Robert J. Lamphere

Robert J. Lamphere (February 14, 1918 - January 7, 2002) was former an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) involved in the cases of atomic spies Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, Julius Rosenberg, and Ethel Rosenberg, as well as British spy Kim Philby. "He had a hand in every major Soviet spy case from the end of World War II through the mid-1950s."
Background.
Robert Joseph Lamphere was born on February 14, 1918, in Wardner, Idaho and grew up in Mullan, Idaho, where his father had mining rights. He graduated from the University of Idaho and attended its law school before finishing his degree at the National University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School) in Washington, DC.
Career.
FBI.
In September 1941, Lamphere joined the FBI and worked for half a year in Birmingham, Alabama. Transferred in 1942 to New York City, he arrested more than 400 people over the next three and a half years. Transferred in 1945 to Washington, DC, to work on the Soviet espionage squad, he helped investigate Soviet atomic espionage into the top-secret Manhattan Project. In 1947, he became a supervisory special agent and worked with other FBI agents in analyzing Soviet code and other intelligence involving the USSR and its satellites in the Soviet Bloc. By October 1948, he was working with Meredith Knox Gardner on what became known as the VENONA project full-time. At that point, Gardner began decoding specific messages for Lamphere to investigate. In 1949, Lamphere briefed Kim Philby about VENONA. In 1950, deciphered code led Lamphere to interview German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs, attached to research at Los Alamos and later the British atomic energy research center. Fuchs confessed, which led to Harry Gold in the US, which led to more spies including David Greenglass, his wife Ruth Greenglass, and the Rosenbergs.
Later life.
In 1955, Lamphere left the FBI to work in the Veterans Administration, where he became a deputy administrator. In 1961, he became an executive at the John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company and retired in 1981.
Personal life and death.
Lamphere married Martha.
In 1996, Lamphere stated that both he and J. Edgar Hoover opposed the death penalty for Ethel Rosenberg because (1) she had acted under her husband's direction and (2) her death would draw sympathy.
Lamphere criticized US Senator Joseph R. McCarthy: "McCarthy's star chamber proceedings, his lies, and overstatements hurt our counterintelligence efforts."
Lamphere died age 83 in Tucson, Arizona, from a combination of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer.
Works.
Georgetown University archives Lamphere's papers.
"The FBI-KGB War", Lamphere's book (written with Tom Shachtman) on his involvement in the Cold War, is an oft-cited source, deemed "very readable." Historian Harvey Klehr, reviewing the book, noted Lamphere's criticism of J. Edgar Hoover: "Although Lamphere clearly admires Hoover, and praises his political acumen, it is evident that Hoover’s fondness for draconian punishments of underlings, his encouragement of excessive flattery, and his often petty demands sometimes prevented the FBI from making full use of its resources."


John William Friso


Gojko Zec

Gojko Zec (, Serbian Cyrillic: Гојко Зeц; 15 September 1935 – 3 November 1995) was a Serbian football manager. He coached OFK Beograd, FK Partizan, FK Borac Banja Luka, NK Rijeka, Red Star Belgrade, Aris, Yugoslavia FK Borac Čačak.
He was murdered during an armed robbery on 3 November 1995 in Luanda.
Honours.
Manager.
Red Star Belgrade
Petro Atlético


