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The Barcelona half marathon offers you the opportunity to run through the streets of the city. It is an event that runners from around the world come to the city to be involved in. Whether you are an experienced runner or this is your first ever half marathon, this is an event that you will enjoy and feel proud to have been involved in.
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Official Newspaper INCORPORATED VILLAGE East Rockaway SCHOOL DISTRICT INCORPORATED VILUGE Lynbrook SCHOOL DISTRICT "THE GOOD NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPER " m i m m x a f s (LC/ajGjQQEG^ Since 1967 by Mailed Subscription Executive Offices: Seiffert Building, 2787 Long Beach Road, Oceanside, NY 11572 Ppst Office Box A, East Rockaway, NY 11518 <516) 764-2500 H public Library Atlantic Ave. T<iHhehc dE awifte Pekolij^ fi oPfofKicctaHne. PSaenidd adi ObHer\er, Bo* A, Earn' IN THE COMMUNITY" brookIh Oe bEsKerLveOr PCuobrlpicoartiaotnion #.1 6S5e0c8o0nd in Cpluanbs- tji^getrse t,o IS T.Yh.e 1 1E5a7s0t aRndoc kaadwdaityio-Lnyanlb rmooakilin g ckaway.N.Y. 11518. VOL. 32 NO. 25 Wednesday, May 15,1985 30c PER COPY SENIOR CITIZEN MONTH. Mayor Geier presents a Cit-ation to Lynbrook Senior Citizens Club President Norman Keith and his wife proclaiming May as Senior Citizen Month. The Ship Wreck by Mildred Roemer } Observer Exclusive: jf ^ >f School Budget Approved YES 329 LHS Music Alumni To Present Recital Many of those who attended services in the tittle Chapel on Main Street were ^ di^wn to the Village by their fuve of the sea. Some had small boats for Sunday sail-ing and others went in for shipbuilding. In a story in the November 1882 "South Shore Observer" 6th grader Brian Stone studied the microfilmed copy and gave this report of Life Saving Services and Coast Guard: Quite recently the sloop "Ida Rhame" while attempt-ing to go out of East Rock-away Inlet and tacking, went ashore on the west-end side of the inlet. The sea was rough, and the sloop having cargo aboard, bumped heav-ily', and at the time, the see-thing sea made a complete breach over her, compelling her crew to seek the rigging for safety. The sloop remained on the shore for 23 hours without assistance having been offered or ren-dered by Captain John H. Abrams, Keeper of Station #34 in whose district the sloop had been wrecked. Captain H.M. Johnson, Keeper of Station #33, with his crew-seeing no assist-ance from station #34 was offered—by their effort alone, hauled the sloop off the beach and relieved its from its perilous situation. Captain Johnson and his crew have the warmest and best thanks from Mr. Samuel Rhame, the owner of the sloop and who declared this publically to acknowledge their timely and valuable services, par-ticularly so, when the sloop was outside of their district. It was also Captain John-son's crew that hauled the "Annie Smith" of Freeport off the bar last week though the other crew soon arrived." There is no photo of the "Ida Rhame" in the Grist Mill Museum, but one of a true "Mystery Ship, the Sarah Boyd." According to the late Captain Lou Pear-sail, himself a keeper of a Coast Guard Station, the "Sarah Boyd" was the last, and largest ship ever built in East Rockaway. It was fin-ished by a cooperation that included Sam Rhame and members of the Fenton fam-ily. "It was never registered," exjjlained Captain Pear-sall," and on its maiden voyage was lost at sea with no trace of crew or ship, it just vanished. A large photo of the "Sarah Boyd" hung in the living room of Del Denton's house on Denton Avenue. Members of the Museum committee were given per-mission to make a copy of the picture, and that is how East Rockaway at least has a visual reminder of the mys-tery ship. On Wednesday evening, May 22, 1985, at 8:00 p.m., two alumni of Lynbrook High Schoolwill return to their "home town" and pres-ent a joint recital at St. James United Methodist C h u r c h . Ms. Carolyn Adams Malish, Class of 1959 and Mr. Brett Edler, class of 1970 are uniting their efforts in an evening of music to honor the retire-ment of George Breakwell, as Director of Music of the Lynbrook Public Schools. Ms. Malish, soprano, comes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was for-merly from the Dallas, Texas area where she sang with the Dallas Opera Com-pany. During her 18 years in Dallas, she sang operatic roles with many of the area colleges as well as selected symphony orchestras. In addition to her vocal talents, she is equally at home with the piano and organ and as a composer has written numerous works for mixed choirs and children's voices. She is currently the Director of Music at St. Joseph's C h u r c h in Rosemont, Minnesota. Mr. Edler, organist, who graduated from Hartwick College' and Yale is the Diaconal Minister of Music at the Ingomar Methodist Church in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a frequent recitalist in the Pittsburgh area as well as throughout the country. His most recent local per-formance was at St. Thomas Church on fifth Avenue, New York City on May 12, 1985. Ms. Malish and Mr. Edler were both outstanding music students at Lynbrook High School and were stu-dents of Mr. Breakwell, whom they wish to honor. Assisting in the program will be Miss Theresa Becker, Class of 1975 and Mr. George Simmons, accom- exciting one and promises to panist with the Lynbrook be one of the outstanding Chorale. The program musical evenings of the cur-selected by the artists is an rent year. Republicans Sponsor Bus Trip The East Rockaway Republican Club will spon-sor a bus trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey on Wed-nesday, June 5. A luxury bus will leave the parking field at Baisely Avenue at 8:30 AM, bound for the Tropicana Hotel in the Las Vegas of the East Coast. An initial cost of only $18 will get you $10 in quar-ters, a box lunch, a chance at a $ 10 raffle, and a good time for all. Reservations must be made before Friday, May 24. Checks should be made out"to the East Rockaway Republican Committee, and sent to Post Office Box 22, East Rockaway, New York 11518. For more information and reservations, please call Emma Tolmach at 599- 1331, Brian Meyer at 599- 7696, or Phil Christ at 593- 2316. all are welcome to attend. Elks Host Hospitalized Veterans LynhrookJoinsDevelopment Consortium Mayor Geier and the Lynbiook Board of Trustees announced their participa-tion in the Nassau County Community Development Program, providing for membership in the Nassau County Consortium with many neighboring Villages. Membership in the Con-sortium will entitle the Incorporated Village of Lynbrook to receive Com-munity Development Block Grant Funds which will be applied to proposals to be submitted by the Board of Trustees to the Nassau County Office of Housing and I n t e r g o v e r n m e n t al Affairs. Proposals to be listed are for illumination of Danger-ous Areas; Greis Park Rehabilitation (for handi-capped, Senior Citizens, and Youth); Dropped Curbs through business district; and Rehabilitation of Busi-ness District. Mayor Geier intends to have these funds alleviate some of the problem areas in the Village of Lynbrook. Lynbrook Lodge No. I5r5 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks presented its annual Vet-erans variety show Wednes-day evening. May 1, to close to two hundred hospitalized veterans from five area V. A. hospitals: Northport, St. Albans, Bronx, Manhattan and Fort Hamilton. Over two hundred full course roast beef dinners were served for the veterans and hospital staff, and the Lodge hired two buses spe-cially equipped to accom-modate wheelchairs. In the photo "The Singing Men" are shown singing the opening number of the show, this year entitled "Sentimental Journey." Exalted Ruler Nick Vella is seen at extreme right of stage. Lodge veterans chairmen Michael Socsia and William McKeon stated that this was by far the best attended show ever, after- five years •entertaining the veterans. They especially thanked Past Exalted Ruler Daniel Hueglin for making the arrangements. Cooperation on the part of hospital administrators and staff was exceptionally fine this year. On hand also for this year's presentation were Southeast Veterans Chair-man Bernard Lough, Past State President John Quinn, Jr., and District Deputy Leonard Sternesky. As a parting gift on the way home after the show the vets were given stationary kits.
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Gospel Benefit
On Saturday, June 6 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. the Maidstone Club in East Hampton will host a gospel benefit for the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. Making its first appearance on the East End, "Songs of Solomon," the award-winning inspirational choral youth ensemble based in Harlem, will perform at the benefit. The world-renowned group, created and led by Chantel Renee Wright, herself an award-winning choral conductor from Chicago, has performed all over the United States and in South Africa. It was at the Gospel Music Workshop of America three years ago that Bonnie Cannon, Executive Director of the Bridgehampton Child Care Center, first heard them.
"They blew me away," she says. "I knew right then that someday I'd get them out here."
The high energy group, whose repertoire ranges from gospel and spirituals to jazz and classical music (they sang the Bach Magnificat in D at Carnegie Hall) has performed with such artists as Elton John, Gladys Knight, Earth Wind and Fire and Aretha Franklin.
Chairing the benefit is U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop, who served on the board of the Bridgehampton Child Care Center for five years and remains a member of the advisory board.
"The programs at the Center play a vital role in the lives of so many of our lower income and immigrant families," he says. "The Center serves what is often an invisible population and I'm grateful to the Maidstone Club for supporting our mission."
The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center was born out of tragedy in 1949 when a house fire killed the untended children of migrant farm workers. The shocked community rallied to found the first, community-based migrant child care center in the country. The Center continues to serve the less fortunate on the East End and offers after-school programs, a low cost summer camp, youth programs and adult development services such as ESL and GED. It also hosts Head Start for preschoolers from as far away as Montauk and Westhampton.
For reservations to hear "Songs of Solomon," call 537-0616. There will also be cocktails, hors-d'oeuvres and a silent auction. Tickets are $150 per person. Seating is limited.
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On Friday evening, May 29, the Southampton Town Democratic Committee nominated its candidates for 2009 during their nomination convention at the Southampton Inn. Councilwoman Anna Throne-Holst, a Sag Harbor resident, was unanimously nominated for the position of Southampton Town Supervisor. The unity theme was echoed as incumbent councilwoman Sally Pope was nominated to run for a full term. Pope won a special election for her post last November. Bridget Fleming, a Noyac resident and attorney, was also selected to run for the open council seat. The Dems candidate for town highway superintendent is Alex Gregor of Hampton Bays who is the Southampton Town Independence leader.
Sitting Southampton Town Justices Deborah Kooperstein and Barbara Wilson were nominated to continue in their judicial roles. Selected as town trustee candidates by the Democrats were Southampton Town bayman and oyster farmer Bill Pell and Chris Garvey, a Hampton Bays resident and member of the Hampton Bays School Board.
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During last week's Southampton Town Board meeting, held on Tuesday, May 26, supervisor Linda Kabot honored the town's emergency medical service workers.
"These individuals truly embody the citizen service has been a cornerstone of our nation's prosperity since the days of its founding," said Kabot of the assembled group. "They are among the countless Americans who have stepped forward throughout history to assist others, and they have strengthened their communities in the process. EMS volunteers are a critical asset in every community. They provide care at the scene and on the way to the hospital, which dramatically improves survival and recovery rates."
Kabot added that the town's eight different EMS agencies responded to over 5,000 medical calls in 2008. The Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance responded to 620 calls last year, and Bridgehampton Volunteer Ambulance responded to 116.
From May 17 through May 23, the town celebrated EMS week, with the theme being "EMS: A Proud Partner of Your Community." Initiated by President Richard Nixon in 1973, National Emergency Medical Services Week has been celebrated each year to recognize the accomplishments of those who dedicate themselves to saving others.
Hampton Bays
Video Game Tournament
Two Hampton Bays High School students have organized a Video Game Tournament to be held on Sunday, June 7. The event is open to anyone over the age of 13. In order to compete, participants under 18 must bring a signed permission slip from a parent or guardian. The evening is a fundraiser for the Hampton Bays High School Class of 2010, though a portion of the proceeds from the evening will be donated to a local hospital or charity, yet to be determined. The evening consists of three games: Halo 3 as a team and doubles, Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Each game costs $4. The event will be held at the Hampton Bays Middle School and begins at 10 a.m. For more information call (631) 525-1825.
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MTA Tax Exemption
New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, Jr., has introduced legislation that would exempt all employers within the towns of East Hampton, Southampton, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Southampton and Southold from the provisions of the 0.34 percent payroll tax recently enacted in the 12 county MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) region, as part of the financial bailout of the MTA. Despite the increased taxes and fees in the MTA region, fares on the Long Island Railroad were still increased an average of 10 percent.
The payroll tax will raise an additional $1.5 billion in annual revenue for the MTA. The MTA region has a population of more than 13.1 million people. The Peconic Bay Region has a population of approximately 140,000 or about 1.1 percent of the region.
"The MTA is a bloated bureaucracy that has a demonstrated record of fiscal shortcomings," Thiele stated. "To throw more money at the MTA without true reform is irresponsible. To increase taxes and fees during a period of deep recession is even more foolhardy. As for the Peconic Bay Region, our year-round residents get minimal service, at best, with just a few trains a day. Further, we already pay an additional [a portion of our] sales tax and a mortgage tax to subsidize the MTA. We will also pay the new fare hikes for their declining service."
"It has been estimated that as part of the Volpe Study on improved rail/bus service for the East End that we already pay $40 million to $60 million more than we receive in service from the MTA on an annual basis," continued Thiele. "In short, we pay way too much for way too little. The East End simply does not have the same level of NYC commuters, yet we pay the same as everyone else. The only fair solution is to exempt the East End from the new tax."
Thiele stated that in addition, he will continue to pursue the option of the establishment of a Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Authority separate from the MTA to provide for the East End's transportation needs.
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Clean Act
A broad coalition spanning business, economic development, labor, and environmental groups called on the state last week to place a $5 billion Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Bond Act on the November 2009 ballot. New York State Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Robert Sweeney convened a hearing in Albany to discuss the merits of the draft legislation that would place the measure on the ballot.
State officials say the measure will invest in long-term improvements to waste water infrastructure, energy efficiency, transit, public health protection and economic development projects; and is expected to provide opportunities for "green-collar" jobs.
Bond act supporters noted the long term benefits of investing in bonding funds. A recent study shows that a $1 billion investment in water and waste water infrastructure creates $3 billion in economic activity and supports up to 26,000 new jobs with an average salary of $50,000. Each $1 billion invested generates $82.4 million in state and local tax revenue.
"Even a conservative view of this bond act suggests that it would create over 100,000 new jobs for New Yorkers. These would be good-paying jobs in management, construction, and innovative industries," said Jim Melius, administrator NYS Laborers Tri-Funds.
"The last Clean Water and Clean Air Bond Act, which passed in 1996, has been spent down yet the challenges of climate change continue to grow," added Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters. "The Clean Water, Clean Air & Green Jobs Bond Act of 2009 will help meet those challenges, while putting New Yorkers back to work and creating permanent taxpayer savings." ?


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Apple declared war on Samsung and Google, but especially Samsung and they are going to lose. It's only going to be a matter of time before they run out of money to keep fighting. They may have 45 billion in the bank, but that doesn't last forever. A $300 million dollar law suite here and another $200 million there will hurt. They need to just come to terms and accept that they are not the only ones that can make phones and devices. There is enough to go around for everyone.
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Billy Maynard's series 'Trans/Tender' is a prime example of the artist's strong interest in black and white analogue photography and dark room processing. The series was taken in 2010 in the capital of East Timor, Dili, where Maynard spent more than four months immersed in a Catholic community, many of whom were transsexual prostitutes. Printed in 2011, the seventeen photographs included in this series result from that experience and depict some of the people Maynard got to know during his time in the Dili shanty town. The title of the work plays on the fact many of the subjects are transgender. The timbre of 'Trans/Tender' combines the idea of 'the third sex', as Maynard put it in 2011, with the reality that in a situation of extreme poverty and social rigidity such as East Timor's, people must tender (sell) their bodies. The other meaning of the word 'tender' reaffirms the visual tone of these images and the sentiment Maynard invokes through making them. The artist was profoundly affected by his experience and sought to create images that showed this subterranean world of Dili without passing any moral judgment. He has achieved this by using deep blacks and ambiguous composition ensuring the photographs remain in the space of mutual observation, revelation and compassion.


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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (Aphtae epizooticae) is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic animals such as cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats and pigs, as well as antelope, bison and other wild bovids, and deer.
In addition, hedgehogs and elephants are susceptible to the disease. The llama and alpaca may develop mild symptoms but are resistant to the disease and will not pass it on to others of the same species. In laboratory experiments, mice, rats and chicken have been successfully infected by artificial means, but it is not believed that they would contract the disease under natural conditions. Just as humans may spread the disease by carrying the germs on their clothes and body, animals that are not susceptible to the disease may still aid in spreading it. This was the case in Canada in 1952 when an outbreak flared up again after dogs had carried off bones from dead animals. Wolves are thought to play a similar role in the former Soviet Union.
Humans are very rarely affected. Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is the prototypic member of the Aphthovirus genus in the Picornaviridae family. This picornavirus is the etiological agent of the acute systemic vesicular disease that affects cattle and other animals worldwide. It is a highly variable and transmissible virus.
The cause of FMD was first shown to be viral in 1897 by Friedrich Loeffler. He passed the blood of an infected animal through a fine porcelain filter and found that the fluid that was collected could still cause the disease in healthy animals.
FMD occurs throughout much of the world, and whilst some countries have been free of FMD for some time, its wide host range and rapid spread represent cause for international concern. After World War II, the disease was widely distributed throughout the world. In 1996, endemic areas included Asia, Africa, and parts of South America; as of August 2007, Chile is disease free, and Uruguay and Argentina have not had an outbreak since 2001. North America, Australia and Japan have been free of FMD for many years. New Zealand has never had a case of foot and mouth disease. Most European countries have been recognized as disease free, and countries belonging to the European Union have stopped FMD vaccination.
However, in 2001, a serious outbreak of FMD in Britain resulted in the slaughter of many animals, the postponing of the general election for a month, and the cancellation of many sporting events and leisure activities such as the Isle of Man TT. Due to strict government policies on sale of livestock, disinfection of all persons leaving and entering farms and the cancellation of large events likely to be attended by farmers, a potentially economically disastrous epizootic was avoided in the Republic of Ireland, with just one case recorded in Proleek, Co. Louth. In August 2007, FMD was found at two farms in Surrey, England. All livestock were culled and a quarantine erected over the area. There have since been two other suspected outbreaks, although these seem now not to be related to FMD.
There are seven FMD serotypes: O, A, C, SAT-1, SAT-2, SAT-3, and Asia-1. These serotypes show some regionality, and the O serotype is most common.
Infection with foot-and-mouth disease tends to occur locally - that is, the virus is passed on to susceptible animals through direct contact with infected animals or with contaminated pens or vehicles used to transport livestock. The clothes and skin of animal handlers such as farmers, standing water, and uncooked food scraps and feed supplements containing infected animal products can harbor the virus as well. Cows can also catch FMD from the semen of infected bulls. Control measures include quarantine and destruction of infected livestock, and export bans for meat and other animal products to countries not infected with the disease.
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by FMDV, an Aphthovirus of the viral family Picornaviridae. The members of this family are small (25-30 nm), nonenveloped icosahedral viruses that contain single-stranded RNA (ribonucleic acid). When such a virus comes in contact with a host cell, it binds to a receptor site and triggers a folding-in of the cell membrane. Once the virus is inside the host cell, its protein coat dissolves. New viral RNA and components of the protein coat are then synthesized in large quantities and assembled to form new viruses. After assembly, the host cell lyses (bursts) and releases the new viruses.
There is another viral disease with similar symptoms, commonly referred to as "hand, foot and mouth disease", that occurs more frequently in humans, especially in young children; the cause, Coxsackie A virus, is different from FMDV. Both are members of the Picornaviridae family, but while FMDV belongs to the Aphthovirus genus, Coxsackie viruses belong to the Enteroviruses.
Because FMD rarely infects humans but spreads rapidly among animals, it is a much greater threat to the agriculture industry than to human health. Farmers around the world can lose huge amounts of money during a foot-and-mouth epizootic, when large numbers of animals are destroyed and revenues from milk and meat production go down.
Seven main types of Foot and Mouth Virus are believed to exist. Like other viruses, the FMD virus continually evolves and mutates, thus one of the difficulties in vaccinating against FMD is the huge variation between and even within serotypes. There is no cross-protection between serotypes (meaning that a vaccine for one serotype will not protect against any others) and in addition, two strains within a given serotype may have nucleotide sequences that differ by as much as 30% for a given gene. This means that FMD vaccines must be highly specific to the strain involved. Vaccination only provides temporary immunity that lasts from months to years.
Currently, the World Organisation for Animal Health recognizes countries to be in one of three disease states with regards to FMD: FMD present with or without vaccination, FMD-free with vaccination, and FMD-free without vaccination. Countries that are designated FMD-free without vaccination have the greatest access to export markets, and therefore many developed nations, including Canada, the United States, and the UK, work hard to maintain their current FMD-free without vaccination status.
There are several reasons cited for restricting export from countries using FMD vaccines. The most important is probably that routine blood tests, relying on antibodies, cannot distinguish between an infected and a vaccinated animal. This would severely hamper screening of animals used in export products, risking a spread of FMD to importing countries. A widespread preventive vaccination would also conceal the existence of the virus in a country. From there, it could potentially spread to countries without vaccine programs. Lastly, an animal that is infected shortly after being vaccinated can harbour and spread FMD without showing symptoms itself, hindering containment and culling of sick animals as a remedy.
Many early vaccines used dead samples of FMD virus to inoculate animals. However, those early vaccines sometimes caused real outbreaks. In the 1970s, scientists discovered that a vaccine could be made using only a single key protein from the virus. The task was to produce such quantities of the protein that could be used in the vaccination. On June 18, 1981, the U.S. government announced the creation of a vaccine targeted against FMD; this was the world's first genetically engineered vaccine.
The North American FMD Vaccine Bank is housed at the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL) at Plum Island Animal Disease Center. The Center, located off the coast of Long Island, NY, is the only place in the United States where scientists can conduct research and diagnostic work on highly contagious animal diseases such as FMD. Because of this limitation US companies working on FMD usually use facilities in other countries where such diseases are endemic.
The disease spread fast among swine herds in Taiwan, with 200-300 new farms being infected daily. Causes for this include the high swine density in the area with up to 6,500 hogs per square mile, feeding of pigs with untreated garbage and farm's proximity to slaughterhouses. Other systemic issues like lack of laboratory facilities, slow response and initial lack of a vaccination program contributed. It is also alleged that farmers intentionally introduced FMD to their flocks, because the payment offered to farmers for culled swine was at a time higher than the market value of the swine.
A complicating factor is the endemic spread of Swine vesicular disease (SVD) in Taiwan. The symptoms are indistinguishabe from FMD, which may have led to previous mis-diagnosing of FMD as SVD. Laboratory analysis was seldomly used for diagnosis and FMD may thus have gone unnoticed for some time in Taiwan.
The swine depopulation was a massive undertaking, with the military contributing substantial manpower. At peak capacity, 200,000 hogs per day were disposed of, mainly by electrocution. Carcasses was disposed of by burning and burial, but burning was avoided in water resource protection area. In April industrial incinerators were running around the clock to dispose of the carcasses.
Initially, 40,000 combined vaccines for the strains O1, A24 and Asia were available and administered to zoo animals and valuable breeding hogs. At the end of March, half a million new doses of vaccines for O1 and Asia1 were made available. On the 3rd of May, 13 million doses of O1 vaccine arrived, and both the March and May shipments were distributed free of charge. There was a danger of vaccination crews spreading the disease; therefore, trained farmers were allowed to administer the vaccine under veterinary supervision.
Taiwan had previously been the major exporter of pork to Japan and among the top 15 pork producers in the world in 1996. During the outbreak, over 3.8 million swine was destroyed at a cost of $6.9 billion USD. The Taiwanese pig industry was devastated as a result and the export market in ruins. In 2007, Taiwan was considered free of FMD, but were still conducting a vaccination program, which restricts the export of meat from Taiwan.
On 4 August, the strain of the virus was identified as an "01 BFS67-like" virus, one linked to vaccines and not normally found in animals, and isolated in the 1967 outbreak. The same strain was used at the nearby Institute for Animal Health and Merial Animal Health Ltd at Pirbright, 2½ miles (4 km) away which is an American/French owned research facility, and was identified as a possible source of infection.
On 12 September, a new outbreak of the disease was confirmed in Egham, Surrey, 19km (12 miles) away from the original outbreak, with a second case being confirmed on a nearby farm on 14 September.
On 19 September 2007, there was a suspected case of FMD in Solihull, where a temporary control zone has been set up by Defra.
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First, using a sharp knife, chop the tomatoes into approximately ¼ inch (5 mm) dice straight into a serving bowl. Next, chop the chilli very finely before adding it to the tomatoes.
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Two days ago, Barack Obama went before AIPAC (which is commonly known as "the Israel Lobby" but would be better understood as the Likud lobby, since it advocates not Israel's interests per se but the perspective of the right wing of Israeli politics, but that's a topic for another day), and said, among other things, the following:
"I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say. That includes all elements of American power: A political effort aimed at isolating Iran; a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored; an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions; and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency. Iran's leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And as I have made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests."
This didn't surprise anyone, because it's the same thing Obama has been saying for a while, in scripted and unscripted remarks alike, in both speeches and interviews. Yet later that day, Mitt Romney went out and said the following:
"This is a president who has failed to put in place crippling sanctions against Iran. He's also failed to communicate that military options are on the table and in fact in our hand, and that it's unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
So here's my question: Just what will it take for reporters to start writing about the question of whether Mitt Romney is, deep within his heart, a liar?
Because he does this kind of thing frequently, very frequently. Sometimes the lies he tells are about himself (often when he's trying to explain away things he has said or done in the past if today they displease his party's base, as he's now doing with his prior support for an individual mandate for health insurance), but most often it's Barack Obama he lies about. And I use the word "lie" very purposefully. There are lots of things Romney says about Obama that are distortions, just plain ridiculous, or unfalsifiable but obviously false, as when he often climbs into Obama's head to tell you what Obama really desires, like turning America into a militarily weak, economically crippled shadow of Europe (not the actual Europe, but Europe as conservatives imagine it to be, which is something like Poland circa 1978). But there are other occasions, like this one, where Romney simply lies, plainly and obviously. In this case, there are only two possibilities for Romney's statement: Either he knew what Obama has said on this topic and decided he'd just lie about it, or he didn't know what Obama has said, but decided he'd just make up something about what Obama said regardless of whether it was true. In either case, he was lying.
The "Who is he, really?" question is one that consumes campaign coverage, but in Romney's case the question has been about phoniness, not dishonesty, and the two are very different things. What that means is that when Romney makes a statement like this one, reporters don't run to their laptops to write stories that begin, "Raising new questions about his candor, today Mitt Romney falsely accused President Obama..." The result is that he gets a pass: there's no punishment for lying, because reporters hear the lie and decide that there are other, more important things to write about.
To get a sense of what it's like when reporters are on the lookout for lies, remember what Al Gore went through in 2000. To take just one story, when Gore jokingly told a union audience that as a baby his parents would rock him to sleep to the strains of "Look for the Union Label," everyone in attendance laughed, but reporters shouted "To the Internet!" and discovered that the song wasn't written until Gore was an adult. They then wrote entire stories about the remark, with those "Raising new questions..." ledes, barely entertaining the possibility that Gore was joking. Why not? Because it was Al Gore, and they all knew he was a liar, so obviously if he said something that wasn't literally true it could only have been an intentional falsehood.
That is not yet the presumption when it comes to Mitt Romney. There's another factor at play as well, which is that reporters, for reasons I've never completely understood, consider it a greater sin to lie about yourself, particularly about your personal life, than to lie about your opponent or about policy (I wrote about the different kinds of lies and how the press treats them differently here). Because Romney is lying about his opponent and about a policy matter, reporters just aren't as interested. But at some point, these things begin to pile up, and they really ought to start asking whether this dishonesty is something fundamental in Romney's character that might be worth exploring.
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But that is the problem; lies, outright verifiable lies are currently the bread and butter of the right wing in our nation. The media has generally been cowed by likes of Fox news and right wing echo-chamber to treat outright lies as "the other side." That is not journalism.
If you state "2 + 2 = 4" and I state "2 + 2 = 7" that is not two sides of an issue, rather it is a verifiable fact and a verifiable lie. But the media does not report it that way. They instead now report it as if both statements have equal validity. Calling out politicians, and others, on the truthfulness of their statements is a cornerstone of a vibrant and free press. But it is one that is alive in only a few progressive media outlets, while the mainstream news agencies have generally abdicated this all important role of vetting for truth.
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Robert Henry Eller
Mon, 2012-03-26 08:24
That's an easy question:
Reporters will start calling Mitt Romney a liar when they no longer crave access to him.
Now can you imagine any reporter, or that reporter's agency, permitting, let alone encouraging, the reporter to call Mitt Romney a liar?
How fast do you get kicked off the campaign media plane?
There might be a solution to reporters being effectively blackmailed from the get go this way. But I for one have not figured it out. The important result should be that candidates do not have the right or the privilege of excluding reporters they don't like from covering them.
Robert Henry Eller
Mon, 2012-03-26 08:49
"Who is he, really?" is, ironically, a lie posed as a question. And the liars are reporters. It consumes (or fills, if you will) a lot more air time and/or column inches to keep speculating about something after more than enough evidence has been presented for even the marginally rational to come to a conclusion.
Romney is a liar. I am not a reporter, but I'm happy to help out.
Now even more important is: When and why does Romney lie? Answer, whenever it suits his purposes. He'd be just as happy to tell the truth if it led to the same result. Unfortunately, it often doesn't. And what is Romney's purpose? To get nominated and then get elected. And what will his agenda be if he is elected? To get re-elected.
Doesn't sound much different from other politicians, does he? Here's the difference: With Romney, there is absolutely, positively, no other agenda. He has no particular interest in what happens while he might be in office, other than that he gets to play President. And not reporting this is another big lie reporters are telling, by not reporting it.
Mitt Romney is not a liar in his heart. His heart is simply there to pump blood. Mitt in fact is perfectly amoral. I don't even believe he believes in Mormonism. Mormonism was simply a fact of his existence he had to deal with, and as the supremely ambitious yet vacuous being he has always been, he put himself in the best position to deal with it.
So, why don't reporters call Mitt a liar? For one, they instantly lose access, and their seat on the media plane. Second, in this case, the truth won't fill enough airtime or column inches to satisfy their employers, because how long can they keep their audience watching ads, or clicking through web pages, with a story like that? Literally, the truth doesn't sell.
Robert Henry Eller
Mon, 2012-03-26 08:58
When will people become capable of admitting that there is nothing about Mitt Romney that is hidden? He is exactly who and what he appears to be: An amorally ambitious organism whose sole purpose is to advance himself in whatever arena he finds himself. There is nothing else.
Romney is doing nothing that should fool any of you. You are all fooling yourselves? Why? Apparently because a lot of people need something to talk about. The obvious conclusion ends the discussion. Then what do you do?
Well, if you are a good reporter, you realize what the real story is, and you report it. And if you are a moral reporter, and maybe even a good citizen, maybe even patriotic, you keep reporting the story.
Just like it is worth reporting every day that Assad is killing innocent people, in the interests of the people of the United States and our way of life, it is worthwhile reporting every day that Mitt Romney is simply an ambitious liar with no other agenda then to advance himself. It is a worthwhile story that whether he does anything good or bad for the country is incidental to his agenda, which is to get into office, and to stay in office, as long as possible. Sorry, and I mean I am truly sorry, but that is all there is.
Fri, 2012-06-22 17:21
As a family member said a few days ago, Romney is not only a constant liar, he was a confirmed bully in school. Things are adding up about this candidate that strongly suggest a negative vote for anything as vital to the nation as the Presidency, which calls above all for statesmanship of the highest order.
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If you were looking for millionaires, you'd probably head to London or New York or Monaco. But you might be better off trying Tokyo.
A new study from London-based WealthInsight, the independent research firm, ranked Tokyo the number one city in the world when it comes to millionaire population. The group defines millionaires as those individuals with $1 million or more in assets, not including the value of their primary homes.
The study found that Tokyo has 461,000 millionaires. New York ranked second with 389,000, followed by London (281,000), Paris (219,000) and then Frankfurt (217,000).
Why Tokyo?
The main reason for Tokyo's ranking is population density, said Andrew Amoils of WealthInsight. While the U.S. has far more millionaires (5 million to Japan's 2 million), America's rich are spread over multiple cities, while Japan's population is more heavily concentrated in its top city.
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Postcards from 1952 is a top track, and has one of the best film clips I've ever seen.
Post rock - namely Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky.
Postcards from 1952 is a top track, and has one of the best film clips I've ever seen.
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Such gun music for studying to.
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister. An Anglican, he was nonetheless the first and thus far only person of Jewish heritage to do so. Disraeli's greatest lasting achievement was the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846.
Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained. Not until the 1860s would Derby and Disraeli be on easy terms, and the latter's succession of the former assured. From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party. In this duel, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone during the latter's first premiership in the 1870s. In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.
Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well-known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon. He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today. He is unusual among British Prime Ministers for having gained equal social and political renown.
His father groomed him for a career in law, and Disraeli was articled to a solicitor in 1821. In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: "I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer. On his return to England he speculated on the stock exchange on various South American mining companies. The recognition of the new South American republics on the recommendation of George Canning had led to a considerable boom, encouraged by various promoters. In this connection, Disraeli became involved with the financier J. D. Powles, one such booster. In the course of 1825, Disraeli wrote three anonymous pamphlets for Powles, promoting the companies.
That same year Disraeli's financial activities brought him into contact with the publisher John Murray who, like Powles and Disraeli, was involved in the South American mines. Accordingly, they attempted to bring out a newspaper, The Representative, to promote both the cause of the mines and those politicians who supported the mines, specifically Canning. The paper was a failure, in part because the mining "bubble" burst in late 1825, which ruined Powles and Disraeli. Also, according to Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, the paper was "atrociously edited", and would have failed regardless. Disraeli's debts incurred from this debacle would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Before his entrance into parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Lady Henrietta Sykes (the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, Bt), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple. It was Henrietta who introduced Disraeli to Lord Lyndhurst, with whom she later became romantically involved. As Lord Blake observed: "The true relationship between the three cannot be determined with certainty…there can be no doubt that the affair [figurative usage] damaged Disraeli and that it made its contribution, along with many other episodes, to the understandable aura of distrust which hung around his name for so many years.
In 1839 Disraeli married Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis, widow of Sir Wyndham Lewis. Mary Lewis was 12 years his senior, and their union was seen as being based on financial interests, but they came to cherish one another.
Disraeli's biographers believe he was descended from Italian Sephardic Jews . He claimed Spanish ancestry, possibly referring to the ultimate origin of his family heritage in Spain prior to the expulsion of Jews in 1492. After which many Jews emigrated temporarily to northern Italy before returning to the Netherlands and then England. His father, Isaac D'Israeli, a literary critic and historian, had Benjamin baptised in 1817 following a dispute with their synagogue. The elder D'Israeli himself was content to remain outside organized religion. }}
Disraeli now turned towards literature, motivated in part by a desperate need for money, and brought out his first novel, Vivian Grey, in 1826. Disraeli's biographers agree that Vivian Grey was a thinly-veiled re-telling of the affair of the Representative, and it proved very popular on its release, although it also caused much offence within the Tory literary world when Disraeli's authorship was discovered. The book, initially anonymous, was purportedly written by a "man of fashion" – someone who moved in high society. Disraeli, then just twenty-three, did not move in high society, and the numerous solecisms present in Vivian Grey made this painfully obvious. Reviewers were sharply critical on these grounds of both the author and the book. Furthermore, John Murray believed that Disraeli had caricatured him and abused his confidence–an accusation denied at the time, and by the official biography, although subsequent biographers (notably Blake) have sided with Murray.
After producing a Vindication of the English Constitution, and some political pamphlets, Disraeli followed up Vivian Grey with a series of novels, The Young Duke (1831), Contarini Fleming (1832), Alroy (1833), Venetia and Henrietta Temple (1837). During the same period he had also written The Revolutionary Epick and three burlesques, Ixion, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla. Of these only Henrietta Temple (based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt) was a true success.
During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as "the Trilogy"–Sybil, Coningsby, and Tancred.
Disraeli's relationships with other male writers of his period were strained or non-existent. After the disaster of The Representative John Gibson Lockhart became a bitter enemy and the two never reconciled. Disraeli's preference for female company prevented the development of contact with those who were otherwise not alienated by his opinions, comportment or background. One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch. Disraeli took revenge in Endymion (published in 1880), when he caricatured Thackeray as "St. Barbe".
Critic William Kuhn argued that much of Disraeli's fiction can be read as "the memoirs he never wrote", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly "ambiguous sexuality.
Disraeli had been considering a political career as early as 1830, before he departed England for the Mediterranean. His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania. The choice of a Tory publication was regarded as odd by Disraeli's friends and relatives, who thought him more of a Radical. Indeed, Disraeli had objected to Murray about Croker inserting "high Tory" sentiment, writing that "it is quite impossible that anything adverse to the general measure of Reform can issue from my pen." Further, at the time Gallomania was published, Disraeli was in fact electioneering in High Wycombe in the Radical interest. Disraeli's politics at the time were influenced both by his rebellious streak and by his desire to make his mark. In the early 1830s the Tories and the interests they represented appeared to be a lost cause. The other great party, the Whigs, was anathema to Disraeli: "Toryism is worn out & I cannot condescend to be a Whig.
Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone. The next year he settled his private life by marrying Mary Anne Lewis, the widow of Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.
Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen. During the twenty years between the Corn Laws and the Second Reform Bill Disraeli would seek a Tory-Radical alliance, to little avail. Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power. Although Disraeli forged a personal friendship with John Bright, a Lancashire manufacturer and leading Radical, Disraeli was unable to convince Bright to sacrifice principle for political gain. After one such attempt, Bright noted in his diary that Disraeli "seems unable to comprehend the morality of our political course.
This split had profound implications for Disraeli's political career: almost every Conservative politician with official experience followed Peel, leaving the rump bereft of leadership. As one biographer wrote, "[Disraeli] found himself almost the only figure on his side capable of putting up the oratorical display essential for a parliamentary leader. Looking on from the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyll wrote that Disraeli "was like a subaltern in a great battle where every superior officer was killed or wounded. If the remainder of the Conservative Party could muster the electoral support necessary to form a government, then Disraeli was now guaranteed high office. However, he would take office with a group of men who possessed little or no official experience, who had rarely felt moved to speak in the House of Commons before, and who, as a group, remained hostile to Disraeli on a personal level, his assault on the Corn Laws notwithstanding.
In 1847 a small political crisis occurred which removed Bentinck from the leadership and highlighted Disraeli's differences with his own party. In the preceding general election, Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the City of London. Ever since Catholic Emancipation, members of parliament were required to swear the oath "on the true faith of a Christian." Rothschild, an unconverted Jew, could not do so and therefore could not take his seat. Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.
Disraeli spoke in favour of the measure, arguing that Christianity was "completed Judaism," and asking of the House of Commons "Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favor by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and a friend of Disraeli's, spoke strongly against the measure and implied that Russell was paying off the Jews for "helping" elect him. Every member of the future protectionist cabinet then in parliament (except Disraeli) voted against the measure. One member who was not, Lord John Manners, stood against Rothschild when the latter re-submitted himself for election in 1849. Bentinck, then still Conservative leader in the Commons, joined Disraeli in speaking and voting for the bill, although his own speech was a standard one of toleration.
In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips–in the Commons–to oppose the measure as well. Bentinck was succeeded by Lord Granby; Disraeli's own speech, thought by many of his own party to be blasphemous, ruled him out for the time being. Even as these intrigues played out, Disraeli was working with the Bentinck family to secure the necessary financing to purchase Hughenden Manor, in Buckingham county. This purchase allowed him to stand for the county, which was "essential" if one was to lead the Conservative Party at the time. He and Mary Anne alternated between Hughenden and several homes in London for the remainder of their marriage. These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £25,000 (equivalent to almost £1,500,000 today) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.
Within a month Granby resigned the leadership in the commons, feeling himself inadequate to the post, and the party functioned without an actual leader in the commons for the remainder of the parliamentary session. At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and John Charles Herries–indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man. This confused arrangement ended with Granby's resignation in 1851; Disraeli effectively ignored the two men regardless.
Russell resumed office, but resigned again in early 1852 when a combination of the protectionists and Lord Palmerston defeated him on a Militia Bill. This time Lord Derby (as he had become) took office, and to general surprise appointed Disraeli Chancellor of the Exchequer. Disraeli had offered to stand aside as leader of the House of Commons in favour of Palmerston, but the latter declined.
The primary responsibility of a mid-Victorian chancellor was to produce a Budget for the coming fiscal year. Disraeli proposed to reduce taxes on malt and tea (indirect taxation); additional revenue would come from an increase in the house tax. More controversially, Disraeli also proposed to alter the workings of the income tax (direct taxation) by "differentiating"–i.e., different rates would be levied on different types of income. The establishment of the income tax on a permanent basis had been the subject of much inter-party discussion since the fall of Peel's ministry, but no consensus had been reached, and Disraeli was criticised for mixing up details over the different "schedules" of income. Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington (Secretary of State for War and the Colonies) (leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the "damned defences"). This, combined with bad timing and perceived inexperience led to the failure of the Budget and consequently the fall of the government in December of that year.
Gladstone's final speech on the failed Budget marked the beginning of over twenty years of mutual parliamentary hostility, as well as the end of Gladstone's formal association with the Conservative Party. No Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.
Lord Palmerston's government collapsed in 1858 amid public fallout over the Orsini affair and Derby took office at the head of a purely 'Conservative' administration. He again offered a place to Gladstone, who declined. Disraeli remained leader of the House of Commons and returned to the Exchequer. As in 1852 Derby's was a minority government, dependent on the division of its opponents for survival. The principal measure of the 1858 session would be a bill to re-organise governance of India, the Indian Mutiny having exposed the inadequacy of dual control. The first attempt at legislation was drafted by the President of the Board of Control, Lord Ellenborough, who had previously served as Governor-General of India (1841–44). The bill, however, was riddled with complexities and had to be withdrawn. Soon after, Ellenborough was forced to resign over an entirely separate matter involving the current Governor-General, Lord Canning.
Faced with a vacancy, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again to bring Gladstone into the government. Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: "Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this…" In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby "broader than you may have supposed." Gladstone also hinted at the strength of his own faith, and the role it played in his public life, when he addressed Disraeli's most personal and private appeal:
I state these points fearlessly and without reserve, for you have yourself well reminded me that there is a Power beyond us that disposes of what we are and do, and I find the limits of choice in public life to be very narrow.—W. E. Gladstone to Disraeli, 1858
With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control. Stanley, with Disraeli's assistance, proposed and guided through the house the India Act, under which the subcontinent would be governed for sixty years. The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.
However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the passage of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election once the new voting register had been compiled. Disraeli's term as Prime Minister would therefore be fairly short, unless the Conservatives won the general election. He made only two major changes in the cabinet: he replaced Lord Chelmsford as Lord Chancellor with Lord Cairns, and brought in George Ward Hunt as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Disraeli and Chelmsford had never got along particularly well, and Cairns, in Disraeli's view, was a far stronger minister.
Disraeli's first premiership was dominated by the heated debate over the established Church of Ireland. Although Ireland was overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, the Protestant Church remained the established church and was funded by direct taxation. An initial attempt by Disraeli to negotiate with Cardinal Manning the establishment of a Roman Catholic university in Dublin foundered in March when Gladstone moved resolutions to dis-establish the Irish Church altogether. The proposal divided the Conservative Party while reuniting the Liberals under Gladstone's leadership. While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.
The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty.
Disraeli was a staunch supporter of the expansion and preservation of the British Empire in the Middle East and Central Asia. Over the objections of his own cabinet and without the Parliament's consent, he obtained a short-term loan from Lionel de Rothschild in order to purchase 44% of the shares of the Suez Canal Company.
Disraeli and Gladstone clashed over Britain's Balkan policy. Disraeli saw the situation as a matter of British imperial and strategic interests, keeping to Palmerston's policy of supporting the Ottoman Empire against Russian expansion. According to Blake, Disraeli believed in upholding Britain's greatness through a tough, "no nonsense" foreign policy that put England's interests above the "moral law" that advocated emancipation of small nations. Gladstone, however, saw the issue in moral terms, for Bulgarian Christians had been massacred by the Turks and Gladstone therefore believed it was immoral to support the Ottoman Empire. Blake further argued that Disraeli's imperialism "decisively orientated the Conservative party for many years to come, and the tradition which he started was probably a bigger electoral asset in winning working-class support during the last quarter of the century than anything else".
A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar. In his private correspondence with the Queen, he proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Caspian". In order to contain Russia's influence, he launched an invasion of Afghanistan and signed the Cyprus Convention with Turkey, whereby this strategically placed island was handed over to Britain.
Disraeli scored another diplomatic success at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in preventing Bulgaria from gaining full independence, limiting the growing influence of Russia in the Balkans and breaking up the League of the Three Emperors. However, difficulties in South Africa (epitomised by the defeat of the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana), as well as Afghanistan, weakened his government and led to his party's defeat in the 1880 election.
In the general election of 1880 Disraeli's Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone's Liberals, in large part owing to the uneven course of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Disraeli became ill soon after and died in April 1881. He is buried in a vault beneath St Michael's Church in the grounds of his home Hughenden Manor, accessed from the churchyard. Against the outside wall of the church is a memorial erected in his honour by Queen Victoria. His literary executor, and for all intents and purposes his heir, was his private secretary, Lord Rowton.
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Kids are back at school and even though our British summer has been somewhat unpredictable in terms of weather, it's relatively safe to say that we know what to expect when it comes to weather for autumn and winter. When you leave the house to drop the kids off one day and you find yourself shivering whilst wearing your much-loved spring jacket (that has been a ss12 staple) you may realise that you are in no way prepared for autumn (emotionally, mentally or physically). Yikes.
Just the smallest bit of preparation before autumn kicks in can mean that you can make the most of all the great stock available in the shops and avoid wasting money on clothes that you aren't ever going to wear. It's also a very therapeutic and cleansing way to start the new season!


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Animals have acted as inspiration for sculptors for centuries. People have been intrigued by the natural beauty of animals for as long as they have been making art and that fascination continues to this day. We admire and pay homage to the raw power and beauty of big cats by placing a tiger sculpture in our gardens. We decorate the yard with cute animal statues because we love their adorable appearance. Some of us also put statues of Unicorns and other mythical animals in the yard because we love the stories and legends associated with those creatures.
Whether you enjoy statues of cute little puppies or prefer detailed dinosaur sculptures, today is the best day to buy any of the animal statues in our collection. All of our animal sculptures get a 20% discount from today until March 28th, including such realistic works of art as the Catch of the Day Grand Bear Sculpture and the Shadowed Predator Black Panther Statue. Each of these fine sculptures showcases the detailed work that goes into all of the animal statues in our collection. Pair these predators with the striking Zairen, the Zebra Sculpture to highlight the garden with additional elegant animal decor.
Enjoy a 20% discount on any of the animal statues in our collection from today until March 28th.
This sale cannot be combined with other offers.