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Frederick Russell Burnham (ur. 11 maja 1861 w Tivoli w stanie Minnesota, zm. 1 września 1947 w Santa Barbara) – amerykański zwiadowca, obieżyświat, łowca przygód, znany ze swej służby dla British Army w czasach Wyścigu o Afrykę oraz z przekazania idei woodcraft Robertowi Baden-Powellowi, która stała się główną inspiracją do założenia międzynarodowego ruchu skautowego.

Burnham posiadał niewielkie formalne wykształcenie. Uczęszczał do szkoły średniej, jakkolwiek nigdy jej nie ukończył. Karierę zawodową rozpoczął w wieku 14 lat na Amerykańskim Południowym Zachodzie jako zwiadowca i tropiciel. Następnie udał się do Afryki, gdzie jego umiejętności okazały się mocno poszukiwane. W krótkim czasie został oficerem w British Army, biorąc udział w kilku bitwach. W tym okresie zaprzyjaźnił się z Robertem Baden-Powellem, przekazując mu swoją wiedzę i zapał do czegoś, co później zostało określone jako skauting.

W późniejszym okresie był aktywny na wielu polach działalności: zajmował się szpiegostwem, poszukiwaniem kopalin, ochroną przyrody, pisaniem oraz biznesem. Jego potomkowie są cały czas zaangażowani w ruch skautowski.

Frederick Russel Burnham był bratem inżyniera wydobywczego i szpiega Mather Howard Burnhama oraz kuzynem porucznika Howarda Mathera Burnhama, który zginął w wojnie secesyjnej.

Wczesny okres życia
Burnham urodził się w rodzinie misyjnej w indiańskim rezerwacie w Tivoli w stanie Minnesota. Będąc małym dzieckiem był świadkiem indiańskiego ataku na miejscowość New Ulm. Podczas powstania Dakotów w 1862, licząca wówczas około 900 mieszkańców osada została dwukrotnie zaatakowana przez mieszkających wcześniej w tej okolicy Dakotów Santee. Indiańscy wojownicy pod wodzą Taoyateduty (Małej Wrony) nie zdołali zdobyć osady. Dla ułatwienia obrony mieszkańcy spalili około 190 drewnianych budynków, a po odparciu drugiego ataku (przy wsparciu ze strony odsieczy pod wodzą płk. Charlesa E. Flandraua) czasowo ewakuowali się do pobliskiego Mankato. W obu starciach zginęło łącznie około 40 białych osadników. Podczas tego zdarzenia matka, Rebecca (Elizabeth) Russel Burnham, ukryła niespełna dwuletniego chłopca w koszu pełnym plew kukurydzianych, po czym ratowała się ucieczką. Po tym jak Dakotowie zostali odpędzeni, powróciła w opuszczone miejsce widząc spalony dom. Małemu chłopczykowi, który zasnął w koszyku, nic się nie stało.

Młody Burnham uczęszczał do szkół w Iowa, gdzie poznał Blanche Blick, która później została jego żoną. W 1870 rodzina przeprowadziła się do Los Angeles. Dwa lata później zmarł pochodzący z Kentucky ojciec Fredericka – Edwin Otway Burnham, który przez długi czas był pionierem i misjonarzem w okolicach rezerwatu indiańskiego Ho Chunk (Winnebago) w Minnesocie. W czasie śmierci ojca miał 12 lat. Matka wraz z mającym wówczas zaledwie trzy lata Howardem Burnhamem – bratem Frederica – powróciła do Iowa, natomiast młody Burnham pozostał w Kalifornii, gdzie prowadził dostatnie życie.

Przez kolejne trzy lata Burnham pracował dla Western Union Telegraph Company jako kurier konny. Obszarem jego działania była Kalifornia i Arizona. Pewnego razu słynny w okolicy, wyjęty spod prawa kalifornijski przestępca Tiburcio Vasquez dokonał zuchwałej kradzieży jego konia. W wieku 14 lat rozpoczął życie skauta (zwiadowcy) i tropiciela Indian podczas wojen Apaczów. Podróżował po północnym Meksyku i Południowym Zachodzie, zarabiając na życie jako łowca bizonów, kowboj oraz poszukiwacz kopalin. Kontynuował pracę zwiadowcy podczas tropienia Indian w wojnach Czejenów. Ostatecznie podjął naukę w szkole średniej w Kalifornii, ale nigdy jej nie ukończył.

W 1882 udał się do Arizony, gdzie został mianowany zastępcą szeryfa Hrabstwa Pinal, lecz wkrótce powrócił do wypasania bydła i poszukiwania ropy naftowej i złota. Przyłączył się do jednej ze stron w wendecie Tonto Basin, po czym musiał ratować się ucieczką i ledwie uniknął śmierci. Następnie powrócił do Prescott (Iowa), aby odwiedzić swoją dawną miłość – Blanche. Para postanowiła się pobrać. Ślub odbył się 6 lutego 1884. W tym samym roku rozpoczęli prace przy zakładaniu gaju cytrusowego w Pasadenie, jednakże Frederick w ciągu roku powrócił do swoich dawnych zajęć.

W latach 80. XIX wieku prasa amerykańska popularyzowała myśl, że Zachód został zdobyty i nie ma już nic do przejęcia. Ta idea zmieniła życie Burnhama. Będąc najemnikiem zawsze kierował swoje kroki w kierunku słabo rozwiniętych miejsc. Kiedy usłyszał o pionierskich pracach Cecila Rhodes zorientowanych na budowę Kolei Kapsztadzko-Kairskiej ("Cape to Cairo Railway") w Afryce, sprzedał swój skromny majątek i w 1893 popłynął, wraz z żoną i małym synkiem, do Kapsztadu. Podjął pracę w Brytyjskiej Kompanii Południowoafrykańskiej, gdzie służył jako zwiadowca, infiltrując tereny położone na północ. Jego umiejętności tropicielskie rozeszły się głębokim echem w Afryce, a zważywszy na jego zdolności skutecznej pracy o zmroku, miejscowi ochrzcili go zaszczytnym mianem: "Ten który widzi w ciemności".

Kariera wojskowa

Pierwsza wojna matabelska

Pierwszy poważny test Burnhama w Afryce miał miejsce w 1893, kiedy Brytyjska Kompania Południowoafrykańska zaangażowała się w wojnę z Matabelami zjednoczonymi przeciwko brytyjskiemu panowaniu pod wodzą króla Lobenguli. Ówczesny administrator Rodezji Południowej Leander Starr Jameson miał nadzieję na szybkie pokonanie Matabeli. Kluczem do sukcesu miało być pojmanie Lobenguli w królewskim mieście Bulawayo. Burnham oraz towarzysząca mu mała grupa skautów (zwiadowców) zostali skierowani do miasta celem informowania o bieżącej sytuacji na miejscu. Wkrótce po przybyciu na miejsce, będąc na przedmieściach, ujrzeli jak rozwścieczeni Matabele palą i niszczą wszystko w swoim zasięgu. Do czasu przybycia pokaźnych sił angielskich, Lobengula i jego ludzie zdążyli uciec, pozostawiając po sobie widok, który niewiele przypominał dawne Bulawayo.

Shangani patrol
Po tym jak okazało się, że Bulawayo jest wyludnione, Jameson uformował kolumnę żołnierzy w celu zlokalizowania i pojmania Lobenguli. Kolumna pod dowództwem majora Patricka Forbesa, 3 grudnia 1893 rozbiła obóz na południowym brzegu rzeki Shangani - około 40 km na południowy wschód od wsi Lupane. Następnego dnia, późnym popołudniem, 12 mężczyznom prowadzonych przez majora Allana Wilsona polecono przekroczyć rzekę celem zbadania terenu. Patrol Wilsona natknął się na grupę matabelskich kobiet i dzieci, które twierdziły, że znają miejsce pobytu Lobenguli. Burnham, który służył jako główny zwiadowca patrolu, wyczuł pułapkę i doradził Wilsonowi wycofanie się, jednakże dowódca zarządził kontynuowanie zwiadu.

