October | 2014 | Planet Pedro!
THE proposal of Nicola Sturgeon for a Scottish (or English, or Welsh, or Northern Irish) veto in an in-out EU referendum is to be very much welcomed.
It is very much in line with the position of many other countries where constitutional change must be subject to a high level of approval by the population. Examples of this principle include the United States, which requires a two-thirds majority for amendments to the Constitution, and Canada, where a "double majority" of voters and provinces applies. To adopt a similar requirement for constitutional measures in the UK would be an excellent measure.
Let us hope that the Smith Commission adopts this proposal from Ms Sturgeon, as it would ensure that any independence proposal for Scotland would require a referendum of the whole UK, and allow a veto to voters in Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
There is much talk in the Scottish media about a crisis in Scottish Labour. Some of it is of course froth (is the Scottish Daily Mail where we would seek advice in our best interest?) But some of it is substantial, being based on the post-poll evidence that anything between 30-40% of Labour voters voted Yes in the referendum.
In other words, having failed to break the UK, the Yessers would gleefully, as a close second best, like to break Scottish Labour. It is against this background that we look to the next three years and their respective elections: Westminster 2015, Holyrood 2016, and local councils 2017.
Taken together, these elections are now an existential challenge for the party in Scotland: if we fail, we put at risk our potential to be a force in Scottish politics again in the foreseeable future, and perhaps ever.
So what should Scottish Labour do? Here are some basic ideas to get working on.
First, let's give some leadership: Scottish Labour has to take the political process by the lapels and show it who's boss – as in who won the referendum, and who is going to dictate to whom in the coming weeks and months.
Alex Salmond spoke about "holding the feet of the UK parties to the fire" over extra Holyrood powers, and Nicola Sturgeon looks like she will follow suit. Tough – they lost the referendum by a clear majority and it is their feet that should be held to the fire until they admit that fact. This is not just in Scottish Labour's interest, but it is our duty to the 55% of Scottish voters who voted No to dominate the argument.
Like the old Scottish football manager Jimmy Sirrel said "the best team always wins and the rest is only gossip." Scottish Labour needs to be clear that we are on the side of the majority and of democracy. We need to keep the SNP painted into its losing corner with the minority, aligned with the 45ers and the UDIers in the anti-democracy fringe.
Secondly, Scottish Labour must upscale the appeal of our unique selling point: that we are a party of UK government.
Most immediately, we must make it clear that as part of the winning side in the referendum, we can and will act to safeguard the outcome.
It should therefore be announced as soon as possible as a headline commitment in next May's General Election manifesto that no Labour government will agree to a new Scottish independence referendum: not in the next Parliament, not ever.
Thirdly, we must use our status as a UK party which can and will influence the big agendas of the coming years. The defeat of independence means that the essential issues of the economy and welfare, as well as defence and foreign affairs, remain at Westminster, meaning that Labour has a role in these areas which the SNP cannot rival.
Our message must be that if Scots want a voice in shaping the next decades, they are will be fools to waste their vote on the SNP. And if they want those decades to be socially progressive and economically successful, they will be wise to vote Labour.
Finally, we must look at how these cases, all based on the votes of the majority and common sense, can be presented effectively. Every night on television we see the SNP and the defeated Yessers acting as if their campaign was still alive or as if they won the referendum. Labour's campaign and public relations resources must be used to make sure that they do not go unchallenged.
The SNP claim that No voters will be angry if new powers are not delivered to Holyrood: in fact, many No voters are already enraged by the way that their votes are being ignored by the SNP and by media commentators obsessed with the Yes vote. The message is easy enough: Yes lost, and anyone continuing to argue the independence case should have their credibility shredded at every possible opportunity.
The referendum campaign showed that we have the people to do the job. Let's use them. We can and must show up Yes for what it is: a zombie movement, running around causing havoc after life expired from its cause in the early morning of 19th September.
These steps do not address some of the issues which we face heading into the subsequent Holyrood Elections, although presenting ourselves as 'Scotland's UK party of social democracy' in opposition to the SNP as 'Scotland's Party of Scotland' has to be an advantage. It could even be a foundation for what we could call 'Scotland's Social Contract' – a narrative which puts together our achievements, our polices and our objectives as we go forward into 2016.
Above all, however, they are steps which are bold enough to grab the initiative and set the agenda for the 2015 General Election in post-referendum Scotland. Moreover, they offer what people want and what Scotland needs.
Posted on 10/22/2014 by planetpedro CommentsNo Comments on Historic personal first.
This is a reponse to a letter of 20th October, second here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/letters/sturgeon-has-earned-chance-to-take-the-country-forward.25627368. The Herald cut my original first sentence; my original is in italics.
DAVID C Purdie is correct in describing me as neither an SNP voter nor sympathiser (Letters, October 20). I am indeed one of the clear majority of Scottish voters who unambiguously voted No to Scottish independence, and I believe that is our democratic right to have our vote recognised by the incoming First Minister.
It does not seem unreasonable to expect Nicola Sturgeon, coming into office in full knowledge of the will of the Scottish people, to pledge to work in their interest, which has now been defined in the clearest possible terms: Scotland will continue as part of the UK.
Indeed, it is difficult to see why she would wish to become First Minister if she did not intend to do so. Like I said, over to you, Nicola.
Posted on 10/18/2014 by planetpedro CommentsNo Comments on What I Told Lord Smith…..
What I Told Lord Smith…..
In his memoir "Power Trip" (to be recommended) Damien McBride recounts how in public consultations, more notice is sometimes taken of individual submissions than of predictable corporate and vested interests. So I decided that it was worth writing to Lord Smith.
Here is my submission, which to a considerable extent reflects the need to protect the union if devolution is to be maximised.
No doubt you have many submissions from the public regarding extra powers for the Scottish Parliament, in addition to those of the three political parties and that of the Scottish Government.
I would like to make the following points, of which I hope you will take notice in your deliberations.
It is essential that your Commission makes no recommendation which weakens the United Kingdom.
The people of Scotland decided conclusively that Scotland should not be an independent country: this is the one single and indisputable fact that matters in the referendum outcome. You may recall the old Scottish football manager Jimmy Sirrel, who coined the aphorism "the best team always wins and the rest is only gossip." In this case, the extra powers are part of the gossip, as clearly as a good but losing performance on the football pitch does not win.
Therefore, any submission or proposal based on "not how far we fell short, but on how far we have come [towards independence]" as Alex Salmond put it, must be dismissed.
It therefore follows that this principle should be reflected in the legislative outcome of the Commission's work.
Most immediately, this means that if the permanent status of the Scottish Parliament is enshrined in UK law, the overall authority of Scotland's UK Parliament must also be codified and enshrined in that law, together with the relationship between the two institutions.
The Scottish Parliament is a permanent democratic institution of the UK (i.e., not of Scotland) as are the Assemblies in Cardiff and Belfast.
The outcome of the Independence Referendum is binding and permanent.
This is of course the logical conclusion of the Edinburgh Agreement. However, it is clear that this principle is in danger of being breached by the outgoing and incoming First Ministers, neither of whom have ruled out a further referendum, or recommended a moratorium.
