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Barcelona FC Looking to Dominate La Liga
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Results of Matches in Spanish La Liga
In La Liga, the season 2018/19 is again marked by the dominance of Catalan Barcelona. The team of Ernesto Valverde continues to lead with confidence after half the rounds played, although they occasionally allow themselves small misfires.
This summer, the Catalans strengthened significantly (Arthur, Vidal, Malcolm), which allowed Ernesto Valverde to perform even more rotations and give many of team's leaders time to recover. Now Messi, Pique, Suarez and a number of other athletes need a little more time to gain optimal conditions. It is all because of their age, all of them are far beyond 30.
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Will Barcelona Manage to Defend Its Title?
Despite the fact that there are still a lot of rounds before the end of the season, the Catalans managed to secure a comfortable advantage, which may well become the key to another champion title. Now, Barcelona has a great fusion flashlivesc of experience and youth, so the team manages to demonstrate interesting football, which does not leave the fans indifferent.
Among the trumps of Valverde's team the following ones are usually identified:
Good teamwork. Despite the constant renewal of the lineup, many leaders have been playing together for years by now. It resulted in almost perfect mutual understanding on the field and the absence of misfires. This is very important in the decisive matches of the season.
Individual skills. Thanks to them, the Catalans can always count on the fact that the situation may change for the better. Messi and the company have repeatedly saved the team even from the most difficult situations.
Long bench. Last but not least, this factor plays into the hands of the team when it comes to the long tournament distance. It is almost impossible get through it without failures and loss of form. However, it is sometimes sufficient to make just a few substitutions in order to make the length of the championship has as little effect on the results as possible. This is the tactic that Ernesto Valverde most often sticks to.
Of course, there is always a place for sensations in football, but it is unlikely that in the current season the Blaugranas are going to give the champion title away to one of their rivals. It is clear that the team once again intends to finish in the first place, and it is quite capable of doing it, given the quantity of expertise in the participants.
Main Intrigues of Upcoming MLS Season
December 24, 2012 / alok	/ Leave a comment
Another MLS season has ended, and it brought a lot of unexpected results and the final fight between Atlanta and Portland, which will be remembered for a long time. However, the teams should now be preparing for the next season, because it will begin very soon.
The main feature of the league is definitely the approximate equality of all participants, which affects the results. First, the teams fight for getting into the playoffs, and then they enter the playoff stage itself. The previous season showed that despite the fact that the age stars of European football can show a top game, in the long run it is better to have promising young players on the field.
It has now become much easier to follow the MLS scores, because all you need to do is to click at logo alt "Flashlivescore.ORG". Here you will find the results of the matches, as well as important statistical information and the schedule of upcoming matches, which will allow you to follow the busy football schedule attentively.
Who Will Fight for Champion's Title?
We have already mentioned the finalists of 2018, but many other teams cannot be discounted, too. First of all, this is Toronto. This club has spent the previous season not very successfully, having failed to defend its title. However, in the future, the Canadian team has everything necessary to compete for the coveted trophy again:
Excellent selection of players in each of the lines. This allows the coaching ecuador serie a – play offs staff to make quick rotation and occasionally provide leaders with rest. In the long run, this can be a decisive advantage.
Individual skills of players. Here, first of all, it is necessary to mention Giovinco, who has been one of the main stars of the MLS for several years, and he continues to show a bright and attacking style of football.
Experienced coaching staff.
Also, we should not forget that many competitors of the club are quite unstable in the standings, which can play into the hands of the Canadian club, which has repeatedly proved that it knows how to maximize the use of competitor misfires.
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Football News at Flashlivescore
The season in the top European championships is in full swing, its 'equator' is already behind. This means that the time has come to sum up the interim results and to identify the main triumphants and losers.
Let's have a look to La Liga, where Real Madrid's performance is certainly among the disappointments of the season. Even before the start of the championship, it was clear that without Cristiano Ronaldo this was a completely new team. However, almost everyone noticed that Real was occasionally fallen into confusion. The team was unable to beat even the outsiders, having a record goalless series.
All these resulted in Lopetegui being dismissed from the head coach position; he lasted only a few months at his post. Santiago Solari, his mate, started off well, managing to get several wins in a row, but in those cases the team's rivals were too weak to draw long-term conclusions. However, Real's management did not think so and quickly offered him a permanent contract. After that, the game of the Meringues became uncertain again.
As a result, the gap from Barcelona is already 10 points and it looks like the club can forget about the gold medals in the current season. At https: //Flashlivescore.ORG, you can always find the detailed statistics of teams from various leagues of the planet. The website offers the results of the recent matches of the Royal Club at any time of the day.
The portal provides the results of matches of not only the top championships, but also, for example, liga mx.
Real's Prospects in Second Half of Season
Today, the Royal club looks pretty unmotivated, although the team has everything necessary to get out of the crisis. Its trump cards include:
1. Great selection of players.
You can hardly find such a number of stars in each of the positions in any other club on the planet. Thanks to this, Real always has someone to strengthen the game even during the match.
2. Skills of players.
The Royal club has the best player of 2018, Luka Modric, as well as many other top stars. In fact, each of them is able to decide the fate of the match singlehandedly, so Real Madrid can never be disregarded completely.
3. Motivation.
In the recent matches, it was clear that the Meringues' players are angry with themselves for their fails within the first 1 / 2 of the championship.
The main challenges like La http://www.flashlivescore-de.com/ Liga and the Champions League are still ahead of him, although
Together with his team, Solari has already managed to win the FIFA Club World Cup. Let's see if he can cope with these challenges with dignity and return the cherished titles to the Royal club.
Europa League Draw Results
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The group stage of the Europa League begins. The teams already know their competitors, so they managed to prepare for the confrontations. However, the excitement is still palpable, because at such a short distance any loss of points can be fatal.
Among all the groups that were formed based on the results of the draw, Quartet B can be called the strongest. It includes:
Celtic;
RB Leipzig;
Rosenborg;
Salzburg.
Here we see the main favorites of the tournament. However, there is no obvious outsider, so we can safely assume that everyone will have the opportunity to fight in the Europa League play-offs. The prospects of teams in the quartet in more details can be discussed only after a few rounds since the answers to all questions of interest will be given only at the football field. This situation applies to every group since there can not be any middling game here.
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Prospects of Participants
Almost all the favorites got pretty comfortable groups, therefore at this stage, they should not face any difficulties. However, the Europa League is so good for that even the minor teams here, unknown to the majority of fans, can make headlines.
Today, the coaches of Arsenal,Chelsea and Milan, and other favorites need to find motivation for their teams, who will have to solve the issue of getting into the playoffs in the shortest possible time. That's why it is better to play with the leaders during the last and the penultimate rounds, when they can relax a little, of course, if they have already won the ticket to the next stage. The Europa League is now becoming an important tournament and causing a fair amount of stir, so no one will allow the reserve squad into the field.
"Small" teams' motivation has no limits. For them, participation in the second most important club tournament of the Old Continent first professional league is a chance to prove themselves. There are quite a lot of examples of how the leaders of such teams eventually transfer into stronger clubs right after demonstrating their capabilities during games at the international arena.
Let's see how the situation develops this time; whether the favorites will show what they are capable of already at the group stage of the tournament or they are going to save power to the playoffs.
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Odd Jobs of Starfleet: Lieutenant Commander Ishani Kasun, Crisis Response
May 19, 2018by Thayon Jann in Odd Jobs
In "odd jobs" we examine some less traditional posts and the characters and writers behind them to inspire you to investigate potential for your own character.
Today we have the pleasure of speaking to Ishani Kasun, from Starbase 118 Ops.
JANN: So your character used to be the Crisis Response Department Head, could you tell us what that posting looks like on a day-to-day basis?
KASUN: I think one thing to clarify first is that the security division on Ops is handled differently than what's seen in the show. The department is played more along the lines of a civilian police force than a military one and is split up into different departments along the lines of what duties they handle. The duties that Crisis Response covers is not just dealing with active crises but the prevention and cleanup of said crises. So while in the field they could be organizing aid, providing field medical care, negotiating with hostages or the mentally ill. Out of the field it's mostly prep work, practice and handling the aftermath of a past crisis. For example one of the recurring issues that Crisis had to handle over the past year and a half or so was mentally and physically healing, rehabilitating and establishing several groups of now former Orion Syndicate slaves that Ops kept rescuing.
In addition, the base's SWAT team and bomb squad are under the Crisis Response umbrella, so members of those teams are specific to those areas of policing. There's also the possibility that they could be pulled to help out with one of the other security departments or units, so one day they could be doing general patrol work, pulled for ship duty, or helping corrections.
What brought you to choosing that particular duty post?
It was a choice born of a mad scramble for options, rather than something I had in mind when I applied to SB118. I had originally applied and gone through my cadet cruise with Ishani as a counselor, but when it came time to be assigned to a post there weren't any more slots open for that department on Ops. I was given the option to be posted to a different ship or to pick a different duty post, and because I had a friend on Ops that I wanted to write with (my whole reason for applying in the first place, honestly) changing her duty post was the only option.
At the time the only openings Ops had was in security, the marines or intelligence. I was rather fond of the backstory for her I had come up with so far and wanted to keep as much of it as possible, so with the help of my friend and Google I came up with three positions within each duty post where it would make sense to have a psychiatry background and offered them to Capt Taybrim as suggestions. Crisis intervention/negotiator for security, psychological profiler for intelligence and I believe the marine suggestion was a dedicated counselor for/with the marines. Obviously we ended up going with the crisis intervention/negotiator option and we hashed out what that would entail. The core idea hasn't changed much since that hurried start, but it has expanded and solidified as I worked to develop it further as it went from a small team to an actual department in character.
If anyone was wanting to SIM this duty post, what advice would you give them?
I think one thing to keep in mind is that crisis response is a blend of the medical, counseling and security departments, so you have to be willing to be flexible and dance between the different aspects of the job. Some missions your ship is on don't have a need for crisis management so you sim your character more along the lines of a standard security officer. Other missions your character will be in their element; your ship is dealing with hostages, a natural disaster, psychoactive drugs making the population act like zombies, or something like that where you get to use all aspects of being a crisis officer.
Still, even in missions that call for more typical security officer tasks you can still bring in aspects of the position, if only in how your character views or approaches the situation. For instance when dealing with a villan your character could start out attempting to negotiate, or your ship gets severely damaged you could help keep people calm and organized while they either repair the damage or evacuate. So to boil it down, it's more about the mindset the character has and how that influences their reactions than their actions directly.
How have you changed as a writer from when you first joined to now?
I think most of it is that I've become more comfortable both with the writing in general and the role. Prior to SB118 the only formal RP (for lack of a better way of putting it) that I had ever written was forum based prose, so it was a significant adjustment to the script-esque style that simming uses. Another major difference beyond the writing style was being able to do things with other people's characters that would be considered 'godmodding' in the forum RP world. Leaving tags requires a certain amount of assumption about how the other character(s) would react to what your character does and that's just not done in the forum world, so it took me quite a while to get over the feeling of 'this is wrong' whenever I left tags.
As far as getting comfortable with the role, I've played versions of Ishani before on other sites but none where she was a crisis officer or in any kind of security role before, so there was an adjustment period where I was both settling in with this version of the character while also figuring out how best to play her within this hybrid role I had come up with on the fly. I do think that the character as she was written when I first started was written far less consistently during her first couple of missions compared to how I write her now.
Do you have any memorable moments from this character you could share with us?
I think the most memorable moment was from her second mission ever. Ishani and a fellow security officer and their pilot had to take a shuttle over to a mostly destroyed starship to rescue the survivors in the middle of a battle. The rescue went well (aside from watching one of the NPCs get pulped) but they ended up having to make a crash landing in their ship's hanger. Ishani ended up with a nasty concussion and made a gigantic fool of herself due to her injury. However, she did end up with a date out of it, so it worked out in the end, right?
How has the character changed and adapted to the role of Chief Security Officer on Ops?
I'd like to think that the change in her character has come from the change in her role (though as I mentioned above there was some settling in the beginning). Ishani's gone from being the person being delegated to, to the person who's doing the delegating which is definitely a change in thinking. She can't think as a crisis officer any more, her thought process has to include how the other departments of security handle things and a little bit of how the other duty post divisions work when making decisions about how the security division will act.
Due to the way SB118 works she's still getting in the thick of action as a senior officer, but the crisis aspect definitely takes second place to security administration. It's definitely expanded my options for how I can play the character in a way that doesn't make me feel like I'm pushing the crisis aspect of her to the side. She's still a crisis officer at heart but I get to have her involved in investigations or transportation disputes and it feels she has a legitimate reason to be involved rather than the 'hey we need a security officer to do standard security things and you're the only security officer around so you'll do' feeling that I had before her promotion. Not that anyone on Ops has ever made me feel that way, it's my own mental quirk.
You can read more about LtCmdr Kasun on the wiki.
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As part of our contribution to the NMMU 10 year celebration, we have produced a booklet "Lessons in Leadership". This booklet was then broken down into posters which we displayed at the Open Days – as a form of a marketing tool to attract future students by seeing national and international MMMU graduates in top positions globally. All people in our booklet have been given recognition during the past 10 years of NMMU either as honorary doctorates or award recipients.
The 2015 Alumni Festive Concert celebrated NMMU's 10th anniversary on 6 May at the DRC Summerstrand and featured more than one hundred performers including the world class NMMU Choir with soloist Lucretia Sikwebu. Proceeds of the event went towards the Alumni Bursary Fund.
As much as NMMU is celebrating its 10th birthday, it acknowledges the important role played by those linked to the university prior to the merger. Their success is also our success today.
Former students are kept abreast of developments at NMMU, invited to events arranged by Alumni Relations and encouraged to invest in the university's exciting future.
Ten events involving ten diverse alumni are also planned for internal and external groups.
Various partner events such as a celebration of the legacy of honorary doctorate Raymond Uren 24 March (with Napdi and CANRAD) and Isisuza on 22 September with NMMU's Department of Arts and Culture.
Former and current student leaders' leadership talks. Dates to be finalised with internal partners (Diversity month - August).
Student leaders to talk about leadership. Dates to be finalised with internal partners.
A number of publications, including Alumni Relations' regular print and electronic newsletters, will be published to mark the university's 10th year.


