When you major in creative writing at Brandeis, you will immerse yourself in small writing workshops, literary studies, and studio or performing art, all of which prepare you for a writerly life.
You will emerge with a strong grasp of historical and contemporary literature and culture as well as a sense of your own creative voice. Within the major, you may choose to concentrate on fiction, poetry or screenplay. Those who pursue honors within the major will work closely with a mentor to produce a body of high-caliber creative work.
Creative writing has a long history at Brandeis: taught since 1951, it has been a major in its own right since 2003.
Unlike other creative writing programs, our workshops are taught solely by established writers. You will learn your craft from working writers who are widely published and also dedicated teachers. Our impressive roster of past visiting writers includes Alice Walker, John Irving and Saul Bellow.
Our workshops are small — 14 students maximum. And because they are open to all, you will work closely with a wonderfully diverse group of peers majoring in neuroscience, Judaic studies, African and African-American studies, fine arts, law, business, biology and other areas.
Our program is also unusually active, sponsoring reading series, student awards, panel discussions, workshops on publishing, and journal and performance opportunities. Our Reading Series brings nationally known poets, novelists and translators to campus for readings and meetings with students. Featured readers have included Tom Perrotta, Jamaica Kincaid, Carl Phillips, Kazim Ali, Adrienne Rich, Sharon Olds, Mark Doty and others.
As a creative writing major, you may take classes in related disciplines such as theater, comparative literature, African and African-American studies and philosophy.
You may also double major, as many of our students have, in disciplines as varied as math, biology, computer science, psychology and more.
You may apply to write a senior creative writing honors thesis in fiction or poetry. The honors thesis is a year-long project that results in a full-length collection of stories, novella, or poetry collection. A semester-long honors project, which results in a shorter body of work, is also available.
The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts sponsors student-run initiatives, such as writer/artist collaborations, installations and spoken-word performances.
Elizabeth Bradfield, Co-director, is the author of three poetry collections most recently "Approaching Ice," which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and "Once Removed." Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry and Orion, and she has received a Stegner Fellowship, the Audre Lorde Prize and other honors. The founder and editor in chief of Broadsided Press, she also works as a naturalist on expedition ships around the globe.
Stephen McCauley, Co-director, has published nine novels (including "The Object of My Affection" and "My Ex-Life") as well as articles, personal essays and reviews in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Harpers, Vanity Fair and other publications. Three of his novels have been made into feature films, and he was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
Marc Weinberg, Screenwriter, began his career in film as a story analyst working in development for studios and production companies. A graduate of UCLA's acclaimed MFA program in screenwriting, Weinberg transitioned to professional writer with the sale of a supernatural thriller to USA Network. He has sold scripts and story ideas that have been set up at studios and production companies, including Paramount Pictures and Citadel Entertainment. Weinberg's credits also include several episodes of scripted entertainment for the Discovery Channel.
Every year, two distinguished authors join our faculty as the Fannie Hurst Fiction Writer and the Jacob Ziskind Poet. Past writers include J.M. Coetzee, Lorrie Moore, Li Young Lee, Denis Johnson, Russell Banks, Gish Jen, Grace Paley, Anne Waldman, Li Young Lee, Robert Creeley, Junot Diaz and Elizabeth McCracken.
Our majors have held internships at such varied places as the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Conde Nast Publications, Poets House and the Rees Literary Agency.
Many of our majors spend a summer or a semester studying in one of 70 countries, often in programs focused on literature and writing.
The Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Award, awarded for the best fiction published in the literary journal Laurel Moon.
The Andrew Grossbardt Award for the best poem.
Several more awards are given for creative honors theses.
Many of our majors go on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree. Many develop careers in fields related to writing, such as publishing, academia, advertising and copywriting for a variety of businesses, including digital agencies and startups.
Many of our graduates and workshop attendees are published writers or work in writing. Many have received fellowships at such prestigious universities as Harvard, Cornell, Syracuse, Michigan, Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
Some of our graduates have gone on to teach at Tufts, Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia, Emerson, The New School and Bentley College.
You might choose the creative writing minor to complement a major in comparative literature, economics, education studies or another field. See the requirements for the minor in the University Bulletin.
Contact Professors Liz Bradfield or Steve McCauley to learn more about how the Creative Writing curriculum is structured and what you would need to do to major in this field.


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Sheriff: Person of interest part of Strip shooting probe; Paddock had child porn
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo conducts a briefing on the Oct. 1 Strip mass shooting at Metro Police headquarters Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.
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An unidentified person of interest is being investigated by the FBI in relation to the Oct. 1 shooting, but Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo would not say who, only confirming that the gunman's girlfriend is not expected to face any charges.
He also reaffirmed that Stephen Paddock, 64, was the only shooter.
Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of a Strip hotel tower into a crowd attending a country music concert across the street, killing 58 people. Lombardo Friday updated the number of injured from more than 500 to 851, including 422 who suffered gunshot wounds.
Metro Police, in an unprecedented decision, released a preliminary 81-page report of the investigation, beginning from the days leading up to the shooting and a brief overview of Paddock, his online search history, which included research of various venues, munitions and tactics, Lombardo said. Investigators found hundreds of photos of child pornography.
The report is the most comprehensive account of the massacre to date, its timeline, evidence recovered and a profile of Paddock, crime-scene photos and the immediate police response. A full report is expected toward the end of the year, Lombardo said.
As of Friday, a motive has not been established, but Lombardo said Paddock was not radicalized and stopped shooting when he sensed police were coming. He had enough weapons and ammunition to continue the onslaught, Lombardo said.
Prior to the attack, Paddock's online searches included research into SWAT tactics and consideration of other potential public targets, including in Chicago, Boston and Santa Monica, Calif., the sheriff said.
His research also sought the number of attendees at other concerts in Las Vegas and the size of the crowds at Santa Monica's beach. Among his searches was "do police use explosives," the report said.
Soon after gunfire erupted, a Metro detective grabbed a pair of binoculars, directed his vision to the hotel and saw "a silhouette of a male standing in a shooting position several feet back from a window."
The officer could see the smoke from at least one muzzle, but not a flash, according to the report.
The next time police encountered Paddock, his body was lying on the floor in his 32nd floor suite, a puddle of blood forming by his head, a revolver nearby.
Investigators found 23 guns in the rooms, including 12 rifles fitted with "bump stock" devices that allowed rapid-fire shooting similar to fully automatic weapons. Dozens of guns were strewn around the room, some left inside a bassinet. Police also found a blue plastic hose with a fan on one end and a snorkel mouthpiece on the other end inside the room.
The report details Paddock's whereabouts from mid-September to later in the month when he had overlapping reservations at the downtown Las Vegas high-rise condo and the Mandalay Bay. He would spend time in both locations, but also traveled back to his homes in Reno and Mesquite, and Arizona. He'd gambled for long periods of time.
His stay at the Ogden also overlooked and coincided with the Life is Beautiful Festival the week before the massacre, according to the report.
U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., in a national television appearance Thursday night, claimed to have evidence to suggesting that the Islamic State was connected to the shooting and had infiltrated the United States through the southern border.
Lombardo said, "I'd like to see the evidence."
To date, investigators have combed through roughly 2,000 leads, and 21,560 hours of video, Lombardo said.
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A study published in the Journal of Endovascular Therapy suggests that carbon dioxide flushing may be a solution for the "potentially underappreciated" problem of arterial air embolism in aortic endografting.
Thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) "is now the treatment of choice for thoracic aortic dissection," write Tilo Kölbel, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues, who authored the study. However, TEVAR procedures still carry a significant risk of stroke, "which has been reported to be 2–6% % and up to 10% in some studies," and as high as 16% in more complex endovascular procedures of aortic arch pathologies, the authors note.
Because they are packed in gas-permeable packaging under room air conditions, the tubular stent grafts used in TEVAR are delivered filled with room air. Though this is typically removed prior to implantation by flushing the sheath in which the assembly is loaded with an isotonic solution. However, "The degree to which the air is removed by this saline flushing technique and the volume of air released into the vasculature are not known yet," write the authors.
To remove room air, thoracic stent grafts were preoperatively flushed for two minutes with carbon dioxide from a cylinder connected to the flushing chamber of the captor valves of custom-made endografts. This was followed by the standard saline flush. Thirty-six patients undergoing thoracic endovascular aortic repairs (TEVAR) involving the ascending aorta and the aortic arch received carbon dioxide-flushed endografts, with one patient with a highly calcified arch experiencing a minor stroke. Thirty-day survival was 97%; a multi-morbid patient died postoperatively of multi-organ failure despite a successful branched TEVAR procedure.


