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Summary: Ser Jarod and Lord Rafferdy meet up in Stonebridge and talk on brothers and Rebellions and knighthoods and things on the long march to meet Ser Bruce near Tordane Tower.
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Outskirts of Stonebridge — Stonebridge
The trails are worn and well tended here and the fields on either side are lush and full of wildflowers amidst the lightly scattered trees of the central Cape of Eagles. A few packed dirt trails converge with the main road from outlying hamlets around Stonebridge.
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Those who watch the borders of Stonebridge could not miss the approach of Ser Jarod Rivers, riding with a pair of fellow guards in Terrick livery. They're making very little secret of their approach to Nayland nee Tordane lands. He reins in his sturdy brown courser before crossing into town, however, just waiting on the outskirts with his men. He has some feeling a Terrick in the area just now will eventually attract interest. He and his men are dressed for traveling but not armored beyond leather jerkins.
About fifteen minutes passes before there's noise up the path, the sound of an approaching horse. Another minute goes by before Rafferdy rounds the bend, coming into view atop a large brown horse. He's dressed in rather un-noble clothing, a simple brown leather pants with a matching brown leather doublet. A crossbow is mounted in a holster on the saddle, and a quiver of bolts hangs on his back. He comes to a halt about ten yards from the Terrick men, sizing them up, before looking at Jarod. "Rowan?" he asks.
Jarod moves not when he hears another horse approach, and motions for his men to likewise keep still. He just waits. Rafferdy is recognized, and he nods a little to himself. Not as bad as he was maybe figuring he'd get. Until Rafferdy greets him in that fashion. Then he frowns in a very tight-jawed manner and mutters, "Fuck me to seven hells…" under his breath. He clears his throat. Attempting to moderate his expression somewhat. "M'Lord Rafferdy. It really has been a lifetime since you've seen your younger brother, if you can mistake me for him.. I'm called Ser Jarod Rivers, in case you've forgotten. I parted company with Lord Rowan at Riverrun. I am here on quite different business." The crossbow is eyed, though he doesn't seem to be precisely surprised the business end of something is pointed at him.
Rafferdy smiles, "I didn't mistake you for him, Jarod. I was wondering why you'd come here without him." His eyes move from Jarod to each of the ser's men, before returning to Jarod. He lowers the crossbow, but still holds it ready enough to use quickly if it comes to it. "What brings you here?"
"Is Rowan sewn to my hip? I think not," is Jarod's somewhat snarky reply to that. "He is no longer even my squire. He keeps service to Ser Gedeon Rivers and the Oldstones now, and I leave him to it." He doesn't relax much when the crossbow is lowered, but he nods again to himself. Reaching slowly into his cloak and plucking out an envelope, when he extends his arm to offer toward Rafferdy. "I received this from Ser Rygar and have reason to believe it pertains to Ser Jaremy Middleton. Who is my half-brother. As I suspect Ser Rygar knew I would suspect when I received it."
Rafferdy tilts his head a little, "I was not aware he was now with Ser Gedeon." He looks at the letter, and then moves his horse closer so that he can reach out and take it. Giving it a quick once over, he returns it to Jarod. "I'm not interested in trouble, Ser Jarod." He lifts his eyes to Jarod's. "Nor do I bear interest in the animosity of our noble bloods. You seem an alright man, and my brother thinks fondly of you." He holsters the crossbow. "I trust you are seeking escort into Stonebridge, then?"
"Has been for some months now," Jarod answers in a mutter that's rather unhappy. Not that this would've been in any way obvious the way he and Rowan were paling around at Riverrun when they met Rafferdy. "It's a long story and Ser Rygar knows it if you're curious. I tire of telling it." He meets Rafferdy's eyes, expression moderating somewhat at the last of that. "I come here seeking no quarrel, nor bring one from my family. Jaremy is no longer a Terrick and, if what Ser Rygar writes of him has any speck of truth in it, my lord father shall not argue the justice of…whatever needs be done with him. But, aye. Escort is what I need. I would learn more of what my brother did here, and speak with Ser Rygar as a knight on what his fate will be."
Rafferdy studies Jarod for a long moment, and then he nods. He backs his horse a few steps, turning it, and then begins to lead them up the road at a casual pace. Assuming Jarod and his men follow, he moves his horse to ride beside Jarod. "You and Rowan seem very close, Ser Jarod," he observes, glancing at the other man, perhaps trying to make some form of friendly conversation as they head on.
"Do we seem that?" is Jarod's somewhat terse reply as he nudges his horse forward. He and his men will follow where Rafferdy leads. "Habit, I suppose. He served me for four years. I shall always bear the lad much fondness, but he found Ser Gedeon a better match for what he wanted. Out of the knighthood. I'll not argue." He strives to turn the conversation to any other subject. "You seem a curious man for a lordling. Or at least, a lordling who's passing found of commoner garb and bottom-shelf taverns."
Rafferdy furrows his brow a bit at Jarod's response. "You don't like me, do you?" he asks, kind of flatly, looking over at Jarod.
Jarod sighs at that, looking rather like he's biting his tongue. "I hold no dislike for you, m'lord," he replies, far less tersely than when he was going on about matters Rowan. "In truth, I like you better than any other Nayland I've met save your younger brother. From what little I know. At least, I'm not sorry to have fought the same bloke as you back in that tavern. It's just…been a long ride. Long week. And I half-worry I'll get to Tordane Tower and find my brother's head already mounted on a pike." It's humor, if a very black sort.
Rafferdy watches Jarod, and slowly nods. That seems to make a great deal of sense, and he looks up the road. "Truth be told, Ser Jarod… I'm…" He smirks, it's a little nervous as he admits this, "I'm actually jealous of you. With Rowan, I mean."
"Jealous, m'lord?" This earns a blank blink from Jarod. "I can pretty well assure you you've no reason to be. But what makes you say that?"
