If you've been a bit addled by what's accident with Spanish auberge aggregation NH Auberge Group, and its two suitors — Thai conglomerate, Minor International, and U.S.-based Hyatt Hotels & Resorts — you're not alone.
And although it appears that Hyatt has backed off of its afterward of NH Auberge Accumulation for now, its moves in this accurate affray assume to adumbration at the company's approaching strategy.
Here, we booty a attending at what's transpired appropriately far, and what it all agency for Hyatt, Minor, and NH Auberge Group.
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts took some association in the accommodation industry by abruptness aftermost Thursday back CEO Mark Hoplamazian beatific a letter to the lath of Spanish auberge company, NH Auberge Group, cogent Hyatt's absorption in accepting the company.
Hyatt's letter led to a alternation of absorbing moves both by Hyatt and the added aggregation allusive to buy NH, Minor International.
NH would accord either aggregation a bigger cast in the European market, area best of its 380 hotels are located.
Minor International was already able-bodied on its way to demography over NH Auberge Group, accepting purchased HNA Group's allocation in the aggregation beforehand this year. And a few hours afterward the advertisement of Hyatt's intentions, Minor International additionally appear that it expects to own about 44 percent of NH Auberge Accumulation by August 9, awaiting NH Auberge Accumulation lath approval. Minor additionally contacted the NH Auberge Accumulation board, cogent them to be agnostic of Hyatt's overtures.
For now, it seems, Hyatt wants to beacon bright of any abeyant behest war for NH Auberge Accumulation with Minor International.
One affair seems certain: Hyatt is in the affection to buy, and although NH Auberge Accumulation didn't assignment out in Hyatt's favor, we can apprehend the aggregation to accomplish added moves to abound through accretion in the future.
Hyatt, which has a advantageous antithesis area and a almost asset-heavier portfolio than its U.S. peers, has advanced acclaimed a alertness to expand, decidedly in Western Europe and in Asia. With its contempo advance to NH Auberge Group, we now apperceive what kinds of deals Hyatt ability potentially attractive for: namely, for accustomed auberge brands that aren't angry bottomward in absolute estate.
However, it does assume like its approaching affairs for accretion its portfolio both central and alfresco of the U.S. may absolute able-bodied lie in added select-service auberge models.
In May, CEO Mark Hoplamazian batten about the company's affairs for advance in China, accurately through a cardinal of Hyatt's select-service brands.
So, attractive ahead, it's acceptable that Hyatt will be a amateur in added cast acquisitions it can make, either in Europe or in Asia, for businesses that aren't angry bottomward in absolute acreage and that may accept backbone in the select-service sector.
Buying NH Auberge Accumulation is a additional for Minor, abnormally as it continues to abound its brands above the Asia-Pacific region. In accession to owning, operating, and advance in 160 hotels beneath a array of brands, Minor additionally owns one of Asia's better restaurant companies and is one of the better distributors of affairs and retail brands in Thailand, amid them Gap, Brooks Brothers, Esprit, Charles & Keith, and more.
Minor's intentions for growing, decidedly in Europe, accept been able-bodied documented. First, with its 2016 accretion of Tivoli Hotels & Resorts and best afresh with its majority pale in London-based restaurant accumulation Corbin & King.
NH has about 382 hotels apery 59,350 apartment throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa. If Minor succeeds in purchasing all of NH Auberge Group, it will accept a accumulated auberge portfolio of added than 540 hotels throughout Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Average East, Africa, and Europe.
Adding NH Hotels' about 400 hotels to Minor's portfolio will absolutely addition Minor's hotels business, and the commutual attributes of Minor's investments in the restaurant, lifestyle, and retail spaces makes it a appalling all-around adversary on par with the brand of added brands, AccorHotels included. Together, the two companies would anatomy the 19th better auberge aggregation by cardinal of apartment worldwide.
Minor's affairs for NH Auberge Accumulation additionally "sounds added like a affiliation in agreement of how they appetite to accomplish it," acclaimed Bernstein Research. If Minor is acknowledged in demography over NH, it would let the aggregation abide as its own listed and apart managed entity. It additionally does not, clashing Hyatt, appetite to necessarily abstracted NH Auberge Group's absolute acreage from its auberge administration operations.
Judging from the Spanish banal market's reaction, it appears that investors ability accept adopted an NH-Hyatt tie up.
Shares of NH Auberge Accumulation rose anon afterward account of Hyatt's offer, but again fell in trading on July 30 by 6.37 percent from about $7.90 (€6.75) a allotment to $7.40 (€6.32) a share.
Had Hyatt succeeded in its afterward of NH Auberge Group, the accumulated aggregation would be the 12th better auberge aggregation by cardinal of rooms, far beyond the accumulated cardinal of apartment consistent from a alliance amid Minor and NH.
Minor and Hyatt aren't the alone companies who accept attempted to access NH Auberge Accumulation in contempo months, either. Accession Spanish auberge group, Barcelo, abominably attempted to absorb with the aggregation beforehand this year.
NH Auberge Accumulation became an accretion ambition beforehand this year back it was appear that its better stakeholder at the time, Chinese amassed HNA Group, would advertise its shares. Those shares went to Minor. Minor's accepted action to access NH Hotels Accumulation ethics NH's shares at €6.40 a share, or €6.30 afterwards acquittal of the company's appear dividend.
NH Auberge Group, meanwhile, appear a absolute additional quarter, with a acquirement per accessible allowance (RevPAR) access of 2.2 percent and a net accumulation of €64.3 million, or $75.2 million.
Whatever eventually happens with NH Auberge Group, Minor International, and Hyatt, it's bright that alliance in the accommodation industry isn't slowing bottomward anytime soon.


