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The Society and Its Environment
IN THE LATE 1980s, El Salvador was a country with major social, economic, and political problems that had reached crisis proportions on a national level. These problems reflected a basic pattern of social, economic, and political inequality that has persisted since the colonial era and grown in intensity during the twentieth century.
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America in land area; it is also the most densely populated. These conditions have combined with marked imbalances in income distribution to create sharp contrasts in standards of living and general quality of life between the powerful and wealthy elite and the poverty-stricken masses. Limited productive territory, continuing high rates of population growth, and restricted ownership of land have led to a high level of unemployment and underemployment among the still largely rural and agrarian population. This population has lost much of its subsistence land base and therefore has had to rely for survival on participation in the cash economy, to which, however, most of its members were distinctly marginal.
The socioeconomic plight of the rural population, largely ignored by military-dominated governments, contributed to the development of an armed insurgent movement by the early 1980s. Pressure for economic reforms also played a part in the dialogue over political change as El Salvador's rigidly controlled oligarchic system enforced by the military confronted pressures for a more open form of participatory democracy. Meanwhile, the turmoil and destruction caused by civil conflict exacerbated the problems of an already seriously stressed population.
Although historically El Salvador has been home to a culturally diverse mix of peoples including blacks, Indians, Hispanics, and North Europeans, by the 1980s the population of the country was essentially homogeneous in terms of ethnicity and basic cultural identity. Virtually all Salvadorans spoke Spanish, the official language, as their mother tongue, and the vast majority could be characterized as mestizos (or ladinos, a term more commonly used in Central America), meaning persons of mixed biological ancestry who follow a wide variety of indigenous and Hispanic customs and habits that over the centuries have come to constitute Spanish-American cultural patterns. In the late 1980s, the ethnic composition of the population was estimated as 89 percent mestizo, 10 percent Indian, and 1 percent white.
In contrast to most other Central American countries, El Salvador no longer possessed an ethnically or linguistically distinct Indian population, although persons of Indian racial or cultural heritage still lived in the western departments of the country. During the twentieth century, this population was rapidly assimilated into the dominant Hispanic culture. Similarly, there was no ethnically or culturally distinct black population.
In spite of ethnic homogeneity, however, Salvadoran society in the 1980s exhibited strong contrasts in life-style based on extremes of great wealth and abject poverty. These contrasting life-styles, in turn, created serious rifts in Salvadoran society that effectively divided the population into distinctive subcultural groups.
The population of El Salvador at the time of the national census in 1971 was 3,549,000. According to estimates, population growth averaged 3.4 percent annually in the 1970s and 2.4 percent in the 1980s. One United States government estimate claimed a 1988 population figure of 5,389,000 (estimates vary). Although El Salvador's high rate of population growth was similar to that of other Central American countries, the social and political effects of this population increase were aggravated by the very limited national territory available for the population.
Consequently, El Salvador also consistently had very high population density. From a figure of 170 persons per square kilometer in 1970, density has been projected to rise to about 230 persons per square kilometer in 1980 and to an extremely high 420 persons by 2000. El Salvador is the most crowded country of Central America (indeed, of all Latin America), and that condition will continue into the foreseeable future. This demographic situation has further exacerbated the problems associated with the inequality of national resource distribution. But the consequences of these demographic pressures have not been limited to El Salvador. Historically, high Salvadoran population density has contributed to tensions with neighboring Honduras, as land-poor Salvadorans emigrated to less densely populated Honduras and established themselves as squatters on unused or underused land. This phenomenon was a major cause of the 1969 war between El Salvador and Honduras.
Population Growth and Age Distribution
The population of El Salvador increased from 1.9 million inhabitants in 1950 to 4.1 million in 1975 and 4.7 million in 1984. It was projected to increase to 8.8 million by the year 2000. In other words, the population would have doubled in each quarter-century since 1950. This high growth rate was a result of three main factors characteristic not only of El Salvador but also of Central America as a whole: a rapidly falling death rate, a continued high birth rate, and a very young population, i.e., a high proportion of the national population under age twenty.
Although there was some variance in figures between El Salvador's census reports and estimates by the United Nations Latin American Center for Demography (Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia--CELADE), there was agreement on basic birth and death statistics. The crude birth rate (the annual number of births per 1,000 inhabitants) declined from a relatively s; table 49 through the 1950s to 44.4 in the late 1960s. In the major industrial nations the rate is commonly below 20. The annual death rate per 1,000 inhabitants, however, declined by approximately one-third during the same period, falling from 21.3 to 13, and this decline contributed to the high rate of national population increase.
From 1970 to 2000, a continuing decline in both birth rates and death rates was anticipated. Studies projected a gradual fall in the crude birth rate from 42.2 in 1970-75 to 33.5 in 1995-2000 and in the crude death rate from 11.1 in 1970-75 to 7.2 in 1985- 90 and 5.6 in 1995-2000 (see table 2, Appendix). These two trends would operate more or less in tandem, however, so that the rate of natural increase, though declining, would still hover at around 3 percent. The overall population was very young; the median age in the country declined from nineteen in 1950 to seventeen in 1975, and 41.3 percent were projected to be under age fifteen by the year 2000. It is noteworthy here that life expectancy at birth improved from approximately forty-six years in the 1950s to fifty-nine years in 1977 and to sixty-five years in 1984 (sixty-three years for males and sixty-six for females), largely as a result of mass immunization schemes and control of disease-bearing insects. Life expectancy was expected to reach sixty-nine to seventy years in 1995-2000.
Birth rates showed that total fertility rates (the number of children a woman would bear in her lifetime if she experienced average fertility) ranged from approximately 6.1 to 6.3 in the mid-1970s, down from 6.7 in 1961. Analysts projected that this rate would drop to 4.4 in 1995-2000. The decrease in the level of fertility since 1961 was seen in the twenty-to thirty-nine-year- old age-group.
Family planning programs of both the privately organized Salvadoran Demographic Association, which was founded in 1962 and began operations in 1967, and (after 1971) government agencies under the Ministry of Public Health and Social Services probably contributed to this decline in fertility rates. The groups lobbied for family planning programs, provided family planning clinics, and dispensed birth control information and devices. Female sterilization was the most common birth control method because it is final and does not require frequent checkups or visits to clinics for additional supplies. The need for clinic visits has associated use of oral contraceptives in the popular mind with illness. In addition, there were fewer religious objections to sterilization. At the same time, abortions also were widely practiced. Abortion was illegal in El Salvador, and improperly performed abortions were common. They were the third leading cause of hospital admissions in 1975, constituting 24 of every 1,000 admissions, according to a sample survey.
Fertility rates showed significant contrasts between urban and rural settings. In 1975 the birth rate per 1,000 women in rural areas was estimated at 46 to 47, whereas in urban areas it stood at approximately 34 to 35 (31 to 33 for the San Salvador metropolitan area). On average, by age thirty-five, rural women had seven children while urban women had only five. By the end of their childbearing years, rural women, on average, had eight children, and urban women had six. Given the markedly inferior health conditions of the countryside, however, of the two additional children born to rural women, only one would survive. The number of children under age one per 1,000 women between ages fifteen and forty-four declined by 16.5 percent in urban areas from 1961 to 1971, while it remained essentially unchanged over that same time period in rural areas.
Disparate fertility rates underscored the point that El Salvador continued to be a rural country in the late 1980s, "rural" in this context including all population in towns of less than 20,000. In fact, El Salvador showed the highest rural population increase--82 percent from 1961 to 1980--in Latin America.
THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY
In the late 1980s, El Salvador was experiencing severe internal stress as a result of an ongoing insurgency, a severely debilitated economy, and persistent socioeconomic inequalities. Despite reform efforts begun under the post-1979 civilianmilitary junta governments, the country's longstanding division between rich and poor still represented a challenge to Salvadoran leaders and to the society as a whole.
The sharp contrast between those with great wealth and those living in extreme poverty had characterized Salvadoran society for more than a century and had roots in its colonial past. When El Salvador became an independent republic in the early nineteenth century, this pattern did not change. Wealthy landowners, members of only a very few families, organized the national government to secure their positions and continued to dominate Salvadoran national life. Rural peasants and workers provided for their own subsistence needs and labored for the elite. Indeed, as the century progressed, this pattern was sharpened by the successful introduction of coffee as an export cash crop. As the landed elite, along with more recently arrived European banking and financial families interested in coffee, began to realize the wealth potential of this crop, they increased the size of their estates.