Rafferdy shrugs, "I hardly know him. I left home when I was young, he was even younger." He glances at Jarod, "In the bar, I didn't even recognize him until he told me who he was." He looks back up the road. "It seems I share little in common with most of my family, save Rutger." Offering a little chuckle, he shrugs once more, "I wish I could say I knew him as you seem to."
Jarod shrugs. "He's a good lad, and worth knowing, if you desire to be closer to him. I think he would like that. He seems to have little contact with his kin save his sister, Rowenna. The disowned one." He says the name quickly and dwells not on it. "I mean to speak no ill of your kinfolk, m'lord, but I gather Rowan was not well-done by in his lord father's house. I hope he found some measure of happiness with me and mine, though we no longer suit each other it seems."
Rafferdy sighs, "We all yearn for Father's approval. To be fair, Rowan was always a bit odd. I recall that even from what little I remember of our childhood. Sometimes not being done right by family is brought on ourselves as much as by them," he offers. "I'm sorry he's felt the need to leave your training. I hope the departure was amiable for you both."
"I thought it necessary at the time. Looking back, I'd have handled it different. But it's done now," Jarod says, as to Rowan's leaving his service. "I understand why he did it. And everyone yearns for their father's approval." He says it rather ruefully. "Though I imagine gaining that of my lord father is a different matter than gaining that of Lord Rickart. What sort of man is he, if I may ask? Rowan speaks of him little. I do not think he cares to."
Rafferdy shakes his head a little, "I could tell you how I imagine him to be, but… To be honest, I've not been in a room with him in 9 years." He shrugs, "He was stern. Loving, but kind of distant in that nobility way so many of us all are." He laughs a little, perhaps because this last hurts most, "Impossible to make proud of you." He looks at Jarod, "There are probably better Naylands to ask this question, Ser."
Jarod listens to that, though what he makes of it is unclear. He nods. "It was just an idle question anyhow, and none of my business. What'd he make of you going off to join Good King Robert's forces during the Rebellion? For us, it was family duty. I was squired to the Mallisters at the time, and my lord father marched our banners to war himself to join the host. The Naylands held back with the Freys. And even those others I've met who chose to go on their own, like Ser Rygar, took up arms for the Mad King."
Rafferdy inhales slowly, then rolls his head a little before he answers. "Well… I was squired to a Frey knight at the time. I was a… difficult boy. Father arranged me to squire hoping it would straighten me out, give me direction. But, to fight in the rebellion, I had to abandon that. The Frey dismissed my service, obviously. I thought he would be proud I was doing what I believed in. He was more disappointed by my dismissal. That was really the last time I saw him." He shrugs, "I was young. I thought I'd do some fantastic act of bravery and be knighted in the field of battle." He smirks, "That wasn't to be."
"Aye, it wasn't to be," Jarod concurs grimly. "I had the same thoughts. I was all of pride when Lord Tully called the banners. Thought it'd be like in the songs. I'd be some great hero, slay Aerys and his Kingsguard myself, that sort of rot. And I got to go while my elder fair lord brother was held back at home. Can't say I didn't take some enjoyment in that." He smirks, snorting. "Up close it was all just a bloody mess, and I was a stupid boy who was lucky he didn't impale himself on his own sword. Anyone ever ask you what it was like to see Robert Baratheon kill Prince Rhaegar at the Trident." Another snort. "That's what all who weren't there seem to ask me. I didn't see a bit of it. All blurs together in my head like a nightmare. Didn't know we'd won until my knight, Ser Vernon, was shaking me by the shoulder and telling me Prince Rhaegar was dead. Heard it like it was a story already, even though it'd happened near enough for me to go and touch his corpse if I would've had a mind to."
Rafferdy laughs, "That question could drive a man insane, given how often I've heard it, too." He smiles, "I ended up with the peasants, leading a division of archers." He shakes his head, "I wasn't even IN any close combat." With a sigh, he adds, "Not that we didn't contribute, or do well in the fight. Just… There wasn't anything going to get me knighted at that distance."
The smile is returned, an easy grin on Jarod's part, albeit one that doesn't quite touch his green eyes. "I took an arrow from one of Rhaegar's men in the shoulder. I can attest for the value of the bow. But, aye. It seems…there was less sense to all that than I'd thought there'd be, when I was a boy and squiring." The half-Terrick is in an introspective mood now. "You know? It seems like this big…thing. Being knighted. Like it's going to change you somehow, make you better somehow. To this day I can't think of what the fuck I did to deserve it. They were knighting every rebel squire even close to of age with all his limbs attached who'd held a sword that day. I led nothing, not sure I even killed any of the Royalists. The fighting was so thick in the center you couldn't tell if you were doing more than just getting men off you. And that's what makes you a knight. No damn sense."
Bruce arrives from the Town Square.
Rafferdy nods, "I was in the Center as well." He shrugs, "I only wanted to be knighted to make Father proud." He glances at Jarod, "I like to think, that had I been, he would be, and maybe it WOULD have been that big thing, and maybe changed something." He looks back up the road as they approach the outskirts of Stonebridge. "But who knows."
Jarod snorts a laugh at that, aimed mostly at himself. "So did I," he admits. "Only wanted to be knighted to make my father proud, that is. And prove I was as good as my half-brothers. I didn't feel any different after, for my part. But, aye, who knows? We both seem to have survived in the world with and without it." Rafferdy is leading Jarod, and a pair of other guards in Terrick livery, into Stonebridge. The Terricks are dressed for travel in leather jerkins, but not armored apart from that. They're headed toward Tordane Tower.
Bruce generally doesn't travel, or go on duty, without being armoured. Today is no exception - as the Stonebridge Captain of the Guard and two of the town's Guardsmen come into view, they're kitted up. Bruce's helmet hangs slung at his belt, and he's got a wooden mug filled with something steaming.
