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12/24/05 U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians
U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians
Eyewitnesses Cite Scores Killed in Marine Offensive in Western Iraq
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 24, 2005; A01
RAMADI, Iraq -- U.S. Marine airstrikes targeting insurgents sheltering in Iraqi residential neighborhoods are killing civilians as well as guerrillas along the Euphrates River in far western Iraq, according to Iraqi townspeople and officials and the U.S. military.
Just how many civilians have been killed is strongly disputed by the Marines and, some critics say, too little investigated. But townspeople, tribal leaders, medical workers and accounts from witnesses at the sites of clashes, at hospitals and at graveyards indicated that scores of noncombatants were killed last month in fighting, including airstrikes, in the opening stages of a 17-day U.S.-Iraqi offensive in Anbar province.
"These people died silently, complaining to God of a guilt they did not commit," Zahid Mohammed Rawi, a physician, said in the town of Husaybah. Rawi said that roughly one week into Operation Steel Curtain, which began on Nov. 5, medical workers had recorded 97 civilians killed. At least 38 insurgents were also killed in the offensive's early days, Rawi said.
In a Husaybah school converted to a makeshift hospital, Rawi, four other doctors and a nurse treated wounded Iraqis in the opening days of the offensive, examining bloodied children as anxious fathers soothed them and held them down.
"I dare any organization, committee or the American Army to deny these numbers," Rawi said.
U.S. Marines in Anbar say they take pains to spare innocent lives and almost invariably question civilian accounts from the battleground communities. They say that townspeople who either support the insurgents or are intimidated by them are manipulating the number of noncombatant deaths for propaganda -- a charge that some Iraqis acknowledge is true of some residents and medical workers in Anbar province.
"I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of civilians are killed by the insurgency," particularly by improvised bombs, said Col. Michael Denning, the top air officer for the 2nd Marine Division, which is leading the fight against insurgents in Anbar province.
In an interview at a Marine base at Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital, Denning acknowledged that a city was "a very, very difficult place to fight." He said, however, that "insurgents will kill civilians and try to blame it on us."
But some military analysts say the U.S. military must do more to track the civilian toll from its airstrikes. Sarah Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense from 1993 to 1996 and now program director for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, said the military's resistance to acknowledging and analyzing so-called collateral damage remained one of the most serious failures of the U.S. air and ground war in Iraq.
"It's almost impossible to fight a war in which engagements occur in urban areas [and] to avoid civilian casualties," Sewall, whose center is a branch of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government that focuses on issues such as genocide, failed states and military intervention, said in a telephone interview.
"In a conflict like Iraq, where civilian perceptions are as important as the number of weapons caches destroyed, assessing the civilian harm must become a part of the battle damage assessment process if you're going to fight a smart war," she said.
The number of airstrikes carried out each month by U.S. aircraft rose almost fivefold this year, from roughly 25 in January to 120 in November, according to a tally provided by the military. Accounts by residents, officials and witnesses in Anbar and the Marines themselves make clear that Iraqi civilians are frequently caught in the attacks.
On Nov. 7, the third day of the offensive, witnesses watched from the roof of a public building in Husaybah as U.S. warplanes struck homes in the town's Kamaliyat neighborhood. After fires ignited by the fighting had died down, witnesses observed residents removing the bodies of what neighbors said was a family -- mother, father, 14-year-old girl, 11-year-old boy and 5-year-old boy -- from the rubble of one house.
Survivors said insurgents had been firing mortars from yards in the neighborhood just before the airstrikes. Residents pleaded with the guerrillas to leave for fear of drawing attacks on the families, they said, but were told by the fighters that they had no other space from which to attack.
Near the town of Qaim one day last month, a man who identified himself only as Abdul Aziz said a separate U.S. airstrike killed his grown daughter, Aesha. Four armed men were also found in the rubble of her house, he said.
"I don't blame the Americans. I blame Zarqawi and his group, who were using my daughter's house as a shelter," said Abdul Aziz, referring to Abu Musab Zarqawi, leader of the foreign-dominated group al Qaeda in Iraq.
Abdul Aziz spoke beside his daughter's newly dug grave, in a cemetery established for the 80 to 90 civilians who Anbar officials said were killed in the first weeks of the offensive. Several dozen new graves were evident, and residents said more than 40 victims of the fighting were to be buried that day alone. Witnesses saw only 11, all wrapped in blankets for burial. Residents said two of the 11 were women.
Abdul Aziz's grandsons ascribed blame for their mother's death more pointedly. "She was killed in the bombing by the Americans," said Ali, 9, the oldest of three brothers.
Operation Steel Curtain is representative of a series of offensives in western Anbar that began in late April. Brig. Gen. James L. Williams of the 2nd Marine Division described them as a town-by-town campaign to drive out insurgents and establish a permanent Iraqi army presence in the heavily Sunni Arab region. Iraqi and foreign insurgents use the Euphrates River communities for bases and for logistics support to funnel money, recruits and ordnance from Anbar and neighboring Syria to fighters planning attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
Steel Curtain involved 2,500 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors and about 1,000 soldiers of the U.S.-trained Iraqi army, including newly established units of locally recruited scouts commissioned mainly for their knowledge of the area, the Marines said. As the Iraqi and U.S. forces moved through Husaybah, Karabilah and other towns, Marines said, they encountered scores of mines and insurgent-rigged bombs made from artillery shells or other ordnance. Ten Marines and 139 insurgents died in the offensive, the Marines said. They gave no totals for known civilian deaths.
Statements issued by the U.S. military during the offensive reported at least two incidents that were described as airstrikes unwittingly conducted on buildings where civilians were later found to have been present.
On Nov. 8, a man in Husaybah led U.S. and Iraqi forces to a house destroyed by U.S. airstrikes the previous day, Marines said. Searching the rubble, Iraqi troops and U.S. Marines found two wounded civilians -- a young girl and a man -- and recovered five bodies.
The Marines were told that fighters loyal to Zarqawi had forced their way into the house, killed two of the people inside and locked the rest of the family on a lower floor before using the building to attack Iraqi and U.S. forces clearing the neighborhood.
"The soldiers and Marines had no knowledge of the civilians being held hostage in the home at the time of the attack," Marines said in a statement. It could not be determined if that airstrike was the same as the one described by witnesses who watched removal of the dead family.
On Nov. 15, U.S.-led forces called in an airstrike after coming under small-arms fire from a building in the hamlet of New Ubaydi. Two men ran from the building waving white flags after the airstrike, followed by 15 male and female civilians, a U.S. Marine statement said.