The Edinburgh Agreement demanded that the referendum should be "legal and fair producing a decisive and respected outcome." These requirements have been met beyond all reasonable doubt. However, if the Scottish electorate are to have confidence in the referendum and its aims as set out in the Agreement (and in turn the democratic process as a whole), it is also clear that its outcome should be seen to be permanent. There are a number of ways that this can be achieved.
There is a need for the Scottish Parliament to be subject to a scrutiny process.
It was one of the original theories of the Scottish Parliament that the combination of a proportional electoral system and an effective committee structure would guard against the dominance of any party or partisan interest. Since the election of 2011 this has been proven not be the case. It is therefore now clear that any extra powers should be conditional on extra scrutiny of the Holyrood legislative process.
This scrutiny could be achieved within current resources by using Scotland's Westminster MPs (excluding those in government) as a scrutiny body, with well-defined powers of delay and revision of legislation. The Scottish Parliament could sit for three days per week and the MPs use the Chamber for the other two weekdays for this purpose.
The process of devolution should not be confined to Holyrood.
It is now anticipated that the Scottish Independence Referendum will act as a catalyst for some devolution within England, which may be based on city-regions. If this is the case, Manchester, Birmingham, etc. will have a range of additional self-government powers and responsibilities. These could include powers over personal and business taxation as well as responsibilities for health, economic development, housing and structure planning.
If in Scotland these powers are retained at Holyrood, Scottish cities will be at a considerable disadvantage to the English regional cities and city-regions. The Commission should therefore also consider recommending that devolution should be extended to Scottish city regions, especially Greater Glasgow and Edinburgh/Lothians.
This further distribution of constitutional power to city-regions could also have the effect of making a spurious or opportunist call for a further referendum less likely to be successful.
Finally, I would conclude that more devolution can only come about in the context of a strong centre .
Conversely, if the centre is not strengthened appropriately, the work of the Commission will be restricted in its scope. This would of course not be an unacceptable outcome to the vast majority who voted No on 18th September, as –to reiterate – the only result which is absolute is No to independence.
However, many of us who wish to see greater decentralisation of power within both the UK and Scotland would regard an outcome which did not achieve that aim as a lost opportunity.
I hope that this submission has been of interest and assistance to you.
Posted on 10/18/2014 by planetpedro CommentsNo Comments on Yes Vote – Nationalism or Despair? – Courtesy of David Webster.
Yes Vote – Nationalism or Despair? – Courtesy of David Webster.
At the meeting of Glasgow Fabians on 11th October, our friend David Webster produced the following graph. (Click on image to enlarge) I have also included his excellent commentary.
THE YES VOTE – NATIONALISM OR DESPAIR?
The attached chart shows that most (71%) of the variation in the Yes vote share in the Referendum across Scottish local authorities can be explained by the percentage of the population living on means tested benefits or tax credits, as defined in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. This is a very strong effect by any standards and suggests that other explanations – such as pre-existing commitment to nationalism as shown by the previous SNP vote, or religious affiliation – have little power. The chart suggests that actual preference for independence is no greater than it was known to be already – i.e. at most one third of the electorate. This is indicated by the evidence in the chart that a hypothetical local authority with no one on benefits would have voted No by 73% to 27%.
The chart also shows that the significance of the Yes vote in Glasgow has been overstated. The city was absolutely in line with the national trend, once deprivation is taken into account. Dundee and Highlands, by contrast, had clearly bigger Yes votes than the national trend would suggest, while Orkney, Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway had lower Yes votes.
A 1 percentage point increase in the percentage of population on benefits increased the Yes vote by 1.3 percentage points. This shows that the 'benefits' effect cannot have been due simply to voting by people currently on benefits. Also, Lord Ashcroft's poll at http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/09/scotland-voted/ has only 10% of voters saying that benefits were among the two or three most important influences on their vote. So the 'benefits' effect is probably both representing people on benefits and proxying for something else. What is the something else?
The Catholic archbishop of Glasgow has argued (Herald, 23/9/2014) that 'despair and deprivation' were key factors in the vote, because too many people 'feel threatened and disheartened by poor life chances'. He seems to be right. Certainly, the Yes campaign appeared to gain enormous traction through constant references to issues such as the bedroom tax and the growth of Food Banks, while Labour Party dissidents like Bob Holman specifically campaigned to win over disadvantaged people to Yes.
The claim that independence would help the disadvantaged is based on hope, not evidence. Bob Holman likes to attack the Westminster parliament for its social privilege – but Scottish MSPs are four times more likely to have gone to private schools than their constituents (Herald, 7/4/2014), and there are more ex-manual workers in the House of Lords than there are in the Scottish Parliament. The SNP largely represents constituencies which were previously Tory. And the SNP's record in government is hardly encouraging – a 25% cut in further education funding while universities stay free, a council tax freeze which cuts services on which poor people rely but disproportionately benefits the better-off, an almost total lack of progressive labour market policies. Not to mention, of course, that a post-independence Scotland would be beset by funding problems, due to factors such as the costs of setting up a new state, the need to build up currency reserves, the loss of tax revenue from companies moving south, higher borrowing costs, unfavourable EU entry terms, and loss of population due to discriminatory policies against migrants from the rest of the UK. The Irish Free State in the 1920s and 1930s offers a salutary warning – it cut old age pensions and school meals to pay for lucrative new state jobs, lost more population after independence than before, and by repudiating its debt (the 'land annuities'), provoked a trade war with the UK which caused lasting damage to the Irish economy.
Nevertheless there is a lot of work for the Labour movement to do. The lesson that it was neoliberal policies, mainly of the Tories since Thatcher, which nearly lost the Union, while it was the Labour movement that saved it, needs to be hammered home. It has to challenge the Yes campaigners now to shift their energies to delivering the policies and programmes to tackle disadvantage which lie within the soon-to-be expanded powers of the Scottish Parliament. And it has to show that neoliberalism can be defeated across the UK.
YOU report that Nicola Sturgeon is to go on progress through Scotland ahead of her coronation as leader of the SNP and in turn First Minister ("Sturgeon in unprecedented tour before Cabinet reshuffle", The Herald, October 16).
This should be welcomed as an excellent opportunity for her to elaborate on her social democratic credentials.
On the "social" side, she may wish to apologise to her followers for the SNP's failure to take action on poverty and inequality in Scotland in her party's seven years in office, and set out how she intends to address these issues. The old game of blaming Westminster is no longer viable now that Scots have confirmed their view that such matters as employment and welfare should be addressed on the level of the whole UK.
Indeed, Ms Sturgeon will only show real leadership of both her party and of the country if she has the courage to embrace the democratic will of the Scottish people. She must tell them that in the referendum the voters rejected independence, that it is a lost cause, and there will not be a further referendum in the foreseeable future.
Anything else would not only be denial of the "democratic" part of "social democrat" but a betrayal of the right of self-determination of the Scottish people, as exercised on September 18. Over to you, Nicola.