President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have greeted US troops in Germany, his second visit to troops abroad in the past day.
Air Force One stopped at Ramstein Air Force Base in south-west Germany on his way back from Iraq, where he had visited US troops in harm's way for the first time, two years into his presidency.
Mr Trump walked along a rope line at the US base in German state Rhineland-Palatinate, shaking hands, posing for selfies, and autographing "Make America Great Again" hats for servicemen.
He also met Air Force generals aboard his aircraft at the base.
His earlier visit to Al Asad base in Al Anbar, Iraq, was his first to US forces in harm's way overseas. The base was once on the front line of the war against ISIS, facing suicide bombers and experiencing regular mortar attacks in 2015. Mr Trump has claimed responsibility for defeating ISIS.
During a speech to troops at Al Asad base, he said that unlike in Syria, he had no plans to bring home the roughly 5,000 troops stationed in Iraq. The 2,000 US troops in Syria could return home because of military gains against ISIS, he said.
The president's trip was unannounced and shrouded in secrecy. But aviation enthusiasts watching aircraft trackers spotted Air Force One travelling over Europe despite Mr Trump having no scheduled visits, sparking speculation of a Christmas visit to the troops in the Middle East.


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Most of the time our junk removal services go hand in hand with our demolition work. Taking away unwanted items from a demolition site before the work begins, or hauling off demolition debris during and after the project. Working in this way enables our demolition crew to work quicker and safer knowing that there won't be any junk getting in the way.


Ending Ageism – Fight Aging!
The Life Extension Foundation news is reprinting an interesting article on ageism today.
The census bureau estimates that by 2050 approximately 25 percent of Americans will be over the age of 65. Yet our culture has done little to eliminate the one accepted prejudice that could relegate a quarter of our population to second-class citizenship - Ageism. As our population continues to age, the need to halt ageism and ageist practices becomes more urgent, according to the recently published issue brief by the International Longevity Center-USA (ILC-USA) entitled "The Future of Ageism."
As advances in medicine increasingly separate being old from being infirm, I think that ageist prejudices based on the old truths of comparative ability will start to wane. However, we are just beginning this process, and prejudice against the elderly has been hypothesised to be a root cause of the unwillingness of many Western cultures to allocate significant resources to aging and serious anti-aging research.
Oriental cultures, on the other hand, tend to place a greater emphasis on self-reliance and respect for the old - the aged are presented as having great power in many myths from those regions of the world. The public and private sectors in China, Korea, and Japan are devoting enormous sums of money towards advancing regenerative medicine and curing age-related degenerative conditions.
"As we age, we crave the same respect and consideration that we garnered in our youth," said Dr. Butler. "We must work together-as a society-to promote positive, optimistic attitudes and portrayals of older people. If we fail to show compassion for and protect the rights of older people today, we are destined to suffer from the same ageist injustices tomorrow."


With large areas of glass comes another important consideration – overheating of buildings. Glass allows direct heat radiation from the sun to pass through it, known as 'solar gain'. This has the potential to make buildings and rooms uncomfortably hot. This is often exacerbated in south facing elevations and roof glazing, as in conservatories. This may mean that air conditioning is required to cool buildings, often at great expense.
The solar gain is measured in g-values and the lower this number the better the solar control performance of the glazing. E.g. 0.34 means that the amount of solar gain is 34% or alternatively, is blocking 66% of the solar radiation. To combat this a range of solar control glazing options are available.
The most basic is often referred to as 'tinted glass'. This is standard float glass with a dye tint, darkening the glazing. There are bronze, blue, grey and green colours. Available in 4mm and 6mm with other dimensions subject to availability. They are also available in laminated, which is also subject to availability. Tinted glass works by adsorbing the heat thereby reducing the heat that passes through it. This is limited however, as once the heat is adsorbed, it is then radiated from the glass and this can be into the room. Additionally, tints may vary in colour as the process is variable due to production runs. Tinted glass bought for a project spread across many months or for replacements years ahead, may not be exact matches.
Newer developments are solar coatings applied to float glass in similar manufacturing processes to low e coatings. There are a wide range of coatings offering variable levels of solar performance. The coatings are generally positioned to the inside of the outside pane of a sealed unit. The coating reflects solar gain radiation back out towards its source, thus preventing the heat from entering the building. Generally, the better the solar control performance (the lower the g-value) the darker the glass usually is.
A solar control description using numbers is common. e.g. 61/34. This can be translated as 61% total light transmittance / 34% solar gain.
There are coatings that are solar control only. These can be paired with low e glass to create a cost effective solar control unit with a good thermal performance.
There are combined solar control and low e coatings that offer solar control and low e on one pane of glass. This may have a cost saving or allow a further glass type to be added to give additional properties.
The table below shows some typical units. Please click on 'datasheet' to view the specification and download if required.


