the strong cheekbones, the hollows below them, the chin too large for strength. Grant paused in the act of turning the thing over, to consider the face a moment longer. A judge? A soldier? A prince? Someone used to great responsibility, and responsible in his authority. Someone too-conscientious. A worrier; perhaps a perfectionist. A man at ease in a large design, but anxious over details. A candidate for gastric ulcer. Someone, too, who had suffered ill-health as a child. He had that incommunicable, that indescribable look that childhood suffering leaves behind it; less positive than the look on a cripple’s face, but as inescapable. This the artist had both understood and translated into terms of paint. The slight fullness of the lower eyelid, like a child that has slept too heavily; the texture of the skin; the old-man look in a young face. He turned the portrait over to look for a caption. On the back was printed: Richard the Third. From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Artist Unknown. Richard the Third. So that was who it was. Richard the Third. Crouch-back. The monster of nursery stories. The destroyer of innocence. A synonym for villainy. He turned the paper over and looked again. Was that what the artist had tried to convey when he had painted those eyes? Had what he had seen in those eyes been the look of a man haunted? He lay a long time looking at that face; at those[Pg 29] extraordinary eyes. They were long eyes, set close under the brows; the brows slightly drawn in that worried, over-conscientious frown. At first glance they appeared to be peering; but as one looked one found that they were in fact withdrawn, almost absent-minded. When The Midget came back for his tray he was still staring at the portrait. Nothing like this had come his way for years. It made La Giaconda look like a poster. The Midget examined his virgin teacup, put a practised hand against the teapot’s tepid cheek, and pouted. She had better things to do, she conveyed, than bring him trays for him to ignore. He pushed the portrait at her. What did she think of it? If that man were her patient what would be her verdict? ‘Liver,’ she said crisply, and bore away the tray in heel-tapping protest, all starch and blonde curls. But the surgeon, strolling in against her draught, kindly and casual, had other views. He looked at the portrait, as invited, and said after a moment’s interested scrutiny: ‘Poliomyelitis.’ ‘Infantile paralysis?’ Grant said; and remembered all of a sudden that Richard III had a withered arm. ‘Who is it?’ the surgeon asked. ‘Richard the Third.’ ‘Really? That’s interesting.’ ‘Did you know that he had a withered arm?’ ‘Had he? I didn’t remember that. I thought he was a hunchback.’ ‘So he was.’ [Pg 30] ‘What I do remember is that he was born with a full set of teeth and ate live frogs. Well, my diagnosis seems to be abnormally accurate.’ ‘Uncanny. What made you choose polio?’ ‘I don’t quite know, now that you ask me to be definitive. Just the look of the face, I suppose. It’s the look one sees on the face of a cripple child. If he was born hunchbacked that probably accounts for it and not polio. I notice the artist has left out the hump.’ ‘Yes. Court painters have to have a modicum of tact. It wasn’t until Cromwell that sitters asked for “warts and all”.’ ‘If you ask me,’ the surgeon said, absent-mindedly considering the splint on Grant’s leg, ‘Cromwell started that inverted snobbery from which we are all suffering today. “I’m a plain man, I am; no nonsense about me.” And no manners, grace, or generosity, either.’ He pinched Grant’s toe with detached interest. ‘It’s a raging disease. A horrible perversion. In some parts of the States, I understand, it’s as much as a man’s political life is worth to go to some constituencies with his tie tied and his coat on. That’s being stuffed-shirt. The beau ideal is to be one of the boys. That’s looking very healthy,’ he added, referring to Grant’s big toe, and came back of his own accord to the portrait lying on the counterpane. ‘Interesting,’ he said, ‘that about the polio. Perhaps it really was polio, and that accounts for the shrunken arm.’ He went on considering it, making no movement to go. ‘Interesting, anyhow. Portrait of a murderer. Does he run to type, would you say?’ ‘There isn’t a murder type. People murder for too many different reasons. But I can’t remember any[Pg 31] murderer, either in my own experience, or in case-histories, who resembled him.’ ‘Of course he was hors concours in his class, wasn’t he. He couldn’t have known the meaning of scruple.’ ‘No.’ ‘I once saw Olivier play him. The most dazzling exhibition of sheer evil, it was. Always on the verge of toppling over into the grotesque, and never doing it.’ ‘When I showed you the portrait,’ Grant said, ‘before you knew who it was, did you think of villainy?’ ‘No,’ said the surgeon, ‘no, I thought of illness.’ ‘It’s odd, isn’t it. I didn’t think of villainy either. And now that I know who it is, now that I’ve read the name on the back, I can’t think of it as anything but villainous.’ ‘I suppose villainy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, I’ll look in again towards the end of the week. No pain to speak of now?’ And he went away, kindly and casual as he had come. It was only after he had given the portrait further puzzled consideration (it piqued him to have mistaken one of the most notorious murderers of all time for a judge; to have transferred a subject from the dock to the bench was a shocking piece of ineptitude) that it occurred to Grant that the portrait had been provided as the illustration to a piece of detection. What mystery was there about Richard III? And then he remembered. Richard had murdered his two boy nephews, but no one knew how. They had merely disappeared. They had disappeared, if he remembered rightly, while Richard was away from London. Richard had sent someone to do the deed. But the mystery of the children’s actual fate had never been[Pg 32] solved. Two skeletons had turned up—under some stairs?—in Charles II’s day, and had been buried. It was taken for granted that the skeletons were the remains of the young princes, but nothing had ever been proved. It was shocking how little history remained with one after a good education. All he knew about Richard III was that he was the younger brother of Edward IV. That Edward was a blond six-footer with remarkable good looks and a still more remarkable way with women; and that Richard was a hunchback who usurped the throne on his brother’s death in place of the boy heir, and arranged the death of that heir and his small brother to save himself any further trouble. He also knew that Richard had died at the battle of Bosworth yelling for a horse, and that he was the last of his line. The last Plantagenet. Every schoolboy turned over the final page of Richard III with relief, because now at last the Wars of the Roses were over and they could get on to the Tudors, who were dull but easy to follow. When The Midget came to tidy him up for the night Grant said: ‘You don’t happen to have a history book, by any chance, do you?’ ‘A history book? No. What would I be doing with a history book.’ It was not a question, so Grant did not try to provide an answer. His silence seemed to fret her. ‘If you really want a history book,’ she said presently, ‘you could ask Nurse Darroll when she brings your supper. She has all her school-books on a shelf in her room and it’s quite possible she has a history among them.’ [Pg 33] How like The Amazon to keep her school books! he thought. She was still homesick for school as she was homesick for Gloucestershire every time the daffodils bloomed. When she lumbered into the room, bearing his cheese pudding and stewed rhubarb, he looked at her with a tolerance that bordered on the benevolent. She ceased to be a large female who breathed like a suction-pump and became a potential dispenser of delight. Oh yes, she had a history book, she said. Indeed, she rather thought that she had two. She had kept all her school books because she had loved school. It was on the tip of Grant’s tongue to ask her if she had kept her dolls, but he stopped himself in time. ‘And of course I loved history,’ she said. ‘It was my favourite subject. Richard the Lionheart was my hero.’ ‘An intolerable bounder,’ Grant said. ‘Oh, no!’ she said, looking wounded. ‘A hyperthyroid type,’ Grant said pitilessly. ‘Rocketing to and fro about the earth like a badly made firework. Are you going off duty now?’ ‘Whenever I’ve finished my trays.’ ‘Could you find that book for me tonight?’ ‘You’re supposed to be going to sleep, not staying awake over history books.’ ‘I might as well read some history as look at the ceiling—which is the alternative. Will you get it for me?’ ‘I don’t think I could go all the way up to the Nurses’ Block and back again tonight for someone who is rude about the Lionheart.’ ‘All right,’ he said. ‘I’m not the stuff that martyrs are made of. As far as I’m concerned Coeur-de-Lion is the[Pg 34] pattern of chivalry, the chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, a faultless commander and a triple D.S.O. Now will you get the book?’ ‘It seems to me you’ve sore need to read a little history,’ she said, smoothing a mitred sheet-corner with a large admiring hand, ’so I’ll bring you the book when I come past. I’m going out to the pictures anyhow.’ It was nearly an hour before she reappeared, immense in a camel-hair coat. The room lights had been put out and she materialised into the light of his reading-lamp like some kindly genie. ‘I was hoping you’d be asleep,’ she said. ‘I don’t really think you should start on these tonight.’ ‘If there is anything that is likely to put me to sleep,’ he said, ‘it would be an English history book. So you can hold hands with a clear conscience.’ ‘I’m going with Nurse Burrows.’ ‘You can still hold hands.’ ‘I’ve no patience with you,’ she said patiently and faded backwards into the gloom. She had brought two books. One was the kind of history book known as a Historical Reader. It bore the same relation to history as Stories from the Bible bears to Holy Writ. Canute rebuked his courtiers on the shore, Alfred burned the cakes, Raleigh spread his cloak for Elizabeth, Nelson took leave of Hardy in his cabin on the Victory, all in nice clear large print and one-sentence paragraphs. To each episode went one full-page illustration. There was something curiously touching in the fact that The Amazon should treasure this childish literature. He turned to the fly-leaf to see if her name was there. [Pg 35] On the fly-leaf was written: Ella Darroll, Form III Newbridge High School Gloucestershire. This was surrounded by a fine selection of coloured transfers. Did all children do that, he wondered? Write their names like that, and spend their time in class making transfers. He certainly had. And the sight of those squares of bright primitive colour brought back his childhood as nothing had for many years. He had forgotten the excitement of transfers. That wonderfully satisfying moment when you began the peeling-off and saw that it was coming perfectly. The adult world held few such gratifications. A clean smacking drive at golf, perhaps, was the nearest. Or the moment when your line tightened and you knew that the fish had struck. The little book pleased him so much that he went through it at his leisure. Solemnly reading each childish story. This, after all, was the history that every adult remembered. This was what remained in their minds when tonnage and poundage, and ship money, and Laud’s Liturgy, and the Rye House Plot, and the Triennial Acts, and all the long muddle of schism and shindy, treaty and treason, had faded from their consciousness. [Pg 36] The Richard III story, when he came to it, was called The Princes In The Tower, and it seemed that young Ella had found the Princes a poor substitute for Coeur-de-Lion, since she had filled every small O throughout the tale with neat pencil shading. The two golden-haired boys who played together in the sunbeam from the barred window in the accompanying picture had each been provided with a pair of anachronistic spectacles, and on the blank back of the picture-page someone had been playing Noughts and Crosses. As far as young Ella was concerned the Princes were a dead loss. And yet it was a sufficiently arresting little story. Macabre enough to delight any child’s heart. The innocent children; the wicked uncle. The classic ingredients in a tale of classic simplicity. It had also a moral. It was the perfect cautionary tale. But the King won no profit from this wicked deed. The people of England were shocked by his cold-blooded cruelty and decided that they would no longer have him for King. They sent for a distant cousin of Richard’s, Henry Tudor, who was living in France, to come and be crowned King in his stead. Richard died bravely in the battle which resulted, but he had made his name hated throughout the country and many deserted him to fight for his rival. Well, it was neat but not gaudy. Reporting at its simplest. He turned to the second book. The second book was the School History proper. The two thousand years of England’s story were neatly[Pg 37] parcelled into compartments for ready reference. The compartments, as usual, were reigns. It was no wonder that one pinned a personality to a reign, forgetful that that personality had known and lived under other kings. One put them in pigeon-holes automatically. Pepys: Charles II. Shakespeare: Elizabeth. Marlborough: Queen Anne. It never crossed one’s mind that someone who had seen Queen Elizabeth could also have seen George I. One had been conditioned to the reign idea from childhood. However it did simplify things when you were just a policeman with a game leg and a concussed spine hunting up some information on dead and gone royalties to keep yourself from going crazy. He was surprised to find the reign of Richard III so short. To have made oneself one of the best-known rulers in all those two thousand years of England’s history, and to have had only two years to do it in, surely augured a towering personality. If Richard had not made friends he had certainly influenced people. The history book, too, thought that he had personality. Richard was a man of great ability, but quite unscrupulous as to his means. He boldly claimed the crown on the absurd ground that his brother’s marriage with Elizabeth Woodville had been illegal and the children of it illegitimate. He was accepted by the people, who dreaded a minority, and began his reign by making a progress through the south, where he was well received. During this progress, however, the two young Princes who were living in the Tower, disappeared, and were believed to have been murdered. [Pg 38] A serious rebellion followed, which Richard put down with great ferocity. In order to recover some of his lost popularity he held a Parliament, which passed useful statutes against Benevolences, Maintenance, and Livery. But a second rebellion followed. This took the form of an invasion, with French troops, by the head of the Lancaster branch, Henry Tudor. He encountered Richard at Bosworth, near Leicester, where the treachery of the Stanleys gave the day to Henry. Richard was killed in the battle, fighting courageously, leaving behind him a name hardly less infamous than that of John. What on earth were Benevolences, Maintenance, and Livery? And how did the English like having the succession decided for them by French troops? But, of course, in the days of the Roses, France was still a sort of semi-detached part of England; a country much less foreign to an Englishman than Ireland was. A fifteenth-century Englishman went to France as a matter of course; but to Ireland only under protest. He lay and thought about that England. The England over which the Wars of the Roses had been fought. A green, green England; with not a chimney-stack from Cumberland to Cornwall. An England still unhedged, with great forests alive with game, and wide marshes thick with wild-fowl. An England with the same small group of dwellings repeated every few miles in endless permutation: castle, church, and cottages; monastery, church, and cottages; manor, church, and cottages. The[Pg 39] strips of cultivation round the cluster of dwellings, and beyond that the greenness. The unbroken greenness. The deep-rutted lanes that ran from group to group, mired to bog in the winter and white with dust in the summer; decorated with wild roses or red with hawthorn as the seasons came and went. For thirty years, over this green uncrowded land, the Wars of the Roses had been fought. But it had been more of a blood feud than a war. A Montague and Capulet affair; of no great concern to the average Englishman. No one pushed in at your door to demand whether you were York or Lancaster and to hale you off to a concentration camp if your answer proved to be the wrong one for the occasion. It was a small concentrated war; almost a private party. They fought a battle in your lower meadow, and turned your kitchen into a dressing-station, and then moved off somewhere or other to fight a battle somewhere else, and a few weeks later you would hear what had happened at that battle, and you would have a family row about the result because your wife was probably Lancaster and you were perhaps York, and it was all rather like following rival football teams. No one persecuted you for being a Lancastrian or a Yorkist, any more than you would be persecuted for being an Arsenal fan or a Chelsea follower. He was still thinking of that green England when he fell asleep. And he was not a whit wiser about the two young Princes and their fate. ‘Can’t you find something more cheerful to look at than that thing?’ The Midget asked next morning, referring to the Richard portrait which Grant had propped up against the pile of books on his bed-side table. ‘You don’t find it an interesting face?’ ‘Interesting! It gives me the willies. A proper Dismal Desmond.’ ‘According to the history books he was a man of great ability.’ ‘So was Bluebeard.’ ‘And considerable popularity, it would seem.’ ‘A very fine soldier, too,’ Grant said wickedly, and waited. ‘No Bluebeard offers?’ ‘What do you want to look at that face for? Who was he anyway?’ ‘Oh, well, I ask you!’ ‘You mean that’s what you expected him to look like.’ ‘Exactly.’ ‘Why?’ ‘A murdering brute, wasn’t he?’ ‘You seem to know your history.’ ‘Everyone knows that. Did away with his two little nephews, poor brats. Had them smothered.’ [Pg 41] ‘Smothered?’ said Grant, interested. ‘I didn’t know that.’ ‘Smothered with pillows.’ She banged his own pillows with a fragile vigorous fist, and replaced them with speed and precision. ‘Why smothering? Why not poison?’ Grant inquired. ‘Don’t ask me. I didn’t arrange it.’ ‘Who said they were smothered?’ ‘My history book at school said it.’ ‘Yes, but whom was the history book quoting?’ ‘Quoting? It wasn’t quoting anything. It was just giving facts.’ ‘Who smothered them, did it say?’ ‘A man called Tyrrel. Didn’t you do any history, at school?’ ‘I attended history lessons. It is not the same thing. Who was Tyrrel?’ ‘I haven’t the remotest. A friend of Richard’s.’ ‘How did anyone know it was Tyrrel?’ ‘He confessed.’ ‘Confessed?‘ ‘After he had been found guilty, of course. Before he was hanged.’ ‘You mean that this Tyrrel was actually hanged for the murder of the two Princes?’ ‘Yes, of course. Shall I take that dreary face away and put up something gayer? There were quite a lot of nice faces in that bundle Miss Hallard brought you yesterday.’ ‘I’m not interested in nice faces. I’m interested only in dreary ones; in “murdering brutes” who are “men of great ability”.’ ‘Well, there’s no accounting for tastes,’ said The[Pg 42] Midget inevitably. ‘And I don’t have to look at it, thank goodness. But in my humble estimation it’s enough to prevent bones knitting, so help me it is.’ ‘Well, if my fracture doesn’t mend you can put it down to Richard III’s account. Another little item on that account won’t be noticed, it seems to me.’ He must ask Marta when next she looked in if she too knew about this Tyrrel. Her general knowledge was not very great, but she had been educated very expensively at a highly approved school and perhaps some of it had stuck. But the first visitor to penetrate from the outside world proved to be Sergeant Williams, large and pink and scrubbed-looking; and for a little Grant forgot about battles long ago and considered wide boys alive today. Williams sat planted on the small hard visitors’ chair, his knees apart and his pale blue eyes blinking like a contented cat’s in the light from the window, and Grant regarded him with affection. It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one’s trade. It was pleasant to hear the professional gossip, to talk professional politics; to learn who was on the mat and who was on the skids. ‘The Super sent his regards,’ Williams said as he got up to go, ‘and said if there was anything he could do for you to let him know.’ His eyes, no longer dazzled by the light, went to the photograph propped against the books. He leant his head sideways at it. ‘Who’s the bloke?’ Grant was just about to tell him when it occurred to him that here was a fellow policeman. A man as used, professionally, to faces as he was himself. Someone to whom faces were of daily importance. [Pg 43] ‘Portrait of a man by an unknown fifteenth-century painter,’ he said. ‘What do you make of it?’ ‘I don’t know the first thing about painting.’ ‘I didn’t mean that. I meant what do you make of the subject?’ ‘Oh. Oh, I see.’ Williams bent forward and drew his bland brows into a travesty of concentration. ‘How do you mean: make of it?’ ‘Well, where would you place him? In the dock or on the bench?’ Williams considered for a moment, and then said with confidence: ‘Oh, on the bench.’ ‘You would?’ ‘Certainly. Why? Wouldn’t you?’ ‘Yes. But the odd thing is that we’re both wrong. He belongs in the dock.’ ‘You surprise me,’ Williams said, peering again. ‘Do you know who he was, then?’ ‘Yes. Richard the Third.’ Williams whistled. ‘So that’s who it is, is it! Well, well. The Princes in the Tower, and all that. The original Wicked Uncle. I suppose, once you know, you can see it, but off-hand it wouldn’t occur to you. I mean, that he was a crook. He’s the spit of old Halsbury, come to think of it, and if Halsbury had a fault at all it was that he was too soft with the bastards in the dock. He used to lean over backwards to give them the benefit in his summing-up.’ ‘Do you know how the Princes were murdered?’ ‘I don’t know a thing about Richard III except that his mother was two years conceiving him.’ ‘What! Where did you get that tale?’ [Pg 44] ‘In my school history, I suppose.’ ‘You must have gone to a very remarkable school. Conception was not mentioned in any history book of mine. That is what made Shakespeare and the Bible so refreshing as lessons; the facts of life were always turning up. Did you ever hear of a man called Tyrrel?’ ‘Yes; he was a con. man on the P & O. boats. Drowned in the Egypt.’ ‘No; I mean, in history.’ ‘I tell you, I never knew any history except 1066 and 1603.’ ‘What happened in 1603?’ Grant asked, his mind still on Tyrrel. ‘We had the Scots tied to our tails for good.’ ‘Better than having them at our throats every five minutes. Tyrrel is said to be the man who put the boys out of the way.’ ‘The nephews? No, it doesn’t ring a bell. Well, I must be getting along. Anything I can do for you?’ ‘Did you say you were going to Charing Cross Road?’ ‘To the Phoenix, yes.’ ‘You could do something for me.’ ‘What is that?’ ‘Go into one of the bookshops and buy me a History of England. An adult one. And a Life of Richard III, if you can find one.’ ‘Sure, I’ll do that.’ As he was going out he encountered The Amazon, and looked startled to find anything as large as himself in nurse’s uniform. He murmured a good-morning in an abashed way, cast a questioning glance at Grant, and faded into the corridor. [Pg 45] The Amazon said that she was supposed to be giving Number Four her blanket bath but that she had to look in to see if he was convinced. ‘Convinced?’ About the nobility of Richard Coeur-de-Lion. ‘I haven’t got round to Richard the First yet. But keep Number Four waiting a few moments longer and tell me what you know about Richard III.’ ‘Ah, those poor lambs!’ she said, her great cow’s-eyes soft with pity. ‘Who?’ ‘Those two precious little boys. It used to be my nightmare when I was a kiddy. That someone would come and put a pillow over my face when I was asleep.’ ‘Is that how it was done: the murder?’ ‘Oh, yes. Didn’t you know? Sir James Tyrrel rode back to London when the court was at Warwick, and told Dighton and Forrest to kill them, and then they buried them at the foot of some stairs under a great mound of stones.’ ‘But it doesn’t say that in the book you lent me.’ ‘Oh, that book is just history-for-exams, if you know what I mean. You don’t get really interesting history in swot books like that.’ ‘And where did you get the juicy gossip about Tyrrel, may one ask?’ ‘It isn’t gossip,’ she said, hurt. ‘You’ll find it in Sir Thomas More’s history of his time. And you can’t find a more respected or trustworthy person in the whole of history than Sir Thomas More, now can you?’ ‘No. It would be bad manners to contradict Sir Thomas.’ [Pg 46] ‘Well, that’s what Sir Thomas says, and, after all, he was alive then and knew all those people to talk to.’ ‘Dighton and Forrest?’ ‘No, of course not. But Richard, and the poor Queen, and those.’ ‘The Queen? Richard’s Queen?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Why “poor”?’ ‘He led her an awful life. They say he poisoned her. He wanted to marry his niece.’ ‘Because she was the heir to the throne.’ ‘I see. He got rid of the two boys, and then wanted to marry their eldest sister.’ ‘Yes. He couldn’t marry either of the boys, you see.’ ‘No, I suppose even Richard the Third never thought of that one.’ ‘So he wanted to marry Elizabeth so as to feel safer on the throne. Actually, of course, she married his successor. She was Queen Elizabeth’s grandmother. It always used to please me that Elizabeth was a little bit Plantagenet. I never was very fond of the Tudor side. Now I must go, or Matron will be here on her round before I have Number Four tidied up.’ ‘That would be the end of the world.’ ‘It would be the end of me,’ she said, and went away. Grant took the book she had lent him off the pile again, and tried to make head or tail of the Wars of the Roses. He failed. Armies marched and counter-marched. York and Lancaster succeeded each other as victors in a bewildering repetition. It was as meaningless as watching a crowd of dodgem cars bumping and whirling at a fair. [Pg 47] But it seemed to him that the whole trouble was implicit, the germ of it sown, nearly a hundred years earlier, when the direct line was broken by the deposition of Richard II. He knew all about that because he had in his youth seen Richard of Bordeaux at the New Theatre; four times he had seen it. For three generations the usurping Lancasters had ruled England: Richard of Bordeaux’s Henry unhappily but with fair efficiency, Shakespeare’s Prince Hal with Agincourt for glory and the stake for zeal, and his son in half-witted muddle and failure. It was no wonder if men hankered after the legitimate line again, as they watched poor Henry VI’s inept friends frittering away the victories in France while Henry nursed his new foundation of Eton and besought the ladies at court to cover up their bosoms. All three Lancasters had had an unlovely fanaticism which contrasted sharply with the liberalism of the Court which had died with Richard II. Richard’s live-and-let-live methods had given place, almost overnight, to the burning of heretics. For three generations heretics had burned. It was no wonder if a less public fire of discontent had begun to smoulder in the heart of the man in the street. Especially since there, before their eyes, was the Duke of York. Able, sensible, influential, gifted, a great prince in his own right, and by blood the heir of Richard II. They might not desire that York should take the place of poor silly Henry, but they did wish that he would take over the running of the country and clean up the mess. York tried it, and died in battle for his pains, and his family spent much time in exile or sanctuary as a result. But when the tumult and the shouting was all over,[Pg 48] there on the throne of England was the son who had fought alongside him in that struggle, and the country settled back happily under that tall, flaxen, wenching, exceedingly beautiful but most remarkably shrewd young man, Edward IV. And that was as near as Grant would ever come to understanding the Wars of the Roses. He looked up from his book to find Matron standing in the middle of the room. ‘I did knock,’ she said, ‘but you were lost in your book.’ She stood there, slender and remote; as elegant in her way as Marta was; her white-cuffed hands clasped loosely in front of her narrow waist; her white veil spreading itself in imperishable dignity; her only ornament the small silver badge of her diploma. Grant wondered if there was anywhere in this world a more unshakable poise than that achieved by the matron of a great hospital. ‘I’ve taken to history,’ he said. ‘Rather late in the day.’ ‘An admirable choice,’ she said. ‘It puts things in perspective.’ Her eye lighted on the portrait and she said: ‘Are you York or Lancaster?’ ‘So you recognise the portrait.’ ‘Oh, yes. When I was a probationer I used to spend a lot of time in the National. I had very little money and very sore feet, and it was warm in the Gallery and quiet and it had plenty of seats.’ She smiled a very little, looking back from her present consequence to that young, tired, earnest creature that she had been. ‘I liked the Portrait Gallery best because it gave one the same sense of proportion that reading history does. All those Importances who had made such a to-do over so much in[Pg 49] their day. All just names. Just canvas and paint. I saw a lot of that portrait in those days.’ Her attention went back to the picture. ‘A most unhappy creature,’ she said. ‘My surgeon thinks it is poliomyelitis.’ ‘Polio?’ She considered it. ‘Perhaps. I hadn’t thought of it before. But to me it has always seemed to be intense unhappiness. It is the most desperately unhappy face that I have ever encountered—and I have encountered a great many.’ ‘You think it was painted later than the murder, then?’ ‘Oh, yes. Obviously. He is not a type that would do anything lightly. A man of that calibre. He must have been well aware of how—heinous the crime was.’ ‘You think he belonged to the type who can’t live with themselves any more.’ ‘What a good description! Yes. The kind who want something badly, and then discover that the price they have paid for it is too high.’ ‘So you don’t think he was an out-and-out villain?’ ‘No; oh, no. Villains don’t suffer, and that face is full of the most dreadful pain.’ They considered the portrait in silence for a moment or two. ‘It must have seemed like retribution, you know. Losing his only boy so soon after. And his wife’s death. Being stripped of his own personal world in so short a time. It must have seemed like Divine justice.’ ‘Would he care about his wife?’ ‘She was his cousin, and they had known each other from childhood. So whether he loved her or not, she must have been a companion for him. When you sit on a throne I suspect that companionship is a rare blessing.[Pg 50] Now I must go and see how my hospital is getting on. I have not even asked the question that I came to ask. Which was how you felt this morning. But it is a very healthy sign that you have interest to spare for a man dead these four hundred years.’ She had not moved from the position in which he had first caught sight of her. Now she smiled her faint, withdrawn smile, and with her hands still clasped lightly in front of her belt-buckle moved towards the door. She had a transcendental repose. Like a nun. Like a queen. It was after luncheon before Sergeant Williams reappeared, breathless, bearing two fat volumes. ‘You should have left them with the porter,’ Grant said. ‘I didn’t mean you to come sweating up here with them.’ ‘I had to come up and explain. I had only time to go to one shop, but it’s the biggest in the street. That’s the best history of England they have in stock. It’s the best there is anywhere, they say.’ He laid down a severe-looking sage-green tome, with an air of taking no responsibility for it. ‘They had no separate history of Richard III. I mean, no life of him. But they gave me this.’ This was a gay affair with a coat of arms on the wrapper. It was called The Rose of Raby. ‘She was his mother, it seems. The Rose in question, I mean. I can’t wait: I’m due at the Yard in five minutes from now and the Super will flay me alive if I’m late. Sorry I couldn’t do better. I’ll look in again, first time I’m passing, and if these are no good I’ll see what else I can get.’ Grant was grateful and said so. To the sound of Williams’ brisk departing footsteps he began his inspection of the ‘best history of England there is’. It turned out to be what is known as a ‘constitutional’ history; a sober compilation lightened with improving[Pg 52] illustrations. An illumination from the Luttrell Psalter decorated the husbandry of the fourteenth century, and a contemporary map of London bisected the Great Fire. Kings and Queens were mentioned only incidentally. Tanner’s Constitutional History was concerned only with social progress and political evolution; with the Black Death, and the invention of printing, and the use of gunpowder, and the formation of the Trade Guilds, and so forth. But here and there Mr Tanner was forced, by a horrid germaneness, to mention a King or his relations. And one such germaneness occurred in connection with the invention of printing. A man called Caxton came out of the Weald of Kent as draper’s apprentice to a future Lord Mayor of London, and then went to Bruges with the twenty merks his master left him in his will. And when, in the dreary autumn rain of the Low Countries, two young refugees from England fetched up on those low shores, in very low water, it was the successful merchant from the Weald of Kent who gave them succour. The refugees were Edward IV and his brother Richard; and when in the turn of the wheel Edward came back to rule England, Caxton came too, and the first books printed in England were printed for Edward IV and written by Edward’s brother-in-law. He turned the pages and marvelled how dull information is deprived of personality. The sorrows of humanity are no one’s sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one’s spine at wholesale destruction but one’s heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. So Mr[Pg 53] Tanner’s account of the progress of the English race was admirable but unexciting. But here and there where he could not avoid the personal his narrative flowered into a more immediate interest. In extracts from the Pastons’ letters, for instance. The Pastons had a habit of sandwiching scraps of history between orders for salad oil and inquiries as to how Clement was doing at Cambridge. And between two of those domesticities appeared the small item that the two little York boys, George and Richard, were living in the Pastons’ London lodgings, and that their brother Edward came every day to see them. Surely, thought Grant, dropping the book for a moment on the counterpane and staring up at the now invisible ceiling, surely never before can anyone have come to the throne of England with so personal an experience of the ordinary man’s life as Edward IV and his brother Richard. And perhaps only Charles II after them. And Charles, even in poverty and flight, had always been a King’s son; a man apart. The two little boys who were living in the Pastons’ lodgings were merely the babies of the York family. Of no particular importance at the best of times, and at the moment when the Paston letter was written without a home and possibly without a future. Grant reached for The Amazon’s history book to find out what Edward was about in London at that date, and learned that he was collecting an army. ‘London was always Yorkist in temper, and men flocked with enthusiasm to the banner of the youthful Edward,’ said the history book. And yet young Edward, aged eighteen, idol of a capital[Pg 54] city and on the way to the first of his victories, found time to come every day to see his small brothers. Was it now, Grant wondered, that the remarkable devotion of Richard to his elder brother was born. An unwavering life-long devotion that the history books not only did not deny but actually used in order to point the moral. ‘Up to the moment of his brother’s death Richard had been in all vicissitudes his loyal and faithful helpmeet, but the opportunity of a crown proved too much for him.’ Or in the simpler words of the Historical Reader: ‘He had been a good brother to Edward but when he saw that he might become King greed hardened his heart.’ Grant took a sideways look at the portrait and decided that the Historical Reader was off the beam. Whatever had hardened Richard’s heart to the point of murder had not been greed. Or did the Historical Reader mean greed for power? Probably. Probably. But surely Richard must have had all the power that mortal man could wish. He was the King’s brother, and rich. Was that short step further so important that he could murder his brother’s children to achieve it? It was an odd set-up altogether. He was still mulling it over in his mind when Mrs Tinker came in with fresh pyjamas for him and her daily précis of the newspaper headlines. Mrs Tinker never read past the third headline of a report unless it happened to be a murder, in which case she read every word and bought an evening paper for herself on the way home to cook Tinker’s supper. Today the gentle burble of her comment on a Yorkshire arsenic-and-exhumation case flowed over him unbroken[Pg 55] until she caught sight of the morning paper lying in its virgin condition alongside the books on the table. This brought her to a sudden halt. ‘You not feelin’ so good today?’ she asked in a concerned way. ‘I’m fine, Tink, fine. Why?’ ‘You ’aven’t as much as opened your paper. That’s ’ow my sister’s gel started her decline. Not takin’ no notice of what was in the paper.’ ‘Don’t you worry. I’m on the up-grade. Even my temper has improved. I forgot about the paper because I’ve been reading history stories. Ever heard of the Princes in the Tower?’ ‘Everyone’s ’eard of the Princes in the Tower.’ ‘And do you know how they met their end?’ ‘Course I do. He put a pillow on their faces when they was asleep.’ ‘Who did?’ ‘Their wicked uncle. Richard the Third. You didn’t ought to think of things like that when you’re poorly. You ought to be reading something nice and cheerful.’ ‘Are you in a hurry to get home, Tink, or could you go round by St Martin’s Lane for me?’ ‘No, I’ve plenty of time. Is it Miss Hallard? She won’t be at the theatre till six-about.’ ‘No, I know. But you might leave a note for her and she’ll get it when she comes in.’ He reached for his scribbling pad and pencil and wrote: ‘For the love of Mike find me a copy of Thomas More’s history of Richard III.’ He tore off the page, folded it and scribbled Marta’s name on it. [Pg 56] ‘You can give it to old Saxton at the stage-door. He’ll see that she gets it.’ ‘If I can get near the stage-door what with the stools for the queue,’ Mrs Tinker said; in comment rather than in truth. ‘That thing’s going to run for ever.’ She put the folded paper carefully away in the cheap pseudo-leather handbag with the shabby edges that was as much a part of her as her hat. Grant had, Christmas by Christmas, provided her with a new bag; each of them a work of art in the best tradition of English leather-working, an article so admirable in design and so perfect in execution that Marta Hallard might have carried it to luncheon at the Blague. But that was the last he had ever seen of any of them. Since Mrs Tinker regarded a pawnshop as one degree more disgraceful than prison, he absolved her from any suspicion of cashing in on her presents. He deduced that the handbags were safely laid away in a drawer somewhere, still wrapped up in the original tissue paper. Perhaps she took them out to show people sometimes, sometimes perhaps just to gloat over; or perhaps the knowledge that they were there enriched her, as the knowledge of ’something put by for my funeral’ might enrich another. Next Christmas he was going to open this shabby sack of hers, this perennial satchel à toute faire, and put something in the money compartment. She would fritter it away, of course, in small unimportances; so that in the end she would not know what she had done with it; but perhaps a series of small satisfactions scattered like sequins over the texture of everyday life was of greater worth than the academic satisfaction of owning a collection of fine objects at the back of a drawer. [Pg 57] When she had gone creaking away, in a shoes-and-corset concerto, he went back to Mr Tanner and tried to improve his mind by acquiring some of Mr Tanner’s interest in the human race. But he found it an effort. Neither by nature nor by profession was he interested in mankind in the large. His bias, native and acquired, was towards the personal. He waded through Mr Tanner’s statistics and longed for a king in an oak-tree, or a broom tied to a mast-head, or a Highlander hanging on to a trooper’s stirrup in a charge. But at least he had the satisfaction of learning that the Englishman of the fifteenth century ‘drank water only as a penance’. The English labourer of Richard III’s day was, it seemed, the admiration of the continent. Mr Tanner quoted a contemporary, writing in France. The King of France will allow no one to use salt, but what is bought of himself at his own arbitrary price. The troops pay for nothing, and treat the people barbarously if they are not satisfied. All growers of vines must give a fourth to the King. All the towns must pay the King great yearly sums for his men-at-arms. The peasants live in great hardship and misery. They wear no woollen. Their clothing consists of little short jerkins of sackcloth, no trowse but from the knees up, and legs exposed and naked. The women all go barefoot. The people eat no meat, except the fat of bacon in their soup. Nor are the gentry much better off. If an accusation is brought against them they are examined in private, and perhaps never more heard of. In England it is very different. No one can abide in another man’s house without his leave. The King [Pg 58]cannot put on taxes, nor alter the laws, nor make new ones. The English never drink water except for penance. They eat all sorts of flesh and fish. They are clothed throughout in good woollens, and are provided with all sorts of household goods. An Englishman cannot be sued except before the ordinary judge. And it seemed to Grant that if you were very hard up and wanted to go to see what your Lizzie’s first-born looked like it must have been reassuring to know that there was shelter and a hand-out at every religious house, instead of wondering how you were going to raise the train fare. That green England he had fallen asleep with last night had a lot to be said for it. He thumbed through the pages on the fifteenth century, looking for personal items; for individual reports that might, in their single vividness, illumine the scene for him as a ’spot’ lights the desired part of a stage. But the story was distressingly devoted to the general. According to Mr Tanner, Richard III’s only Parliament was the most liberal and progressive within record; and he regretted, did the worthy Mr Tanner, that his private crimes should have militated against his patent desire for the common weal. And that seemed to be all that Mr Tanner had to say about Richard III. Except for the Pastons, chatting indestructibly through the centuries, there was a dearth of human beings in this record of humanity. He let the book slide off his chest, and searched with his hand until he found The Rose of Raby. The Rose of Raby proved to be fiction; but it was at least easier to hold than Tanner’s Constitutional History of England. It was, moreover, the almost-respectable form of historical fiction which is merely history-with-conversation, so to speak. An imaginative biography rather than an imagined story. Evelyn Payne-Ellis, whoever she might be, had provided portraits and a family tree, and had made no attempt, it seemed, to what he and his cousin Laura used to call in their childhood ‘write forsoothly’. There were no ‘by our Ladys’, no ’nathelesses’ or ‘varlets’. It was an honest affair according to its lights. And its lights were more illuminating than Mr Tanner. Much more illuminating. It was Grant’s belief that if you could not find out about a man, the next best way to arrive at an estimate of him was to find out about his mother. So until Marta could provide him with the sainted and infallible Thomas More’s personal account of Richard, he would make do very happily with Cecily Nevill, Duchess of York. He glanced at the family tree, and thought that if the two York brothers, Edward and Richard, were, as kings, unique in their experience of ordinary life they were no less unique in their Englishness. He looked at[Pg 60] their breeding and marvelled. Nevill, Fitzalan, Percy, Holland, Mortimer, Clifford and Audley, as well as Plantagenet. Queen Elizabeth (who made it her boast) was all English; if one counted the Welsh streak as English. But among all the half-bred monarchs who had graced the throne between the Conquest and Farmer George—half-French, half-Spanish, half-Danish, half-Dutch, half-Portuguese—Edward IV and Richard III were remarkable in their home-bred quality. They were also, he noted, as royally bred on their mother’s side as on their father’s. Cecily Nevill’s grandfather was John of Gaunt, the first of the Lancasters; third son of Edward III. Her husband’s two grandfathers were two other sons of Edward III. So three of Edward III’s five sons had contributed to the making of the two York brothers. ‘To be a Nevill’ said Miss Payne-Ellis ‘was to be of some importance since they were great landowners. To be a Nevill was almost certainly to be handsome, since they were a good-looking family. To be a Nevill was to have personality, since they excelled in displays of both character and temperament. To unite all three Nevill gifts, in their finest quality, in one person was the good fortune of Cicely Nevill, who was the sole Rose of the north long before that north was forced to choose between White Roses and Red.’ It was Miss Payne-Ellis’s contention that the marriage with Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, was a love match. Grant received this theory with a scepticism bordering on scorn until he noticed the results of that[Pg 61] marriage. To have a yearly addition to the family was not, in the fifteenth century, evidence of anything but fertility. And the long family produced by Cicely Nevill to her charming husband augured nothing nearer love than cohabitation. But in a time when the wife’s rôle was to stay meekly at home and see to her still-room, Cecily Nevill’s constant travellings about in her husband’s company were surely remarkable enough to suggest an abnormal pleasure in that company. The extent and constancy of that travel was witnessed to by the birthplaces of her children. Anne, her first, was born at Fotheringhay, the family home in Northamptonshire. Henry, who died as a baby, at Hatfield. Edward at Rouen, where the Duke was on active service. Edmund and Elizabeth also at Rouen. Margaret at Fotheringhay. John, who died young, at Neath in Wales. George in Dublin (and could it be, wondered Grant, that that accounted for the almost Irish perverseness of the ineffable George?). Richard at Fotheringhay. Cecily Nevill had not sat at home in Northamptonshire waiting for her lord and master to visit her when it seemed good to him. She had accompanied him about the world of their inhabiting. There was strong presumption in favour of Miss Payne-Ellis’s theory. At the very canniest reckoning it was patently a very successful marriage. Which perhaps accounted for the family devotion of those daily visits of Edward to his small brothers in the Pastons’ lodgings. The York family, even before its tribulations, was a united one. This was borne out unexpectedly when, spurting the pages from under his thumb, he came on a letter. It was a letter from the two elder boys, Edward and Edmund,[Pg 62] to their father. The boys were at Ludlow Castle, undergoing their education, and on a Saturday in Easter week, taking advantage of a courier who was going back, they burst out in loud complaint of their tutor and his ‘odiousness’ and begged their father to listen to the tale of the courier, William Smyth, who was fully charged with the details of their oppression. This S.O.S. was introduced and ended in respectful padding, the formality of which was a little marred by their pointing out that it was nice of him to send the clothes but that he had forgotten their breviary. The conscientious Miss Payne-Ellis had given the reference for this letter (one of the Cotton manuscripts, it appeared) and he thumbed more slowly, in search of more. Factual evidence was a policeman’s meat. He could not find any, but he came on a family tableau which held him for a moment. The Duchess moved out into the thin sharp sunlight of a London December morning, and stood on the steps to watch them go: her husband, her brother, and her son. Dirk and his nephews brought the horses into the courtyard, scattering the pigeons and the fussing sparrows from the cobbles. She watched her husband mount, equable and deliberate as always, and thought that for all the emotion he showed he might be riding down to Fotheringhay to look at some new rams instead of setting out on a campaign. Salisbury, her brother, was being Nevill and temperamental; a little conscious of the occasion and living up to it. She looked at them both and smiled in her mind at them. But it was Edmund who caught at her [Pg 63]heart. Edmund at seventeen, very slender, very untried, very vulnerable. Flushed with pride and excitement at this setting-out to his first campaigning. She wanted to say to her husband: ‘Take care of Edmund,’ but she could not do that. Her husband would not understand; and Edmund, if he were to suspect, would be furious. If Edward, only a year older, was commanding an army of his own on the borders of Wales at this very minute, then he, Edmund, was more than old enough to see war at first-hand. She glanced behind her at the three younger children who had come out in her wake; Margaret and George, the two solid fair ones, and behind them, a pace in the rear as always, her changeling baby, Richard; his dark brows and brown hair making him look like a visitor. Good-natured untidy Margaret watched with all the moist-eyed emotion of fourteen; George in a passionate envy and wild rebellion that he was only eleven and of no consequence in this martial moment. Thin little Richard showed no excitement at all, but his mother thought that he vibrated like a softly tapped drum. The three horses moved out of the courtyard in a clatter of slipping hooves and jingling accoutrements, to join the servants waiting for them in the roadway, and the children called and danced and waved them out of the gate. And Cicely, who in her time had seen so many men, and so many of her family, go off to war, went back to the house with an unaccustomed weight at her bosom. Which of them, said the voice in her unwilling mind, which of them was it who was not coming back? [Pg 64] Her imagination did not compass anything so horrible as the fact that none of them was coming back again. That she would never see any one of them again. That before the year was ended her husband’s severed head, crowned for insult with a paper crown, would be nailed above the Micklegate Bar in York, and the heads of her brother and her son on the two other gates. Well, that might be fiction, but it was an illuminating glimpse of Richard. The dark one in a blond family. The one who ‘looked like a visitor’. The ‘changeling’. He abandoned Cicely Nevill for the moment, and went hunting through the book for her son Richard. But Miss Payne-Ellis seemed not to be greatly interested in Richard. He was merely the tail-end of the family. The magnificent young creature who flourished at the other end was more to her taste. Edward was much to the fore. With his Nevill cousin Warwick, Salisbury’s son, he won the battle of Towton, and, with the memory of Lancastrian ferocity still fresh and his father’s head still nailed to the Micklegate Bar, gave evidence of that tolerance that was to be characteristic of him. There was quarter at Towton for all who asked. He was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey (and two small boys, home from exile in Utrecht, were created respectively Duke of Clarence and Duke of Gloucester). And he buried his father and his brother Edmund with great magnificence in the church at Fotheringhay (though it was Richard, aged thirteen, who convoyed that sad procession from Yorkshire, through the bright glory of five July days, to Northamptonshire; nearly six years[Pg 65] after he had stood on the steps of Baynard’s Castle in London to watch them ride away). It was not until Edward had been King for some time that Miss Payne-Ellis allowed Richard to come back into the story. He was then being educated with his Nevill cousins at Middleham, in Yorkshire. As Richard rode into the shadow of the keep, out of the broad sunlight and flying winds of Wensleydale, it seemed to him that there was an atmosphere of strangeness about the place. The guards were talking in loud excitement in the gatehouse and seemed abashed at his presence. From their sudden silence he rode on into a silent court that should have been bustling with activity at this hour of the day. It would soon be supper time, and both habit and hunger brought all the inhabitants of Middleham home from their various occupations, as they were bringing him back from his hawking, for the evening meal. This hush, this desertion, was unusual. He walked his horse to the stables, but there was no one there to give it to. As he unsaddled he noticed a hard-ridden bay in the next stall; a horse that did not belong to Middleham; a horse so tired that he had not eaten up and his head hung in a despondent beaten way between his knees. Richard wiped his horse down and rugged him, brought him some hay and fresh water, and left him; wondering about that beaten horse and the uncanny silence. As he paused in the doorway he could hear voices in the distance of the great hall; and debated whether he should go there and investigate before going [Pg 66]upstairs to his own quarters. As he hesitated a voice from the stairs above him said: ‘Z-z-zt!’ He looked up to see his cousin Anne’s head peering over the banisters, her two long fair plaits hanging down like bell-ropes. ‘Richard!’ she said, half whispering. ‘Have you heard?’ ‘Is something wrong?’ he asked. ‘What is it?’ As he moved up to her she grabbed his hand and dragged him upwards towards their schoolroom in the roof. ‘But what is it?’ he asked, leaning back in protest against her urgency. ‘What has happened? Is it something so awful that you can’t tell me here!’ She swept him into the schoolroom and shut the door. ‘It’s Edward!’ ‘Edward? Is he ill?’ ‘No! Scandal!‘ ‘Oh,’ said Richard, relieved. Scandal and Edward were never far apart. ‘What is it? Has he a new mistress?’ ‘Much worse than that! Oh, much, much worse. He’s married.’ ‘Married?’ said Richard, so unbelieving that he sounded calm. ‘He can’t be.’ ‘But he is. The news came from London an hour ago.’ ‘He can’t be married,’ Richard insisted. ‘For a King marriage is a long affair. A matter of contracts, and agreements. A matter for Parliament, even, I think. What made you think he had got married?’ [Pg 67] ‘I don’t think,’ Anne said, out of patience at this sober reception of her broadside. ‘The whole family is raging together in the Great Hall over the affair.’ ‘Anne! have you been listening at the door?’ ‘Oh, don’t be so righteous. I didn’t have to listen very hard, anyhow. You could hear them on the other side of the river. He has married Lady Grey!’ ‘Who is Lady Grey? Lady Grey of Groby?’ ‘But he can’t. She has two children and she is quite old.’ ‘She is five years older than Edward, and she is wonderfully beautiful—so I overhear.’ ‘When did this happen?’ ‘They’ve been married for five months. They got married in secret down in Northamptonshire.’ ‘But I thought he was going to marry the King of France’s sister.’ ‘So’ said Anne in a tone full of meaning ‘did my father.’ ‘Yes; yes, it makes things very awkward for him, doesn’t it; after all the negotiating.’ ‘According to the messenger from London he is throwing fits. It isn’t only the making him look a fool. It seems she has cohorts of relations and he hates every one of them.’ ‘Edward must be possessed.’ In Richard’s hero-worshipping eyes everything Edward did had always been right. This folly, this undeniable, this inexcusable folly, could come only from possession. ‘It will break my mother’s heart,’ he said. He thought of his mother’s courage when his father and [Pg 68]Edmund had been killed, and the Lancastrian army was almost at the gates of London. She had not wept nor wrapped herself in protective veils of self-pity. She had arranged that he and George should go to Utrecht, as if she were arranging for them to go away to school. They might never see each other again, but she had busied herself about warm clothes for their winter voyage across the Channel with a calm and dry-eyed practicality. How would she bear this; this further blow? This destructive folly. This shattering foolishness. ‘Yes,’ said Anne, softening. ‘Poor Aunt Cecily. It is monstrous of Edward to hurt everyone so. Monstrous.’ But Edward was still the infallible. If Edward had done wrong it was because he was ill, or possessed, or bewitched. Edward still had Richard’s allegiance; his heart-whole and worshipping allegiance. Nor in after years was that allegiance—an adult allegiance of recognition and acceptance—ever less than heart-whole. And then the story went on to Cicely Nevill’s tribulation, and her efforts to bring some kind of order into the relations between her son Edward, half-pleased half-ashamed, and her nephew Warwick, wholly furious. There was also a long description of that indestructibly virtuous beauty with the famous ‘gilt’ hair, who had succeeded where more complaisant beauties had failed; and of her enthroning at Reading Abbey (led to the throne by a silently protesting Warwick, who could not but note the large array of Woodvilles, come to see their sister Elizabeth acknowledged Queen of England). [Pg 69] The next time Richard turned up in the tale he was setting out from Lynn without a penny in his pocket, in a Dutch vessel that happened to be in the harbour when it was needed. Along with him was his brother Edward, Edward’s friend Lord Hastings, and a few followers. None of them had anything except what they stood up in, and after some argument the ship’s captain agreed to accept Edward’s fur-lined cape as fare. Warwick had finally decided that the Woodville clan was more than he could stomach. He had helped to put his cousin Edward on the throne of England; he could just as easily unseat him. For the achievement of this he had the help of the whole Nevill brood; and, incredibly, the active assistance of the ineffable George. Who had decided that falling heir to half the lands of Montague, Nevill, and Beauchamp, by marrying Warwick’s other daughter Isabel, was a better bet than being loyal to his brother Edward. In eleven days Warwick was master of a surprised England, and Edward and Richard were squelching through the October mud between Alkmaar and The Hague. From then on, Richard was always in the background of the story. Through that dreary winter in Bruges. Staying with Margaret in Burgundy—for that kind moist-eyed Margaret who had stood on the steps of Baynard’s Castle with himself and George to watch their father ride away was now the very new Duchess of Burgundy. Margaret, kind Margaret, was saddened and dismayed—as many people in future were to be saddened and dismayed—by George’s inexplicable conduct, and set herself to missionary work what time she got together funds for her two more admirable brothers. [Pg 70] Not even Miss Payne-Ellis’s interest in the magnificent Edward allowed her to conceal that the real work of outfitting the ships hired with Margaret’s money was done by Richard; a Richard not yet eighteen. And when Edward with an absurd handful of followers found himself once more camped in an English meadow, facing George with an army, it was Richard who went over to George’s camp and talked the Margaret-weakened George into alliance again and so left the road to London open to them. Not, Grant thought, that this last was any great achievement. George could obviously be talked into anything. He was the born missionee. He had not nearly exhausted The Rose of Raby and the illicit joys of fiction when, next morning about eleven, a parcel arrived from Marta containing the more respectable entertainment of history as recorded by the sainted Sir Thomas. With the book was a note in Marta’s large sprawling writing on Marta’s stiff expensive notepaper. Have to send this instead of bringing it. Frantically busy. Think I have got M.M. to the sticking point re Blessington. No T. More in any of the bookshops, so tried Public Library. Can’t think why one never thinks of Public Libraries. Probably because books expected to be soupy. Think this looks quite clean and unsoupy. You get fourteen days. Sounds like a sentence rather than a loan. Hope this interest in Crouchback means that the prickles are less nettlish. Till soon. Marta. The book did indeed look clean and unsoupy, if a little elderly. But after the light going of The Rose its print looked unexciting and its solid paragraphs forbidding. Nevertheless he attacked it with interest. This was, after all, where Richard III was concerned, ‘the horse’s mouth’. [Pg 72] He came to the surface an hour later, vaguely puzzled and ill at ease. It was not that the matter surprised him; the facts were very much what he had expected them to be. It was that this was not how he had expected Sir Thomas to write. He took ill rest at nights, lay long waking and musing; sore wearied with care and watch, he slumbered rather than slept. So was his restless heart continually tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression and stormy remembrance of his most abominable deeds. That was all right. But when he added that ‘this he had from such as were secret with his chamberers’ one was suddenly repelled. An aroma of back-stair gossip and servants’ spying came off the page. So that one’s sympathy tilted before one was aware of it from the smug commentator to the tortured creature sleepless on his bed. The murderer seemed of greater stature than the man who was writing of him. Which was all wrong. Grant was conscious too of the same unease that filled him when he listened to a witness telling a perfect story that he knew to be flawed somewhere. And that was very puzzling indeed. What could possibly be wrong with the personal account of a man revered for his integrity as Thomas More had been revered for four centuries? The Richard who appeared in More’s account was, Grant thought, one that Matron would have recognised. A man highly-strung and capable of both great evil and great suffering. ‘He was never quiet in his mind, never thought himself secure. His eyes whirled about,[Pg 73] his body was privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again.’ And of course there was the dramatic, not to say hysterical, scene that Grant remembered from his schooldays; that every schoolboy probably remembered. The council scene in the Tower before he laid claim to the crown. Richard’s sudden challenge to Hastings as to what was the proper fate for a man who plotted the death of the Protector of the Kingdom. The insane claim that Edward’s wife and Edward’s mistress (Jane Shore) were responsible for his withered arm by their sorcery. The smiting of the table in his rage, which was the signal for his armed satellites to burst in and arrest Lord Hastings, Lord Stanley, and John Morton, Bishop of Ely. The rushing of Hastings down into the courtyard and his beheading on a handy log of wood after bare time to confess himself to the first priest who could be found. That was certainly the picture of a man who would act first—in fury, in fear, in revenge—and repent afterwards. But it seemed that he was capable of more calculated iniquity. He caused a sermon to be preached by a certain Dr Shaw, brother of the Lord Mayor, at Paul’s Gross, on June 22, on the text: ‘Bastard slips shall take no root.’ Wherein Dr Shaw maintained that both Edward and George were sons of the Duchess of York by some unknown man, and that Richard was the only legitimate son of the Duke and Duchess of York. This was so unlikely, so inherently absurd, that Grant went back and read it over again. But it still said the[Pg 74] same thing. That Richard had traduced his mother, in public and for his own material advantage, with an unbelievable infamy. Well, Sir Thomas More said it. And if anyone should know it would be Thomas More. And if anyone should know how to pick and choose between the credibilities in the reporting of a story it ought to be Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England. Richard’s mother, said Sir Thomas, complained bitterly of the slander with which her son had smirched her. Understandably, on the whole, Grant thought. As for Dr Shaw, he was overcome with remorse. So much so that ‘within a few days he withered and consumed away’. Had a stroke, probably, Grant considered. And little wonder. To have stood up and told that tale to a London crowd must have taken some nerve. Sir Thomas’s account of the Princes in the Tower was the same as The Amazon’s, but Sir Thomas’s version was more detailed. Richard had suggested to Robert Brackenbury, Constable of the Tower, that it might be a good thing if the Princes disappeared, but Brackenbury would have no part in such an act. Richard therefore waited until he was at Warwick, during his progress through England after his coronation and then sent Tyrrel to London with orders that he was to receive the keys of the Tower for one night. During that night two ruffians, Dighton and Forrest, one a groom and one a warder, smothered the two boys. At this point The Midget came in with his lunch and removed the book from his grasp; and while he forked the shepherd’s pie from plate to mouth he considered[Pg 75] again the face of the man in the dock. The faithful and patient small brother who had turned into a monster. When The Midget came back for his tray he said: ‘Did you know that Richard III was a very popular person in his day? Before he came to the throne, I mean.’ The Midget cast a baleful glance at the picture. ‘Always was a snake in the grass, if you ask me. Smooth, that’s what he was: smooth. Biding his time.’ Biding his time for what? he wondered, as she tapped away down the corridor. He could not have known that his brother Edward would die unexpectedly at the early age of forty. He could not have foreseen (even after a childhood shared with him in uncommon intimacy) that George’s on-goings would end in attainder and the debarring of his two children from the succession. There seemed little point in ‘biding one’s time’ if there was nothing to bide for. The indestructibly virtuous beauty with the gilt hair had, except for her incurable nepotism, proved an admirable Queen and had provided Edward with a large brood of healthy children, including two boys. The whole of that brood, together with George and his son and daughter, stood between Richard and the throne. It was surely unlikely that a man busy with the administration of the North of England, or campaigning (with dazzling success) against the Scots, would have much spare interest in being ’smooth’. What then had changed him so fundamentally in so short a time? Grant reached for The Rose of Raby to see what Miss Payne-Ellis had had to say about the unhappy metamorphosis of Cecily Nevill’s youngest son. But that wily author had burked the issue. She had wanted the book[Pg 76] to be a happy one, and to have carried it to its logical conclusion would have made it unredeemed tragedy. She had therefore wound it up with a fine resounding major chord by making her last chapter the coming-out of young Elizabeth, Edward’s eldest child. This avoided both the tragedy of Elizabeth’s young brothers and the defeat and death of Richard in battle. So the book ended with a Palace party, and a flushed and happy young Elizabeth, very magnificent in a new white dress and her first pearls, dancing the soles out of her slippers like the princesses in the fairy-tale. Richard and Anne, and their delicate little son, had come up from Middleham for the occasion. But neither George nor Isabel was there. Isabel had died in childbirth years ago, obscurely and as far as George was concerned unmourned. George too had died obscurely, but with that perverseness that was so peculiarly George’s, had by that very obscurity won for himself imperishable fame. George’s life had been a progression from one spectacular piece of spiritual extravagance to the next. Each time, his family must have said: Well, that at last is the summit of frightfulness; even George cannot think of anything more fantastic than that. And each time George had surprised them. There was no limit to George’s antic capacity. The seed was perhaps sown when, during his first backsliding in the company of his father-in-law, Warwick had created him heir to the poor crazy puppet-King, Henry VI, whom Warwick had dumped back on the throne to spite his cousin Edward. Both Warwick’s hopes of seeing his daughter a Queen and George’s royal pretensions had gone down the drain on that night when[Pg 77] Richard had gone over to the Lancastrian camp and talked to George. But the taste of importance had perhaps proved too much for a natural sweet-tooth. In the years to come the family were always heading George off from unexpected vagaries, or rescuing him from his latest caper. When Isabel died he had been certain that she had been poisoned by her waiting-woman, and that his baby son had been poisoned by another. Edward, thinking the affair important enough to be tried before a London court, sent down a writ; only to find that George had tried them both at a petty sessions of his own magistrates and hanged them. The furious Edward, by way of rapping him over the knuckles, had two members of George’s household tried for treason; but instead of taking the hint George declared that this was just judicial murder, and went about saying so in loud tones and a fine blaze of lèse-majesté. Then he decided that he wanted to marry the richest heiress in Europe; who was Margaret’s step-daughter, young Mary of Burgundy. Kind Margaret thought that it would be nice to have her brother in Burgundy, but Edward had arranged to back Maximilian of Austria’s suit, and George was a continual embarrassment. When the Burgundy intrigue came to nothing, the family hoped for a little peace. After all, George owned half the Nevill lands and had no need to marry again either for fortune or children. But George had a new scheme for marrying Margaret, the sister of James III of Scotland. At last his folie de grandeur graduated from secret negotiation undertaken on his own behalf with foreign[Pg 78] courts to open display of the Lancastrian act of Parliament which had declared him heir to the throne after Henry VI. This, inevitably, landed him before another Parliament, and a much less amenable one. The trial was chiefly remarkable for a flaming and wordy row between the two brothers, Edward and George, but when the expected attainder was passed, there was a pause. Depriving George of his standing was one thing: desirable and indeed necessary. But executing him was something else again. As the days went by without sentence being carried out, the Commons sent a reminder. And next day it was announced that George, Duke of Clarence, had died in the Tower. ‘Drowned in a butt of Malmsey,’ said London. And what was merely a Cockney’s comment on a drunkard’s end passed into history and made the undeserving George immortal. So George was not at that party at Westminster, and the emphasis in Miss Payne-Ellis’s final chapter was not on Cecily Nevill as the mother of sons, but on Cecily Nevill the grandmother of a fine brood. George might have died discredited, on a dried-leaf heap of worn-out friendships, but his son, young Warwick, was a fine upstanding boy, and little Margaret at ten was already showing signs of the traditional Nevill beauty. Edmund, dead in battle at seventeen, might seem a wanton waste of young life, but there to balance it was the delicate baby whom she had never thought to rear; and he had a son to follow him. Richard in his twenties still looked as though one could break him in two, but he was as tough as a heather root, and perhaps his fragile-looking son[Pg 79] would grow up to be as resilient. As for Edward, her tall blond Edward, his beauty might be blurring into grossness and his amiability into sloth, but his two small sons and his five girls had all the character and good looks of their combined ancestry. As a grandmother she could look on that crowd of children with a personal pride, and as a Princess of England she could look on them with assurance. The crown was safe in the York line for generations to come. If anyone, looking in a crystal ball at that party, had told Cecily Nevill that in four years not only the York line but the whole Plantagenet dynasty would have gone for ever, she would have held it to be either madness or treason. But what Miss Payne-Ellis had not sought to gloss over was the prevalence of the Woodville clan in a Nevill-Plantagenet gathering. She looked round the room and wished that her daughter-in-law Elizabeth had been blessed either with a less generous heart or with fewer relations. The Woodville match had turned out far more happily than anyone had dared to hope; Elizabeth had been an admirable wife; but the by-products had not been so fortunate. It was perhaps inevitable that the governorship of the two boys should have gone to her eldest brother; and Rivers, if a little nouveau riche in his liking for display and a little too obviously ambitious, was a cultured creature and an admirable person to have the boys in charge during their school-room days at Ludlow. But as for the rest: four brothers, seven [Pg 80]sisters, and two sons by her first husband, were really too many by half to have brought into the marriage market in her wake. Cecily looked across the laughing mêlée of the children’s blind man’s buff to the grown-ups standing round the supper table. Anne Woodville married to the Earl of Essex’s heir. Eleanor Woodville married to the Earl of Kent’s heir. Margaret Woodville married to the Earl of Arundel’s heir. Catherine Woodville married to the Duke of Buckingham. Jacquette Woodville to Lord Strange. Mary Woodville to Lord Herbert’s heir. And John Woodville, disgracefully, to the Dowager of Norfolk who was old enough to be his grandmother. It was good that new blood should strengthen the old families—new blood had always seeped in—but it was not good that it should come suddenly and in a flood from one particular source. It was like a fever in the political blood of the country; a foreign introduction, difficult to be assimilated. Unwise and regrettable. However. There were long years ahead in which that influx could be assimilated. This new sudden power in the body politic would cease to be so concentrated, would spread out, would settle down, would cease to be dangerous and upsetting. Edward for all his amiability had a shrewd common sense; he would keep the country on an even keel as he had kept it for nearly twenty years. No one had run England with a more despotic power or a lighter hand than her acute, lazy, woman-loving Edward. It would be all right eventually. She was about to rise and join them in their [Pg 81]discussion of sweetmeats—they must not think that she was being critical or aloof—when her granddaughter Elizabeth came breathless and laughing out of the scrimmage and swept into the seat beside her. ‘I am much too old for this sort of thing,’ she said between her gasps, ‘and it is ruinous to one’s clothes. Do you like my dress, grandmother? I had to coax it out of Father. He said my old tawny satin would do. The one I had when Aunt Margaret came from Burgundy to visit us. That is the worst of having a father who notices what women wear. He knows too much about one’s wardrobe. Did you hear that the Dauphin has jilted me? Father is in a pet, but I am so happy. I lighted ten candles to St Catherine. It took all I had left of my allowance. I don’t want to leave England. I want never to leave England ever. Can you arrange that for me, grandmother?’ Cicely smiled and said that she would try. ‘Old Ankaret, who tells fortunes, says that I am to be a Queen. But since there is no prince to marry me I do not see how that may be.’ She paused, and added in a smaller voice: ‘She said Queen of England. But I expect she was just a little tipsy. She is very fond of hippocras.’ It was unfair, not to say inartistic, of Miss Payne-Ellis to hint at Elizabeth’s future as the wife of Henry VII if as author she was not prepared to face the unpleasantness that lay between. To presuppose in her readers a knowledge of Elizabeth’s marriage to the first Tudor king, was also to presuppose their awareness of her brothers’ murder. So that a dark reminding shadow fell across[Pg 82] the festive scene with which she had chosen to end her story. But on the whole, Grant thought, she had made a good enough job of the story, judging by what he had read of it. He might even go back sometime and read the bits he had skipped. Grant had switched off his bedside light that night, and was half asleep, when a voice in his mind said; ‘But Thomas More was Henry the Eighth.’ This brought him wide awake. He flicked the light on again. What the voice had meant, of course, was not that Thomas More and Henry the Eighth were one and the same person, but that, in that business of putting personalities into pigeon-holes according to reigns, Thomas More belonged to the reign of Henry the Eighth. Grant lay looking at the pool of light that his lamp threw on the ceiling, and reckoned. If Thomas More was Henry VIII’s Chancellor, then he must have lived through the whole of Henry VII’s long reign as well as Richard III’s. There was something wrong somewhere. He reached for More’s History of Richard III. It had as preface a short life of More which he had not bothered to read. Now he turned to it to find out how More could have been both Richard III’s historian and Henry VIII’s Chancellor. How old was More when Richard succeeded? He was five. When that dramatic council scene had taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had been five years old. He had been only eight when Richard died at Bosworth. Everything in that history had been hearsay. [Pg 84] And if there was one word that a policeman loathed more than another it was hearsay. Especially when applied to evidence. He was so disgusted that he flung the precious book on to the floor before he remembered that it was the property of a Public Library and his only by grace and for fourteen days. More had never known Richard III at all. He had indeed grown up under a Tudor administration. That book was the Bible of the whole historical world on the subject of Richard III—it was from that account that Holinshed had taken his material, and from that that Shakespeare had written his—and except that More believed what he wrote to be true it was of no more value than what the soldier said. It was what his cousin Laura called ’snow on their boots’. A ‘gospel-true’ event seen by someone other than the teller. That More had a critical mind and an admirable integrity did not make the story acceptable evidence. A great many otherwise admirable minds had accepted that story of the Russian troops passing through Britain. Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone’s report of someone’s report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told. He was disgusted. At the first opportunity he must get an actual contemporary account of the events of Richard’s short reign. The Public Library could have Sir Thomas More back tomorrow and be damned to their fourteen days. The fact that Sir Thomas was a martyr and a Great Mind did not cut any ice at all with him, Alan Grant. He, Alan Grant, had known Great Minds so uncritical that[Pg 85] they would believe a story that would make a con. man blush for shame. He had known a great scientist who was convinced that a piece of butter muslin was his great-aunt Sophia because an illiterate medium from the back streets of Plymouth told him so. He had known a great authority on the Human Mind and Its Evolution who had been taken for all he had by an incurable knave because he ‘judged for himself and not on police stories’. As far as he, Alan Grant, was concerned there was nothing so uncritical or so dam-silly as your Great Mind. As far as he, Alan Grant, was concerned Thomas More was washed out, cancelled, deleted; and he, Alan Grant, was beginning from scratch again tomorrow morning. He was still illogically fuming when he fell asleep, and he woke fuming. ‘Do you know that your Sir Thomas More knew nothing about Richard III at all?’ he said, accusing, to The Amazon the moment her large person appeared in the doorway. She looked startled, not at his news but at his ferocity. Her eyes looked as if they might brim with tears at another rough word. ‘But of course he knew!’ she protested. ‘He lived then.’ ‘He was eight when Richard died,’ Grant said, relentless. ‘And all he knew was what he had been told. Like me. Like you. Like Will Rogers of blessed memory. There is nothing hallowed at all about Sir Thomas More’s history of Richard III. It’s a damned piece of hearsay and a swindle.’ ‘Aren’t you feeling so well this morning?’ she asked anxiously. ‘Do you think you’ve got a temperature?’ [Pg 86] ‘I don’t know about a temperature, but my blood pressure’s away up.’ ‘Oh dear, dear,’ she said, taking this literally. ‘And you were doing so very well. Nurse Ingham will be so distressed. She has been boasting about your good recovery.’ That The Midget should have found him a subject for boasting was a new idea to Grant, but it was not one that gave him any gratification. He resolved to have a temperature in earnest if he could manage it, just to score off The Midget. But the morning visit of Marta distracted him from this experiment in the power of mind over matter. Marta, it seemed, was pluming herself on his mental health very much as The Midget was pluming herself on his physical improvement. She was delighted that her pokings-about with James in the print shop had been so effective. ‘Have you decided on Perkin Warbeck, then?’ she asked. ‘No. Not Warbeck. Tell me: what made you bring me a portrait of Richard III? There’s no mystery about Richard, is there?’ ‘No. I suppose we took it as illustration to the Warbeck story. No, wait a moment. I remember. James turned it up and said: “If he's mad about faces, there's one for him!” He said: “That’s the most notorious murderer in history, and yet his face is in my estimation the face of a saint”.’ ‘A saint!’ Grant said; and then remembered something. ‘“Over-conscientious”,’ he said. ‘What?’ [Pg 87] ‘Nothing. I was just remembering my first impressions of it. Is that how it seemed to you: the face of a saint?’ She looked across at the picture, propped up against the pile of books. ‘I can’t see it against the light,’ she said, and picked it up for a closer scrutiny. He was suddenly reminded that to Marta, as to Sergeant Williams, faces were a professional matter. The slant of an eyebrow, the set of a mouth, was just as much an evidence of character to Marta as to Williams. Indeed she actually made herself faces to match the characters she played. ‘Nurse Ingham thinks he’s a dreary. Nurse Darroll thinks he’s a horror. My surgeon thinks he’s a polio victim. Sergeant Williams thinks he’s a born judge. Matron thinks he’s a soul in torment.’ Marta said nothing for a little. Then she said: ‘It’s odd, you know. When you first look at it you think it a mean, suspicious face. Even cantankerous. But when you look at it a little longer you find that it isn’t like that at all. It is quite calm. It is really quite a gentle face. Perhaps that is what James meant by being saint-like.’ ‘No. No, I don’t think so. What he meant was the—subservience to conscience.’ ‘Whatever it is, it is a face, isn’t it! Not just a collection of organs for seeing, breathing, and eating with. A wonderful face. With very little alteration, you know, it might be a portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent.’ ‘You don’t suppose that it is Lorenzo and that we’re considering the wrong man altogether?’ ‘Of course not. Why should you think that?’ ‘Because nothing in the face fits the facts of history. And pictures have got shuffled before now.’ [Pg 88] ‘Oh, yes, of course they have. But that is Richard all right. The original—or what is supposed to be the original—is at Windsor Castle. James told me. It is included in Henry VIII’s inventory, so it has been there for four hundred years or so. And there are duplicates at Hatfield and Albury.’ ‘It’s Richard,’ Grant said resignedly. ‘I just don’t know anything about faces. Do you know anyone at the B.M.?’ ‘At the British Museum?’ Marta asked, her attention still on the portrait. ‘No, I don’t think so. Not that I can think of at the moment. I went there once to look at some Egyptian jewellery, when I was playing Cleopatra with Geoffrey—did you ever see Geoffrey’s Antony? it was superlatively genteel—but the place frightens me rather. Such a garnering of the ages. It made me feel the way the stars make you feel: small and no-account. What do you want of the B.M.?’ ‘I wanted some information about history written in Richard Ill’s day. Contemporary accounts.’ ‘Isn’t the sainted Sir Thomas any good, then?’ ‘The sainted Sir Thomas is nothing but an old gossip,’ Grant said with venom. He had taken a wild dislike to the much-admired More. ‘Oh, dear. And the nice man at the Library seemed so reverent about him. The Gospel of Richard III according to St Thomas More, and all that.’ ‘Gospel nothing,’ Grant said rudely. ‘He was writing down in a Tudor England what someone had told him about events that happened in a Plantagenet England when he himself was five.’ ‘Five years old?’ [Pg 89] ‘Oh, dear. Not exactly the horse’s mouth.’ ‘Not even straight from the course. Come to think of it, it’s as reliable as a bookie’s tips would be. He’s on the wrong side of the rails altogether. If he was a Tudor servant he was on the laying side where Richard III was concerned.’ ‘Yes. Yes, I suppose so. What do you want to find out about Richard, when there is no mystery to investigate?’ ‘I want to know what made him tick. That is a more profound mystery than anything I have come up against of late. What changed him almost overnight? Up to the moment of his brother’s death he seems to have been entirely admirable. And devoted to his brother.’ ‘I suppose the supreme honour must always be a temptation.’ ‘He was Regent until the boy came of age. Protector of England. With his previous history, you would think that would have been enough for him. You would have thought, indeed, that it would have been very much his cup of tea: guardian of both Edward’s son and the kingdom.’ ‘Perhaps the brat was unbearable, and Richard longed to “larn” him. Isn’t it odd how we never think of victims as anything but white innocents. Like Joseph in the Bible. I’m sure he was a quite intolerable young man, actually, and long overdue for that pushing into the pit. Perhaps young Edward was just sitting up and begging to be quietly put down.’ ‘There were two of them,’ Grant reminded her. ‘Yes, of course. Of course there isn’t an explanation. It was the ultimate barbarism. Poor little woolly lambs! Oh!’ [Pg 90] ‘What was the “Oh” for?’ ‘I’ve just thought of something. Woolly lambs made me think of it.’ ‘Well?’ ‘No, I won’t tell you in case it doesn’t come off. I must fly.’ ‘Have you charmed Madeleine March into agreeing to write the play?’ ‘Well, she hasn’t actually signed a contract yet, but I think she is sold on the idea. Au revoir, my dear. I shall look in soon again.’ She went away, sped on her way by a blushing Amazon, and Grant did not remember anything about woolly lambs until the woolly lamb actually turned up in his room next evening. The woolly lamb was wearing horn-rimmed spectacles, which in some odd way emphasised the resemblance instead of detracting from it. Grant had been dozing, more at peace with the world than he had been for some time; history was, as Matron had pointed out, an excellent way of acquiring a sense of perspective. The tap at his door was so tentative that he had decided that he had imagined it. Taps on hospital doors are not apt to be tentative. But something made him say: ‘Come in!’ and there in the opening was something that was so unmistakably Marta’s woolly lamb that Grant laughed aloud before he could stop himself. The young man looked abashed, smiled nervously, propped the spectacles on his nose with a long thin forefinger, cleared his throat, and said: ‘Mr Grant? My name is Carradine. Brent Carradine. I hope I haven’t disturbed you when you were resting.’ [Pg 91] ‘No, no. Come in, Mr Carradine. I am delighted to see you.’ ‘Marta—Miss Hallard, that is—sent me. She said I could be of some help to you.’ ‘Did she say how? Do sit down. You’ll find a chair over there behind the door. Bring it over.’ He was a tall boy, hatless, with soft fair curls crowning a high forehead and a much too big tweed coat hanging unfastened round him in negligent folds, American-wise. Indeed, it was obvious that he was in fact American. He brought over the chair, planted himself on it with the coat spread round him like some royal robe and looked at Grant with kind brown eyes whose luminous charm not even the horn-rims could dim. ‘Marta—Miss Hallard, that is—said that you wanted something looked up.’ ‘And are you a looker-upper?’ ‘I’m doing research, here in London. Historical research, I mean. And she said something about your wanting something in that line. She knows I work at the B.M. most mornings. I’d be very pleased, Mr Grant, to do anything I can to help you.’ ‘That’s very kind of you; very kind indeed. What is it that you are working on? Your research, I mean.’ ‘The Peasant’s Revolt.’ ‘Oh. Richard II.’ ‘Are you interested in social conditions?’ The young man grinned suddenly in a very unstudent-like way and said: ‘No, I’m interested in staying in England.’ ‘And can’t you stay in England without doing research?’ [Pg 92] ‘Not very easily. I’ve got to have an alibi. My pop thinks I should go into the family business. It’s furniture. Wholesale furniture. You order it by mail. Out of a book. Don’t misunderstand me, Mr Grant: it’s very good furniture. Lasts for ever. It’s just that I can’t take much interest in furnishing-units.’ ‘And, short of Polar exploration, the British Museum was the best hideaway you could think of.’ ‘Well, it’s warm. And I really do like history. I majored in it. And—well, Mr Grant, if you really want to know, I just had to follow Atlanta Shergold to England. She’s the dumb blonde in Marta’s—I mean: in Miss Hallard’s play. I mean she plays the dumb blonde. She’s not at all dumb, Atlanta.’ ‘No, indeed. A very gifted young woman indeed.’ ‘You’ve seen her?’ ‘I shouldn’t think there is anyone in London who hasn’t seen her.’ ‘No, I suppose not. It does go on and on, doesn’t it. We didn’t think—Atlanta and me—that it would run for more than a few weeks, so we just waved each other goodbye and said: See you at the beginning of the month! It was when we found that it was going on indefinitely that I just had to find an excuse to come to England.’ ‘Wasn’t Atlanta sufficient excuse?’ ‘Not for my pop! The family are very snooty about Atlanta, but Pop is the worst of the bunch. When he can bring himself to mention her he refers to her as “that young actress acquaintance of yours.” You see, Pop is Carradine the Third, and Atlanta’s father is very much Shergold the First. A little grocery store on Main Street,[Pg 93] as a matter of fact. And the salt of the earth, in case you’re interested. And of course Atlanta hadn’t really done very much, back in the States. I mean, on the stage. This is her first big success. That is why she didn’t want to break her contract and come back home. As a matter of fact it’ll be quite a fight to get her back home at all. She says we never appreciated her.’ ‘So you took to research.’ ‘I had to think of something that I could do only in London, you see. And I had done some research at college. So the B.M. seemed to be what you call my cup of tea. I could enjoy myself and yet show my father that I was really working, both at the same time.’ ‘Yes. It’s as nice an alibi as ever I met with. Why the Peasant’s Revolt, by the way?’ ‘Well, it’s an interesting time. And I thought it would please Pop.’ ‘Is he interested in social reform, then?’ ‘No, but he hates kings.’ ‘Carradine the Third?’ ‘Yes, it’s a laugh, isn’t it. I wouldn’t put it past him to have a crown in one of his safe-deposit boxes. I bet he takes out the parcel every now and then and sneaks over to Grand Central and tries it on in the men’s washroom. I’m afraid I’m tiring you, Mr Grant; gabbing on about my own affairs like this. I didn’t come for that. I came to——’ ‘Whatever you came for, you’re manna straight from heaven. So relax, if you’re not in a hurry.’ ‘I’m never in a hurry,’ the young man said, unfolding his legs and laying them out in front of him. As he did it his feet, at the far extremity of his long limbs, touched the[Pg 94] bedside table and shook the portrait of Richard III from its precarious position, so that it dropped to the floor. ‘Oh, pardon me! That was careless of me. I haven’t really got used to the length of my legs yet. You’d think a fellow would be used to his growth by twenty-two, wouldn’t you.’ He picked up the photograph, dusted it carefully with the cuff of his sleeve, and looked at it with interest. ‘Richardus III. Ang. Rex.,’ he read aloud. ‘You’re the first person to have noticed that background writing,’ Grant said. ‘Well, I suppose it isn’t visible unless you look into it. You’re the first person I ever met who had a king for a pin-up.’ ‘No beauty, is he.’ ‘I don’t know,’ said the boy slowly. ‘It’s not a bad face, as faces go. I had a prof. at college who looked rather like him. He lived on bismuth and glasses of milk so he had a slightly jaundiced outlook on life, but he was the kindest creature imaginable. Is it about Richard that you wanted information?’ ‘Yes. Nothing very abstruse or difficult. Just to know what the contemporary authority is.’ ‘Well, that should be easy enough. It isn’t very far from my own time. I mean my research period. Indeed, the modern authority for Richard II—Sir Cuthbert Oliphant—stretches over both. Have you read Oliphant?’ Grant said that he had read nothing but school books and Sir Thomas More. ‘More? Henry VIII’s Chancellor?’ ‘I take it that that was a bit of special pleading!’ [Pg 95] ‘It read to me more like a party pamphlet,’ Grant said, realising for the first time that that was the taste that had been left in his mouth. It had not read like a statesman’s account; it had read like a party throw-away. No, it had read like a columnist. Like a columnist who got his information below-stairs. ‘Do you know anything about Richard III?’ ‘Nothing except that he croaked his nephews, and offered his kingdom for a horse. And that he had two stooges known as the Cat and the Rat.’ ‘What!’ ‘You know: “The Cat, the Rat, and Lovel Our Dog, Rule all England under a Hog”.’ ‘Yes, of course. I’d forgotten that. What does it mean, do you know?’ ‘No, I’ve no idea. I don’t know that period very well. How did you get interested in Richard III?’ ‘Marta suggested that I should do some academic investigating, since I can’t do any practical investigating for some time to come. And because I find faces interesting she brought me portraits of all the principals. Principals in the various mysteries she suggested, I mean. Richard got in more or less by accident, but he proved the biggest mystery of the lot.’ ‘He did? In what way?’ ‘He is the author of the most revolting crime in history, and he has the face of a great judge; a great administrator. Moreover he was by all accounts an abnormally civilised and well-living creature. He actually was a good administrator, by the way. He governed the North of England and did it excellently. He was a good staff[Pg 96] officer and a good soldier. And nothing is known against his private life. His brother, perhaps you know, was—bar Charles II—our most wench-ridden royal product.’ ‘Edward IV. Yes, I know. A six-foot hunk of male beauty. Perhaps Richard suffered from a resentment at the contrast. And that accounts for his willingness to blot out his brother’s seed.’ This was something that Grant had not thought of. ‘You’re suggesting that Richard had a suppressed hate for his brother?’ ‘Why suppressed?’ ‘Because even his worst detractors admit that he was devoted to Edward. They were together in everything from the time that Richard was twelve or thirteen. The other brother was no good to anyone. George.’ ‘Who was George?’ ‘The Duke of Clarence.’ ‘Oh. Him! Butt-of-malmsey Clarence.’ ‘That’s the one. So there were just the two of them—Edward and Richard I mean. And there was a ten-year gap in their ages. Just the right difference for hero-worship.’ ‘If I were a hunchback,’ young Carradine said musingly, ‘I sure would hate a brother who took my credit and my women and my place in the sun.’ ‘It’s possible,’ Grant said after an interval. ‘It’s the best explanation I’ve come on so far.’ ‘It mightn’t have been an overt thing at all, you know. It mightn’t have even been a conscious thing. It may just have all boiled up in him when he saw the chance of a crown. He may have said—I mean his blood may have said: “Here’s my chance! All those years of fetching and[Pg 97] carrying and standing one pace in the rear, and no thanks for them. Here’s where I take my pay. Here’s where I settle accounts”.’ Grant noticed that by sheer chance Carradine had used the same imagined description of Richard as Miss Payne-Ellis. Standing one pace in the rear. That is how the novelist had seen him, standing with the fair, solid Margaret and George, on the steps of Baynard’s Castle watching their father go away to war. One pace in the rear, ‘as usual’. ‘That’s very interesting, though, what you say about Richard being apparently a good sort up to the time of the crime,’ Carradine said, propping one leg of his horn-rims with a long forefinger in his characteristic gesture. ‘Makes him more of a person. That Shakespeare version of him, you know, that’s just a caricature. Not a man at all. I’ll be very pleased to do any investigating you want, Mr Grant. It’ll make a nice change from the peasants.’ ‘The Cat and the Rat instead of John Ball and Wat Tyler.’ ‘That’s it.’ ‘Well, it’s very nice of you. I’d be glad of anything you can rake up. But at the moment all I pine for is a contemporary account of events. They must have been country-rocking events. I want to read a contemporary’s account of them. Not what someone heard-tell about events that happened when he was five, and under another régime altogether.’ ‘I’ll find out who the contemporary historian is. Fabyan, perhaps. Or is he Henry VII? Anyway, I’ll find out. And meanwhile perhaps you’d like a look at[Pg 98] Oliphant. He’s the modern authority on the period, or so I understand.’ Grant said that he would be delighted to take a look at Sir Cuthbert. ‘I’ll drop him in when I’m passing tomorrow—I suppose it’ll be all right if I leave him in the office for you?—and as soon as I find out about the contemporary writers I’ll be in with the news. That suit you?’ Grant said that that was perfect. Young Carradine went suddenly shy, reminding Grant of the woolly lamb which he had quite forgotten in the interest of this new approach to Richard. He said goodnight in a quiet smothered way, and ambled out of the room followed by the sweeping skirts of his topcoat. Grant thought that, the Carradine fortune apart, Atlanta Shergold looked like being on a good thing. ‘Well,’ said Marta when she came again, ‘what did you think of my woolly lamb?’ ‘It was very kind of you to find him for me.’ ‘I didn’t have to find him. He’s continually underfoot. He practically lives at the theatre. He must have seen To Sea in a Bowl five hundred times; when he isn’t in Atlanta’s dressing-room he’s in front. I wish they’d get married, and then we might see less of him. They’re not even living together, you know. It’s all pure idyll.’ She dropped her ‘actress’ voice for a moment and said: ‘They’re rather sweet together. In some ways they are more like twins than lovers. They have that utter trust in each other; that dependence on the other half to make a proper whole. And they never have rows—or even quarrels, that I can see. An idyll, as I said. Was it Brent who brought you this?’ She poked the solid bulk of Oliphant with a doubtful finger. ‘Yes, he left it with the porter for me.’ ‘It looks very indigestible.’ ‘A bit unappetising, let us say. It is quite easily digested once you have swallowed it. History for the student. Set out in detailed fact.’ ‘Ugh!’ [Pg 100] ‘At least I’ve discovered where the revered and sainted Sir Thomas More got his account of Richard.’ ‘Yes? Where?’ ‘From one John Morton.’ ‘Never heard of him.’ ‘Neither did I, but that’s our ignorance.’ ‘Who was he?’ ‘He was Henry VII’s Archbishop of Canterbury. And Richard’s bitterest enemy.’ If Marta had been capable of whistling, she would have whistled in comment. ‘So that was the horse’s mouth!’ she said. ‘That was the horse’s mouth. And it is on that account of Richard that all the later ones were built. It is on that story that Holinshead fashioned his history, and on that story that Shakespeare fashioned his character.’ ‘So it is the version of someone who hated Richard. I didn’t know that. Why did the sainted Sir Thomas report Morton rather than someone else?’ ‘Whoever he reported, it would be a Tudor version. But he reported Morton, it seems, because he had been in Morton’s household as a boy. And of course Morton had been very much “on in the act”, so it was natural to write down the version of an eyewitness whose account he could have at first hand.’ Marta poked her finger at Oliphant again. ‘Does your dull fat historian acknowledge that it is a biassed version?’ ‘Oliphant? Only by implication. He is, to be honest, in a sad muddle himself about Richard. On the same page he says that he was an admirable administrator and general, with an excellent reputation, staid and good-living, very popular by contrast with the Woodville[Pg 101] upstarts (the Queen’s relations) and that he was “perfectly unscrupulous and ready to wade through any depth of bloodshed to the crown which lay within his grasp”. On one page he says grudgingly: “There are reasons for supposing that he was not destitute of a conscience” and then on a later page reports More’s picture of a man so tormented by his own deed that he could not sleep. And so on.’ ‘Does your dull fat Oliphant prefer his roses red, then?’ ‘Oh, I don’t think so. I don’t think he is consciously Lancastrian. Though now that I think of it he is very tolerant of Henry VII’s usurpation. I can’t remember his saying anywhere, brutally, that Henry hadn’t a vestige of a shadow of a claim to the throne.’ ‘Who put him there, then? Henry, I mean.’ ‘The Lancastrian remnant and the upstart Woodvilles, backed, I suppose, by a country revolted by the boys’ murder. Apparently anyone with a spice of Lancastrian blood in their veins would do. Henry himself was canny enough to put “conquest” first in his claim to the throne, and his Lancaster blood second. “De jure belli et de jure Lancastriae.” His mother was the heir of an illegitimate son of the third son of Edward III.’ ‘All I know about Henry VII is that he was fantastically rich and fantastically mean. Do you know the lovely Kipling story about his knighting the craftsman not for having done beautiful work but for having saved him the cost of some scroll-work?’ ‘With a rusty sword from behind the arras. You must be one of the few women who know their Kipling.’ ‘Oh, I’m a very remarkable woman in many ways.[Pg 102] So you are no nearer finding out about Richard’s personality than you were?’ ‘No. I’m as completely bewildered as Sir Cuthbert Oliphant, bless his heart. The only difference between us is that I know I’m bewildered and he doesn’t seem to be aware of it.’ ‘Have you seen much of my woolly lamb?’ ‘I’ve seen nothing of him since his first visit, and that’s three days ago. I’m beginning to wonder whether he has repented of his promise.’ ‘Oh, no. I’m sure not. Faithfulness is his banner and creed.’ ‘Like Richard.’ ‘Richard?’ ‘His motto was: “Loyaulté me lie”. Loyalty binds me.’ There was a tentative tap at the door, and in answer to Grant’s invitation, Brent Carradine appeared, hung around with topcoat as usual. ‘Oh! I seem to be butting in. I didn’t know you were here, Miss Hallard. I met the Statue of Liberty in the corridor there, and she seemed to think you were alone, Mr Grant.’ Grant identified the Statue of Liberty without difficulty. Marta said that she was in the act of going, and that in any case Brent was a much more welcome visitor than she was nowadays. She would leave them in peace to pursue their search for the soul of a murderer. When he had bowed her politely to the door Brent came back and sat himself down in the visitor’s chair with exactly the same air that an Englishman wears when he sits down to his port after the women have left the table. Grant wondered if even the female-ridden American[Pg 103] felt a subconscious relief at settling down to a stag party. In answer to Brent’s inquiry as to how he was getting on with Oliphant, he said he found Sir Cuthbert admirably lucid. ‘I’ve discovered who the Cat and the Rat were, incidentally. They were entirely respectable knights of the realm: William Catesby and Richard Ratcliffe. Catesby was Speaker of the House of Commons, and Ratcliffe was one of the Commissioners of Peace with Scotland. It’s odd how the very sound of words makes a political jingle vicious. The Hog of course was Richard’s badge. The White Boar. Do you frequent our English pubs?’ ‘Sure. They’re one of the things I think you do better than us.’ ‘You forgive us our plumbing for the sake of the beer at the Boar.’ ‘I wouldn’t go as far as to say I forgive it. I discount it, shall we say.’ ‘Magnanimous of you. Well, there’s something else you’ve got to discount. That theory of yours that Richard hated his brother because of the contrast between his beauty and Richard’s hunchbacked state. According to Sir Cuthbert, the hunchback is a myth. So is the withered arm. It appears that he had no visible deformity. At least none that mattered. His left shoulder was lower than his right, that was all. Did you find out who the contemporary historian is?’ ‘There isn’t one.’ ‘None at all?’ ‘Not in the sense that you mean it. There were writers who were contemporaries of Richard, but they wrote after his death. For the Tudors. Which puts them out of[Pg 104] court. There is a monkish chronicle in Latin somewhere that is contemporary, but I haven’t been able to get hold of it yet. One thing I have discovered though: that account of Richard III is called Sir Thomas More’s not because he wrote it but because the manuscript was found among his papers. It was an unfinished copy of an account that appears elsewhere in finished form.’ ‘Well!’ Grant considered this with interest. ‘You mean it was More’s own manuscript copy?’ ‘Yes. In his own writing. Made when he was about thirty-five. In those days, before printing was general, manuscript copies of books were the usual thing.’ ‘Yes. So, if the information came from John Morton, as it did, it is just as likely that the thing was written by Morton.’ ‘Which would certainly account for the—the lack of sensibility. A climber like Morton wouldn’t be at all abashed by back-stairs gossip. Do you know about Morton?’ ‘He was a lawyer turned churchman, and the greatest pluralist on record. He chose the Lancastrian side and stayed with it until it was clear that Edward IV was home and dried. Then he made his peace with the York side and Edward made him Bishop of Ely. And vicar of God knows how many parishes besides. But after Richard’s accession he backed first the Woodvilles and then Henry Tudor and ended up with a cardinal’s hat as Henry VII’s Archbishop of——’ ‘Wait a minute!’ said the boy, amused. ‘Of course I know Morton. He was Morton of “Morton’s Fork”.[Pg 105] “You can’t be spending much so how about something for the King; you’re spending such a lot you must be very rich so how about something for the King?”’ ‘Yes. That Morton. Henry’s best thumb-screw. And I’ve just thought of a reason why he might have a personal hatred for Richard long before the murder of the boys.’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Edward took a large bribe from Louis XI to make a dishonourable peace in France. Richard was very angry about that—it really was a disgraceful affair—and washed his hands of the business. Which included refusing a large cash offer. But Morton was very much in favour both of the deal and the cash. Indeed he took a pension from Louis. A very nice pension it was. Two thousand crowns a year. I don’t suppose Richard’s outspoken comments went down very well, even with good gold for a chaser.’ ‘No. I guess not.’ ‘And of course there would be no preferment for Morton under the straight-laced Richard as there had been under the easy-going Edward. So he would have taken the Woodville side, even if there had been no murder.’ ‘About that murder—’ the boy said; and paused. ‘About that murder—the murder of those two boys—isn’t it odd that no one talks of it?’ ‘How do you mean: no one talks of it?’ ‘These last three days I’ve been going through contemporary papers: letters and what not. And no one mentions them at all.’ ‘Perhaps they were afraid to. It was a time when it paid to be discreet.’ [Pg 106] ‘Yes; but I’ll tell you something even odder. You know that Henry brought a Bill of Attainder against Richard, after Bosworth. Before Parliament, I mean. Well, he accuses Richard of cruelty and tyranny but doesn’t even mention the murder.’ ‘What!’ said Grant, startled. ‘Yes, you may well look startled.’ ‘Are you sure!’ ‘Quite sure.’ ‘But Henry got possession of the Tower immediately on his arrival in London after Bosworth. If the boys were missing it is incredible that he should not publish the fact immediately. It was the trump card in his hand.’ He lay in surprised silence for a little. The sparrows on the window-sill quarrelled loudly. ‘I can’t make sense of it,’ he said. ‘What possible explanation can there be for his omission to make capital out of the fact that the boys were missing?’ Brent shifted his long legs to a more comfortable position. ‘There is only one explanation,’ he said. ‘And that is that the boys weren’t missing.’ There was a still longer silence this time, while they stared at each other. ‘Oh, no, it’s nonsense,’ Grant said. ‘There must be some obvious explanation that we are failing to see.’ ‘I don’t know. I haven’t had time to think.’ ‘I’ve had nearly three days to think, and I still haven’t thought up a reason that will fit. Nothing will fit the facts except the conclusion that the boys were alive when Henry took over the Tower. It was a completely unscrupulous Act of Attainder; it accused Richard’s[Pg 107] followers—the loyal followers of an anointed King fighting against an invader—of treason. Every accusation that Henry could possibly make with any hope of getting away with it was put into that Bill. And the very worst he could accuse Richard of was the usual cruelty and tyranny. The boys aren’t even mentioned.’ ‘It’s fantastic’. ‘It’s unbelievable. But it is fact.’ ‘What it means is that there was no contemporary accusation at all.’ ‘That’s about it.’ ‘But—but wait a minute. Tyrrel was hanged for the murder. He actually confessed to it before he died. Wait a minute.’ He reached for Oliphant and sped through the pages looking for the place. ‘There’s a full account of it here somewhere. There was no mystery about it. Even the Statue of Liberty knew about it.’ ‘Who?‘ ‘The nurse you met in the corridor. It was Tyrrel who committed the murder and he was found guilty and confessed before his death.’ ‘Was that when Henry took over in London, then?’ ‘Wait a moment. Here it is.’ He skimmed down the paragraph. ‘No, it was in 1502.’ He realised all of a sudden what he had just said, and repeated in a new, bewildered tone: ‘In—1502.’ ‘But—but—but that was——’ ‘Yes. Nearly twenty years afterwards.’ Brent fumbled for his cigarette case, took it out, and then put it hastily away again. ‘Smoke if you like,’ Grant said. ‘It’s a good stiff drink I need. I don’t think my brain can be working very well.[Pg 108] I feel the way I used to feel as a child when I was blind-folded and whirled round before beginning a blindman’s-buff game.’ ‘Yes,’ said Carradine. He took out a cigarette and lighted it. ‘Completely in the dark, and more than a little dizzy.’ He sat staring at the sparrows. ‘Forty million school books can’t be wrong,’ Grant said after a little. ‘Can’t they?’ ‘Well, can they!’ ‘I used to think so, but I’m not so sure nowadays.’ ‘Aren’t you being a little sudden in your scepticism?’ ‘Oh, it wasn’t this that shook me.’ ‘A little affair called the Boston Massacre. Ever heard of it?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘Well, I discovered quite by accident, when I was looking up something at college, that the Boston Massacre consisted of a mob throwing stones at a sentry. The total casualties were four. I was brought up on the Boston Massacre, Mr Grant. My twenty-eight inch chest used to swell at the very memory of it. My good red spinach-laden blood used to seethe at the thought of helpless civilians mowed down by the fire of British troops. You can’t imagine what a shock it was to find that all it added up to in actual fact was a brawl that wouldn’t get more than local reporting in a clash between police and strikers in any American lock-out.’ As Grant made no reply to this, he squinted his eyes against the light to see how Grant was taking it. But[Pg 109] Grant was staring at the ceiling as if he were watching patterns forming there. ‘That’s partly why I like to research so much,’ Carradine volunteered, and settled back to staring at the sparrows. Presently Grant put his hand out, wordlessly, and Carradine gave him a cigarette and lighted it for him. They smoked in silence. It was Grant who interrupted the sparrows’ performance. ‘Tonypandy,’ he said. ‘How’s that?’ But Grant was still far away. ‘After all, I’ve seen the thing at work in my own day, haven’t I,’ he said, not to Carradine but to the ceiling. ‘It’s Tonypandy.’ ‘And what in heck is Tonypandy?’ Brent asked. ‘It sounds like a patent medicine. Does your child get out of sorts? Does the little face get flushed, the temper short, and the limbs easily tired? Give the little one Tonypandy, and see the radiant results.’ And then, as Grant made no answer: ‘All right, then; keep your Tonypandy. I wouldn’t have it as a gift.’ ‘Tonypandy,’ Grant said, still in that sleep-walking voice, ‘is a place in the South of Wales.’ ‘I knew it was some kind of physic.’ ‘If you go to South Wales you will hear that, in 1910, the Government used troops to shoot down Welsh miners who were striking for their rights. You’ll probably hear that Winston Churchill, who was Home Secretary at the time, was responsible. South Wales, you will be told, will never forget Tonypandy!’ Carradine had dropped his flippant air. [Pg 110] ‘And it wasn’t a bit like that?’ ‘The actual facts are these. The rougher section of the Rhondda valley crowd had got quite out of hand. Shops were being looted and property destroyed. The Chief Constable of Glamorgan sent a request to the Home Office for troops to protect the lieges. If a Chief Constable thinks a situation serious enough to ask for the help of the military a Home Secretary has very little choice in the matter. But Churchill was so horrified at the possibility of the troops coming face to face with a crowd of rioters and having to fire on them, that he stopped the movement of the troops and sent instead a body of plain, solid Metropolitan Police, armed with nothing but their rolled-up mackintoshes. The troops were kept in reserve, and all contact with the rioters was made by unarmed London police. The only bloodshed in the whole affair was a bloody nose or two. The Home Secretary was severely criticised in the House of Commons incidentally for his “unprecedented intervention”. That was Tonypandy. That is the shooting-down by troops that Wales will never forget.’ ‘Yes,’ Carradine said, considering. ‘Yes. It’s almost a parallel to the Boston affair. Someone blowing up a simple affair to huge proportions for a political end.’ ‘The point is not that it is a parallel. The point is that every single man who was there knows that the story is nonsense, and yet it has never been contradicted. It will never be overtaken now. It is a completely untrue story grown to legend while the men who knew it to be untrue looked on and said nothing.’ ‘Yes. That’s very interesting; very. History as it is made.’ [Pg 111] ‘Yes. History.’ ‘Give me research. After all, the truth of anything at all doesn’t lie in someone’s account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper. The sale of a house. The price of a ring.’ Grant went on looking at the ceiling, and the sparrows’ clamour came back into the room. ‘What amuses you?’ Grant said, turning his head at last and catching the expression on his visitor’s face. ‘This is the first time I’ve seen you look like a policeman.’ ‘I’m feeling like a policeman. I’m thinking like a policeman. I’m asking myself the question that every policeman asks in every case of murder: Who benefits? And for the first time it occurs to me that the glib theory that Richard got rid of the boys to make himself safer on the throne is so much nonsense. Supposing he had got rid of the boys. There were still the boys’ five sisters between him and the throne. To say nothing of George’s two: the boy and girl. George’s son and daughter were barred by their father’s attainder; but I take it that an attainder can be reversed, or annulled, or something. If Richard’s claim was shaky, all those lives stood between him and safety.’ ‘And did they all survive him?’ ‘I don’t know. But I shall make it my business to find out. The boys’ eldest sister certainly did because she became Queen of England as Henry’s wife.’ ‘Look, Mr Grant, let’s you and I start at the very beginning of this thing. Without history books, or modern versions, or anyone’s opinion about anything. Truth isn’t in accounts but in account books.’ [Pg 112] ‘A neat phrase,’ Grant said, complimentary. ‘Does it mean anything?’ ‘It means everything. The real history is written in forms not meant as history. In Wardrobe accounts, in Privy Purse expenses, in personal letters, in estate books. If someone, say, insists that Lady Whoosit never had a child, and you find in the account book the entry: “For the son born to my lady on Michaelmas eve: five yards of blue ribbon, fourpence halfpenny” it’s a reasonably fair deduction that my lady had a son on Michaelmas eve.’ ‘Yes. I see. All right, where do we begin?’ ‘You’re the investigator. I’m only the looker-upper.’ ‘Research Worker.’ ‘Thanks. What do you want to know?’ ‘Well, for a start, it would be useful, not to say enlightening, to know how the principals in the case reacted to Edward’s death. Edward IV, I mean. Edward died unexpectedly, and his death must have caught everyone on the hop. I’d like to know how the people concerned reacted.’ ‘That’s straightforward and easy. I take it you mean what they did and not what they thought.’ ‘Yes, of course.’ ‘Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.’ ‘What they did is all I want to know. I’ve always been a believer in the old saw that actions speak louder than words.’ ‘Incidentally, what does the sainted Sir Thomas say that Richard did when he heard that his brother was dead?’ Brent wanted to know. [Pg 113] ‘The sainted Sir Thomas (alias John Morton) says that Richard got busy being charming to the Queen and persuading her not to send a large bodyguard to escort the boy prince from Ludlow; meanwhile cooking up a plot to kidnap the boy on his way to London.’ ‘According to the sainted More, then, Richard meant from the very first to supplant the boy.’ ‘Oh, yes.’ ‘Well, we shall find out, at least, who was where and doing what, whether we can deduce their intentions or not.’ ‘That’s what I want. Exactly.’ ‘Policeman!’ jibed the boy. ‘"Where were you at five p.m. on the night of the fifteenth inst?"’ ‘It works,’ Grant assured him. ‘It works.’ ‘Well, I’ll go away and work too. I’ll be in again as soon as I have got the information you want. I’m very grateful to you, Mr Grant. This is a lot better than the Peasants.’ He floated away into the gathering dusk of the winter afternoon, his train-like coat giving an academic sweep and dignity to his thin young figure. Grant switched on his lamp, and examined the pattern it made on the ceiling as if he had never seen it before. It was a unique and engaging problem that the boy had dropped so casually into his lap. As unexpected as it was baffling. What possible reason could there be for that lack of contemporary accusation? Henry had not even needed proof that Richard was himself responsible. The boys were in Richard’s care. If they were not to be found when the Tower was taken over, then that was far finer, thicker mud to throw at his[Pg 114] dead rival than the routine accusations of cruelty and tyranny. Grant ate his supper without for one moment being conscious either of its taste or its nature. It was only when The Amazon, taking away his tray, said kindly: ‘Come now, that’s a very good sign. Both rissoles all eaten up to the last crumb!’ that he became aware that he had partaken of a meal. For another hour he watched the lamp-pattern on the ceiling, going over the thing in his mind; going round and round it looking for some small crack that might indicate a way into the heart of the matter. In the end he withdrew his attention altogether from the problem. Which was his habit when a conundrum proved too round and smooth and solid for immediate solution. If he slept on the proposition it might, tomorrow, show a facet that he had missed. He looked for something that might stop his mind from harking back to that Act of Attainder, and saw the pile of letters waiting to be acknowledged. Kind, well-wishing letters from all sorts of people; including a few old lags. The really likable old lags were an outmoded type, growing fewer and fewer daily. Their place had been taken by brash young thugs with not a spark of humanity in their egocentric souls, as illiterate as puppies and as pitiless as a circular saw. The old professional burglar was apt to be as individual as the member of any other profession, and as little vicious. Quiet little domestic men, interested in family holidays and the children’s tonsils; or odd bachelors devoted to cage-birds, or second-hand bookshops, or complicated and infallible betting systems. Old-fashioned types. [Pg 115] No modern thug would write to say that he was sorry that a ‘busy’ was laid aside. No such idea would ever cross a modern thug’s mind. Writing a letter when lying on one’s back is a laborious business, and Grant shied away from it. But the top envelope on the pile bore the writing of his cousin Laura, and Laura would become anxious if she had no answer at all from him. Laura and he had shared summer holidays as children, and had been a little in love with each other all through one Highland summer, and that made a bond between them that had never been broken. He had better send Laura a note to say that he was alive. He read her letter again, smiling a little; and the waters of the Turlie sounded in his ears and slid under his eyes, and he could smell the sweet cold smell of a Highland moor in winter, and he forgot for a little that he was a hospital patient and that life was sordid and boring and claustrophobic. Pat sends what would be his love if he were a little older or just a little younger. Being nine, he says: ‘Tell Alan I was asking for him’, and has a fly of his own invention waiting to be presented to you when you come on sick-leave. He is a little in disgrace at the moment in school, having learned for the first time that the Scots sold Charles the First to the English and having decided that he can no longer belong to such a nation. He is therefore, I understand, conducting a one-man protest strike against all things Scottish, and will learn no history, sing no song, nor memorise any geography pertaining to so deplorable a country. He [Pg 116]announced going to bed last night and that he has decided to apply for Norwegian citizenship. Grant took his letter pad from the table and wrote in pencil: Dearest Laura, Would you be unbearably surprised to learn that the Princes in the Tower survived Richard III? As ever, P.S. I am nearly well again. [Pg 117] ‘Do you know that the Bill attainting Richard III before Parliament didn’t mention the murder of the Princes in the Tower?’ Grant asked the surgeon next morning. ‘Really?’ said the surgeon. ‘That’s odd, isn’t it?’ ‘Extremely odd. Can you think of an explanation?’ ‘Probably trying to minimise the scandal. For the sake of the family.’ ‘He wasn’t succeeded by one of his family. He was the last of his line. His successor was the first Tudor. Henry VII.’ ‘Yes, of course. I’d forgotten. I was never any good at history. I used to use the history period to do my home algebra. They don’t manage to make history very interesting in schools. Perhaps more portraits might help.’ He glanced up at the Richard portrait and went back to his professional inspection. ‘That is looking very nice and healthy, I’m glad to say. No pain to speak of now?’ And he went away, kindly and casual. He was interested in faces because they were part of his trade, but history was just something that he used for other purposes; something that he set aside in favour of algebra under the desk. He had living bodies in his care, and the future in his hands; he had no thought to spare for problems academic. [Pg 118] Matron, too, had more immediate worries. She listened politely while he put his difficulty to her, but he had the impression that she might say: ‘I should see the almoner about it if I were you’. It was not her affair. She looked down from her regal eminence at the great hive below her buzzing with activity, all of it urgent and important; she could hardly be expected to focus her gaze on something more than four hundred years away. He wanted to say: ‘But you of all people should be interested in what can happen to royalty; in the frailness of your reputation’s worth. Tomorrow a whisper may destroy you.’ But he was already guiltily conscious that to hinder a Matron with irrelevances was to lengthen her already lengthy morning round without reason or excuse. The Midget did not know what an Attainder was, and made it clear that she did not care. ‘It’s becoming an obsession with you, that thing,’ she said, leaning her head at the portrait. ‘It’s not healthy. Why don’t you read some of those nice books?’ Even Marta, whose visit he had looked forward to so that he could put this odd, new proposition to her and see her reaction, even Marta was too full of wrath with Madeleine March to pay any attention to him. ‘After practically promising me that she would write it! After all our get-together and my plans for when this endless thing finally comes to an end. I had even talked to Jacques about clothes! And now she decides that she must write one of her awful little detective stories. She says she must write it while it is fresh—whatever that is.’ He listened to Marta’s grieving with sympathy—good plays were the scarcest commodity in the world[Pg 119] and good playwrights worth their weight in platinum—but it was like watching something through a window. The fifteenth century was more actual to him this morning than any on-goings in Shaftesbury Avenue. ‘I don’t suppose it will take her long to write her detective book,’ he said comfortingly. ‘Oh, no. She does them in six weeks or so. But now that she’s off the chain how do I know that I’ll ever get her on again. Tony Savilla wants her to write a Marlborough play for him, and you know what Tony is when he sets his heart on something. He’d talk the pigeons off the Admiralty Arch.’ She came back to the Attainder problem, briefly, before she took her leave. ‘There’s sure to be some explanation, my dear,’ she said from the door. Of course there’s an explanation, he wanted to shout after her, but what is it? The thing is against all likelihood and sense. Historians say that the murder caused a great revulsion of feeling against Richard, that he was hated for the crime by the common people of England, and that was why they welcomed a stranger in his place. And yet when the tale of his wrongdoing is placed before Parliament there is no mention of the crime. Richard was dead when that complaint was drawn up, and his followers in flight or exile; his enemies were free to bring against him any charge they could think of. And they had not thought of that spectacular murder. The country was reputedly ringing with the scandal of the boys’ disappearance. The very recent scandal. And when his enemies collected his alleged offences[Pg 120] against morality and the State they had not included Richard’s most spectacular piece of infamy. Henry needed every small featherweight of advantage in the precarious newness of his accession. He was unknown to the country at large and he had no right by blood to be where he was. But he hadn’t used the overwhelming advantage that Richard’s published crime would have given him. He was succeeding a man of great reputation, known personally to the people from the Marches of Wales to the Scots border, a man universally liked and admired until the disappearance of his nephews. And yet he omitted to use the one real advantage he had against Richard, the unforgivable, the abhorred thing. Only The Amazon seemed concerned about the oddity that was engaging his mind; and she not out of any feeling for Richard but because her conscientious soul was distressed at any possibility of mistake. The Amazon would go all the way down the corridor and back again to tear off a page in a loose-leaf calendar that someone had forgotten to remove. But her instinct to be worried was less strong than her instinct to comfort. ‘You don’t need to worry about it,’ she said, soothing. ‘There’ll be some quite simple explanation that you haven’t thought of. It’ll come to you sometime when you’re thinking of something else altogether. That’s usually how I remember where something I’ve mislaid is. I’ll be putting the kettle on in the pantry, or counting the sterile dressings as Sister doles them out, and suddenly[Pg 121] I’ll think: “Goodness, I left it in my burberry pocket.” Whatever the thing was, I mean. So you don’t have to worry about it.’ Sergeant Williams was in the wilds of Essex helping the local constabulary to decide who had hit an old shopkeeper over the head with a brass scale-weight and left her dead among the shoelaces and liquorice all-sorts, so there was no help from the Yard. There was no help from anyone until young Carradine turned up again three days later. Grant thought that his normal insouciance had a deeper tinge than usual; there was almost an air of self-congratulation about him. Being a well-brought-up child he inquired politely about Grant’s physical progress, and having been reassured on that point he pulled some notes out of the capacious pocket of his coat and beamed through his horn-rims at his colleague. ‘I wouldn’t have the sainted More as a present,’ he observed pleasantly. ‘You’re not being offered him. There are no takers.’ ‘He’s away off the beam. Away off.’ ‘I suspected as much. Let us have the facts. Can you begin on the day Edward died?’ ‘Sure. Edward died on April the 9th 1483. In London. I mean, in Westminster; which wasn’t the same thing then. The Queen and the daughters were living there, and the younger boy, I think. The young Prince was doing lessons at Ludlow Castle in charge of the Queen’s brother, Lord Rivers. The Queen’s relations are very much to the fore, did you know? The place is just lousy with Woodvilles.’ ‘Yes, I know. Go on. Where was Richard?’ [Pg 122] ‘On the Scottish border.’ ‘Yes, I said: on the Scottish border. Caught away off base. But does he yell for a horse and go posting off to London? He does not.’ ‘What did he do?’ ‘He arranged for a requiem mass at York, to which all the nobility of the North were summoned, and in his presence took an oath of loyalty to the young Prince.’ ‘Interesting,’ Grant said dryly. ‘What did Rivers do? The Queen’s brother?’ ‘On the 24th of April he set out with the Prince for London. With two thousand men and a large supply of arms.’ ‘What did he want the arms for?’ ‘Don’t ask me. I’m only a research worker. Dorset, the elder of the Queen’s two sons by her first marriage, took over both the arsenal and the treasure in the Tower and began to fit up ships to command the Channel. And Council orders were issued in the name of Rivers and Dorset—“avunculus Regis” and “frater Regis uterinus” respectively—with no mention of Richard. Which was decidedly off-colour when you remember—if you ever knew—that in his will Edward had appointed Richard guardian of the boy and Protector of the Kingdom in case of any minority. Richard alone, mind you, without a colleague.’ ‘Yes, that is in character, at least. He must always have had complete faith in Richard. Both as a person and as an administrator. Did Richard come south with a young army too?’ ‘No. He came with six hundred gentlemen of the North, all in deep mourning. He arrived at Northampton[Pg 123] on April the 29th. He had apparently expected to join up with the Ludlow crowd there; but that is report and you have only a historian’s word for it. But the Ludlow procession—Rivers and the young Prince—had gone on to Stoney Stratford without waiting for him. The person who actually met him at Northampton was the Duke of Buckingham with three hundred men. Do you know Buckingham?’ ‘We have a nodding acquaintance. He was a friend of Edward’s.’ ‘Yes. He arrived post haste from London.’ ‘With the news of what was going on.’ ‘It’s a fair deduction. He wouldn’t bring three hundred men just to express his condolences. Anyhow a Council was held there and then—he had all the material for a proper Council in his own train and Buckingham’s, and Rivers and his three aides were arrested and sent to the North, while Richard went on with the young Prince to London. They arrived in London on the 4th of May.’ ‘Well, that is very nice and clear. And what is clearest of all is that, considering time and distances, the sainted More’s account of his writing sweet letters to the Queen to induce her to send only a small escort for the boy, is nonsense.’ ‘Bunk.’ ‘Indeed, Richard did just what one would expect him to do. He must of course have known the provisions of Edward’s will. What his actions suggest is just what one would expect them to suggest; his own sorrow and his care for the boy. A requiem mass and an oath of allegiance.’ [Pg 124] ‘Where does the break in this orthodox pattern come? I mean: in Richard’s behaviour.’ ‘Oh, not for a long time. When he arrived in London he found that the Queen, the younger boy, the daughters, and her first-marriage son, Dorset, had all bolted into sanctuary at Westminster. But apart from that things seem to have been normal.’ ‘Did he take the boy to the Tower?’ Carradine riffled through his notes. ‘I don’t remember. Perhaps I didn’t get that. I was only—Oh, yes, here it is. No, he took the boy to the Bishop’s Palace in St Paul’s Churchyard, and he himself went to stay with his mother at Baynard’s Castle. Do you know where that was? I don’t.’ ‘Yes. It was the Yorks’ town house. It stood on the bank of the river just a little way west of St Paul’s.’ ‘Oh. Well, he stayed there until June the 5th, when his wife arrived from the North and they went to stay in a house called Crosby Place.’ ‘It is still called Crosby Place. It has been moved to Chelsea, and the window Richard put into it may not still be there—I haven’t seen it lately—but the building is there.’ ‘It is?’ Carradine said, delighted. ‘I’ll go and see it right away. It’s a very domestic tale when you think of it, isn’t it. Staying with his mother until his wife gets to town, and then moving in with her. Was Crosby Place theirs, then?’ ‘Richard had leased it, I think. It belonged to one of the Aldermen of London. So there is no suggestion of opposition to his Protectorship, or of change of plans, when he arrived in London.’ [Pg 125] ‘Oh, no. He was acknowledged Protector before he ever arrived in London.’ ‘How do you know that?’ ‘In the Patent Rolls he is called Protector on two occasions—let me see—April 21st (that’s less than a fortnight after Edward’s death) and May the 2nd (that’s two days before he arrived in London at all.)’ ‘All right; I’m sold. And no fuss? No hint of trouble?’ ‘Not that I can find. On the 5th of June he gave detailed orders for the boy’s coronation on the 22nd. He even had letters of summons sent out to the forty squires who would be made knights of the Bath. It seems it was the custom for the King to knight them on the occasion of his coronation.’ ‘The 5th,’ Grant said musingly. ‘And he fixed the coronation for the 22nd. He wasn’t leaving himself much time for a switch-over.’ ‘No. There’s even a record of the order for the boy’s coronation clothes.’ ‘And then what?’ ‘Well,’ Carradine said, apologetic, ‘that’s as far as I’ve got. Something happened at a Council—on the 8th of June, I think—but the contemporary account is in the Mémoires of Philippe de Comines and I haven’t been able to get hold of a copy so far. But someone has promised to let me see a copy of Mandrot’s 1901 printing of it tomorrow. It seems that the Bishop of Bath broke some news to the Council on June the 8th. Do you know the Bishop of Bath? His name was Stillington.’ ‘He was a Fellow of All Souls, whatever that is, and a Canon of York, whatever that may be.’ [Pg 126] ‘Both learned and respectable, it appears.’ ‘Well, we’ll see.’ ‘Have you turned up any contemporary historians—other than Comines?’ ‘Not any, so far, who wrote before Richard’s death. Comines has a French bias but not a Tudor one, so he’s more trustworthy than an Englishman writing about Richard under the Tudors would be. But I’ve got a lovely sample for you of how history is made. I found it when I was looking up the contemporary writers. You know that one of the things they tell about Richard III is that he killed Henry VI’s only son in cold blood after the battle of Tewkesbury? Well, believe it or not, that story is made up out of whole cloth. You can trace it from the very time it was first told. It’s the perfect answer to people who say there’s no smoke without fire. Believe me this smoke was made by rubbing two pieces of dry stick together.’ ‘But Richard was just a boy at the time of Tewkesbury.’ ‘He was eighteen, I think. And a very bonny fighter by all contemporary accounts. They were the same age, Henry’s son and Richard. Well, all the contemporary accounts, of whatever complexion, are unanimous in saying that he was killed during the battle. Then the fun begins.’ Carradine fluttered through his notes impatiently. ‘Goldarn it, what did I do with it? Ah. Here we are. Now. Fabyan, writing for Henry VII, says that the boy was captured and brought before Edward IV, was struck in the face by Edward with his gauntlet and immediately slain by the King’s servants. Nice? But Polydore Virgil goes one better. He says that the murder was done in[Pg 127] person by George, Duke of Clarence, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and William, Lord Hastings. Hall adds Dorset to the murderers. But that didn’t satisfy Holinshead: Holinshead reports that it was Richard Duke of Gloucester who struck the first blow. How do you like that? Best quality Tonypandy, isn’t it.’ ‘Pure Tonypandy. A dramatic story with not a word of truth in it. If you can bear to listen to a few sentences of the sainted More, I’ll give you another sample of how history is made.’ ‘The sainted More makes me sick at the stomach but I’ll listen.’ Grant looked for the paragraph he wanted, and read: Some wise men also ween that his drift [that is, Richard’s drift] covertly conveyed, lacked not in helping forth his brother Clarence to his death; which he resisted openly, howbeit somewhat, as men deemed, more faintly than he that were heartily minded to his weal. And they who deem thus think that he, long time in King Edward’s life, forethought to be King in case that the King his brother (whose life he looked that evil diet should shorten) should happen to decease (as indeed he did) while his children were young. And they deem that for this intent he was glad of his brother Clarence’s death, whose life must needs have hindered him so intending whether the same Clarence had kept true to his nephew the young King or enterprised to be King himself. But of all this point there is no certainty, and whoso divineth upon conjectures may as well shoot too far as too short. [Pg 128] ‘The mean, burbling, insinuating old bastard,’ said Carradine sweetly. ‘Were you clever enough to pick out the one positive statement in all that speculation?’ ‘You spotted it? That was smart of you. I had to read it three times before I got the one unqualified fact.’ ‘That Richard protested openly against his brother George being put to death.’ ‘Of course, with all that “men say” stuff,’ Carradine observed, ‘the impression that is left is just the opposite. I told you, I wouldn’t have the sainted More as a present.’ ‘I think we ought to remember that it is John Morton’s account and not the sainted More’s.’ ‘The sainted More sounds better. Besides, he liked the thing well enough to be copying it out.’ Grant, the one-time soldier, lay thinking of the expert handling of that very sticky situation at Northampton. ‘It was neat of him to mop up Rivers’ two thousand without any open clash.’ ‘I expect they preferred the King’s brother to the Queen’s brother, if they were faced with it.’ ‘Yes. And of course a fighting man has a better chance with troops than a man who writes books.’ ‘Did Rivers write books?’ ‘He wrote the first book printed in England. Very cultured, he was.’ ‘Huh. It doesn’t seem to have taught him not to try conclusions with a man who was a brigadier at eighteen and a general before he was twenty-five. That’s one thing that has surprised me, you know.’ [Pg 129] ‘Richard’s qualities as a soldier?’ ‘No, his youth. I’d always thought of him as a middle-aged grouch. He was only thirty-two when he was killed at Bosworth.’ ‘Tell me: when Richard took over the boy’s guardianship, at Stoney Stratford, did he make a clean sweep of the Ludlow crowd? I mean, was the boy separated from all the people he had been growing up with?’ ‘Oh, no. His tutor, Dr Alcock, came on to London with him, for one.’ ‘So there was no panic clearing-out of everyone who might be on the Woodville side; everyone who might influence the boy against him.’ ‘Seems not. Just the four arrests.’ ‘Yes. A very neat, discriminating operation altogether. I felicitate Richard Plantagenet.’ ‘I’m positively beginning to like the guy. Well, I’m going along now to look at Crosby Place. I’m tickled pink at the thought of actually looking at a place he lived in. And tomorrow I’ll have that copy of Comines, and let you know what he says about events in England in 1483, and what Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath, told the Council in June of that year.’ What Stillington told the Council on that summer day in 1483 was, Grant learned, that he had married Edward IV to Lady Eleanor Butler, a daughter of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, before Edward married Elizabeth Woodville. ‘Why had he kept it to himself so long?’ he asked when he had digested the news. ‘Edward had commanded him to keep it secret. Naturally.’ ‘Edward seems to have made a habit of secret marriages,’ Grant said dryly. ‘Well, it must have been difficult for him, you know, when he came up against unassailable virtue. There was nothing for it but marriage. And he was so used to getting his own way with women—what with his looks and his crown—that he couldn’t have taken very resignedly to frustration.’ ‘Yes. That was the pattern of the Woodville marriage. The indestructibly virtuous beauty with the gilt hair, and the secret wedding. So Edward had used the same formula on a previous occasion, if Stillington’s story was true. Was it true?’ ‘Well, in Edward’s time, it seems, he was in turn both Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor, and he had been an ambassador to Brittany. So Edward either owed him[Pg 131] something or liked him. And he, on his part, had no reason to cook up anything against Edward. Supposing he was the cooking sort.’ ‘No, I suppose not.’ ‘Anyway, the thing was put to Parliament so we don’t have to take just Stillington’s word for it.’ ‘To Parliament!’ ‘Sure. Everything was open and above board. There was a very long meeting of the Lords at Westminster on the 9th. Stillington brought in his evidence and his witnesses, and a report was prepared to put before Parliament when it assembled on the 25th. On the 10th Richard sent a letter to the city of York asking for troops to protect and support him.’ ‘Ha! Trouble at last.’ ‘Yes. On the 11th he sent a similar letter to his cousin Lord Nevill. So the danger was real.’ ‘It must have been real. A man who dealt so economically with that unexpected and very nasty situation at Northampton wouldn’t be one to lose his head at a threat.’ ‘On the 20th he went with a small body of retainers to the Tower—did you know that the Tower was the royal residence in London, and not a prison at all?’ ‘Yes, I knew that. It got its prison meaning only because nowadays being sent to the Tower has one meaning only. And of course because, being the royal castle in London, and the only strong keep, offenders were sent there for safe keeping in the days before we had His Majesty’s Prisons. What did Richard go to the Tower for?’ ‘He went to interrupt a meeting of the conspirators,[Pg 132] and arrested Lord Hastings, Lord Stanley, and one John Morton, Bishop of Ely.’ ‘I thought we would arrive at John Morton sooner or later!’ ‘A proclamation was issued, giving details of the plot to murder Richard, but apparently no copy now exists. Only one of the conspirators was beheaded, and that one, oddly enough, seems to have been an old friend of both Edward and Richard. Lord Hastings.’ ‘Yes, according to the sainted More he was rushed down to the courtyard and beheaded on the nearest log.’ ‘Rushed nothing,’ said Carradine disgustedly. ‘He was beheaded a week later. There’s a contemporary letter about it that gives the date. Moreover, Richard couldn’t have done it out of sheer vindictiveness, because he granted Hastings’ forfeited estates to his widow, and restored the children’s right of succession to them—which they had automatically lost.’ ‘No, the death of Hastings must have been inevitable,’ said Grant, who was thumbing through More’s Richard III. ‘Even the sainted More says: “Undoubtedly the Protector loved him well, and was loth to have lost him”. What happened to Stanley and to John Morton?’ ‘Stanley was pardoned—What are you groaning about?’ ‘Poor Richard. That was his death warrant.’ ‘Death warrant? How could pardoning Stanley be his death warrant?’ ‘Because it was Stanley’s sudden decision to go over to the other side that lost Richard the battle of Bosworth.’ ‘You don’t say.’ ‘Odd to think that if Richard had seen to it that[Pg 133] Stanley went to the block like his much-loved Hastings, he would have won the battle of Bosworth, there would never have been any Tudors, and the hunchbacked monster that appears in Tudor tradition would never have been invented. On his previous showing he would probably have had the best and most enlightened reign in history. What was done to Morton?’ ‘Nothing.’ ‘Another mistake.’ ‘Or at least nothing to signify. He was put into gentlemanly detention under the care of Buckingham. The people who did go to the block were the heads of the conspiracy that Richard had arrested at Northampton: Rivers and Co. And Jane Shore was sentenced to do penance.’ ‘Jane Shore? What on earth has she got to do with the case? I thought she was Edward’s mistress?’ ‘So she was. But Hastings inherited her from Edward, it seems. Or rather—let me see—Dorset did. And she was go-between between the Hastings side of the conspiracy and the Woodville side. One of Richard’s letters existing today is about her. About Jane Shore.’ ‘What about her?’ ‘His Solicitor-General wanted to marry her; when he was King, I mean.’ ‘And he agreed?’ ‘He agreed. It’s a lovely letter. More in sorrow than in anger—with a kind of twinkle in it.’ ‘“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”’ ‘That’s it exactly.’ ‘No vindictiveness there, either, it seems.’ ‘No. Quite the opposite. You know, I know it isn’t[Pg 134] my business to think or draw deductions—I’m just the Research Worker—but it does strike me that Richard’s ambition was to put an end to the York-Lancaster fight once and for all.’ ‘What makes you think that?’ ‘Well, I’ve been looking at his coronation lists. It was the best-attended coronation on record, incidentally. You can’t help being struck by the fact that practically nobody stayed away. Lancaster or York.’ ‘Including the weather-cock Stanley, I suppose.’ ‘I suppose so. I don’t know them well enough to remember them individually.’ ‘Perhaps you’re right about his wanting a final end to the York-Lancaster feud. Perhaps his lenience with Stanley was due to that very thing.’ ‘Was Stanley a Lancastrian, then?’ ‘No, but he was married to an abnormally rabid one. His wife was Margaret Beaufort, and the Beauforts were the reverse side, so to speak—the illegitimate side—of the Lancaster family. Not that her by-blow side worried her. Or her son.’ ‘Who was her son?’ ‘Henry VII.’ Carradine whistled, long and low. ‘You actually mean to say that Lady Stanley was Henry’s mother.’ ‘She was. By her first husband Edmund Tudor.’ ‘But—but Lady Stanley had a place of honour at Richard’s coronation. She carried the Queen’s train. I noticed that because I thought it quaint. Carrying the train, I mean. In our country we don’t carry trains. It’s an honour, I take it.’ [Pg 135] ‘It’s a thundering great honour. Poor Richard. Poor Richard. It didn’t work.’ ‘What didn’t?’ ‘Magnanimity.’ He lay thinking about it while Carradine shuffled through his notes. ‘So Parliament accepted the evidence of Stillington.’ ‘They did more. They incorporated it into an Act, giving Richard the title to the crown. It was called Titulus Regius.’ ‘For a holy man of God, Stillington wasn’t cutting a very glorious figure. But I suppose that to have talked sooner would have been to compass his own ruin.’ ‘You’re a bit hard on him, aren’t you? There wasn’t any need to talk sooner. No harm was being done anyone.’ ‘What about Lady Eleanor Butler?’ ‘She had died in a convent. She’s buried in the Church of the White Carmelites at Norwich, in case you’re interested. As long as Edward was alive no wrong was being done anyone. But when it came to the question of succession, then he had to talk, whatever kind of figure he cut.’ ‘Yes. Of course you’re right. So the children were proclaimed illegitimate, in open Parliament. And Richard was crowned. With all the nobility of England in attendance. Was the Queen still in sanctuary?’ ‘Yes. But she had let the younger boy join his brother.’ ‘When was that?’ Carradine searched through his notes. ‘On June the 16th. I’ve put: “At the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Both boys living at the Tower.”’ [Pg 136] ‘That was after the news had broken. The news that they were illegitimate.’ ‘Yes.’ He tidied his notes into some kind of neatness and put them away in the enormous pocket. ‘That seems to be all, to date. But here’s the pay-off.’ He gathered his train from either side of him on to his knees with a gesture that both Marta and King Richard might have envied. ‘You know that Act, that Titulus Regius.’ ‘Yes; what about it?’ ‘Well, when Henry VII came to the throne he ordered that the Act should be repealed, without being read. He ordered that the Act itself should be destroyed, and forbade any copies to be kept. Anyone who kept a copy was to be fined and imprisoned during his pleasure.’ Grant stared in great astonishment. ‘Henry VII!’ he said. ‘Why? What possible difference could it make to him?’ ‘I haven’t a glimmer of an idea. But I mean to find out before I’m much older. Meanwhile, here is something to keep you amused till the Statue of Liberty brings your British tea.’ He dropped a paper on to Grant’s chest. ‘What is this?’ Grant said, looking at the torn-out page of a note-book. ‘It’s that letter of Richard’s about Jane Shore. I’ll be seeing you.’ Left alone by himself in the quiet, Grant turned over the page and read. The contrast between the sprawling childish handwriting and the formal phrases of Richard’s imagining was piquant in the extreme. But what neither the untidy[Pg 137] modern script nor the dignified phrases could destroy was the flavour of the letter. The bouquet of good humour that came up from the page as a bouquet comes up from a good-humoured wine. Translated into modern terms it said: I hear to my great astonishment that Tom Lynom wants to marry Will Shore’s wife. Apparently he is infatuated with her, and is quite determined about it. Do, my dear Bishop, send for him and see if you can talk some sense into his silly head. If you can’t, and if there is no bar to their marriage from the Church’s point of view, then I agree to it, but tell him to postpone the marriage till I am back in London. Meanwhile this will suffice to secure her release, on surety for her good behaviour, and I suggest that you hand her over for the time being to the care of her father, or anyone else who seems good to you. It was certainly, as young Carradine had said, ’more in sorrow than in anger’. Indeed, considering that it was written about a woman who had done him a deadly wrong, its kindness and good temper was remarkable. And this was a case where no personal advantage could come to him from magnanimity. The broadmindedness that had sought for a York-Lancaster peace might not have been disinterested; it would have been enormously to his advantage to have a united country to rule. But this letter to the Bishop of Lincoln was a small private matter, and the release of Jane Shore of no importance to anyone but the infatuated Tom Lynom. Richard had nothing to gain by his generosity. His instinct to see a[Pg 138] friend happy was apparently greater than his instinct for revenge. Indeed, his instinct for revenge seemed to be lacking to a degree that would be surprising in any red-blooded male, and quite astonishing in the case of that reputed monster Richard III. The letter lasted Grant very nicely until The Amazon brought his tea. He listened to the twentieth century sparrows on his window-sill and marvelled that he should be reading phrases that formed in a man’s mind more than four hundred years ago. What a fantastic idea it would have seemed to Richard that anyone would be reading that short, intimate letter about Shore’s wife, and wondering about him, four hundred years afterwards. ‘There’s a letter for you, now isn’t that nice,’ The Amazon said, coming in with his two pieces of bread-and-butter and a rock bun. Grant took his eyes from the uncompromising healthiness of the rock bun and saw that the letter was from Laura. He opened it with pleasure. Dear Alan (said Laura) Nothing (repeat: nothing) would surprise me about history. Scotland has large monuments to two women martyrs drowned for their faith, in spite of the fact that they weren’t drowned at all and neither was a martyr anyway. They were convicted of treason—fifth column work for the projected invasion from Holland, I think. Anyhow on a purely civil charge. [Pg 140]They were reprieved on their own petition by the Privy Council, and the reprieve is in the Privy Council Register to this day. This, of course, hasn’t daunted the Scottish collectors of martyrs, and the tale of their sad end, complete with heart-rending dialogue, is to be found in every Scottish bookcase. Entirely different dialogue in each collection. And the gravestone of one of the women, in Wigtown churchyard, reads: Murdered for owning Christ supreme Head of his Church, and no more crime But her not owning Prelacy And not abjuring Presbytry Within the sea tied to a stake She suffered for Christ Jesus sake. They are even a subject for fine Presbyterian sermons, I understand—though on that point I speak from hearsay. And tourists come and shake their heads over the monuments with their moving inscriptions, and a very profitable time is had by all. All this in spite of the fact that the original collector of the material, canvassing the Wigtown district only forty years after the supposed martyrdom and at the height of the Presbyterian triumph, complains that ’many deny that this happened’; and couldn’t find any eyewitnesses at all. It is very good news that you are convalescent, and a great relief to us all. If you manage it well your sick leave can coincide with the spring run. The water is very low at the moment, but by the time you are [Pg 141]better it should be deep enough to please both the fish and you. Love from us all, P.S. It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn’t it. More Tonypandy, he thought. He began to wonder just how much of the school-book which up to now had represented British history for him was Tonypandy. He went back, now that he knew a few facts, to read the sainted More again. To see how the relevant passages sounded now. If, when he had read them merely by the light of his own critical mind, they had seemed to him curiously tattling, and in places absurd, they now read plain abominable. He was what Laura’s small Pat was in the habit of calling ’scunnered’. And he was also puzzled. This was Morton’s account. Morton the eyewitness, the participant. Morton must have known with minute accuracy what took place between the beginning and end of June that year. And yet there was no mention[Pg 142] of Lady Eleanor Butler; no mention of Titulus Regius. According to Morton, Richard’s case had been that Edward was previously married to his mistress Elizabeth Lucy. But Elizabeth Lucy, Morton pointed out, had denied that she was ever married to the King. Why did Morton set up a ninepin just to knock it down again? Why the substitution of Elizabeth Lucy for Eleanor Butler? Because he could deny with truth that Lucy was ever married to the King, but could not do the same in the case of Eleanor Butler? Surely the presumption was that it was very important to someone or other that Richard’s claim that the children were illegitimate should be shown to be untenable. And since Morton—in the handwriting of the sainted More—was writing for Henry VII, then that someone was presumably Henry VII. The Henry VII who had destroyed Titulus Regius and forbidden anyone to keep a copy. Something Carradine had said came back into Grant’s mind. Henry had caused the Act to be repealed without being read. It was so important to Henry that the contents of the Act should not be brought to mind that he had specially provided for its unquoted destruction. Why should it be of such importance to Henry VII? How could it matter to Henry what Richard’s rights were? It was not as if he could say: Richard’s claim was a trumped-up one, therefore mine is good. Whatever wretched small claim Henry Tudor might have was a[Pg 143] Lancastrian one, and the heirs of York did not enter into the matter. Then why should it have been of such paramount importance to Henry that the contents of Titulus Regius should be forgotten? Why hide away Eleanor Butler, and bring in in her place a mistress whom no one ever suggested was married to the King? This problem lasted Grant very happily till just before supper, when the porter came in with a note for him. ‘The front hall says that young American friend of yours left this for you,’ the porter said, handing him a folded sheet of paper. ‘Thank you,’ said Grant. ‘What do you know about Richard the Third?’ ‘Is there a prize?’ ‘What for?’ ‘The quiz.’ ‘No, just the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity. What do you know about Richard III?’ ‘He was the first multiple murderer.’ ‘Multiple? I thought it was two nephews?’ ‘No, oh, no. I don’t know much history but I do know that. Murdered his brother, and his cousin, and the poor old King in the Tower, and then finished off with his little nephews. A wholesale performer.’ Grant considered this. ‘If I told you that he never murdered anyone at all, what would you say?’ ‘I’d say that you’re perfectly entitled to your opinion. Some people believe the earth is flat. Some people believe the world is going to end in A.D. 2000. Some people[Pg 144] believe that it began less than five thousand years ago. You’ll hear far funnier things than that at Marble Arch of a Sunday.’ ‘So you wouldn’t even entertain the idea for a moment?’ ‘I find it entertaining all right, but not what you might call very plausible, shall we say. But don’t let me stand in your way. Try it out on a better bombing range. You take it to Marble Arch one Sunday, and I’ll bet you’ll find followers aplenty. Maybe start a movement.’ He made a gay sketchy half-salute with his hand and went away humming to himself, secure and impervious. So help me, Grant thought, I’m not far off it. If I get any deeper into this thing I will be standing on a soapbox at Marble Arch. He unfolded the message from Carradine, and read: ‘You said that you wanted to know whether the other heirs to the throne survived Richard. As well as the boys, I mean. I forgot to say: would you make out a list of them for me, so that I can look them up. I think it’s going to be important.’ Well, if the world in general went on its humming way, brisk and uncaring, at least he had young America on his side. He put aside the sainted More, with its Sunday-paper accounts of hysterical scenes and wild accusations, and reached for the sober student’s account of history so that he might catalogue the possible rivals to Richard III in the English succession. And as he put down More-Morton, he was reminded of something. That hysterical scene during the Council in the Tower which was reported by More, that frantic outburst on[Pg 145] Richard’s part against the sorcery that had withered his arm, had been against Jane Shore. The contrast between the reported scene, pointless and repellent even to a disinterested reader, and the kind, tolerant, almost casual air of the letter that Richard had actually written about her, was staggering. So help me, he thought again, if I had to choose between the man who wrote that account and the man who wrote that letter I’d take the man who wrote the letter, whatever either of them had done besides. The thought of Morton made him postpone his listing of the York heirs until he had found out what eventually became of John Morton. It seemed that, having used his leisure as Buckingham’s guest to organise a joint Woodville-Lancastrian effort (in which Henry Tudor would bring ships and troops from France and Dorset and the rest of the Woodville tribe would meet him with what English malcontents they could induce to follow them) he escaped to his old hunting ground in the Ely district, and from there to the continent. And did not come back until he came in the wake of a Henry who had won both Bosworth and a crown; being himself on the way to Canterbury and a cardinal’s hat and immortality as Morton of ‘Morton’s Fork’. Almost the only thing that any schoolboy remembered about his master Henry VII. For the rest of the evening Grant pottered happily through the history books, collecting heirs. There was no lack of them. Edward’s five, George’s boy and girl. And if these were discounted, the first through illegitimacy and the second through attainder, there was another possible: his elder sister Elizabeth’s[Pg 146] boy. Elizabeth was Duchess of Suffolk, and her son was John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. There was, too, in the family, a boy whose existence Grant had not suspected. It appeared that the delicate child at Middleham was not Richard’s only son. He had a love-child; a boy called John. John of Gloucester. A boy of no importance in rank, but acknowledged and living in the household. It was an age when a bend sinister was accepted without grief. Indeed the Conqueror had made it fashionable. And conquerors from then on had advertised its lack of disadvantage. By way of compensation, perhaps. Grant made himself a little aide mémoire. EDWARD ELIZABETH GEORGE RICHARD John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln John of Gloucester Edward, Earl of Warwick Margaret, Countess of Salisbury Edward, Prince of Wales Richard, Duke of York Cicely He copied it out again for young Carradine’s use, wondering how it could ever have occurred to anyone, Richard most of all, that the elimination of Edward’s two boys would have kept him safe from rebellion. The place[Pg 147] was what young Carradine would call just lousy with heirs. Swarming with focuses (or was it foci?) for disaffection. It was brought home to him for the first time not only what a useless thing the murder of the boys would have been, but what a silly thing. And if there was anything that Richard of Gloucester was not, beyond a shadow of a shadow of doubt, it was silly. He looked up Oliphant to see what Oliphant had to say on this obvious crack in the story. ‘It is strange,’ said Oliphant, ‘that Richard does not seem to have published any version of their deaths.’ It was more than strange: it was incomprehensible. If Richard had wanted to murder his brother’s sons then he most certainly would have done it expertly. They would have died of a fever, and their bodies would have been exposed to the public gaze as royal bodies habitually were, so that all men would know that they were in fact departed from this life. No one can say that a man is incapable of murder—after long years on the Embankment Grant knew that only too well—but one can be sure to within one degree of the absolute when a man is incapable of silliness. Oliphant had no doubts about the murder, nevertheless. Richard according to Oliphant was Richard the Monster. Perhaps when an historian was covering a field as large as the Middle Ages and the Renaissance he had no time to stop and analyse detail. Oliphant accepted the sainted More, even while he paused in flight to wonder at an oddity here and there. Not seeing that the oddities ate away at the very foundations of his theory. [Pg 148] Having Oliphant in his hand, he went on with Oliphant. On through the triumphal progress through England after the coronation. Oxford, Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick. No dissentient voice was recorded on that tour. Only a chorus of blessing and thanksgiving. A rejoicing that good government was to be the order of the day for a lifetime to come. That after all, Edward’s sudden death had not condemned them to years of faction and a new civil struggle over the person of his son. And yet it was during this triumph, this unanimous acclamation, this universal hosanna, that (according to Oliphant, riding in the pocket of the sainted More) Richard sent Tyrrel back to London to make away with the boys who were doing lessons in the Tower. Between July 7th and 15th. At Warwick. In the very summer of his safety, in the heart of the York country on the borders of Wales, he planned the destruction of two discredited children. It was a highly unlikely story. He began to wonder whether historians were possessed of minds any more commonsensical than those Great Minds he had encountered, who had been so credulous. He must find out without delay why, if Tyrrel did that job in July 1485, he wasn’t brought to book until twenty years afterwards. Where had he been in the meantime? But Richard’s summer was like an April day. Full of a promise that came to nothing. In the autumn he had to face that Woodville-Lancastrian invasion which Morton had cooked up before leaving these shores himself. The Lancastrian part of the affair did Morton proud: they came with a fleet of French ships and a French army. But the Woodville side could provide nothing better[Pg 149] than sporadic little gatherings in widely separated centres: Guildford, Salisbury, Maidstone, Newbury, Exeter, and Brecon. The English wanted no part of Henry Tudor, whom they did not know, nor any part of the Woodvilles, whom they knew only too well. Even the English weather would have none of them. And Dorset’s hopes of seeing his half-sister Elizabeth queen of England as Henry Tudor’s wife was washed away in Severn floods. Henry tried to land in the West, but found Devon and Cornwall up in indignant arms at the idea. He therefore sailed away to France again, to wait for a luckier day. And Dorset went to join the growing crowd of Woodville exiles hanging round the French court. So Morton’s plan was washed away in autumn rain and English indifference, and Richard could be at peace for a little; but with the spring came a grief that nothing could wash away. The death of his son. ‘The King is said to have shown signs of desperate grief; he was not such an unnatural monster as to be destitute of the feelings of a father,’ said the historian. Nor of a husband, it seemed. The same marks of suffering were reported of him less than a year later, when Anne died. And after that there was nothing but the waiting for the renewal of the invasion that had failed; the keeping of England in a state of defence, and the anxiety that that drain on the Exchequer brought him. He had done what good he could. He had given his name to a model Parliament. He had made peace at last with Scotland and arranged a marriage between his niece and James III’s son. He had tried very hard for a peace with France, but had failed. At the French[Pg 150] court was Henry Tudor, and Henry Tudor was France’s white-headed boy. It would be only a matter of time before Henry landed in England, this time with better backing. Grant suddenly remembered Lady Stanley, that ardent Lancastrian mother of Henry. What part had Lady Stanley had in that autumn invasion that had put paid to Richard’s summer? He hunted through the solid print until he found it. Lady Stanley had been found guilty of treasonable correspondence with her son. But again Richard had proved too lenient for his own good, it seemed. Her estates were forfeit, but they were handed over to her husband. And so was Lady Stanley. For safe keeping. The bitter joke being that Stanley had almost certainly been as knowledgeable about the invasion as his wife. Truly, the monster was not running according to form. As Grant was falling asleep a voice said in his mind: ‘If the boys were murdered in July, and the Woodville-Lancastrian invasion took place in October, why didn’t they use the murder of the children as a rallying call?’ The invasion had, of course, been planned before there was any question of murder; it was a full-dress affair of fifteen ships and five thousand mercenaries and must have taken a long time to prepare. But by the time of the rising the rumours of Richard’s infamy must have been widespread if there were any rumours at all. Why had they not gone shouting his crime through England, so that the horror of it brought men flocking to their cause? ‘Cool off, cool off,’ he said to himself when he woke next morning, ‘you’re beginning to be partisan. That’s no way to conduct an investigation.’ So, by way of moral discipline, he became prosecutor. Supposing that the Butler story was a frame-up. A story concocted with Stillington’s help. Supposing that both Lords and Commons were willing to be hoodwinked in the hope of stable Government to come. Did that bring one any nearer the murder of the two boys? It didn’t, did it? If the story was false, the person to be got rid of was Stillington. Lady Eleanor had died in her convent long ago, so was not there to blow Titulus Regius to pieces any time she had a mind. But Stillington could. And Stillington evidently showed no difficulty in going on living. He survived the man he had put on the throne. The sudden jar in the proceedings, the abrupt break in the pattern of the coronation preparation, was either wonderful stage-managing or just what one would expect if the thunderclap of Stillington’s confession descended on unprepared ears. Richard was—what? Eleven? Twelve?—when the Butler contract was signed and witnessed; it was unlikely that he knew anything of it. If the Butler story was an invention to oblige Richard,[Pg 152] then Richard must have rewarded Stillington. But there was no sign of Stillington’s being obliged with a cardinal’s hat, or preferment, or office. But the surest evidence that the Butler story was true lay in Henry VII’s urgent need to destroy it. If it were false, then all he had to do to discredit Richard was to bring it into the open and make Stillington eat his words. Instead he hushed it up. At this point Grant realised with disgust that he was back on the Defence side again. He decided to give it up. He would take to Lavinia Fitch, or Rupert Rouge, or some other of the fashionable authors lying in such expensive neglect on his table, and forget Richard Plantagenet until such time as young Carradine appeared to renew the inquisition. He put the family-tree sketch of Cicely Nevill’s grandchildren into an envelope and addressed it to Carradine, and gave it to The Midget to post. Then he turned down the portrait that was leaning against the books, so that he should not be seduced by that face which Sergeant Williams had placed, without hesitation, on the bench, and reached for Silas Weekly’s The Sweat and the Furrow. Thereafter he went from Silas’s seamy wrestlings to Lavinia’s tea-cups, and from Lavinia’s tea-cups to Rupert’s cavortings in the coulisses, with a growing dissatisfaction, until Brent Carradine once more turned up in his life. Carradine regarded him anxiously and said: ‘You don’t look so bright as last time I saw you, Mr Grant. You not doing so well?’ ‘Not where Richard is concerned, I’m not,’ Grant said. ‘But I’ve got a new piece of Tonypandy for you.’ [Pg 153] And he handed him Laura’s letter about the drowned women who were never drowned. Carradine read it with a delight that grew on him like slow sunlight coming out, until eventually he glowed. ‘My, but that’s wonderful. That’s very superior, first growth, dyed-in-the-wool Tonypandy, isn’t it. Lovely, lovely. You didn’t know about this before? And you a Scotsman?’ ‘I’m only a Scot once removed,’ Grant pointed out. ‘No; I knew that none of these Covenanters died “for their Faith”, of course; but I didn’t know that one of them—or rather, two of them—hadn’t died at all.’ ‘They didn’t die for their Faith?’ Carradine repeated, bewildered. ‘D’you mean that the whole thing’s Tonypandy?’ Grant laughed. ‘I suppose it is,’ he said, surprised. ‘I never thought about it before. I’ve known so long that the “martyrs” were no more martyrs than that thug who is going to his death for killing that old shop-keeper in Essex, that I’ve ceased to think about it. No one in Scotland went to his death for anything but civil crime.’ ‘But I thought they were very holy people—the Covenanters, I mean.’ ‘You’ve been looking at nineteenth-century pictures of conventicles. The reverent little gathering in the heather listening to the preacher; young rapt faces, and white hair blowing in the winds of God. The Covenanters were the exact equivalent of the I.R.A. in Ireland. A small irreconcilable minority, and as bloodthirsty a crowd as ever disgraced a Christian nation. If you went to church on Sunday instead of to a conventicle, you were liable to wake on Monday and find your barn burned[Pg 154] or your horses hamstrung. If you were more open in your disapproval you were shot. The men who shot Archbishop Sharp in his daughter’s presence, in broad daylight on a road in Fife, were the heroes of the movement. “Men of courage and zeal for the cause of God”, according to their admiring followers. They lived safe and swaggering among their Covenanting fans in the West for years. It was a “preacher of the gospel” who shot Bishop Honeyman in an Edinburgh street. And they shot the old parish priest of Carsphairn on his own doorstep.’ ‘It does sound like Ireland, doesn’t it,’ Carradine said. ‘They were actually worse than the I.R.A. because there was a fifth column element in it. They were financed from Holland, and their arms came from Holland. There was nothing forlorn about their movement, you know. They expected to take over the Government any day, and rule Scotland. All their preaching was pure sedition. The most violent incitement to crime you could imagine. No modern Government could afford to be so patient with such a menace as the Government of the time were. The Covenanters were continually being offered amnesties.’ ‘Well, well. And I thought they were fighting for freedom to worship God their own way.’ ‘No one ever stopped them from worshipping God any way they pleased. What they were out to do was to impose their method of church government not only on Scotland but on England, believe it or not. You should read the Covenant some day. Freedom of worship was not to be allowed to anyone according to the Covenanting creed—except the Covenanters, of course.’ [Pg 155]‘And all those gravestones and monuments that tourists go to see——’ ‘All Tonypandy. If you ever read on a gravestone that John Whosit “suffered death for his adherence to the Word of God and Scotland’s Covenanted work of Reformation”, with a touching little verse underneath about “dust sacrificed to tyranny”, you can be sure that the said John Whosit was found guilty before a properly constituted court, of a civil crime punishable by death and that his death had nothing whatever to do with the Word of God.’ He laughed a little under his breath. ‘It’s the final irony, you know, that a group whose name was anathema to the rest of Scotland in their own time should have been elevated into the position of saints and martyrs.’ ‘I wouldn’t wonder if it wasn’t onomatopoeic,’ Carradine said thoughtfully. ‘Like the Cat and the Rat, you know.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘’Member you said, about that Cat and Rat lampoon, that rhyme, that the sound of it made it an offence?’ ‘Yes; made it venomous.’ ‘Well, the word dragoon does the same thing. I take it that the dragoons were just the policemen of the time.’ ‘Yes. Mounted infantry.’ ‘Well, to me—and I suspect to every other person reading about it—dragoons sound dreadful. They’ve come to mean something that they never were.’ ‘Yes, I see. Force majeure in being. Actually the Government had only a tiny handful of men to police[Pg 156] an enormous area, so the odds were all on the Covenanters’ side. In more ways than one. A dragoon (read policeman) couldn’t arrest anyone without a warrant (he couldn’t stable his horse without the owner’s permission, if it comes to that), but there was nothing to hinder a Covenanter lying snug in the heather and picking off dragoons at his leisure. Which they did, of course. And now there’s a whole literature about the poor ill-used saint in the heather with his pistol; and the dragoon who died in the course of his duty is a Monster.’ ‘Like Richard. How have you been getting on with our own particular Tonypandy?’ ‘Well, I still haven’t managed to find out why Henry was so anxious to hush up that Act as well as repeal it. The thing was hushed-up and for years it was forgotten, until the original draft turned up, just by chance, in the Tower records. It was printed in 1611. Speed printed the full text of it in his History of Great Britain.’ ‘Oh. So there’s no question at all about Titulus Regius. Richard succeeded as the Act says, and the sainted More’s account is nonsense. There never was an Elizabeth Lucy in the matter.’ ‘Lucy? Who’s Elizabeth Lucy?’ ‘Oh, I forgot. You weren’t on in that act. According to the sainted More, Richard claimed that Edward was married to one of his mistresses, one Elizabeth Lucy.’ The disgusted look that the mention of the sainted More always caused on young Carradine’s mild face made him look almost nauseated. ‘That’s nonsense.’ ‘So the sainted More smugly pointed out.’ [Pg 157] ‘Why did they want to hide Eleanor Butler?’ Carradine said, seeing the point. ‘Because she really had married Edward, and the children really were illegitimate. And if the children really were illegitimate, by the way, then no one would rise in their favour and they were no danger to Richard. Have you noticed that the Woodville-Lancastrian invasion was in Henry’s favour, and not in the boys’—although Dorset was their half-brother? And that was before any rumours of their non-existence could have reached him. As far as the leaders of the Dorset-Morton rebellion were concerned the boys were of no account. They were backing Henry. That way, Dorset would have a brother-in-law on the throne of England, and the Queen would be his half-sister. Which would be a nice reversal of form for a penniless fugitive.’ ‘Yes. Yes, that’s a point, all right; that about Dorset not fighting to restore his half-brother. If there had been a chance at all that England would have accepted the boy, he surely would have backed the boy. I’ll tell you another interesting thing I found. The Queen and her daughters came out of sanctuary quite soon. It’s your talking about her son Dorset that reminded me. She not only came out of sanctuary but settled down as if nothing had happened. Her daughters went to festivities at the Palace. And do you know what the pay-off is?’ ‘No?’ ‘That was after the Princes had been “murdered”. Yes, and I’ll tell you something else. With her two boys done to death by their wicked uncle, she writes to her other son, in France—Dorset—and asks him to come home and make his peace with Richard, who will treat him well.’ [Pg 158] There was silence. There were no sparrows to talk today. Only the soft sound of the rain against the window. ‘No comment?’ Carradine said at last. ‘You know,’ Grant said, ‘from the police point of view there is no case against Richard at all. And I mean that literally. It isn’t that the case isn’t good enough. Good enough to bring into court, I mean. There, quite literally, isn’t any case against him at all.’ ‘I’ll say there isn’t. Especially when I tell you that every single one of those people whose names you sent me were alive and prosperous, and free, when Richard was killed at Bosworth. They were not only free, they were very well cared for. Edward’s children not only danced at the Palace, they had pensions. He appointed one of the crowd his heir when his own boy died.’ ‘Which one?’ ‘George’s boy.’ ‘So he meant to reverse the attainder on his brother’s children.’ ‘Yes. He had protested about his being condemned, if you remember.’ ‘According to even the Sainted More, he did. So all the heirs to the throne of England were going about their business, free and unfettered, during the reign of Richard III, the Monster.’ ‘They were more. They were part of the general scheme of things. I mean, part of the family and the general economy of the realm. I’ve been reading a collection of York records by a man Davies. Records of the town of York, I mean; not the family. Both young Warwick—George’s son—and his cousin, young Lincoln,[Pg 159] were members of the Council. The town addressed a letter to them. In 1485, that was. What’s more, Richard knighted young Warwick at the same time as he knighted his own son, at a splendid “do” at York.’ He paused a long moment, and then blurted out: ‘Mr Grant, do you want to write a book about this?’ ‘A book!’ Grant said, astonished. ‘God forbid. Why?’ ‘Because I should like to write one. It would make a much better book than the Peasants.’ ‘Write away.’ ‘You see, I’d like to have something to show my father. Pop thinks I’m no good because I can’t take an interest in furniture, and marketing, and graphs of sales. If he could actually handle a book that I had written he might believe that I wasn’t so hopeless a bet after all. In fact, I wouldn’t put it past him to begin to boast about me for a change.’ Grant looked at him with benevolence. ‘I forgot to ask you what you thought of Crosby Place,’ he said. ‘Oh, fine, fine. If Carradine the Third ever sees it he’ll want to take it back with him and rebuild it in the Adirondacks somewhere.’ ‘If you write that book about Richard, he most certainly will. He’ll feel like a part-owner. What are you going to call it?’ ‘The book?’ ‘I’m going to borrow a phrase from Henry Ford, and call it History Is The Bunk.’ ‘Excellent.’ [Pg 160]‘However, I’ll have a lot more reading to do and a lot more research, before I can start writing.’ ‘Most assuredly you have. You haven’t arrived yet at the real question.’ ‘Who did murder the boys.’ ‘Yes, of course,’ ‘If the boys were alive when Henry took over the Tower what happened to them?’ ‘Yes. I’ll get on to that. I still want to know why it was so important to Henry to hush up the contents of Titulus Regius.’ He got up to go, and then noticed the portrait that was lying on its face on the table. He reached over and restored the photograph to its original place, propping it with a concerned care against the pile of books. ‘You stay there,’ he said to the painted Richard. ‘I’m going to put you back where you belong.’ As he went out of the door, Grant said: ‘I’ve just thought of a piece of history which is not Tonypandy.’ ‘Yes?’ said Carradine, lingering. ‘The massacre of Glencoe.’ ‘That really did happen?’ ‘That really did happen. And—Brent!’ Brent put his head back inside the door. ‘The man who gave the order for it was an ardent Covenanter.’ Carradine had not been gone more than twenty minutes when Marta appeared, laden with flowers, books, candy, and goodwill. She found Grant deep in the fifteenth century as reported by Sir Cuthbert Oliphant. He greeted her with an absentmindedness to which she was not accustomed. ‘If your two sons had been murdered by your brother-in-law, would you take a handsome pension from him?’ ‘I take it that the question is rhetorical,’ Marta said, putting down her sheaf of flowers and looking round to see which of the already occupied vases would best suit their type. ‘Honestly, I think historians are all mad. Listen to this: “The conduct of the Queen-Dowager is hard to explain; whether she feared to be taken from sanctuary by force, or whether she was merely tired of her forlorn existence at Westminster, and had resolved to be reconciled to the murderer of her sons out of mere callous apathy, seems uncertain.” ‘Merciful Heaven!’ said Marta, pausing with a delft jar in one hand and a glass cylinder in the other, and looking at him in wild surmise. ‘Do you think historians really listen to what they are saying?’ ‘Who was the said Queen-Dowager?’ [Pg 162] ‘Elizabeth Woodville. Edward IV’s wife.’ ‘Oh, yes. I played her once. It was a “bit”. In a play about Warwick the Kingmaker.’ ‘Of course I’m only a policeman,’ Grant said. ‘Perhaps I never moved in the right circles. It may be that I’ve met only nice people. Where would one have to go to meet a woman who became matey with the murderer of her two boys?’ ‘Greece, I should think,’ Marta said. ’Ancient Greece.’ ‘I can’t remember a sample even there.’ ‘Or a lunatic asylum, perhaps. Was there any sign of idiocy about Elizabeth Woodville?’ ‘Not that anyone ever noticed. And she was Queen for twenty years or so.’ ‘Of course the thing is farce, I hope you see,’ Marta said, going on with her flower arranging. ‘Not tragedy at all. “Yes, I know he did kill Edward and little Richard, but he really is a rather charming creature and it is so bad for my rheumatism living in rooms with a north light”.’ Grant laughed, and his good temper came back. ‘Yes, of course. It’s the height of absurdity. It belongs to Ruthless Rhymes, not to sober history. That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.’ ‘Perhaps when you are grubbing about with tattered records you haven’t time to learn about people. I don’t mean about the people in the records, but just about People. Flesh and blood. And how they react to circumstances.’ [Pg 163] ‘How would you play her?’ Grant asked, remembering that the understanding of motive was Marta’s trade. ‘Play who?’ ‘The woman who came out of sanctuary and made friends with her children’s murderer for seven hundred merks per annum and the right to go to parties at the Palace.’ ‘I couldn’t. There is no such woman outside Euripides or a delinquent’s home. One could only play her as a rag. She’d make a very good burlesque, now I think of it. A take-off of poetic tragedy. The blank verse kind. I must try it sometime. For a charity matinée, or something. I hope you don’t hate mimosa. It’s odd, considering how long I’ve known you, how little I know of your likes and dislikes. Who invented the woman who became buddies with her sons’ murderer?’ ‘No one invented her. Elizabeth Woodville did come out of sanctuary, and did accept a pension from Richard. The pension was not only granted, it was paid. Her daughters went to parties at the Palace and she wrote to her other son—her first-marriage son—to come home from France and make his peace with Richard. Oliphant’s only suggestion as to the reason for this is that she was either frightened of being dragged out of sanctuary (did you ever know of anyone who was dragged out of sanctuary? The man who did that would be excommunicated—and Richard was a very good son of Holy Church) or that she was bored with sanctuary life.’ ‘And what is your theory about so odd a proceeding?’ ‘The obvious explanation is that the boys were alive and well. No one at that time ever suggested otherwise.’ Marta considered the sprays of mimosa. ‘Yes, of[Pg 164] course. You said that there was no accusation in that Bill of Attainder. After Richard’s death, I mean.’ Her eyes went from the mimosa to the portrait on the table and then to Grant. ‘You think, then, you really soberly think, as a policeman, that Richard didn’t have anything to do with the boys’ deaths.’ ‘I’m quite sure that they were alive and well when Henry took over the Tower on his arrival in London. There is nothing that would explain his omission to make a scandal of it if the boys were missing. Can you think of anything?’ ‘No. No, of course not. It is quite inexplicable. I have always taken it for granted that there was a terrific scandal about it. That it would be one of the main accusations against Richard. You and my woolly lamb seem to be having a lovely time with history. When I suggested a little investigation to pass the time and stop the prickles I had no idea that I was contributing to the rewriting of history. Which reminds me, Atlanta Shergold is gunning for you.’ ‘For me? I’ve never even met her.’ ‘Nevertheless she is looking for you with a gun. She says that Brent’s attitude to the B.M. has become the attitude of an addict to his drug. She can’t drag him away from it. If she takes him away from it physically, he spends the time harking back to it in his mind; so that she mightn’t exist as far as he is concerned. He has even stopped sitting through To Sea in a Bowl. Do you see much of him?’ ‘He was here a few minutes before you came. But I don’t expect to hear from him again for some days to come.’ But in that he was wrong. [Pg 165] Just before supper-time the porter appeared with a telegram. Grant put his thumb under the dainty Post Office lick on the flap and extracted two sheets of telegram. The telegram was from Brent. Hell and damnation an awful thing has happened (stop) you know that chronicle in Latin I talked about (stop) the chronicle written by the monk at Croyland Abbey (stop) well I’ve just seen it and the rumour is there the rumour about the boys being dead (stop) the thing is written before Richard’s death so we are sunk arent we and I specially am sunk and that fine book of mine will never be written (stop) is anyone allowed to commit suicide in your river or is it reserved for the British Into the silence the voice of the porter said: ‘It’s reply-paid, sir. Do you want to send an answer?’ ‘What? Oh. No. Not right away. I’ll send it down presently.’ ‘Very good, sir,’ said the porter looking respectfully at the two sheets of telegram—in the porter’s family a telegram was confined to one sheet only—and went away, not humming this time. Grant considered the news conveyed with such transatlantic extravagance in the matter of telegraphic communication. He read the thing again. ‘Croyland,’ he said, considering. Why did that ring a bell? No one had mentioned Croyland so far in this case. Carradine had talked merely of a monkish chronicle somewhere. [Pg 166] He had been too often, in his professional life, faced with a fact that apparently destroyed his whole case to be dismayed now. He reacted as he would have reacted in a professional investigation. He took out the upsetting small fact and looked at it. Calmly. Dispassionately. With none of poor Carradine’s wild dismay. ‘Croyland,’ he said again. Croyland was somewhere in Cambridgeshire. Or was it Norfolk? Somewhere on the borders there, in the flat country. The Midget came in with his supper, and propped the flat bowl-like plate where he could eat from it with a modicum of comfort, but he was not aware of her. ‘Can you reach your pudding easily from there?’ she asked. And as he did not answer: ‘Mr Grant, can you reach your pudding if I leave it on the edge there?’ ‘Ely!’ he shouted at her. ‘Ely,’ he said; softly, to the ceiling. ‘Mr Grant, aren’t you feeling well?’ He became conscious of The Midget’s well-powdered and concerned little face as it intruded between him and the familiar cracks. ‘I’m fine, fine. Better than I’ve ever been in my life. Wait just a moment, there’s a good girl, and send a telegram down for me. Give me my writing-pad. I can’t reach it with that mess of rice pudding in the way.’ She gave him the pad and pencil, and on the reply-paid form he wrote: Can you find me a similar rumour in France at about the same date? [Pg 167] After that he ate his supper with a good appetite, and settled down to a good night’s sleep. He was floating in that delicious half-way stage on the way to unconsciousness when he became aware that someone was leaning over to inspect him. He opened his eyes to see who it might be, and looked straight into the anxious yearning brown irises of The Amazon, looking larger and more cowlike than ever in the soft lamplight. She was holding in her hand a yellow envelope. ‘I didn’t quite know what to do,’ she said. ‘I didn’t want to disturb you and yet I didn’t know whether it mightn’t be important. A telegram, you know. You never can tell. And if you didn’t have it tonight it would mean a whole twelve hours’ delay. Nurse Ingham has gone off duty, so there was no one to ask till Nurse Briggs comes on at ten. I hope I haven’t wakened you up. But you weren’t really asleep, were you?’ Grant assured her that she had done the right thing and she let out a sigh that nearly blew the portrait of Richard over. She stood by while he read the telegram, with an air of being ready to support him in any evil news that it might contain. To The Amazon all telegrams conveyed evil tidings. The telegram was from Carradine. It said: ‘You mean you want repeat want that there should be another repeat another accusation questionmark—Brent.’ Grant took the reply-paid form and wrote: ‘Yes. Preferably in France.’ Then he said to The Amazon: ‘You can turn out the light, I think. I’m going to sleep until seven tomorrow morning.’ [Pg 168] He fell asleep wondering how long it would be before he saw Carradine again, and what the odds were against that much desired instance of a second rumour. But it was not so long after all until Carradine turned up again, and he turned up looking anything but suicidal. Indeed he seemed in some queer way to have broadened out. His coat seemed less of an appendage and more of a garment. He beamed at Grant. ‘Mr Grant, you’re a wonder. Do they have more like you at Scotland Yard? Or do you rate special?’ Grant looked at him almost unbelieving. ‘Don’t tell me you’ve turned up a French instance!’ ‘Didn’t you want me to?’ ‘Yes. But I hardly dared hope for it. The odds against seemed tremendous. What form did the rumour take in France? A chronicle? A letter?’ ‘No. Something much more surprising. Something much more dismaying, actually. It seems that the Chancellor of France, in a speech to the States-General at Tours, spoke of the rumour. Indeed he was quite eloquent about it. In a way, his eloquence was the one scrap of comfort I could find in the situation.’ ‘Well, it sounded more to my mind like a Senator being hasty about someone who had brought in a measure his own people back home wouldn’t like. More like politics than State, if you know what I mean.’ ‘You should be at the Yard, Brent. What did the Chancellor say?’ ‘Well, it’s in French and my French isn’t very good so perhaps you’d better read it for yourself.’ [Pg 169] He handed over a sheet of his childish writing and Grant read: Regardez, je vous prie, les événements qui après la mort du roi Edouard sont arrivés dans ce pays. Contemplez ses enfants, déjà grands et braves, massacrés impunément, et la couronne transportée a l’assassin par la faveur des peuples. ‘“Ce pays”,’ said Grant. ‘Then he was in full flood against England. He even suggests that it was with the will of the English people that the boys were “massacred”. We are being held up as a barbarous race.’ ‘Yes. That’s what I meant. It’s a Congressman scoring a point. Actually, the French Regency sent an embassy to Richard that same year—about six months later—so they had probably found that the rumour wasn’t true. Richard signed a safe-conduct for their visit. He wouldn’t have done that if they had been still slanging him as a murdering untouchable.’ ‘No. Can you give me the dates of the two libels?’ ‘Sure. I have them here. The monk at Croyland wrote about events in the late summer of 1483. He says that there was a rumour that the boys had been put to death but no one knew how. The nasty slap in the meeting of the States-General was in January 1484.’ ‘Perfect,’ said Grant. ‘Why did you want there to have been another instance of rumour?’ ‘As a cross-check. Do you know where Croyland is?’ ‘Yes. In the Fen country.’ ‘In the Fen country. Near Ely. And it was in the Fen country that Morton was hiding out after his escape from Buckingham’s charge.’ [Pg 170] ‘Morton! Yes, of course.’ ‘If Morton was the carrier, then there had to be another outbreak on the Continent, when he moved on there. Morton escaped from England in the autumn of 1483, and the rumour appears promptly in January 1484. Croyland is a very isolated place, incidentally; it would be an ideal place for a fugitive bishop to hide-out till he could arrange transport abroad.’ ‘Morton!’ said Carradine again, rolling the name over on his tongue. ‘Wherever there’s hanky-panky in this business you stub your toe against Morton.’ ‘So you’ve noticed that too.’ ‘He was the heart of that conspiracy to murder Richard before he could be crowned, he was in back of the rebellion against Richard once he was crowned, and his trail to the Continent is sticky as a snail’s with—with subversion.’ ‘We-ll, the snail part is mere deduction. It wouldn’t stand up in court. But there’s no peradventure about his activities once he was across the channel. He settled down to a whole-time job of subversion. He and a buddy of his called Christopher Urswick worked like beavers in Henry’s interest; “sending preuie letters and cloked messengers” to England to stir up hostility to Richard.’ ‘Yes? I don’t know as much as you about what stands up in court and what won’t, but it seems to me that that snail’s trail is a very allowable deduction—if you’ll allow me. I don’t suppose Morton waited till he was overseas before beginning his undermining.’ ‘No. No, of course he didn’t. It was life and death to Morton that Richard should go. Unless Richard went, John Morton’s career was over. He was finished. It[Pg 171] wasn’t even that there would be no preferment for him now. There would be nothing. He would be stripped of his numerous livings and be reduced to his plain priest’s frock. He, John Morton. Who had been within touching distance of an archbishopric. But if he could help Henry Tudor to a throne then he might still become not only Archbishop of Canterbury but a Cardinal besides. Oh, yes; it was desperately, overwhelmingly important to Morton that Richard should not have the governing of England.’ ‘Well,’ said Brent, ‘he was the right man for a job of subversion. I don’t suppose he knew what a scruple was. A little rumour like infanticide must have been child’s play to him.’ ‘There’s always the odd chance that he believed it, of course,’ Grant said, his habit of weighing evidence overcoming even his dislike of Morton. ‘Believed that the boys were murdered?’ ‘Yes. It may have been someone else’s invention. After all, the country must have been swarming with Lancastrian tales, part mere ill-will, part propaganda. He may have been merely passing on the latest sample.’ ‘Huh! I wouldn’t put it past him to be paving the way for their future murder,’ Brent said tartly. Grant laughed. ‘I wouldn’t, at that,’ he said. ‘What else did you get from your monk at Croyland?’ ‘A little comfort, too. I found after I had written that panic wire to you that he wasn’t at all to be taken as gospel. He just put down what gossip came his way from the outer world. He says, for instance, that Richard had a second coronation, at York; and that of course just isn’t true. If he can be wrong about a big, known, fact[Pg 172] like a coronation, then he’s not to be trusted as a reporter. But he did know about Titulus Regius, by the way. He recorded the whole tenor of it, including Lady Eleanor.’ ‘That’s interesting. Even a monk at Croyland had heard who Edward was supposed to have been married to.’ ‘Yes. The sainted More must have dreamed up Elizabeth Lucy a good deal later.’ ‘To say nothing of the unspeakable story that Richard based his claim on his mother’s shame.’ ‘He says that Richard caused a sermon to be preached claiming that Edward and George were his mother’s sons by some other father, and that he, Richard, was the only legitimate son and therefore the only true heir.’ ‘The sainted More might have thought up a more convincing one,’ young Carradine said dryly. ‘Yes. Especially when Richard was living in his mother’s house at the time of the libel!’ ‘So he was. I’d forgotten that. I don’t have a proper police brain. That’s very neat, what you say about Morton being the carrier of the rumour. But suppose the rumour turns up somewhere else, even yet.’ ‘It’s possible, of course. But I’m willing to lay you fifties to any amount that it won’t. I don’t for one moment believe that there was any general rumour that the boys were missing.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘For a reason that I hold to be unanswerable. If there had been any general uneasiness, any obviously subversive rumours or action, Richard would have taken immediate steps to checkmate them. When the rumour went round,[Pg 173] later, that he was proposing to marry his niece Elizabeth—the boys’ eldest sister—he was on to it like a hawk. He not only sent letters to the various towns denying the rumour in no uncertain terms, he was so furious (and evidently thought it of such importance that he should not be traduced) that he summoned the “heid yins” of London to the biggest hall he could find (so that he could get them all in at one time) and told them face to face what he thought about the affair.’ ‘Yes. Of course you’re right. Richard would have made a public denial of the rumour if the rumour was general. After all, it was a much more horrifying one than the one that he was going to marry his niece.’ ‘Yes; actually you could get a dispensation to marry your niece in those days. Perhaps you still can, for all I know. That’s not my department at the Yard. What is certain is that if Richard went to such lengths to contradict the marriage rumour then he most certainly would have gone to much greater lengths to put a stop to the murder one, if it had existed. The conclusion is inevitable: there was no general rumour of disappearance or foul play where the boys were concerned.’ ‘Just a thin little trickle between the Fens and France.’ ‘Just a thin little trickle between the Fens and France. Nothing in the picture suggests any worry about the boys. I mean: in a police investigation you look for any abnormalities in behaviour among the suspects in a crime. Why did X, who always goes to the movies on a Thursday night, decide on that night of all nights not to go? Why did Y take a return half as usual and very unusually not use it? That sort of thing. But in the short time between Richard’s succession and his death everyone[Pg 174] behaves quite normally. The boys’ mother comes out of sanctuary and makes her peace with Richard. The girls resume their court life. The boys are presumably still doing the lessons that their father’s death had interrupted. Their young cousins have a place on the Council and are of sufficient importance for the town of York to be addressing letters to them. It’s all quite a normal, peaceful scene, with everyone going about their ordinary business, and no suggestion anywhere that a spectacular and unnecessary murder has just taken place in the family.’ ‘It looks as if I might write that book after all, Mr Grant.’ ‘Most certainly you will write it. You have not only Richard to rescue from calumny; you have to clear Elizabeth Woodville of the imputation of condoning her sons’ murder for seven hundred merks a year and perks.’ ‘I can’t write the book and leave it in the air like that, of course. I’ll have to have at least a theory as to what became of the boys.’ ‘You will.’ Carradine’s mild gaze came away from the small woolly clouds over the Thames and considered Grant with a question in it. ‘Why that tone?’ he asked. ‘Why are you looking like a cat with cream?’ ‘Well, I’ve been proceeding along police lines. During those empty days while I was waiting for you to turn up again.’ ‘Police lines?’ ‘Yes. Who benefits, and all that. We’ve discovered that it wouldn’t be a pin’s-worth of advantage to Richard[Pg 175] that the boys should die. So we go on looking round to see who, in that case, it would benefit. And this is where Titulus Regius comes in.’ ‘What has Titulus Regius got to do with the murder?’ ‘Henry VII married the boys’ eldest sister. Elizabeth.’ ‘By way of reconciling the Yorkists to his occupation of the throne.’ ‘By repealing Titulus Regius, he made her legitimate.’ ‘Sure.’ ‘But by making the children legitimate he automatically made the two boys heir to the throne before her. In fact, by repealing Titulus Regius he made the elder of the two King of England.’ Carradine made a little clicking sound with his tongue. His eyes behind their horn-rims were glowing with pleasure. ‘So,’ said Grant, ‘I propose that we proceed with investigation along those lines.’ ‘Sure. What do you want?’ ‘I want to know a lot more about that confession of Tyrrel’s. But first, and most of all, I’d like to know how the people concerned acted. What happened to them; not what anyone reported of anyone. Just as we did in the case of Richard’s succession after Edward’s unexpected death.’ ‘Fine. What do you want to know?’ ‘I want to know what became of all the York heirs that Richard left so alive and well and prosperous. Every single one of them. Can you do that for me?’ ‘Sure. That’s elementary.’ [Pg 176] ‘And I could bear to know more about Tyrrel. About the man himself, I mean. Who he was, and what he had done.’ ‘I’ll do that.’ Carradine got up with such an on-with-the-charge air that for one moment Grant thought that he was actually going to button his coat. ‘Mr Grant, I’m so grateful to you for all this—this——’ ‘This fun and games?’ ‘When you’re on your feet again, I’ll—I’ll—I’ll take you round the Tower of London.’ ‘Make it Greenwich-and-back by boat. Our island Race have a passion for the nautical.’ ‘How long do they reckon it will be before you’re out of bed, do you know?’ ‘I’ll probably be up before you come back with the news about the heirs and Tyrrel.’ Grant was not, as it happened, out of bed when Carradine came again, but he was sitting up. ‘You can’t imagine,’ he said to Brent, ‘how fascinating the opposite wall looks, after the ceiling. And how small and queer the world looks right way up.’ He was touched by Carradine’s obvious pleasure in this progress and it was some time before they got down to business. It was Grant who had to say: ‘Well, how did the York heirs make out under Henry VII?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ said the boy, pulling out his usual wad of notes and drawing up a chair by hooking his right toe in the crossbar. He sat down on the chair. ‘Where shall I begin?’ ‘Well, about Elizabeth we know. He married her, and she was Queen of England until she died and he made a bid for the mad Juana of Spain.’ ‘Yes. She was married to Henry in the spring of 1486—in January, rather; five months after Bosworth—and she died in the spring of 1503.’ ‘Seventeen years. Poor Elizabeth. With Henry it must have seemed like seventy. He was what is euphemistically referred to as “unuxorious”. Let us go on down the family. Edward’s children, I mean. Fate of the two boys unknown. What happened to Cecily?’ ‘She was married to his old uncle Lord Welles, and[Pg 178] sent away to live in Lincolnshire. Anne and Katherine, who were children, were married when they were old enough to good Lancastrians. Bridget, the youngest, became a nun at Dartford.’ ‘Orthodox enough, so far. Who comes next? George’s boy.’ ‘Yes. Young Warwick. Shut up for life in the Tower, and executed for allegedly planning to escape.’ ‘So. And George’s daughter? Margaret.’ ‘She became the Countess of Salisbury. Her execution by Henry VIII on a trumped-up charge is apparently the classic sample of judicial murder.’ ‘Elizabeth’s son? The alternative heir?’ ‘John de la Pole. He went to live with his aunt in Burgundy until——’ ‘To live with Margaret, Richard’s sister.’ ‘Yes. He died in the Simnel rising. But he had a younger brother that you didn’t put in that list. He was executed by Henry VIII. He had surrendered to Henry VII under a safe-conduct, so Henry, I suppose, thought that it might break his luck to ignore that. In any case he had about used up his quota. Henry VIII took no chances. He didn’t stop at De la Pole. There were four more that you missed out of that list. Exeter, Surrey, Buckingham, and Montague. He got rid of the lot.’ ‘And Richard’s son? John? The bastard one.’ ‘Henry VII granted him a pension of £20 a year, but he was the first of the lot to go.’ ‘On what charge?’ ‘On having been suspected of receiving an invitation to go to Ireland.’ ‘You’re joking.’ [Pg 179] ‘I’m not. Ireland was the focus of loyalist rebellion. The York family were very popular in Ireland, and to get an invitation from that direction was as good as a death warrant in Henry’s eyes. Though I can’t think why even Henry would have bothered about young John. “An active, well-disposed boy“, he was, by the way, according to the “Foedera”.’ ‘His claim was better than Henry’s,’ Grant said, very tart. ‘He was the illegitimate only son of a King. Henry was the great-grandson of an illegitimate son of a younger son of a King.’ There was silence for some time. Then Carradine, out of the silence, said: ‘Yes.’ ‘Yes to what?’ ‘To what you are thinking.’ ‘It does look like it, doesn’t it. They’re the only two who are missing from the list.’ There was another silence. ‘They were all judicial murders,’ Grant said presently. ‘Murders under the form of law. But you can’t bring a capital charge against a pair of children.’ ‘No,’ agreed Carradine, and went on watching the sparrows. ‘No, it would have to be done some other way. After all, they were the important ones.’ ‘The vital ones.’ ‘How do we start?’ ‘As we did with Richard’s succession. Find out where everyone was in the first months of Henry’s reign and what they were doing. Say the first year of his reign. There will be a break in the pattern somewhere, just as there was a break in the preparations for the boy’s coronation.’ [Pg 180] ‘Right.’ ‘Did you find out anything about Tyrrel? Who he was?’ ‘Yes. He wasn’t at all what I had imagined. I’d imagined him as a sort of hanger-on; hadn’t you?’ ‘Yes, I think I did. Wasn’t he?’ ‘No. He was a person of importance. He was Sir James Tyrrel of Gipping. He had been on various—committees, I suppose you’d call them, for Edward IV. And he was created a Knight Banneret, whatever that is, at the siege of Berwick. And he did well for himself under Richard, though I can’t find that he was at the battle of Bosworth. A lot of people came too late for the battle—did you know?—so I don’t suppose that means anything particular. Anyhow, he wasn’t that lackey-on-the-make person that I’d always pictured.’ ‘That’s interesting. How did he make out under Henry VII?’ ‘Well, that’s the really interesting thing. For such a very good and successful servant of the York family, he seems to have fairly blossomed under Henry. Henry appointed him Constable of Guisnes. Then he was sent as ambassador to Rome. He was one of the Commissioners for negotiating the Treaty of Etaples. And Henry gave him a grant for life of the revenues of some lands in Wales, but made him exchange them for revenues of the county of Guisnes of equal value—I can’t think why.’ ‘I can,’ said Grant. ‘You can?’ ‘Has it struck you that all his honours and his com[Pg 181]missions are outside England? Even the reward of land revenues.’ ‘Yes, so they are. What does that convey to you?’ ‘Nothing at the moment. Perhaps he just found Guisnes better for his bronchial catarrh. It is possible to read too much into historical transactions. Like Shakespeare’s plays, they are capable of almost endless interpretations. How long did this honeymoon with Henry VII last?’ ‘Oh, quite a long time. Everything was just grand until 1502.’ ‘What happened in 1502?’ ‘Henry heard that he had been ready to help one of the York crowd in the Tower to escape to Germany. He sent the whole garrison of Calais to besiege the castle at Guisnes. That wasn’t quick enough for him, so he sent his Lord Privy Seal—know what that is?’ Grant nodded. ‘Sent his Lord Privy Seal—what names you English have dreamed up for your Elks officials—to offer him safe conduct if he would come aboard a ship at Calais and confer with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.’ ‘Don’t tell me.’ ‘I don’t need to, do I? He finished up in a dungeon in the Tower. And was beheaded “in great haste and without trial” on May 6th 1502.’ ‘And what about his confession?’ ‘There wasn’t one.’ ‘Don’t look at me like that. I’m not responsible.’ ‘But I thought he confessed to the murder of the boys.’ ‘Yes, according to various accounts. But they are[Pg 182] accounts of a confession, not—not a transcript, if you see what I mean.’ ‘You mean, Henry didn’t publish a confession?’ ‘No. His paid historian, Polydore Virgil, gave an account of how the murder was done. After Tyrrel was dead.’ ‘But if Tyrrel confessed that he murdered the boys at Richard’s instigation, why wasn’t he charged with the crime and publicly tried for it?’ ‘I can’t imagine.’ ‘Let me get this straight. Nothing was heard of Tyrrel’s confession until Tyrrel was dead.’ ‘Tyrrel confesses that, way back in 1483, nearly twenty years ago, he pelted up to London from Warwick, got the keys of the Tower from the Constable—I forget his name——’ ‘Brackenbury. Sir Robert Brackenbury.’ ‘Yes. Got the keys of the Tower from Sir Robert Brackenbury for one night, murdered the boys, handed back the keys, and reported back to Richard. He confesses this, and so puts an end to what must have been a much canvassed mystery, and yet nothing public is done with him.’ ‘Not a thing.’ ‘I’d hate to go into court with a story like that.’ ‘I wouldn’t even consider it, myself. It’s as phoney a tale as ever I heard.’ ‘Didn’t they even bring Brackenbury in to affirm or deny the story of the keys being handed over?’ ‘Brackenbury was killed at Bosworth.’ ‘So he was conveniently dead too, was he.’ He lay[Pg 183] and thought about it. ‘You know, if Brackenbury died at Bosworth, then we have one more small piece of evidence on our side.’ ‘How? What?’ ‘If that had really happened; I mean: if the keys were handed over for a night on Richard’s order, then a lot of junior officials at the Tower must have been aware of it. It is quite inconceivable that one or other of them wouldn’t be ready to tell the tale to Henry when he took over the Tower. Especially if the boys were missing. Brackenbury was dead. Richard was dead. The next in command at the Tower would be expected to produce the boys. When they weren’t producible, he must have said: “The Constable handed over the keys, one night, and since then the boys have not been seen.” There would have been the most ruthless hue and cry after the man who had been given the keys. He would have been Exhibit A in the case against Richard, and to produce him would have been a feather in Henry’s cap.’ ‘Not only that, but Tyrrel was too well known to the people at the Tower to have passed unrecognised. In the small London of that day he must have been quite a well-known figure.’ ‘Yes. If that story were true Tyrrel would have been tried and executed for the boys’ murder, openly, in 1485. He had no one to protect him.’ He reached for his cigarettes. ‘So what we’re left with is that Henry executed Tyrrel in 1502, and then announced by way of his tame historians that Tyrrel had confessed that twenty years before he had murdered the Princes.’ ‘And he didn’t offer, anywhere, at any time, any reason[Pg 184] for not trying Tyrrel for this atrocious thing he had confessed.’ ‘No. Not as far as I can make out. He was sideways as a crab, you know. He never went straight at anything, even murder. It had to be covered up to look like something else. He waited years to find some sort of legal excuse that would camouflage a murder. He had a mind like a corkscrew. Do you know what his first official action as Henry VII was?’ ‘To execute some of the men fighting for Richard at Bosworth on a charge of treason. And do you know how he managed to make it legally treason? By dating his reign from the day before Bosworth. A mind that was capable of a piece of sharp practice of that calibre was capable of anything.’ He took the cigarette that Grant was offering him. ‘But he didn’t get away with it,’ he added, with sober joy. ‘Oh, no, he didn’t get away with it. The English, bless them, drew the line at that. They told him where he got off.’ ‘How?’ ‘They presented him, in that nice polite English way, with an Act of Parliament that said that no one serving the Sovereign Lord of the land for the time being should be convicted of treason or suffer either forfeiture or imprisonment, and they made him consent to it. That’s terribly English, that ruthless politeness. No yelling in the street or throwing stones because they didn’t like his little bit of cheating. Just a nice polite reasonable Act for him to swallow and like it. I bet he did a slow burn about that one. Well, I must be on my way. It’s sure nice to see you sitting up and taking notice. We’ll be[Pg 185] having that trip to Greenwich in no time at all, I see. What’s at Greenwich?’ ‘Some very fine architecture and a fine stretch of muddy river.’ ‘That all?’ ‘And some good pubs.’ ‘We’re going to Greenwich.’ When he had gone Grant slid down in bed and smoked one cigarette after another while he considered the tale of those heirs of York who had prospered under Richard III, and gone to their graves under Henry VII. Some of them may have ‘asked for it’. Carradine’s report had, after all, been a précis; innocent of qualification, insusceptible to half-tones. But it was surely a thundering great coincidence that all the lives who stood between the Tudors and the throne had been cut short so conveniently. He looked, with no great enthusiasm, at the book that young Carradine had brought him. It was called The Life and Reign of Richard III, by someone James Gairdner. Carradine had assured him that he would find Dr Gairdner well worth his while. Dr Gairdner was, according to Brent, ‘a yell’. The book did not appear to Grant to be markedly hilarious, but anything about Richard was better than something about anyone else, so he began to glance through it, and presently he became aware just what Brent had meant by saying that the good doctor was a ‘yell’. Dr Gairdner obstinately believed Richard to be a murderer, but since he was a writer honest, learned, and according to his lights impartial, it was not in him to suppress facts. The spectacle of Dr Gairdner trying to[Pg 186] make his facts fit his theory was the most entertaining thing in gymnastics that Grant had witnessed for some time. Dr Gairdner acknowledged with no apparent sense of incongruity Richard’s great wisdom, his generosity, his courage, his ability, his charm, his popularity, and the trust that he inspired even in his beaten enemies; and in the same breath reported his vile slander of his mother and his slaughter of two helpless children. Tradition says, said the worthy Doctor; and solemnly reported the horrible tradition and subscribed to it. There was nothing mean or paltry in his character, according to the Doctor—but he was a murderer of innocent children. Even his enemies had confidence in his justice—but he murdered his own nephews. His integrity was remarkable—but he killed for gain. As a contortionist Dr Gairdner was the original boneless wonder. More than ever Grant wondered with what part of their brains historians reasoned. It was certainly by no process of reasoning known to ordinary mortals that they arrived at their conclusions. Nowhere in the pages of fiction or fact, and certainly nowhere in life, had he met any human being remotely resembling either Dr Gairdner’s Richard or Oliphant’s Elizabeth Woodville. Perhaps there was something in Laura’s theory that human nature found it difficult to give up preconceived beliefs. That there was some vague inward opposition to, and resentment of, a reversal of accepted fact. Certainly Dr Gairdner dragged like a frightened child on the hand that was pulling him towards the inevitable. That charming men of great integrity had committed murder in their day Grant knew only too well. But not[Pg 187] that kind of murder and not for that kind of reason. The kind of man whom Dr Gairdner had drawn in his Life and History of Richard III would commit murder only when his own personal life had been bouleversé by some earthquake. He would murder his wife for unfaithfulness suddenly discovered, perhaps. Or kill the partner whose secret speculation had ruined their firm and the future of his children. Whatever murder he committed would be the result of acute emotion, it would never be planned; and it would never be a base murder. One could not say: Because Richard possessed this quality and that, therefore he was incapable of murder. But one could say: Because Richard possessed these qualities, therefore he is incapable of this murder. It would have been a silly murder, that murder of the boy Princes; and Richard was a remarkably able man. It was base beyond description; and he was a man of great integrity. It was callous; and he was noted for his warm-heartedness. One could go through the catalogue of his acknowledged virtues, and find that each of them, individually, made his part in the murder unlikely in the extreme. Taken together they amounted to a wall of impossibility that towered into fantasy. ‘There was one person you forgot to ask for,’ Carradine said, breezing in, very gay, some days later. ‘In your list of kind inquiries.’ ‘Hullo. Who was that?’ ‘Stillington.’ ‘Of course! The worthy Bishop of Bath. If Henry hated Titulus Regius, as a witness of Richard’s integrity and his own wife’s illegitimacy, he must still more have disliked the presence of its instigator. What happened to old Stillington? Judicial murder?’ ‘Apparently the old boy wouldn’t play.’ ‘Wouldn’t play what?’ ‘Henry’s pet game. Out goes he. Either he was a wily old bird, or he was too innocent to see the snare at all. It’s my belief—if a mere Research Worker is entitled to a belief—that he was so innocent that no agent provocateur could provoke him to anything. Not anything that could be made a capital charge, anyhow.’ ‘Are you telling me that he defeated Henry?’ ‘No. Oh, no. No one ever defeated Henry. Henry put him on a charge and conveniently forgot to release him. And never home came he. Who was that? Mary on the sands of Dee?’ ‘You’re very bright this morning, not to say exhilarated.’ [Pg 189] ‘Don’t say it in that suspicious tone. They’re not open yet. This effervescence that you observe in me is intellectual carbonisation. Spiritual rejoicing. An entirely cerebral scintillation.’ ‘Well? Sit down and cough up. What is so good? I take it that something is?’ ‘Good is hardly the proper word. It’s beautiful, perfectly-holy beautiful.’ ‘I think you have been drinking.’ ‘I couldn’t drink this morning if I tried. I’m bung full, full up to the gullet’s edge, with satisfaction.’ ‘I take it you found that break in the pattern we were looking for.’ ‘Yes, I found it, but it was later than we had thought. Later in time, I mean. Further on. In the first months everyone did what you would expect them to do. Henry took over—not a word about the boys—and cleaned up, got married to the boys’ sister. Got his own attainder reversed by a parliament of his own attainted followers—no mention of the boys—and got an act of attainder through against Richard and his loyal subjects whose service was so neatly made treason by that one day’s ante-dating. That brought a fine heap of forfeited estates into the kitty in one go. The Croyland monk was terribly scandalised, by the way, at Henry’s sharp practice in the matter of treason. “O God,” he says, “what security are our kings to have henceforth in the day of battle if their loyal followers may in defeat be deprived of life, fortune, and inheritance”.’ ‘He reckoned without his countrymen.’ ‘Yes. He might have known that the English would get round to that matter sooner or later. Perhaps he was[Pg 190] an alien. Anyhow, everything went on just as you would expect things to go with Henry in charge. He succeeded in August of 1485, and married Elizabeth in the following January. Elizabeth had her first child at Winchester, and her mother was there with her and was present at the baptism. That was in September 1486. Then she came back to London—the Queen Dowager, I mean—in the autumn. And in February—hold on to everything—in February she was shut up in a convent for the rest of her life.’ ‘Elizabeth Woodville?’ Grant said, in the greatest astonishment. This was the very last thing he had expected. ‘Yes. Elizabeth Woodville. The boys’ mother.’ ‘How do you know that she didn’t go voluntarily?’ Grant asked, when he had thought of it for a little. ‘It was not an uncommon thing for great ladies who were tired of court life to retire into an Order. It was not a severe existence, you know. Indeed, I have an idea it was fairly comfortable for rich women.’ ‘Henry stripped her of everything she owned, and ordered her into the nunnery at Bermondsey. And that, by the way, did create a sensation. There was “much wondering”, it appears.’ ‘I’m not surprised. What an extraordinary thing. Did he give a reason?’ ‘What did he say he was ruining her for?’ ‘For being nice to Richard.’ ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Is that the official wording?’ [Pg 191] ‘No. That’s the version of Henry’s pet historian.’ ‘Virgil?’ ‘Yes. The actual order of council that shut her up, said it was “for various considerations”.’ ‘Are you quoting?’ asked Grant, incredulous. ‘I’m quoting. That’s what it said: “For various considerations”.’ After a moment Grant said: ‘He had no talent for excuses, had he. In his place I would have thought up six better ones.’ ‘Either he couldn’t be bothered or he thought other people very credulous. Mark you, her niceness to Richard didn’t worry him until eighteen months after he succeeded Richard. Up till then everything had apparently been smooth as milk. He had even given her presents, manors and what not, when he succeeded Richard.’ ‘What was his real reason? Have you any suggestion?’ ‘Well, I’ve another little item that may give you ideas. It certainly gave me one hell of a big idea.’ ‘Go on.’ ‘In June of that year——’ ‘Which year?’ ‘The first year of Elizabeth’s marriage, 1486. The year when she was married in January and had Prince Arthur at Winchester in September, with her mother dancing attendance.’ ‘All right. Yes.’ ‘In June of that year, Sir James Tyrrel received a general pardon. On the 16th June.’ ‘But that means very little, you know. It was quite a usual thing. At the end of a period of service. Or on[Pg 192] setting out on a new one. It merely meant that you were quit of anything that anyone might think of raking up against you afterwards.’ ‘Yes, I know. I know that. The first pardon isn’t the surprising one.’ ‘The first pardon? Was there a second one?’ ‘Yes. That’s the pay-off. There was a second general pardon to Sir James exactly a month later. To be exact on the 16th July, 1486.’ ‘Yes,’ Grant said, thinking it over. ‘That really is extraordinary.’ ‘It’s highly unusual, anyway. I asked an old boy who works next me at the B.M.—he does historical research and he’s been a wonderful help to me I don’t mind telling you—and he said he had never come across another instance. I showed him the two entries—in the Memorials of Henry VII—and he mooned over them like a lover.’ Grant said, considering: ‘On the 16th June, Tyrrel is given a general pardon. On the 16th July he is given a second general pardon. In November or thereabouts the boys’ mother comes back to town. And in February she is immured for life.’ ‘Suggestive?’ ‘Very.’ ‘You think he did it? Tyrrel.’ ‘It could be. It’s very suggestive, isn’t it, that when we find the break in the normal pattern that we’ve been looking for, Tyrrel is there, on the spot, with a most unconscionable break in his own pattern. When did the rumour that the boys were missing first become general? I mean, something to be talked openly about.’ [Pg 193] ‘Quite early in Henry’s reign, it would seem.’ ‘Yes; it fits. It would certainly explain the thing that has puzzled us from the beginning in this affair.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘It would explain why there was no fuss when the boys disappeared. It’s always been a puzzling thing, even to people who thought that Richard did it. Indeed, when you come to think of it it would be impossible for Richard to get away with it. There was a large, and very active, and very powerful opposition party in Richard’s day, and he left them all free and scattered up and down the country to carry on as they liked. He had all the Woodville-Lancaster crowd to deal with if the boys had gone missing. But where interference or undue curiosity was concerned Henry was sitting pretty. Henry had got his opposition party safely in jail. The only possible danger was his mother-in-law, and at the very moment when she becomes capable of being a prying nuisance she too is put under hatches and battened down.’ ‘Yes. Wouldn’t you think that there was something she could have done? When she found that she was being prevented from getting news of the boys.’ ‘She may never have known that they were missing. He may just have said: “It is my wish that you should not see them. I think you are a bad influence on them: you who came out of sanctuary and let your daughters go to that man’s parties!”’ ‘Yes, that’s so, of course. He didn’t have to wait until she actually became suspicious. The whole thing might have been one move. “You’re a bad woman, and a bad mother; I am sending you into a convent to save your[Pg 194] soul and your children from the contamination of your presence.”’ ‘Yes. And where the rest of England were concerned, he was as safe as any murderer ever could be. After his happy thought about the “treason” accusation, no one was going to stick his neck out by inquiring particularly about the boys’ health. Everyone must have been walking on eggs as it was. No one knowing what Henry might think of next to make into a retrospective offence that would send their lives into limbo and their estates into Henry’s kitty. No, it was no time to be over-curious about anything that didn’t directly concern oneself. Not that it would be easy, in any case, to satisfy one’s curiosity.’ ‘With the boys living at the Tower, you mean.’ ‘With the boys living in a Tower officialled by Henry’s men. There was none of Richard’s get-together live-and-let-live attitude about Henry. No York-Lancaster alliance for Henry. The people at the Tower would be Henry’s men.’ ‘Yes. Of course they would. Did you know that Henry was the first English King to have a bodyguard? I wonder what he told his wife about her brothers.’ ‘Yes. That would be interesting to know. He may even have told her the truth.’ ‘Henry! Never! It would cost Henry a spiritual struggle, Mr Grant, to acknowledge that two and two were four. I tell you, he was a crab; he never went straight at anything.’ ‘If he were sadist he could tell her with impunity, you know. There was practically nothing she could do about it. Even if she wanted to. She mightn’t have wanted to[Pg 195] all that much. She had just produced an heir to the throne of England and was getting ready to produce another. She might not have the spare interest for a crusade; especially a crusade that would knock the ground from under her own feet.’ ‘He wasn’t a sadist, Henry,’ young Carradine said sadly. Sad at having to grant Henry even a negative virtue. ‘In a way he was just the opposite. He didn’t enjoy murder at all. He had to pretty it up before he could bear the thought of it. Dress it up in legal ribbons. If you think that Henry got a kick out of boasting to Elizabeth in bed about what he had done with her brothers, I think you’re wrong.’ ‘Yes, probably,’ Grant said. And lay thinking about Henry. ‘I’ve just thought of the right adjective for Henry,’ he said presently. ‘Shabby. He was a shabby creature.’ ‘Yes. Even his hair was thin and scanty.’ ‘I didn’t mean it physically.’ ‘I know you didn’t.’ ‘Everything that he did was shabby. Come to think of it, “Morton’s Fork” is the shabbiest piece of revenue-raising in history. But it wasn’t only his greed for money. Everything about him is shabby, isn’t it?’ ‘Yes. Dr Gairdner wouldn’t have any trouble in making his actions fit his character. How did you get on with the Doctor?’ ‘A fascinating study. But for the grace of God I think the worthy Doctor might have made a living as a criminal.’ ‘Because he cheated?’ [Pg 196] ‘Because he didn’t cheat. He was as honest as the day. He just couldn’t reason from B to C.’ ‘All right, I’ll buy.’ ‘Everyone can reason from A to B—even a child. And most adults can reason from B to C. But a lot can’t. Most criminals can’t. You may not believe it—I know it’s an awful come-down from the popular conception of the criminal as a dashing and cute character—but the criminal mind is an essentially silly one. You can’t imagine how silly sometimes. You’d have to experience it to believe their lack of reasoning powers. They arrive at B, but they’re quite incapable of making the jump to C. They’ll lay two completely incompatible things side by side and contemplate them with the most unquestioning content. You can’t make them see that they can’t have both, any more than you can make a man of no taste see that bits of plywood nailed on to a gable to simulate Tudor beams are impossible. Have you started your own book?’ ‘Well—I’ve made a sort of tentative beginning. I know the way I want to write it. I mean the form. I hope you won’t mind.’ ‘Why should I mind?’ ‘I want to write it the way it happened. You know; about my coming to see you, and our starting the Richard thing quite casually and not knowing what we were getting into, and how we stuck to things that actually happened and not what someone reported afterwards about it, and how we looked for the break in the normal pattern that would indicate where the mischief was, like bubbles coming up from a diver way below, and that sort of thing.’ [Pg 197] ‘I think it’s a grand idea.’ ‘You do?’ ‘I do indeed.’ ‘Well, that’s fine, then. I’ll get on with it. I’m going to do some research on Henry, just as garnish. I’d like to be able to put their actual records side by side, you see. So that people can compare them for themselves. Did you know that Henry invented the Star Chamber?’ ‘Was it Henry? I’d forgotten that. Morton’s Fork and the Star Chamber. The classic sample of sharp practice, and the classic sample of tyranny. You’re not going to have any difficulty in differentiating the rival portraits, are you! Morton’s Fork and the Star Chamber make a nice contrast to the granting of the right to bail, and the prevention of the intimidation of juries.’ ‘Was that Richard’s Parliament? Golly, what a lot of reading I have to do. Atlanta’s not speaking to me. She hates your marrow. She says I’m about as much use to a girl as a last year’s Vogue. But honestly, Mr Grant, this is the first time in my life that anything exciting has happened to me. Important, I mean. Not exciting meaning exciting. Atlanta’s exciting. She’s all the excitement I ever want. But neither of us is important, the way I mean important—if you can understand what I mean.’ ‘Yes, I understand. You’ve found something worth doing.’ ‘That’s it. I’ve found something worth doing. And it’s me that’s going to do it; that’s what’s wonderful about it. Me. Mrs Carradine’s little boy. I come over here with Atlanta, with no idea about anything but[Pg 198] using that research gag as an alibi. I walk into the B.M. to get me some dope to keep Pop quiet, and I walk out with a mission. Doesn’t that shake you!’ He eyed Grant in a considering way. ‘You’re quite sure, Mr Grant, that you don’t want to write this book yourself? After all, it’s quite a thing to do.’ ‘I shall never write a book,’ Grant said firmly. ‘Not even My Twenty Years at the Yard.’ ‘What! Not even your autobiography?’ ‘Not even my autobiography. It is my considered opinion that far too many books are written as it is.’ ‘But this is one that must be written,’ Carradine said, looking slightly hurt. ‘Of course it is. This one must be written. Tell me: there’s something I forgot to ask you. How soon after that double pardon did Tyrrel get that appointment in France? How soon after his supposed service to Henry in July 1486 did he become Constable of the Castle of Guisnes?’ Carradine stopped looking hurt and looked as malicious as it was possible for his kind woolly-lamb face to look. ‘I was wondering when you were going to ask that,’ he said. ‘I was going to throw it at you on my way out if you forgot to ask. The answer is: almost right away.’ ‘So. Another appropriate little pebble in the mosaic. I wonder whether the constableship just happened to be vacant, or whether it was a French appointment because Henry wanted him out of England.’ ‘I bet it was the other way about, and it was Tyrrel who wanted to get out of England. If I were being ruled by Henry VII, I’d sure prefer to be ruled by remote[Pg 199] control. Especially if I had done a secret job for Henry that might make it convenient for Henry if I didn’t live to too venerable an age.’ ‘Yes, perhaps you’re right. He didn’t only go abroad, he stayed abroad—as we have already observed. Interesting.’ ‘He wasn’t the only one who stayed abroad. John Dighton did too. I couldn’t find out who all the people who were supposed to be involved in the murder actually were. All the Tudor accounts are different, I suppose you know. Indeed most of them are so different that they contradict each other flat. Henry’s pet historian, Polydore Virgil, says the deed was done when Richard was at York. According to the sainted More it was during an earlier trip altogether, when Richard was at Warwick. And the personnel changes with each account. So that it’s difficult to sort them out. I don’t know who Will Slater was—Black Will to you, and another piece of onomatopoeia—or Miles Forest. But there was a John Dighton. Grafton says he lived for long at Calais “no less disdained than pointed at” and died there in great misery. How they relished a good moral, didn’t they. The Victorians had nothing on them.’ ‘If Dighton was destitute it doesn’t look as if he had done any job for Henry. What was he by trade?’ ‘Well, if it’s the same John Dighton, he was a priest, and he was anything but destitute. He was living very comfortably on the proceeds of a sinecure. Henry gave a John Dighton the living of Fulbeck, near Grantham—that’s in Lincolnshire—on the 2nd of May, 1487.’ ‘Well, well,’ Grant said, drawling. ‘1487. And he, too, lives abroad and in comfort.’ [Pg 200] ‘Uh-huh. Lovely, isn’t it?’ ‘It’s beautiful. And does anyone explain how the much-pointed-at Dighton wasn’t haled home by the scruff of his neck to hang for regicide?’ ‘Oh, no. Nothing like that. Tudor historians didn’t any of them think from B to C.’ Grant laughed. ’I see you’re being educated.’ ‘Sure. I’m not only learning history. I’m sitting at the feet of Scotland Yard on the subject of the human mind. Well, that will be about all for now. If you feel strong enough I’ll read you the first two chapters of the book next time I come.’ He paused and said: ‘Would you mind, Mr Grant, if I dedicated it to you?’ ‘I think you had better dedicate it to Carradine The Third,’ Grant said lightly. But Carradine apparently did not feel it to be a light matter. ‘I don’t use soft soap as a dedication,’ he said, with a hint of stiffness. ‘Oh, not soft soap,’ Grant said in haste. ‘A matter of policy merely.’ ‘I’d never have started on this thing if it hadn’t been for you, Mr Grant,’ Carradine said, standing in the middle of the floor all formal and emotional and American and surrounded by the sweeping folds of his topcoat, ‘and I should like to make due acknowledgement of my indebtedness.’ ‘I should be delighted, of course,’ murmured Grant, and the royal figure in the middle of the floor relaxed to boyhood again and the awkward moment was over. Carradine went away joyous and light-footed as he had come, looking thirty pounds heavier and twelve[Pg 201] inches more round the chest than he had done three weeks ago. And Grant took out the new knowledge that had been given him, and hung it on the opposite wall, and stared at it. She had been shut away from the world; that indestructibly virtuous beauty with the gilt hair. Why gilt, he wondered for the first time. Silver-gilt probably; she had been radiantly fair. A pity that the word blonde had degenerated to the point where it had almost a secondary meaning. She had been walled up to end her days where she could be no trouble to anyone. An eddy of trouble had moved with her all through her life. Her marriage to Edward had rocked England. She had been the passive means of Warwick’s ruin. Her kindnesses to her family had built a whole new party in England and had prevented Richard’s peaceful succession. Bosworth was implicit in that scanty little ceremony in the wilds of Northamptonshire when she became Edward’s wife. But no one seemed to have borne her malice. Even the sinned-against Richard had forgiven her her relations’ enormities. No one—until Henry came. She had disappeared into obscurity. Elizabeth Woodville. The Queen Dowager who was mother of the Queen of England. The mother of the Princes in the Tower; who had lived free and prosperous under Richard III. That was an ugly break in the pattern, wasn’t it? He took his mind away from personal histories and[Pg 203] began to think police-fashion. It was time he tidied up his case. Put it shipshape for presenting. It would help the boy with his book, and better still it would clear his own mind. It would be down in black and white where he could see it. He reached for his writing-pad and pen, and made a neat entry: CASE: Disappearance of two boys (Edward, Prince of Wales; Richard, Duke of York) from the Tower of London, 1485 or thereabouts. He wondered whether it would be better to do the two suspects in parallel columns or successively. Perhaps it was better to finish with Richard first. So he made another neat headline; and began on his summing-up: Previous Record: Good. Has excellent record in public service, and good reputation in private life. Salient characteristic as indicated by his actions: good sense. In the matter of the presumed crime: (a) He did not stand to benefit; there were nine other heirs to the house of York, including three males. (b) There is no contemporary accusation. (c) The boys’ mother continued on friendly terms with him until his death, and her daughters attended Palace festivities. (d) He showed no fear of the other heirs of York, providing generously for their upkeep and granting all of them their royal state. [Pg 204] (e) His own right to the crown was unassailable, approved by Act of Parliament and public acclamation; the boys were out of the succession and of no danger to him. (f) If he had been nervous about disaffection then the person to have got rid of was not the two boys, but the person who really was next in succession to him: young Warwick. Whom he publicly created his heir when his own son died. HENRY VII An adventurer, living at foreign courts. Son of an ambitious mother. Nothing known against his private life. No public office or employment. Salient characteristic as indicated by his actions: subtlety. (a) It was of great importance to him that the boys should not continue to live. By repealing the Act acknowledging the children’s illegitimacy, he made the elder boy King of England, and the younger boy the next heir. (b) In the Act which he brought before Parliament for the attainting of Richard he accused Richard of the conventional tyranny and cruelty but made no mention of the two young Princes. The conclusion is inevitable that at that time the two boys were alive and their whereabouts known. (c) The boys’ mother was deprived of her living and consigned to a nunnery eighteen months after his succession. [Pg 205] (d) He took immediate steps to secure the persons of all the other heirs to the crown, and kept them in close arrest until he could with the minimum of scandal get rid of them. (e) He had no right whatever to the throne. Since the death of Richard, young Warwick was de jure King of England. It occurred to Grant for the first time, as he wrote it out, that it had been within Richard’s power to legitimise his bastard son John, and foist him on the nation. There was no lack of precedent for such a course. After all, the whole Beaufort clan (including Henry’s mother) were the descendants not only of an illegitimate union but of a double adultery. There was nothing to hinder Richard from legitimising that ‘active and well-disposed’ boy who lived in recognised state in his household. It was surely the measure of Richard that no such course had apparently crossed his mind. He had appointed as his heir his brother’s boy. Even in the destitution of his own grief, good sense was his ruling characteristic. Good sense and family feeling. No base-born son, however active and well-disposed, was going to sit in the Plantagenets’ seat while his brother’s son was there to occupy it. It was remarkable how that atmosphere of family feeling permeated the whole story. All the way from Cicely’s journeyings about in her husband’s company, to her son’s free acknowledgement of his brother George’s boy as his heir. And it occurred to him too for the first time in full force just how that family atmosphere strengthened the case[Pg 206] for Richard’s innocence. The boys whom he was supposed to have put down as he would put down twin foals were Edward’s sons; children he must have known personally and well. To Henry, on the other hand, they were mere symbols. Obstacles on a path. He may never even have set eyes on them. All questions of character apart, the choice between the two men as suspects might almost be decided on that alone. It was wonderfully clearing to the head to see it neat and tidy as (a), (b), and (c). He had not noticed before how doubly suspect was Henry’s behaviour over Titulus Regius. If, as Henry had insisted, Richard’s claim was absurd, then surely the obvious thing to do was to have the thing re-read in public and demonstrate its falsity. But he did no such thing. He went to endless pains to obliterate even the memory of it. The conclusion was inevitable that Richard’s title to the crown as shown in Titulus Regius was unassailable. On the afternoon when Carradine reappeared in the room at the hospital Grant had walked to the window and back again, and was so cock-a-hoop about it that The Midget was moved to remind him that it was a thing that a child of eighteen months could do. But nothing could subdue Grant today. ‘Thought you’d have me here for months, didn’t you,’ he crowed. ‘We are very glad to see you better so quickly,’ she said primly; and added: ‘We are, of course, very glad, too, to have your bed.’ And she clicked away down the corridor, all blonde curls and starch. Grant lay on his bed and looked at his little prison room with something approaching benevolence. Neither a man who has stood at the Pole nor a man who has stood on Everest has anything on a man who has stood at a window after weeks of being merely twelve stones of destitution. Or so Grant felt. Tomorrow he was going home. Going home to be cosseted by Mrs Tinker. He would have to spend half of each day in bed and he would be able to walk only with the aid of sticks, but he would be his own man again. At the bidding of no one. In tutelage to no half-[Pg 208]pint piece of efficiency, yearned over by no lump of out-sized benevolence. It was a glorious prospect. He had already unloaded his hallelujahs all over Sergeant Williams, who had looked in on the completion of his chore in Essex, and he was now yearning for Marta to drop in so that he could peacock in front of her in his new-found manhood. ‘How did you get on with the history books?’ Williams had asked. ‘Couldn’t be better. I’ve proved them all wrong.’ Williams had grinned. ‘I expect there’s a law against that,’ he said. ‘MI 5 won’t like it. Treason or lèse-majesté or something like that it might turn out to be. You never know nowadays. I’d be careful if I was you.’ ‘I’ll never again believe anything I read in a history book, as long as I live, so help me.’ ‘You’ll have to make exceptions,’ Williams pointed out with Williams’ dogged reasonableness. ‘Queen Victoria was true, and I suppose Julius Caesar did invade Britain. And there’s 1066.’ ‘I’m beginning to have the gravest doubts about 1066. I see you’ve tied up the Essex job. What is Chummy like?’ ‘A thorough little bastard. Been treated soft all his life since he started stealing change from his Ma at the age of nine. A good belting at the age of twelve might have saved his life. Now he’ll hang before the almond blossom’s out. It’s going to be an early spring. I’ve been working every evening in the garden this last few days, now that the days are drawing out. You’ll be glad to sniff fresh air again.’ [Pg 209] And he had gone away, rosy and sane and balanced, as befitted a man who was belted for his good in his youth. So Grant was longing for some other visitor from the outside world that he was so soon to be a part of again, and he was delighted when the familiar tentative tap came on his door. ‘Come in, Brent!’ he called, joyfully. And Brent came in. But it was not the Brent who had last gone out. Gone was the jubilation. Gone was his newly acquired breadth. He was no longer Carradine the pioneer, the blazer of trails. He was just a thin boy in a very long, very large overcoat. He looked young, and shocked, and bereaved. Grant watched him in dismay as he crossed the room with his listless unco-ordinated walk. There was no bundle of paper sticking out of his mail-sack of a pocket today. Oh, well, thought Grant philosophically; it had been fun while it lasted. There was bound to be a snag somewhere. One couldn’t do serious research in that light-hearted amateur way and hope to prove anything by it. One wouldn’t expect an amateur to walk into the Yard and solve a case that had defeated the pro’s; so why should he have thought himself smarter than the historians. He had wanted to prove to himself that he was right in his face-reading of the portrait; he had wanted to blot out the shame of having put a criminal on the bench instead of in the dock. But he would have to accept his mistake, and like it. Perhaps he had asked for it.[Pg 210] Perhaps, in his heart of hearts, he had been growing a little pleased with himself about his eye for faces. ‘Hullo, Mr Grant.’ ‘Hullo, Brent.’ Actually it was worse for the boy. He was at the age when he expected miracles to happen. He was still at the age when he was surprised that a balloon should burst. ‘You look saddish,’ he said cheerfully to the boy. ‘Something come unstuck.’ ‘Everything.’ Carradine sat down on the chair and stared at the window. ‘Don’t these damned sparrows get you down?’ he asked, fretfully. ‘What is it? Have you discovered that there was a general rumour about the boys before Richard’s death, after all?’ ‘Oh, much worse than that.’ ‘Oh. Something in print? A letter?’ ‘No, it isn’t that sort of thing at all. It’s something much worse. Something quite—quite fundamental. I don’t know how to tell you.’ He glowered at the quarrelling sparrows. ‘These damned birds. I’ll never write that book now, Mr Grant.’ ‘Why not, Brent?’ ‘Because it isn’t news to anyone. Everyone has known all about those things all along.’ ‘Known? About what?’ ‘About Richard not having killed the boys at all, and all that.’ ‘They’ve known? Since when!’ [Pg 211] ‘Oh, hundreds and hundreds of years.’ ‘Pull yourself together, chum. It’s only four hundred years altogether since the thing happened.’ ‘I know. But it doesn’t make any difference. People have known about Richard’s not doing it for hundreds and hundreds——’ ‘Will you stop that keening and talk sense. When did this—this rehabilitation first begin?’ ‘Begin? Oh, at the first available moment.’ ‘As soon as the Tudors were gone and it was safe to talk.’ ‘In Stuart times, you mean?’ ‘Yes, I suppose—yes. A man Buck wrote a vindication in the seventeenth century. And Horace Walpole in the eighteenth. And someone called Markham in the nineteenth.’ ‘And who in the twentieth?’ ‘No one that I know of.’ ‘Then what’s wrong with your doing it?’ ‘But it won’t be the same, don’t you see. It won’t be a great discovery!’ He said it in capitals. A Great Discovery. Grant smiled at him. ‘Oh, come! You can’t expect to pick Great Discoveries off bushes. If you can’t be a pioneer what’s wrong with leading a crusade?’ ‘A crusade?’ ‘Certainly.’ ‘Against what?’ ‘Tonypandy.’ The boy’s face lost its blankness. It looked suddenly amused, like someone who has just seen a joke. [Pg 212] ‘It’s the damnedest silliest name, isn’t it!’ he remarked. ‘If people have been pointing out for three hundred and fifty years that Richard didn’t murder his nephews and a schoolbook can still say, in words of one syllable and without qualification, that he did, then it seems to me that Tonypandy has a long lead on you. It’s time you got busy.’ ‘But what can I do when people like Walpole and those have failed?’ ‘There’s that old saying about constant water and its effect on stone.’ ‘Mr Grant, right now I feel an awfully feeble little trickle.’ ‘You look it, I must say. I’ve never seen such self-pity. That’s no mood to start bucking the British public in. You’ll be giving enough weight away as it is.’ ‘Because I’ve not written a book before, you mean?’ ‘No, that doesn’t matter at all. Most people’s first books are their best anyway; it’s the one they wanted most to write. No, I meant that all the people who’ve never read a history book since they left school will feel themselves qualified to pontificate about what you’ve written. They’ll accuse you of whitewashing Richard; “whitewashing” has a derogatory sound that “rehabilitation” hasn’t, so they’ll call it whitewashing. A few will look up the Britannica, and feel themselves competent to go a little further in the matter. These will slay you instead of flaying you. And the serious historians won’t even bother to notice you.’ ‘By God, I’ll make them notice me!’ Carradine said. ‘Come! That sounds a little more like the spirit that won the Empire.’ [Pg 213] ‘We haven’t got an Empire,’ Carradine reminded him. ‘Oh, yes, you have,’ Grant said equably. ‘The only difference between ours and yours is that you acquired yours, economically, in the one latitude, while we got ours in bits all over the world. Had you written any of the book before the awful knowledge of its unoriginality hit you?’ ‘Yes, I’d done two chapters.’ ‘What have you done with them? You haven’t thrown them away, have you?’ ‘No. I nearly did. I nearly threw them in the fire.’ ‘What stopped you?’ ‘It was an electric fire.’ Carradine stretched out his long legs in a relaxing movement and began to laugh. ‘Brother, I feel better already. I can’t wait to land the British public one in the kisser with a few home truths. Carradine the First is just raging in my blood.’ ‘A very virulent fever, it sounds.’ ‘He was the most ruthless old blaggard that ever felled timber. He started as a logger and ended up with a Renaissance castle, two yachts, and a private car. Railroad car, you know. It had green silk curtains with bobbles on them and inlay woodwork that had to be seen to be believed. It has been popularly supposed, not least by Carradine the Third, that the Carradine blood was growing thin. But right now I’m all Carradine the First. I know just how the old boy felt when he wanted to buy a particular forest and someone said that he couldn’t have it. Brother, I’m going to town.’ ‘That’s nice,’ Grant said, mildly. ‘I was looking forward to that dedication.’ He took his writing-pad from the table and held it out. ‘I’ve been doing a[Pg 214] policeman’s summing-up. Perhaps it may help you when you come to your peroration.’ Carradine took it and looked at it with respect. ‘Tear it off and take it with you. I’ve finished with it.’ ‘I suppose in a week or two you’ll be too busy with real investigations to care about a—an academic one,’ Carradine said, a little wistfully. ‘I’ll never enjoy one more than I’ve enjoyed this,’ Grant said, with truth. He glanced sideways at the portrait which was still propped against the books. ‘I was more dashed than you would believe when you came in all despondent, and I thought it had come to pieces.’ He looked back at the portrait and said: ‘Marta thinks he is a little like Lorenzo the Magnificent. Her friend James thinks it is the face of a saint. My surgeon thinks it is the face of a cripple. Sergeant Williams thinks he looks like a great judge. But I think, perhaps, Matron comes nearest the heart of the matter.’ ‘What does she say?’ ‘She says it is a face full of the most dreadful suffering.’ ‘Yes. Yes, I suppose it is. And would you wonder, after all.’ ‘No. No, there was little he was spared. Those last two years of his life must have happened with the suddenness and weight of an avalanche. Everything had been going along so nicely. England on an even keel at last. The civil war fading out of mind, a good firm government to keep things peaceful and a good brisk trade to keep things prosperous. It must have seemed a good outlook, looking out from Middleham across Wensleydale. And in two short years—his wife, his son, and his peace.’ [Pg 215] ‘I know one thing he was spared.’ ‘The knowledge that his name was to be a hissing and a byword down the centuries.’ ‘Yes. That would have been the final heart-break. Do you know what I personally find the convincing thing in the case for Richard’s innocence of any design for usurpation?’ ‘No. What?’ ‘The fact that he had to send for those troops from the North when Stillington broke his news. If he had had any fore-knowledge of what Stillington was going to say, or even any plans to concoct a story with Stillington’s help, he would have brought those troops with him. If not to London then to the Home Counties where they would be handy. That he had to send urgently first to York and then to his Nevill cousins for men is proof that Stillington’s confession took him entirely unawares.’ ‘Yes. He came up with his train of gentlemen, expecting to take over the Regency. He met the news of the Woodville trouble when he came to Northampton, but that didn’t rattle him. He mopped up the Woodville two thousand and went on to London as if nothing had happened. There was still nothing but an orthodox Coronation in front of him as far as he knew. It wasn’t until Stillington confessed to the council that he sends for troops of his own. And he has to send all the way to the North of England at a critical moment. Yes, you’re right, of course. He was taken aback.’ He propped the leg of his spectacles with a forefinger in the old tentative gesture, and proffered a companion piece.[Pg 216] ‘Know what I find the convincing thing in the case for Henry’s guilt?’ ‘The mystery.’ ‘Mystery?’ ‘The mysteriousness. The hush-hush. The hole-and-corner stuff.’ ‘Because it is in character, you mean?’ ‘No, no; nothing as subtle as that. Don’t you see: Richard had no need of any mystery; but Henry’s whole case depended on the boys’ end being mysterious. No one has ever been able to think up a reason for such a hole-and-corner method as Richard was supposed to have used. It was a quite mad way to do it. He couldn’t hope to get away with it. Sooner or later he was going to have to account for the boys not being there. As far as he knew he had a long reign in front of him. No one has ever been able to think why he should have chosen so difficult and dangerous a way when he had so many simpler methods at hand. He had only to have the boys suffocated, and let them lie in state while the whole of London walked by and wept over two young things dead before their time of fever. That is the way he would have done it, too. Goodness, the whole point of Richard’s killing the boys was to prevent any rising in their favour, and to get any benefit from the murder the fact of their deaths would have to be made public, and as soon as possible. It would defeat the whole plan if people didn’t know that they were dead. But Henry, now. Henry had to find a way to push them out of sight. Henry had to be mysterious. Henry had to hide the facts of when and how they died. Henry’s whole case[Pg 217] depended on no one’s knowing what exactly happened to the boys.’ ‘It did indeed, Brent; it did indeed,’ Grant said, smiling at counsel’s eager young face. ‘You ought to be at the Yard, Mr Carradine!’ Brent laughed. ‘I’ll stick to Tonypandy,’ he said. ‘I bet there’s a lot more of it that we don’t know about. I bet history books are just riddled with it.’ ‘You’d better take Sir Cuthbert Oliphant with you, by the way.’ Grant took the fat respectable-looking volume from his locker. ‘Historians should be compelled to take a course in psychology before they are allowed to write.’ ‘Huh. That wouldn’t do anything for them. A man who is interested in what makes people tick doesn’t write history. He writes novels, or becomes an alienist, or a magistrate——’ ‘Or a confidence man.’ ‘Or a confidence man. Or a fortune-teller. A man who understands about people hasn’t any yen to write history. History is toy soldiers.’ ‘Oh, come. Aren’t you being a little severe? It’s a very learned and erudite——’ ‘Oh, I didn’t mean it that way. I mean: it’s moving little figures about on a flat surface. It’s half-way to mathematics, when you come to think about it.’ ‘Then if it’s mathematics they’ve no right to drag in backstairs gossip,’ Grant said, suddenly vicious. The memory of the sainted More continued to upset him. He thumbed through the fat respectable Sir Cuthbert in a farewell review. As he came to the final pages the[Pg 218] progress of the paper from under his thumb slackened, and presently stopped. ‘Odd,’ he said ‘how willing they are to grant a man the quality of courage in battle. They have only tradition to go on, and yet not one of them questions it. Not one of them, in fact, fails to stress it.’ ‘It was an enemy’s tribute,’ Garradine reminded him. ‘The tradition began with a ballad written by the other side.’ ‘Yes. By a man of the Stanleys. “Then a knight to King Richard gan say.” It’s here somewhere.’ He turned over a leaf or two, until he found what he was looking for. ‘It was “good Sir William Harrington”, it seems. The knight in question. “There may no man their strokes abide, the Stanleys dints they be so strong (the treacherous bastards!) Ye may come back at another tide, methinks ye tarry here too long, Your horse at your hand is ready, another day you may worship win And come to reign with royalty, and wear your crown and be our king. ‘Nay, give me my battle-axe in my hand, set the crown of England on my head so high. For by Him that made both sea and land, King of England this day I will die. One foot I will never flee whilst the breath is my breast within.’ As he said so did it be—if he lost his life he died a King.” ‘“Set the crown of England on my head”,’ said[Pg 219] Carradine, musing. ‘That was the crown that was found in a hawthorn bush afterwards.’ ‘Yes. Set aside for plunder probably.’ ‘I used to picture it one of those high plush things that King George got crowned in, but it seems it was just a gold circlet.’ ‘Yes. It could be worn outside the battle helmet.’ ‘Gosh,’ said Carradine with sudden feeling, ‘I sure would have hated to wear that crown if I had been Henry! I sure would have hated it!’ He was silent for a little, and then he said: ‘Do you know what the town of York wrote—wrote in their records, you know—about the battle of Bosworth?’ ‘They wrote: “This day was our good King Richard piteously slain and murdered; to the great heaviness of this city.”’ The chatter of the sparrows was loud in the quiet. ‘Hardly the obituary of a hated usurper,’ Grant said at last, very dry. ‘No,’ said Carradine, ‘no. “To the great heaviness of this city”,’ he repeated slowly, rolling the phrase over in his mind. ‘They cared so much about it that even with a new régime in the offing and the future not to be guessed at they put down in black and white in the town record their opinion that it was murder and their sorrow at it.’ ‘Perhaps they had just heard about the indignities perpetrated on the King’s dead body and were feeling a little sick.’ ‘Yes. Yes. You don’t like to think of a man you’ve known and admired flung stripped and dangling across a pony like a dead animal.’ [Pg 220] ‘One wouldn’t like to think of even an enemy so. But sensibility is not a quality that one would look for among the Henry-Morton crowd.’ ‘Huh. Morton!’ said Brent, spitting out the word as if it were a bad taste. ‘No one was “heavy” when Morton died, believe me. Know what the Chronicler wrote of him? The London one, I mean. He wrote: “In our time was no man like to be compared with him in all things; albeit that he lived not without the great disdain and hatred of the Commons of this land.”’ Grant turned to look at the portrait which had kept him company through so many days and nights. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘for all his success and his Cardinal’s hat I think Morton was the loser in that fight with Richard III. In spite of his defeat and his long traducing, Richard came off the better of these two. He was loved in his day.’ ‘That’s no bad epitaph,’ the boy said soberly. ‘No. Not at all a bad epitaph,’ Grant said, shutting Oliphant for the last time. ‘Not many men would ask for a better.’ He handed over the book to its owner. ‘Few men have earned so much,’ he said. When Carradine had gone Grant began to sort out the things on his table, preparatory to his homegoing on the morrow. The unread fashionable novels could go to the hospital library to gladden other hearts than his. But he would keep the book with the mountain pictures. And he must remember to give The Amazon back her two history books. He looked them out so that he could give them to her when she brought in his supper. And he read again, for the first time since he began his search for the truth about Richard, the schoolbook tale of his[Pg 221] villainy. There it was, in unequivocable black and white, the infamous story. Without a perhaps or a peradventure. Without a qualification or a question. As he was about to shut the senior of the two educators his eye fell on the beginning of Henry VII’s reign, and he read: ‘It was the settled and considered policy of the Tudors to rid themselves of all rivals to the throne, more especially those heirs of York who remained alive on the succession of Henry VII. In this they were successful, although it was left to Henry VIII to get rid of the last of them.’ He stared at this bald announcement. This placid acceptance of wholesale murder. This simple acknowledgement of a process of family elimination. Richard III had been credited with the elimination of two nephews, and his name was a synonym for evil. But Henry VII, whose ’settled and considered policy’ was to eliminate a whole family was regarded as a shrewd and far-seeing monarch. Not very lovable perhaps, but constructive and painstaking, and very successful withal. Grant gave up. History was something that he would never understand. The values of historians differed so radically from any values with which he was acquainted that he could never hope to meet them on any common ground. He would go back to the Yard, where murderers were murderers and what went for Cox went equally for Box. He put the two books tidily together and when The Amazon came in with his mince and stewed prunes he handed them over with a neat little speech of gratitude. He really was very grateful to The Amazon. If she had[Pg 222] not kept her schoolbooks he might never have started on the road that led to his knowledge of Richard Plantagenet. She looked confused by his kindness, and he wondered if he had been such a bear in his illness that she expected nothing but carping from him. It was a humiliating thought. ‘We’ll miss you, you know,’ she said, and her big eyes looked as if they might brim with tears. ‘We’ve grown used to having you here. We’ve even got used to that. And she moved an elbow in the direction of the portrait. A thought stirred in him. ‘Will you do something for me?’ he asked. ‘Of course. Anything I can do.’ ‘Will you take that photograph to the window and look at it in a good light as long as it takes to count a pulse?’ ‘Yes, of course, if you want me to. But why?’ ‘Never mind why. You just do it to please me. I’ll time you.’ She took up the portrait and moved into the light of the window. He watched the second-hand of his watch. He gave her forty-five seconds and then said: ‘Well?’ And as there was no immediate answer he said again: ‘Well?’ ‘Funny,’ she said. ‘When you look at it for a little it’s really quite a nice face, isn’t it.’ TRANSCRIBER NOTES TRANSCRIBER NOTES: Missing punctuation has been added. Inconsistent punctuation has been corrected. Mis-spelled words, obsolete words, inconsistent hyphenation have been retained with the exception of those listed below. Page 45: Cour-de-Lion => Coeur-de-Lion (About the nobility of Richard Coeur-de-Lion.) 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Main Page » Fashion » Men » Fashion The Best Quilted Jackets You Can Buy In 2018 As the frost begins to spread across the land, it becomes ever harder to leave our tightly tucked quilts. What we need is something equally quilted. Like a jacket made of a quilt. A quilted jacket, if you will. And even if you’ve never been pheasant shooting in the three counties let us tell you, it’s a gloriously cushy thing. Giving it these posh-boy connotations isn’t too unfair when you find that the style started life as a quilted vest actually meant for shooting in the mid-1960s. The quilting part refers to garment that stitches at least two layers of cloth – traditional quilted jackets add a third layer of padding to create that distinctive diamond pattern. The first version was made out of a synthetic polyester to help with the soggy British weather while the quilting element provided a light, natural insulation without the need for the ethically dubious down padding like its less posh cousin the puffer (although some options do contain down). Later versions brought waxed cotton to the mix for a softer feel, while the early green and navy versions have remained the standard go-to shades, as the style grew in popularity largely thanks to its flexibility of movement and its dressed-up but still casual appearance. Pair with a smart cotton button-down shirt and chinos for a look that reeks of the countryside, or a crew neck and slim jeans for a contemporary appearance better suited for shooting the breeze at the pub than any wild game. The Best Brands For Quilted Jackets Barbour has been outfitting outdoorsy types since the 19th century, and although it hasn’t been making quilted jackets for as long as that, the style has still become synonymous with the British heritage brand. Having started life as the Countryman jacket in 1979, Barbour changed the name of its flagship QJ to the Liddesdale in 1994 after the valley of the same name in the north of England (a spot where a warm quilted jacket would certainly not go amiss). The Liddesdale, which consists of a corduroy collar and a diamond pattern, isn’t the only quilted jacket in the Barbour armoury though, with other popular versions including the Edderton which comes with a shorter, blouson cut and the Chelsea Sportsquilt which is modelled after the ones worn by horse riders. In its two decades, Jack Wills has positioned itself as the offspring of Barbour so while papa is galavanting around the estate in his Land Rover and Barbour jacket, the heir to the family jewels can crawl to lectures in their Jack Wills quilted car coat. And with a flannel lining, corduroy collar and chunky front pockets there ain’t much difference between this version and the Barbour Liddesdale, apart from the branding and being less spenny of course. If there’s anything Burberry does well it’s reeling off British classics with a high fashion edge (and adding that oft-repeated, never bettered Burberry check). It’s not all about the style with the luxury fashion house on this one though, with cutting-edge thermoregulation technology to help keep your core body temperature at the ideal 37.5°C to go with the sharp Harrington cut and that check. Buy Now: £690.00 Shooting a little younger than the other British brands on this list, Superdry aims for the streets rather than the well-beaten country road on its quilted jackets. And so we get an icy blue side stripe bolting down the sleeve, a protective hood because a flat cap is too sepia-toned for street style and a chevron styled pattern leading into the more traditional diamond up top. By definition shopping at a department store can be a mixed bag, but with British chain John Lewis, quality is guaranteed (it’s quite literally ingrained in the brand). Its own brand quilted jackets are a particularly safe option among a hard-to-go-wrong style. Its classic version is made out of a waxed cotton so you don’t have to worry about getting caught in one of those pesky showers, while a slim fitting mid-length cut flatters those broad shoulders. Don’t forget to add Ted Baker into the mix for star baker in the great British quilt off. The premium high street retailer excels at shaking up design standards like the quilted jacket, and so we get a classic Harrington shape cut to the waist with a square, not a diamond pattern and a jazzy inner lining to flash at passersby. Preppy giant Gant is targeted at a bit more of the older gent than its fellow American rivals, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren, a demographic where the quilted jacket is fertile territory. Cut like a field jacket with extra length at the hem and more room around the body and waist this QJ is forgiving enough for all gents to sport, and with padding made from recycled material. Wait, did we just say sustainable? Well, that’s one more reason to buy. The quilted jacket is the jewel in the Joules outerwear crown and that’s quite enough puns so let’s move on swiftly to the brown outer making a welcome change from the standard blue, the longer lengths and the bevvy of pockets. And outside of Barbour, the British country lifestyle clothing brand has one of the widest collection. So quilt us up, Joules, we’re ready to get snug. Having repositioned itself from solely a heritage brand to a luxury sportswear maker championed by the likes of David Beckham and Brad Pitt earlier this decade, Belstaff has made a habit of taking classic outerwear out of its stuffy cupboard and into a box labelled cool as a leather-clad cucumber. Case in point is its reinvention of the quilted jacket, which is a lot less country bumpkin and a whole lot more motor racing rogue, clad in super sleek black with reinforced shoulders that mimics the brand’s stylish leather jackets. In a list dominated by British brands it’s refreshing to see the Italians rearing up into the QJ dogfight. It’s a mighty fine stallion too – the imperious Emporio Armani – the second brand from Giorgio Armani and one of only two that is designed by the ledge himself. This quilted bomber jacket is indicative of the range – all-black and as slick as a dollop of hair gel – you’ll probably catch Keanu Reeves slo-mo repping this in the Matrix 4. Now we have to admit you won’t catch grime superstar Stormzy in a quilted jacket. Really, what? Shut up? Adidas do a quilted jacket? Maybe you just might then, along with all the other hypebeasts and rappers who worship the sportswear brand, with this glossy jacket that takes after the traditional Adidas track top (you know that one that Stormzy fella wore in that video) with the addition of a striking zig-zag pattern. Code: 8221901 \| Resource: Richard Jones \| Publisher: voovooz \| Publish Date: 16 October 2018	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.664484977722168, "wiki_prob": 0.664484977722168, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1100515"}
The Linux Kernel Archives Active kernel releases In Releases. There are several main categories into which kernel releases may fall: Prepatch Prepatch or "RC" kernels are mainline kernel pre-releases that are mostly aimed at other kernel developers and Linux enthusiasts. They must be compiled from source and usually contain new features that must be tested before they can be put into a stable release. Prepatch kernels are maintained and released by Linus Torvalds. Mainline tree is maintained by Linus Torvalds. It's the tree where all new features are introduced and where all the exciting new development happens. New mainline kernels are released every 9-10 weeks. After each mainline kernel is released, it is considered "stable." Any bug fixes for a stable kernel are backported from the mainline tree and applied by a designated stable kernel maintainer. There are usually only a few bugfix kernel releases until next mainline kernel becomes available -- unless it is designated a "longterm maintenance kernel." Stable kernel updates are released on as-needed basis, usually once a week. Longterm There are usually several "longterm maintenance" kernel releases provided for the purposes of backporting bugfixes for older kernel trees. Only important bugfixes are applied to such kernels and they don't usually see very frequent releases, especially for older trees. Longterm release kernels Projected EOL 5.15 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin 2021-10-31 Oct, 2023 5.10 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin 2020-12-13 Dec, 2026 5.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin 2019-11-24 Dec, 2025 4.14 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin 2017-11-12 Jan, 2024 Distribution kernels Many Linux distributions provide their own "longterm maintenance" kernels that may or may not be based on those maintained by kernel developers. These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them. It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel. Unless you downloaded, compiled and installed your own version of kernel from kernel.org, you are running a distribution kernel. To find out the version of your kernel, run uname -r : # uname -r 5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 If you see anything at all after the dash, you are running a distribution kernel. Please use the support channels offered by your distribution vendor to obtain kernel support. Releases FAQ Here are some questions we routinely receive about kernel release versions. See also the main "FAQ" section for some other topics. When is the next mainline kernel version going to be released? Linux kernel follows a simple release cadence: after each mainline release, there is a 2-week "merge window" period during which new major features are introduced into the kernel after the merge window closes, there is a is a 7-week bugfix and stabilization period with weekly "release candidate" snapshots rc7 is usually the last release candidate, though occasionally there may be additional rc8+ releases if that is deemed necessary So, to find the approximate date of the next mainline kernel release, take the date of the previous mainline release and add 9-10 weeks. What is the next longterm release going to be? Longterm kernels are picked based on various factors -- major new features, popular commercial distribution needs, device manufacturer demand, maintainer workload and availability, etc. You can roughly estimate when the new longterm version will become available based on how much time has elapsed since the last longterm version was chosen. Why are some longterm versions supported longer than others? The "projected EOL" dates are not set in stone. Each new longterm kernel usually starts with only a 2-year projected EOL that can be extended further if there is enough interest from the industry at large to help support it for a longer period of time. Does the major version number (4.x vs 5.x) mean anything? No. The major version number is incremented when the number after the dot starts looking "too big." There is literally no other reason. Does the odd-even number still mean anything? A long time ago Linux used a system where odd numbers after the first dot indicated pre-release, development kernels (e.g. 2.1, 2.3, 2.5). This scheme was abandoned after the release of kernel 2.6 and these days pre-release kernels are indicated with "-rc". Git Trees Kernel Mailing Lists Site Atom feed Releases Atom Feed Kernel Planet This site is operated by the Linux Kernel Organization, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, with support from the following sponsors.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6350211501121521, "wiki_prob": 0.6350211501121521, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1303766"}
Home / Blog / BlazeMaster Case Study: Coral Ridge Towers BlazeMaster Case Study: Coral Ridge Towers South Blazemaster Fire Protection Systems Adrian Peschi, LCAM, knew that if the retrofit went badly he’d hear it from hundreds of unofficial supervisors – the residents of the high-rise apartment building he manages in Fort Lauderdale. As general manager of the 338-unit Coral Ridge Towers South, Peschi feared the fire sprinkler retrofit required by state law would disrupt the lives of residents and bring complaints about noise, dirt, blocked hallways and other problems. But thanks to a decision to use BlazeMaster® CPVC Pipe & Fittings and to hire Sprinklermatic Fire Protection Systems to install it, the retrofit is problem-free. “The project in every sense was superb,” said Peschi. “We had good comments from our residents. We were happy with the entire process and it moved along much faster than we thought it would.” Coral Ridge is one of hundreds of older high-rise residential buildings in Florida complying with new sprinkler requirements. While new buildings three stories or higher have been required since 1994 to have fire sprinklers, that left many older high-rises unprotected. To close that gap, the state legislature set a Dec. 31, 2019, deadline for unsprinklered high-rise buildings (generally 75 feet or higher) to add fire sprinklers. In place of a sprinkler system, buildings can choose an Engineered Life Safety System (ELSS), which is less expensive and less disruptive to install. This requires: Sprinklers in common areas One sprinkler head inside the front door of each unit Integrated smoke detection and alarm system Adequate exits from common areas Compartmentalization to contain fires (fire doors, fire walls, etc.) Coral Ridge Towers, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Peschi said once it became clear that the sprinkler requirement would not be overturned or delayed, his priority was choosing the best contractor for an ELSS. “If we had picked the wrong company and something went awry halfway during the job, we’re the ones who look bad, so we were very concerned about choosing the right company,” he said. The company first interviewed Sprinklermatic, Southeast Florida’s leading fire safety company. The family-owned business explained to Coral Ridge owners, management and residents what the job required and why using BlazeMaster CPVC pipe would make the retrofit faster, less disruptive and less expensive than using steel. It also recommended a fire engineering company which drew up plans for the work. “I did not know anything about CPVC, but the more I learned, the more obvious it was that it was the right material for a retrofit,” Peschi said. Though Coral Ridge officials interviewed othercontractors, they kept returning to Sprinklermatic. “We knew they were a company that would help us look good as managers and as a board,” Peschi said. Work began in summer 2018, and it quickly became apparent that Coral Ridge had made the right choice of contractor and material. “At every junction with this we’ve been pleasantly surprised and impressed,” Peschi said. “The guys are very clean and professional and we work well together.” Peschi said that during the project, officials from nearby high-rises came over to examine the work in progress and were impressed by the lack of disruption and the speed of the work, both made possible by the selection of BlazeMaster pipe over metal. They’ve also taken note of the lower cost of BlazeMaster CPVC, which means smaller assessments to unit owners. Sprinklermatic Vice President Timothy O’Brien said BlazeMaster CPVC is superior to other materials. “It’s a product that we’ve been able to incorporate in multiple sectors – hospitality, residential. Anywhere we can use the product, we do. I find it to be the absolute best product to do fire protection with,” O’Brien said. BlazeMaster pipe is ideal for retrofits because it’s easy to handle; it does not require power tools, welding or threading; and does not pose the same worksite fire risk that steel does. “It’s faster and it reduces the pain (for customers),” said Sprinklermatic President Robin Collier. “The quicker I’m able to get crews in and out, the faster building residents can get back to a normal life – and that’s what they’re concerned about.” The retrofitting at Coral Ridge is done, but with the 2019 deadline looming, Sprinklermatic is working on other high-rises and using BlazeMaster Fire Sprinkler Systems to stay on schedule and keep managers and residents happy.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5265042185783386, "wiki_prob": 0.4734957814216614, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line383188"}
There are four major differences PONY offers: 1. Pitching machine for younger ages 2. Leadoffs and steals for older ages 3. Increasingly larger field sizes as players move up in age 4. Division age grouping of 2 years The first key difference is at ages 7-8 (Pinto) -- which is one of the most popular participating ages in all of youth baseball. NCYB (and PONY in general) features a pitching machine for the full season – as opposed to player-pitch as is often the practice in Little League. Any player/parent who has seen a Little League game at this age level no doubt has suffered through the walk-filled boredom that results from kids who don’t have the physical ability to either consistently throw or hit live pitching. Pitchers too often hurt their arms and shatter confidence by pitching at such an early age. Hitters don’t develop because they rarely see hittable balls and are rightly worried about being hit themselves. Base-running skills don’t develop because there are so few base-runners who advance off a hit. And defensive skills don’t improve because the ball is so seldom put into play. All this too often results in a complete lack of on-field action – which ultimately concludes with players and families dropping out of baseball because they consider it too boring. By contrast, Pinto is regarded by many as the most exciting division of PONY because of the fast-paced action, and the dramatic improvement of all players over the course of the season in all phases of the game. This is all due to a consistent ball being pitched by the machine. Many families move from Little League to PONY just for this reason. The second major distinction comes at the next level up with ages 9-10 (Mustang). By this point, players are physically and emotionally mature enough to be introduced to live pitching. Unlike Little League though, PONY allows leadoffs and steals. This introduces additional nuances to the game just as you see in the big leagues. For example, pitchers learn how to pitch from the wind-up and stretch, holding runners on bases. Catchers learn how to throw out potential base stealers. Base-runners learn proper lead-offs and other base running techniques. The third significant difference is that as players move up from one division to the next, the base path distances increase. Little League maintains the same distances not increasing the size of the infield as the players get older and stronger. Therefore the infield never grows larger than 60’ between the bases. For comparison, freshman high school baseball up through the major leagues features 90’ base paths. PONY believes in graduating up in field size as players get older. The fourth difference is division age. Little League often has divisions with an age span of 3 years. Pony divisions are comprised of players with a 2 year age difference. With the tighter age grouping in the division, we believe that it is a safer environment for all the players. It also adds more parity to the teams and idividual players. The result is a more consistent competitive environment and this translates to more fun, confidence and enjoyment for the players.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6740468144416809, "wiki_prob": 0.3259531855583191, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line98249"}
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VOSA Quang Ninh: Steady in International Economic Integration Each of members of VOSA Quang Ninh is always proud for being a member of VOSA Vietnam. In VOSA Quang Ninh, the creativity and dedication of every employee together with the proper orientation of the management board has resulted in resounding successes and leapfrog development, turning VOSA Quang Ninh into a multi-business company with well-established reputation and leading position in domestic, regional and international arenas. Affirmed position “With its reputation and brand, VOSA Quang Ninh is always proud of sustained growth even in the face of current economic slowdown,” said Trinh Vu Khoa, Director of VOSA Quang Ninh. At present, VOSA Quang Ninh is supplying agency services and chartering services for many leading shipping firms in the world. It becomes a leading supplier of ship agency and maritime services. World-acclaimed shipping lines like NYK, Kline, Daichi First Ship, MSC, China Shipping and Cosco are partners of VOSA Quang Ninh. In trade business, VOSA Quang Ninh has annual export - import turnover of over US$500 million a year, standing in the top group in the country. VOSA Quang Ninh is always proud of its freight forwarding and chartering services. Although it started operations just 10 years ago, VOSA Quang Ninh quickly affirmed its reputation and service quality thanks to its synchronous investment and professional workmanship. It is also proud to win many international and domestic important deals like Bai Chay Bridge, My Dinh National Stadium, Cai Lan Port, Phu My -Vung Tau thermal power plant, Son Dong - Bac Giang thermal power plant, and Bat Chat - Lai Chau hydropower project. To be a multi-business company, VOSA Quang Ninh is stepping up the provision of warehousing and logistics services. To successfully implement that strategy, VOSA Quang Ninh has invested to build infrastructure works, particularly freight warehousing systems. Currently, the company has 50,000 square metres of warehouses for general merchandise and 20,000 square metres for warehouses for specialised freight located near Cai Lan Port. It was permitted by the General Department of Customs to be the only domestic customs-clearing agency in Cai Lan port. For the time being, its storage facilities are full of freights of leading economic groups in the country. In the near future, VOSA Quang Ninh will invest more to expand its warehousing systems, modernise and synchronise its machines and equipment to handle a large amount of exports and imports via regional ports. In addition, VOSA Quang Ninh is supplying tourism services, mainly discovery tours on Ha Long Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay. This is a novel luxury travel service, the first of its kind in Ha Long. Humans are the source of success “Active, creative, enthusiastic - regarding customer's damage as its own damage” are the business principles of VOSA Quang Ninh since its incorporation. As human factors are always the key to success, the management - since its establishment - defines to build a enthusiastic, dedicated, ethical and knowledgeable workforce. Currently, VOSA Quang Ninh has 145 dynamic employees having a high command of several foreign languages like English and Chinese, having broad knowledge of international conventions, customs and practices in home countries of customers, having sufficient capability and confidence to search for customers on international markets. Khoa added that “Thus far, some families have three straight generations working for VOSA. That’s what VOSA is proud of. Such contributions have created a solid foundation for the development of VOSA to this day.” In the integration tendency, VOSA Quang Ninh has been constantly rising up to affirm the quality and capacity of a multi-business company developed on the basis of traditional industries. With the right direction of leadership and the aspiration of all staff, VOSA Quang Ninh will become a powerful conglomerate in the country and in the region and stand firmly in the process of international economic integration. Hoang Tung Quang Ninh Issues Regulation on Re-export Management (26/4/2012) \| QUANG NINH Quang Ninh Ready for Cooperation (2/3/2012) \| QUANG NINH	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5960409045219421, "wiki_prob": 0.40395909547805786, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1360336"}
Justia Patents Food Or Edible Material: Processes, Compositions, And Products Patents Products Per Se, Or Processes Of Preparing Or Treating Compositions Involving Chemical Reaction By Addition, Combining Diverse Food Material, Or Permanent Additive Patents Gels Or Gelable Composition Patents Seaweed Type Patents (Class 426/575) Seaweed Type Patents (Class 426/575) All natural fruit snack and method of manufacturing an all natural fruit snack Abstract: A fruit snack manufactured, in summary, by removing moisture from commercially available juice concentrates (e.g., containing about 30% moisture) by heating for a short time the juice concentrate and vacuuming away excess moisture to produce a fruit juice concentrate with about a 15 to 20% moisture content, mixing the reduced moisture content fruit juice concentrate with fruit purees and gelling agents, preferably both pectin and gelatin, to produce a cooked mass, and depositing the cooked mass in a Mogul machine to produce the molded fruit snack. Assignee: THE PROMOTION IN MOTION COMPANIES, INC. Inventor: Basant K Dwivedi Multi-purpose nutritional supplement composition Abstract: One or more multi-purpose compositions formulated for pre-operative, post-operative, pregnancy, and postpartum recovery are disclosed in liquid or solid form, having high quality protein, nutrients, minerals (calcium, iron, zinc, and copper), antioxidants, and vitamins A, C, D, and E that are non-GMO and allergen free in vegan, gluten-free, preservative-free, and lactose-free formulations. Here, the multi-purpose formulations promote fast recovery and wound healing after an invasive medical procedure, during and post pregnancy and delivery, and further prevent post-operative complications, among other advantages. Inventor: Michael P. Moran Drink stabilizer composition and stabilized drink compositions Abstract: Provided is a composition containing an admixture of xanthan gum and konjac mannan in a specific weight ratio that is useful for making a stable aqueous hydrocolloid. Also provided is a stabilized drink composition containing an admixture of a specific weight ratio of xanthan gum to konjac mannan, protein solids, water and optionally a salt. Also provided is a method for stabilizing aqueous colloid suspensions. Also provided is a method for stabilizing drink compositions. Assignee: DuPont Nutrition USA, Inc. Inventors: Aaron Chip Venables, David Letinski Edible compositions which are adapted for use by a companion animal Abstract: Disclosed herein are a variety of embodiments of compositions and methods which are each adapted for use by a companion animal. In one embodiment, an edible composition comprising an amount of a soluble mineral component is disclosed, wherein the soluble mineral component comprises one or more minerals selected from the group consisting of zinc, manganese, tin, copper, and mixtures thereof, wherein the amount is an effective amount for use as an oral medicament. In further embodiments, a phosphate component is included. The edible compositions are advantageously companion animal foods or supplements. Further disclosed are methods selected from treating oral cavity tartar, oral cavity plaque, periodontal disease, gingivitis, breath odor and combinations thereof comprising orally administering a described composition to a companion animal. Inventors: Edward Russell Cox, Douglas Joseph Dobrozsi, Thomas Edward Huetter, Allan John Lepine, Susan Ruth Ward Stable thickener formulations Abstract: Stable thickener formulations and nutritional compositions having the stable thickener formulations are provided. In a general embodiment the present disclosure provides a stable thickener formulation comprising from about 0.015% to about 0.05% by weight of carrageenan and from about 1.2% to about 4.0% by weight of starch. The stable thickener formulation can be used in nutritional compositions used to treat a variety of physiological conditions. Assignee: Nestec S.A. Inventor: Erin Olson READY TO EAT COLD VEGETABLE CAKES WITH INGREDIENTS Abstract: Cold and ready to eat vegetable cakes, and with a variety of ingredient combinations are suitable for healthy consumption. The vegetable cakes are soft in texture and high in nutrition. People can save the time and energy of preparing and cooking of the food. Serving size can be a single serving, and a six pack of serving. Vegetable cakes are also created as vegetable egg cakes, vegetable plus salt source cakes, vegetable seafood cakes, vegetable meat cakes, vegetable bubbles, vegetables balls, vegetable patties, and vegetable sausages. They can be served as cold and hot food for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. They can also be used as animal food, baby food, for children with less teeth, for old people, and for sick people. Cold and ready to eat vegetable cakes with ingredients offer the consumers an easy and convenient way to obtain an affordable, nutritious, and delicious meal. Inventor: Alice Chang Healthy Composition for lowering Cholesterol for use in Foods, Beverages, Health supplements and Medical Foods Abstract: Disclosed is a composition consisting of beta-glucan (1,3), (1,4) ?-D Glucan), plant sterols and a hydrocolloid. A natural way to help lower blood serum cholesterol levels to a consumer and or patient with the effective amount of disclosed composition. For use in foods, beverages, dietary supplement products and medical foods. Inventor: Matthew James Gel based livestock feed, method of manufacture and use Abstract: A method of making a gel-type livestock feed includes initially forming a feed mixture by mixing feed nutrient components, water, alginate, and a calcium component insoluble in water or a sequestrate to inhibit the calcium component from reacting with the alginate. Once the feed mixture is formed, the calcium component is solubilized or the sequestrates affecting the reactivity between the alginate and the calcium component is removed such that a gel feed is formed that includes a gel matrix containing the feed nutrient components. The gel feed may then be fed to the livestock. In another aspect of the present invention, piglets are weaned by feeding the gel feed for at least seven days directly after weaning. The gel feed may also include protein derived from blood with or without egg protein. Assignee: Purina Mills, LLC Inventors: Kent J. Lanter, Brenda de Rodas, Bill L. Miller, Gary E. Fitzner Food product having a casing Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for preparing a food product having a casing, the process comprising the step of applying a casing paste comprising alginate and a sparingly soluble calcium salt by co-extrusion to the exterior of a material to be cased to form a co-extruded product, and contacting the co-extruded product with a solution comprising calcium ions, thereby causing the alginate to gel. Assignee: FMC Corporation Inventors: Helge Henrik Nielsen, Nicola Jane Wells SEED BUTTER COMPOSITION AND FOOD PRODUCTS Abstract: An edible seed butter composition and consumable food products including the seed butter composition are disclosed. Method for preparing the edible seed butter composition and food products are also disclosed. Inventor: William F. Aftoora Apparatus and method for estimation of livestock weight Abstract: A digital image of a target object is received and the image includes a plurality of pixels. The target object is at least a portion of an animal, and the portion of the animal is disposed in the image according to a predetermined disposition. The weight of the animal is determined using the model and at least one characteristic. At least some of the pixels of the image of animal are analyzed to determine at least one characteristic of the image of the animal. The weight of the animal is determined using the at least one characteristic. Inventors: Steve Gomas, John Sweeney, Edward Theil DIET PRODUCT COMPRISING ALGINATE Abstract: The present invention relates to a diet product comprising an alginate in an aqueous dissolved or swelled form at a pH value causing the alginate not to gel until after it is consumed and comes into contact gastric acid. Applicant: S-Biotek af 15. Marts 2006 1 ApS Inventor: Jens Steen OLSEN EDIBLE COATING COMPOSITION AND USES THEREOF Abstract: Described herein is an edible coating for food products in which the coatings comprises a polysaccharide cross-linked with a cross-linking agent solution. Also described herein are methods for coating food products and forming clusters of food products. The use of the edible coating for extending the shelf-life of food products is also described. Applicant: FRUITSYMBIOSE INC. Inventor: Genevieve Girard EDIBLE CUP AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Abstract: The present invention relates to an edible container made of liquid, sugar, and one or more hydrocolloids. The edible container may hold hot or cold liquids for extended periods of time. Inventors: Chelsea BRIGANTI, Leigh Ann TUCKER, Ingrid ZWEIFEL, Monica BHATIA, Kevin STANTON Microcrystalline Cellulose Compositions Abstract: Ultra-fine microcrystalline cellulose compositions are disclosed which comprise co-attrited microcrystalline cellulose and a hydrocolloid. The compositions have a mean particle size of less than 10 microns. The compositions are prepared by subjecting a high solids mixture of microcrystalline cellulose and a hydrocolloid to high shear forces in the presence of an anti slip agent preferably an aqueoussolution of an inorganic salt. The compositions are especially useful in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic and industrial applications. Inventors: Domingo C. Tuason, Jose Amundarain, Gregory R. Krawczyk, Edward Selinger, William R. Blakemore, James J. Modliszewski, Joseph Lee, Frank Messick Mutant bacterial strains of the genus deficient in production of polyhydroxybutyrate and a process of clarification of sphingans and compositions thereof Abstract: The invention relates to mutant strains of the genus Sphingomonas which have a mutation in at least one gene encoding a protein involved in polyhydroxybutyrate (“PHB”) synthesis that allows the mutant strains to produce PHB-deficient Sphingans. The invention is also directed to a process for preparing a clarified Sphingan solution comprising heating aqueous Sphingan solution, in particular PHB-deficient Sphingan solution, to a clarification temperature of about 30° C. to about 70° C., and treating the solution with a clarification agent and enzymes. In addition, the invention is directed to a food or industrial product comprising a PHB-deficient and/or clarified Sphingan. One particular embodiment of the invention is directed to a clarified, PHB-deficient high-acyl gellan and the processes of making thereof. Assignee: CP Kelco U.S., Inc. Inventors: Stan Bower, Ellen Burke, Nancy E. Harding, Yamini N. Patel, J. Carrie Schneider, Dagmar Meissner, Neil A. Morrison, Ralph Bezanson FEEDER INSECT COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD Abstract: The present invention is a composition for a feeder insect coating. Specifically, the invention relates to coating that can be applied to a feeder insect to increase the nutritional value of the feeder insect to provide a more complete food source to a consuming animal. Inventors: Gasparo Franco Marsala, Miguel Angel Cubero-Marquez, Daniel James Holt Formulated egg product suitable for processing Abstract: The present invention relates to the formulation and process for preparation of a fried egg product that may be frozen for future heating in a microwave or other oven or griddle, for consumption by an individual. Various ingredients are added and mixed to each of the liquid egg white and liquid egg yolk portions. The liquid egg white portion is preheated and then deposited within a mold for slow cooking under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. The liquid egg yolk portion is preheated and then added to the mold for placement on the egg white portion. Following a short period of cooking, the mold containing the formulated fried eggs is transported to a freezer unit for freezing, then is removed from the mold for packaging and storage. At a future time, the frozen formulated fried egg product may be thawed and reheated for consumption by an individual. Assignee: Michael Foods, Inc. Inventors: Jonathan A. Merkle, Hershell R. Ball, Jr., Jason W. Mathews FOOD COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ORGANOGELS Abstract: The present invention is directed towards organogel compositions. Processes for producing such organogel compositions are further disclosed. The present invention is also directed towards uses of the novel organogel compositions in foods, beverages, nutraceuticals pharmaceuticals, pet food, or animal feed. Applicant: ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY Inventors: Shireen S. Baseeth, Bruce R. Sebree Stabilizing Sorbic Acid In Syrup And Finished Beverage Abstract: Sorbic acid or benzoic acid is stabilized in syrup and finished beverages by solubilizing potassium sorbate or sodium benzoate and then adding the solubilized potassium sorbate or sodium or potassium benzoate into a stabilizer solution at pH 2-4. Applicant: PEPSICO, INC. Inventors: Naijie Zhang, William Mutilangi BITTERNESS MASKING Abstract: A method for masking the unpleasant taste of a bitter tasting substance includes administration of the bitter tasting substance with a vitamin E compound in the presence of at least one fat. The bitter taste of a bitter tasting substance is reduced in confectionery compositions when combined with at least one fat and a taste masking effective amount of one or more forms of a vitamin E compound. Applicant: KRAFT FOODS R & D, INC. Inventors: Michelle Firrell, Sarah Marshall, Steffi Lundy, Clive RT Norton COMPOSITION WITH A YOGURT-LIKE TEXTURE Abstract: The invention concerns a composition that can substitute yogurts. The composition comprises water, a rice concentrate, a cereal flour, a vegetal protein source, and a thickening agent. Applicants: DONONE GMBH, COMPAGNIE GERVAIS DANONE Inventors: Christoph Briegleb, Elini Chiotelli, Evelyn Krämer, Arnaud Lyothier Applicant: PURINA ANIMAL NUTRITION LLC Inventors: Kent J. Lanter, Brenda de Rodas, Bill L. Miller Methods of and systems for producing diesel blend stocks Abstract: A method for producing biofuels is provided. A method of making biofuels includes dewatering substantially intact algal cells to make an algal biomass, extracting neutral lipids from the algal biomass, and esterifying the neutral lipids with a catalyst in the presence of an alcohol. The method also includes separating a water soluble fraction comprising glycerin from a water insoluble fraction comprising fuel esters and distilling the fuel esters under vacuum to obtain a C16 or shorter fuel esters fraction, a C16 or longer fuel ester fraction, and a residue comprising carotenoids and omega-3 fatty acids. The method further includes hydrogenating and deoxygenating at least one of (i) the C16 or shorter fuel esters to obtain a jet fuel blend stock and (ii) the C16 or longer fuel esters to obtain a diesel blend stock. Assignee: Heliae Development, LLC Inventor: Aniket Kale Fruit and vegetable films and uses thereof Abstract: The present invention is directed to monolayer, bilayer, and multilayer films made from fruit, vegetable or a combination thereof, which films have the thinness, strength, flexibility, and crispness to serve as alternates or substitutes for seaweed-based films such as nori, while providing the nutrition and flavor of fruits and vegetables. The films are useful for wrapping around a multiplicity of foods, and can be used to provide wrapped foods, including for example fruit and vegetable wrapped sushi and onigiri. Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Inventors: Tara H. McHugh, Matthew D. de Bord, Carl W. Olsen Abstract: The present invention relates to a beverage dispenser for dispensing a gelatinous beverage. The present invention also relates to a gelatinous beverage for use in a beverage dispenser, and more specifically an alcoholic gelatinous beverage. The beverage dispenser comprises a housing and a gelatinous beverage contained within the housing, the housing being configured for movement between a closed configuration in which the gelatinous beverage is sealed within the housing and an open configuration in which the gelatinous beverage may be dispensed from the housing. The gelatinous beverage may comprise at least one alcoholic ingredient, at least one gelling agent, at least one acidity regulator, at least one preservative and at least one dilutant. Applicant: SHELL SHOTS LIMITED Inventor: Michel Harper Process for preparing a food composition Abstract: A process for preparing a food composition that is easily removed from the container by contacting one or more hydrocolloids with water to prepare a colloidal solution, contacting the colloid solution with one or more food ingredients, and allowing the resulting mixture to form a solid mass having a gelatinous texture, and a food composition produced by such process. Assignee: Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. Inventors: Joseph Robert Clark, Mark Lee Dierking Applicant: The Way We See The World, LLC Oil-free shelf stable liquid creamers Abstract: An oil-free, non-dairy, shelf-stable liquid whitening composition having a whitening agent and a stabilizing system is disclosed. The stabilizing system includes a hydrocolloid component, preferably of a blend of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and carrageenans, in an amount sufficient to suspend the whitening agent both in the liquid whitening composition and in an aqueous media to which the liquid whitening composition is added; and a buffer to ensure sensory quality. The stabilizing system maintains the liquid whitening composition in a homogeneous state in the composition for at least about 9 months at ambient temperatures, and further maintains the whitening composition in suspension when added to the aqueous media. Date of Patent: February 25, 2014 Inventors: James Tuot, Winnie Octavia, Alexander A. Sher JELLY CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTS HAVING A STABILIZER AND A FIBER BLEND Abstract: Jelly confectionery products and methods of producing the jelly confectionery products are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a jelly confectionery product having 1) an ingredient including fruit juice, fruit puree or a combination thereof, and 2) a jelly blend including a stabilizer and a fiber. The jelly confectionery product can be free of added sugar or corn syrup. Applicant: Nesteo S.A. Inventor: Vivek Dilip Savant INSECT ARTIFICIAL FEEDSTUFF Abstract: An insect artificial feedstuff is dry powder feedstuff composed of 1 to 50 percent by weight of a gelatinizing agent and 1 to 90 percent by weight of a powder foodstuff to further form gel by adding water having predetermined ratio, wherein the powder foodstuff comprises leaf powder formed by grinding at least one natural forage. Accordingly, other contents geld by utilizing the viscosity of the gelatinizing agent can be obtained to prepare artificial feedstuff having proper softness for different insects. The feeding rate of insect can be increased by the leaf powder, and the commonality of the insect artificial feedstuff can be effectively enhanced. Inventor: TING-YU CHIANG SAVOURY FOOD CONCENTRATE Abstract: A packaged food concentrate in the form of a gel comprising, based on the weight of the total food concentrate without the packaging: from 2 wt % to 15 wt % of NaCl, water, an effective amount of gelling agent, from 5 wt % to 60 wt % of a liquid polyol, non-gelatinised starch. Inventors: Marion Esclarmonde Perrine, Alois Konrad Popp, Winfried Sailer, Sabrina Silva Paes Oral Colloidal Electrolyte Solution and Related Methods Abstract: The present invention relates to oral dosage formulations consisting of at least one active ingredient contained in a plurality of hydrophobic carriers dispersed in an aqueous medium comprising a hydrocolloid. The active ingredients include various forms of electrolytes. The formulations may further include emulsifiers, permeation enhancers, and vasodilators. The invention further relates to methods of making the oral dosage formulations. Inventors: Robert Davidson, Eric Allen, Edward Maliski, Jose Bernado GELLED FOOD CONCENTRATE Abstract: A gelled food concentrate comprising a salt-sensitive gum, salt in an amount sufficient to keep the salt-sensitive gum in a salted-out state, a salt-stable gelling system in an amount effective to provide a gelled food concentrate, water, which gelled food concentrate, after dilution in an aqueous liquid, the aqueous liquid being water, can result in a ready-to-eat end product comprising: from 0.1 to 2.5 wt % of salt and from 0.01 wt % to 3.5 wt % of a salt-sensitive gum, the ready-to-eat end product having a viscosity of higher than 15 mPa·s at 20 C°. Inventors: Alois Konrad Popp, Sabrina Silva Paes, Robert Vreeker COMESTIBLE PRODUCT Abstract: The application relates to comestible products comprising acid gellable hydrocolloids, such as low acyl gellan gum. These are used for appetite suppression. On ingesting the product the hydrocolloid gels in the stomach. Mixed hydrocolloids, such as pectin and gellan gums are also provided. Applicant: The University of Birmingham Inventors: Fotis Spyropoulos, Abigail Belinda Norton, Ian Timothy Norton GEL COMPOSITION Abstract: A composition in the form of a gel for preparing a food product, the composition comprising water, flavourings, salt and gelling agents, where the gelling agents comprise at least iota-carrageenan and xanthan. Inventors: Sophie LaGarrigue, Sabrina Grassi Heitz, Andreea Tolea Food product comprising a base ingredient comprising cereal seeds Abstract: A vegetable-based food product, without saccharose, lactose and egg, includes a base ingredient having gluten-free cereal seeds, polished and/or wholegrain, and/or sprouted seeds and/or sprouted wholegrain seeds, thickeners and flavorings, which give such a food product a food substitute character, to provide, for example, a substitute for cheese and/or meat and/or fish and/or milk and/or for sweet preparations suitable to be used as such or in industrial or home-made preparations and/or a vegetable drink. Applicant: Mister Bio Food S.R.L. Inventors: Francesco Vessio, Pia Tonin, Andrea Buffolo GREEK YOGURT DIPS AND SPREADS AND PRODUCTION THEREOF Abstract: High-viscosity Greek yogurt products are provided in the form of a homogeneous mass including from about 20-35% by weight total solids and water, where from about 85-97% by weight of the solids fraction is in the form of dairy solids. The products have a viscosity of from about 60,000-90,000 cP, and are produced by forming a solids-water mixture, heating and homogenizing the mixture, and then culturing the heating and homogenized mixture with a yogurt culture to a break pH of from about 3.5-5. The products can be mixed with any suitable flavoring agent before or during packaging, as desired. The products may be used as spreads or dips, for example. Applicant: DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICA, INC. Inventors: Craig J. Schroeder, Joshua Paul Busby COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING FROZEN GELATIN DESSERT Abstract: Provided is a gelatin dessert which can be frozen and stored in the freezer for at least 6 months. Upon thawing, the gelatin dessert is a ready to use dessert that has desirable mouthfeel and organoleptic properties. The dessert comprises gelatine, sugar, inulin, wheat fiber, acacia gmn, emulsifier, starch and water. Inventors: Claudia Moreno Garcia, Ignacio Lucas Maya MULTIPHASE JELLIFIED BEVERAGE COMPOSITION Abstract: The present invention is directed to a water, juice, and/or milk-based jellified ready-to-drink product characterized in that it comprises at least two separate homogeneous gel masses, wherein adjacent separate gel masses have different gel strengths. Applicant: NESTEC S.A. Inventors: Jean-Pierre Bisson, Jean-Marc Delort, Anne Marcout VEGAN SIMULATED EGG COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for preparation of vegan simulated egg yolks, simulated egg whites, and simulated whole eggs consisting of the vegan simulated egg yolk and egg white compositions, for consumption. The compositions simulate sensorily an animal-derived egg, such as a chicken egg, and may have the same protein and vitamin content. Inventor: Rockney A. Shepheard Procedure and shaping device for producing three-dimensional candies Abstract: The present invention relates to an innovative procedure for producing three-dimensional candies, preferably of the type known in the food industry as gummy snacks, which eliminates the stamping of starch beds and the cleaning process of the chilled product, furthermore having control of detail on all sides of the product, as well as a transparency and crystallinity never before achieved with the procedures known and traditionally used in the food industry. Likewise, the invention incorporates a completely novel shaping device consisting of two plates connected by a male-female system and with a plurality of product-shaping cavities that are in contact with all sides of the product to be formed. Inventor: Pedro Pasini Bertran Shelf stable liquid whitener and process of making thereof Abstract: A shelf-stable, liquid whitening composition having a whitening agent and a stabilizing system are disclosed. The stabilizing system includes a gum component, preferably of a mixture of two different gum, present in an amount sufficient to suspend the whitening agent in the liquid whitening composition and in an aqueous media to which the liquid whitening composition is added, an emulsifier in an amount sufficient to maintain emulsion stability in the liquid whitening composition and in the aqueous media, and a cellulose component, preferably of a blend of a microcrystalline cellulose and carboxymethylcellulose blend, in an amount sufficient to help maintain suspension and emulsion stability of the liquid whitening composition alone and in the aqueous media. The stabilizing system maintains the liquid whitener in a homogeneous state for at least about 9 months at ambient temperatures, and further maintains the whitening composition in suspension when added to the aqueous media. Inventors: Alexander A. Sher, Winnie Octavia, Leticia Maria Michel, James Tuot Blends for Fermented Milk Products Abstract: A stabilizing additive for compositions, e.g., fermented milk products, is disclosed comprising xanthan gum and iota-carrageenan wherein the weight percentage of the xanthan gum in the stabilizing additive is higher than the weight percentage of the iota-carrageenan. The xanthan gum can be reduced pyruvate or non-pyruvylated xanthan. The stabilizing additive can further comprise a galactomannan. The composition can further comprise starch. Also disclosed is a method for making a fermented milk product comprising adding the stabilizing additive to milk and fermenting the milk or adding the stabilizing additive to already fermented milk. Fermented milk products comprising the additive can include, e.g., yogurt, drinkable yogurt, kefir or Ymer. Applicant: CP KELCO U.S., INC. Inventors: Wei Li, Zhi-Fa Yang, Todd Talashek Egg substitute and method of producing same Abstract: An egg substitute composition comprising wheat protein, emulsifiers, at least one fat or oil, and polysaccharides, and optionally supplementary proteins and food gums. The composition preferably includes 1-90% wheat protein, 1-30% fat or oil and 5-30% polysaccharides. Optionally 0-50% supplementary proteins, 0-30% emulsifiers, 0-10% food gums, 0-3% reducing-oxidant agents and 0-5% calcium and ferrous salts. The composition also includes 0.01-1% sodium phosphate and disoldium phosphate in liquid form egg replacer. Inventor: Weili Li Low Fat Bakery Product Abstract: The invention provides a comestible product, such as bread, cake, pastry, biscuit or cookie, comprising a water-in-oil emulsion, the water-in-oil emulsion comprising bakery fat continuous phase and an aqueous phase dispersed substantially throughout the bakery fat continuous phase. The bakery fat is typically selected from butter, margarine, animal fat and vegetable shortening. Inventor: The University of Birmingham FUNCTIONAL FOOD COMPOSITION AND ITS USE IN DIET FOOD Abstract: The present invention relates to a functional food composition, comprising: a thickening agent in an amount from 0.1 to 50% by weight, preferably 1 to 20% by weight; a raising and/or a bulk enhancing agent in an amount from 0.1 to 10% by weight, preferably 0.5 to 3% by weight; at least one edible oil in an amount from 0.1 to 20% by weight, preferably 2 to 10% by weight; at least one additive selected from the group consisting of flavor, surfactant, sweetener, preservative and coloring agent; and water in an amount from 20 to 90% by weight and the use of said functional food composition. Applicant: TAIF UNIVERSITY, College of Pharmacy of Taif University Inventors: Mayyas Mohammad Ahmad Al-Remawi, Ibrahim Abdulla Mustafa Maghrabi	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5523788332939148, "wiki_prob": 0.5523788332939148, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line592572"}
Report on 2022 Salary Equity Evaluation and Outcomes for Career Track Faculty Provost Liesl Folks, PhD MBA The University of Arizona is deeply committed to fair and equitable pay for all of its employees, regardless of gender, race and ethnicity. Accordingly, we have recently completed a comprehensive review of base salary among career track (CT) faculty, building on the salary equity review for tenure track faculty that was completed in Spring 2020. Our initial objective was to ascertain whether there are any significant systemic differences in base salary, not otherwise strongly correlated with common variables such as terminal degree, years in service, and track titles, when considering gender or race/ethnicity. Upon conclusion of that work, we reviewed base salaries at the unit-level to ascertain through near-peer comparisons if there are instances of salary differences that did not correlate with our pay model and should qualify for a base salary adjustment. As a result of our initial analysis, we did not identify systemic pay differences among gender or race/ethnicity cohorts in the salary data at the University of Arizona. The subsequent near-peer comparisons revealed instances of correctable salary variations which have been addressed by making adjustments totaling $666,217, equivalent to an approximate 0.9% increase in the total salary pool for this population. We plan to conduct similar reviews of salary among continuing status faculty in the near future. Internal Review and Adjustments This review was informed by our prior work based on widely used guidance from the American Association of University Professors provided in Haignere [1]. It was informed by newer work described in [2] and the related efforts at peer institutions [see refs. 3 – 10 for some examples]. To this end, we developed a mathematical regression model that provides a prediction for the expected salary for each faculty member considering common factors of pay and career progression. Then, we undertook a near-peer comparison of the salaries of similarly situated faculty. Where salary differences were found between near-peers that were not readily explained by a limited set of pay indicators included in our model, salaries were adjusted to narrow the spread among those near-peers. The amounts of the salary adjustments were informed by the predictions from the mathematical model. No salaries were adjusted downwards. A note: Equity vs. Market The purpose of this review was to establish if there are base salary differences that do not appear to be explained by our selected, job-related factors within the colleges at the University of Arizona. This review did not address possible differences in salary between the University of Arizona and other institutions of higher education (i.e., “market rates”). Faculty Included in the Review All 954 CT faculty members who have been on the UA payroll since the Fall of 2021. Data Utilized Base salary data, as of April 7, 2022, exclusive of all additional stipends, merit bonuses, summer pay, supplemental compensation, or other one-time payments. Years since terminal degree, as recorded in UACCESS Employee. Adjusted years since terminal degree. This field was created for employees who have real-world experience, but not a terminal degree, in their discipline. It was calculated by taking the year of the most recent degree an employee had obtained, as recorded in UACCESS Employee, and adding 5 years to get the adjusted degree year, then taking the difference between the current year and the adjusted degree year. Job code and track title, as recorded in UACCESS Employee . Years in academic rank at the University of Arizona, as recorded in UACCESS Employee. Employment unit(s) for paid position(s), as recorded in UACCESS Employee (e.g., department & college). Sex data, as formally recorded in UACCESS Employee. (Note that we are working towards providing an option for non-binary self-identification, but this was not available for the current analysis). Inclusive Race and Ethnicity data, as self-identified in UACCESS Employee. Teaching contributions, measured as the sum of Student Credit Hours delivered in the period 2017 – 2021 (fiscal year data), as recorded in UACCESS Student. Sponsored Award Research Expenditures, by credit split to investigator, 2017 – 2021 (fiscal year data), as recorded in UACCESS Research / Financials. Accounting for FTE and Appointment Type Differences All salaries were adjusted to a 1.0 FTE academic year equivalent, to allow for comparison within the model. Salaries for CT faculty on fiscal-year appointments were pro-rated to an academic year appointment. Mathematical Approach A primary component of the equity evaluation was a conventional multilevel regression model, which allowed the impact of multiple factors on salaries to be simultaneously modeled. The model was developed by UAIR staff in R, and used to predict employee salaries. This model was constrained in its use of predictor variables as recommended in guidance from the AAUP [1]. We used a multilevel regression model with the following predictor variables: Job Code/Track Title Adjusted Years Since Terminal Degree College (treated as a random intercept effect) Department (treated as a random intercept effect nested within College) For each faculty member, the model provides a “residual” value, which indicates the dollar amount by which that faculty member is over-paid or under-paid, relative to the predictive model. These residuals were normalized and used to guide the amount of the salary adjustments that were implemented following the near-peer comparisons. For the current round of salary adjustments, a standardized residual of 0.5 or greater was used as a minimum cutoff for adjustment eligibility. Near-peer Comparison Process Within each unit, faculty salaries were ordered as a function of years since the terminal degree. For every faculty member within the unit, the salary was compared against all near-peers (as determined by academic rank and years since terminal degree). Where salary differences were observed that could not be readily explained by the limited number of additional performance factors available, being the teaching contributions (as appropriate) and / or the research expenditures (as appropriate), adjustments were implemented. The size of the adjustment was informed by residuals resulting from the mathematical model used to predict the expected salaries. The same process was performed for all faculty, regardless of gender, race or ethnicity. Criteria for Exclusion of Individuals from Near-Peer Comparison Because an individual faculty member’s salary can be contingent on a variety of legitimate, non-traditional factors related to their particular circumstances, our review excluded some faculty (38, out of a total of 1,458) from being considered as comparators. These include; Faculty that currently hold, or previously held, administrative roles at the level of head / chair or above. Faculty with formal retirement agreements in place. Faculty with significant salary differences due to non-normative qualifications, relative to their peers within their departments (e.g., a computer scientist working in a non-STEM department). Faculty for whom the University of Arizona does not control the salary, due to binding partnership agreements. Faculty with current Performance Improvement Programs. Who Performed the Near-Peer Comparison? The near-peer comparisons of the faculty of each college were performed, one at a time, by a team comprising of the Provost (Dr. Liesl Folks), the Dean of the relevant college, the Chief Data Officer/Associate Vice President, University Analytics & Institutional Research (Ravneet Chadha), working with three members of the UAIR team, and representatives from the relevant college as needed (e.g., typically either the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and / or the Assistant Dean for Finance, Human Resources & Administration ). This process was limited in multiple ways. The data used are limited in both scope and significance for many cases. For example, ‘research expenditures’ is not a relevant performance metric for many disciplines, and even where it is viewed as being of some value, it measures an input rather than outputs, outcomes or impacts. Similarly, ‘teaching load’ is a measure of individual contribution to the department’s workload, but (a) it varies per assignment by the chair, head or director, and (b) the quality of the teaching contribution (i.e., the outcomes or impacts) is not considered. Service contributions (as distinct from administrative roles) were not considered at all due to a lack of data. We have made the assumption that all years since the terminal degree were spent accumulating relevant experience, but this is likely, not true for all faculty considered. As with many data sets, we fully recognize that our data may contain errors or inconsistencies that lead to imperfect outcomes, despite our best efforts to find and correct errors during this process. For example, a challenge we faced was obtaining the year of terminal degree (or equivalent qualification) data, which, although necessary for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation, has not been uniformly recorded for all faculty. Accordingly, we are committed to continuing to develop more robust data to improve the process and outcomes in future reviews. Review Findings The total annual salary pool for all CT faculty included in this study was $65,791,508 when all salaries were normalized to academic year at 1 FTE. The share for female faculty is $36,832,198 (56.0%), and the balance funds male faculty salaries. Female CT faculty at UA are paid median annual salaries of $68,582, whereas male faculty are paid median salaries $66,950, a difference of $1,632. However, the more senior ranks have a higher proportion of male faculty, as shown in Table 1, and these have higher salaries, as shown in Table 2. Representation, by Sex Rank Female Male Professor 40.22% 59.78% Associate Professor 62.76% 37.24% Assistant Professor 59.52% 40.48% Lecturer 55.08% 44.92% Instructor 54.29% 45.71% Table 1. Representation of male and female CT faculty, by rank, in the review population. Median Salaries (Academic), by Sex Professor $83,232 $84,400 Associate Professor $75,475 $73,579 Assistant Professor $66,335 $64,847 Lecturer $59,538 $60,312 Instructor $44,000 $45,000 Table 2. Median salaries for male and female CT faculty at 1 FTE and scaled to an Academic contract length, by rank, in the review population (before salary adjustments). The representation of race / ethnicity cohorts among the CT faculty are shown by rank in Table 3, and the median salaries by rank, race / ethnicity are shown in Table 4. Representation, by Academic Rank IPEDS Race Ethnicity Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer Instructor 2 or More Races 2.72% 1.64% Asian 10.87% 5.52% 7.55% 4.59% 12.86% Blk African Am 2.17% 0.69% 1.81% 3.61% 1.43% Hispanic Latino 8.70% 9.66% 12.08% 9.84% 21.43% International 2.17% 2.07% 6.65% 2.95% 4.29% Native American/Alas... 0.30% 0.66% Not Reported 9.78% 7.59% 3.93% 4.59% 7.14% White Caucasian 66.30% 74.48% 64.95% 72.13% 52.86% Median Salaries (Academic), by Academic Rank 2 or More Races $69,182 $58,125 Asian $74,350 $71,987 $61,200 $60,157 $44,000 Blk African Am $73,986 $100,000 $59,231 $53,040 $40,000 Hispanic Latino $101,668 $70,896 $67,144 $51,000 $42,636 International $88,808 $64,187 $66,756 $50,000 $44,000 Native American/Alas... $62,000 $58,009 Not Reported $86,446 $73,476 $69,020 $63,648 $46,154 White Caucasian $82,218 $76,178 $65,975 $60,313 $45,000 Table 4. Median salaries at 1 FTE and scaled to an Academic contract length for UA’s ethnic and racial populations, by rank, in the review population (before salary adjustments). IPEDS Race Ethnicity Percentage of Faculty in Cohort Median Salary (Academic) Female 2 or More Races Assistant Professor 0.7% $65,555 Lecturer Low n's $53,293 Asian Professor Low n's $93,166 Associate Professor 0.5% $63,073 Assistant Professor 1.2% $64,000 Instructor 0.6% $43,109 Lecturer 0.9% $55,408 Blk African Am Professor Low n's $75,372 Associate Professor Low n's $100,000 Assistant Professor Low n's $69,462 Hispanic Latino Professor Low n's $88,000 International Professor Low n's $83,232 Instructor Low n's $44,000 Not Reported Professor Low n's $86,446 Associate Professor Low n's $82,430 White Caucasian Professor 2.8% $82,346 Assistant Professor 14.7% $66,034 Lecturer 13.0% $60,157 Male 2 or More Races Assistant Professor Low n's $89,298 Asian Professor 0.6% $74,350 Hispanic Latino Professor 0.5% $102,375 Native American/Alaskan N. Assistant Professor Low n's $62,000 Not Reported Professor 0.8% $86,767 Table 5. Salary ranges at 1 FTE and scaled to an Academic contract length by gender, race / ethnicity, rank in the review population (before equity salary adjustments). Adjustments to Individual Faculty Salaries From the results of this review, salaries of 107 employees, out of a total of 954 employees, or 11.2%, were adjusted, effective July 1st, 2022. Summary tables on the impacts for each of the Colleges can be viewed here. The total amount of the salary adjustments across this population is $666,217 ($878,740 with ERE included). The notifications of the adjustments were made to individual affected faculty via memos from the relevant deans during the week of 2nd May 2022. Note: Units with Standardized Salaries by Rank The faculty in some units at the University of Arizona have established fixed salaries for each rank, and these are adjusted periodically to mark-to-market. No adjustments were made to salaries in these units. Elective Review Process: Following the release of this report, we will launch a process to allow any current career-track faculty member who was active in April 2022 to request an Elective Review of base salary using (only) the same data types and processes used in this review. A simple, secure web form will be provided for faculty wishing to make a request. An open text field will be provided to allow faculty to share information that they believe is pertinent for such an analysis. Convene a Faculty – Administration joint committee to guide further campus work on faculty salary equity, and to stimulate thoughtful engagement with issues of faculty salary equity through sustained discussion and review. Conduct salary equity reviews for Continuing Status Faculty (Fall 2022), Tenure-Track Faculty (Spring 2023) and for University Staff (initiated already). Schedule biennial salary equity reviews for faculty and staff. 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Not the highest hill but the views were amazing and we were scratching our heads when the blue sky burst out of the clouds after being promised rain. Alfie had fun jumping on and off the Trig Point and we took some pics. The walk down was a bit slippy at times but we arrived back at the car about an hour after we’d left. Great little dog walk and a good start to the week. 100th Wainwright just had to be Sheffield Pike! On May 19, 2015 January 12, 2016 By Northern HikerIn Hiking, Lake District, WainwrightsLeave a comment I realise there are 214 Wainwrights so you’d probably argue that fell 107 is a milestone, being halfway, when we reached 99 on Raven Crag we, sorry I, wanted to make the 100th be something special. Being from God’s county I picked Sheffield Pike! A sunny but chilly day met us as we left the caravan site followed by family Dicko and headed for Ullswater and the road down the west side of the massive water that seems to take forever to drive down to Glenridding. The A592 offers twists and surprises at every turn on a sunny day, trying to find a space in the small free car parks that litter the road is an adventure in itself. We eventually settled for a small ‘pull in’ just prior to Glencoyne and met the Dicko’s at the NT car park to start our walk. As always on meeting our favourite hiking buddies, Kel and Sue check out new kit and colour match and me and Dicko just take the mick. I was sporting my new body cam as I got for a birthday present with which I was experimenting videoing our walks. Sue’s first reaction was to ask if it records audio, I said no but I was lying, she doesn’t want anyone to know she’s a potty mouth. We set off up the straight track to the cluster of buildings which I guess is Glencoyne, the site of Sheffield Pike standing in front of us asking to be climbed. The path goes through the back garden of the buildings which always seems a bit weird to me, tramping through someone’s back garden. 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Alfie was on a peat soaked water fest and doing ’doughnuts’ in the sodden ground was an ideal way of covering everyone in black water. Thanks mate! We rested and contemplated the summit which wasn’t too far away, approx. 75 metre climb to the 675m summit. Halfway to the top I saw group resting with a few kids running about while the adults rested. As we got closer I recognised my work mate Louise tending a small child and then remembered she was in the area with her family and had obviously also chosen Sheffield Pike as their ‘summit of the day’. We had a bit of craic and arranged to meet at the ‘Rambler’s Bar’ later for a post walk pint. We headed east towards the summit and at last about 500m of level (ish) ground reached the summit fairly quickly and with a cracking view. Ullswater was as clear as a bell and we even got a view of people skiing down Raise. Helvellyn looked amazing, the snow had given it a wonderful coat that had a good few people climbing to the top. At this point I’d given up on my cam, I hadn’t attached it correctly to my day sack and it kept slipping forward and all I had was cracking footage of the ground and my size 11’s. We headed south east towards Heron Pike struggling to find a definite path. We stopped at the iron post as the ‘path’ had come to drop, a 50m drop! Luckily we could see Louise and the rest of her party nearly at the bottom heading towards the stone wall. Her hubby pointed to our left, I thought it was an indication to the path we needed to take so we headed left and found a small well-trodden area of grass heading down hill towards the wall. It seemed to take an age to get to the wall and ‘The hills were alive, with the sound of Sue screams!’ There were a few scares on the slippery grass, even I had a few ‘Hip jolters!’ Eventually we met the dry stone wall heading north to south and walked in the direction of the ‘Rake’ and crossed the junction with the wall dropping off Glenridding Dodd. We did plan to top Glenridding Dodd but I felt very tired and had slight chest pains, again a result of the medication floating around my body. I told Kel I didn’t want to go any higher so we decided to take a left then left again to briefly head north east to Mossdale Beck and follow the beck down to the road. If you chose this path be wary that it’s not very well maintained, we had to run the gauntlet of falling trees and collapsed paths. Which meant us getting ‘hands on’ in some parts, which I don’t mind but Sue didn’t look too impressed. Finally we hit the road and a short walk back up to the parking spot just passed Glencoyne Bridge. We met Louise and her family at the Ramblers Bar for a well-deserved pint of cider and a chat in the sun. A great peak for our 100th Wainwright and a lovely sunny day to do it! A New Year Plod up Place Fell On January 4, 2014 January 12, 2016 By Northern HikerIn Hiking, Lake District, Wainwrights2 Comments New Year is either a full on experience for some or it’s just the other annoyance after Christmas for the ‘bar humbug’ brigade. So, Kel and I had a look at the weather forecast after the big fat lad in red had squeezed down the Combi boiler and made a decision. It looked rainy-check, windy-check, and snow on the peaks-double check! We’d missed a Wainwright on our last visit due to unforeseen circumstances so we decided our quest should be Place Fell. We decided we’d see the New Year in at the caravan in the Eden Valley, which is only a short drive from Ullswater which was ideal for our chosen fell hugging the bottom of the massive water. We had mentioned it to Kel’s sister (whose caravan it is anyway) and she and her hubby Stu where up for bringing 2014 in the lakes. But after a couple of texts, the party that would be heading up Place Fell was hitting 9 humans and a German shepherd. Thankfully not all staying in the caravan! We arrived at Pooley Bridge for lunch Tuesday and a taste of what was to come, Ullswater was like the North Sea as its waves licked its shores splashing the A592. Snow had capped Helvellyn and its surrounding peaks and I had a fuzzy feeling in my stomach as I love ‘good weather’ when we’re hitting the fells. Kel doesn’t join me in my like for inclement weather on hills but she would prefer to be battered with nature than walking around the shops with the endless ‘sale’ signs. We joined Ali, Stu and Bruce at the caravan late afternoon and started to bring in the New Year with finger food and wine, lots of wine!! We were joined by one of our friends Michelle who managed to find the caravan after a few loops around the Eden Valley and churning up the campsite in her ‘Beemer’ looking for a parking space. Due to the planned route not taking us that far and only 4 hours on the hills at most, a half ten meet at Pooley Bridge was organised to meet the rest of the party. So, after leaving Pooley Bridge we drove down the flooded A592 to park at the school house in Patterdale to start our attack of Place Fell. Quick head count: Me, Kel, Ali, Stu, Michelle, Dicko, Sue, David (Dicko’s brother), Yvette (David’s wife), Richard (Dicko’s son) and of course the big German Shepherd Bruce. New Year greetings complete we joined the footpath sneaking between the school house buildings heading across marsh land towards Side Farm to start our ascent up Patterdale Common. The stream that enters Ullswater down this valley was slightly high and the couple of hundred metres to the farm was ankle deep in water which prompted a few ‘girly’ giggles from the female element of the party. Us blokes just cracked on as usual! A testament to recent weather was soon upon us as we saw a caravan in the farmland on its roof at the adjacent campsite. We all found it amusing but I guess some poor soul has had their world turned on its roof quite literally, oh well. I’d looked at the map and the route wasn’t that complicated, we’d take a right behind the farm and just climb south east towards Boredale Hause. There were a couple of other hikers heading up and smiles and New Year greetings were exchanged. It wasn’t long before the hills gave way to the sound of pounding paws and Bruce’s relentless quest to keep his ‘flock’ in order. The rain was pleasant and cloud cover high(ish) but the wind was getting up. As we passed Rooking Gill the breeze got a bit more lively and the drops of rain where getting a bit bigger. Ullswater was clear and the snow on the Helvellyn range looked very inviting making me wish we’d headed up the western side of the valley, hey ho, Place Fell was the goal and we were well on route. We arrived at Boredale Hause and were met by another group of hikers chewing the fat. Stu had found a dubious footpath up the fell which was immediately ‘Poo Poo’d’ by our new friends. It looked good to me but I could see the top of the fell and it looked bleak, I knew the well-established path was clear and wanted a drama less ascent so we headed to the path that Kel and I had abandoned a few weeks before. As we trudged up the well-worn path the wind increased and the chunks of rain got bigger. Just before Steel Edge the weather had got quite bad, we’d stopped for a breather but the party had become stretched. Communication was hard between the group and chins were hitting the floor. After a brief chat, Dicko, Sue, Yvette, David and Richard decided to turn back. There’s no point getting higher into worse weather if all you’re doing is looking down and not enjoying it. There are certain things that people get from the hills, views, exercise, but I like the thrill! I know it’s not Everest and there’s always a way down but I’ve always loved the mountains and hills not matter what the weather, bad weather just adds to it for me. I carry enough kit to make my ‘stay’ overnight comfortable! With a good chunk of the party gone we cracked on leaving just the caravan dwellers heading summit wise and the weather getting worse. Bruce the Shepherd wasn’t happy, he’d lost half this flock and it was doing his head right in. However, at the top we managed to shelter slightly but we were greeted with a small scattering of the fluffy white stuff. A ‘re-group’ as I like to call it was in session. Did everyone like to carry on? Yes. Was everyone dry? No but ok. Where the fek had my daysack cover gone? Hanging near my arse. Happy days and we cracked on after hoying down a Snickers and a reassessment of kit. The snow was now driving into my unzipped pockets but I was warm and dry. Vision was very good considering and every one was chipper. Bruce had got over the fact he had only 5 humans to watch and cracked on negotiating the crags and the driving snow which, even he was struggling to contend with. ‘The Knight and Mortar Crags’ were negotiated extremely well, mainly down to a good path, nowt to do with navigation. There were a good few moments where Kel had a couple of slips but nothing to write home about. My daysack cover decided to make another bid for escape on Mortar Crag but luckily moorland to the west of us saved it from joining the waves of Ullswater. The wind was very strong making all the snow and rain a little bit more extreme. Michelle had grabbed my attention as we headed to the massive Sheepfold at Low Moss, she pointed out a left turn just before High Dodd which looked good. Things were starting to be blown about, my daysack cover included plus my underpants were soaked, don’t ask me how but they were. We banged in a left turn at the junction and headed down the path parallel with Low Moss Gill. Immediately the wind reduced and we stopped at the disused quarry about a quarter of the way down to have a break. Kel popped on her white bonnet and Bruce tried to eat Michelle’s sarnies, I found a lovely slate water fall and we headed off down the route. The surface was slippery under foot and there was a couple of ‘Hip jammers’ as people slipped but recovered without hitting the deck. We had the joy of Scalehow Force roaring away to our left as we joined another well-worn path just before Scalehow wood and a left turn south west along the side of the lake. We were still not half way but as the wind, rain and snow were not with us chins were up and conversation was ongoing. Well between Ali and Michelle it was, very much so, what do lasses find to talk about?! With the steep crags to our left and the swirls on Ullswater to our right, the pace picked up and jelly babies made an appearance. Kel was proud to produce a packet of ‘Spogs’ (liquorice with hundreds and thousands on) and smiles were on all involved. Silver Bay went by with the water a bit closer than usual and it wasn’t long before the end of Ullswater was in sight. The cloud was dropping and twinkles of Glennridding were inviting us from across the water. A text from Dicko stating the rest of the party were in the ‘Ramblers Bar’ made the sight of Side Farm and the caravan on its roof very welcome and a pint to make the day perfect. However, remember the path from the school to the farm at the start being ankle deep, it had now been replaced by a few more inches of water and a prospect of wet feet for the shorter people in the party. Sod it, we just trudged through what the hell. We came out the other side laughing and commenting the fact we’d just seen a black Labrador chase a swan in about two feet of water on the path, and Bruce had just stood and watched, probably in amazement. I came out the other side with dry feet, so did Stu. The girls were soaked but the car was in sight and the start of the great ‘De-kit’ and a chance to steam Stu’s car up on the short ride to the ‘Ramblers Bar’ and a welcome from the rest of the starting party. Stories exchanged and pints downed as Bruce left a dog shaped wet print on the wooden flooring. The mystery of my wet underpants was solved by realising I’d left the zips on my waterproof over trousers open to the driving rain/snow on the summit. AW states “Few Fells are so well favoured as Place Fell for praising neighbouring heights!” This is true; Helvellyn graced us with its white cap the whole way almost inviting us over as if to capture souls. Even though the weather was ‘wintery’ I wouldn’t have had it any other way! Beda Fell On November 3, 2013 January 12, 2016 By Northern HikerIn Hiking, Lake District, Wainwrights3 Comments Whenever you put boot on fell, you have to take all sorts of factors into consideration; weather, terrain, route, gear and your party’s ability. There are plenty of benefits of walking in the mountains and hills, but there are also things that could go wrong. Our walk up Beda Head luckily didn’t need outside help but it goes to show, even seasoned hikers have problems. It’s Friday and Kel and me were on dayshift, I was set to finish at 5pm and Kel at 4pm, so it was up to her to get home first, pack my car and get all sorted for a quick blast down the A66 for when I pull up on the drive in her shed, I mean car. We had a passenger just for the journey; one of my mates had set his family off to Center Parcs in the morning, arranging for us to drop him off on the night so we had a slight detour before settling in the caravan. We were on the road for roughly half five so things looked good as it only usually took us just short of 1 ½ hours to get to Morland, and the detour wouldn’t add much, so we should be settled for 8pm planning our route for the next day. The rain was pounding down but, hey ho that’s to be expected. Process was good until Bowes and the road cone fest, can anyone tell me why the road works are there!? Bang to a halt and an hour later we managed to come out of the other end and back on our journey. We drove up the long road to Center Parcs and dropping our mate off to tackle the resorts fierce security while we made our way to our own peaceful, quiet resort, Aaahhhhhh! As the rain bounced down on the tin roof of our, errgh hum, Kel’s sisters caravan we cast our eye over OL5 map and tried to marry it up with the go4awalk.com route which we’re using to get all the peaks in to accomplish our Wainwright goal before I’m 50! Route sorted and after a couple of night caps, it was bed time. Next day driving down the side of Ullswater the weather looked good and as we drove through Howtown there were a few cars parked at the bottom of Hallin Fell so a lot of people were already on the fells. We parked at Garth Heads (427186) near where the footpath crosses the small road up Boredale. We planned to take the footpath east up Beda Fell to the ‘head’ then drop down to Boredale Hause then up onto Place Fell and heading north to High Dodd then back to the car. This was taking in two Wainwrights and a good few views, plus a post walk pint in the Pooley Bridge Inn and Kel’s favourite cider. Boots on and straight into a steep climb up to Howsteadbrow and Winter Crag, the temperature was that awkward type of temperature where it’s slightly too warm for a fleece but just too chilly for just a base layer. We trooped up to the crag and turned right heading to the top and the ground levelled and as we got closer to the top Ullswater revealed itself and with the clear skies every fell in the west could be scene. Unless it’s driving rain or blowing a hooly I normally like a good little chin wag and it never seems to amaze me that Kel can name most of the fells from every angle. Our ‘view stops’ are usually a feast of Kel turning a full 360 degrees pointing and saying, “Helvellyn, Sheffield Pike, Gowbarrow etc etc!” But today seemed very quiet on the stops with Kel just appearing to look down and breath heavily, more than usual. My concerned questions were met with “Aye I’m alright!” and “just tired, maybe too much Pinot last night!” Too much Pinot!!?? I was concerned; it’d take a lot of Pinot for her to say it’s affected her the next day. I remember when we went up Helvellyn the day after a good sesh. We’d stopped at Parkfoot, which isn’t really our place but we were with camping friends. Our mates weren’t hill walkers but like a good BBQ and the alcohol that went with a good pile of meat and buns. Anyway needless to say our attack at Helvellyn was a bit ropey and we were sweating 14% but Kel was still chipper and we still made good pace. But today was different, her chin was down for her not to be talking, this was a concern. I knew that if she didn’t perk up on the flat on the summit I’d have to monitor her without making a fuss. The summit came and went, she’d smashed a ‘Snickers’ in and we’d started looking for the path down to Boredale Hause. We’d been blessed with cracking weather today and I was taking in the surrounding peaks, but the guided tour of their names was still missing and I was getting a bit worried about my weary wife. As we dropped off the top over Freeze Beck and to a possible bait stop, I noticed a slight spring in Kel’s step, she’d said on the top that if she felt this rough at the ‘hause’ we’d be cutting short which I’d whole heartedly agreed. Now, this ‘spring in her step’ didn’t mean all was good. During my time in the forces I’d had many times where I’d had to monitor individuals who’d just been poorly. Nothing to do with fitness as I’ve known the ‘Racing snakes’ who ran the fells be taken down by stomach bugs during exercises in the mountains of Wales. The art is to watch faces and mannerisms; fatigue comes in three stages as far as I’m concerned. Initially quiet and getting quite tired with more than frequent stops and not saying much. Then, a second wind where there’s about half hour of “yeah I’m ok now” and picking up the pace. This second stage is where you have to wait and rest, sit down and have bait. If you’re walking bud is knackered and has fatigue caused by whatever, they’ll fail whilst resting. If you don’t clock this this second stage and crack on, it may get serious about an hour later. I’ve seen the third stage and many people have collapsed and CASEVAC’D (casualty evacuation) off a hill because someone failed to recognised the second stage. The casualty won’t know and will think life’s good and try to crack on, that’s why it’s important to have a monitor buddy to call the shots. You might get “What ya goin on about I’m fine!” but take the grief cos if they’d gone up and collapsed you’d be feeling worse. We sat and started to have bait, it was a busy crossing with walkers coming up from all directions, Patterdale, Boredale and a few coming from Angle Tarn direction. We perched on a rock and tucked into our butties; Kel just nibbled and nibbled then stopped eating. I refer back to my previous paragraph where I mentioned mannerisms. Kel had settled by the side of a small boulder, about shoulder height, and had lent against it. Next thing I knew her eyes closed for a brief moment and there you go, stage two. She’s never done that before ever, so with a slightly concerned grin, I told her we were getting off the hills. She said OK! The journey down Boredale confirmed my prognosis as Kel admitted she did not feel herself. She perked up slightly again but I had no concerns as we were dropping down to farm land and a flooded path and watch a big black cloud covering Beda and Place fells ready to bolster Boredale Beck on its way into Ullswater. I wasn’t concerned that Place Fell hadn’t been bagged, to be fair, it’s not going anyway. I was just glad I got my wife off the hills before anything bad. It’s mainly a man thing too, no way am I gonna phone mountain rescue unless necessary, I would carry Kel, her daysack and mine off a fell before I used a much unfunded and overworked resource like mountain rescue. We reached the car dry and in good spirits for a change and for once, I drove to the pub with my boots on instead of ditching them for sandals for a ‘breather’. I hope people that read this blog don’t think I’m a ‘know it all’ and a total knob. I have had past encounters with all sorts of stuff and while passing on my experience, I’m not the font of all, just know some stuff! PS, my new boots are the dog’s swingers!! Hallin Fell On November 3, 2011 November 28, 2011 By Northern HikerIn Lake DistrictLeave a comment Friday, 28th October 2011 and our visit to the Lakes was nearly over, tomorrow we would be driving the depressing direction on the A66 back to reality and work. We decided, Kel & I, to have a little wander up Hallin Fell. Not the biggest in the area but we decided to not pick a big hill and have an easy day. The weather was quite fine and the sun was shining as we drove through Pooley Bridge and down the east side of Ullswater to Howtown and parked about 25 metres up from the cattle grid. Our plan was to quickly scale the tiny hill then have a relaxing walk around it and hopefully get some good photos. I looked up the hill side and saw a few routes, as well as the paths marked on the map. We walked a bit further up the road to the brow of the raise in the road and took a right up the grass. We had chosen a different route than any on the map, normally a ‘no no’ but it was well used so we thought what the hell. It was quite steep up the grassy slope and hearts were racing almost immediately. The grass was fairly dry so Kel managed to stay on her feet, which was good, as I don’t think she could take another day on her backside which had its fair share of bruising after Dale Head. So we headed up the east side gained height quite quickly, to be honest it was a bit uneventful and I didn’t even have the added entertainment of Bambi on Ice landing on her face every five minutes, so I decided we’d have a little scramble. There’s a small crag just before it levels out on the east, so I told Kel to head up towards it. The ‘path’ levelled out slightly first and it had a bit of a drop, well, a lot of a drop to the right which made Kel stop. “Are you sure this is the route?” were uttered a few times as Kel held her arms out to balance and seemed a bit nervous. I reassured her if she fell, it wasn’t a sheer drop and she’d bounce a bit if she did stumble off. I’m getting quite used to the names I get called now when we have a bit of a scramble, or have to negotiate anything less than a metre wide, the air around Sharp Edge is still blue from our last visit. Anyway, we shuffled to the top of the rocks and set off towards the summit. The view was stunning as we looked north east up towards Pooley Bridge. It wasn’t long before we were at the top and joining a couple of families around the Obelisk. The weather was sunny and Kel got her camera out of my day sack and happily snapped away. Ten minutes was enough for us at the top and decided to go down the ‘family route’ and came off the hill and joined the road passing Hause Farm. The small road had a couple of holiday cottages with cracking views up Howe Grain and we met the bridge that crossed Howegrain Beck, very picturesque. We took the path to the right and were soon climbing again as we followed the farm fence line. About half way up we spotted a gate in the fence, “Thought you said there wasn’t a path through the field” echoed down the valley from her, as I remembered her pointing to another gate as we came down the road. I had said there was no right of way through the farm which would have cut out half of the ascent we were now negotiating. A cheeky scowly smile met my “ooooh yeah” as we walked past the gate, which clearly shows a path leading to the first gate. We levelled out and kept to the path heading west, hugging the fell heading towards Hallinhag wood. Half way there we spotted the Great North Air Ambulance hovering above Ullswater, it made a couple of swoops then disappeared. A few more steps and we heard a familiar sound to Kel & me, a siren! It seemed to be coming from Howtown but was getting closer. Then it appeared, Mountain rescue hurtling down the road on the other side of the valley heading to Sandwick. We turned and looked at each other, looked into the sky at the clear blue, and said, “ehhh?!”. Our looks would have confused any onlookers but we both thought the same, the weather was gorgeous and we were confused as to what could’ve happened. The vehicle went out of sight and the siren stopped. We shrugged our shoulders and hoped everyone was ok, then entered the Oak dominated Hallinhag wood and was met by a slippery descent to the lake side. I grinned as I thought “this is it, she’s bound to go on her arse here”. Then, just as I’d finished saying the words in my head, I heard the immortal words “whooooosh ya f**ker!” as Kel’s right boot swung up waist height and her left leg was just about to join it. I had noticed a couple of wires running down the wall, on the edge of the woods, one normal and the other, ‘barbed’. It was like slow motion, as my clumsy fiancée headed for an almost certain bounce of the muddy slope with her ‘portable cushion’, her left arm instinctively went to grab one of the wires to stop her fall. I watched as her hand stretch out and thankfully found a tight grip on the smooth wire, not the rusted barbed inches above it. She swung from the wire but managed not to hit the mud with her already sore rear. After checking to see if she was ok before I laughed, we got to the lake side without incident and decided to have dinner on the shores in Sandwick Bay. To our suprise, the Great North Air Ambulance was on the grassed area in the bay. The pilot was on his phone but no sign of any crew. We put two and two together having seeing Mountain Rescue a few minutes ago and thought someone was in trouble. We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches wondering what had happened. Moments later the rest of the crew came down the route we had taken through the woods laughing & joking, with some other rescue guys and no casualty in sight. They had a quick chat with the pilot and then jumped in the copter and flew off up Ullswater, not before doing a cheeky fly past everyone sat at the bay. So we set off back to the woods and carried on with our walk, “must just have been an exercise” Kel said as we went through the gate. The lake was quite still with only the ripples created by the Steamer to disturb its surface. The route was quite populated due to the nice weather and we must have done the usual hikers ‘nod’ followed by ‘hiya’ about 20 times before we reached the exit of the woods. Before that, we both stood on Kailpot Crag and took in the scenery wishing we had another week here and not heading back to Durham the next day. The half hour walk back to the car was only marred by me slipping on a rock and bending my bad knee backwards, which tickled to say the least. As I had been bird spotting all week, Kel turned to me and shouted “Look, at that in the tree” I was amazed to be that close to a Kingfisher (which we had seen earlier in the week flying by) “is it?” i asked as Kel was killing herself laughing. I got closer and realised it was a blue glove someone had left on a branch! By then I could really taste the mandatory pint after a walk,today was to be at one of our favourites, Pooley Bridge Inn. We reached the pub, sat down and withthe usual mixture of quaffing nuts, having a pint, people watching and chatting as Kel carried on with her relentless quest of finding an internet signal on her phone. Not the biggest or exciting of hills, but it’s another Wainwright crossed off the list.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7083942294120789, "wiki_prob": 0.29160577058792114, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1694284"}
We've found the time and place that horses were first domesticated Life 20 October 2021 By Michael Marshall Modern horse herd on the steppes of Inner Mongolia, China Ludovic ORLANDO/CAGT/CNRS Phototh?que One of the most stubborn mysteries in prehistory has finally been reined in. A massive study of ancient DNA has revealed where horses were domesticated: around 2200 BC on the steppes of central Eurasia, near the Volga and Don rivers in what is now Russia. “Finally, we find where and when horses were domesticated,” says Ludovic Orlando at Paul Sabatier University in France. The domestication of horses was a crucial event because it revolutionised travel and warfare. Horses can carry … The first physical proof that Vikings brought horses and dogs to England has been unearthed Stunning photos show nomadic life of Mongolian goat herders Mongolia produces 40 per cent of the world's cashmere supply from its goats, but climate change and overproduction are threatening this unique way of life Smart dairy farms are using AI scanners to monitor cows' health Technology being trialled on UK farms collects daily data on cows’ weight, body condition and mobility, helping to identify individuals in need of treatment Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6849344372749329, "wiki_prob": 0.31506556272506714, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line678624"}
Julia Bayer Julia Bayer is an investigative journalist, innovation manager and trainer at Deutsche Welle. At DW’s Investigative unit she is diving deep online collecting publicly available sources to uncover the (in)visible using OSINT. Before that she researched and verified UGC for (breaking) news at DW´s Social Media Newsroom. More About Julia Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) At DW´s Research and Cooperation unit, she is involved in verification projects like Truly Media, InVid/WeVerify and Digger-Deepfake detection. Together with her team she developed an interactive training site to sharpen your senses for detecting deepfakes. For the DW Academy and other media organisations and NGOs, she travels around the world training journalists in OSINT techniques and digital verification. Julia is the founder of @quiztime. It is about little quizzes to train and strengthen your verification and geolocation skills on your own or in a team. Since she started around four years ago a number of journalists and verification enthusiasts have joined. They provide every day new challenges. Julia approaches the combination of traditional journalism and OSINT in innovative research skills and storytelling ideas. She has experience in covering in-depth investigations using large datasets and leaks, visual analyses as well as covering breaking news stories. Two years ago she joined the Investigation unit at Deutsche Welle. Since then, she published Investigations about the systematic repression and imprisonment of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang, pushbacks against refugees and the military coup in Myanmar. Julia is also focusing on environmental misconduct and corruption. Julia speaks German, English and Spanish.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6893095970153809, "wiki_prob": 0.31069040298461914, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line304997"}
Zorn, John - Six Litanies for Hellogabalus CD Glass, Philip - NYU Steel Plays Philip Glass Gai Saber - La Fabrica Occitana SKU 08-FY8112 "Enjoying a growing international public and critical consensus following their previous efforts Gai Saber are now ready to unveil the latest chapter of their musical saga. On La fabrica occitana the band’s rediscovery of Occitanian roots filtered through the effulgence of futuristic electronic sonorities reaches new levels of perfection, honing to a fine art the musical mongrelizing that is their declared trademark. Here, the encounter between digital rhythms and the melodies of troubador poetry is finely balanced: each sound, whatever its origin, is placed with acute attention to harmony, giving rise to tracks that, although extremely varied in terms of style, all carry the same hallmark of refined craftsmanship. The fruit of meticulous sonic manipulation La fabrica occitana offers tangible evidence of how folk music can stretch its boundaries while staying firmly rooted to its native soil. Eschewing the clichés of rock for samplers and digital processing with this album GAI SABER make a courageous attempt construct a bridge between past and future that will be of particular benefit to younger generations of listeners. Formed in 1992 as Kalenda Maia, Gai Saber took their present name in 1996 and the following year released their debut album Troubar R’òc. In June 1999 the band’s second CD Esprit de frontiera saw the participation of Ares Tavolazzi, Elio Rivagli and Vincenzo Zitello. In 2000 and 2001 Gai Saber took part in numerous festivals both in their native Italy and abroad, and at the same time began to forge their ethno electronic sound marrying traditional instruments to digital samplers and drum machines, producing the album Electroch'òc in 2002 in which the rhythms of Occitanian music shared the same floorspace with drum & bass and trip-hop atmospheres. The widespread critical acclaim the album received resulted in the group (who hail from Peveragno in Cuneo’s Valle Pesio) embarking on a three-year European tour. Gai Saber are: Chiara Bosonetto (vocals), Maurizio Giraudo (bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, flutes, vocals), Maurizia Giordanengo (melodeon), Paolo Brizio (melodeon, djembe, derbouka, vocals), Elena Giordanengo (harp, drums and Provençal flutes, vocals), Jose Dutto (drums), Alessandro Rapa (acoustic guitars, bodhran, vocals, samples and programming)." LabelFelmay	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7586420774459839, "wiki_prob": 0.7586420774459839, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line767272"}
POLITICAL SUMMIT OF WORKING PEOPLE TOWARDS POLITICAL POWER Posted in DSM news VITAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION Statement by the organisers, the United Action for Democracy (UAD) & Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) The alliance between Labour and the radical constituencies of the oppressed classes in our country which dates back to the pre and post independence struggle is a strategic collaboration in the context of the socialist transformation of our society. At no time was this alliance more pronounced than in the last six years where the partnership under the platform of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) engaged the Obasanjo regime on the perennial hike in fuel prices in dictate to the neo-liberal economic policies. The United Action for Democracy (UAD) and Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) are foremost blocks in the Joint Action Forum (JAF) â€“ the civil society arm of that partnership. The two groups have consistently impressed it on the LASCO alliance on the need to engage the Obasanjo regime beyond the protests on fuel prices increase to demand on Nigerians for REGIME and SYSTEM change. This informed the adoption of a change of strategy by the alliance in the form of mass rallies in the battle against the regime in September 2005 when it increased fuel prices to N65 for a litre of petrol. The most significant lesson from the mass rallies which were then held in 10 major cities across the country was that Nigerians expressed their desire for a regime change. The postmortem meeting that held on October 11, 2005 on the mass rallies merely acknowledged the gains of forcing the regime to its commitment not to increase fuel prices until probably December 2006 and also resolved to go back to the drawing board. But the UAD and DSM’s suggestion at the meeting for a political summit was underplayed as too hasty. The position of UAD and DSM has been on the imperativeness to formalise and build LASCO structures across the country and define for it an agenda beyond pressure group engagement to contestation for political powers. Between the meeting and now, a lot of events have unfolded that have put members of the partnership operating on different wave lengths, in particular, the defunct Third Term agenda. A meeting of LASCO was not considered appropriate to harmonise positions on such matter. More so at the JAF level, meetings called to facilitate the process of defining a clear focus for LASCO since the demise of Beko Ransome-Kuti and Chima Ubani â€“ the original chair and secretary of JAF – were poorly attended, thus the resolve of the UAD and DSM that: the LASCO partnership cannot be reduced to a mere fire brigade platform where comrades suddenly come together to risking their career and lives in combats against a political order that makes no pretence about its lack of commitment to the basic needs and aspirations of the mass of Nigerians. we must arrest the vicious circus of unfolding new platforms with limited objectives every now and then, but rather build on our past efforts and gains. Thus, the political summit is not a recipe to another coalition or alliance but essentially a clarion call to rally all the forces that were actively engaged in the entire struggles against the hike in fuel prices on the need to sustain the LASCO platform as the baseline line of our outreach to Nigerians and the progressive political constituencies. It is our considered opinion that political alliances such as the People Alliance (PA) consummated on June 10, 2006 at the Mainland Hotel, Oyingbo, Lagos in which the UAD and DSM were involved should take advantage of the LASCO platform to deepen itself in form and contents. The UAD and DSM are mere facilitators of the summit to reposition the strategic alliance between Labour and the civil society on the need for a sustained programme of working together towards capturing political power beyond the issue of the electoral context in 2007. We acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Abayomi Ferreira, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Alternative (DA) in the 2003 General elections, which tallies with most of the issues we want addressed by the summit. Quoting Ferreira, “Whilst the right wing politicians are busy recycling military politicians and their ever-available collaborators in power though under changing names and organizations to remain in political power, the left keep recycling ideas and protest activities to remain as critics”. Abiodun Aremu Convener, UAD Segun Sango General Secretary, DSM	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5488880276679993, "wiki_prob": 0.45111197233200073, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line260343"}
Concordia College - St John's Campus South Australia, Australia School ID: SC610044 Rank: N/A Applied number: 0 The vision of Concordia College is contained in three words: Engage, Achieve, Serve. General Decription ‘Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.’ This quote from the Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats provides a succinct overview of what we aim to achieve at Concordia College; to light a fire of curiosity that inspires engagement and a desire for personal growth within each of our students. The vision of Concordia College is contained in three words: Engage, Achieve, Serve. As you explore our website, we hope that you gain an insight into how these three objectives are realised through our school programs. As well as our commitment to academic engagement and achievement, we offer a wide range of opportunities that encourage students to discover and develop their talents and interests within a safe and supportive environment. Christian faith and spirituality underpins the practices of Concordia College. In this context service to others is an important aspect of school life. In fulfilling our mission we provide opportunities for students to learn and grow through service and to reflect on their own spiritual development. We have high expectations and aspirations for our students, who consistently achieve outstanding academic outcomes. Our hope is for all Concordia graduates to leave with a quiet but confident sense of who they are, equipped to achieve and serve throughout their lives. Why choose St John's Campus Concordia College consists of two campuses: St John's Campus (ELC to Year 6) and Concordia Campus (Year 7 to 12) located on a single site in Adelaide's eastern suburbs, just 5km from the CBD. Uniquely positioned for access to the city and the hills, and located close to major transport routes, Concordia attracts students from across Adelaide, with around one third of our students travelling in by school bus. The St John's Campus Courtyard, opened in August 2016, provides a flexible central learning space with plenty of colour and natural light. The area is used as an eating area and a play space during lunch and recess times. The large undercover area with flexible seating provides classes and year levels with space to work collaboratively outside of the classroom. - Choose discipline - Primary/ Secondary / High school - Choose education - Secondary SchoolGrade 8Grade 9High SchoolGrade 10 Total Tuition: AU $23,500 Application Fee: AU $0 Start: Jul 2023 See more (-6) Concordia College offers a wide range of scholarships for new and continuing students made possible through the generosity and support of donors. Applicants may submit applications for more than one scholarship where applicable. Applications for the following 2023 scholarships will open on Tuesday, 28 September 2021. Academic Scholarships 2023 Academic scholarships are available annually to prospective or continuing Year 7 and Year 8 students based on the results of ACER testing. For 2023 entry, the ACER Scholarship Test will be held at Concordia College (Concordia Campus - meeting in the Chapel at 45 Cheltenham Street, Highgate) from 8.45am until around 12pm on Saturday, 5 February 2022. These annual scholarships provide partial remission of tuition fees for up to six years. Music Scholarships 2023 Up to six Music scholarships are available to new or continuing students in Years 7 to 12 in 2023. These scholarships provide partial or full remission of tuition fees, with instrumental bursaries available, for up to six years, depending on year of entry. Auditions are required. General Excellence Scholarship 2023 Two scholarships are available to new students commencing in Years 7 to 12 who display outstanding characteristics across a broad range of areas, including high academic achievement. This scholarship provides 50% remission of tuition fees for up to six years, depending on year of entry. Work while study If you have a student visa you can work up to 40 hours per fortnight (two-week period) during university semesters, and full-time hours during holidays. As a condition of the student visa, students under 18 years of age are required to have guardian. Unless the student is living with a parent or approved relative, the Principal will usually assume guardianship for students under 18 years of age. Concordia College requires that international students either live with a relative or in College-approved homestay accommodation for the duration of their enrolment. Concordia has an established homestay partnership with Happy Homestay Adelaide and most of these homes are within easy reach of the College or direct bus routes. Homestay families provide a welcoming and supportive environment as well as all meals. The student is encouraged to be part of the family, joining in activities such as sport and other family outings. Avg Cost of Tuition/Year AUD$ 23,500 Cost of Living/Year AUD$ 19,500 Application Fee AUD$ 0 Estimated Total/Year AUD$ 43,000 ELC to Year 6 More courses: Click here Primary/ Secondary / High school	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8350901007652283, "wiki_prob": 0.8350901007652283, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1393917"}
File:1760 - Manoeuvre before Landeshut.jpg Map of the surroundings of Landeshut and of the movements who led to the Battle of Landeshut on 23 June 1760. Detail from a map of the book "Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen", vol. 12 Der Siebenjährige Krieg: 1756 - 1763, published by the Grosser Generalstab, Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II., Berlin 1901-1913 Tony Flores for the scanning of the image. This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its author died more than 100 years ago. Its copyright has thus expired. Thus, this reproduction of the work is also in the public domain. This applies to reproductions created in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.), in Germany, and in many other countries. current 18:20, 6 March 2016 1,129 × 908 (106 KB) RCouture (talk \| contribs) Map of the surroundings of Landeshut and of the movements who led to the Battle of Landeshut on 23 June 1760. Detail from a map of the book "Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen''", vol. 12 ''Der Siebenjährige Krieg: 1756 - 1763'', published by the Grosser... 1760 - Austro-Russian campaign in Silesia 149.986 dpi paint.net 4.0.9 Retrieved from "http://kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=File:1760_-_Manoeuvre_before_Landeshut.jpg&oldid=8100"	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6897552013397217, "wiki_prob": 0.3102447986602783, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line413759"}
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Server DoodStreamHD Server 4 HD Server HD HD ReGeneration is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Phillip Montgomery that looks at the issues facing today's youth and young adults, and the influences that contribute to America's current culture of apathy toward to political and social causes. Director: Phillip Montgomery Cast: Noam Chomsky, Ryan Gosling, Talib Kweli Lupin the 3rd vs. Cat's Eye Lupin III competes with the Kisugi sisters to steal a triptych of paintings that once belonged to th Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy Kara, devastated by the loss of Krypton, struggles to adjust to her new life on Earth. Her cousin, S 2023 81 min CAM The only light after the world falls into chaos is a charming new leader who rises to the head of th Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller Night of the Falling Stars A Sci-Fi feature similar in tone and in the spirit of Shaun of the Dead. who attempt to save the wor Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction After the accidental death of Jake's oldest daughter and wife, Jake's only daughter Leah, Love Gods from Planet Zero In a dystopian future, two loser bag-men get in over their heads smuggling illegal stem cells for bl Battle for Pandora After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a resc Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction Pirates Down the Street When a pirate family's arrival shakes up a coastal town, the kids next door offer to help them In the aftermath of a deadly virus that left millions dead, a young man looks to find his place in a Genre: Action, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Crime ReGeneration (2010)	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.674536406993866, "wiki_prob": 0.674536406993866, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line889510"}
Categorizing Gun Crimes in New York Posted on May 20, 2019 by Accel Admin Citizens of the United States are given the right to bear arms via the second amendment of the Constitution. This allows an individual to own a gun as long as they follow the legal process to do so. In order to legally obtain a gun in the state of New York, a person is required to go through the process of acquiring permits before they can purchase a firearm. These laws exist to protect the general public. Those in possession of a gun without a permit can face very serious consequences. It is important to know that these consequences can worsen if the gun was involved in a crime. The majority of gun crimes fall under a misdemeanor or a felony. Categorizing Gun Crimes The consequences of gun crimes can vary depending on the misdemeanor or felony the offense falls under. If you have been charged with a gun crime, you should understand the class of your offense. The classification for gun crimes in New York is as follows: Class B Misdemeanor Unlawful possession of certain ammunition feeding devices Class A Misdemeanor Criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree Criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon Certain wounds to be reported Burn injury and wounds to be reported Unsafe storage of rifles, shotguns, and firearms Unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device Class E Felony Criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds Class D Felony Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree Criminal sale of a firearm in the third degree Class C Felony Criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree Criminal sale of a firearm in the second degree Criminal sale of a firearm with the aid of a minor Criminal sale of a firearm to a minor Criminal use of a firearm in the second degree Aggravated criminal possession of a weapon Class B Felony Criminal possession of a dangerous weapon in the first degree Criminal sale of a firearm in the first degree Criminal use of a firearm in the first degree Escalated Charges If an individual is in possession of a gun while committing another crime, it can escalate the situation at hand. This can cause the individual to face more severe charges than just possession. If you or someone you know was charged with gun possession and wishes to speak with an experienced attorney, contact the Law Office of Kevin T. Conway today. Juvenile Crimes in New York What are white collar crimes?	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7211687564849854, "wiki_prob": 0.27883124351501465, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line252705"}
Iconic Signature Bridge In Delhi The bridge was inaugurated on 4th November 2018. Signature Bridge is an elaborated cantilever span cable- stayed bridge, comprising of an asymmetrical inclined namaste-shaped Steel Pylon of 154 m height. Total length of cable stayed bridge from expansion joint to expansion joint is 575 meters, with main cable- stayed span of 251 meters supported with 15 sets of cables on one side and counterbalanced by 8 back stay cables attached at a rocker bearing on axis 23. The bridge's steel and concrete composite deck has dual carriageway of 4 lanes, 14 m each, with about 1.2 m central verge, space for anchoring cables, maintenance walkway and crash barrier on either side of the central verge. The outer to outer width of bridge is around 35.20 m and the approach span are about 36 m long. Spherical bearings are provided on all the piers. Pendulum bearing are provided for back stay. The Steel Pylon of around 154 meters from top of the bearings consists of two legs made up of steel boxes, which merge into one upper pylon body zone made up of a load bearing skin stiffened by internal stiffeners and bracing s, where the cable supporting the main span and the back stays are anchored. Each of the pylon legs consists of a hollow steel box, which would be roughly 50 - 80 meter high. The upper end is the kink diaphragm, which is the transition from pylon leg to the pylon body. It also has a pylon head, made up of beams and columns in steel structure with a glass cladding. Major part of the steel for pylon is of grade S355. In very highly stressed anchorage zones, S460 grade steel is also used. Each leg of pylon rests on spherical bearings to transmit vertical loads of around 17,000 T. The deck spans 32 m in transverse direction for B lanes of traffic,4 lanes in each direction. The composite deck consists of two main girders (I- shaped) in longitudinal direction and cross girders at 4.5 m spacing along the deck. Spans are of 13.5 m long on the cable- supported part, 36 m on the approach spans, which are supported over concrete columns. Most part of the deck slab is made up of full depth prefabricated concrete elements of varying thickness from 250 to 350 mm, stitched in- situ over steel girder flanges. In highly stressed areas, near pylon base and backstay anchorage, in-situ concrete up to 700 mm thick is used. The cables are made up of bundles of parallel 15.7 mm strands of class 1.770 MPa, protected against corrosion with hot dip galvanization & outer PE- pipes. Depending on the location the number of strands per cable varies from 55 to 123 nos. at the main span and is 127 nos. for each backstay. Under the axis A and C, independent foundations are provided up to the depth of 20 m below ground level as generally rocky stratum was geotechnically determined at that level. There are 6 numbers of open foundation resting on rocky strata at a depth of about 20m. As the open foundation were to be rested on rock by about 20 m below the ground level, sheet - piled cofferdam was used for excavation by Elevated Lateral Support System (ELS). All well foundation were required to be done adopting jack down method of sinking for controlling the sinking operation without tilt and shift. By bharti - April 10, 2019 Suzhou Omax Building Materials Co., Ltd December 03, 2020 1:26 pm You made this article attentively about Generator. It's critical for me yet additionally, significant for other people, who are looking for this data. Grateful to you for sharing this unprecedented information. Expansion Joint Plate Cover This is very content it's very useful and valuable for us I really appreciated to read this content. I wanted to thank you for this excellent read!Aluminum Expansion Joint Cover jazba December 25, 2021 7:37 am The ongoing crisis strongly affects several industry branches. But FMCG industry and many other services remain lucrative no matter the times. Just take your chances and search through the Us jobs market to see how many job offers there are. https://dynamichealthstaff.com/jobs-in-dubai-for-nurses Bogibeel, The longest Rail- Cum - Road Bridge in I...	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.630304217338562, "wiki_prob": 0.369695782661438, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1274000"}
Bhutan Faces Challenges As it Sits Between Asia's Biggest Powers Let's turn now to Asia, where there is some hostility between India and China, and that is creating new tensions in the region. NPR's Julie McCarthy traveled to the tiny kingdom of Bhutan to see how smaller countries are navigating the widening rift between these nuclear-armed giants. (SOUNDBITE OF RIVER RUNNING) JULIE MCCARTHY, BYLINE: A river runs through Bhutan's Haa Valley, cascading from the mountains that separate Bhutan from the world's highest plateau, Tibet. Haa City is the last outpost before the Chinese border to the north. India is to the south. The Buddhist kingdom sits in between Asia's biggest powers. The two faced off this summer just 13 miles from here on an inhospitable spot known as Doklam. There, the Chinese began building a road on land Bhutan claims for its own. India rushed in troops. (SOUNDBITE OF RITUAL HOUSE-BLESSING MUSIC) MCCARTHY: One recent Sunday, this 65-year-old farmer, who goes only by the name Kado, performed the annual blessing of his home. He says the altercation at Doklam made an impression. KADO: (Foreign language spoken). MCCARTHY: "We were all worried because if the situation got worse, we didn't know where it would end up." Bhutan and India have a unique rapport. India provides the lion's share of Bhutan's development budget and is committed to protect the landlocked country, a defense that's hard to miss in Haa and is testament to how close relations are. Just below me is a sprawling Indian army garrison complete with a golf course. But Indian troops also stir resentment. They use the valley's renowned dzong, or fortress, which is also a Buddhist monastery. Kado calls it a cultural affront. MCCARTHY: "We told Parliament that the dzong should be given back to the people, but the Indians are not easy to chase out,"' he says. Historian Karma Phuntsho says India should not only pull out of the dzong but withdraw its military from Bhutanese soil altogether. KARMA PHUNTSHO: Because Bhutan has its own army, and we trust India to come and help us when we need. And I think the perception people unfortunately have of India being as imperialistic and controlling as China wouldn't be there. MCCARTHY: Indian and Chinese soldiers went toe-to-toe over land claimed by both Bhutan and China. No shots were fired, and no Indian land was involved. But historian Phuntsho says strategic interests were. He says India wanted to check China from advancing on the disputed territory because it lies near a strip of land that connects India's small eastern states with the Indian mainland. The corridor's called Chicken's Neck. PHUNTSHO: If the Chicken's Neck is effectively cut off, one can see a serious problem for India. MCCARTHY: Many Bhutanese say privately that India was defending its own interests rather than Bhutan's when it challenged China. Doklam was not a fight over a desolate piece of land, but a struggle for power, two rivals competing to dominate the region. India may have seen China's road-building on the Tibetan plateau on par with China's construction of artificial islands in the contested South China Sea, but Bhutan Institute for Himalayan Studies founder Sonam Wang says Bhutan is not that vulnerable. SONAM WANG: So I don't think, you know, China would blatantly come and gobble us up. I don't think that's as simple as that. MCCARTHY: But older Bhutanese remember China's bloody takeover of Tibet in the 1950s and distrust Beijing. Young Bhutanese, on the other hand, like Needrup Zangpo (ph), only know China as prosperous and rising. NEEDRUP ZANGPO: Bhutan should increasingly warm up to China because we have a sea of prosperity right in the north, and we don't want to forego this. MCCARTHY: But Bhutan must move carefully as it balances China and India. Phuntsho sees Doklam as a symptom of brewing geopolitical tensions between the two Asian powers. PHUNTSHO: The bellicosity and the war-mongering attitude of the two big countries, it could lead to terrible human tragedy. MCCARTHY: If, he says, a war breaks out. Julie McCarthy, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9263439774513245, "wiki_prob": 0.9263439774513245, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1209651"}
Seizing Singapore: Vitasoy looks to expand plant-based barista milk series in ASEAN Vitasoy is hoping to expand the reach and consumer awareness of its new barista milk series in South East Asia, specifically in Singapore. ©Vitasoy Related tags Vitasoy plant-based Plant-based beverage specialist Vitasoy is hoping to expand the reach and consumer awareness of its new barista milk series in South East Asia, specifically in Singapore, after having secured significant success in Australia. Hong Kong-based Vitasoy is best known for its soya bean drinks and products, and has secured a following in Australia for its newer plant-based barista range comprising soy, oat and almond milks – but is hoping that the success of the latter can be replicated in Singapore as well. “Vitasoy has always been a plant-based company throughout our 80-year history, and has now spun off beyond our best-known soy to more types of plant milks such as oat and almond, and are hoping to increase consumer awareness about these here in Singapore,” Vitasoy International Brand Manager Png Hui Leng told FoodNavigator-Asia at the recent Specialty and Fine Foods Asia show in Singapore. “This is particularly so for our Café Barista series, which was specially formulated in Australia so be used for frothing for coffee and has gained high popularity there with a lot of feedback saying it tastes just like dairy milk. “Awareness of this is still not as high in Singapore as it is there, and we are hoping to market this more strongly as we know we have a good product with strong potential – it is creamier than many other plant-based alternatives on the market, its taste is close to dairy, it has a full-bodied mouthfeel, it is halal-certified. “Importantly it is already very big in Australia, a country where milk is so popular, demonstrating just how high quality it is – so we are confident it can do well here as well and we definitely want to export more of this to Singapore and more ASEAN countries too.” The firm is also hoping that cafes and other foodservice outlets in Singapore will be interested in using Café Barista in their products, as this would be an excellent way to bring the range even more strongly into consumers’ radars. “We are working with Starbucks on their plant-based beverages, and it is through collaborations like these that we hope more consumers will become aware of Vitasoy as a good plant-based accompaniment to their coffees and other drinks,” said Png. Consumption trends in Singapore Plant-based food and beverage consumption is on the rise in Singapore, primarily for health reasons – but coffee consumption is not going anywhere, and a majority of younger consumers are still not fond of black coffee. “Plant-based is definitely up-and-coming here, both in terms of plant-based meats, milks, and other products,’ she said. “The movement is on the rise as it is being driven by the younger generation – but at the same time it is also younger consumers that want to have milk and/or cream in their coffee, so plant-based milks are a very good option here. “At the same time, consumers that have problems with dairy consumption such as those who are lactose intolerant now have the option to have their coffee with that creamy mouthfeel they may have been missing, as a result of these plant-based milks.” Blessing or curse? Vitasoy was established back in 1940, giving it a total history of 82 years in total, and for the majority of that time it has been associated with soya bean milks – which according to Png, can be both good and bad. “Our long history in soy can really be considered either a plus or a minus – the plus is that we are considered a true expert in soy which is what we do, and that is true, but the minus is that consumers think that we only make soy products so changing this mindset is challenging,” she said. “In a time where plant-based is such a big trend and we are in fact a plant-based company, this is the reason we are putting ever more effort than before into stressing the marketing angle that we are not just a soy firm, but a plant-based firm through-and-through.” Related topics Business South East Asia Asian tastes Industry growth Beverages Healthy living Plant-based development Protein ASEAN Focus: 2023 food sector outlook, Mosa Meat in Singapore, Philippines trans-fat ban and more feature in our round-up. Optimistic about oats: Vitasoy sees oat milk as key growth avenue across major APAC markets Trend Tracker: Adult sodas, stevia in APAC, alternative protein in China and more feature in our round-up ASEAN Focus: Carlsberg in Malaysia, CP Foods in Thailand, Sadia in Singapore and more feature in our round-up Texture Innovation for Plant-Based Indulgence CP Kelco \| 07-Sep-2022 \| Technical / White Paper Consumers today expect more from plant-based products in terms of variety, mouthfeel and texture. Ingredion: New insights into what drives plant-based meat preferences By Ingredion Can plant-based foods help seniors get the protein they need in their diets? By Roquette Combating casein prices: How soaring raw material costs are driving demand for alternatives By Cargill	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5888093709945679, "wiki_prob": 0.5888093709945679, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line723227"}
State Department officials sitting on Hillary Clinton emails get slap on hand from judge for slowness By Cameron Joseph A federal judge ripped State Department officials for dragging their feet on the release of Hillary Clinton's emails. (MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS) WASHINGTON — A federal judge ripped State Department officials for dragging their feet on the release of Hillary Clinton's emails. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon tore into the department for repeated delays on Freedom of Information Act requests on Thursday. "Now, any person should be able to review that in one day — one day," the judge said in regard to a request for just over 60 emails. "Even the least ambitious bureaucrat could do this." State officials also admitted to gaps in its own federal record as officials said they were still awaiting some work-related emails from Clinton's top aides. They also said they don't have any full-time staff working on reviewing the documents for potentially classified information, to the judge's shock, saying 40 Foreign Service officers are working part-time on the process. "Is Congress aware that people who do all [STATE] FOIA requests are part-timers?" Leon replied. "State has been criticized for how slow it is … surely you know this." Leon also suggested that the Associated Press, which has requested the records, push harder for a quicker release based on the new information. And when officials asked for an additional week to respond because one of them was going on "personal leave" next week, the judge balked, demanding they get back to him by next Wednesday. The latest court-ordered release of a batch of Clinton emails is set to occur by the end of the week. News Wire Services	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8997288942337036, "wiki_prob": 0.8997288942337036, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1409072"}
Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive ... Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form, Part Four ToddM Alteryx Alumni (Retired) In our third post we learned about induction algorithms, the machinery within an analytical model that one uses to calculate a prediction (or, during model development, a retrodiction). We discussed “estimating” the values of an induction algorithm’s parameters to fit a given dataset, but we didn’t dwell on what that means. In this post we’ll explore what it means to fit an induction algorithm to a dataset. Again, it’s important to realize that when someone refers to fitting a model to a dataset, what they really mean is fitting the model’s induction algorithm to the dataset. This distinction is frequently glossed. Sampling the Generating Process To discuss fitting (and other subjects, later) intelligently, we need to define some terms. Stay with me for a few paragraphs. No way around this stuff! Recall that a model’s generating process is an empirical process that produces data. The data is a collection of data points. Each data point is a vector of values for a fixed set of variables (including the model’s dependent variable), with one value for each input variable. The set of theoretically possible data points is the model’s sample space. A point in the sample space is termed an outcome. (Thus in data science an outcome is a possible, not actual, data point.) An event is a set of outcomes. An event occurs when one of the outcomes it contains is realized as a data point. The generating process includes a set of individuals, the generating process’ population, that generates data points. (The population members are sometimes termed units.) In some cases each member only generates one data point. In others, each member may generate several data points. (Time-series processes are a common case.) So there is not always a one-to-one correspondence between population members and the data points they produce. Unfortunately we lack a generally accepted term for the set of data points that a generating process has produced or will produce. Let’s call this set the data population. The data population is often too large or expensive to measure entirely. (Sometimes it is infinite, so that gathering it is impossible even in principle.) Instead, we gather a subset of the data population, termed a sample. The points in the sample are, naturally, sample points or observations. The number of sampled data points is the sample size n. Likewise, the number of input variables defining the sample space, and appearing in the data population and any sample thereof, is the sample space’s dimension p. So a sample is just an n × p table of data. (Points in the data population that are not in the sample are out of sample.) There are many ways to gather a sample systematically. We won’t go over them today. For now just know that it’s not enough to say, for example, that we want to collect a “random sample.” When we fit an induction algorithm to a dataset, the dataset is necessarily part or all of a sample. We usually divide the sample into two or three parts: the training, validation, and test sets. We use the training set to fit the induction algorithm, and the test set is used to test the fitted algorithm. (When we fit and then compare several induction algorithms, we use the validation set to compare performance, and then use the test set to test the induction algorithm chosen during validation.) Cross-validation is a more complicated way to use a sample to fit, validate, and test induction algorithms. We’ll return to these subjects in later posts. For now we’ll focus on training and test sets. Finally: a retrodiction is an induction algorithm’s estimate of a sample data point’s dependent-variable value. A prediction is the algorithm’s estimate of an out-of-sample data point’s dependent-variable value. A residual is the difference between a data point’s observed dependent-variable value and its estimated (by retrodiction or prediction) value. And an error is the difference between a data point’s observed dependent-variable value and its true value. Figure 1: Error vs. Residual Let’s illustrate some of the above concepts with an example. Consider the population of all humans born in the decade starting January 1, 2,000 GMT, who reach 18 years of age. Define the sample space to be all possible vectors of the form (height, weight, percent body fat, age, gender), so p = 5. Let the data population be the set of actual data points of the same form occurring on the first day of each month. We sample the data population by collecting data points monthly over the entire decade from 10,000 people around the world, chosen (in some sense) at random, so n = 12 × 10 × 10,000 = 1.2 × 106. (While this sample is large, it is only about 0.1% of the data population.) Finally, we divide the sample into a training set containing 70% (0.84 × 106) and a test set containing 30% (0.36 × 106) of the sample. What Models Want Enough with the dictionary, and back to fitting induction algorithms! The essence of fitting an induction algorithm to a dataset is choosing values for the algorithm’s parameters to minimize some function of the resulting residuals over the entire data population. In practice most models pursue this goal by balancing two other goals: Avoid underfitting: Minimize some function of the training set’s residuals. Avoid overfitting: Minimize generalization error, some function of the estimated out-of-sample residuals. Notice that the second goal does not refer to the test set. We’ll return to this point. A fitness function (also termed a loss or cost function) is a real-valued function that combines the two functions above. Let’s call them the underfitting penalty function and the overfitting penalty function. A model fits an induction algorithm to a sample by searching the space of possible induction-algorithm parameter values, to find a vector of parameter values that minimizes the value of the fitness function. (The search algorithm is the model’s fitting algorithm, which we’ll discuss next time.) Thus a model’s fitness function expresses the model’s approach to the underfitting/overfitting tradeoff. Fitting the Data We Have By far the most popular underfitting penalty function is ordinary least squares (OLS), sometimes termed the L2 penalty. It is the sum of the squared residuals (taken over the training set when fitting an induction algorithm, or over the test test when testing the algorithm). A common alternative is least absolute deviations (LAD), the sum of the residuals’ absolute values, or the L1 penalty. Each has advantages. There are many others. Knowing what they are, what their advantages are, and what model types use them helps us apply good judgment in choosing a model type. (Later we’ll also learn about model-quality metrics we can use to compare model quality across model types having different fitness functions.) Let’s cook up a trivial example, to illustrate. Our training dataset is n = 10 data points from the EMR dataset we’ve used in previous examples. We use the Linear Regression tool to fit an OLS model for the R formula pbf ~ gender + height_inches + age + weight_lbs. Figure 2: Example OLS Model An R script to fit the same formula using LAD regression is library(L1pack) emr_df <- read.csv("c:\\temp\\simulated_emr.100.csv") emr_df <- emr_df[1:10,] emr_df <- emr_df[, c(1:4, 6)] lad(pbf ~ ., emr_df) Figure 3: R LAD Model (For now we’ll forego wrapping this script in Alteryx’s R tool. But it’s easy to do so!) Table 1 below compares the two models’ parameters (coefficients): height_inches weight_lbs Table 1: Comparison of OLS and LAD Linear Models All but the weight_lbs coefficients are substantially different. Table 2 below compares the two models’ estimates, pointwise penalties, and overall penalties (fitness-function values): OLS Linear Model LAD Linear Model Fitness: Table 2: Comparison of OLS and LAD Residuals and Penalties It’s interesting to observe that the LAD model fits five of the data points perfectly. On the other hand, its worst-case residual is 4.03, compared to 2.34 for the OLS model. Notice that neither OLS regression nor LAD regression has an overfitting penalty built into its fitness function. Both therefore illustrate an important antipattern: missing overfitting penalty. Beginning modelers often inadvertently use model types that fail to penalize overfitting, because such model types are usually easy to use and understand. Ironically, we’ll now see that overfitting penalties usually work by penalizing model complexity. So the right way to produce a model that’s as simple as it should be, but no simpler, is to use a model type whose fitness function includes an overfitting penalty. Fitting the Data We Don’t Have An induction algorithm that overfits its training data has a low underfitting penalty value for the training data, but a high underfitting penalty value for the rest of the data population (including the test set). The fitting process has overemphasized consistency with the training data at the expense of consistency elsewhere. It would be nice if we could somehow directly measure or estimate the undefitting penalty’s value on data outside the training set. That’s what the test set is for. But once we’ve testing the fitted induction algorithm, it’s too late to change the algorithm’s parameter values. We need some way to penalize overfitting while fitting (training) the algorithm, so it also fits the test set and out-of-sample data well. By far the most common type of overfitting penalty is some function of model complexity. This strategy is termed regularization, and the overfitting penalty is called the regularization term of the fitness function. The intuition behind regularization is that there are two kinds of patterns in the training set: patterns that also occur outside the training set (global patterns), and patterns that don’t (local patterns). Hopefully the global patterns have a stronger effect on the value of the underfitting penalty than the local patterns. When that’s true, adding model complexity first captures the global patterns and later captures local patterns. The regularization term should be just strong enough to counterbalance the incremental improvement in the underfitting penalty, at the point where additional model complexity begins to capture local patterns. When that’s also true, we minimize the fitness function’s value by balancing underfitting and overfitting at the point where the fitted induction algorithm captures all and only global patterns. The underfitting penalty is minimal over the whole data population, at this point. Unfortunately, there is no fully general concept of model complexity. In fact, many regularization penalties include an arbitrary parameter (a coefficient or bound) that must be chosen judgmentally. This fact highlights the degree to which a model’s concept of fitness is a subjective, judgmental decision. Happily there are widely accepted techniques to guide us in setting these parameters’ values. One component of model complexity that’s available across all model types is the number of model features. For example, regularized linear-regression models reduce the number or contributions of model features by excluding or de-emphasizing variables that make little contribution to reducing underfitting. For example, lasso regression forces the sum of the absolute values of the regression coefficients not to exceed a constant (it is an L1 penalty on the coefficients). The effect is often to “shrink” some of the coefficients to zero, thereby dropping the corresponding model feature. For example, lasso regression on all five of the other example variables to predict pdf shrinks the coefficients of the gender and iq variables to zero, reducing the set of independent model features to height_inches, age, and weight_lbs. (The R code involves some technicalities beyond this post, so we’ll skip it for now. There are many examples online.) Ridge regression penalizes the sum of the squares of the coefficients (it is an L2 penalty on the coefficients), but without forcing that sum to be bounded, so it does not perform variable selection. Elastic-net regularization combines lasso and ridge penalties. Other examples of model complexity include the depth and number of nodes in a decision-tree model, the number of trees in a random-forest model, the number of terms and size of the exponents in a polynomial function, and statistical learning theory’s VC dimension. The important thing for now is to recognize that different model types may include different notions of model complexity, or different penalties on the same concept of model complexity, even for the same type of induction algorithm. We implicitly choose among these when we choose a model type. This makes it important to learn about the practical consequences of specific types of fitness functions. Many of the data-science design patterns we’ll encounter relate a specific fitness function to a class of modeling problems. Alteryx Designer	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7136900424957275, "wiki_prob": 0.28630995750427246, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line809920"}
Opposition Grows to Philippine Policy of Rounding Up Loiterers Karl Romano and Felipe Villamor Female inmates mostly arrested in drug-related cases fill the women’s dormitory at the city jail in Dagupan City, Philippines, in November 2016. Karl Romano/BenarNews Opposition to a Philippine government policy of rounding up vagrants and loiterers grew Friday, with the country’s independent rights commission saying it would investigate the death of a man arbitrarily picked up by police outside his home. Thousands of people have been arrested in the past week after Philippine National Police launched a drive to clear crowded Manila streets of loiterers in a bid to curb rising criminality. It was described as an anti-crime drive backed by President Rodrigo Duterte, even as the country had already decriminalized vagrancy six years ago. Rights groups also questioned the move, branding it a throwback to the dictatorship regime of Ferdinand Marcos, whose police had arrested thousands of activists using the same tactics. “He really is that abusive,” Philippine Sen. Leila de Lima commented during a court appearance on Friday. “He is killing the poor. The vagrants and the poor are being arrested. That should not be implemented. The real vagrant is in Malacanang,” she said, referring to the presidential palace. De Lima, the foremost critic of Duterte and a former rights commissioner, was thrown in jail early last year over what the political opposition said are trumped up charges of drug trafficking. Duterte’s justice secretary at the time had charged de Lima with protecting jailed drug lords in exchange for money to fund her senatorial campaign. This has, however, not stopped her from railing against Duterte. While de Lima was not specific, she made the statement amid growing public anger over the death of Genesis Agoncillo, who was detained last week for loitering outside a neighborhood store without a shirt on – a common sight in humid Manila streets. His family said Agoncillo, who had no previous criminal record, had just bought credits for his mobile phone when he was picked up. It was not clear why police had held him for days even if he wasn’t charged with anything. On Tuesday, his family was told that he had been rushed to a hospital apparently after he was beaten by fellow inmates. The police said a doctor who examined Agoncillo had testified that there were “no signs of external injuries.” Officials did not offer any other explanation, but noted that four other inmates in jails in suburban Quezon City north of Manila had died within a month because of congestion. In one police station alone, 138 inmates were crowding in a tiny cell built for only six people. The independent Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Friday stressed that not everyone who loiters is a criminal and that alleged criminals picked up by the police are entitled to due process. “The bad conditions in the prison system, including abuses that lead to injuries or deaths of inmates can be classified as torture or inhumane,” CHR spokeswoman Jackie de Guia said in a statement. “The CHR is investigating the case of Genesis Agoncillo for the possible culpability of the police in this incident,” she said, adding that CHR was making regular visits in cells around the country. Rights group Karapatan said its own investigation showed in the past week police had arrested about 6,000 people simply for loitering. The group branded the action as arbitrary. “Such acts can even be reminiscent of Marcos’s martial law, when curfews were enforced by his brutal state forces,” Karapatan head Cristina Palabay said. “We deplore the continuing assault on people’s rights of the Duterte regime through his police and military,” Palabay said, adding that the public should oppose illegal arrests by the police. But presidential spokesman Harry Roque, a former rights lawyer, said the policy was part of Duterte’s crime prevention measures. Roque on Thursday urged individuals to complain to police if they felt any abuses were committed. “I am sure the proper charges will be filed against the policemen and that they will be fired from the service,” Roque said, contesting rights groups’ claims that thousands had been arrested. This is not the first time that Philippine police methods have raised questions. Three teenagers were among dozens killed last year in the force’s anti-drug drive, in what apparently were cases of mistaken identity and a South Korean businessman was kidnapped by police officers inside police headquarters in Manila. Church-led protest marches against the killings prompted Duterte to strip police of the lead role in the drug war. He later reinstated the force and vowed to protect officers from jail time if they were convicted of killing while on the job. 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Millville’s Bruce Cooper Joins John Maxwell Team 1 year ago AC Joseph Media Feature Photo: International leadership expert John Maxwell and Millville City Commissioner Bruce Cooper. Photo courtesy of Bruce Cooper MILLVILLE â€“ Millville City Commissioner Bruce Cooper last week was chosen to join the internationally-known John Maxwell Team of leadership speakers and coaches around the country. Ranked the No. 1 leadership and management expert in the world by Inc. Magazine, Maxwell is known around the global for developing leadership trainers, coaches and speakers, who receive certification to work with others on behalf of the John Maxwell Team. Cooper has been certified as an independent coach, teacher, trainer and speaker for the John Maxwell Team. Millville City Commissioner Bruce Cooper joins The John Maxwell Team. Photo courtesy of Bruce Cooper “It means a great deal to me to become a John Maxwell Coach Speaker and Trainer because it has been a goal of mine for the last several years that has finally been achieved,” Cooper told Front Runner New Jersey.com. Cooper, who has also served on the Millville Board of Education, is seeking his second term on the Millville City Commission. He is a career law enforcement officer and veteran of the U.S. Navy. “In achieving this goal I must say that it has sincerely enriched my life by learning from the program how to share value with so many more people in my life,” Cooper said. “I plan on using the skills I have acquired to continue to assist my community in realizing it’s true potential as well the same greatness that lies in others, again taking it to the next level, as I always say.” Check Out FRNJ EXTRA Here. Note from AC JosepH Media: If you like this story and others posted on Front Runner New Jersey.com., lend us a hand so we can keep producing articles like these for New Jersey and the world to see. Click on SUPPORT FRNJ and make a contribution that will do directly in making more stories like this available. Thank you for reading. Tags: Bruce Cooper, John Maxwell, Millville, Millville City Commission, school board Previous Millville Mayor Michael Santiago Among Honorees During Hispanic Heritage Day Celebration Next 2021 FRNJ/LaPrensa 30 Under 35 Young Top Latino Leaders Diverse Voices: NSF Grant Allows Underrepresented Students Chance to Explore Environmental Sciences	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6659388542175293, "wiki_prob": 0.3340611457824707, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1367722"}
Carrefour and Uber Eats launch their delivery service in Belgium After France, Carrefour Belgium will soon be the third country to benefit from Uber Eats partnership: it will be operational in September, with the service being launched in Brussels and Liège. Belgium will be testing a 30-minute shopping delivery service, as well as meal box solutions. How Carrefour – Uber Eats partnership started As of 6 April across the capital and throughout the Paris region, consumers have been able to do their food shopping on Uber Eats. At the start of lockdown, both brands joined forces to help consumers get hold of everyday products getting them delivered to their home within 30 minutes, dispatched from fifteen or so Carrefour stores. The service was rolled out to 100 stores at the end of April, then 200 at the start of June and then 300 stores at the start of July. As of 20 July, the service is now available via 330 sales outlets and covers 91 major urban areas, 25% of the French population. 250 essential everyday items can be delivered More and more products are being added every week: from the 130 products available at launch, consumers can now choose from more than 250 essential everyday items, with the aim being to increase this to 500 by early September. Carrefour Market and Carrefour City both feature on the Uber Eats app and other Carrefour Group formats are shortly to be included. The service, exclusively available outside Paris Following these promising results, Uber Eats and Carrefour have signed an exclusive agreement to launch a shopping home delivery service for the whole of France. The idea is for shopping to be delivered within 30 minutes using the meal delivery apps available. Carrefour and Uber Eats both remain free to make use of the agreements they have entered into with other players across the Paris region. Uber Eats – Carrefour partnership to expand The partnership with Uber Eats is not limited to France. An initial agreement was signed with Carrefour Taiwan at the end of 2019 covering 8 major urban areas and 38 stores involved in preparing orders. Other Carrefour Group countries will follow over the next few months.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6604925990104675, "wiki_prob": 0.33950740098953247, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1061174"}
Kane equals Spurs record with winner against Fulham Harry Kane scored his 266th goal in a Spurs kit against Fulham. The only goal of the game leveled Kane with Jimmy Greaves for the most in Tottenham history. More importantly in the short term, the goal provided Spurs a massive three points against a London rival. It solidifies Tottenham's spot in fifth place, three […] ByKyle Fansler / 20 days ago Fulham beat Chelsea as Felix sees red in debut Fulham piled misery on Chelsea with a 2-1 victory at Craven Cottage Thursday night. It was only the club's second ever Premier League win against their west London rivals. Former Blue Willian and summer signing Carlos Vinicius scored the goals for the home side. Fulham entered the match on a high. While they stubbled into […] ByChris Moore USMNT defender Tim Ream receives Fulham contract extension United States men's national team defender Tim Ream has extended his contract at Fulham. The center back was previously about to enter the final months of his old contract. However, a new deal ties Ream down in west London under the summer of 2024. Ream says new extension was an 'easy decision' “I feel the […] Man United break Fulham hearts with last gasp Garnacho winner Alejandro Garnacho came off the bench to score a dramatic injury time winner as Manchester United secured a crucial 2-1 away win against Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday night. The Red Devils looked destined to settle for a 1-1 draw before Garnacho's left footed strike broke Fulham’s hearts. Now Eric Ten Hag’s side currently […] ByTamojit Chakraborty / 147 days ago Bernd Leno blames 'politics' for Arsenal exit Bernd Leno, the German goalkeeper who departed Arsenal, made controversial comments regarding his exit from the club. Rather than on-pitch performance, the former Gunner claimed 'politics' attributed to his Emirates Stadium exodus. "When I realized that it wasn't about performance or quality, I knew I had to go," explained Leno during an interview with German […] Fulham suffer shock League Cup exit against fourth-tier Crawley London (AFP) – Fulham suffered an embarrassing League Cup exit as the Premier League side were beaten 2-0 by Crawley in a second round shock on Tuesday. Marco Silva's side are 83 places above League Two Crawley and beat Brentford 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday. But the Fulham manager's decision to make 10 […] Nunez saves Liverpool from opening day defeat at Fulham London (AFP) – Liverpool twice had to come from behind against newly-promoted Fulham to salvage a 2-2 draw in a pulsating start to the Premier League season on Saturday. Aleksandar Mitrovic twice put the impressive hosts ahead, but Darwin Nunez came off the bench to make a huge impact on his Premier League debut. The […] Fulham sign Swiss defender Kevin Mbabu London (AFP) – Fulham have signed Switzerland defender Kevin Mbabu from German club Wolfsburg for a fee reported to be 7.5 million euros ($7.6 million) including add-ons. The 27-year-old right-back has agreed a three-year contract at the Premier League club, who hold an option for a further 12 months. Mbabu, who has 22 caps for […] Fulham sign Palhinha from Sporting Lisbon London (AFP) – Fulham signed Sporting Lisbon midfielder Joao Palhinha on Monday as the newly-promoted Premier League club splashed out 20 million euros ($20.9 million) for the Portugal international. Palhinha is Fulham's first new arrival since the west London club clinched promotion from the Championship last season. The 26-year-old agreed a five-year contract, with the […] Record-breaking Mitrovic sinks Luton as Fulham win Championship London (AFP) – Fulham manager Marco Silva backed record-breaking Aleksandar Mitrovic to thrive in the Premier League next season after the Serbia striker took his Championship tally to 43 goals this season in a title-clinching 7-0 thrashing of Luton on Monday. Mitrovic, 27, managed just three goals as London club Fulham were relegated from the […] Fulham promoted back to the Premier League London (AFP) – Fulham were promoted back to the Premier League on Tuesday with four games to spare as Aleksandar Mitrovic scored twice in a 3-0 win over Preston at Craven Cottage. It is the fifth consecutive season the Cottagers have changed divisions as they were also promoted in 2018 and 2020 before being relegated […] About World Soccer Talk Apply As A Journalist World Soccer Talk © 2023. Made in Florida. World Soccer Talk is reader-supported and may earn a commission through our partner links.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9478287100791931, "wiki_prob": 0.9478287100791931, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line972409"}
Venom Foundation Becomes First Crypto Entity To Obtain ADGM Licence Venom Foundation has been registered as the first crypto foundation in the ADGM, with a license to operate a blockchain and issuing utility tokens. ADGM is known as a fintech oasis for investors and financial services firms around the globe. The next essential step of Venom Blockchain is to be announced in the upcoming month. Venom blockchain has an asynchronous blockchain technology of dynamical sharding, that has made an unprecedented leap in blockchain technology development globally, bringing to the market boundless scalability, and higher security guarantees with decentralization. Venom Foundation is leading among three core directions, such as Essential Infrastructure, Support of Inbound Projects, Developer-friendly Platform, each to offer novel solutions for solving earlier existing issues on the crypto market. Though, the most valuable feature for the MENA region market is the technology that enables major corporations and companies to conduct an easy and secure transition into Web3 globalization, managing the gross data transaction flows without faltering by increasing fees and transaction times. Venom Foundation main priority to develop and support a self-sufficient blockchain ecosystem has already yielded significant results: non-custodial Wallet (VenomWallet mobile application and Desktop Browser Extension) with a Multisig accounts option and Ledger support, VenomScan (to keep everything transparent with access to transactions history), VenomBridge (allowing the interchain transactions to be made fast, while low price), VenomPools (to stake on Validator nodes), VenomGet (an easy gateway to Venom tokens), Web3.World (native decentralized exchange) has been built. Individual developers, companies, and government authorities will be able to engage Venom Foundation to establish new products such as NFT marketplace, Derivative Exchange, fiat-backed stablecoin, and many others to come with the potential to become a bridge toward wide adoption of CBDC in the UAE, other MENA countries and Global adoption in future. Subject to the relevant regulatory approvals, Venom Foundation will work with ecosystem participants to ensure that such products are offered in complaint manner within the trusted and well- regulated environment of ADGM." Nowadays, MENA region entrepreneurs are considered the pioneers of the global crypto trends adoption, thus there is a vital need for companies to think of decentralized globalization of the data flows for businesses as well as governmental and social projects. Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Center in Abu Dhabi, has previously launched its framework to regulate spot crypto asset activities, including those undertaken by exchanges (MTF), custodians, and other intermediaries in ADGM. This follows the need to mitigate the full range of potential risks associated with crypto asset activities and shows that security is still the number one priority for the market trend itself. The Venom blockchain is an attractive project not only for visionaries, but there are also great specialists in the industry involved in its development and striving. Mustafa Kheriba, Dr. Kai-Uwe Steck, and Osman Sultan have become Foundation members and have given the project's team full support and their unique and unparalleled expertise. Mustafa Kheriba is known as Executive Chairman and CEO of Iceberg Capital; Executive Chairman of VENOMEX, a multilateral trading facility and a custodian of digital assets that is fully licensed by the financial regulator of the ADGM, member of the Board of Directors of Mirabank, Australian Gulf Capital, Quantum Age Corporation; and Member of the Steering Committee Pathway 20 initiative and Dr. Kai-Uwe Steck is Swiss/German attorney at law, who runs Pontinova Circle investment group. Mustafa Kheriba was named as a top 50 Mena Fund Manager two years running and is well known for creating and building value within firms. He has held key positions across organizations in the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, KSA, and the UK; and was a member of the Board of Directors of several locally listed entities, whereas Dr. Kai's expertise in FinTech is backed by the network of Pontinova in Switzerland, the EU, and the UAE. Having both a live interest in the project's future, they also believe as veterans of this field that in the nearest future this project would become among the leading blockchain platforms due to its team's dedication to the constant updates for improvement and better usability. Widely known across the MENA region, an influential figure and expert in the telecommunication field with 35 years of experience, DU Telecom ex-CEO, Osman Sultan has become the board adviser of the Venom Foundation. He forecasts that the industry needs to look for a blockchain platform that will be flexible enough to outreach and bridge different dimensions of the market actors through its customized service, he said – "All industries are currently going through a profound transformation, one that is enabled by the acceleration of capabilities offered by technology. The astonishing disruption induced by social networks is driven by the quest to find economically viable ecosystems. We should now focus on establishing the right platforms to allow the emergence of the new conversations needed for these ecosystems tackling the intersections between the technological, economical, and societal dimensions to make way for a more technologically efficient and humanly rewarding future during all these rapid changes." The Venom blockchain is claimed to become a platform that will bring novel customized approaches to the market all over the Globe. PolicyBlockchainMarketsVenom FoundationADGMWeb3	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.602627158164978, "wiki_prob": 0.397372841835022, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1196815"}
Design Search Starts for Indian Vets Memorial Photo by: National Museum of the American Indian The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian will begin accepting submissions Nov. 11 for design of a National Native American Veterans Memorial. The first stage of the international design competition closes Jan. 9, when a panel of veterans, designers and scholars will pick five finalists to build a memorial on museum grounds on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In a statement, the Smithsonian said, “The international competition is open to all; students, architects, artists, designers and anyone else who wants to can submit a design.” Full details on the competition won’t be available until Nov. 11, but the memorial is part of an effort involving Native American communities and organizations, supported by the National Congress of American Indians and by tribal leaders. An advisory committee spent most of last year visiting American Indian tribes across the U.S. seeking input. About 24,000 American Indian and Alaska Natives are on active duty and there are about 150,000 who are veterans. More information on this competition will be available on the museum’s site Nov. 11 at: https://nmai.si.edu/nnavm/. In the interest of fair and equal access, the museum and advisory committee will not respond to phone calls or email inquiries regarding the application process. AUSA Releases 2 New Podcasts in February Smith Named ‘Defender of Liberty’ Military Compensation Review Ordered New Incentives for Soldiers Who Help With Recruiting Nov 22 - Jan 23 Newsletter Rainey Speaks at AUSA Coffee Series Army Expands Prep Course for Future Soldiers New Training, Doctrine Prepare Sustainers for Future 248TH ARMY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - SAVE THE DATE!!! People Remain Top National Guard Priority	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.945597231388092, "wiki_prob": 0.945597231388092, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1619497"}