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The 2005 ARFU Asian Rugby Series was the second edition of a tournament created by Asian Rugby Football Union for national teams. It was also valid as first round of Asian qualification for 2007 Rugby World cup.

Tournament

First Division
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!width=30|P
!width=30|W
!width=30|D
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!width=30|Ag.
!width=40|Diff.
!width=30|Points
!width=300|Notes
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Second division
Valid also for 2007 Rugby World Cup – Asia qualification

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!width=30|Points
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|-
|- bgcolor=#ccffcc align=center
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|- bgcolor=#ffffff align=center
|2||align=left|||2||1||0||1||44||43||+1||2||
|- bgcolor=#ffffCC align=center
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Third division
Valid also for 2007 Rugby World Cup – Asia qualification

Pool A
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|-
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|- bgcolor=#ffffCC align=center
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Pool B
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!width=100|Team
!width=30|P
!width=30|W
!width=30|D
!width=30|Lost
!width=30|For
!width=30|Ag.
!width=40|Diff.
!width=30|Points
!width=300|Notes
|-
|- bgcolor=#ccffcc align=center
|1||align=left|||3||3||0||0||135||31||+104||6||   promoted to final
|- bgcolor=#ffffff align=center
|2||align=left|||3||2||0||1||78||56||+22||4||   relegated to next year's division 4
|- bgcolor=#ffffff align=center
|3||align=left|||3||1||0||2||60||111||-51||2||  relegated to next year's division 4
|- bgcolor=#ffffff align=center
|4||align=left|||3||0||0||3||29||104||-75||0||  relegated to next year's division 5
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Final
{| class="wikitable"
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!width=30|Pos.
!width=100|Team
!width=30|P
!width=30|W
!width=30|D
!width=30|Lost
!width=30|For
!width=30|Ag.
!width=40|Diff.
!width=30|Points
!width=300|Notes
|-
|- bgcolor=#ccffcc align=center
|1||align=left|||2||2||0||0||43||37||+6||2||   promoted to next year's division 2
|- bgcolor=#ffffff align=center
|2||align=left|||2||0||0||2||37||43||-6||2||
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References

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2005 rugby union tournaments for national teams
2005 in Asian rugby union

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// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