They did so by absorbing into their private holdings public lands (forests) and the communal lands of municipios (the Salvadoran equivalent of counties) and Indian communities, lands formerly cultivated in small subsistence plots by mestizo and Indian peasants. The government officially decreed these common lands out of existence in favor of private property ownership in 1881. Those dispossessed of their subsistence lands became permanent or seasonal laborers working for extremely low wages on coffee estates, which were labor-intensive enterprises. To protect their lands and their prosperity, the coffee elite formed a strong economic and political oligarchy. The army and the National Guard (Guardia Nacional--GN) were employed to control the unrest and occasional open rebellions among the many now landless and poorly paid laborers.
When coffee prices fell during the Great Depression of the 1930s, laborers' wages were reduced still further, and since much subsistence land had been converted to private coffee cultivation and the production of staple crops had declined accordingly, living conditions worsened. Unemployment rose too, as many coffee growers decided not to harvest their crops. In addition, many small landowners, unable to survive the low coffee prices, lost their lands to those who were wealthier, and landownership became even more concentrated.
In the decades following the depression, export agriculture became somewhat diversified as cotton and, to a lesser extent, sugar also became important plantation cash crops, and some of the elite began to argue for industrial development. The upper class in general, however, strongly resisted any significant changes in the basic social, economic, and political order. After a rural uprising in 1932 and the brutal reprisals later referred to as la matanza (the massacre), in which about 30,000 were killed by troops, the dominance of the elite was preserved and defended by the Salvadoran military.
The Upper Sector
In relation to the total population, the Salvadoran elite was very small; by the early 1980s it constituted approximately 2 percent of the population. This social sector, however, owned 60 percent of the nation's productive land, exercised direct or indirect control over all key productive sectors of the economy, and accounted for one-third of the national income.
The economic interests of the elite fell into three general categories: export-oriented agribusiness, including coffee, cotton, sugar, and cattle; commercial and financial enterprises, including insurance, financial investment, real estate, utilities, and banks; and relatively newer retail and industrial interests, including distributorships and manufacturing. Given the continued dominance of export agriculture and of financial interests in the 1980s, this third category remained less significant overall.
Among the elite, there were divisions based on relative social status and prestige as determined by ancestry. The oldest and most prestigious families were those associated with the colonial "founding fathers" who had developed export agriculture. Next in the pecking order were the families, mainly involved in banking and finance, whose European ancestors had immigrated to El Salvador in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a useful knowledge of foreign markets. The newest elite families, on the lowest social rung of the upper echelon, included Lebanese, Palestinians, and Jews and were pejoratively referred to as "Turcos" by the "older" elites. These most recent immigrants constituted the bulk of the Salvadoran merchant class; they tended to socialize primarily within their own group.
Despite these social distinctions, the Salvadoran elite as a whole was interconnected through bonds of shared economic interest, direct business dealings, particularly between the agribusiness and financial sectors, and frequent intermarriage. The families of the oligarchy generally intermarried. Daughters anticipated lives as pampered mothers and wives, while sons expected a place in one of the family businesses. Generally, members of elite families tended to live in San Salvador, whence they traveled periodically to their plantations, which were usually directed on site by resident administrators, or to Western Europe or the United States for business or recreation. The elite educated their children in private schools and in United States universities, entertained at fashionable clubs, and enjoyed extravagant conspicuous consumption.
To reconcile their differences and represent their interests, the elite organized into associations. Most notable among these associations was the National Association of Private Enterprise (Asociacion Nacional de la Empresa Privada--ANEP), which has expressed oligarchy views through various declarations in the media and before the government.
The economic oligarchy, although traditionally the most influential sector of Salvadoran society, was not the most powerful in and of itself. The Salvadoran upper sector also included the officer ranks of the military. Active or retired military personnel headed the government from 1932 to 1982, and, as a result, ambitious individual military officers and officer factions also emerged as interest groups in their own right. Members of the military gradually became involved in the elite economic structure--managing and directing banks, the social security institute, the national airline, and the census bureau, as well as owning large estates and becoming involved in export agriculture. This combination of the officer corps and the elite families constituted the most powerful political and economic force in the country.
Although their interests became closely interwoven, the economic oligarchy and the military remained separate entities. A few select military personnel were adopted into the oligarchy after their retirement, but few in the military were welcomed into the more exclusive San Salvador clubs frequented by the elite. For its own part, the officer corps was a closed and cliquish group; 90 percent of its members were graduates of the Captain General Gerardo Barrios Military Academy (Escuela Militar Capitan General Gerardo Barrios) and organized in mutually supportive networks based on graduating class membership. Each graduating class formed a group known as a tanda, whose members assisted each other and entered alliances with other tandas to broker the allocation of command and staff positions within the armed forces. The military served as one of the few mechanisms of upward mobility in Salvadoran society. The expectation of power and prestige was a considerable motivator for cadets, most of whom typically came from a Salvadoran middle-class background.
The Lower Sector
The vast majority of Salvadorans were members of the lower sector of the population, which was composed of full- or parttime laborers, peasant smallholders, and the unemployed. Although there was considerable diversity within this large social sector, most of its members shared the common denominators of dependence on the cash economy and insufficient earning power for even a minimally adequate standard of living. The variation within this population reflected degrees of landlessness, types of employment, residence locations, and relationship with economic and military power holders.
In 1981 approximately 58 percent of Salvadorans lived in rural areas, some as full-time estate workers (colonos), others owning or more likely renting (arrendatarios) small plots of marginal land, and many, both those with small plots of land and the vast number who were landless, as seasonal wage laborers or unemployed. During the 1980s, the number of workers depending on agriculture for jobs increased, as a result of both population growth in the rural areas and the civil conflict, which eliminated more nonagricultural than agricultural jobs.
The extent of access to marginal subsistence plots varied according to the degree of plantation development in the various regions of El Salvador. The hilly northern departments of Chalatenango, Cabanas, and Morazan, adjacent to the Honduran border, contained relatively few large estates. Consequently, subsistence farms continued to exist there. But such farms, being small and with marginal soil quality, generally did not provide full self-sufficiency or year-round employment. Nor was much cash available from the sale of produce, for the government, concerned with providing affordable food for city dwellers, kept food prices low. Consequently, members of these peasant families migrated seasonally to cash crop (coffee) estates at harvest time, when they obtained temporary jobs at very low wages, or moved to San Salvador.
Peasants living in areas where coffee, cotton, and sugarcane were grown extensively were less likely to have access to subsistence plots, although valiant attempts were made to cultivate the rocky, marginal land on the steep hillsides of the volcanic ranges of central El Salvador, where coffee estates absorbed all good land in the central valleys and on the cultivable slopes. The development of cotton estates on the lowlying coastal plain and of sugarcane, grown between the coastal cotton and hilly coffee regions, also dislocated many peasants. In addition, large-scale mechanization in the 1970s eliminated the need for sizable labor forces on these estates. For example, one 6,000-hectare cotton estate employed a total regular work force of only thirty-five people. The development of grazing lands for export cattle on the coastal plain and in some interior valleys again reduced available subsistence land while requiring very few laborers. In the 1970s, more of El Salvador's land resources were used for cattle grazing than for production of food crops.
In addition, as social unrest grew among rural laborers, large estate owners preferred wherever possible to increase the use of seasonal rather than permanent workers. In the cottongrowing areas, for example, the number of colonos decreased by 60 to 95 percent during the 1960s. Overall, the number of landholdings with colono arrangements dropped from a high of 55,000 in 1961 to 17,000 in 1971. Permanent agricultural workers were thought to be more susceptible than temporary workers to political organization and therefore were believed to constitute more of a potential threat to elite land rights. This attitude further increased the number of underemployed and unemployed landless laborers in the countryside. A few statistics illustrate the situation in general. In 1961, about 12 percent of the rural population was landless; by 1971 the figure had reached 29 percent; in 1975 the number of landless was estimated at 41 percent. Similarly, from 1950 to 1970 rural unemployment stood at 45 to 50 percent. By 1975 only 37 percent of rural workers worked full time, 14 percent worked an average of nine months, 19 percent worked an average of six months, and a full 30 percent worked for only two to three months annually. By 1980 an estimated 65 percent of the rural population was landless and dependent on wage employment.
The small percentage of the labor force employed in industry was somewhat better off than agricultural workers, but only about 12.8 percent of the labor force was employed in industry in 1961, and by 1971 that number had dropped to 9.8 percent. Their low numbers in part reflected the use of capitalintensive technology, which made it unnecessary to hire a large work force. Jobs also were few because industry in general, and manufacturing in particular, remained limited as a result of capital flight caused by political instability, the unsettled economy, and damaging guerrilla attacks.