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BASEBALL: County native Matt Arnold rises through baseball executive ranks
Rhiannon Potkey
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COURTESY OF Scott Paulus/Milwaukee Brewers After interning for the Dodgers, Matt Arnold worked for the Rangers and Rays before being hired by the Brewers. (Photo: Scott Paulus)
To get his foot in the door, Matt Arnold had to put a lot of miles on his truck.
Arnold served an internship with the Los Angeles Dodgers during his junior year at UC Santa Barbara.
He would climb into his 1977 Chevrolet Cheyenne each day to make the 215-mile, traffic-clogged round trip to Dodger Stadium.
Arnold often didn't get back to the Goleta campus until 4 a.m. the following morning.
'Those were long days. They don't advertise them on Monster.com because they grind you up,' Arnold said. 'But there are a lot of smart energetic people out there working in sports, and you have to try and outcompete guys in a lot of ways to make it in the industry.'
A passion for baseball that took root in the back of a Ventura sports bar has blossomed into a successful career.
Arnold, 37, has spent 16 seasons in Major League Baseball, gradually rising up the ranks from an intern to director of scouting and into the front office.
He's in his first season as the vice president and assistant general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Arnold arrived in Milwaukee after spending nine years with the Tampa Bay Rays, most recently as the director of player personnel.
He was the first hire made by new Brewers general manager David Stearns.
'He's really the perfect fit in my mind for this position,' Stearns said. 'Matt brings an extensive amount of experience within the game in a variety of different positions. He's worked for a number of different clubs, for many different styles of general managers.'
Arnold was born in Oxnard and lived in Ventura until the second grade. His family resided on Poli Street, and Arnold frequently made the short walk down N. Santa Rosa Street to The Bench Warmer, a neighborhood sports bar.
'That is where I really learned about baseball. They would stick me in the back room there and they would tell all these great stories,' Arnold said. 'I would talk baseball with those guys and they would give me quarters to go play Pac-Man. It was so much fun.'
Although Arnold's family moved to Davis and eventually settled in Bakersfield, those early impressions never left him.
Arnold knew he wasn't good enough to reach the big leagues as a player, but he wanted to stay involved in the sport in the front office.
He graduated from UCSB in 2000 with a degree in economics and was named the Sports Management Student of the Year.
After his stint with the Dodgers, Arnold completed an internship with AEG Edward Financial in downtown Santa Barbara to get some practical business experience.
He moved back into baseball in 2002 by accepting an internship with the Texas Rangers, where he had a chance to work with John Hart, Jon Daniels and Orel Hershiser, who was the team's pitching coach.
'It was an amazing experience being around those caliber of people. It was a time when things were a little bit less specialized, so I was a super utility guy in the office,' Arnold said. 'I would help out with everything from printing something up to charting games behind the plate to watching videos. Whatever it took, I wanted to do.'
Daniels, now the Rangers president of baseball operations and general manager, immediately noticed Arnold's potential.
'Matt stood out from day one in how he dealt with people. He was received well by the front office, the uninformed staff and the scout. He showed signs of having the ability to communicate up and down the organization, which is an invaluable skill in our industry and one which not everyone has,' Daniels said.
'Matt quickly took to what was a relatively new scouting software at the time and looked for ways to get better info from it. You could tell he had a feel for the game and a desire to get better. … We missed by not hiring him full time.'
After leaving the Rangers, Arnold spent five years with the Cincinnati Reds before joining Tampa Bay's organization in 2006.
He wasn't looking to leave Florida until Stearns offered him the job in Milwaukee.
'He ended up calling me kind of out of the blue really,' Arnold said. 'We had somewhat of a relationship, just passing through meetings and trades discussions. The industry is pretty small. I always got along with him and had a lot of respect for him.'
Despite his higher ranking with the Brewers, Arnold still considers himself a 'jack-of-all-trades.'
He is involved in player evaluations, player development, contract negotiations, scouting and medical operations.
Like most young executives in baseball, Arnold is well-versed in the use of analytics. But he likes to employ balance in his evaluations.
'I think analytics is really only one part of the job. You can never strip out the human element in these things. That will certainly always be a factor and you can't measure that,' Arnold said. 'It's really a blend of the old-school and new-school type thinking that I hope to achieve.'
Although Arnold immediately relocated to Milwaukee, his wife, Jodi, a fellow UCSB graduate, and their two children — 7-year-old daughter Julianne and 4-year-old son Tyler — remained in Florida until school let out.
Arnold is eager to make Milwaukee his home and help rebuild the Brewers into a playoff contender.
'The Milwaukee community has been awesome. The people here tell me if you can win here, this place would just go nuts,' Arnold said. 'The people here still talk about the 1982 World Series and I would love to be able to try and do that again for this community.'
Arnold's ties to Ventura County remain. He was married in Oxnard and his parents still own his childhood home on Poli Street in Ventura.
They rent out the main house and stay in the studio above the garage if they come to visit.
Nursing a Corona Light on a recent Thursday, one longtime patron recalled Arnold's trips to the Bench Warmer more than three decades ago.
He's kept track of Arnold over the years through an acquaintance and was happy to see how far his career has progressed.
Arnold wants to return to his old stomping grounds in Ventura once his schedule allows. Now old enough to take a seat at the bar, he will gladly buy a round and talk some baseball.
'I have a lot of really fond memories from there,' Arnold said. 'It would be great to get back and sneak in there just for old time's sake.'


