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- Quick Kill Active Protection System (APS)
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Space-Based Sensors
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Radio Frequency (RF) Sensors
The company's radio sensors are core components on everything from fighter jets to intelligence-gathering gear:
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Raytheon delivers a portfolio of integrated undersea warfare solutions - including anti-submarine and mine warfare - that helps naval fleets detect and defend against a variety of threats:
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga coach Russ Huesman wouldn't use the word "sloppy" to describe his football team's scrimmage Saturday at Finley Stadium.
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Either way, the Mocs weren't always at their best in the 92-play scrimmage, UTC's second of the preseason. The defense forced a pair of turnovers and kept the offense out of the end zone.
"I think sloppy is worse than sluggish, but sluggish is not great," Huesman said. "I thought sluggish because it didn't look like we had a lot of bounce in our legs, [on] either side of the ball."
Many of the Mocs looked a little leg-weary Saturday, both from 18 practices in 17 days and the two hours they spent on the hot turf before the scrimmage taking the team photo and participating in an autograph session.
Offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield said he felt a lot better walking off the field after Saturday's scrimmage than he did last week's. Even though the offense didn't score, it was at least able to move the ball and get some first downs.
"I definitely would have liked to have scored touchdowns, but we didn't -- so hopefully our defense is that good," Satterfield said. "Because if they're not that good we're in trouble."
The offense opened the scrimmage well with quarterback B.J. Coleman hitting wideout Joel Bradford for 16 yards. Later, Coleman found his top target again, this time for 18 yards on third-and-10.
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DIE Lunæ, videlicet, 16 Junii,
Sir Robert Ayton's Naturalization.
Astley's Ditto.
Queen's Jointure Bill.
Conference concerning the Commission to raise Money by Impositions, etc. reported.
Committee to draw up a Message to the King, for canceling this Commission.
And for burning Dr. Manwaring's Books.
D. of Bucks asks Leave to make a Protestation in the H. C. touching a Speech at his own Table, of which he is falsely accused.
To do as he thinks proper.
Protests his Innocence.
Subsidy of the Temporality.
Subsidy Bill of the Temporality.
Message to the King, touching the Commission for levying Money by Impositions, etc.
Message to the King, concerning the suppressing Dr. Manwaring's Books.
Both Messages to be delivered by the Lord Keeper.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:
HODIE 2a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Naturalizing of Sir Roberte Ayton, Knight.
Committed unto the
Mr. Justice Crooke to attend the Lords.
Hodie 2a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Naturalizing of the Four Sons of Sir Jacob Astley, Knight.
Committed to the said Committee.
To meet presently.
Who returned the said Bills fit to pass, without any
The Committee on the Bill for the Queen's Jointure
met this Morning, notwithstanding the Meeting thereon
was appointed to be in the Afternoon. And their Lordships returned the Bill fit to pass, with some small Amendments, which were presently Twice read, allowed, and
ordered to be ingrossed.
This Day the Lord Keeper reported the Conference
with the Commons, touching the Commission dated ultimo Februarii last, to advise of raising of Money by Impositions or otherwise. After a short Preamble, his
Lordship commanded the Clerk to read the said Commission; which being ended, he shewed the many Inconveniencies which the Commons observed therein,
and that they chiefly stood upon it, "That to raise
Money by Impositions, without Consent of Parliament, is directly against the Liberty of the Subject,
and trencheth upon the Propriety of their Goods,
contrary to the Judgement lately given this Parliament; videlicet, contrary to His Majesty's gracious
Answer to the Petition of Right; and that the Commons do demand that this Patent may be damned and
canceled, and the Inrollment thereof to be vacated;
and the Warrant also for the Great Seal to be damned
and canceled.
"And also, That the Commons do demand, That the
Projectors and Procurers of this Commission might be
discovered, and proceeded against."
This Report ended; the Lords long debated the said
Complaint and Demands of the Commons. And, in the
End, their Lordships appointed a special Committee, to
draw up a Message to the King, from this House, for
canceling of the said Commission.
The Names of the said Committee: videlicet,
And the said Committee are to draw up a Message also
to His Majesty, from the House, for the burning of
Dr. Manwaringe's Books, and the Submission which he
is to make, according to the Judgement of the 14th of
The Duke signified unto the House, That he is informed one of the House of Commons hath affirmed
that his Grace did speak these Words at his own Table;
videlicet, "Tush! it makes no Matter what the Commons or Parliament doth; for without my Leave
and Authority, they shall not be able to touch the
Hair of a Dog." And his Grace desired Leave of
their Lordships, That he might make his Protestation in
the House of Commons concerning that Speech; and to
move them, that he which spake it of him (being a
Member of that House) might be commanded to justify
it, and his Grace heard to clear himself.
Their Lordships, considering thereof, Ordered, That
the Duke shall be left to himself to do herein what he
thinks best, in the House of Commons.
Whereupon the Duke gave their Lordships Thanks,
and protested, upon his Honour, That he never had
those Words so much as in his Thoughts. The which
Protestation the Lords commanded to be entered, that
the Duke may make Use thereof, as Need shall be.
Hodie allata est a Domo Communi Billa, An Act for
the Grant of Five Entire Subsidies, granted by the
This Bill is to be First read in the Afternoon.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in pomeridianum
hujus diei, hora 3a, Dominis sic decernentibus.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum
nomina subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:
HODIE 1a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the Grant
of Five Entire Subsidies, granted by the Temporalty.