Enlisted military personnel, another component of the lower sector, were young peasant conscripts or volunteers who had joined the armed forces to enjoy three meals a day and a warm place to sleep; some of the conscripts had been impressed into service in response to manpower shortages. After discharge from active duty, some ex-servicemen signed on for further service and benefits as military reservists in the GN or in civil defense groups.
The Middle Sector
The small proportion of society constituting a middle class-- about 8 percent in the early 1980s--included skilled workers, government employees, professionals, school teachers, smallholders, small businessmen, and commercial employees. These people were caught between the polar extremes of wealth and poverty. Not being members of the traditional oligarchy--although the great success of nineteenth- century coffee production had stimulated the development of the middle sector as well as of the elite--the middle sector traditionally had little direct influence in government affairs. Similarly, although profoundly influenced by the United States, members of this population sector did not have sufficient wealth to enjoy ready access to schooling or travel in that country. Instead, having only a tenuous toehold on property and limited power within the existing Salvadoran system, the middle sector found its position precarious and felt seriously threatened by El Salvador's political and economic crises.
After the depression of the 1930s, the middle sector hoped to improve the standard of living for all Salvadorans through agrarian reform and through legalized peasant organizing. In the 1960s and early 1970s, various professionals and other members of the middle class tried to promote meaningful elections and called for a transition to more open and participatory democratic procedures. As economic and political crises deepened in the 1970s and 1980s, however, many members of the middle class became alienated by the rising tide of political violence. Many of these Salvadorans wished that the problem of "subversives" would simply go away so that order, stability, and economic growth could be restored. Others, however, chose to become increasingly active in political parties or popular organizations.
In contrast to most other Central American countries, El Salvador in the late 1980s did not contain an ethnically distinct Indian population. Native communities of Pipil and also Lenca, located mainly in the western departments, constituted perhaps 60 percent of the population throughout the colonial era and into the early decades of independence. But the development of coffee estates saw the dissolution of the communal lands of native villages and the slow but continual incorporation of Indians into the general cash economy, where they became peasants and wage laborers. By the late nineteenth century, this assimilation process was essentially complete. The 1930 census, the last census containing the category of "Indian," designated only 5.6 percent of the population, or some 80,000 persons, as Indian, although it is not clear what criteria were used in this determination. Other, possibly more accurate, independent estimates, however, placed the mid-twentieth-century Indian population at 20 percent, or close to 400,000 persons. The criteria used in these estimates to identify individuals as Indian included religious activities, distinctive women's dress, language, and involvement in various handicrafts. Still, the life-style of the majority of these people was no longer completely Indian. Most were ladinoized, Hispanic acculturated, monolingual Spanish speakers who did not wear distinctive Indian dress. The remaining Indian population was found primarily in southwestern El Salvador.
The abandonment of Indian language and customs was hastened by political repression after an abortive peasant/Indian uprising in 1932. The revolt centered in the western part of the country, around the former Indian towns of Ahuachapan, Santa Ana, and Sonsonate, where the growth of coffee estates since the late nineteenth century had absorbed subsistence lands of Indians and mestizos alike. The revolt was supported by a number of Indian community leaders (caciques). Even though most Indian communal lands had been lost, traditional community-centered religious-political organizations (cofradias) and their leaders remained sufficiently influential to organize and direct popular unrest. The harsh and bloody reprisal (la matanza) by government forces that ensued fell on the entire population of the region whether they had been combatants or not, and most had not. Perhaps as many as 30,000 were killed, including many who were culturally designated as Indian or who were deemed by government forces to have an Indian-like physical appearance. In the face of such racially motivated repression, most natives stopped wearing traditional dress, abandoned the Pipil language, and adopted ladino customs. In 1975 it was estimated that no more than 1 percent of the population wore distinctive Indian clothing or followed Indian customs.
Even though visible signs of ethnic identity were all but lost, many persons retained an interest in Salvadoran Indian heritage and worked to preserve it as best they could. During the 1970s, the Central American University Jose Simeon Canas (Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas--UCA) in San Salvador began a systematic study of the surviving elements of the Pipil language; researchers found that about one-tenth of households in Sonsonate, Ahuachapan, and La Libertad contained at least one Pipil speaker. Various aspects of Indian tradition, including dance ceremonies that had been held in private for thirty years, were also rediscovered. As political tensions grew in the 1980s, however, access to Indian households became more difficult, and the Pipil language study was stopped.
In short, although observers have estimated that much of the Salvadoran population in the 1980s could be said to possess an Indian racial background, culturally there was no significant Indian ethnic sector in the country. Nonetheless, the concept of Indian ethnicity was still a rallying point. In the mid-1980s, thousands of persons nationwide supported a popular organization known as the National Association of Salvadoran Indians (Asociacion Nacional Indigena Salvadorena--ANIS) headquartered in Sonsonate.
SOURCE: Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbook
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Lele took to her Instagram stories to show off the major hair makeover she underwent, and let us tell you – it is beyond chic. This transformation is as drastic as it gets, but it is almost as if Lele was meant to have short hair all along. Now don’t get us wrong, her hair looks fab at all times. However, this new style just suits her so incredibly well.
The super short cut wasn’t the only change she made to her ‘do. Lele also took her blonde a few shades lighter. We wonder what’s next for Lele!
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By Peter Lucas
If you break it, you own it.
That is what Gen. Colin Powell says he told President George Bush in 2002. That was when Bush and the military hawks around him were contemplating military action to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was widely believed to be harboring weapons of mass destruction.
If Powell, then secretary of state, had any misgivings or reservations about Bush launching the Iraq War in April 2003, he certainly kept them to himself.
Like the loyal soldier that he was, Powell took his marching orders from Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and went to the United Nations to appeal for support in going to war. Powell’s pro-invasion speech was based on widely accepted intelligence that Saddam Hussein had secretly stored WMD — weapons of mass destruction.
Who can forget the television footage of the respected four-star retired Army general making the case for war before the United Nations Security Council — with then-CIA Director George Tenet sitting directly behind him — in February 2003? Remember the photos of alleged Iraqi secret weapon storage sites? Powell at that time probably had more credibility with the American public than any man alive.
A lot of Americans believed him when he said that Saddam Hussein, who had used biological weapons on his own people, was not only hiding these weapons but was producing even more of them. “The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction pose to the world,” Powell said.
“We have firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails,” Powell said.
Only it was not true.
Unfortunately for him, and the country, Powell put his credibility on the line for Bush and the war. One month after the speech, with the support of the U.S. Congress, Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. Had Powell opposed the war, and made his opposition vocal, Bush possibly could have been dissuaded.
And although Saddam Hussein was eventually captured and executed, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. They did not exist, and if they ever did, they were either destroyed or spirited out of the country years earlier. In the interim, before the end of combat operations last August, some 4,400 Americans soldiers were killed in Iraq and thousands more seriously wounded.
Powell helped break it, but he has spent the years since trying not to own it. Now, sounding like Sen. John Kerry, Powell insists he was against the war before he was for it, but he would now have you believe he was really against it all along.
Powell recently revived interest in his role in the Iraq War when, shilling for his new book “It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership,” he bashed fellow Republican Mitt Romney and his “far to the right” foreign policy advisers for pushing Romney into alleged extreme positions, like naming Russia as the No. 1 threat to the United States.
Powell may or may not have a point, but at least Romney did not call for the invasion of Russia like Powell did for Iraq, and then spend the rest of his life walking away from it.
While Powell does acknowledge that his U.N. speech was “one of my most momentous failures,” he weasels his way out by saying that “every senior U.S. official would have made the exact same case.” Is that true? If so, it can never be proven.
Powell maintains that he was set up, given false information and misled. “My infamous speech at the U.N. in 2003 about Iraqi WMD programs was not based on the facts, though I thought it was,” Powell writes, as though he were a dummy given a White House script to read.
The evidence of WMD programs he was given “was deeply flawed,” but he did not know it. He was duped by Bush and Cheney. Then he wonders why no one in the White House, the intelligence community or his own State Department told him he was being set up. “So why did no one stand up and speak out during the intense hours we worked on the speech?” he asks.
That’s not the question. The question is: Why didn’t he stand up and speak out instead of allowing himself to be conned into supporting the invasion of Iraq?
The answer is that Powell supported the war and then decided to bail out when no WMD were found and the long nightmare of the terrorist insurgency began.
He broke it, but he won’t own it. What a phony.
Peter Lucas’ political column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email him at email@example.com.