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Flower Season: An Under-the-Radar Guesthouse in South Africa
Garden Travel
Marie Viljoen January 6, 2016
When I asked my local traveling friends where to stay during the spring flower season in Namaqualand's Hantam region, Papkuilsfontein came out tops.
But Mariëtte van Wyk, the elegant farmer's wife who with her daughter-in-law, Alrie van Wyk, runs the Papkuilsfontein guesthouse outside the tiny town of Nieuwoudtville in South Africa, laughs: "When the talent for PR was being handed out, we weren't even last in line: we were playing outside!"
They might not be savvy marketers, but Papkuilsfontein's reputation is spread by the most trusted method of all: word of mouth. And we were lucky to be squeezed in.
Photography by Marie Viljoen except where noted.
Why Nieuwoudtville?
Three-and-half hours from Cape Town by car, situated high on The Bokkeveld Escarpment above the forbidding Knersvklate, this hamlet finds itself in the international crosshairs of discerning flower hunters. Self-described as "the bulb capital of the world" the countryside here is packed with geophytes, annuals, and perennials.
Above: Famously, there are more species in this South African pocketsquare than in the entire United Kingdom. This eruption of flowers, their diversity and density, is unique on the planet.
Above: In late August and early September, after favorable winter rains, the show begins right in town with a postcard display of Ixia rapunculoides growing wild in the grounds of the sandstone Dutch Reformed church.
Above: Photograph by Vincent Mounier.
In candy-striped fields beyond town flocks of blue cranes, South Africa's national bird, gather daily to feed.
Above: Just beyond town, the Hantam National Botanical Garden is a former sheep farm whose conservation-minded owner, Neil MacGregor, maintained the land so well that it remains rich with flowers and endemic species. Several trails lead walkers through the flowers.
Above: Photograph by Annalize Buhrmann.
Further along the same dirt road is the farm and guest house Papkuilsfontein, named for the section of river that winds through the property, whose pools—kuils in Afrikaans—do not dry out, even in parched Northern Cape summers. After exceptional rains this lazy water becomes a torrent that cascades into the Oorlogskloof, an imposing canyon that borders the farm.
Above: Photograph via Papkuilsfontein.
At the Papkuilsfontein guesthouse, the Van Wyk men—Mariëtte's husband Willem, and their son Jaco (the sixth generation to farm here)—run the agricultural side of things, raising sheep (their own lamb and mutton are served at dinner), and growing rooibos tea, olives, and fodder. The women farm with guests.
Above: Flower routes have been established on the farm allowing guests to drive themselves, or to take a guided tour through the Renosterveld – a geophyte-rich vegetation type of the Cape Floristic Region, where indigenous and endemic plants flourish beside cultivated fields.
In wet weather there are deep puddles to ford, and when we visited we were happy to be in a sturdy Land Cruiser. Willem is on hand at reception in season to hand out farm maps and make sure that drivers stick to the right route for their vehicle.
Above: Photograph by Obie Oberholzer.
The Van Wyks' venture into the hospitality industry began with the renovation a single stone cottage on their farm, in 1984. It is now one of three restored dwellings clustered in wide fields of spring daisies. Each is flawlessly made-over to retain its original sense of simplicity—there is no electricity—while no luxurious detail has been overlooked. Mariëtte's impeccable sense of design creates a sense of effortless calm. And the setting is idyllic.
Above: Over the decades the Papkuilsfontein accommodation portfolio expanded to house the annual flood of flower tourists. On De Lande, their farm nearer town, guest rooms have been added, along with a transformed Overseer's Shack with corrugated walls painted oxblood red. De Lande is also where guests gather for drinks and evening meals (where the roast potatoes are legendary) and where lavish farm breakfasts are served in season.
Above: The most recent addition is Matjiesfontein, a Cape Dutch homestead built near a spring, where low whitewashed walls dating to the time when three farmers' flocks drank here define the historic property. The house's two joined parts date to the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2002 Willem undertook the dilapidated structure's restoration, intending that he and Mariëtte live there after Jaco and Alrie married and moved into the main Papkuilsfontein homestead, as is farming tradition. And while the parents now live at Matjiesfontein year-through, in peak season visitors are accommodated in the 18th-century rooms, while the owners remove themselves to the 17th.
The restrained elegance of the revived building owes its new life to a painstaking restoration. It included the sourcing of handmade nails, while a blacksmith in Cape Town made the hinges and window fittings. The tiles were handmade in Zimbabwe. "Nothing machine made looks right—too square and correct," explains Mariëtte. With Willem, their son Anton built the window frames. Steel cables were fitted to keep some of the walls from moving apart. The front door is an old regional cedarwood piece, now very rare.
"The lounge gave me lots of headaches," says Mariëtte. "Rooms are not very often balanced in old buildings…leaving spaces which will not allow for easy placement of furniture." And the walls' original colors were all over the map. "In the end," she says, "the first thing I bought was a Persian carpet with all those colors in it." The second addition was an old wakis (wagon chest), a family heirloom.