Niedługo po tym patrol odnalazł miejsce pobytu króla i Wilson posłał po posiłki. Forbes był negatywnie ustosunkowany do pomysłu przeprawiania się przez rzekę w ciemności, w związku z czym posłał celem wsparcia patrolu Wilsona jedynie 20 mężczyzn pod dowództwem Henry'ego Borrowa. Zamierzał przy tym skierować na drugą stronę rzeki główne siły oraz artylerię dopiero wczesnym rankiem, jednakże zostały one wciągnięte w zasadzkę, w związku z czym marsz się opóźnił. Patrol Wilsona także został zaatakowany. Na domiar złego rzeka Shangani wystąpiła z brzegów, co spowodowało brak możliwości bezpiecznego wycofania się. Znajdując się w bardzo trudnym położeniu Wilson wydał rozkaz dla Burnhama oraz dwóch innych zwiadowców - Pearla "Pete" Ingrama (kowboja ze stanu Montana) i George'a Goodinga (Australijczyka) – aby przekroczyli rzekę, odszukali Forbesa oraz przyprowadzili posiłki. Pomimo gradu kul i strzał trójce udało się odszukać Forbesa, jednakże odkryli że walki są tu równie zacięte jak w miejscu z którego przybyli. Nie było zatem możliwości aby sprowadzić posiłki. Podczas gdy Burnham przeładowywał broń, aby odeprzeć atak Matabelów, cicho powiedział Forbes'owi: "Myślę, że mogę powiedzieć, że jesteśmy jedynymi, którzy ocaleją z tego przyjęcia". Rzeczywiście - Wilson, Borrow i ich ludzie otoczeni przez setki matabelskich wojowników znaleźli się w potrzasku. Ucieczka okazała się niemożliwa i wszyscy polegli na polu walki

Historycy zajmujący się tematyką kolonialnej Rodezji ochrzcili to wydarzenie jako Shangani patrol, a Wilsona i Borrowa okrzyknęli mianem narodowych bohaterów. Za służbę w tej wojnie Burnham otrzymał British South Africa Company Medal, złoty zegarek oraz 120 ha ziemi w Matabelelandzie. W tym miejscu odkrył on następnie wiele artefaktów, które znajdowały się w rozciągających się na dużych obszarach granitowych ruinach - pozostałościach po Królestwie Zimbabwe (1220–1450).

Eksploracja północnej Rodezji
w 1895 Burnham został oddelegowany do nadzorowania i poprowadzenia Northern Territories (BSA) Exploration Co. - ekspedycji, której doniosła rola polegała na tym, że jako pierwsza odkryła dla Brytyjskiej Kompanii Południowoafrykańskiej duże złoża miedzi w Północno-Wschodniej Rodezji. Badając tereny położone wzdłuż biegu rzeki Kafue (wówczas w Północno-Wschodniej Rodezji), Burnham dostrzegł wiele podobieństw do złóż miedzi, które miał okazję obserwować wcześniej podczas swojej pracy w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak również zauważył, że miejscowa ludność ma zwyczaj noszenia bransoletek wykonanych z miedzi. Jego ekspedycje w Rodezji miały tak duże znaczenie, iż został zaproszony w poczet członków Królewskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego w Londynie  W związku z odkryciami Brytyjska Kompania Południowoafrykańska wybudowała w Pasie Miedzionośnym osiedla górnicze oraz linie kolejową w celu transportu miedzi przez Mozambik.

Druga wojna matabelska

W marcu 1896 Matabelowie po raz kolejny wzniecili powstanie przeciwko władzom Brytyjskiej Kompanii Południowoafrykańskiej, które jest dzisiaj świętowane w Zimbabwe jako pierwsza wojna o niepodległość. Uznaje się, że duży udział w podżeganiu do konfrontacji z Brytyjczykami miał Mlimo, charyzmatyczny i duchowy lider Matabelów. Angielskie siły obronne były rozproszone i źle zorganizowane, co było w dużej mierze związane z ich wcześniejszym zaangażowaniem w kompromitujący i zakończony niepowodzeniem rajd Jamesona.
Następstwem słabej i źle zorganizowanej obrony były duże straty po stronie białych osadników w pierwszych miesiącach konfliktu. Zaczęli oni pośpiesznie organizować formacje obronne, wznosić umocnienia w centrum Bulawayo oraz aranżować patrole pod przywództwem m.in. Burnhama, Roberta Baden-Powella i Frederica Selousa. Około 50 tys. wojowników matabelskich wycofało się do swoich umocnień położonych w Matopo Hills, nieopodal Bulawayo. Miejsca te stały się wkrótce scenerią krwawych starć z patrolami białych osadników.

Zabójstwo Mlimo
Przełomowym punktem wojny było przedostanie się Burnhama i młodego zwiadowcy o imieniu Bonar Armstrong do świętej jaskini, w której ukrywał się Mlimo. Nieopodal tego miejsca znajdowała się wieś złożona z około 100 chat, w której przebywało dużo wojowników. Dwóch skautów (zwiadowców) po przybyciu na miejsce przywiązało konie w pobliskich zaroślach, a następnie bardzo ostrożnie przeczołgało się w kierunku wejścia do jaskini, maskując przy tym swoje powolne ruchy za pomocą zerwanych uprzednio gałęzi. Kiedy znaleźli się już wewnątrz jaskini czekali na Mlimo, który tymczasowo opuścił to miejsce. Oceniano wówczas, że Mlimo miał około 60 lat, ostre rysy twarzy, skórę o odcieniu głębokiej czerni. W amerykańskiej prasie pojawiały się informacje, które opisywały go jako człowieka o okrutnym, przebiegłym spojrzeniu. Burnham i Armstrong cierpliwie czekali do czasu aż Mlimo wszedł do jaskini i zaczął taniec wypędzenia złych mocy. Wyczekawszy stosowny moment Burnham strzelił w kierunku Mlimo, trafiając w okolice serca.

Dwóch zwiadowców przeskoczyło przez ciało leżącego na ziemi Mlimo i zbiegło w dół ścieżką prowadzącą do koni przywiązanych w zaroślach. W tym czasie setki wojowników z pobliskiego obozowiska chwyciło za broń i udało się w pogoń za uciekinierami. Aby odciągnąć uwagę Burnham podłożył ogień pod chaty Matabeli. Następnie dwóch mężczyzn dosiadło swoich koni i popędziło w kierunku Bulawayo. Niedługo po tym jak wieść zastrzeleniu Mlimo rozniosła się po okolicy, Cecil Rhodes dumnie paradował bez rynsztunku po obozowisku Matabelów na Matopo Hills i przekonywał impi, aby złożyli broń, kończąc w ten sposób drugą wojnę matebelską.

Gorączka złota nad Klondike

Zaraz po zakończeniu wojny z Matabelami Burnham zadecydował o opuszczeniu Afryki i stawieniu czoła nowym wyzwaniom. Powrócił z rodziną do Kalifornii, gdzie pozostawił żonę i młodszego syna pod jej opieką. Niedługo po tym zabrał swojego najstarszego, mającego wówczas 12 lat syna Rodericka w podróż na Alaskę i Yukon. Celem nowej wyprawy było wzięcie udziału w wydarzeniu, które jest dziś znane jako gorączka złota nad Klondike. Po usłyszeniu o wybuchu wojny hiszpańsko-amerykańskiej Burnham niezwłocznie udał się z powrotem do Kalifornii, aby zgłosić się ochotniczo do służby wojskowej, jednakże zanim zdążył przystąpić do walki, działania zbrojne zakończyły się pokojem. W związku z tym powrócił do Klondike. Pułkownik Theodore Roosevelt żałował takiego obrotu sprawy równie mocno jak Burnham, czego dał wyraz w swojej książce, w której wyraził uznanie dla jego postawy.

II wojna burska

W styczniu 1900 w czasie gdy był zajęty poszukiwaniem złota w Skagway na Alasce, Burnham otrzymał następujący telegram: Lord Roberts mianuje cię do swojej osobistej służby jako szef Skautów. Jeśli akceptujesz tę propozycję, przybądź tak szybko jak to możliwe. Jakkolwiek Kapsztad znajduje się po przeciwnej stronie globu względem Klondike, Burnham wyruszył na spotkanie w ciągu godziny. Przybył na front tuż przed rozpoczęciem bitwy pod Paardeberg. Podczas wojny większość czasu spędził po drugiej stronie linii frontu, zdobywając informacje i wysadzając mosty i podkłady kolejowe. Dwukrotnie został złapany i dwukrotnie udało mu się uciec z niewoli. Przez pewien czas był niezdolny do walki z powodu odniesienia bardzo poważnych, prawie śmiertelnych ran.

W procedurze, która nie była stosowana wobec obcokrajowców, Burnham otrzymał z rąk Lorda Robertsa stopień kapitana. Po raz pierwszy trafił do niewoli, gdy próbował ostrzec kolumnę brytyjskich wojsk zbliżających się do Thaba Nchu. Natknął się na grupę Burów ukrytą na brzegach rzeki, do której zbliżał się oddział brytyjskich żołnierzy. Odcięty od swoich, Burnham postanowił dać sygnał dla zbliżających się żołnierzy, nie patrząc na to, iż takie zachowanie wystawi go na niebezpieczeństwo zlokalizowania jego pozycji przez wroga. Wykorzystując czerwoną chustę do głowy, Burnham sygnalizował żołnierzom konieczność odwrotu, aczkolwiek kolumna nie zwróciła uwagi na jego zabiegi i mozolnie, miarowo posuwała się do przodu w kierunku zasadzki, on sam natomiast został dostrzeżony i schwytany przez Burów. W walce która się wkrótce wywiązała Burnham udał, iż został zraniony w kolano. Utykając silnie na jedną nogę i krzycząc z bólu znalazł się w wozie łącznie z oficerami, którzy odnieśli prawdziwe, poważne obrażenia. Wóz ten nie był w związku z tym tak silnie strzeżony jak pozostałe – przeznaczone dla zdrowych jeńców. Pod wieczór tego samego dnia Burnham opuścił miejsce w powozie, przeszedł do przodu w kierunku miejsca woźnicy, delikatnie opuścił się pomiędzy kołami i znalazł się na drodze pomiędzy nogami dwóch rzędów wołów. Bardzo szybko wóz bezpiecznie przejechał ponad nim, a po chwili, kiedy kurz gromadził się jeszcze ponad drogą, Burnham przekoziołkował w kierunku rowu znajdującego się obok drogi, gdzie ukrył się, aby przeczekać przejazd kolumny. Cztery dni zajęło mu przedostanie się na angielską stronę frontu. W tym czasie przebywał na otwartym stepie utrzymując się przy życiu dzięki tabliczce sucharów i kilku kolbom kukurydzy.