AirTags make it ‘frighteningly easy’ for abusive partners to stalk By Chris Smith May 6, 2021 8:32 pm BST AirTag stalking is ‘frighteningly easy’ a Washington Post reporter has said in a review, claiming Apple’s item trackers could be misused by abusive partners, despite Apple’s safeguards. The opportunities to track unsuspecting people have been well-documented since Apple announced the Tile rival, with Apple ensuring to publicise the safeguards it has in place to prevent a stalker just slipping an AirTag into someone’s jacket or handbag. However, in a blow to Apple’s efforts to engage mainstream consumers who don’t necessarily pay attention to the ins-and-outs, the paper says Apple’s “efforts to stop the misuse of its trackers just aren’t sufficient.” Apple has previously said it’ll notify users if an AirTag that isn’t their own is detected on their person. If users don’t own an iPhone at all, the AirTag will sound an alarm. Apple also says users who find an AirTag that isn’t their own, they can easily disable it by scanning it with a QR code that’ll provide a tutorial for removing the battery. Apple also points out that each tracker has a serial number allowing the perpetrator to be identified. However, the Washington Post‘s Geoffrey Fowler says despite all that “AirTags are a new means of inexpensive, effective stalking. I know because I tested AirTags by letting a Washington Post colleague pretend to stalk me.” Fowler says the colleague, a fellow reporter, was able to track him around the San Francisco Bay Area for a week, with the location updating every few minutes. When he was at home, the exact address was shown. The point is a little undermined by the fact the protections did in fact work when he was at home and in other locations, but not all places were protected. He says it could also be harmful for those with abusive partners who don’t have total control over their phones because of the alarm countdown system Apple users. He added: An AirTag starts a three-day countdown clock on its alarm as soon as it’s out of the range of the iPhone it’s paired with. Since many victims live with their abusers, the alert countdown could be reset each night when the owner of the AirTag comes back into its range […] Also troubling: There’s an option in the Find My app to turn off all of these “item safety alerts” — and adjusting it doesn’t require entering your PIN or password. People in abusive situations don’t always have total control over their phones […] Credit: Washington Post It appears Apple may have to do a little more work to iron out some kinks with AirTags in order to make them fully stalker proof. Regardless, they’re likely to sit among the best iPhone accessories for some time to come.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6694111824035645, "wiki_prob": 0.6694111824035645, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line674394"}
Check out Doctor Who’s wacky Whomobile from 1973 By Trevor Mogg July 11, 2022 Newcomers to Doctor Who may not know about the famous time traveler’s Whomobile. The futuristic (well, futuristic for the 1970s) automobile appeared in at least one episode of the legendary British sci-fi show. But it also made a guest appearance on a popular children’s TV show in 1973. A clip (below) shared this week by the BBC Archive shows Jon Pertwee — the actor who played Doctor Who from 1970 through 1974 — chatting about the Whomobile after driving the contraption into the studio. 5 things we want to see in Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower series Most powerful Star Wars villains ever, ranked Darth Vader’s best moments across Star Wars media 1973: JON PERTWEE in the WHOMOBILE \| Blue Peter \| Retro Transport \| BBC Archive “It’s a one-off, there’s nothing like it in the world,” Pertwee says. “It’s a very exciting-looking machine,” the presenter responds, noting its “beautiful silver-shine finish.” While children watching at home may have been eager to hear that the Whomobile uses some kind of sci-fi magic to glide over the ground, Pertwee description is rather more prosaic, explaining that “it’s on three wheels, one at the front and two at the back.” He adds that it’s “a proper car, taxed and insured.” Realizing that Pertwee may have just shattered the fantastical illusion of Doctor Who for millions of young viewers, the presenter quickly draws attention to the Whomobile’s “air scoop for the jet motors.” Pertwee finally decides to play along, confirming that the jets are for when the car takes off and flies. Clearly ahead of its time, the Whomobile features a TV set on the dash, though the screen offered little beyond fuzzy lines when they switched it on. It also includes a “computer,” if you can call a bunch of randomly flashing lights such a thing. Interestingly, the vehicle, which apparently has a top speed of “well over 100 mph,” was commissioned by Pertwee — not the BBC — and built by a guy called Pete Farries who spent much of his time designing and building outlandish automobiles. But once the Doctor Who makers saw the finished product, they quickly wrote it into the script for the Invasion of the Dinosaurs episode, using it to replace an army motorcycle as the Doctor’s mode of transport. And Pertwee was serious when he said he’d taxed and insured it for driving on regular roads. Here’s some old news footage of the man himself taking it for a spin, “much to the amazement of fellow motorists,” according to the reporter. DR WHO WHOMOBILE SPACESHIP ON WHEELS HOT ROD! After Pertwee’s death in 1996, the Whomobile reportedly ended up in private hands and is occasionally put on public display. The 5 best sci-fi shows on TV right now Celebrate Back to the Future Day with special three-movie bundle sale from Vudu The 10 best movie prequels ever made Suck it, Picard. The Orville is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s true spiritual successor Check out Baidu’s futuristic robotaxi From mighty to meh: the MCU is dying and needs to change fast	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9476363062858582, "wiki_prob": 0.9476363062858582, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1862168"}
RCCG pastor sentenced to death for killing wife A youth pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Akolade Arowolo, has been sentenced to die by hanging for the murder of his banker wife, Titilayo. Pastor Arowolo could not hold back his pains after the court ruling, he burst into a fit of prayer. Titilayo worked with Skye bank, whilst her husband was employed. Prosecutors were able to present compelling evidence that led to the conviction of Mr Arowolo and his sentencing by Justice Lateefat Okunu of the Ikeja High Court, he was handed a death sentence. Justice Okunu held in her over three hours judgment that evidence before the court proved that Arowolo actually murdered his wife in their matrimonial home. Testimony in the form of a forensic report from Prof. John Oladapo Obafunwa, a pathologist, was what the court used to determine that there was no way the deceased could have stabbed herself to death. Immediately after the judgment, Arowolo fell down in the dock and started shouting “Jesus have mercy.” ROYAL NEWS reports that Prof Obafunwa testified that his autopsy report revealed that Titilayo was killed through 76 knife stab wounds. There were claims by Pastor Arowolo, suggesting that his wife was possessed and inflicted injuries on herself. He noted that the knife wounds affected Titilayo’s left eye, right eye, upper chest area, right chest and collar bone. Prof. Obafunwa pointed out in his testimony that the deceased could not have inflicted such wounds on herself. To further prove its case, prosecution invited some of Titilayo’s family members who testified that Arowolo and Titilayo had always had a troubled marriage. The family members included Titilayo’s father, George Oyakhire; sister, Ijeh and mother-in-law, Mrs Adetoun Yeside Oyakhire. The three witnesses testified that the couple lived a cat and mouse life. They claimed that the family had at several times, settled serious fights between the couple. None of the witnesses however saw what actually happened on the day Titilayo died. It was learnt that Arowolo’s co-tenant, Adewale Adeyemi also gave evidence in the case.Youth Pastor Arowolo’s parents testified that their son was incapable of murder. Adeyemi in his evidence said that on the day of the incident he heard a loud noise when he was in his apartment and later saw Arowolo rushing out with a deep cut in his palms. He claimed to have also seen a hammer and a knife with a broken handle in the yard. Other witnesses such a the security man at the Arowolos’ residence, Investigating Police Officer and an MTN Staff also gave evidence in the case. Youth Pastor Arowolo broke down in tears, after the judge handed him the death sentence, he had claimed he was innocent of killing his wife. Having presented its case, the burden was shifted on Arowolo to defend himself. Expectedly, Arowolo had his personal explanation as to what happened on the day Titilayo died. First, he claimed that he and his deceased wife had passionate sex for two hours and kissed on the same day she died. He claimed that Titi stabbed herself to death on the day after they had a fight. Arowolo claimed that Titilayo was possessed by an evil spirit and inflicted several stab wounds on him before turning to herself. Arowolo’s father, Mudashiru and mother also testified of their son’s good behavior, insisting he could not have killed his wife. They claimed that he ha lways been a religious person and was incapable of killing anybody. Just in………ONDO: AD allege APC of plotting to instigate Oke’s arrest Lagos seals six hospitality outfits	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7222397327423096, "wiki_prob": 0.7222397327423096, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1361417"}
Home Cloud Computing Accenture, Mars team up for ‘factory of the future’ Accenture, Mars team up for ‘factory of the future’ Mars partners with Accenture to boost its production lines with cloud, AI, edge and digital twin technologies. Image: OlekAdobe/Adobe Stock Artificial intelligence, cloud, edge and digital twin technologies have proven to be great additions to modern businesses. As a result, several organizations are not slowing down in adopting these new technologies to revamp and optimize their businesses to meet future demands. Not ready to be left behind in a world of business that is aggressively driven by these new technologies, Mars, the well-known confectionery, food and pet care products manufacturer, recently announced a partnership with Accenture, a professional services company in digital, cloud and security, to remodel its manufacturing operations. SEE: Hiring Kit: Cloud Engineer (TechRepublic Premium) The two companies have been working on digital twin technology since 2020 and hope to harness it in manufacturing plants. This technology helps businesses afford digital representation of their products, machines and processes. Through Accenture, Mars hopes to optimize its manufacturing plants by simulating and validating the results of product and factory adjustments before allocating time and resources in the physical space. Before this partnership announcement, both companies had tested a digital twin to reduce instances of over-filling packages, which the companies saw as a common problem in the food industry. In conducting the test, sensor data was pulled from the manufacturing machinery and fed into a predictive analytics model. This gave the factory operators a better insight into real-time events for adjusting the filling process. The success recorded after the test led Accenture and Mars to introduce the digital twin solution across the U.S. and also made both companies develop and deploy similar solutions for Mars’ pet care business in Europe and China. How the partnership will play out Under this new partnership arrangement, Mars will be tapping into Accenture’s technological innovations in the digital twin, AI, edge and cloud to facilitate its manufacturing facilities worldwide. In addition, it is hoped that the digital twin model provided by Accenture would provide Mars factory operators with real-time insights and analytics into current and predictive performance. More about Cloud “The problems we’re solving aren’t new; what’s new is how we use advanced technologies to get real-time data into operators’ hands and apply AI to help them make decisions before problems occur,” said Simon Osborne, a managing director at Accenture leading its digital twin project with Mars. “While many companies are beginning to experiment with digital twin, what sets this project apart is the speed and scaling of the technology across Mars’ operations globally.” This new partnership will also see Accenture and Mars create and deploy a new cloud platform for manufacturing applications, data and AI to establish what they call a “factory of the future.” The companies believe that the new platform will provide next-generation robotics, AI and automation capabilities at the edge to make Mars manufacturing operations more efficient. The platform is also expected to help meet essential sustainability goals such as water stewardship and reducing waste and total greenhouse gas emissions. “Our collaboration with Accenture, combined with our partnership with Microsoft, enables us to scale digital twin technology to reach this goal, delivering not just significant cost savings and sustainability, but preparing our manufacturing operations for the future of work,” said William Beery, vice president and global CIO at Mars. Where does this partnership leave Mars and Accenture? Mars has taken significant strides over the years to try and improve its manufacturing processes using innovative technologies. “We at Mars are constantly looking for innovative and sustainable ways to create value in our end-to-end supply chain, and digital manufacturing is a key priority,” explained Thiago Veiga, senior director of digital supply, R&D and procurement at Mars. In 2021, the company made public its agreement to set up what they tagged “a digital first” agreement with Microsoft and their partners. The move was aimed at expanding a unified cloud and data foundation across Mars’ business operations. With the global confectionery market projected to grow from $194.37 billion in 2021 to $242.53 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 3.8%, we may be witnessing a major push from Mars to nudge the key players in the market like The Hershey Company, Nestlé and Mondelez International. Although this might take some time to happen, with Accenture bringing cloud, edge and AI that will boost manufacturing and supply chain capabilities, Mars could be on a journey to gain a good spot in the global confectionery, pet care and food production market share. With this partnership, Accenture hopes to add to the pool of its growing global partnerships. Earlier this year, the company announced that it would be joining forces with Microsoft and Avanade to tackle climate change. With climate change widely regarded as one of the most critical and urgent challenges facing businesses, Accenture’s partnership with Microsoft and Avanade will provide solutions to help organizations transform their operations, products and services in a way that will help cut greenhouse gas emissions. Similarly, there have been announcements of collaborations with Toshiba to drive green transformation and the acquisition of Blackcomb Consultants and Stellantis’ World Class Manufacturing Training & Consulting. All of these point to the fact that Accenture is on a business expansion mission. It also suggests that we might continue to witness more collaborations and acquisitions from them in the future. 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Rachel Podger: 'I played Bach at home in secret' Bach’s E major Violin Concerto proved to be a defining work on the Baroque violinist’s path towards the period performance movement – despite the peculiar attitudes of her teachers Rachel Podger with the Brecon Baroque Photo: Łukasz Rajchert This interview is from the October 2018 issue of The Strad The first time I heard Bach’s Violin Concerto in E major BWV1042 was when I saw the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the Stadthalle in Kassel, Germany. My family moved there from Britain when I was eight years old; my brother and I were already learning the violin, and all of us sang and played all kinds of instruments, in a kind of ‘broken consort’. The Academy was touring Germany quite a lot at the time, and Iona Brown was the soloist for the Bach; I remember being amazed by how fast she took the opening movement. Her expression as she was playing the slow movement, too, was so focused and involved with the music. It had a big effect on me. Of course, I wanted to learn Bach after that, but my tutor, a very strict Polish violinist from the Kassel opera orchestra, exclaimed: ‘Bach? You can’t play Bach until you’re 40!’ (Although Tchaikovsky and Spohr were fine.) That just meant I played Bach at home in secret; it was exciting, like living a double life. I heard Buxtehude and lots more 17th-century German composers at church, and instinctively realised how they had influenced Bach. So when it came to learning the concertos, I found Bach’s musical language quite straightforward, as it seemed so clear. I didn’t have to work too much on finding my own interpretation, as everything was already there in the score. Rachel Podger: ‘Find the dance element, and experiment with how to capture it in the articulation and character of the piece’ ©Theresa-Pewal The first movement of the E major Concerto strikes me as joyful: the three chords at the start, where everyone moves at the same time, give a strong statement that ascends rapidly in register, and I think the figuration of that movement is very idiomatic to the sound of the gut string. Even though it needs to be played fast, whenever you come off the string you can hear an incredible resonance in the sound – even in a dry acoustic. That resonance is a very important ideal to aim for, especially in music that needs to bounce along. In contrast, the second movement is full of sorrow and meditation, so you need to look for a stillness in your playing. There’s a moment when the viola has the bass-line and moves from C minor to E major, which gives an incredible feeling of hope. I always like to play that moment quite softly, although I know it can be played so many different other ways, which can be just as beautiful. When I was in my teens, I had another teacher who was slightly less strict and let me play Bach – although when I learnt the First Partita, he insisted I mark all his bowings and fingerings in my part with a pen, so I couldn’t change them. When I started questioning some of his ideas, he took me aside and asked me in a hushed tone: ‘Have you been affected?’ I told my parents and brother – who by that time was learning the organ and already interested in period performance – and we agreed that I actually had been ‘affected’ by the movement. Soon after, we hosted two Baroque violinists and I badgered them with questions about playing until one of them gave me a lesson on his instrument. After that I was hooked, and performed in all kinds of ensembles with my brother conducting. While I was studying at the Guildhall School in London, my teacher David Takeno said it was vital to study and learn a concerto, or any piece of music, reading at first from the score, not just your own part. Start with the bass, move upwards through the viola and finally the violin, as the other voices instruct you as to how to play your own part. Find the dance element, and experiment with how to capture it in the articulation and character of the piece. Keep the longer line in mind, and know the story you want to tell. Bach’s score is a road map, and you will always find your way if you follow it. INTERVIEW BY CHRISTIAN LLOYD Rachel-Podger Rachel Podger: Tutta Sola A typically unorthodox journey through solo Baroque repertoire Rachel Podger: Beethoven Spontaneity and intelligence as a Baroque giant explores new territory ‘A lower saddle, a Classical-style tailpiece and bridge, a tailgut and gut strings’ Violinist Rachel Podger and pianist Christopher Glynn share their thoughts on playing Beethoven Violin Sonatas with a period set-up in their latest recording 1 Readers' comment From the archive: Joseph Joachim, endurance violinist In this extract from an article in the May 1894 issue of The Strad, our correspondent Robin H Legge does not try to hide his adulation for the most celebrated violinist of the time Ida Haendel making her first appearance in The Strad in 1937 In a special tribute to Ida Haendel, we are re-publishing content related to the late violinist. Here, in our March 1937 issue, our correspondent predicts great things for a 14-year-old violinist who may have actually only been 9 at the time Lloyd Swanton on the art of free improvisation As double bassist of long-running Australian trio the Necks, Lloyd Swanton is an expert in group improvisation. He speaks to Andy Hamilton about his inspirations, maintaining creativity, and making contemporary improvised music accessible	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5490767955780029, "wiki_prob": 0.5490767955780029, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1485002"}
Low fuel light while Christmas gift shopping leads to couple’s $1 million lottery win Laura Keen said she plans to “be smart” with her winnings but wants to use some of it to take a small vacation.(North Carolina Lottery) By Emily Van de Riet Published: Nov. 30, 2022 at 9:28 AM MST KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (Gray News) – A couple in North Carolina turned into instant millionaires after stopping for gas while they were out shopping for Christmas gifts. According to the North Carolina Lottery, Laura Keen and her boyfriend stopped for gas over the weekend as soon as their truck’s low fuel light lit up. While at the 7-Eleven in Kernersville, they decided to purchase some coffee and a single $30 scratch-off ticket. Minutes later, the couple scratched the ticket in the store’s parking lot and received the best Christmas gift of all – a $1 million prize. “I was screaming,” Keen said in a press release. “He was screaming. We both were screaming. We were just in shock, just shock.” Keen credits her big win to her truck’s low fuel light. “We would never have won that if that gas light had not gone off,” Keen said. As she collected her prize at the lottery headquarters Monday, she chose the lump-sum amount of $600,000. After taxes, she took home $426,069. Keen said she plans to “be smart” with her winnings but wants to use some of it to take a small vacation. Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6335979700088501, "wiki_prob": 0.6335979700088501, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1820197"}
Possible All Along – marking the International Day of Disabled People Disabled artists in Leeds are showing that they are an important part of the city’s cultural landscape with an online exhibition. The... Leeds International Film Festival – a celebration of films from across the globe Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) returns this year with an exciting line up of international films from across the globe,... Youngsters from Leeds star on Chinese TV Youngsters from Leeds have featured on Chinese TV after their remix of Chumbawamba’s iconic hit, Tubthumping, proved a hit in the Chinese... Full steam ahead – Leeds Industrial Museum celebrates international partnership Did you know that Leeds Industrial Museum has a twinning relationship with the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum? The relationship... 50 Years Dortmund Leeds. What Connects Us – An online exhibition Last October we celebrated 50 years of twinning with our German partner city of Dortmund with a host of activities that took place here... Making Japan – Art, culture, life Leeds Museums and Galleries is taking visitors on a 5,000 mile trip to the land of the rising sun with a new exhibition that explores... Leeds International festival returns Leeds International Festival, now in its fourth year, will run from 30th April – 9th May 2020. The 2020 festival theme is Generation:... Leeds brings in the Chinese New Year in style Leeds celebrated the Chinese New Year in style this week with a special business networking event that highlighted the strong... Celebrating our partnership with Dortmund through beer and art As you will probably know by now, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of twinning between Leeds and Dortmund. There’s been lots of exciting... Leeds Discovery Centre hosts international study visit This week Leeds Museums and Galleries hosted a visiting delegation from the South Korean Capital City, Seoul. The delegation, which... Leeds hosts EUROCITIES Culture Forum Last week, Leeds showcased its wide and diverse cultural offering to cultural experts from across Europe, as the city hosted the... Leeds Dortmund 50 writing & music festival announces full schedule The LD50 (Leeds/Dortmund 50) literature festival has announced an exciting schedule of music and literature events as part of Leeds’ 50th... Celebrating 50 years of partnership with Dortmund 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of twinning between Leeds and the German city of Dortmund. And to celebrate we’ve got an exciting... Jamaican High Commissioner attends launch of Eulogy exhibition Yesterday evening the Jamaican High Commissioner, His Excellency Seth George Ramocan CD, joined the Lord Mayor of Leeds and Leader of... Calling artists, performers and innovators – Leeds International Festival call for proposals is now Leeds International Festival has launched its call for submissions for the 2020 festival programme and is accepting proposals from... Telling the stories of Leeds’ migrants Leeds City Museum has celebrated the launch of a new exhibition that explores some of the personal stories of Leeds’ migrant communities... British Council brings international cultural leaders to Leeds Last week a group of 25 cultural leaders were in Leeds at the invitation of the British Council. The group was made up of cultural... Celebrating Bastille Day In Leeds we are proud to have 140 different nationalities living in the city, and this month our community of French speakers are... Yorkshire Sculpture International kicks off in Leeds The Yorkshire Sculpture International festival kicked off in spectacular style this week as two giant Damien Hirst sculptures were... Leeds and Lille pupils take part in hip-hop cultural exchange This week pupils from Leeds based Allerton Primary Church of England School travelled to France to take part in an urban cultural...	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5553399324417114, "wiki_prob": 0.4446600675582886, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1209307"}
Nemesis - Part 1 Huh?! Love @ First Sight Cowards.......... I'm jealous of you? Really? The White Way Shuga and Intersexions STD certificate Life of a student I just killed the man of my dreams Weird or no? I said yes.....................April Fool's Edition Unique Prayer Request Ok people, come closer, sit down and relax cos i have gist for you guys. Get comfortable, but not too comfortable cos i need you to be able to skidaddle when this gist is over. So, back in the day a friend of mine told me that her boss was asking her out. I advised her to turn him down but she didn't listen and succumbed to him because he had the looks and the money. I was kinda disappointed in her and our friendship eventually fizzled out as these things tend to happen. She had refused to get into any relationship while in school and eventually gave up her virginity when she was in her mid-20's. Of course she got her heart broken and decided to stay away from men even when we advised her to give love another chance. I don't think we had dating her boss in mind when we advised her to date other guys. Anyhoodle, I found out 2 years later that she was still having an affair with her boss and didn't mind being his life-long mistress. He had even introduced her to some members of his family but she hid it from her own family because she knew they wouldn't approve of it. Some years into the relationship, the man decided he wanted a child from her because his wife could not have anymore kids after their first one. This chic agreed on the condition he divorces his wife. I was livid, as were her parents who were furious when she told them. She got pregnant and then the man sent his people to appeal to her family who reluctantly agreed to the marriage. Meanwhile, his first wife refused to grant him a divorce and was determined to fight for her marriage, but the man moved out of his matrimonial home into another apartment with his mistress who was happy to be the new Mrs XXX! She had her baby few months ago and that's when her troubles started! She had no clue that her sister-in-law didn't like her: When her sister-in-law came to visit one day, she saw her give money to somebody to buy some stuff from Dubai. Her sister-in-law then told her brother that she was extravagant. The guy now decided to stop giving her money and started asking her to account for any money he gave her. She started having trouble feeding and of course this led to quarrels, hateful words were exchanged and all that craziness in the marriage. She could not believe this was the same man she had been having an affair with for 8years! I guess the honeymoon was over. She eventually moved out of his house back to her parents home when her baby was barely 6 months old because of how badly he was treating her. Of course, there's a lot of details that were left out of this story, but trust me when i say it was bad. So what's the point of this story? I would like this to serve as a warning to other women who think they can eat their cake and have it! As the saying goes, the cane used to beat the first wife is always hung on the door to be used on the new wife! You are not special. Women who think that they can build their happiness on the foundation of another woman's unhappiness should know that NEMESIS would always come knocking! Wait! There's more. Stay tuned for Nemesis Part 2. (A different but similar story). Na naija movie be this o. seye April 28, 2011 at 5:49 PM Type the whole thing jo! Why will i be reading in bits! Mscheeeew. Oya, I am waiting NaijaScorpio April 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM This story done finish o. Part 2 is another story. kitkat April 28, 2011 at 9:07 PM i swear, karma is a bitch lol. I dnt see why any snesible female wld want to have kids with, and marry a man that is already married. Ofcourse if he treated his wife shabbily, he'll do same 2 u. Like u pointed out..she shouldnt have felt she was special. i dnt feel sorry for her sha.. she got what she deserved. Random One April 28, 2011 at 10:08 PM Chei...see this kain life. 8 years as a MISTRESS??? and then 6months after she gives him a child see wahala. In fact i don't have words. 9jaFOODie April 28, 2011 at 11:00 PM Iyami ooo.... Chaiii!! this is uber interesting, Karma is such a sweet avenger, it will eventually catch up with you no matter what. please hen.. I want to copy and paste this story on my blog. I need some of my "Friends" to read it. CHAI...This is how every story in life should go,when you destroy someone elses happiness, yours goes out the window sooner or later. Thanks for sharing!! Sugabelly April 28, 2011 at 11:16 PM Sting! Sting! Sting! How many times did I call you? Judgy-Judgy! Polygamy and concubines are part of our culture o! The only thing I do not agree with is that she asked him to divorce his wife. She should have asked him to marry her as his second wife. End of story. Or she should have asked him to sign a document designating her as his official concubine with inheritance rights for her children and herself and had it signed and witnessed by a lawyer or a judge. Na wa o Sting! To! NaijaScorpio April 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM @Sugabelly: When did u start using Hausa exclamations? What is wa? Sometimes i wonder if you are willing to practice what you preach. You talk as if everything that's part of the culture is right and should be accepted. Female circumcision is part of the culture too isn't it? Why are people fighting against it now? I'll say this again, how much of what you preach are you willing to practice? @9jaFoodie: Copy and paste away. Muse Origins April 29, 2011 at 1:47 AM Some women are so amazingly stupid! How can you be the other woman for 8 years? How can you be the other woman at all? I have no sympathy for her- she is on her own hissssssss Tega April 29, 2011 at 3:13 AM You sha have a recent obsession with extra-marital affairs...I hope you gain more insight. Na from clap dem de take enter dance...after been mistress for so long she shouldn't have asked for him to divorce his wife...yam wey go burn go burn sha... Waiting in earnest for the next installment. NaijaScorpio April 29, 2011 at 3:31 AM @Tega: Recent obsession? How do you know it's a recent obsession? Since when did you start residing in my mind? I have an obsession with neuro, phys and ctb,thank you very much. As for extra-marital affairs, it's something i'm choosing to talk about at the moment but definitely not an obsession. Nowhere close, my dear. No be today yansh dey for back. It is what it is. Not going to change that with anything i have to say. However, i am free to state my opinion about it. About the men who cheat on their wives and about the women who are knowing accomplices. Just dirty! Oh! I like your insight comment. I know someone who could have given me "insight" but they chose not to, so i will stick with my opinions while i wait until i find someone who is willing to enlighten me as to the whys. Until then, permit me to "ignorantly" say i'm against it and to continue to drink panadol for my mother's headache. N.I.L (Naijamum in London) April 29, 2011 at 4:02 AM Thank you for highlighting this story. Unfortunately a lot of young girls are so eager for an easy life that they are willing to displace other women and build on a foundation that is not theirs. Quite a lot of first wives suffered with their husband to build comfortable homes - only for the stupid man to betray them. To each his own, but like Kitkat said - Karma is a bitch - What goes around comes around. Who no know go know. It is often the case that the first wife is very prudent - because she knows how rocky the road to success was. Unfortunately, the younger wife is often better at spending the money. PS - Yes, polygamy is part of our culture, but its legacy is bad. I am yet to see a polygamous home where all live in harmony. More often than not, the children suffer - from lack of unity & distrust. @ilola April 29, 2011 at 6:03 AM In her mind, she will think it is her sister-in-law that caused the wahala, but truthfully, it is the prayers of the first wife that refuse to give up her marriage. when some people decide to reap what another person has sown, they should be ready for anything. No matter how bad a marriage gets, God will still respect the prayers made on behalf of that marriage. Nutty J. April 29, 2011 at 6:21 AM hmmm... I guess she didnt see anything wrong with what she did. Like Sugarbelly said...Nigeria is a polygamous place. Now if a human being has no religious scruples or traditional scruples or personal scruples for sleeping with another woman's husband...then there is nothing anyone can do about it. becos really who draws the line between right or wrong? Its our beliefs that make us who we are...if she believes she is right,, then so she is. We can only stand on the sidelines and offer our disapproval or approval. Female circumcision on the other hand is as a result of ignorance. Now that we are civilized, we see the disadvantages in it and fight against it. Only ignorant parents still do it...and really the child doesnt have a say. What say did you have when you were 1 yr old? Sleeping with another woman's man on the other hand, can be argued to be CIVILIZATION...the IN THING, the TREND. Talk to the men instead...they made the vows, they should keep it. Sugabelly April 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM @Sting: But I have said before that even though polygamy is part of our culture and people have the right to practice it, it should only be done when ALL parties involved agree to it and are happy. No be so? Did I tell you that I wanted to be in a polygamous marriage? No. But I respect the right of those who WANT to be in a polygamous marriage to do so. Further more. Our constitution protects POLYGAMY not polyGYNY therefore Nigerian women should be free to marry as many husbands as they like also. The only problem is that most Nigerian women are too afraid to do it and most Nigerian men are too blockheaded and proud to do it. I never said that this was okay. When I said he should have married her as his second wife, I meant he should have told his wife and gotten her permission. And if she doesn't agree, then the marriage is over no be so? Obviously, it looks like that's what happened. And I never said that all parts of our culture were good. There are some pretty fucked up things that Nigerians do in the name of culture so I'm not supportive of everything that has the label Nigerian culture, but in this case, polygamy is not something that I personally think is particularly vile. I think it's not polygamy that's the problem, rather how it's practised (i.e. in a way that favours men). Polygamy should be practised in a way that allows both men and women to have multiple partners if they choose and only as long as everyone is a consenting adult and happy with their choice. Prism of an Immigrant April 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM THis is a sad story, which like you said, sounds so Nollywoodish. The painful part for me is the poor child involved in the drama.... @Adiya, it's funny how you say some women are so stupid. I think self-esteem is the problem, not stupidity....:-/ NaijaScorpio April 29, 2011 at 11:40 AM @Sugabelly: Thanks for clarifying cos from ur initial comment that's not the impression i got. Nike Royals April 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM I'm sorry to sound mean, but I don't feel sorry for her a bit, she got what she deserve. I know of someone who was in the same position too, everybody warned her she did not listen. One day the man woke up and told her she need to leave the house, took the car key from her, closed the bank account he opened for her and gave her 5000 naira for transportation money to go back to her parent.....lol, he went back to his wife. I really don't know how SOME women reason they certainly have FISH BRAIN or simply damn STUPID!...i totally agree with you 9jamum & @ilola. So right about nothing special in them unless they had help from potent jazz! It serves her right! DON'T PITY HER AT ALL! Nothing GOOD ever comes out of polygamy.I have friends who grew up in a polygamous home & dislike it with a passion! If he did not want another child, would he had married her? i wonder. He would probably be using her to warm his bed until he gets tired of her {THEY ALWAYS DO!} & dumps her like a sack of rotten potatoes! Like the story Nike Royals just said. awaiting part 2 Thank you for this post sistah, it encourages married women to be more patient and prayer...xoxo. lovelife4sale April 30, 2011 at 6:21 AM wow.... thats a very interesting story, almost plays out like a TV soap opera. but what did the girl expect. its a little thing call Karma. Ouch on her behalf, hopefully, she can brush herself off and learn a lesson or two from this incident. the only problem sometimes is, the heart wants what the heart wants. okonyahouseboy April 30, 2011 at 8:11 AM madness. sometimes you just wonder what...if anything goes on in the head of some women. on a more important side note, if she won chop jollof rice, make she call her boy boy - ee full ground! HoneyDame April 30, 2011 at 11:36 AM B4 nko? Na so the thing dey go na! mizchif April 30, 2011 at 10:38 PM There's this saying i like "The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour" It's appaling how common it is for young women to cause havoc in another womans home, then suddenly expect their own time to be rosy? How? Same for relationships, that's why it's always good to have some background, how did ones last relationship end? What do the exes have to say about the person? What does the person have to say about the exes, so you know just how your own will end too. This one is not even karma, it's just straight simple life logic. Blogoratti May 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM Ah...lessons to be learned in that story. No doubt* bumight May 10, 2011 at 7:58 PM you couldnt have said it better: '..the cane used to beat the first wife is always hung on the door to be used on the new wife lets call a spade a spade, this isnt polygamy, and the young woman and man in question didnt set out to practice polygamy. Even when polygamy is practiced the right way, all the parties are not 100% happy/satisfied.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6570663452148438, "wiki_prob": 0.34293365478515625, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1755070"}
HomeWorldThe ECP took notice to remove Imran Khan as party presidentOUS... The ECP took notice to remove Imran Khan as party presidentOUS News The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday while initiating proceedings on the impeachment of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supremo Imran Khan, issued a notice to remove the ousted prime minister as the party’s president. Sources privy to the matter said that the PTI confirmed receipt of the notification sent by the election inspectors, while PTI chief Asad Umar has decided to write a letter to the Chief Election Officer (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja seeking the cause of it is after the notification. Earlier, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday sought a response from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Umar for his diatribe against the judiciary in his November 26 speech at his party’s Rawalpindi rally. Justice Jawad Hassan of the LHC’s Rawalpindi bench heard a petition filed by the additional registrar of Rawalpindi against the former planning minister. Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi, CPO and lawyer Mr. Umar Faisal Chaudhry appeared before the court. During the hearing, Justice Hassan said that the PTI leader used insulting words against the courts. Stating that no one can make any institution or human behavior in dispute under the Act, the judge said that the court has the authority to include such elements. The court summoned the PTI leader in the next hearing scheduled for December 7. On November 26, Mr. Umar announced the end of PTI’s long journey and aimed at the judiciary. “The nation may find that the doors of justice are closed even in the Supreme Court,” he said. While pointing out the lack of registration of a case against the assassination attempt on Imran Khan, he has said that justice has not prevailed in the country.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9669125080108643, "wiki_prob": 0.9669125080108643, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line392089"}
Home Collector News Street Fighter X Tekken Special Edition Revealed updated on January 15, 2023 October 17, 2011 Collector News Games Review Street Fighter X Tekken Special Edition Revealed Over the weekend at New York Comic-Con, legendary Street Fighter X Tekken producer Yoshinori Ono revealed the Street Fighter X Tekken Special Edition and this one looks to be a must-have collectible for the collection. Included in the Street Fighter X Tekken Special Edition: Street Fighter X Tekken game Build-It-Yourself Arcade Cabinet Bank (approximately 5” H) Exclusive Prequel Comic Book by UDON 36 Gems: Includes All Pre-Order Packs Plus An Exclusive Pack Pre-Order Bonus: Nine Exclusive Gems Only Available For Pre-Ordering Special Edition Total of 45 Gems When You Pre-Order The arcade cabinet isn’t playable and looks to be just a piggy bank for storing all those loose coins that you haven’t shoveled into real arcade machines just yet. It isn’t revealed what the cabinet is made out of either. Plywood? Cardboard? Who knows. In case you were wondering, the gems described in the contents aren’t actual real gems. The gems are part of an all-new customization power-up system that allows for modification of character abilities and stats. Check out the latest trailer from NYCC below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5CpqlOze0 So far only been announced for North America with an expected release date of March 6th, 2012. It’ll be available on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with no price tag revealed for the special edition package. European fans will be able to get Street Fighter X Tekken from March 9th, 2012. Although there is no announcement for the Special Edition for PAL territories as yet, Europe will be able to grab special packs of Gems through promotional pre-order campaigns at various retailers. Check with your store to find out if and when they become available. Keep your eye out over the next week or so as retailers add the SFxT Special Edition to their pre-orders. Check out: New Slimmer PS Vita Coming To Australia In June Previous Article Tekken Hybrid Extreme Edition with Arcade Fightstick: Tournament Edition (S); Limited to 1000 Pieces Next Article EB EXPO 2011: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Will Be Available In Three Editions updated on January 15, 2023 January 12, 2012 Collector News BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend Limited Editions updated on January 15, 2023 April 12, 2012 Collector News DiRT Showdown HOONIGAN Edition Announced; Australia & New Zealand Exclusive updated on January 15, 2023 September 14, 2014 Games Review Project P-100 Renamed to The Wonderful 101; Exclusive to Wii U	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.96989905834198, "wiki_prob": 0.96989905834198, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line538717"}
https://blog.kovah.de/en/2019/generating-shell-theme-screenshots/ The wiki page of the Oh my ZSH shell contains more than 100 themes. I tried to generate screenshots for all. Kevin Woblick Automatically generating Oh my ZSH theme screenshots Oh my ZSH Shell Bash Automator Themes Oh my ZSH is one of the more popular alternatives to the basic Bash shell. It provides a lot of useful functions to speed up your work with the shell. To complete the package, the shell also offers themes, which alter the way the shell looks like and which output it shows. The corresponding wiki page contains more than 100 themes which are actually built-in right now into Oh my ZSH. The “problem”: you can’t easily compare all those themes because the screenshots differ too much to have at least a little bit of objective view on them. I tried to solve that. Mass-Generation of Screenshots Automation is the only possible way to generate this mass of screenshots without spending weeks on it. Thankfully macOS ships with Automator, a handy tool for automating tasks. I used the tool to build up a simple work flow that helped me generating 131 screenshots for almost all built-in themes. 👉 Download the script here 👉 Repository with sample files: Kovah/oh-my-zsh-theme-test Terminal test setup All screenshots were generated with the standard macOS Terminal.app application with all settings set to the default ones. The only significant change is the font. I used Fira Code at 13pt size to enable advanced support for some themes which use special characters for their look and feel. All terminal windows have a size of 100x31. The Automator script The script contains of the following steps: Ask for the theme name and save it as a variable Launch the Terminal Run an AppleScript which tells the Terminal app to switch to a prepared folder containing some files and with Git initialized re-initialize the shell with the new theme from the variable, by using the ZSH_THEME environment variable Print an escape sequence to clear the Terminal input Print a series of commands to generate output then, sets some variables and paths for the screenshot and finally toggles the screenshot command with the window-only mode enabled. It’s not much, but it helps to prevent any repeating tasks. At the moment you have to interact with the script twice: once for providing the theme name and once for selecting the Terminal window for the screenshot. I am pretty sure that there is a way to take screenshots of single windows without user interaction, maybe by using the screenshot command together with x and y coordinates which may be available from the Terminal app window, but I couldn’t make up a solution fast enough, so I went with the manual mode which works too. The folder with all sample files can be found in this repository. I created this repo to allow other users to generate the exact same screenshots as I did. New screenshots for Oh my ZSH Unfortunately, the changes are not live yet. The current maintainer noted in an issue, that some themes have screenshots which show special features or together with a specific color scheme. Completely understandable. For now, the new version of the wiki can be viewed on my fork of the wiki. I hope that “open sourcing” my workflow will help getting the new screenshots onto the official wiki page. If you would like to propose some ideas for the issue feel free to leave a comment on the issue.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6111097931861877, "wiki_prob": 0.38889020681381226, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1261037"}
Location: CA North Asia, China & Japan North Asia, China & Japan overview New Year’s resolutions for 2023… with a travel... COMO The Treasury Australia menu COMO The Treasury is not just a boutique hotel but a showcase for the finest Western Australian food and wine. The hotel is housed in Perth’s 140-year-old State Buildings on the corner of St George's Terrace and Barrack Street. One of the most significant heritage precincts in Western Australia, this property was recently refurnished by leading architect Kerry Hill and is only a short walk from the new Elizabeth Quay riverfront development. There are 48 spacious guest rooms and suites that feature the original high ceilings and cornicing, but sleek, contemporary design, a refined, understated air, and in some, private balconies. 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In the US, the legal definition of “industrial hemp,” (as defined in Section 7606 of the Agricultural Appropriations Act of 2014), is “the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” There are two varieties of Cannabis, Sativa and Indica. Hemp is Cannabis Sativa and marijuana is Cannabis Indica and crosses of Indica and Sativa. Hemp is considered “industrial” under current regulations, and is defined as any cannabis plant having less than 0.3% THC. Does CBD come from Marijuana or Hemp? All CBD-based products come from the industrial hemp plant. Hemp is considered all variety of cannabis that contains high quantities of CBD and less than 0.3% of THC. If a hemp plant contains more than 0.3% THC, it is then technically considered a marijuana. Will CBD get me high? No, CBD will not get you high. It’s non-intoxicating. CBD has a different functional group that is non-intoxicating. Research shows CBD can act as an antagonistic to THC and prevent THC from binding to CB-1 receptors in the brain. Cannabidiol (CBD) has many health benefits, without producing the psychoactive, “euphoric” effects of THC. “Relaxing but not intoxicating” is how some people have described the effect. How do I know it’s safe to purchase online? You should make sure the company you’re buying from is reputable and that the product was made from industrial hemp with less than 0.3% THC content with Certificates of Analysis (CoA). What is the difference in three main forms of CBD extract? Full Spectrum: Also known as whole-plant CBD extract, full-spectrum CBD extract is a mix of CBD, other cannabinoids, cannabis-derived terpenes, and flavonoids. Federally legal full-spectrum products will always have less than 0.3 percent THC. Full-spectrum CBD is less processed and more natural, and the products also contain flavonoids and terpenes, which are beneficial compounds that provide unique scents and flavors. Broad Spectrum: Contains a similar spectrum of all of the cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids, but has undergone further processing to remove the THC. Isolate: Often known as raw CBD, isolate has had all other cannabinoids and terpenes stripped away until all that’s left is a crystalline powder of pure CBD. To create an oil, crystalline CBD powder is usually mixed with a carrier oil such as coconut or olive oil. CBD isolates with a purity range of 99.9% and above won’t have trace amounts of THC, whereas a CBD isolate of 99.5% and below may still have traces of THC. How many cannabinoids are there in a hemp plant? There are more than 120 naturally occurring cannabinoids known to exist in the hemp plant. Hemp’s other promising cannabinoids, including Cannabigerol (CBG), Cannabichromene (CBC), and cannabinol (CBN) are only a few examples of other cannabinoids that have shown to have health benefits. What is Full Spectrum Hemp Extract? Full-spectrum extracts, maintain the full profile of the hemp plant being extracted and will contain a variety of cannabinoids, including CBGa, CBG, Δ9-THCa, Δ9-THC, CBDa, CBD, CBN, CBC, and Δ8-THC, just to name a few. There are other compounds as well such as terpenes and flavonoids which gives the plant and extract its smell and taste. We formulate our products using high quality CBD concentrate diluted to precise concentrations with oils like coconut, olive, or hemp seed and in some cases a flavoring. How do I take my Full Spectrum Hemp Extract? Full Spectrum Hemp Extracts are taken sublingually, by placing a dose under the tongue and held there for 30-60seconds, where it is absorbed through the mucous membrane in the mouth. To better understand what you’re taking read the label and look for milligrams per milliliter (mg/mL). This is the amount of CBD in each dropper full. What is the 2018 Farm Bill and what did it do? The 2018 Farm Bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, legalized industrial hemp, which must contain less than 0.3% THC according to federal guidelines. Only CBD oil derived from hemp is considered federally legal. The 2018 Farm Bill provides support, certainty, and stability to our nation’s farmers, ranchers, and forest managers by enhancing farm support programs, improving crop insurance, maintaining disaster programs, and promoting and supporting voluntary conservation. The bill legalizes the cultivation and sale of hemp at the federal level, effective January 1, 2019. This will have important ramifications not only for the hemp industry in the United States, but also for business involving cannabidiol (CBD). As a result of the 2018 Farm Bill farmers in the U.S. can now grow hemp under certain regulated situations. The USDA National Organic Program (NOP) has also confirmed that hemp managed organically can be certified organic. There is more legislation pending. Some want to expand on the farm bill definition. While other legislation looks to legalize Cannabis nationally. The 2018 U.S. Farm Bill officially legalized hemp in the United States. Hemp and CBD products are federally legal in all 50 states. What is cGMP Certification and why is it important? cGMP refers to the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, a standard set by the FDA. cGMP provides guidance for a systematic approach that assures proper design, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes and facilities. Adherence to cGMP standards assures the identity, strength, quality, and purity of products by requiring that manufacturers of adequately control manufacturing operations. This includes establishing strong quality management systems, obtaining appropriate quality raw materials, establishing robust operating procedures, detecting and investigating product quality deviations, and maintaining reliable testing laboratories. What is a CoA and why is it important? A Certificate of Analysis, or CoA, is a document from an accredited laboratory that shows the quantity of various cannabinoids in a product. Manufacturers should send every batch of every product they make to a lab for testing, to protect their customers and prove that their products have as much CBD as they advertise. The Certificate of Analysis, or CoA, helps ensure that a manufacturer’s products are made to specification, and indicates the quantity of cannabinoids found in each product, like CBD. In addition to cannabinoids, this certificate should show details on the levels of heavy metals, pesticides, solvents, and THC found in an individual batch of products. COAs are meant to keep customers safe and informed, but they also help emphasize quality. What is Organic Certification? USDA Organic for a farm operation to be Certified Organic, it must avoid synthetic chemical inputs (such as synthetic fertilizers and synthetic pesticides), sewage sludge as a fertilizer and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Organic products must meet the following requirements: Produced without excluded methods, (e.g., genetic engineering, ionizing radiation, or sewage sludge). … Overseen by a USDA National Organic Program-authorized certifying agent, following all USDA organic regulations. Organic has a precise meaning under the USDA’s organic program. Certified 100% Organic means that all the ingredients in a product have been grown or raised according to the USDA’s organic standards, which are the rules for producing foods labeled organic. What is CBD used for? People are finding that CBD is useful for many conditions which have not responded well to conventual treatments. New ailments which CBD can help treat are being discovered every day. However, the most common uses of CBD are treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and epilepsy. Is CBD natural? Yes, CBD is a 100% naturally-occurring chemical compound that comes directly from the cannabis plant. It is not synthetically made. CBD edibles are food products infused with CBD. Common CBD edibles products are chocolates, gummy bears, or CBD gum. CBD edibles are an oral route of administration of CBD. What are CBD gummies? CBD gummies are a form of a CBD edible: a food product (in this case gummies) infused with CBD. What is hemp extract? Hemp extract refers to the raw extract which is taken from a hemp plant for later processing into CBD oil or CBD products. The most common methods of extraction are CO2 and ethanol extraction. Full-Spectrum CBD Oil is a combination of Cannabidiol (CBD) and other minor cannabinoids. These cannabinoids may include but are not limited to cannabigerol (CBG), cannabinol (CBN), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabidiolic-acid (CBDa), tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), tetrahydrocannabinolic-acid (THCa) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Full Spectrum CBD also includes terpenes and flavonoids that can also be found in hemp flower. These compounds may aid in the formation of an “entourage effect.” This means all cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids found in hemp flowers are extracted and transferred into a finished product. Full Spectrum CBD normally contains trace amounts of THC, but at levels ≤ 0.3% by concentration. How do I take CBD? Most CBD products are taken orally via oil drops that are placed under the tongue and held for 60 seconds before swallowing. 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Taking place from 26 – 28 August 2022, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again house CHART Art Fair. The program comprises a rich offering of talks, performances, music, film screenings, public art installations as well as the second edition of the art book fair. Art Week 2022 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Week 2022 takes place 9 – 19 June and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience a packed program of exhibition openings, performances, talks, film screenings and guided tours. Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed until CPH:DOX Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed 14 – 22 March during the installation of CPH:DOX 2022 that begins 23 March. CPH:DOX finally returns to Kunsthal Charlottenborg After two years of pandemic, Kunsthal Charlottenborg turns as tradition into the headquarter of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 23 March – 3 April 2022. Art in a Day: Six Copenhagen art institutions launch a 24-hour performance art festival Six contemporary art institutions in Copenhagen have joined forces to create the 24-hour performance art festival, Art in a Day. On June 24 the Danish capital will be transformed into a cornucopia of performance art with original showings by prominent artists like Arvida Byström, Henrik Vibskov, Monster Chetwynd, and Tosh Basco (formerly known as boychild). Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed until the opening of this autumn’s exhibitions Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed from 31 August – 20 September during the installation of this autumn's three exhibitions. Explore additional facets of Laure Prouvost’s captivating film work Laure Prouvost has taken audiences and critics by storm after the opening of the exhibition 'Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds' – a total installation incorporating a new major film work. On the occasion of the exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now presents a very special film programme presenting a selection of the artist’s works, on from 1 June – 4 July 2021 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg’ cinema. All is vibrations: Lea Porsager opens major exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Wind-turbine blades cut into slices, magnetic prayer wheels and sexualised icon paintings are some of the elements featured in Lea Porsager’s solo show STRIPPED, opening June 11 and is on throughout the summer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Laure Prouvost creates an escapist universe at Kunsthal Charlottenborg where we can dream of embracing each other again This spring, Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to reopen April 21 with the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with Turner Prize winning artist Laure Prouvost who represented France at the 58th International Art Biennial in Venice. The exhibition 'Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds' presents a new film work and coincides with this year’s programme at CPH:DOX. CPH:DOX presents new online festival CPH:DOX 2020 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is unfortunately canceled. Instead, the documentary film festival now offers a virtual cinema that audience can attend from home. Choose from 40 films from this year's festival and experience live debates and talks 18 - 29 March. Kunsthal Charlotteborg reopens Friday on May 29 Kunsthal Charlotteborg reopens Friday on May 29 with DIS: 'What Do People Do All Day" and June 12 with “Community of Parting” by Jane Jin Kaysen. CPH:DOX at Kunsthal Charlottenborg From Wednesday 18 March through Sunday 29 March, Kunsthal Charlottenborg transforms into the head quarter for the documentary film festival CPH:DOX. During the festival, you can experience film screenings, concerts, talks, and the exhibition 'DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?’ opening 19 March. Ticket sale now opens for Charlottenborg Live this spring After a fully sold out start for Charlottenborg Live in the beginning of the year, the presale now opens for a new series of live talks, performances, guided tours, author meetings and long table dinners during spring 2020. Groundbreaking New York-based artists’ collective opens video exhibition during CPH: DOX The internationally renowned artists’ collective DIS, who curated the 9th Berlin Biennale, are now coming to Copenhagen. The exhibition DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day? shows a selection of spectacular video works from the newly developed video platform dis.art as well as cinematic settings and installations that question the future of society – and what we humans do in our everyday lives to influence that future. The exhibition is created by Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with Tranen – Space for Contemporary Art and opens on Thursday, 19 March 2020 5-10pm as part of CPH: DOX. Kunsthal Charlottenborg initiates collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you for eight evenings with live talks, performances, guided tours of the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners. Charlottenborg Live takes place every Wednesday from October 23 - December 11, 2019. Free admission to everyone born in 1989 On the occasion of the Golden Days Festival everyone born in 1989 can get free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg on 21-22 September, when we open again after the double opening of the exhibitions with Eva Koťátková and Irena Haiduk. Double opening for the first solo exhibitions in Scandinavia by Eva Kot’átková and Irena Haiduk On Friday 20 September 5-8pm the exhibitions 'Confessions of the Piping System’ and 'Seductive Exacting Realism' will open at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The solo exhibitions with the Czech artist Eva Koťátková and the Serbian artist Irena Haiduk will be celebrated with free admission and bubbles for the first arriving at the opening. CHART 2019 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg 30 August – 1 September CHART takes over Kunsthal Charlottenborg. In addition to the art fair, which brings together the entire Nordic art scene, CHART offers an extensive free live programme. read more about opening hours and admission during CHART. Festive opening for this summer’s big exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg 14 June, Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors to this summer’s big exhibition 'Servitudes'. The solo exhibition with Jesper Just is celebrated with a talk, official opening and party. May 23, Art Week Copenhagen begins, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg has created an interesting programme about, among other things, Europe and the upcoming elections. CPH:DOX transforms Kunsthal Charlottenborg into festival mansion From Wednesday 20 March through Sunday 31 March, Kunsthal Charlottenborg transforms into the head quarter for the documentary film festival CPH:DOX. During the festival, you can experience film screenings, concerts, talks, VR experiences, an interactive exhibition and the exhibition 'Europa Endlos'. New exhibition with Danish winner of the “world championship in comic art” In January 2019 Halfdan Pisket won the award for best comic in Festival International de la Bande Dessinée. Now, the award-winning comic 'Dansker-Triologien' can be experienced at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The opening takes place Thursday 7 February at 5-7pm. New durational work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici In collaboration with two-women-machine-show (DK) and Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK), Dansehallerne and Kunsthal Charlottenborg present the work ALITY. The premiere is 24 September and the work can be experienced until 30 September at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Joint tour of Copenhagen Art Centres On May 9, five Copenhagen art centres invites you to Tonight is Art – a magnificent event programme with performances, sound, food and art. On April 28, five Copenhagen art centres invites you to Tonight is Art – a magnificent event programme with performances, theater, dance, sound, food and of course art.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5827130079269409, "wiki_prob": 0.5827130079269409, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1217217"}
Free Eco Photography workshops This event is running from 11 February 2023 until 18 February 2023. It is next occurring on February 11, 2023 11:00 am Categories: Life Drawing and Workshops February 11, 2023 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Reducing carbon footprint of the photographic process with Daniel Staveley. Weds 8th Feb – 6-8pm Sat 11th Feb – 11am – 1pm & 2-4pm Weds 15th Feb – 6-8pm Sat 18th Feb – 11am-1pm & 2-4pm During the two-hour session in the newly made darkroom at elysium gallery, you will be given a short introduction to sustainable photography. Looking at the modern development and questions being asked about the analog photographic process. 6 people max per session. Outcomes for the 2-hour session you will learn how to: Mix your own paper developer using washing powder and coffee. Create own fixer. Using recycled water and salt. Use enlargers to make photograms. Make negatives from natural objects. Everybody will create 4-5 images. (Attendees will be required to bring a selection of used translucent plastic objects for the photograms). Each workshop lasts for approx. 2 hours. Workshop participants will be able to take part in an exhibition at elysium gallery later in the year showcasing sustainable approaches to making art. FREE ENTRY you must book a slot to take part. First come first served.	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7013224959373474, "wiki_prob": 0.2986775040626526, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1202593"}
Can The Sixers Win The 2022/23 NBA Title? Published on 18 Oct 2022 7:26 pm (UK Time) On the eve of the 2022-23 NBA season, the Philadelphia Sixers have seemingly gone under the radar as title challengers from the Eastern Conference. Often overlooked for the likes of the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks, the Sixers have all the tools to make the NBA Finals. 40 years is a long time. 40 years in sports, where narratives change so quickly (remember when Julius Randle won MIP?!), is even longer. The 1982-83 NBA season was the last time the Philadelphia Sixers won the NBA Championship. That year a Sixers team led by the greats of ‘Dr J’ Julius Erving and Moses Malone won the Larry O’Brien trophy for Philadelphia. Since then, all-time greats such as Charles Barkley and Allen Iverson have tried but failed to emulate the team of 82/83. Yet now in the present, led by Joel Embiid and James Harden, general manager Daryl Morey has assembled the Sixers best team in a long time. Here are the reasons why this could be the Sixers year. Could this be the year Embiid wins MVP? Any title aspirations of the Sixers have fallen at the feet of Joel Embiid. The four-time All-NBA Second team center is one of the top five players in the whole league, and a close second to Giannis Antetokounmpo as the best player in the Eastern Conference. Having come second in MVP voting the past two years to Nikola Jokic, Embiid will be seeking to go one better this year. After becoming the first center to lead the league in scoring since Shaquille O’Neal in 1999-00. Embiid only needs to produce at the rate he did last season, also managing to be healthy for 65-plus games to be the MVP frontrunner. Voter apathy is likely to rule Jokic out unless he breaks even more records, thus making it a probable shootout with Giannis Antetokounmpo. Embiid is an offensive juggernaut, possessing an encyclopaedia of post moves, he can get whatever shot he wants when in the paint. Embiid’s ability to score on three levels is reflected in his 2021/22 scoring record, averaging 30.6 ppg across 68 games. He is also an elite paint defender, standing at 7 feet with a 7 foot 4 wingspan, he is able to disrupt opponents’ shots at a high level. This is seen in the analytics where last season he was top ten in defensive box plus-minus and top four in defensive win/shares, a truly dominant individual on the defensive end. Until a freak orbital bone fracture during the playoffs, last season was Embiid’s healthiest in the league. In the seven years prior to the 21/22 season, he had never played more than 64 games, often side-lined with a litany of injuries. If Embiid can remain healthy throughout the upcoming season, the Sixers should automatically be recognised as title contenders, since in most matchups particularly in the East (barring the Bucks) Embiid will be the best player on the court. A Full Season of James Harden 2022 is the year Embiid finally got an elite secondary scoring option, with James Harden arriving from Brooklyn via trade for Ben Simmons. Harden’s performances for Brooklyn and his lacklustre efforts in the playoffs for the Sixers suggest his prime Houston Rockets self is long gone, but he remains a capable secondary option on a championship-contending team. Hampered by a hamstring injury during the 2021 playoffs, Harden seemingly lost his explosiveness, which was a key staple in his prime. In recent press conferences, he has talked about this summer is the first time in a year and a half in which he has been healthy, focusing on losing weight and building muscle mass. Could we perhaps see a return to the Houston Harden? It may be too early to predict that, but a healthy Harden is a huge plus for the Sixers. He may have lost some of his explosiveness, but he remains an elite three-level scorer, drawing double teams, while he has sharpened his playmaking in recent years, averaging ten assists per game over the past two years. Harden and Embiid have established a dominant partnership. Their proficient pick-and-roll game and ability to attract double teams, meant last season when on the court together the Sixers outscored their opponents by 15.5 points per 100 possessions. With both fit heading into the new season, they should be enough to win most regular season matchups in the East. A Bolstered Squad Embiid’s health may be the decider whether they can truly win, but it is outside their best two players that the Sixers improved themselves from playoff hopefuls to expected title challengers. Tyrese Maxey’s career progression suggests he should have a borderline all-star year as the tertiary player on this team. Last season he averaged 17.5 ppg with 4.3 assists on 48% shooting. A fast, shoot-first guard, with playmaking abilities, makes Maxey the perfect understudy to Harden who can take over when Harden is off the court. The biggest weakness for Sixers last season was their depth. Doc Rivers insistence on playing five bench player line-ups during games was a key area in which the Miami Heat were able to take over their series and send the Sixers home. During the off-season Harden opted out of his $47 million dollar player option, to sign a team-friendly deal, allowing Morey to sign important role players. Errol Spence Jr Believes The WBC Will Reinstate Conor Benn Into Their Rankings NFL Championship Week Review Sixers incoming offseason moves: PJ Tucker, Danuel House Jr and Montrezl Harrell (via free agency) De’Anthony Melton (via trade with Memphis, Danny Green and the 23rd pick in the 2022 draft) These incomings have bolstered the Sixers squad and bench to one of the best in the league. Acquiring Tucker from the Heat, weakens a conference rival, while also giving the team some much-needed size. This is necessary as aside for Embiid, the Sixers struggled with rebounding and defending forwards/centers when Embiid was off the court. Tucker’s tenacity as a defender will be extremely valuable. His ability to play center will allow Doc Rivers to rest Embiid during the regular season, and possibly experiment with some interesting small ball line-ups. Harrell like Tucker will provide the team with some much-needed rebounding, he also should form a good pick-and-roll partnership with Harden and Maxey. House Jr provides a solid wing option, with the ability for spot-up shooting, a key skill when playing with Harden and Embiid due to their knack of creating open looks for others. De’Anthony Melton is a great addition, a tenacious defender, who alongside Matisse Thybulle will cause offensive guards and wings major issues. The two led the league in steal percentage (rate of times an opponent’s possession ended in a steal against them) last season, proving the nightmare potential their opponents will face. The Sixers have come out of the summer a more rounded and deeper team. Tobias Harris is a solid fourth option, while the likes of Thybulle, Paul Reed, Georges Niang and Furkan Korkmaz with the new acquisitions, will be able to play to their strengths in more comfortable roles. What are the Sixers weaknesses? Ultimately the two biggest factors weighing against the Sixers are their teams’ health and Doc Rivers. The health of key players has already been touched upon, but their coach Doc Rivers has not. A championship winner with Boston in 2008, this current Sixers roster is not Doc’s first loaded team in the past 15 years. In fact, Rivers has been at the helm of some of the greatest assembled rosters that failed in the playoffs. His Clippers teams between 2014-17 and 2020 capitulated under pressure when they were clearly the more talented team in each scenario. Rivers has come under scrutiny in those campaigns and with the Sixers, for his inability to alter tactics mid-game. This was exampled in the Sixers sorry elimination to the Heat last season, where Rivers kept rolling out an all-bench team, who were continuously overwhelmed on rebounds and lost any hold in the games. The Sixers are strong enough and deep enough for Rivers coaching deficiencies to be a non-factor in the regular season but come the playoffs, the microscope will be on Rivers and whether he can make the most of this talented roster he has at his disposal. The blocks in the way of success for the Sixers may be large, but this team led by Joel Embiid and James Harden, should not be underestimated when predicting who will win it all this season. Expect the Sixers to have one of the best records in the East (50-plus wins should be a guarantee) and a deep run in the playoffs, if everything runs smoothly. And maybe, just maybe could they bring the NBA championship back to Philly for the first time in 40 years. Updated: Feb 1, 2023 Errol Spence Jr is under the impression the WBC will reinstate Conor Benn into their rankings... Updated: Feb 1, 2023 Conference Championship week in the NFL. Essentially the “semi-finals” for the Super Bowl. We are now... Does Drive To Survive Do More Damage Than Justice? Updated: Feb 1, 2023 Season 5 of Netflix’s popular Formula 1 documentary series returns, unfortunately to many, on the 24th... France: Six Nations Preview Updated: Feb 1, 2023 French rugby is experiencing a golden period, with a young side brimming with verve and confidence.... 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Home » Private Music Lessons » Brass & Winds Bassoon Lessons Tracy McGinnis Tracy McGinnis started playing the bassoon when she took the instrument over from a graduating senior in the high school band. She attended the University of Delaware where she received a Bachelor of Music Education degree and then continued her studies at the Vienna International Music Center in Vienna, Austria, studying with Reinhard Öhlberger of the Vienna Philharmonic. She also has a Masters in Bassoon Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. Her principal teachers include Mordechai Rechtman, Sol Schoenbach, and Frank Morelli. Ms. McGinnis worked abroad for six years, first in the National Radio Symphony of South Africa and then in the Haifa, Kibbutz, and Rishon LeZion Symphony Orchestras in Israel. While in Israel, she also had the pleasure of performing several times with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. Currently, she freelances all over New England and has performed with several of the area orchestras and chamber groups. She is principal bassoonist of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra in New London, CT, the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra in Milford, MA, and is on the music faculty of Wellesley College. She joined the Joy of Music faculty in the summer of 2022. Private Lessons: Bassoon, Piano Registration & Calendar Beginning Recorder Double Bass (classical and jazz) Suzuki Guitar Music Classes & Workshops Joy of Music Program 1 Gorham Street, Worcester, MA 01605 Office: 508-856-9541 • Fax: 508-856-0983 ©2023 Joy of Music Program • Designed by Daedal Creations, Inc. • Site Hosting by www.sherwoodweb.com History/Impact Administrative Staff & Board Youth Registration Form Adult Registration Form Tuition & Policies Children's Chorus Intergenerational Chorus Saturday JOMP Start Baby JOMP Kinder JOMP Tot JOMP Sing, Circle, Boom! Sing & Sway Birth to 4 Tue Music & Movement 3 & 4 Wed Music & Movement 5-6 Mon Tue JOMP Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta Strings JOMSE String Ensemble 1 Faculty Past Concerts Student Past Concerts Music To Go ~ Faculty Trios in the Public Schools	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.528062641620636, "wiki_prob": 0.471937358379364, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1520036"}
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2011/04/bellator-champ-askren-aims-to-take-out-over-the-hill-thompson-at-bellator-40 Bellator champ Askren aims to take out "over the hill" Thompson at Bellator 40 Steven Marrocco April 9, 2011 12:00 am ET You can’t say Bellator welterweight champion Ben Askren (7-0 MMA, 4-0 BFC) doesn’t shoot from the hip. Askren thinks his next opponent, Nick Thompson (38-13-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC), whom he faces Saturday at Bellator 40 in a non-title fight, has a lot of experience and has some good wins and some bad losses in a 50-fight career. But there’s an asterisk next to that assessment. Said the champ: “My personal opinion is that he’s over the hill.” There wasn’t a slight tinge of hesitation or bite to Askren’s voice when he spoke Wednesday to MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) about the fight, which takes place at First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla. He simply believes Thompson is a speedbump on his way to greater glory. They’re words of a confident man, to be sure, but not exactly those of a fighter frothing at the mouth for his next trip to the cage. Askren, though, is just keeping it real. “I get up for every fight,” said Askren, who headlines Saturday’s MTV2 broadcast. “That’s the mark of a champion – someone who does as well as they can every single match. They bring the heat every time, and that’s what I’m going to do.” The man dubbed “Funky” has a similarly blunt assessment of where he stands in his professional career. He came into the sport two years ago as a hot prospect with Olympic-caliber wrestling credentials, and it took but three professional fights before Bellator snatched him up. Since then, he’s outworked four opponents en route to winning the promotion’s season-two welterweight tournament and its title. But he has yet to fight ranked opponents who would boost his stock in the welterweight division. It’s impossible, anyway, for him to get too high on lists because most of them reside in the UFC. Askren predicts Jay Hieron will meet Rick Hawn in the finals of Bellator’s season-four welterweight tournament next month. If he can prove his assessment of Thompson is true – and maybe even if he can’t – he thinks a fight with Hieron will be a better booster to his ranking. He’s 26 years old, and why wait to get cracking? “I don’t feel I’ve done anything to warrant a higher ranking than I have right now,” Askren said. “I feel like what I have is fair. But I definitely feel that if you put me in the cage with a lot of guys … above me, I can more than handle myself.” That means the veteran Thompson is in a prime position to deflate the confident youngster. A full-time lawyer and part-time fighter, “The Goat” has been on a skid as of late with three consecutive losses in his most recent fights. But that, as well as Askren’s public confidence, could provide just the fire needed to deliver an upset. Thompson doesn’t actually disagree with Askren’s assessment of his current career. But he’s got an asterisk that he’d like to add. “I think it’s definitely true that I’m on the downside of my career now,” a depleted Thompson told MMAjunkie.com just after weighing in for the fight. “Although I think he’s still on the uphill; I don’t think he’s reached his potential. “We’ll see where the rubber meets the road. And frankly, his opinion doesn’t make one difference as to whether I can knock him out or submit him. Most of the guys I’ve knocked out thought they were better than me.” The fuzzy-haired Askren just isn’t seeing that. “I’m going to have my way with him,” he said. For more on Bellator 40, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site. MMAjunkie.com Radio broadcasts Monday-Friday at noon ET (9 a.m. PT) live from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino’s Race & Sports Book. The show is hosted by Gorgeous George, MMAjunkie.com lead staff reporter John Morgan and producer Goze. For more information or to download past episodes, go to www.mmajunkie.com/radio. At Bellator 292, the lightweight grand prix kicks off, a heavyweight title eliminator takes place, and now MVP returns. Bellator champ Usman Nurmagomedov says Khabib still giving him coaching advice: 'He's my brother' Farah Hannoun and Nolan King Usman Nurmagomedov says Khabib will still help him out despite not being in his corner at Bellator 292. More Bellator	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9717009663581848, "wiki_prob": 0.9717009663581848, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1794775"}
BREAKING: Former FBI… BREAKING: Former FBI General Counsel James Baker Has Flipped! Durham is Building Conspiracy Case on All of Those Who Lied to the Court! Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the Howie Carr Show this week and he provided some more inside information regarding General Flynn’s case and the unraveling of the coup to remove President Trump from office. Former US Attorney was on with Howie Carr again this week and he dropped some more bombshells about the current investigation of the investigators involved in removing President Trump and his team from office. diGenova discussed the Durham investigation and said at the 5:30 mark that Durham is building a conspiracy case and anyone who lied to the court will be indicted for obstruction of justice charges: The bottom line is this, it’s unfolding and what’s happening is, what Durham is actually doing is he’s painting a picture and not everyone of these acts is going to be a specific separate crime. But they are going to be, what’s called overt acts in a conspiracy. One to defraud the United States government. One to deny the civil rights of Trump and Flynn and Page and a bunch of other people. At the 8:55 mark deGenova drops another bomb when discussing the notes that were released today that show the government was actively working to frame General Flynn: DiGenova: You know Baker is now working with Durham. James Baker the former General Counsel. Carr: He’s flipped? DiGenova: Who was a target, is now understandably cooperating because he was looking at a boat load of criminal charges. Once these notes were discovered, and by the way, these were the notes that [FBI Director] Chris Wray and Dana Boente did not want turned over. At the 10:30 mark, diGenova discussed the General Flynn case that is falling apart on the Mueller gang as we speak. Hero General Flynn was set up and framed by Obama’s Deep State. He was illegally spied on and coerced into a guilty plea by the Mueller gang and his then attorneys by threatening to arrest and indict his son. Neither Flynn or his son committed any crimes. During a status hearing before his sentencing date, the judge overseeing his case went crazy, accusing General Flynn of treason. deGenova explains: I have no idea what’s in the mind of Judge Emmet Sullivan who used to seem like he was a really disinterested kind of noble guy. He proved that right in the Ted Stevens case. But his comments during the final status hearing before he set a sentencing date for General Flynn were so awful and so fundamentally stupid and we found out, we did an analysis, my Victoria and I did an analysis of the statements he made on the record. We got the transcript. Remember when he came out and he accused the General of committing treason and started asking him a series of questions that the prosecutors, who were fumbling, they didn’t know how to answer him? He said in a series of statements, the judge did, exact words, line for line that Rachel Maddow had said the night before on her show when commenting on the upcoming Flynn hearing. It’s scary and if that’s what this guy is looking at before he comes out on the bench, he came out after a break and apologized for using the word treason, but his conduct since then has been bizarre. I don’t know whether the guy’s sick, old or not ready for prime time anymore. It seems to be a disease that’s prominent in Washington DC. Biden can’t talk. Pelosi can’t talk. The judge in the Flynn case can’t talk. It’s amazing. deGenova went on to suggest that the President is going to pardon Roger Stone or do something before he’s put in jail. The judge in that case, Amy Berman Jackson, was horrible, as we’ve reported numerous times at this news site. Obama’s crooks in the Deep State FBI, DOJ and Intel communities cannot go to jail soon enough. If they committed treason, they should be dealt with promptly.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6290774345397949, "wiki_prob": 0.6290774345397949, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line879536"}