And Exception was taken to the said Bill, for that,
in the Preamble thereof, the Commons are only named,
and the Lords omitted. And it was agreed, To have a
Conference thereon between both Houses, but the Bill
not to be sent back again unto them.
Hodie 2a
vice lecta est Billa prædicta.
The Message to the King, penned by the Committee
for vacating the Commission, etc. was read, in hæc verba:
"May it please Your most Excellent Majesty,
Whereas there is transmitted unto us, from the
House of Commons, a certain Patent under the
Great Seal, bearing Date the last Day of February
last, authorizing Thirty and Three of Your Majesty's
Counsellors to consult and advise Your Majesty of
Ways to raise Monies, by Impositions or otherwise;
although we have received Satisfaction from the
Lords of Your Majesty's Council that this was no
more than a Commission or Warrant for Advice
only; yet, to free Your Majesty's Subjects of all
Jealousies, and for that this Way of requiring of
Advice under the Great Seal doth seem unusual; we
do humbly beseech Your Majesty to cancel the said
Commission, and, if it be inrolled, to vacate the same
also; and, if it be not inrolled, to stay the Inrollment
thereof; and that the Warrant for the same may be
canceled also; and to give the Lord Keeper of the
Great Seal of England Order to effect this with all
convenient Speed."
This being read, was allowed of by the House.
The Message, also penned by the said Committee,
for the burning of Dr. Manwaring's Books, was read,
in hæc verba: videlicet,
"May it please Your most Excellent Majesty,
The Lords having taken into their Consideration
a Book set forth by Dr. Manwaringe, called Religion
and Allegiance, and withall many dangerous Passages
and Inferences, and scandalous Aspersions, contained
in the same, for the which they have already given
their Judgement and Sentence upon him, do beseech
Your most Excellent Majesty to grant Your Royal
Proclamation, to call in the said Books, that they
may be all burnt, in London and Westm. and both the
Universities; and for the inhibiting the Printing
thereof, upon a great Penalty; and that Your Majesty will give present Direction to Mr. Attorney
General to effect the same."
This was also approved by the House.
Both the said Messages are to be delivered unto His
Majesty, by the Lord Keeper, from the whole House.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem crastinum,
videlicet, diem Martis 17m diem instantis Junii, hora
nona, Dominis sic decernentibus.
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So what is Cohousing anyways?
Good Question. Cohousing is kind of a funny word isn't it? I thought so the first time I heard it. I knew what I was looking for, but had written off this funny term "cohousing" as perhaps being too extreme for me. Images of communes and sharing my paycheque stopped me from checking it out.
What I wanted?
When I was twenty, a group of us in University dreamed about buying an old three story walk up apartment in the down town area. Our thought was that we'd each get our own unit on one of the upper levels, and then all of the lower level suites would be reconfigured into a large common area. The idea back then was to have a big pool table, BIG screen TV, craft and study space, a little bar (it was University after all) and a nice kitchen for preparing one big meal together instead of 20 lonely ones. We all wanted to have more private space than being room mates allowed, but none of us really wanted to live alone. This seemed to be the perfect fit.
Years Later
Needless to say as a bunch of twenty-year old students we were limited to dreaming by our extreme lack of funds. Years later, with three kids and a husband, I found myself eating one of 70,000 lonely suppers in the little town we were in demanding more out of my life. In the end I found cohousing.
Cohousing is a resident designed community that balances private ownership and thriving public spaces. Most include a resident designed "common house" with features they as a community decide they will make the most use of. Most have a community hall feel with guest room space and an awesome children's play area. It is through the process of building the community together that what would be just neighbours next door become well known friends. It is through thoughtful design that the buildings support both the private family time and ongoing, enriched connection within the surrounding neighbourhood. One thing is certain. While we all will bump into pockets of community throughout our lives (hockey teams, the five years you lived in that great cul de sac, a good book club that you used to find time for), a really tightly knit community is something you have to plan for and commit to.
Things we've done to support community and private life:
-Front porches allow people to sit and visit where people walk by. They are an excellent community building tool. (When not overshadowed by a giant garage!) Back porches and small private yards give you a place to sit without the whole community showing up to join you.
-Parking near the Common house instead of in a private driveway means you have to walk past the "Hub" before going home. This might mean you'll get roped into a fun project later on in the evening, or at least say hi a few times on your way home. The "Hub" gives people a place to be when they want to be around people, so your private home does little to no large group entertaining. Perhaps a pot of tea shared with a good friend, or dinner with visitors from afar, but there is no need to have 12 neighbours in your home at a time.
-Kitchen Windows facing the front of the home allows people to see people passing when their up and about. No one feels like popping their head out to chat half way through a good TV show. We put the living rooms near the back.
- Gardens all placed together help bring people together over a common passion. It also makes it easier to get garden-sitting services while you're away camping.
-A great shared indoor and outdoor play space gives kids and cooped up moms an easy place to pop out and find other kids to play with. Gone are the days of planning and driving for a playdate, though you'll always have friends in the rest of the city you'll still have to plan and drive to see.
Our Cohousing Projects are designed by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett who will one day be known as the parents of cohousing in North America. Together with their team of careful architects they have taken our wishes and dreams about how we want to live together and turned them into a reality one group workshop at a time. While we still have about a zillion decisions to make, we know we're building something we'll love to live in.
And the cohousing is only one part of our project. We're doing our best to create one mile living by providing farm land and work spaces for families who want to come here. Combine that with the walkability and resources of greater Yarrow and this eclectic mix of farm life and city is truly heaven on earth. (and I get to live here! Tee Hee!)