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using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Collections.Generic;
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using System.Reflection.Runtime.FieldInfos;
using System.Reflection.Runtime.General;
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Emily Vitale | Prism Sport
It might be her way of positive outlook, work ethic, or the fortune of the moment, but a taste for sports fashion has enabled Emily Vitale to establish a name in the burgeoning athleisure industry.
After her early career in sports and fashion marketing, Emily Vitale decided to quit that work and start raising her children. That was the starting point of another way of life. Emily soon started constructing tennis clothes and accessories that showed her love of print, color, and texture. And after realizing that the market only so many monochromatic fitness clothes, Emily worked with Lori Forio to co-found the PRISMSPORT. The venture has enabled her to share her vision that performance fitness clothing should be fashionable (and fun) too. The success of the concept has been exhilarating.
Today, people are allowed to dress casually in their workplaces. More people are including workouts in their daily routine and yoga is in the booming stage and driving the category too.
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How her career life evolved
Emily Vitale's earlier work experience stemmed from the need to support her several hobbies and vices. "I taught skiing to raise the money I needed to pay for season's pass." "I also sold my sewing projects to support my longtime habit of purchasing beautiful fabric." After her college years, she engaged in retail business mainly because she loved fashion. "The retail business gave me a great start and helped me understand how the fashion industry works."
Luckily, she landed at Ellesse, which was a small startup company in NY, in the Department of Advertising and PR. She had also known Ellesse in her days of skiing and it had been her dream company. In the company, she gained insight on various fundamental operations like running the fashion brand, which she carried to her PRISMSPORT businesses. "Today I am capable of dealing with retailers of any size, manufacturing, and marketing," she says. She stopped working to raise her girls but continued sewing and selling wares to family and close friends. After her girls got old, she started organizing her hobbies into a real business with Lori Florio, a close friend, and PRISMSPORT co-founder.
The PRISMSPORT Brand
PRISMSPORT is a brainchild of Emily Vitale and Lori Florio, two ladies of marketing and publishing respectively, who developed Prism Sport as athletic wear embracing passion, vibrancy, and one that takes you from the gym to any other place during the day. "We developed PRISMSPORT for women on tight schedules but wanting to remain fit." The fitness wear boasts unique prints that will empower you during your workouts and after the workout time ends.
Emily Vitale's highlights of the startup venture so far include seeing the creation of the first products, packaging those first products in bags featuring the PRISMSPORT logo.
Today, PRISMSPORT is among the few activewear companies making fashionable products that are truly all-sport performance products. "Most other brands claim that they are studio-to-street, but they mostly step very far from the line." Emily believes that others offer many fashionable products but of sub-par quality and high-performing fabrics without style sense. "With PRISMSPORT, women are able to live within the brand and enjoy it when not working out in the gym."
Emily's advice to women in business
Emily Vitale encourages women who are working to establish their businesses to consult anyone they find related to their industry of choice. "Ask numerous questions, and remember to carefully listen to the answers." "That is important if you want your business to flourish, and to learn more about the industry of choice, including when you are not involved directly in every aspect of your business. By learning, you will get a clear roadmap and picture of where you are planning to go."
What made the business flourish?
Because most people are living casual lives, and they are becoming more health conscious than they have been, Emily Vitale believes that they are enjoying the associated benefits. "Today, people are allowed to dress casually in their workplaces. More people are including workouts in their daily routine and yoga is in the booming stage and driving the category too. The fitness fashion is appealing to people of all habits and ages and complements anything that you are likely to do."
Emily says that the innovation in fabric has allowed sporting clothes producers to make better designs and performance benefits that people did not enjoy several years ago. "People used to exercise in cotton and to drip. To print a garment, they required higher minimum quantities – the technology has significantly changed all that."
"Several things make the PRISMSPORT pieces versatile. The first factor is the fabric, which is a dense weave and provides slight compression and is not thick or heavy. The fabric also offers a comfortable silky feel and you can wear it throughout the day."
The styling is different from the others. "The capris and the leggings feature discreet seamless front, which does not bond at the crotch – due to the inside stitching and the design. The pants have seams on their side, which provide the capris and leggings a trouser feel making them stylish and easier to transition from the gym outfit to enjoy some coffee and snacks with friends. The PRISMSPORT prints are trending." She also believes that they are more appropriate for street wear.
Living in Prism: What does it mean?
Emily Vitale says that "Living in Prism" means several things. It might refer to living in energy and color, standing out, being present, feeling empowered, being exuberant, being comfortable when noticed and avoiding being a black wallflower. It is more like having a loud voice in print. In fact, "Living in Prism" takes women from the gym to other places. It allows them to be comfortable in their skin and express their creativity and individuality.
The founder of PRISMSPORT admires women who attempt to integrate family and work. In her career life, she has realized how difficult that can be and she has learned by absorbing and observing the creative and different ways women accomplish their goals in their day-to-day lives.
"Living in Prism" means several things. It might refer to living in energy and color, standing out, being present, feeling empowered, being exuberant, being comfortable when noticed and avoiding being a black wallflower.
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Havana is the destination of the instant. Inside the beyond couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones or even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—together with Karl Lagerfeld and the arena's fashionistas attending Chanel's first Latin American show.
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And so it turned into following inside the wake of such greatness that I found myself in Havana's former united states of america club district in the humid warmness of overdue may to supply a speech at the lawns of El Laguito, a flamboyant constructing from the early twentieth century that can not quite determine whether it wants to be a tropical Petit Trianon or a big, marble wedding ceremony cake. El Laguito is the Vatican of the cigar, housing the factory in which Cohiba cigars are made.
I was talking at one of the activities celebrating the luxury marque's 50th anniversary, after the Swiss watch agency Zenith announced it changed into making an eye as a tribute to the semicentennial of the arena's maximum prestigious cigar logo. Because i have spent tons of my running existence touring cigar and watch factories, Zenith requested me to say some words approximately the 2 cultures. I made the point that the cigar and the watch appeared in Europe at kind of the equal time within the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Tobacco and timepieces had been a part of our lives ever due to the fact that.
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Cohiba may additionally officially be 50, however its roots run deep into the past—as a minimum at some distance returned as October 1492. Flushed with success after the recent defeat of Granada's Saracens in Andalucía, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain prepared to back a younger Genoese mariner known as Christopher Columbus in his search for a western route to the riches of the East Indies. He become despatched off with commands to set up a deal touching on gold mining and spice buying and selling with the relevant king there upon his arrival.
As a substitute, he arrived at one of the islands inside the Bahamas, a picturesque location with naked population but now not a lot within the way of gold or spices. In his magazine, Columbus wrote that "the natives introduced fruit, timber spears, and positive dried leaves which gave off an extraordinary perfume." The Europeans ate the fruit, threw the leaves overboard and then—hearing of a big island farther along the coast known as Colba, which Columbus renamed Cuba—set sail over again. Once more, treasured little gold, just some small figurines, but Columbus was rewarded with the sight of the nearby population, the Taínos, taking walks round with what gave the look of trumpet-size bundles of burning leaves in their mouths, the same ones that he and his group had discarded inside the Bahamas. Rodrigo de Jerez, one of the Spanish crewmen who joined Columbus on the voyage, is concept to be the primary ecu smoker; he remarked that the leaves were twisted like a paper musket, giving off a fragrant smoke. They know as these smoldering bundles tabacos and the tobacco leaves were called cohiba, cojiba or cohoba.
Greater than 470 years later, Fidel Castro's bodyguard started out sharing cigars made by a neighborhood guy named Eduardo Ribera with El Comandante himself; Castro cherished them so much that a personal production logo was mounted in 1966—seven years after the Cuban revolution—to exclusively deliver Castro and top officials with the cigars. When casting about for a name that didn't have imperialist connotations, the old Taíno phrase became revived and positioned into carrier. In 2006, the extremely-luxurious, restrained-edition Cohiba Behike was created to celebrate the emblem's fortieth anniversary; its emblem of a Taíno head in profile once again emphasized this picture of the proud Cuban.
The authentic Cohiba, a protracted, thin cigar known as the Lancero with a twisted pigtail of tobacco at its head, turned into primarily based at the cigar smoked by Castro's bodyguard. Castro determined to make this cigar an ambassador for the u . s . a ., frequently sending Cohiba cigars as diplomatic presents to statesmen abroad.
A lot has changed in half a century. Castro, now 89, now not smokes cigars, and Cohiba has come to be globally renowned as one of the higher matters that life has to provide. (The cigar have become commercially to be had in 1982.) there is an understatement to the truth that a state based on innovative socialist beliefs now makes one of the global's maximum recognizable fame symbols, but everybody who sees Cohiba as an insignificant status-conferring luxury product is missing the point. In addition to being the first-class cigar that Cuba makes, a Cohiba is likewise a cultural item.
Cohiba tobacco grows in just 5 Vegas Finas de Primera, the satisfactory plantations in the Vuelta Abajo, Cuba's mythical tobacco-developing area. Unlike the tobacco in other cigars, Cohiba tobacco undergoes a further fermentation and matures for longer before the pleasant blenders and most dexterous rollers on the island make the well-known cigars with their black-and-yellow band. And from the original cigar a whole global of cigars has sprung.
I tend to be wary of logo extension and enlargement due to the risk that mice might be compromised and exclusivity faded. But Cuba is, in such a lot of approaches, a rustic of surprises; even amid financial woes and the general international trend to lessen tobacco use, Cohiba has flourished. It's miles now made in dozens of various styles and sizes, showcasing innovations inclusive of the reintroduction of medio tiempo, a rare form of tobacco leaf that comes from the two upper leaves of the plant and had disappeared from Cuban cigar making. Cohiba has also proved itself adept at responding to smoking restrictions with this year's release of a medio siglo (half-century), a sawn-off cigar that offers an espresso-like interpretation of the rounded Cohiba taste, delivered in a shorter time, approximately half-hour.
Cohiba may be making cigars for the time-pressed smoker, however it has hardly ever deserted the heights of exclusivity. Alternatively, it has ascended to new peaks that appeared impossible lower back in 1966. In March this yr, the primary of 50 special humidors, containing 50 Cohiba 50th anniversary cigars, fetched more than $350,000 at public sale, equating to over $7,000 a cigar. The simplest disappointment is that these 50 Aniversario cigars are unlikely to be smoked but will possibly remain intact as creditors' objects.
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Q: static import not working in lombok builder in intelliJ I am using Lombok in IntelliJ. Though everything else is working fine when I try to do the static import of the Lombok builder, IntelliJ build project doesn't find the builder class. If you don't use static import, it works fine.