George Stroumboulopoulos

George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos (; Greek: Γεώργιος Μάρκος Παύλος Στρουμπουλόπουλος; born August 16, 1972) is a Canadian media personality. He is best known as formerly being a VJ for the Canadian music television channel MuchMusic and being the host of the CBC Television talk show "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" (formerly "The Hour") from 2005 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Stroumboulopoulos worked for Rogers Media, anchoring "Hockey Night in Canada" and the "NHL on Rogers". He is currently (as of December 2019) a radio host on CBC Music. Most recently, he joined Apple Music Radio as host of a Monday to Thursday live show.
Early life.
Stroumboulopoulos was born in Malton, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, to a Greek father from Egypt and a Ukrainian mother. He was raised in Toronto, primarily by his mother and a close-knit extended family. After graduating from Ascension of Our Lord Secondary School, he briefly studied radio broadcasting at Toronto’s Humber College.
Radio broadcasting.
In spring 1993, Stroumboulopoulos worked at rock radio in Kelowna, British Columbia for a few months before getting a job offer at the Toronto radio station Fan 590 AM, working in talk radio. He then moved to CFNY-FM to host various shows including "Live in Toronto".
Since 2005 Stroumboulopoulos has hosted "The Strombo Show", a music-oriented freeform radio talk show. The show has been aired on the CBC Radio 2 network since 2009.
Starting on August 18, 2020, George Stroumboulopoulos became a show host for his new show called STROMBO on the newly created Apple Music Hits radio station on Apple Music's live radio. The shows airs Monday to Thursday every week at 2:00pm (PST).
Television career.
MuchMusic.
From 2000 to 2004, Stroumboulopoulos worked at MuchMusic as producer and host of "The Punk Show", then host of "The NewMusic", "MuchLOUD" and "MuchNews".
"The Greatest Canadian".
In 2004, Stroumboulopoulos was featured on CBC television's "The Greatest Canadian" series as the advocate for Tommy Douglas. More than 1.2 million votes were cast over six weeks, as each of 10 advocates made their case for the top 10 nominees. George made a personal and passionate case for Tommy Douglas, Canada's "father of medicare", and Douglas was named the winner of the contest.
"The Strombo Show".
Stroumboulopoulos has hosted a long-running Sunday night talk radio show, "The Strombo Show". Originally aired as a talk show on CFRB in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal, the show moved to the Corus network in November 2007 and the format changed to one of mainly music. "The Strombo Show" broadcast from 102.1 The Edge's Toronto studio and on other radio stations in the Corus Entertainment network, including CFOX-FM in Vancouver, Power 97 in Winnipeg, FM96 in London and Y108 in Hamilton.
The show moved to CBC Radio 2 on November 8, 2009.
"George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight/The Hour".
On January 17, 2005, the first episode of "The Hour" went to air. In the show's seventh season, in 2010, the show's name changed to "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", and it was shortened from one hour to half an hour. "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" was a hybrid of news and celebrity and covered everything from politics, pop culture, the environment, human rights, entertainment, sports and more. It won eight Gemini Awards. There are a range of guests on the show from world leaders to celebrities and politicians. The show concluded at the end of the 2013-2014 season as Stroumboulopoulos moved to Rogers Communications.
"The One: Making a Music Star".
In July 2006, Stroumboulopoulos hosted the American reality television talent show, "The One: Making a Music Star" that aired on ABC in the United States, and CBC Television in Canada. It was advertised as a similar show to "American Idol" and "Rock Star" but with the twist that contestants would "live together in a fully functioning music academy", with their actions documented similar to the "Big Brother" format.
The show was reportedly the most expensive summer series in the history of the ABC network. Its first episode, on July 18, 2006, scored a low audience of 3.08 million viewers, and subsequent episodes had even fewer viewers. The series was cancelled after just two weeks (four episodes) with the final results undecided on July 27, 2006 with no plans for any further episodes.
"Stroumboulopoulos" on CNN.
Stroumboulopoulos’ hour-long talk series for CNN, "Stroumboulopoulos", aired during the late spring and the summer of 2013. It was taped before a live audience in Los Angeles, and featured interviews in a format similar to his CBC show. Sometimes, episodes did not air as scheduled. After airing seven episodes from June 14, 2013 to August 16, 2013, CNN did not renew the show.
"Hockey Night in Canada" and move to Rogers.
On March 10, 2014, Rogers Media, which had acquired exclusive national media rights to the National Hockey League, officially announced that Stroumboulopoulos would serve as the main host of "Hockey Night in Canada", beginning in October 2014, replacing Ron MacLean. Concurrently, CBC announced the cancellation of "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight" after a 10-year run.
Strombo's role on "Hockey Night", which was part of an effort to appeal to younger viewers, received mixed reception. Viewers surveyed upon his introduction felt that he was not a "credible" successor to Ron MacLean, In a move which the "Toronto Star" speculated was meant to help re-gain viewership lost over the first two seasons of the contract (which was also credited to the poor performance of Canadian teams in the 2015-16 season), Sportsnet announced on June 27, 2016 that Stroumboulopoulos had been let go from Rogers, and that Ron MacLean would be reinstated.
Charity and public awareness.
Stroumboulopoulos and "The Hour" sponsored the 'One Million Acts of Green' Internet Website challenge, calling on Canadians to register environmental acts they've done. The campaign registered over 1.6 million acts on the website. George and his family have been devoted to this cause also supported by Dr. David Suzuki.
Stroumboulopoulos has also been involved with numerous charitable initiatives, such as hosting the 'HipHop4Africa' Mandela Children's Fund Canada and CapAids February 2006 Toronto benefit. He has traveled to the Arctic for a special on literacy, youth culture and the loss of Inuit identity. He has been to Sudan with War Child Canada, and Zambia for a World AIDS Day special documentary. He also supports Make Poverty History. He joined other prominent Canadians in sharing views on global issues in the March 2010 issue of "Upstream Journal" magazine.
He was executive producer and co-host of "Canada for Haiti" television with Cheryl Hickey and Ben Mulroney to help the humanitarian crisis in Haiti after a devastating earthquake.
He also presented at Vancouver's EPIC Expo in May 2011 where he showed support for Fair Trade and the work of Fair Trade Vancouver.
Stroumboulopoulos was selected by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as an official ambassador in March, 2011, thus being named the first Canadian National Ambassador Against Hunger.
Personal life.
George Stroumboulopoulos follows a vegan and straight edge lifestyle. He is a fan of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
Filmography.
Radio and Television