When Bruce comes into view, Rafferdy gives Jarod a nod, and rides a few yards ahead to meet Bruce and his men. "Captain," Rafferdy greets. "Ser Jarod Rivers," he announces, "is seeking audience with Ser Rygar concerning a letter sent between them." He rides then to the side, to allow Bruce to address Jarod.
"Ser Bruce. We have got to stop meeting like this," is Jarod's dry greeting to the Stonebridge Captain of the Guard. "Aye. When I was last in Stonebridge, after my brother Ser Jaremy Middleton…" Not Terrick. "…fled the Roost, I asked Ser Rygar to give me his word as a knight he'd inform me if Jaremy turned up. I received this a couple of days ago." He removes a letter, opened but with the broken seal of orange wax still intact, and bearing the harpy stamp. "I figure the rogue knight mentioned in it…well. I figure Ser Jaremy's turned up."
Bruce's eyebrow arches upwards curiously at Rafferdy, and he nods tiredly at the young Nayland. Then he glances over to the his Terrick counterpart with a slight smile. "Ser Jarod, well met. Aye." He glances down at the short letter, skimming it with an apparent familiarity to letters. He offers it back to Jarod. "Aye. It's him we captured. I tied his hands up myself, after he was torn from his horse."
Rafferdy remains silent, these affairs not really his own. He simply remains there, to ensure nothing goes wrong.
Jarod takes the letter back and tucks it carefully in the inner folds of his traveling cloak. "First things first, Ser. I would hear a clear account of my brother's actions, but if they are even near to what's described here, he must be dealt with under the law in sternest fashion. I have this from the Young Lord Jacsen himself. I come not to bargain for his freedom or even mercy, save one thought I have that might be to the better of both our parties than his head on a spike. I do swear upon my honor that nothing Jaremy has done since he left has had the sanction of my family. He has acted alone, and in a manner that contains no honor if this is even a word true."
"I hardly think your father would have gone to the lengths of disowning him if he were acting on the orders of House Terrick, so I don't think there's anything to miscontrue in that sense. Simple enough - there were rumours since he disappeared that he'd been raising troops. In truth, he had been raising something. I think troops is a poor word for it. Most were rabble, smallfolk with nothing to lose. Two sellswords. And himself. We confronted them on Nayland land, surrounded them and moved in. We asked for them to yield. Some did. Ser Jaremy did not. In truth, we weren't absolutely sure who it was until Ser Riordan pulled his helmet off." Bruce explains, with a shrug. "But Ser Jaremy's actions caused the death of one of Stonebridge's smallfolk, and the wounding of a levy Serjeant and a tanner in town. As well as, very possibly, crimes of banditry.
Rafferdy watches Jarod for any reaction, but again, remains silent.
Ser Jarod and Rafferdy are ahorse, along with two Terrick Guardsmen. Ser Bruce and his two Guardsmen are afoot. There is conversation,.
"Shit, Jaremy, what in seven hells have you done?" is Jarod's primary reaction, muttered under his breath as the tale unfolds. Showing more shock than he perhaps figured he would, after absorbing that letter all this time. Deep breath, which he lets out slow. "So…he tried to mount a peasant insurrection against Stonebridge and got a bunch of folk who weren't himself slaughtered or hurt." He seems to need to put the terrible absurdity of it in boiled-down terms, just so he can boggle at it more. "Mother have mercy on him. Can't figure anyone else is terribly keen to."
"Yes, he did, it seems." Bruce shrugs, looking little concerned with things now. "Those folk acted on their own concert. If they hadn't wanted to follow him, they wouldn't have. It's their own fault they were killed, they could have yielded like their friends. In any case, Ser Rygar holds Ser Jaremy captive now, as I've said."
Rafferdy continues to sit on his horse quietly.
"Fuck." Jarod takes a moment just to absorb things. Even with that, this is all going to take awhile to settle itself in his brain. He clears his throat. "As I said, my family will understand he must be dealt with as justice dictates. This…this cannot happen if there's to be any law upheld in the land. I have but two requests to make to Ser Rygar, and Lady Valda I suppose it'll have to be as well. One as a brother, one as a knight."
From the direction of Tordane Tower, one of Bruce's guardsmen approaches. Moving at a good clip, but not in such haste that he cannot slow to a more polite pace before offering a salute to his Captain. "Ser Longbough. Word from the castellan: Ser Jarod and his entourage are to be given an audience at the Tower."
"Well, I guess that answers that." Bruce mumbles to himself as the entourage moves towards Tordane Tower.
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Increasing income inequality and stagnant rates of economic mobility have called into question the promise of equal opportunity and the plausibility of the American Dream. Forty-three percent of individuals born into the lowest 20 percent of the income distribution (the bottom quintile) remain there the rest of their lives, earning $11,490 per year on average. Seventy percent never reach the middle quintile.
Black Americans have a particularly difficult time getting ahead; they are more likely to be born into the bottom income quintile (65 percent vs. 11 percent of whites) and less likely to escape the bottom rung (47 percent compared with 67 percent of whites).
As politicians, researchers, and others discuss inequality, equal opportunity, and upward mobility, we need to move the conversation beyond education and employment and consider the central role housing plays.
Not only is part of the American Dream to have a home of one's own, but stable, affordable housing is central to individuals' and families' well-being. It plays a critical role in people's lives—as a major consumption item, a source of safety and stability, the place where one pursues education or employment, and a nationally encouraged means for accumulating wealth.
And where families live can directly influence the educational, employment, and other resources to which they have access. The Great Recession was a reminder that housing not only supports upward mobility, but can cause downward mobility as well.
Effective housing policy can provide low-income people with ladders of opportunity to the middle class and the necessary safety nets to withstand financial shocks. The Urban Institute, with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, hosted a roundtable in early April to discuss these topics in depth and explore how housing policy can promote economic mobility (check out our recent Urban.org policy debate to explore some of the ideas shared at the convening).