2 czerwca 1900 podczas próby wysadzenia mostu kolejowego na linii Pretoria-Delagoa Bay w miejscowości Bronkhorstspruit (32 km na wschód od Pretorii), Burnham został otoczony przez grupę Burów i aby ujść cało musiał ratować się natychmiastową ucieczką. Niemal udało mu się wycofać, gdy jedna z kul śmiertelnie ugodziła jego konia. Upadając przygniótł on zwiadowcę swoim ciężarem, a impet upadku i kontaktu z ziemią sprawił, iż ten utracił przytomność. Niemal cały dzień znajdował się w stanie oszołomienia, a kiedy odzyskał przytomność zauważył, że zarówno towarzysze broni, jak i wrogowie oddalili się. Pomimo odczuwania przeszywającego bólu, ostatkiem sił udało mu się doczołgać się z powrotem do linii kolejowej, podłożyć ładunki i wysadzić tory kolejowe w dwóch miejscach. Zdając sobie sprawę, że huk spowodowany eksplozją szybko sprowadzi w to miejsce Burów, przeczołgał się do znajdującego się w pobliżu opuszczonego kraalu, gdzie przez dwa dni i noce leżał w stanie omdlenia. Po usłyszeniu odległych odgłosów strzelaniny, Burnham czołgając się zbliżył się w kierunku walki. W tym czasie było już dla niego obojętne, czy źródłem strzałów są karabiny Burów, czy też żołnierzy brytyjskich. Jak się szczęśliwie okazało w pobliżu przejeżdżał przyjacielski patrol, który przetransportował ciężko rannego Burnhama do Pretorii. Chirurdzy, którzy go operowali odkryli, że w wyniku upadku Burnham odniósł krytyczne obrażenia – rozerwaniu uległy mięśnie brzuszne i naczynia krwionośne żołądka. Jak się okazało przeżycie zawdzięczał jedynie temu, że przez trzy dni nie przyjmował żadnych posiłków.

Rany odniesione przez Burnhama były na tyle poważne, że został on przez lorda Robertsa skierowany na dalsze leczenie do Anglii. Dwa dni przed wyjazdem do Londynu został awansowany do stopnia majora. Po przyjeździe do Anglii jego przełożeni zorganizowali wspólny obiad z Królową Wiktorią oraz nocleg w rezydencji królewskiej Osborne House na wyspie Wight. Kilka miesięcy później król Edward VII osobiście wręczył Burnhamowi Queen's South Africa Medal z czterema paskami za udział w bitwach pod Driefotein (10 marca 1900), Johannesburgiem (31 maja 1900), Paardebergiem (17-26 lutego 1900), Kolonią Przylądkową (11 października 1899 – 31 maja 1902). Za bohaterstwo podczas zwycięskiego Marszu na Pretorię otrzymał wówczas również Distinguished Service Order – drugie co do znaczenia brytyjskie odznaczenie wojskowe. Godnym podkreślenia jest fakt, iż Burnham został uhonorowany najwyższymi odznaczeniami ze wszystkich Amerykanów biorących udział w II wojnie burskiej.

Najbardziej utytułowanymi żołnierzami Burnhama biorącymi udział w drugiej wojnie burskiej byli Lovat Scouts, szkocki pułk pochodzący z regionu Highlands, który on sam opisywał jako "w połowie wilki, w połowie zające". Skautowie (zwiadowcy) z tej jednostki byli doświadczeni w strzelectwie wyborowym, umiejętnościach polowych oraz taktyce bojowej. Po wojnie pułk kontynuował swoją działalność zostając pierwszą jednostką snajperską Armii Brytyjskiej.