For a weary traveler, the sense of the place is one where unfussy gentility and cultivated ease welcome you, from the decanter of sherry on a silver tray, to the good, collectable books stacked on a polished table. And if you walk barefoot across that Persian rug, you will find that it is heated from beneath.
The oversize bathroom is the size of some New York apartments, and the enormous clawfoot tub begs you to submerge yourself while enjoying the passing flight of a malachite sunbird beyond the open stable door.
Spring nights are cold, so hot water bottles and comfy beds keep you in the kind of deep sleep that city dwellers dream about. And the night skies here are unpolluted by light or industry, making for spectacular star gazing, year-round.
For a rare combination of the best of Afrikaans hospitality, a restful countryside retreat, an introduction to a floral phenomenon, and side trips to spectacular natural scenery, it is hard to imagine a place better situated or more thoughtfully planned than this working farm.
For more details and accommodation (book well in advance for August and September) visit Papkuilsfontein's website.
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Elysium on 12/17, new Sony MOD, Jobs, Enterprise: S3, Warner Archive's Jumbo Blu & more!
by Bill Hunt
Afternoon, folks! We trust you all had a great weekend? Your NFL team did well, you enjoyed the finale of Breaking Bad, etc. We've got a big week planned for you guys, with Dr. Adam Jahnke's annual Hell Plaza Oktoberfest officially kicking off here at The Bits tomorrow! Meanwhile, give your coffee a warm up because we've got some big announcement news to start your afternoon...
The big news is that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has set Neill Blomkamp's Elysium for release on Blu-ray Combo and DVD on 12/17 (SRP $40.99 and $30.99). We don't think this is the complete list of extras, but the Blu-ray will at least include 8 behind-the-scenes featurettes (Visions of 2154, The Journey to Elysium: Envisioning Elysium, The Journey to Elysium: Capturing Elysium, The Journey to Elysium: Enhancing Elysium, Collaboration: Crafting the Performances in Elysium, The Technology of 2154, In Support of Story: The Visual Effects of Elysium and Engineering Utopia: Creating a Society in the Sky). You can see the BD cover artwork below. [Read on here...]
Sony has also set the comedy The To Do List for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/19 (SRP $35.99 and $30.99). Extras will include 2 featurettes, deleted scenes, a gag reel and audio commentary with director Maggie Carey and Bill Hader.
And Sony has added Pirates of Tripoli to its 12/3 MOD DVD-R release slate, which already includes Passions, Help Me, Darling, Anastasia (1973), The Belle of Broadway, Elizabeth Taylor: Auction of a Lifetime and Salvage 1: Hard Water. The studio has also announced a slate of MOD DVD-R titles for release on 11/5, including Once Upon a Spy, Sail a Crooked Ship, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, Unknown Valley, Beach Patrol, Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold, Bambole! (a.k.a. The Dolls), Salvage 1: Golden Orbit, Breaking Up is Hard to Do (1979), Battle Dome: The Complete First Season and the Charley Chase Collection: Volume 2 (includes The Big Squirt, Calling All Doctors, From Bad to Worse, The Grand Hooter, His Bridal Fright, Many Sappy Returns, The Night Shirt Bandit, Pie a la Maid, The Sap Takes a Wrap, Teacher's Pest, Time Out for Trouble and The Wrong Miss Wright). Note that the Salvage 1 titles are 2-part episodes from the 1979 ABC and Andy Griffith series. There are only 18 episodes in the whole show, so we'd love to think we might see a complete series box at some point.
Meanwhile, Universal has set Jobs for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/26. Extras will include deleted scenes, commentary with director Joshua Michael Stern and 3 featurettes (Ashton Kutcher is Steve Jobs, The Legacy of Steve Jobs and Jobs: Behind the Score).
The BBC and Warner have set Copper: Season Two for Blu-ray and DVD release on 1/7/14.
Our friends at the Warner Archive have let slip some cool news, which is that they're preparing for the Blu-ray release of Billy Rose's Jumbo. Watch the "unveil" here and thanks to Bits reader Mark P. for the heads-up!
Finally, CBS has just officially released the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Enterprise – Season Three on Blu-ray. You can watch it below. No official word yet on a street date, but you can pre-order it on Amazon.com below (and we hear it's likely due in stores sometime in January or early Feb).
Here's a look at the Blu-ray Disc cover artwork for Sony's Elysium, Universal's Jobs and CBS's Star Trek: Enterprise – Season Three (TBA). All three are now available for pre-order on Amazon.com by clicking on the covers...
Be sure to check back early tomorrow morning for the official launch of this year's Hell Plaza Oktoberfest! See you then!
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The year-round warm climate in Puerto Rico and its abundant sunshine and coastal beaches attract millions of tourists each year. Tourists were an insignificant source of income before 1940, but the Puerto Rican Tourism Company has promoted tourism with great success. A little over 3.3 million tourists visited the island in 1999. Some 1.3 million tourists arrived via cruise ships. Their primary destination is the San Juan area, the location of numerous luxury hotels. In 1992 the island had 8,400 hotel rooms, but by 2001 this number had increased to 12,400 rooms. This expansion greatly helped not only the tourist industry but the construction industry as well. Tourists spent $815 million in 1999.