Unfortunately, many current federal, state, and local housing policies in the United States impede mobility. Exclusionary zoning, predatory mortgage lending practices, and numerous tax policies have restricted movement, limited choice, and sustained economic and racial segregation.
Pat Sharkey's research shows low-income individuals, particularly minorities, are inheriting the disadvantaged neighborhoods in which their parents lived. These neighborhoods suffer from disinvestment, low-performing schools, violence, and reduced financial, social, and human capital.
Local variation in economic mobility extends beyond neighborhoods to cities and commuting zones. The odds of a child raised in the bottom income quintile rising to the top in San Jose, CA are 12.9 percent, but only 4.4 percent for a child in Charlotte, NC. These geographic differences are correlated with income segregation, income inequality, local school quality, social capital, and family structure, many of which tie back to the importance of place and stable, affordable housing.
Policymakers, researchers, and practitioners all need to explore more deeply how federal, state, and local actors can best work together to promote economic mobility. Current calls to restructure the federal mortgage interest deduction to better support low- and moderate-income homeowners and to use the additional federal resources to provide rental assistance present promising pathways.
Small area fair market rents, by which payment levels are established at the zip code rather than metropolitan level, can avoid over-subsidizing units in high-poverty neighborhoods and give families more ability to afford units in low-poverty neighborhoods. We have models from recent disaster recovery efforts and the Strong Cities Strong Communities initiative to inform more effective use of federal resources to improve communities.
While we have much more to learn, efforts to promote economic mobility, particularly among low-income families and families of color, must recognize housing as a critical tool in the policy toolbox.


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Posted Tue, November 27th, 2012 10:14 am
Posted Tue, November 27th, 2012 10:14 am by Kiran Bhat
The Court heard arguments in two cases yesterday. In FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, the Court considered when states may pass on immunity from federal antitrust laws to private firms that they have assigned to perform a public task. At this blog, Lyle Denniston reports that the Justices "came away apparently unsatisfied" that the respondent, a hospital monopoly in Georgia, had made the requisite showing to obtain such immunity. The Albany (Ga.) Herald and the Associated Press (via The Washington Post) have additional coverage.
In Vance v. Ball State University, the Court considered the limits of the "supervisor" liability rule established by Faragher v. City of Boca Raton and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth. Lyle Denniston of this blog has coverage, as do Greg Stohr of Bloomberg, Nina Totenberg of NPR, Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Robert Barnes of The Washington Post, Jonathan Stempel of Reuters, Bill Mears of CNN, David G. Savage of the Los Angeles Times, Lauren Weber of The Wall Street Journal, and Jesse J. Holland of the Associated Press. Transcripts of arguments in both cases are available here.
The Court also issued additional orders from its November 20 Conference. Writing for this blog, Lyle covered the order list, which included an order reviving Liberty University's challenge to the individual and employer mandates of the Affordable Care Act. Greg Stohr of Bloomberg, Mark Sherman of the Associated Press, Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, UPI, Warren Richey of the Christian Science Monitor, Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal, Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post, David G. Savage of the Los Angeles Times,, Rick Ungar of Forbes, and Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel of Reuters all have coverage of the Court's health care order, while Samuel Bagenstos at Balkinization, Amanda Simon of ACSblog, and Daniel Fisher of Forbes offer commentary.
Other coverage of yesterday's order list focused on cases in which the Court denied review yesterday. Greg Stohr of Bloomberg, the Associated Press, Bruce Alpert of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Jonathan Stempel of Reuters, Mark Memmott of NPR, and Paul Singer of USA Today all cover the Court's denial of the petition filed by Louisiana congressman William Jefferson, who was convicted on corruption charges.
The Associated Press and McClatchy Newspapers cover the denial of cert. in The California Table Grape Commission v. Delano Farms Co., in which a trade association is seeking review of a lower court's decision allowing private companies to challenge in court the Commission's patents on certain types of grapes.
Michael Tarm of the Associated Press, Eyder Peralta of NPR, Jason Meisner of the Chicago Tribune, Mark Guarino of the Christian Science Monitor, and Martha Neil of the ABA Journal cover the Court's order denying review of a decision finding unconstitutional parts of an Illinois anti-eavesdropping law used to arrest citizens recording police officers.
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg, Robert Barnes of The Washington Post, David G. Savage of the Los Angeles Times, Warren Richey of the Christian Science Monitor, and Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal cover the Court's denial in a case challenging Idaho's restriction of the insanity defense. Elizabeth Wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Center describes the denial as "disappointing," but Douglas A. Berman of Sentencing Law and Policy explains why he isn't troubled. [Disclosure: The firm of Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, was among the counsel to the petition in this case.]
Finally, coverage of the challenges to the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8, which the Court will consider at its Conference on Friday, comes from Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News, David G. Savage of the Los Angeles Times, Brooke Sopelsa and Mike Sacks of the Huffington Post, and Lisa Leff of the Associated Press. And Lyle Denniston of this blog begins a four-part series on the same-sex marriage cases in anticipation of Friday's Conference.
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg reports that the Court declined to review a twenty-million-dollar decision in favor of smokers and against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
At MinnPost, Eric Black chronicles the increasingly partisan nature of Supreme Court nominations and confirmations.
Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal covers yesterday's decision in Nitro-Lift Technologies v. Howard, in which the Court summarily vacated an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision denying relief under the Federal Arbitration Act.
In an op-ed for the New Hampshire Sentinel Source, Gray Fitzgerald urges retired Justice David Souter to "be the guiding force leading us toward the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would reverse the" Court's decision in Citizens United.
The Associated Press (via The Washington Post) notes that the average age of the Justices is lower than the average age of the Rolling Stones.
In an op-ed for The National Law Journal, Robert Johnson discusses a brief filed by a group of current and former prosecutors in Chaidez v. United States. [Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, serves as counsel to the petitioner in this case.]
At the Washington Legal Foundation's blog The Legal Pulse, Glenn Lammi argues for a new approach to the Court's "commercial speech" doctrine.