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Lumbrineris latreilli is een borstelworm uit de familie Lumbrineridae. Het lichaam van de worm bestaat uit een kop, een cilindrisch, gesegmenteerd lichaam en een staartstukje. De kop bestaat uit een prostomium (gedeelte voor de mondopening) en een peristomium (gedeelte rond de mond) en draagt gepaarde aanhangsels (palpen, antennen en cirri).

Lumbrineris latreilli werd in 1834 voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Audouin & Milne Edwards.

Lumbrineridae

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My parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary next month, and the occasion got me thinking about relationships and compromise. Mom is a media mogul who goes out for work functions almost as much as I do; Dad is a circuit court judge who's asleep by eight every night. She does the cooking; he does the eating. She cleans up; he feeds the dogs. She has a standing manicure appointment every Saturday; he has a standing tee time every Sunday. Their schedule seems to work for them, despite personalities on the opposite ends of the spectrum. She's a Type A; he's a Type XL (as in extra laid-back). She's a social butterfly; he has a hard time remembering all of his friends' names.
They're not necessarily what you'd expect from soul mates, but since getting set up at the University of Illinois in 1965, they've been making it work for almost 40 years. So I asked around: Is there such a thing as a soul mate, or do we mold our own perfect matches, morphing someone into Mr. or Mrs. Wonderful?
OK, so soul mates may be an overly glorified, cheesy chick-flick concept, but there is something to be said for relationships that work, despite seeming less than ideal on paper. "There's no such thing as a perfect match," says Jackie, 33. "Everyone has her issues. To be totally cliché, my husband makes me want to be a better person. For example, when I first met him, I was a slob and-let's say-a bit pudgy. Now I swear I have OCD when it comes to cleaning and I no longer wear a size 12. On the flip side, he was terrified to commit, and now we have a home, a kid, and are working on the happily ever after part." Incidentally, Jackie is married to Paul; they met on July 6, 1999, married on July 6, 2002, and had their baby on July 6, 2005. Even if soul mates don't exist, fate must.


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Hey everyone! Welcome to the fall recipe blog hop! You may remember how this works if you saw our spring and summer parties. This time around, 15 bloggers are sharing their favorite comfort foods recipes and thanks to some amazing sponsors, we have a prize package of fabulous kitchen cookware valued at over $900!!!!! Be sure to read all the way through the post so you can enter the giveaway at the end.
Last weekend, I had a Tri Tip roast that I had to cook. It was still just too hot to turn on the oven, and my BBQ is broken. I was going to put it in the crockpot, but forgot. (insert violins here). At 4:00 I figured I'd better decide what to do with it and started to search my pantry and fridge and came up with beef broth, onion soup mix, carrots and potatoes.
One of my favorite restaurants is Wood Ranch Grill in Yorba Linda, CA. They have amazing Tri Tip soup. I searched for the recipe and couldn't find one, so I made one up.
Soup is the ultimate comfort food and this delicious take on traditional beef and vegetable soup will warm your soul on those crisp fall evenings.
2-3 cup raw or frozen vegetables feel free to be creative here!
Heat olive oil in a 5 quart pot; add Tri Tip and brown on all sides.
Add beef broth, water, garlic, Liquid Smoke and onion soup mix. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for about at least an hour, covered.
Add vegetables. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for about 30 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. If using frozen vegetables, add them during the last ten minutes. Season with salt and pepper if desired.
Awesome looking soup! So hearty.
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Looks delish! How many does this recipe serve, I don't think I found that any where in the instructions?
Soup is one of my favorite foods and yours looks and sounds so tasty!
I make a big pot of soup at least once a week in our home! Such great comfort food and perfect for our progressive dinner party today! I love that you use a package of onion soup mix! I've never done that–should try it soon!