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Franz Xaver Frenzel (* 8. Oktober 1945 in Mauterndorf) ist der Künstlername des österreichischen Komponisten Friedemann Katt.

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Katt genoss eine frühe Förderung durch seinen Vater, den Komponisten Leopold Katt, welcher das "Musische Heim" in Mauterndorf leitete. An der Hochschule für Musik in Wien studierte er Komposition bei Alfred Uhl.
Im Stift Heiligenkreuz spielte Katt als Organist, war ab 1967 Musikerzieher in Baden bei Wien und widmete sich seit 1989 meist unter dem Pseudonym "Franz Xaver Frenzel" der Komposition. Katt lebt in Ried im Innkreis.
Der Künstlername "Franz Xaver Frenzel" ermöglicht es Katt, sich ohne Zwänge als postmoderner Komponist der Barockmusik zu widmen.
Die Kunstfigur Frenzel wird von ihm mittlerweile, teils auch in selbstironischer Weise, wie eine zweite Existenz betrachtet:

Friedemann Katt ist als "einzig lebender Barockkomponist Österreichs" weit über die Landesgrenzen bekannt geworden.

Höhepunkte:
 Auftrags-Komposition eines Wiegenliedes für die Geburt des 1. Kindes des japanischen Thronfolgerpaars
 Aufführung des Engelsoratoriums beim Festakt der Republik Österreich zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum des Staatsvertrages im Jahr 2005.
 Ehrung durch das Linzer Bruckner Orchester am 27. November 2005
 Uraufführung der Rieder Symphonie (festlichen Symphonie in B) mit dem Bruckner Orchester Linz unter der Leitung von Dennis Russell Davies am 8. Februar 2007 in Ried im Innkreis, komponiert zum Jubiläum "150 Jahre Stadt Ried im Innkreis"
 Uraufführung der Wolkenmacher Suite für Orchester mit dem Brucknerbund Orchester Ried am 10. November 2007
 Uraufführung der Symphonie in G (Swinging Symphony) mit dem Inn-Salzach-Euregio-Jugendorchester am 6. August 2009
 Uraufführung des Konzertes für Klavier und Orchester (c-Moll) im Brucknerhaus, Linz (13. Mai 2012)
 Uraufführung des Konzertes für Violine und Orchester (a-Moll) mit dem Philharmonischen Orchester Győr (Leitung: Kálmán Berkes, Solist: Lui Chan) am 5. Oktober 2012 in Ried im Innkreis
 Uraufführung der Suite für symphonisches Blasorchester ("Landshuter Suite") am 24. November 2012 im Prunksaal des Landshuter Rathauses

Werke

Kammermusik
 Sonate für Violine und Klavier (G-Dur)
 Sonate in a-moll
 Sonate in G-Dur
 2 Sonaten (g-moll /d-moll)
 Triosonate F-Dur (Concerto)
 Triosonate in C
 Triosonate g - moll
 Sonata in Swing
 Trio in C
 Concerto für 4 Violinen
 Streichquintett B-Dur
 Streichquartett (Mandello)
 Streichquartett Nr.1 (Agitato)
 Im Weingart'l für Streichquartett
 Triosonate D-Dur
 Jagdmusik für den Fürsten zu Heiligenkreuz
 Konzert für Oboe und Orgel (B-Dur)
 Geburtstagsquintett a-moll

Blechbläser
 Trompete und Orgel Band I (Weihnachts-, Hochzeits- u. Geburtstagskonzert)
 Concerto in F
 Sonate für Posaune und Klavier
 Praeamblum
 Fantasia
 Turmbläsereyen für (2 Trompeten/2 Posaunen oder Bläserquintett)
 Concertstück
 Concerto a Cinque
 Sinfonia sacra