Recommended Citation: Kiran Bhat, Tuesday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 27, 2012, 10:14 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/11/tuesday-round-up-151/


LONDON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The fast-growing market demand of civil aircraft and rapid development of aviation industry offer unprecedented opportunities for cooperation between China and Europe which has seen remarkable progress in recent years.
At the ongoing renowned Farnborough International Airshow in southwest of London, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has announced the establishment of AVIC Cabin Systems Co., Ltd. (ACS).
The operational headquarters of ACS, with its products covering most segments of cabin interiors industry with high-profile customers such as Boeing and Airbus, is based in London.
"The fact that the company's operational headquarters is based in London demonstrated AVIC's confidence about the business environment in the UK and Europe, and it is another important step of AVIC's globalization," said Chairman of AVIC Tan Ruisong at the launching ceremony.
Statistics shows that the global market of cabin interiors in 2017 was valued at 12.6 billion dollars and is anticipated to grow to 14.4 billion dollars in 2020 and 18.4 billion dollars in 2025 with an annual rate of nearly 5 percent.
Gary Montgomery, CEO of Thompson Aero Seating, a major ACS supplier of first-class and business class seats based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said the establishment of ACS will help create synergy across the cabin companies and provide better products and services to global customers, noting that he is optimistic about the prospects of ACS.
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador to the UK, who also attended the ceremony, said it is exciting to witness "China-UK cooperation on aviation moving up to a new level."
The event has a significant impact on the aviation sector in both China and the UK, and the world aviation development, he said.
As early as 1997, the Aviation Working Group was set up under the China-UK Joint Economic and Trade Commission in a move to enhance cooperation on aviation technology and engineering.
In 2017, a major outcome was reached at the 9th China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue to expand air traffic right. According to this arrangement, the number of direct flights between the two countries was to increase by 50 percent to 150 per week. Recently, Chinese airlines opened five new direct flights between China and Britain.
"It is amid such an exciting development that AVIC Cabin Systems is born. This meets the need of upgrading China-UK 'air corridor'. It is a vivid example of the thriving cooperation between our two countries on aviation," said the Chinese ambassador.
The Chinese aviation industry, though a late starter, has grown rapidly to become an important pillar of China's economic restructuring. China is considered the world's most promising aviation market. By 2020, China will have over 500 general aviation airports and more than 5,000 general aviation aircraft.
Last month, China issued Special Management Measures (Negative List) for the Access of Foreign Investment (2018) to further increase access to the manufacturing sector. Foreign-ownership limits for manufacturers of certain aircraft, including trunk route aircraft, regional aircraft, general-use aircraft, helicopter, drone and aerostat, are removed.
"These measures will help accelerate the integration of China's aviation industry in the global supply chain. They will also create growth opportunities for global partners, including those in the UK," said the ambassador.
The week-long Farnborough International Airshow kicked off on Monday with exhibitors from nearly 100 countries. The presence of more than 20 Chinese aviation companies is the largest in the show's history, with 70 percent growth in participation since the 2016 show.
Xu Gang, CEO of Airbus China, said the long-standing cooperation between Airbus and China is an exemplar of China-Europe cooperation in the high-tech field.
Airbus has committed to raising A320 production capacity at its final assembly line (FAL) in Tianjin in north China, from four to six per month by 2020. It has delivered more than 370 aircraft since the FAL started operation in 2008 as the first Airbus single aisle Final Assembly Line outside Europe.
The rise of production also requires strengthened capacity from the Chinese partners, said Xu. The Airbus A320 FAL in Tianjin is a joint venture involving Airbus, Aviation Industry Corporation of China and Tianjin Free Trade zone.
Meanwhile, Airbus has announced that its second global innovation center will be established in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, with the aim to accelerate innovation and shape the future of flight.
"China enjoys huge capability and potential in the aviation industry, and I have full confidence in the future of Chinese aviation market," Xu said.


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Freezing rain and 'treacherous ice' warning for Cumbria as Met Office warns of dangerous conditions
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice for Cumbria
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Cumbria is set to be hit by freezing rain, with the Met Office warning of "treacherous" conditions.
A yellow weather warning for ice has been issued for Cumbria and remains in place until 3pm today.
The Met Office warns that "treacherous ice may develop, at least in a few places, following freezing rain. Where it occurs, significant disruption is possible."
The national weather forecast adds that the wintry conditions could pose "dangerous driving conditions" which could lead to car crashes, road closures and longer journey times.
There is also a "small chance" of injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces and untreated pavements and cycle paths may quickly become "treacherous and possibly impassable."
The warning adds: "Further freezing rain is possible this morning and early afternoon over Scotland and also over high ground in northern England. This freezing rain is likely to be quite localised, but where it does occur will rapidly cause icy and and somewhat treacherous stretches on roads and pavements."
Ice warning for parts of Cumbria (Image: Met Office)
Chief meteorologist at the Met Office, Neil Armstrong, said: "For the past week the UK has been in a very cold airmass with temperatures well below average, this will change through the weekend as milder air moves in from the Atlantic and pushes that cold airmass out into the North Sea.
"Where temperatures were close to freezing in many places last week, we could expect to see 11C or 12C next week.
"There are still some wintry hazards to get through over the next few days, with low temperatures, strong winds and further snow especially in Northern Ireland."
He added: "On Sunday there is a risk of freezing rain over the high ground in Scotland and northern England, with further snow in the Scottish hills, before turning to rain as the warm air takes hold."
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The coldest UK temperature for 65 years was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire on Wednesday night, when the mercury dropped down to -23C.
A record low temperature for February was also recorded in England and Wales when temperatures in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, dropped to -15.3C overnight on Thursday.
Public Health England (PHE) has extended its cold weather alert through the weekend and has urged people to check on vulnerable relatives and neighbours.