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The Browning Automatic Rifle
Robert R. Hodges Jr., Robert R. Hodges
Bloomsbury Publishing, 20. apr 2012 - 80 pages
For nearly fifty years the hard-hitting, mobile Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, served in US infantry units as a light squad automatic "base of fire" weapon, providing quick bursts of concentrated fire. Designed in World War One, it didn't reach the front until September 1918. In the interwar years US forces used the BAR across the world, from China to Nicaragua. It also became a favorite of notorious gangsters like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who prized its ability to punch through police armored cars. At the outset of World War II the US armed forces decided to adapt the BAR for a light machine gun role. The BAR was not without its flaws; it was heavy and difficult to dismantle and reassemble, and it didn't cope well with sustained fire. Nevertheless, the BAR saw action in every major theater of World War II and went on to be used in Korea and in the opening stages of the Vietnam War. Featuring arresting first-hand accounts, specially drawn full-color artwork and close-up photographs, many in color, this lively study offers a vivid portrait of this powerful, long-lived and innovative weapon that saw service with US and other forces across the world for much of the 20th century.
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Robert Hodges was born and raised in the historic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A lifelong student of military history, particularly World War II and the American Civil War, he is the author of Elite 171 American Civil War Railroad Tactics. Formally trained in history and philosophy, he has published historical articles in several well-known magazines. He also writes fiction and poetry.
Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Edouard Detaille. His interests include karate, running, Bible reading, history, and making English longbows.
Title The Browning Automatic Rifle
Authors Robert R. Hodges Jr., Robert R. Hodges
Illustrated by Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland
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Biggles battles through the First World War, honing his flying skills in terrifying battles against the finest fighters the enemy can supply. But not all his adventures take place in the air, and not all of them are deadly serious. Even in the bitter environment of war, the men of 266 Squadron find time to share some laughs as their friendships strengthen, ready for the thrill of next deadly aerial combat.
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Captain W. E. Johns was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918. Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The First Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W. E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.
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Lietuvos Energija has successfully distributed the second EUR 300 million issue of green bonds. The bonds have been acquired by 115 investors from 22 countries and the demand for the bonds outstripped the supply 4 times – investors were willing to lend EUR 1.1 billion to Lietuvos Energija. This year Lietuvos Energija successfully distributed the issue at lower cost than last year despite the fact that market conditions were less favourable this year – the yield of 10-year maturity bonds is 2.066 per cent, which is less than 2.193 per cent in 2017 when the first 10-year EUR 300 million green bonds were issued.
International and local investment and pension funds, banks and insurance companies were competing for the securities of the Company. Most of the green bonds have been acquired by investors from France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, and Lithuania.
"The success of this green bond issue demonstrates a strong investors' confidence of the new, ambitious LE 2030 strategy which was presented to investors during the roadshow in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and other European cities last week. In particular, the investors supported the green focus of LE 2030 strategy, financial reliability, its efficient performance, and compliance with the strategic renewable energy objectives of the state. Now, when the global financial markets are less stable compared to the last year, such a successful transaction indicates international recognition and trust in the future of Lietuvos Energija," said Darius Maikštėnas, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Lietuvos Energija.
Lietuvos Energija intends to use the funds raised for further financing of the investments in wind energy, enhancement of efficiency of the power distribution grid, as well as for the projects of energy production from waste and biomass. Lietuvos Energija undertook to use the funds attracted through the green bonds issue to finance only the investments designated for green energy projects.
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Lietuvos Energija has chosen BNP Paribas, J. P. Morgan, and SEB as Joint Lead Managers and Joint Bookrunners. The green bond issue will be listed on the Luxembourg and the Nasdaq Vilnius Stock Exchanges.


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Oh dear I have been back in the UK now for over two months and finding the time to make miniatures is proving difficult. There are just so many other things that need sorting out first. While I was living in Jakarta my son's friend broke the original etched glass in our front door. I have only just managed to get that sourced. Then the garden well, what can I say he just managed to keep it from dying. I have had to weed, prune, replant and generally revive my once beautiful garden not to mention painting the shed and fence. The list goes on but I will not bore you with my woes.
Here are some little bits I have managed to create for Halloween.
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Yannis Stournaras sees 'light at end of tunnel' for Greece
City Index January 29, 2013 2:15 PM

The Greek finance minister has stated he is optimistic about Greece's road to recovery.

The euro has lost ground versus both the dollar and sterling in forex trading this morning (January 29th), despite optimistic comments about the Greek recovery from the nation's finance minister.
Yannis Stournaras told BBC News that he believes the chances of the troubled Mediterranean nation leaving the single currency are now very slim and that "there is definitely a glimmer of hope – light at the end of the tunnel".
Last year, Athens decision-makers rushed through major reforms and austerity measures ensuring the country received its essential bailout money from international creditors, sparing the nation from defaulting on its massive public debt after its coffers ran dry.
Greece is far from out of the woods, however, as Eurostat revealed last week that it has the highest unemployment levels in Europe at 26.8 per cent, while its recession is the worst in modern history and has lasted for six years.
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The combination of three autoantibodies, ACPA, RF and anti-CarP antibodies is highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis: implications for very early identification of individuals at risk to develop rheumatoid arthritis
Verheul MK1, Böhringer S2, van Delft MAM1, Jones JD3, Rigby WFC3, Gan RW4, Holers VM5, Edison JD6, Deane KD5, Janssen KMJ7, Westra J8, Brink M9, Rantapää-Dahlqvist S9, Huizinga TWJ1, van der Helm-van Mil AHM1, van der Woude D1, Toes REM1, Trouw LA1,10. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2018 May 21. doi: 10.1002/art.40562. [Epub ahead of print]
1 Department of Rheumatology, Leiden university medical center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
2 Department of Medical Statistics, Leiden university medical center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
3 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
4 Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
5 Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
6 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
7 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
8 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
9 Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine / Rheumatology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
10 Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden university medical center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
OBJECTIVE: In rheumatoid arthritis(RA), the autoantibodies anti-citrullinated protein antibodies(ACPA) and rheumatoid factor(RF) are commonly used to aid RA diagnosis. Although these autoantibodies are mainly found in RA, their specificity is not optimal. It is therefore difficult to identify RA patients, especially in very early disease, based on the presence of ACPA and RF alone. Also, anti-carbamylated protein(anti-CarP) antibodies have diagnostic and prognostic value as the presence of anti-CarP antibodies associates with joint damage in RA patients and with future RA development in arthralgia patients. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the value of combined antibody testing in relation to prediction and diagnosis of (early) RA.
METHODS: A literature search resulted in twelve studies, consisting of RA patients, pre-RA individuals, disease controls, healthy first-degree relatives of RA patients or healthy controls, in which data on RF, ACPA and anti-CarP antibody-status was available. Random effects meta-analyses were carried out for several antibody combinations.
RESULTS: The individual antibodies are highly prevalent in RA(34%-80%) compared to the control groups, but are also present in non-RA controls(0%-23%). To classify most people correctly as RA or non-RA, the combination of ACPA and/or RF often performs well(specificity:65-100, sensitivity:59-88). However, triple positivity for ACPA, RF and anti-CarP antibodies results in a higher specificity(98-100) (accompanied by a lower sensitivity(11-39)).
CONCLUSIONS: As the rheumatology field is moving towards very early identification of RA and possible screening for individuals at maximum risk in populations with a low pre-test probability, triple positivity provides interesting information on individuals at risk to develop RA.