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Baker Gilchrist Windmill at Nelson Farm
The Baker/Gilchrist windmill at Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum in Oskaloosa came down on Tuesday morning. It was lowered by the Shelter Construction Company crew who will rebuild a new structure from the old pattern. The windmill was showing signs of deterioration after the long cold winter and the Mahaska County Iowa Farm Bureau Federation generously stepped in to finance the restoration.
The windmill originally stood on the Baker Farm and was over a century old. The Aermotor mill head dates from 1933 and was donated from the Gilchrist farm. Together these have made an iconic presence at the Mahaska County Historical Society site.
The repairs should be completed by June and the mill back in place. The repairs will restore the mill and pump to working condition which will fill the stock tank by the old Nelson White Barn on the property.
Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum is open May through September for visitors to explore the history of Mahaska County and agriculture. For additional information and programs visit the website at nelsonpioneer.org.


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Emma Watson and William “Mack” Knight have called it quits after dating for almost two years. Entertainment Tonight reported that the split was amicable.
The Harry Potter actress has been private about her relationship. In a February interview with Vanity Fair, she spoke about having a boyfriend.
“I want to be consistent: I can’t talk about my boyfriend in an interview and then expect people not to take paparazzi pictures of me walking around outside my home. You can’t have it both ways,” she said.
She added, “I’ve noticed, in Hollywood, who you’re dating gets tied up into your film promotion and becomes part of the performance and the circus. I would hate anyone that I were with to feel like they were in any way part of a show or an act.”

