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LaPatilla.com has published an invoice sent by Williams F1 to PDVSA, on 12 September 2011, so that pay-driver Pastor Maldonado could continue with the team in 2012.

The amount requested for 2012 is £29,400,000, payable to Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited's Barclay's bank account no. 00968277, sort code 20-01-09. Details of Williams VAT registration no. (GB 100 1901 88) and company no. (1297497) included in the invoice are correct.

According to Williams F1 profit & loss account made up to end 2010, the company had a turnover of some £91 millions, while reporting a profit of some £6 millions. Williams F1 carries losses of some £88 millions. Against these numbers, the £29.4 millions gotten from PDVSA seem like Williams F1 best deal ever, that's roughly a third of 2010's turnover right there. The amount shown in the invoice -payable for 2012- corresponds with the one detailed in the sponsorship contract between Williams F1 and PDVSA.

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question: Explain why Williams F1 is operating at a loss.

answer: Williams F1 is operating at a loss because their reported profit was only £6 million versus their reported losses of some £88 million.


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REBECCA BULLEY (born 18 August 1982), also known as REBECCA STRACHAN, is a former Australia netball international. Between 2008 and 2015 she made 42 senior appearances for Australia. Bulley was a member of the Australia teams that won the gold medal at the 2015 Netball World Cup and the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. At club level, Bulley won three ANZ Championship titles with three different teams – New South Wales Swifts in 2008, Adelaide Thunderbirds in 2013 and Queensland Firebirds in 2015. She began her senior club career with Melbourne Kestrels during the Commonwealth Bank Trophy era and finished it playing for Giants Netball in Suncorp Super Netball.

Early life, family and education

Bulley is the daughter of Leon and Lynley Strachan. She was born in Victoria and raised in the Pyramid Hill and Bendigo districts. She attended Pyramid Hill College and Bendigo Senior Secondary College. [1][2][3] Her sister, Meredith Ball (née Strachan), also played netball for Melbourne Kestrels, Melbourne University Lightning and Sandhurst. [4][5][6] Her younger brother, Kieran Strachan is an Australian rules footballer. [7][8][9] Rebecca is married to Randall Bulley, a schoolteacher based in Wollongong. She gave birth to a daughter, Indie in 2016. The Bulley family home is in Woonona, New South Wales. [10][11][12]

Playing career

Early years

As Rebecca Strachan, Bulley began her netball career as a junior with Calivil United in the Loddon Valley Football Netball League. Her mother, Lynley Strachan, coached at the Calivil United club. After her family moved to Bendigo, she switched to Sandhurst in the Bendigo Football Netball League. Her team mates at Sandhurst included her sister, Meredith. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Commonwealth Bank Trophy

Between 2000 and 2007, Bulley played 85 games for Melbourne Kestrels and AIS Canberra Darters in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. She also captained both teams. Between 2001 and 2003 she also played for the Australian Institute of Sport. [20][21][22][23][24][25]

ANZ Championship

New South Wales Swifts

Between 2008 and 2011, Bulley played for New South Wales Swifts in the ANZ Championship. [26][27][28][29] After missing out on selection for the Melbourne Vixens squad, Bulley was encouraged by Liz Ellis to join Swifts. [30][31][32] She was subsequently a member of the Swifts team that won the inaugural 2008 ANZ Championship title. [33] At the end of the 2010 ANZ Championship season, Bulley was named ANZ Championship Holden Player of the Year, the NSW Swifts QBE Player of the Year and the Member's Player of the Year. [34][35][36]

Adelaide Thunderbirds

Between 2012 and 2014, Bulley played for Adelaide Thunderbirds. In 2013 she was a member of the Thunderbirds team won the ANZ Championship. [37][38][39][40]

Queensland Firebirds

In 2015 Bulley played for Queensland Firebirds and finished the season with a third Championship winners medal. [41][42][43][44][45]

Suncorp Super Netball

Giants Netball

Between 2017 and 2018, Bulley played for Giants Netball in the Suncorp Super Netball. Bulley had initially retired after the 2015 Netball World Cup in order to start a family. However, Giants head coach, Julie Fitzgerald, subsequently persuaded her to come out of retirement as an injury replacement for Kristiana Manu'a. [46][47][48][49][50][51] In August 2018 Bulley announced her retirement as a player for the second time. [52]

Australia

Between 2008 and 2015, Bulley made 42 senior appearances for Australia. From 2005 she was regularly featured in Australia squads, including the advance squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. However Bulley had to wait until 2008 before she made her Test debut. She made her senior debut on 20 September 2008 against New Zealand. She was subsequently a member of the Australia teams that won the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the gold medal at the 2015 Netball World Cup. She retired from international netball following the latter tournament. [53][54][55][56][57]

  Tournaments                               Place
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  2009 World Netball Series [58]
  2010 Commonwealth Games [59][60][61]
  2015 Netball World Cup [62][63][64][65]

Coaching career

During the 2019 Australian Netball League season Bulley served as an assistant coach with Canberra Giants. [66][67][68] She was subsequently appointed head coach of Giants Netball Academy ahead of the 2020 season. [69][70]

Honours

Australia

-   NETBALL WORLD CUP
    -   _Winners_: 2015
-   COMMONWEALTH GAMES
    -   _Runners Up_: 2010

Queensland Firebirds

-   ANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
    -   _Winners_: 2015

Adelaide Thunderbirds

-   ANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
    -   _Winners_: 2013

New South Wales Swifts

-   ANZ CHAMPIONSHIP
    -   _Winners_: 2008

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title: Rebecca Bulley

question: Describe Bulley's personal life.

answer: Rebecca Bulley's maiden name is Rebecca Strachan. She is the daughter of Leon and Lynley Strachen. She was born in Victoria, and raised in the Pyramid Hill and Bendigo districts. She attended Pyramid Hill College and Bendigo Senior Secondary College.

question: Describe Rebecca Bulley's family.

answer: Bulley is the daughter of Leon and Lynley Strachan. Her sister, Merideth Ball also played netball for various teams. Her younger brother, Kieran Strachan is an Australian rules footballer. Rabecca is married to Randall Bulley, and has a daughter named Indie.

question: Summarize Rebecca Bulley's Netball career.

answer: She is a former Australian international. Between 2008 and 2015 she made 42 senior appearances for Australia. Bulley was a member of the Australia teams that won the gold medal at the 2015 Netball World Cup and the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

question: Summarize Bulley's awards.

answer: Bulley was a member of the Australia teams that won the gold medal at the 2015 Netball World Cup and the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2008, 2013 and 2015 she was also on the team that won the ANZ Championship. This was with three different teams: the New South Wales Swifts, the Adelaide Thunderbirds and the Queensland Firebirds.


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From the back cover of one of my all-time favourite baseball books, _Ball Four_:

  When _Ball Four_ was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, players and sportswriters were thrown into a state of shock. Stunned. Scandalized. The controversy was front–page news.

  Sportswriters called Bouton a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a "social leper." Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force the author to sign a statement saying that the book wasn′t true. One team actually burned a copy of _Ball Four_ in protest.

Bouton wrote about his experiences as a "social leper" in the sequel I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally. I had my own, much, much smaller version of Bouton's experiences after the publication of David Suzuki needs an economics refresher course (including being called a Judas!) and I have to admit, I didn't care for it.

I also have to admit that I did not see any of this coming.  I knew some people would dislike it, but that happens with everything I wrote.  But the backlash absolutely blew me away.  Dan Gardner called me a "naive bastard" and I suppose I am.  My naivety served me well, though - had I known what I was getting myself into I might not have written the piece.  But I'm glad I did and I stand by everything I said.

I received well over 100 e-mails in the first 24 hours after the piece were released.  Some were supportive, many were civil but disliked the piece but others can only be described as hatemail.  "I hope you die in a fire" and that sort of thing.  Normally that stuff doesn't bother me too much, but the sheer volume got to me after awhile.  I read about three dozen e-mails then deleted the next 80 or so, so I have no idea how supportive or vile they were.

Fortunately Ivey has been terrific through all of this.  I can only assume that a number of complaints went to the school.  One of my superiors stopped me in the hall and said "what did you say this time?!?".  My sister, who also works at Ivey, heard quite a bit of scuttlebutt about the piece and joked that she's been telling people that we're not related.

The environmental movement has been less supportive.  I received e-mails from someone claiming to represent Greenpeace who told me that I "hate my daughter and the world I'm leaving behind from her" and another from someone in the Green Party of Canada, who knew I was formally with the party and called me a "Judas".  I can't imagine I'll be invited to any GPC events any time soon.

The weirdest was one guy who kept calling and hanging up when I would answer.  One time he called in the wee hours of the morning and I didn't answer (because I was sleeping) and left a highly critical, but non-threatening, voicemail.  Wish I knew who it was but they didn't come up on call display.

