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A hot-air balloon has crashed in New Zealand, killing all eleven people on board.
The incident, which took place close in the Wairarapa region, 50 miles from Wellington, is thought to have occurred when the balloon hit power lines at Clareville before bursting into flames.
All five couples on board and the pilot – an experienced balloonist - were killed. Two of the couples had attempted to jump from the balloon before the fire flared.
The trip was run by the Early Morning Balloons company, which operates in Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa – both of which are popular spots for balloonists. The annual Balloons Over Wairarapa festival takes place in March.
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Washington, DC - New Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) imagery of the strategic town of Kaka in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state confirms the burning of 1071 huts and damage to the central market. The town, which lies on the road to South Sudan’s only productive oilfields in Paloch, was the scene of fighting one week ago. South Sudanese armed opposition leader Riek Machar recently announced that his forces are seeking to control the Paloch oilfields, which currently produce around 150,000 barrels a day, worth around $15 million dollars. An attack on the oilfields is likely imminent.
Akshaya Kumar, Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst at the Enough Project said:
It is clear that Paloch, South Sudan's only functioning oil field, is the big prize for the country's armed combatants. This new imagery confirms the rebel forces march in that direction placing civilians along the way at great risk for further war crimes. Now that the U.S. has raised the specter of targeted sanctions against those who continue to obstruct peace in South Sudan, it must follow through by designating targets.
The Enough Project will continue to carefully monitor the situation in Kaka, as well as the Paloch oilfields, which are a strategic priority for Riek Machar and his opposition forces in order to strengthen their position in advance of negotiations, which were suspended on March 31 and are set to resume on April 30.
Read the full report, "Kaka Town Suffers Damage as Rebels March Toward Paloch": http://satsentinel.org/report/kaka-town-suffers-damage-rebels-march-towards-paloch
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Alfie Dingley’s mother Hannah Deacon said she felt the Home Office was not using common sense – after Alfie’s symptoms were alleviated by a cannabis treatment in the Netherlands.
The boy’s family took him to the Netherlands in September so he could take cannabis-based medication and his seizures reduced in number and severity.
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On Sunday, the Home Office said the drug ‘cannot be practically prescribed, administered or supplied to the public’, meaning Alfie’s family’s request will not be granted.
Ms Deacon, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said: ‘Our neurologist said that if we don’t get him off these prescribed drugs, it can have serious mental health implications for my son.’
Alfie understands a lot more than he can say. He’s traumatized when he has to go to hospital.
He cries and screams. He’s had to be held down by numerous people.
We don’t have ten years to wait for this. Alfie might not be here by the time the drug is approved in this country.
We’re not opening the door to the whole world – there are about nine boys with the same condition as Alfie.
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In one year Alfie had 3,000 seizures and 48 trips to the hospital.
With the help of cannabis oil it is estimated his seizures could drop to 20 a year.
A Home Office spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘We recognize that people with chronic pain and debilitating illnesses are looking to alleviate their symptoms.
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‘Cannabis is listed as a Schedule 1 drug, as in its raw form it is not recognized in the UK as having any medicinal benefit and is therefore subject to strict control restrictions. This means it cannot be practically prescribed, administered, or supplied to the public in the UK, and can only be used for research under a Home Office license.’
She added: ‘The Home Office would not issue a license to enable the personal consumption of a Schedule 1 drug.’

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Summer Sweet Treats in Downtown Kernersville
This week we featured our favorite #DowntownKernersville summer sweet treats! We opened up the community to share with us their favorites- and they didn’t disappoint. Some of the businesses contributed:
- CAKE & All Things Yummy - specifically, the Pineapple Upside Down Cupcake and their wide assortment of cupcakes.
- Mike & Mike’s Italian Ice - so many available options of flavored ice, and open on the weekends for some downtown shopping!
- Deli on Main - a great assortment of ice cream!
- Local Roots Coffee Bar and General Store - people couldn’t get enough of Local Roots; from the smoothies, to the new lemonades and coffee…to die for.
- Waffles and Whiskers Café - did you know they have cinnamon roll cat tails?! Sounds like an amazing breakfast item.
- Patriot Pretzel Co. - specifically, the sweet lemonade paired with a salty pretzel and you are good to go. One community member even mentioned the Diet Coke milkshake (YUM)
- The Prescott - looking for a good after-dinner treat? The Prescott offers a nice selection of desserts and somebody even mentioned a lemon mousse – to die for.
Make sure to share with us your favorite “summer sweet treat” in #DowntownKernersville!

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February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a
scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the
Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De
revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the
Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of
modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the
Although Greek, Indian and Muslim savants had published
heliocentric hypotheses centuries before Copernicus, his
publication of a scientific theory of heliocentrism,
demonstrating that the motions of celestial objects can be
explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the
universe, stimulated further scientific investigations and
became a landmark in the history of modern science that is known
as the Copernican Revolution.
Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a
mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar,
translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader,
diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities,
astronomy figured as little more than an avocation — yet it was
in that field that he made his mark upon the world.
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473, in a house on
St. Anne's Street (now Copernicus Street) in the city of Torun
(Thorn). Torun, situated on the Vistula River, was a city in
Royal Prussia, a region of the Kingdom of Poland.
Nicolaus was named after his father, who about 1458 had moved
from Kraków. The father was a wealthy copper trader who had
become a respected citizen of that city. Nicolaus' mother,
Barbara Watzenrode (died after 1495), had been born into a
wealthy merchant family that was part of the patrician class in
Nicolaus' father died between 1483 and 1485. After that, his
maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode the Younger (1447–1512), a
church canon who would later become Prince-Bishop governor of
the Archbishopric of Warmia, took young Nicolaus under his
protection and saw to his education and future career.
Nicolaus was the youngest of four children. His brother Andreas
became an Augustinian canon at Frombork (Frauenburg). His sister
Barbara (named after her mother) became a Benedictine nun. His
sister Katharina married Barthel Gertner, a businessman and city
Numerous variants of Copernicus' name are documented. Until the
mid-1530s, he mostly signed himself Coppernic. Afterward, he
followed the academic custom of his time and adopted a Latinized
version of his name. Thus, on the title page of his epochal
book, Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium
Coelestium Libri VI, the astronomer's name appears as Nicolaus
In 1776, Johann Gottfried Herder introduced the spelling
Nikolaus Kopernikus, which replaced each c with k and changed pp
to p. This spelling became popular in German writings, although
scholars argued for Coppernicus. The Polish rendering is Mikolaj
Kopernik; the surname means "one who works with copper".