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Mary J is rolling out the video for single No.4 from her latest album ‘My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1)’, roping in the rap and vocal talents of Drake to kick off proceedings. And to be honest, by 50 seconds in, we’re wondering whether or not Mary will be phoning in her appearance on her own track as she’s nowhere to be seen or heard ’til about the 55 second mark.
‘Mr. Wrong’ is a slow burning jam that’s packed with plenty of soul, as Mary and her dancers grind their way through the latter stages of the clip. We’d put our money on you not hearing the track on radio throughout Australia – it’s extremely US R&B focussed – but it goes to show that Mary’s still got one of the smoothest set of pipes in the biz.

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Celebrity power couples like Mira and Shahid Kapoor seem to be able to do it all. Shahid has his busy film schedule to take care of, while Mira juggles doing ad promotions and interviews with raising their daughter Misha Kapoor. And now, as they welcomed their baby boy Zain Kapoor on the 5th September, the overjoyed couple will be busier then ever before.
Though it may seem to us like our actors are superhuman, they struggle to cope with parenting as well.For Mira and Shahid though, the plan is to put their kids first, always and forever. Shahid's daddy duties are a priority RN, as was revealed by a source.
"Shahid hasn’t slept a wink for the past 30-35 hours as he is taking care of his daughter Misha who is keeping unwell. He even cancelled his shoot for India’s Best Dramebaaaz as he wanted to be there for Mira, who is currently recovering post-pregnancy, Misha and their baby boy Zain. The team of Batti Gul Meter Chalu also didn’t go."[instagram]https://www.instagram.com/p/BkzuIMJFQHq/?utm_source=ig_embed_loading[/instagram]
Shahid was to go on the show to promote his upcoming film, but the hardworking actor made an exception, putting his family first. He will be also on a paternity leave for some time to assist Mira in taking care of Zain and Misha. Well, that is #daddygoals right there!
Mira Kapoor seems to have similar thoughts when it comes to her kids. She also has some advice to give other new mothers out there. She revealed in a recent interview the things she feels that every mother should do post delivery.
“I have spoken about the importance of feeding the baby in the past too. I was extremely religious with Misha and I am going to do the same with my newborn. It is the greatest gift you can give your baby.” She also added that is extremely essential for new mothers to "be happy and eat well.” Mira added, “Also, it's important to sleep whenever the kids allow you to because that will no more be in your own hand.”
Mira also stressed on the fact that she and Shahid are going to make sure that their two-year-old daughter Misha does not feel ignored with the arrival of their second child. Her focus, she shared, is to create a perfect balance.
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April was a great reading month for me this time, not like March. I hardly read anything in March, only three books, but in April I doubled that number. Yay me! So, this month I have read some enjoyable books. Lots of terrific books have also hit the shelves and the ABC Book Club started up again, even if it is at 10pm at night. It is still an amazing show and it should be on more regularly. This month I went to my first reviewing gig, which was a fabulous play. We celebrated Easter and indulged in lots of chocolates and treats. I even got to go to another awesome Lifeline book fair in which I found two young adult books that only came out last year.
It’s been a great reading month and now I hope I haven’t jinxed May.
Here are my April 2017 books:
- Hartley’s Grange by Nicole Hurley-Moore – adult fiction, Australian romance, funny, real, emotional; review coming May [4.5/5]
- Perfect by Cecelia Ahern – young adult, series, book number 2, awesome follow on from great first book, adventurous; review coming May [4.5/5]
- Juliet’s Answer by Glenn Dixon – memoir, romance, real life, story inspired by Juliet’s secretaires, ambitious; review coming in May [3.5/5]
- The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli – young adult, mental health, sexuality, romance, epic teenage love story; review coming in May [3.9/5]
- After by Nikki Gemmell – memoir, mental health, euthanasia, touching, emotional, will make you think and cry; review coming in May [4.2/5]
- Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver – young adult, bullying, movie out now, over hyped; review coming in May [2.5/5]
- Perfect by Cecelia Ahern – Purchased at Dymocks
- After by Nikki Gemmell – Purchased at Kmart
- Juliet’s Answer by Glenn Dixon – Purchased at Kmart
- Caramel Hearts by E.R. Murry – Purchased at a Life Line Book Fair, Thornleigh
- Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan – Purchased at a Life Line Book Fair, Thornleigh
- The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli – Received from Penguin Random House, book mail
- Geekeralla by Ashley Poston – Received from Penguin Random House, book mail
- Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon – Received from Penguin Random House, book mail
- Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver – Given to me by my loving sister
As you can see, I read all the books I brought this month, except for the last two which I only just got last weekend, but they are on my Doable TBR May to be read. It’s been a great month with some really great books, which I would recommend to anyone.
You can find all the book reviews for the books I read this month, out every Monday of May.
My April 2017 book statistics –
Books Brought = 5
Books Given = 4
Books Read = 6
Books Did Not Finish = 0
Let’s see what May has in store…


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A veteran Labour MP launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister’s conduct, opposition parties ramped up their attempts to topple the Government and two words muttered by Jeremy Corbyn saw him thrust into the centre of a bitter sexism row. Today marks the final day of Parliamentary business before MPs and peers rise for a two-and-a-half week Christmas break. But as the dust settled after another chaotic day, the PM is no closer to securing a Commons majority for her deeply divisive deal - and Britain is still on course to leave the EU on March 29, 2019 without a Withdrawal Agreement.
Mrs May used the last Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) of 2018 to warn MPs that their Brexit options were simple: either get behind her deal or leave with no deal and fall back on to World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms.
But responding to the Prime Minister’s characterisation of her deal, Labour veteran Margaret Becket accused her of a "gross dereliction of duty" in misleading the public.
Speaking during an emergency Commons debate on Wednesday, she warned the public would be furious when the truth was revealed.
Dame Margaret said: "One of the simplest promises the Prime Minister made - vote for my deal and it will all be over - could not be less true.
Brexit news: Theresa May is facing criticism for her EU exit deal
"It won't be over, it has barely begun and the worst, the most difficult negotiations are still to come and that will rumble on for years and years.
"I can't think of anything more likely to make people utterly disillusioned with politics and politicians than realising they have been told you have left the EU when it doesn't mean any of the things they thought it would mean."
And Tory MP Jeremy Lefroy, a former trade negotiator, branded those arguing for a no-deal Brexit on WTO rules as "deluded".
He said: "This idea that somehow if we come out and have no deal that there will be a possibility of negotiating a quick free trade agreement with the EU to replace the great agreement we have at the moment is to my mind ludicrous.
“That will not happen."
The latest attacks from both the Conservative and opposition benches come as Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged Jeremy Corbyn to back a motion of no confidence in a bid to topple Mrs May’s Government.
The SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens tabled a vote of no confidence in the UK Government following a meeting on Tuesday evening.
Ms Sturgeon said the Mr Corbyn’s refusal to table his own motion aimed at bringing down the Government was simply an "excuse" to avoid having to clarify his own position on Brexit policy.
Meanwhile, the Labour leader faced further problems when he was forced to deny calling Theresa May a “stupid woman”.
Instead of seizing the opportunity to keep focus on the Government’s handling of Brexit, Prime Minister’s Questions was overshadowed by claims Mr Corbyn had made a sexist remark towards Mrs May.
Television cameras picked up the Labour leader saying something to those sat with him after the Prime Minister likened his attempt to force a confidence vote in her to a Christmas pantomime.
After being asked to come back and address MPs he flatly denied using the sexist phrase, telling MPs: "I referred to those who I believe were seeking to turn a debate about the national crisis facing our country into a pantomime as 'stupid people'.
"I did not use the words 'stupid woman' about the Prime Minister or anyone else, and am completely opposed to the use of sexist or misogynist language in absolutely any form at all."