Marines described other instances of insurgents hiding among civilians in Anbar, including occasions when they dressed as women and tried to pass unnoticed among townspeople fleeing the battles. Residents, local officials and emergency workers said insurgents often sheltered among civilians in urban neighborhoods.
Arkan Isawi, an elder in Husaybah, said he and four other tribal leaders gathered to assess the damage while the operation was still underway and identified at least 80 dead, including women and children. "I personally pulled out a family of three children and parents," he said.
An exact count, however, was impossible, he said. "Anyone who gives you a number is lying, because the city was a mess, and people buried bodies in backyards and parking lots," with other bodies still under rubble, Isawi said.
Townspeople, medical workers and officials often exaggerate death tolls, either for effect or under orders from insurgents. However, accounts from other officials and residents are borne out at least partially by direct observation of bodies and other evidence.
The accounts of U.S. Marines and Iraqi civilians of airstrikes often diverge sharply.
On Oct. 16, for instance, a U.S. F-15 pilot caught a group of Ramadi-area insurgents planting explosives in a blast crater on a road used by U.S. forces, Denning said. The F-15 dropped a bomb on the group, and analysis of video footage shot by the plane showed only what appeared to be grown men where the bomb struck, Denning said. After the airstrike, he said, roadside bombs in the area "shut down to almost nothing.
"That was a good strike, and we got some people who were killing a lot of people," Denning said.
Capt. Jeffrey S. Pool, a spokesman for the 2nd Marines, said it was not possible that children were killed in that strike unless they were outside the range of the F-15's camera.
Residents, however, said the strike killed civilians as well as insurgents, including 18 children. Afterward, at a traditional communal funeral, black banners bore the names of the dead, and grieving parents gave names, ages and detailed descriptions of the children they said had been killed, witnesses said. The bodies of three children and a woman lay unclaimed outside a hospital after the day's fighting.
American commanders insist they do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, but overall, Denning said, "I think it would be very difficult to prosecute this insurgency" without airstrikes.
The precision-guided munitions used in all airstrikes in Anbar "have miss rates smaller than the size of this table," Denning said in the bare-bones cafeteria of one of several Marine bases around Ramadi. He said that officers at Ramadi and at the Marines' "lessons learned" center in Quantico coordinate each attack using the best intelligence available. "I have to sell it to about two or three different chains of command: 'What are you doing to make sure there are no civilian casualties?' " Denning said.
Sewall, the former Pentagon official, also said air power often is the best means for taking out a target more cleanly than ground forces could. But, she said, U.S. forces don't do enough after the airstrikes to figure out whether each one succeeded in hitting the intended targets while sparing civilians.
Marine officers said their lessons-learned center at Quantico did not try to assess civilian casualties from attacks. At the Pentagon, routine bomb-damage assessments rely heavily on the examination of aerial photos and satellite images, which Sewall said were "good for seeing if a building was hit, but not as good for determining who was inside."
"I have enormous respect for the extent to which U.S. air power has become discriminate," Sewall said. "But when you're using force in an urban area or using force in an area with limited intelligence," and facing an enemy actively "exploiting distinctions between combatants and noncombatants, air power becomes challenging no matter how discriminate it is.
"When it comes to the extent to which they are minimizing civilian harm, the question becomes: How do you know?" Sewall said.
Staff writer Thomas E. Ricks in Washington contributed to this report.
© 2005 The Washington Post Company
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12/24/05 Merry Xmas
Hey how you all doing out there. Been spending the past couple of days getting ready for X-Mas. had to do all the usual stuff. Haven't had time to do a new comic, but I got one in the works. It will be about the Bush Spy Scandal. As usual George will find a way to bungle it, just like he did in Iraq, and everywhere he goes. Cheney, will probably have to help Bush figure it all out. Have a good xmas, and see you here soon. In the meantime if you haven't seen them all. Heres a complete list of all the Political Comics.
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Due to illness, Kristin Chenoweth's shows Feb. 3 & 4 were canceled. We tried to reschedule the shows for later this year, but unfortunately, we were unable to find dates that worked for all groups involved. The shows will not be rescheduled.
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You can exchange your Kristin Chenoweth tickets for a different Anchorage Concert Association show in the 16/17 season before March 1, 2017. There are still 12 shows left to choose from this season, includingTony-award-winning musical Billy Elliot Feb. 14-19, comedy legend John Cleese, Cirque Mechanics: Pedal Punk, storytelling icon Garrison Keillor, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, humorist David Sedaris, and others.
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In a career that spans film, television, and stage, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and songstress Kristin Chenoweth is perhaps best well known for her work on the ABC series Pushing Daisies, FOX's hit comedy Glee, and NBC's political drama The West Wing. However, Broadway fans know the "popular" Hollywood Walk of Fame performer as smash-hit Wicked's original Glinda the Good Witch. Chenoweth brings her unique and powerful voice to Anchorage for two shows with the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, featuring unforgettable songs from Broadway and best-loved canons of the Great American Songbook.
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Canada's top court is a cornerstone of our Parliamentary democracy and the Rule of Law. It has shaped our nation since 1875.
In order to understand the role of Canada's top court, it is necessary to understand how it fits within our Constitution.
Canada's top court has seen many changes since it was first created in 1875.
Our judges have a duty to review the legitimacy of laws and strike them down if they are contrary to the Constitution.
The recent Reference re Supreme Court Act concerning nominated Justice Marc Nadon was unprecedented in Canadian judicial history.
Our top courts reflect each country's cultural and political differences as our comprehensive chart outlines.
Here's a novel idea: why don't we ask self-represented litigants what would actually help them!
This court is specifically set up to assist people who want to represent themselves.
Sometimes, self-represented litigants can abuse or misuse the court system so that sanctions are necessary.


Many people's lives are influenced by HIV despite not living with the virus themselves. People ranging from friends and family of people living with HIV to health-care workers and community service providers often find themselves needing specialized support.
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Eventide H8000/FW8000 etc - Comments? Software?
Anybody experienced with this unit? What do you think of it? I am considering this piece but I´d like to understand if there exists software alternatives, comparable in quality and versatility. I am not getting it primarily for the reverb but rather the integration of various fx for soundshaping and so forth.
Should there be a used unit for sale out there, I´d be interested to talk!
Search a bit on this forum, should be several threads.