World’s Highest Battlefield Siachen Is Now Open To Tourists Radhakrishna The Siachen Glacier at the height of around 20,000 feet (ft) in the Karakoram range is known as the highest militarised zone in the world where the soldiers have to battle frostbite and high winds (Photo: ANNIRUDHA MOOKERJEE/AFP via Getty Images). By: Radhakrishna NS THE Indian government on Monday (21) announced that the Siachen area, the world’s highest battlefield, is now open to tourists. Country’s defence minister Rajnath Singh said the government has decided to open the entire area from Siachen base camp to Kumar Post for tourism purposes. The step has been taken to boost tourism in Ladakh and give people a window to appreciate the tough work done by soldiers and engineers in extreme weather and inhospitable terrains, he said. Singh was addressing a function in eastern Ladakh to inaugurate Col Chewang Rinchin Bridge on Shyok River, located about 45 kilometres from the county’s border with China. “The Ladakh MP in his address, mentioned about opening this area to tourism. And, I am happy to share that the government has decided to open a route from Siachen Base Camp to Kumar Post for tourists,” the minister said. “This step will make them appreciate the efforts put in by jawans, engineers and other workers,” he said. Singh later tweeted, “The Siachen area is now open for tourists and Tourism. From Siachen Base to Kumar Post, the entire area has been opened for Tourism purposes”. The Siachen Glacier at the height of around 20,000 feet (ft) in the Karakoram range is known as the highest militarised zone in the world where the soldiers have to battle frostbite and high winds Avalanches and landslides are common at the glacier during the winters and temperatures can drop to as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius At the bridge inauguration, Singh said only steel and concrete have not gone into its making, but “sweat and valour” of the engineers and workers of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) too. They have toiled hard and people should know their stories, Singh said. The 1400-ft long bridge is the highest altitude permanent bridge that will connect Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldi and reduce travel time by about half. The Indian Army had moved a proposal for opening up Siachen to tourists with a focus to showcase the working conditions of troops serving in the sector, and the government gave its nod, according to sources. According to official figures, the Army lost 163 personnel at the world’s highest battlefield during the last 10 years. India and Pakistan started deploying troops at the strategically key glacier in 1984 and mountaineering expeditions were allowed till then. The Glacier came under the strategic control of India in 1984 following ‘Operation Meghdoot’. Former northern command chief Lt Gen (retd) BS Jaswal, however, feels that environmental issues will be a matter of concern. “Tourism and other activities will see a surge in waste dumping. This will hasten glacier retreat. Due to the presence of the Army, a lot of non-biodegradable waste is already present there and every day, about 1,000 kg is being added,” Lt Gen Jaswal said. He said that while opportunities will open up the doors for revenue generation for locals as also the government, keeping the security in view, red lines will have to be drawn to restrict areas for visits. This being a very sensitive area, security issues, especially concerning foreigners, will have to be factored in, he added. At the same time, the former army commander said, it will also motivate the youngsters to join the Army. “They will learn that the forces can operate and sustain in extreme climate and very hostile terrain…. It will be a capability demonstration to our countrymen,” he added. Rahul Gandhi lashes out at Modi government budget: ‘No vision, no plan, no intent… PM… Adani loses Asia’s richest crown as stock rout deepens to $86b Biden believed to have invited PM Modi for state visit to US 3 common mistakes to avoid while eating fruits as per Ayurveda expert Speak out to bring offenders to justice, says London paramedic who was groped… P Chidambaram, who presented India’s ‘dream budget’ in 1997, blasts Modi govt’s 2023… Top Indian-American politician Nikki Haley plans to launch 2024 US presidential bid on… Narendra Modi govt presents last full-fledged budget before 2024 polls: Here are some… Modi praises Sitharaman budget, says it will fulfil dreams of poor, middle class	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9488208293914795, "wiki_prob": 0.9488208293914795, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line300312"}
Leaked Roadmap Reveals Intel’s Plan To Outperform Apple’s M1 Max By Late 2023 By Tyler Lee, on 02/24/2022 18:19 PST Based on multiple benchmarks and reviews, Intel is lagging behind Apple in terms of performance where the Apple Silicon appears to be not only outperforming Intel’s CPUs, but have also shown to be more energy efficient. If anything, this justifies Apple’s decision to ditch Intel and go with their own hardware. We imagine that Intel would be eager to get Apple back as a customer, or at the very least produce CPUs that can outperform Apple to show that they are still the best at what they do. Based on a leaked roadmap published by AdoredTV on Twitter, Intel plans to do that by late 2023. It wasn't a rumour, it was their plan. I talked with Intel engineers working on the project and I was also handed this slide a bit before then. If they are no longer doing TSMC 3nm its a decision made since the video. pic.twitter.com/zr0FojtCv6 — Jim (@AdoredTV) February 22, 2022 The roadmap suggests that the company believes that by late 2023 and with the launch of their Arrow Lake processors, they will be able to create a CPU that will be able to outperform that of Apple’s M1 Max chipset, which at the moment is the most powerful chipset Apple has made to date. However, we have to question Intel’s alleged plans. Sure, it is possible that in 2023 they will have a processor that could outperform the M1 Max, but by then, we imagine Apple will have created the M2 Max which obviously would be more powerful than the M1 Max, so if anything this only feels like Intel is playing catchup. It remains to be seen what kind of changes the M2 Max will offer, but the company is expected to launch the M2 this year so perhaps we’ll know a bit more by then. Filed in Apple >Computers. Read more about Apple Silicon and Intel. Source: appleinsider Lenovo Latest News Intel Core i9-13900T Shows Extraordinary Efficiency In Early Benchmarks MediaTek Hires Intel To Manufacture Chips Updated Lenovo Slim Laptops Get The Latest Tech M1 Ultra Leaked Benchmark Confirms Apple’s Performance Claims Intel Unveils A Blockchain Chip For More Efficient Crypto Mining	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9573667645454407, "wiki_prob": 0.9573667645454407, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line309533"}
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In compliance with social distancing rules, reinforcement of the electronic signature practice is observed and is predicted to increase by 24.6% within 10 years. More and more people are adapting to this change as digital becomes the new norm. Though digital is mainstream, there’s still a lot of confusion when it comes to these three terms – digital footprint, digital signature, and electronic signature. What is a Digital Footprint? A digital footprint is mostly confused with the other two terms because of the notion that “footprints” leave a mark, therefore concluding that these marks are the signature. Indeed, digital footprint leaves a mark but it does not entail a signature on a document, instead, it involves the trail and traces that the user leaves behind while using the internet. This mark can be on social media, on a website, forums, or chats and shows the identity of the user by the individual’s activities, communication, and behavior. This footprint can be “passive” or “active,” where passive means that the marks left are unintentional while active means intentionally submitting information online. Examples of a digital footprint are the user’s IP address collected on a website, personal information input on a shopping cart, an email sent, or shared images on social media. This cannot be erased completely but some information can be removed. What is an Electronic Signature? Comparable to a handwritten signature, an electronic signature may be a symbol or a written name in its digital format. It is usually attached to, inserted or written over an electronic document with the intention of the user to seal and sign the document for the purpose of the agreement. This is applied using electronic signature software or may also be in the form of an image taken from the actual physical handwritten signature. An electronic signature is preferred nowadays not only to save time but also to practice social distancing. Instead of holding a meeting to sign documents, users send these digital files online and allows users to sign it with online software. There is no need to print, sign then scan the document. Tools such as Adobe Reader or DeftPDF online can help users sign the document directly and easily. See also: How to add an Electronic Signature to your Document Old school users may question the legality of an electronic signature but actually, these signatures are recognized worldwide and are legally binding. The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and eIDAS Act was passed in 2000 and in 2016 with the acknowledgment that electronic signatures and records are valid in any transaction, given that the digital document is within standards. Handwritten signatures are replaced by these electronic signatures when documents are in its virtual form and plenty of people find that this is beneficial in terms of efficiency as it can fasten the transaction. 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Once they click it, it will redirect them to the document on the fill & sign tool here at DeftPDF so they can sign it right away. What is a digital signature? When a user sends over a sensitive document for signature, how does one know that the signature is authentic? This is where digital signatures come in. Basically, a digital signature is the authentication element in the virtual document assuring the receiver that the message came from the sender and was not edited in transit. Digital signatures contain asymmetric cryptography where security is added to the message. With this properly implemented, a digital signature can be recognized as equivalent to the handwritten signature and can also be encrypted using a private key. When we compare both signature and digital signature, we might get confused with both terms as they are very similar. In a gist, a digital signature is actually a type of electronic signature with additional security levels that include encryption and identity verification using technology to observe legal standards. With a digital signature, certificate-based digital IDs and public key infrastructures are used to back up the validation. While using basic electronic signatures is sufficient, plenty of users still find that using digital signatures benefits them including security and protection, gaining trust from clients, easy validation, and forgery detection. These are employed in various transactions including financial, distribution, contracts, and software. You don't have an account with us yet. You do not have an account? Forgot password? Sign-up with Google Already member? Log in?	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5444016456604004, "wiki_prob": 0.4555983543395996, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line654643"}
Tag: omnia pro Samsung gets official with the Omnia II, Omnia Pro & Omnia Lite We saw the majority of the details on these little devils from Samsung a little earlier on today but it’s always nice to get the official. Omnia II Ladies and germs, meet the Omnias – the latest family to move into smartphone street. First up is the Omnia II (I800), successor to the original Omnomnomnia.comcomcomnia. It’s got a very pretty 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, the same kind of 5-megapixel camera with CMOS sensor and the TouchWiz 2.0 interface to mask the joys of Windows Mobile 6.1. There’s the same fantastic audio and video codec support as on the Jet, and the other Omnias too as it goes, as well as A2DP Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and HSDPA too. All present and correct. A-GPS is in the house, as is a 3.5mm jack, you get a much better 1500 mAh battery than on the Jet and it measures a very similar sounding 118 x 60 x 11.9 mm. It’s available in 2GB/8GB/16GB sizes all expandable with microSD and all in all sounds like a decent buy. Omnia Pro Next up is the OmniaPRO B7610, or what we called the Louvre not too long ago, and it’s designed as a work/play combo machine. The hard QWERTY sets it out from the other handsets but there’s still a 5-megapixel CMOS camera and 3.5-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen to go with it. It’s compatible with all Office apps and works with Opera Mini 9.5. It still does all the tricks available on the Omnia II but there’s only the 1GB of expandable storage and the keyboard does make it a little chunkier at 12.6 x 57.8 x 16.2 mm. Omnia Lite The Lite does what it says on the tin. It’s a slightly stripped down, and probably cheaper, version of the Omnia II. Again, generous on the codecs but a lower resolution and still impressive sounding 3-megapixel CMOS sensor camera to play with. Just a 3-inch WQVGA display this time around though. There’s a smaller 250MB of expandable storage but the 107 x 51.8 x 12.9 mm, 103g phone has still got that big old 1500 mAh battery which should mean it lasts you a good while. If you like a Samsung phone, then today has officially been your lucky day. Samsung press releases 15th June 2009 2nd July 2020 Daniel Sung Mobile phones Rumour: Samsung Omnia Pro with QWERTY keyboard On top of dropping Android handsets into the rumour mill this morning, Samsung’s also throwing in an entry into the rumpus that’ll be occurring this summer between the HTC Magic, new iPhone, Palm Pre, and Nokia N97. The Omnia Pro is just a rumour at the moment, but what a rumour – a 3.5″ AMOLED display and 5-megapixel camera combine with a slide-out QWERTY to make a tasty set of specs. Apparently it’ll be running Windows Mobile 6.1, but that’ll be upgradable to 6.5 when it’s released. Best of all, it’s on the cards to cost very little – just €500. Whether that’ll give it an advantage in a market that’s more focused on specs than price remains to be seen, but the “current economic climate” should help. (via Engadget) 27th April 2009 Duncan Geere Mobile phones	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.569545328617096, "wiki_prob": 0.43045467138290405, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1699848"}
Band:LARRY MILLER Album:LIVE AND OUTLAWED Label:BIG GUITAR Larry Miller has produced six studio albums to critical acclaim but live is what Larry does best and there is a barnstormer of a live set on this album. Many of the live favourites are present including the best version of ‘Messin’ With The Kid’ since Rory Gallagher’s ‘Live In Europe’ album. Larry’s original songs are amongst the best in contemporary blues/rock. From power rockers to heartfelt ballads and the blues. Whether exciting on fire solos, memorable riffs, flowing lead or vocal outpourings, Larry delivers with passion. Very few live albums convey the heat of the moment and you can’t help get drawn into the live arena. You can sense the heat and feel the sweat from Larry and the audience. He’s a real showman and you’re taken along on this live ride every inch of the way. In a live review ‘Classic Rock Presents The Blues’ magazine said “Larry gets 70’s Blues Rock when many others don’t” and Guitar And Bass magazine said “Blues Rock brilliance….. Put Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore and SRV in the ring together and you'd be close…..” Those who like Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Walter Trout and Joe Bonamassa, need to have this album ! Band:MAN OR ASTROMAN? Album:DEFCON 5..4..3..2..1 Genre:Surf / Beat / Instrumental Man or Astro‐Man? have returned to earth for the human masses and after years of hibernation they are now unveiling their finest recorded work to date. It has been nearly 12 years since the band last released their intergalactic sonic wave forms, and the new album, Defcon 5...4...3...2...1, is here with a striking validity that the band is unquestionably as both tuneful and energetic as they ever have been. The record combines ever‐familiar Astro audio tones and the well‐established playing ferocity that MOAM? are known for, but yet now, there is an undeniable evolution to the band that is both intuitive, logical, and well crafted. Defcon is here and is here with imminent purpose. Always known as an unstoppably powerful live band, in 2010, the original lineup of Birdstuff, Coco and Star Crunch reformed to play a series of shows, and since then, they have been putting on some of the best performances of their careers. Recorded with longtime Astro copilot, Steve Albini in Chicago, IL and also with Daniel Farris of Denial Labs in Birmingham, AL, the new album finds the band bringing their unique powerful style of Science Friction back to greater humanity in supreme form. It seems Man or Astro‐Man? haven’t missed a beat, and the newly recorded material finds the band being as inventive and propulsive as ever. Put on your space helmet and strap in. The countdown begins now... Produced by Steve Albini ; This is the band's first new work in 12 Years and it does not dissapoint! Album:NECEHSHIRION The duo that comprise Canada’s newest black metal disciples, GEVURAH, are an entity who embrace the true essence of the genre. Because of this, they have set themselves up as the next disciples and promising entity in North America to uphold the true values of black metal; values that honor and give praise to the dark lord through uncompromising and sophisticated black metal art. Black metal art that is of course presented in an intellectual manner. “Necheshirion” is GEVURAH’s debut EP and features five hymns (including a cover of Malign’s “Entering Timeless Halls”) of elite Satanic black metal art clocking in at 33 minutes, reminiscent of the vibe of such black metal acts as Deathspell Omega, Funeral Mist, and Watain (“Causus Luciferi” era). Band:LIAR IN WAIT Album:TRANSLATIONS OF THE LOST Formed by WOLVHAMMER band mates, vocalist Adam Clemans and guitarist Jeff Wilson (also of Chrome Waves, Doomsday, ex-Nachtmystium), with friends of theirs from Minneapolis (who dwell in the band Mourner and Iron Thrones respectively), LIAR IN WAIT is a new band that sees the accomplished musicians tap into their admiration for classic ’80s goth/darkwave in the vein of bands like The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Sisters Of Mercy, and Fields Of The Nephilim. The result being a moving four song EP (limited to 1000 units) that captures the dark, brooding, and gutwrenching melancholy that the above bands employed during their classic moments of glory. “Translations Of The Lost” is just the beginning statement of this promising new band, comprised of musicians rooted in underground metal, that will tap into a new energy and movement in dark music. Band:JAMES McCARTNEY Album:ME Following a year that introduced him to international success in 2012, JAMES McCARTNEY now heads towards an exciting and unprecedented 2013––a year that will see him release his first full-length album and embark on a forty-seven date, twenty-seven state tour of the USA, to be followed by a number of additional shows and appearances across Europe. McCartney is fresh off the release of his two digital-only EPs, Available Light and Close At Hand, as well as his first physical release, The Complete EP Collection, a special two-disc package that includes the debut EPs in their entirety along with five bonus tracks. Now, James McCartney is set to release his excellent first full-length album, "Me", on June 3rd. “The younger McCartney’s promising pop-rock tunes make clear he’s learned a few lessons about melody, phrasing, and charm.” - The Boston Globe Band:WHITE WILLOW Album:IGNIS FATUUS Label:Termo First time CD reissue of this classic and seminal 1995 prog-folk album by Norway’s White Willow. One of the albums that initiated the 3rd Wave of prog rock in the 90’s along with Änglagård, Anekdoten and Spock’s Beard. With exclusive extra CD of previously unreleased material. First time reissue on CD, been OOP for many years. Historically important album, part of the revival of prog in the 90’s. Influence on numerous later prog bands, and an album that has been praised by people like Cathedral’s Lee Dorrian and Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt. Also one of the earliest freak-folk albums, seen as a precursor to bands like Espers and Circulus. Mixture of retro prog w/mellotrons, moogs etc. and medieval folk with crumhorns, flutes, harmoniums etc. Extensive liner notes by Sid Smith, author of “In the Court of King Crimson” and journalist in Prog Magazine. This release features the original album, remastered, and an extra CD of previously unreleased material incl. demos, outtakes and live recording. Album:AT THE DAWN OF A NEW MILLENIUM Band retrospective from 1992-2000 finally available again! Canadian act MYSTERY are one of contemporary Progressive Rock's biggest bands, and last year's "The World Is A Game" album firmly cemented their reputation as one of the natural heirs to the legacy of genre legends such as Yes and Rush. This is the re-mastered Digi-pack edition of the 2000 release, replacing previous versions. Band:ULVER Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN - 2012 Label:ROADBURN Early pioneers of Norwegian black metal Ulver have continually evolved over the years to become living legends of the dark music genre. By blending rock, electronic, industrial and symphonic traditions along with ambient soundscapes and experimental sounds, the band has created truly groundbreaking material. Ulver returned with Childhood’s End, a collection of classic psychedelic tracks recorded by the band during various sessions starting in late 2008 and ending in late 2011. “This is the stuff that we sit at home and get stoked about,” Kristoffer Ryggexplained in an interview. “I grew up with parents who were still listening to music from the time, so it informed my childhood, but it has became an ever increasing geeky sort of fetish since then.” This passion for Sixties garage rock and psychedelia and the countless underground gems that remain unknown to many inspired the band to record their own interpretations of some of their favorite songs from the era. “My feeling is that most people’s knowledge sort of limits itself to The Doors,” said Rygg, “The Doors were cool, but there was so much else going on in the underground, records that got lost and didn’t get as much recognition as they deserved in my opinion.” Ulver performed the tracks from Childhood’s End for the first and only time live at Roadburn 2012. This “1967” performance, mixed by Kristoffer Rygg and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano, will be released on 2LP and CD.t Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN - 2012 - LP Ulver returned with Childhood’s End, a collection of classic psychedelic tracks recorded by the band during various sessions starting in late 2008 and ending in late 2011. “This is the stuff that we sit at home and get stoked about,” Kristoffer Ryggexplained in an interview. “I grew up with parents who were still listening to music from the time, so it informed my childhood, but it has became an ever increasing geeky sort of fetish since then.” This passion for Sixties garage rock and psychedelia and the countless underground gems that remain unknown to many inspired the band to record their own interpretations of some of their favorite songs from the era. “My feeling is that most people’s knowledge sort of limits itself to The Doors,” said Rygg, “The Doors were cool, but there was so much else going on in the underground, records that got lost and didn’t get as much recognition as they deserved in my opinion.” Ulver performed the tracks from Childhood’s End for the first and only time live at Roadburn 2012. Their “1967” performance, mixed by Kristoffer Rygg and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano, will be released on ltd 2LP vinyl on 3rd June. Band:THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION Album:ROADBURN The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the heavy droning improv incarnation of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. The music taps into the blistering low-frequency guitar soundscapes, augmented with smatterings of electronic skullduggery and eruptions of cello and trombone. The overall effect of this ensemble conjures expansive sonic wastelands which seem to heighten in sludgy intensity as the sessions go on. Combining subtlety with mightily impressive cinematicsounding climaxes. Across draughty plateaus of bottom-heavy bluster, arcs of grim string instruments sound out, making for a surprisingly digestible bout of improvisational doom.T.M.F.D.J.C release their 5th live album 'Roadburn'. Recorded live April 12th 2012 at the famous Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, where the Corporation had the honor of opening on the main stage on Sunday at the Festival's Afterburner. 'Roadburn' is The Corporations heaviest and darkest journey into abstract alien industrial territories. During this show the animations of Harry Smith guided the band through this darkened journey of colossal darkness… Album:ROADBURN - LP The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the heavy droning improv incarnation of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. The music taps into the blistering low-frequency guitar soundscapes, augmented with smatterings of electronic skullduggery and eruptions of cello and trombone. The overall effect of this ensemble conjures expansive sonic wastelands which seem to heighten in sludgy intensity as the sessions go on. Combining subtlety with mightily impressive cinematicsounding climaxes. Across draughty plateaus of bottom-heavy bluster, arcs of grim string instruments sound out, making for a surprisingly digestible bout of improvisational doom.T.M.F.D.J.C release their 5th live album 'Roadburn'. Recorded live April 12th 2012 at the famous Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, where the Corporation had the honor of opening on the main stage on Sunday at the Festival's Afterburner. 'Roadburn' is The Corporations heaviest and darkest journey into abstract alien industrial territories. During this show the animations of Harry Smith guided the band through this darkened journey of colossal darkness…LTD VINYL LP. Band:KINGS DESTROY Album:A TIME OF HUNTING Label:WAR CRIMES RECORDINGS KINGS DESTROY is a twisted, thundering gang of musicians whom Decibel magazine astutely described as “a literal who’s-who of the New York underground stoner doom scene. The principle members of Kings Destroy have been playing together in New York City hardcore bands and heavy music projects - Breakdown, Killing Time, Uppercut, Begotten, At A Loss, Electric Frankenstein - since as far back as 1986. Village Voice - "Fueled mainly by Sabbath's grooves, Sleep's foggy haze, and Yob's oppressive thunder.” The Obleisk.net as “strange and eerie and kind of off the wall stylistically, and it doesn’t really sound like anything else out there...Rarely will I go so far as to call something unique. This album is.” The Sludge Lord - "Kings Destroy is one of the most important bands coming from the Doom/Stoner Metal scene." For fans of Kyuss, Neurosis, Soundgarden and Kylesa Band:CORRECTIONS HOUSE Album:HOAX THE SYSTEM Burning World Records is proud to release the debut single from Corrections House, Hoax The System, for Europe. In the US the single will be released by on Parker and Lamont’s War Crime Recordings label. Corrections House is a metal supergroup featuring Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Sanford Parker (Nachtmystium), and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza/Bloodiest). ‘There’s really no way to sum up the sound of Corrections House. If you listen to each one of the members’ individual projects, then you can maybe get an idea if you just imagine a nice blend of the four of them. It’s not metal, it’s not industrial, and it’s certainly not easily classified. But overall, it’s pure genius!‘ (Zero Tolerance Magazine) Album:CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - OST. Label:PLANETWORKS Genre:TV and MOVIE Riz Ortolani's score for Cannibal Holocaust has been eagerly sought after by aficionados of film music as well as fans of B-Horror! Here is the creepy soundtrack to Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato's bloody, eye-gouging death fest from 1980. The soundtrack houses a myriad of interesting styles-from gentle acoustic melodies to over-the-top synth excursions and even lounge, jazz and disco influenced tracks. There is a certain moog sound repeated through the CD that will eventually get under your skin like a school of leeches in the amazon. There is a full range of styles and arrangements which take you a sanguine jungle journey of emotions... Come back....to CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST! Released in an excellent digipak! Album:PULP AND POP CULTURE This is the first RockBeat “Pulp and Pop Culture” box set, compiled after sorting through the vastness of the vinyl landfill for this collection of rare and unique tracks. In the day, some felt the performances were too raw, there wasn't enough payola and the subject matters was too far out to get broad exposure but these tracks represent the heart and soul of what made rock and roll fun in the 50s and 60s. The songs are compiled thematically and the subject of each song is based on what was happening in pulp and pop culture at the time. “Rock and Roll Invasion” deals with the space race and aliens, “Voodoo Dolls” the fascination with horror and occult films, “Teenage Rebels” is a response to the new concept of juvenile delinquents and “Wild Guitar Instrumentals” is a response to the uninhibited growth of rock ‘n’ roll. " In the Eisenhower era, we had b/w television with just 3 stations so we were glued to our radios and this box set is a digital reboot of those times, bringing a plethora of passionate, off‐kilter recordings to be enjoyed all over again. And to further connect yourself to the past, we’ve packaged these in mini LP jackets and a hard bound box." The most comprehensive compilation of rare 50s and 60s rock n roll pulp and pop culture available ; The greatest compilation of music related to outer space and aliens, voodoo culture, teenage rebellion and edgy instrumental guitar tracks available. Album:BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD - US PSYCHEDELIC GEMS FROM THE UNDERGROUND 1967-1973 Label:VINYL FRONTIER A remarkable selection of some of the rarest Psychedelic independent singles to ever be put together on one compilation. It features amazing tracks that have never been comped before including a track by Tomy Bolin prior to Deep Purple inclusion. The album has been compiled by Psychedelic enthusiasts with an ear for what Psyche fans will want to hear so not only are the tracks rare but guaranteed to please: making this a quality Psychedelic compilation that is a must have for any Psyche fan. Exclusive rarest psychedelic tracks ever released and presented in compilation for the very first time: some of these on vinyl change hands for huge sums! Tracks - 1 WHOS NUTS ALFRED J.D Blackfoot 2 EPITAPH FOR A HEAD J.D Blackfoot 3 COLOUR ME COLUMBUS Johnny Thompson 4 COLOUR ME COLUMBUTH Johnny Thompson 5 GOOD TIMES YES Nobody’s Children 6 SOMEBODY TO HELP ME Nobody’s Children 7 JUST IF SHES THERE Dennis and The Times 8 FLIGHT PATTERNS Dennis And The Times 9 I SHALL WALK Tom Dae Turned On 10 IT COULD BE SO NICE Tom Dae 11 HEAD/ STEAMSHOVEL Marshmellow Steamshovel 12 CITY JUNGLE The Beautiful Daze 13 CITYJUNGLE The Beautiful Daze 14 LONG HAIR SOULFUL The Bhagavad Vita c 15 LONG HAIR SOULFUL (instrumental) Bhagavad Vita 16 REFERENCE MAN The Chateaux 17 REFERENCE MAN (SEPARATE TRACK) The Chateaux 18 GROUND ZERO The Darkseid 19 LAND OF THE DARKER SUN The Darkseid 20 CANT SEEM TO COME DOWN Mother’s Worry 21 FUNKY GOOD Mother’s Worry Band:BELL WITCH Album:LONGING - LP Vinyl edition of the Profound Lore release..one of the most important doom titles of 2012. Bell Witch is a minimalist doom duo from Seattle comprised of drummer Adrian Guerra and bassist Dylan Desmond (of Samothrace fame). Uniquely sorrowful, Bell Witch is as much akin to Skepticism as they are to Codeine. Longing is an hour and 10 minutes of doomed desolation, sadness, and sorrow. Originally released on CD and digital formats by Profound Lore Records, Longing was one of the most important doom albums of 2012 featured on numerous year end lists. By creating massive, epic, and crushing soundscapes of doom, all this merely with just bass, drums, and a dual vocal pummel, “Longing” expands on the promise BELL WITCH laid down with their 2011 demo , which was seen as one of the best doom metal demos of last year. “Longing” (which features guest vocals by Erik Moggridge of Aerial Ruin on the track ‘Rows’) is a slow, time-stretching trodden journey through sounds of darkness, pain, and suffering and serves as one of the saddest, morose, and most despondent, stripped down, doom metal releases of the year. Longing will be released as a gatefold double album housed in a thick, old-style case wrapped jackets and comes with a gatefold insert. Album:SHINDIG NO 33 THE SEEDS Children Of The Future: It's a Psych-Out with the LA flower-punks SANDIE SHAW Queen of the Brit girls MARSUPILAMI Underground West Country rock THE THIRD POWER Heavy psych from Detroit YOU AM I Australia's best kept secret Plus KIM FOWLEY • FRANCOISE HARDY • MATT BERRY PIED PIPER RECORDS • MICHAEL CHAPMAN • LED ZEPPELIN... Avaialble form all good independent stores and mail orders. Album:FLASHBACK ISSUE 3 Label:FLASHBACK Edited by Richard Morton Jack, FLASHBACK has fast established itself as one of the world’s leading rock history magazines, with renowned contributors including Richie Unterberger, Patrick Lundborg, David Wells and Aaron Milenski. The third issue’s cover stars are MIGHTY BABY, and the accompanying feature includes full interviews with all their members, as well as several other figures close to them. Also inside are features on SYD BARRETT and the making of The Madcap Laughs, TRIPSICHORD MUSIC BOX, THE COMMON PEOPLE, OTTILIE PATTERSON, NICK DRAKE, GRAHAM BOND, THE BEATLES, SANDY ROBERTON's folk-rock stable, 50 overlooked singer-songwriters, the rock memoir industry, mono v. stereo, and much more. It’s 212 pages long and full-colour throughout, with masses of new research, rare images and vintage music paper reprints. Available from all good independents and mail orders. Band:DEAFHAVEN / BOSSE DE NAGE Album:DEAFHEAVEN/BOSSE DE NAGE The Flenser is proud to release to a split album by the two best minimalist black metal bands from the Bay Area: Deafheaven and Bosse-de-Nage. The split features two tracks—Deafheaven's cover of Mogwai's "Punk Rock / Cody" and Bosse-de-Nage’s new original track, "A Mimesis of Purpose"—and will be available on digital and 12 inch vinyl, mastered at 45 RPM. Deafheaven hails from San Francisco and their last album, “Roads to Judah”, landed on countless "best of" lists for 2011, including #6 on NPR's Best Metal Albums, and #22 on Pitchfork's Top 40 Metal Albums. Esquire Magazine called the band "Brutal and bracing, with a shoegazing indie-rock band's ear for graceful melodicism.” Bosse-De-Nage is one of the most recent and intriguing enigmas to arise within the Bay Area underground music scene. The elusive four-piece can be best described as a band who combine influences that range from minimalist-outsider black metal, punk, and early ’90s indie art rock. Profound Lore recently released Bosse-de-Nage's third full length, dimly entitled, "iii." LTD VINYL LP Band:BOTANIST Album:1V MANDRAGORA Botanist, the unconventional one-man black metal band featuring vocals, drums, and hammered dulcimer instrumentation, is gearing up to release its fourth album, IV: Mandragora, on February 19th from experimental metal label The Flenser. Combining lyrical creativity and musical ingenuity, IV: Mandragora is a concept record on the alchemical creation of a mandrake, and how The Botanist is instructed on raising an army of mandrakes to wipe out humanity. The songs of Botanist are told from the perspective of The Botanist, a crazed man of science who lives in self-imposed exile, as far away from Humanity and its crimes against Nature as possible. In his sanctuary of fantasy and wonder, which he calls the Verdant Realm, he surrounds himself with plants and flowers, finding solace in the company of the Natural world, and envisioning the destruction of man. There, seated upon his throne of Veltheimia, The Botanist awaits the day when humans will either die or kill each other off, which will allow plants to make the Earth green once again. Botanist’s previous releases, I: The Suicide Tree, II: A Rose From The Dead (released July 2011 on tUMULt), and III: Doom in Bloom (TotalRust) have seen much critical acclaim; landing on lists such as NPR’s 25 Best Metal Albums of 2011, Metal Sucks Top 15 Metal Albums of 2011, Metal Injection’s Top 10 Releases of 2011, and an honorable mention on Pitchfork’s Top 40 Albums of 2011. The next chapter of Botanist, IV: Mandragora, is an eccentric and remarkable album and is sure to turn heads in 2013.LTD VINYL LP! Band:LEGENDARY PINK DOTS Album:GETHSEMANE OPTION Featuring distinctive vocals blended with hypnotic guitar, synth washes, and spellbinding bass pulses, The Gethsamane Option is a musical laudanum induced fever dream. The Legendary Pink Dots is an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream (in terms of their music and career path), LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently. The core members of the group, Edward Ka-Spel (vocals, keyboards, songwriter) and Phil Knight (a.k.a. The Silverman) (keyboards, electronics), are joined by Erik Drost (guitars) and Raymond Steeg (live sound engineer). The band’s debut for Metropolis Records, entitled The Gethsemane Option, is a seven song, hour long exploration in textural ambience and rock experimentalism. Featuring Ka-Spel’s distinctive vocals and lyrical imagery blended with hypnotic guitar and synth washes and spellbinding bass pulses, The Gethsamane Option is a musical laudanum induced fever dream. An enthralling, captivating release. Album:BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS Self-described "beer-dripping blues rock," BRUTUS are a Scandinavian quintet - part Swede, part Norwegian - who subscribe to the Witchcraft school of throwback hard rock. According to the band, inspiration is drawn from (amongst others) Blue Cheer, Sabbath, Pentagram, and Grand Funk Railroad. In other words: butterfingered, groovy, and psychedelic hard rock! Band:DARK BUDDHA Album:DAKHMANDAL Finnish occult psychedelic drone doom metal group Dark Buddha Rising are drenched in deep mystery, with no biographical information available. Described by Roadburn Festival as "sprawling dirge of doom metal and myriad cryptic incantations luring the listener into a trance of doom-induced sensory depravation", the band have released three self-financed full length albums (Ritual IX, Entheomorphosis, Abyssolute Transfinite) on vinyl only. The time has come for the fourth Dark Buddha opus Dakhmandal, for which the band chose to employ the services of the eclectic Finnish label Svart Records. Band:GROBSCHNITT Album:SYMPHONY LIVE In the summer of 2012 GROBSCHNITT climbed a further peak in their rich live history. Together with the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen GROBSCHNITT entered the stage of the Stadttheater Hagen on 4 sold out evenings. The first part of the concert was influenced by the fans. They had previously ordered their dream program in a poll. The second part was a fulminate coloured interpretation of the classic "Rockpommel's Land" that produced goose bumps after the next in the audience. Sireena Records is proud to present two tracks from this event for the first time on record. "Symphony" is one of the oldest tracks of the band (from the first album). "Beyond" is one of the newest songs of GROBSCHNITT, and this fits well together. Especially "Symphony" in the orchestral version shows a resurrection of a special kind. For band boss Willi Wildchwein, this CD is a Thank You to the fans of the band - for the loyalty and love that the band has felt in the last 5 years so strong. So finally it’s a special gift for very special fans.. Band:BULLFROG Album:BULLFROG Ali Halmatoglu, one in the former Munich music scene established and well accepted drummer has been instructed in 1973 by the owner of a cinema chain to assemble a band. Quick the core-group was fixed, it have been people with already long years of musical experience: Ali Halmatoglu himself has been the first drummer of the band, but didn’t stick to the band very long. His followers have been first Seppl Niemayer (went later to OCTOPUS), then Bruno Perosa. Also he lived together with the other bandmembers in a musical-flat-share, the legendary „Dampfmolkerei“ of the 300 people location Burkhards. With this cast they went 1976 to CONNY’S, the studio of Conny Plank. He was exalted of the demos and recommended them immediately to Sky Records in Hamburg. A record deal has been signed and the first album recorded. Due to the fact that in the US already 2 bands with the name Bulldogg and Bulldogg Breed (UK) did exist, one did not want to run any legal risk or the danger of any mix up. Therefore the record company recommended the name BULLFROG and from now on this was their bandname. Under this name the first vinyl appeared in Autumn of 1976. The outer appearing of this publication found big appeal because the album cover has been created by the Japanese painter and artist Aoi Fujimoto ex Tokyo. The first BULLFROG-album was very successful and appeared in parallel to the German publication also at through the US-Company Anuit Couptis. Amongst expert groups BULLFROG now belonged to the most promising newcomer-bands of the German rock scene. This has also be proven during their live-gigs, which were not only acoustic but also optic a class of it’s own. Band:CRO MAGS Album:ALPHA AND OMEGA In 1991 Robert Kampf, owner of record company Century Media and Cro-Mags fan, decides to travel to New York to try to convince Harley to restart the Cro-Mags. Kampf is prepared to invest a lot of money in the band and the only condition is that John and Doug return to the band. Harley agrees and the band, including Dave DiSenso on drums and Gabby on guitar go into the studio to record their third album. The result is the album called Alpha Omega. The first record reuniting original members John "Bloodclot" Joseph and Harley Flanagan, 1992's "Alpha Omega" saw the band employ more of a crossover sound with the same streetwise attitude and Krishna philosophy. A true NYHC Legendary album - Finally available on Vinyl again for firts time since 1991. Band:SUBZERO Album:HAPPINESS WITHOUT PEACE NYC Hardcore Legends! SUBZERO’s Happiness without Peace finally available on Vinyl again! Classic NYHC released back in 1996. Songs like Fuck MTV, We all fall down are REAL NYHC Hits. Originally Issued By Too Damn Hype, this album has been fully re-mixed, properly showcasing their anthemic brand of melodic hardcore. NYHC Legend - Finally available on Vinyl again for firts time since 1996 For fans of NYHC, CRO-MAGS, MADBALL, MERAUDER, BIOHAZARD, SKARHEAD, BREAKDOWN Band:MARVIN Album:BARRY Marvin are a three piece band from Montpellier France. Two years of marathon songwriting sessions, passionate collaboration, and meticulous engineering have resulted in Barry, their third album, second for Africantape and the first in the USA for Sick Room Records LTD. Marvin is known across Europe for their frenetic live shows, and this record is an attempt to capture the feeling. Like three mighty gods, Emilie, Greg and Fred use all their powers to create some of the most glorious, sexy electro-punk to sweep across the landscape. Imagine that a storm is brewing, the heavens torn asunder. From the west you have solid, riff-heavy rock and roll, the electricity of AC/DC infused with the venom of the Jesus Lizard, blowing through town like a fierce wind. From the south we see another current approaching, bombastic, throbbing, sensual, Enoinspired, big-beat electronica. These two forces collide and intermix to produce music that is upbeat, energetic and boisterous. The different elements hit you at different times, the visceral rumble of an 808, the squeal of a synth, thrashy-swirly live drum fills, guitar licks that pop and shimmer like lightning, all in all serious torrent of sound that ignites the whole room and gets everyone dancing. Marvin has joined up on the road with colleagues and friends Pneu, Papier Tigre and Electric Electric, forming La Colonie de Vacances, a quadraphonic project were each band plays one corner of the room, with the audience standing in the middle, creating a one-of-a-kind experience, and managing to shape these affinities into a single exciting live act. Album:BARRY - LP RIYL: The VSS, Trans Am, Civil Civic, Holy Fuck, Chevreuil Have played shows with Devo, Trans AM, QUI • UK tour in july 2013 LTD Vinyl LP Band:NECRONOMICON BEAST Album:SOWERS OF DISCORD Fuelled by their various experiences in different fields of the vast metal sphere - heavy-metal with WYTCHKRAFT, doom/death with MORIENDI, folk/metal with FOLKLORD etc. - they've settled for a music that has a much tighter, American-like type of sound yet without loosing a drop of their blasphemous elements, even daring on a regular basis to go beyond the five minutes mark. So think of an early AT WAR or BULLDOZER with a modern production that would have decided to get his membership card at the Satanic Church and go on a killing spree in the nearest liquor store! After a series of demos and limited releases on selected format such as tapes, 'Sowers Of Discord' represents band's second proper fulllength after fourteen years (!) of existence, their first 'real' release since the 2004's debut album 'Hell Thrash War' and their first recording featuring new member Warhammer, on bass. But it's also first and foremost a great proof than in 2013, with songtitles like "Warfield" or "World Assured Destruction" thrash is alive and well. LTD VINYL LP. Album:CELLDWELLER - 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY The self-titled debut that started it all has turned ten. At the dawn of the new millennium, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Klayton created Celldweller, a ground-breaking aural entity for the next age. Thriving on originality, Celldweller cross-bred electronic styles such as Drum'n'Bass and Psy-Trance with modern Alternative Rock and Metal on his self-titled debut, released independently in 2003. The Celldweller album met with critical acclaim while climbing to #17 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart. Celldweller gained Top 40 Metal Radio charting with the track “I Believe You” pulling into a solid 11th place on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart. Achieving a feat shared by only an elite handful of albums, every song on Celldweller was eventually licensed for use in movie trailers, TV shows, and games. Now, Celldweller has been reissued to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its release with the addition of previously unheard song “Uncrowned” and updated artwork. A special 2-disc Deluxe Edition featuring remixes, demos, and rarities is also available. While Klayton busies himself in his Detroit studio preparing the future of Celldweller for 2013, celebrate the past with this monumental work Album:CELLDWELLER 2CD The self-titled debut that started it all has turned ten. At the dawn of the new millennium, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Klayton created Celldweller, a ground-breaking aural entity for the next age. Thriving on originality, Celldweller cross-bred electronic styles such as Drum'n'Bass and Psy-Trance with modern Alternative Rock and Metal on his self-titled debut, released independently in 2003. The Celldweller album met with critical acclaim while climbing to #17 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart. Celldweller gained Top 40 Metal Radio charting with the track “I Believe You” pulling into a solid 11th place on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart. Achieving a feat shared by only an elite handful of albums, every song on Celldweller was eventually licensed for use in movie trailers, TV shows, and games. Now, Celldweller has been reissued to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its release with the addition of previously unheard song “Uncrowned” and updated artwork. Special 2-disc Deluxe Edition featuring remixes, demos, and rarities. Album:ANTISLEEP VOL 3 If the Blue Stahli who created the first two volumes of Antisleep was the fun-loving master of funk who crashed your Hollywood Hills garden party to cannonball off the roof into your pool, the Blue Stahli who made this third volume is the one who, clad in black and backlit by one flickering Exit sign, appears in your rearview mirror as you get into your car late one night in a dimly lit and otherwise empty parking garage. Is he there to warn you of imminent danger? Is HE the imminent danger? All you know is that the funk is gone and a sinister chill in the air is making the hair on the back of your neck rise. Better get your key into the ignition...whatever happens next, your life won't be the same after tonight, after Antisleep Volume 3. These 13 new cinematic pieces of instrumental action will be indispensable during YOUR next car chase, dangerous escape, or alien encounter. Band:TROUBSHORT AND TURNIPSEED Album:DARK CLOUDS OVER DIDCOT Label:MIGHTY FINE MUSIC American old time and bluegrass music meets cool British humour Reg Troubshort and Abner Turnipseed hail from Lump Hammer Missouri and Bergsberg Arizona, and have been playing old time music with the Appalachian clog dancing group Cornucopia since 2002, making regular appearances at folk festivals such as Teignmouth, Oxford, Swanage, and Bunkfest. They have supported Show of Hands at Sunningwell in 2007 and appeared on the BBC’s country Tracks programme in 2011. They also perform as a double act providing their own old time and bluegrass instrumentals along with original funny songs. The CD Dark Clouds Over Didcot is a fitting compilation of their numbers, against the back drop of the iconic cooling towers – a sight no longer seen as the power station was decommissioned in March 2013 . Band:MOONSPELL Album:UNDER THE MOONSPELL Label:FLOGA RECORDS 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, B SIDE with silkscreen printing. Black or Transparent Yellow vinyl. Available again after long time! B side with silkscreen printing! For fans of old school Black Metal! Album:SIN PECADO DOUBLE LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination. Black or Transparent Yellow vinyls. LTD VINYL! For fans of Paradise Lost Band:THE GATHERING Album:SUPERHEAT Double LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination. Black or Transparent Orange vinyls. For very first time on vinyl! For fans of DEAD CAN DANCE, LACUNA COIL etc. Band:HELSTAR Album:BURNING STAR 350gsm high glossy laminated jacket , 220gsm laminated full colored printed innersleeve. Black or Green vinyl. A metal masterpiece available again after long time! 2 bonus tracks For fans of IRON MAIDEN, ANGEL WITCH, AGENT STEEL... Band:LIMBONIC ART Album:MOON IN THE SCORPIO Double LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, 4 pages booklet full colored (250gsm). Black or Transparent Blue vinyls. For fans of DIMMU BORGIR, EMPEROR, IN THE WOODS etc Album:IN ABHORRENCE DEMENTIA Format:2LP VINYL Double LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, 4 pages booklet full colored (250gsm). Black or Magenta vinyls. Re-press after 15 years! Album:EPITOME OF ILLUSIONS LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, 220gsm laminated printed innersleeve. Black or Clear vinyl. Album:AD NOCTUM DOUBLE LP, 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination. Black or Red vinyls. Band:AMORPHIS Album:TUONELA 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, 220gsm full colored printed innersleeve. Black or Transparent Yellow vinyl. For very first time on regular vinyl! For fans of BORKNAGAR, ULVER, ARCTURUS etc Album:AM UNIVERSUM 350gsm gatefold jacket with high glossy lamination, 220gsm full colored printed innersleeve. Black or Olive Green vinyl. Band:3 INCHES OF BLOOD Album:BATTLECRY UNDER A WINTERSUN 3 Inches of Blood long hailed genre-igniting debut, soaring power / heavy metal with over the top wails out of control hooks. First Time Ever on Vinyl! - Repackaged in a heavy hi gloss jacket with updated artwork. Album:HERE WAITS THY DOOM 4th Album from the Canadian traditional heavy metal heroes, Here Waits Thy Doom journeys even farther back into the realms of retro, reaching deep into the darkerst lairs of late 70's hard rock and proto metal. Produced by Jack Endino (Soundgarden, High On Fire, Zeke). Repackaged in a heavy hi gloss gatefold jacket with brand new exclusive artwork. LTD x1000 PRESSING Band:BATILLUS Album:CONCRETE SUSTAIN ‘Concrete Sustain’ is the follow-up to their 2011 critically lauded ‘Furnace’ long player, which Metal Underground recommended for fans of “massive riffs and being crushed to death in slow motion.” The band's industrial sensibility has lent an edge to their doom-influence dirges and Concrete Sustain finds BATILLUS a band shifted into a fully realized sound. "[A] mesmerizing, heavy-as-fuck industrialized doom quartet and one of the Big Apple’s most inspiring acts." – STEREOGUM For fans of Godflesh, Electric Wizard, Thou, and early Sabbath records. Band:FRENCH FOR CARTRIDGE Album:BOXES / PIFF PAFF POW Label:DINNER WITH DAISY RECORDS Format:VINYL 7 Genre defying, style blending art-pop geniuses FRENCH FOR CARTRIDGE are back with the first single from their forthcoming new album “We Humans” - the follow-up to the critically acclaimed “Liquorice” from 2010. Formed as an attempt to create atonal pop music whilst at Goldsmiths, the male/female fronted band has garnered support from Stuart Maconie/BBC 6 Music, Rob Da Bank/BBC Radio 1, Artrocker, The Wire, Organ and Resonance FM. “Like Mary Poppins on an acid trip.” – Artrocker.com “Pretty damn progressive! In an arch sort of way.” – Byron Coley/The Wire Band:WEH Album:FOLKLOREN The new dark folk album ”Folkloren” from Weh is a tribute to the Norwegian folklore, the sounds and sights of nature, and the dreams and nightmares of mankind. While “En Natt Kom Doed” of 2012 held death themes strongly in focus, “Folkloren” has a more subtle lyrical touch. The acoustic guitar based music is also full of diverse feelings and will breathe and live a life of its own, if the listener will allow the mind to open up. Welcome new horizons. Band:SOUTHERN CROSS Album:FROM TRAGEDY From Tragedy' has been recorded during the year 2011 and released on February 28th 2012. This heavy-progressive release has received great reviews on popular webzines. and the band signed a worldwide deal with Unicorn Digital to re-released the album in April 2013. The band is currently playing gigs in Canada and working on collaborations to promote the new album worldwide while already seeding ideas for a next album... Southern Cross Playerplay Band:EXIT STATE Album:LETS SEE IT ALL 3rd album from Lancashire rockers Exit State. The band comes-of-age with a collection of stirring modern rock compositions representing a major gear-shift. Appointed official patrons of children's charity chART alongside some established artists & fellow patrons from the likes of Thin Lizzy & Guns n Roses have agreed to help promote the 2nd single release from this album - Crystalline - from which net profits are to go the charity. The charity is to supplement the PR campaign across all their contacts. Tour - May 4th Manchester, 10th Preston, 11th Oswestry, 16th Nottingham, 17th Dudley, 18th Birmingham, 19th Ipswich, 25th Wigan, June 7th Crumlin, 8th Worcester, 9th Stoke, 14th Newcastle-u-Tyne, July 5th Belgium, Deinze, 6th Belgium, Roeselare, 20-21st Manchester (SOS Festival), 27th Colwyn Bay. Dates also to be supplemented by acoustic sessions/radio tour. Band:SWEET TASTE Album:HIT THE SPOT New EP from Belfast rockers Sweet Taste, emulating genre-kings such as Black Crowes, Free & Bad Company, with a sound that positively screams - Known to UK audiences per earlier performance at Hard Rock Hell festival alongisde Black Stone Cherry, Quireboys & Therapy? Band:SUPERTEMPO Album:BROTHER SUN SISTER MOON Label:GO DOWN Brother Sun, Sister Moon" is a record that, with the same enthusiasm of St. Francis, aims at "taking off its own clothes" to embrace the urgency of Punk, search for Pop immediacy, wear the sound of classic Garage,thus not making the past an obsession, use shortness as a metaphor of modern times: frantic, confused, disinterested. Band:KANI Album:BADASS Opening with the ironic "Bud is my trainer" (and this is of course Bud Bud Spencer), followed by the hard bluesy "Elecric church", the third is the unexpectedly melodic "Go to bed with us." The rocky "What does not kill me makes me stronger" quotes the philosopher Nietzsche, the punky "The power of money" attacks the power of finance, the furious "Drink'n'drive" speaks of a widespread youth problem (withdrawal the license for alchoolic reasons), and with "Badass boogie" we shall dance. Rounding outwith the metal-sound "Die Hard", the hyperspeedy "We bite" and, at end the record's surprise , the acoustic ballad entitled "Dancing Star". It's only dirty rock'n'roll, but I like it. Band:PATER NEMBROT Album:EXTENDED PYRAMID EP ...And if listening to side A you may have thought about band like Naam, Dead Medow, Motorpsycho, then you’ll find even no more reference listening to side B, containing the last chapter of the E.P. called Exile: an 8 minutes space probe directed towards unknown lands, containing in its inside all the information needed to understand what means creating heavy psychedelic great blues riffs in the way of Black Sabbath, Mad Season and of course… PATER NEMBROT! Band:ASTROPHONIX Album:REACTION Astrophonix, in collaboration with GO DOWN RECORDS, present their third album after 10 years music carrer in live shows, studio albums, press and public consents. This new album is the result of artistic maturity of the band, highliting the great skills of each musician including composition and originality – keys that make this band unique and recognizable during these years. Since the first tracks the album opens with a very straight rock sound, modern and distintive, never forgetting all various influences that the band have always espressed and interpreted with personality. From straight rock’n’roll to punk, between rockabilly and psychobilly, all very closed roots for the band since the beginning. Band:LORD SHANI Album:PROGRESS YOUR SOUL LORD SHANI is a new band from Milan, Italy, that plays its own songs in a personal genre that fits between Psychedelic Soul Rock and a kind of Progressive R&B. The line-up of their first album, “Progress Your Soul” (due out in january 2013 via Go Down Records in digipack CD) includes Viola Road on vocals, Paolo Bramino on guitar , Petrolio on bass and Diego Galeri on drums, actually replaced by Tribalex (Ritmo Tribale, NoGuru). These musicians have a rich background, play and have played in various bands (Matra,Timoria, Miura, Mike Painter 5tet, Free The Nation, Adam Carpet), but they consider Lord Shani's experience a new emotion that has unprecedented in the contemporary music scene Band:LAST KILLERS Album:WOLF INSIDE 14 tracks of garage rock'n'roll music available in Vinyl & CD!! If you love the 50's & 60's rock'n'roll in the vain of the SONICS,FUZZTONES, the OHSEES,JIM JONES REVUE!!! this record is for you!! Since 10 years ago, the Last Killers ravage everithing on their way!! their songs stay inside the head and their shows are high in colours!! Became an essential band in the European garage scene,with lots of European tours, and prestigious openings with bands like: the SONICS,FLESHTONES,OHSEES, FUZZTONES,CYNICS..or their partecipation to the last COSMIC TRIP FEST in France... The band have built a good reputation!! Band:SKAGOS Album:ANARCHIC ...Skagos' sound has shifted a bit with Anarchic; a departure from Ást and an expansion of their work of the split with Panopticon (2010, The Flenser). Ethereal and atmospheric instrumentation - at times almost hypnotic - is prevalent on the record and often met with visceral guitars and gutted growls. Singy folk elements can also be found on Anarchic, making this an incredibly engaging and dynamic listen. Still lyrically complex focusing on the death of the Earth and the renewal inherent in cyclical time, Anarchic showcases Skagos at their most fully-realized state as a band thus far with an almost symphonic feel to this new album Album:NO CONTENT Wreck & Reference got started in 2011 in San Francisco, CA and released their demo, the highly-acclaimed Black Cassette, that same year. This demo was first self-released on tape, then later on vinyl through The Flenser. Black Cassette immediately turned heads and upon first listen of this EP. The following year, Wreck and Reference released their debut full-length, Y o u t h , to even more critical praise. Invisible Oranges said this two-piece band "…pushes the traditional metal template towards regions unexplored, expanding the sonic legacies of Swans’ filth and Big Black’s harshness." Even more dark and mysterious than its predecessor, Y o u t h catapulted Wreck and Reference to the forefront of unconventional and mysterious heavy music.LTD 7" 2 NEW TRACKS. Band:BELLA MORTE Album:BEST OF BELLA MORTE It’s time to catch our breath and celebrate the first 17 years of Bella Morte’s dark, diverse catalogue of sounds. Formed in 1996, these beloved goth rockers have released seven albums and 2 EPs, and played a major role in the revival of Gothic Rock in the late 90’s. This collection features tracks from the earliest inception of the band to their most recent album, “Before The Flood”. Included on this album is a re-recorded version of “Evensong” from the bands’ debut album, and the track “Flatlined” which was only available for a short while on a Metropolis/Hot Topic sampler CD. Band:IVARDENSPHERE Album:SCATTERFACE V3 The story of iVardensphere's rise begins a few years ago in Edmonton, Canada, where Scott Fox DJs the notorious club nights SICK and Das OOntz. Fox took his expertise in filling the dance floor and applied it to his passion for synths and industrial dance music to create a fresh take on the genre to form iVardensphere. The resulting debut album, Scatterface, is industrial music targeted directly at the dance floor. Metropolis Records is re-releasing the album as Scatterface V3, featuring 13 tracks of mayhem and stomp that span the genres of EBM, Tribal and rhythmic noise. This new version features two bonus remixes of “Bonedance”, from ΔAIMON and Blush Response. Band:DOWNLOAD Album:LINGAM In Hindu scripture, the lingam is the beginning-less and endless cosmic pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva, and such infinity can be sensed in Download’s latest album. Entitled LingAM, the duo of cEvin Key and Phil Western use their impressive repertoire of skills, synthesizers and sequencers to create a transcendent work of experimental electronica. Analog squelches and percussive grooves blend seamlessly with elements of trance, noise, IDM, and post-industrial to create a beat driven epic. Centered, as with all Download releases, around a pillar of percussion and rhythm, LingAM stands as an enchanting sonic expression. Band:ASROCK Album:TAKE ME AWAY. Asrock of Final Cut fame releases the definitive version of his classic “Take Me Away”. Featuring remixes from The Prodigy, who's 'Warrior's Dance' remix has had almost 7 million views on YouTube and has rocketed to #1 on the UK dance charts. Band:KINE Album:MEDITATIONS IN APRIL GREEN Kine is a collaborative effort of Dao Anh Khanh - Vocals, Brett Zweiman ($50 Doller Trumpet) - Guitar, Amber Brien (PAS) - Garrahand, Robert L. Pepper (PAS) - Electronics, Synths (Flute on "Meditation3"). Kine was formed in April of 2012 during Vietnamese artist Dao Anh Khanh's visit to New York City where they recorded the 'Meditations in April Green' release. In February of 2013 Kine performed several gigs in Hanoi, Vietnam including including Dao Anh Khanh's 'Spring Festival', additional musicians included were Dan Henneberry (United Kingdom) and Dave Payne. Band:ALBEZDUZ Album:ALBEZ DUZ Label:ARCHAIC SOUND Occult Doom Rock project of German DIES ATER drummer: early PARADISE LOST, TIAMAT and MY DYING BRIDE provide for melancholic yet powerful feelings, whereas bands like PINK FLOYD, HAWKIND or BLACK WIDOW are the inspiration for the spiritual impact. Band:DAYS OF ANGER Album:RISE ABOVE IT ALL ...In September 2012 they parted away with Massacre Records due to different circumstances, and were unsigned for a short period of time. Determined and more psyched than ever Days Of Anger started to write new material for an upcoming album. The result turned out in the album “Rise Above It All” that will be released through their new Italian label Coroner Records in June 2013. The band is currently writing some new material for a third studio-album which will be recorded later on this year, and hopefully hit the stores next year. Days Of Anger will hit the stage and tear down the house like never before in 2013, don’t miss there killer live performances and make sure to keep yourself updated on the Days Of Anger Facebook page for more news and info Album:FASCINATING VIOLENCE ...SUICIDE HEAVEN moved its base from Sapporo to Tokyo and was renamed as GYZE. In 2012 GYZE participated in “Wacken Open Air”, the greatest metal fest in the world, one that had been attracting public attention even throughout Japan. In this event, GYZE’s performance enabled itself to clear all hurdles and to advance to the final round of the competition. Following that achievement, GYZE’s long-awaited first full album is scheduled to be released in June 2013 by the Italian label Coroner Records. Band:ZOMBIE SAM Album:SELF CONSCIOUS INSANITY ...On October 2012 Zombie Sam decided to record a full album and he called Ivan “King O’Lantern” on vocals and Patrik “The Beetlejuice” on drums to complete the line-up. A creepy and Halloween-ish family was borned. A new musical genre created by passion for soundtracks and industrial music. A strong expression of music created and arranged in various ambiences (fable, fairytale, horror, halloween and electronic). “Self Conscious Insanity”, first Zombie Sam full album, will be released on June 2013 via Coroner Records. Band:SHATTERED EYES Album:PREY OF DEPRAVITY Shattered Eyes debut album "Prey Of Depravity" was released in 2010 including 10 tracks of pure brutality with guest vocals from Angel Ochoa: Condemned / Cephalotripsy, Nate Twyman: Disgorge / Gortuary, short after the release it sold out and has been out of print, now a re-issued version including 4 tracks from their 2007 Demo "The Horror In Their Eyes" as a bonus is finally available, don't miss this brutal assault !!! Band:DRYOM Album:DRYOM 1 (1) is sensational debut album of Russian nature-inspired Ritual Funeral Doom Metal band DRYOM that combines crushing Funeral Doom Metal heaviness with beautiful Neo-folk melodies played with flute and jew's-harp. Band:GRAVE DECLARATION Album:WHEN DYING SOULS SCREAM PRAISE Label:Bombworks Packaged in an eight panel, full color digipak with lyrics, file this one right next to the best of Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Keep of Kalessin, Antestor, and A Hill To Die Upon. Norwegian black death metal featuring Thor from Antestor – Bombworks best selling band. Band:MY SILENT WAKE Album:THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY Any fan of Anathema will find The Anatomy of Melancholy to be very satisfying from start to finish. Those discovering this band for the first time will undoubtedly feel that they have discovered a jewel among so many dull stones found within this genre of music. This doom/goth music harkens back to the glory days of British metal, where such greats as Anathema and My Dying Bride created some of the best doom metal known to man. Remastered reissue in digipak format of epic, doom/folk metal release. Band:BITTERNESS EXHUMED Album:A PLACE OF MANY GHOSTS If you like your music sonically crippling, fucking heavy and outrageously seething with anger? This band, aptly named BITTERNESS EXHUMED will be right up your alley! BITTERNESS EXHUMED is playing a brutal mix out of chaotic HC/Metal mixed with sludge, nearly doom styled breakdown parts. Think of bands like Disembodied, Xibalba, Hierophant, Oathbreaker, Nails and the likes! The album features 11 songs, some of them are rerecorded versions of songs from "Doomridden" and the self-titled EP, both sold out and the cover art is done by Sin-eater! Album:A PLACE OF MANY GHOSTS - LP If you like your music sonically crippling, fucking heavy and outrageously seething with anger? This band, aptly named BITTERNESS EXHUMED will be right up your alley! BITTERNESS EXHUMED is playing a brutal mix out of chaotic HC/Metal mixed with sludge, nearly doom styled breakdown parts. Think of bands like Disembodied, Xibalba, Hierophant, Oathbreaker, Nails and the likes! The album features 11 songs, some of them are rerecorded versions of songs from "Doomridden" and the self-titled EP, both sold out and the cover art is done by Sin-eater! LTD LP Band:THE LAST STAND Album:THE TIME IS NOW New York Hardcore has an undeniable past, present and future within the ranks all of the members of The Last Stand. The Brooklyn based band features Mike Scondotto of Inhuman on vocals, along with Dion De Nardo on bass, Stephen Della Croce on guitar & Jimmy McCormack on drums, all members of the band Shutdown. Since the band’s first live show in October of 2010, The Last Stand has been playing all over the Northeast sharing the stage with the likes of legendary bands like Sick Of It All, Agnostic Front, Madball, Youth of Today, Murphy's Law, Vision and Maximum Penalty as well as newer breed of Hardcore bands like Terror, Wisdom In Chains, Suburban Scum and Trapped Under Ice. For fans of NYHC, SICK OF IT ALL, SHUTDOWN, VISION, H2O, GORILLA BISCUITS, MADBALL, INHUMAN Band:SAI NAM Album:CRUSH. Featuring members of Breakdown, Trapped Under Ice, Crown of Thornz, All Out War and Skarhead! Right from the start, Sai Nam was firing on all cylinders. From Dijan's heavy rock-esque riffage to Tripp's rapid fire vocal delivery, to Medina's thunderous/chaotic drumming, to Baltulonis' colorful production, and some bass work, "Crush" promises to deliver the goods in stylish fashion. With their debut full-length in tow, Sai Nam is ready to hit the road and play shows across the globe, bridging the gap between two generations of hardcore music. For the first time available on Vinyl Band:MIRTHLESS Album:A DIRGE FOR YOUR SUICIDE MIRTHLESS emerged in the beginning of 2003 from the gathering of two sinister souls: Mirthless (Suicide voice of doom kult…) and Satyricon (Senile dementia in drums), who were inspired to create music filled with despair and darkness. A few months later another fallen soul appeared: Soulless (Mournful sound of anguish and pain) with whom the band composed two sad poems and recorded a rehearsal tape during November and December 2004. At the end of 2004, the band entered the “El Sotano” studios to record the first masterpiece called “Remembrances”. In 2009, after several offers MIRTHLESS signed a deal with a Japanese label to release a 10’’ MLP with the title “… A Las Orillas del Mar…”. At this time Satyricon quit the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Schizophrenic (Disturbed mind in drums) in 2011. He had been living in a mental hospital for a long period. MIRTHLESS soon came to an agreement with german label Dunkelheit Produktionen about the release of the long awaited debut album “ A Dirge For Your Suicide”... MIRTHLESS is heavily influenced by the ancient sound of Doom Metal… Band:DARKALL SLAVES Album:ABYSSES OF SEDUCTION Label:KAOTOXIN With only a self-released EP under their belts (2008) in eight years of existence mostly spent going through a long list of line-up changes, Darkall Slaves have nevertheless managed to be noticed and being invited to play such famous Death Metal festivals as Germany’s Death Feast, Belgium’s Mass Deathstruction, Holland’s Neurotic Deathfest (official after party) or Houten Deathfest or share the stage with their renewed peers (Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm, God Dethroned, Hate, Lividity, Sinister, Vital Remains, etc.). Album:BLOODBROTHERS II “Bloodbrothers II – A Compilation of Recordings by Rock/Metal Bands From Cyprus” celebrates the legacy of the original “Bloodbrothers” compilation, released in 1997, a now considered hard-to-find, cult classic. Ranging from epic, power, traditional, thrash and death metal to alternative, progressive and punk rock, “Bloodbrothers II” aims to showcase some of the most talented bands Cyprus currently has to offer. With 18 bands featured and a playing time of one hour and nineteen minutes this is as “full” a CD as it can get! Including unreleased material from internationally renowned bands! Band:ARRAYAN PATH Album:IV STIGMATA The fourth album of the increasingly popular melodic epic/power metal powerhouse ARRAYAN PATH. The band's previous two albums have received ecstatic reviews and ratings making it into several "best of the year" shortlists by various media. Both previous albums have been shortlisted for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award. What all this means of course is a highly anticipated and very promising new album! This is a more "fierce" and dark album however, but, everything that defines ARRAYAN PATH is still there - superb compositions, full of melody, passionate performances and excellent atmospheric parts and some of the best metal vocals ever! Band:HERETIC Album:ANGELC-NTS AND DEVILOCKS With their brand new 4th fullength studio album Dutch black metal overlords HERETIC have come full circle, combining all the previously recorded elements , while perfecting their infamous catchy song writing style! ANGELCUNTS and DEVILCOCKS shows HERETIC from their upper best side: Basic, pure, raw and dirty! Album:ANGELC-NTS AND DEVILOCKS - LP With their brand new 4th fullength studio album Dutch black metal overlords HERETIC have come full circle, combining all the previously recorded elements , while perfecting their infamous catchy song writing style! ANGELCUNTS and DEVILCOCKS shows HERETIC from their upper best side: Basic, pure, raw and dirty!LTD LP Band:MACTATUS Album:BLOT Founded back in 1989, Norwegian black metal purists MACTÄTUS released their debut album “BLOT” in 1997 through the small French label Embassy Productions (Also responsible for the legendary Gorgoroth debut album “Pentagram”). “BLOT” sold out very fast and was re-released in the year of 2000 for the American market. After being unavailable for much too long “BLOT” is Classic Norwegian black metal album AVAILABLE FOR the first time on vinyl!! Album:BLOT - LP Founded back in 1989, Norwegian black metal purists MACTÄTUS released their debut album “BLOT” in 1997 through the small French label Embassy Productions (Also responsible for the legendary Gorgoroth debut album “Pentagram”). “BLOT” sold out very fast and was re-released in the year of 2000 for the American market.ltd lp. Album:LOVELESSNESS Towering 3rd full length from the fathomless Vancouver colossus. Gnarled precision sludge metal – shalt not but command submission. Heavy Gatefold Reverse-Board Printed Jacket, First 115 on Stress-splatter clear red vinyl. Officially Licensed From Metal Blade - Pressing Limited To 1000, Band:REVELATIONS HAMMER Album:REVELATIONS HAMMER With their unique and impressive sound of dark, epic and powerful Black Metal, REVELATION'S HAMMER is expected to be one of "the next big things" within the Scandinavian Black Metal movement. For fans of EMPEROR, DARK FUNERAL and WATAIN Band:CYCLOPHONIA Album:IMPACT IS IMMINENT Label:BATTLEGOD PRODS. CYCLOPHONIA was founded in 1997 as a four‐piece, primarily doing covers of the fastest and angriest songs from bands like Helloween, Manowar, Blind Guardian and Riot. After re‐forming a few times, the band is at its best line up ever. 2008 is the beginning of a new Power Metal act from Norway. With two vocalists, a really good interesting listen. A cool DVD over 40 minutes of clips and a live bootleg in Norway. Band:NERGARD Album:MEMORIAL FOR A WISH The allstar-project Nergard is the latest addition to the Norwegian Melodic Metal scene and now the debut album is ready, the Metal Opera Memorial for a Wish All-Star guests and musicians: - ANDREAS NERGÅRD - composer/drums/bass/keyboards ÅGE STEN NILSEN (Wig Wam) – vocals / RALF SCHEEPERS (Primal Fear, ex-Gamma Ray) - vocals GÖRAN EDMAN (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen) – vocals / MIKE VESCERA (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen) - vocals NILS K. RUE (Pagan's Mind) – vocals / MICHELE LUPPI (Secrets Sphere) – vocals / ANDI KRAVLJACA (Silent Call, Aeon Zen) – vocals / DAVID REECE (Power World, ex-Accept) – vocals / TONY MILLS (TNT, ex-Shy) – vocals / HELGE ENGELKE (Fair Warning) – guitarsolos / STIG NERGÅRD (Tellus Requiem) - guitarsolos Band:TOMMOROWS OUTLOOK Album:34613 Based in Sörvik "Rock" City and Northern Norway, A Worldwide Studio Project formed in 2007. Debut album "34613", include the following members and guest musicians: Vocals: Graham Bonnet (Alcatrazz / MSG / Rainbow / Impellitteri / The Marbles), Michael Kiske (Unisonic / Helloween / Avantasia), Norman 'SKI' Kiersnowski (Deadly Blessing / Faith Factor / Altered State), Scott Oliva (Wind- Wraith / The Nightmare Stage / Oceans Of Night), Mike Gorham (Autumn Silence / Without Warning / Abodean Skye). Band:REVENGE Album:VENDETTA Luxurious DIGIPACK CD, with Bonus DVD, exclusively available for the European version of FLOGA RECORDS! Ltd to 500 copies! DIGI CD + BONUS DVD, Ltd to 500 copies! • For fans of IRON MAIDEN, ANGEL WITCH, NWOBHM Album:VENDETTA - LP LTD LP - For fans of IRON MAIDEN, ANGEL WITCH, NWOBHM Band:YOUR LAST WISH Album:DESOLATION RIYL: The Black Dalia Murder, HateSphere, Darkest Hour, The Agonist, etc. Canadian melodic Death Metal Band:PHOBOS PREACHER Album:HUMANOS riyl Exodia, KTULU, etc ... Spanish Death Metallers Band:SCARLETT D GRAY Album:SCARLETT D GRAY First record for the Scarlett D. Gray, Piemontese Gothic Rock band, as a follow up of a previously self recorded mini proof cd in 2009 with a former band now days off way... RIYL Secret Sphere; Hell In The Club; Triora etc Band:BLACK THERAPY Album:SYMPTOMS OF A COMMON SICKNESS "Symptoms of a Common Sickness" recall the sound and the atmosphere by the old school of classic melodic death masters, but with a great dose of their trademark: raging death metal broken by a classical and acoustic chapters. Band:ESEQUIEM Album:CONTEMPT Malignant Black Metal from Italy, in the best old school tradition, featuring the ex-singer of SATANEL. Primordial atmospheres reminding of the vein of early GORGOROTH, IMMORTAL and DARKTHRONE (“Transilvanian Hunger” era). Band:NEUROSPHERE Album:MEGANTEREON A personal approach to the Death Metal Sound. For fans of Amorphis, Opeth, Metallica. Band:TOTAL EMPTY Album:PLANKTOON Recording, mixing and mastering by Tommy Talamanca (Sadist) at prestigious Nadir Music Studios in Genoa , Italy. The band has had the honor of playing with "Fixforb", a group formed by members of the italian pop rock band "Modà"	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9416965842247009, "wiki_prob": 0.9416965842247009, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line740061"}