Dr Owen Landeg, group leader for extreme events and health protection at PHE, said: "Cold weather can have a serious impact on health, particularly for older people and those with heart and lung problems, as it increases the risks of heart attacks, strokes and chest infections.
"Make a call, or socially-distanced doorstep visit if they live close by, to remind them to heat their home to at least 18C, 64.4F, and to keep up to date with the forecast.
"It's also helpful to check they have enough food and drinks and any medicines they need."
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1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
2000 – Jackie Evancho, American singer. Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho (/iːˈvæŋkoʊ/ ee-VANG-koh; born April 9, 2000) is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age.
1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress. She is best known for her recent works in a number of independent films, and her portrayal as Aurora in the Maleficent film series.
1996 – Emerson Hyndman, American soccer player. Emerson Schellas Hyndman (born April 9, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays for Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer.
1994 – Joey Pollari, American actor. Joey Pollari (born April 9, 1994) is an American actor who became well known for his role as Tyler in the Disney XD first original movie Skyrunners, which premiered in 2009.
1992 – Joshua Ledet, American singer. He is known for his "soaring, church-bred brand of old school soul music." In 2017, he released a self-titled EP.
1991 – Mary Killman, American synchronized swimmer. After switching to synchronized swimming from race swimming, Killman was a member of the teams that won silver medals in the duet and team competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico and 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1990 – Kristen Stewart, American actress. She was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2012.
1989 – Danielle Kahle, American figure skater. She won one senior international medal, silver, at the 2006 Karl Schäfer Memorial.
1987 – Craig Mabbitt, American singer. He was formerly the lead vocalist for the bands Blessthefall and The Word Alive.
1987 – Graham Gano, American football player. Graham Clark Gano (born April 9, 1987) is a Scottish-born American football placekicker for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).
1987 – Jazmine Sullivan, American singer-songwriter. It is certified gold in the US.
1987 – Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter and actor. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career.
1986 – Leighton Meester, American actress. She has also appeared in films such as Killer Movie (2008), Country Strong (2010), The Roommate (2011), Monte Carlo (2011), The Oranges (2011) and The Judge (2014).
1982 – Kathleen Munroe, Canadian-American actress. Kathleen Munroe (born April 9, 1982) is a Canadian actress.
1981 – A. J. Ellis, American baseball player. Andrew James Ellis (born April 9, 1981), is an American former professional baseball catcher who is currently a Special Assistant to the General Manager in the front office of the San Diego Padres.
1981 – Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player. Dennis Scott Sarfate (born April 9, 1981) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
1979 – Albert Hammond, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A prolific songwriter, he collaborated most notably with the songwriters Mike Hazlewood, John Bettis, Diane Warren, Holly Knight and Carole Bayer Sager.
1977 – Gerard Way, American singer-songwriter and comic book writer. In 2014, he released his debut solo album, Hesitant Alien.
1976 – Kyle Peterson, American baseball player and sportscaster. Kyle Johnathan Peterson (born April 9, 1976) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.
1975 – David Gordon Green, American director and screenwriter. He directed the dramas George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), and Snow Angels (2007), as well as the thriller Undertow (2004), all of which he wrote or co-wrote.
1971 – Austin Peck, American actor. He is best known for his work in daytime soap operas.
1968 – Jay Chandrasekhar, American actor, comedian, writer and director. Since 2001 he has also worked frequently as a television director, directing many episodes of Community and The Goldbergs, among dozens of other comedy series.
1967 – Sam Harris, American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and Islam in particular, and is described as one of the "Four Horsemen of Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.
1966 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).
1965 – Jeff Zucker, American businessman. Jeffrey Adam Zucker (born April 9, 1965) is an American media executive.
1965 – Paulina Porizkova, Czech-born Swedish-American model and actress. Born in Czechoslovakia, she now holds dual U.S. and Swedish citizenship.
1964 – Margaret Peterson Haddix, American author. Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (2008-2015).
1964 – Rick Tocchet, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach. Playing as a right winger, he played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals and Phoenix Coyotes.
1964 – Rob Awalt, German-American football player. Robert Mitchell Awalt (born April 9, 1964) is former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Phoenix Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys, and Buffalo Bills.
1963 – Joe Scarborough, American journalist, lawyer, and politician. Charles Joseph Scarborough (/ˈskɑːrbʌroʊ/; born April 9, 1963) is an American cable news host, musician, and former congressman from Florida.
1963 – Marc Jacobs, American-French fashion designer. At one point there were over 200 retail stores in 80 countries.
1962 – Jeff Turner, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster. He ended his NBA career with 3,697 career points.
1962 – John Eaves, American production designer and illustrator. John Eaves (born April 9, 1962) is a designer and illustrator best known for his work on the Star Trek franchise, starting with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
1954 – Dennis Quaid, American actor. Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles.
1954 – Ken Kalfus, American journalist and author. Three of his books have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
1953 – Hal Ketchum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hal Michael Ketchum (born April 9, 1953) is an American country music artist.
1946 – Nate Colbert, American baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Houston Astros (1966, 1968), San Diego Padres (1969–74), Detroit Tigers (1975), Montreal Expos (1975–76), and Oakland Athletics (1976).
1945 – Peter Gammons, American journalist. G.
1945 – Steve Gadd, American drummer and percussionist. Gadd's performances on Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", "Late in the Evening", and Steely Dan's "Aja" are examples of his style.
1944 – Joe Brinkman, American baseball player and umpire. Joseph Norbert Brinkman (born April 9, 1944) is an American former umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the American League (AL) from 1972 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000 until his retirement during the 2006 season.
1943 – Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004), was an American rock and roll music producer, promoter, singer, songwriter and radio personality, who enjoyed some success in radio, modest success as a singer, but phenomenal success as the original manager-producer for Grand Funk Railroad and the producer for Bloodrock.
1942 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (d. 1972), was an American theater, film, and television actor. Born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn, he debuted on Broadway at the age of seven and became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding.