Brian J. Dooley

Brian J. Dooley (born 1963) is an Irish human rights activist and author. He is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and Senior Advisor at Washington DC-based NGO Human Rights First. He is a prominent human rights voice on Twitter (@dooley_dooley).
He is currently a Visiting Scholar at University College, London (UCL). He served for eight years as an advisory board member of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, and was a Visiting Scholar at Fordham University Law School in New York 2019–2020.
Background.
Dooley works primarily with human rights defenders in danger, engaging with the U.S. and other governments to end threats to human rights activism.
He is a speaker on human rights issues at government, academic, and think tank events, and has testified at U.S. Congressional hearings and in other parliaments.
For the 20 years prior to joining Human Rights First, Brian worked for U.S., Irish and international NGOs. He writes for and is regularly quoted in international print and broadcast media, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, BBC, CNN, Foreign Affairs and Al Jazeera. He wrote around 200 pieces on a range of human rights issues from various countries while a columnist for the Huffington Post 2011–2017. During the 1980s he wrote for the anti-apartheid newspaper the New Nation until it was banned, and during the 1980s and 1990s was a regular literary critic for The Economist, The Guardian, and for The Irish Times.
He led Amnesty International's work on partnering with national NGOs in the global South for many years, and worked as Head of Media for Amnesty International in London and in Dublin, and as Director of Communications for Public Citizen in Washington, D.C.
He is the author of several books about civil rights and U.S. politics, and had early experience on the Hill, interning for Senator Edward Kennedy in the mid-80s as a legislative researcher, contributing to what ultimately became the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Act.
He lived and worked as an English teacher and community organizer in a black township in South Africa in 1981–1982 in defiance of apartheid's racial segregation laws. Other human rights work included helping establish Baltic Pride marches 2007–2010.
His work for Amnesty International included being on research teams sent to conflicts in Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2009, and on the ambassador of Conscience Award project for Nelson Mandela in 2005.
Dooley has a PhD in the history of civil rights from the University of East Anglia, an MPhil in Government and Politics from the Open University, and a B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of East Anglia. He represented The University of East Anglia at cricket and football, the George Washington University in Washington DC at football (soccer), and London Minor GAA (Gaelic football).
Books.
Dooley has written three books.
"Robert Kennedy: The Final Years" (Edinburgh University Press 1995, St Martin's Press, New York 1996) is a political biography of Bobby Kennedy.
"Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America" (Pluto Press, 1998, reissued 2019) traces the historic links between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US. Artist Helen Cammock featured the book in her installation which won the 2019 Turner Prize. In December 2019 the book was the subject of a 60 minute podcast by Shared Ireland.
"Choosing the Green?"(Beyond the Pale 2004) analyses the part played by the Irish diaspora in the Irish conflict. In September 2019 the History Now TV programme in Northern Ireland ran a 30-minute interview with Dooley about "Choosing the Green?" From January 2020 the digital files of the book have been hosted and available in the Special Collections Archive at the Library of London Metropolitan University.
Dooley speaks regularly in the media, at universities, political conferences, and other venues on these and related issues.
Bahraini uprising.
Since the Bahraini uprising, Brian has produced a series of reports and articles highly critical of the Bahraini regime which are regularly featured in the international press. A November 2013 report urged the U.S. to change its approach on Bahrain - Plan B for Bahrain: What the U.S. government should do next. A 2015 report suggested ways the U.S. government could help bring stability through the promotion of human rights in Bahrain. A 2016 report suggested how the US government should drastically alter its relationship with the Gulf kingdom - How to Reverse Five Years of Failure on Bahrain.
He was denied access to Bahrain in January 2012 which promoted members of US Congress to complain to the government of Bahrain. Admitted to Bahrain in March 2012, he has been refused access to the country since, despite repeated requests to enter. In August 2014 Dooley was refused access to Bahrain with U.S. Congressman James McGovern.
The continued denial of Dooley's access to Bahrain is documented in the U.S. State Department's Country Reports for 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The Bahrain Ambassador to the US wrote a blog in 2012 criticizing Dooley, entitled "Responding to Brian Dooley's Article in Foreign Policy" and Brian invited the ambassador for a public debate, which was refused. He is also regularly attacked by Bahrain's pro-regime press.
In September 2014 an article he wrote about Bahrain for Defense One was featured by the Washington Post editorial board in a piece on U.S. Imperfect Allies in the Middle East and by the Aspen Institute as a Best Idea of the Day. He was cited again by name in a June 2015 Washington Post editorial Bahrain's Rulers Now Flout the U.S. Openly. Other pieces on Bahrain include February 2016 for the Washington Times, June 2016 for Defense One, July 2016 in Politico, September 2016 for The Hill
In April 2018 he was deported from Bahrain Airport with Danish MP Lars Aslan Rasmussen when they attempted to gain access to Bahrain to visit jailed Danish citizen and human rights defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja. The Bahraini authorities took their passports on arrival and held them for 24 hours. The incident was widely covered in the Danish, Irish and international media.
In November 2018 he wrote a policy briefing for the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) "No Applause For Bahrain's Sham Election," which was the subject of a UN Dispatch podcast.
In June 2019 he addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Bahrain's violations of the rights to free expression and peaceful assembly.
Egypt.
In March 2013 and May 2013 he authored reports critical of the Morsi government in Egypt and reported from Cairo in August 2013 when the Egyptian government massacred at least 800 protestors.
In January 2014 he was in Cairo reporting on Egypt's constitutional referendum and authored a report on the continuing crackdown on human rights in Egypt which called for an overhaul of U.S. government policy towards Egypt and in December 2014 another report on the fears of Egyptian civil society confronted with a new crackdown. In January 2016 in the run up to the fifth anniversary of Egypt's uprising he visited Egypt and wrote a report and oped on the targeting of human rights activists.
In August 2017 he authored a report and opeds detailing continuing human rights abuses in Egypt, including the radicalization of prisoners by ISIS in Egyptian jails. He recommended the U.S. government cut military aid to Egypt until human rights improved. Three weeks after the report was released the U.S. government announced that for the first time it was cutting military aid to Egypt, denying $60m in military aid and suspending $195m more on human rights grounds. He authored another in September 2018 jointly for Human Rights First and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, again focused on the issue of US military aid for Egypt.
In February 2019 Dooley produced a report for Human Rights First on the extensive recruitment by ISIS in Egyptian prisons. Based on interviews in Egypt with former prisoners, Like a Fire in a Forest detailed how torture in Egypt's jails drives prisoners seeking revenge to join ISIS.
Ukraine.
In 2014 Dooley reported on political extremism in Ukraine and on difficulties for civil society during the conflict with Russia and in October 2014 authored a report on what the U.S. government should do to support democracy and human rights in Ukraine. In December 2017 he authored a Human Rights First report Democracy in Danger, focusing on corruption and attacks on activists. He spoke at a Helsinki Commission event in the US Congress and with activists at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre in Kyiv about the report, and co-authored an oped with local anti-corruption activists Oleksandra Ustinova in Newsweek about the issue.
Hong Kong.
In September 2019 he authored a report on the unrest in Hong Kong with recommendations for what the US government should do to support those protesting for human rights there, and returned in November 2019, giving a public lecture at the University of Hong Kong on Commissions of Inquiry into Police Behaviour, and writing a piece with Hong Kong barrister Wilson Leung for the Hong Kong Free Press on the need for a such a local inquiry. In December 2019 he wrote an oped for the Hong Kong Free Press on lessons Hong Kong could learn from the Northern Ireland experience, and another for the same outlet in January 2020 with Francine Chan of the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group about challenges faced by human rights lawyers in mainland China and Hong Kong. In June 2020 he co-authored a report with the University of Hong Kong Law School for Human Rights First on the impact of the new security law in Hong Kong.
Other Human Rights Issues: The UAE, Kenya, Guantanamo, Syria, Hungary, and Northern Ireland.
In July 2019 he wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post on how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was escaping scrutiny for its abysmal human rights record. In 2015 he reported from the UAE on the suffocation of civil society there on the eve of UEA and other Gulf leaders arriving at Camp David for a summit meeting with President Obama. He authored a report on human rights in the UAE and articles on the summit.
In 2015 he also reported from Kenya on the country's efforts to counter violent extremism, and authored a report in advance of the visit of President Obama's visit to Kenya.
In 2015 he observed the Guantanamo hearings of those accused of the September 11, 2001 hijackings, and wrote a series of pieces on the courtroom scenes.
In 2016 he wrote a series of pieces in Foreign Affairs and elsewhere about the Syrian conflict and the role of civil society in the country's politics.
In 2017 he authored a report on the vilification of human rights lawyers in Northern Ireland.
In 2017 and 2018 he authored reports on the rise of the populist right and attacks on civil society in Hungary,
Mandela legacy.
On the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2013 Dooley provided analysis and media commentary on the legacy of Mandela, including in the New York Times, NPR, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post and various other international media.


