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Sunday, March 26, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)
WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?:
RABBIT HOLE (Paramount+)
24TH MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR (CNN) 8:00pm
RIDE (CTV Drama) 9:00pm
SUCCESSION (HBO Canada) 9:00pm
YELLOWJACKETS (Crave) 9:00pm
SEEKING BROTHER HUSBAND (TLC Canada) 10:00pm
EVA LONGORIA: SEARCHING FOR MEXICO (CNN) 10:00pm
LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER (MSNBC) 10:00pm
WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?:
HOUSEBROKEN (FOX Feed)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (TBD - Disney + Star)
NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:
CRAVE TV
SUCCESSION (Season 4)
LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP
(TSN/TSN3) 4:00am: Bronze Medal Game
(TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 9:00am: Final
MLB BASEBALL (SN) 1:00pm: Jays vs. Yankees
NHL HOCKEY
(SN360/SNEast/SNWest) 5:00pm: Bruins vs. Hurricanes
(SNOntario) 6:00pm: Leafs vs. Predators
(SNPacific) 6:00pm: Canucks vs. Chicago
NBA BASKETBALL
(SN1) 1:00pm: Mavericks vs. Hornets
(SN1) 6:00pm: Wizards vs. Raptors
(SN1/SNEast/SNWest) 8:30pm: Timberwolves vs. Warriors
NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
(TSN4) 7:00pm: March Madness: Elite Eight
(TSN/TSN4) 9:00pm: March Madness: Elite Eight
BEST IN MINIATURE (CBC) 7:00pm: The celebration hits an all-time high as the artists make tiny decorations and create a party atmosphere in their dining rooms.
SULLIVAN'S CROSSING (CTV) 7:00pm: Maggie sees Cal in a new light after they help an injured resident and spend time together at karaoke.
A YEAR ON PLANET EARTH (CBC) 8:00pm: The North faces the sun’s rays, the great melt begins bringing new life. For animal families in the South, conditions are worsening as days shorten.
ISOBEL CUP: MINNESOTA WHITECAPS VS. TORONTO SIX (TSN3/TSN5) 9:00pm
ESSEX COUNTY (CBC) 9:00pm: Ken doubts his ability to care for Lester, while Lester develops a new bond with Jimmy. Lou resents his loss of independence and against Anne’s wishes, ventures into town with disastrous consequences.
NITRAM (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: Living a life of isolation and frustration, a young man develops an unexpected friendship with a reclusive heiress. When that relationship meets its tragic end, his loneliness and anger culminates into the most nihilistic and heinous of acts.
RENOVATION RESORT (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm: In the fourth cabin challenge, Scott and Bryan serve up a kitchen; Savannah and Kyle get things cooking while Rotem and Troy have a crisis over storage space; Jena and Sean bring the outdoors in and April and Arnold keep things dark and moody.
PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Makeful) 10:00pm: Bruno Tonioli, Yolanda Brown, Helen Sharman
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATES - LEGAL MARIJUANA IN AMERICA (Nat Geo Canada) 10:00pm: The U.S. war on pot is not over, as penalties and jail time are still a threat.
THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND: DRILLING DOWN (History Canada) 10:00pm: Matty Blake joins the Laginas and their team to get an exclusive behind the scenes look at a day of film production for "The Curse of Oak Island."
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Dr. Lyman Beecher Brooks (May 27, 1910 - April 20, 1984) the first president of Norfolk State University (1938-75) was born in Blakes, Virginia to John Robert Brooks and Mary Anna Burrell Brooks. He received his early education in a one-room school where his mother taught. Mathews County had no high school for African Americans, he lived with an aunt while attending the Middlesex Training School in Richmond. He spent his fourth year of high school at Virginia Union University’s secondary school and majored in Mathematics. He graduated second in his class.
He taught at the Middlesex Training School. he became a founding principal of the new Essex County High School. He received an MA and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Michigan.
He became the director of the Norfolk Junior College division of Virginia Union University in a room in the Black YMCA. The college had 115 students. It became a separate entity called Norfolk Polytechnic College with him as its first president.
In 1951 following appropriations from the Virginia legislature, 55 acres of land in Norfolk was allotted for the development of the physical infrastructure of Norfolk’s first HBCU. In 1969 Norfolk State College became an independent institution when it severed its ties with Virginia State University.
He remained president of the institution. He married Evelyn Fields (1954), a local schoolteacher, and they had two daughters. He chaired a project funded by the Cooperative Research Branch of the US Office of Education to study the effectiveness of vocational education in assisting unskilled workers in securing jobs. He was a joint-author of project reports published as “Training the Hard-Core Unemployed: A Demonstration-Research Project at Virginia State College, Norfolk Division,” and “Re-Education of Unemployed and Unskilled Workers.”