Blockflötenensemble (Bambus Flöten)
 Im Weingartl
 Turmbläsereyen (Blockflöten-Quartett/Bambusfl.)
 Hirtenmusik
 Canzonen und Cantos
 Reiseschuh

Geistliche Musik
 Deutsche Messe
 Missa Refugium nobis
 Missa brevis
 Credo
 Sinfonia sacra
 Laudate Dominum
 Engels-Oratorium "de sanctis Angelis"

Klavier
 3 Praeludien
 Fuge in g-moll
 6 Inventionen Manus
 Märchen für Kristina
 Sonate für Cembalo
 Elf kleine Praeludien (für Kristina)
 Orgeltänze für Klavier
 Sonate facile für Klavier 4-händig

Oper
 Merlin

Orchesterwerke
 Streichersinfonie in F
 Concerto grosso il castello
 Concerto in F
 Sinfonia concertante in g-moll
 Konzert für Bratsche und Streichorchester
 Im Weingart'l, musikal. Bilder für Streichorchester
 Konzert für Oboe und Orchester
 Orgelkonzert in C
 Eyne Wasser- und Jagdsymphonie zu Schönbrunn
 Ballettmusik mit großem Menuett für Orchester
 Orchestersuite Nr.1 aus den Stainprunner Codices
 Die Suite mit den leeren Saiten für Kammerorch. und einer Stimme facile
 Doppel-Flötenkonzert
 "Die Wolkenmacher"
 Rieder Symphonie (festliche Symphonie in B)
 Swinging Symphony (Symphonie in G)
 Konzert für Violine und Orchester (a-Moll)
 Konzert für Klavier und Orchester (c-Moll)
 Landshuter Suite für symphonische Blasorchester

Aus den "Stainprunner Codices"
 Suite Nr.1
 Suite Nr.2
 Suite Nr.3
 Adil-Besim Suite
 Canzonen
 Concerto per voce a Basso continuo
 CantosNr.1
 CantosNr.2
 CantosNr.3

Weblinks
 Werkeverzeichnis von Franz Xaver Frenzel auf Klassika.info
 Offizielle Website von Franz Xaver Frenzel alias Friedemann Katt

Einzelnachweise

Komponist klassischer Musik (20. Jahrhundert)
Komponist klassischer Musik (21. Jahrhundert)
Komponist (Oper)
Komponist (Kirchenmusik)
Komponist (Blasmusik)
Komponist (Österreich)
Pseudonym
Person (Ried im Innkreis)
Österreicher
Geboren 1945
Mann

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We Banned the Bomb
Posted on July 7, 2017 by Flavia Tudoreanu
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Adopted at UN
After a decade-long effort by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and 72 years after their invention, today states at the United Nations formally adopted a treaty which categorically prohibits nuclear weapons. Scottish CND has been a partner in ICAN since 2007.
Until now, nuclear weapons were the only weapons of mass destruction without a ban treaty, despite the widespread and catastrophic humanitarian consequences across the world of their intentional or accidental detonation. Biological weapons were banned in 1972 and chemical weapons in 1992.
ICAN Executive Director Beatrice Fihn said:
"We hope that today marks the beginning of the end of the nuclear age. It is beyond question that nuclear weapons violate the laws of war and pose a clear danger to global security. It is time for leaders around the world to match their values and words with action by signing and ratifying this treaty as a first step towards eliminating nuclear weapons."
Bill Kidd MSP, Co-President of Parliamentarians for Non- Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament, added:
"All of the UK's nuclear arsenal is based in Scotland, against the wishes of the Scottish Government the votes of the Scottish Parliament and the expressed will of the Scottish people. As a member of the Scottish Parliament, along with colleagues from Scottish Civil Society I am here in New York to speak up on behalf of our nation. The Prohibition Treaty will present a significant opportunity to present nuclear disarmament as a serious option on the table at international negotiations."
The "Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons" was adopted today and will open for signature by states at the United Nations in New York on September 20, 2017. Civil society organizations, including those from the wider peace movement in Scotland, have participated in the negotiations as well as more than 140 member states of the UN.
This treaty came about because the majority of the world no longer accepts nuclear weapons as legitimate tools of war. The repeated objection and boycott of the negotiations by the UK and other nuclear-weapon states demonstrates that the treaty will impact on their behavior and stature and in changing the international view of nuclear weapons will change policies and behaviors, even in states that will not yet sign the treaty.
"Scotland's opposition to the weapons in our country is in line with the global norm," said Janet Fenton from the Scottish civil society delegation, "and now we have a great tool that can help us in our work to get rid of them."
The treaty identifies obligations to the victims of nuclear weapons use and testing and to remediate the environmental damage caused."
From the beginning, the effort to ban nuclear weapons has had the support of international humanitarian, environmental and disarmament organisations in more than 100 states including Scotland. Around the world, they signed petitions, joined protests, contacted representatives, and pressured governments. This year, Scottish CND established a Ban Treaty Working Group to prepare for New York.
ENDS ENDS
The website which documents and reports on activities and negotiations at the UN is http://www.nuclearban.scot
Trident Ploughshares are holding a disarmament camp at Coulport to respond to the treaty's adoption.
http://www.tridentploughshares.org
More information about ICAN can be found on www.icanw.org.


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Colombia's first lady tests positive for coronavirus
Colombia's President Ivan Duque walks next to with his wife, Maria Juliana Ruiz during a rally against violence, following a car bomb explosion, in Bogota
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian first lady Maria Juliana Ruiz has tested positive for coronavirus, the government said on Tuesday, but is asymptomatic.
President Ivan Duque and the first lady have regular coronavirus tests due to their high levels of exposure and busy schedules, the president's office said in a statement.
Ruiz, who along with her husband was tested on Monday, is following quarantine rules as established by the health ministry, the statement added. Duque received a negative result.
Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez tested positive for coronavirus a month ago and was also asymptomatic.
The Andean country has reported more than 1.2 million cases of coronavirus, as well as 35,479 deaths due to COVID-19, the disease it causes.
(Reporting by Oliver Griffin; Editing by Tom Brown)
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Team co-owner Chris Pollard was looking forward to another year's competition, and this year, with the benefit of a season's running in their Mosler MT900R under the team's belt, and a strong driver pairing in Phil Keen and Lee Caroline, there should be a lot to look forward to. Most teams would consider a pair of podium finishes in the first races of the season as a dream start, but for Eclipse it was more a feeling of promise unfulfilled.
Saturday morning's practice session was a case of scrubbing some tyres in on a drying track, and putting some miles on the car. Despite the agenda, with the likes of Keen and Caroline at the wheel, it was obvious that they would try for a lap time once or twice in the 75 minute session. Number 69, the favoured Eclipse designation, appeared third on the timesheet by the end, with a 1:46.696, two seconds off the quickest time - set by the series newcomer, the Panoz.
The track was completely dry by first qualifying and Phil Keen took the first of the two sessions, qualifying for the race later the same afternoon.
Keen lived up to his name: as the lights went green at the end of the pitlane he was released behind Chris Niarchos, but he made his way past on the out-lap, giving himself plenty of space to attack. The LNT Panoz set the pace throughout the session. with the Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari always in pursuit. Those two had set the marker post for Eclipse to beat, and the chances are they will be the cars that will be up there fighting all season - and that is exactly where Eclipse want to be too.
Eclipse was hampered by a tyre problem though, changes to the rear of the car weren't backed up by any data for the new Avon control tyres, which left the team on the back foot. "At least we think we know what we need to sort out," Chris Pollard offered after the session. Despite the tyre problem, Keen was able to retake third with a 1:44.895 after David Jones temporarily demoted him in the lone GT2 Porsche.
Phil Keen didn't have the luxury of a clear day to work on the car though: his race start was just two and a half hours after qualifying ended.
The tyre problem was still there. Without data, the team was effectively feeling around in the dark. They could change one way and then completely the other way, maybe it would work, maybe not. With more tyre testing, the parameters will become better defined and tweaks to set-up will become more predictable, but this was no comfort to Eclipse now.
Despite leading briefly as the order was jiggled by pitstops, the rest of the race passed largely without incident, as both drivers fought to keep the car on the black stuff through the twisties. Caroline too agreed that the car "understeered everywhere, so I couldn't get the power down without waiting for what seemed like an eternity. It seemed to get worse and worse throughout my stint." They at least finished well clear of the Eurotech Porsche.
Caroline still managed to make up two places on that first lap, then a further place when David Jones lost a lot of time and consequently positions, probably as a result of a spin. The two GTC leaders were next up in Caroline's cross-hairs, but it was hard work for him to reel them in, let alone pass them.
On lap 7, Caroline had hauled the wounded Mosler up to fourth, but was only able to lap safely in the high 1:45s, so the cars in the podium positions were already 20 seconds away.
A frustrated and slightly dismayed Caroline handed over to Phil Keen almost exactly halfway through the race, but Keen's role had already been determined. Keep a steady pace, don't break the wheel bearing, but reel in Kevin Riley in the Rollcentre Mosler.
Riley was 26 seconds ahead when Keen emerged from the pitlane, but the Eclipse Mosler posted two laps five seconds quicker, then two laps six seconds quicker. 12 minutes before the chequered flag and Keen was through, with the car's best race lap of 1:45.361. He fulfilled his role perfectly, doing a great job for the team and getting the car home in one piece, not to mention a highly creditable third spot overall and in class.
The team consider that those two third places were only creditable given the circumstances, and although racing and beating the Panoz and Ferrari is an almighty challenge, it is one that Eclipse will doubtless relish.