Jan Suchorzewski

Jan Suchorzewski (1740 or 1754 – 1804 or 1809) was a Polish noble of the Zaremba coat of arms, soldier and politician. He held the title of the wojski of Wschowa. He was a deputy from Gniezno to the Sejm (parliament) of 1786 and deputy from Kalisz to the Great Sejm of 1788-1792. He would be best remembered for his dramatic, theatrical gestures from that period. Kazimierz Bartoszewicz compared Suchorzewski's look and attitude to that of Zagłoba from Henryk Sienkiewicz's famous trilogy, if more misguided. He became an opponent of the reforms, and joined the Confederation of Targowica.
Biography.
Jan was born in 1740 or 1754 as the son of Jakub Suchorzewski and Jadwiga Zajączek. Around 1770 he married Joanna Przyjemska; they had three children.
During the Great Sejm Suchorzewski was at first a supporter of the Patriotic Party; in particular he supported the enlargement of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's army. In 1789 he published a brochure on the cities and law ("Basics of urban laws" - "Zasady praw miejskich"). However, he eventually switched sides and joined the Hetman Party opposed to the reforms. Around 18 January 1791 he criticized the recently premiered "The Return of the Deputy" ("Powrót posła") comedy of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz for its political content; his critique was not well received and he was ridiculed for it, losing prestige. Despite his opposition of many reforms, he nonetheless played a major, if perhaps not necessarily intentional, role in the passage of the Free Royal Cities Act in April 1791, as his rather unexpected involvement in the discussion boosted the supporters of the act and eased its passing. For that, the king rewarded him with the Order of Saint Stanislaus.
Suchorzewski unsuccessfully attempted to prevent the king from signing the Constitution of 3 May, blocking his way and threatening to kill his own son to save him from the "slavery of the Constitution". In this way he repeated, in an infamous, or tragicomic way, the gesture of Tadeusz Rejtan. This incident was immortalized on Jan Matejko's painting "Constitution of May 3, 1791". From Suchorzewski's pocket, a deck of cards has fallen out, an allusion to the way he was bribed by the Hetman Party leaders, Russian ambassador Otto Magnus von Stackelberg and hetman Branicki. Later, he would publish a critique of the constitution in the brochure "Uwagi nad konstytucją polską 3 maja 1791" ("Notes on the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791") and "Odezwa do narodu wraz z protestacyją dla Śladu Gwałtu i Przemocy, do której prawie w całym Sejmie zbliżano, a w dniu 3 maja 1791 dokonano" ("A Declaration to the Nation with a Protestation for the Evidence of Rape and Violence which was Planned throughout most of the Sejm and on day 3 May 1791 Carried out").
Suchorzewski, with several other opponents of the constitution, departed to Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire, where he became one of the founding members and high-ranking officials ("konsyliarz") of the Confederation of Targowica. Derdej speculated that out of all those who signed the act of the Confederation, Suchorzewski was the only one who might have thought they were really acting in the country's best interest. He commanded a cavalry brigade in the Confederation forces during the War in Defense of the Constitution that the Confederates eventually won, overthrowing the Constitution. During the Kościuszko Insurrection he was sentenced, "in absentia", to a death by hanging, eternal infamy, loss of all titles and confiscation of possessions. His effigy was hanged on the 29 September 1794.
Notes.
a Sources vary with regards to his dates of births and death. Rabowicz and Maksimowicz, as well as Jezierski, give them as 1740-1809. However, the Polski Słownik Biograficzny gives them as 1754-1804 or 1809.
b There are several different versions of the story, which could be explained by the fact that Suchorzewski was known for theatrical gestures and declarations, some of which might have been differently described by contemporary sources (which could have conflated several incidents into one). Bartoszewski cites several versions and incidents of Suchorzewski's theatrics. In one, Suchorzewski would threaten his son upon return to his house, causing a large commotion there. In another, Suchorzewski would simply declare his intention, without even moving to threaten his son. In yet another one, that Bartoszewski describes three times in a slightly different fashion, Suchorzewski would try to block the king's way, imitating Reytan's gesture, but without involving his son. At another time, he would crawl on the parliament's floor, and deliver a speech in this fashion, an incident which caused the bishop Adam Krasiński to demand that "somebody take this insane person to the asylum".


Pedro Lima (actor)

Pedro Manuel Barata de Macedo Lima (20 April 1971 – 20 June 2020) was a Portuguese-Angolan actor, best known for appearing in telenovelas in Portugal. He was also an Olympic swimmer.
Swimming.
He represented Angola in 1988 and 1992 at the Summer Olympics.
Lima participated in several swimming contests but never advanced past preliminaries. In 1988, he was disqualified from the Men's 50 m freestyle, finished 62nd in the Men's 100 m freestyle, 42nd in the Men's 100 m butterfly. In 1992, Lima finished 43rd in the Men's 50 m freestyle and 53rd in the Men's 100 m butterfly. Lima also won a gold and bronze medal at the 1991 All-Africa Games, he won the gold medal in the Men's 50 m freestyle and a bronze in the Men's 100 m butterfly
As of 2018, Lima held two national records for Angola the 50 m freestyle record set at the 1991 All-Africa Games of 23.98 seconds and the 100 m backstroke record of 59.30 seconds.
Acting.
After being invited to host a TV show about cinema called "Magacine", he had roles in Portuguese soap operas like "O Último Beijo", "Ninguém como Tu", "Fala-me de Amor", "Ilha dos Amores" and "A Outra". He also starred in the 2009 movie "Second Life".
Personal life.
Lima was partner of model Anna Westerlund, with whom he had four children. He also had an adult son from a previous relationship with Patrícia Piloto.
Death.
On 20 June 2020, Lima's body was found at in Cascais, in what appeared to have been a suicide. He reportedly sent out farewell messages to two acquaintances earlier on this day.