Anyway, very cool outboard, one of those I like probably the best.
It will take some time to learn how to use its huge potential.
Monster multi FX with no direct competitor.


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Peter Kane was a pioneer of close up magic. On this DVD he performs and explains 8 excellent card routines and then goes on to perform his famous 'Hungarian Guessing Game'.
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Peter was a pioneer of Magic, performing and lecturing came so natural that watching this you feel he is talking to you as one of his personal friends. Few magicians in the world have the ability to invent and originate magic tricks the way Peter could. This DVD captures a part of those inventions, as Peter almost casually gives away just some of his great card magic. This is a DVD you'll watch again & again.


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The evolution of VFX Oscar winners
We've all seen a lot of films, right? Why would you be on a site about filmmaking otherwise? Apart from the obvious good lucks and charm of our writers, of course. Today, we're taking a look at all of the VFX Oscar winners. Not just of the last 10 or 20 years but of all the years since the awards inception in 1927/28. Okay, so it wasn't technically called the Award for Best Visual Effects, as it's known today. It was called the Award for Engineering Effects and that tells us a lot about the state of VFX in those days, or lack of VFX, to be exact. 1927 was the dawn of a new filmmaking era, it was the time when VFX began to be used and more importantly, recognised as a filmmaking achievement.
Or so it seemed, there wasn't another award until 1938 and it was called "a special award for outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects". It took another 25 years for the award to evolve into what we know and love today. In 1963, the Award for Best Visual Effects was born and the industry continued to honour the creative visions and talent of VFX artist to present day – with the exception of 1973, because screw you 1973. Now you get to geek out to all of the VFX Oscar winners in this great 10 minute video.
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CVS Health Opens Employment, Training Facility To Serve Fort Bragg Military Community
Written by Featured Partner on July 20, 2017
CVS Health (No. 50 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) today announced the opening of the company's Talent Connect Center (TCC) to serve the Fort Bragg, N.C. military community. This innovative employment and training facility will be dedicated to helping veterans and their families transition from military life to private sector civilian careers.
The Talent Connect Center (TCC) is part of the newly dedicated Fort Bragg Career Resource Center which, in partnership with Columbia Southern Education Group, serves as an employment, skills-focused facility and connects service members who are transitioning off active duty with companies who can provide training and employment.
The TCC combines state-of-the-art virtual reality technology with hands-on support to help veterans and their spouses throughout the human resources process, from resume assistance and simulated interviewing practice to speaking with leaders of various departments to learn about the many opportunities within the company. CVS Health will be one of approximately 20 companies with training centers within the Career Resource Center.
"By 2020 the health care industry will need a projected 5.6 million highly-skilled workers, like our veterans, necessary to compete and grow and there is no reason why we can't 'connect' the two," said Lisa Bisaccia, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, CVS Health. "The Talent Connect Center is designed to expertly walk veterans through the expanded opportunities at CVS Health, which extend past retail and into distribution, IT and nursing, providing a gateway into high-demand, good paying fields."
Equipped with video conferencing technology to serve and reach military and CVS Health personnel beyond Fort Bragg, the TCC will offer training in the Army Career Skills Program (ACSP) for management, retail and logistics. The ACSP allows active duty soldiers within 180 days from separation from the military to train in an interested career field.
CVS Health has established a long history of recruiting, hiring, training and retaining veterans to build a pipeline of workforce talent. Since 2015, the company has hired almost 8,000 people with military experience and more than 2,300 military spouses.
Leo Trimble, who served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as a Signal Support Technician, said CVS Health took steps to ease his transition when he applied for a job at the end of his service.
"When I first made the decision to leave the military, I was all over the place on what to do next," said Trimble, now a Field Support Technician for CVS Health. "I was drawn to CVS Health because they helped me to identify IT opportunities that allowed me to continue to do what I love. I wouldn't change where I am today for anything."
On average, enlisted service members have been leaving the U.S. military at a rate of roughly 200,000 each year, and the U.S. Department of Defense estimates the rate will remain high through 2019.
"As a new generation of service men and women come home, we owe them every opportunity to live the American Dream that they helped to defend," said David Casey, VP, Workforce Strategies and Chief Diversity Officer, CVS Health who also served as a U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant in Operation Desert Storm. "The Talent Connect Center is dedicated to helping to make the transition process easier for veterans through in-person and virtual skill-building, training and mentoring, and to create an environment that values diversity, leadership and working collaboratively."
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Welcome to Cape Vista 1. Centrally located in the harbour precinct. With a location like this you can enjoy all that Apollo Bay has to offer, leave the car and walk to the beach, harbour, shops and restaurants or stroll around the corner for a game of golf.
This stylish town house comprises 2 levels. Upstairs the open plan kitchen, dining and living area enjoy views over Apollo Bays back beach located only 60 metres away. Together with the master bedroom and ensuite the upper level also has 2 decks including an outdoor dining area with BBQ. Onthe lower level a further 2 bedrooms, bathroom and laundry provide plenty of room for the family. A small enclosed yard and lockup garage are also available for your use.
Driving, Golfing: opposite Apollo Bay golf course, Photography, Shopping, Sightseeing, Swimming, Walking.


The Lake Forest Fire Department - Operates on the traditional 24/48 fire department schedule. Shift personnel work for 24 hours (7:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. the following day) and then have 48 hours off. This requires the department to have three shifts of firefighters that respond on emergency calls, maintain equipment, and complete required trainings. Each shift is made up of a Battalion Chief, two Lieutenants, and eight Firefighters. All members of the shift are also Paramedics.
A-Shift/Gold (Operations) – Develops fire service/medical training on a weekly basis, keeps fire training and medical training records, making sure all members are current with State and Federal training requirements, ensuring all paramedics are current with hospital policies and procedures, maintains ambulance records, licensing and supplies, maintans fire service vehicles and their equipment, and maintains and tests fire hose and nozzles.
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Ursula Haubner (Bad Goisern, 22 de dezembro de 1945) é uma política austríaca da Aliança para o Futuro da Áustria (BZÖ).

De 2005 até 2007, Ursula Haubner foi ministra no Gabinete Schüssel II. De 4 de julho de 2004 até 5 de abril de 2005 ela foi líder do Partido da Liberdade da Áustria.

Ursula Haubner é a irmã de Jörg Haider.