In 1491 Copernicus enrolled at the Kraków Academy (now
Jagiellonian University), where he probably first encountered
astronomy with Professor Albert Brudzewski. Astronomy soon
fascinated him, and he began collecting a large library on the
subject. Copernicus' library would later be carried off as war
booty by the Swedes during "the Deluge" and is now at the
Uppsala University Library.
After four years in Kraków, followed by a brief stay back home
in Torun, Copernicus went to study law and medicine at the
universities of Bologna and Padua. Copernicus' uncle, Lucas
Watzenrode the Younger, financed his education and hoped that
Copernicus too would become a bishop. Copernicus, however, while
studying canon and civil law at Bologna, met the famous
astronomer, Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara. Copernicus
attended Novara's lectures and became his disciple and
assistant. The first observations that Copernicus made in 1497,
together with Novara, are recorded in Copernicus' epochal book,
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
In 1497 Copernicus' uncle was ordained Bishop of Warmia, and
Copernicus was named a canon at Frombork Cathedral. But
Copernicus remained in Italy, where he attended the great
Jubilee of 1500. He also went to Rome, where he observed a lunar
eclipse and gave some lectures in astronomy and mathematics.
In 1501 Copernicus returned to Frombork. As soon as he arrived,
he obtained permission to complete his studies in Padua, where
he studied medicine (with Guarico and Fracastoro), and at
Ferrara, where in 1503 he received his doctorate in canon law.
One of the topics Copernicus must have studied at that time was
astrology, since it was then considered to be an important part
of a medical education. However, unlike most other prominent
renaissance astronomers, he appears to have never practiced it,
or expressed any subsequent interest in it. It has also been
surmised that it was in Padua that he encountered passages from
Cicero and Plato about opinions of the ancients on the movement
of the Earth, and formed the first intuition of his own future
theory. In 1504 Copernicus began collecting observations and
ideas pertinent to his theory.
In 1503, Copernicus returned to Polish Prussia, to the
Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, where he resided the rest of his
life. From 1503 until 1510 he had the position of secretary to
his maternal uncle Lucas Watzenrode, Bishop of Warmia, and until
1510 resided in the Bishop's castle at Lidzbark Warminski (Heilsberg).
It is there that he started work on his heliocentric view of the
In 1510, he moved to Frombork (Frauenburg), a town in the north
and downstream of Torun on the Vistula Lagoon. The Bishopric of
Warmia, within Royal Prussia, though subject to the Polish
crown, enjoyed substantial autonomy, with its own diet, army,
monetary unit (the same as in the other parts of Prussia) and
treasury. Some time before his return to Warmia, he received a
position at the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in Wroclaw
(Breslau), Silesia, Bohemia, which he held for many years and
only resigned for health reasons shortly before his death.
Copernicus remained for the rest of his life a burgher of Warmia
(Bishopric of Warmia). During the Protestant Reformation, he
remained a loyal subject of the Catholic Prince-Bishops and the
Catholic Polish King. Throughout his life, he performed
astronomical observations and calculations, but only as time
permitted, and never in a professional capacity.
In 1516-21, Copernicus resided at Olsztyn Castle as economic
administrator of Warmia, including Allenstein (Olsztyn) and
Mehlsack (Pieniezno), and wrote the manuscript Locationes
mansorum desertorum (Locations of Deserted Fiefs).
When Olsztyn was besieged by the Teutonic Knights during the
Polish-Teutonic War (1519–1521), Copernicus was in charge of the
defenses of Olsztyn and Warmia at the head of Royal Polish
forces. He also participated in the peace negotiations.
Statue of Copernicus before Olsztyn Castle
Copernicus worked for years with the Royal Prussian diet, and
with Duke Albert of Prussia, and advised Poland's King Sigismund
I the Old on monetary reform. Holding the office of canon, he
traveled extensively on government business and as a diplomat on
behalf of the Prince-Bishop of Warmia. He participated in the
discussions in the East Prussian diet about coin reform in the
Prussian countries. One question at issue to members of the Diet
concerned who had the right to mint coin. The matter required
much diplomacy, but was resolved successfully. Some of the
difficulties were caused by the political upheavals occurring in
Prussia at the time, including the 1525 establishment of the
Duchy of Prussia as a Protestant state. Copernicus translated
his coin-reform treatise into Latin for external use. In 1530 an
agreement was negotiated with Duke Albert at Elblag (Elbing).
In 1526, Copernicus wrote a study on the value of money, Monetae
cudendae ratio. In it he formulated an early iteration of the
theory, now called "Gresham's Law," that "bad" (debased) coinage
drives "good" (un-debased) coinage out of circulation, 70 years
before Gresham. He also formulated a version of quantity theory
of money. Copernicus' recommendations on monetary reform were
widely read by leaders of both Prussia and Poland in their
attempts to stabilize currency.
Two years before Copernicus' death, Duke Albert urgently
summoned him to Königsberg to treat one of his counsellors, who
was dangerously ill. The patient recovered within a month or so,
and Copernicus then returned to Frombork.
In 1551, eight years after Copernicus' death, Erasmus Reinhold
would publish, under Duke Albert's sponsorship, the Prutenic
Tables, a set of astronomical tables based on Copernicus' work,
which astronomers and astrologers quickly adopted in place of
In 1514 Copernicus made available to friends his Commentariolus
(Little Commentary), a six page hand-written text describing his
ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis. It contained seven
basic assumptions. Thereafter he continued gathering data for a
more detailed work.
In 1533, Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter delivered in Rome a
series of lectures outlining Copernicus' theory. The lectures
were heard with interest by Pope Clement VII and several
On 1 November 1536, Archbishop of Capua Nicholas Schönberg wrote
a letter to Copernicus from Rome:
Some years ago word reached me concerning your proficiency, of
which everybody constantly spoke. At that time I began to have a
very high regard for you... For I had learned that you had not
merely mastered the discoveries of the ancient astronomers
uncommonly well but had also formulated a new cosmology. In it
you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the
lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe... Therefore
with the utmost earnestness I entreat you, most learned sir,
unless I inconvenience you, to communicate this discovery of
yours to scholars, and at the earliest possible moment to send
me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the
tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this
By then Copernicus' work was nearing its definitive form, and
rumors about his theory had reached educated people all over
Europe. Despite urgings from many quarters, Copernicus delayed
with the publication of his book, perhaps from fear of criticism
— a fear delicately expressed in the subsequent Dedication of
his masterpiece to Pope Paul III. Scholars disagree on whether
Copernicus' concern was limited to physical and philosophical
objections from other natural philosophers, or whether he was
also concerned about religious objections from theologians.