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- JHarry, returns with a new album that explores his takes on Morals, Codes, & Ethics. Deep Dives into romantic relationships, upbringing, defeat, & betrayal. LIVE BY IT DIE BY IT serves as the narration of the voice who will carry the future of authentic, true-to-self hip hop music !


in a beautiful village in a Caldey chalet.
and visited Elftopia after a ride in a sleigh.
I realised we took something away from Bluestone.
Shock! Horror!! We'd done something foul!
We'd brought back contraband - a Bluestone tea-towel!
I will send it back - guilt gives me a headache!
I'm praying you won't ban us and that you won't sue.
I mean it with all my heart and with complete sincerity.
I hope you forgive us and that you enjoyed this rhyme."
"A Bluestone thief! A Christmas sinner!
Our tea-towel stockpile did look somewhat thinner.
frantically searching from bottom to top.
Flapping in the wind off the Tea Towel Hero?!
making rabbits appear with a swoosh and a flick.
and its soaring through the sky- destination Spain.
our Elves have assured him it's an honest mistake.
we would love to have back and are missed by our Elves.
we will always do our best when you come visit here.
your rhyme brought us joy and that we do treasure.
Until next time you visit - we hope it's not far!
Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda!"
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Julius Lenhart (Viena, 27 de novembre de 1875 – Viena, 10 de novembre de 1962) va ser un gimnasta austríac que va competir a cavall del  i el . El 1904 va disputar els Jocs Olímpics de Saint Louis. Les dues medalles d'or i una de plata que guanyà el fan l'esportista austríac més llorejat en uns Jocs Olímpics d'Estiu.

Va començar la seva carrera esportiva en un club gimnasta de Viena. Per motius laborals es traslladà a Alemanya i Suïssa, on continuà participant en competicions de caràcter local a principis del . El 1903 viatjà fins als Estats Units i s'afilià al club Philadelphia Turngemeinde de Filadèlfia, ciutat on trobà feina. L'any següent va participar en els Jocs de Saint Louis, on guanyà les medalles d'or en el concurs complet i el concurs per equips i la de plata en la triatló, totes del programa de gimnàstica. Tan bon punt finalitzaren els Jocs tornà cap a Àustria i retirà de la pràctica esportiva.

Com que en les primeres edicions dels Jocs Olímpics els atletes no hi participaven per nacions sinó per clubs esportius el Comitè Olímpic Internacional considera les seves medalles com a estatunidenques i no pas com a austríaques.