George Fell

George Edward Fell (July 10, 1849 – July 29, 1918) was an American surgeon and inventor. He was an early developer of artificial ventilation and also investigated the physiology of electrocution, a line of research that led to Fell creating the final design for the first electric chair.
Biography.
Edward George Fell was born in Chippewa, Ontario on July 10, 1849. He was the son of James Wilkins Fell and Ann Elizabeth Hoffman. After high school he studied engineering at the University of Buffalo and was working as a Buffalo City engineer starting in 1869, a post his brother, Charles Fell, eventually took over, planning many of the city's sewer lines. George Fell worked in 1879 as the US engineer on the Ontario–New York State International Bridge at Buffalo. He was a founding member of the American Microscopical Society and its president in 1890. Fell married Annie Argo Duthie (1872) and they eventually had four daughters and one son together. He received a medical degree from the University of Buffalo in 1882 and an ad eundem degree from Niagara University in 1886. George Fell was professor of physiology and microscopy at Niagara University as well as a physician at the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo up to 1895. He was a surgeon at the Charity Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Buffalo from 1910 to 1916. Fell married Gertrude Luella Axtell of Spokane Washington in 1912 and moved to Chicago in 1917. He died at home in Chicago, Illinois from an enlarged heart on July 29, 1918.
Studies and inventions.
Artificial ventilation.
After being unable save the life of an patient suffering from an opioid overdose using the "Silvester Method", a method of artificial ventilation invented by Dr. Henry Robert Silvester in which a patient is laid on their back and their arms are raised above their head to aid inhalation and then pressed against their chest to aid exhalation, Fell devised a method of mechanical ventilation using a bellows and a breathing valve to pass air through a tracheotomy, and later, a face mask. He first used his "forced respiration" method, also called the "Fell method" or "Fell Motor" in 1887 and was able to save many lives with it, keeping opiate poisoning patients breathing for several days, but it never became popular.
In 1888–1894 Fell helped Dr. Joseph O'Dwyer invent a mechanical ventilator, the Fell-O'Dwyer apparatus. It included tube intubation supplied by a foot-operated bellows and procedure for the insertion and extraction of the tube down the patients trachea, using specially designed instruments.
Electrocution studies.
The late 1870s/early 1880s introduction of arc lighting systems (a new type of bright street light running from central generating stations producing 3000–6000 volts) was followed by the strange new phenomenon of people being killed (almost instantaneously) by the high voltages used. Buffalo dentist Alfred P. Southwick's exploration into this phenomenon would eventually lead to the invention of the electric chair. Early on he enlisted the help of Dr. George Fell, along with the head of the Buffalo ASPCA, in whole series of experiments electrocuting hundreds of stray dogs, experimenting with animals in water, out of water, electrode types and placement, and conduction material, eventually coming up with a repeatable method to euthanize animals via electricity. Fell would conduct a further series experiments, electrocuting anesthetized dissected dogs trying to discern exactly how electricity killed a subject. His observations of the animals lead him to believe death was being caused by the heart stopping instantaneously. His experiments were the closest at the time to figuring out the causes of death by electrocution, although he was unaware of the other cause of death, the effect electricity was having on the nervous system.
Although Fell was opposed to capital punishment he assisted in the development of the electric chair since it was considered a more "humane" form of execution. He demonstrated his experiments and shared his findings on the effects of electrocution with the 1886–1888 New York State Gerry Commission, chaired by the human rights advocate and reformer Elbridge Thomas Gerry, during their investigation to find a more humane form of execution. The mode they finally chose, death via electrocution in the electric chair proposed by commission member Alfred P. Southwick, went through more study and experimentation, mostly by the Medico-Legal Society, before it reached its final design. In 1889 the superintendent of New York Prisons, Austin Lathrop, had George Fell draw up the final plan for the chair, a simple oak construction with a retractable foot rest, restraints, and mounted electrodes. Fell went against the Medico-Legal Society's recommendations, changing the position of the electrodes from foot and head to the head and the lower back. "State electrician" Edwin F. Davis built the first electric chair.
Animal tests on a calf and a horse were conducted at the Auburn Correctional Facility to fine tune the alternating current generator being used. After the calf was electrocuted Fell attempted to revive it by resuscitation using his "forced respiration" method. The attempt was unsuccessful and he gave up after 30 minutes. During the run up to the first execution, that of William Kemmler at Auburn on August 6, 1890, Fell told reporters that he planned to use forced respiration on Kemmler after the electrocution, but he never gained permission from the state. Fell was one of the attending physicians at the electrocution, making sure there was proper contact with the electrodes. After what appeared to be a partially botched execution, with Kemmler found to be still breathing after the first jolt forcing a second application of electricity, Fell was one of the few observers who thought Kemmler didn't suffer, stating "I am still a defender of electrical execution, but I do not entirely defend the manner in which Kemmler was executed".


Universal Links on Human Rights

Universal Links on Human Rights is a memorial sculpture located in Dublin, Ireland, on the traffic island at the junction of Amiens Street, Beresford Place, and Memorial Road, close to Busáras and The Customs House. It is a sphere of welded interlinked chains and bars, 260 cm in diameter, housing an eternal flame in its center, powered by natural gas from the Kinsale Head gas field. It was commissioned by Amnesty International in 1995 and designed by Tony O'Malley. It represents the jails holding prisoners of conscience.