Copernicus was still working on De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium (even if not convinced that he wanted to publish it)
when in 1539 Georg Joachim Rheticus, a Wittenberg mathematician,
arrived in Frombork. Philipp Melanchthon had arranged for
Rheticus to visit several astronomers and study with them.
Rheticus became Copernicus' pupil, staying with him for two
years and writing a book, Narratio prima (First Account),
outlining the essence of Copernicus' theory. In 1542 Rheticus
published a treatise on trigonometry by Copernicus (later
included in the second book of De revolutionibus).
Under strong pressure from Rheticus, and having seen the
favorable first general reception of his work, Copernicus
finally agreed to give De revolutionibus to his close friend,
Tiedemann Giese, bishop of Chelmno (Kulm), to be delivered to
Rheticus for printing by Johannes Petreius at Nuremberg (Nürnberg).
Copernicus died on 24 May 1543, in Frombork. Legend has it that
the first printed copy of De revolutionibus was placed in
Copernicus' hands on the very day he died, allowing him to take
farewell of his opus vitae (Latin: life's work). He is reputed
to have awakened from a stroke-induced coma, looked at his book,
and died peacefully.
Copernicus was reportedly buried in the Cathedral of Frauenburg
where archeologists had long searched in vain for his remains.
In August 2005, a team of archeologists led by Jerzy Gassowski,
head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pultusk,
discovered what they believe to be Copernicus' grave and
remains, after scanning beneath the floor of the cathedral. The
find came after a year of searching, and the discovery was
announced only after further research, on November 3, 2008.
Gassowski said he was "almost 100 percent sure it is
Copernicus". Forensic expert Capt. Dariusz Zajdel of the Central
Forensic Laboratory of the Polish Police used the skull to
reconstruct a face that closely resembled the features —
including a broken nose and a scar above the left eye — on a
Copernicus self-portrait. The expert also determined that the
skull belonged to a man who had died around age 70 — Copernicus'
age at the time of his death. The grave was in poor condition,
and not all the remains of its skeleton was found. For instance,
the skeleton was missing its lower jaw. The DNA from the bones
found in the grave matched hair samples taken from a book owned
by Copernicus which was kept in the library of the University of
Uppsala in Sweden.
On November 21, 2008, NPR reported that confirmation had been
made that the skull found was indeed the skull of Copernicus.
Their website contains a portrait, based on the skull's
structure, of what Copernicus might have looked like.
Early traces of a heliocentric model are found in several
anonymous Vedic Sanskrit texts composed in ancient India before
the 7th century BCE. Additionally, in the sixth century the
Indian astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata anticipated
elements of Copernicus's work, although he did not maintain
Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BCE elaborated some
theories of Heraclides Ponticus (the daily rotation of the Earth
on its axis, the revolution of Venus and Mercury around the Sun)
to propose what was the first scientific model of a heliocentric
solar system: the Earth and all other planets revolving around
the Sun, the Earth rotating around its axis daily, the Moon in
turn revolving around the Earth once a month. His heliocentric
work has not survived, so we can only speculate about what led
him to his conclusions. It is notable that, according to
Plutarch, a contemporary of Aristarchus accused him of impiety
for "putting the Earth in motion".
Copernicus cited Aristarchus and Philolaus in a surviving early
manuscript of his book, stating: "Philolaus believed in the
mobility of the earth, and some even say that Aristarchus of
Samos was of that opinion." For reasons unknown (possibly from
reluctance to quote pre-Christian sources), he did not include
this passage in the published book. It has been argued that in
developing the mathematics of heliocentrism Copernicus drew on
not just the Greek, but also the work of Muslim astronomers,
especially the works of Nasir al-Din Tusi (Tusi-couple),
Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi (Urdi lemma) and Ibn al-Shatir. In his major
work, Copernicus also discussed the theories of Ibn Battuta and
The prevailing theory in Europe as Copernicus was writing was
that created by Ptolemy in his Almagest, dating from about A.D.
150. The Ptolemaic system drew on many previous theories that
viewed Earth as a stationary center of the universe. Stars were
embedded in a large outer sphere which rotated relatively
rapidly, while the planets dwelt in smaller spheres between — a
separate one for each planet.
Copernicus' major theory was published in the book, De
revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the
Celestial Spheres), in the year of his death, 1543, though he
had arrived at his theory several decades earlier.
In his Commentariolus Copernicus had summarized his system with
the following list of seven assumptions:
1. There is no one center of all the celestial circles or
2. The center of the earth is not the center of the universe,
but only of gravity and of the lunar sphere.
3. All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and
therefore the sun is the center of the universe.
4. The ratio of the earth's distance from the sun to the height
of the firmament is so much smaller than the ratio of the
earth's radius to its distance from the sun that the distance
from the earth to the sun is imperceptible in comparison with
the height of the firmament.
5. Whatever motion appears in the firmament arises not from any
motion of the firmament, but from the earth's motion. The earth
together with its circumjacent elements performs a complete
rotation on its fixed poles in a daily motion, while the
firmament and highest heaven abide unchanged.
6. What appear to us as motions of the sun arise not from its
motion but from the motion of the earth and our sphere, with
which we revolve about the sun like any other planet. The earth
has, then, more than one motion.
7. The apparent retrograde and direct motion of the planets
arises not from their motion but from the earth's. The motion of
the earth alone, therefore, suffices to explain so many apparent
inequalities in the heavens.
De revolutionibus itself was divided into six books:
1. General vision of the heliocentric theory, and a summarized
exposition of his idea of the World
2. Mainly theoretical, presents the principles of spherical
astronomy and a list of stars (as a basis for the arguments
developed in the subsequent books)
3. Mainly dedicated to the apparent motions of the Sun and to
4. Description of the Moon and its orbital motions
5. Concrete exposition of the new system
6. Concrete exposition of the new system
At original publication, Copernicus' epoch-making book caused
only mild controversy, and provoked no fierce sermons about
contradicting Holy Scripture. It was only three years later, in
1546, that a Dominican, Giovanni Maria Tolosani, denounced the
theory in an appendix to a work defending the absolute truth of
Scripture. He also noted that the Master of the Sacred Palace
(i.e., the Catholic Church's chief censor), Bartolomeo Spina, a
friend and fellow Dominican, had planned to condemn De
revolutionibus but had been prevented from doing so by his
illness and death.