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Recently, scholars from law and political science have introduced metrics which use only election outcomes (and not district geometry) to assess the presence of partisan gerrymandering. The most high-profile example of such a tool is the efficiency gap. Some scholars have suggested that such tools should be sensitive enough to alert us when two election outcomes have the same percentage of votes going to political party A, but one of the two awards party A more seats. When a metric is able to distinguish election outcomes in this way, that metric is said to satisfy the efficiency principle.


Natalie Chyi es una estudiante de Derecho de Hong Kong, actualmente estudiante de la UCL en Londres. Al mismo tiempo, Natalie es una fotógrafa autodidacta con un excelente portafolio lleno de muy buenos retratos. Disfrutad!
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Door open for Ben Stokes to end ODI retirement and play World Cup: Matthew Mott | Cricket News
LONDON: The door is open for Test captain Ben Stokes to end his retirement from one-day internationals and join England's title defence at the 50-overs World Cup in India later this year, white-ball coach Matthew Mott said.
Stokes was named Player of the Match in the 2019 World Cup final when England beat New Zealand at Lord's and was their top-scorer in the final of the T20 World Cup in Australia last year.
He decided to quit one-day cricket last year citing his workload but Mott said he would be happy to discuss the situation if things changed ahead of the World Cup in October-November.
"The door is always open for a player of that quality but we are also very aware that his main focus is red-ball cricket as the captain," Mott told reporters ahead of the three-match ODI series in South Africa beginning on Friday.
"We respect that and when he's ready to chat, we'll do that."
Mott said he had discussed the issue with limited-overs captain Jos Buttler and director of England men's cricket Rob Key and they had not set a cut-off date for Stokes to make up his mind.
"… we need to keep a really flexible, open mind to players and when we sit down to pick that 15 for the World Cup, we want to pick the best players possible," he added.
Ahead of the series against South Africa, Mott said fit-again speedster Jofra Archer was "frothing to play" after nearly two years on the sidelines.
"Having watched him from a distance, I think he's one of the most exciting things to have happened in cricket for the last decade," Mott said.
"The best thing I can say is that we have a general plan of what it (Archer's schedule) might look like.
"We will work through it with him, see how his body is coping. I definitely think he is a high priority and he will be managed as well as possible."
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A long time ago, at school or at home, I occasionally read a book about the resistance in the Netherlands during the 2nd World War. These books were really interesting. In the internet I started looking for sites on the 2nd World War and from my dad I got the book 'from D-day till Berlin' from Stephen E. Ambrose. After seeing some interesting sites and reading the book, I got really interested in the 2nd World War and it forms a major part in my daily life.
On a site on the 2nd World War I read about the possibility of adopting a grave at the American Cemetery in Margraten. I liked the idea. A couple of days later I enlisted via the website for adopting a grave. It took a couple of months, but in August 2006 I finally received my adoption certificate. The grave belonged to Lawrence F. Shea, a corporal in the 318th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Infantry Division and he was killed on April 2nd 1945.
After receiving the certificate I started looking for information. In the beginning I didn't find that much. His information at the American Archives were lost in a fire. But I experienced more and more help from people from the States. With their help I found a lot of information about Lawrence F. Shea and his family. I had not expected people in America being that helpful. They are very grateful that you do something like this and are eager to help you finding information on the adoptiongrave. Without their help it would have taken a lot longer to find the info I have now on Lawrence. Therefore I'm really greatful to them.
In the fall holidays of 2006 I went to the American cemetery for the first time and to his grave. After driving for 2 hours we, my dad and myself, arrived at Margraten. The weather wasn't too friendly but I couldn't care less. After taking a vase with water we walk onto the grounds. I got a weird feeling, seeing all the graves. I had never seen something like that before. Quickly we'd found the grave of Lawrence F. Shea. After placing the flowers at the grave I stayed there for a while. After a few months of investigation I finally stood at his grave. It felt special standing at the grave from the soldier who you've adopted.
Because I had some names of family members I started a search hoping I would find them. I surfed the internet for names and phonenumbers of people who possible could be family. Some one from the States called, but turned out not to be family. Untill I suddenly received an e-mail: someone had traced a nephew of Lawrence. I can describe how that felt. I reacted straightaway per mail and quickly received an answer. After introducing ourselves he send me information on Lawrence together with some pictures. I know finally knew how he looked like and who's grave I've adopted.
I found and still find information. And the search isn't over yet. I've visited his grave more often now and I still receive information. While I still have the idea that the search still hasn't come to an end. Because I still don't know anything about some parts of his life.
This would be my first Memorial Day so I didn't know what to expect. Early in the morning we left. First we visited Henri Chapelle where my other adoptiongrave is and where Memorial Day was a day earlier. After bringing flowers there we went to Margraten. We could see on the way upthere, that is was really busy. After parking the car we went to the grounds. How impressive that looked. All the flowers and flags near the graves gave a pretty sight. We walked over to the grave of Lawrence F. Shea and put down the flowers, they already had run out of vases. I took some pictures and had something to eat before taking pictures for FBNF.
After that we looked for a place on the stand to join the ceremony. The national anthems were impressive and also the speeches were interesting. From the English speeches I didn't understand too much because my English is not that good. I did regret it that people started on the war in Afghanistan because Margraten is a cemetery for the killed ones from the 2nd World War. I was amazed to see how many wreaths were placed. I was at Henri Chapelle before, there were a lot less.
The fly-over was really amazing. A nice honourship for all the ones killed and which are buried in Margraten. The ceremony was in perfect hands of Frank Lahaye, I want to thank him for that.


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I am slowing down my daily posts to weekly+. If I come up with something exciting prior to the post day I will still post it. Thanks to you, my followers. Hopefully this will give you more exciting things to enjoy. My new post day will be Tuesday. Yes, that means tomorrow for those of you who haven't slept as of yet, and today for those of you who have.


Gavin Cowan's Telford side progressed to the third round of the Buildbase FA Trophy with a textbook away performance at National League side Hartlepool. Goals in each half, from Amari Morgan-Smith and Daniel Udoh, moved them into the last sixteen of a competition they last won 30 years ago, and whilst Wembley remains some four games away, a helpful hand in Monday's draw will only help to build belief that a return is possible.
The progression wasn't limited simply to this competition. Cowan has spoken since early in the season of the expectation that his team's character would develop, and this performance gave ample evidence that the Bucks are genuinely becoming a side to be reckoned with.