1942 – Margo Smith, American singer-songwriter. Margo Smith (born Betty Lou Miller; April 9, 1942, Dayton, Ohio) is an American country music singer.
1939 – Michael Learned, American actress. Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981).
1936 – Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist author, attempted murderer (d. 1988), was an American radical feminist and author best known for writing the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and attempting to murder Andy Warhol in 1968.
1935 – Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (d. 2002), was an American comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, television, and film who came to prominence in the 1960s in a comedy duo with Jack Burns.
1933 – Fern Michaels, American author. Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir; April 9, 1933) is an American author of romance and thriller novels, including nearly 150 best selling books with nearly 200 million copies in print.
1932 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998), was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".
1932 – Jim Fowler, American zoologist and television host, was an American professional zoologist and host of the acclaimed wildlife documentary television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
1930 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist and academic (d. 2007). Frank Albert Cotton (known as "Al" Cotton, or "F Albert" on publications) was born on April 9, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1930 – Nathaniel Branden, Canadian-American psychotherapist and author (d. 2014), was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism.
1930 – Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, founded McCain Foods (d. 2011). Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick to father and owner of seed potato exporting business Andrew Davis McCain (1878-1953) and mother Laura Blanche (Perley) McCain (1891-1982), he received a Bachelor of Arts from Mount Allison University in 1951.
1929 – Paule Marshall, American author and academic, was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel Brown Girl, Brownstones. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant.
1928 – Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006), was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962. He retired with the third highest career point total (16,266) in NBA history, and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History upon its 50th anniversary in 1996.
1928 – Tom Lehrer, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and mathematician. He is best known for the pithy and humorous songs that he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.
1926 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (d. 2017), was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity.
1925 – Art Kane, American photographer (d. 1995), was an American fashion and music photographer active from the 1950s through the early 1990s. He created many portraits of contemporary musicians, including Bob Dylan, Sonny and Cher, Aretha Franklin, Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, and The Who.
1925 – Virginia Gibson, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2013), was an American dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre.
1923 – Leonard Levy, American historian and author (d. 2006), was an American historian, the Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of History at Claremont Graduate School, California, who specialized in the history of basic American Constitutional freedoms.
1921 – Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006), was an American actor, author and bridge-strategy expert who played both lead and supporting roles on Broadway, in films, in post-World War II radio, and in early television. He was best known for his starring role in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.
1919 – J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (d. 1995), was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.
1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (d. 2008). Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC, Hon.
1917 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002), was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960) and producing several films for Sidney J.
1916 – Julian Dash, American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1974), was an American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist born in Charleston, South Carolina, probably better known for his work with Erskine Hawkins and Buck Clayton.
1910 – Abraham A. Ribicoff, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 1998), was an American Democratic Party politician. He served as a United States Senator, as the 80th Governor of Connecticut and as President John F.
1908 – Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (d. 1980), was an American writer of books and screenplays. He was the first person to win two annual Newbery Medals for the most distinguished new American children's book.
1906 – Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (d. 1988), was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
1905 – J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (d. 1995), was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
1904 – Sharkey Bonano, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1972), was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist. His musical abilities were sometimes overlooked because of his love of being an entertainer; he would often sing silly lyrics in a high raspy voice and break into dance on stage.
1903 – Ward Bond, American actor (d. 1960), was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 200 films and the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert, the cop, in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's The Searchers (1956).
1901 – Paul Willis, American actor and director (d. 1960). Paul Willis (born 1945) is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies.
1900 – Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (d. 1974), was an American character actor and singer who worked on stage, film, and television.
1898 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (d. 1965), was a professional American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). Lambeau, along with his friend and fellow Green Bay, Wisconsin native George Whitney Calhoun, founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919.
1898 – Paul Robeson, American singer, actor, and activist (d. 1976), was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth.
1897 – John B. Gambling, American radio host (d. 1974), was an American radio personality. He was a member of The Gambling family, 3 generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. - were hosts of WOR Radio's (New York City, 710 AM) morning show Rambling with Gambling (now known as The John Gambling Show) over the course of over 75 years (1925–2000 and 2008–present).
1895 – Mance Lipscomb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976), was an American blues singer, guitarist and songster. He was born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas.
1893 – Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (d.1967), was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.
1893 – Victor Gollancz, English publisher, founded Victor Gollancz Ltd (d. 1967), was a British publisher and humanitarian.
1888 – Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American talent manager (d. 1974), was a 20th-century American impresario.
1875 – Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and author (d. 1912), was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S.
1865 – Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Polish-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1923), was a German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers.
1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer, designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge (d. 1859), was a British civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.
2016 – Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932)
2015 – Ivan Doig, American journalist and author (b. 1939)
2015 – Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2015 – Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Chinese-American academic (b. 1909)
2014 – Gil Askey, American trumpet player, composer, and producer (b. 1925)
2014 – Rory Ellinger, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
2013 – Greg McCrary, American football player (b. 1952)
2013 – McCandlish Phillips, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
2013 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (b. 1919)
2011 – Sidney Lumet, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2009 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2007 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (b. 1907)
2006 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, manager (b. 1916)
2003 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
1998 – Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1997 – Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1997 – Mae Boren Axton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
1996 – Richard Condon, American author and publicist (b. 1915)
1993 – Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903)
1991 – Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)
1988 – Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
1988 – Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
1978 – Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
1976 – Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903)
1976 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
1970 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator (b. 1896)
1963 – Eddie Edwards, American trombonist (b. 1891)
1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (b. 1867)
1953 – Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach (b. 1877)
1926 – Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1909 – Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1872 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch
A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition. An…
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Ladies of the Night (Plus vieux métier du monde, Le) (1967)
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Magic Christian, The (1969)
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No one ever really dies in comics — and now the "dead quarter," when comics sales traditionally go into hibernation, isn't dead any more, either. Retailers ordered at least a million more comic books in the first quarter of 2006 than in the first quarter of 2005, according to my analysis of the sales reports released by Diamond Comic Distributors on April 14.