MY DISILLUSIONMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT

I was told a few times that Suzuki's views do not represent the environmental movement as a whole, which for the most part respects the work of economists. That's true but not entirely comforting. It would be a lot easier to fight these misconceptions if environmentalists were making the same arguments.  But they have remained silent, further leading to the impression that there is a true rift between environmentalists and economists.

An environmentalist I have a tremendous amount of respect for commented that there is nothing to be gained by getting into a 'bun fight' with Suzuki.  Naturally I disagree.  Suzuki is the most well-known and credible environmentalist in Canada (heck, he has a highschool named after him), so naturally his word carries a lot of weight.  And it is not as if these claims he are making are new - he has been making them since at least the 1980s.  By leaving these comments unchallenged, it cements the idea that environmentalists and economists are perpetually at odds and one must make a choice between protecting the environment and respecting mainstream economic thought.  Ultimately that is a contest that the environmentalists are sure to lose - if people are forced between voting for "jobs" or voting for "environment", 9 out of 10 will pick jobs.  The Conservatives have been using this phony dichotomy quite effectively in their talk of 'job killing carbon taxes'.  This strategy would be a non-starter with a populace that was better educated in environmental economics.

WHERE ECONOMISTS HAVE FAILED

The economics profession has to assume a large portion of the blame here.  It is easy to mislead the general public on what economists believe about the environment because the general public does not know what economists think about _anything_. It is our failure as Canadian economists for not developing a figure as well-known and respect as David Suzuki to represent _us_.  It is inherently an institutional failure - our tenure system rewards academic publications first, second and third and puts almost no weight on outreach.  Economists, like anyone else, respond to incentives.

One commenter responded that I could not credibly discuss the economics profession because I work and have a Ph.D. from a business school and therefore am not a "real economist".  Surprisingly, I do not wholly disagree.  As an untenured B-school Prof who spends most of his time in the private sector and prefers taking consulting jobs over writing academic papers I am an odd choice to be the voice defending academic economics departments.  But, ironically, that is also what makes me able to do so.  Business schools put far more emphasis on media relations than do economics departments and since I am not actively seeking tenure, I do not need to worry that time in the media is taking away from time spent publishing.

I think this needs to change.  We would all be better off if economics departments recognized the value in outreach and educating the public when making hiring and tenure decisions.

The comments to this entry are closed.

question: Who is the author of the book Ball Four?

answer: Bouton.

question: What is the controversy mentioned in the Ball Four?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: What book has the writer of this article written?

answer: David Suzuki needs an economics refresher course.

question: What are the claims David Suzuki is making?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer:
After the publication of David Suzuki needs an economics refresher course, the writer receives a backslash. With hundreds of e-mails pouring in within 24 hours, the writer says he is blown away. He is also called a "Judas" by many.

The writer believes that Suzuki's words carry a lot of weight since he is a well-known environmentalist in Canada. By leaving the comments he made, it creates an idea that one must make a choice between protecting the environment and respecting mainstream economic thought.


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JOSEPH WHITEHOUSE, my 3rd great-grandfather, was born in the Rowley Regis area, Staffordshire, England.  He was apparently born about 1793, according to various Census records, but no parish register has yet been found for his birth. Joseph's parents are unknown at this time.

A marriage has been tentatively used for him, but has not yet been accepted as proven.  For the purposes of future research, his first child Samuel was christened in St. Thomas church in Dudley, Staffordshire; his mother was listed as Mary.  He apparently married 17 March 1822 to Mary GROVES, in Dudley, where the family apparently settled.  Dudley was a large area, and inhabitants often stated Dudley on forms when they actually lived in Rowley Regis and other small hamlets in the surrounding area.

[]Joseph worked first as a Nailer (nail-maker) and later as a Miner.  This occupation information shows up on baptism records of his first sons, then on the marriage registration of my direct ancestor Thomas WHITEHOUSE, the 4th son of Joseph and Mary, seen above. You will notice his son's marriage register records Joseph as "Dead" at the time, 1856.

TheBlack Midlandshad many mines, iron foundaries, and steel mills in the region, as it was very rich in coal and iron.  The men and older boys experienced amazingly hard unhealthy work here in the mines and in the nail-making industry(the latter often done as a home based job, and others in the family would also help, in order to supplement the family income).

He and his wife, Mary, had 7 boys for whom I have found christening records (all at St. Thomas Church):  _** indicates my direct ancestor_
  - Samuel  b. 23 Oct 1822    m. Johana, at least 2 boys
  - Benjamin  b. 11 Aug 1824   no marr. found to date
  - Henry  b. 5 Jul 1827     m. Jane Price, 3 boys, 1 girl
  - **Thomas  b. 10 Jul 1829   m. twice; Sarah PRICE Shutt (wid), 5 boys, 1 girl
  - Eli   b. 18 Mar 1832    m. Mary Ann Homer,  4 boys, 4 girls
  - John  b. 18 Jun 1834   no marr. found to date
  - Enoch  b. 9 Jul 1836  m. Esther Carter,  4 boys, 1 girl

I have not yet been able to find Joseph WHITEHOUSE on the 1841 UK Census for either Staffordshire or Worcestershire.  So far I've checked with all 7 of the children, and there are several possibilities and more ways of searching of course.  Perhaps I'll find him mistranscribed after I go through more Censuses page by page.

Joseph died 16 Mar 1844 in Dudley, Staffordshire, and was buried 21 Mar 1844 through St. Thomas Church (burial record with death date).  Note that St. Thomas Church is in the parish of Worcestershire due to historical decisions.  His wife Mary is shown with various groupings of the younger boys in the following Censuses, living later with her married sons, Eli and then Enoch, after they were married.

My goal for this year is to continue searching in the WHITEHOUSE line.  My research log has many possible records still to check online, as well as possible correspondence to write for additional details.   Maybe I'll find a snippet or two here and there to fill out our history.  25 grandchildren - that I know of - lived to continue Joseph's heritage in Canada, Washington State, and England.

And if you have any information on any of these people, please do not hesitate to contact me by either leaving a comment below, or emailing me at calewis at telus dot net.  Thanks for dropping by.

question: Describe the conditions of Joseph Whitehouse's birth.

answer: Joseph Whitehouse was born in Rowley Regis, an area in Staffordshire, in England. He was born in 1793, according to various census records. However, no parish record has been found for his birth. His parents are unknown at this time.

question: Describe Joseph's marriage and family life.

answer: It has not been accepted that Joseph's marriage has been proven. However, there is a record of him marrying Mary Groves on 17 March 1822. According to Christening records at St. Thomas Church, Joseph and Mary had seven sons, Samuel, Benjamin, Henry, Thomas, Eli, John and Enoch.

question: Describe Joseph's occupation.

answer: Joseph first worked as a nail maker, or Nailer, and later as a Miner. The writer finds this information on the records of Thomas Whitehouse. The Black Midlands had many mines, iron foundries and steel mills in the region. The work was hard and did not pay well.

question: Describe Joseph's death.

answer: It is clear Joseph was dead by 1856, per his son Thomas' marriage record. St. Thomas Church records that Joseph died 16 March 1844. He was buried on 21 March 1844. His wife survived him, and went to live with his sons Eli and Enoch after they were married.


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FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS, CMG, (born December 1937)[1] is chairman of the trustees of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2011 she was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to democratic transition, reconciliation and governance in South Africa. She is a Global Ambassador for the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.[2][3]

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question: Who is FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS?

answer: Chairman of the trustees of the International Institute for Strategic Studies

question: When was FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS born?

answer: December 1937

question: What is FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS's position at the University of London?

answer: Global Ambassador for the School of Oriental and African Studies

question: What was FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS invested as?

answer: Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to democratic transition, reconciliation and governance in South Africa

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: FLEUR OLIVE LOURENS DE VILLIERS took on many roles throughout her career, including chairman and global ambassador for various institutes and Universities.


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_WAR AND TURPENTINE_ (original title in Dutch: _OORLOG EN TERPENTIJN_) is a 2013 novel by Belgian author Stefan Hertmans, originally published by De Bezige Bij. It is a novel about his grandfather, the artist Urbain Martien, during World War I. Hertmans says he based it on the notebooks his grandfather gave him in 1981. It was translated into English by David McKay and published by Pantheon Books in the US and by Harvill Secker in the UK. It has been translated in twenty languages so far.[1] By 2015, the Dutch version had sold over 200,000 copies.[2] It was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.[3]

Synopsis

The work of historical fiction reconstructs the life of the narrator’s grandfather, Urbain Martien, before, during and after the First World War – as parts 1, 2 and 3 of the book. The narrator opens with a framing device, purporting to draw upon recollections in notebooks left him by the grandfather. (In an interview, Hertmans asserted that the novel indeed captures the memories of his own grandfather as recorded in a pair of notebooks decades after the war. “He gave me the notebooks a few months before he died, in 1981.”[4] The novel’s narrator left the notebooks unread, until gaining the wherewithal to face the material, and then to re-work them into a work of fiction, some thirty years later—the hundredth anniversary of the war.