Hartlepool, sitting in mid-table in the league above the Bucks, were shorn of the services of talisman and top scorer Liam Noble; however, a club who were in the Football League two seasons ago would generally be regarded as favourites when drawn at home. That mattered little to the Bucks, who went into the game on a run of four successive league wins, and their confidence that they could cause an upset wasn't misplaced.
Cowan's side, backed by just shy of 100 travelling Bucks fans, never looked overawed, and they took the lead after just seven minutes of play. Daniel Udoh, who home skipper Carl Magnay was to find a real handful, skipped away down the right-hand side and his low ball towards the edge of the six-yard box was forced home by strike partner Amari Morgan-Smith. It wasn't a clean contact, but it found its way past keeper Scott Loach and nestled in the bottom corner.
The hosts didn't crumble, but were clearly struggling to contain Udoh and bustling companion Morgan-Smith. With Darryl Knights exploiting space in the 'hole' behind the front two and wide players Brendon Daniels and Ryan Barnett also foraging, the clearer chances kept falling Telford's way.
Just after the quarter of an hour mark, Udoh should have made it two-nil, but lifted his effort wide of Loach's right post after being played in. Little more than five minutes later and Udoh took too long to set himself when he and Morgan-Smith were presented with a 2 on 1 breakaway, and Hartlepool recovered, but again the net should have been rippling.
Pool fans were uneasy at the ease with which the Bucks seemed to be finding gaps, getting in behind them far too easily. However, they did find a response of sorts just before the half-hour; a clever free-kick routine set Ryan Donaldson up to shoot hard and low for the bottom corner from 20 yards, but recalled keeper Andy Wycherley did superbly to save his effort. It was their closest they came to scoring in the first half, the Bucks industry and application when not in possession holding them at arms' length.
Hartlepool boss Richard Money, only recently in post, clearly decided his side needed shaking up, and made two substitutions at the interval; however, it did little to change the state of affairs. Reduced to shooting from distance, they did rattle Wycherley's crossbar on 53 minutes, Luke James' effort crashing back off goal frame to safety from 25 yards. It failed to herald a revival, and the Bucks, marshalled by Jonathan Royle in midfield, held firm.
With just a quarter of the game remaining, the Bucks extended their lead. Shane Sutton, who had stayed upfield after a free-kick, headed a cross towards goal and although Loach dived to his left to keep the ball out, Morgan-Smith's presence saw the ball run loose in the six-yard box. Udoh was the quickest to react and hared in to put the ball into the unguarded net.
The Bucks celebrated, and Hartlepool perhaps sensed the game was up. Substitute Peter Kioso did his best to try and engineer an escape route, and the hosts won a succession of attacking free-kicks late in the game; they got the consolation of a goal three minutes into five minutes added by referee Simeon Lucas, when Myles Anderson piled through at the back post to bury a close-range header.
It mattered little; the Bucks continued their progress, and Cowan's side can look ahead with increasing belief.
Hartlepool United: Loach, Richardson (Hawkes 45), Magnay (c), Rodgers, Amos, Donaldson, Featherstone, McLaughlin (Kioso 57), James, Muir, Kitching (Anderson 45).
Unused Substitutes: Catterick (GK), Kioso, Hawkes, Anderson, Scott.


With over fifteen years of experimental psychological research including methodological design and statistical analysis, Andy brings broad cognitive science and quantitative expertise to Olson Zaltman. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology and affiliate at the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia.
Andy's academic research examines how implicit thoughts and feelings form and change. His work also focuses on establishing best practices for measuring implicit associations. Recently, he was selected as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science for these discoveries. His findings on unconscious thought, preference and human behavior are regularly published in top peer-reviewed journals.
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Students practice empathy and ethnography in visit to controversial church
Dr. Hillel Gray interviews WBC member Shirley Phelps-Roper as Miami students observe
The tiny Westboro Baptist Church is famous for picketing with signs that condemn gay and lesbian people or thank God for the deaths of American soldiers. In July 2017, five Miami undergrads and a Comparative Religion professor spent a few days interviewing members of the WBC in their home in Topeka, Kansas, in an effort to better understand religious extremism.
The research trip grew out of a several-years-long initiative by Dr. Hillel Gray, a specialist in religious fundamentalism, to build a relationship with the WBC as a researcher. Students Alex Bronston, Reagan Brown, Margaret Hamm, Jackie McCafferty, and Sarah Moore accompanied Dr. Gray on his latest visit to the church, July 18-21. There they helped him conduct 15 hours of video-recorded interviews with WBC members; they also observed the church's weekly hymn singing and its controversial street ministry.
This ethnographic encounter with WBC members challenged the students to cultivate empathy for people whose beliefs and actions the students found alienating, to suspend moral judgment, and to develop a "thick," nuanced understanding of the group's worldview and experiences.
The video recordings and other data gathered during the research trip will serve as resources in a course Dr. Gray teaches at Miami, "Religious Fundamentalism." The WBC exemplifies dynamics that Dr. Gray explores with students in the course, including how such groups use scripture, how their perceptions of the world are filtered through the lens of their religious tradition, how they filter and integrate values and practices from outside their own religious subculture, how they confront or separate from outsiders, and how they respond to pressure or persecution.
The July trip successfully generated research data about WBC members' interpersonal empathy and their relations with people outside the church. Dr. Gray reports that "Miami students were extremely patient, thoughtful, and effective participants, who helped enrich both the interview results and the project's interpretation of the data as it emerged each day of the trip."
On September 26, back at Miami, the five students reported on their experiences to a lecture hall full of curious Miami students, many of whom were seated in the aisles.
"It was one of the most emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining experiences of my life," Alex Bronston told the audience. "It is wild to sit there and have one your identities attacked, but I understood where they were coming from, oddly enough."
During summer 2018, Dr. Gray will again take students to meet with the WBC. Students will also accompany him to New York City, where he will conduct interviews with members of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish groups.
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We are pleased to announce that LDF Group have been shortlisted for three awards, SME Champion, Professions Champion and the Next Generation Award, at the upcoming Leasing World Awards.
Now in its 9th year, the annual awards, sponsored by Hitachi Capital Business Finance, looks to recognise key finance brokers and funders who are demonstrating excellence within the industry, and championing small business, across 24 categories.
As a business, LDF has seen huge change over the past 12 months, from acquiring established Southampton based business Asset and Corporate Finance, to the launch of a new central Manchester sales office and a London presence, recruiting over 100 people, across 55 different roles.