Maxi Purvis


A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down is a novel written by British author Nick Hornby, published in 2005. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity.
The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ. These four strangers happen to meet on the roof of a high building called Toppers' House in London on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans for death in solitude are ruined when they meet. The novel recounts their misadventures as they decide to come down from the roof alive – however temporarily that may be.
Plot.
Disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp, the lonely housewife Maureen (51 years old), the unsuccessful musician JJ and the rude teenager Jess (18 years old) meet at Toppers' House in London on New Year's Eve. They all want to commit suicide by jumping from the roof. Their plans for death in solitude, however, are ruined when they meet. After telling their individual stories to the others, they decide to hold off on jumping and to help each other. Thus a group of four unfortunate and very individual people forms. Jess's condition not to jump is that they help her to find her ex-boyfriend Chas. So they take a taxi and drive to the party they suppose Chas to be at. After finding and talking to Chas they decide to go to Martin's place where they find Penny, who has obviously been crying. She accuses Martin of cheating on her because he had left the party they'd both attended that evening without any explanation.
The next morning Jess's dad learns that the newspapers are publishing a story about Jess and Martin. Jess tells him that she slept with Martin, to avoid him finding out the truth of her attempted suicide. He takes her to task because the whole thing is very awkward for him. He is the Junior Secretary of Education and has a reputation to lose. He goes out to get an early edition of the paper and sees the story about her 'suicide pact' with Martin, so Jess's "whole sex confession bit had been a complete and utter fucking waste of time."
Jess's father asks Martin to clear up the accusations and Martin denies that he slept with Jess. After the conversation, her father asks Martin to protect Jess and gives him money. Afterwards, a reporter calls JJ wanting to know why they decided not to jump, but JJ refuses to discuss it.
Later Jess calls Maureen, and they decide to organise a meeting at Maureen's place. At the meeting, Jess suggests that they try to profit from the suicidal-report in the newspaper. Her idea is to confess to the press that they saw an angel who saved them from jumping. Martin, Maureen and JJ don't like the idea and they try to convince Jess out of talking to the press. The next morning they find out that Jess told a reporter, Linda, that they saw an angel that looked like Matt Damon. Jess also promised Linda an interview with Martin, Maureen and JJ. Although they are upset with Jess's behaviour, they decide to do the interview. Linda uses the interview to attack Martin in the press. Thus Martin is fired from his cable TV "FeetUpTV!” but he receives a second chance by promising to his boss that the other three will be guests in his show. The show is a disaster and Martin loses his job. At another TV show Jess admits that the angel story was not true.
Later, JJ decides that the four of them have to go on holiday for Maureen's benefit. Martin, Jess and JJ help Maureen to find a place for Matty, her son. One week later they're on a plane to Tenerife. On the second day, Jess sees a girl who looks very similar to her lost sister Jen. Jess bothers the girl and they have a fight. Out of frustration Jess gets drunk and the police have to take her back to the hotel. JJ meets a girl that saw his old band and they spend the night together. Martin decides to leave the hotel after a fight with Jess. During his absence from the others he thinks about his life and decides that he has made no mistakes. He blames other people for how his life has turned out. In the taxi to the airport they talk about their holiday and plan another meeting for Valentine's Day.
They meet at 8 o'clock on the roof of Toppers' House on Valentine's Day. While they have a conversation, they see a young man who is planning to jump from the roof. They try to stop him from committing suicide but he jumps. They decide to go home and to meet the following afternoon at Starbucks.
Martin tells them about a newspaper article he read according to which people who want to commit suicide need 90 days to overcome their predicament. So they decide to hold their decision until 31 March.
Maureen and Jess decide to visit Martin's ex-wife Cindy to bring her back to him. Cindy Sharp lives with her kids in Torley Heath and has a new partner Paul, whom Maureen and Jess later find out is blind. Cindy explains to them that Martin made many mistakes and that he didn't take care of the children.
After that, Jess organises a meeting in the basement of Starbucks. She invites relatives of the four. All in all, seventeen people appear, but the meeting is a disaster. Jess and her parents are screaming at each other because her mother claims that she had stolen a pair of earrings from Jen's untouched room. While they are fighting Jess runs out of the Starbucks. JJ and a former member of his band are leaving the basement to have a fight and Martin has an argument with one of Maureen's nurses because he claims that he's flirting with Penny. Maureen is the only one of the four who is still present. She talks to Jess's parents and speculates that Jen may have come back to take the earrings. The nurses Sean and Stephen help Maureen to bring Matty home and on the way Sean asks her if she is interested in joining their quiz team. At the quiz, an old man from the team offers Maureen a job in a newsagent's. When Jess comes back from her trip to London Bridge her mother apologizes for accusing her. Jess accepts the apology, seeing the hope Maureen's suggestion has given her mother.
Maureen, JJ and Martin have new jobs now. Martin is a teacher, and wants to start a new life; JJ is a busker and is happy to make music again; and Maureen has started work at the newsagent's.
The ninety days have passed and they meet in a pub near Toppers' House. They decide to go on the roof again. While watching the London Eye from the roof, they realise that their lives aren't that bad. They decide to delay their final decision on killing themselves for another six months.
Reviews.
The book received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.
Adaptation.
Johnny Depp bought the rights to the book before it was published and hired writer D.V. DeVincentis, who previously wrote the script for the film "High Fidelity", to write the screenplay. Depp is also quoted on the back of the paperback edition as saying that the book is "Masterful … some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading."
However, when the rights came up for renewal Hornby awarded them to his partner Amanda Posey and producer Finola Dwyer.
The film stars Pierce Brosnan as Martin Sharp, Imogen Poots as Jess Crichton, Toni Collette as Maureen, Aaron Paul as J.J. Sam Neill plays Jess's father.