Born and raised in the Boston area, Larry started playing the piano by ear at the age of nine. By the age of 12, he had developed a love for jazz and sought out private instruction. In 1986, Larry left his Boston home to enroll in an innovative pilot jazz program at the New School for Social Research in New York City. It was there he began his professional career, being asked to tour and record with jazz singing legend, Jon Hendricks. Among his other teachers was guitarist Jim Hall, who, impressed with Larry's piano playing, asked him to join his band.
In 1988, Larry happened upon a regular gig at a pianoless bar. This became Larry's training ground as an organist. His own trio with Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart got its auspicious start there.
After college, Larry began exploring another of his pasisons: funk music, with Maceo Parker. Worldwide exposure with Maceo brought Larry a record deal and the start of a solo career with a 1991 release for Verve Records (The Intimacy of the Blues). 1993, John Scofield hired Larry to play in his band.
Larry made several recordings with his trio, and on many albums, he plays as sideman with such artists as Jim Hall, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, James Moody and Carla Bley. In summer 2000, Larry toured Europe with the all-star band of Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, and Bill Stewart.
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The Outsider: "Dark Uncle" Sends an Ominous Message
by Gena Radcliffe January 19, 2020 January 23, 2020
Ralph reluctantly takes on a partner as a colleague has a brush with the impossible.
Warning: don't read until you've seen the episode!
There's a certain sort of masochism in insisting on a logical explanation for everything. It's not just the loss of joy in small miracles and fascinating coincidences, but driving yourself crazy trying to find answers for things that defy reason, like how someone could hurt a child. Or, in Ralph Anderson's case, how it's possible for someone to be in two different places at the same time. In this week's episode of The Outsider, "Dark Uncle," Ralph (Ben Mendelsohn) slowly comes to the realization that everything he knows and believes to be true has to be set aside in favor of the unknown, if he wants to find closure in Frankie Peterson's murder case.
Still on administrative leave after shooting Frankie's brother to death, Ralph continues investigating the case in his free time. He's ready to live with the guilt he feels over Terry's death, as long as there's an explanation for what happened, and how it's possible that someone who looks like Terry, and shares both his fingerprints and DNA, could still be walking around in the world. How much Ralph will be able to live with his guilt is questionable, however, when it's revealed in flashback during a therapy session that he initially handled his son's death by drinking and getting into violent fights with strangers. Burying his grief and throwing himself into his job (even when he's off the clock) isn't necessarily a better way to handle it, just different.
Howie (Bill Camp) and private investigator Alec Pelley (Jeremy Bobb) agree to help Ralph in his freelance investigation, though more to clear Terry's name than Ralph's conscience. Alec suggests that they bring on a colleague of his, Holly Gibney (Cynthia Erivo), to the team. Holly, a character introduced in Stephen King's Bill Hodges murder mystery trilogy, is a character that could make or break the show in how she's portrayed. Though she's clearly on the spectrum, given her ability to identify the make and model of a car just by the sound of its engine and correctly guess the day of the week any date falls on, for some unknown reason, there's a reluctance to identify her as such, having her instead be described as "quirky" and "loony."
What makes her supposedly quirky also makes her a detective with almost otherworldly observation skills, a common trope that hopefully a show with the kind of talent The Outsider boasts will avoid taking too far. Casting a black actor further runs the risk of Holly turning into a "magical negro" (something King himself has been guilty of far too often in his writing), but so far, so good. Erivo is excellent in the role, both sympathetic and intimidating in her intensity. She's completely unruffled at the increasingly inexplicable circumstances of Frankie's murder and Terry's subsequent death, including how the fingerprints in the van match Terry's, but a much older version of him, and how the strange fluid found on his clothes so far match nothing that's of this earth. Holly is open to all possibilities.
Cynthia Erivo in The Outsider (HBO)
Holly is also the first person to bring up the word "doppelganger," but Ralph's not having any of that. "I have no tolerance for the unexplainable," he says, to which Holly shoots back "Well then, you'll have no tolerance for me." It's a great scene in an episode that maybe tries to pack in a little too much in an hour. Mendelsohn and Erivo play marvelously against each other, both of them with the same goal but coming at it from two completely opposing ways. "Dark Uncle" setting up that Holly is an "outsider" herself, and that Ralph has his own doppelganger, isn't exactly breaking new ground, but both actors sell the hell out of it. Mendelsohn, with his sad eyes and whiskey and gravel voice, is particularly good. He doesn't just want to find an explanation for everything that's happened, he needs to, or else spend the rest of his life in a spiral of grief and barely restrained rage.
Meanwhile, in the B-plot, Jack Hoskins (Marc Menchaca) is assigned to cover for Ralph in his absence. When we first met Jack in episode two, he was harassing strippers and giving a fellow bar patron an atomic wedgie. That he's later revealed to be a cop is unsettling, yet not particularly surprising. Jack isn't happy about having to take over for Ralph, and less so after he has a terrifying encounter in the barn where Terry's discarded, strange fluid splattered clothes were found.
The encounter leaves him with an excruciatingly painful wound on the back of his neck, a strange burn of sorts that can't take even the slightest amount of pressure against it. The only one that seems to notice that anything is off about Jack (who's testy and pugnacious at the best of times) is bartender Claude Bolton (Paddy Considine), who looks on with concern while the other employees mock him. Claude may not be a cop or a private detective, but he knows when something isn't right, and something isn't right about Jack.
Down here over in the C-plot, Glory Maitland (Julianne Nicholson), Terry's very recent widow, is just barely holding it together at home. On top of her daughters' school outright refusing to do anything to protect them from bullying ("I think it's outrageous that children have to pay for the sins of a parent," the principal smugly intones), younger daughter Jessa (Scarlett Blum) is still troubled by nightmares of a strange man who visits her room to tell her "bad things." After Jessa claims that the man has a message for Ralph, Glory accepts help from an unlikely source: Ralph's wife, Jeannie (Mare Winningham). Radiating maternal warmth and reassurance, Jeannie is able to do what Ralph can't, which is really listen to Jessa and take her fears seriously, without immediately minimizing or discounting them.
The show setting up that Holly is an "outsider" herself, and that Ralph has his own doppelganger, isn't exactly breaking new ground, but both actors sell the hell out of it.
Like Holly, Jeannie is open to the idea of the impossible being possible. Ralph, on the other hand, all but rolls his eyes in frustration as Jessa describes the man in her nightmares as being "blurry" and "inky." He doesn't have time for all this childish nonsense when there's a real mystery to be solved. Jessa's message from the man is an ominous one, however: "Stop, or something bad is going to happen."
Finally, in the D-plot (I did say this was a somewhat overstuffed episode, and this subplot suffers from time constraints), a convicted child-killer (Martin Bradford) seems to be preparing for either a prison break or a fight. Who he is and his connection to the show is unclear until the last few minutes of "Dark Uncle," when Holly discovers that a male nurse at Terry's father's nursing home was arrested for the murder of two little girls. It also sheds a chilling light on a receptionist at the nursing home refusing to allow Holly to see Terry's father, claiming that his condition has deteriorated since being inundated with detectives and reporters — though not for anything having to do with Terry himself. Rather than allow himself to be attacked by another prisoner, the man kills himself instead, slashing his own throat with a sharpened glasses lens.
Perhaps this is the "bad thing" that Jessa's nighttime visitor warned about in his message. However, given "Dark Uncle" ends with Jack, in agonizing pain from his inexplicable neck injury, begging an unseen someone "Whatever you need me to do," it's not likely. Earlier in "Dark Uncle," Ralph tells Jessa "If he has another message, he can come to me." It's meant to be reassuring, but Jessa's response is curt and direct: "I don't think you want that."
I don't want to get too far into the season without mentioning the stellar score by Danny Bensi and and Saunder Jurriaans (American Gods). Subtly creepy, it really enhances the bleak, walls are closing in feeling of the plot. It works especially well in a scene where Ralph visits his son's grave, and notices the line of plots being prepared for Frankie Peterson's family, each member decimated one after another. As Ralph looks at the holes in the ground, you can almost hear some unseen, unknown being chuckling in satisfaction at the havoc its wreaked so far.
As mentioned before, I'm not sure how I feel about the show's avoidance in identifying Holly as autistic so far, and I hope the remarks and wisecracks about her "quirky" personality are limited to "Dark Uncle."
Gruesome touch of the episode: a prison inmate who hides a shiv inside a pocket cut into his leg. Though the adaptation has taken some liberties with King's novel (such as making Ralph and Jeannie's son dead rather than away at camp), it maintains that signature King touch of breaking up the serious drama with some truly nightmarish imagery.
Jessa describing Ralph as "the sad man" is an unexpectedly moving moment. Perhaps it's Ralph's obvious sorrow that makes it easier for Terry's kids to process what happened, and even Glory is kinder to him than she probably needs to be. Having Jeannie act as a buffer between them helps. "How do you live with it?" Glory asks Jeannie, in a private moment, to which Jeannie answers "You don't," though whether she's talking about her son's death, or Ralph's responsibility in Terry's death, is unknown.
It bears noting: with Gentleman Jack, Mrs. Fletcher, and Watchmen, HBO is doing marvelous things with actresses over 40, rather than just casting them as nagging wives and needy mothers. Julianne Nicholson, who's previously done strong supporting work in Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Boardwalk Empire, is "Dark Uncle"'s MVP. Pulled tight as a guitar string, she all but vibrates with restrained grief and anger (so, not all that different from Ralph), but holds it in enough to even offer Ralph a tiny bit of grace and help. As much as she wants justice for Terry, even she understands it's not that simple and must choose to hold it together for their kids instead. Jessa needs her, there are monsters that must be held at bay.
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Коротковусі прямокрилі (Caelifera) — підряд комах ряду прямокрилі.