We've stayed close to our customers, listening to the changing needs of UK smaller businesses to deliver several new business loan purposes, that help support growth and diversification, by giving small business owners access to the finance they need, when they need it most. We're also proud to maintain a 4.9/5 stars customer rating on Feefo.
We've addressed some of the challenges that exist in our industry, to reimagine our finance process. We've removed the jargon, and we've made it much easier for customers, both new and existing, to get a fast, fuss-free business loan, we call it the flipside.
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Home Alone Actors You May Not Know Passed Away
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By Will Fancher/April 30, 2022 12:57 am EST
There is often a melancholy feeling to Christmas celebrations and traditions; underneath the lights and tinsel is an understanding that another year has passed, and perhaps those friends and family we celebrated with in the past are no longer with us.
Even high-concept family comedies like the 1990 holiday classic "Home Alone" and its sequels have a heartfelt nostalgia at their core. Kevin McAllister (Macauley Culkin) wishes for his family to disappear at Christmas, and as far he understands the next morning, that's exactly what happens. For Kevin, it's a short-lived dream come true, as he soon realizes how much he loves and misses his parents and older siblings. For his parents (John Heard and Catherine O'Hara), it's their worst nightmare come to life, but one with a happy ending; their reunion at the end of the film underlines how important it is to value family, as we never know when we might not see them again.
For many families, watching "Home Alone" is itself a holiday tradition; those who were children when the first film came out might now have children of their own to delight in Kevin's slapstick battles against the incompetent Wet Bandits (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). The films' actors become family friends of a sort who visit once a year; their 1990 selves are preserved like insects in ember, but in real life all of them have aged, and some are no longer with us. Here is a list of "Home Alone" actors you may not know have passed away.
Clarke Devereux
"Tell 'em to count their kids again," the officer sent to do a wellness check on Kevin says in a thick Chicago accent in the first "Home Alone." That officer is played by Clarke Devereux; his one-scene role is notable not just for how seemingly unconcerned he is that a child has gone missing, but also for the fact that he doesn't announce himself as a police officer, which would have probably allayed Kevin's fears about answering the door, thereby ending the film about an hour earlier.
Devereux makes a brief appearance as an NYPD detective in "Home Alone 2" as well; in fact, his film career was mostly limited to the films made by his son-in-law Chris Columbus, including "Adventures in Babysitting," "Only the Lonely," and "Rent." A Chicago native, Devereux fought in the Korean War and raised his family in the Oak Park and River Forest suburbs. In Columbus' films he was a welcome bit of local color, and his tough guy roles were in direct contrast to the dedicated father and community leader he was in real life. Devereux died of cancer in November 2021.
Marian Seldes appears in 1997's "Home Alone 3" as Mrs. Hess, the grumpy neighbor of our new hero Alex (Alex D. Linz) who, just like Old Man Marley and the Pigeon Lady before her, seems scary at first but concludes the movie as a new friend.
Mrs. Hess kicks the film's needlessly complicated plot into motion by picking up the wrong shopping bag at the San Francisco airport. Instead of a loaf of sourdough bread, she now has a remote control car toy, which she gives to Alex as payment for shoveling her driveway badly. Little do they know, however, that the toy contains a state-of-the-art microchip bound for North Korea, and a group of bumbling international smugglers is breaking into neighborhood houses looking for it.
Seldes' career on screen spanned seven decades and over one hundred film and television roles. Like many theatre actors, she was a mainstay on television during its golden age, making multiple appearances on "General Electric Theatre," "Kraft Theatre," "Omnibus," and more. In later years she would be recognizable to audiences as the mother of Murphy Brown and of Mr. Big on "Sex in the City." Her main love, however, was the stage. Seldes was nominated for five Tony awards across her career, winning for Edward Albee's play "A Delicate Balance" in 1967 and receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. She was a longtime educator at Julliard and Fordham University in New York, counting Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Viola Davis, and more as pupils. Seldes died in 2011 at age 86.
Eddie Bracken
Longtime comic actor Eddie Bracken plays Mr. Duncan, the kindly owner of Duncan's Toy Chest in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." Christmas is naturally the busiest time of year down at the Toy Chest, and kindly old Duncan is planning to donate his profits (a giant crate full of cash kept in plain sight inside the store) to a children's hospital — that is, if the Wet Bandits don't steal it first. Luckily, Kevin McCallister is in town to foil their larcenous scheme.
A native New Yorker, Bracken got his start on Broadway in the 1930s. He made a number of films with director Preston Sturges, including 1944's "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero." After 1953, Bracken mostly left his film career behind to concentrate on theatre and television; he appeared on Broadway in "The Seven Year Itch," "The Odd Couple," and "Hello, Dolly!," and guest starred on shows like "Rawhide" and "The New Dick Van Dyke Show." In 1983 he was cast in "National Lampoon's Vacation" as Roy Walley, the Disney-esque owner of Walley World. After that film's success he found a new audience in film, appearing in "Rookie of the Year" and "Baby's Day Out." In 2002, Bracken died due to complications from a recent surgery.
Ralph Foody
If you happened to be an elementary school student in 1990 or 1991, there is a solid chance that you or someone you know curled their lip and grunted "Keep the change, ya filthy animal!" in response to something or other, or perhaps for no reason at all. One of the most well-remembered quotes from "Home Alone" comes from character actor Ralph Foody as Johnny, the gangster glimpsed in the 1930s B-movie parody "Angels with Filthy Souls" — which apparently a lot of people (including Seth Rogen) thought was a real film. Foody and his trigger-happy alter ego appeared in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" as well, when Kevin watches the sequel "Angels with Even Filthier Souls."
The tough-talking Chicago actor was a natural at playing both cops and crooks, appearing in "The Blues Brothers" as a police dispatcher and the short-lived 1985 police drama "Lady Blue" opposite Jamie Rose and Danny Aiello. He also worked with "Home Alone" writer John Hughes in the 1991 dramedy "Curly Sue." After "Home Alone 2," Foody retired with his wife Jan to Lexington, Kentucky; he died from cancer in 1999.
Billie Bird
Veteran stage and screen actress Billie Bird makes a cameo in "Home Alone" as Irene, whom Kate McCallister (Catherine O'Hara) tries to buy a plane ticket from in order to get back to Chicago. In exchange for taking a later flight, Kate offers the woman $500, a First Class upgrade, a pocket translator, a fake Rolex, a ring, and her earrings. When that fails to sway the woman's husband (Bill Erwin), Kate appeals to their emotional side.