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[[File:Dick Curtis.jpeg|thumb|264x264px]] Dick Curtis ([[May 11]], [[1900s#1902|1902]] – [[January 3]], [[1950s#1952|1952]]) was an American actor who made over 230 film and television appearances during his career. Curtis was born Richard Dye in Newport, Kentucky. Standing at 6' 3", Curtis appeared in films stretching from Charles Starrett to The Three Stooges. In most of his films, he played villains or heavies. He made television appearances on The Lone Ranger and The Range Rider. He appeared in California Gold Rush, Spook Town, The Gene Autry Show, and many others. Though his forte was in villainous roles, Curtis had a genuine comedic touch. As such, modern audiences will recognize Curtis for his roles in such Three Stooges films as Yes, We Have No Bonanza, You Nazty Spy!, and The Three Troubledoers. With the help of his friend and actor Russell Hayden, Curtis helped develop Pioneertown, a western movie set location in Southern California that was used for many television and film westerns. Curtis died of lung cancer on [[January 3]], [[1950s#1952|1952]], fifteen days before Curly Howard, and two months before fellow Stooge character actor Eddie Laughton in March. His final appearance with the Stooges was as Shemp Howard's dental patient in The Tooth Will Out. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. [[Category:Notable People]] [[Category:Actors]] [[Category:Filmmakers]] [[Category:Newport Births]] [[Category:Campbell County Births]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Curtis, Dick}} [[Category:1902 Births]] [[Category:1900s Births]] [[Category:1952 Deaths]] [[Category:1950s Deaths]]
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'Too Much Lip' by Melissa Lucashenko
Fiction – Kindle edition; University of Queensland Press; 303 pages; 2018.
Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip is a brash, gritty and hard-hitting novel about an indigenous ("blackfella") family, deeply traumatised by past events, which is now grappling with a new challenge: saving their beloved river and Ava's island from the local mayor's plans to build a new prison on it.
The story is largely told through the eyes of 30-something Kerry Salter, who arrives back home — the fictional NSW town of Durrongo — on the back of a stolen Harley Davison motorbike carrying a backpack stuffed with $30,000 cash, the proceeds of a botched armed robbery, which resulted in the imprisonment of her lesbian lover, Allie, who has now broken off their relationship.
Kerry thinks her visit to see her dying grandfather is going to be a fleeting one. She'll pay her respects, tolerate her mother's jibes and then return to the city, where she can nurse her broken heart and keep a low profile. But things don't quite work out that way.
Before she can escape, her grandfather dies, so she stays for the funeral and later, when her family discovers that a place of great importance to them — Granny Ava's island — has been proposed as the site of a new jail, she decides to stay and help them fight the development. The lure of a potential romance with a white man with whom she went to school acts as a sweetener.
Grunge-style novel
On the surface, this novel could be seen as fairly fickle fair, a kind of grungy chick-lit novel, where the protagonist is seemingly sex obsessed and doesn't mind speaking her mind, even if it gets her into trouble.
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Give the arseholes a blast, then stand and defend, or else run like hell.
But Too Much Lip is strangely subversive, for Kerry is on the wrong side of the law — in fact, she's running from it.
For the straight world, crime was a problem or an abstraction, but for people like her, crime was the solution. Not that she called it crime; she called it reparations.
But it's also a deeply confronting read for those readers who are not indigenous. In its portrayal of an aboriginal family struggling to keep it together, Lucashenko shows how generations of trauma, from dispossession to massacres, aboriginal missions to the forced removal of children, have played out in all kinds of negative ways, including alcoholism, violence, poverty and social injustice.
Dugais [white people] had no idea. No fucken clue what was at stake when you walked out into the world wrapped in dark skin. And if you told them the truth it was always boo hoo, poor me.
This reality, of what it is to be indigenous living in a deeply prejudiced white society, is reflected throughout the text. I make no apologies for including a whole bunch of quotes to illustrate this point. There are references to poverty…
But the crew in Trinder mostly ate bread and chips when they ate at all. Meat was strictly for pay week, same as shop-bought grog and smokes were. Off-pay week was hungry week, sniffing around friends' and rellos' houses for someone who'd scored a food parcel, or a job, or had had a win at bingo. She looked down into her lap. It was a shamejob to go explaining how blackfellas lived. Even if dugais believed you, they were full of useless fucking genius suggestions on how to climb out of poverty. Like it was simple. Like it didn't suit the powers that be to keep poor people scrabbling in the shit, keep their attention off the rich world's sparkling goodies in case they got any bright ideas about grabbing some for themselves.
… and dealing with the government department responsible for social security…
'Centrelink,' she said sourly. 'I don't wanna go see them mob. Standover merchants! On the phone for nearly two blooming hours and then it cuts out! Now I got no pay 'n no credit! Person could starve to death for all they care!'
… and the institutionalised racism in the criminal justice system:
She had no idea how long they would need the QC. Every court case she'd ever seen was done and dusted in under half an hour.
There's also an interesting twist, a reverse logic if you will, in which white people are seen as the thieves and the barbarians…
The dugai can flap their jangs as much as they like, Pretty Mary had reported him saying, but us mob got the law of the land and that's that. We's in everything: the jagun, the trees, the animals, the bulloon. It's all us, and we's it too. And don't ever let the dugai tell ya different. They savages, remember.
An immersive read
I have to admit that I wasn't too sure about this novel when I first began it (perhaps because it was so confronting and because I didn't feel much empathy with Kerry), but the further I got into it the more I warmed to it. It's a truly immersive read, taking you deep into the bosom of a complicated family peopled with highly opinionated, colourful characters, all flawed but oh-so human — and with wonderful names, such as Pretty Mary, Grandad Chinky Joe and Black Superman.
It's very much a plot-driven story and Lucashenko does an exemplary job of bringing together Kerry's storyline with a second narrative thread involving greedy developers, including a Sydney real estate agent.
And while the novel deals with big issues, there's an undercurrent of snarky, but clever humour running throughout to lighten the load.
'Everyone on the planet's got a culture, Mum, even if it's The Footy Show and Southern Cross tats – it's still a culture. Just a shit one. And anyway, why do that mob any favours now?'
Too Much Lip is definitely the most thought-provoking book I've read so far this year presenting as it does a perspective rarely shown in contemporary fiction.
This novel has been shortlisted for this year's Stella Prize and has been positively reviewed at ANZLitLovers and Whispering Gums.
This is my 5th book for #AWW2019 and my 4th for the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist. This one is available as an ebook in the UK, though expect to pay a hefty price for the paperback edition.