Найбільш великою, вивченою та економічно важливою групою в складі підряду є родина саранові (Acrididae).

Будова

Для представників підряду характерні короткі вусики (зазвичай не довші за половину тіла) і яйцеклад із 2 пар коротких рухомих копальних або ріжучих стулок. На відміну від представників підряду довговусих ніколи не мають органів слуху на колінах передніх ніг та первинного стрекотального апарату, розташованого на надкрилах; якщо ж органи слуху чи видавання звуку є, то вони розташовані інакше і не гомологічні таким, як у довговусих. Серед інших особливостей морфології — часта присутність присосок (ароліїв) між кігтиками ніг.

Поширення

Поширені на всіх континентах, крім Антарктиди. Найбільше представників у тропіках. Характерні жителі трав'янистих екосистем, часто у тропічних лісах. Переважно споживають трави, є серйозним сільськогосподарськими шкідниками (в тому числі різноманітні види сарани); рідше харчуються відмерлими органічними частками рослинного походження. Важливі складники екосистеми.

Надродини

 Триперстові (Tridactyloidea)
 Стрибунці (Tetrigoidea)
 Eumastacoidea
 Pneumoroidea
 Pyrgomorphoidea
 Саранові (Acridoidea)
 Tanaoceroidea
 Trigonopterygoidea

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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that the provincial government was converting 4000 mosques on solar energy throughout the province. The government he added was also contemplating to pay the Pesh Imam of mosques in order to resolve the problem of load-shedding and financially supporting the Pesh Imam of all mosques throughout the province.
He was talking to a delegation of Shangla led by MPA Shuakat Ali Yousafzai and provincial Minister Abdul Munim Khan at Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar.The Chief Minister assured to promote Kaper Banda on tourism lines and provide necessary infrastructure to attract tourists to the area.
He further assured provision of resources for the road and infrastructure development in the area in order to improve the economic condition of the locals. Pervez Khattak assured that health sector development would be the priority area of his government and he would ensure healthcare facilities to the locals.
However he disagreed with the quota for the people of the area in medical and engineering colleges adding that it would kill the very spirit of merit and would lead to open and window for favoritism and corruption. He was optimistic that CPEC would provide better economic opportunities to the people of Shangla and assured that the qualified students of the Shangla would be sent to China for learning Chinese language.
He further assured a graveyard, provided, the local people arranged land. He also directed for the resolution of the genuine problems raised at the occasion. The delegation thanked the Chief Minister for taking keen interest in the resolution of their problems and assured all out support to the government in its reforms agenda.


My Dad died of ocular melanoma metastatic to the liver. He was completely let down by his consultant who failed to mention he was at a very high risk of dying within 5 years. He was 2 years off retirement. If he'd known how deadly his cancer was he would have retired and spent more time with the family. That doctor took that time away from him and us and I will never forgive him. How can you forget to tell someone they have a greater than 50% chance of dying within 5 years? How can you imply that the person can think themselves lucky as you "got it all" when in fact you only "got it all" in the eye. Lying by omission is lying. It's poor practice and it's lack of consent.Ocular melanoma spreads via the bloodstream and can appear years later in the liver. Appalling way to behave. This particular ocular oncologist felt he was God and the NHS let my Dad down as they let him. Those super specialised doctors are accountable to no one – literally. Disgusting.
My dad has ocular melanoma. He was miss diagnosed for 18 months and told he had conjunctivitis by a consultant at a specialist eye hospital in Birmingham. An eye consultant then spotted the tumour in dads tear duct and diagnosed OM. He told us that the only treatment was radical facial surgery to remove dads eye and about 1/3 of his face. Dad was 86 at the time and refused surgery. We weren't offered any other treatment. 2 1/2 years later my dad has been fighting cancer when we got an oncology appointment. At this point we hadn't seen an oncologist. Dads tumour now covers about 1/3 of his face. He is weak and struggling to eat. Oncology consultant couldn't believe this was our first referral and told us the original consultant was wrong. The tumour could have been shrunk and dad could have had less invasive surgery. Even at this point they are offering treatment. I feel that I should have known more but excepted opinions of 3 doctors who all told us the surgery was very invasive. I feel like I have let dad down. I am spending every day with him. He is in a wheel chair and very poorly. I love him so much its just hard to watch him fade. He is 89 in a few days time.