Below is a link to Tocoma Village's website. They highlight what is called "The elevator speech" It's a pretty great way to explain cohousing to newcomers.


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by Dr. G. Terry Madonna and Dr. Michael Young
The King is dead. Long live the King!
That's the way it was handled in the good old days. An ex-leader was a deceased leader. No muss, no fuss -- and certainly no need to plan the exit strategy. That problem, you might say, was a dead issue.
There was certain efficiency to this system. No awkward transitions between past leader and present leader. No great opportunities for past leaders to make mischief. And you couldn't beat the price.
But, alas, things are more complicated today. Our presidents and governors regularly fill their terms and go on to live long after they have left office. For example, Pennsylvania now has a total of six living former Governors, going back to George Leader, who left office in 1959, and William Scranton, who left office in 1967.
We do pay some attention to our ex-governors when they first leave office. There has been considerable coverage of former Gov. Schweiker's transition to CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Of course, former Gov. Tom Ridge's new job has compelled national attention.
However, by and large, we lose track of former governors. Some of this is actually healthy. In a democracy, elected leaders must come and go. And when they do go, quickly and quietly is probably best.
Still we probably need to redress the balance some -- between the enormous attention we pay to incoming governors and the piddling attention we give them on the way out. And there is no better place to start than to review some of what we do know about ex-governors exit strategies.
Nationally, the number of governors leaving office fluctuates considerably from election cycle to election cycle. According to the National Governors Association, over the last nine election cycles an average of 14 governors have left office.
This year, some 24 governors are leaving office, the majority of them (14) because of term limitations. A few governors (four) were defeated at the polls and the rest (six) voluntarily chose to leave office.
So, most governors who leave office do so either because they are term limited or defeated for re-election. Only a small minority choose voluntary retirement. But regardless of why they leave office, what do they do when they do leave?
Based on the few studies reported, a substantial number of former governors -- perhaps half -- seek federal office of some type. These include the presidency, the Cabinet, the Senate and House, and the federal judiciary.
Not all of them, however, achieve their goal. All together, about one third of all ex-governors actually end up in the federal government in some capacity, with the majority either in Congress or a federal judgeship. In the last Congress, there were 13 ex-governors serving in the U.S. Senate, while three more were serving in the Bush cabinet.
Pursuit of the presidency is the most glamorous goal of those ex-governors who stay in politics. It is rare in modern times to go through a presidential election cycle without one or more former governors emerging as a major candidate. And they win their fair share.
Eight presidents elected in the 20th century had been governors and four of the last five presidents (Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush) came from the ranks of the governors.
Those ex-governors who don't move on to the federal government actually make up the largest group of former governors. At least 60 percent of all governors are in this group that pursues private life. Some of them actually do retire, but most resume or begin careers in business or law.
Sometimes they choose unusual occupations. Celebrity governor Jesse Ventura may become a talk show host. Other former governors have become writers. Several each cycle usually try their hand at lobbying or other Washington jobs. And many pursue public service of some type.
Pennsylvania's ex-governors seem fairly typical. Since the mid-1950's, some nine men have served and left office. Of them, George Leader (1955), in retirement since 1959, is probably the purest example of a businessman.
His successor, David Lawrence (1959), a former Pittsburgh mayor, returned to Pittsburgh in retirement. William Scranton (1963) returned to the family business, but also came back to public service for brief intervals to serve Republican presidents, including a stint as U.N. ambassador, and later pursued graduate studies in history. Ray Shafer (1967) returned to private life to practice law and chaired a national drug task force under Nixon.
Milton Shapp (1971), unorthodox in office, had one of Pennsylvania's more prosaic retirements. He briefly ran for president in 1976 while finishing his final term, then retired quietly to Montgomery County, where he tried his hand as a playwright.
Shapp's successor, Dick Thornburgh (1979), has had one of the more active retirements. Now in private law practice in Pittsburgh and Washington, Thornburgh served in both the Reagan and George Bush Senior administrations, the latter as U.S Attorney General.
Thornburgh's successor Bob Casey (1987), not completely recovered from his dramatic double-organ transplant, retired home to Scranton. Casey seriously entertained a run for the White House, but his health precluded those plans.
It is probably too early to characterize the retirements of Pennsylvania's two most recent ex-governors. Tom Ridge (1995) was twice seriously considered for his party's vice presidential nomination while still in office. Recently confirmed as the nation's first Secretary of Homeland Security, Ridge certainly has not retired from public life. He is so far easily the most publicly prominent of the state's former governors.
Mark Schweiker (2001), eschewing politics for now at least, has begun his career in business as the head of a pro-business lobby. Many believe his public life is not yet over.
The sample of former governors is small, but a couple of provocative observations seem appropriate. Gov. Rendell, widely viewed as a potential future presidential or vice presidential candidate, might want to take some notes.
The first observation is that only one of the nine former governors ever ran for office again after leaving the governorship -- and he lost. That was Republican Dick Thornburgh, who ran for the Senate in 1991.
Two others did enter presidential contests (Scranton and Shapp), but both did so while still in office. For all practical purposes, Pennsylvania's former governors end their careers in electoral politics when they leave office.
A second observation is the marked public service difference between the Republican ex-governors and their Democratic counterparts. Excluding the just retired Schweiker, all four of the Republican ex-governors played significant post gubernatorial roles in Washington. Three of them served in the cabinet and took on other significant responsibilities at the national level.
In sharp contrast, none of the four Democratic ex-governors played any significant role in national politics after leaving office. One might look to several plausible explanations for this. And indeed there are some, including Republican dominance of the White House that coincided with the retirement of some of the Republican governors.