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Ichabod's Kin
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WE DODGED A BULLET
As history warns, democracy's most lethal challenges come from within, not without. Donald Trump, until his ego thrust him into politics, presented himself to the world as a much different man: aggressive, yes, but charming and not a tad affably soft-spoken. Then he morphed into a monster: loud, insolent and name-calling–shedding hosts of public friends on whom, as well as countless others, he declared all-out war.
That should have been an unmistakable clue, a warning that a mad dog was about the premises, and to extend a friendly hand was only to have it bitten. But Donald is at last a promoter, not a warrior, beneficiary of multiple deferments from manly conflict; laughably Gen. Bone-spurs at best, warring via courts and the intimidation of expensive lawsuits that sane people deem frivolous and unworthy–all learned at the feet of the disreputable Roy Cohn, lawyer to the equally disreputable Joe McCarthy of senatorial infamy whose creation of the so-called Red Scare hurt more innocent Americans than it thwarted the bugbear of domestic communism.
Mankind is a herd animal, yes, but as Freud added, correctly– "with a leader"–and Donald is just that; it's a cult and he's the cult leader. When people believe any and everything from the mouth of one person, drink the tea and give the cup to their children, they're in a cult. In its most basic expression: when two people think exactly alike, one of them isn't thinking. I too assumed that Trump's early threat that he could commit murder on Fifth Avenue in the Big Apple and get away with it, was mere hyperbole, public theater, but no longer: were that to occur, who could now doubt that his minions would say, Well, better that than the prospect of Joe Biden and his "socialism."?
Many of Donald's followers, like him, are a people of grievance; for years a people scorned, or so they felt. Their social cohort was not the one seen on TV or at iconic public celebrations—which is why they stuck with their evangelists despite the latter's hypocrisy. But that has changed: their Awards shows and celebrity levels are good as any, and were merely undercover prior to that—researchers long knew that Country singers were far out-selling the Sinatra/Como/Williams etc. crowd. But all the public got to see in entertainment mags were the Rat Pack and their ilk.
So why should the aggrieved care? Actually they don't. It's a culture war more than anything. The Civil War was urban industrial North against an agrarian South, and the elephant of slavery inflamed the difference. Today it's still two different kinds of people, staring across an unbridgeable divide, and race is still in the mix. Strange it is, however, that a rich blowhard northerner should be the modern standard bearer of the Red State crowd.
Some liberal moralists deem that they can woo Trumpkins with love, whatever that means: by being neutral, or pretending to be; not ruffling feathers; being good listeners. Lotsa luck. This too is a war, less with weapons than with words and influences. M.L. King, Jr. said he loved his enemies but didn't flatter himself that it was the solvent of racial evil; only laws with teeth in them were the best means of legislating morality.
The real liberal fear is that Don will keep the GOP in a stranglehold and run again in 2024. File that under #AintGonnaHappen: Loss of power is a game-changer. When Truman fired Gen. MacArthur, amid an angry chorus of militarists Doug roared back to the U.S. to run against Harry and take his job. But without his eagle-crested hat, aviator glasses and corncob pipe, he was just a balding old man in a gray suit who settled for delivering a long, slow swan-song. Donald will be met by a score of other egotistical wannabes hoping to be president four years from now.
We've dodged a bullet. Trump is fired and all who come in second in the presidential sweepstakes are otherwise known as: Losers.
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WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
In this Age of Coronavirus, as in other times that we were reintroduced to our sense of mortality, a cry is heard from sundry reverend voices, i.e. religious leaders, in solemn meetings and august journals: "Does God still speak?" and if so, "What is God saying to us today?"
Back in my Missouri Ozarks, such daring remarks from pulpits brought lamentations that the preacher had stopped preaching and gone to meddling. When reporting on one such clergy-klatch a couple decades ago, I ventured a corollary that, to wit, when assuming one is privy to the mind of God, one had best be careful lest it be the Devil speaking to him.
But the questions persist in these times, and as to whether the Almighty is trying to tell us something, I say, You tell me:
When something good rather than ill happens to us modern Jobs (that's a biblical reference, not a tech pioneer) we're heard to say we're blessed of God. When visited by woes, we say God has something good in mind for us if only we can figure it out. When a populace was beset by, e.g., a Nebuchadnezzar or other invading tyrant, it was declared in retrospect that God was using that person and his violent destructiveness to make the poor victims better people—a harsh means of doing so, to be sure. Why can't we just say the sorry schmucks found that life is sometimes unfair and, yes, there may be lessons gained therefrom, but not always.
To bring this line of reasoning up to date, just about the time the faithful had stopped tsk-tsk-ing over the grievous harm done by trusted Church leaders to children and youth, and decided it was time to forget about it all and go on with our lives, was it God or something else that burned down Notre Dame Cathedral—and on Holy Week, to boot?
Or before even one presidential term is up, Who or what sent this Plague of biblical proportions that tries our souls and interrupts our precious lives? Where's the blood supply to splash on our door lintels in hopes this whole damn thing will spare at least those of us who deem ourselves righteous, compared to all those we think deserve to be dope-slapped, big time, to show that we are right and they are wrong?
I could go on, but no doubt you get the point.
Still, news ink and air waves remind us that somebody still thinks they know what God is thinking, like leaders of certain mega-churches who despite science and whose experts continue to call their thousands of worshippers to gather in close quarters and be assured that they are washed in the blood of the Lamb, Jesus to be exact, and immune to the kinds of things that have laid waste to populations throughout history. Much as I disagree with these gentry, I wish no such harm on anyone, but can't help fear they are in for a heap o' trouble. One can only wonder what J.C. is thinking about of all this, but after all these centuries he's no doubt seen and heard everything and may be concerned mostly about his brand.
If Trump can blame Wuhan, China and Barack Obama for our current fix, I take liberty to blame Plato for the kind of religion we bear on our weary backs. Had we listened to Aristotle, God would be a less pushy so-and-so and we would not be abused of the notion that there are two worlds and we're not living in the real one. Religion would not be creedal and there'd be no sects competing for which is most favored by the Big Guy.
Our hallowed stories of national and religious righteousness would be important, but not absolute, truth. Plato has dominated not because his fantastical notions were so appealing but because he was a talented writer, and Aristotle's are gleaned solely from his students' notes—and you know how bad that tends to be.
In truth, what we know and believe are mostly accidents of history, not unvarnished fact. Thus we are constantly assailed by the noise of snake-oil peddlers—including presidents who will endorse things based on his "hunch" that they might work.
Science and scientists are not perfect but they are the front lines of our most enlightened investigations of the world we live in—and again we can thank Aristotle for that.
Do I hear a real call to #DrainTheSwamp; i.e., of out-dated notions and of favoring would-be tyrants and dictators over that messy, time-consuming but beautiful thing—democracy–?
Time to give it a go.
(John Burciaga of writes on politics, pop culture and social issues and may be argued with at will at Ichabod142@gmail.com)
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THE FIRST IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
Nixon tried but failed. It was ominous but he really didn't even come close. We deemed it impossible anyway; we said it couldn't happen here.
But it has. Don's not quite an emperor but he's a tyrant. And please don't say he isn't. Look at everything he's done, from start to finish, in less than four years. Say you like his tyranny, at least that would be honest, but don't say he isn't one. All he needs is just a little more time to put in on ice. Witness, adding to his already-long list of intrusions, the politicization of pardons and sentence commutations.
He may be re-elected; he may not. But for now he's here and he's the proverbial bull in a china shop. He's hardly the first in history, given there's been lots of them, you know, back when men were men and life was cheap–i.e., men were chronic dogs of war and, yes, life wasn't worth a sou.
My mantra is that I love dead poets, as well as dead philosophers and playwrights. I think they got it right the first time. Check it out. But before we say that all old days were bad ones, we can bypass a lot of prior history only to find that we're not all that different. Rome's republic goes way back but change the suits and human nature was not all that different. The Republic was complicated and clumsy, and so is ours. Our democracy is downright messy: check the news any day.
Rome got their system of government from Aristotle, including separation of powers, like we have, except that legislation started in their senate (same root as we get "senile," i.e., the old pharts of the aristocracy) not the Assembly of average men which is more like our House of Reps. It worked well, then fell apart when Julius Caesar went for the brass ring and got stabbed in the rotunda, which had to hurt. But his adopted son took over, avenged ol' dad and was really a Caesar for whom the senate was reduced to a bunch of suck-ups. Sound familiar?
That first real emperor, Augustus, also introduced the Pax Romana, a long period of peace and low taxes—which, as you know, doesn't sound familiar. And things went swimmingly, till they didn't. For the next several hundred years there were good emperors and bad ones. Some of the worst you may not recognize by name, but you may Nero, Domitian and Diocletian, et a. All were in some way vile, vicious, murderous and/or perverted. The weakness in that system was that people often inherited that role; and when an emperor didn't have a viable son to hand off to, he adopted one—that's how Octavian became Augustus and followed his dad Julius.
The people didn't want bad ones but they got them. We said that couldn't happen here because there is no divine right of kings or succession by family. And there's the irony: we elect our leaders, and we elected the one we've got. Imagine that. So off and on the Romans had good emperors and every so often bad ones till the Visigoths seized the Empire at a weak moment and the toga party was over.
Donald is a tyrant and if we can elect one, we can elect another. And another. Not in succession perhaps but, you know, off and on. And they'll all be elected. So who's better: the ancient Romans who had knuckleheads foisted on them, or us educated, sophisticated folk who choose our political poison? Go ahead, give me odds.
The Romans also educated half of the adult male population, a high rate of literacy for the middle and upper classes, largely in the humanities. What, no STEM, you say? Nope, but in what we call the Classics, a tradition that lasted until near the end of the 19th century in Europe and into the early 20th in Britain. They learned about human nature and became world leaders for most of civilized history.
What we know now are cell phones and all kinds of tech but things are running wild as hackers feed us fake news and tell us who to vote for. For over a hundred years we've been building and re-building schools and raising new ones but we're dumb as posts about life.
Thank god we've got a dictator. He says he's a stable genius, the "Chosen One" who will do what's best for us, and tell us what to do as well. It's Hobbes' Leviathan all over again.
In your dreams you said it couldn't happen here. But the dream became nightmare. Now it's time to wake up and do something about it.
Don't wait for the Visigoths.
Nixon tried but failed. It was scary but he really didn't even come close. We deemed it impossible anyway; we said it couldn't happen here.
In your dreams you said it couldn't happen here. But the dream became a nightmare. Now it's time to wake up and do something about it.
WACKY NEW YEAR!
New Year's greetings are past, Resolutions already broken, and the Year of Our Lord 2020 will be as messy as the last.