Born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in an orphanage, Bird was getting laughs on the vaudeville stage as early as age seven. She spent decades racking up small roles in film and television while simultaneously appearing on stage in plays and variety and burlesque pieces that she often wrote herself. During the Vietnam War she did USO tours with her solo comedy show "Flying High with Billie Bird," and was made an honorary Green Beret for her efforts.
Despite being a literal showbiz lifer, Bird's most recognizable roles came in the last decade or so of her career. She worked with John Hughes in "Sixteen Candles" before "Home Alone," and afterwards in "Dennis the Menace," once again alongside Bill Erwin. In 1988 she appeared in another early millennial holiday classic, "Ernest Saves Christmas," then booked the most substantial role of her career on the Judd Hirsch hit sitcom "Dear John," which ran for four seasons. Bird died in 2002 from complications due to Alzheimer's Disease; she was 94.
Bill Erwin
Actor Bill Erwin plays Irene's husband Ed, who is impatient to board the plane and immune to Kate's bribes ("She's got her own earrings, a whole shoebox full of them — dangly ones!"). It is only after Kate admits how desperate she is to get on the plane that Ed relents. It is a brief but pivotal scene, as it allows O'Hara, Bird, and Erwin to play both the comedy and drama of the situation.
Born in Texas, Erwin served in World War II and made a brief appearance as a soldier in the 1941 Phil Silvers/Jimmy Durante comedy "You're In the Army Now." After attending the University of Texas, Erwin made the move to Hollywood and began appearing in roles on television and the stage, including "Wagon Train," "The Danny Thomas Show," and "I Love Lucy."
Like his onscreen wife Billie Bird, Erwin's most recognizable roles came later in life. In 1980 he starred alongside Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in the time travel romance "Somewhere in Time," and was a frequent guest at annual celebrations of the film hosted at the Mackinac Island hotel where it was filmed. On stage he wrote and performed in the solo show "Twisted Twain," where he played Mark Twain's long lost 160-year-old brother. A guest appearance on "Seinfeld" in 1992 earned him an Emmy nomination, and he booked appearances on "The Drew Carey Show," "Monk," and "My Name is Earl" in the years before his death. Erwin was also a published cartoonist and maintained a longtime friendship with sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. He died in December 2010 at age 96.
Roberts Blossom
Old Man Marley, played by Roberts Blossom, begins "Home Alone" as the stuff of Kevin's nightmares — a boogeyman who, according to Kevin's brother Buzz (Devin Ratray), murdered his entire family and salts the neighborhood streets in order to mummify their buried bodies. Kevin's fear of Old Man Marley is all-encompassing, until they encounter one another at a Christmas pageant performance at the local church. It turns out, Marley is nothing more than a lonely old man estranged from his son and granddaughter, someone who could benefit from Kevin's (somewhat condescending) childlike wisdom.
The intense-looking Blossom was an actor and poet. After serving in World War II, he moved to New York in the 1950s and booked roles on "Naked City" and "Studio One." Many of his most notable roles came in the 1970s; he starred as a serial killer based on Ed Gein in the horror film "Deranged," and appeared in "Escape from Alcatraz" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," where he played a UFO witness who also claimed to have seen Bigfoot. The 1980s and '90s saw him rack up a number of "strange old man" roles in "The Last Temptation of Christ," John Carpenter's "Christine," and Sam Raimi's Western "The Quick and the Dead." In 2000 a documentary was made of his life, James Abee's "Full Blossom." Blossom died in 2011 at age 87.
So much of the heart in the first two "Home Alone" films is in the relationship between Kevin and his mother that it can be easy to forget that he has a father too — Peter, played by actor John Heard. It's never clear exactly what Peter does for a living to afford such a large home in suburban Winnetka and international flights for the extended family (the film's novelization mentions that he is a businessman, but delves no further into what that might mean), but he appears to be a caring and attentive dad to Kevin and his four other kids, even if he misses out on the big emotional moments that mother and son share.
Heard got his start on stage in the 1970s, appearing in off-Broadway and regional theatre productions such as the premiere of David Rabe's war drama "Streamers." It was a Shakespeare in the Park production of "Othello" that attracted the attention of director Ivan Passer, who cast Heard in the title role of the 1981 post-Vietnam drama "Cutter's Way," in which he (alongside Jeff Bridges) gave one of the all-time-great underseen performances of the era.
Heard followed that up in collaborations with many of the best directors of the 1980s, including Paul Schrader in "Cat People," Martin Scorsese in "After Hours," and Penny Marshall in both "Big" and "Awakenings." He worked consistently throughout the 1990s and 2000s, often in smaller, less heralded roles; his best remembered role from this era was as Vin Makazian, the New Jersey detective on Tony Soprano's payroll on Season 1 of "The Sopranos." Heard died of cardiac arrest in 2017 at age 71.
Comedy legend (and Catherine O'Hara's former "SCTV" co-star) John Candy played the part of Gus Polinsky, polka king of the Midwest, as a favor to his friend John Hughes, with whom he had made two recent hits, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" and "Uncle Buck." The story goes that Hughes offered Candy a cut of the film's profits but Candy refused, both out of generosity and the reasonable belief that the film would flop. Instead, he was paid just a little over $400 for a day's work, while the film went on to gross hundreds of millions of dollars.
Candy got his start on stage at The Second City Toronto at age 19, and was a featured player alongside O'Hara on the sketch show "SCTV" from 1976 to 1983. During that time, he made a name for himself with scene-stealing supporting turns in Steven Spielberg's war comedy "1941," "The Blues Brothers," and the animated sci-fi anthology "Heavy Metal." Though a gifted comedian and improviser — he and O'Hara mostly ad-libbed their scenes in "Home Alone" — he began to expand into more dramatic work in the early 1990s. He reunited with Hughes and Chris Columbus for the romance "Only the Lonely," and took a heavy turn in Oliver Stone's "JFK," though he still appeared in family comedies like "Cool Runnings" and "Rookie of the Year." Candy died in 1994 at age 43 in Mexico while filming the Western comedy "Wagons East."


It's cheaper than the nearby BPP and University of Law campuses, and just as centrally located, making it a good option for applicants looking to work in smaller firms. There are five commercial and and five private client modules in Stage Two, and for an extra £2,000 you can do a 'Legal Practice LLM' which includes an 8,000-word dissertation. The careers service is relatively limited, but runs a useful mentoring scheme, and the small cohort develops a good rapport with tutors.


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Franco-British Workshop
Delving back into the past to look into the present and the future - Franco-British Workshop 2
From 22 April 2015 to 23 April 2015
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
Royal Society, London
In 2014, two major research programs on uses, representations and legacies of the past, and the relationship between the past and the present, embarked on a path of unprecedented cooperation.
In France, from the cluster of excellence: Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory, supported by the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, which combines several research units and heritage institutions of primary importance. In Britain, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council: the Care for the Future: Thinking Forward Through the Past research theme.
Between these two programs, which combine both long and short-term research projects, there are many thematic and methodological affinities, including their shared interdisciplinary orientation, their new forms of partnership with heritage institutions, their support for early career researchers, their expertise in the definition of cultural policies related to the past, and their development of transnational research perspectives and international cooperation.
The labex (Laboratoire d'Excellence), Pasts in the Present and the Care for the Future program have therefore decided to work together to create the conditions for cross-border and transnational research.
For the next two years, the planned cooperation between the two research programmes will consist of two main actions:
Organizing three Franco-British research workshops;
A joint Franco-British research funding call, to be launched in March 2015.
The terms of this cooperation were developed by two working groups, drawn from the advisors and partners for both research programmes, the first meeting in Nanterre in February 2014, the second in London in late June 2014. The recommendations of those working groups have subsequently been approved by the sponsors or partners of the two research programmes and their respective boards.
Franco-British Research Workshops
Those workshops are open to researchers and practitioners / professionals in heritage institutions interested and involved in the two programs. Forty people will meet for two full-day Franco-British research workshops. In total, the workshops aim to run 3 sessions for 120 people.
The format is designed to enable a full and friendly exchange of experiences and ideas: two days of work, during which there will be formal presentations and discussion, as well as plenty of time for more informal discussions, and debates in other formats (recordings, films or film clips, screenings, visits).
The objectives are twofold. On the one hand: through presentations on current or proposed research, to enrich the research of the two programs, including the development of transnational research perspectives. On the other hand: to create opportunities for building strong partnership networks across the two programmes among both researchers and partner organisations.
Collectively the workshops will seek to address a more general question, "What type of histories does the present want or need?" Addressing this more general question will help the programmes to generate new thinking regarding the relationship between history and the past, and the relevance of that relationship for the present and future. The workshop series will address this more general question from the diversity of disciplines, and promote exchanges and collaboration across those disciplines. It will also encourage participants to develop comparative and transnational approaches, including those related to globalization and the circulation of knowledge globalization induces.
Second workshop: "Delving back into the past to look into the present and future"
Royal Society, London, UK, on 22 and 23 April 2015
Theme 1: The Uses of the Past
How is the past remembered, represented, appropriated, mediated, debated and contested in the present? And how is the mediation of the past in today's present affected by the Digital Humanities?
This theme raises the fundamental question of the ways in which our views of the past are shaped by what is happening in the present, and the ways in which our understandings and perceptions of what is happening in the present are shaped by our experiences and memories of the past.
Theme 2: Research and Heritage
What can research into heritage contribute to current heritage policy and practice? Issues of policy and practice might include:
The recognition of new and different types and forms of heritage that are under-represented in or marginalised by national or international heritage collections;
How we understand the relationship between history and heritage;
The impact of the digital age on understandings of what heritage is and how we protect it;
New ways of thinking about collaboration between heritage research and heritage institutions and innovative modes of cooperation between researchers and heritage institutions.
The workshop will mainly consist of 20-minute papers as part of a panel presentation but we may also include a series of shorter 5-minute papers presented in groups as a catalyst for conversation.
Delving back into the past to look into the present and future - Franco-British Workshop #1
Putting the Past Onstage Again
Hélène de Foucaud - hdefouca(AT)u-paris10.fr
Programme of the Franco-Britsih Workshop #2 (pdf - 1.21 MB)
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U.S. Factories Bounce Back
By CBSNews.com staff CBSNews.com staff
March 4, 1999 / 11:14 AM / CBS
New orders to U.S. factories surged in January for the second consecutive month, perhaps signaling the start of a rebound in American manufacturing after a year of struggling with fallout from Asia's economic crisis.
Orders increased 1.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted $349.6 billion following an even stronger 2.3 percent increase in December, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
There were weaker increases during five of the six months before December.
Manufacturers have been hurting from loss of export sales to Asia and other economies in recession. Factories shed more than 200,000 jobs last year.
But U.S. consumer demand has remained brisk, and Thursday's report fits with other signs of recovery in manufacturing.
Meanwhile, the nation's biggest retail chains reported higher-than-expected sales in February. Not only were consumers buying up discounted winter merchandise, there was great demand for full-priced spring goods as well.
The Labor Department also reported Thursday that the number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits fell last week and, for February, the average level of new applications reached a 10-year low.
The signs of strength encouraged the stock market. The Dow Jones average of industrial stocks shot up 131 points in the first hour of trading, to 9,407.
Jobless claims totaled a seasonally adjusted 286,000 last week, down 8,000 from the week before.
The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out the volatile weekly totals, declined to 290,750, from 293,000 for the four-week period ending a week earlier.
That was the lowest average since February 1989 and reflected the continued strength of the American economy.
The department is scheduled Friday to report the unemployment rate for February. In advance, analysts believed it would hold at a 29-year low of 4.3 percent.
Much of January's strength in factory orders was concentrated in aircraft, which doubled from $7.8 billion in December to $15.9 billion in January.
The 102.7 percent increase was the largest in five years. Excluding the volatile transportation segment, orders fell 0.3 in January, the first decline in three months.
Aircraft wasn't the only high point for the month. Orders jumped 4.9 percent for electronic equipment, including a 13 percent increase for communications equipment.
Orders for stone, clay and glass products rose 0.7 percent, reflecting robust construction in most parts of the country.
Computer and office equipment orders fell 4.8 percent; steel orders, 8 percent; and engines and turbines, 27.3 percent.
Overall, orders for durable goods - big-ticket items expected to last at least three years - rose 3.6 percent.
Orders for nondurable goods fell 0.8 percent, pulled down by a decline in chemicals.
Shipments of factory goods, a barometer of current production, fell 0.8 percent, the first drop since October, after an idntical increase in December.
The backlog of unfilled orders jumped 1.6 percent, the first increase since August. Inventories of factory goods fell 0.3 percent, the third drop in a row.
First published on March 4, 1999 / 11:14 AM
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