Arthur Koestler, in his popular book The Sleepwalkers, asserted
that Copernicus' book had not been widely read on its first
publication. This claim was trenchantly criticised by Edward
Rosen, and has been decisively disproved by Owen Gingerich, who
examined every surviving copy of the first two editions and
found copious marginal notes by their owners throughout many of
them. Gingerich published his conclusions in 2004 in the
ironically-titled The Book Nobody Read.
It has been much debated why it was not until six decades after
Spina and Tolosani's attacks on Copernicus's work that the
Catholic Church took any official action against it. Proposed
reasons have included the personality of Galileo Galilei and the
availability of evidence such as telescope observations.
In March 1616, in connection with the Galileo affair, the Roman
Catholic Church's Congregation of the Index issued a decree
suspending De revolutionibus until it could be "corrected," on
the grounds that the supposedly Pythagorean doctrine that the
Earth moves and the Sun doesn't was "false and altogether
opposed to Holy Scripture." The same decree also prohibited any
work that defended the mobility of the Earth or the immobility
of the Sun, or that attempted to reconcile these assertions with
On the orders of Pope Paul V, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine gave
Galileo prior notice that the decree was about to be issued, and
warned him that he could not "hold or defend" the Copernican
doctrine. The corrections to De revolutionibus, which omitted or
altered nine sentences, were issued four years later, in 1620.
In 1633 Galileo Galilei was convicted of grave suspicion of
heresy for "following the position of Copernicus, which is
contrary to the true sense and authority of Holy Scripture," and
was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.
Galileo had gotten off lightly. Another Copernican, Giordano
Bruno, had been prosecuted in Rome by the same Cardinal
Bellarmine and on 17 February 1600, burned at the stake as a
heretic primarily for his theologic views and not necessarily
his scientific ones.
The Catholic Church's 1758 Index of Prohibited Books omitted the
general prohibition of works defending heliocentrism, but
retained the specific prohibitions of the original uncensored
versions of De revolutionibus and Galileo's Dialogue Concerning
the Two Chief World Systems. Those prohibitions were finally
dropped from the 1835 Index.
It has been asserted that medieval scholars had known that the
Earth was a sphere and that, paradoxically, it might have been
Copernicus' criticism of the early Christian author Lactantius
(ca. 240 – ca. 320 C.E.) in De revolutionibus that later
developed into the flat-Earth myth.
Nationality and ethnicity
Both the nationality and ethnicity of Copernicus are disputed.
His father has been described by some as a Pole, and his mother
was most likely of German origin. The family came originally
from the Silesian village of the same name (Coprnik, Copernik,
Copirnik, Copernic, Kopernic, today Koperniki) near Nysa. In the
14th century, members of the family had begun moving to Silesian
and later to Polish cities: Kraków (1367) and Torun (1400), and
also to Lwów. The astronomer's father (probably the son of Jan)
came from the Kraków line. He appears in records for the first
time in 1448 as a well-to-do merchant who dealt in copper with
Gdansk (Danzig). In the early period of the Pomeranian cities'
struggle for independence from the Teutonic Order, in August
1454, he mediated financial negotiations between Cardinal
Zbigniew Olesnicki and the great Prussian cities regarding
repayment of a loan for the Polish-Teutonic war. About 1458 the
future astronomer's father moved from Poland's capital, Kraków,
to Torun, where a few years later (before 1464) he married
Barbara, daughter of a wealthy Torun patrician and city
councillor, Lucas Watzenrode the elder (died 1462).
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The Watzenrodes had likewise come from Silesia, from the
Swidnica (Schwednitz) region, and had settled in Torun after
1360. The astronomer's grandfather Watzenrode was a decided
opponent of the Teutonic Order. In 1453 he was the delegate from
Torun at the Grudziadz conference that planned the
anti-Teutonic-Order uprising, and during the Thirteen Years' War
he actively supported the struggle of the Prussian cities not
only with substantial monetary subsidies but with political
activity in Torun and Gdansk as well as with his own personal
participation in battles at Laszyn and Malbork. He died in 1462,
leaving three children: Lucas (1447–1512), future Bishop of
Warmia and the astronomer's patron, and two daughters: Barbara,
the astronomer's mother (died after 1495), and Christina (died
before 1502), who in 1459 married the merchant and Torun mayor,
Tiedeman von Allen. Through the Watzenrodes' extensive family
relationships by marriage, the future astronomer was related
both to wealthy burgher families of Kraków, Torun, Gdansk and
Elblag and to prominent noble families of Prussia: the
Dzialynski, Koscielicki and Konopacki families.
It remains a matter of dispute whether a "nationality" should be
ascribed to Nicolaus Copernicus retrospectively and, if so,
whether he should be considered German or Polish. Already in the
123-year period when no Polish state existed (see History of
Poland, 1795–1918), the matter was debated in German writings;
nevertheless, the 1875 Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
acknowledged the Polish aspects of Copernicus's life. Current
German sources call the controversy, as reflected in the older
literature, superfluous and shameful.
Encyclopędia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana, and the
Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia identify Copernicus as
Copernicus was born, grew up, and spent most of his life in
Royal Prussia and therefore was a subject of the Crown of the
Polish Kingdom. It is possible, therefore, that Copernicus'
early years were spent in a "German" environment, while his
later years were passed in a more "Polish" milieu, or to quote
the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Thus the child of a
German family was a subject of the Polish crown." However, in
his time "nationality" had yet to play as important a role as it
would later, and people generally did not think of themselves
primarily as Polish or German.
Nevertheless, some have preferred to assign a single nationality
to Copernicus. Nazi Germany claimed Copernicus to have been
purely German, while Poland has always promoted him as purely
Even today, some Germans and Poles continue to regard him as
having been exclusively one of their own. Poland has issued
coins and a banknote bearing Copernicus's portrait.
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Old City club brawl caught on video
OLD CITY - January 13, 2013 -- Shocked and frightened, witnesses could not believe the brutal club brawl in Old City that was all caught on video.
It happened around 2:15 Sunday morning.
Dylee Gonzalez captured video from inside a bar on 2nd Street near Chestnut Street.
It shows at least one woman in the group being punched and kicked relentlessly.
"At one point I know she was being completely stomped out," said Gonzalez.
Police officers who were stationed nearby heard a gunshot fired and ran up the block. They arrived to find mayhem and people screaming.