April 4, 2019 by kimbofo	2019 Stella Prize, Australian literature, Australian women writers, AWW2019, Melissa Lucashenko
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So is it the Stella winner? It's the last one I have to read (I was waiting for it at the library but not sure I'll get it, or get it read before the Prize announcement).
Ha! Good question! It's not my personal favourite … I think that might go to Little Gods or Axiomatic… but it's the kind of novel I think all Australians should probably read and a win would certainly put it in more people's hands.
I'm thinking Little Gods or The Bridge (both are interesting family stories, although sounds like Too Much Lip fits that bill as well).
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Of the three I've read – all of which I've liked – I'd probably have to go with Lucashenko. It's provocative, fierce, funny, and honest. And necessary.
Great write up Kim. Interestingly I was engaged from the get go because the writing was so strong. I don't feel the need to empathise really to get into a book. It's the writing and tone and ideas that get me in. I think it's a worthy winner….
I don't normally have a problem with unlikable characters. I certainly don't subscribe to the idea that you need to like the character/s to like the book. But there was something about the language / prose and Kerry that jarred to begin with that I just didn't like… perhaps cos I'd come off the back of Mary Costello's sublime short story collection and the difference in style and tone and subject matter was too much of a shock.
It certainly was a surprise. And timing can play a role.
I can understand feeling a bit hesitant about Lucashenko's writing, it's a bit like Marie Munkara's – the unflinching style is confronting, and the non-Indigenous reader has to be open to feeling a deep sense of shame, even if you've read this kind of thing before. OTOH both Munkara and Lucashenko both engage the reader with humour, and it's impossible to read their books without recognising that despite their history and their current circumstances, Indigenous people like these authors want to tell their story without rancour or bitterness. And Too Much Lip is often very funny indeed.
BTW It's not just Indigenous people who can't get through to Centrelink on the phone. Most people don't know this, (or they'd raise hell) but you have to go through Centrelink to access any government aged care assistance, whether it's in-home care or a place in an aged-care home (even if you're paying for it yourself). I myself have spent four days on the phone, not getting answered, being cut off, being put through to the wrong people and being given wrong information. But I spent these days at home at my desk with the phone on speaker, a cup of coffee and other things to do while I waited and waited and redialled again and again. I wrote an enraged letter to both PM and Leader of the Opposition telling them that there should be bipartisan support for fixing this problem, because if this process brought me to tears, it was outrageous that homeless people, women fleeing violence, kids on Newstart and people with little English and anyone using a phone with limited credit could not access benefits *that they were entitled to* because no one would answer the phone. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that it's deliberate, because it must reduce the welfare bill….
" Indigenous people like these authors want to tell their story without rancour or bitterness"
Nail. On. Head. I felt terribly white reading this book but I did laugh out loud in places and appreciated the little digs about white "culture" or lack thereof.
And Centrelink sounds like a nightmare and the story you share is not dissimilar to the Department of Work & Pensions in the UK. The media is filled with horrendous stories of that department's abhorrent failures.
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Too Much Lip will defintely make my top ten this year. I loved the "gritty" writing, the characters, the plot. And yes, I also felt very white when reading this but I think that every time I read a book by an indigenous Australian, I get a little closer to understanding their anger at how they have been and continue to be treated.
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Who was James Stockdale?
James Bond Stockdale (23 December 1923 to 05 July 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator awarded the Medal of Honour in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years.
President Gerald Ford presents the Medal of Honour to Stockdale at the White House on 04 March 1976.
Stockdale was the most senior naval officer held captive in Hanoi, North Vietnam. He had led aerial attacks from the carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. On his next deployment, while commander of Carrier Air Wing Sixteen aboard the carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34), his A-4 Skyhawk jet was shot down in North Vietnam on 09 September 1965. He served as President of the Naval War College from October 1977 until he retired from the Navy in 1979. As vice admiral, Stockdale was the president of The Citadel from 1979 to 1980.
Stockdale was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, on Ross Perot's independent ticket.
Stockdale was born in Abingdon, Illinois, on 23 December 1923, the son of Mabel Edith (née Bond) and Vernon Beard Stockdale. Following a brief period at Monmouth College, he entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 1943.
Naval Career
On 05 June 1946, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1947 due to the reduced schedule still in effect from World War II. Academically he ranked 130th among 821 graduates in his class. His first assignment was assistant gunnery officer aboard the destroyer minesweeper USS Carmick (DD-493) from June to October 1946. He next served aboard the USS Thompson (DD-627) from October 1946 to February 1947, the USS Charles H. Roan (DD-853) from February 1947 to July 1948, and the USS Deming (PCS-1392) from July 1948 to June 1949.
Stockdale was accepted for flight training in June 1949 and reported to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. He was designated a Naval Aviator at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, in September 1950. He was next assigned for additional training at Naval Air Station Norfolk in Virginia from October 1950 to January 1951. In January 1954, he was accepted into the United States Naval Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River base in Southern Maryland, and he completed his training in July 1954. There he tutored the US Marine Corps aviator John Glenn in mathematics and physics. He was a test pilot until January 1957.
In 1959, the US Navy sent Stockdale to Stanford University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations and comparative Marxist thought in 1962. Stockdale preferred the life of a fighter pilot over academia, but he later credited Stoic philosophy with helping him cope as a prisoner of war.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On 02 August 1964, while on a DESOTO patrol in the Tonkin Gulf, the destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) engaged three North Vietnamese Navy P-4 torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron. After fighting a running gun and torpedo battle, in which Maddox fired over 280 5-inch (130 mm) shells, and the torpedo boats expended their 6 torpedoes (all misses) and hundreds of rounds of 14.5mm machinegun fire; the combatants broke contact. As the torpedo boats turned for their North Vietnamese coastline, four F-8 Crusader fighter aircraft from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) arrived, and immediately attacked the retreating torpedo boats.