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USCIS Announces Final Rule Enforcing Long-Standing Public Charge Inadmissibility Law
Regulation promotes self-sufficiency and immigrant success
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule that clearly defines long-standing law to better ensure that aliens seeking to enter and remain in the United States — either temporarily or permanently — are self-sufficient and rely on their own capabilities and the resources of family members, sponsors, and private organizations rather than on public resources.
This final rule amends DHS regulations by prescribing how DHS will determine whether an alien is inadmissible to the United States based on his or her likelihood of becoming a public charge at any time in the future, as set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act. The final rule addresses U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) authority to permit an alien to submit a public charge bond in the context of adjustment of status applications. The rule also makes nonimmigrant aliens who have received certain public benefits above a specific threshold generally ineligible for extension of stay and change of status.
"For over a century, the public charge ground of inadmissibility has been part of our nation's immigration laws. President Trump has delivered on his promise to the American people to enforce long-standing immigration law by defining the public charge inadmissibility ground that has been on the books for years," said USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli. "Throughout our history, self-sufficiency has been a core tenet of the American dream. Self-reliance, industriousness, and perseverance laid the foundation of our nation and have defined generations of hardworking immigrants seeking opportunity in the United States ever since. Through the enforcement of the public charge inadmissibility law, we will promote these long-standing ideals and immigrant success."
DHS has revised the definition of "public charge" to incorporate consideration of more kinds of public benefits received, which the Department believes will better ensure that applicants subject to the public charge inadmissibility ground are self-sufficient. The rule defines the term "public charge" to mean an individual who receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months, in the aggregate, within any 36-month period (such that, for instance, receipt of two benefits in one month counts as two months). The rule further defines the term "public benefit" to include any cash benefits for income maintenance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), most forms of Medicaid, and certain housing programs.
The regulation also excludes from the public benefits definition: public benefits received by individuals who are serving in active duty or in the Ready Reserve component of the U.S. armed forces, and their spouses and children; public benefits received by certain international adoptees and children acquiring U.S. citizenship; Medicaid for aliens under 21 and pregnant women; Medicaid for school-based services (including services provided under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); and Medicaid benefits for emergency medical services.
This rule also makes certain nonimmigrant aliens in the United States who have received designated public benefits above the designated threshold ineligible for change of status and extension of stay if they received the benefits after obtaining the nonimmigrant status they seek to extend or from which they seek to change.
Importantly, this regulation does not apply to humanitarian-based immigration programs for refugees, asylees, Special Immigrant Juveniles (SIJs), certain trafficking victims (T nonimmigrants), victims of qualifying criminal activity (U nonimmigrants), or victims of domestic violence (VAWA self-petitioners), among others.
This rule also explains how USCIS will exercise its discretionary authority, in limited circumstances, to offer an alien inadmissible only on the public charge ground the opportunity to post a public charge bond. The final rule sets the minimum bond amount at $8,100; the actual bond amount will be dependent on the individual's circumstances.
This final rule supersedes the 1999 Interim Field Guidance on Deportability and Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds and goes into effect at 12:00 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 15, 60 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register. USCIS will apply the public charge inadmissibility final rule only to applications and petitions postmarked (or, if applicable, submitted electronically) on or after the effective date. Applications and petitions already pending with USCIS on the effective date of the rule (postmarked and accepted by USCIS) will be adjudicated based on the 1999 Interim Guidance.
USCIS will provide information and additional details to the public as part of public outreach related to the implementation of this rule. In the coming weeks, USCIS will conduct engagement sessions for the public and other interested groups to ensure the public understands which benefits are included in the public charge inadmissibility rule and which are not.
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Le comte Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella est un général et homme d'État belge (Tournai,  - , Bruxelles).

Biographie

Famille
Albert Goblet d'Alviella est le fils du tournaisien François Magloire Joseph Goblet, magistrat et membre du conseil municipal, et de Michelle Delmarle. Albert Goblet épouse le  Marie Anne Adélaïde Damien (x - 1863). Le couple eut au moins un fils, Louis François (1823-1867).

Albert est le père de Louis-François Magloire et le grand-père du professeur de l'ULB et homme politique Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (1846-1925).

À partir de 1850 il agrandit par de multiples achats le domaine qui jouxte le château de Court-Saint-Étienne, obtenu  en 1844 par mariage de son fils Louis avec la comtesse d'Auxy de Neuville, (famille d'Auxy).

Son inhumation eut lieu le jeudi  au cimetière de Court-Saint-Étienne. Ses funérailles ont été célébrées à la cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule de Bruxelles le  et à l'église Saint-Étienne de Court-Saint-Étienne le . La dépouille mortelle d'Albert Goblet a été déplacée quatorze ans après son décès dans la crypte du mausolée familial érigé, selon les conceptions d'Eugène Goblet, son petit-fils, entre 1885 et 1887 au cimetière de Court-Saint-Étienne.

Militaire au service de la France et des Pays-Bas
Il naît à Tournai le , entra en 1802 au Prytanée militaire de Saint-Cyr, où il obtint, en 1807, le prix impérial de mathématiques au concours général. En 1809, il fut admis à l'École polytechnique et en sortit en 1811 officier du génie. Il fit les campagnes d'Espagne dans la Grande Armée. Il est officier d'ordonnance de Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult. Il se trouva, en 1813, au siège de Saint-Sébastien, où il se distingua. Resté seul des officiers du génie, il fut choisi pour porter à Paris les détails du siège et de la capitulation, fut nommé capitaine et reçut la croix de la Légion d'honneur.

Après le premier traité de Paris, il quitte le service de la France, avec l'autorisation de Soult.

Entré en février 1815 au service de  des Pays-Bas, il combattit aux Quatre-Bras et à Waterloo dans l'armée de , qui le nomme officier d'ordonnance. En 1815, il est envoyé à Paris avec les troupes hollandaises. Il obtint la décoration de l'ordre militaire de Guillaume ().

Ses antécédents lui valurent d'être chargé de projeter et de construire la forteresse de Nieuport. Il est ensuite chargé de renforcer les forteresses gardant la frontière du royaume des Pays-Bas avec la France. Il dirigea les travaux pendant sept ans, fut nommé chevalier de  (officier) de l'ordre de Guillaume, et accompagna le prince d'Orange en Russie. Le tsar Alexandre le décora de la croix de Sainte-Anne.

À son retour, il fut chargé de la reconstruction de la place de Menin.

La révolution belge

Lors de la révolution de 1830, il est commandant de la citadelle de Menin.  l'appelle à Anvers, mais il choisit de rejoindre Bruxelles avec le comte Charles Le Hon. Le gouvernement provisoire le nomme le 15 octobre colonel du génie et directeur général de ce corps. Il le charge par ailleurs d'organiser la Défense nationale. Il fut promu au grade de général de brigade en 1831, et fut ministre de la Guerre dans le premier gouvernement du régent Surlet de Chokier. Le gouvernement s'évapore immédiatement et Goblet reste administrateur du département de la Défense. Quand le  les troupes hollandaises rompent l'armistice, il assiste  et lui conseille notamment de se replier sur Malines pendant qu'il négocie la reddition de Louvain.

Au mois d'août 1831 la ville de Tournai l'envoya à la Chambre des représentants, et peu de jours après, il fut créé inspecteur général des fortifications et du génie.