Someone labeled the shooter in the crowd and police grabbed him. Officers say a black handgun fell from his waistband.
"As soon as he pulled out the gun, I ran away immediately," said Gonzalez.
Police say they tried to taser the suspect, later identified as 28-year-old Christopher McRae of Camden, but it had no effect on him.
McRae ran off but was later arrested nearby.
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Gonzalez hopes by sharing the video he caught, it will draw attention to the violence and help police with their investigation.
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Are Steel Dynamics, Inc (STLD), The Western Union Company (WU) and Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (CLF) Ripe For Significant Gains?
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This article discusses three companies: Steel Dynamics Inc (NASDAQ:STLD), The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) and Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF)
Steel Dynamics, Inc (NASDAQ:STLD) rose 8.83% or $1.65 to close at $20.27 yesterday on very heavy trading of 9.41 million shares. The strong rally came even after the steel producer revised its earnings forecast for the first quarter of 2015 downwards between $0.09 and $0.12 per share compared to previous estimates of $0.22. The market’s positive reaction was mainly due to Steel Dynamics announcing that its domestic steel product pricing has now fallen far enough for its products to be competitive across the globe, making it a good hold and potential buy.
The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) made slight gains yesterday with the stock climbing 0.26% or $0.05 to close at $19.35 on very active trading of 11.123 million shares.. The global money movement and payment services company has been trading near its 52 week high of $20.10 since the beginning of the month, but despite announcing that its Australian subsidiary can now issue Mastercards, it failed to make significant gains yesterday as foreign exchange concerns are affecting other aspects of its business. Until the currency markets calm down it is better to hold than buy for now.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc (NYSE:CLF) was on a rollercoaster ride yesterday with the stock falling from $4.54 down to $4.13 before rallying again to close up 0.88% or $0.04 at $4.58, with more than 8.876 million shares changing hands compared to its three month average trading volume of 0.702 million. The decline began when Cliffs Natural Resources Inc announced it was reducing its outlook for 2015 prices due to the global oversupply of iron ore. Despite this, the stock began to rally late in the day and with RSI of 21.46 it is a strong hold.
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You know how Dubai Police is so incredibly proud of their supercar patrol fleet? Well, they just took an Italian idea and ran wild with it. It was Lamborghini who first donated a supercar, a first-gen Gallardo, to the Italian Police. Now they have come up with a new car for the Carabinieri, based on the new Huracan.
Lamborghini Huracan Police Car was delivered to the Polizia di Stato by Lamborghini CEO Stefan Winkelmann himself.
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Archimedes's law: IP leverage for growth companies
“Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world” – Archimedes
In my last article I touched on the factors that drive start-ups to failure and the value of the intellectual property left behind (for further details please see "Picassos in the cemetery"). That article garnered a huge amount of feedback, so this article covers some of the topics that I edited out previously in the interests of space.
Keep driving the bus
When engaging with rapidly growing businesses, I repeatedly encounter the perception from founders that they are not the right people to lead the business forward. This insecurity is a learned behaviour that comes from reading too many books. Gerry Yang and Steve Jobs both replaced themselves as CEO, and even Larry Page and Sergei Brin brought in a powerful executive chairman in the shape of Eric Schmidt. But these are very idiosyncratic situations.
For a three-year-old start-up getting traction in sales, the founders are the lifeforce of the company. Often they hired all the key people, won the first accounts and created the intellectual property. They bootstrapped the business and were resilient enough to pivot the business model in every direction until they found the one that worked. Bottom line: the founders are the right people to run the company. My advice is therefore to keep driving the bus, but to bring on some good non-executive board members for mentoring, strategy formulation and industry connections. Investors want the founders’ passion and granular understanding of the business behind their money. This is part of your unique value proposition, your genetic code – your intellectual property, if you like.
Dilute for value
The pre-money valuation expectation for many start-ups is fantasy (your business is not worth $300 million and Cisco/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram is not a good peer for valuation purposes). Founders should not be afraid of dilution if it gets them to the next phase of growth. Selling 25% of the business now for a valuation that is 70% below your number is fine. If it gets you to the next inflection point, it is a good decision. That next point is probably break-even, which (despite all advice to the contrary) is a meaningful data point. Cash-flow break-even is when you migrate from expensive venture funding to lower-cost capital such as vendor finance, licensing and revenue-based lending. Investors which come on board at this point know that you have built the platform, it works and it is scalable. Growth equity is also a lot less expensive than venture capital. Your intellectual property can be an invaluable tool in creating a perceptual floor for value at this point in the proceedings, which is why it is worth tracking its worth from the get-go.
Get on the radar
The process by which you monetise the value of your creation requires a long, drawn-out striptease. Privately funded companies that exist 'under the radar' to surprise the competition are fine in principle, but you need to socialise your business in order to attract real money to the table. The bright lights of funding rounds, conferences, investor briefings and other public interactions expose overlooked flaws and provide a reality check from a competitive point of view. You may well believe that your competitors are inferior, but the market view is what counts, not yours. Find out early if you are on the same page. Later when you are looking for an exit, this exercise pays dividends. Having your chief technology officer speak at conferences, writing about your technology or technical insights and generally promoting your IP value is a great way to get on the right radar early.
You are being watched
Whether you control the narrative or not, you are being watched. Customers and competitors are monitoring your capital burn, staff turnover, investor behaviour, IP filings and product releases. Smart algorithms trained with years of data spit out reports showing those start-ups most likely to become distressed and mapping the assets that they hold (including intellectual property and key staff). This information generates a liquidation value for the business from the day it is funded. One of the quirks of Silicon Valley is that there is a lot of data and much of it is publicly available. These algorithms are not perfect, but they are improving. At the very least, management teams should know where they are positioned in this universe (as should investors).
Trade sale versus initial public offering
The trade sale exit has become the best-known tech pathway to riches. But what if Google/Pfizer/Facebook/GSK does not buy you - what are you going to do?
An initial public offering is often unpalatable to company founders for various reasons. Bankers and analysts play good cop, bad cop, and the roadshow gives you 20 minutes with generalist investors to explain the nuances of something that has taken you a lifetime to learn. It is a model designed for 20th-century product manufacturers, not 21st-century technology businesses.
Investment banks are paid according to the capital that they raise, not the price at which they raise it. Market regulation is there to protect the investor, not the company founders. Whatever your value expectation is, halve it – and hope for stock price growth to compensate you in dollar terms. The result, if you succeed, is that you hit a series of price uplifts as you execute on your business plan and the stock price walks up a 'staircase' of value. IP challenges or filings are powerful catalysts in these situations.