Stockdale (commander VF-51 (Fighter Squadron 51)), with Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Richard Hastings attacked torpedo boats T-333 and T-336, while Commander R. F. Mohrhardt and Lieutenant Commander C.E. Southwick attacked torpedo boat T-339. The four F-8 pilots reported scoring no hits with their Zuni rockets, but reported hits on all three torpedo boats with their 20 mm cannon.
Two nights later, on 04 August 1964, Stockdale was overhead during the second reported attack in the Tonkin Gulf. Unlike the first event, which was an actual sea battle, no Vietnamese forces were, however, believed to have been involved in the second engagement. In the early 1990s, he recounted: "[I] had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets—there were no PT boats there. … There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."
The next morning, on 05 August 1964, President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnamese military targets which he announced were retaliation for the alleged incident of 04 August. When Stockdale was awoken in the early morning and was told he was to lead these attacks he responded: "Retaliation for what?" Later, while a prisoner of war, he was concerned that he would be forced to reveal this secret about the Vietnam War.
On 09 September 1965, while flying from USS Oriskany on a mission over North Vietnam, Stockdale ejected from his Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, which had been struck by enemy fire and completely disabled. He parachuted into a small village, where he was severely beaten and taken prisoner.
Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war in the Hỏa Lò Prison (the infamous "Hanoi Hilton") for the next seven-and-a-half years. As the senior Naval officer, he was one of the primary organisers of prisoner resistance. Tortured routinely and denied medical attention for the severely damaged leg he suffered during capture, Stockdale created and enforced a code of conduct for all prisoners which governed torture, secret communications, and behaviour. In the summer of 1969, he was locked in leg irons in a bath stall and routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, he beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. When Stockdale was discovered with information that could implicate his friends' so-called "black activities", he slit his wrists so they could not torture him into confession. During the course of his captivity, due to torture, his leg was broken twice.
Early in Stockdale's captivity, his wife, Sybil Stockdale, organised The League of American Families of POWs and MIAs, with other wives of servicemen who were in similar circumstances. By 1968, she and her organization, which called for the president and the US Congress to publicly acknowledge the mistreatment of the POWs (something that had never been done despite evidence of gross mistreatment), gained the attention of the American press. Sybil Stockdale personally made these demands known at the Paris Peace Talks.
Stockdale was one of eleven US military prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang":
George Thomas Coker, USN;
George G. McKnight, USAF;
Jeremiah Denton, USN (who had graduated with Stockdale from the Naval Academy);
Harry Jenkins, USN;
Sam Johnson, USAF;
James Mulligan, USN;
Howard Rutledge, USN;
Robert Shumaker, USN (originator of the name "Hanoi Hilton");
Ronald Storz, USAF (died in captivity); and
Nels Tanner, USN.
Because they had been resistance leaders they were separated from other captives and placed in solitary confinement in "Alcatraz", a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence, located about one mile away from Hỏa Lò Prison. In Alcatraz, each of the prisoners was kept in an individual windowless and concrete cell measuring 3 by 9 feet (0.9 by 2.7 m) with a light bulb kept on around the clock, and locked in leg irons each night. Of the eleven, Storz died in captivity there in 1970.
The Stockdale Paradox
James C. Collins related a conversation he had with Stockdale regarding his coping strategy during his period in the Vietnamese POW camp. When Collins asked which prisoners did not make it out of Vietnam, Stockdale replied:
Oh, that's easy, the optimists. Oh, they were the ones who said, 'We're going to be out by Christmas.' And Christmas would come, and Christmas would go. Then they'd say, 'We're going to be out by Easter.' And Easter would come, and Easter would go. And then Thanksgiving, and then it would be Christmas again. And they died of a broken heart. This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Collins called this the Stockdale Paradox.
Return to the United States
Stockdale was released as a prisoner of war on 12 February 1973, during Operation Homecoming.
On 04 March 1976, Stockdale received the Medal of Honour. Stockdale filed charges against two other officers (Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Edison W. Miller and Navy Captain Walter E. "Gene" Wilber) who, he felt, had given aid and comfort to the enemy. However, the Department of the Navy under the leadership of then-Secretary of the Navy John Warner took no action and retired these men "in the best interests of the Navy." Both Miller and Wilber received letters of censure.
Debilitated by his captivity and mistreatment, Stockdale could not stand upright and could barely walk upon his return to the United States, which prevented his return to active flying status. In deference to his previous service, the Navy kept him on active duty, steadily promoting him over the next few years before he retired as a vice admiral on 01 September 1979. He completed his career by serving as the president of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, from 13 October 1977 until 22 August 1979.
Civilian Academic Work and Writings
After his retirement in 1979, he became the president of The Citadel. His tenure there was short and stormy as he found himself at odds with the college's board as well as most of its administration, by proposing radical changes to the college's military system and other facets of the college. He left The Citadel to become a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1981. During his twelve-year tenure at the Hoover Institution, Stockdale wrote and lectured extensively. His primary focus was ancient Stoicism and the Roman slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, whose lessons captured in The Enchiridion Stockdale credited with providing him strength during his ordeals as a prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton. Between 1981 and 1988 Stockdale also served as chair of the White House Fellows under the Reagan administration.
In 1984 Stockdale and his wife Sybil co-authored In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam War which was published by Harper and Row. It recounts Stockdale's experiences while in Vietnam and in alternating chapters also tells the story of Sybil Stockdale's early involvement in the League of American Families of POWs and MIAs which she helped to found and served as its first chairperson. Their story was later made into an NBC television movie under the name In Love and War starring James Woods and Jane Alexander.
Stockdale was a member of the board of directors of the Rockford Institute, and was a frequent contributor to Chronicles: A magazine of American Culture.
Vice-Presidential Candidacy
Stockdale came to know businessman and presidential candidate Ross Perot through his wife's work in establishing an organization to represent the families of Vietnam POWs. On 30 March 1992, Perot announced that he had asked Stockdale to be his provisional Vice Presidential nominee on Ross Perot's 1992 independent ticket. Perot intended to replace Stockdale with another candidate, but did not do so before he dropped out of the race in July 1992.