Still, the difference between the two parties seems striking. Republican ex-governors have gotten all the best of it in terms of public service, but even they have shared their Democratic colleagues' fate in the electoral arena. For Pennsylvania governors, leaving office has been their last hurrah.
Politically Uncorrected™ is published twice monthly. Dr. G. Terry Madonna is a Professor of Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College, and Dr. Michael Young is a former Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Penn State University and Managing Partner at Michael Young Strategic Research. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any institution or organization with which they are affiliated. This article may be used in whole or part only with appropriate attribution. Copyright © 2003 Terry Madonna and Michael Young.


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What we have here is an otherwise respectable period drama that keeps descending to an after-school-special level of bluntness. Hating people for their nationality is really bad, see, which the unnecessarily earnest Sweet Land reminds us by having its cast of 1920s Midwesterners castigate a German socialist immigrant (Elizabeth Reaser) with sputtered variations on the phrase, Shes different from us! Most of the time, something far subtler would suffice a pained expression, even. Reaser comes out best, in part because shes a terrific face actress and also because her role as a non-English-speaking mail-order bride indemnifies her against the movies clunkier dialogue. Her character, Inge Ottenberg, travels to Minnesota to marry a Norwegian farmer, only to come smack-dab against a set of nasty prejudices. Though there was anti-German sentiment in the Midwest of yore, the severity of the scenario is a tad suspect. The movies biggest claims to authenticity are its terrific art direction and costuming, which soundly reinforce the 20s passages and a few scenes set four decades later, with Lois Smith (Minority Report) playing the now-aged Inge. (Check out the note-perfect styling of Smiths black funeral dress, and of her substitute-teacher eyeglasses.) The better-known actors give the worst performances: Ned Beatty does a lot of harrumphing as a greedy banker, and Alan Cumming (one of the films producers) almost pulls down the entire house of cards with his appearances as a Minnesotan farmer who inexplicably cavorts about the screen with the unbridled animation of Pee-wee Herman. He seems to have dropped in from another film altogether, and you wish he would drop right back out.
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Date: Wednesday, 01 June 2011
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Apologies are detailed above.
Agreed: that the evidence session at Agenda item 5 is recorded by Hansard and the Official Report published on the website.
Agreed: that the minutes are amended to include an additional apology and published on the Assembly website as amended.
The Committee noted the table of requests for information from the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) which provided an update on any matters arising not covered elsewhere on the agenda.
The Committee noted correspondence from two members of the public on equal pay issues.
Agreed: to consider whether the Committee wishes to seek a legal opinion on the interpretation of the Equal Pay settlement, following receipt of DFP's briefing paper outlining the key issues that have arisen from the settlement and the DFP position in respect of each issue. It was also agreed that briefing will be required from Trade Union Side on matters needing clarification.
Members noted the Terms of Reference for the DFP-led Review of Financial Process in NI.
Agreed: to request that DFP schedules an overview briefing on public expenditure for all MLAs and committee staff immediately after the summer recess.
The Committee considered a copy of the Legacy Report of its predecessor Committee.
Members noted the Executive Summary and Key Conclusions and Recommendations from the predecessor Committee's Report on the Executive's Draft Budget 2011-15.
Agreed: to seek a written response to the Report from DFP in advance of the evidence session on the Review of Financial Process, scheduled for 15 June 2011.
The Committee considered the Executive Summary and the Key Conclusions and Recommendations from the predecessor Committee's Third Report on the Inquiry into the Role of the Assembly in Scrutinising the Executive's Budget and Expenditure.
Agreed: to request that DFP provides an analysis setting out how the applicable conclusions and recommendations from this report and from the previous Committee's Report on the Executive's Draft Budget 2011-15 have been or could be incorporated into the Terms of Reference for the Review of Financial Process.
Agreed: the Secretariat will draft an implementation plan for the Committee to take forward the applicable recommendations arising from the previous Committee's Third Report on the Inquiry into the Role of the Assembly in Scrutinising the Executive's Budget and Expenditure.
Agreed: to request an update from DFP on the work of the Executive's Budget Review Group (BRG) including: the identification of any additional resources; and whether the BRG monitors the realisation of additional revenue included in the Budget 2011-15 and, if so, an update on the current position in this regard.
The Committee noted the Executive Summary and Key Conclusions and Recommendations from the predecessor Committee's Report on the Inquiry into Public Procurement in Northern Ireland. Members also noted a DFP briefing paper from February 2011, which provided an update on progress against the recommendations, together with the Public Procurement Action Plan and draft Procurement Guidance Notes.
Agreed: to schedule an oral briefing on public procurement from DFP for 29 June 2011, to include a further progress update on the implementation of the predecessor Committee's recommendations.
The Committee noted the predecessor Committee's response to the Review Body on Senior Salaries' report on the Review of the NI Senior Civil Service (SCS) Pay 2010.
Agreed: to invite DFP officials to give an oral briefing on a range of Human Resource issues, including SCS pay, equal pay and sickness absence.
Members noted that DFP currently has responsibility for Civil Law, including Land Law.
Agreed: to ask DFP what consideration has been given to transferring responsibility for Civil Law to the Department of Justice (DOJ), and details of any discussions that have taken place with DOJ in this regard.
Agreed: the Committee will revisit the predecessor Committee's Legacy Report at a later date.
The Committee took evidence from the following DFP officials: Michael Brennan, Head of Central Expenditure Division, DFP and Agnes Lennon, Central Expenditure Division, DFP. The session was recorded by Hansard.