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The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University honored its 2019 Distinguished Alumni on January 25 with a ceremony at the Davison Athletics Complex. College alumni are selected for this award for a lifetime of career success and commitment to the Tenets of Tech. Honorees have excelled as industry experts, served as community leaders and are role models for future engineers and scientists in their fields.
“We are proud to recognize these alumni,” Dr. Hisham Hegab, dean of the College said. “They are not only recognized leaders in their fields, but have also made meaningful impacts on their communities. Each one exemplifies what students enrolled in engineering and science courses at Louisiana Tech can achieve in the future.”
The honorees are as follows.
- Biomedical Engineering – Dr. Marsha Friedrich, OB/GYN of a private practice, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Chemical Engineering – Douglas Houston, Retired President/ CEO at Houston Interest (HI), Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Civil Engineering – Matthew J. Wallace, President /Structural Engineer at Aillet, Fenner, Jolly & McClelland, Inc., Shreveport, Louisiana
- Computer Science – Michael Couvillion, Chief Technology Officer at Alchemy Systems and Founder/CEO of AlexaGuru, LLC, Austin, Texas
- Construction Engineering Technology – Jeffrey Plauche, Senior Vice President – PreConstruction & Development at Boh Bros. Construction Co., LLC, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Electrical Engineering – Dr. Kenny Crump, Statistical Consultant, Ruston, Louisiana
- Electrical Engineering Technology – Ronald S. Lindsey, Senior Electrical Engineer at Benteler Steel/Tube Manufacturing Corporation, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Industrial Engineering – Joshua Luke Cummings (awarded posthumously), formerly Director of Transmission and Key Accounts for CenterPoint Energy in Houston, Texas
- Mathematics – Jesse Wilkins, retired from McDermott International as a pipeline and platform designer, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
- Mechanical Engineering – Lt. Col. Paul Konyha, Flight Director at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, Texas
- Physics – Dr. Bruce Patton, Nuclear Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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You can transform many pistols with micro conversion kits from unwieldy (sorry, it had to be said) handguns into stable, accurate platforms that mimic the versatility and handling of a sporting rifle.
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Firearm retention is not just a matter of ergonomics. It is also vital to security and safety. With just a small investment, you can get a one-point, push-button sling, and swivel combo for your MCS to free your hands and secure your handgun.
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Thumb rests seem like a ho-hum accessory, but the truth is stability makes a huge impact on handling, comfort, and ultimately in accuracy. Drop a few dollars more into your platform and boost handling.
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A WML for your CAA MCK can help you establish PID of potentially hostile targets. What you can’t see can kill you – take no chances, drop in a WML.
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Another not-so-exciting but necessary CAA MCK accessory is a brass catcher. Let’s put it this way, no one can find ammo – you can’t afford to leave your brass scattered around the range.
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It’s sort of a niche Command Arms accessory, but if you’re training over long distances, a bipod can make a significant difference in accuracy and grouping.
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This time around, launch details for the Samsung Galaxy S10 lineup have surfaced earlier than usual. Last time, the Korean Press reported the Galaxy S9 lineup's launch exactly one month before it took place. However, today we've got a report from the Korean Herald which claims that the Galaxy S10 will launch on Saturday, February 26th in San Francisco. Take a look below for more details.
Samsung Will Launch The Galaxy S10 Lineup In San Francisco Claims The Korean Press
Looks like Samsung is really eager to break into the US market. The company does not have a commanding presence in North America when we consider the high-end smartphone market share. Therefore, especially as it will beat Apple to a new display, Samsung will kick off things for the Galaxy S10 by launching the lineup in San Francisco, as per The Korean Herald.
The Korean tech giant hasn't had good fortunes with the Galaxy S9 lineup recently, as it momentarily fell back to its design indolence . While the S9 and S9+ refined the design Samsung debuted with the Galaxy S8, they did not introduce any important upgrades over their predecessors. This will change with the upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphones.
Rumored upgrades for the S10 and S10+ include new displays, rear cameras and ultrasonic fingerprint recognition. Rumors of virtual fingerprint recognition for the Galaxy S lineup have been quite common in the past. Therefore, it's always safe to take them with a grain of salt. However, both render and case leaks have not displayed a fingerprint sensor cutout, so maybe we're safe to assume that updated biometric recognition will indeed make it on the two gadgets.
In addition to these devices, Samsung is also expected to launch two more Galaxy S10 smartphones. The first of these will be the Galaxy S10 Lite; a stripped down version of the Galaxy S10. The second will be a 5G variant of the Galaxy S10; a device also rumored to feature a quad-camera setup. This setup will include a ToF camera sensor capable of better 3D and depth perception than the sensors found in any of Samsung's devices. As a word of caution, we're still skeptical about this device.
Thoughts? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and stay tuned. We'll keep you updated on the latest.


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YSR Jalakala to all eligible farmers in AP, says minister
By DECCAN CHRONICLE | DC Correspondent
VIJAYAWADA: Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy has claimed that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy “is one step ahead of others” in extending help to agriculture and to farmers.
The government dug 19,908 bore wells through the YSR Jalakala scheme, he said in response to questions raised by members in the state Assembly on Friday.
He explained to the House the progress of the programmes offered to the farmers through the YSR Jalakala. “Earlier, the Telugu Desam government spent only Rs 99.35 crore for NTR Jalakala but the YSRC government spent Rs 212.26 crore in the past three and half years,” he said.
The minister said that under YSR Jalkala, the government is sanctioning free bore wells to eligible farmers in both the command and non-command areas.
“Apart from that, we are also providing 180 metre cable along with power transformer, power tools to the farmers free of charge,” he said.
He said the total number of applications received so far through online and offline was 2,28,421, out of which 1,88,571 applications have been approved by VROs in the secretariats.
He said 66,190 applications have been addressed by the Groundwater Department survey. Of these, the collectors have given administrative sanction to 42,388 applications and completed drilling of 19,908 bore wells.
The minister said, “We have said two lakh boreholes will be drilled from 2020 to 2024. This would benefit three lakh farmers. The YSR Jalkala scheme is being implemented with the aim of providing irrigation water to five lakh acres.”
He said that under this scheme, the government is providing free power connections to bore wells and 1721 bore wells were electrified free of cost with a spend of 54.95 crore.
Recalling that the previous Telugu Desam government granted free bore wells to the farmers in the name of NTR Jalasiri, Ramachandra Reddy said the scheme was implemented only in command areas, that too, only up to 200 feet of drilling. Only 33,116 bore wells have been sanctioned by the TD government in its five-year term.
He said CM Jagan has taken a decision to grant bore wells under YSR Jalkala to every eligible farmer in command as well as non-command areas.
“Drilling is allowed to a depth recommended by geologists, we are accepting applications both online and offline, for transparency, and verifying every application through VROs at the secretariat level. Due to abundant rain in these four years and availability of irrigation water in ponds, even the farmers did not show much interest for bore wells,” he said.
The minister said, “The state government is giving high priority to agriculture, offering free power supply to 1.21 lakh connections and applications for another 4,000 connections are pending.”