He oversaw its enrollment growth from fewer than 500 students in 1942 to more than 5,400 students in 1975. Ηe published Upward: A History of Norfolk State University through Howard University Press. The Lyman Beecher Brooks Library in the center of the campus, is dedicated to his legacy. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence
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Caring for individuals with developmental disabilities requires patience, understanding, and a tailored approach to meet their unique needs. Whether you’re a caregiver, family member, or friend, you can help individuals with developmental disabilities thrive and lead fulfilling lives by providing a nurturing environment and support coordination Essex County,New Jersey.
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Know About the Best Bars around Essex, MD
There's a lot to love about Bars in Essex, MD. We're not just talking about the beautiful outdoor space on the roof or the fact that they have a full bar and kitchen, but also the fact that they offer live music every night.
The Hard Yacht Cafe in Essex, MD
Low-key eatery dishing out classic American seafood such as fish tacos plus beer, cocktails & wine. Our team works hard to make your HYC in Essex, MD experience an enjoyable one. If you're waiting for a spot to dock or park, waiting for a table, or even for food, please know we are doing our very best! It all began with just boats, burgers, and beers.
Dueling Barrels Brewery & Distillery in Pikeville
Nestled deep in the Appalachian foothills of Eastern Kentucky, you'll find Dueling Barrels Brewery & Distillery, where handcrafted beverages are a toast to the proud spirit of the mountains and the passionate people who shape the region.
The Tillery Restaurant & Bar in Reisterstown Station
Enjoy dining in our upscale Owings Mills restaurant offering new American cuisine, craft beers, and signature cocktails. The Tillery Restaurant & Bar in Reisterstown Station, a full-service upscale American restaurant and bar brings a modern and intimate dining experience to Owings Mills, MD. Owings Mills, once an independent and isolated mill town, but now the heart of bustling Baltimore County, welcomes a new dining experience to Metro Centre at Owings Mills.
Scarpaci's in Mt Washington
This story is one I love to tell. Scarpaci’s in Mt Washington is a family business and as a family, we are usually sort of private. My boys aren’t usually comfortable with me “putting stuff out there” for everyone to see. But this story is one they want me to tell. So let’s get started.
Monaghan's Pub in Lochearn
Great neighborhood pub in Lochearn. The food is solid: great chicken, sandwiches, cole slaw, thick fries, and cold beer!
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“Almost at once, Eleanor set out for Poitiers with some members of her household, and Poitevin nobles who had attended the council formed an escort to accompany their duchess. She was in danger of being abducted and forced into a new marriage by some nobleman eager to acquire her inheritance. The former queen knew that she could not remain single for long and that unless she acted quickly to take a husband of her own choosing, she would soon find herself married against her will to a stranger.
She had two narrow escapes during her flight from Beaugency: first from the count of Blois and Chartres, Theobald V, later to become her younger daughter’s husband, who tried to take her as she traveled past Blois; then she had to evade another attempted abduction by Geoffrey Plantagenet, Henry’s sixteen-year-old younger brother. He planned to capture her at Port-de-Piles on the border of Touraine and Poitou, but “warned by her angels” at Tours she took a different road into her own county. As soon as Eleanor was safely at Poitiers, she wrote to Henry that she was free to marry.
Modern writers explain her hasty marriage almost entirely in emotional terms, as due either to her falling in love or to her quest for a younger man more vigorous than her former husband. They ignore her vulnerability once she left her former husband’s court: a woman alone and in need of a protector—both of her person and of her duchy. She had little choice but to find a new husband capable of defending her and her lands as quickly as possible. As heir to the largest of the French duchies and as a former queen, Eleanor had few options in marriage partners, but she had to take the initiative in making a new marriage before being forced into wedding someone not of her own choosing.
In an act almost unheard of in her time, Eleanor acted independently without consulting her kin or other counselors. Of all available princes, Henry Plantagenet, although nine years her junior, “came nearest to being a worthy partner for a discarded queen.” Everything points toward first plans for their marriage having been laid during his August 1151 visit to the French court. Her true feelings toward the Angevin heir cannot be known, but she must have found his youth and ardor appealing. Something definitely happened between the French queen and Henry during the August visit, and it had a dual effect: it resolved Louis on a separation, and Henry, aware of the political advantage a marriage to Eleanor would bring him, determined to have her as his wife.
…Barely two months after the annulment of Eleanor’s first marriage, she had a second husband, the future Henry II of England. Eleanor and Henry’s marriage took place in the cathedral at Poitiers in a hastily organized ceremony on 18 May 1152. Preparations for the wedding had been made in secret for fear of attempts to stop it, and the simple service with only a few intimates present hardly matched the couple’s lofty status. No doubt the advantage that the marriage would bring Henry was the dominant consideration in his desire to wed Eleanor. It was more than the prestige of the title of duke of Aquitaine that made Eleanor an appealing bride for the young count-duke.