The growth of the NASDAQ private market provides an interesting hybrid model for growth company financing. This provides access to private (often smart institutional) money with limited liquidity, but also limited disclosure, and therefore lower cost overheads. It is also easier for management to take some money off the table without worrying about sending negative signals to news-hungry analysts. As a way to selectively expose your business and keep capital costs manageable, it seems a good compromise.
Start-up or growth companies are incredible generators of intellectual property, and company founders are at the heart of this creative process. The markets have developed established pathways for funding growth and understanding the road that you are on is key to reaching the right destination. The role that intellectual property plays in the journey can be critical for maximising value creation – not just from a product/market standpoint but also from a market perception standpoint. In these circumstances, intellectual property is a lever to be used judiciously to move value.
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Name of the municipality: Sousse
Population: 242,000 inhabitants (2014)
Area: 45 km2
President: Mohamed Ikbel Khaled
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Sousse, a flagship and historical town, is the result of diverse and precious ruins known all over the world. The city has been able to harmoniously embrace modernity by becoming a major economic hub and a top Mediterranean tourism destination. Today, it is a dynamic regional metropolis in continuous expansion.
Capital of the Governorate bearing the same name, it is the third city of Tunisia by its demographic weight, its territorial extent and its multiple functions. The prodigious growth it has experienced since the 1960s, makes it the development hub of Central Tunisia and one of the pillars of the national economy.
But it is above all seaside tourism—through the all-important place it holds in the life of the entire region—that has shaped the urban landscape and contributed largely to the development of all the potentialities. Its superb coastline and the luminosity of its sky, which has always been praised by illustrious travelers such as Maupassant, Gide, Paul Klee and many others, attract nearly one and a half million foreign visitors every year. As a result, the city’s population almost doubles during the summer season. Sousse prides itself on its very distant origins, its rich heritage and an enviable geographical setting. It has been able to make the most of the beneficial presence of the rich Mediterranean Sea to become an authentic melting pot of outstanding cultures. This is where its vocation as a haven and land of interactions was born, a cosmopolitan city, the “Pearl of the Sahel,” which remains one of its most distinctive features.
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The city of Sousse has been able to take advantage of its favorable geographical position and its proximity to the sea, a privileged place of transit, to develop many industrial, agricultural and tourist activities. Nevertheless, this economic boom has created significant environmental challenges.
The industrial activities of the city of Sousse are diverse, mainly composed of heavy industries (production of transport equipment), textile industries and food-processing infrastructures for export (60% of the industrial units having the status of companies are entirely exporters). The industrial processes used make up a large part of the emissions.
Agriculture occupies an important place in the economy of Sousse; with more than 150 hectares of arable land, Sousse cultivates mainly olive trees and has become the second production hub after Sfax. The city’s agricultural potential is essentially the product of large and increasingly modern farms, which demonstrate a genuine ambition to increase profitability and the production of large volumes.
Sousse also enjoys a rich historical heritage which attracts tourists from all over the world. Today there are about 130 hotel units entirely dedicated to tourism throughout the city. Three large tourist resorts have been built and the sector creates nearly 20,000 jobs each year during the high season.
Conditions and Environmental Challenges:
The city of Sousse has systematically adhered to approaches to the development of renewable energies, particularly solar energy and the control of energy consumption through ambitious programs of energy efficiency and rational use of energy.
In the context of promoting renewable energies, and insofar as solar energy will provide additional capacity, the municipality has planned to implement a series of actions, with the invaluable assistance of the National Agency for Energy Management (ANME) for the use of solar energy for water heating in its sports facilities.
In designing projects, it has introduced the concept of “energy audit,” with the aim of creating buildings with a very low energy consumption footprint (including the case of the Olympic swimming pool in Sousse currently under study).
The city of Sousse is aware of the obligation of a rational use of energy in order to face the energy challenges. If it’s true that the techniques, means and human resources are still lacking in this strategic area, the will for an optimal realization of the choices is a reality shared by the administration, the private sector and the civil society.

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Recent announcements by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman regarding his intention to transform the kingdom into a transport and logistics hub connecting the continents take Saudi efforts to replace the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as the United Arab Emirates to a new level. must-see addresses in the Middle East.
Prince Mohammed’s plans, which include the creation of a new national airline alongside Saudia, currently the kingdom’s aviation flagship, and the construction of a new airport for the capital, Riyadh, aim to position the Saudi Arabia as the hub of the Middle East at the crossroads of Asia and Africa. and European.
The UAE, supported by Emirates and DP World, currently serves as the region’s transportation and logistics hub. DP World handles ten percent of the world’s container traffic and operates some 80 ports as well as marine and inland terminals in more than 40 countries.
Emirates is the world’s fifth largest airline in terms of number of countries served and fourth in terms of brand value and passenger and scheduled freight tonne-kilometers.
Qatar Airways has made the Gulf State a serious competitor as an aviation hub. The airline is giving Emirates a run for its money when it comes to the number of countries served and scheduled freight tonne-kilometers.
Challenging the first mover advantage of the UAE and Qatar is likely to prove to be a big order, but not impossible. This is also true for Turkish Airlines, the other major airline in the Middle East with ambitions similar to those of Emirates and Qatar Airways.
Prince Mohammed said his transportation and logistics plan aims to make Saudi Arabia the country with the fifth highest number of transit passengers served by Saudi airlines that would serve more than 250 international destinations.
Saudia currently serves destinations in 39 countries. According to Prince Mohammed’s plan, it would welcome pilgrims to Mecca and Medina while the new airline would focus on tourists and business travelers.
By comparison, Qatar Airways flies to at least 160 passenger and cargo destinations, Emirates 139 destinations and https://www.flightconnections.com/route-map-turkish-airlines-tk Turkish Airlines, topping the list with 200 international destinations .
Prince Mohammed further aims to double the capacity of the Saudi air cargo sector to 4.5 million tonnes of cargo per year, through the development of port infrastructure and improved integration with shipping lines and networks. railways and roads in the country.
The rail lines would be extended from 5,330 to 8,080 kilometers and would ensure that Saudi Arabian Sea ports are connected to those in the Red Sea.
Prince Mohammed said his plan was to get Saudi Arabia to the top ten on the Logistics Performance Index. The kingdom is currently connecting to number 55.