Agreed: to inform the committees for Agriculture and Rural Development and Education of the excess votes for their respective departments before making a decision on the granting of accelerated passage for the Budget (No. 2) Bill. The Public Accounts Committee would be copied into this correspondence for information.
The Committee received a briefing from Assembly Research on the Research paper, Devolution of Corporation Tax.
Mr Girvan left the meeting at 11.50am.
Mr Girvan returned to the meeting at 11.52am.
Agreed: to forward the Research paper to DFP in advance of the evidence session on 15 June, with a request that the Department provides answers to the specific issues raised in the paper.
Agreed: to forward the Research paper to the Enterprise, Trade and Investment (ETI) Committee, in view of ETI's interest in this matter. The Committee will also share any DFP papers on this issue with the ETI Committee. In addition, given the cross-cutting nature of the corporation tax issue, the Committee for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (COFMDFM) will also be kept informed of deliberations on the matter.
Agreed: the Committee will consider a draft motion for a plenary debate on the devolution of corporation tax powers at next week's meeting.
The Committee noted the following papers relating to corporation tax:
Agreed: to request, via the ETI Committee, an oral briefing from the Economic Advisory Group on the report entitled The Impact of Reducing Corporation Tax on the Northern Ireland Economy.
The meeting was suspended at 12.05pm.
The meeting resumed at 12.08pm.
The Committee considered the following subordinate legislation:
SR 2011 No. 157 Cross Border Mediation Regulations (NI) 2011
The Committee noted that the Examiner of Statutory Rules had no points to raise by way of technical scrutiny in relation to the Rule.
Agreed: That the Committee for Finance and Personnel has considered The Cross-Border Mediation Regulations (NI) 2011 and has no objection to the Rule.
Members also noted the following items of subordinate legislation, which are not subject to the Assembly resolution procedures:
Members noted the following items of correspondence:
The Committee considered the draft work programme containing a schedule of business until summer recess.
The Committee noted correspondence from the Big Lottery Fund requesting an opportunity to brief the Committee on the impact of lottery funding and work in NI.
Agreed: to request a written briefing explaining the relevance of the matter to the remit of DFP in the first instance.
Agreed: that the Work Programme is updated to reflect any agreements made today and published on the Committee's website.
Agreed: that, to reduce correspondence in packs and to reduce paper, routine papers – such as invitations, circular press releases and external documents provided for information – be circulated via email before the meeting instead of being included in packs.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 8 June 2011 in Room 30, Parliament Buildings.
The Chairperson adjourned the meeting at 12.14pm.
Mr Shane McAteer (Assembly Clerk) Mrs Kathy O'Hanlon (Assistant Assembly Clerk)Mr Jim Nulty (Clerical Supervisor)Mr Dominic O'Farrell (Clerical Officer)
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Conybeare and Stock's Grammar of Septuagint Greek (public domain)
Gary Alan Chamberlain's The Greek of the Septuagint: A Supplemental Lexicon
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Lest I be like the lepers who had been healed and did not give thanks, I want to publicly thank Pasquale for providing me with a copy of Leeser's translation.
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The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office, tonight, reacted to the plea today by Harry Mapps, to three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Reginald and Kim Tuttle, and their daughter, Dawn Roderick, in their Rye home last November. Mapps was immediately sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. The three victims were shot to death while they slept in their home, and then the home set on fire to cover the crime. Mapps was the focus of a nationwide manhunt, finally arrested in Oklahoma. He was facing multiple counts, including murder, arson, theft and forgery before he entered the plea.
Tonight on News5 at 10, Kelsy Kennedy talks with one of the best friends of Dawn Roderick about the plea, to avoid a possible death sentence.
Here is the statement from the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office.
"Homicide cases are tragic for everyone involved but a successful prosecution can give people resolution. For that to happen there must be three components working closely together. It is the efforts of the District Attorney, the Coroner, and Law Enforcement that make the foundation for a successful outcome, outcomes like today's guilty plea. In this case it was also citizen tips and federal partnerships that brought Harry Mapps to justice. Our biggest hope is that the Tuttle family, the many friends of the victims, and the community of Rye can now have the closure they need."
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Prickly Racial Politics And Murderous Mafia Plots Amid Baltimore's Banana Wars
They're an oddly mismatched pair of Inner Harbor tourists: Anthony Lanasa, the tall, white-haired 68-year-old from Richmond, Va., with his subtle Southern drawl, and Leslie Gordon Goffe, a British-born 47-year-old with a salt-and-pepper goatee and lilting accent of his own.
Then again, it's a sunny afternoon along the Harborplace promenade, and camera-totting, stroller-pushing people of all stripes are out and about. A man in a gaudy, felt top hat crafts balloon sculptures for some giggling preteens while purple and green paddle boats bob and weave offshore.
This twosome, however, is connected to a different waterfront and a far different time. They are bound by the banana.
Lanasa grew up working in the family fruit business and has no trouble seeing past the day-tripper trappings of a waterfront long given over to leisure pursuits. His Inner Harbor was home to banana-laden steamships and sweaty stevedores, not Banana Republic outlets.
"The banana pier was right over there in front of the aquarium," Lanasa says, squinting into the July sun--and back through the years to the 1950s. "I had to come down here and meet the banana boat. Conveyer belts brought the fruit out of the hull. They could load 50 freight cars and 50 tractor-trailers at one time. They'd put a stem of bananas on a man's shoulders, might weigh as much 100 pounds.
"No, there was nothing down here," he adds after a pause. "Nothing but bananas."