The main character, Urbain Martien, was raised in a suburban quarter of Ghent during the _belle-époque_, and was devoted to his Roman Catholic faith. His father, Franciscus Martien, worked as a fresco painter for parish churches in the Low Countries and finally, in England. Urbain, in turn, acquired an interest in drawing and painting from his father. Urbain's mother, Céline Andries, endured the premature death of her husband, remarried, and saw her son Urbain off to work in a foundry and then, in 1914, off to war.

At the outbreak of the Great War, the 23 year-old Urbain is sent to the front, where he becomes a disciplined soldier and decorated combat hero, and ever the dutiful . The agonies of trench warfare are described “from up close.” Injuries take Ubain to recover in Liverpool—coincidentally the site of one of his father's paintings.

In the third section, Urbain returns home, falls in love with Maria Emelia Ghys, a step-sister. Before he can marry, the story takes a tragic turn, when Maria succumbs in the Spanish flu epidemic. Urbain marries Maria's sister Gabrielle, producing a daughter (the narrator's mother) in 1922, but the union lacks the affection Urbain had known with Maria Emielia. Urbain continues as a devoted artist (and especially as a copyist) into early retirement and until his death. The grandson, the narrator, visits sites in West Flanders and reviews personal archival materials, in an attempt to understand, even reconstruct, something of his grandfather's life experiences.

Reception

It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 by _The New York Times Book Review_.[5] It was also included in the list of Books of the Year from _The Economist_[6] The review in the _Guardian_ called it a “future classic” and compared it to the works of W. G. Sebald, as did the NYT Book Review.[7]

The Irish Times gave it a less favourable review, calling it “an important work” but negatively comparing the “somewhat flat and toneless” prose to that of W. G. Sebald and calling it “less convincing artistically”.[8]

Awards

-   2014: AKO Literatuurprijs[9]
-   2016: Inktaap[10]

Translations

-   _Min bedstefars himmel_, Danish, 2014, translated by Birthe Lundsgaard, People's Press
-   _Krig og terpentin_, Norwegian, 2014, translated by Hedda Vormeland, Pax
-   _Rat i terpentin_, Serbian, 2014, translated by Ivana Šćepanović, Heliks
-   _Guerre et térébenthine_, French, 2015, translated by Isabelle Rosselin, Gallimard
-   _Guerra e trementina_, Italian, 2015, translated by Laura Pignatti, Marsilio
-   _Der Himmel meines Großvaters_, German, 2015, translated by Ira Wilhelm, Hanser Verlag
-   _Wojny i terpentyna_, Polish, 2015, translated by Alicja Oczko, Marginesy
-   Japanese translation, 2015
-   _Vojna in terpentin_, Slovenian, 2015, translated by Staša Pavlović, Studentska zalozba
-   _Krig of terpentin_, Swedish, 2015, translated by Ingrid Wikén Bonde, Norstedts
-   _War and Turpentine_, English, 2016, translated by David McKay
-   _Oorlog en terpentyn_, Afrikaans, 2016, translated by Daniel Hugo, Protea Boekhuis
-   _Háború és terpentin_, Hungarian, 2016, translated by Miklós Fenyves, Európa
-   Croatian version, 2016, translated by Romana Perečinec, Fraktura

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Category:2013 novels Category:Belgian novels Category:Novels set during World War I Category:Works set in Flanders Category:De Bezige Bij books

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question: Who is Stefan Hertmans?

answer: He is a Belgian author who wrote the novel, War and Turpentine, in 2013.

question: What is Hertmans' novel "War and Turpentine" all about?

answer: The three-part book is historical fiction based on the life of his grandfather, Urbain Martien, during and after the First World War. Hertmans says he captured his grandfather's memories as recorded in a pair of notebooks his grandfather gave him a few months before passing away in 1981.

question: Which character from the book died because of the Spanish Flu epidemic?

answer: Urbain's step-sister, Maria Emelia Ghys, the woman he falls in love with after returning home from the war.

question: How was the novel "War and Turpentine" received by critics?

answer: It was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times Book Review and was included in The Economist's list of Books of the Year. The Guardian called it a future classic and compared it to the works of W.G. Sebald. The Irish Times, however, gave the book a less than favorable review, calling it "important work" but "somewhat flat and toneless."

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Belgian author Stefan Hertmans wrote a novel in 2013 entitled "War and Turpentine. The book is a three-part, historical fiction novel based on the life of his grandfather Urbain Martien, during and after the First World War. Hertmans says he was able to capture his grandfather's memories by using a pair of notebooks his grandfather gave him before passing away in 1981. The book received mostly positive reviews from The New York Times and The Guardian.


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** Pretense **

I'm no good at writing full stories. I've come to realize that I'm only good with snippets of a story. Little scenes. I don't know why my mind works the way it does, but sometimes I find that I just need to write these snippets down because I feel like... if I collected enough, maybe they'd make up a story of some sort. Anyways, I haven't found a place to put them and I wanted to share them where people would actually read them. Here's my second one (first post though).

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*Fingers*

They sat across from each other in the dimly lit room. With his head down, he took her left hand in his and thoughtfully grazed his thumb over her fingers, brushing the ring on her middle finger.

“You don’t have room in your life for me.”

She looked at him quizzically. He had changed in the short period of time they had come to know each other. When she first met him, she thought him wild and free. He seemed to be a breath of fresh air, come to sweep her away from her steadfast life. But there he sat, hunched over on the leather armchair with his slender arms outstretched towards her and his long fingers wrapped around her hand.

A smile grew on her face.

“Let me show you something.”

She lifted her left hand out of his and slowly worked the ring off her middle finger. He looked at her gentle face with confusion as she slipped the ring onto the middle finger of her other hand.

“There. Enough room?”

title: Fingers.

question: Who are the characters in the story?

answer: A man and a woman in a room.

question: How are the two characters related to one another?

answer: It appears that there is a sense of romantic tension between the male and female characters, but it is implied by the ring on the woman's finger and the man's dialogue that the woman is possibly in a relationship with another man.

question: What did the woman do?

answer: The woman moved the ring on her left middle finger to the middle finger on her right hand.

question: What does the woman mean by "enough room"?

answer: There several possible interpretations but two are most plausible. First, is that the ring does not have any meaning for the woman and she is telling the man that she is free to be in a relationship with him. The second is that she is willing to engage in an affair with him despite having another man in her life.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: A mean and a woman are in a room. The man says there is no room in her life for him as he gestures towards a ring on her  left middle finger. The woman moves the ring to her other hand, saying that there is room.


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MAURICE K. GODDARD STATE PARK is a Pennsylvania state park in Deer Creek, Mill Creek, New Vernon and Sandy Lake Townships, Mercer County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It features wildlife, waterways and public recreational facilities. Lake Wilhelm shares its shorelines with Maurice K. Goddard State Park and State Game Land No. 270. The dam, constructed in 1971, creates a lake providing a resource for people and wildlife. Many species of fish and amphibians make Lake Wilhelm their home. A variety of outdoor activities are available in and around the park vicinity. Special events and programs are held throughout the summer months. Maurice K. Goddard State Park is just off exit 130 of Interstate 79 on Pennsylvania Route 358.

History

Sandy Creek, the stream that was dammed to create Lake Wilhelm, was noted in reports made by George Washington during his 1753 trip to Fort LeBoeuf during the French and Indian War. Sandy Creek had a recurring history of flooding. This led to a study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The study began in 1939. Plans were delayed by the start of World War II but the citizens of Mercer County could see the benefit of building a flood control dam on Sandy Creek. The state, county, township and municipal authorities of the surrounding area worked together to push forward the idea of building the dam and recreational facilities in Mercer County. The land was acquired in the late 1960s. Construction on the dam began soon after and was completed in 1971. Maurice K. Goddard State Park was opened to the public in 1972.[1]

Maurice K. Goddard State park is named for Maurice K. Goddard. Goddard was a graduate of the University of Maine and the University of California at Berkeley. After reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during World War II, Goddard came to Pennsylvania where he took a job at Mont Alto Forestry School and later at Penn State Main Campus before he was appointed Secretary of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forests and Waters, a forerunner of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Upon taking his position with the state, Goddard set about completing his goal of having a state park within of every resident of Pennsylvania. When Goddard retired in 1979, after 24 years working for the state parks, he had helped to add 45 state parks and over of state park land to the Pennsylvania State Park system.[2]

Recreation

Bird watching

The variety of habitats at Maurice K. Goddard State Park attracts a variety of birds. Bald eagles and osprey can be seen flying over Lake Wilhelm as they scan the waters for fish. The old fields and forests are home to woodcocks, nighthawks, snipes, and a variety of warblers. Migrating waterfowl like the loon, common teal, goldeneye, merganser, and bufflehead stop by Lake Wilhelm in the spring and fall. Woodpeckers including the pileated woodpecker live in the woods of the park. Bluebirds and purple martins make their homes in the old fields and meadows of Maurice K. Goddard State Park.[3]