Prince Mohammed said he expects transport and logistics to eventually account for 10% of Saudi GDP, up four points from the current 6%.
Prince Mohammed’s efforts to shift geopolitical, infrastructural, economic and trade gravity from the Middle East to the kingdom are part of his Vision 2030 strategy which aims to create jobs, diversify the Saudi economy and reposition the country regionally and global.
“Transport and logistics are a major focus of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 programs and a vital factor for economic sectors towards sustainable development,” said Prince Mohammed at the launch of the transport and logistics plan.
Vision 2030 appears to be working on a metric amid question marks over the approach of the Crown Prince’s expensive projects such as Neom, a futuristic $ 500 billion city on the Red Sea.
Unemployment among Saudi nationals fell to 11.7% in the first quarter of this year from 12.6% in the fourth quarter of last year, its lowest level in nearly five years.
The problem is that the unemployment rate only tells part of the story. The decline in unemployment was not entirely attributable to job creation in a country that must create at least 150,000 new jobs per year to keep unemployment stable. This was in part the result of the Saudis withdrawing from the labor market.
The kingdom’s General Statistics Authority reported that Saudi labor force participation fell from 51.2% in the fourth quarter of last year to 49.5% in the first three months of this year. , the largest drop since the economic slowdown in 2017.
Prince Mohammed’s expanding competition with the UAE, Qatar and Turkey for transport and logistics follows earlier moves that include challenging the UAE’s position as a regional headquarters international trade, an announcement of plans to operate regional ports and container terminals, and a focus on sport as a tool of soft power, among other things by potentially bidding for the hosting rights of the 2030 World Cup .
Prince Mohammed’s ambitions are beyond doubt. The intensification of competition for regional positioning raises the stakes to ensure that the ambitions of the crown prince ultimately translate into tangible achievements.

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- What does Butterfly Jewelry symbolize?
- The butterfly must break through its pupal shell and enter a new world. Just as we ourselves sometimes try to enter a new and exciting world out of our walls and outdated attitudes.
- Butterfly Necklace
- What does a Butterfly Necklace symbolize?
- Butterfly necklace meaning is of metamorphosis, spiritual rebirth, potential, happiness, change, ascension, and ability to experience the wonders of life. There is a legend that honors the butterfly as one of the most emblematic totem animals.
- Due to the butterfly’s extraordinary process of metamorphosis, the Butterfly is a mighty animal to call to when you need support in times of transformation, whether it’s at work, a relationship, or for the self.
- The butterfly entices us to keep our faith as we transform our lives. The Butterfly Necklace is the ideal gift for anyone needing a reminder to keep faith as they go through all-important life stages.
- In many cultures, the butterfly is associated with the soul – initially trapped within the body but then freed into a new life. This connection with the soul is fitting to the symbolism of change We are all on a long journey where we encounter endless turns, shifts, and events that cause us to change. At our journey’s end, we are inevitably changed. A Butterfly charm necklace, therefore, makes the perfect gift for a friend’s new start in life . . their new beginning.
- As you known butterfly necklace is also a circle form of items that surround your neck which is vulnerable by instinct.
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- Most butterflies also are regarded as a romantic symbol that blends very well with the romance and promise of a couple’s commitment to one another.
- This idea of a transformation blends wonderfully with the idea of marriage. Before marriage, the two people are their own separate individuals. The commitment of marriage brings these two beings together to mould them into a single entity in heart and soul.
- The symbol of a butterfly allows the transformation that takes place between the husband and wife even provides them with wings to fly with grace into an unexpected future together.
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- Both in western culture and eastern culture, we can see a clear trace of butterfly’ stories with romance and love.
- Particularly, in Chinese culture, two butterflies flying together is a symbol of love. It is also commonly believed that when a butterfly lands on you it means good luck. In some myths, the butterfly promotes sleep and dreams. on the other hand, it is symbolic of female fertility.
- the United States culture, You can see butterflies in weddings throughout the States where butterflies are released after the wedding ceremony is completed.
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Bexar County officials plan to break ground Friday on BiblioTech, which will be the nation’s first all-digital public library.
The new library, which will be constructed on San Antonio’s South Side, will offer a collection of 10,000 electronic titles. Library card holders will have access to 100 e-readers and 50 computer stations, as well as 25 laptops and 25 tablets that can be used on site.
On April 15, representatives from 3M Library Systems, the e-book provider for BiblioTech, will provide a demonstration of how the cloud library will work. That demonstration will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Leal Middle School, which is located at 743 W. Southcross.
Bexar County Commissioners approved the BiblioTech concept in January. County officials are expected on April 16 to consider final approval of a contract with 3M Library Systems to provide the cloud library and e-reader services.
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Tax breaks could determine fate of Sears' headquarters
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. – If Sears Holdings moves its headquarters to another state, it would be catastrophic to this Chicago suburb, says Mayor William McLeod.
"Our office vacancy rate would be 59%," he says. Besides the 6,100 jobs at Sears' main offices, 9,000 ancillary jobs in the area would vanish, he says. McLeod is urging the Illinois General Assembly to approve an extension of state income tax credits and local property tax breaks to keep the retailer here.
Continuing Sears' tax breaks would be devastating, says Superintendent Michael Bregy of School District 300 in neighboring Carpentersville. The district has lost more than $100 million in local tax revenue since the original deal reduced Sears' property tax burden, he says, leading to budget cuts and high school classrooms jammed with up to 45 students.
Sears' incentives, he says, are being put "on the backs of the kids in our school district."
The issue could be decided when the General Assembly meets Tuesday. State Sen. Dan Kotowski, a Democrat, says the latest version of legislation would require the company to employ at least 4,250 people at its headquarters and repay the money if it fails to do so or leaves Illinois. The bill also would increase tax revenue to school districts and other taxing districts, he says.
"We need to do whatever we can to save jobs," Kotowski says.
The stakes are high as Illinois tries to cut its 10% unemployment rate and cope with an $11 billion budget deficit. The state has lost several employers to other states since corporate income tax rates increased Jan. 1 from 7.3% to 9.5%.
Sears spokesman Chris Brathwaite says everyone is eager "to see this come to a happy ending." The company needs the extension, he says, because when current incentives expire next year, Sears will have recouped only $75 million of the $200 million it spent on infrastructure here.
Sears "has received (relocation) proposals from nearly a third of the states," Brathwaite says. "Clearly, other states, and Illinois for that matter, see value in this company."