For over half a century, Baltimore helped propel the banana from curious tropical exotic to America's most popular fruit. And this is where Goffe comes in. A century ago this very year, Goffe's great-grandfather Alfred Constantine Goffe joined with Lanasa's grandfather, Antonio Lanasa--a black Jamaican and a white Italian-American immigrant--to form one of the most prosperous banana-importing businesses on the East Coast. At a time when Jim Crow laws openly sanctified racism, the Baltimore-based Lanasa and Goffe Steamship and Importing Co. thumbed its nose at segregated society to sail full steam ahead.
"They wanted to be their own captains of industry--these two outsiders who came together in defiance of the way things ran," Goffe says. "That they moved though Baltimore as friends and as businessmen is extraordinary."
Goffe grew up in London, where his Jamaican-born parents and other island-connected relatives often spoke of a larger-than-life ancestor they called Freddy the "Banana King."
"Elders in the family told us about Baltimore," Goffe says. "They said I must go to Baltimore. I must go to Maryland--the family history is buried there."
As a New York-based reporter for BBC World Service Radio, Goffe has made many trips to Mobtown to explore family lore, and much of what he's uncovered from here to the hills of Jamaica turns up in the forthcoming book When Banana Was King, due out this fall from Jamaica's LMH Publishing. Goffe's research for the book led him to Lanasa, who now runs his own fruit business in Virginia, and he invited him up to Baltimore today for some last-minute research and reminiscing.
What else has he learned about the Goffe/Lanasa pairing of yore? Only that the two were arrested for being in cahoots with a pack of proto-Mafia murderers trying to blow up a banana-trade rival with dynamite.
"In business today, you don't necessarily think of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates going at it with cleavers," Goffe says.
But the back-in-the-day banana business in Baltimore was rough trade, indeed.
Among the Victorian-Age wonders crowding Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition--a 56-ton steam engine, a new contraption called the typewriter--was an exotic tropical edible wrapped in tinfoil and selling for the then-precious price of a dime each. The banana had made its formal U.S. debut. By century's end, the development of refrigerated steamships engendered a banana-import explosion, with sultry Jamaica pegged as a perfect place to grow the lofty plants. (Often mistaken for trees, the banana is actually an herbaceous plant related to the lily and orchid.) What was once pricey became pedestrian. Or, as Virginia Scott Jenkins writes in Bananas: An American History, the banana went from being "linked to romantic adventure and associated with palm trees, warm weather, and perpetual vacation" to just "the cheapest fruit in the grocery store."
Goffe might have grown up in decidedly untropical South London--as he says, "15 minutes walk from the Houses of Parliament"--but the steamy banana climes were never far away. Family lore, he says, revolved around a "fierce figure who took on racism and Jim Crow" while building a banana empire: one Alfred Constantine Goffe. This singular figure gave the Goffe clan wealth and prominence when blacks were but a generation or two removed from slavery.
"It all intrigued me," Goffe says. "I felt as soon as possible I had to make the journey--a journey to my roots, in a way."
He started on the banana-roots trek after coming to New York in 1979 to attend Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor's in English and a master's in journalism. After five years working at the Guardian newspaper back in London, he joined the BBC in 1990 and has lived in West Orange, N.J., for six years now (long enough to become a Yankees fan, he says). He began the book three years ago.
Not all of his relatives, however, were so keen on having the family lore so deeply explored--and then publicly exposed. Goffe says some family members began to express apprehension over his explorations. A cousin wrote him to say that his book would bring "shame to the family."
Part of the familial discomforts concerned Goffe's Jamaican great, great, great-grandfather--a free black man who once owned his great, great, great-grandmother, a black slave. Goffe learned that free blacks once owned perhaps as many as one in six of Jamaica's 310,000 blacks slaves.
"It just seemed absolutely bizarre and shocking," Goffe says, adding that the discovery helped explain the web of "secrets and lies" that had been thrown up around the family's past.
When Alfred Constantine Goffe was born in 1863, slavery had been over in Jamaica for nearly 30 years and the family was comfortably ensconced in the ranks of the "plantocracy" of land-owning blacks. Young Freddy Goffe attended a tony boarding school where he was a standout on the cricket field. By 1897 he and his brothers were running a fruit business out of a wharf complex in Port Maria, the largest city in Jamaica's northeastern St. Mary Parish. A pier where black slaves were once bought and sold was now run by black men buying bananas. The "Day-O" chant Harry Belafonte made famous in the "Banana Boat Song" might have rung out here, as this laborer's call is said to have originated in St. Mary.
In 1901, the entrepreneurial Alfred Goffe used his considerable negotiating skills to organize St. Mary's first fruit growers association, stitching together the farmers not already bound to supplying the Boston-based United Fruit Co., the literal top banana of importers. Seeking a steady American banana buyer, he courted Antonio Lanasa and his Italian Fruit and Importing Co., which had been one of the more successful fruit traders toiling away in United Fruit's formidable shadow until the collapse of a Baltimore bank put the firm in financial hot water. Lanasa was a shrewd banana man nonetheless, and he (along with Goffe) knew that fresh access to a steady supply of bananas could jump-start the ailing company. Goffe invited the Baltimorean to Jamaica to address the association. Lanasa told the largely black crowd of banana growers that "Italian blood will stick to you." An odd turn of phrase, but just part of a speech whose overall message was that Italian-Americans would treat their black business partners fair and square.
"Saying `We will not treat you as other white Americans would treat you' is about as radical a statement from a white man as you could get in 1906," Goffe remarks.