Yes (novel)

Yes is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1978 and translated into English by Ewald Osers in 1992.
Plot summary.
This novel is about suicide, a topic that permeates overtly or covertly all of Bernhard’s work. A Persian woman is the central character of narration, and the narrator prepares for her suicide by his own preoccupation with suicide. This motif of the surrogate victim is clearly established in the novel's opening sentence (see excerpt below), where the narrator describes himself as in the process of "dumping" his problems on his friend Moritz. Later, he will persist in making these revelations even though he recognizes that they have "wounded" Moritz. Similarly, he will underline the Persian woman's role as a surrogate victim when he refers to her as the ideal "sacrificial mechanism".
One could easily perceive that the woman fascinates the narrator, who finds in her a suitable companion in his solitary walks into the nearby forest, where he obsesses her with interminable disquisitions and philosophical rants. She is "an utterly regenerating person, that is an utterly regenerating walking and thinking and talking and philosophising partner such as I had not had for years".
Gradually the narrator goes back in time and recollects his first meetings with the Persian woman, uncovering a universe of loneliness where the only existential act left is confession. However, self-exposure not always engenders a benefit. Whilst the narrator undergoes a positive reaction, becoming once again attached to life and thus discarding suicide, the Persian woman is unable to unravel the knots of her painful social isolation and says a definitive "yes" to annihilation.
Literally, the woman arrived in this comically benighted corner of Upper Austria because her companion, a Swiss engineer, had chosen it as the ideal location in which to build his new house, right in the middle of a nearby thick forest. But the reader recognizes this realistic motivation as simply a pretext for arranging the sacrificial death that Bernhard intends for her. We glimpse this archetypal pattern from the very beginning of his narrative, when the narrator describes the woman as "regenerating" and perceives the arrival of the couple as signifying his "redemption". While the narrator himself has never been able to act on his own suicidal impulses, it was his insinuating words, as we learn in the novel's closing sentence, that provoked the woman's suicide. After she has committed suicide (by throwing herself in front of a cement truck), he remembers discussing the frequent suicide of young people and asking her if she would kill herself one day, to which she replies, in the novel's closing word, "Yes".
Excerpt.
"The Swiss and his woman friend had appeared at the real-estate agent Moritz’s place at just the moment when, for the first time, I was trying not only to outline to him the symptoms of my emotional and mental sickness and eventually elucidate them as a science, but had come to Moritz’s house, who in point of fact was then probably the person closest to me, in order quite suddenly and in the most ruthless manner to turn the inside of my, by then not just sickly but totally sickness-ridden, existence, which until then he had known just superficially and had not therefore been unduly irritated let alone alarmed by in any way, turn that inside of my existence out, and thus inevitably alarmed and appalled him by the very abrupt brutality of my undertaking, by the fact that, on that afternoon, I totally unveiled and revealed what, over the whole decade of my acquaintance and friendship with Moritz, I had kept hidden from him, indeed concealed from him throughout that period with mathematical ingeniousness, and kept continually (and pitilessly towards myself) covered from him, in order not to grant him, Moritz, even the slightest glimpse into my existence, which profoundly horrified him, but I had not allowed that horror to impede me in the least in my revealing mechanism which had, that afternoon and of course also under the influence of the weather, gone into action, and step by step, that afternoon, I had, as though I had no other choice, all of a sudden pounced upon Moritz from my mental ambush, unveiling everything relating to myself, unveiling everything that there was to unveil, revealing everything there was to reveal; throughout the incident I had been seated, as always, in the corner seat facing the two windows by the entrance to Moritz’s office, to what I always called his box-file room, while Moritz himself, after all this was the end of October, sat facing me in his mouse-grey winter overcoat, possibly by then in a drunk state, which in the falling dusk I had been unable to determine..."
This opening sentence of "Yes" continues on and is an uninterrupted 477 words long.


A Conspiracy of Hope

A Conspiracy of Hope was a short tour of six benefit concerts on behalf of Amnesty International that took place in the United States during June 1986. The purpose of the tour was not to raise funds but rather to increase awareness of human rights and of Amnesty's work on its 25th anniversary. The shows were headlined by U2, Sting and Bryan Adams and also featured Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Joan Baez, and The Neville Brothers. The last three shows featured a reunion of The Police. At press conferences in each city, at related media events, and through their music at the concerts themselves, the artists engaged with the public on themes of human rights and human dignity. The six concerts were the first of what subsequently became known collectively as the Human Rights Concerts – a series of music events and tours staged by Amnesty International USA between 1986–1998.
Background.
The tour was conceived by the Executive Director of Amnesty International's U.S. section, Jack Healey. The tour was run by famed rock promoter Bill Graham, who served as executive producer along with Healey and Mary Daly, also of Amnesty. James Radner was "Concerts for Freedom" manager for the tour. In developing the tour, Healey drew on his relationship with Martin Lewis who had first recruited rock musicians such as Pete Townshend, Sting and Peter Gabriel to work with Amnesty several years before for The Secret Policeman's Ball's series of benefit shows in England (1976–1981).
Tickets for some of the shows were sold by mail-order lottery, a method popular in the 1970s for high-demand shows but here used for pretty much the last time, with computerized services such as Ticketron rapidly taking over. The concert in Denver was the only show that did not sell out, even with most of the top names on the bill. The local promoter blamed the title of the concert for radio stations believing there truly was a conspiracy.
Performances.
The final show at Giants Stadium was an all-day event, running from noon until 11 p.m., at an outdoor stadium rather than the indoor arenas used for the first five concerts. The following additional artists performed at this concert (in order): John Eddie (with guests Max Weinberg and 14 Karat Soul), Third World, The Hooters, Peter Paul & Mary, Little Steven (with guests Darlene Love and John Waite), Bob Geldof (also with guests Darlene Love, Paul Shaffer, and John Waite), Stanley Jordan, Joan Armatrading, Jackson Browne, Rubén Blades (with Fela and Carlos Santana), Nona Hendryx, Yoko Ono, Howard Jones, and Miles Davis. The show then continued with the regular performers (in order) of The Neville Brothers, Joan Baez (Baez and the Nevilles also performed a number of songs together), Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell (special to NJ), U2, The Police (with Bono during the song Invisible Sun) and finally everyone came out together to perform "I Shall Be Released".
Stage introductions were made by Bill Graham, Senator Bill Bradley, Robert De Niro, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Daryl Hannah and Muhammad Ali.
The show was televised in its entirety by MTV, with the final three hours syndicated on broadcast television by Viacom. Westwood One aired the concert as a live radio broadcast. Pre-taped public service announcements about human rights by prominent figures in the entertainment world were presented on giant video screens and during the television broadcast.
Jackson Browne had also performed at the San Francisco and Los Angeles shows. Robin Williams had performed an impromptu stand-up set at the Chicago show. Madonna and Sean Penn introduced Bryan Adams at the opening night in San Francisco.
The pioneer of rock music for Amnesty, Pete Townshend, was scheduled to perform at the Giants Stadium concert, but had to cancel at the last moment when his father, Cliff Townshend, became gravely ill, necessitating his immediate return to London. This would have been Townshend's first ever US solo appearance.
Musical themes.
The tour artists generally arranged their sets around themes of politics, freedom, and courage. Multiple performers joined U2 for Little Steven's "Sun City", while the assembled multitude sang Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" at the end. Bono sometimes joined The Police for the Troubles-flavored "Invisible Sun", while Fela and Santana joined the Neville Brothers as well. Some of the less rock-oriented acts lost crowd attention during the long Giants Stadium event (notably Joni Mitchell, who admonished the audience from the stage for their rowdy behavior during her set), although Baez was well received with a diverse set that included a rousing version of "The Times They Are a-Changin'", as well as Fela and the Nevilles assisting her on "Let It Be" and Tears for Fears' "Shout". (Curt Smith of Tears for Fears was in the audience at the Cow Palace show, and joined Baez and the Nevilles on that show's performance of this song.)
The tour enhanced the growing stature of both Peter Gabriel and U2, who were on upswings of popularity and whose "Shock the Monkey" and "Bad" respectively showed percussive, hypnotic power in large settings. Sting was originally slated for the tour as a solo performer with his touring band, but he reconvened The Police for the final three concerts (with their first appearance, in Atlanta, being unannounced) to further assist Amnesty's fund-raising and profile-raising with the enhanced value of a Police reunion. These were the last public Police performances until their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2003.
Impact.
Inevitably there were some who wondered whether attendees were understanding the message of the event or simply there for the music. A Philadelphia rock radio station sent an interviewer into the Giants Stadium concessions line, who seemed shocked to encounter an audience member who not only knew what Amnesty was but was a member.
Bono addressed the doubters and cynics in an interview in "Rolling Stone" shortly before the tour began in which he said that he knew first-hand the value of attending such shows: "The audience is going to be great. I know that because I was part of that audience once. I saw 'The Secret Policeman's Ball' and it became a part of me ... It sowed a seed."
On Monday June 16, the morning after the final show at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Sting, Peter Gabriel, tour promoter Bill Graham and Amnesty director Jack Healey were guests on the "Today Show". Host Bryant Gumbel asked, "I don’t think any of us would quibble about the worth of the cause but what leads you to believe that anybody left with anything more than a smile?"
Sting responded:
One month after the tour, the membership of Amnesty International in the United States had increased by 45,000 members.
Concert-goers had been asked to send appeals for freedom on behalf of six prisoners of conscience, two of whom were released within months after the tour.