We're at $89 million overall for the first three months of 2006, up 9% from the first quarter of 2005. The chart analysis for March appears here.
Marvel reached a notable threshold in March, placing 100 comics on Diamond's Top 300 list. That's a quantity we haven't seen in many years, although as the list includes reordered comics, many are appearing for the second time. The period of highest volume for Marvel offerings would have been in the early 1990s, when it often had more than 120 titles in the market.
Comics unit sales: The Top 300 comic books had retailer orders of 6.99 million copies in March 2006, 4% more than March 2005, which also had five shipping weeks. Retailers ordered 27,000 more comic books in March 2006.
For the first quarter of 2006, the Top 300 comic books had orders of 18.61 million units, 6% more than 2005?s total of 17.56 million units.
Infinite Crisis #5's sales of at least 201,800 copies led the field, representing significant growth from #4's January sales of 182,600 copies. In addition to the book's heat, the March issue also benefited from both the generally stronger retail conditions of March relative to January and from its placement in the calendar. Infinite Crisis #4 shipped on January 18, meaning the January chart captured only two weeks of reorders; #5 shipped on March 1, meaning a whole month's reorder activity appeared on the March charts. With #6 shipping April 5, the same phenomenon should recur in April's charts.
The continuing phenomenon of ever more Marvel and DC issues in the Top 300 continues to push most new publishers off the Top 300 list. Exceptions were Tales of Alvin #1 from the Dabel Brothers, placing 282nd with 3,300 copies, and Full Cirkle #3, by the differently spelled Full Circle, which placed 286th with about 3,050 copies.
A comic book now needs to sell more than 2,600 copies to make the Top 300 chart. That's a higher threshold than we've seen in a long time. By contrast, in the "bad old days" — going back to March 2001, near the beginning of the revival — you only needed to sell 800 copies to make the chart. You'd make the high 200s with 2,600 copies.
That fact does not necessarily mean that independent titles are selling better, only that there are enough high-volume titles from the heavy hitters to soak up spaces on the chart smaller titles once took.
Comics dollar sales: The Top 300 comic books had sales worth $21.51 million in March 2006, 11% more than March 2005's total of $19.06 million.
For the first quarter of 2006, the Top 300 comics from each month have sold a combined $56.3 million, an increase of more than $6 million, or 13%, over the same period in the previous year.
Trade paperbacks : The Top 100 trade paperbacks and graphic novels reported by Diamond had orders worth $4.05 million at full retail in March 2006, a drop of 5% from the total in March 2005. Adding those to the Top 300 comics for the month yields $25.56 million, an increase of 9% over March 2005's total of $23.35 million.
For the first three months of 2006, the Top 300 comics and the Top 100 trade paperbacks from each month had orders worth $67.34 million, an increase of 11% over the same period in 2005.
Exclusive: Diamond's overall sales: Diamond publishes dollar market shares for its top 20 publishers across all comics, trade paperbacks, and magazines. Knowing the exact total orders of any publisher on that list right down to the oldest backlist item allows you to calculate Diamond's total orders across these product groups.
The March 2006 total was $34.8 million, which increases to $38.6 million, when Diamond's United Kingdom orders are added. The figure is 10% over March 2005?s U.S. total of $31.58 million. Overall, the first quarter stands at $89 million, 9% more than last year's total of $81.43 million.
The "overall" category overstates comics' actual performance to the extent that magazines that do not have comics content are included. The comics publishers' market shares would actually be slightly higher, if ancillary items were removed.
Market shares: Marvel again topped DC in Diamond's reported overall unit and dollar market shares. Marvel hit a historical mark of sorts by placing 100 titles in the Top 300; that figure includes many reordered comics making the list for a second time, but it recalls the days of the mid-1990s when Marvel last had 100 monthly titles. DC had 83 comics in the list — and Image's 40 is the highest that publisher has produced in some time.
IDW actually took fourth in both units and dollars when only the Top 300 Comics are considered, owing to its slate of 15 comic books releasing in March versus Dark Horse's 10. Dark Horse's market share is nearly double that of IDW when trade paperbacks are added, however.
Price analysis: The average comic book on Diamond's Top 300 list cost $3.15, up from $3.06 in March 2005.
The weighted average price — that is, the cost of the average comic book Diamond sold — was $3.08, way up from $2.84 last year. The average price of the comics that made the Top 25 was $3.06, also up from $2.70 in March 2005.
The comics being offered haven't gotten that much more expensive, but the comics people are buying the most have.
Methodology: Diamond keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to Batman, with one "order index point" being equal to 1% of that title's orders. Using actual Diamond final orders from titles accounting for more than 25% of Diamond's Top 300, I determined that one point on Diamond?s order index was likely to equal 698 comic books — with a 95% probability that the real figure was between 697 and 699.


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Twitter re-upped its support for net neutrality Friday as supporters for the controversial policy prepare to challenge the Trump administration in court for dinging the Obama-era internet regulation.
Net neutrality regulations, which were approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015, prohibited Verizon, Comcast, and others from blocking content and from charging websites for faster speeds. A coalition of groups sued the agency shortly after the Trump administration rolled back the rule in 2017.
Supporters of the rule argue it ensures a safe and open internet. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms have expressed support for the rule. They also argue that the regulations would prevent content owners from paying broadband providers to "cut to the front of the line" at congested nodes of internet traffic, also known as "paid prioritization." Such policies might force up prices, supporters argue.
There is no evidence that eliminating the rule negatively changed the internet. Wired magazine acknowledged in December 2018, a year after the end of net neutrality, that on the one-year anniversary of the repeal, there have been "no big changes." Other outlets have noted something similar. Since the repeal of the Obama-era rule took effect in June 2018, internet speed went from 12th to 6th fastest in the world, according to media reports.


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