Lake Wilhelm

Lake Wilhelm is a warm water fishery, it lies partly within Maurice K. Goddard State Park and partly within the adjoining game lands. The common game fish found in the lake are largemouth and smallmouth bass, perch, crappie, bluegill, catfish, walleye, northern pike and muskellunge. All fishermen are expected to follow the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.[4] Five natural gas wells have been drilled around Lake Wilhelm as of May 2009, with up to 15 more to follow. The state does not own the mineral rights under much of the park, but did work with the driller to minimize the impact of the wells on recreational uses of the park.[5]

The portions of Lake Wilhelm that are within Maurice K. Goddard State Park are open to watercraft up to . There is a 241 space marina and a 48 space dry land mooring area that is open from May 1 to October 31. The marina has an ample parking lot for cars and trucks with trailers. There are four boat launches, a marina building and a fueling station. Rowboats, peddle boats, canoes and kayaks are available to rent. Only non-powered boats are permitted in the portions of the lake that are within the state game land boundaries. All vessels must have a current registration from any state or a launch permit from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.[6]

Hunting

There are over that open to hunting at Maurice K. Goddard State Park. Hunters are expected to follow the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The common game species are waterfowl and white-tailed deer. The hunting of groundhogs is prohibited. Hunters may gain access to the nearby state game lands by entering through the park.[7]

Winter activities

Maurice K. Goddard State Park is open during the winter months for ice fishing, ice boating, ice skating, sledding and tobogganing, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.[8]

Friends Of Goddard

The Friends of Goddard State Park (FRoG) partner with the park to help conserve the natural environment of the areas within and around Goddard State Park by educating and introducing people to the world of nature and the facilities available to them.[9] The Friends group also organizes two big events for the park: the Pioneer Frolic and Music at the Marina. The Pioneer Frolic takes place the last weekend in June and includes reenactors, food vendors, live music, and other entertainment. Music at the Marina showcases local bands and independent musicians with the addition of food vendors, a car cruise, and fireworks. Both events feature a donation-based book sale and have free admission.

Friends of Goddard State Park also known as “FroG” is a sub-chapter of the Pennsylvania Parks and Forest Foundation and a non-profit 501(3)c organization.[10]

Nearby state parks

The following state parks are within of Maurice K. Goddard State Park:[11][12][13][14]

-   Jennings Environmental Education Center (Butler County)
-   Oil Creek State Park (Venango County)
-   Pymatuning State Park (Pennsylvania) (Crawford County)
-   Pymatuning State Park (Ohio) (Ashtabula County)

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title: Maurice K. Goddard State Park

question: What environmental significance does Maurice K. Goddard State Park have?

answer: The environmental significance it has is that it has become a vital resource for people and wildlife.

question: What do the surrounding state parks add to the Maurice K. Goddard State Park?

answer: The surrounding state parks make the Maurice K. Goddard State Park more of a tourist attractions, having more people and wildlife in that designated area.


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JOHN TERRICK WILLIAMS (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936), better known as TERRICK WILLIAMS was a British painter who was a member of the Royal Academy. During his lifetime, Williams became one of the most successful painters in London.

Early life

Williams was born on 20 July 1860 in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbleton, London[1] and was expected by his father to continue in the family business. However, his determination to become an artist saw him abandon his business career and move to Europe in 1885[2] and study under Charles Verlat in Antwerp and later at the Académie Julian and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris.

Work

After his student days in Paris, he moved to St. Ives in 1890 where he lived, between there and his London home at 89 Guntherstone Road, West Kensington, until his death.[3] Williams was a medallist at the Paris Salon in 1908 (3rd class), and 1911 (2nd class), and also won a 2nd class medal in Balcelona of the same year. He exhibited, not only in Europe, but also at the Carnegie Institute in Philadelphia.[4]

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The Jetty St Ives Evening, an oil painting by Williams

]]Williams focussed on landscape and marine subjects and painted in oil, pastel and watercolour. Baldry said that _a number of notable paintings of marine subject_ stand to Williams's credit, and that _His right to a place among the chief of the British marine painters of the present day is indisputable._[5] He travelled extensively and his impressionistic, luminous paintings sought the transient effects of light and reflections in Venice, St. Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St. Ives.

Littlejohns said the Williams was _pre-eminently a painter of light_ and that he _found most inspiration in the sunniest parts of Europe_.[6] Baldry stated that _as a colourist he is more than ordinarily endowed_, that Williams had the _real colour emotion_, and that his use colour _was controlled by an unerring taste._[7] Littlejohns said that Williams' paintings was _probably influenced by the fact that he sketches in colour_.[8] The _Western Mail_ spoke of some of his paintings being _beautiful works of mellow colouring_[9]

He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1904. His work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) on 18 November 1924, a Royal Academician (R.A.) on 14 February 1933, and a Senior R.A. on 1 January 1936. In 1933 he was also elected President of the RI.

Death

He died in at the Joe Park Nursing Home in Plymouth on his birthday in 1936 aged 76, after a number of years of indifferent health.[10] He had never married. After his death a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in 1937. Thirty-three of his works are in public collections in the UK.[11]

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[5] {{ cite book |last1=Baldry |first1=A. L. |last2=Holme |first2=Geoffrey (editor) |title=British Marine Painting |chapter=Notes on the illustrations |pages=34 |date=1919 |publisher=The Studio |location=London |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/britishmarinepai00holmuoft/page/34/mode/1up |accessdate=2020-02-14 }}

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title: Terrick Williams

question: What does the text say about Terrick Williams' inspiration and style of painting?

answer: Williams found most inspiration in the sunniest parts of Europe. He was described as a "painter of light". He focused on landscape and marine subjects. Williams primarily painted in oil, pastel and watercolor. He travelled extensively and his paintings often reflected the transient effects of light and reflections of Venice, St. Tropez, Paris, Brittany and St. Ives.


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My dad and I used to play catch a lot.  We’d go out to the backyard and just toss the ball for a little bit.   I loved watching baseball, so I went out to play any chance I could get.  I think my dad did it to blow off some steam.  He hated his job, so he blew off steam a lot.  Sometimes he would just sit looking out the window in the middle of the night.

	On Thursdays my dad would get out of the factory early.  He would go to the bars at around four, and be back before eight.  My mom and I would be watching the 7 o’clock news.  He would get back and stand to the side of us without saying a word.  He would look at me and ask me to go to the front yard and break a twig off of the small tree by the mailbox.  I’d look at him, and I’d look at my mom, then back at him, and say “ok.”  So I did what I was asked and brought him the switch.  He’d then calmly ask me to take off my shirt, and so I did.  For the twenty minutes after I’d be whipped with the switch.  It never hurt too bad.  When he was finished, he’d tassel my hair and say he’d love me, and I would respond, “I love you too.”  I’d go to hug my mom, and with tears in her eyes she’d hug me too, and then I’d go to bed.

	Every now and then, my dad would bring me to go bowling with him and his friends.  They would always cheer me on, and every time I had a good shot, my dad would yell, “that’s my boy!” and give me a high five.

	Sometimes at night I’d sneak into my parents bedroom when they were sleeping.  I would grab my dad’s snub-nose out of his nightstand drawer, and aim it at his head from about an inch away.  I’d cock it as quietly as possible, and just stand there with my finger on the trigger.

	As a joke, my dad would occasionally kick me down the stairs if he was right behind me.  It would just be a light kick, and I’d stumble down a step or two.  I would always look back at him and smile, and he would be laughing too.  One day he did it again, but for some reason I couldn’t catch myself.  I just kept on tumbling and tumbling down the steps.  I landed on the wood floor at the bottom, not in any pain at all really.  I looked up at him expecting to see a smile, but he just had this horrified look on his face.  I saw my hand, and I just had a couple broken fingers.  Not a big deal, we’d just tell them that I shut my hand in the door like we always did.  But, then I looked at my right leg.  Instead of the knee bending the normal way, it bent the same way, but forward.  The bone was sticking out, and blood was pouring on the floor pretty fast.  I looked at him, and he looked at me, and for the first time I could see remorse and fear in his eyes.

	A couple months earlier, my dad brought me to the drive-in.  Instead of leaving after the first film, we just stayed until the third movie was over.  We were making up life stories about everyone we could see.  My dad was really good at making up stories.  We left at about midnight, and both of us could not stop smiling until we got home.  It was a good day.

	Three days earlier, and twenty years later, my dad died in prison.
	I visited him every Tuesday for the most part.  Some days I just didn’t have time, but I always warned him ahead of time.  The day he died I had to stay at work late.  I didn’t call him, because I didn’t have time to even think about it.  That day he stayed in his cell alone, and then went to the visiting center to window #3, the same window as always.  He would then wait at the window to be visited by a non-existent visitor.  He just looked at the window.  The memory of not having the memory of looking back at him I will never forget, and always regret.  An hour and a half after our usual visit time, my dad died on his cot.