Diplomate et homme politique de la Belgique indépendante
En tant qu'aide-de-camp du Roi et plénipotentiaire, il est ensuite envoyé à Londres par le roi pour régler la question des forteresses, dont la France voulait la démolition et les autres puissances le maintien. Le , il parvient à un accord : certaines forteresses sont maintenues, mais Menin, Ath, Mariembourg, Mons et Philippeville doivent être détruites. Ce traité est signé le  à Londres avec les ministres d'Autriche, d'Angleterre, de Prusse et de Russie. D'autre part, un accord secret, qui exclut la France, autorise les grandes puissances à occuper les forteresses en cas de nécessité. Après la ratification du traité des XXIV articles par la Belgique, il est à nouveau envoyé à Londres par le roi pour s'assurer que les grandes puissances ne sont pas prêtes à faire appel à la force pour obtenir la signature du roi Guillaume.

Ceci cause la démission du Premier ministre Félix de Muelenaere et le roi propose à Goblet de former le nouveau gouvernement. Néanmoins, les ministres de De Muelenaere refusent de contresigner cette nomination et il faut faire appel au comte Félix de Mérode, ministre sans portefeuille.

Il compose son cabinet en octobre 1832. Il s'attribue les Affaires étrangères, nomme Charles Rogier (libéral) à l'Intérieur, Auguste Duvivier (libéral) aux Finances, Joseph Lebeau (libéral) à la Justice, Louis Évain (libéral) à la Guerre. Félix de Mérode (catholique) reste ministre sans portefeuille.

Goblet doit alors demander au Parlement l'autorisation de laisser l'armée française du général Gérard assiéger Anvers, sans intervention des troupes belges, comme l'exige la Conférence de Londres. Les durs du Parlement et la population belge étaient outrés par cette humiliation et après le vote de l'autorisation (par quarante-quatre voix contre quarante-deux), Goblet remet sa démission.

Le roi lui demande de garder la direction des affaires car la constitution d'un autre cabinet est impossible. Il remet encore sa démission quelques semaines plus tard à la suite du rejet du budget de la Guerre par le Parlement. Le roi dissout alors les Chambres, mais les élections en changent peu la configuration.

Pendant la campagne électorale, Goblet obtient des Pays-Bas le  la signature d'une double convention l'engageant à prolonger indéfiniment l'armistice, tout en maintenant le statu quo territorial, c'est-à-dire que la Belgique gardait tout le Limbourg et le Luxembourg, à l'exception des forteresses de Maastricht et Luxembourg. La navigation sur l'Escaut était assurée et la dette restait tout entière à charge des Pays-Bas.

Ensuite, il remit sa démission et Charles Rogier et Joseph Lebeau assurèrent la direction de son gouvernement, tandis que Félix de Mérode devenait ministre des Affaires étrangères.

Retrait de la vie politique
Il devient ensuite premier inspecteur général de l'armée, puis lieutenant-général en 1835. Il part ensuite pour Lisbonne sur ordre du roi, avec trois mille volontaires belges, pour assurer à la maison de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha le trône du Portugal. L'arrivée de ces troupes forcent en effet Michel  à s'exiler et permettent à Marie II de reprendre le pouvoir. Celle-ci le fait alors comte d'Alviella en 1838, titre que  l'autorise à porter en Belgique.

Retour aux affaires
Goblet est ministre des Affaires étrangères en 1843 dans le gouvernement de Jean-Baptiste Nothomb et signe un traité de commerce avec la Confédération germanique. Ses relations avec le roi se détériorent par la suite, parce qu'il ne donne pas suite à ses demandes concernant la conclusion d'un traité douanier avec la France et parce qu'il refuse ensuite de soutenir le gouvernement de Sylvain van de Weyer. Il s'oppose encore au roi sur la question de la défense nationale en tant que membre d'une commission chargée d'analyser les besoins de l'armée. Il est malgré tout l'un de ses aides de camp.

Le roi fait alors pression sur Henri de Brouckère pour obtenir sa mise à la retraite. Il est ensuite élu député de Tournai, sa terre d'origine.

Honneurs

 Officier de l'ordre de Léopold (nommé le )
 Comte d'Alviella (1838)
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
 Décoré de l'ordre militaire de Guillaume
 Grand-croix de l'ordre de la Maison ernestine de Saxe
 Grand-croix de l'ordre du Mérite de Pierre-Frédéric-Louis
 Décoré de l'ordre de l'Aigle rouge de Prusse,
 Grand-croix de l'ordre du Mérite civil de Saxe,
 Croix de l'ordre de Sainte-Anne (de Russie),
 Grande-croix de l'ordre de Saint-Michel de Bavière,
 Grande-croix de l'ordre du Mérite et de la Maison d'Oldenbourg,
 Ordre de Saint-Benoit d'Aviz de Portugal,
 Grande-croix de l'ordre de l'Étoile polaire de Suède,
 Grand-officier de l'ordre de Sainte-Anne de Russie,
 Médaille de Sainte-Hélène (France).
 Buste en marbre blanc dans la bibliothèque de la Chambre du Parlement belge.
 Un monument orné de son buste en grande tenue se trouve à Court-Saint-Étienne sur la place Communale. Il est honoré chaque année par le dépôt d'une gerbe de fleurs lors des cérémonies en mémoire des anciens combattants.

Publications
 Des cinq grandes puissances de l'Europe dans leurs rapports politiques et militaires avec la Belgique. Bruxelles (1863)
 Dix-huit mois de politique et de négociations se rattachant à la première atteinte portée  aux traités de 1815. 2 vol. Bruxelles (1864-1865)
 L'établissement des Cobourg en Portugal. Étude sur les débuts d'une monarchie constitutionnelle. Bruxelles (1869)

Sources

 Jean Bartelous, Nos Premiers ministres, de  à , 1983, Bruxelles, éd. J. M. Collet.
 Jean-Pierre Hendrick Le château de Court Saint Etienne et ses propriétaires aux  et . Bulletin du Cercle d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Court-Saint-Etienne (CHAF) 1995, pp 30–53.
 Théodore Juste, Le Lieutenant Général Comte Goblet d'Alviella, Ministre d'Etat, d'après des documents inédits. C.Muquardt, Bruxelles, 1870.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en mai 1790
Naissance à Tournai
Décès en mai 1873
Albert
Premier ministre de Belgique
Ministre d'État (Belgique)
Ministre belge des Affaires étrangères
Général belge
Militaire dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux
Officier de l'ordre de Léopold
Titulaire de la médaille de Sainte-Hélène
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Naissance dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens
Député belge
Décès à Bruxelles
Ordre militaire de Guillaume
Ministre belge de la Défense
Élève de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
Décès à 82 ans
Élève de l'École polytechnique


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