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SADC, CITES & The Animal Rightists. The way forward
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The next meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES 2019), is just around the corner. This is the 19th Meeting of the Parties (CoP19) since 1975 and Africa is no further forward (than we were in 1975) in getting the convention to "work with African countries" to create legal markets for our wildlife and wildlife products. Indeed, we have regressed. And, lest we forget, the purpose of CITES is to REGULATE the wildlife trade on behalf of its 183 sovereign state members – NOT to PROHIBIT trade; and to make sure that whatever trade is permitted is sustainable.
Only the 183 sovereign state members – the "Parties to the Convention" – have a vote at CITES; a single vote for every item on the agenda. And only by casting their votes – theoretically – are 'party' decisions made at CITES. Even though the NGOs outnumber the Parties by several thousand-to-one – theoretically – ONLY the Parties have the power to make decisions; and that is achieved – theoretically – "solely by consensus".
In reviewing the convention's performances since 1975 , however, I cannot recall a single instance in which any country in Africa has, trade-wise, benefitted from complying with the dictates of CITES. The reason for this is because two thirds of the accredited NGOs at CITES are animal rightist in orientation and they completely dominate the proceedings at convention meetings – by reason of their sheer numbers. And, one way or another, they have contrived to illegally purchase enough of the available 183 sovereign state votes to control most consensus outcomes. Twenty-five years ago they were buying votes for cash. Today they do so by way of "sponsoring" the visits of poor country delegates to the conventions. Either way, they have gained control of the voting system and that has corrupted the convention.
The principle (wildlife) objective of the animal rights doctrine is to ABOLISH all wild animal uses by man. They say that wild animals have the same right to life as have humans beings; that man has no right to use wild animals for his own benefit; and that it is immoral to 'make money' out of wild animals. They believe that all of Africa's wild animals should be considered, and treated by man, as though they are 'sacred cows'; and that they should be protected from all harm by man. And they refute the need for Africa's wild animal populations to be 'managed' by man.
One has to wonder WHY an animal rightist NGO – whose purpose in life is to ABOLISH all animal uses by man (including PROHIBITING the wildlife trade) – would want to become a member of an organisation (CITES) the purpose of which is to REGULATE the wildlife trade. There can only be one answer to that question: they join CITES in order to sabotage the attainment of the convention's purposes.
The animal rightist NGOs obtain their funding by way of propaganda.
Propaganda is: "The spreading of ideas, information or rumour for the purpose of promoting an ideal – or injuring an institution, cause or person – by any means, true or false.
ONE example: In the three year lead-up to CoP17 (CITES 2016) the animal rightist NGOs told the world that the African elephant was facing extinction: and they persuaded the gullible general public to pay them large sums of money to stop the elephant from becoming extinct. How they intended to do this nobody knows. At least two of these NGOs earned in excess of 100 million US dollars a year from such donations. None of that money found its way into Africa (to 'save' the elephant). It all went into the NGO's own bank accounts.
First things first: The stated 'fact' that the elephant is facing extinction is a deliberate lie. The elephant is NOT facing extinction. In southern Africa there are more than 10 times too many elephants in all the major game reserves. And the elephants are destroying all the woodland habitats; rendering both plants and animals locally extinct; and causing the desertification of the national parks.
In terms of the American RICO Act (Racketeering Influenced and Criminal Organisations Act) NGOs practicing this kind of propaganda activity are, in the first instance, guilty of "common fraud" (they make money from a fabricated lie!). If they commit that same fraud a second time (or more than once) the common fraud is reclassified as being 'a racket'; and racketeering constitutes organised crime in America. And these are the kinds of people who are opposing Africa's attempts to harvest Africa's wildlife (for the purpose of relieving rural poverty – because 'poverty' is the principle driving force behind village-hunter poaching).
The First World animal rightists own no national parks or wild animals in Africa. They have no accountability for the wildlife management demands they make on Africa. And they can simply walk away if their management demands are followed through by timid African practictioners – and the results are a disaster. Africa, therefore, can well do without this calibre of "wildlife expert" in our midst.
These are the same people who are 'advising' CITES; who are demanding that CITES becomes an organisation that PROHIBITS the wildlife trade (and they are succeeding) – and they couldn't care a damn if their recommendations result is chaos and mayhem. The countries of the SADC region should think very carefully, therefore, if they wish to be guided by these pernicious people; or if they REALLY want to be associated with a convention that listens to their advice. There is a growing number of people in southern Africa who are advocating that CITES has done enough damage to Africa; and that the convention needs to be dissolved. And they are hoping that, if CITES does not change its tune during its next meeting (Cop18), that the SADC countries will resign en masse. It will take some action of that magnitude to rock the boat enough to make the United Nations understand that CITES is NOT WANTED; and that it is not doing the job it was designed to perform.
Africa is changing. There are many forward-thinking countries in the SADC region that WANT to create symbiotic and sustainable partnerships between their rural communities and the wildlife that surrounds them; for the survival benefit of their own people. This is most definitely "the way forward for Africa". But they are being foiled in their attempts to do this by CITES; and CITES is being guided by its accredited and corrupt animal rightist NGOs.
How long is Africa going to put up with the neo-colonial aspirations of the criminal elite of these First World (all white) NGOs? Africa is moving ever more rapidly towards embracing the wisdom of using our wild animals sustainably for the benefit of Africa's rural people. How much longer, therefore, are we going to have to hold our breaths whilst Africa's political elite take their time to make the obvious decisions that are now required. Many people in southern Africa are hoping that if CITES does not come out in support of the sustainable-use of our wildlife resources during CoP18 – and if CITES disallows (again) the sale of our legally acquired rhino horn; and legally acquired elephant ivory – that SADC will walk out of the convention, en masse, and thus show their solidarity with each other. I am one who would dearly love to see this happen!
Miracles do happen!
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Snooker ace Ronnie O'Sullivan has been signed up to front and appear in World Snooker Championship 2011 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Due for a quarter two release, the title, developed and published by Dark Energy Sports, is being handled by Koch Media in the UK.
O'Sullivan will be the cover star and help market the game ahead of release. The three-times World Champion will also appear in-game, the publisher confirmed.
A Koch statement read: "WSC Real 2011 is shaping up to be the most realistic WSC experience yet seen on home console and PC.
Unique features of the game include the ability to rewind matches to view the best and worst shots, and it will offer a slow motion mode for retaking shots. The title also includes all the official 2010/2011 snooker tournaments and players.
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John Derbyshire: Let's Go To Peak Trump Hysteria—Ambassador Kislyak For FBI Chief!
John Derbyshire
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.]
I don't know whether Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached Peak Hysteria yet, but this week it definitely attained what we math geeks call a "local maximum." That means, while it may not be the tallest peak in the mountain range, it's taller than anything in its immediate vicinity.
This is of course all about President Trump firing FBI Director James Comey. Prior to this week, the most famous episode in U.S. history concerning a President and his FBI Director was Lyndon Johnson's apothegm about J. Edgar Hoover, slightly bowdlerized quote: "It's probably better to have him inside the tent peeing out, than outside the tent peeing in."
This week our President decided that FBI Director James Comey had been doing somewhat too much inward micturition and not enough of the outward kind, so he fired him.
That is perfectly constitutional. Comey was head of a federal agency reporting to the Executive Branch; the President is chief of that branch; there is no impropriety or unconstitutionality.
You'd never know that from the Establishment's reaction. Politicians and pundits were weeping and rending their garments everywhere you looked. One major New York tabloid, the Daily News, ran a cover saying, in the largest type they could fit on the page, Coup de Trump.
That's a metropolitan subeditor's notion of a clever play on words, in this case the words coup d'état, an overthrow of the state by force. Since d'état means "of the state" while de Trump means "of Trump," the actual implication of the Daily News headline to an educated reader (assuming the Daily News has one) would be that Trump had been overthrown by force.
That is not what happened, except in the fever dreams of our Trump-derangement-syndrome-affected elites. They couldn't help but verbalize their wishful thinking, though. The coup motif was a common one, by no means restricted to the Daily News. "Donald Trump Is Attempting a Coup," gasped Bill Moyers on his website. "A coup in real time?" asked Yale Professor of History Timothy Snyder [Email him]rhetorically at the CultMarx website Salon.com. The firing of Comey was, said this Ivy League professor, quote: "an open admission of collusion with Russia." [A coup in real time? by Chauncey DeVega, May 12, 2017]
Atlantic editor David Frum called it "a coup against the FBI " on Twitter. That one left me really confused. What, the FBI should be running the country, but Trump's overthrown them?
As I said, probably not peak hysteria yet—that will have arrived when Yale professors and Atlantic editors run screaming naked through the streets while tearing their flesh with billhooks; but definitely a local maximum.
Thoughtful commentary on the firing—I mean, the small percentage of commentary that contained something other than shrieking and sputtering—concentrated on Trump's timing, wisdom, and motivation. Here's my take on those three aspects, taking them in turn:
I can't summon up much interest in the timing.
If it was a right thing to do, the timing of the doing is secondary. Sooner would have been better; but better late than never.
The wisdom can reasonably be doubted.
Back in March I noted North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's purge of his secret police chief Kim Won-hong. I said how remarkable it was that the top cop was still alive, when senior officials who run afoul of Kim Jong-un are usually executed by some imaginatively gruesome method. How odd, I said, that the secret-police chief had merely been placed under house arrest. (He has since been sent to a camp for "re-education".)
But that's the thing with relations between a national leader and his secret-police boss, as LBJ understood. The secret-police boss knows far more about what's going on, at a much greater depth of detail, than the leader does. He doesn't just know where the bodies are buried: he knows how deep they are buried, and what was buried with them, and what was done to them that made it necessary at last to bury them, and who did it.
From the leader's point of view, the secret-police chief is a cargo of dynamite, to be handled with extreme care.
The money quote here is one I retailed back in January, from Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer is, as I noted at the time, a repulsive creep, but he nailed this one in a TV interview when asked about unkind things candidate Trump had said about the spooks:
Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he [that is, Trump] is being really dumb to do this.
Schumer predicted intelligence officials would 'get back at' Trump, By Carl Campanile, NY Post, January 11, 2017
So on the wisdom point, I'm shaking my head. Donald Trump may, and I hope will, go down in history as a successful President, but I doubt he will be regarded as one of the wisest.
What about motivation?
I'm sticking with my LBJ analogy. Comey just wasn't sufficiently on-side; or the President thought he wasn't, which is functionally the same thing.
Other opinions were on offer from the commentariat. Ann Coulter told her Twitter followers, perhaps not entirely seriously: "Comey firing is a red herring to distract from the fact that Trump hasn't started building the wall." Sorry, Ann, and I want that wall as much as you do, babe, or very nearly as much; but that's a stretch. I'm sticking with LBJ.
Out on the foam-flecked Left—which is to say, well-nigh all the Main Stream Media pundits and political Establishment—that Yale professor's opinion was the default: Comey was getting too close to the truth about candidate Trump's collaboration with the Russians to rig last November's election.
This business about the Russians is by now a psychiatric-level obsession with our elites, a King Charles's head. That's in spite of the fact that after months of furious digging there is not a shard or fragment of evidence for it, not a jot nor a tittle. And in spite of the further fact that it makes no strategic sense whatsoever from the Russians' point of view—a Clinton presidency would have suited them better. And in spite of the yet further fact that, according to me, it wouldn't have mattered a damn if there had been Russian attempts to interfere in our election. Mexico interferes in our elections all the time and no-one except VDARE.com's Allan Wall ever complains.
I suggested back in March that the President throw this Russia stuff right back in the elites' smug weasel faces by making the Russian ambassador an honored guest at all cabinet meetings. In the same spirit of defiance, I now tender a further suggestion.
Mr. President, you are in need of a new FBI Director. Please consider appointing Russian ambassador Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak to this position.
Ambassador Kislyak is a genial and worldly fellow you should have no trouble getting along with. As a former diplomatic functionary of the U.S.S.R., I'm sure he is well acquainted with intelligence procedures and protocols. An ideal candidate!
You'd probably have to grant him U.S. citizenship; but I believe that can be done on an expedited basis by a simple Act of Congress.
The upside for you would be that it would drive the opposition into shrieking, moon-howling madness. The downside for our country would be … nothing at all.
FOOTNOTE: Is that really a great idea? No, not really a great one. A pretty bad one, actually.
On any reasonable scale of badness, though, its badness fades to insignificance, to nothing at all, by comparison with really really bad ideas: ideas like continuing mass Third World immigration, or restarting the Cold War with Russia.
A nation can survive having a foreigner of doubtful loyalty in charge of one of its law-enforcement agencies, but it can't survive having its population replaced by alien peoples.
If that happens, the country is no longer what it was. It's a different country.
That's the condition we're in. Really really bad ideas, lethally bad ideas, existentially disastrous ideas, are respectable, in fact well-nigh compulsory. Ideas that are mildly silly but not permanently harmful are considered outrageous.
That's our condition.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him. ) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He's had two books published by VDARE.com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2013. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.