	During the summer sometime, we played catch in the backyard.  It was a little later in the day than usual, but I didn’t care.  It was about midway through, and he stopped and looked towards the sunset.  Seeing him, I put the ball in my mitt and looked too.  It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

title: [RF] Catch With My Dad

question: How would you describe the relationship between the narrator and their father?

answer: The relationship between the narrator and their father can be described as volatile. The narrator would sneak into their dad's nightstand and aim his gun at his head. Occasionally, the narrator's dad would kick them down the stairs if he was right behind them. The narrator would have some broken fingers. The narrator's father went to prison, but the narrator still visited him every Tuesday.

question: Would the narrator be a better dad than his own father?

question: What are some memories of their father that the narrator has?

answer: Some memories of their father that the narrator has is that they would play a lot of catch with their dad. Their dad was also very good at making up stories. The narrator's dad would also take him bowling some nights with his friends.


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You are under attack.

Period.

Let that sink in for a second. Let all your doubts and reasons to not attack you fade out and just acknowledge that maybe, you are under attack.

I'm going to be a specifically vague as possible, but as you walk through life maybe you've stepped on a bug. Imagine for a second if that bug could have alerted you to it's presence so small and out of your immediate vision. Would you still have stepped on it, had it asked you not to?

So don't immediately take whatever is going on personally.

However, in my experience, the above example is very rare. You don't need theory right now you need practical application and I've wasted almost three parts on describing your environment.

You already know your environment.

So on to application.

The year is 2013 and if you live in the Americas there is a 90% chance that whatever is happening to you is technological. This is actually good news but where you are right now you don't believe it and here's why:

  If it's technological that means someone (or something) is controlling a device that makes you miserable and it is intentional.

Don't try and rationalize why anyone would do this anymore then you would try and rationalize why a child might burn an ant with a magnifying glass.

When mankind uncovered the secret of nuclear energy the first thing they did was make a bomb, not a reactor.

Calm your tits.

This is a fight taking place in your mind, and on your home turf, you have the advantage. Believe that. You have to know that.

Do you know that yet? Tough shit, here's how we're going to shut those voices up.

 Technological assault usually occurs in one of two ways: Passively and actively.

Passive attacks resemble a continuous loop. You can't talk to it, you can't reason with it, it's just a voice in your head repeating something over and over. This usually starts quietly and over time the volume is gradually increased until the voices are deafening in your mind. You might even notice it fading in and out. This is the tuning process. These are the last quiet moments your going to know for awhile and I'm sorry. Once they know they have you tuned they may increase the volume and number of voices and loops almost infinitely. If you need an example imagine your father saying "Your a piece of shit" over and over, every second of every day, playing just for you in your mind. Then add a friends voice "He's such a pathetic mess" over and over, layered on top of your fathers voice. Continue until either you collapse mentally via a nervous breakdown or in a more extreme case, kill yourself.

Most likely the voice will be recognizable as someone close to you, someone whom you respect and or desire respect or attention from. Use of family members is not out of the question, but it's not them. This voice is not them. This is a recording used out of context and played over and over again on a machine. If you are religious in any sense it is not out of the question that looped voices will be implied to be Gods or Devils depending on the contexts of your faith. Read the above line again and again and again. Come to terms with that line.

Show a cellphone to someone who's never seen it before and they'll believe you. Tell someone about a cellphone who's never seen one before and most likely they won't.

That's how this works you see. What you don't know can hurt you and you've been kept in the dark on purpose.

But seriously, calm you tits cause we're getting through this.

Assuming this is all they're up to at this time you can literally adjust your receiver. Seriously. Imagine the voices like a radio transmission (which they basically are) and your antennae is tuned to that frequency. Take your little imaginary hand and start working dials in your head. Try turning the volume down. Perfect, but that won't last for long they can increase the volume.

But now you know you can change the volume, so why not the channel? Reach your little imaginary hand into your head and change the channel, maybe even try to turn it off, but don't ever convince yourself it's off. Whether you like it or not you are always on. You don't know it yet but your exercising the parts of your brain your going to need to shut these voices down on the permanent. Patience.

This also will only be temporary. The silence provided by changing the channel will allow you to live your life. When they acknowledge that you are being successful, or achieving goals, or being social again they'll know they've lost the connection and they'll look for another. If your lucky, perhaps, they'll just move on to someone else. Keep tabs of your friends, because they exist in your social sphere and therefor anyone testing gear on you will also be aware of who your with and who your around and it's easier to start over locally then to find whole new test subjects.

Hopefully you found this guide at this time in your life, it'll take some of the surprise out of what may be happening next.

This also ends basics. From here on out we're getting complicated and there's no net, seat-belts, or ejector seat.

I tried to warn you.

I told you this wasn't for beginners.

title: This is Not a Guide for Beginners (Part 2)

question: In what time period does the story take place?

answer: The year is 2013.

question: Who is attacking?

answer: The author describes the attack to be a technological attack on the people.

question: How does the author describe the attack?

answer: Author describes the attack to be either Passively or Actively.

question: What type of technological attack does the author explain?

answer: Someone or something is controlling a device that makes the reader intentionally miserable.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The author explains that the text is a guide, not for beginners. Author explains the scenario where the reader is under attack. The attack is likely a technological one if the scenario is in the Americas in the year 2013.


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JOSÉ PESSOA CAVALCANTI DE ALBUQUERQUE (13 September 1885 in Cabaceiras – 16 August 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) was a military officer, who became a Marshal in the Brazilian Army. Son of Cândido Albuquerque and Maria Albuquerque, he was the nephew of Epitácio Pessoa (Brazil's President from 1919 to 1922), and brother of João Pessoa, the Governor of Northern State of Paraiba. He was one of the officers sent on a preparatory mission to Europe by the Brazilian Army during the World War I against the Central Powers. In his subsequent career he had a strong influence on the reform and update of some Brazilian Army branches and institutions. To honor him, the 12th Cavalry Regiment of the Brazilian Army adopted his name.[1][2][3]

Early career

He joined the Brazilian Army in 1903 in the 2nd Infantry Battalion in Recife, followed by the Preparatory and Tactical School in Realengo (Rio de Janeiro). He was transferred in 1909 to the War College in Porto Alegre, from where he left the aspirant-to-officer. He was at the disposal of the Ministry of Justice, serving in the Federal District Police Brigade. He was assistant of command and assistant of the command of the division of operations sent to Mato Grosso to pacify the state in 1917, later serving like assistant of orders and assistant of the inspector of the 10th Military Region in Bahia.

World War I

For his performance in his career, with the entry of Brazil into World War I, he was appointed in October 1917 to attend the preparatory military mission which the Brazilian Army sent to France to fought the Western Front. There, he spent a brief internship at Saint-Cyr to learn about the adaptation of his military branch (the Cavalry) to the then-recent invention, the tank. After this, he joined the 4th Dragoons Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry French Division.[4] That year, this regiment (as other French cavalry units) using Schneider and St Chamond models, at the cost of heavy losses, participated actively in the containment of German spring offensives, and later, already with the then new and revolutionary Renault FTs, in the successful final Allied counter-offensives.[5][6]

As platoon leader, while serving with the 4th Dragoons (a unit, at the time of his arrival, consisted mostly of colonial troops), he was promoted to squadron leader and at rank of captain, as decorated by Belgians and French, for courage in action, which he insisted should be credited to the bravery of his subordinates, who even came to gift him with grisly necklaces made with ears of enemy soldiers.[7][8][9] By war's end, while hospitalized in a Red Cross campaign hospital victim of typhoid fever, he had an affair with an English nurse, who later became his wife.[10]Ibidem - Câmara, 1985.

Reformer and ideologue

Upon his return to Brazil after the war, he was appointed in special commission to accompany the King and Queen of Belgium, Albert I and Elisabeth. Through his experience with tanks in World War he participated in the organization of the first unit of tanks of the Brazilian Army, remaining in command of this squadron until 1923, when he was promoted to major. It was during this time that his company of tanks was responsible for stopping the march of the rebel officers towards the government palace in the episode of the 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt in 1922. He also drew on his experiences to advocate for reform in the Brazilian Army. Although he has achieved relative success regarding some institution's internal matters (e.g. on the reform of the Brazilian Army Academy), his post-1930 position against the involvement of the military in politics and civil life gradually moved him away from the center of military power.[11][12]

Also in 1930, he was appointed in November as the new director of the Military School of Realengo, the then body responsible for training career officers in the Brazilian army. He held this position from November 19 of that year until August 7, 1934. During this period he was the founder, patron and founder of the a new campus of an organ that would replace the School located in Realengo, Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, which the new campus was founded in 1944. As of the new symbols of the Army: historical uniforms, coat of arms, marlins and the creation of the cult of the figure of the Duke of Caxias.