To re-set expectations, comedian Ricky Gervais at the recent Golden Globes cared not a fig for the pompous array of egos before him and gave the world of celebrity a dose of what it needed most: humility—a reminder that, as he said, what they were about to hear were JOKES, for god's sake, and since all those gathered would be dead soon enough, they'd best lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously. Amen to that. Celebrities are our way of re-creating royalty despite giving it up when we left the Brits, but none of those who stride down Red Carpets will last as long as Queen Liz: new hunks and chicks are ever ready to take their places on the path of brief fame and fortune.
The holidays past should remind us that the whole of our winter solstice is about the return of the sun, first noticed not by shepherds on Judean hillsides but by ancients long before, who feared the disappearing orb in the sky would depart forever and leave them as "people lost in darkness." Imagine their delight when the source of heat, life and nourishment came back each cycle of seasons, making them the lucky ones who "saw a great light," from whence cometh the notion.
Early Christians deemed it advisable to co-opt that pagan date of celebration as their own, but all those other religions that also celebrate the returning light are totally legitimate—and one can do worse than to glory in that great source: take away the sun and, guess what: no life, and no religion too. Sobering thought.
Then there was the death of Ram Dass (nee Richard Alpert) and, on its heels, the news that psychedelics are being re-discovered as beneficial to science and mental well-being. When I interviewed Alpert, a celebrity in his own right (and equally flawed), a select little group met him at an airport before leaving us for what became a long night.
The ambiance was as reverent as if God had arrived, and continued to my time with him as he sat cross-legged on the floor and devoured oranges. One must grab as much time with a subject till his real self appears, and in the wee hours he became a Jewish boy from Newton, MA slapping his knee and laughing hysterically while dissing other notables of the time who also owned followings among the impressionable young: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation, but whose title, Alpert informed me, meant that he was only a "secretary" to another holy man in his native land; that Werner Erhard of "est" fame who called people "a—h—-s" to break down their personal and social conditioning—done also in the Marines, where the process is longer and harsher—and who though well-meaning had "still to find his real spiritual core," quoth my guest; and Maharaj Ji who, I was assured, was but a power-seeking teenager. These were but three among many. A good time was had by all, viz., both of us—while I prayed that a film crew might show up.
'Twas a sad moment when I inquired of Tim Leary, his pal at Harvard in the psychedelic movement but who came to think of Alpert what the newly-minted baba thought of the gentry noted above, a when Ram Dass went to visit Tim in prison, the latter refused to see him and our room fell quiet again at recount of that occasion.
Now wouldn't you know that the acid trip is making a comeback in science labs, per a feature in the Sunday Globe. In truth, what may have set back real research was people like Alpert and Leary who sensationalized it and it fell into hands of the reckless and irresponsible, thereby scaring the hell out of polite society, that in turn called for its banishment. Sadly, they also called for incarceration of the young for lesser drugs while adults continued to abuse their pals Jim Beam and I.W. Harper.
So things that can be beneficial to us are what we fight most harshly against; and what is most harmful is most warmly embraced. Dare any of us say the place of alcohol in society is on balance a good thing? Its cost is more than the other top ten drugs put together. But movies about the era portray its movement to the mainstream as romantic, featuring always silver screen studs of the moment.
A researcher scoured my oral and written archives over a 20-year career elsewhere and allowed that my most frequent target was celebrity as the thing most corrosive of society—to which I plead guilty, given that around that crowd swirls all that we should love to hate: lives of excess, including alcohol and other drugs; the smoke-and-mirrors that lead us to think that others' lives are better and happier than ours; the portrayal of violence as important to the redemption of all life situations; and the acceptance of movie scripts as actual history.
Be sure we can count on this year as being more of the same. Wacky New Year one and all!
THE GIFTS: WAR & PEACE
[A post-Christmas meditation]
It's that time again: the season of Peace as the great gift of God in the person of his Son. And we have the Fox News to thank for breaking this peace annually, with a declaration that a great war is waged against Christmas in the form of the great liberal demon and its legions of independent thinkers.
I celebrate Christmas with friends and family but largely on its particular day, which happens to be Dec. 25, and beginning with its Eve I indulge in the greeting "Merry Christmas!" I'm the same way about Hanukkah and the specific days of its commemoration, as well as Kwanzaa which begins the 26th and goes to New Year's Day.
If we are free citizens who like to blow about the Flag and the Statue of Liberty we should honor that upwards of 30 holidays are observed by some seven of the world's major religions during the period of Nov. 1-Jan. 15. What better way to celebrate freedom for all than to acknowledge that different people, who are part of our great Republic, happen to think and believe differently about religion—and all they ask is room to do so–a thought lost on a significant number in our society and its culture, for reasons unknown, perhaps even to God, who supposedly started us on the road to Peace and Freedom with the Gift intended for Christmas.
But Fox news seeks instead War, one they say is not declared by them and their minions but by others who have different thoughts. They deem Christians as once again huddling in catacombs for fear of their lives from Roman legions. But there are more churches, huddling sometimes on the selfsame corners of every city and town in America, than there ever were pagan temples in Rome. Given such predominance, one might think the majority faith would have little concern for, let alone fear of, the lowly minority and its celebratory happiness at this season of year.
I often say that certain people ought to read a damn book once in a while, in this case, the history of Christmas—a practice brought here from Europe and opposed by our Puritan ancestors for what they deemed its Catholic or "papish" tendencies that they had come here to escape, not to mention its pre-Christian pagan sources.
School and businesses in Massachusetts remained open on that day and when finally beginning to gain acceptance, it was not in Dickensian New England but in Alabama, and not till 1836—or 60 years after 1776. So it was a slow staccato from the little Drummer Boy to being embraced across the nation.
This is not to ruin anyone's party, except those who think the party is all about them, exclusive of the 'huddled masses yearning to breathe free…'" who are supposed to choke on the words of their own religious preferences.
Many of the seasonal songs and hymns that go way back had no reference to angels, miracles or other aspects of traditional religion, viz., Longfellow's "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," "Watchman, Tell of the Night," and others.
Hanukkah wanders around at this time of year, given that it's based on a different calendar, and since it spans Dec. 22 to the 30th this time, if we're as big-hearted as we claim, why not take cognizance of its lesson of struggle and of ultimate survival; Peter Yarrow's "Light One Candle" could be sung with benefit in any Christian church, or we could be attuned to the strains of "Mi Y'Malel" that remind of "the things that befell" the Jews, not only then but ever since.
Mine is a plea for Peace, not War, at this time. To speak the truth of anything, however dear, may be uncomfortable for some, but may be faced until it rests easy on the heart and mind, and a new spirit of inclusiveness fill our culture.
There should be no "War," but if there is, it too is a gift, and one from Fox. Take it up with them.
[A post-Thanksgiving meditation]
'Tis the season of the disappearing Day of Gratitude. Halloween now overshadows mid-Fall. Thanksgiving is just a long weekend from work even as Christmas wraps our malls in mind-numbing muzak and excessive displays. Before that, Halloween claims our fancy, turning a serious Latin commemoration into another drunken bacchanalia like St. Patrick's, this time in honor of dead people who don't stay dead.
Why aren't we grateful, anymore? We think and say we are. But deep inside we're just looking for a break from the monotony. And it shows up in what we choose to make important, or not.
There was a time you could say "Socialism" and somebody would shoot you. This year another aspect of it, universal health care, is on the table, albeit getting the usual ugly stares. Maybe we're getting tired of what started long ago and lasted till now, except of course in Europe–and in papal pronouncements that, little noticed, have condemned capitalism in perpetua.
Way back when we emerged and spread up the Nile (it flows northward) and into what is now Iraq and beyond, we humans got ourselves organized, especially around water, and lots of it, like the Nile Delta and where the Tigris and Euphrates ran merrily; the Nile's annual flooding helped by leaving behind lots of rich silt as we settled down to farm as a way of life.
Now, there always were and will be people who are smart, some who are smarter and those not so much. But all are alive and kicking—and here's the catch: they all need each other, a lesson never learned. Back then, the brighter ones used warriors and priests: the first to make workers work, and priests to preach that that was what the gods wanted. The gods, they were told, were represented on earth by those who seized power, otherwise known as kings.
As time passed, the ruling classes lived in palaces with fine foods and furnishings, and the majority, whose labor built it all, were known by their growling stomachs and humble huts. And so it is, down to this very day. The ruling class looks down on the real workers, who somehow live another day and typically give thanks for the little they have.
That's why big-shots don't like protests and revolutions—not even sit-downs and stand-ins, or occupying administration buildings and Wall Street. It upsets the apple-cart. They like least of all union leaders and people named Spartacus.
Here's the thing: as always, the ruling class has more than it needs but they don't think so. Back at the beginning, knowing they couldn't have their palaces and lifestyles without someone willing and able to build them, why didn't the rulers say—Okay, we're in charge because we have the bigger and better ideas, but they won't happen without your help; so when it's all done we're cutting you in on a fair share worth your time and trouble.
But that's not human nature, we say. Excuse me, greed is certainly one side of it, but fairness and compassion are the other side. Greed after all is a terrible thing; also a lesson never learned.
Jefferson recommended a revolution every 20 years or so, not necessarily replacing the government but the people running it. "Throw the rascals out," was his mantra. But now the rulers have learned to manipulate the little guys into thinking that everything is for their own good, and literally to vote against themselves.
The rulers are also fierce believers in "Law and Order," meaning the law as they make it and order as they conceive it.
A good example of the wrong valuation of other people is the way we once looked on garbage collectors. We said anyone could do that, ignoring that not everyone was willing to. When the workers threatened to strike, polite society told them to go to hell, so workers left the garbage in the streets and suddenly we all understood how important picking it up was, you know, for the sake of public health.
What is truly extraordinary is how and why people go so long allowing themselves to be de-valued. Others after all are using those people's life energy, which is not only valuable but as sacred as the life and energy of the aristocracy. Equality is also good religion, so why do big shots get bigger and better churches too, given they don't believe in equality? Maybe, deep down, that's what's shrinking Thanksgiving in favor of more distractions and dumb excitements, you know, like Halloween. Maybe the worker bees are sitting down, looking at the turkey and realizing something is wrong here.
Maybe they're thinking: thanks for nothing.
October will never be the same. It is after all a season of change: Summer's green turns to myriad colors, and we complain not.
But, oh, the howl that arose when someone dared suggest there's something suspicious about our cultural myth of this continent's founding—and not just from those of Italian descent. Indeed, 'tis the greatest shame of all that self-serving wags of yore would tell a lie with which time and truth were bound to catch up.