When Anthony Lanasa, himself a veteran fruit man, looks back on his namesake ancestor's motives, he sees realism more than radicalism. "My grandfather, he wanted to make money," he says. "I guess he didn't give a damn who it was with."
A deal was inked, and Antonio Lanasa began bringing in boatloads of Jamaican bananas, an event which didn't go unnoticed by Lanasa's arch rival in Baltimore: fruit dealer Joseph Di Giorgio. That both men shared similar rags-to-riches résumés--born just miles apart form each other in Sicily, immigrating alone as teenagers, toiling their way to the top--did nothing to ease the acrimony between the pair as they each fought to become Baltimore's biggest banana man. The city's port was the fourth busiest in the country then, and all manner of tropical fruit landed here--loaded into railcars and rolled out to eager eaters in the Midwest and beyond.
In 1905, Di Giorgio offered what appeared to be an olive branch to his rivals, inviting Antonio Lanasa and Alfred Goffe to join his newly formed Atlantic Fruit Co. so that together they could topple the mighty United Fruit. The pair swallowed their pride and agreed, selling the Italian Fruit and Importing Co., with which Goffe was a major stakeholder, to Di Giorgio with the promise of becoming directors in the combined firm. But that was not to be. A few months into the deal, Di Giorgio secretly sold controlling interest in Atlantic to none other than United Fruit. The conditions of this sale were simple: Lanasa, a one-time United employee some in the firm still viewed as a turncoat, had to go. And Goffe had to be shown the door, too. United Fruit wasn't about to have a black man on its board.
Summarily dismissed, and no doubt thoroughly pissed, Lanasa and Goffe took matters in their own hands and launched the Lanasa and Goffe Steamship and Importing Co. in 1906. Starting with but two leased steamships plying the waters between St. Mary Parish and Baltimore, they would soon command a veritable fleet of eight steamers. Goffe mainly handled the Jamaican end of the business but also made frequent trips to Baltimore. He is even listed in the city directories of the time, under Lanasa's address at 411 S. Hanover St. He also stayed at the Eutaw House Hotel (formerly at the corner of Eutaw and Baltimore Streets), despite the hostelry's "whites only" policy.
Moneyed, educated, smartly dressed, and with an island accent that likely seemed exotic to Baltimoreans of the day, Freddy Goffe was an anomaly in city with distinctly drawn color lines--a black man who fell into a gray area. He moved within the Caucasian circles of power, on good terms with prominent bankers and businessmen.
"In a sense, people didn't know what to make of the Caribbean and the West Indies, and whether or not you thought of it as just British," Leslie Goffe says. "He would certainly not have confused anyone--a white American would have recognized him as a black man."
And perhaps the white world saw green instead of black. The Lanasa/Goffe fruit pairing was very fruitful, moving almost 1.5 million bananas through Baltimore in their first year after uniting. Again, Joe Di Giorgio couldn't help but notice. The competing banana firms had side-by-side offices in the first block of East Pratt Street and shared docking space on an Inner Harbor pier. It was not uncommon for rank-and-file laborers from the rival firms to have pitched battles along the wharves: fists, knives, even guns came into play.
But the violence that rattled the Baltimore banana trade didn't transpire on the rough-and-tumble docks but in a back-porch lavatory in then-suburban Walbrook.
Before the term "mafia" had become common coinage in America, there was the dreaded Black Hand. This criminal gang--or group of like-operating gangs--traced its roots to Sicily and used extortion to prey on Italian-Americans of means. The threatening letter was the usual gambit: Pay this fee or face unpleasant consequences.
When, on a clear December night in 1907, an explosion rocked the rear of Joe Di Giorgio's Walbrook home, the Black Hand was quickly blamed. After all, Di Giorgio was among the many Baltimore Italians who had received threatening letters from the group and police found bits of fuse at the site. The Sun dubbed the bombing "Daring Black Hand Outrage" but also concluded that it was "bungling work." Damage from what was suspected to have been two sticks of dynamite was relegated to a lavatory and the kitchen and pantry. Di Giorgio wasn't even home at the time, and the only living things directly threatened by the blast were three parrots. And they flapped away unhurt. (Di Giorgio's family and servants went unharmed in their beds far from the blast.)
Bungling or no, details of the dynamiting were splashed across newspapers, which seemed keen on sensationalizing Black Hand doings The explosion caused considerable consternation among Baltimore's well-heeled Italians, and the police placed armed guards outside the homes of a few who feared they could be next. But then the real bomb came about month later, after police apprehended a Black Hander named Salvatore Lupo in Buffalo, N.Y., who confessed to being part of the Di Giorgio dynamiting. He said rival banana traders Lanasa and Goffe were behind it all. "If we kill Di Giorgio, I will be the banana king of Baltimore," Lanasa told Goffe when planning the attack. Or so said Lupo.
This was not the best of times for a black man to get arrested. The front page of the Jan. 12, 1907, Sun carried a brief story describing how a "worthless" "colored" man was accused of killing a white man in Pocomoke City on the Eastern Shore. White "indignation" was at such a "high pitch" that the sheriff moved the suspect to a neighboring town's jail. Even so, the article casually concluded, "it would not be surprising if an attempt were made to get the negro out of the jail and string him up on the nearest tree."