The Angevin counts had a long record of trying to expand their power into Poitou, and in the tenth and eleventh centuries they had occupied portions of northern Poitou and the Saintonge stretching along the Atlantic coast and the Charente river. Indeed, the counts of Anjou still held two castles, Loudun and Mirebeau, that lay within Poitou’s borders with the counts of Poitou technically as their lords. It has been pointed out that “The union of Anjou and Aquitaine was not only workable, but the culmination of two centuries of Angevin pressure.” Furthermore, Henry saw that Poitou in some other powerful lord’s possession would threaten Anjou and all his Loire valley lands. He could see more immediate practical advantages too, for possessing Poitou would enable him to deal more effectively with plots by his younger brother Geoffrey, who was count of Nantes.
The young duke of Normandy should have anticipated trouble with his putative lord over his lands, his new wife’s ex-husband, Louis VII; as an English chronicler noted, his marriage to Eleanor “was the cause and origin of great hatred and discord between the French king and the duke.” It cannot be known whether or not Louis was surprised at Eleanor’s quick remarriage but he was certainly enraged when he heard the news, and he never gave up his conviction that her new marriage was somehow displeasing to God.
He had good reason for bitter resentment and remorse at losing his wife and her great duchy to such a powerful enemy as the young duke of Normandy, and he must have pondered the possibility of Henry ruling not only both the county of Anjou and Normandy, but one day making good his mother’s claim to the kingdom of England. Even without a royal title, Henry Plantagenet had become the largest landholder in France, surpassing Louis in possessions, and his control over all western France seemed to block any expansion of Capetian domains in that direction.
…One chronicler stated the issue succinctly: “When King Louis heard of [the marriage], he was greatly incensed against Duke Henry, for he had two daughters by the aforesaid Eleanor, who would be disinherited if she should bear a son by any other husband.” Louis seems to have believed that Eleanor had no right to marry without first taking counsel with him and that Henry, her chosen spouse, had no right to take her as his wife without consulting him, his lord. Already in England and Normandy, lords’ prerogative of controlling their vassals’ marriages was customary, but this was not yet accepted in other regions as one of the privileges of lordship.
…In marrying Eleanor, Henry Plantagenet apparently felt concern neither for his bride’s questionable fertility during her first marriage nor for her age; as she was approaching thirty, she seemed to her contemporaries to be bordering on middle age. After undergoing no more than three pregnancies as the French king’s wife, Eleanor’s second marriage would prove remarkably fruitful in sons, a fact that infuriated Louis, but must have pleased her greatly. She would produce eight or nine children by Henry within thirteen years: five sons—and possibly a sixth who died in early infancy—three of whom lived to be crowned kings of England, and three daughters, all of whom married important foreign princes. Eleanor gave birth to her last two children, Joanne and John, when she was over forty. She was a remarkably healthy woman to have survived numerous childbirths in an age when giving birth was a major cause of women’s deaths.
Eleanor could be assured of her new husband’s virility, for Henry already had illegitimate offspring by the time of his marriage, as was not uncommon among scions of aristocratic families. He acknowledged a bastard son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, whose mother, according to the gossip Walter Map, was a harlot named Ykenai or Hikenai who had duped the young king into admitting that he was her child’s father. Whatever Henry’s reason, he was willing to acknowledge young Geoffrey and to welcome him into the royal household soon after winning the English Crown.
Henry had another illegitimate child born before wedding Eleanor, a daughter named Matilda, whom he would install in the late 1170s as head of Barking Abbey, a convent in Essex. Matilda’s predecessor as abbess of this rich and aristocratic house was Thomas Becket’s, appointed in 1173 as part of the king’s restitution to the martyred archbishop’s family. Henry’s bride, brought up in the sophisticated atmosphere of the Poitevin court, would not have found it shocking that her new husband had fathered illegitimate sons in his youth.
Toleration for the offspring of aristocratic youths sired while “sowing their wild oats” was greater than for children resulting from a married man’s adulterous affair. Nor would a bastard’s presence in his household have upset her unduly, for she knew that such illegitimate sons frequently found places in their father’s household. Indeed, young Henry’s bastard son sent an encouraging signal to Eleanor that he might give her sons. Despite Eleanor’s need for a protector after her divorce, her speedy remarriage two months later to Henry Plantagenet added fodder for rumors of serial adulteries, and talk spread of the former French queen’s scandalous conduct.