"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue…" which he did. What he didn't do was "discover" what he said he did. Seeking a passage to India he came upon some brown-skins and said something akin to, "Look! Indians!"
But kids in earliest grades, upon our first hearing the account, have always been heard to say, "But if he 'discovered' it, who were the people he met there?" Potted plants?—a reaction met with the kindly authoritarian rejoinder of "Now, now, children" followed by a "because-I-said-so," which kids already learn closes any subject under debate.
Truth is, Columbus was wandering around lost–and the natives found him. But might makes right and one party to the event had the power of a throne behind him and the other was about to become slaves to said wienies.
It's a twisted tale with variations in other times and places. Couple years ago I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was the October time of year and I was told how lucky I was to bear witness to the famed "Entrada," or "Arrival" celebration of that fair city, whose name is translated, "Holy Faith," and for good reason.
It was the selfsame year that, whilst I beheld the cheesiest re-enactment of anything ever, as the Spanish establishment of that burg deemed again to spread the b.s. that the arrival of their foreparents into that region was a delightful event that brought nothing but good to the natives, who again were "there first" and largely residents of the many and scattered "pueblos"—as well as Mexicans who had migrated north from south of the Border and, again, were there "before" the Spanish.
But victors tend to write the history, ignoring that later historians are bound to find the truth of the matter—that the Spanish enslaved all the native elements for forced labor, made them change their religion and when necessary separated children from their families so that the transformation of youth would go more easily as adulthood approached.
The very year that I first saw the bogus "Entrada" in Santa Fe was the beginning of the end. Before I could register my own holding-of-the-nose in the presence of that stupid imitation of the #BigFatLie, an angry crowd was forming and I, a lifelong activist and protester, plunged in to join them. At the moment I wondered how long it would take for this reaction to have an effect, if any.
Silly me, it had a solid and everlasting impact. It was the Second Uprising of the pueblecitos, so to speak, who had taken objection with a justified bloody insurrection in the late 17th century that of course incurred worse retaliation from the Holy Faith contingent, and things went back to normal—you know, slavery, torture, land-gabbing and gob-slapping.
And now, just like that, there is no more Entrada, and thank the gods that be: after all, if you're the longstanding "establishment" somewhere and have enjoyed all power and privilege, put on a gang-busters show about it, not a poorly-acted fairy tale that has long since morphed into an amateur presentation unworthy of your own kids' pre-school Parents Night.
But that's what happens to lies: in time, no one believes them and they fall into discredit and ruin.
In another trice, the movement in Santa Fe resulted in changing a "day" for Columbus into one for the Indigenous People of the region, the true believers and same folks who had claimed and tended the land long before snobs from a Galaxy Far Away came with artillery and so-called "better" ways, behavior and beliefs to change everything.
As I watched young Natives performing astounding Hoop dances and Interpretive movements, and heard speakers talk not of snobbery and social caste superiority, but of healing divides and the inclusion of all who come to their gates and communities, I knew I was seeing a Better World and a Holier Faith.
Then I thought of my resident state of liberal Massachusetts and my town of Newburyport and wondered: why the hell is there no Indigenous Peoples Day here? Who and what are we afraid of? Our reputation? Then what about the reputation of being afraid of our reputation?
WOODSTOCK THEN AND NOW
Two "50s" occurred recently, i.e., half-century anniversaries of events that seem equally to have captivated the public mind.
There will always be commemorations of the Moon Landing, unto perpetuity, meaning fifty years from now and beyond. Woodstock will not. Woodstock will be forgotten, and with good reason. They couldn't even pull off an anniversary concert for it.
What happened on a New York dairy farm in August of 1969 was a miracle for what didn't happen, i.e., a tragedy. Modern music concerts are to make money, and that year it would have been a tidy sum had not twice as many people showed up as the 200K that were invited, making tickets a joke.
The photo of a pair wrapped in blissful embrace boggles the mind to be hence called "iconic"—it's not a good pic and one face is unseen–a long way from the sailor-kissing-girl that captured the end of World War II. Other Woodstock photos were better but limited to bare-chested guys glad to be far from the din of war and gals too with bared breasts, twirling blithely in the flowing moon-skirts of the day.
Other concerts have followed, ranging from mild to disappointing to violent. But one thing organizers have learned is to make sure the revelers pay, unlike the freeloaders of '69, with a business model of corporate efficiency. Such was the one four years later at Watkins Glen raceway in New York, but who remembers that? All went well, only three bands played, but mucho bucks were made. Can't say the same where Hell's Angels were hired as security, and shortly after Woodstock at Altamont Speedway when someone was murdered right in front of a Stones performance.
Some may opine I was just an old phart out of touch with his feelings for the time, tsk-tsk-ing at the Generation Gap that yawned before him. That would be a No: I ran a newspaper of the genre called the "alternative press" which was challenging, yea, assaulting big-city papers by running off with their younger readers. We targeted ages 18-35, for which I had a special gift of knowing precisely what they wanted to read and talk about.
But my ambition, throughout careers involving speaking and writing, was to make people think about what they're believing and doing in the name of anything, whether life, love, morals or God. It never appealed to me to leap without looking when it came to fads of the day or to join the crowds of monkey-see, monkey-do.
In pot-filled rooms I was the unpopular one finally to say, to the dismay of many, that we needed new acts and new material. I guessed right that there was a mixture of anger and guilt for that goddam unholy mess in Vietnam which, yes, was brought on by the older generation at the expense of the young. Pot parties were escapes, but so were after-work bars filled with the pin-striped crowd that drank every day because they were selling their souls to "company stores" while violating their own morals and ethics.
So the bloom hath gone from the rose, everybody, like Topsy, has just "growed" up now and back in the old rut–some even casting ballots for Trump. But the youthful thought of being destined for eternal freedom was a mirage.
Among my companion careers has been conflict management, primarily for small businesses, newspapers and churches—the last of which are the worst. One was a large congregation near the nation's capital, where I was sent to fetch the beleaguered clergyman before someone put thumb screws to him.
His sins, as they became clear, were lesser than his enemies would have one think, and in the middle were four couples who were former hippies. It was a tense moment when I met solely with them and asked what the hell had happened to all the Peace and Love: they didn't want the poor schmuck gone, they wanted to kill him.
To me it was symbolic of the days of yore, when I knew that all the hugging and rhetoric was a cover for a human nature that will always be the same: "hare today, goon tomorrow."
This life and the world we live in is serious business, and it's terminal; we won't get out of it alive. The era of Trump is to me a logical conclusion—bad karma. As long as we believe anything without questioning, and do nothing but follow the leader and his crowd, we'll end with as many Trumps as the Romans had bad emperors.
OF SPACEMEN & THEIR DETRACTORS
Fifty years of bragging rights for landing on the moon cheers our hearts but, lest we forget, there were and still are plenty of knuckleheads who buy none of it.
What it is about the contrarian mind, I know not, nor from whence it comes, but it would best believe nonsense than facts. But they are our countrymen, and we are locked with them in an everlasting embrace.
After the space marvel feat of half a century ago, and as the intrepid editor of a new Atlanta newspaper, I found my way to Zeke Segal, Southeastern bureau chief for CBS who treated me to one of the daily Cronkite-led conferences with all regional chiefs. Walter's genius was displayed in those crisp, no-nonsense reviews of what would—and would not—play on that evening's news menu, ending always with the characteristic human-interest story.
Later Zeke re-played clips of the then-recent Armstrong & Co. landing—and pix of the staged studio mock-ups used to simplify complicated details for the less technically savvy—and brought reminders of countless calls to the stations nationwide claiming that news channels were trying to fool viewers by presenting the staged version as the actual moon episode. Nothing apparently can turn a flat head into a normal cranium: a good quarter of Americans doubted that what was seen even from moon-zero was actual footage.
Not long after arose another spaceman, so called, named Bill Lee, one of the most interesting and entertaining, not to mention capable, pitchers of the Boston Red Sox of those struggling times for the team. He was different, no doubt, and dubbed Spaceman due to certain antics and to his evasive but tempting answers as to whether he pitched while under the influence of weed. Don Zimmer was the Sox manager and didn't like people who wouldn't play the old-fashioned way—you know, with maws full of chewing tobacco, which led oft-times to mouth cancer—and ol' Zimm, in his ignorance, pulled Lee, a real Yankee-killer at the time, out of a crucial game with the Bombers for little other reason than he didn't like him and loathed the idea of the Spaceman being a hero.
The back and forth between Lee and his detractors led to vocal knots of defenders and detractors, and may have occasioned Spaceman Lee being taken less seriously as an ace pitcher. Some declared he was a selfish, self-absorbed egotist who cared for nothing but himself.
In a recent year Lee was a presenter at our local Literary Festival, after which, in conversation, he misjudged my age and, finding me older than he thought, with characteristic humor asked if I were the Devil. In later trips to Vermont, passing close to his home in Craftsbury, I called, but always in his absence, and left voicemail greetings.
Later, following a bad fall in that selfsame state I was rushed to a small hospital with broken ribs, half of which were completely apart, and every movement akin to a thousand little knives assaulting each nerve in my back and torso. How Lee found out, I don't know, but after my departure for home the Spaceman showed up at the hospital to visit and wish me well.
It's hard to think of someone whom I hardly know as self-centered when he bothers to seek me out in my distress. Actually, I still haven't seen him since, given his constant ball-playing where he yet swings a mean bat and strikes out ballers much younger than he. But I'm not among his doubters and will take said Spaceman over Zimmer any time—(I cheered when the latter once charged Pedro Martinez on the mound and unceremoniously ended on his own butt).
Today in our wonderful republic where there is a palpable sinking sensation, we need more spacemen and women who will dare to do the un-doable, as on the moon; and those who will refreshingly march to their own drummers in a time while others follow false idols as do ducklings scrambling after a rubber ball in the absence of their mother.
I close with a word worth knowing but seldom used: kakistocracy; viz., government by the least suitable or competent citizens.
May we rise above the muck of the current presidential swamp and into the rarefied air of the space above, where dwell daring, intelligent scions of science—and of people who know who they are, and live it, and have greatness of heart along with it.
Who Is John?
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Items auctioned are donations made by Art Show artists, local artists and area vendors and include watercolors, pottery, jewelry, pies, chocolates, services, gift certificates, etc.
We will also be raffling fresh water pearl necklace, bracelet, and earring set, valued at over $300 donated by Leitzel's Jewelry.
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James Gleason Dunn Conzelman (March 6, 1898 – July 31, 1970) was an American football player and coach, baseball executive, and advertising executive. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and was selected in 1969 as a quarterback on the National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team.