Having been promoted in 1933 to the general-of-brigade, faced the following year a movement of boycott of the cadets of the establishment that commanded. Discontented with the solution given to the case, he resigned from the command of the school, being named then inspector and commander of the Coastal Artillery District of the 1st Military Region in the Federal District. He was also the founder of the Coastal Artillery Instruction Center.

Such that his war experiences, which partly he made public through the 1921 book _Os Tanks na Guerra Européia_ (“Tanks in the European war”), that could have been seminal for the development and upkeep of a modern Army armoured corps; after a shy start in the early 1920s, were not longer availed by the _High Command_, even during World War II, when the creation of an Expeditionary Force became necessary.[13]

Communist uprising and Estado Novo

In December 1935, in Rio de Janeiro, he was present at the meeting of the generals convened on the grounds of the Communist uprising that occurred the previous month. The purpose of this meeting was to examine the situation of the country after the uprising and to discuss the extension of the legislation concerning existing repressive laws to punish the insurgents. José Pessoa disagreed with most of those present, considering the discussion of existing laws or of new legislation to punish the crimes committed irrelevant, since the subject matter was the responsibility of jurists, not of the generals of the Army.[14]

Due to José Pessoas's opposition to military interference in politics, and to other frictions with the dominant current in power, the command of the army showed no interest in investing in development in order to apply also against possible external enemies, modern doctrine on the use of armor in warfare, since José was the main connoisseur and promoter in Brazil (who had recorded it in a book published in 1921 along with his experience in World War I), even when the country entered World War II. This position also gradually removed him from the center of military power during the Estado Novo, during which he became disciplined.[15]

Being during this period, relegated to the minor functions in relation to this center, promoted to general-of-division in May 1940, traveled in 1943 to Paraguay like extraordinary ambassador to the possession of the president of that nation. Elected president of the Military Club in May 1944, he took office in June and remained there until June 1946.[16]

Later years

With the end of Estado Novo, he was appointed military attache in London from 1946 to 1947. Between 23 July 1948 and 16 September 1949, he commanded the Southern Military Command in Porto Alegre.

After going to the Reserve in September 1949, at the post of general-of-the-army (his promotion to marshal would occur only in January 1953), he continued to actively participate in the mobilization of public opinion in favor of a nationalist solution to the oil question, A participation that had begun in 1948, during the foundation of the Center for Studies and Defense of Oil and the National Economy (CEDPEN), together with Artur Bernardes and the generals Estêvão Leitão de Carvalho and Júlio Caetano Horta Barbosa. Around CEDPEN were articulated students, journalists, military, teachers, among others. The Petroleum Campaign, as it became known, would lead to the establishment of the state monopoly in 1953 and the consequent creation of Petrobras in 1954.[17]

In 1954, he was invited by the then President Café Filho to serve as chairman of the New Federal Capital Location Commission, which was in charge of examining the general conditions of installation of the city to be built. Next, Café Filho approved the choice of the site of the new capital and delimited the area of the future new Federal District, ordering the commission to conduct the study of all. The Planning and Location Commission of the new Capital, under the presidency of José Pessoa until 1956, was responsible for choosing the exact location where Brasília stands today.[18][19]

He died from natural causes in his home on 16 August 1959.

[1] McCann, 2004 - Page 345, (last paragraph) to page 349 (first one).

[2] Castro, 2002 3rd Chapter.

[3] Câmara, 1985

[4] Ibidem - Câmara, 1985 - Pages 31-32.

[5] Lopez, 1920 - Chapters XIV to XIX (Use the side roll bar to access these chapters in the online view of this document).

[6] Chant & Jones 2004, pages 52-53.

[7] Ibidem - McCann, 2004 - Page 346.

[8] Ibidem - Câmara, 1985.
Obs.: The term _“Turks”_, used by these two authors refer, as were popularly known in Western World, to the French colonial troops of regions with populations predominantly Muslim Or Semitic (as for example the Zouaves). For more on this biased analogy, which dating back to the Anglo-French alliance with Ottoman Empire at Crimean War, see e.g. among others: Figes 2010 (), Ferro 1997 () and Fogarty 2008 ().

[9] Regarding the ancient practice of using part of the bodies of dead enemies, such as ears, as war trophies, not only was not unusual among such combatants, as was encouraged by the French command (see e.g. P. 121 in _Harrison, 2012_), and are therefore not unknown to an experienced military as Cavalcanti, since it was also used in Brazil at the time, especially popular among jagunços (see Meirelles, 2005 p.426 penultimate paragraph) and Army low-ranking troops (see its use in the Contestado War described, among others, by Moura, 2003 p.120 and Drengosky, 1987 p.46).

[10] Ibidem McCann, 2004.

[11] Ibidem - Castro, 2002 - From page 41 View on Google Books .

[12] 1 Biography of Marshal Cavalcanti on “History Academy of Brazilian Ground warfare” website; 11th Paragraph , from _“Retornando ao Brasil ainda em 1920,...”_

[13] Ibidem “History Academy of Brazilian Ground warfare”

[14] Ibidem, Biografia citada na página da “Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil”, 2013

[15] Frank McCann 2007; Ibidem - pág.514

[16] Ibidem, “Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil”, 2013

[17] Ibidem, “Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil”, 2013

[18] Ibidem “History Academy of Brazilian Ground warfare”

[19] Couto, 2001 - Pages 51, 87 & 92.

title: José Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

question: When did Jose join the army?

answer: Jose joined the army in 1903 in the 2nd Infantry Battalion in Recife.

question: What did he learn at the internship at Saint-Cyr?

answer: He learned about the adaptation of his military branch to the then-recent invention, the tank.

question: Who did Jose marry?

answer: Jose married an English nurse who he met when he was hospitalized after World War I.

question: What designation did Jose hold last?

answer: Pessoa was the President of The Planning and Location Commission of the new Capital.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer:
Jose Pessoa was a military officer. Pessoa joined the army in 1903 and was soon transferred to War college. While serving with the 4th Dragoon, he was promoted to squadron leader and was ranked, captain.

After returning to Brazil after the war, he was appointed in a special commission to accompany the King and Queen to Belgium.

Pessoa ended his career as a President of the Planning and Location Commission of the new Capital.


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However, fresh rumours have begun spreading about a merger between the two. Hollywood trade publication _Deadline_reports that talks regarding Fox’s film studio are still ongoing.

“I just want to start with a juicy rumour that is fast gaining steam in town today, that Disney is progressing speedily toward that rumoured acquisition of Fox,” writes their insider.

“The version I heard has the Murdoch clan keeping possession of sports and news properties, and the rest of TV and the film studio going to Disney.”

Neither Disney nor Fox has commented on the situation, but consider Disney managed to acquire Lucasfilm without rumours spreading beforehand, there’s a possibility talks are happening.

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According to the report, many people around Hollywood are not thrilled about the news, nervous about another major studio coming under the Disney wing.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are Marvel fans, who are hoping a merger between the two could mean X-Men and Fantastic Four eventually join Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.

As _Deadline_ points out, whatever the case: “If this happens we’ll probably only know it when it’s announced

question: Will Disney and Fox merge?

answer: Nothing is officially said, but rumors are spread about merging between the two.

question: Will Disney purchase Fox?

answer: It is not clear, but rumors are spread about Disney's intention to purchase Fox’s TV and film studio.

question: Did Disney buy any other film and television production company?

answer: Yes, Disney bought Lucasfilm.

question: How people react to the news?

answer: Many people around Hollywood aren't happy that Fox might purchase Fox, but some Marvel fans are hoping for a merger between the two.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Rumors are spread about merging between Disney and Fox. Another version is that Disney is going to purchase Fox’s TV and film studio, and the Murdoch clan keeping possession of sports and news properties. It is not clear what will happen since neither Disney nor Fox has commented on the rumors. Many people around Hollywood are not happy that Fox might purchase Fox, but some Marvel fans hope for a merger between the two because that could mean X-Men and Fantastic Four might join Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.


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GLOSSIPHONIIDAE are a family of FRESHWATER PROBOSCIS-BEARING LEECHES. These leeches are generally flattened, and have a poorly defined anterior sucker. Most suck the blood of freshwater vertebrates like amphibians, crocodilians and aquatic turtles, but some feed on invertebrates like oligochaetes and freshwater snails instead. Although they prefer other hosts, blood-feeding species will opportunistically feed from humans.

There is considerable interest in the symbiotic bacteria that at least some glossiphoniids house in specialized organs called bacteriomes. The bacteria are thought to provide the leeches with nutrients that are scarce or absent from their regular diets. _Haementeria_ as well as _Placobdelloides_ have Enterobacteriaceae symbionts, while _Placobdella_ harbours peculiar and independently derived Alpha Proteobacteria.