Such was the racial climate when, in that same issue of The Sun, a lengthy article discussed the arrests of Lanasa and Goffe for attempted murder. Goffe was haughty and indignant when the constables came for him, proclaiming that he could "command the ships of England to come here to vindicate me." It didn't help his case that he had arrived in Baltimore on this latest visit only 10 hours before the bombing. After a night in a dingy cell, Goffe's proud veneer cracked during his arraignment. The Sun said he gave way to "[s]obbing as though his heart would break." A no less frustrated Lanasa vowed to fight and was released on bail after his aged mother placed her Baltimore Street home up as surety. Lacking such local holdings to offer up himself, Goffe was looking at another night in jail until Lanasa's brothers placed some of their Baltimore properties up on his behalf. Italian blood had stuck, indeed.
The pair's banana bucks bought a crackerjack legal defense team that included former Baltimore mayor Thomas Hayes and a U.S. congressman. Curiously, in this age of not-infrequent lynchings, Goffe's race never seemed to come up. Newspaper coverage described his jaunty attire and odd accent but never called him out as a "negro" or "colored." (One person who did was Lupo, who referred to the Jamaican as "the nigger" in his testimony.) Goffe was alleged to have been the one assigned to deliver $10,000 to the Black Hand after Di Giorgio was blown to pieces. The problem the court ultimately had with this take on the caper concerned language. Lupo admitted that all Black Hand dealings where done in Italian, and Goffe spoke only Island-tinged English. Soon enough the case against Goffe was dismissed, leaving Italian-speaking Lanasa alone to face judgment.
When the trial opened in March, an armed guard was placed outside the courtroom door out of the fear of Black Hand retribution. Lanasa, Goffe, and even Di Giorgio himself took the stand as each tried to spin the deep-seated fruit rivalry his way. It didn't help Lanasa's cause that his banana firm had employed Lupo and a number of other Black Hand gangsters ultimately connected to the crime as laborers. It all ended rather anticlimactically, however, when Lanasa was found guilty--not of attempting to kill Di Giorgio but of trying to destroy his property. This charge was later dismissed as well, without Lanasa ever seeing the inside of a jail cell again.
Looking back nearly a century later, and after years spent researching his plucky ancestor, Leslie Goffe concludes that the pair could well have had a hand in the Black Hand business after all.
"I wouldn't be surprised if they had helped to hatch the scheme and used the Black Hand to pressure a business rival," he says. "They would do whatever they needed to do to increase the profit margin."
When Anthony Lanasa reflects on it, he figures United Fruit might have been behind it all--just another way for the giant fruit machine to gobble up more market share.
The Lanasa and Goffe Steamship and Importing Co. never again made the headlines. It just imported bananas. But while the partnership survived the Black Hand imbroglio, by World War I it was beginning to fray. Wartime shipping restrictions and some questionable business decisions contributed to the firm's unraveling in 1915.
Alfred Goffe remained in the fruit trade, even joining United Fruit for a while. He also returned to the courtroom, this time in Jamaica, where he was charged with murder. And this time there was no doubt as to his guilt: He shot a man for trying to steal coconuts from one of his land holdings. In the end, Goffe claimed self-defense and got off. He died a major Jamaica landowner in 1951.
Leslie Goffe admits he has mixed feelings about the ancestor he's come to understand was also stern taskmaster and a skinflint boss.
"I'm proud of what he achieved, especially in the times that he achieved it, facing racism and probably physical threats," he says. "I think that took extraordinary bravery. I'm not so proud of the man himself. He was, as any robber baron, concerned solely with the bottom line."
Antonio Lanasa also continued in the business of buying and selling bananas, actually partnering with Alfred Goffe's brother Alec for a few years. He eventually moved uptown to fine house in North Baltimore and died a wealthy and respected man in 1953.
Joseph Di Giorgio, perhaps weary of the hassles of fruit importation, started buying vast tracks of California farmland in 1919 and ultimately abandoned the banana trade to become a domestic produce tycoon. There's a town named after him southeast of Bakersfield, and when he passed on in 1951 his Baltimore News Post obituary called his life a "storybook romance of commerce."
Oh, and his rambling Walbrook frame house partially blown up back in 1907 was demolished for good some years later to make way for rowhouses.
The Goffe saga takes a final curious turn in the early 1940s, when Alec Goffe and his much younger wife, Lesline, bought a whitewashed two-story house at 56 Hope Road in Jamaica's St. Andrew Parish. When Island Records founder Chris Blackwell bought the house from Lesline in the early 1970s, he allowed her to stay in one of the property's outbuildings long after her husband had passed away and a tenant had moved into the main house--one with a head full of dreadlocks and a preternatural taste for marijuana. His name was Bob Marley, and he would go on to cut many records at the Hope Road house.
Leslie Goffe says this, too, is woven into the family lore: "The snobbish relatives would scoff and say, `Can you imagine some Rasta boys smoking ganja in our family member's house? He would have turned over in his grave.'"
By Marley's day, Jamaica had been beaten in the fruit-growing game by the "banana republics" in Central America, where United Fruit--today's Chiquita brand--moved most of its operations. St. Mary, Jamaica's richest parish during the banana boom years, is now its poorest.
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Americans ate about 30 pounds of bananas per person last year, and not one of them came through the Port of Baltimore.
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The 55-year-old actor-comedian says performing live is his passion, so he jumped at the chance to participate in tonight's Garden of Laughs event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
It's great to see some of the guys that I started doing stand-up with, like Brian Regan and Wanda (Sykes), Romano said. And Bob Costas is hosting.
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I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income, Romano said.
Then came Everybody Loves Raymond, in which Romano played a sportswriter and family man. The sitcom wrapped up in 2005 after nine seasons and is now widely seen in syndication around the world.
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kcse and kcpe should never determine the future of students. they should
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