FOOD, FESTIVAL, AND RECIPES Written and Compiled by Laurie K. Sommers Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 (A project of Partners for Sacred Places) “Even when it seems that everything in the country is changing,” writes America Eats author Pat Willard, “church suppers remain pretty much the same as they always have. Or at least they feel as if they have, and that is just as good. Maybe this is because, beyond their services as a place of worship, churches function as the repository for a community’s history and people. Often, they are an anchor holding people in place, keeping the community straight and guiding it through the perils of everyday life” (Willard 2008, 150-51). The Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project focuses primarily on architecture and decorative arts. But we also paid attention to food events and associated ethnic celebrations listed on church websites, Facebook pages, and other publications. This admittedly haphazard glimpse of church food traditions revealed mouthwatering examples: the ubiquitous coffee (so central to concepts of hospitality); lutefisk/lutfisk (literally lye fish–reconstituted dried cod); meatballs; potato dumplings (klubb in Norwegian, kropkakkor in Swedish); lefse (Norwegian soft potato flatbread spread with butter and sugar and then folded or rolled); fruit soup; Swedish potato sausage; pancakes (fried and baked); open-faced sandwiches; smorgasbords with a cornucopia of delicacies; and baked goods of all kinds at bazaars and holiday bake sales. Some recipes were learned in America, and adapted to the U.S. context. For both the cooks and the attendees at these events, they express much more than mere taste; they express ethnicity, faith, and community. Sue Bakkan of Springdale Lutheran, a Norwegian American church in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, holds a plate of rosettes from a local bakery and homemade krumkake (made on a special krumkake press and rolled). The Norwegian treats were a gesture of hospitality to those attending the Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project training in June 2018. Lebanon Lutheran in Whitehall, Michigan —built in 1877 in the historic Swedetown neighborhood — holds an annual Swedish smorgasbord in June, featuring meatballs, potato sausage, pickled and creamed cucumber, pickled beets, rice pudding, lingonberry jam, and even pickled asparagus (the neighboring county is a major asparagus producer). Photo by Laurie K. Sommers. Nordic American church suppers originated with nineteenth-century women’s circles, auxiliaries, and aid groups. Kathleen Stokker’s observations for Norwegian American Lutheran women applies to other ethnicities and denominations: “On days when the women of the ‘church circle’ met to sew quilts or do other handwork to raise money for the church,” Stokker writes, “their efforts consumed the entire day, and together they would prepare meals for their husbands and children, who would join them at the church for supper those evenings. Used for serving meals after funerals and weddings, the church basement kitchen also provided the setting for sharing recipes that had passed down through the generations” (Stokker 2000, 273-74). From these humble beginnings emerged fundraising dinners that, although less common than they once were, remain significant expressions of ethnicity. Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Askov, Minnesota serves Danish open-faced sandwiches at funeral lunches. This photo comes from Our Savior’s Lutheran, also a Danish heritage church, located in Viborg, South Dakota. Some of the ethnic dinners included in our survey predate 1940. Swedesburg Lutheran Church (Mount Pleasant, Iowa), for example, has held its annual smorgasbord fundraiser on the “first Thursday in December since 1938, except for a couple years during World War II when rationing limited access to necessary ingredients for the feast. These days nearly 70 volunteers put on this decades-long tradition. Event organizer Ruth Meth explains the sentiment behind the smörgåsbord, ‘The Swedish expression ‘va så god’ is the underlying foundation of it and a translation of that would be ‘Please honor us by accepting what we have to offer’” (KCII 2017). The menu is drawn from recipes that have been handed down through generations, including many traditional Swedish dishes (which in recent online publicity, are all listed in the Swedish language followed by the English translation): råbröd (rye bread), knäckebröd och smör (hardtack and butter, traditionally original basis for Swedish smorgasbords), inlagd sill (pickled herring), inlagda rödbetor (pickled beets), bruna bönor (brown beans), potatis med persilja (parsley potatoes), ungstekt skinka (baked ham), potatis korv (potato sausage), Svenska köttbullar (Swedish meatballs),fFruktsoppa (fruit soup),rRisgrynsgröt (rice pudding), ostkaka med lingon eller jordgubbsaft (cheese pudding with lingonberries or strawberry jam), appelkaka (dried apple dessert). Nora Unitarian Church (Hanska, Minnesota) has hosted an annual Norwegian Smorgasbord fundraiser with their signature Women’s Society meatballs since the early 1900s. A recent version of the menu featured appetizers of deviled eggs, herring, and tongue, and entrées of meatballs, ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, glazed carrots, sot supe (fruit soup), rice pudding, rømmegrøt (cream pudding), lefse, flatbrød, (unleavened bread) milk, and (of course!) coffee. Desserts include traditional Norwegian cookies such as rosettes, krumkake, fattigman (fried “poor man’s cookies”), and sandbakkels (sugar cookies pressed into special fluted tins). Women use the occasion to wear their bunads, a style of festive dress, dating to the twentieth century and based on earlier folk costume, created and worn to display Norwegian identity (in Norway and in the Norwegian diaspora) at events such as Christmas, settende mai (Norwegian Constitution Day), weddings, and other festive social occasions. Nora Unitarian Women’s Society Norwegian Smorgasbord. Photo courtesy of Nora Unitarian Church. Northland Lutheran Church in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, has been holding lutefisk (the Norwegian spelling of the term) suppers since 1917, and has missed only two years because of World War I and the Spanish flu epidemic. For this annual fundraiser, the church “usually prepares an average of 500 pounds of lutefisk, 300 pounds of potatoes, 300 pounds of meatballs, and goes through about 36 cases of lefse.” The menu also includes “American” items: mashed potatoes, gravy, buttered carrots, coleslaw, and cranberries (Waupaca County News 2017). Finns, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, and Norwegians all eat lutefisk–boiled and then slathered with melted butter or white sauce—but more lutefisk suppers are held in Norwegian heritage churches. Annual Lutefisk Supper flyer from the Richland Lutheran Church Facebook page. Courtesy of the church. With its source in the North Atlantic cod fishery, lutefisk was familiar to immigrants, but it wasn’t available in the Upper Midwest until the late nineteenth century, when dried cod was first shipped from Massachusetts. “Individual families would then take it upon themselves to make the final preparations at home, each autumn buying sheets of stock fish – as the dried fish is known – and soaking it in lye as part of their Christmas preparation. In the mid-1920s, prepared lutefisk, all ready for cooking, appeared in stores, and during the 1930s Minnesota lutefisk processing companies experienced phenomenal growth” (Stokker 2000, 242). The number of public lutefisk dinners–in churches and ethnic lodges—proliferated during the 1950s as fewer families prepared lutefisk at home. Increasingly, these dinners paired lutefisk—with its distinctive aroma and gelatinous texture making it an acquired taste!—with the more universally popular and palatable meatball, “as an alternative dish to extend the fellowship of their meals to a broader base” (Stokker 2000, 243). Although perhaps more appealing to less hardy diners, meatballs lack lutefisk’s cachet. After all, lutefisk dinners have their own website (lutefiskloverslifeline.com), a “season” (fall through early winter), and have generated a rich body of stories, jokes and even a song! “The Lutefisk Song” (by Red Strangeland and sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum”) has the memorable opening lines: “O lutefisk, O lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma! O lutefisk, O lutefisk, you put me in a coma….” The annual lutefisk and meatball dinner at Lyster Lutheran (Nelson, Wisconsin)—sponsored by the Ladies Aid—began circa 1931. According to the church website, “The 1967 supper, which served lutefisk and roast beef, was the last until 1982. The next supper was 1996, and it has been an important fundraiser since,” featuring lutefisk (pictured right), meatballs (left), and Norwegian lefse (top). The 2018 dinner raised over $13,000.” Photo courtesy of Lyster Lutheran. Nordic American churches also host special events around patriotic and seasonal holidays as fundraisers, community outreach, and symbols of ethnic identity. Most of these festive occasions also include ethnic foods. Norwegians, for example, observe settende mai (May 17, Constitution Day). Icelanders in Mountain, North Dakota celebrate August the Deuce, a North American observance of Icelandic heritage that commemorates August 2, 1874, when the Icelandic parliament received a copy of the new constitution. The Deuce in Mountain dates to 1886. Local Icelandic churches join with secular organizations in one of the longest-running ethnic festivals in North Dakota, and the largest Icelandic festival in the United States. Some churches maintain a year-round calendar of ethnic food events. Mindekirken (Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church) in Minneapolis is a notable example. The church was founded in 1922 specifically to preserve the Norwegian language at a time when many congregations were switching to English. Mindekirken has a Norwegian Language and Culture Program and holds numerous events that serve Norwegian foods: weekly Tuesday open houses with the pastor (Norwegian waffles, open-faced sandwiches and coffee); rømmegrøt luncheons, the pre-Lenten carnival tradition of Fastelavn with its characteristic fastelavensboller (sweet filled buns), the lutefisk and meatball dinner, a Norwegian cookie sale, a Scandinavian Treasure Chest sale with lefse, and the Christmas julbord feast. (https://www.mindekirken.net/index.php/about-us/our-church-year) West Denmark Lutheran, a historically Danish church in Luck, Wisconsin, likewise hosts a yearly calendar of ethnically Danish events. These include Fastelavn (with a Danish version of the traditional buns), a fish boil (a tradition with roots in Scandinavian, Native American, and commercial fishing families), a Christmas cookie walk, and the annual aebleskiver supper. A tradition for more than 60 years, the aebleskiver supper features “as many as 16 bakers skillfully turning batter into perfectly round aebleskiver (the Danish version of a pancake) to go with locally made medisterpølse—traditional Danish sausage–and sodsuppe—fruit soup. The meal finishes with either ablekage or Lemon Fluff for dessert—and of course, lots of coffee.” (https://www.westdenmark.org/events/) Aebleskiver suppers and breakfasts are important fundraising and outreach events at many Danish American churches. The Dalesburg Scandinavian Association, founded in 1987, also maintains an impressive calendar of events. The Association is a special interest group at Dalesburg Lutheran Church, a Swedish heritage congregation in Vermillion, South Dakota. The group hosts educational programs with special speakers, intergenerational food-making opportunities, a Swedish pea soup and pancake luncheon, the Midsummer Festival (discussed below), and, since 1977, the Sankta Lucia Festival. The traditional Lucia meal includes coffee and saffron (Lucia) buns, but churches also host potlucks or smorgasbords. At Dalesburg, for example, the meal includes traditional Lucia buns, plus fruit soup, thinbread, rice, and meats, with a freewill donation given to area food pantries (Sharples 2016). Traditional saffron Lucia buns. Photo by Laurie K. Sommers Sankta Lucia (St. Lucy’s) Day is observed annually on December 13 in commemoration of Lucia, a fourth-century martyred saint who lived in what is now Italy. St. Lucia is celebrated worldwide, but she has special significance in Sweden. One of the most widespread Swedish legends maintains that, after her death, “a ship carrying a maiden ‘clothed in white and crowned with light’ appeared on the shore in the Swedish province of Varmland during a great famine. The maiden, widely believed to be Lucia, distributed food and clothing to the needy, thus endearing herself to the Swedish people” (Gustavus Adolphus College n.d.). Sankta Lucia was not widely observed, even in Sweden, until the 1900s. With her feast day coming during the darkest time of year, Lucia has come to symbolize light and hope. This symbolism is reinforced with the lighted candle head-wreath traditionally worn by young women representing Lucia. Many Swedish American churches celebrate Sankta Lucia Day. Whitney Lindgren (the 2018 Lucia,wearing the traditional wreath of candles), star boys, and angels pose at the 2018 Sankta Lucia celebration, Augustana Lutheran, Sioux City, Iowa. The church has held a Sankta Lucia celebration since the 1950s. Photo courtesy of the church. Zion Lutheran in Manistique, Michigan observed its first Sankta Lucia Day in 1953. Here, Janet Olson is Lucia at the 1957 observance. Photo by Laurie K. Sommers of a church history photo display. Midsummer is another Nordic tradition that immigrants introduced to North America, most commonly celebrated with bonfires. Originally a pre-Christian solstice festival, the observance was incorporated into the liturgical calendar, where it is associated with the June 24 feast day of John the Baptist. Midsummer is more often a secular celebration rather than a religious one held in churches. One exception was St. Olaf’s Lutheran, a Norwegian-heritage church in Devils Lake, North Dakota, which, during the 1920s, held fundraisers with a traditional Norwegian Midsummer night festival and large bonfires. Our survey identified several Swedish American churches that continue Midsummer pole celebrations–a variant of the pre-Christian maypole tradition. Dalesburg Lutheran held its 150th Midsommar observance. The event is now part of a community-wide festival spearheaded by the Dalesburg Scandinavian Society but dates to neighborhood picnics during the late nineteenth century. Today’s celebration includes dancing around the flower-decorated pole, music, crafts, children’s activities, a church service, and a smorgasbord with potatis korv, meatballs, salads, new potatoes, fruit soup, “and other Scandinavian treats.” Dancing around the flower-decorated Midsommar pole, at the Dalesburg Midsommar Festival, Dalesburg Lutheran Church, Vermillion, South Dakota. Photo by Carolyn Torma. Making meatballs and fruit soup for the Dalesburg Midsommar Festival. These festivals and church suppers continue because they are meaningful to the people who host and attend them. Photos courtesy of Dalesburg Lutheran Church, Vermillion, South Dakota. The midsummer celebration at Eksjo Lutheran in Lake Park, Minnesota dates to the church’s founding in 1871. The event includes dancing around the maypole, making flower crowns, a speaker, home-cooked Swedish meatballs, and an ice cream buffet. In a tongue-in-cheek reference to ethnic rivalries, the event announcement in the local paper recently read: “Everyone welcome, even Norwegians!” Eksjo Lutheran Church’s Midsummer Pole, Lake Park, Minnesota. Photo by Ruth E. Hetland. The most interesting example of a Midsummer pole tradition comes from the little town of Brevort, Michigan, an historic fishing community on the shores of Lake Michigan, where the Midsummer pole festival takes place on the grounds of Trinity Lutheran Church. Many of the church founders came from the Swedish-speaking Åland Islands of Finland. In 1906, they held their first Midsummer pole celebration. The tradition was discontinued in 1964 after a storm destroyed the original pole. Raising the original midsummer in 1949, Trinity Lutheran Church, Brevort, Michigan. Photo courtesy of the Movalson family. During the 1970s, the Movalson family of Brevort visited Åland Islands and observed many communities celebrating Midsummer with the same type of poles. In 1980, with the help of the entire community, they revived the tradition. The new cedar pole is half the height of the original but retains its distinctive finial carvings, with a “carved and painted whirligig representing humanity, a wooden whirligig representing the sun, and a wooden rooster, the sun’s herald. Below the carvings are four carved and painted sailing boats that spin in the wind representing the four seasons. Hanging from the cross beams are crowns, colorful strips of cloth made into balls, representing the six days of creation” (Michigan Heritage Award 2010). A replica of the midsummer pole finial showing the symbolic carvings. Photo by Laurie K. Sommers. During Brevort’s yearly Midsummer celebration, “men gather poplar leaves and men and women of all ages tie the leaves into bundles and string them in garlands back and forth along the cross beams. The men raise the pole using ropes” (MHA 2010). After a talk on the pole’s history and songs sung in Swedish, the church hosts a potluck, which always includes Swedish meatballs. Typing on poplar leaves for the 2009 pole raising at Trinity Lutheran, Brevort, Michigan. Photo by Don Dickman. Trinity Lutheran Church (Brevort, Michigan) with its Midsummer Pole and pavilion (used for the community potluck). The tied poplar leaves remain until replaced by fresh ones the following year. Photo by Laurie K. Sommers. The Midsummer potluck at Trinity Lutheran always includes Swedish meatballs. Here, they were a feature at the Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches site visit–also a potluck! Photo by Laurie K. Sommers. Please enjoy the following recipes, generously shared by some of the churches that participated in the Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project! SWEDISH FRUIT SOUP From the Smorgasbord Committee for our annual Midsommar Festival at Dalesburg Lutheran Church, Vermillion, South Dakota. The recipe below is one that we have used for years and is based on a recipe from Grace Lind (a long time member who has passed away). 1 box small tapioca 1 gallon grape/cranberry juice 2 1/4# raisins 36 oz. mixed fruit – cut into small pieces 24 oz, prunes – cut into small pieces 24 oz. dried apricots – cut into small pieces 24 oz. Craisins 3 fresh apples – chopped small with the peelings on Mix into large roaster and cook until thick and the apples are soft. If the soup is too thick you can add water to the desired consistency. Cool. Prior to serving add the following: Large bag of frozen mixed berries – or – 6 small bags of frozen raspberries More water if necessary Food preparation and serving is often intergenerational, in hopes of passing on the tradition. Here, making fruit soup for the Dalesburg Midsommar Festival. Photo courtesy of Dalesburg Lutheran Church, Vermillion, South Dakota. PANNUKAKKU (FINNISH BAKED PANCAKES) A mainstay for potlucks at Bethany Lutheran, Covington, Michigan, this Finnish staple comes from the great aunt of a church member. Place 1 stick of oleo or butter in a 9 x 13 metal cake pan Warm oven to 425 degrees until butter melts Mix: 4 room temperature eggs Slowly add most of butter plus 2 cups milk Whisk mixture until smooth Pour into pan, which has a little butter left Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes, or until light brown and puffs like a pancake To serve, sprinkle top with sugar or serve with fruit juice or syrup AEBLESKIVER (DANISH PANCAKES) A recipe from the Viborg, South Dakota United Methodist Women, used for the annual Aebleskiver breakfast at Viborg’s Danish Days. 4 cups Bisquick Season iron aebleskiver pan Heat stovetop burner to medium heat Fill each cup of pan ¼ full with Wesson oil or Crisco; add batter to each cup Turn with wooden skewers—make sure inside is done Serve hot, or cool and freeze on cookie sheet (store in plastic bags after frozen) Aebleskiver suppers and breakfasts are popular fundraisers in Danish American churches. Photo courtesy of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Viborg, South Dakota. VINATERTA AND KLEINUR (ICELANDIC BAKED GOODS) From Gwennie Erlendson, maternal grandmother to Carol Beard of Vidalin Icelandic Church, Akra, North Dakota. The prune filling is typical of the northern part of Iceland where Gwennie was from. Always included with coffee and kleinur at the Vidalin September and June services. Vinaterta (layered prune cake) Two parts: cookie dough and filling Cookie Dough: 1 ½ cup butter 1 ½ cups white sugar 3 tsp baking power ¾ tsp salt ¼ plus 1/8 cup milk Mix above and roll into 8-inch rounds until ¼ inch thick Use dinner plate to cut into perfectly round shape Traditionally 7 layers thick. 5 or 6 may be easier to pick up and eat. Bake rounds at 350 degrees until lightly browned. Cool, then spread filling. Prune Filling: (typically used in northern Iceland; southern Icelanders use rhubarb) 2 lbs pitted prunes Cook in water until tender Use enough water to puree Add 1 ½ cup sugar 1 tsp almond flavoring 1 tsp cardamom Add enough water so it will spread like jam (not too thick) over cookie round layers Alternate until you have 6 or 7 layers Cut and serve into pieces, serve on side so layers are visible Kleinur (fried pastry) 6 T melted butter Mix the above Roll on floured board to ¼ inch thick Cut with a Kleinur cutter or fattigman cutter, or cut in strips 1 inch wide and 3 inches long, on diagonal, to get a diamond shape. Put slit in center and put one of ends through. Fry in hot lard. Chewier than doughnut! Trio of Icelandic baked goods that are mainstays of Icelandic American church events. These treats were brought to the Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project training in Sioux City, Iowa by women from Vidalin Icelandic Church in Akra, North Dakota. Clockwise from top—vineterta (multilayered cake, here made with prune), kleinur (fried pastry), Bliss bars or hjónabandssæla (happy marriage bars). Photo by Laurie K. Sommers. NORWEGIAN MEATBALLS *This recipe has been used by the Nora Unitarian Church women for our annual fall Smorgasbord since the early 1900s. Original attribution is to Julia Haugen whose parents were founding members of Nora Unitarian Universalist Church, Hanska, Minnesota. (Makes approx. 75 two-inch meatballs) 5 lbs. ground beef 1 lb. ground pork 3 c. milk ½ to ¾ c. chopped onion 4 c. bread crumbs (tear bread into small bits, lay on cookie sheet for at least a few hrs. so bread is nearly dried .) Seasonings: 1 to 1 1/2 TBSP. salt; ½ tsp mustard, ¾ tsp each pepper, ginger, nutmeg Mix all ingredients very well by hand. Shape into even sized meatballs. Grease baking pan well. Bake in 350 to 375 oven until crispy on outside and done on inside. You may choose to turn them over halfway through baking so all sides turn brown. Nordic Nuggets Kalevala Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church–A Place of Refuge in Troubled Times A Danish American Childhood at Bethlehem Lutheran Bethany Lutheran: Art Deco Jewel of the Upper Peninsula Augustana Sioux City’s Altar of Peace Saving Tunbridge Lutheran Church	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6732897162437439, "wiki_prob": 0.6732897162437439, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line315151"}
Future House, Music Jora drops a massive future rave banger called ‘Myself With You’: Listen By Lakshay Bhagtani The emerging Italian record producer and DJ Jora is one of the top future rave prospects in the global electronic music scene at the moment, where his work has consistently been admired and supported by industry heavyweights like Morten, Kryder, and FaderX. Having already spent more than 18 long years as a DJ, the artist has really stepped up his production game in the past couple of years. Through his latest single called Myself With You, Jora is set to announce himself in style on Ørjan Nilsen‘s record label In My Opinion. Myself With You follows the success of Jora’s previous string of impressive tunes, including “Speak For Yourself“, “Macronom“, and “Get Down.” Starting off with some catchy spellbinding vocals, the track soon progresses into an intriguing drop that is set to amaze a lot of future rave lovers out there in the industry. Overall, Myself With You seems quite balanced in terms of the distribution of energy levels amongst the different phases of the track. The club and festival-friendly nature of the track is evident from the fact that Jora has been a man closely associated with the dance floor throughout his life, where he has also served as a resident DJ for some of the top nightclubs in Italy. Well, don’t just take our word for it, go check out “Myself With You” below: Image Credit: JORA (via Facebook) Tags: Future Rave, jora About the Author / Lakshay Bhagtani 21-year-old electronic music fan and a budding producer. Particularly biased towards melodic house & techno.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.886027991771698, "wiki_prob": 0.886027991771698, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1279784"}
Hubtek gifts happiness to children from ¨Viviendo Juntos¨ Byadmin-hubtek \| 6 January, 2023 \| For the holiday season Hubtek gifts happiness to children in vulnerable situations in Medellín. WECare – Corporación Viviendo Juntos: At Hubtek, we are passionate about supporting projects and corporations that work hard to make a difference in our communities by gifting them some happiness this time of the year. So, when Christmas came around, we felt it was especially important to remember those who are less fortunate and are facing illness, poverty, or other struggles through the holiday season. With this in mind, we decided to partner with Corporacion Viviendo Juntos to bring presents and spend an afternoon full of games, fun, and happiness with the children the corporation helps. We had the opportunity to talk to the kids and their mothers, give each a Christmas present, and spread some holiday cheer. Corporación Viviendo Juntos aims to provide comprehensive care in early childhood, and comprehensive protection for high-risk children, adolescents, and their families through the implementation and support of activities, charity programs, and other initiatives in the areas of education, culture, work, health, housing, community development, sports, and recreation. Having seen firsthand the beautiful and meaningful work that the foundation is doing, where we shared and experienced the conditions in which the children and their families live, we want to continue carrying out activities and initiatives with them. We are grateful and full of happiness for all the opportunities we had during 2022 to partner with different projects to help our communities, and we are excited to continue doing so in 2023. We’d also like to encourage everyone in the company who would like to participate in these activities to let us know so we can make it happen! To learn more about ¨Viviendo Juntos¨ corporation, click here Want to be part of our team? Apply now To learn more about our WeCare campaigns, click here. Categories:Hubtek \| News \| WeCare	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5656416416168213, "wiki_prob": 0.4343583583831787, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line483211"}
Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 10th edition Cinema La Compagnia • Altana di Palazzo Strozzi • Cango Cantieri Goldonetta • Gallerie delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi • Le Murate. Progetti arte contemporanea focus on hassan khan moving archive Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s The exhibition brings together works by nineteen international artists to celebrate its engagement in promoting, producing and exhibiting the works from a new generation of visual artists. Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea 11.00 am – 1.00 pm / 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm VISIO Artists’ Presentation The participating artists introduce the fundamental themes of their artistic practice in a 15-minute presentation at in Florence. 11.00 am – 6.00 pm Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s Cinema La Compagnia Superstructure (2017) by Hassan Khan After his performance at Guggenheim New York, Louvre Paris and Whitechapel London, Hassan Khan will present for the first time in Florence his famous project Superstructure 2017, a concert program with rotating selections from his repertoire- this time ranging from slow and suspenseful listening to subtle dancing. The pieces merge compositions and recordings done in the studio- from classical arabic music to programmed Gamelan with live work on a feedbacking mixer and an array of processors and filters. 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, France, Iran, 2016, 103′ Italian premiere in the presence of Ahmad Kiarostami Produced over the course of three years, using digital instruments, 3D inserts and green screens, 24 Frames is Abbas Kiarostami’s last masterpiece. The director died in Paris, on July 4, 2016, at the age of 76. The film is a dialogue between his work as filmmaker and as a photographer, a combination of the two artistic languages to which he devoted his life. The film also answers a question: what happens before and after a photo is taken? Melancholic and joyful, serious and mischievous, the film is a meditation on the passage of time and the fragility of existence: issues that were always central in the great Iranian director’s films. Cango Cantieri Goldonetta Hassan Khan In his lecture the artist will speak about his artistic practice in which sound, images and performance are closely linked. 6. 00 pm Koudelka Shooting Holy Land by Gilad Baram, Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, 2015, 71′ In the presence of the author The director follows Josef Koudelka, the famous Czech Magnum photographer, on a journey through the Holy Land undertaken to understand this region which has been deeply shaken by conflict, and religious and racial tensions. The film is a dialogue between cinema and photography. Jewel, 2010, 6’30” Muslimgauze R.I.P., 2010, 8’07” Blind Ambition, 2012, 45′ Interregnum by Adrian Paci, 2017, Italy, 17 ’28” In collaboration with Museo Novecento and Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea on the occasion of the exhibithion Adrian Paci. Di queste luci si servirà la notte In his latest work, Paci assembles imagery, recovered from national archives and television programming from former Soviet Union countries and China, which shows the funerals of the dictators who governed them. Long lines of mourners wait to pay homage to a man and an ideal. The death of a leader releases individual pain which, says the Albanian artist, “was not contemplated in communist society.” Pre-Image (Blind as the MotherTongue) by Hiwa K, Greece, 2017, 17 ’40” Italian premiere Equipped with a strange object–a pole balanced on his nose, with mirrors attached–the Kurdish Iraqi artist retraces the journey he made from Turkey to Greece to Rome when he was forced to flee his country. The limited view of the ground from the device only allows him to proceed slowly and uncertainly. The film is the metaphor of the dangers that every migrant encounters along his escape route. Beuys by Andres Veiel, Germany, 2017, 107’ With previously unseen and unheard video, audio-tapes, including interviews, Andres Veiel’s film reconstructs Joseph Beuys’s life between art, teaching and politics, recreating the climate of debates, resistance and utopia in which the charismatic German artist worked. Sculptor, performer, shaman, theoretician, a revolutionary and provocative artist, even now thirty years after his death, his name is surrounded by a mythical aura. Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010 Altana di Palazzo Strozzi Feature Expanded: Becoming a Feature The round table BECOMING A FEATURE will investigate the reasons why, in the last decade, an increasing number of visual artists are venturing into feature-length narrative film productions introducing new exhibition and distribution models and at the same time often embracing the rules and structures of the film industry. With the artists Rä Di Martino, Kasia Fudakowski and Roee Rosen . In collaboration with In Between Art Film. Tashlikh by Yael Bartana, Israel, Netherlands, 2017, sound, 11′ A gloomy sound accompanies objects of various shapes falling in slow motion: life-jackets, travel bags, passports, keys, toys, weapons, photographs, clothes, and bullets. The Israeli artist, protagonist of the Polish Pavilion at the 2011 Biennale, stages a type of ritual that consists in deliberately throwing objects related to traumatic memory as an example of psychological liberation. The World by Mika Taanila, Finland, 2017, sound, 7′ Inspired by The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicola Roeg’s film starring David Bowie, the Finnish artist’s short film represents a literally reversed version: the pictures are actually overturned. In an apocalyptic atmosphere, animals, plants and objects seem to await a final disaster. Fall into Ruin by William E. Jones, USA, 2017, 30 Alexander Iolas was a noted Greek merchant and collector who lived between Paris, New York and Athens. The film recounts the author’s visit to his Athenian villa, a site that has been declared a part of the country’s cultural heritage. The building, often vandalized, is in a state of complete abandonment. In the period of its utmost splendor, in the early 80’s it was wonderfully furnished with works of contemporary art and antiques. Act & Punishment by Evgenij Mitta, Russia, 2015, 90′ The Pussy Riot, a group of Russian punk-rock women, show their dissent through performances that are a mixture of actionism, art and politics. On August 17, 2012, three of them were arrested during a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. They were accused of “vandalism motivated by religious hatred.” The movie begins with imagery from their trial. They were sentenced to two years in jail, and became a world-wide symbol of the struggle for freedom of expression. Vivian’s Garden by Rosalind Nashashibi, UK, 2017, 30′ Italian premiere in the presence of the author Vivian Suter and her mother Elisabeth are Swiss-Austrian artists living in Panajachel, Guatemala, on an estate purchased in the 1980s, surrounded by a lush tropical garden. The artist’s 16mm camera enters into symbiosis with the daily lives of the women through close, intimate, sometimes almost furtive shots Urth by Ben Rivers, UK, 2017, 19′ An anonymous scientist recounts his last days in the Biosphere 2 Science Center, in Arizona. The British artist’s film is an intimate reflection on issues such as isolation, artificial environments, visions of the future, and the relationship between man and nature. Live Art: Adrian Villar Rojas in Istanbul by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, France, 2016, 26’ Live Art: Philippe Parreno, le temps de l’espace by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, France, 2015, 25’ World premiere in the presence of the author The ARTE TV Channel’s Live Art series by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Heinz Peter Schwerfel includes eight films about artists who have renewed the language of contemporary art. The series will be broadcast in early of 2018. Villar Rojas produces sculptures from organic and inorganic materials. The flow of time is a central obsession in his work, which seeks to give tangible form to the processes of change, decay and rebirth to which every life-form is destined.The film was shot at the 2015 Istanbul Biennale, for which the Argentine artist made a series of fantastic animals, installed on the edge of the Sea of Marmara. The film about Philippe Parreno, shot in New York in June 2015 at his show at Armory Drill Hill, follows the French artist’s installation, which changed daily; with narration by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Parreno, and the piano player Mikhail Rudy. SATURDAY NOVEMBER, 18 In Art We Trust by Benoît Rossel, Switzerland, France, 2017, 85′ A collection of testimonials by contemporary artists, including Lawrence Weiner, John Armleder, and Liam Gillick, who share their thoughts about the role of art and creation. The film recounts their ambitions and doubts as they try to describe the creative process, as well as the practice and the method needed to produce art. The director conjures a portrait of a mysterious craft, seen as sacred by some, despised and considered pretentious by others. Donald Judd and I by Sasha Pirker, Austria, USA, 2016, 3′ 30” The Los Angeles house where Donald Judd first discovered and fell in love with the furniture of Austrian architect Rudolph Schindler is re-imagined by the director, who brings together Schindler’s angular furniture with some paintings by the American minimalist artist. The Dust Channel by Roee Rosen, Israel, 2016, 23′ Screened at Documenta14, Rosen’s short film is a surreal lyrical operetta that takes place in the home of a bourgeois Israeli family whose fear of dirt and any other strange presence turns into a perverse devotion to household cleaning appliances. The sung text details a ménage à trois between a young couple and their Dyson DC07 vacuum cleaner. Controfigura by Rä Di Martino, Italy, Switzerland, France, Morocco, 2017, 68′ In the presence of the author and Corrado Sassi In this first topical feature by the Roman artist, a film crew explores Marrakech to find locations suitable for filming a remake of Frank Perry’s 1968 film, The Swimmer, in which a man crosses a whole region, from one swimming pool to another, to reach his home. During the production process, Corrado, the twin used to test the shots, hopes that that main role will be his. Filippo Timi interprets Burt Lancaster’s role. Feature Expanded > Award Looking for Oum Kulthum by Shirin Neshat, Germania, Austria, Italy, Libano, Qatar, 2017, 90′ In collaboration with In Between Art Film Shirin Neshat returns, after her acclaimed film Women Without Men, to the subject of the female condition and Iran from a female perspective. This second feature by the artist, presented in the Orizzonti section of the latest Venice Film Festival, is the story of Mitra, an Iranian director in exile, at work on her dream project: a film about the life of legendary singer and Egyptian diva Oum Kulthum (1900-1975). The difficulties encountered by the filmmaker in filming intertwine with what Oum experienced in her day as a female artist in a male-dominated society. SUNDAY NOVEMBER, 19 Big Time by Kaspar Astrup Schroder, Denmark, 2017, 93′ A portrait of award-winning Danish architect Bjarke Ingels who, by age forty, had already signed several well-known recent buildings, such as the W57 VIA 57 West skyscraper in New York, the Danish National Maritme Museum in Helsingor, and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. Shot over seven years, the film follows his professional and personal life with great discretion: from the opening of his new studio in New York, to on-site construction work, and through a surgical operation that followed a severe brain contusion suffered during a game of baseball. Il giardino delle erbacce by Virgilio Sieni, Italy, 2017, sound, 20’ It’s dawn. A person is sitting in a fallow field. Looks like she’s waiting for something. Suddenly she’s attracted by a glow. She closes her eyes, her hand falls from her knee. She moves her leg to get up, presses the ground with her heel. The journey begins. Forty meters separate her from the goal. An atlas of gestures and faces mark the journey, revealing a humanity that reflects on nature. Bom Bom’s Dream by Jeremy Deller and Cecilia Bengolea, UK, 2016, 12′ 30″ The social and traditional aspects of the popular music world have often been the focus of Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller’s work. Here, a Japanese dancer known as Bom Bom participates in a Jamaican dance contest. The film unfolds between absurd dance sequences and strange special effects, in a surreal atmosphere, with an absolutely pop aesthetic. Whipping Zombie by Yuri Ancarani, Italy, 27′ Zombie kale, or “zombie whipping”, is a unique ritual filmed the first time in history by Ancarani. To the rhythm of hypnotic, repetitive trance-inducing music performed with percussion and traditional wind instruments, zombie men whip and fight each other until they “die and are reborn” in an infinite cycle. VISIO > Young Talent Acquisition Prize Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco by James Crump, USA, 2017, 90’ An extraordinary soundtrack by Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes accompanies the story of Antonio Lopez, the most influential fashion designer of the 1970s, whose designs were inspired by ethnicities and street life in New York and Paris. The film follows the disinhibited life and turbulent relationships of the group of friends and collaborators who surrounded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, his creative partner Juan Ramos and his muses: Cathee Dahmen, Grace Jones, Pat Cleveland, Tina Chow, Jessica Lange and Jerry Hall. VISIO. DIRECTING THE REAL. ARTISTS’ FILM AND VIDEO IN THE 2010s curated by Leonardo Bigazzi Opening: Tuesday November 14, 6.00 pm Tuesday – Sunday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm The use of moving images has taken an increasingly central role in contemporary art practice. Curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s, brings together works by nineteen international artists who work with moving images. This generation of artists, born after 1980, operates at a time when confrontation with the “real” and its representation often become necessary and inevitable. Our experience of the world around us is however more and more mediated and altered by screens and electronic technologies, to the point that the borderline between real and virtual can be blurred. How do artists respond today to a globalized society where images and information are so often built and manipulated to alter reality? And how the technological revolutions of recent years, and the speed with which these images are shared and consumed, have influenced their (and our) outlook on the world? How to represent a world ever more ruled by economic interests, divided by wars and social injustice, and where the relation between man and environment is reaching a critical point? In such a context which is the role and the potential of art and of the exhibition space as physical place for reflecting and sharing? This exhibition aims to offer an overview on the production by a generation of artists who have made some of these questions the central theme of their research. The transition from analog to digital and the acceleration of the internet and new media are deeply influencing video language by generating aesthetic and formal choices that are now recognizable in their works. The exhibition at the Galleria delle Carrozze in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi includes videos, films and video installations that represent the variety of media and formats used in contemporary video practice. With this exhibition Lo schermo dell’arte continues its commitment, which has characterized its ten years of activity, aimed at the promotion and production of works by a new generation of visual artists working with moving images. All the selected artists have participated, or participate this year for the first time, to the two most important projects that the Festival has dedicated in the last year to the young artists: VISIO. European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2012-2017) and the Premio Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (2010 – 2013). ARTISTS: Basma Alsharif, Bianca Baldi, Danilo Correale, Justine Emard, Alessandra Ferrini, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, Louis Henderson, Graham Kelly, Jonna Kina, Daisuke Kosugi, Basir Mahmood, Diego Marcon, Rebecca Moss, Arash Nassiri, Janis Rafa, Emilija Škarnulyte, Patrik Thomas, Emmanuel Van Der Auwera, Driant Zeneli. Thursday November, 16 at 3.45 pm Cango Cantieri Goldonetta Lecture by Hassan Khan Friday November 17 at 3.45 pm Altana di Palazzo Strozzi Round table: Becoming a Feature Will be present among the others: Rä Di Martino (artist), Roee Rosen (writer and artist) and Kasia Fudakowski (artist) In collaboration with In Between Art Film and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi As part of the programme Feature Expanded the round table BECOMING A FEATURE will investigate the reasons why, in the last decade, an increasing number of visual artists are venturing into feature-length narrative film productions introducing new exhibition and distribution models and at the same time often embracing the rules and structures of the film industry. Feature Expanded is organized by Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival and HOME Manchester, supported by Creative Europe MEDIA. Wensday November 15 7.00 pm Cinema La Compagnia Superstructure (2017) A Short Story Based on a Distant Memory with a Long Musical Interlude (2011) Club Gamelan excerpt (2015) Taraban (2014) Hassan Khan’s performances bring together prerecorded compositions with live improvisation defying most classifications. Khan usually uses a battery of feedbacking mixers, filters, processors, laptop manipulation, virtual synthesizers and live microphones in tandem to the recorded studio sections to produce live sets that are treated as one composition. He has worked with instruments including vocalists, brass ensembles, string quartets, the various instruments of a classical Arabic music takht, programmed Gamelan, group clapping and piano. For this special evening at the 10th Schermo dell’arte Khan has put together a concert program ranging from slow and suspenseful listening to subtle music for dancing. 15.45 pm Cango Cantieri Goldonetta Films programme: A brief moment on the street where two men were dancing in front of a makeshift speaker with a pulsing light attached to it, was the starting point for this piece originally shot on 35mm lm and then transferred to HD Video. At the beginning of Jewel, mysterious lights emanate from a fish gliding through the depths of a black sea before transforming into artificial lights embedded on a rotating speaker around which two men are dancing. The music accompanying the piece, composed by the artist, is not only what the characters are dancing to but is also, maybe, what they are, in a sense, producing. Is this the space of located history or the transformation of culture? Made for Manifesta 8, shot in Ljubljana, the video is set in Manchester, 1982. A kid explores the space of a modest apartment in an anonymous house, touching its furniture and objects. He opens and closes drawers, pulls out their contents; moves the squeaking doors of a wardrobe; spills glass beads on the carpet; spins a coin on a table; sits and rises; looks out the window. The film is surprising for the contrast between the silent, almost perplexing accumulation of these trivial objects, and the violence of the sounds produced by the doors, drawers and various objects in the hands of the child. Muslimgauze, a wordplay between muslin (a type of veil) and muslim (muslim), is the pseudonym of experimental musician Byrn Jones, a native of Manchester, who began in the 80’s producing albums whose titles and sounds were direct allusions to the political situation in the Middle East without ever having been there. In response to this figure, Khan builds a highly allusive scenario: on the one hand a reference to a musician whose appropriation of radical politics from other places is maybe a potent comment on his local conditions; while on the other, a young boy suspended in a moment of time experiencing in detail an English middle class environment. A ghostly film in which Khan stages the conservatism of the United Kingdom under Thatcher as a domestic condition. Shot in Cairo with a cell phone, Blind Ambition is made up of nine different moments: conversations of men and women, played by actors, in a frantic urban context. These episodes were developed with the actors and then ‘inserted’ into real life situations where they were then shot. Traffic jams intersect the episodes: rush hour at Ramses Square, a busy shopping mall, the interior of a public transport facility, and so on. Though at first the video seems to give a real picture of the city and its inhabitants, the viewer soon understands that Khan’s work is much more complex. In the banality and diversity of their themes, the dialogues are a non-stop chorus that show seeds of conflict. The characters communicate with each other in loops, searching for resolution and maybe small triumphs but never really reaching a resolution. The cellphone allows for rapid movement, and guides the spectator through the narratives, approaching the subjects and then leaving them, losing interest in the dialogue, which disappears. The dialogues were recorded and dubbed during editing, eliminating background noise. The film runs through the veins of a congested city with alienating effect. Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Khan performs his music regularly in major museums, music festivals and venues such as the Louvre in Paris, Guggenheim NY, INTONAL Music Festival in Malmo, Whitechapel in London, and Maerzmusik Festival in Berlin. He has published texts in Arabic and English, including: Nine Lessons Learned from sherif el-azma (Cairo 2009) and Twelve Clues (Mousse Publishing 2016), his first sci-fi novella. He won the Silver Lion for Promising Young artist of the 57th Venice Bienniale 2017, where at the Giardino delle Vergini he presented the sound installation Composition for a Public Park 2013/2017. Among his recent solo shows: the Beirut Art Center (2016), the Museum of Modern Art MMK (Frankfurt 2015), Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Cairo 2015), SALT (Istanbul 2012). He has participated in numerous Biennials and international exhibitions including recently the Biennial of Montréal (2016), the Sharjah Biennial (2015), the Liverpool Biennial (2014), the New Museum Triennial, New York (2012) and dOCUMENTA 13 (2012). Moving Archive is a program ideated for the libraries and institutions of nine municipality of the Città Metropolitana di Firenze, 5 documentary subtitled in Italian: Damien Hirst: Thoughts, Work, Life by Chris King, Art Safari: Maurizio Cattelan by Ben Lewis, Megunica by Lorenzo Fonda, William Kentridge: Anything is Possible by Susan Sollins, e Picasso in Palestine by Rashid Masharawi will be screened on tablets, computers, screens and projections in the institutions involved in the project. The aim is to create a different distribution. The library and associations involve in the project are: Associazione Sincresis Empoli, Auditorium “M.A. Martini” Biblioteca di Scandicci, Biblioteca comunale di Borgo San Lorenzo, Biblioteca comunale Ernesto Balducci, Barberino di Mugello, Biblioteca comunale di Marradi, Biblioteca comunale di Pontassieve, Le Murate Progetto Arte Contemporanea Firenze, MMAB, Montelupo Museo Archivio Biblioteca, Museo Giuliano Ghelli San Casciano in Val di Pesa. Complete programme Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival – 10th edition Florence, November 15 – 19 2017 November 14 opening exhibition Directing the Real. Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s Florence, Via Cavour 50 rosso Live Set Hassan Khan: € 10 24 Frames: € 7 full ticket, € 5.50 reduced Live Set Hassan Khan and 24 Frames: € 14 From November 16 to 19 Afternoon € 5 full ticket, € 4 reduced Night € 7 full ticket, € 5.50 reduced Daily ticket € 10 full ticket, € 8 reduced From November 15 to 19 seasonal ticket € 40 ADVANCED TICKETS on line from Wednesday November www.cinemalacompagnia.it from Sunday November 12 at the cinema La Compagnia REDUCED TICKETS The possessors of a ticket of the exhibition 1927 IL RITORNO IN ITALIA at Museum Salvatore Ferragamo will have a reduced ticket. The possessors of a ticket of Schermo dell’arte Film Festival will have a € 3 educed ticket at Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. All Radical Utopias exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi ticket holders are entitled to a reduced price ticket. All the Lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival ticket holders are entitled to a reduced price ticket to Radical Utopias exhibition. Florence, Piazza delle Murate November 16, at 11.00 am – 13.00 pm / 14.30 pm – 16.30 pm HASSAN KHAN \| lecture Florence, Via Santa Maria 25 November 16, at 3.45 pm BECOMING A FEATURE \| round table Florence, Piazza Strozzi DIRECTING THE REAL. ARTISTS’ FILM AND VIDEO IN THE 2010s \| exhibition Florence, Via Cavour 5 November 15 – December 10, 11.00 am – 6.00 pm closed on Monday Teaser by Roberto Fassone Rosalind Nashashibi Roee Rosen Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2017 is realized with the contribution of Creative Europe/MEDIA Regione Toscana in the context of Toscana in contemporanea 2017 and Giovani Sì Fondazione Sistema Toscana – La Compagnia Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze In Between Art Film Nuovi Mecenati, Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea Famiglia Cecchi B&C Speakers Continentale Hotel Loggiato dei Serviti Cango. Centro Nazionale di Produzione sui linguaggi del corpo e della danza; FID Marseille; Fondazione Studio Marangoni; Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea; Netherlands Film Fund; HOME Manchester; Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana; Seven Gravity Collection; Sub-ti; Università per stranieri di Siena; University of Salford at MediaCityUK.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7885007858276367, "wiki_prob": 0.7885007858276367, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line129946"}
Best Breakfast Spots Best of St. Louis Dining Restaurants by Neighborhood Openings, Closings, & Coming Soons Ask George Most Anticipated Restaurants of 2023 Things To Do This Month Bookstore Guide Read This Now Live Local, Give Local Best Lawyers® 25 Reasons to Love St. Louis Faces of St. Louis Architect & Designer Awards The Best Vintage Shops in St. Louis Where to Get Everything Fixed Faces of Design Top Real Estate Producers Directory Guide to Feeling Happy & Well in 2023 Excellence in Nursing Top Dentists Directory Top Doctor Directory Top Senior Care Directory 25 Things Every St. Louis Kid Must Do Family Fun for Every Season Family Favorites Ballot School Charts Local School Guide St. Louis Sage SLM Events Home Partner Content SSM Health Foundation to host Hope Blooms virtual gala to benefit cancer patients on October 10 SSM Health Foundation to host Hope Blooms virtual gala to benefit cancer patients on October 10 This year's theme is a reflection of both the spirit of shared hope that we have witnessed in our communities this year and the healing power of hope for SSM Health cancer care patients. by SLM Partner Studio Courtesy of SSM Health Foundation This year has been one full of highs and lows, from shared uncertainty to shared compassion. As individuals, as a community, and as a nation, we have been pushed out of our comfort zone to a place where we must be, see, and do more. Amid all the challenges, a need and an opportunity have arisen to inspire, motivate, and, most of all, to help hope bloom for friends, loved ones, and neighbors in need. Each year, SSM Health Foundation's annual gala does just that. It provides a platform for hope to grow and thrive in our communities. While this year has challenged all of us, SSM Health has been overwhelmed with gratitude for the people and communities that the health care system serves. Benefactors, board members, corporate partners, sponsors, and SSM Health care givers have provided true inspiration with their commitment to providing exceptional health care services to those in need, even in uncertain times. This year, the SSM Health Foundation–St. Louis Virtual Gala, Hope Blooms, will be held October 10. Proceeds from the gala will benefit SSM Health Cancer Care efforts across the St. Louis, St. Charles, and Metro East regions. The gala’s theme is a reflection of both the spirit of shared hope that we have witnessed in our communities this year and the healing power of hope for SSM Health cancer care patients. SSM Health has recognized a substantial need to support these efforts throughout its St. Louis hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, when regular appointments are more important than ever and the immunocompromised face additional risk. The escalating need to provide safe health care to the immunocompromised, along with an increase in the demand for innovative treatment options, has created an opportunity to rise to the occasion and to provide funding for programs such as clinical trials, impactful patient-centered programs, cutting-edge technologies, and more. Now is the time to help hope bloom for those in the community who are living with cancer. Attendees to the gala will enjoy a special Hope Blooms thank-you box (complete with a gourmet dinner, a bottle of wine, and a few extra surprises) delivered to their homes on the day of the event, as well as an evening of exclusive entertainment, a silent auction, and incredible stories from caregivers and patients. All proceeds from the virtual gala will support SSM Health Cancer Care, directly benefiting local hospitals and the patients they serve. If you’re unable to attend the Hope Blooms gala, you can still help bring hope and health to the community by participating in the Hope Blooms silent auction, which will be live October 5–10. It will feature items provided by generous community benefactors. You can also make a gift to support SSM Health Cancer Care efforts across the region at any time at givetossmhealth.org/donate. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit givetossmhealth.org/events/gala, call 314-523-8044, or email [email protected]. SSM Health Foundation 12312 Olive Blvd. Suite 100, St. Louis, Missouri 63141 See more content from St. Louis Magazine's partners ▸ facebook twitter instagram Youtube Pinterest LinkedIn RSS Advertising Billing St. Louis Magazine Design STL Copyright 2022 SLM Media Group. All rights reserved.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5368098616600037, "wiki_prob": 0.5368098616600037, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1476127"}
Home Mobile Phones / Tablets Xiaomi Xiaomi Mi 10 series global launch set for 27th March Xiaomi had planned to launch its Mi 10 series globally at a launch event during Mobile World Congress 2020. However, after MWC 2020 got cancelled, the launch was postponed. But now, the company has announced a new date for the event. The company has confirmed that it will launch the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro smartphone globally through an online event on 27th March. The event will be live-streamed from 6:30 PM IST. Xiaomi has also been teasing its launch in India which could happen at the same event or soon after that. Xiaomi has also scheduled a launch event in India on 12th March, where the company is confirmed to launch its Redmi Note 9 or Redmi Note 9 Pro smartphone. It remains to be seen if the Chinese brand has anytime to say related to the Mi 10 lineup at the event. The company has already announced these two flagship smartphones in China and thus, the key specifications are already known. It features a 90Hz AMOLED display, Snapdragon 865 SoC with up to 12 GB RAM, and a whopping 108 MP quad rear cameras. Tags: Xiaomi Mi 10Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro How to block heavy ads on Chrome without using ad blockers OPPO Smart TV lineup to get launched in second half of this year	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9591373205184937, "wiki_prob": 0.9591373205184937, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1046711"}
Arctic → 1. Disappearing Acts “Two new books on the value of invisibility and silence seem like a clever bit of counterprogramming. Coming upon them was like finding the Advil bottle in the medicine cabinet after stumbling about with a headache for a long time. They are both, perhaps purposefully, slow reads. They demand patience from addled minds primed to see such subject matter as a result of subtraction, the blank pages between chapters.” 2. Sports Anchors in the Era of Social Media “As television viewing habits change and sports media develop new ways to bring fans what they want when they want it. (Now!) That means what was once a premier placement in TV sports — the anchor desk — is not the high perch it used to be. It is not clear anymore what it is at all.” 3. The Shutdown Made Sara Nelson Into America’s Most Powerful Flight Attendant “While a vanishing fraction of Americans belong to unions, workers are increasingly fed up with their lot and amenable to the idea of taking on their bosses directly.” 4. Made on the Inside, Worn on the Outside “Fashion has a long-established history in prisons, dating back to the 1700s.” 5. Can Peer Pressure Defeat Trump? “The rush to design apps to increase voter turnout is part of a wider push in Silicon Valley — trying to shake the taint of peddling fake news and Russian propaganda — toward ‘civic tech,’ or innovations designed in the public interest.” 6. Why the Priesthood Needs Women “For myself, and for many of the Catholics I know (especially women), the question of how much corruption we can tolerate is now weighed against the tremendous loss we would feel, if we left this church. It’s an institution that has shaped us, comforted us, guided and informed us, that is the center of our spiritual lives as well as our community lives and family lives, the source of our own moral strength, of our faith in the substance of things hoped for. And yet small commiserations can no longer placate our outrage. A sea change is required.” 7. Not the Fun Kind of Feminist “Dworkin, so profoundly out of fashion just a few years ago, suddenly seems prophetic.” 8. The ‘Oddly Satisfying’ Internet “The videos seemed to scratch an itch I didn’t know I had. If I watched long enough, I felt lightly hypnotized, as if one of those disembodied hands had reached in and massaged my brain.” 9. Don’t Fight the Robots. Tax Them. “To afford any kind of government services in the robot era, governments will have to find something else to tax. Why not the robots themselves?” 10. Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal to Planet Earth “Despite a supposed surge in nationalism across the globe, many people like to watch movies and TV shows from other countries.” 11. Everything Is War and Nothing Is True “One way to understand the upheavals of the past decade, manifest in political populism and the surge in talk about ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news,’ is as the penetration of warlike mobilization and propaganda into our democracies.” 12. Can Bitcoin Save Venezuelans? “‘Borderless money’ is more than a buzzword for those of us who live in a collapsing economy and a collapsing dictatorship.” 13. President Trump Has Inspired Art. That’s Not Always a Good Thing. “I’m grateful that artists are responding creatively to the current moment, but why do so many of their efforts miss the mark?” 14. We Love to Be Smushed “Heavy bedding and other compression items have resonated, metaphorically and psychologically, as transitional objects for a population under stress.” 15. Map Quest “GPS has been a salve for my emotional life. And yet, I miss the old road trip and the way it could make you feel lost between here and the rest of your life. With a map you believed the world was large and the car was small and every possibility was open. With GPS you know when you will leave and when you will arrive and what will happen along the way. Or you believe you do, which is even worse.” 16. The Campus as Counselor “Students and institutions are grappling with issues like the surge in school shootings and trauma from suicides and sexual assault. But it’s not just the crises that have shaken this generation — it’s the grinding, everyday stresses, from social media pressures to relationship problems to increased academic expectations.” 17. Wealthy, Successful, and Invisible “Even in a boom economy, a surprising portion of Americans are professionally miserable right now. In the mid-1980s, roughly 61 percent of workers told pollsters they were satisfied with their jobs. Since then, that number has declined substantially, hovering around half; the low point was in 2010, when only 43 percent of workers were satisfied, according to data collected by the Conference Board, a nonprofit research organization. The rest said they were unhappy, or at best neutral, about how they spent the bulk of their days. Even among professionals given to lofty self-images, like those in medicine and law, other studies have noted a rise in discontent. Why? Based on my own conversations with classmates and the research I began reviewing, the answer comes down to oppressive hours, political infighting, increased competition sparked by globalization, an ‘always-on culture’ bred by the internet — but also something that’s hard for these professionals to put their finger on, an underlying sense that their work isn’t worth the grueling effort they’re putting into it.” 18. The Rise of the WeWorking Class “The conviction behind the rapid growth of WeWork is that the office culture of the future is likely to be the culture of the future, full stop, and that it is WeWork’s special vocation to bring it to market.” 19. Still At It “These New Yorkers have been doing the same thing for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop.” 20. Dollars on the Margins “A $15 minimum wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from neglect. But why? Poverty can be unrelenting, shame-inducing and exhausting. When people live so close to the bone, a small setback can quickly spiral into a major trauma. Being a few days behind on the rent can trigger a hefty late fee, which can lead to an eviction and homelessness. An unpaid traffic ticket can lead to a suspended license, which can cause people to lose their only means of transportation to work. In the same way, modest wage increases have a profound impact on people’s well-being and happiness.”	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.5265732407569885, "wiki_prob": 0.4734267592430115, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1563833"}
Hobart International Jelena Jankovic Samantha Stosur Sydney International Jankovic stopped in Sydney opener, Wozniacki wins first match of the season Jelena Jankovic came to Sydney fresh off her Brisbane semifinals and on the wings of her last season’s rise from No.22 to No.8 in the rankings, but Ekatarina Makarova, making a comeback after more than four months of not playing, had other plans and knocked out the fourth-seeded Serb 6-4 6-2 in the first round of the Apia International Sydney. The newly-engaged Caroline Wozniacki, seeded sixth, was also playing her first match of the season, having withdrawn from the Brisbane International with a right shoulder injury she picked up in practice, and survived a touch challenge from Julia Goerges to advance to the second round 3-6 6-2 6-4, while fifth-seeded Angelique Kerber managed to defeat Dominika Cibulkova for the first time in five tries, 7-6(5) 7-5. Top seed at the tournament is Agnieszka Radwanska and she’s still enjoying her first-round bye. At the Hobart International also played this week, the top seed is home star Samantha Stosur and she made it to the second round but after a very tough match that involved rain delays and a very determined world No.147 Madison Brengle. Final score: 6(4)-7 6-1 7-6(5). (photo: Jimmie48) Previous articleBrisbane: Serena Williams transcends her 2013 winning ways in 2014 Next articleTop seed Radwanska stunned in Sydney, Wozniacki out too Samantha Stosur to call it a career after 2023 Australian Open Belinda Bencic wins Adelaide, Lauren Davis crowned in Hobart Caroline Wozniacki inducted into Danish Sports Hall of Fame Doic1938 January 22, 2014 At 6:36 am Jelena Jankovic might be a good player. I do like her but I also love Sunia Mirza of India as she is so beautiful	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8831194639205933, "wiki_prob": 0.8831194639205933, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line570492"}
Runaya receives Crisil BBB+ / Positive Rating: highest credit rating in its sector New Delhi/Mumbai (India), November 16: CRISIL Rating announced that it has assigned a long-term rating of CRISIL BBB+/Positive to Runaya Private Limited (RPL) while assigning a short-term rating of CRISIL A2. As per CRISIL, the rating reflects high revenue visibility due to the presence of the long-term supplier and customer contracts, strong financial flexibility, and the expectation of healthy return ratios driven by strong performance and efficient working capital management. The positive outlook reflects the expectation that Runaya will sustain the ramp-up in revenue while also improving its operating margins, which could subsequently result in a rating upgrade. CRISIL also expects the return ratios to be robust due to healthy profit. Naivedya Agarwal, Co-founder, Runaya, said, “With the advent of the 5G revolution, we see double-digit exponential growth in demand for FRP Rods both in India and globally. We have set up an Innovation Cell at our plant, with a focus on value-added products, as well as on digitization and artificial intelligence for enhancing productivity, quality, and safety parameters. We are pleased to receive the Crisil BBB+ / Positive rating, which is a validation of the strength of our business.” About Runaya: Runaya’s vision is to deploy cutting-edge technology to enable innovation, sustainability and efficiency improvement in the natural resources industry. Founded by Naivedya and Annanya Agarwal (sons of Vedanta Limited Vice-Chairman Navin Agarwal), the key focus is on executing projects that enable a circular economy and promote the concept of waste to wealth. In addition to ground support products, Runaya’s portfolio includes sustainability solutions for the aluminium industry, minor metals recovery, gas atomized metallurgical powders and other semi-finished products for the telecommunication cable and steel industries. Please visit www.runaya.com for more. Previous PostOSL’s Generosity & Commitment Towards Odisha Education Next PostModAir pioneers India’s first tech enabled “Air Logistics & Courier” platform NPST engages with GRAMePAY – A Futuristic Liaison Reseal.in’s Maharashtra Business Icon Award concluded in Nasik India’s favorite Cuppa Tea comes in new hues and flavors at Aman Sood’s ‘The Chai Theka’	{"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7418811321258545, "wiki_prob": 0.2581188678741455, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line405288"}
Link to CBC Sports main page LONGFORM CBC Sports on Facebook CBC Sports on Twitter CBC Sports on Instagram CBC Sports on YouTube Louise Armaindo: Canadian professional sports pioneer A strongwoman, trapeze artist, pedestrienne, and famously, record-breaking high wheel racer By David Giddens, CBC Sports This story was orginally published in 2019, but we are revisiting it as part of our Sunday Read series this weekend. The first Canadian women to use their athletic bodies and get a wage for it were in the circus. Trapeze artists, human cannonballs, and strongwomen went to work even though the pay was crummy, the employment was precarious, and the circumstances were usually demeaning. Compared to other jobs for women then, the big top was a pretty good option. Montreal’s Louise Armaindo was a true daughter of the circus. A pistol-packing, cocaine and strychnine fuelled badass. Her story is one for the ages. Armaindo became the dominant bike racer of her day — and certainly one of Canada’s very first pro women athletes. Almost everything we know about Louise Armaindo now is thanks to professor emeritus in sports, Ann Hall, from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She put years into researching early sportswomen for her book ‘Muscle on Wheels’ which is the basis of practically every substantial thought and fact in this essay. The fascinating and feisty history of bicycle racing according to Ann Hall. (McGill-Queen's University Press) Like most circus folk, Louise Armaindo lived by her stage name. She was born Louisa Brisbois or perhaps Brisebois, probably on Oct. 12, 1860, in St. Anne de Bellevue on the island of Montreal. Armaindo took her stage identity a step further and also cooked up her own bio and backstory. Her mother was a circus strongwoman and her dad was a voyageur. Fans of Stompin’ Tom Connor’s classic ‘Big Joe Mufferaw’ may know the song was based on an actual Quebecois voyageur named Joseph Montferrand, who was an ornery giant of a man. Montferrand picked fights with whole groups of men, sometimes for money, sometimes just because he felt like it. He had a sister named Helene, which was Louise’s mum’s name. It is probably not true, but Louise Armaindo liked to say that Montferrand was her uncle. She wisecracked that it took six men just to lift his hat. Louise Armaindo was born strong. By the age of 18 she could dead lift 760 pounds. She had a harness contraption that allowed her to hoist four men off the ground with her teeth. From too early for the historic record to show, she was on the trapeze. We don’t know what tricks she could do, or how long exactly that gig lasted. It was obviously dangerous work and the pay was rotten. So somewhere around the mid 1870s, she went to Chicago. There have been French Canadians in that city from the very beginning. Armaindo ditched the trapeze and got into marathon walking, which was weirdly popular in the 1870s. Wondering what a penny farthing race is? Watch this: The grueling life of a pedestrienne In March of 1879, Louise Armaindo entered a ten-mile walking race. Betting was the main raison d’etre for public sport then, and we know that about 1500 people showed up to lay their money on this one. Armaindo came third. Somewhere around the time of that race, she crossed paths with Tom Eck, a fellow Canadian, and a good athlete himself. His resume included cricket, running, skating, a stint as a jockey, and finally professional cycling. He was the first man to ride 100 miles in less than six hours. Eck was also Tom Longboat’s trainer for a while — but that’s another story. Eck became Armaindo’s promoter. Maybe her husband too, but there’s no proof of that. Armaindo and Eck went around the U.S.A. together, entering and sometimes organizing indoor track walking contests and demonstrations. Marathon walking women, so called pedestriennes, attracted big audiences. That might seem admirable, ahead of its time, maybe, but there was an unpleasant undercurrent to the attraction. The long walking contests were horrifying, sometimes month-long endurance feats. Even in the shorter six-day races, walking per se wasn’t the draw so much as the spectacle of suffering. Near total sleep deprivation and fatigue left participants hallucinating, delirious, walking corpses. The events were so grueling that there were protests against it, even back then. It was a vehicle for gambling, sure, but it was also a theatre of cruelty. New York City banned marathon walking because the races were “offensive to the sense of propriety and decency, demoralizing on community, and cruel and inhuman for participants.” As marathon walking matured, audiences faded. The trouble was, the best race-winning strategy was to plod along at a dull pace, saving energy for the only sprint-y bit, which was at the very end. Audiences understandably got bored watching a handful of people walking around at an unhurried tempo for days on end. Crowds sought more bang for their betting buck. The pedestriennes needed to up their games. Louise Armaindo liked a new challenge. Moving to high wheel racing After her rootless years of pedestrienne racing, Armaindo and Tom Eck moved back to Chicago. While they were there, the brand new business of High Wheel Racing began. These were the big front wheel, tiny back wheel, ‘penny farthing’ machines. Tricky to hop aboard, downright dangerous to race. All the racers in those early years were men. But towards the end of 1879, San Francisco saw the first known women’s race. Three women, in a two-hour contest, the winner of which was declared “The Champion Lady Bicycle Rider of California.” There was an ugly class divide between amateurs and professionals in sport back then. To be a professional athlete was to attract insulting scorn from the always upper class amateurs. Among male cyclists, the pro-am divide was very bitter. Professor Hall raised her voice as we were talking about this: “It's incredible how much anger there was with the divide between the professionals and the amateur men. But women never became part of that divide. They were only professionals. Women never raced amateur. There's no evidence whatsoever of amateur races in the high wheel for women. None.” Elsa von Blumen, the main high wheel challenger to Armaindo throughout her career. (Collections of Lorne Shields and John Weiss/McGill-Queen's University Press) As soon as women’s cycling emerged as a paying sport, Louise Armaindo put her feet to the pedals, and learned to ride high wheel bikes. By 1881 she was doing show riding for the Wilkinson Bicycle school. Within months, she threw down the gauntlet at all the other women riders in the world: Her offer was “throw $100 in the pot and race me 25 miles, or $250 and we’ll race 100 miles.” Louise took on all comers, but she leveled a particular challenge at the woman who would be her foil for most of her racing career: Elsa von Blumen. Like Armaindo, von Blumen was a former pedestrienne who had followed the money over to cycling. She was a petite woman from Kansas and later New York, whose retiring demeanour had earned her the label ‘the White Fawn of Rochester’. She and Armaindo were dramatically contrasting characters. Elsa von B. was modest, proper, and conservative. Armaindo was, well, the opposite: brash, bragging and bold. Von Blumen insisted on propriety at all times. No wagering, no rowdiness, no less than total respectability at her events. Armaindo was in it for the money and the more the merrier. Von Blumen was the more famous of the two in the early days. Armaindo was the upstart challenger. For at least a year, every time Armaindo would publically challenge her, von Blumen would discretely ignore or decline the invitation to race. Since their sport was so new, finding legitimate competitors was a challenge. In those early days, women riders would often race against horses, or against men who would give them a measured head start. It took a while before there were enough women who had mastered the big bikes to make proper races happen. Which is not to say there weren’t some amazing physical performances happening. In one race in 1882, Armaindo covered more than 600 miles in 72 hours, (12 hours a day for six straight). That set a new American long-distance record. Fame starts coming Louise’s fame began to spread and male riders began to take notice. She and Tom Eck and another rider travelled the western states, racing one another on indoor tracks of greatly varying quality. It’s not easy to picture these races, because they bear no resemblance to modern velodromes. Louise and her cohorts raced for days at a time on very small, often flat tracks. Sometimes these things were 18 laps to a mile, which seriously cut into speed. The spaces were dank, gas-lit, holding a thousand or more spectators puffing away on raunchy cigars. Children, touts and the over-refreshed stumbled on and off the track at will. It was a constant air quality health hazard, enlivened by frequent crashes. Coming a cropper, as they used to say, from a starting point of six feet in the air, added to the tally of broken bones. Louise and the boys’ barnstorming took them to Toronto in 1882 — where she won praise for her elegant racing form at the CNE grounds. She also made perhaps her only professional return to hometown Montreal on this trip. Among other events, Armaindo won a hundred-mile race against the two men. In July of that year, Louise finally got the matchup she had been asking for. Von Blumen agreed to meet the Canadian bombshell for a curious contest in Philadelphia: every day for six days, they raced ten miles, in five two-mile heats, making 30 races in total, of which Armaindo won 21… and every night, the plan was to race horses for another five miles. The bike vs. horse races didn’t quite work out because the track was too narrow and they just couldn’t all squeeze in at once. Plus horses are terrible cyclists. Strange event, hey? It was an interesting time. People were just starting to experiment with sporting spectacle, seeing what worked. The week after the Philly event, Armaindo and von Blumen teamed up in Coney Island for a two-on-one, six day race against a bloke named Morgan. He rode six hours nonstop daily, and they switched every half hour for the same time. The track was wooden, rough, outdoors, and damned treacherous in the rain. Both women had bad crashes in the wet. Armaindo face planted, and probably broke bones in the process. Morgan won by a single mile at the end of the 467 mile race. The day following, Armaindo and von Blumen went head-to-head for 50 miles. Armaindo beat her dainty opponent by a whopping eleven miles. Von Blumen didn’t race against Louise again for another seven years. Louise Armaindo was in it to win. She wanted the money and she wasn’t too picky about who she raced for it. She set the standard in Chicago, in a race that was legitimately billed as the Long Distance Championship of America. Armaindo took on a pair of men, on a makeshift wooden track. It was 72 hours of racing spread over 6 days. Louise racked up 843 miles and won handily, in front of 2000 fans. There was no handicap here, her opponents were both good athletes, solid racers, in their prime, trying their hardest. Louise beat them cold. Just to show this was no fluke, she raced them again on a new track in Milwaukee. This was a big facility, the track was eight laps to the mile, the fastest track in America. Louise won again, fair and square, to the delight of her growing female audiences. Man or woman, Armaindo was the fastest By 1883, very few women could be found who would consider racing Louise Armaindo. Those who did were trounced. Armaindo simply owned the field. She was so dominant, basically unbeatable. She easily bested most men. Even though record-keeping was spotty then, particularly for women racers, there is no dispute that Armaindo established, improved, or broke every bike racing record there was. And just to be clear, many of these records were best time or distance overall. Against men or women, she was the fastest. Period. Tom Eck, multi sport athlete, became Armaindo's promoter, partner, and physical abuser, before the two eventually separated. (Collections of Lorne Shields and John Weiss/McGill-Queen's University Press) It is a depressing fact of history though, that even as Armaindo was going from strength to strength on the track, she was regularly getting beaten up by Tom Eck. His assaults escalated at this time. Armaindo was beaten badly enough to require doctor’s attention. Eck and Armaindo went their separate ways late in 1883. As six-day bike races became more and more popular among North American and European race fans, the money finally started to come Armaindo’s way. Organizers could charge for deluxe inside seating, ticket sales were brisk, wagering as always was core business. Armaindo made $4,000 from racing in 1883. That put her in an earning category all her own. Since new opponents were so hard to find, Armaindo became a founding member of the League of Bicycle Champions, a small group of men and women who toured and raced each other and demonstrated trick riding. When that business ended, Armaindo kept racing, again taking on men and horses. As often happens when wagers and cash are involved, there were some sketchy moments. Armaindo missed a payout that was her due in Missouri. She was owed a few hundred bucks of her own stake money, which a race organizer denied her. Armaindo was furious. She went to the manager’s hotel, produced a pistol and aimed it squarely at him, along with a few choice words. Armaindo got paid in full. In 1888, Louise married a 23-year-old layabout by the name of Norman Stewart. Her racing performances went into a sharp decline around this time. Since her scrawny new husband was dependent on her race winnings, there appeared to be bad blood almost immediately. Protests from The League of American Wheelmen As her fame grew, Louise rode into stiff headwinds blowing from the League of American Wheelmen. These boys were a product of cycling’s growing popularity as an amateur sport — remember that old beef? Anti-gambling, anti-professional, apparently misogynist, their name sounds like a Marvel Comics property but the L.A.W. editorialized in Bicycling World that “the sooner the female bicycle rider is hooted off the race track, the better for our sport.” If nothing else, the protest was a sign that women were becoming a genuine threat. When Armaindo was entering the twilight of her most competitive years, promoters were starting to assemble all-women, six-day races. As the racing improved, so did the coverage, although rude attitudes persisted. The Pittsburgh Dispatch’s reporter at an all-women’s six-day race: “We seldom will listen to anyone who says that a woman can make anything like a reasonable showing in any contests that demand grit stamina and skill.” Before we scoff, a terrific French language website called Le Petit Braquet quotes quite a wacky contemporary effort to keep women off bikes. Dr. Ludovic O'Followell in his 1900 book with the catchy title “Bicycle and Genitals” said: “For women, the effect of using the bicycle is also very serious. Let us remember the disorders, observed medically, caused by the sewing machines among the workers who make constant use of them and engage in this fatiguing occupation from morning till night. All sorts of diseases of a special kind have been found in these labors, but a particular fact has been noticed also, is the early development in this workplace of nymphomania and characterized hysteria. Cyclomania, apart from its ordinary perils, has the same disadvantages for women as the sewing machine. It brings the same effervescences, the same lustful excitations, the same fits of sensual madness.” A watershed race was held in the centre of America’s sport universe, Madison Square Garden. Feburary 11, 1889, twelve women crossed the starting line for the six-day, big stakes contest. Louise Armaindo was there. For the first time in seven years, so was her old arch rival and champion of propriety, Elsa von Blumen. Armaindo focused her attention on a newcomer, Lottie Stanley, of whom she is quoted saying, “Who is this little monkey anyhow? I’ll send her home sick before long.” There were crashes and mishaps from the get-go. Armaindo herself fainted at the end of the first day and had to be carried off the track. She was too weak to be a threat after that. As the week moved on, the number of fans swelled to nearly 6000 paid viewers. Stanley, the upstart, won the whole ball of wax. There was, predictably, skullduggery and bad faith when it came to distributing the proceeds. Punches were thrown in the ensuing beef between managers, and the whole thing was considered a disgrace. One of the highest profile races of the era did nothing to polish the sport’s already poor reputation. Von Blumen was so offended by the unseemly wrangling that she left racing that day and never came back. Seven of the remaining racers, collectively known as ‘The Beauty on Wheels’ troupe, barnstormed western U.S.A. after that. Louise was one of them, but she was out of shape, and more likely to contribute a demonstration ride than to compete. She was fed up with racing against men, teams of horses, and every combination thereof. And by now, quite a few fit young men were getting into the sport, and Louise was unable to beat many of them. Twilight years Still, even in her fading powers, Armaindo was no one to mess with. After a race in Omaha, as she lay in bed recuperating, possibly jonesing for cocaine and strychnine, which powered endurance racers back then, her feckless husband Norman started hassling her to get out of bed and go earn him more money. He got physical and Louise, according to reports, dragged herself out of bed, and proceeded to beat the daylights out of young Norman. She threw him all around their room, then knocked and dragged him out into the common areas of their rooming house, kicked him down the stairs, and out the door. We might quietly applaud Armaindo for this, but at the time, she was held up as a cautionary tale for other young women thinking about a velo career. Editorials warned parents not to let their young daughters get into bike racing. Articles argued that their health would surely suffer from racing, and also that once they got a taste for adulation, the racers would find a return to uncelebrated domestic drudgery less inviting, and we don’t want that! The Omaha Herald called out Louise Armaindo as a particularly sorry example. She comes from a family of strong women, The Herald said, but even she is all broken up now. A lithograph of Louise Armaindo from the National Police Gazette, May 10, 1884. (Library of Congress/McGill-Queen's University Press) Louise hopped a steamer to England where she rode a number of races and exhibitions. Her plan was to head to Paris after Britain to join Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. That fell through, unfortunately. She would have blended nicely in that crowd. As she did throughout her career, Armaindo kept issuing defiant challenges. She would race anyone, any distance, if they would put $1000 on the line, but fewer and fewer racers took her up on it. Throughout this whole period, it needs to be said, there were just ridiculous numbers of really gnarly rashes on and off the track. The penny farthing was fast, but it was lethal. Safety bikes — clunky versions of modern bicycles — caught on surprisingly fast. The city of Chicago reported 500 women cyclists in the city in the summer of 1890. That was up from zero in 1887. The new bikes were heavier and slower than the high wheels though, so even though regular people liked them, they were not a quick hit with the pros. Louise Armaindo’s last recorded race was in Chicago in 1893. She came third, having ridden 416 miles in 48 hours. Over the next few years she popped up in Montreal and New York, unsuccessfully trying to book venues and competitors. By 1896, safety bike races had taken over the game. Louise did not care for safety bikes, and as that cadre of women racers grew, they ignored Louise’s challenges. She snubbed them too, moved back to Chicago, where she lived with no manager, no husband and no trainer. She was staying in the Carlino hotel, which caught fire. Armaindo had nailed her window shut, to prevent people from getting in her room from the fire escapes. So the flames were well advanced by the time she was able to get free. In her usual take-no-prisoners fashion, Louise leapt out her window, and partially broke her fall by landing onto a shed roof. Still, she fractured a hip and suffered internal injuries that confined her to a five-month spell in a Buffalo, N.Y. hospital. Professor Hall tracked down her name exactly there, recorded in a 1900 census, which appears to be the last official mention of our heroine. At almost 40 years old, Louise Armaindo’s amazing career was over. The incredibly tough Canadian woman had been a professional athlete since the age of 14. A strongwoman, then a trapeze artist, then a pedestrienne, and ultimately a high wheel racer. She smashed speed and endurance records throughout her career. She died in Montreal, and was buried in the cemetery of Notre Dame Des Neiges. No headstone or grave marker for Louise Armaindo has ever been found. (Top large image from the collections of Lorne Shields and John Weiss/McGill-Queen's University Press; middle large by Hulton Archive/Getty Images; bottom large image by Three Lions/Getty Images) Comments FAQ Note: The CBC does not necessarily endorse any of the views posted. By submitting your comments, you acknowledge that CBC has the right to reproduce, broadcast and publicize those comments or any part thereof in any manner whatsoever. Please note that comments are moderated and published according to our submission guidelines.	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.8945498466491699, "wiki_prob": 0.8945498466491699, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line1357628"}
Atlantic Logistics Once Again Named Area Top Ten Woman Owned Business For the fifth consecutive year, Atlantic Logistics was named as a top-ten Woman Owned Business by the Jacksonville Business Journal. The List, compiled by Jacksonville Business Journal Managing Editor James Canon is ranked by gross revenue, finds Atlantic Logistics in the top ten once again. "We are so excited to be on the JBJ Women Owned lists," said CEO Rob Hooper, "When my mom, Evie Hooper, started Atlantic Logistics nearly 20 years ago, she was looking for something to work towards retirement, but it has grown to so much more." 2019 saw record growth for the company with revenue of nearly $19 million and despite the pandemic, Atlantic Logistics added to the Executive Team with Jon Mosal and Kevin Fletcher heading up Government and Van Services respectively. An outbound sales team has been added as business continues to thrive. "I am proud of her accomplishments and that we now have 34 employees and growing," Hooper continued, "It has been an honor to work with my parents in building Atlantic and now also having a third generation Hooper working at the family business." ATLANTIC LOGISTICS Atlantic Logistics provides truckload and partial service on flatbeds, stepdecks, lowbeds, vans, and reefers throughout the United States and Canada. Moving over-dimensional/over-weight freight with specialized equipment, Atlantic Logistics is an approved Department of Defense and General Services Administration broker, qualify as a woman-owned business, and are members of the Transportation Management Sales Association (TMSA), Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), The National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA.) Gabriel Palmer	{"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5965574979782104, "wiki_prob": 0.5965574979782104, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0101.json.gz/line442173"}

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