Systematics and taxonomy

The relationships between members of Glossiphoniidae are not completely understood. Constituent genera include:

-   _Alboglossiphonia_
-   _Batracobdella_
-   _Batracobdelloides_
-   _Boreobdella_
-   _Glossiphonia_
-   _Marsupiobdella_
-   _Placobdella_ Blanchard, 1893 - includes _Desserobdella_ Barta & Sawyer, 1990 and _Oligobdella_ Moore , 1918, formerly in Glossiphoniinae (see de Carle et al. for more recent work on this genus [1])
-   _Placobdelloides_ Sawyer, 1986 - possibly paraphyletic or polyphyletic
-   _Theromyzon_
-   _Torix_

Ecology and behavior

Glossiphoniid leeches exhibit remarkable parental care, the most highly developed one among the known annelids. They produce a membranous bag to hold the eggs, which is carried on the underside. The young attach to the parent's belly after hatching and are thus ferried to their first meal.[2]

Certain Glossiphoniidae parasitize amphibian species. For example, some members of the Glossiphoniidae are known to attack the inner oral cavity of the Rough-skinned Newt.[3]

Medical importance

While glossiphoniids do not preferentially feed on humans, they are nonetheless of medical interest. As with all blood- or haemolymph-feeding leeches, their saliva, contains anticoagulant compounds which are potentially useful in therapy of some cardiovascular diseases. Antistasin and related inhibitors of thrombokinase a such as ghilanten, lefaxin and therostatin have been derived from _Haementeria_ species and _Theromyzon tessulatum_. These substances also may prevent certain tumors from metastasizing. Also from _Haementeria_ are the fibrin stabilizing factor a inhibitor tridegin, a platelet adhesion inhibitor (leech anti-platelet protein; LAPP), and the fibrinogen-dissolving enzymes hementin and hementerin. _T. tessulatum_ also yields therin, theromin and tessulin, which inhibit protease activity. Ornatins, which are antiplatelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa antagonists, were discovered in _Placobdella ornata_, and several species have yielded hyaluronidases.

Line notes

[1]

[2]

[3] C.M. Hogan, 2008

title: Glossiphoniidae

question: What does the article say about how to fight a Glossiphoniidae invasion?

question: What would be a reasonable way to fight a Glossiphoniidate invasion?

answer: This family of leeches contains symbiotic bacteria in a special organ called a bacteriome. They seem to provide nutrients the leeches can't gather on their own. Attacking that organ or the bacteria within could cripple the leeches.


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The Rockwell International GUIDED BOMB UNIT 15 is an unpowered glide weapon used to destroy high-value enemy targets. It was designed for use with F-15E Strike Eagle, F-111 'Aardvark' and F-4 Phantom II aircraft. The GBU-15 has long-range maritime anti-ship capability with the B-52 Stratofortress.[1]

Overview

The weapon consists of modular components that are attached to either a general purpose Mark 84 bomb or a penetrating-warhead BLU-109 bomb. Each weapon has five components—a forward guidance section, warhead adapter section, control module, airfoil components, and a weapon data link.

The guidance section is attached to the nose of the weapon and contains either a television guidance system for daytime or an imaging infrared system for night or limited, adverse weather operations. A data link in the tail section sends guidance updates to the control aircraft that enables the weapon systems operator to guide the bomb by remote control to its target.

An external electrical conduit extends the length of the warhead which attaches the guidance adapter and control unit. The conduit carries electrical signals between the guidance and control sections. The umbilical receptacle passes guidance and control data between cockpit control systems of the launching aircraft and the weapon prior to launch.

The rear control section consists of four wings that are in an “X”-like arrangement with trailing edge flap control surfaces for flight maneuvering. The control module contains the autopilot, which collects steering data from the guidance section and converts the information into signals that move the wing control surfaces to change the weapon's flight path.

Uses

The GBU-15 may be used in either a direct or an indirect attack. In a direct attack, the pilot selects a target before launch, locks the weapon guidance system onto it and launches the weapon. The weapon automatically guides itself to the target, enabling the pilot to leave the area. In an indirect attack, the weapon is guided by remote control after launch. The pilot releases the weapon and, via remote control, searches for the target. Once the target is acquired, the weapon can be locked to the target or manually guided via the Hughes Aircraft AN/AXQ-14 data-link system.

This highly maneuverable weapon has an optimal, low-to-medium altitude delivery capability with pinpoint accuracy. It also has a standoff capability. During Desert Storm, all 71 GBU-15 modular glide bombs used were dropped from F-111F aircraft. Most notably, EGBU-15s were the munitions used for destroying the oil manifolds on the storage tanks to stop oil from spilling into the Persian Gulf . These EGBU-15s sealed flaming oil pipeline manifolds sabotaged by Saddam Hussein's troops.

The Air Force Development Test Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, began developing the GBU-15 in 1974. The Air Force originally asked for the missile designations AGM-112A and AGM-112B for two versions of the system. This was declined because the weapon was an unpowered glide bomb and GBU designation was allotted instead. The M-112 designation remains unassigned as a result.[2]

It was a product improvement of the early guided bomb used during the Vietnam War called the GBU-8 HOBOS. The GBU-8 could not be controlled after the bomb was released. Instead, the aircraft was forced to fly very close to the target so the WSO could acquire it. Once locked on, the weapon could be released and the aircraft could return to base.

[A 3rd TFW F-4E dropping a GBU-15(V)1/B, in 1985.]

Flight testing of the weapon began in 1975. The GBU-15 with television guidance, completed full-scale operational test and evaluation in November 1983. In February 1985, initial operational test and evaluation was completed on the imaging infrared guidance seeker.

In December 1987, the program management responsibility for the GBU-15 weapon system transferred from the Air Force Systems Command to the Air Force Logistics Command. The commands merged to become the Air Force Materiel Command in 1992.

During the integrated weapons system management process, AGM-130 and GBU-15 were determined to be a family of weapons because of the commonality of the two systems. The Precision Strike Program Office at Eglin AFB became the single manager for the GBU-15, with the Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base, Utah providing sustainment support.

Notes

[1] Caldwell, Hamlin A., Jr. “Air Force Maritime Missions” _United States Naval Institute Proceedings_ October 1978 p.31

[2]

title: GBU-15

question: How has the GBU-15 been used in the War on Terror?

answer: In particular, it was used to seal flaming oil pipelines sabotaged by Hussein's troops in the Persian Gulf.


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CLINTON WAS SUED FOR INTIMIDATING BLACK VOTERS IN ARKANSAS
NEWSMAX.COM ^ | December 22, 2002 | Carl Limbacher
Posted on 12/22/2002 7:46:24 PM PST by PAUL ATREIDES

In 1989 then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued as one of three top Arkansas officials responsible for the intimidation of black voters in his state as part of a legal action brought under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, NewsMax.com has learned.

And a year earlier the U.S. Supreme court ruled that Clinton had wrongfully tried to overturn the election of a black state representative in favor of a white Democrat.

In the 1989 case, "the evidence at the trial was indeed overwhelming that the Voting Rights Act had been violated," reported the Arkansas Gazette on Dec. 6, 1989. (The paper later became the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.)

"Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of monolithic voting along racial lines, intimidation of black voters and candidates, other official acts that made voting harder for blacks," the Gazette said.

A federal three judge federal panel ordered Clinton, then Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark and then-Secretary of State William J. Mc Cuen to draw new boundaries to give maximum strength to black voters.

"Until last year," the Gazette complained at the time, "in more than a thousand legislative elections, the (Arkansas) delta region sent not one black to the legislature. Last year, the federal district court split a multimember district in Crittenden County that had submerged the large number of black voters in the county."

In a related 1988 case, Clinton had tried to replace duly elected African-American state representative with a white candidate, only to be stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"The court, by an 8-0 vote, ruled against an appeal by Gov. Bill Clinton and other Arkansas officials that had challenged the election of Ben McGee as a state legislator," the Associated Press reported on Dec. 12, 1988. McGee is an African-American.

"The case began when blacks in Crittenden County filed a voting rights lawsuit attacking the county's at-large system for electing two House members. The suit contended that the system deprived black voters of a chance to elect a black to the House.

A special three-judge federal court had agreed earlier in the year that the system violated the federal Voting Rights Act.

The three-judge court threw out the results of a March 8 primary election in which the black candidate McGee, was defeated by James Stockley, the white candidate handpicked by Gov. Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

"That was tantamount to election on Nov. 8, since no Republican ran for the seat," the AP said.

Clinton and the other state officials had argued that the federal court improperly threw out the results of the first primary and ordered a new election.

The Supreme Court ruling came as the then-governor was fighting another court battle to preserve racial profiling in his state, a tool that Clinton later criticized while president as a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice."

But a decade earlier he approved the profiling of Hispanics by Arkansas State Police as part of a drug interdiction program in 1988, the Washington Times revealed in 1999.

"The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates," the Times said.