Incentives get second look
Some states are re-examining incentives as the unemployment crisis intensifies competition for employers, says Robin Boyle, an urban planning professor at Michigan's Wayne State University. "We're seeing a new day in terms of incentivization of business that is less generous" and gives more discretion to governments, he says. Activity elsewhere:
•Florida might ask companies that received incentives but didn't produce the promised number of jobs to reimburse the state. The state recently released details of 1,521 tax breaks and payments to companies since 1995. The incentives were supposed to generate 224,286 new jobs; 73,669 were created.
"When the people of our state are digging into their pockets to provide these tax incentives, we want to be sure they don't get ripped off," says Senate President-designate Don Gaetz, a Republican.
•The Oklahoma Legislature created a task force that's considering requiring the state auditor to examine every tax credit, from its draft stages to a year-to-year assessment after it is approved.
Legislation changing the process could be filed within 60 days, says Rep. Charles Key, a Republican who serves on the economic development committee. "When is it right for me and you and the average taxpayer to pay a larger share, which is what happens?" he asks. "It's never right and when times are tough it doesn't make any sense."
•In the past year, 15 companies that received tax credits from the state of Iowa created or saved 620 of the 904 jobs they promised, The Des Moines Register reported this month.
Indiana Commerce Secretary Daniel Hasler says incentives are just one tool that helped his state recruit more than 200 companies this year. "The tax incentives we offer are really icing on the cake," he says, and companies "receive them only after they have hired and paid a Hoosier."
Dublin, Ohio, this month approved incentives to keep Socius, a software consulting company, in the city until at least 2016. The deal requires the company to retain 23 jobs and create 13.
City Manager Marsha Grigsby says it's important not to "give too much away" when competing for employers. "The whole reason you want the companies here is for the tax base," she says.
Sears was founded in 1886 and moved to Chicago in 1887. In 1989, the state gave the company incentives to discourage it from leaving Illinois. The company moved to Hoffman Estates in 1992, but its name remained on its iconic downtown skyscraper even after it vacated the building.
The Sears Tower was renamed the Willis Tower in 2009 as part of a leasing deal with Willis Group Holdings, an insurance brokerage.
Brathwaite acknowledges that company officials have visited potential headquarters sites in Texas and Ohio. They and other states "have made some great proposals," he says.
Bregy has participated in negotiations that he hopes will lead to a deal that shifts some money to school districts. If that doesn't happen, he says, "We don't know how we're going to survive."
McLeod's priority is keeping people working in this village of 51,895. "I'm dealing with reality here," he says. Sears "is by far our largest employer. … I'm looking at an enormous loss of jobs."


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Term: Kinzie, Juliette Augusta, 1806-1870
b. Middletown, Conn., married John Kinzie in 1830, and moved to Fort Winnebago the same year. After moving to Chicago, she was the author of several books based on her experiences in Wisconsin: Waubun, the Early Day in the Northwest, related her experiences at Fort Winnebago; and two novels, Mark Logan the Bourgeois, and Walter Ogilby, both based on her memories of life in Wisconsin. J. A. Kinzie, Waubun (reprint, Chicago, 1932); Wis. Mag. Hist., 14; Colls. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 20 (1911); F. C. Dexheimer, comp., Sketches of Wis. Pioneer Women [Ft. Atkinson, 1925]; WPA field notes.
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Last weekend I attended the wedding of a friend. Friends, family, and in my case co-workers joined to celebrate. My friend, the bride, looked beautiful as she came down the aisle. Years of waiting for her prince charming to come along finally culminated in this moment. She clung to the grooms arm as only a bride can, with all the love in her heart ready to explode. Her father is a minister and after presenting her to the groom picked up his notebook for the sermon. He began “Marriage is a beautiful thing. A binding commitment between a man and a women.” I started to turn my attention to my boys who were playing games already on the iPad. Then I caught it “there are those in society who would tell you marriage is not between just a man and a woman. But they are wrong.” And there is was. The political statement about marriage.
This wedding was my first interaction in almost a decade with the strong right wing, conservative America I read about online. I was amused more than I was shocked. While the pastor never said anything overtly like “Gay marriage is wrong”, it was implied. Strongly.
What seems to me is the crux of the debate is the word “Marriage” itself. Would people be upset over “Gay Civil Union” or “Gay Domestic Partnership”? Who own’s the word “Marriage”? Is it a religious term? And if so, why does a religious term dictate legal and political classification? If you go to the chapel and your pastor marry’s you before God’s eyes, that doesn’t make you legally married. Your pastor has to be recognized by the state and you have to apply for and receive an official marriage license. So does the church or the state own marriage? The Bible allows you to have multiple wives, but the state says you can only have one.
In March, Scotland was looking to redefine the term “Marriage” to include homosexuals. The head of the Roman Catholic Church there struck out at the government saying “Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense… Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child.” (Christianity Today, March 2012)
So what is marriage then? Is it not a loving relationship between two individuals committed to spending a life together? Is it about the children? If that’s the case, does that mean couples who can’t have children aren’t married according to the church? Is there a right answer to any of this?
Now, I don’t think that a gay person has the right to force a church to marry them or allow them to be married in their building if it goes against their beliefs. There are plenty of places to get married without forcing the issue at a cathedral, synagogue, etc. Just because a building exists, doesn’t mean they should be required to allow services there. Otherwise, Atheists need to back off and let churches have services in public schools again.
Just because the government makes something equal for all individuals who are voting citizens of the state, doesn’t mean you have to adapt it as your own personal truth as well. Just because the state says you’re allowed to own a hand gun, doesn’t mean you MUST own a hand gun.
I believe the debate on marriage is a matter of ownership. Does marriage belong to “the church” or “the state”? One dictates religious dogma for personal beliefs and values. The other dictates legislation for individual rights. Would the church then set guidelines for who and how individuals are covered by insurance? What about all the other legal ramifications of “legal partnerships”? There isn’t a compromise on this.
I understand why many Christians are upset about gay marriage. As the minister last weekend put it, for Christians “Marriage is a three corded bond between man, woman, and God”. But does that mean that Atheists can’t get married? And who’s god are we talking about? I also understand the importance of that little piece of paper for two people to have that says “Married” on it. It’s this tangible piece of evidence that shows I’ve made a commitment to one person to love and to hold, through sickness and in health, till death do us part.
Then, if marriage is a holy ordained commitment that “What God has bound together let no man tear asunder” why do we (Christian’s) tolerate a 50% divorce rate? That’s for another day…