Wigtown Martyrs

The Wigtown Martyrs or Solway Martyrs, Margaret Maclauchlan and Margaret Wilson were Scottish Covenanters who were executed by Scottish Episcopalians in 1685 in Wigtown, Scotland, by tying them to stakes on the town's mudflats and allowing them to drown with the rising tide.
Monuments to the 'Wigtown Martyrs' exist in Wigtown. During "The Killing Times" of the Covenanters in the 17th century, Margaret McLachlan, an elderly woman of around 63, and Margaret Wilson, around 18 years of age, were sentenced to be tied to stakes in the tidal channel of the River Bladnoch near its entrance to Wigtown Bay to be drowned by the incoming tide. The ploy was that the younger woman might be persuaded to change her mind after watching the older woman drown. The strategy failed and both died. This execution was carried out by dragoons under the command of Major Windram in the presence of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag who held the King's Commission to suppress the rebels in the South West. Their story, as told in various sources, tells how the women were betrayed by an informer. After about a month in prison they were tried as rebels and sentenced to death by drowning. The story of the Wigtown Martyrs was among those collected by Robert Wodrow and published in his "History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution". The Church of Scotland synod had decided in 1708 to collect accounts of persecution under the Stuart monarchs, and persuaded Wodrow to take on the research. He wrote that Thomas Wilson "lives now in his father's room, and is ready to attest all I am writing."
There are two graves to the women in the local churchyard and on nearby Windy Hill there is a memorial obelisk. There is also a stone at the point where they died.


Ottawa (tug)

The Ottawa was a tugboat that sank in Lake Superior off the coast of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin. The wreckage site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
History.
"Ottawa", originally named "Boscobel", was built in Chicago, Illinois. It was the largest tug ever built in Chicago at the time and remained the largest and most powerful tug on the Great Lakes until its sinking in 1909.
Originally the boat was used for rafting logs on Lake Michigan, but in 1901 was bought (and renamed) by the "Reid Wrecking Company", based in Sarnia, Ontario.
On November 13, 1909, a steamboat passing the Apostle Islands became stranded on a shoal two miles off of Outer Island during a storm. The ship's first mate and other members of the crew launched the lifeboat and went to land in order to get help. Four vessels tried for a week to aid the steamboat. Eventually, three more vessels, including "Ottawa", were dispatched to the scene. On November 29, they were finally able to free the steamboat. That evening, the "Ottawa"s crew ate dinner and retired to bed. Less than 30 minutes later, they were woken by a fire that was already out of control. "Ottawa" was pushed away from the steamboat that they had earlier rescued by the other vessels in efforts to stop the spread of fire and another tugboat was sent to help "Ottawa". Despite the efforts, "Ottawa" burned to the waterline and sank. All crew members were saved.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. Theories include that the fire was a result of spontaneous combustion in the ship's coal bunkers, which contained 130 tons of fuel.


Liutpert

Liutpert (or Liutbert) (died 702) was the Lombard king of Italy from 700 and to 702, with interruption. Upon succeeding his father, King Cunincpert, at a young age, he ruled together with his tutor, Ansprand, the duke of Asti. After eight months, he was deposed by Raginpert, the duke of Turin and son of Godepert, Liutpert's great-uncle, but succeeded in returning to the throne several months later upon Raginpert's death, only to be deposed again, taken captive from Pavia, and drowned by Aripert II, Raginpert's son.