Pacific Heights – Airborne
Wellington-based Devin Abrams (aka DJ Reno and one of the founding members of Shapeshifter), has just put out the latest single under his Pacific Heights moniker. The lovely looking video features some heavy eye makeup, a ghostly figure and a vaguely concerned looking Devin wandering around a graveyard. Of course. ‘Airborne’ (featuring the vocal talents of Deanne Krieg, and available via various digital retailers here) is the first single off his upcoming album ‘The Stillness’.


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Former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla., currently the president and CEO of the Associated Industries of Florida (AIF), has been named to the Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) Board of Directors.
Feeney, who served in the Florida House where he rose to become speaker before being elected to Congress in 2002, weighed in on his new assignment on Thursday.
“I am excited to join Governor Ron DeSantis, Enterprise Florida President Jamal Sowell, and the partners and Board of Enterprise Florida,” said Feeney. “I look forward to supporting a robust, focused and fully funded Enterprise Florida, Visit Florida and its partners to ensure Florida is the world’s premier place to locate, expand and develop business and jobs for the future.”
“Feeney also sits on the Board of the Foundation for Florida’s Future, dedicated to expanding educational opportunities in Florida. He also serves on the Board of the National Space Foundation, the preeminent resource for space education, which hosts some 14,000 aerospace leaders from around the world at the Space Symposium annually in Colorado Springs, CO,” AIF noted.
First elected to the Florida House in 1990, Feeney was Republican Jeb Bush’s running mate in the 1994 gubernatorial election. Feeney bounced back in 1996 and returned to the House. He served three terms in Congress before being defeated by Democrat Suzanne Kosmas in 2008.
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So your New Year’s Resolution was to lose weight, eat better, and get healthy. But it’s the weekend and you still want to continue lose weight during the holidays, but you’re desperately craving pizza. What do you do — give in, or deprive yourself?
While it is true that pizza is not a dieter’s best friend, it is also true that the key to sticking to a healthy lifestyle is allowing yourself to have all foods in moderation. So allowing yourself to order a pizza once in a while is fine, if you keep in mind these suggestions for how to make your pizza healthier.
- Ditch the pepperoni
Pepperoni is a greasy, fatty mess. Ditto sausage and bacon, for that matter. Why not swap those meats out for ham instead? Or say no to the piggie all together and have your pizza topped with chicken, a leaner, healthier alternative. The chicken will give you plenty of the protein you need as well.
- Load your pizza with vegetables
Be sure to cover your pizza with a variety of low-calorie veggies. Think staple veggies like mushrooms, green peppers, black olives, or onions on your pizza. Or try a more exotic approach–top your pizza pie with spinach, roasted garlic, and fresh Roma tomatoes. Yum! Your pizza will be loaded with vitamins and you will have a gourmet dining experience.
- Change your pizza crust
Most pizza joints have options for what kind of crust you can order. Swap the traditional hand-tossed varieties for a thin crust pizza. Thin crust pizza has less calories than a traditional crust because there’s simply less crust. Less crust equals less carbohydrates. Less carbohydrates means less calories. I prefer thin crust pizza because it’s much crispier and has a nice crunch to it. If you decide to get thicker crust pizza, do yourself a favor and at least DO NOT order stuffed crust! It might taste good temporarily, but that’s a calorie-laden nightmare!
- Go heavy on the sauce
Order your pizza to be heavy on the tomato sauce, light on the cheese. You will be able to taste all the delicious herbs and spices in the sauce and you will be eating less calories and fat.
- Suppress your appetite
Allow yourself to eat a slice or two of pizza, but don’t overdo it. Easier said than done, right? Not necessarily. Before you even pick up your pizza, settle down with a big glass of water and sip it. The water will fill you up. Or order a side salad with lite dressing and pair your pizza with that. The lettuce in your salad will be full of fiber and will fill you up too.
Good luck on your New Year’s Resolutions and remember not to deprive yourself. Save pizza for an occasional treat and follow my suggestions to make your pizza healthier.

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Cape May Convention Hall / It’s a Breeze Stage, Friday, April 21.Nettwork Trio: Charnett Moffett (bass) Stanley Jordan (guitar) Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts (drums)
?This all-star trio features three longtime virtuosi friend. Prodigious bassist Charnett Moffett first appeared on record in 1974 at age seven with the Moffett Family Band (his father Charles was a drummer with Ornette Coleman’s group). He enrolled in Juilliard at age sixteen only to leave early to tour with Wynton Marsalis. Since then Charnett has appeared on over 200 recordings with such artists as Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Tony Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, Arturo Sandoval, Anita Baker, Harry Connick, Jr., David Sanborn, Branford Marsalis, and Bette Midler.
Guitarist Stanley Jordan’s 1985 album “Magic Touch” for Blue Note Records was an enormous critical and commercial success, remaining at the top of the jazz charts for fifty-one weeks. With his bold reinventions of classical masterpieces and soulful jazz adaptations of pop-rock hits, not to mention his unorthodox two-handed-fretboard-tapping style of guitar playing, Jordan often leaves listeners breathless.
Drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts is one of the most in-demand jazz drummers in the world today for his explosive power, his mastery of complex rhythms, and his ability to move from an elegant touch to gritty street funk. Watts initially majored in classical percussion at Duquesne Univeristy before transferring to Berklee College of Music, after which he became associated with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, George Benson, Harry Connick Jr., McCoy Tyner, and many others.
Cape May Convention Hall / IT'S A BREEZE STAGE April 21st at 6:00 PM


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Featuring free Wi-Fi throughout, Fumbi B&B offers rooms in Palermo, a 5-minute drive from Palermo Marina. A bus stop 200 metres away links to the historic city centre.
With air conditioning, each modern room is equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The shared bathroom comes with a shower and bidet.
A sweet breakfast is served daily in the common area. It includes freshly brewed coffee or cappuccino and sweet pastries.
Mondello beaches are an 18-minute drive from B&B Fumbi, w...hile Isola delle Femmine is 15 km away. Palermo – Boccadifalco Airport is a 15-minute drive from the property.
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NPTC Group of Colleges? acting students from the Neath Campus have joined over 35,000 young people from across the UK to perform abstract productions of William Shakespeare?s famous plays as part of the 2015 Schools Shakespeare Festival.
The budding actors took to the stage to perform Macbeth at the Gwyn Hall, Neath with three other local schools including Birchgrove Comprehensive School as part of the UK-wide festival.
NPTC Group of Colleges? Drama Lecturer Bethan Griffiths has worked closely with Festival Coordinator Naomi Lawson and the Shakespeare Schools? Manager Elaine in the run up to the performance; she attended a director?s workshop and also organised a student workshop with theatre professionals. This workshop included work on storytelling, character, voice, ensemble building and staging techniques.
The Schools Shakespeare Festival is the UK?s largest youth drama festival and enables over 1,000 primary, secondary, and colleges to stage abridged Shakespeare productions in their local professional theatres.
Bethan explained, ?It?s been incredibly challenging to tell the classical story as an adapted snippet but rewarding; the students have thoroughly enjoyed adapting the piece. This wouldn?t have been possible without the help and expertise of the Shakespeare School and their experience of working with professional directors.?