…Still others labelled the marriage felonious because Henry had entered into it for the purpose of opposing his lord, King Louis. Two monastic writers, William of Newburgh and Gervase of Canterbury, depicted Eleanor as taking the initiative in her marriage to Henry. Both were surprised by a woman arranging her own marriage alliance, a rare occurrence in the twelfth century, although their impression was none too favorable. Both presumed to know Eleanor’s mind, although they were writing a generation after the events. Newburgh, profoundly anti-woman like other clerics and believing that a woman’s libido was stronger than a man’s, ascribes Eleanor’s quick remarriage to her wish for a new, more virile partner.
He writes that after Louis and Eleanor’s return from the East, “the former love between them gradually grew cold,” and he reports rumors that Eleanor “even during her marriage to the king of France . . . longed to be wed to the duke of Normandy as one more congenial to her character,” and that she “eventually obtained the marriage which she desired.” Gervase of Canterbury comments that after the divorce Eleanor returned to Poitou, “disdaining [Louis’s] decrepit Gallic embraces.” Gervase also portrays Eleanor as the initiator of her marriage so soon after Louis VII’s repudiation of her; according to him, “by means of a messenger sent secretly to the duke, she announced that she was free and dissolved [from her marriage] and stimulated the duke’s mind to contract matrimony.” Yet Gervase also admits that Henry “had long desired” the marriage, “above all driven by the desire to possess all the honors that belonged to her.”
These chroniclers, following conventional thinking, attribute personal, emotional, or sexual motives to Eleanor’s quick marriage to Henry. As one commentator notes, “It is striking that chroniclers consistently avoid any suggestion that Eleanor could have been driven to divorce Louis and marry Henry by any other motivation than sexual desire. [They] consistently sexualize women’s power to depict it as a disorderly, uncontrollable force and to discredit it.” They take no note of Eleanor’s vulnerability as a woman alone and without a protector in a masculine society where single women were expected to be under a male’s guardianship.
Romantically inclined biographers see her marriage to Henry as a love match, or at least find strong sexual attraction motivating them. No doubt Eleanor did find Henry, aged nineteen, more attractive than Louis, whom she considered insufficiently virile, more monk than monarch, but physical attraction—or lust, in contemporary churchmen’s opinion—was certainly not the chief factor in their marrying. The marriage resembled closely that of Henry’s parents: the much younger Geoffrey le Bel taking as his wife the older, previously married Empress Matilda, and no one could suspect their marriage of being a love match. It had been the work of Matilda’s father, guided by dynastic concerns.”
- Ralph V. Turner, “A Husband Lost, a Husband Gained, 1149–1154.” in Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England
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19th January 1644 saw a Scottish Covenanter army of 20,000 men under the command of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven move south into England and their civil war supporting Oliver Crowmell.
Sit doon and get comfy, this will be a lengthy post, for the start of this post has it's roots in The English Civil War it takes us right up to the Jacobite Uprisings and the split in loyalties between King and country.
The 17th-century civil war may seem a very English affair, but that is misleading – it was started and ended by Scots.
We all know a bit about the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army; the Battles of Worcester and Naseby and Marston Moor that ended with the execution of King Charles I, to me it marked the beginning of the end of the Stuarts, and it all seems a rather English affair, recently, however, historians have preferred to call it ‘The War of Three Kingdoms’, since both Scotland and Ireland were inevitably drawn into the dispute. It is easy to see why the older version prevailed for so long.
To me the internet has helped people, like myself understand history better, we can seek out so many sources so easily, at school, if you were lucky you got a text book with the one version being "gospel" but even on here I have been called out for getting things wrong, well in the eyes of the person calling me out I certainly will concede certain ground, but history as well is how you perceive it, what to put in my posts and what to leave out. I rely on some people to keep me right in some respects, and I can't hold a torch to some peoples knowledge of certain aspects of our history, I take my hat off to the likes of my friends, Marti Morrison, or Roland Obrien whose Jacobite knowledge can put me to shame, these guys live and breath the history, wear the outfits, walk the battlefields and have done for years, mere mortals like me scour the archives piecing together from many sources, like todays post, giving an understanding of events that has been lacking in the classrooms when the super info-highway was still drifting out in space.
Anyway back to the post in hand.
The English story is clear – the extravagant and naïve Charles pitted against the unglamorous and hard-headed Cromwell over a clear point of principle. The Scottish story, however, is much more ambiguous. Indeed, if the ‘English Civil War’ might broadly be dated from 1640, when Charles I dissolved the ‘Short Parliament’, to 1660, when General Monck restored Charles II to the throne, the ‘Scottish Civil War’ could be said to have run from 1637 to 1744, and the final defeat of the Jacobite cause.
Lets start with simple question: to whom did Charles I surrender in 1646? Not to Fairfax, Essex, Ireton or Cromwell, the leading lights in the English Civil War, but to the Scottish regiment encamped at Newark, led by Alexander Leslie.
Charles, who had of course been born in Scotland, and always had a problem with the Scottish Kirk, who maintained that while the King had authority in matters temporal, they had authority in matters spiritual; and often where one ended and the other began was a point of serious contention. Time and time again I go back to pointing out the Stewart/Stuart, mantra of Devine right of Kings.
James VI as the first King to "rule" over the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England got away with having two forms of worship by not getting too involved with them, Charles however was much more headstrong, his first, and some say biggest mistake was the introduction of his own prayer books on the Scottish Kirk in 1637. It caused a riot, with one woman, Jenny Geddes, purportedly throwing her stool at the minister and shouting ‘daur ye say Mass in my lug?’ They saw it as being to close to the "Popery" of the Catholic church, it led to the drawing up a ‘National Covenant' which was a solemn agreement inaugurated to reject the prayer book and any meddling by the King in their religion. Don't underestimate this agreement a staggering six hundred thousand Scots signed the document, in any age, it stated that as long as the king protected the Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church would protect the king. There was the rub.
Charles, forgetting that the word ‘thrawn’ could have been invented to describe the Scottish Church, sorted refused to sign, leading to the so-called First and Second Bishops’ Wars, the latter ending with Montrose and the veteran of the European wars Alexander Leslie in control of Northumbria and County Durham. Charles had to recall the English Parliament for financial support – the ‘Long Parliament’ – and precipitated his war with them.
Parliament now opened negotiations with the Church. Although there were many mutual areas of agreement, the Church of Scotland held both the Independents and the Puritans at arm’s length.
Nevertheless, Westminster and Edinburgh both signed a successor document to the Covenant, the Solemn League and Covenant, which brought the Scots into the fray on the side of Parliament. Even before this, Montrose had already switched sides, concerned that the Kirk was attempting to usurp the power of the Crown.
While Charles was fighting Cromwell he still held out hope that the Scots could wield and come to his rescue, perhaps this is why he surrendered himself to Leslies army and not the Roundheads. What did for him was English gold. The Scots had been promised much and were financially insecure, so in exchange for their prisoner, the English Parliament paid Scottish debts, Leslie's army had not been paid as promised for allying themselves with Cromwell, with this settled Charles was handed over, eventually to be tried and executed.
The execution of Charles was a turning point. The English had killed the legitimate King of Scots without so much as a by-your-leave. Charles II was proclaimed King of Scots in Edinburgh, and the head of the ‘Engagers’, the Duke of Hamilton, beheaded in London.
Under the Treaty of Breda, Charles II signed the Covenant; an act he did so in supreme bad faith. He needed allies not disputations on theology. Cromwell addressed the General Assembly over the Scots defection, saying: ‘I beseech you, in the bowels in Christ, think it possible ye may be mistaken.’
When the Assembly decided they were not, Cromwell launched a punitive strike against Dunbar, capturing it from Sir David Leslie, ( his brother, Alexander by now aged and retired) beside whom he fought at Marston Moor. Three thousand Scots were killed and 10,000 captured. By the Battle of Inverkeithing, Cromwell had effective control of everywhere south of the Firth of Forth.
But the Scots were intransigent. In the last battle of the ‘English Civil War’, the Battle of Worcester, the majority of the 16,000 strong Royalist force was Scottish. Around 8000 Scottish prisoners were sent as indentured labourers to the West Indies and Canada, starting a relationship with those regions that would have significant influence in later centuries. Leslie was sent to the Tower, and released a decade later on the successful Restoration of Charles II and the death of Cromwell.
The Scots had instigated the war on their insistence that they were religiously and politically different from England. One unforeseen consequence was that Cromwell’s Commonwealth was the first time Scotland and England had the same governance, he is acknowledged as the only an to invade and control all of Scotland, a feat Longshanks, Edward I never quite accomplished.
Charles II did not heed the lessons of what had happened to his father, and his attempts to create ecclesiastical uniformity led to the ‘Killing Time’ between 1680 and 1688. Even more bizarrely, after the English Parliament invited William III to take the crown, in favour of the Catholic King James VI and II, some Covenanters fought for the Stuarts against the new regime. The misery of war and religious schism makes for strange bedfellows indeed.
At the root, perhaps, of the problem was the difference between the Scottish and English experiences of Stuart monarchy. The Stuarts had ruled Scotland since 1371 and England since 1603. They may have been weak, injudicious, opinionated, divisive and profligate kings – but they had been our kings for a much longer time.
Pics are The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard in 1638, and the Covenant itself. To understand more about The National Covenant have read at this article on the BonnieDundee189 web page https://bonniedundee1689.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/the-signing-of-the-national-covenant-let-the-bloodshed-begin/
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The Story about The American Exchange Student.
𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀 𝐓𝐘𝐋𝐄𝐑
FULL NAME: Stacey Maria Tyler
NICKNAME(S): Stace
TITLE(S): The Powerful One, The Destined, The Girl Born On Halloween
BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood
NATIONALITY: American
DATE OF BIRTH: 31st October 1979
AGE: 16-20 (depending on storyline)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLACE OF LIVING: 3 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, United Kingdom
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single (shipped with Harry)
SPECIES: Human/Witch
GENDER: Female
HAIR COLOUR: Pure White
EYE COLOUR: Sparkling Green
SKIN COLOUR: Pale/Clear Skin
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Stacey is of medium height with a petite physique. She has wavy, short white hair, clear skin, sparkling green eyes, and a delicate figure. She mostly forgoes makeup and typically dresses somewhat conservatively but comfortably so; she is not however above wearing eye-catching and/or alluring attire if the occasion calls for it. Stacey normally wears deep crimson red lipstick standing out with her white hair, Stacey was popular and top in her classes as she is very educated and was known to be one of the most beautiful and fashionable girls.
PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION: Stacey possesses incredibly sense of self and strong willpower. She has a fierce sense of independence. An ardent feminist who believes in the advancement of women in society, she has no qualms over confronting anyone who demeans any female student.
Stacey is an uncommonly compassionate, caring, intelligent, thoughtful, rebellious, and spirited person, an unwaveringly loyal friend. Stacey is ambitious about what she wants in life, she doesn’t want any kind of power or world domination unlike dark wizards, she wants to earn a good education which she began at IIvermorny before she transferred to Hogwarts to finish her education there when her father got a new job in the British Ministry of Magic. Stacey is well-loved by her friends and family because of her huge heart like donating to charity, doing volunteer work for good causes.
HOBBIES: Practising magic, Helping people, Reading, Volunteering, Cooking/Baking, Watching Documentaries, Learning history of the ancient world, Listening to Music, Collecting, Going to the beach. Going to the museum, Going to the theatre, Camping, Horseback riding, Art; Painting, sketching, pottery. Yoga, running, dancing, Mindfulness and Meditation Practices
FAMILY MEMBERS:
MOTHER: Maria Jones-Tyler (Muggle; deceased; murdered by Gellert Grindelwald)
FATHER: Jonathan Tyler (Wizard; alive; worked for the MACUSA before joining the British Ministry of Magic as an auror.)
SISTER(S): One little sister named Sophia Tyler
BROTHER(S): None
GRANDPARENT(S): Margaret Jones and Richard Jones (Stacey’s mother’s parents) Katherine Tyler and Arthur Tyler (Stacey’s father’s parents)
MAGICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
BOGGART: Anything bad happening to her family and loved ones.
WAND: Elm 12¾" Horned Serpent horn (Unyielding)
PATRONUS: a Wolf
POWERS & ABILITES: Magical aptitude, Non-verbal and wandless magic, Duelling, Charms, Transfiguration, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potioneer, Healing magic, Study of Ancient Runes, Astral projection, Necromancy, Atmokinesis, Warding, Teleportation, Telekinesis, Healing, Flying/Levitation, Pyrokinesis
EDUCATION: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (former), Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
HOUSE: Horned Serpent (former), Gryffindor.
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𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝑅𝒾𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒹
♕ 𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒩𝒶𝓂𝑒: Richard Alexander Walter George
♕ 𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒯𝒾𝓉𝓁𝑒: His Royal Highness Prince Richard Alexander Walter George The Duke of Gloucester
♕ 𝐵𝓸𝓇𝓃: Saturday, August 26th, 1944 at St. Matthew's Nursing Home in Northampton, England
♕ 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈: His Royal Highness Prince Henry The Duke of Gloucester (Father) & Her Royal Highness Princess Alice Duchess of Gloucester (Mother)
♕ 𝒮𝒾𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈: His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester (Brother)
♕ 𝒮𝓅𝓸𝓊𝓈𝑒: Her Royal Highness Birgitte The Duchess of Gloucester (M. 1972)
♕ 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃: Major Alexander Earl of Ulster (Son), Lady Davina (neé Windsor) Lewis (Daughter), & Lady Rose (neé Windsor) Gilman (Daughter)
♕ 𝐸𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓸𝓃: Barnwell Manor (In Northamptonshire, England), Wellesley House School (In Kent, England), Eton College (In Berkshire, England), & Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge (In Cambridge, United Kingdom: Studied Architecture, Bachelor & Master of Arts Degrees in Architecture)
♕ 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒲𝓸𝓇𝓀: Interests: Armed Forces (Air Force, Architecture, Court System, Defense, Disabled, Fallen Soldiers, Heraldry, & Security), Education, Food (Wine Trade), Health (Blindness, Cancer, Historic Sites, Hospitals, Leprosy, Medicine, & Support Animals), Nature (Agriculture, Conservation, Forests, Horticulture, Land Management, Soil, & Wildlife), People (Disabled, Elderly, Homelessness, Religious, & Trade), Science (Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, Engineering, Technology, & Transportation (Cars, Trains, & Trams)), Sports (Golf & Rowing), & The Arts (Architecture, Metal Work, Music, Shoe-Making, Stonemasonry, & Theatre). Work: Chancellor of The University of Worcester, Commissioner of the Historic Building & Monuments Commission for England, Co-Patron of Abbotsford Trust Appeal, Corporate Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts/Manufactures/Commerce, Founding Chancellor of The University of Worcester, Freeman of The City of London, Freeman/Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Masons, Honorary Fellow of The Institution of Civil Engineers, Honorary Fellow of The Institute of Clerks of Works and Construction Inspectorate, Honorary Fellow of The Institution of Structural Engineers, Honorary Fellow of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Honorary Freeman of The City of Gloucester, Honorary Freeman/Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Honorary Freeman/Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Vintners, Honorary Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Grocers, Honorary Life Member of The Bath Industrial Heritage Trust Ltd, Honorary Life Member of The Farmers Club, Honorary Life Member of The Friends of All Saints Brixworth, Honorary Life Member of The Royal Army Service Corps & Royal Corps of Transport Association, Honorary Member of The Architecture Club, Honorary Member of The Friends of Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens, Honorary Member of The Oxford & Cambridge Club, Honorary Member of The Petal Childhood Cancer Research, Honorary Member of The Reform Club, Honorary Membership of The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Association, Honorary President of The The 20-Ghost Club Limited, Honorary President of The BR Class 8 Steam Locomotive Trust, Honorary President of The Somme Association, International Advisory Board Member of The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Joint President of Cancer Research UK, Member of The International Advisory Board for The Royal United Services Institute, Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Member of The Scottish Railway Preservation Society, Member of The St George's Chapel Advisory Committee, Patron of Action on Smoking & Health, Patron of Canine Partners for Independence, Patron of English Heritage, Patron of Flag Fen, Patron of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Patron of The Architects Benevolent Society, Patron of The Black Country Living Museum, Patron of The British Association of Friends of Museums, Patron of The British Homeopathic Association, Patron of The The British Korean Veterans Association, Patron of The British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association, Patron of The British Mexican Society, Patron of The British Society of Soil Science, Patron of The Built Environment Trust, Patron of The Built Environment Education Trust (SHAPE), Patron of The Church Monuments Society, Patron of The Cresset (Peterborough) Ltd, Patron of The Construction Youth Trust, Patron of The De Havilland Aircraft Museum, Patron of The Essex Field Club, Patron of The Forest Education Initiative & Forest Education Network, Patron of The Fortress Study Group, Patron of The Fotheringhay Church Appeal, Patron of The Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society, Patron of The Friends of Gloucester Cathedral, Patron of The Friends of Peterborough Cathedral, Patron of The Friends of St. Bartholomew the Less, Patron of The Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Patron of The Gloucestershire Millennium Celebrations, Patron of The Grange Centre for People with Disabilities, Patron of The Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew, Patron of The Heritage of London Trust, Patron of The International Council on Monuments & Sites, Patron of The Isle of Man Victorian Society, Patron of The Japan Society, Patron of The Kensington Society, Patron of The Learning in Harmony Project, Patron of The Leicester Cathedral's King Richard III Appeal, Patron of The London Chorus, Patron of The London Playing Fields Foundation, Patron of The Magdalene Australia Society, Patron of The Mavisbank Trust, Patron of The Middlesex Association for the Blind, Patron of The Norfolk Record Society, Patron of The North of England Civic Trust, Patron of The Northamptonshire Archaeological Society, Patron of The Newcomen Society, Patron of The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, Patron of The Oriental Ceramic Society, Patron of The Oundle Town Rowing Club, Patron of The Peel Institute, Patron of The Pestalozzi International Village Trust, Patron of The Richard III Society, Patron of The Royal Academy Schools, Patron of The Royal Air Force 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron Association, Patron of The Royal Anglian Regiment Association, Patron of The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Patron of The Royal Blind (Services for the Blind and Scottish War Blinded), Patron of The Royal Epping Forest Golf Club, Patron of The Royal Royal Pioneer Corps Association, Patron of The Scottish Society of Architect Artists, Patron of The Severn Valley Railway, Patron of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Patron of The Society of the Friends of St Magnus Cathedral Association, Patron of The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Patron of The St George's Society of New York, Patron of The Three Choirs Festival Association, Patron of The Tramway Museum Society, Patron of The United Kingdom