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Javier Bardem Offered Lead Pirate Villain In PAN
November 17, 2013 Rich Drees Movie News
It appears that Joe Wright's Peter Pan origin film Pan is hitting the fast track towards production. Wright only signed on to the project last week and we already have word as to who may be under consideration to head up the film's villainous pack of pirates.
Deadline is reporting that Javier Bardem – one of the go-to guys for speculating about movie bad guy roles – has been offered the lead role for the film.
Interestingly, according to Deadline's story, the role is not that of the traditional Peter Pan villain of Captain Hook, but that of historical pirate Blackbeard. Which I think actually hints at a way that the film will possibly end, with a member of Blackbeard's crew loosing his hand and then rising up to take command after Blackbeard's demise.
Now this version of the Peter Pan story titled Pan should not be confused with the screenplay of the same title that appeared on the 2006 Black List. In that version, written by Ben Magid, Hook is a modern day police detective investigating a string of child kidnappings and his only lead is a young woman who escaped the clutches of the kidnapper fifteen years earlier by the name of Wendy.
Wright will be directing from a screenplay by Jason Fuchs.
TV Portion Of DARK TOWER Adaption May Be Heading To HBO
Now if they can just get a studio interested in producing the films. [click for more]
King's DARK TOWER May Live At Warner Brothers
March 13, 2012 Rich Drees Movie News
The epic film and television adaption may yet get in front of cameras. [click for more]
Amanda Seyfried Joins PAN
April 24, 2014 Rich Drees Movie News
Director Joe Wright finalizes his cast for the PETER PAN prequel. [click for more]
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St. Patrick�s Day is a fun day to be an Irish lass. No one embraces the Irish like Americans. In America, March 17 is the day of green and cheek. On St. Patty�s I wake up to a cup of Irish Cr�me coffee, shower with Irish Spring soap (which makes you smell like an Irish lass), and dress in all green (if you don�t wear green you get pinched). Later, I don my light-up shamrock bobble hairband and go to the local McDonald�s for a Shamrock Shake (or Hagen Daz� for a Bailey�s Shake). For lunch I eat corned beef and cabbage (because this is considered an Irish dish), while watching the history channel documentary on St. Padrig or the Darby O�Gil movie. In the evening I meet my mates for green beer at the pub (or in my case, green diet soda) to sing olde Irish songs till the wee hours of the mornin�. This is also the time I try to remember how to sing the Irish national anthem in Irish, fail miserably, so it ends up sung in an Irish-American-English hybrid language my friends like to call, Irecan. Yes I am Irish and American hence I am an Irecan. The largest number of people of Irish descent live in the United States, about ten times more than in Ireland itself, I am not a lone Irecan, oh no.
During the St. Padrig�s day festivities Irecans sometimes exchange gifts. Usually I am the only Irish person anyone knows in Los Angeles, so I get lots of green things. Surprisingly this year I DID NOT receive 25 copies of Frank McCourt�s latest book. But I did receive a frog that sings �When Irish Eyes Are Smilin� when you press down on its lily pad. In the States everyone celebrates St. Patty�s so I also get gifts for my mates who are only part Irish (in America � counts!). So for my half breed sister I got a shamrock tote bag, for my trusty assistant Ben9000, I got a key ring with a real four leaf clover, for the wizardrockumentary twins II got 2 shamrock plectrum necklaces, for my cousin I wrote a theme song for her tele show (although her show is not specifically about clover it is about plants, you can see her show here: http://windycitygreenscene.com) and for my doctor I got a ceramic leprechaun music box (ok�my doctor is Chinese but he REALLY loves St. Patrick�s Day so I made him an honorary Irecan). And for you the fans, my favouritest of all, Switchblade Kittens has re-imagined the classic Irecan song, �Danny Boy� and made �Danny Girl.� So click here and listen to our St. Padrig�s Day present to you.
So Happy St. Patty to all and to all a green beverage!