"A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional, the paper reported. "A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice - known as the 'criminal apprehension program' the next year."

Then Gov. Clinton, however, not only criticized the profiling ban, "at one point, (he) threatened to reinstate the program despite the court's ruling," the Times said.

"The state's position was to give away a . . . program that we're now trying to get back," Clinton announced at the time, saying the race-based stop and search program was more important than even airport security measures.

Three years later in 1991, Clinton actually did implement a modified version of the profiling program that prohibited the use of ethnic screening but allowed troopers to continue to stop cars on the highway at their discretion.

Hearing Clinton's condemnation of racial profiling in 1999, Roberto Garcia de Posada, executive director of the Hispanic Business Roundtable, complained that the then-president "had been a strong supporter of racial profiling against Hispanics in the past."

"He does not have the moral authority to lead a national campaign on this issue. If President Clinton truly meant what he said . . . he should apologize to all those Hispanics who suffered this 'morally indefensible' practice, which he publicly supported," de Posada said.

On Thursday and Friday both ex-President Clinton and his wife, Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, criticized Republicans for trying to suppress the black vote in states like Arkansas and Florida. But reporters declined to ask either Clinton about the well documented record of black voter disenfranchisement in Arkansas while they ran the state.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: 1989; arkansas; blackvote; bubba; clinton; howtostealanelection; intimidation; lawsuit; voterintimidation; votingrightsact

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

Well, that's different. Clintoon feels their pain now! right?

2 posted on 12/22/2002 7:48:50 PM PST by timestax

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To: TIMESTAX

Well, he's one of them, so how could it be racist?

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

This is a great find by NewsMax but not at all surprising.

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To: DOUG FROM UPLAND

You are correct. I wonder how many people see NewsMax.

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

Clinton never invents an attack; he always charges others with the crimes he himself has already committed.

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

_"The Supreme Court ruling came as the then-governor was fighting another court battle to preserve racial profiling in his state, a tool that Clinton later criticized while president as a "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice."_

Will this man never cease to haunt us?

Recall what he called Bush over the Trent Lott debacle last week - _"A Hypocrite."_

7 posted on 12/22/2002 8:02:31 PM PST by Happy2BMe

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To: THE OBSTINATE INSOMNIAC

_Clinton never invents an attack; he always charges others with the crimes he himself has already committed._

Very true and worth noting.

Has he, she or it, ever accused anyone of murder?

8 posted on 12/22/2002 8:03:40 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

_"Three years later in 1991, Clinton actually did implement a modified version of the profiling program that prohibited the use of ethnic screening but allowed troopers to continue to stop cars on the highway at their discretion."_

This is stretching it a bit . .

Cops are given this authority universally as it is.

Key word being "discretion."

9 posted on 12/22/2002 8:05:19 PM PST by Happy2BMe

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To: BOBTHENAILER

_Has he, she or it, ever accused anyone of murder?_

You mean besides "LBJ how many kids you kill today"?

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

I emailed the story to FoxNews & other media outlets.....perhaps someone will confront Hillary with her husband's record....LOL....I can dream, can't I?

11 posted on 12/22/2002 8:10:31 PM PST by JulieRNR21

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To: PAUL ATREIDES; DOUG FROM UPLAND

_"The Arkansas plan gave state troopers the authority to stop and search vehicles based on a drug-courier profile of Hispanics, particularly those driving cars with Texas license plates," the Times said. "A federal judge later ruled the program unconstitutional, the paper reported. "A lawsuit and a federal consent decree ended the practice - known as the 'criminal apprehension program' the next year."_

Apparently Clinton didn't seem to care about imposing that same level of jurisdiction for interdiction of drug trafficking at airports like Mena.

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

Bubba did it again recently... for the Democratic National Committee chairmanship... he got Terry McAuliffe instead of Maynard Jackson.

When are the blacks going to finally wake up?

13 posted on 12/22/2002 8:17:48 PM PST by Frohickey

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To: DOUG FROM UPLAND

Journalist could have dug this up before he was elected the first time. If he had been a Republican they would have.

14 posted on 12/22/2002 8:18:18 PM PST by Ditter

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To: THE OBSTINATE INSOMNIAC

_You mean besides "LBJ how many kids you kill today"?_

Afraid so, that one's "OLD NEWS". Just as CNN and all the other major news media will treat this one, much to my chagrin.

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To: MHKING; RDB3; MAFREE

Oh my God. How can this crap be overlooked while Lott is decried from the highest towers? Why didn't this come out before he was elected?

16 posted on 12/22/2002 8:19:31 PM PST by farmfriend

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To: JULIERNR21

Maybe you should send it to Maynard Jackson.

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To: PAUL ATREIDES

This evening I tried to reason with a Clinton lover, but was unable to make any headway. This individual never hesitates to slander a Republican. I would appreciate any assistance you might be able to offer is forming a rational response. The letter I received is below:

I have a file copy of a letter that I wrote some time back, praising and defending Bill Clinton, and I do not hesitate to send it, in reply to anyone who criticizes Clinton, especially when they do it to irritate me! Usually, they never again Criticize Clinton to me!

During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in most places, and vastly reduced welfare roles. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades, and actually achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination. After the Republican Congress defeated his proposal for a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules. In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. But he was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and he continues to this day, to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president. In the world, he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia; He bombed Iraq, when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking. He drew huge crowds when he traveled through South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and China, advocating U.S. style freedom. Under Clinton's leadership, the United States was able to reduce military spending, since we did not need a large military. We had so few enemies, because we had allies instead of enemies.. Israel and the Palestinians were talking peace, and hostilities were limited.. Peace was achieved through diplomacy instead of threats and a huge arms buildup. Clinton's flights abroad kept the United States at the forefront as a peacemaker and as an effective negotiator.
Under this present administration, our "excess tax money " has recently been "returned" to our nation's wealthiest citizens. Our present unsound fiscal policy should be a wonderful gift to our grandchildren. Our hopes for eliminating the national debt were dashed with the election of Bush, who at once set out to cut taxes for the wealthy, and increase military spending to an unbelievable record level. It seems that the old method of diplomacy to achieve peace, has now been replaced with a philosophy of superior military power, as a means for enforcing this nation's policy as defined by the president. This aggressive policy has alienated many of our allies, who now consider the USA as a country that threatens world peace, under the guise of fighting terrorism. Not only have our foreign relationships suffered serious decline under Bush, but our National economy continues to deteriorate, as unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and Corporate Insecurity are constantly a major national problem. World peace is now in jeopardy, as threatened by the global goals of George W. Bush.

18 posted on 12/22/2002 8:38:14 PM PST by beethoven

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To: BEETHOVEN

You should point out to your poor misled friend that any real good that was accomplished under Clintoon's "reign" was largely the result of having a Republican congress.

As recent events would now confirm it would appear that a good share of the so-called unprecedented economic performance was due to widespread financial reporting fraud that occurred under Clintoon's watch, and was discovered under W's. As a former federal employee I can attest to the fact that virtually every government agency fudges their books and reports, and as most government employees vote for the RATS, it does not stretch credulity to believe they would fudge certain vital statistical data to enhance their boss's agenda.

BTW, in a 1991 graduate finance class I predicted the future economic performance would be driven by political manipulation, not actual performance. How did I know that? Not by my superior knowledge of finance, economics, or accounting, but by my knowledge of democrats and government employees.

19 posted on 12/22/2002 9:02:28 PM PST by Auntie Dem

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To: BEETHOVEN

With regard to your friend's letter pertaining to clinton's impeachment, clinton was, and remains impeached. The Senate did not find him not-guilty of the charges as the impeachment wasn't a set of charges but rather a conclusion based on the charges the Senate failed to even hear. The Senate's job was not to determine guilt or innocence but to decide to remove or retain the employee - they chose to keep him. He remains impeached, and it is really a fun tweak to call to him as "the impeached former president" whenever referring to him in conversation with liberals.

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question: Why was Clinton sued in 1989?

answer: Clinton was sued for the intimidation of black voters in his state.

question: What had Clinton tried to do in the 1988 case?

answer: Clinton has tried to replace a duly elected Africa-American state representative with a white candidate but was stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court.

question: Why did the Clintons criticize the Republicans?

answer: The Clintons ct=riticized the Republicans for trying to suppress the black votes in states like Arkansas and Florida.

question: What did the Arkansas plan do?

answer: The plan gave state troopers the authority to search vehicles based on drug-courier of Hispanics, in particular of those driving cars with Texas license plates.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer:
Bill Clinton was sued in 1989 for intimidating black voters in his state. A three-judge panel ordered to draw new boundaries to give maximum strength to black voters.

In a similar case in 1988, Clinton had tried to replace an African-American state representative with a white candidate but was stopped by the Supreme Court.

Clinton had also fought in court as a governor to preserve racial profiling in his state, a move that he later criticized as a President calling it "morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice."