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" Around 17:40 yesterday, located the urban water Nancun near the NICE factory with electric shock accident occurs in the region: four painters in moving a 9-meter-high scaffolding to accidentally touch one of ten thousand volt high-tension wires, two people were killed and two others were injured. After the incident, the City People's Hospital emergency dispatch medical personnel rushed to the scene. In addition to a man has confirmed that died on the spot, the ambulance picked up another 3 from the field. 6:00 pm, reporters rushed to the NICE. The accident took place in the plant's northeast corner, No. 301, next to the warehouse. Due to the strong current, the scaffolding installed at the bottom of plastic wheel even has melted and stuck to the ground. And even more shocking is that the man died on the spot lying under the scaffold, a charred face, the hair stood up, the body of white smoke emerge from time to time. "A burst of 'pop' sound, was to die." According to eyewitnesses, the incident was the man who had also once kindled a fire, and later others take to the fire extinguisher before the fire to be extinguished. "- Xu Guo true Sen Green
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Jstu put 200 rounds through 229 elite on lunch, insane, love it. Too bad one fo the grips screws fell out and is stripped, on hold with sig right now
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Jstu put 200 rounds through 229 elite on lunch, insane, love it. Too bad one fo the grips screws fell out and is stripped, on hold with sig right now
I fired my son's P220 Match on several occassions recently. That did it for me. On December 30th, I bought a P220 Compact (as I plan to carry it whenever practical). On Saturday, I got to the range when they opened with 150 rounds of 230 grain FMJ's. I had purchased an UpLULA mag loader; it paid for itself in a heartbeat. Even with only the 2 6-round mags that come with the P220 Compact, I went through the 150 rounds in a hurry. I shot the last 100 rounds one-handed with ease. What a sweet pistol. No FTF's and no FTE's. I practiced DA by using the decocker to better gage how the double action feels. Even with a small hand I can reach everything I need to.
I'm sorry to tell you that this story has an unhappy ending. I ran out of ammo long before I was ready to quit. Bummer. :smt022
I wanted a p229 for a long time but never put too much effort into getting one because of the price of a new one. I have always thought over priced guns were just that, overpriced, but the Sig's were always the exception, at least to me. I don't know how to explain it but when you hold one you just know your holding the best money can buy.
My wife got me one for Christmas. It was a certified pre-owned model without the rail so she got it for $650 with two mags and two barrels ( 40S&W and .357sig). Certified pre-owned was all any of the shops in our area had. It was factory refinished, new mags, new barrels, new springs, and new grips.
I have only had the chance to shoot it once but I have to tell you so far I am not disappointed, at all.I shot it as well as any gun I have owned and shot for a long time, in fact better than most. The only thing I don't like and I mean the ONLY thing I don't like so far is the price of .357sig ammo.This is the first non-9mm carry gun I have gotten in a long time, so I am used to the price of 9mm ammo. I really like the .357sig round, a lot but the price,,,,,,,,,,,,, I mean,,,,,,,,,,,My God!!!
I think I will be shooting it in 40S&W at the range and just carry the .357sig as my carry ammo.
I'm not sure I can answer that . . . but I can tell you our story. In short, we kind of fell into SIG (though I was well aware of SIG's reputation).
In May of last year, my wife of 40+ years decided the time was right for her to acquire a handgun for personal protection (she'd shown absolutely no interest in my boyhood interest until then -- I don't know what happened . . .). My shooting buddy (Mark) loaned us his Glock 17 in 9mm, and Kate shot if, and found it wouldn't bite. But she was turned off (as was I) by the hassles of loading the magazine and (for me) the hassles of field stripping it for cleaning. But she sort of liked shooting it. Mark recommended we take a look at a Kahr at our local gun shop because it was small and easily concealable.
So we did . . . and she was okay with the Kahr, just as she had been okay with the Glock. Then, for no particular reason other than I knew of SIG's reputation and wanted Kate to have a look-see at "the best" for reasons of comparison, I asked the clerk if he had a used Sig. He didn't, but he did have a new one -- a P-239.
He handed it to Kate, and that was it. She was trying very hard to be perfectly objective and not to show how she felt, but after all those years of marriage, I kinda know how to read her.
So I outlined the positives and negatives of SIG vs Kahr (she'd rejected the Glock), and pointed out that the small, light Kahr would conceal better, but that she'd practice more with the SIG -- which is all important. She also liked the exposed hammer of the SIG.
So she got it, named it Ziva (after the Mosad agent played by Cote de Pablo in the TV show NCIS), and since May has put 6000 rounds through it. It just feels good to her, and is ever so reliable. Plus it's easy to field strip and clean. And she's developing into a pretty damned good shot, too.
I still thought she should have something a little smaller, so a few months later I went back to the gun shop and picked up a little second hand Kahr. It was a great little gun in theory. The only problem was that it jammed every third shot, no matter what ammo I fed it . . . so I took it back to the gun shop, and traded it in for a second hand SIG 225 (P-5) which had been the official sidearm of the West German border guard until Germany was reunited (some holster wear, but mechanically superb).
Alas, it was way too large for her . . . larger than her P 239 . . . so I kept it for myself . . . ;-)
What can I say? She dotes on hers, I on mine. The SIGs are a gas to shoot and are very reliable and accurate.
(Kate's SIG ended up costing me a fortune . . . I ended up upgrading from my single stage Rockchucker press to RCBS's Pro 2000 Progressive press to keep up with the number of rounds she was shooting. And then, there's all those components, and the cost of my own SIG . . . sigh . . . problems, problems, problems.)
One of my favorite aspects of my Sig P239 .40 is the thin grip. Although only 7+1, the Sig points and shootsd so well that 7+1 seems more than adequate. As with others on this forum -- no FTF's no FTE's.
My most common CCW is the Walther PPS. My overall best shooter is the Sig. Good luck!
The question was, "why a Sig"? The short answer is: a picture is worth a thousand words. My P226 Elite .40S&W (12+1)....
The SIG pistol is just one beautiful piece of equipment and functions well. I was totally Glock until I got my P220R. Now it seems I have more decisions to make when the time comes.
Ram Rod, that P220 is comfortable in your hand, isn't it? And that shove the 45ACP gives you. mmmmm.
Indeed it is. I had to go and get a slip on finger groove grip for it since nobody makes rubber grips yet for the SAO model. My G21 got sold over a year ago, and my G30 went in on the P220 in trade. I needed something in the 45. The Glocks that I had in the 45 just weren't right for me. I didn't really want to get back into the 1911 thing again. With my SIG P220R-TSS-SAO, everything is right with the universe again!

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I love your cock in my ass No need to rush it, make it last Start out real nice and slow I feel your cock from head to toe When you pry open my tight hole With your fat, hard, raging pole I close my eyes and then I grunt I shove my fingers in my cunt I crave, hunger and I need Your hard cock stretching me My head is dizzy, it's hard to breath Please make me your cock-sleeve Now it's time...Read On
Added: 03 Mar 2016 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 387 |
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This poem is a song, written to the woman I love.
Oh, my soul, my heart's troll. You're so nasty, You're so dread, You've got me Drowning in devil's sin. You're a strumpet in my bed, You're an itch that won't scratch. You're my Delilah, You're Eve with an apple. Oh, my soul – Wrapped between your thighs, Lost in your honey drip. *** Eyes so flirty, Making me dirty. You're magical, You're delicious, ...Read On
Added: 24 Oct 2015 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 259 |
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A silly rhyme about pussies and fucking and whatnot...
I I leared at her pussy and decided it was Time to gorge on her beautiful flower. I nuzzled her cunny, licking her honey She was ready and sweet to devour. Her pussy was glistening, it fit like a glove And I stuck out my middle finger 'O beautiful pussy, this pussy I love, What a gorgeous, slick pussy you are, You are, You are! What a gorgeous, slick pussy you are...Read On
Added: 30 Oct 2012 | Category: Love Poems |
Words: 239 |
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Teacher gives a lesson that these 16 year olds will never forget.
She pushes back, and then again, Taking inches but not quite ten. Then she seems to have a thought: Thirty girls that should be taught. "Girls gather round, come have a look, Come and see how you should fuck." Scraping chairs, muffled words, Surrounded by some thirty birds. "Concentrate, oh girls you must, See how he does it, as discussed." I do my best as they watch on, But soon...Read On
Added: 27 Oct 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.43 |
Words: 101 |
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What I did to him wasn't really fair. Such a gentle tender man. There was no way for him to beware. I've thought over my actions. And I am not very proud. Of all of the distractions. And everything I voiced aloud. I had his best interest always at heart. But my lust got in the way. And tore my intentions apart. I thought it would be so fun. Just a sexy little affair. I'm so perfectly...Read On
Added: 06 Jul 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 355 |
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Wedding day thoughts
Our wedding day was so special with family and friends, Our dream wedding was elaborate and I never wanted it to end. My dress made me feel like a beautiful bride, I promised myself and my family that I would never cry. We exchanged our vows and declared our love for each other, And thoughts of lust and passion of the night we will become lovers. We had the most amazing day with all...Read On
Added: 24 Nov 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
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broken heart
I am devoured by my waking moments of her.. and left exhausted by my sleepless nights... As time ebbs slowly by and she is not there... the distance grows and soon she'll be out of my sight... Our words and whispers carried by wire.. our letters sent through tapping keys... They only make my yearning higher... for hopes and dreams that will never be.. The miles between us can only stop...Read On
Added: 30 Apr 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 192 |
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If only you could see this girl.
With her head slightly tilted, an a feline grin on her lips. She glided panther like towards me. Her lashes lowered and her slim hands caressing her sleek body as she stopped, just above me, gracefully she slid down beside me. Instantly her hands started in their rhythmic motion, igniting my body sending a thousand shiver like tiny volts of electricity down my legs. I could feel...Read On
Added: 23 Sep 2011 | Category: Love Poems |
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Words: 145 |
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The day She saved me
The loneliness, the despair and emptiness surrounds me, A million words and yet not one touches my soul I read but I feel nothing, a chasm opens before me, As words for the sake of words spew out, meaninglessly I try to see some beauty, or order, but all I see is darkness It envelops, cloying, a fetid miasma it is I want to run, but the walls close in, an evil thesaurus I cry...Read On
Added: 10 Dec 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 167 |
Tags: thoughts words sadness poetry
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Sometimes it's hard to be yourself...
I dreamed that all my wounds had healed, which freed me to move on. My confidence was coming back, I'd thought it all but gone. A smile, a laugh, an opening up, a glimmer of some hope, But my epistemic self still said I was a dope. * Not sure if I was was worthy, was sadly my belief And a brave face was the one I wore, despite the mental grief. Suppressing it, I steeled myself and...Read On
Added: 19 Jul 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Words: 459 |
Tags: love loss hurt pain hope belief inner turmoil
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About a guy who loves his wife so much, his only concern is her happiness after he's gone...
You know that I must leave you, The end is surely near, We both knew this day would come, Please don't shed a tear. Life is but a journey, Beginning with our birth, I'd like to think it continues on, After we leave this earth. But I do have one big fear, And it's not of the unknown, But rather that my leaving here, May find you left alone. So, until we meet again someday, I hope that you...Read On
Added: 27 Nov 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 167 |
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A pussy is much more than something sexual between a woman's legs.
A pussy is much more than something sexual between a woman's legs. So why do we always make it out to be? It's soft and tender, Delicate and sublime. It can hold you together, Keep you safe and warm For long periods of time. It's loving and affectionate And will know when you ache, Then console you Sweetly and gently Taking the pain away. Most times it's funny and laughing A real joy...Read On
Added: 03 Aug 2011 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.83 |
Words: 224 |
Tags: love descriptive pussy
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the way you feel inside me is perfection
I watch your beloved and intense face and touch the edge of your mouth as you slowly slide your erect length into my longing. Breath ceases as a moan is pressed from my throat. All is perfect. , Of course, the earlier kisses, desperate and wild, were perfect. The laughing chase as we ran to the bed leaving a trail of clothes behind us was perfect, too....Read On
Added: 11 Oct 2012 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 147 |
Tags: passion sex joy desire just fuck me
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I spy with my little eye
Door ajar, a feast for my eyes, She stands with mirror in front, Jacket eased off and skirt unzipped, Blouse unbuttoned and lace revealed. Breasts I longed to expose and cup, To hear soft moans upon her breath, Erotic neck and lips so full, Stomach and hips give way to lace. Brassierre unhooked, straps fall down, Breasts released and nipples erect, Standing, watching, hand massaging. ...Read On
Added: 18 Sep 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 224 |
Tags: voyeurism sex lust
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The senses waken and wait
There's next to no sense in anything fun: Whims, like winds, startle roofs with their rages. We've liquored and loved, before, till the sun Shushed us off to sleep like sober sages. Quiet, this house now keeps saner hours Where wandered wishes' eyes I kiss tight shut When, wistful, I wonder upon our bower, That bed, where, lonely, I toss in a rut. No fun! But fitful dreams pen hard demands...Read On
Added: 18 Jul 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 109 |
Tags: romance submission
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When you call, I get excited to hear your voice
As you call, I answer, happy to hear from you within a week, missing you like crazy, hormones are out of wack Phone sex, another best thing we have until your home, when you can be wrapped around my arms and legs, as we kiss up and down each others bodies I use my toy, as you use your hand, you in a bathroom stall, I use our bedroom, I moan in your ear "Fuck me,baby, harder, faster, more" As...Read On
Added: 07 May 2011 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 115 |
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alone quiet missing as the world sleeps and the night teems with all things nocturnal that is where I find you alone softly I cradle you and none can see and only one can feel the stirrings of heartstrings strung taut against the night cross rivers over valleys you wait not knowing never knowing candled chasms endless voids that separate love not to be alone...Read On
Added: 20 Feb 2015 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.83 |
Words: 85 |
Tags: separation longing
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A bit more romantic...
Equal in Nature In the quiet hours of night you hold her, Each of you needing an escape from the day. Your reasons may be different, but equal in nature. You need each other. In the incandescent light you gaze at her Each of you wanting something you can only have together Your reasons may be different, but equal in nature. You want each other. In the privacy of behind closed doors...Read On
Added: 04 Dec 2008 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.5 |
Words: 198 |
Tags: love sex sensuality
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A poem of love and passion.
The labyrinth of the heart is full of hopes and dreams, entrapments and schemes, and dances to a blues harmony. The heart bleeds and scars, it writes the novel of life of defeats and victories, and sings an ode to the soul. I feel a hot breeze burning, conflict of power and submission, blood sizzling through my veins, conquer and be conquered. Lost under a black moon, ...Read On
Added: 20 Nov 2014 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 258 |
Tags: love passion desire
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My message to my submissive man.
What I wouldn't give to look at your handsome face, wrap my arms around you and all your doubts I will erase. To hold you close and let you know I am that one person who adores you so. Who adores all the parts of you exactly as you are and thinks of you as her perfect shining star. I want to let you know I accept you completely, like you for everything you are and cherish...Read On
Added: 17 Feb 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 605 |
Tags: acceptance passion cherish adore
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Loving the girl of my dreams. (for you)
The scent of fresh grass, surrounding our bodies Lying together in a field The evening sky red, a cooling breeze flowing Our naked bodies revealed You sit on my stomach, and fondle my hair Holding me in your gaze Your warm body on mine, our lips softly touching It feels like I'm in a daze Our tongues are dancing, a slow teasing dance Entangled in an endless fight The passion is showing,...Read On
Added: 28 May 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 287 |
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I crave the feeling, the tasting, the eating, and the doing.....
SCENT OF A WOMAN Don Abdul ©2005 Laying out here by the pool Soaking up the sun Drink by my side so sweaty cool From deep within my mind From that collage of smells Perception of smell to the blind It is the one The scent that stirs me to arousal Venting erotic memories of times long gone Heightening my thirst for raw she-juice My hunger for wet swollen lips Letting my desire loose...Read On
Added: 17 Oct 2009 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.67 |
Words: 112 |
Tags: erotic poem oral sensual fantasy
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Dirty little girl She will blow your mind Get your toes to curl She is a special kind Always up for something new She likes to be surprised Not an ounce inhibited As she looks you in the eyes She'll whisper dirty nasty words Oooo her mind is bent She'll spin your head with her moves You better work it good, if you want to leave a dent She is a feast to visualize A chameleon...Read On
Added: 30 Sep 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.83 |
Words: 188 |
Tags: dirty girl sex fun
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I regret nothing - with apologies to Edith Piaf for stealing the title of her iconic song.
We all have a past A bank of memories Both happy and sad Of love and passion Excitement and delight Loss and heartbreak. Je ne regrette rien. Fleeting encounters Where impetuosity overcame reason Fuelled by intense desire Being mutual objects of lust Like a flash of lightning Incandescent, hot, ephemeral And soon gone. Je ne regrette rien. Having been...Read On
Added: 03 May 2012 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.96 |
Words: 146 |
Tags: love passion reflection
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He watches me in the bathroom, and I love it
I know that you furtively watch me as I bath That's why I never close the curtain, You like to see the warm water roll down the cheeks of my arth Of that I'm fairly certain, And as I lather my pert prime jobblers I know that you're pulling on your tiny nobbler, And I guess you think as I sponge down my sweet beaver "If I had a girl like that I'd surely never leave 'er". Keep pullin' it...Read On
Added: 19 Jan 2013 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.3 |
Words: 81 |
Tags: voyeurism exhibitionism masturbation love
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Words written to her ex-lover by his mistress on learning that he is leaving her
Well you said your wife's a liar when she said your prick's no use. But on the subject of your penis she was tellin' you the truth. I don't need seven inches or an eleven inch surprise. But man oh man, your dick's just small, it's hardly any size. I like a cock that's meaty, a cock that's thick, a cock thats round. But when you dropped your trousers, a joke is what I found ...Read On
Added: 07 May 2012 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.42 |
Words: 294 |
Tags: jealousy penis adultery
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The Heart is so fragile
The Heart is so fragile, it hurts and breaks with a word. One day it flourishes like a new rose. the next it shatters to the ground He seamed the one I'd longed for, Like the tender man of my dreams A knight in faded blue jeans with a chip on his shoulder and a smile that melted my heart. How was I to know the pain of this villain in disguise He'd take my heart felt love and waist it like...Read On
Added: 19 Dec 2006 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.25 |
Words: 153 |
Tags: heart fragile love poem
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If he were to know what would he say...
I thought of you today. First time in a while, I'm sorry to say But I finally thought today I looked for you And found you had gone No words, nothing. It was silly to expect more. But I still find myself Thinking of our chats And 'that' But also the hurt. I find myself wishing, Praying almost That less words had been said... That I had hidden some things...Read On
Added: 28 Aug 2012 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 5 |
Words: 214 |
Tags: hurt justice pain truth
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Do not ask me to be your Valentine On the fourteenth day of the month named after, Februus Expect not tired gifts, this day has come to define For the dead language foretells of this month to be icy Of all the months named after planets and gods This month was cheated, bestowed with the fewest of days Cold and fleeting, the apex of winter. What were the odds? The shortest and coldest...Read On
Added: 08 Feb 2015 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.97 |
Words: 237 |
Tags: love valentine new love
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She sits at home, There is no one, she is alone. She is looking at pictures on the computer of her crush, He is the only one in forever that has made her blush. The way he smiles that crooked smile, Oh she hasn't touched herself in awhile. The way he says "How you doing?", oh his voice, She can't stop thinking about him, she has no choice. The way he smells, he is so addicting, She wants...Read On
Added: 16 Nov 2010 | Category: Love Poems |
Avg Score: 4.5 |
Words: 636 |
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B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix is seeking to limit the political damage from an audit of the Portland Hotel Society that has ensnared veteran party MLA Jenny Kwan.
Ms. Kwan is taking a leave of absence as the MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant after the audit showed she and her family benefited from lavish trips paid for by the society, which is publicly funded to provide social services to residents of the Downtown Eastside. She has also repaid almost $35,000 for two trips.
But the NDP's ties to the society are not limited to Ms. Kwan's now-dissolving marriage to Dan Small, a former society executive. The crossover between party activists and the society's brass runs deep – something Mr. Dix refused to address when he met with reporters in Victoria on Monday to talk about the controversy around the agency, which operates various social-services projects including Canada's only supervised-injection site, Insite.
Asked whether his party is tarnished because of those ties, Mr. Dix replied: "I think issues of poverty and inequality are some of the most important issues facing B.C. And it is clear the results of this audit have a negative effect on that … Audits such as this increase public cynicism."
He would not say whether Ms. Kwan would be able to represent the caucus as a critic on poverty issues after this. "She will back and represent her constituents," he said.
Later, in an interview, Mr. Dix said his party is suffering a setback, because it is so closely aligned with key players in the society.
"Their goals are the goals we supported," he said. "It's not very good for us … You bet I'm angry."
Mr. Dix told reporters he could not say how long Ms. Kwan will be absent from her job. "In addition to the political and financial issues, there are significant personal issues involved here."
The unpaid leave of absence is without precedent in British Columbia. MLAs can, and do, take leaves for serious illness. But Ms. Kwan sent a letter to the house clerk saying she wants her salary suspended until she returns.
Mr. Dix said Ms. Kwan should not have to take full responsibility for the actions of her spouse. "She was misled by her husband. You can only imagine, I think, the seriousness of that." Mr. Dix also suggested that because the B.C. Liberal government has funded the organization, the issues of accountability rest with the Liberals.
He said his party will make arrangements to provide services for her constituents, although he was vague on how that would be done.
Ms. Kwan's constituency office on Commercial Drive in Vancouver was open for business on Monday with staff present to deal with queries from voters.
Brian Waite, a 69-year-old retired legal assistant strolling by outside, said his impression from TV reports on Ms. Kwan's statements is that she is truly contrite about the situation and taking the leave so she can emotionally recover and return to her political duties.
He said he might be concerned if Ms. Kwan was going to take a long leave, but noted there are enough NDP MLAs to pick up on Ms. Kwan's House duties and sufficient staff in the constituency office to handle voter concerns. "I don't think it will affect our service," he said.
Gregor Phillips said it appeared "sad" that circumstances beyond Ms. Kwan's control put her in a difficult situation. "It sounds like she has just been swept up in a big controversy and, unfortunately, we have to lose an MLA because of it," said the 35-year-old film sound editor.
He said it would be "unfortunate" if Ms. Kwan was away for an extended period. "She does a great job," he said. "She has a lot of integrity and is really involved in a lot of community aspects. She has really strong support here in the neighbourhood."
Shane Simpson, the NDP caucus chair, said Ms. Kwan will be welcome to sit as a New Democrat whenever she chooses to return.
He said Ms. Kwan has given assurances there are no other questionable expenses involving her family that were picked up by the society outside of the audit period.Report Typo/Error
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About Switzerland
Switzerland - Land of the Alps,
The beautiful country of Switzerland is situated in Northern Europe and is geographically divided between the Alps, the Central Plateau and the Jura mountains. Switzerland sits at the crossroads of northern and southern Europe. Several major European cultures have heavily influenced the country's languages and cultural practices. To be precise, Switzerland showcases three of Europe's most distinct cultures - to the northeast is the German-speaking Switzerland; to the south-west the French-speaking Switzerland and in the south-east the Italian-speaking Switzerland.
Along with southeastern France, northern Italy, and southwestern Austria, Switzerland has the highest elevations in the Alps. About two third of the area of Switzerland is covered with forests, lakes and mountains. While the Alps occupy the greater part of the Swiss territory, the Swiss population of approximately 7.9 million people mainly lives in the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and economic centres of the world, Zurich and Geneva. Switzerland has four official languages--German, French, Italian, and Romansch.
Switzerland is formally a confederation but similar in structure to a federal republic composed of 26 cantons that retain attributes of sovereignty, such as fiscal autonomy and the right to manage internal cantonal affairs. The Swiss Confederation has a long history of neutrality and the country has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815. For centuries, other European countries have respected this neutrality, even during World Wars I & II.
Despite a dearth of natural resources, Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced and prosperous nations in the world. It has a modern market economy, one of the most capitalist and powerful economies of the world. The economy is characterized by low unemployment, a highly qualified labour force performing highly skilled work, and a per capita GDP among the highest in the world. Switzerland's economy benefits from a highly developed service sector which now employs the greatest number of people. The service sector is led by financial services - the country is known for its high standard of banking and insurance services, and a manufacturing industry that specializes in high-technology, knowledge-based production.
Chemicals, health and pharmaceutical, measuring instruments, musical instruments, real estate, tourism, and international organisations are some of the important industries in Switzerland. Switzerland is home to several large multinational corporations. Most of the people working in Switzerland are employed by small and medium-sized enterprises, which play an extremely important role in the Swiss economy.
The per capita income in Switzerland is among the highest in the world, as are wages. Trade has been the key to prosperity in Switzerland. The country is dependent upon export markets to generate income while dependent upon imports for raw materials and to expand the range of goods and services available in the country. Switzerland has liberal investment and trade policies, with the exception of agriculture, and a conservative fiscal policy. More recently, the Swiss have brought their economic practices largely into conformity with the EU's, in order to enhance their international competitiveness.
The Swiss currency is called "Schweizerfranken" ("Swiss Franc"). The Swiss franc is one of the world's soundest currencies. Switzerland remains a safe haven for investors because it has maintained a degree of bank secrecy and has kept up the franc's long-term external value.
Switzerland is a member of a number of international economic organizations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area. It did not join the United Nations until 2002.
Switzerland is an easy place to do business. The country has an overwhelmingly private sector economy and low tax rates by the Western World standards. Switzerland ranks 21st out of 178 countries in the Ease of Doing Business Index. Business activity benefits from a well-developed institutional framework, characterized by the rule of law, an efficient judicial system, and high levels of transparency and accountability within public institutions. Apart from agriculture, economic and trade barriers between the European Union and Switzerland are minimal and Switzerland has free trade agreements worldwide.
Switzerland is a peaceful and prosperous nation with a stable government and diverse society. The country offers a great quality of life to its residents. It is considered as one of the best places in the world to live and work. Zurich and Geneva have respectively been ranked as the cities with the second and third highest quality of life in the world.


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hehe, forgot to mention how tasty is it too!
"revolutionary products like this don't arrive more than once in a million years." I disagree, in fact I think they tend to arrive annually on this exact day.
I must say I was pretty disappointed with this - as well as being spurious, an April Fool's Day spoof article/review should also be funny. This one wasn't berry funny at all. It was just a bit half baked.
Good AFJ!
I originally thought that the "iPhone 5 to Get 3D Camera?" article was the April's Fool.
Come on John, I thought this April Fool's Joke was a bit tasty. In fact I bet you know next to muffin about what makes a good April's fool...
Timing is everything.
With Raspberry Pi delayed due to CE mark approval and Research in Motion refocussing the Blackberry on corporate users, there's a grumbling stomach sized gap in the market for the Blueberry Muffin.
Not funny. I went straight to Currys to get one, but they'd sold out like hot cakes.
Left a nasty taste in the mouth.
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John Adams, Jr.
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|Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
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Please note: He passed away July 4, 1826 at the age of 90= Middle name was Edmund in some records.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ) DAR Ancestor # A000585
John Adams, 2nd President of the USA, met Abigail Smith and by 1762 they were exchanging frankly affectionate love letters full of mischievous humor. Their wedding, on October 25, 1764, began one of history's great partnerships. They were lovers, friends, counselors, and mentors to one another into old age. John did not resent his wife's abilities to manage a farm and raise a family without him during his long absences on the nation's business. Rather, he took considerable pride in her accomplishments. He told her she was so successful in budgeting, planting, managing staff, regulating live-stock, buying provisions, nursing and educating her children, that their neighbors would surely remark on how much better things seemed to go in his absence.
From 1783-88, Abigail accompanied her husband on diplomatic missions to France and England. Afterwards, she was glad to return to their farm in Braintree (Quincy). She told Thomas Jefferson she preferred her farm to "the court of St. James, where I seldom meet with characters so inoffensive as my hens and chickens, or minds so well improved as my garden."
The following anecdote, related by him, even to the last days of his life, with all the good humour which was so charactistic of him, it is presumed, has not yet passed away from the minds of many who have heard it from his own lips.
"When I was a boy, I had to study the Latin Grammar, but it was dull and I hated it. My father was anxious to send me to College, and therefore I studied the Grammar till I could bear with it no longer; and going to my father, I told him I did not like study, and asked for some other employment. It was opposing his wishes and he was quick in his answer, "Well John," said he, "if Latin Grammar does not suit you, you may try ditching, perhaps that will; my meadow yonder needs a ditch, and you may put by Latin and try that." This seemed a delightful change, and to the meadow I went. But I soon found ditching harder than Latin, and the first forenoon was the longest I ever experienced. That day I ate the bread of labour, and glad was I when night came on. That night I made some comparison between Latin Grammar and ditching, but said not a word about it. I dug the next afternoon, and wanted to return to Latin at dinner, but it was humiliating, and I could not do it. At night, toil conquered pride, and I told my father, one of the severest trials of my life, that if he chose, I would go back to Latin Grammar. He was glad of it, and if I have since gained any distinction, it has been owning to the two days labour in that abominable ditch."
From the "History of Quncy" by the Rev. George Whitney
He Graduated Harvard in 1755
He was Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 2nd Cousin (according to Geni)
He died at 6 PM on the 4th of July, 1826. It is well-known that he and his friend, Thomas Jefferson, another drafter of the Declaration of Independence, died on the same day, on the 50th anniversary of that Declaration. Previous to the 4th of July, he had been solicited to give a sentiment for his fellow townsmen on that days' celebration. "I will give," said he, "Independence forever." On being asked if he would add anything, he answered, "not a syllable." That sentiment was being shouted at the celebrations, perhaps at the very moment of his death.
Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience.
Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence.
During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington. Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation.
His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling group, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commercial relations.
Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z."
The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. Y. Z. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular.
Congress appropriated money to complete three new frigates and to build additional ships, and authorized the raising of a provisional army. It also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, intended to frighten foreign agents out of the country and to stifle the attacks of Republican editors.
President Adams did not call for a declaration of war, but hostilities began at sea. At first, American shipping was almost defenseless against French privateers, but by 1800 armed merchantmen and U.S. warships were clearing the sea-lanes.
Despite several brilliant naval victories, war fever subsided. Word came to Adams that France also had no stomach for war and would receive an envoy with respect. Long negotiations ended the quasi war.
Sending a peace mission to France brought the full fury of the Hamiltonians against Adams. In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided. Nevertheless, Adams polled only a few less electoral votes than Jefferson, who became President.
On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
Adams retired to his farm in Quincy. Here he penned his elaborate letters to Thomas Jefferson. Here on July 4, 1826, he whispered his last words: "Thomas Jefferson survives." But Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.
Second president of the United States.
Early life
John Adams, Jr., the eldest of two brothers, was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735 by the Old Style, Julian calendar), in Braintree, Massachusetts, to John and Susanna Boylston Adams. The location of Adams's birth became part of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1792 and is now part of Adams National Historical Park. His father, also named John (1690–1761), was a fourth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who immigrated from Barton St David, Somerset, England, to Massachusetts Bay Colony in about 1636, from a Welsh male line called Ap Adam. His father was a farmer, a Congregationalist (that is, Puritan) deacon, a lieutenant in the militia and a selectman, or town councilman, who supervised schools and roads. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams,[2] was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline.
Adams was born to a modest family, but he felt acutely the responsibility of living up to his family heritage: the founding generation of Puritans, who came to the American wilderness in the 1630s and established colonial presence in America. The Puritans of the great migration "believed they lived in the Bible. England under the Stuarts was Egypt; they were Israel fleeing …to establish a refuge for godliness, a city upon a hill." By the time of John Adams's birth in 1735, Puritan dogma such as predestination no longer convinced many people, and many of their stricter practices had mellowed with time, but John Adams "considered them bearers of freedom, a cause that still had a holy urgency." It was a value system he believed in, and a heroic model he wished to live up to.
Young Adams went to Harvard College at age sixteen (in 1751). His father expected him to become a minister, but Adams had doubts. After graduating in 1755, he taught school for a few years in Worcester, allowing himself time to think about his career choice. After much reflection, he decided to become a lawyer and studied law in the office of James Putnam, a prominent lawyer in Worcester. In 1758, Adams was admitted to the bar. From an early age, he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events and impressions of men which are scattered through his diary. He put the skill to good use as a lawyer, often recording cases he observed so that he could study and reflect upon them. His report of the 1761 argument of James Otis in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of Writs of Assistance is a good example. Otis's argument inspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies.
In 1764, Adams married Abigail Smith (1744–1818), the daughter of a Congregational minister, Rev. William Smith, at Weymouth, Massachusetts. Their children were Abigail (1765–1813), future president John Quincy (1767–1848), Susanna (1768–1770); Charles (1770–1800), Thomas Boylston (1772–1832), and the stillborn Elizabeth (1775).
Adams was not a popular leader like his second cousin, Samuel Adams. Instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer and his intense analysis of historical examples, together with his thorough knowledge of the law and his dedication to the principles of republicanism. Adams often found his inborn contentiousness to be a constraint in his political career.
Career before the Revolution 19th-century etching of Adams
Opponent of Stamp Act 1765
Adams first rose to prominence as an opponent of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was imposed by the British Parliament to assuage British war debts as well as the expense of keeping a standing army in the American colonies against possible Indian revolt. Popular resistance, he later observed, was sparked by an oft-reprinted sermon of the Boston minister, Dick Mayhew, interpreting Romans 13 so as to elucidate the principle of just insurrection.
In 1765, Adams drafted the instructions which were sent by the inhabitants of Braintree to its representatives in the Massachusetts legislature, and which served as a model for other towns to draw up instructions to their representatives. In August 1765, he anonymously contributed four notable articles to the Boston Gazette (republished in The London Chronicle in 1768 as True Sentiments of America and also known as A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law). In the letter he suggested that there was a connection between the Protestant ideas that Adams's Puritan ancestors brought to New England and the ideas behind their resistance to the Stamp Act. In the former he explained that the opposition of the colonies to the Stamp Act was because the Stamp Act deprived the American colonists of two basic rights guaranteed to all Englishmen, and which all free men deserved: rights to be taxed only by consent and to be tried only by a jury of one's peers.
The "Braintree Instructions" were a succinct and forthright defense of colonial rights and liberties, while the Dissertation was an essay in political education.
In December 1765, he delivered a speech before the governor and council in which he pronounced the Stamp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representation in Parliament, had not assented to it.
Boston Massacre: 1770
In 1770, a street confrontation resulted in British soldiers killing five civilians in what became known as the Boston Massacre. The soldiers involved, who were arrested on criminal charges, had trouble finding legal counsel. Finally, they asked Adams to defend them. Although he feared it would hurt his reputation, he agreed. Six of the soldiers were acquitted. Two who had fired directly into the crowd were charged with murder but were convicted only of manslaughter.
As for Adams's payment, Chinard alleges that one of the soldiers, Captain Thomas Preston gave Adams a symbolic "single guinea" as a retaining fee, the only fee he received in the case. However, David McCullough states in his biography of Adams that he received nothing more than a retainer of eighteen guineas. Adams's own diary confirms that Preston paid an initial ten guineas and a subsequent payment of eight, "all the pecuniary Reward I ever had for fourteen or fifteen days labour, in the most exhausting and fatiguing Causes I ever tried."
Despite his previous misgivings, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts General Court (the colonial legislature) in June 1770, while still in preparation for the trial.
Dispute concerning Parliament's authority
In 1772, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson announced that he and his judges would no longer need their salaries paid by the Massachusetts legislature, because the Crown would henceforth assume payment drawn from customs revenues. Boston radicals protested and asked Adams to explain their objections. In "Two Replies of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to Governor Hutchinson" Adams argued that the colonists had never been under the sovereignty of Parliament. Their original charter was with the person of the king and their allegiance was only to him. If a workable line could not be drawn between parliamentary sovereignty and the total independence of the colonies, he continued, the colonies would have no other choice but to choose independence.
In Novanglus; or, A History of the Dispute with America, From Its Origin, in 1754, to the Present Time Adams attacked some essays by Daniel Leonard that defended Hutchinson's arguments for the absolute authority of Parliament over the colonies. In Novanglus Adams gave a point-by-point refutation of Leonard's essays, and then provided one of the most extensive and learned arguments made by the colonists against British imperial policy.
It was a systematic attempt by Adams to describe the origins, nature, and jurisdiction of the unwritten British constitution. Adams used his wide knowledge of English and colonial legal history to show the provincial legislatures were fully sovereign over their own internal affairs, and that the colonies were connected to Great Britain only through the King.
Continental Congress
Massachusetts sent Adams to the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and from 1775 to 1778. In June 1775, with a view of promoting the union of the colonies, he nominated George Washington of Virginia as commander-in-chief of the army then assembled around Boston. His influence in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning, he sought permanent separation from Britain. John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American president postage stamp John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American president postage stamp
On May 15, 1776 the Continental Congress, in response to escalating hostilities which had commenced thirteen months earlier at the battles of Lexington and Concord, urged that the colonies begin constructing their own constitutions, a precursor to becoming independent states. The resolution to draft independent constitutions was, as Adams put it, "independence itself."
Over the next decade, Americans from every state gathered and deliberated on new governing documents. As radical as it was to actually write constitutions (prior convention suggested that a society's form of government needn't be codified, nor should its organic law be written down in a single document), what was equally radical was the nature of American political thought as the summer of 1776 dawned.
Thoughts on Government
At that time several Congressmen turned to Adams for advice about framing new governments. Adams tired of repeating the same thing, and published the pamphlet Thoughts on Government (1776), which was subsequently influential in the writing of many state constitutions. Many historians argue that Thoughts on Government should be read as an articulation of the classical theory of mixed government. Adams contended that social classes exist in every political society, and that a good government must accept that reality. For centuries, dating back to Aristotle, a mixed regime balancing monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, or the monarch, nobles, and people was required to preserve order and liberty.
Using the tools of Republicanism in the United States, the patriots believed it was corrupt and nefarious aristocrats, in the English Parliament and stationed in America, who were guilty of the British assault on American liberty. Unlike others, Adams thought that the definition of a republic had to do with its ends, rather than its means. He wrote in Thoughts on Government, "there is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; because the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'" Thoughts on Government defended bicameralism, for "a single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual." He also suggested that the executive should be independent, as should the judiciary. Thoughts on Government was enormously influential and was referenced as an authority in every state-constitution writing hall. Trumbull's Declaration of Independence depicts the five-man committee presenting the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. Adams is standing in the center with his hand on his hip. Trumbull's Declaration of Independence depicts the five-man committee presenting the draft of the Declaration of Independence to Congress. Adams is standing in the center with his hand on his hip.
Declaration of Independence
On June 7, 1776, Adams seconded the resolution of independence introduced by Richard Henry Lee that "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," and championed the resolution until it was adopted by Congress on July 2, 1776.
He was appointed to a committee of FIVE with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman, to draft a Declaration of Independence. Although that document was written primarily by Jefferson, Adams occupied the foremost place in the debate on its adoption. Many years later, Jefferson hailed Adams as "the pillar of [the Declaration's] support on the floor of Congress, it's [sic] ablest advocate and defender against the multifarious assaults it encountered."
In 1777, Adams resigned his seat on the Massachusetts Superior Court to serve as the head of the Board of War and Ordnance, as well as many other important committees.
In Europe
Congress twice dispatched Adams to represent the fledgling union in Europe, first in 1777, and again in 1779. Accompanied by his oldest son, Adams sailed for France aboard the Continental Navy frigate Boston on February 15, 1778. Although chased several times by British warships, the only action seen during the voyage was the bloodless capture of a British privateer.
His first stay in Europe, between April 1, 1778, and June 17, 1779, was largely unproductive, and he returned to his home in Braintree in early August 1779.
Between September 1 and October 30, 1779, he drafted the Massachusetts Constitution together with Samuel Adams and James Bowdoin. He was selected in September 1779 to return to France and, following the conclusion of the Massachusetts constitutional convention, left on November 15 aboard the French frigate Sensible.
On the second trip, Adams was appointed as Minister Plenipotentiary charged with the mission of negotiating a treaty of peace and a treaty of commerce with France. The French government, however, did not approve of Adams's appointment and subsequently, on the insistence of the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay and Henry Laurens were appointed to cooperate with Adams, although Jefferson did not go to Europe and Laurens was posted to Holland (the Netherlands). In the event Jay, Adams and Franklin played the major part in the negotiations. Overruling Franklin and distrustful of Vergennes, Jay and Adams decided not to consult with France. Instead, they dealt directly with the British commissioners.
Throughout the negotiations, Adams was especially determined that the right of the United States to the fisheries along the Atlantic coast should be recognized. The American negotiators were able to secure a favorable treaty, which gave Americans ownership of all lands east of the Mississippi, except Florida, which was transferred to Spain as its reward. The treaty was signed on November 30, 1782.
After these negotiations began, Adams had spent some time as the ambassador in the Netherlands, then the only other well-functioning Republic in the world. In July 1780, he had been authorized to execute the duties previously assigned to Laurens. With the aid of the Dutch patriot leader Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Adams secured the recognition of the United States as an independent government at The Hague on April 19, 1782.[25] During this visit, he also negotiated a loan of five million guilders financed by Nicolaas van Staphorst and Wilhelm Willink.[ In October 1782, he negotiated with the Dutch a treaty of amity and commerce, the first such treaty between the United States and a foreign power following the 1778 treaty with France. The house that Adams purchased during this stay in The Netherlands became the first American embassy on foreign soil anywhere in the world.[ For two months during 1783, Adams lodged in London with radical publisher John Stockdale.
In 1785, John Adams was appointed the first American minister to the Court of St. James's (ambassador to Great Britain). When he was presented to his former sovereign, George III, the King intimated that he was aware of Adams's lack of confidence in the French government. Adams admitted this, stating: "I must avow to your Majesty that I have no attachment but to my own country."
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain referred to this episode on July 7, 1976 at the White House. She said, "John Adams, America's first Ambassador, said to my ancestor, King George III, that it was his desire to help with the restoration of 'the old good nature and the old good humor between our peoples.' That restoration has long been made, and the links of language, tradition, and personal contact have maintained it."
Adams's British residence, a house off London's Grosvenor Square, still stands and is commemorated by a plaque. He returned to the United States in 1788 to continue his domestic political life.
Constitutional ideas
Massachusetts's new constitution, ratified in 1780 and written largely by Adams himself, structured its government most closely on his views of politics and society. It was the first constitution written by a special committee and ratified by the people. It was also the first to feature a bicameral legislature, a clear and distinct executive with a partial (2/3) veto (although he was restrained by an executive council), and a distinct judicial branch.
While in London, Adams published a work entitled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States (1787). In it he repudiated the views of Turgot and other European writers as to the viciousness of the framework of state governments. Turgot argued that countries that lacked aristocracies needn't have bicameral legislatures. He thought that republican governments feature "all authorities into one center, that of the nation." In the book, Adams suggested that "the rich, the well-born and the able" should be set apart from other men in a senate—that would prevent them from dominating the lower house. Wood (2006) has maintained that Adams had become intellectually irrelevant by the time the Federal Constitution was ratified. By then, American political thought, transformed by more than a decade of vigorous and searching debate as well as shaping experiential pressures, had abandoned the classical conception of politics which understood government as a mirror of social estates. Americans' new conception of popular sovereignty now saw the people-at-large as the sole possessors of power in the realm. All agents of the government enjoyed mere portions of the people's power and only for a limited period of time. Adams had completely missed this concept and revealed his continued attachment to the older version of politics.[ Yet Wood overlooks Adams's peculiar definition of the term "republic," and his support for a constitution ratified by the people.[34] He also underplays Adams's belief in checks and balances. "Power must be opposed to power, and interest to interest," Adams wrote; this sentiment would later be echoed by James Madison's famous statement that "[a]mbition must be made to counteract ambition" in The Federalist No. 51, in explaining the powers of the branches of the United States federal government under the new Constitution. Adams did as much as anyone to put the idea of "checks and balances" on the intellectual map.
Adams never bought a slave and declined on principle to employ slave labor. Abigail Adams opposed slavery and employed free blacks in preference to her father's two domestic slaves. He spoke out against a bill to emancipate slaves in Massachusetts, opposed use of black soldiers in the Revolution, and tried to keep the issue out of national politics.
Vice Presidency
While Washington won unanimously in the popular vote and won 69 votes in the electoral college, Adams came in second in the electoral college with 34 votes and became Vice President in the presidential election of 1789. He played a minor role in the politics of the early 1790s and was re-elected in 1792. Washington seldom asked Adams for input on policy and legal issues during his tenure as vice president.
Adams's main task while in office was presiding over the Senate. Subsequent Vice Presidents were also generally not powerful or significant members of their President's administrations until after the Second World War.
In the first year of Washington's administration, Adams became deeply involved in a month-long Senate controversy over what the official title of the President would be. Adams favored grandiose titles such as "His Majesty the President" or "His High Mightiness" over the simple "President of the United States" that eventually won the debate. The pomposity of his stance, along with his being overweight, led to Adams earning the nickname "His Rotundity."
As president of the Senate, Adams cast 29 tie-breaking votes—a record that only John C. Calhoun came close to tying, with 28. His votes protected the president's sole authority over the removal of appointees and influenced the location of the national capital. On at least one occasion, he persuaded senators to vote against legislation that he opposed, and he frequently lectured the Senate on procedural and policy matters. Adams's political views and his active role in the Senate made him a natural target for critics of the Washington administration. Toward the end of his first term, as a result of a threatened resolution that would have silenced him except for procedural and policy matters, he began to exercise more restraint. When the two political parties formed, he joined the Federalist Party, but never got on well with its dominant leader Alexander Hamilton. Because of Adams's seniority and the need for a northern president, he was elected as the Federalist nominee for president in 1796, over Thomas Jefferson, the leader of the opposition Democratic-Republican Party. His success was due to peace and prosperity; Washington and Hamilton had averted war with Britain with the Jay Treaty of 1795.
Adams's two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
Election of 1796
Main article: United States presidential election, 1796
During the presidential campaign of 1796 Adams was the presidential candidate of the Federalist Party and Thomas Pinckney, the Governor of South Carolina, was also running as a Federalist (at this point, the vice president was whoever came in second, so no running mates existed in the modern sense). The Federalists wanted Adams as their presidential candidate to crush Thomas Jefferson's bid. Most federalists would have preferred Hamilton to be a candidate. Although Hamilton and his followers supported Adams, they also held a grudge against him. They did consider him to be the lesser of the two evils. However, they thought Adams lacked the seriousness and popularity that had caused Washington to be successful, and also feared that Adams was too vain, opinionated, unpredictable, and stubborn to follow their directions.
Adams's opponents were former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, who was joined by Senator Aaron Burr of New York on the Democratic-Republican ticket.
As was customary, Adams stayed in his home town of Quincy rather than actively campaign for the Presidency. He wanted to stay out of what he called the silly and wicked game. His party, however, campaigned for him, while the Republicans campaigned for Jefferson.
It was expected that Adams would dominate the votes in New England, while Jefferson was expected to win in the Southern states. In the end, Adams won the election by a narrow margin of 71 electoral votes to 68 for Jefferson (who became the vice president).
Presidency: 1797–1801
Foreign policy
When Adams entered office, he realized that he needed to protect Washington's policy of staying out of the French and British war. Because the French helped secure American independence from Britain, they had greater popularity with America. After the Jay Treaty, the French became angry and began seizing American merchant ships that were trading with the British in what became known as the "Quasi-War." Adams sent a commission to negotiate an understanding with France. However, Adams urged the Congress to augment the navy and army in case of diplomatic failure.
Domestic policies
See also: 1797 State of the Union Address
As President Adams followed Washington's lead in making the presidency the example of republican values, and stressing civic virtue, he was never implicated in any scandal. Some historians consider his worst mistake to be keeping the old cabinet, which was controlled by Hamilton, instead of installing his own people, confirming Adams's own admission he was a poor politician because he "was unpractised in intrigues for power."[43] Yet, there are those historians who feel that Adams's retention of Washington's cabinet was a statesman-like step to soothe worries about an orderly succession. As Adams himself explained, "I had then no particular object of any of them." That would soon change. Adams's combative spirit did not always lend itself to presidential decorum, as Adams himself admitted in his old age: "[As president] I refused to suffer in silence. I sighed, sobbed, and groaned, and sometimes screeched and screamed. And I must confess to my shame and sorrow that I sometimes swore."
Adams's four years as president (1797–1801) were marked by intense disputes over foreign policy. Britain and France were at war; Adams and the Federalists favored Britain, while Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans favored France. An undeclared naval war between the U.S. and France, called the Quasi-War, broke out in 1798. The humiliation of the XYZ Affair, in which the French demanded huge bribes before any discussions could begin, led to serious threats of full-scale war with France and embarrassed the Jeffersonians, who were friends to France. The Federalists built up the army under George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, built warships, such as USS Constitution, and raised taxes. They cracked down on political immigrants and domestic opponents with the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were signed by Adams in 1798.
These Acts were composed of four separate and distinct units:
* The Naturalization Act, passed on June 18 * The Alien Act, passed on June 24 * The Alien Enemies Act, passed on July 6 * The Sedition Act, passed on July 14
These four acts were brought about to suppress Republican opposition. The Naturalization Act doubled the period required to naturalize the foreign born to American citizenship to 14 years. Since most immigrants voted republican they thought by initiating this act it would decrease the proportion of people who voted republican. The Alien Friends Act and the Alien Enemies Act allowed the president to deport any foreigner that he thought was dangerous to the country.
The Sedition Act criminalized anyone who publicly criticized the federal government. Some of the punishments included 2–5 years in prison and fines of $2,000 to $5,000. Adams had not designed or promoted any of these acts but he did sign them into law.
Those acts, and the high-profile prosecution of a number of newspaper editors and one Congressman by the Federalists, became highly controversial. Some historians have noted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were relatively rarely enforced, as only 10 convictions under the Sedition Act have been identified and as Adams never signed a deportation order, and that the furor over the Alien and Sedition Acts was mainly stirred up by the Democratic-Republicans. However, other historians emphasize that the Acts were highly controversial from the outset, resulted in many aliens leaving the country voluntarily, and created an atmosphere where opposing the Federalists, even on the floor of Congress, could and did result in prosecution. The election of 1800 became a bitter and volatile battle, with each side expressing extraordinary fear of the other party and its policies.
The deep division in the Federalist party came on the army issue. Adams was forced to name Washington as commander of the new army, and Washington demanded that Hamilton be given the second position. Adams reluctantly gave in. Major General Hamilton virtually took control of the War department. The rift between Adams and the High Federalists (as Adams's opponents were called) grew wider. The High Federalists refused to consult Adams over the key legislation of 1798; they changed the defense measures which he had called for, demanded that Hamilton control the army, and refused to recognize the necessity of giving key Democratic-Republicans (like Aaron Burr) senior positions in the army (which Adams wanted to do in order to gain some Democratic-Republican support). By building a large standing army the High Federalists raised popular alarms and played into the hands of the Democratic-Republicans. They also alienated Adams and his large personal following. They shortsightedly viewed the Federalist party as their own tool and ignored the need to pull together the entire nation in the face of war with France.
For long stretches, Adams withdrew to his home in Massachusetts. In February 1799, Adams stunned the country by sending diplomat William Vans Murray on a peace mission to France. Napoleon, realizing the animosity of the United States was doing no good, signaled his readiness for friendly relations. The Treaty of Alliance of 1778 was superseded and the United States could now be free of foreign entanglements, as Washington advised in his own Farewell Letter. Adams avoided war, but deeply split his own party in the process. He brought in John Marshall as Secretary of State and demobilized the emergency army.
Re-election campaign 1800
Main article: United States presidential election, 1800
The death of Washington, in 1799, weakened the Federalists, as they lost the one man who symbolized and united the party. In the presidential election of 1800, Adams and his fellow Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, went against the Republican duo of Jefferson and Burr. Hamilton tried his hardest to sabotage Adams's campaign in hopes of boosting Pinckney's chances of winning the presidency. In the end, Adams lost narrowly to Jefferson by 65 to 73 electoral votes. Just before his loss, he became the first President to occupy the new, but unfinished President's Mansion on November 1, 1800.
Among the causes of his defeat were distrust of him by "High Federalists" led by Hamilton, the popular disapproval of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the popularity of his opponent, Thomas Jefferson, and the effective politicking of Aaron Burr in New York State, where the legislature (which selected the electoral college) shifted from Federalist to Democratic-Republican on the basis of a few wards in New York City controlled by Burr's machine.
Midnight Judges
As his term was expiring, Adams appointed a series of judges, called the "Midnight Judges" because most of them were formally appointed days before the presidential term expired. Most of the judges were eventually unseated when the Jeffersonians abolished their offices. But John Marshall remained, and his long tenure as Chief Justice of the United States represents the most lasting influence of the Federalists, as Marshall refashioned the Constitution into a nationalizing force and established the Judicial Branch as the equal of the Executive and Legislative branches.
Major presidential actions
* Built up the U.S. Navy * Fought the Quasi War with France * Signed Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 * Ended war with France through diplomacy
Inaugural Addresses
* Inaugural Address (March 4, 1797)
State of the Union Address
* First State of the Union Address (November 22, 1797) * Second State of the Union Address, (December 8, 1798) * Third State of the Union Address, (December 3, 1799) * Fourth State of the Union Address, (November 22, 1800)
Cabinet The Adams Cabinet Office Name Term President John Adams 1797–1801 Vice President Thomas Jefferson 1797–1801 Secretary of State Timothy Pickering 1797–1800 John Marshall 1800–1801 Secretary of Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. 1797–1801 Samuel Dexter 1801 Secretary of War James McHenry 1796–1800 Samuel Dexter 1800–1801 Attorney General Charles Lee 1797–1801 Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert 1798–1801
Supreme Court appointments
Adams appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:
* Bushrod Washington – 1799 * Alfred Moore – 1800 * John Marshall (Chief Justice) – 1801
Post presidency
Following his 1800 defeat, Adams retired into private life. Depressed when he left office, he did not attend Jefferson's inauguration. He went back to farming at his farm, Peacefield, in the Quincy area.
In 1812, Adams reconciled with Jefferson. Their mutual friend Benjamin Rush, who had been corresponding with both, encouraged Adams to reach out to Jefferson. Adams sent a brief note to Jefferson, which resulted in a resumption of their friendship, and initiated a correspondence that lasted the rest of their lives.
Their letters are rich in insight into both the period and the minds of the two Presidents and revolutionary leaders. Their correspondence lasted fourteen years, and consisted of 158 letters.[52] It was in these years that the two men discussed "natural aristocracy." Jefferson said that "The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say that the form of government is best which provides most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?" Adams wondered if it ever would be so clear who these people were, "Your distinction between natural and artificial aristocracy does not appear to me well founded. Birth and wealth are conferred on some men as imperiously by nature, as genius, strength, or beauty. . . . When aristocracies are established by human laws and honour, wealth, and power are made hereditary by municipal laws and political institutions, then I acknowledge artificial aristocracy to commence." It would always be true, Adams argued, that fate would bestow influence on some men for reasons other than true wisdom and virtue. That being the way of nature, he thought such "talents" were natural. A good government, therefore, had to account for that reality.
Sixteen months before his death, his son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829), the only son of a former President to hold the office until George W. Bush in 2001.
His daughter Abigail ("Nabby") was married to Congressman William Stephens Smith. She died of cancer in 1813. His son Charles died as an alcoholic in 1800. Abigail, his wife, died of typhoid on October 28, 1818. His son Thomas and his family lived with Adams and Louisa Smith (Abigail's niece by her brother William) to the end of Adams's life.
Death Tombs of Presidents John Adams (distance) and John Quincy Adams (foreground) and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church.
On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy. His last words are often quoted as "Jefferson lives." Only the word "Jefferson" was clearly intelligible, however. Adams was unaware that Jefferson, his compatriot in their quest for independence, then great political rival, then later friend and correspondent, had died a few hours earlier on the very same day.
His crypt lies at United First Parish Church (also known as the Church of the Presidents) in Quincy. Until his record was broken by Ronald Reagan in 2001, he was the nation's longest-living President (90 years, 247 days) maintaining that record for 175 years. The record is currently held by former President Gerald Ford, who served less than one term, and who died December 26, 2006 at 93 years, 165 days.
John Adams remains the longest-lived person ever elected to both of the highest offices in the United States.
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Adams was raised a Congregationalist, becoming a Unitarian at a time when most of the Congregational churches around Boston were turning to Unitarianism. Everett (1966) argues that Adams was not a deist,[need quote] but he used deistic terms in his speeches and writing. He believed in the essential goodness of the creation, but did not believe in the divinity of Christ or that God intervened in the affairs of individuals. He also believed that regular church service was beneficial to man's moral sense. Everett concludes that "Adams strove for a religion based on a common sense sort of reasonableness" and maintained that religion must change and evolve toward perfection. United First Parish Church
Adams often railed against what he saw as overclaiming of authority by the Catholic church.
In 1796, Adams denounced political opponent Thomas Paine's criticisms of Christianity, saying, "The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity, let the Blackguard Paine say what he will."
The Unitarian Universalist Historical Society sheds some light on Adams's religious beliefs. They quote from his letter to Benjamin Rush, an early promoter of Universalist thought, "I have attended public worship in all countries and with all sects and believe them all much better than no religion, though I have not thought myself obliged to believe all I heard." The Society also relates how Rush reconciled Adams to his former friend Thomas Jefferson in 1812, after many bitter political battles. This resulted in correspondence between Adams and Jefferson about many topics, including philosophy and religion. In one of these communications, Adams told Jefferson, "The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion." In another letter, Adams reveals his sincere devotion to God, "My Adoration of the Author of the Universe is too profound and too sincere. The Love of God and his Creation; delight, Joy, Tryumph, Exaltation in my own existence, tho' but an Atom, a molecule Organique, in the Universe, are my religion." He continues by revealing his Universalist sympathies, rejection of orthodox Christian dogma, and his personal belief that he was a true Christian for not accepting such dogma, "Howl, Snarl, bite, Ye Calvinistick! Ye Athanasian Divines, if You will. Ye will say, I am no Christian: I say Ye are no Christians: and there the Account is ballanced. Yet I believe all the honest men among you, are Christians in my Sense of the Word." The Society also demonstrates that Adams rejected orthodox Christian doctrines of the trinity, predestination, yet equated human understanding and the human conscience to "celestial communication" or personal revelation from God. It is also shown that Adams held a strong conviction in life after death or otherwise, as he explained, "you might be ashamed of your Maker."
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2nd President of the United States In office March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 Vice President Thomas Jefferson Preceded by George Washington Succeeded by Thomas Jefferson
1st Vice President of the United States In office April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797 President George Washington Preceded by None Succeeded by Thomas Jefferson
United States Ambassador to Great Britain In office 1785 – 1788 Appointed by Congress of the Confederation Preceded by New office Succeeded by Thomas Pinckney In office 1782 – 1788 Appointed by Congress of the Confederation Preceded by New office Succeeded by Charles W. F. Dumas
Delegate from Massachusetts to the Second Continental Congress In office May 10, 1775 – 1778
Delegate from Province of Massachusetts Bay to the First Continental Congress In office September 5, 1774 – October 26, 1774
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Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
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July 16, 1755
Age 19
Cambridge, Middlesex, MA/Harvard
July 16, 1755
Age 19
Cambridge, Middlesex Co, MA; Education: grad. Harvard
July 14, 1765
Age 29
Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
July 11, 1767
Age 31
Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Braintree is now known as Quincy.
December 28, 1768
Age 33
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In an earlier thread, I posted that my 10-year-old male, Jaeger, was just diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma (abdominal) and lung mets. Right now, you wouldn't guess that there was anything wrong with him, other than some fatigue.
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3 raw eggs
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1 clove garlic
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1.5 pound mixed veggies (such as sweet potato, broccoli, zucchini, kale, spinach)
Mix in food processor and make into patties to freeze
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My holistic vet when Grim had hemangio was a strong proponent of bone broth. Here is a recipe. I took it and froze it into cubes to add to his food.
Bone Broth Is Excellent Nourishment for Older Pets
He would love that! Thanks for the link to the recipe.
Omega 3's , Natural vitamin E - (tocotrienol portion) beta-carotene, gamma oryzanol . Plus high chlorophyll phytonutrients . Easy to digest , bio available , clean protein.
Your vegetable mix provides a lot of carbohydrates , which feed cancer .
Provide energy through fat , coconut oil is a good option.
Reishi mushroom are a source of beta glucans.
Proteolytic enzymes (bromelain , papain) another beneficial ingredient.
I'm so sorry your dog has this aggressive form of cancer.
I have coconut oil - how much would you suggest giving daily?
The more I read about home-cooked diets, the more confused I get. There are so many variations and I know that carbs and sugar content can be tricky. I'm wondering if just switching to raw would be the better alternative. Both my dogs have had raw bones and meat as a treat over the years and love them. Would it be risky to switch a dog with health issues to raw, or I wonder if it would give his system a boost? We're not doing HW pills this year, he doesn't need any additional vaccines and he's not on any medications so diet would be the only major change to his system.
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On the October 26 edition of Fox News Live, host E.D. Hill compared two "negative ads ... one from each side" -- one by Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill in which actor Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, endorsed McCaskill due to her support for supporting embryonic stem cell research, the other an ad funded by the Republican National Committee (RNC) that attacks Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. by depicting a scantily clad white woman who "met" Ford "at the Playboy party." As Media Matters for America noted, former Republican senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen has called the ad attacking Ford "overtly racist." As the two ads aired on-screen, Hill interviewed former Bush White House chief of staff Andrew Card, leaving unchallenged Card's claim that "Democrats have a message of negativity" after earlier stating: "Republicans have a message that has some specifics to it about the future."
From 11 a.m. hour of the October 26 edition of Fox News Live:
HILL: OK, let me tap into your political wisdom here in terms of this last-minute campaigning because we're seeing a lot of negative ads coming out, and they come out on both sides. From your experience, when you're talking to the people, everybody says they hate negative ads, but do they work?
CARD: Unfortunately, negative ads do work. But the most important thing is that the Republicans have a message that has some specifics to it about the future. We know that we want to secure America; we want to give the president the tools to secure America. We want our economy to be strong; we don't want taxes to go up. That's a very specific message.
The Democrats have a message of negativity. It's one -- just -- they just complain about the past, and they don't have any hope for the future. I think that some of those ads highlight the fact that the Democrats really do not have a plan and we should be afraid of them.
HILL: Well, we're seeing negative ads that are out there right now, one from each side. Is there a point when negative ads go -- you know, go past that line?
CARD: Well, I think there's a limit to everything. But right now, we're in the final stages of the campaign. It's really the ground game that will make the difference, and so Republicans are very good at organizing.
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