I wojna światowa
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Peru's anti-riot tactics unmatched in lethality
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Sixteen-year-old Cesar Medina was returning home from an Internet cafe, his mother says, and got caught up in a crowd of demonstrators when police and soldiers opened fire. A bullet tore into his head, killing him instantly.
The youth was among five civilians killed in this month's outbreak of violence over Peru's biggest mining project, and while authorities have not said who fired the deadly shots, local journalists say it was security forces.
Civilian deaths are disturbingly frequent when protesters in provincial Peru confront police, whose standard means of crowd control appear to be live ammunition, typically fired from Kalashnikov or Galil assault rifles.
Since 2006, bullets fired by Peruvian security forces to quell protests have killed 80 people and wounded more than 800, according to the independent National Coordinator for Human Rights watchdog. Human rights activists say that reflects a disregard for human life unmatched in the region and argue that the government's routine use of deadly force against protesters could exacerbate violence.
"These numbers would be a scandal abroad. And I'm not talking about a comparison with Europe, but with Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, where there are protests but not so many deaths," said Jorge Mansilla, investigator for Peru's national ombudsman's office.
By contrast, police have killed 28 protesters in neighboring Bolivia since January 2006, according to its non-governmental Permanent Human Rights Assembly. Police in Colombia, a country plagued by guerrilla and right-wing militia violence, killed just six from 2000 through 2011, according to that country's human rights watchdog CINEP.
After the July 3 clash in the Cajamarca region in which Medina died, national police chief Raul Salazar commented tersely on the deaths, telling reporters that his officers' job is to "maintain order with the lowest social cost."
The protesters were pelting police with rocks and fireworks as they rallied against the $4.8 billion Conga gold mining project, which is majority-owned by Newmont Mining Co. of the United States.
The ombudsman's office counts 245 social conflicts across Peru, most of them disputes over mining in which fears over water contamination predominate. The mining industry accounts for more than 60 percent of export earnings and has been the engine of Peru's economic growth, but it inordinately affects the livelihoods of highlands farmers.
A congressman and former national police chief, Octavio Salazar, said security forces have no choice sometimes but to use live ammunition when protesters become unruly and endanger police.
"When these hordes attack and police are at a disadvantage, then, in those extreme cases, firearms are used," he said.
Government critics say not enough is done to avoid such situations.
Peruvian forces regularly employ tear gas and plastic pellets fired from shotguns against protesters, but a March report by the ombudsman's office called police training in nonlethal crowd control inadequate and said officers don't have sufficient nonlethal weapons. It cited interviews with riot police commanders in four major cities.
The Interior Ministry declined to provide details on the police arsenal, either to the ombudsman or The Associated Press. Ministry spokesman Angel Castillo said supplies of tear gas and rubber bullets are adequate: "There are always stocks to cover the needs."
Corruption has been a factor in the shortage of nonlethal equipment. In June, Interior Minister Wilver Calle canceled a $5 million contract for shields, helmets, gas masks and other equipment after determining the contractor was not going to deliver U.S. made goods as promised but Chinese-made items instead.
Officials in the Interior Ministry did not respond to AP requests for an explanation of why so many protesters are killed by gunfire in confrontations with police. Castillo asked that the AP's questions be submitted by email, but never answered.
The ombudsman's study, meanwhile, questioned why not a single police officer has been investigated for killing a protester and why no one wounded by police gunfire has been compensated by the government.
Rights groups including Amnesty International also have expressed concern about a bill introduced by Salazar, the former police chief now in Congress, that they say would rubber-stamp police use of lethal force against protesters by specifying that it is justified in self-defense.
Spanish human rights lawyer Mar Perez said the bill sends the message: "You can be at ease killing because nothing will happen to you."
Cashiered police Gen. Alberto Jordan says that's already true.
He was fired in 2008 for disobeying instructions to order his troops to fire on protesters who were blocking a bridge in the Moquegua region of southern Peru to demand higher royalties from local copper mining.
Sixty police officers were hurt in the struggle but no one died, Jordan said, who complained that police are poorly equipped to manage unrest.
"They send you to different parts of the country and when you open up the closets where tear gas is supposed to be stored you find them empty," he said.
So police use the only weapons they have, which are typically Kalashnikovs, weapons of war that fire 7.62-mm bullets.
The Americas director for Human Rights Watch, Jose Miguel Vivanco, said allegations of police abuses in the use of lethal force are "not properly investigated or sanctioned" in Peru.
He cited, by comparison, the case in which Chile's government fired nine police officers, including a general, in 2011 after a 16-year-old was killed in Santiago by a police bullet during protests demanding educational reforms.
The director of the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies at Pennsylvania State University, retired Marine Col. Andy Mazzara, said no country can justify using live ammunition to put down protests these days.
"The use of lethal munitions in such situations is born out of ignorance and a lack of political will and an almost criminal disregard for the value of human life," he said.
Modern nonlethal weapons such as sonic "cannons" that hurl pain-inducing tones can be expensive, but low-tech options are available. Rubberized "stingballs" and beanbags fired from shotguns and pepper spray are among options, Mazzara said.
In neighboring Chile, riot police regularly use water cannons to quell demonstrations.
The deadliest recent case of Peruvian police firing on protesters came during a 2009 protest against mining and oil development in the Amazon. Thirty-four people were killed near the city of Bagua, including 24 officers who were slain by Indians in retaliation for the initial police fusillade.
Three police generals were fired for dereliction of duty, which was the extent of all sanctions for the deaths and also for the wounding of more than 200 people in the incident.
Among those hurt was 63-year-old Filomeno Sanchez. He has spent more than $80,000 on three operations. But a bullet remains in his head and he still can't walk.
Elmer Campos, 30, was injured by police bullets in the spleen and right kidney and paralyzed from the waist down while among 3,000 people protesting the Conga project in November.
"I don't know how I'm going to work. Look how they've left me. I can't even move," the father of two said before he was released from a Lima hospital last week.
After three operations, doctors had done all they could for the farmer, who gave up civil engineering studies for lack of funds.
Campos is staying with an older sister in Lima, who now does his diaper-changing.
He is distraught over his inability to provide for his wife and children, who can't afford the $30 per person one-way bus fare to visit from Cajamarca.
"I don't understand how life can be so unjust," Campos said. "It would have been better if they had killed me."
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You have probably done a double take at the yellow Rube Goldberg contraption crawling around Fredericksburg's historic district. The 15-seat vehicle is a combination biergarten, trolley, and multi-user bicycle.
Like many curious passers-by, I pulled up alongside the trolley while it was parked outside Lincoln Street Wine Market to question driver David Curran, better known as Wild Bill.
"What we do is give a form of entertainment for people who want to have a different kind of experience in Fredericksburg," he said with practiced zeal. That experience includes enjoying a fine beverage; making stops at Hondo's, Pontotoc Vineyard Weingarten, Lincoln Street Wine Market, and Sozial Haus; and, yes, actually pedaling the bike. Of course, Wild Bill steers, and controls when to kick in the electric motor–mainly uphill and while crossing Main Street.
Apparently this concept of self-propelled casual tourism is not new. It originated in Germany and Amsterdam in the 1990s, then spread to the U.S. coasts. There are now similar pedal tours in major Texas cities.
Wild Bill especially enjoys being able to chauffeur tourists off the highly-traveled main blocks of Main Street to show them another side of Fredericksburg.
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Why does seeing this thing evoke such reactions? Wild Bill, who witnesses the emotions every day, has a theory.
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The Rest is Silence
By James Irwin
Words are the very DNA of literature; the tiny building blocks that make up the characters we love and cherish, the worlds in which they inhabit, and the sentences that describe every action within.
At least seven hundred words in the English language can be attributed to just one man: William Shakespeare. If words are the DNA of language he is the Lord of creation.
I hated Shakespeare at school. I was won over through my own reading, although the simple fact that he invented the expression 'what the dickens?' would have been enough. Mostly it was down to Hamlet. I love that play. I used to know the speech he gives to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act Two, Scene Two off by heart…
I will tell you why; shall my anticipation prevent your discovery and your secrecy to the King and Queen, moult no feather: I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.
In Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead the whole speech is dismissed by one of the title characters as Hamlet saying 'something about losing his mirth.'
I'm currently working as script editor on a condensed adaptation of Hamlet for a friend who's directing it at the big theatre in town. I'm pretty proud of that, and was flattered to be asked to do it. It's a fairly standard production that does little to the original text aside from place the action in a more modern war setting, and cut out as much as possible in order to keep the play to approximately an hour in length.
I'm also writing a version of Hamlet which is little more than a low brow version of Stoppard's play. It tells the story of Hamlet through the trial of Horatio, who is arrested at the end of Shakespeare's play and charged with every death in the play. It's indisputably a low-rent bastardization of a literary classic in which original lines are re-worked as lame jokes.
The bit I'm least proud of is Horatio informing the ghost of Hamlet that Tuborg is the new most popular beer in Denmark, to which Hamlet replies 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark…'
I wouldn't protest too much if the ghost of Shakespeare appeared in my room, gagged me with his ruff, and then stabbed me through the heart with his quill until I die.
I hope it doesn't come to that though.
I wrote a play over Christmas which is being staged at an arts festival in the summer. It's loosely based on The Divine Comedy and features God as an alcoholic raconteur. It plays the concepts of journeying though Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven for laughs— and cheap ones at that.
And yet poking around and mutilating Hamlet somehow feels more blasphemous… more sacrilegious….
There's always the sense with long dead writers that you can get away with messing with their original work without asking. Jean Rhys didn't ask if she could borrow the characters from Jane Eyre, she just did. She won a literary prize for it, and then complained that it was long overdue and worthless.
You couldn't exactly do that with living writers, in the same way you have to get permission to borrow any songs you want to re-work, or borrow parts of. I couldn't really sit down after lunch and take the characters from The Da Vinci Code and place them into my own idea for a zany comedy.
That's not a great example to use, as I'm really talking about literature.
How can it be that pillaging from the shit-sodden streets of medieval London feels more acceptable than playing with the characters from a more modern time?
I think it is as simple as the concept of ownership, very similar to the idea of songs entering the public domain. Except that with literature you have to wait more than fifty years for it to be okay. Hamlet has been around so long most people know the story without even reading it, or being conscious of where they picked up that knowledge. Its part of British culture, the same way I knew what a Tardis was despite being born the year Doctor Who was cancelled.
Essentially people were borrowing from Shakespeare before he'd even finished giving us all those new words… those fresh building blocks of literary life.
I'd love to ask Shakespeare what he thinks about all the thousands of versions of his work… particularly how he would feel about my own twisted experimentation with Hamlet.
I hope that he'd crack a wry smile, and enjoy and appreciate the affection that is intended. It's not exactly the sort of thing you could sit down and write without a deep familiarity with the text, and a genuine love of it…
We sit there, the two of us. We're drinking Carlsberg against out better judgement. Shakespeare asks me if there's any mead, and I have to tell him sorry, we haven't had that liquor here since 1869.
I begin to tell him about this play I'm writing, and about how it starts right after Hamlet ends. I tell him how as Horatio says 'now cracks a noble heart: good night sweet prince' we hear police sirens.
'Police sirens?' enquires the Bard, who died several hundred years before Sir Robert Peel founded the modern police force.
I explain to him as briefly as I can the history of the police. I tell him they're officials who are meant to uphold the law.
'People who stop people like you stealing my work?' he asks. He asks with a smile so I can't tell if he's being serious or if this is that famous Shakespearean banter.
Slightly nervously I try and explain away any feeling of guilt and wrong-doing I feel. I try and explain that no, what I'm doing isn't theft. I ask him to listen and to understand that I'm taking his characters and putting them in my own story. Then I let him know that what happens is Horatio gets murdered for every murder in Elsinore.
'That's ludicrous' says Shakespeare. 'Hamlet killed everyone. You should know that.'
I tell him that he doesn't get it, and that times have changed and that now if the police walked into a building that was full of dead bodies and there was only one guy in there still alive then he would be under suspicion. Furthermore he would have a motive by being Hamlet's sole heir as his friend, and thus become the King of Denmark.
'That's stupid' he says. Shakespeare starts sulking. 'I don't like it.'
'Tough' I would retort. 'I'm taking a logical approach to your story and using that to derive humour.'
He begins to look visibly angry. He crushes his beer can into an aluminium ball and throws it to the ground as he rises to his feet. 'It sounds like you're just picking holes and making fun of my work!'
As the Bard rises he draws a small bladed weapon from his coat pocket.
'What the dickens?!' I exclaim.
'Stop. Stealing. My. Words!' The Bard says through gritted teeth.
I panic and cry; this hypothetical chit-chat has rapidly spiralled out of control.
'Is that a dagger I see before me?' I shout, which only really exacerbates the situation.
The Bard moves towards me silently, thrashing his blade in my direction.
'O happy dagger!' I cry, still refusing to learn my lesson. 'This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die!'
I feel the blade kiss the base of my neck, and few droplets of warm red blood blossom like rose against my skin.
'A touch, a touch I do confess' I announce, only enraging the Bard further.
'For fucks sake! Stop taking my words and placing them out of context for comic effect!' Shakespeare shrieks as the dagger plunges deep, raking over the topsoil of my flesh and planting the seeds of death deep into my leaking heart.
His face contorts into a cracked smile of evil satisfaction. My blood drips from his dagger like the droplets fall from an ice lolly in the hot summer sun.
As I lie there the blood pumps from my open chest cavity, the blood cells escaping like rats deserting a sinking ship. There is a darkness… a terrible, ghoulish darkness. The edges of Shakespeare's body begin to slip into the shadows and merge with the black abyss.
'You're not so clever now, are you?' he says, and it sounds like a distant echo… a whisper on the wind.
With the last of my vitality I break into a beatific, taunting smile. My lips twitch uneasily. I look into his eyes and I in a fractured whisper I say 'O! I am slain.'
In those final moments I am left with the frustrated horror enveloping the Bard's countenance.
The rest is silence.
TAGS: Hamlet, James D. Irwin, Knife crime, Plays, Robert Peel, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Textual Intervention, theatre, Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare
James D. Irwin is a British writer based in the Hampshire countryside. His work has appeared online, in print, and on stage. He can be contacted at [email protected]
39 responses to "The Rest is Silence"
"God as an alcoholic raconteur".
Holy crap that made me howl my fool head off!
James D. Irwin says:
Thanks Sheree.
I've been apapting the play into a sitcom, which has God as a fan of pornogrpahic magazines. It's worth the risk of Hell to be able to incude a Whore of Babylon joke…
Clever stuff, Irwin. You've punished yourself for stealing from the Bard—–and in a very Bardy way—HA! How about your taking the role of Hamlet in your next representation or rework of the play? I agree with your theory about his being mentally out of whack.
On another subject entirely, I began reading and enjoying Julian Fellowes' novel *Snobs*. He wrote the series *Downton Abbey* that I liked so very much. I wonder if ITV will continue the series.
Hamlet keeps cropping up in a lot of things that I write. It's fun relegating him to a minor role. Also with a friend of mine and the university radio we might do an audio version almost purely so I can play Hamlet and then put it on my CV.
What I'd really like to ask Shakespeare is what he got up to in the 'lost years.'
I'm almost certain that Downton Abbey is coming back, probably quite soon. ITV don't make many programs that viewers AND critics enjoy, and they tend to keep on with them.
Irwin, do let us know when we can hear your audio version of Hamlet.
And thanks for the news about Downtown Abbey most likely being continued. I had a good laugh from how you said it:
"ITV don't make many programs that viewers AND critics enjoy, and they tend to keep on with them."
I'm seriously struggling to think of one other half decent ITV show.
Okay, Midsommer Murders is awesome, but it's over now.
Irwin, I was just reading in the Guardian online about poet David Harsent, his latest (10th) poetry collection, *Night* published by Faber. It turns out that " . . . aside from his poetry, he . . . has written a dozen thrillers under various pseudonyms as well scripting popular television shows such as *Holby City,* *Midsomer Murders* and *The Bill.* 'Al Alvarez read one of the early thrillers, which incidentally is a pretty dark book, and said he knew straight away it was me. After that I used to send him the latest one and always sign it, 'Same brain, different name'. Lines from the thrillers do get through to the poems. Lines in the poems turn up in the books.' "
Here's the URL for the full article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/feb/21/david-harsent-life-writing-poetry
A quick follow-up, Irwin, re Downton Abbey, from Wikipedia:
"The first series cost an estimated £1 million an hour to film, making it the most expensive British TV show ever produced. It is also the most successful British period drama since Brideshead Revisited, with British ratings exceeding 10 million viewers."
The second series begins filming in a few days (March) and 8 episodes will air beginning in Autumn.
They spend £1m an hour? It's weird, everything ITV do somehow looks cheap. I don't know what it is. Even when ITV and BBC cover the same sports event at the same time it always looks better on the BBC…
I don't watch ITV and Beeb's sporting events, Irwin, but I did, thanks to your tip, watch both the new *Upstairs, Downstairs* as well as *Downton Abbey*—–and was struck at *Abbey*'s more spectacular sets, costumes and photography as well as its superior writing. (I rather suspect that the actors in both series were excellent, but there was only so much the actors in *Upstairs, Downstairs* could do, outside of rewriting, to improve their lines.)
Writing's the thing! How's yours coming? Your acting Hamlet on the uni radio?
Next week, Rodent and I'll be back in England. I might watch the current episode of *The Tudors*—–HOOT!
I know the BBC are making more Upstairs, Downstairs and hopefully they'll do a proper series. The BBC just do that sort of thing so well, although I probably wouldn't watch it if it wasn't framed around political history.
That's how cool I am.
At the moment everything I want to do is on hold for a good while. As well as helping my friend re-write Hamlet, I've discovered I'm to direct my own play and rehearsals start on Monday. The hardest part is figuring out how to make the stage look like Hell with naff all in terms of budget, lighting, etc…
It's a god time to be back in England. The weather is getting better and better right now. I've never seen The Tudors, but I enjoy correcting people who insist it's fantasy because Henry VIII was a fat man. He was a superb athlete in his younger days, and apparently wuite handsome. Probably not TV series actor handsome but… you can't have everything…
Which play of yours will you be directing, Irwin?
I love the idea that you'll, with no money, have to reproduce Hell. Cool! You can re-fashion Hell into any look you like. What, after all, have been others' depictions of Hell? Mostly, we get the leaping flames, glowering creatures…..but GB Shaw, for example flipped all those images and assumptions entirely around. Further, working with way less than you'd want or expect can be quite thrilling and freeing of creativity; e.g., the famous violinist in his earlier days who was sent to debtor's prison, was practicing violin when one of his strings broke and couldn't be replaced there. Years later, mid-performance at a concert, one of his strings broke and he simply carried on creatively without it, wowing the audience.
Though I completely agree with your comment otherwhere in these responses in which you say there's nothing to duplicate the high of Shakes' words, nevertheless the plays that I most remember visually are those that use little more than spotlit characters doing and saying evocative things. Many of those scenes I recall from DaDa'ist playwrights' works (Jean Genet's *Balcony*, *The Maids* ; Eugene Ionesco *The Chairs*) blew my mind—-and had not required much in the way of sets other than judiciously placed lights, a couple chairs and perhaps a balcony.
A few months ago Rodent and I went to Hampton Court Palace bcuz I just *had* to see where QEI viewed so many plays. There was a balcony for musicians, but the players had only two entrance/exits on either side of a wall about 8′ wide. And re sets for Shaksper's plays, they were virtually non-existent (no props, no furniture, etc), actors simply walking in and out flowingly as there were no written separation into scenes. The costumes were always sumptuous, though.
Have fun with the playwrighting/designing!
I saw the first 3 series of The Tudors and found them quite entertaining, but too sex-laced Hollywoody with actors looking as if they've had breast implants, gobs of makeup and straight white teeth. Jonathan Rhys Davies (sp?) is H'Wood handsome and does a good acting job, I think.
You're right that the young HVIII was very athletic and handsome, well beloved by most of his subjects, but possibly due to a fall from his jousting steed, he became lumbered with what became an abscess in his leg. It gave him considerable pain and curtailed his athletic activities, but he kept on eating as usual (and even more so), becoming noticeably obese, having to be mechanically lifted into his throne and bed and wheeled around in a chair. Producers for The Tudors have said that that getting Rhys-Davies obesitized with rubber and foam-loaded costumery would look too contrived (like the series is NOT?!), so they're going with his sounding as if he's in pain and walking haltingly…..but still slender. We'll see how it plays out. Some months ago we had quite a lively debate on TNB about Ray Winstone's magnificent portrayal of HVIII. It led me to rent most of Winstone's films (most of them too violent for me to stomach, but he's a terrific actor).
I will be directing a play called 'Charlie Gheery's Vanilla Life in Hell.' It was written over Christmas in my parents freezing cottage.
I quite like the creative challenge that a lack of resources brings, but it's quite annoying that if we could just get red and white filters all I'd need to do is change the lighting. We can't do that at the festival though.
I'm not really sure how I'm going to do it, but I hope once rehearsals start we'll figure something out.
In my script the stage directions/sets are quite detailed because I sort of forgot where it was being staged. I've changed it to be fairly minimal now, and I'm beginning to think it might have to be something as simple as red/white rugs/table cloths/curtains to denote the difference between the two…
It's going to be a lot of fun though. Also hard work, but I can just about live with that…
Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves, which was eventually adopted by ice cream vans all over England…
Y'see, if you watched sport on ITV you'd regularly see Ray Winstone. He does adverts for a bookmakers and every ad break he appears telling you the latest odds. It makes me laugh, as he's been in some pretty big films recently…
"Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves, which was eventually adopted by ice cream vans all over England…" HAHAHA, good one, Irwin.
Word on Winstone's adverts for a bookmaker is that he said the bookmaker guy is a mate of his—-I love his honesty! Ray Winstone could read a telephone directory and I'd love it; he's that winning. I've watched his HVIII portrayal several times and adore it. Charisma!
Excellent idea to use coloured rugs, tablecloths and curtains for your play. Regular (ie uncoloured) spotlights would be perfect for that, actually. Now you mention it, though, I wonder if you could hang a coloured "roof" or ceiling fabric well below but just above the actors to colour the actors and furnishings. That'd be cheaper and easier than trying to buy a glass filter or even hang a glass "ceiling."
Your play's title, "Charlie Gheery's Vanilla Life in Hell" is fun and wonderfully evocative. Will you be You Tube'ing it so we can see it?
Rehearsals start Monday—yoiks! Now I also wish you could video the rehearsal bits such as your discussions with actors and struggling with sets and lighting—–kind of like your mockumentary.
In any event, break a leg, Irwin!
I do like Ray Winstone. He doesn't look like he should be a talented actor, but he really is.
I'm glad you liked my tablecloth idea. I e-mailed it to the 'producer' and hope that it'll be okay.
I'm quite pleased with the title. I was made to change it from 'Cocktails in Hell' and went through the script looking for a suitable phrase. I found 'vanilla life' and put it in place of 'cocktails' and it kind of works.
I am hoping that we can film at least some of the production, so we can share it with the world!
I'd like to make a behind the scenes film as well, because I suspect it'd be a lot of fun. I imagine at the very least I'll have something to write about for a while though…
You're making excellent choices, Irwin—-"vanilla life" instead of "cocktails," coloured tablecloth instead of coloured light filters—–and possibly filming part of the performance as well as bits of the behind-scenes rehearsal.
I think Ray Winstone is totally handsome and not an egotist, but rather like the kind of man most women love i.e., attentive and affectionate and respectful of his woman—-he's a real hit with many of the women I know, including Zara Potts!
One day perhaps Rodent and I can get together with you for a great pub meal and chat. I'll tell you the joke that Winstone told on a tv interview/talk show.
Enjoy tomorrow's rehearsal!
Thanks, although my tutor/producer should take the credit for enforcing the title change…
I can see the appeal of Ray Winstone. He's always struck me as a decent, ordinary bloke.
That would be nice— I've never met a fellow TNBer. I nearly met Steve Sparsholt once, Cynthia Hawkins has been to Winchester but before I moved here, and Slade Ham and I have both been to the same bar in Amsterdam but a year apart… if you're still on this side of the Atlantic come June you should come to the festival!
This is truly weird, Irwin. I was googling Helena Bonham Carter for her background of notable family members and asked Rodent about public schools such as her kids attend, so he reeled off names. I stopped him at Winchester, went to Googlemaps and saw that Winchester College was close to Sparsholt College, both I guess in Hampshire. Just now I noted you spelled Steve's last name the same way as Sparsholt College, and I'd always thought he spelled it Sparshott.
If you live in Winchester, Hampshire, then you're WAY down south, both south and west of London, and the same latitude as Salisbury (in Wiltshire) which I'm quite familiar with; it's where Rodent and I first met.
Festival in June, eh? Tell me about it. What's on? Your Hamlet? Your Vanilla in Hell play?
I think I got confused and spelt Steve's name wrong. I do live near Sparsholt— I have a vague plan to live there after I graduate. It has an incredibly low population, poor transport links and is in the middle of nowhere. But it's only an hours walk from Winchester. I have this strange romantic idea that I'll rent a room or small flat there, get a dog, and walk it to Winchester anytime I want to meet my friends.
I've just seen Helena Bonham Carter on TV. A guy on BBC news was saying she looked less weird at this years Oscars.
I am way down south, and a touch to the left. I was born fairly near here, but this is the first time I've been based in this part of the world since I was about 6.
I think i've mentioned before that my parents have place mats of ancient Salisbury… which, like the field near my house, has a military testing range.
The festival in June is in Southampton. That'll be my play, and also loads of comedians who were picked up from my comedy night. I think I'm right in thinking outside of the festival organizers I've contributed the most acts/shows in the spoken word tent…
I remember that Salisbury testing range, Irwin. It actually seemed rather quaint, sitting there in the gentle countryside.
I've put the festival on our To Do plan for June—-sounds fun, and you know I love to laugh and would quite like to see your play!
Why would you rather live in Sparsholt than Winchester? I dunno the difference, so am curious.
Let us know how the rehearsal's coming—-or, rather, *record* for us how it's coming.
I like the signs outside countryside military testing ranges: 'Do not touch military debris. It may explode and kill you.'
That's exciting. It's June 4th, I believe. We have a live performance before then somewhere on campus apparently. The rehearsal today was farcical— hardly anyone turned up, and it's all a bit pointless without someone cast as Charlie, who is in almost every scene.
Winchester is lovely, and I do love living here but the thing is… for a long time I assumed I was going to move to London after university. I always wanted to live in a big city. And then recently I've sort of realized that I prefer peace and quiet to shops and cafes.
I work best without distractions, nothing to drag me away from my computer. And there's just something more pleasant about being surrounded by rolling green hills than choking grey chimneys.
Winchester is located in a valley. From the next road up you can see the countryside all around.
I don't know, I just really like the idea of living in a small cabin somewhere with a dog.
" 'Do not touch military debris. It may explode and kill you.' "
HA! Love that. Like "Do not put cat in microwave."
Re the farcical rehearsal, Irwin, it's just what needs to be recorded (video'ed)—-and yet we're always too frustrated and immersed in the moment to record it. It's like now I'm in the middle of moving house to the UK from the USA, and keep thinking "Hey, I should photograph this place as we pack boxes and gradually strip it of its furnishings while we're both dressed like rough live'rs and droopy-eyed from fatigue." It's always the crap stuff of events that intrigues us later but that causes hair-tearing at the time. For my 10-minute YouTube'd scene from "Feathers in Your Teeth," I recorded each of 5 rehearsals, but wish I'd recorded our (actors and me) questions/explanations about the text, their characters' motivations and backstory, positions on the set, movements, pronunciation, previous roles' experiences that related to the current scene, and so on. Now I've only memories of all that which'll fade fast.
You say: " I just really like the idea of living in a small cabin somewhere with a dog." Sounds terrific. Reminds me of a guy near Darlington who recently got Council approval to live in the yurt (yes, YURT!) he'd built on his father's big farm. It was a great-looking little yurt, all comfy and neat, sitting smack in the middle of woods and nearby river.
It's a complex thing, deciding the kind of place you want to live. I give you lots of credit for coming to grips with it. Typically, there's the push and pull of opposites (big city action vs rural-ish peace) as well as one's reasonable pragmatic planning for the future (where're the best/most fitting-to-my-talents jobs?). But I think there are profound yearnings and preferences we have which don't seem readily accessible to our consciousness. Once I'd been to Hawaii, for example, I was immediately ready to move there, but my son, who'd been with me visiting relatives, said: "Ma, after a month you'd be itching to be back in Chicago." He was right. However, I came to loathe Chicago for the same reason I'd have forsaken Hawaii for it! Too big, too busy, too frightening, too much traffic, too polluted, too much anonymity (a biggie!), too many zero-degree and snow-packed winter months, too hot in the summer……and so on. Now that Rodent and I are settling into Darlington with a nice old house and all, I appreciate the city's mid-size, closeness to the countryside, cultural venues for plays and concerts, university libraries, temperate yet varied-seasons climate, great historic buildings, vibrant town centre, excellent transportation (really close airport, great railway system, city buses, highway access). For me, too, the domicile is paramount. I need lotsa big windows to great nature views, room to roam around in and keep my books and files, a big back garden to escape to and view and keep me separate from neighbours……but not a place isolated from folks—-and great restaurants!
Life's a dance of opposites and of trying to find out what we feel we most need, then seeking it out. Same with finding life partners. And it helps to write about it and talk about it, as well as to think about it.
P'raps we'll see you in June, Irwin.
My favorite word that Shakespeare made up: countless.
My favorite individual line: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse."
My favorite play: Merchant of Venice.
But the best monologue is "to be or not to be", which I taught just last week in class.
I didn't know he made up "what the dickens?" I would have guessed…I don't know…Dickens.
Wouldn't that be comparative to you coining the phrase 'What the Olear?'
Which, admittedly, would be a masterstroke of self-promotion.
Then Greg and Dickens would both be attempting to replace the word "fuck" with their own names… which is strange, but indeed fantastic self-promotion: "Go Olear yourself!" "Dickens off!"
If you could fit Smithson into a common expression then you'd probably become rich enough to buy an Olearjet.
Well played gentlemen. Well played. Ha!
I always assumed the expression referred to Dickens… I was stunned to my very core.
Kudos on your play writing success. Sounds like you're doing pretty well for yourself if you're turning Shakespeare into a jealous wreck.
I was never a fan of the Bard until after school, like you. I guess it's hard to like something that you're forced to read by bored teachers. I agree with Greg – my favourite was always the Merchant of Venice.
I like to imagine Shakespeare would be murderously jealous, but in reality it's not that much better than writing a school play. But it's all going pretty well… it happened largely by accident as well….
School ruined poetry, Steinbeck, and a host of other great things. I'm not a big fan of poetry now, but I appreciate it more. After the torture of reading Of Mice and Men five times Steinbeck is one of my favourite writers, and obviously Shakespeare no longer makes me want to die.
Good stuff, JDI! Thanks for making Shakespeare a bit more embiggened for me.
I never put in the time to learn to appreciate Shakespeare's writing style. I always read it under the duress of assigned homework, doing as little as possible so that I could resume whatever time suck awaited. I'd love to think someday I'll give it the ol' college try to open my mind to a real appreciation of the writing, but the odds are long.
That being said, Shakes could weave together a mutha of a plot- while his writing often confounded me, when the plot was revealed, I was usually quite taken. Which made The Merchant of Venice my favorite- love the bit at the end.
Congrats on the play writing- glad to hear the work is paying off.
It's rare to go a day now without at least seeing either The Simpsons or a reference to the Simpsons. It's one of those wierd things that always fills me with joy…
The weird thing with Shakespeare is that everyone thinks of it as high art and inacessible. True the language, what with it being Elizabethan and all, is hard to follow and a lot of the jokes are lost in the evolution of language, but Shakespeare was basically the Michael Bay of his time. Low brow, populist crap. It happens throughout history. The same thing happened to Dickens.
But the reason those guys endured was because whatever their writing style, or however they were viewed critically at the time, their stories were awesome. The Lion King is one of the first films I remember seeing, and that is basically Hamlet. Most of the story is lifted from it.
Merchant of Venice deserves plaudits simply for the 'pound of flesh' part.
Weird thing, regarding plays etc. I'm having to direct my own play now. All this started just before my Grandfather died, and my script nearly missed the deadline because of it. I never saw myself as sharing anything that much in common with the old man until I went to the funeral and heard hundreds of stories about him running/writing/acting in theatrical productions when he was about my age.
It was freaky, but lovely.
This has to be the best "murdered by Shakespeare" fantasy I've ever read. Kudos, sir, kudos.
I was actually turned on to Shakespeare in school, in an inverse of the general consensus here. Mostly because several of my friends were actors, so I went to see their productions, and in the end, Shakespeare is meant to be seen & heard, not read. Great stuff. My personal favorite was always The Tempest.
I love your first line, which implies you read many, many 'murdered by Shakespeare' fantasies…
There are few things worse as a bad production of Shakespeare, but there aren't many things more inspiring than seeing it acted well.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the cast my friend has put together for his production after Easter.
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this is hilarious.
one day we will have time-travel tube technology that will be able to make this drinking session happen.
i would like to be a fly on the wall for that drinking session.
Thanks Pixy.
Once the Doc converts the DeLorean I'm totally going off to go drinking with the Bard. You could come to. It'll be awesome.
Isn't it true that people were not only stealing from Shakespeare when he was alive, but that he was also shamelessly stealing entire stories from other people (like Francis Bacon)?
Your grim hypothetical conversation had me chuckling. And feeling a little sick. Nicely done.
There are a lot of people who think that Shakespeare took a lot of credit for plays he didn't write/stole credit outright from Marlowe…
We'll never know… not until Doc, Pixy and I travel back in the DeLorean. Want to come?
"You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!"
Some of these invented words work better than others. 😉 I bet Will would be proud of you, Irwin. A love of language and a wicked sense of humor are at the bottom of both your efforts.
Also, God as an alcoholic raconteur (ha!) gives me a slight measure of comfort as just an hour ago I was discussing Jesus' genitalia.
I'd be lying if I said I don't want to know why you were talking about Jesus' genatalia…
Shakey invented a lot of cool words. It's a shame, I think, that a lot of the genuine laughs in his works have been lost due to the evolution of language. I remember at school we always had the the copies with loads of translations so you'd read a 'funny bit' and fail to understand it. The you'd read what the words mean back then, or their equivalents, go back over it and it would be genuinely very clever and often laugh out loud funny.
Having said that he does seem to involve an awful lot of cross-dressing as major plot points. Maybe people looked different back then, or were just flat out stupid, but I like to think I could tell if a bloke was really a girl in disguise. Especially if, as in Twelfth Night, it was a girl I knew well…