A native of St. Louis, Conzelman played college football for the 1918 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets team that won the 1919 Rose Bowl. In 1919, he was an All-Missouri Valley Conference quarterback for the Washington University Pikers football team. He then played 10 seasons as a quarterback, halfback, placekicker, and coach in the National Football League (NFL) for the Decatur Staleys (1920), Rock Island Independents (1921–1922), Milwaukee Badgers (1922–1924), Detroit Panthers (1925–1926), and Providence Steam Roller (1927–1929). He was also a team owner in Detroit and, as player-coach, led the 1928 Providence Steam Roller team to an NFL championship.

From 1932 to 1939, Conzelman was the head football coach for the Washington University Bears football team, leading the program to Missouri Valley Conference championships in 1934, 1935, and 1939. He served as head coach of the NFL's Chicago Cardinals from 1940 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1948. He led the Cardinals to an NFL championship in 1947 and Western Division championships in 1947 and 1948. He was also an executive with the St. Louis Browns in Major League Baseball from 1943 to 1945.

Early years
Conzelman was born James Gleason Ryan Dunn in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1898.  He was the son of James Dunn and Marguerite Ryan, though his father died when he was still a baby.  In 1902, his mother married a dentist, Oscar Conzelman, who adopted him.

Conzelman attended Loyola Academy and later Central High School in St. Louis. He began playing football as a halfback at Central High in 1914.  After a realignment of high school districts in 1915, Conzelman attended McKinley High School. At McKinley, Conzelman was the quarterback of the football team, competed on the basketball and track teams, was president of the boys' athletic association, and served as sergeant-at-arms of the Class of 1916.  He led the 1915 McKinley football team to a league championship.

College and military service
Conzelman enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis in 1916. He played freshman football that year but enlisted in the United States Navy when the United States entered World War I in 1917.  He was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Station north of Chicago. During two years of service, he played for the Naval Station's football, baseball, and basketball teams. He also took up boxing while in the Navy and won a championship in the middleweight division. He was the quarterback of the  1918 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team that defeated previously undefeated Navy and then defeated the Mare Island Marines by a 17–0 score in the 1919 Rose Bowl. Conzelman's teammates on the 1918 Great Lakes team included George Halas and Paddy Driscoll, all three of whom were later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

After the war, Conzelman turned down offers to become a professional boxer and returned to Washington University in February 1919.  He played for the 1919 Washington Pikers football team that compiled a 5–2 record and outscored opponents 127 to 30. Conzelman was selected as the All-Missouri Valley Conference quarterback for 1919. He also was the catcher for the 1920 Washington University baseball team and organized an orchestra, played banjo, and wrote songs while attending Washington University.

During the spring semester of 1920, Conzelman lost his eligibility to play football due to academic deficiencies. His father had also died in May 1919, and he withdrew from school to help support his mother and younger siblings. In June 1920, Conzelman announced that he would not return to Washington University in the fall. He spent the summer leading an orchestra in Arkansas.

Professional football player

Decatur Staleys
In mid-October 1920, Conzelman joined the Decatur Staleys (later renamed the Chicago Bears) of the newly formed American Professional Football Association (later renamed the NFL). He planned to relocate permanently to Decatur and also play for the Staleys baseball and basketball teams. Conzelman was reunited at Decatur with player-coach George Halas, with whom Conzelman had played on the 1918 Great Lakes team. In Conzelman's first game with the Staleys, he scored the game's only touchdown on a 43-yard run. Playing at the halfback position, Conzelman handled punting, placekicking and passing for the Staleys in the important games and was selected as a second-team player on the 1920 All-Pro team. The 1920 Staleys compiled a 10–1–2 record and finished in second place in the league.

Rock Island Independents
In October 1921, Conzelman joined the Rock Island Independents as the team's captain and coach. At age 23, he was one of the youngest coaches in NFL history. He led Rock Island to a 4–1 record during the 1921 season.

Milwaukee Badgers

After starting the season with Rock Island, Conzelman signed with the Milwaukee Badgers in the middle of their 1922 season. He was the Badgers' coach and a player for the final three games of the 1922 season during which the team went 0–3.

During the 1923 season, Conzelman, as player and coach, led the Badgers to a 7–2–3 record and a third-place finish out of 20 teams in the NFL. Conzelman was also the team's second-highest scorer with four touchdowns and two extra points. During the 1924 season, Conzelman remained with the Badgers as a player only.  The team's record fell to 5–8 and 12th place in the NFL.

Detroit Panthers
In 1925, Conzelman organized and became the owner of a new NFL franchise in Detroit, which he named the Detroit Panthers. He reportedly paid a franchise fee of only $50 to the NFL to acquire the Detroit franchise. In addition to being the owner, Conzelman was also the team's coach and a player during the 1925 and 1926 NFL seasons. During the 1925 season, Conzelman's Detroit club compiled an 8–2–2 record, played at Navin Field, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 129 to 39.

During the 1926 season, the Panthers dropped to 4–6–2 and compiled a record of 0–3–2 in the month of November. The team's attendance in Detroit was approximately 3,000 persons per game, not enough for Conzelman to make a profit.  Accordingly, in August 1927, Conzelman sold the Detroit franchise back to the NFL for $1,200. Conzelman later recalled: "We simply were ahead of our time in Detroit. The town wasn't quite ready for pro football."

Providence Steam Roller
In August 1927, following his decision to sell the Detroit franchise back to the league, Conzelman signed as a player, manager and coach for the Providence Steam Roller. Conzelman brought players Gus Sonnenberg and Eddie Lynch with him from Detroit. Conzelman and Wildcat Wilson were the leading scorers on the 1927 Providence team, each with four touchdowns. The Steam Roller finished the 1927 season an 8–5–1 record and a fifth-place finish in the NFL.

Conzelman led the 1928 Providence team to an 8–1–2 record and the club's first NFL championship.  The team's passing combination of Wildcat Wilson to Conzelman was the most effective in the league and accounted for most of the club's yardage until Conzelman twisted knee ligaments on a reception against the Yankees.  Despite being unable to play in the second half of the season due to the injury, Conzelman was unanimously voted by his teammates as the team's most valuable player.

In his final season as an NFL player-coach, Conzelman led the 1929 Providence team to a 4–6–2 record.

Coaching career

Rock Island Islanders baseball
In 1922, Conzelman was a player/manager for the Rock Island Islanders minor league baseball team of the Class D level Mississippi Valley League. Conzelman hit .244 in 104 games for the Islanders, who finished in 3rd place with a 66–63 record.

St. Louis Gunners
In the fall of 1931, Conzelman served as the head coach of the St. Louis Gunners, an independent professional football team sponsored by a local field artillery unit of the National Guard. The Gunners posted a 5–2–1 record in 1931.  After a game against the NFL's Chicago Cardinals, Chicago captain Ernie Nevers called the Gunners the "best independent club we have ever faced."

Washington University
In January 1932, Conzelman returned to Washington University in St. Louis as the school's head football coach. He became the school's first alumnus to lead the football team.  Over the next eight years, Conzelman led Washington University Bears football team to Missouri Valley Conference championships in 1934, 1935, and 1939, and compiled an overall record of 40–35–2.

In January 1940, Conzelman tendered his resignation as head coach of the Washington University football team, but the resignation was not accepted by the athletic board. The university chancellor directed Conzelman to attend an alumni rally in his support.  Conzelman appeared and announced that he would not withdraw his resignation, though he would continue to support the program from the outside. Newspaper accounts indicate that he may have been fired under pressure from a powerful "anti-Conzelman" group of alumni in downtown St. Louis.

Chicago Cardinals (first stint)
In April 1940, Conzelman was hired as the head coach of the NFL's Chicago Cardinals. He replaced Ernie Nevers in the position. In his first stint as head coach of the Cardinals, Conzelmean served three years with the Cardinals from 1940 to 1942, leading the club to a combined three-year record of 8–22.

St. Louis Browns
Conzelman's tenure as head coach of the Cardinals was interrupted by a two-years stint as an administrator in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns. In June 1943, he resigned his job as head coach of the Cardinals and was hired as director of public relations and assistant to Donald Lee Barnes, president and owner of the Browns. He remained with the Browns for two years and was said to be the "secret weapon" of the 1944 St. Louis Browns team that won the American League pennant. Conzelman resigned his post with the club in August 1945.

Chicago Cardinals (second stint)
In late November 1945, Conzelman was hired for a second time to serve as head coach of the Chicago Cardinals starting with the 1946 NFL season. During the 1947 season, the Cardinals with their "Million Dollar Backfield" compiled a 9–3 record and defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1947 NFL Championship Game. Conzelman's 1948 Cardinals team compiled an 11–1 record during the regular season, led the NFL in offense with an average of 32.9 points per game, and lost to the Eagles in the 1948 NFL Championship Game. In their second stint under Conzelman, the Cardinals compiled a 26–9 record from 1946 to 1948.

On January 7, 1949, three weeks after the loss in the 1948 Championship Game, Conzelman resigned as the Cardinals' head coach. He had been working for D'Arcy Advertising Co. for the prior two years during the off-season and stated that he was resigning his coaching position to devote his full efforts to the advertising firm.  The Cardinals' management said at the time that Conzelman's resignation was unexpected and "came like a bolt from the blue."

Later years and honors
After resigning as coach of the Cardinals in 1949, Conzelman continued working as an advertising executive. He also made occasional appearances in stage and opera productions.

Conzelman was the model for the fallen French soldier in the 1926 monument by Frederick MacMonnies of the Battle of the Marne at Meaux, France.

During his retirement and posthumously, Conzelman received numerous honors for his contributions to the sport of football.  These honors include the following:

 In February 1964, Conzelman was chosen by a committee on which he served to be part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's second induction class. Conzelman objected to his selection, but the committee selected him by acclamation in a voice vote that prevented Conzelman from raising a dissent. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas gave the introduction speech when Conzelman was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 Conzelman was nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967, but did not receive sufficient votes for induction.
 In September 1968, a plaque honoring Conzelman was dedicated at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis.
 In August 1969, Conzelman was selected by the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a quarterback on the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team.
 In June 1992, Conzelman was posthumously selected for the Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame as one of the 14 inaugural inductees.
 In August 2006, Conzelman was one of the eight charter members of the Arizona Cardinals Ring of Honor.

Personal life
Conzelman was married three times. He was married to Peggy Udell (or Unertl), a Ziegfeld Follies performer, in October 1923. In July 1924, Udell sued for divorce seeking support for an unborn child. The trial of the divorce action was postponed in July 1925 following the birth of the child. Conzelman and Udell were ultimately divorced in 1930.  Conzelman's second marriage to Lilian Adele Conzelman ended in divorce in October 1935. He married his third wife, Anna Forrestal, in December 1936. Conzelman and his third wife had a son, James D. Conzelman, Jr. They remained married at the time of Conzelman's death.

Conzelman died in July 1970 at age 72 at Missouri Baptist Hospital. He was buried at
Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in St. Louis.

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*Only coached the last 5 games of the season to replace Frank Coughlin

+Only coached the last 3 games of the season to replace Budge Garrett

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Minnesota-based Welsh Property Trust has purchased two industrial properties in central Ohio. They are both part of the Core Midwest Distribution Portfolio, a five-building portfolio acquired by Welsh Property Trust for $99.5 million. The other buildings are located in Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
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Feb 28, 2013
Minnesota-based Welsh Property Trust has purchased two industrial properties in Groveport and Obetz from KTR Capital Partners as part of a $99.5 million, five-building portfolio. The two warehouses, which total nearly 1.5 million square feet between them, accounted for $47 million of the price tag, reported Columbus Business First.
Located in Groveport, the larger of the facilities is a 754,000-square-foot warehouse on a 42-acre site at 6766 Pontius Road. Honeywell International, the sole tenant, occupies 594,000 square feet. The property features 32-foot clear ceiling heights, 86 dock doors, four drive-in doors and parking for 502 cars and 157 trailers.
Zulily, Inc. leases the entire 737,471-square-foot distribution center at 3051 Creekside Parkway in Obetz. Located on a 37-acre site, the facility includes 32-foot clear ceiling heights, 75 dock doors (expandable to 179), six drive-in doors and parking for 506 cars and 220 trailers.warehouse situated on a 42-acre site.
"This offering represented a rare opportunity for Welsh Property Trust to acquire five debt-free, newer built industrial facilities in one transaction – one that will allow them to complement their existing portfolio and provide an immediate presence in primary distribution markets," commented John Huguenard, an international director with Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. and co-leader of the team that arranged the deal.
"The portfolio has been extremely well maintained by committed institutional ownership and requires minimal capital improvement in the near term," Huguenard added. In addition to the Central Ohio properties, Welsh's newly acquired 2.7 million-square-foot portfolio includes assets in Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.
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