Perot eventually re-entered the race in the fall of 1992, with Stockdale still in place as the vice-presidential nominee. Stockdale was not informed that he would be participating in the 13 October vice-presidential debate held in Atlanta, Georgia, until a week before the event. He had no formal preparation for the debate, unlike his opponents Al Gore and Dan Quayle, and did not discuss any political issues with Perot beforehand.
Stockdale opened the debate by saying, "Who am I? Why am I here?", when responding to a request for an opening statement from debate moderator, Hal Bruno, the political director of ABC News. Initially, the rhetorical questions drew applause from the audience. However, his unfocused style for the rest of the debate (including asking the moderator to repeat one question because he did not have his hearing aid turned on) made him appear confused and almost disoriented. An unflattering recreation of the moment on Saturday Night Live later that week, with Phil Hartman as Stockdale, cemented a public perception of Stockdale as slow-witted. He was also often parodied for his repeated use of the term "gridlock" to describe slow governmental policy.
As his introduction to the large segment of American voters who had not previously heard of him, the debate was disastrous for Stockdale. He was portrayed in the media as elderly and confused, and his reputation never recovered. In a 1999 interview with Jim Lehrer, Stockdale explained that the statements were intended as an introduction of himself and his personal history to the television audience:
It was terribly frustrating because I remember I started with, "Who am I? Why am I here?" and I never got back to that because there was never an opportunity for me to explain my life to people. It was so different from Quayle and Gore. The four years in solitary confinement in Vietnam, seven-and-a-half years in prisons, drop the first bomb that started the … American bombing raid in the North Vietnam. We blew the oil storage tanks of them off the map. And I never—I couldn't approach—I don't say it just to brag, but, I mean, my sensitivities are completely different.
In a 1994 HBO comedy special, Dennis Miller gave an impassioned defence of Stockdale's debate performance:
Now I know (Stockdale's name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with. He had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television.
Perot and Stockdale received 19% of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, one of the best showings by an independent ticket in US electoral history, although they did not carry any states.
Stockdale's decorations and awards include:
Naval Aviator Badge.
Medal of Honour.
Navy Distinguished Service Medal with Two 5/16″ Gold Stars.
Silver Star Medal with Three 5/16″ Gold Stars.
Legion of Merit with Combat "V".
Distinguished Flying Cross with One 5/16″ Gold Star.
Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" and One 5/16″ Gold Star.
Purple Heart with One 5/16″ Gold Star.
Air Medal with Strike/Flight Numeral 10.
Combat Action Ribbon.
Navy Unit Commendation with One 3/16″ Bronze Star.
American Campaign Medal.
World War II Victory Medal.
Navy Occupation Service Medal.
National Defence Service Medal with One 3/16″ Bronze Star.
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with Two 3/16″ Bronze Stars.
Vietnam Service Medal with Three 3/16″ Silver Stars and One 3/16″ Bronze Star.
Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Gallantry Cross) with Palm.
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with 1960-device.
Navy Pistol Marksmanship Medal with "E" Device.
Medal of Honour Citation
Stockdale's official Medal of Honour citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while senior naval officer in the Prisoner of War camps of North Vietnam. Recognized by his captors as the leader in the Prisoners' of War resistance to interrogation and in their refusal to participate in propaganda exploitation, Rear Adm. Stockdale was singled out for interrogation and attendant torture after he was detected in a covert communications attempt. Sensing the start of another purge, and aware that his earlier efforts at self-disfiguration to dissuade his captors from exploiting him for propaganda purposes had resulted in cruel and agonizing punishment, Rear Adm. Stockdale resolved to make himself a symbol of resistance regardless of personal sacrifice. He deliberately inflicted a near-mortal wound to his person in order to convince his captors of his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate. He was subsequently discovered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated in their employment of excessive harassment and torture toward all of the Prisoners of War. By his heroic action, at great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow prisoners and of his country. Rear Adm. Stockdale's valiant leadership and extraordinary courage in a hostile environment sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
Later Life and Death
Stockdale retired to Coronado, California, as he slowly succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. He died from the illness on 05 July 2005. He was 81. Stockdale's funeral service was held at the Naval Academy Chapel and he was buried at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery.
The Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership is a United States Navy award established in 1980 by United States Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo to honour the inspirational leadership of Stockdale. The award was first made in 1981.
The US Navy has named a number of structures after Stockdale, including the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG-106), christened on 10 May 2008. At the Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California, the main gate (inaugurated on 30 August 2007) and the headquarters building for the Pacific Fleet's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school were both named in his honour. In July 2008, a statue of him was erected in front of Luce Hall at the US Naval Academy; the hall which houses the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Centre for Ethical Leadership.
In 1976, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
Stockdale Centre, the student centre at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, which he attended prior to transferring to the Naval Academy, was dedicated in his honour in 1989.
He was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2002.
The Admiral James & Sybil Stockdale Arena at South Kent School was named after Stockdale and his wife in April 2014.
In October 2014, Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force placed on display a restored Grumman AF-2S Guardian (BuNo 126731) flown by VADM Stockdale early in his Navy career with his name on the canopy rail and all markings as they were when he flew the aircraft in the 1950s.
Stockdale's naval experiences and his leadership decisions while senior Naval officer in prison in North Vietnam are an integral part of every Midshipman's educational experience at Annapolis.
A luxury suite at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, where Perot announced his candidacy, was named in Stockdale's honour.
The Abingdon-Avon High School Auditorium in Abingdon, Illinois, has been named "Stockdale Auditorium" in his honour.
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Route 159 is a  state highway connecting the Hartford and Springfield areas in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts. It begins as the northern extension of Main Street in Hartford and proceeds northward along the west bank of the Connecticut River towards Agawam, Massachusetts. The route ends at the junction of Route 147 and Route 75 in Agawam center just south of the West Springfield city line. The route was originally designated as U.S. Route 5A in 1932 and was renumbered to its modern designation in October 1968.