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I am thrilled that Alison is coming back to campus. Blending rigorous scholarship and practical experience, she will work collaboratively with faculty to make sure that every student is well-equipped to take advantage all that the College has to offer, inside and outside our classrooms.
Kathryn Lively, dean of the College "
Alison May '97 Will Head Student Accessibility Services
July 23, 2019 by Charlotte Albright
May wants to ensure that all Dartmouth students have the positive experience she had.
Alison May '97 will become Dartmouth's next director of Student Accessibility Services, Kathryn Lively, dean of the College, announced today. May, who will be an assistant dean, will take over for Ward Newmeyer, who plans to retire in September.
"I want to thank Ward for 13 years of dedicated service to Dartmouth, promoting and enabling student success," says Lively. "And I am thrilled that Alison is coming back to campus. Blending rigorous scholarship and practical experience, she will work collaboratively with faculty to make sure that every student is well equipped to take advantage of what the College has to offer, inside and outside our classrooms."
May comes to Dartmouth from Northwestern University, where she has been assistant dean of students and director of AccessibleNU, which provides services for students with disabilities on five Northwestern campuses in the U.S. and abroad.
She promotes universal design for learning, a framework for teaching students based on scientific insights about how people learn. Among her responsibilities: collaborating with students and faculty to determine accommodations and services, supervising the university's testing center, providing and arranging academic coaching for students, and raising awareness about disabilities as a form of diversity.
Lisa Baldez, a professor of government and of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies who was involved in the interview process, says May's rich and varied experience in academic support services made her an exceptionally strong candidate.
"Since graduating from Dartmouth, Alison has dedicated her career to issues surrounding student accessibility. She is keenly aware of the challenges that accessibility presents for university students, staff, and faculty, and she comes to us with ample experience, deep knowledge, and brilliant ideas," says Baldez.
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Alison May '97 has been named director of Student Accessibility Services and assistant dean (Photo courtesy Alison May '97)
May received her bachelor's degree cum laude in psychology from Dartmouth and her PhD in learning disabilities from Northwestern. Her doctoral program is part of the communication sciences and disorders department, which emphasizes the evaluation and treatment of speech-language disorders and audiological conditions as well as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorders.
In addition to working at Northwestern, she has taught and directed programs supporting first-generation and low-income students, and students with disabilities at Oakton Community College and Columbia College Chicago.
Her interest in providing accessibility services in higher education began when she was attending Dartmouth. "I got my start as a work-study student in the Academic Skills Center. Nancy Pompian, the disability services director from 1987 to 2005, became a mentor, inspiring me to go into the field. When I left Dartmouth in 1997 for Northwestern's doctoral program in learning disabilities, I always dreamed of returning to Dartmouth's small-town, close-knit setting and of following in Nancy's footsteps, trying to make a significant impact on the way Dartmouth undergraduates live and learn."
May will report to Brian Reed, dean of undergraduate students. She begins work on Sept. 3, and says she's looking forward to helping current students gain access to the same positive experiences she had when she was an undergraduate.
"It feels a little funny to be packing up for Dartmouth all over again, 22 years after I arrived here as a student," she says. "I don't have all the same clothes I had then, but I'll still be bringing my Birkenstocks."
Charlotte Albright can be reached at [email protected].
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They were motoring around Santa Monica, Calif. -- in a souped-up Camaro.
Mario Andretti and Vince Granatelli, son of legendary autosports owner Andy Granatelli.
Andretti was in the passenger seat. Granatelli driving.
"He was showing off," Andretti said of that day in 1977.
They blew through an intersection -- going way too fast. Sirens sounded. The two pulled over.
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The police officer walked up. He was mad.
"Who do you think you are? Mario Andretti?" he asked Granatelli.
Laughter erupted from inside the car. The cop turned red. Now he was really mad.
"Vince just started laughing and the officer wasn't amused. You know? The best part was he looked really upset," Andretti said. "He said, 'Get out of the car.' And Vince says, 'That's him right there.' "
Mario Andretti. In the passenger seat.
Of course, the officer didn't believe these two guys for one second. "No. No it's not," he barked at them.
"He didn't know what I would look like, so I had to show him my license," Andretti said. "I was in town for the Grand Prix race Formula One."
Eventually, the officer realized it actually was Andretti in that car.
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"The cop said, 'Man, I've heard that name,'" Andretti said. "And it's just, for us, synonymous with speed."
Andretti smiled.
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The 2014 Japanese Grand Prix was won by Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes.
Despite being on pole position in Japan, Nico Rosberg could not convert this into a win.
The race in Japan was round 15 of 19 of the 2014 season.
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17 Marcus Ericsson Caterham 43 +1 Lap 0
18 Max Chilton Marussia 43 +1 Lap 0
19 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham 43 +1 Lap 0
20 Jules Bianchi Marussia 41 Accident 0
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2014 Japanese Grand Prix
The 2014 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 5 October at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Mie. It was the fifteenth round of the 2014 Formula One season and the 30th Japanese Grand Prix held as part of the Formula One World Championship. The 44-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who started from second position. His teammate, Nico Rosberg, finished second and Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel came in third. It was Hamilton's eighth victory of the season, his first at Suzuka and the 30th of his Formula One career.
Heavy rain from Typhoon Phanfone made the track surface wet and reduced visibility. Starting from behind the safety car, the race was stopped after two laps and resumed 20 minutes later. Rosberg immediately fended off a passing manoeuvre by Hamilton heading into the first corner. His car then experienced oversteer, and Hamilton reduced the time deficit between them. Hamilton challenged Rosberg for the lead over the next four laps, overtook him on the 29th lap and pulled away. Jules Bianchi made contact with the rear of a tractor crane at Dunlop Curve on the 43rd lap that was tending to Adrian Sutil's car (which had crashed one lap earlier) and the race was prematurely ended three laps later. The race result was counted back two laps, and Hamilton was declared the winner.
Bianchi was transported to hospital with severe head injuries, and was moved to his native France in November. He remained there until his death more than nine months later on 17 July 2015, when he was mourned by the motor sport community. Bianchi's accident prompted Formula One's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), to investigate the incident with a ten-person panel in which it was determined there was no single cause that prompted the crash. The victory allowed Hamilton to increase his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to ten points over Rosberg, who was 63 points in front of Daniel Ricciardo. Mercedes extended their advantage over Red Bull in the Constructors' Championship, and Williams remained ahead of Ferrari in the battle for third place with four races left in the season.