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Harry Kane will sign a new deal at Spurs within the next 10 days, writes Tom Hopkinson of the Sunday People .
Sunday People Sport revealed this month that Kane, who only signed a new five-year contract in August, would be rewarded for his sizzling form this season.
And the club could confirm this week that an agreement has been reached with the 21-year-old striker.
Kane’s August deal took him to around £20,000 a week but, after 17 goals in 29 games, the club have brought him into line with other established first-team starters on wages closer to £35,000 a week.
Another academy product, midfielder Ryan Mason, has signed a five-and-a-half-year deal to take him up to 2020 and Kane’s new terms are likely to tie him down for the same length of time.
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Watch Katy Perry: Part of Me
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Over the past few years, Katy Perry has made a name for herself in many different media outlets. Radio, television, touring and the internet have been very kind to her, and she has made a career out of simply being herself. With 2012's "Part of Me", a feature length film chronicling Perry's journey from her Christian roots to the singer that people are familiar with today. The movie is not only about her professional life, but her personal struggles as well. These include trying to distance herself from an image that she grew up with, coming to terms with her superstardom, and her relationship with (and ultimately divorce from) Russel Brand. Mixed in with the various scenes of Perry's life, "Part of Me" also features performances from the "California Dreams" tour, giving viewers a look at what a Katy Perry concert experience is like. Released in 3D, "Part of Me" was geared toward fans of all ages, and simply tried to let people further into the life of Katy Perry. It gave viewers the opportunity to get to know more about Perry's life, and learn about her throughout each stage of her life. Performances of Perry's from her childhood, from earlier and unreleased albums, as well as videos of Perry's family and friends build the complete picture of the young woman's life a career. Even the personal moments - fights, mistakes, drama - are all documented for the world to see. This film also includes cameo appearances by other celebrities and musicians. Some, like Ellen DeGeneres are people that have helped and promoted Perry throughout her career, but others like Adele, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna provide the perspective of other musical talent on Perry's rise to fame. This movie was made to give people the chance to see what it's like to live the life of a very popular and talented female singer, and over the course of it's length it does just that. "Part of Me" is a movie that follows Katy Perry throughout her life's journey from childhood to 2011, and holds very little back. The extensive amount of effort that went into the filming and promotion of this movie is a testament to how much work Perry and her entourage went through to make everything possible. Although Perry's wardrobe is sometimes a bit revealing, and some of her lyrical (and video) content is not for a younger crowd, "Part of Me" is an overall enjoyable movie. It would have been extremely difficult to remain ignorant to Katy Perry over the last few years, and this "3D experience" gives people a glimpse into the very interesting life of a talented young woman - as well as sends a message to other young people that have dreams of fame and fun.


Internet of Things
Target's new $61 billion ‘Game Room’ concept store looks to test out the future of digital gaming. The Game Room is all about the future of gaming, from phones hooked up to Google's cloud gaming service Stadia to a corner that explains Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass to multiple VR/AR areas.
Home Connect, a ecosystem created to connect home appliances to the Internet of Things, has announced the release of an entirely redesigned app - available for download now for Android and iOS devices.
Home Connect is now compatible with the Google Assistant, Crestron, Control4, URC, ELAN, ckbk, and more new devices and services, offering more ways for Home Connect users to simplify their daily routines.
Global technology spending on the IoT is expected to reach $1.2 trillion in 2022, and IoT devices and services were to reach an inflection point of 18% to 20% adoption by early 2020, bringing the number of IoT connected devices to over 20 billion.
Through the collaboration, the companies will combine technological strengths to deliver real-time updates on the location of road hazards, detected by Hitachi Automotive Systems’ vehicle sensors, to navigation and ADAS applications running TomTom’s connected services.
Qualcomm Technologies today announced at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) its continued collaboration with General Motors (GM) to deliver state-of-the-art driving experiences to current and upcoming vehicles.
The focus for Bosch in 2020 is on safe and robust AI for the manufacture of smart products, which Bosch will be showcasing at this year’s CES.
The Open Connectivity Foundation supports standardized procedures for bridging to other IoT ecosystems and provide detailed implementations for Bluetooth, EnOcean, Zigbee and Z-wave protocols.


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This speech was delivered at The Elders' State of Hope Gathering on the topic of "Access to Justice for Women and Girls", co-hosted by Pathfinders for Peaceful, Justice and Inclusive Societies, on 1 March 2022.
Friends, first of all, let me say how excited I am to be sitting amongst this gathering and be able to see some of my old friends who I have missed for a long time.
From my experience of working in this particular area of access to justice for 40 years, I see no reason to be without hope. We marked the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action in 2020 and through the Generation Equality Forum in 2021. In this whole period, we have come forward. We have seen that women do not only create an agenda for themselves; they achieve those goals.
I am not at all unhappy with where we are today because when I look back, I see the dismal position from where we have come forward. For me, that is the reason why I have the energy still, although I am nearing 70 years of age, and I still feel young enough to go much further than I have in this field.
What I feel now is the biggest challenge for us, is not just to create forums and to create laws that give us the stepping stone into the world of access to justice, but now to see that the whole concept of access to justice expands to social justice, where people have access to social justice and that social justice is as important as legal justice.
We as human rights defenders are not just lawyers, we are social activists in many ways. Of course, we always have to choose the forum. We have to choose between the courts and the streets, and we have been there. We have been in both the streets and the courts and won many victories. The challenge for us now, is to make sure that the mechanisms that we have been able to create start functioning and functioning in a manner in which they are able to deliver what people expect of them.
I think that’s where my focus now is, especially in my country. With the colleagues in my region where situations and conditions are similar, we are all concentrating on making sure that what we have achieved now is sustainable and able to grow to be strong to be an accepted way of life where access to justice doesn’t have a question mark, it is something normal and achievable.


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The medical properties of ACDC weed are astounding.
CBD, on the other hand, is a non psychoactive compound that provides healing potential without the side-effects. If you’re on the fence about getting stoned, a high-CBD strain is what you need.
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Now, let’s take a look at the grow difficulty of ACDC.
The ACDC strain prefers a Mediterranean climate.
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• Harvest: 9 Weeks
• Yield: 500g/㎡
Indoors, ACDC is capable of 400-grams per meter squared. If you grow your ACDC seeds outdoors, it may yield upwards of 500-grams per plant.

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