Route description

Route 159 officially begins at the Hartford-Windsor town line as Windsor Avenue, near an interchange with I-91.  In Windsor, it underpasses I-291, with access to and from the east provided by Deerfield Road. Almost immediately, it meets the eastern end of Route 218.  After passing the east end of Route 178, Route 159 enters the center of Windsor, passing the town green before intersecting the southern end of Route 75.  It then crosses the Farmington River, and starts to parallel the west bank of the Connecticut River, which it will for most of the rest of its length.  In Windsor Locks, it meets I-91 once again at Exit 42, and has a brief overlap with Route 140.  It passes along the eastern side of Suffield, where it has a brief overlap with Route 190.  It then crosses the Massachusetts state line into Agawam, where it passes by Six Flags New England before entering the center of town.  North of the center, Route 159 signage ends at an interchange with Route 57, but the official route continues north along Main Street to the intersection of Route 75 and Route 147 just south of the Westfield River and the West Springfield city line.

Route 159 in Windsor is also known as the Kasmir Pulaski Memorial Highway.

History

Modern Route 159 roughly follows the path of the Upper Boston Post Road between Hartford and Springfield. In the 1920s, current Route 159 in Connecticut, with a few minor exceptions, was a primary state road designated as State Highway 110. Around 1930, the continuation in Massachusetts was numbered as State Route 5A, which ran along Main Street but continued north along River Road to the South End Bridge, where it crossed into Springfield to connect with U.S. Route 5. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, the route in both Connecticut and Massachusetts was designated as U.S. Route 5A. However, by 1938, Massachusetts redesignated its portion of the route as State Route 5A, truncating US 5A to the state line. The new State Route 5A was also relocated to follow Main Street into West Springfield, then continuing along River Street, Park Street, and Elm Street, where it ended at US 5. In October 1968, Connecticut decommissioned its U.S. Route 5A and the road was redesignated in both states as Route 159.The portion in West Springfield, which was not state-maintained, became an unnumbered road.

Junction list
Mileposts reset at the state line.

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"Anielle used it, in the league they are starving"
Priscilla Lucas January 16, 2023 2 min read
Turin – Those strong words Aurelius De Laurentiis, President naples, It was said in the dispatch report that investigates the investigation "Prism". The first blue man gave an interview to Rai 3 revealing important background on the issue that keeps the black and white world worried, with special mention to the now ex-president of Juventus, Andrea Agnelli. "I used Mr. Agnelli because I needed him – De Laurentiis began –That he went up my ass to the funds, which was another nonsense. If there is a union between the chiefs to allow money into the league? All the hungry in the League, for a loaf of bread, would sell the next seven or eight years for a chest. lambs? I used it because obviously if he goes into a box, he's not allowed to play in the Premier League, and that's why he criticizes the boxes."
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Strong sayings De Laurentiis However, it is not the only prediction of what will be broadcast in the report. In Prisma's poll, again at Juventus, the topic "Ronaldo card" also takes center stage. The deal that brought the Portuguese to black and white is brought to the attention of investigators, who are looking for accurate information about the deferred payment agreement for 19 million euros Anticipated by treatment with CR7. An anonymous lawyer close to the player said: "The private writing is there, but Ronaldo never signed it, he just signed it there Juventus. Why didn't he sign it? Because he was wise." In recent weeks, the player's lawyers, Benno and Shehata, have submitted a request to recover the 19 million expected from his arrival in the country. Turin which await developments.
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