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The latest round of bonuses means senior associates at top-paying firms can now expect to make $465,000 or more—higher than the average profits per equity partner at plenty of Big Law firms.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore kicked off the Big Law year-end bonus pageant on Monday, telling first-year associates they're set to receive $15,000 and granting senior associates up to $100,000.
As in past years, other Am Law firms were quick to match Cravath's bonus scale, including Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom—while some boutiques are forking over even more.
The payouts come on the heels of significant associate salary increases and midyear bonuses announced this summer, first by Milbank and later surpassed by Cravath. Coupled with the new year-end bonuses, the most senior associates at Cravath and other top-tier firms now stand to take home $465,000.
Nearly $500,000 is a lot of money by any measure. It's also more than the average partner makes at a dozen Am Law 200 firms, according to ALM data.
Average profits per equity partner were below $465,000 last year at Bond, Schoeneck & King; Dinsmore & Shohl; Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott; GrayRobinson; Holland & Hart; Kutak Rock; Lane Powell; LeClairRyan; Littler Mendelson; Marshall Dennehey Warner, Coleman & Goggin; Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick; and Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker. In contrast, Cravath had the fifth-highest reported PPP last year, at just over $4 million. Wachtell led the pack with PPP of $5.7 million.
The fact that senior associates at some firms can outearn partners at others—even within the Am Law 200—is just more evidence of industry stratification, said Kent Zimmermann, a law firm management consultant at the Zeughauser Group.
The top-tier firms are benefiting from compounding year-over-year and paying higher average compensation, which gives them a recruiting advantage, he said.
"Many firms are updating their strategy to account for increasing competition for sought-after lawyers," Zimmermann said, citing increased merger activity as a sign of the pressures firms are facing.
Brad Hildebrandt, CEO of Hildebrandt Consulting, pointed out that law school enrollments have been down in recent years and, while they've stabilized a bit over time, that has still had an effect on the talent pool. "It's a recruiting and retention issue," he said.
"For the top firms, they are all trying to recruit the same group of people," Hildebrandt said, noting that 2018 is turning out to be a very good year for law firms in terms of revenue. But attrition rates are also high, with millennial lawyers tending to leave after three to four years in Big Law, he said.
Beyond bonuses, Big Law has spent the last year wooing associates with new programs and policies. Among other initiatives, several firms implemented expanded parental leave policies, as well as various flexible remote working programs.
Others have revamped their annual review processes in favor of more informal evaluations. Weil, Gotshal & Manges also shortened its path to partnership by two years in an attempt to hang onto associates who might otherwise leave in their fourth or fifth years.


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U.S. Mint asks Americans to 'start spending their coins' to help with coin shortage spurred by COVID-19
The U.S. Mint is asking for help solve the nationwide coin shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 shortage of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters led the Federal Reserve to start rationing coins in June, and banks have been begging customers to break out their piggy banks to pump more coins into circulation.
Because of the currency deficit, more retailers and restaurants are urging consumers to pay with cards or exact change, and some temporarily are either not giving change or, instead, offering the difference on loyalty cards.
Now, the Mint, which manufactures the nation's coin supply, is encouraging consumers to "start spending their coins, depositing them, or exchanging them for currency at financial institutions or taking them to a coin redemption kiosk."
"Until coin circulation patterns return to normal, it may be more difficult for retailers and small businesses to accept cash payments," the Mint said in a statement Thursday. "For millions of Americans, cash is the only form of payment and cash transactions rely on coins to make change."
The Mint says it has been operating at "full production capacity since mid-June, minting almost 1.6 billion coins during the month of June" and expects to produce 1.65 billion coins per month for the rest of the year. In 2019, it produced an average of 1 billion coins per month.
Since March, many businesses and experts have encouraged consumers to use contactless payment systems because of concerns about the potential spread of the viral infection via cash and credit cards changing hands.
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Several retailers, including Walmart, have converted some self-checkout registers to card-only.
"We're asking customers to pay with card or use correct change when possible if they need to pay with cash," Walmart spokeswoman Molly Blakeman said in a statement to USA TODAY, noting cash is still welcome.
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At select Target stores, shoppers are being asked to use "exact change or alternative payment, if they're able," spokeswoman Danielle Schumann said.
Other stores, such as Kroger and Stop & Shop, are suggesting that customers paying with cash should round up their total, with the difference donated to a charitable cause.
Kroger also is loading change onto a customer's loyalty card so the shopper can use that extra change on the card during their next trip.
Cash is still king
The finance culture has been discounting the importance of coins for years, even as they have continued to play a role in many aspects of day-to-day life.
Yet while some coin slots have been swapped out for card readers –such as on soda and snack machines, parking meters and even slot machines – coins are still king at many locally owned smaller businesses, such as laundromats.
Over the years, many big banks and even some credit unions have phased out services that would count coins and others have charged fees to customers and non-customers alike.
These days, instead of being charged fees, you might find a bonus at your local bank. To help boost coin supply, several banks have been waiving fees and going as far as offering extra cash back.
Some want the coins wrapped or rolled like Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank, where customers with wrapped coins can make appointments to bring them into a branch.
Others want the change loose, as it will be fed it into coin counting machines.
James Thurston, a spokesman for the Ohio Bankers League, says consumers can take advantage of the shortage and make some money. "Many (league) members are taking steps like offering coin counting machines at no charge to help customers convert coin holdings to cash or deposits," he said.
Through Sept. 1, Texas-based Amarillo National Bank is paying an extra 10% up to $500 to exchange coins for cash with no fees.
Wisconsin-based Community State Bank's coin buyback program, which ended July 21, offered an extra $5 for every $100 in coins brought in. One person brought in $4,000 in coins – netting a $200 bonus.
"People brought stuff in cans, bags and jars," said Greg Wall, the bank's chief innovation officer. "People have been sitting on this stuff for a long time and they finally had an opportunity to do something."
How to cash in coins for freebies
Some businesses are offering bonuses for cashing in.
Certain Wawa locations are offering customers who turn in rolled coins a free soda or sub in addition to the equivalent sum in bills.
Select 7-Eleven stores are incentivizing customers to bring in change, offering a free Slurpee to those who trade $5 in change for $5 in cash.
During the pandemic, Coinstar kiosks remained available but foot traffic at supermarkets and other locations was down and fewer people were exchanging coins, according to Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity.
"As lockdowns end, coin transactions and volumes through Coinstar kiosks are growing and, accordingly, we've been making more frequent coin pick-ups to help get coins back in circulation," Gaherity said in a statement.
Coinstar kiosks offer eGift Cards in exchange for coins without a fee. To get paper for your coins, there's an 11.9% service fee, which can vary by location.
Contributing: Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press; David P. Willis, Asbury Park Press; Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register; Brandon Holveck, Delaware News Journal; Samantha Raudins, The Columbus Dispatch
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Vila João Pessoa is a neighbourhood (bairro) in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959.

Neighbourhoods in Porto Alegre

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Q: Как поменять автора коммитов в bitbucket Создал новый аккаунт на bitbucket и на нем новый репозиторий и сделал первый коммит. Но автором коммита оказался мой старый аккаунт на bitbucket.
Видимо, где-то на компе нужно поменять конфиги бакета. Вопрос: где?
Или как сменить автора коммитов?

A: Git обозначает авторство парой «имя — e-mail». Bitbucket же отображает эту пару на учётную запись того или иного пользователя, основываясь на содержимом раздела «Bitbucket settings → GENERAL → Email addresses».
Соответственно, авторство можно переназначить прямо на сайте, без перезаписи репозитория. Для этого необходимо перенести e-mail адреса из вышеуказанного раздела из старой учётной записи в новую.
После этой манипуляции все коммиты на Bitbucket, когда-либо выполненные от имени старой учётной записи, тут же будут переназначены новой учётной записи.

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Trump considering State Department official for Russia post
President Donald Trump arrives to greet Romanian President Klaus Iohannis upon his arrival on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the No. 2 official at the State Department may be his next ambassador to Russia.
The president told reporters at the White House that Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan "could very well be" his nominee to fill the post. Ambassador John Huntsman announced his resignation earlier this month and said he would be returning home to Utah.
Trump says Sullivan is "very well respected" and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "likes him."
The president was asked about the matter Tuesday following a report in The New York Times that he was expected to nominate Sullivan to replace Huntsman.
Sullivan became deputy secretary of state in May 2017 and has held senior positions in the Justice, Defense and Commerce departments in both Bush administrations.


Some great environmental journalism today. In earlier blog posts, I have expressed my admiration of Thomas Fuller's work. He has a great analysis today, The hidden policy pitfalls of Climategate and the future of global warming.
Global warming almost literally lived and breathed because of sympathetic--no, passionately supportive--media coverage. Climategate cut the ground from under it. So no matter what the science says, and science isn't done saying its piece on this issue, there will be a large number of newly deaf ears in the audience. You can only lose the public's trust once. Climategate has done that for global warming advocates.
On numerous occasions I have offered the opinion that global warming has received the most one-sided coverage of any issue of my lifetime. The "rationalization" articles I cited below are just some of the latest. But, the tide seems to be turning toward more balanced coverage.