Trust for Nature Conservation in Nepal, Patron of The Victorian Society, Patron of The Westminster Society, Patron of The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers, Patron-In-Chief of The Scottish Veterans' Residences, Patron-In-Chief of The Friends of St Clement Danes, Practicing Partner at Hunt Thompson Associates Architectural Firm, President of Ambition, President of British Expertise International, President of Christ's Hospital, President of The Britain-Nepal Society, President of The Cambridge House, President of The Crown Agents Foundation, President of The Greenwich Foundation, President of The Institute of Advanced Motorists, President of The London Society, President of The Lutyens Trust, President of The Peterborough Cathedral Development and Preservation Trust, President of The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, President of The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, President of The Society of Architect Artists, President of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Ranger for The Epping Forest Centenary Trust, Royal Bencher for The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, Royal Patron of Bede's World Museum, Royal Patron of Habitat for Humanity (UK Branch), Royal Patron of The 82045 Steam Locomotive Trust, Royal Patron of The British Museum, Royal Patron of The Global Heritage Fund UK, Royal Patron of The Global Heritage Fund UK, Royal Patron of The Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, Royal Patron of The Nene Valley Railway, Royal Patron of The Peace and Prosperity Trust, Royal Patron of The Royal Auxiliary Air Force Foundation, Royal Patron of The Strawberry Hill Trust, Royal Patron of The Wells Cathedral - Vicars' Close Appeal, Senior Fellow of The Royal College of Art, The Duke of Gloucester Young Achiever's Scheme Awards, The Offices Development Group for the Ministry of Works, Vice Royal Patron of The Almshouse Association, Vice Patron of The National Churches Trust, Vice President of LEPRA, Vice President of The Royal Bath and West of England Society, Vice President of The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, Vice President of The Royal Smithfield Club, & Visitor of The Royal School Dungannon
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Veterans abuse by VA continues..under Trumps watch! Cite cases # 17-0579
House oversight committee Trojan horses🐎 🐎 for EXTORTION of benefits..i.e.homeless veterans
Examples include:
Maaj Amin [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Maaj Amin <[email protected]>
To: iris_service <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, Apr 18, 2020 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Inquiry: 200331-001578
To: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,Secretary
From: Marvin Jenkins,Veteran#64298920 S 4th Ave Inglewood California 90305
Reference: complaint: 38 U.S.C. 4301 [USERRA ACT of 1994 & BASE ON MILITARY SERVICE AND MILITARY AFFILIATIONS]
Marvin Jenkins vs Board of VETERANS Appeals; Regional Director (L.A.) Doe's-Unlimited Defendant(s).
DEMAND FOR TRIAL BY JURY
1) ENDANGERING THE HUMAN RACE WITH THE MISUSE OF RACKETEERING
2) 18 U.S. CODE OF CHAPTER 115- TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
3) COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE, Board of Veterans Appeals
4) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 1GENOCIDE CONVENTION5) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 GENOCIDE CONVENTION6) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 3 GENOCIDE CONVENTION7) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 4 GENOCIDE CONVENTION8) SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF THE HUMAN RACE WITH RACKETEERING REAL ESTATE REDLINING AND EXTORTION9) CULTURAL GENOCIDE BY MISUSE OF RACKETEERING and EXTORTION10) BREACH OF IMPLIED COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING11) DEFAMATION12) NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS13) FRAUD AND INTENTIONAL DECEIT14) NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION
II STATEMENT OF CLAIM
Threatening and ENDANGERING the lives of all of the Board of Veterans Appeals and Regional Office with misuse of authority (abuse of Veterans) RACKETEERING and EXTORTION of benefits. NEGLIGENT failure to stop Regional Director's criminal activity carrying out theft, Complicity to Genocide, and Aiding in physical genocide inside the State of California, and Engaging in Cultural Genocide of veterans and humanity via Cybernetics. Not informing veterans and citizens that their private data is being used to create an Artificial Super intelligence on Quantum AI Technology with 5G and 6G systems that can eliminate and destroy all the worlds veterans through NEGLIGENT, incompetent and treasonous conduct by allowing, its corporations, people, and entities, to steal benefits of veterans and by extortion and racketeering activity. Hence Ignoring, censoring, not reporting, rephrasing or plagiarizing to create content and fabricated reports of conveying misrepresented facts of Board of Veterans Appeals.
Regards Marvin Jenkins
APRIL 15, 2020
Maaj Amin maajamin@aol
To: U.S. Department of Labor: Vets Assistant Director, NJ.
From: John Sparrow, U.S. Army Veteran144 North 14th Street, East Orange, NJ. 07017
Reference: Per email communications / 1010 complaint [USERRA ACT of 1994 & Homestead Trust property rights violations BASE ON MILITARY SERVICE AND MILITARY AFFILIATIONS]
John Sparrow vs East Orange, NJ.& Doe's-Unlimited Defendant(s).
DEMAND FOR TRIAL BY JURY
1) ENDANGERING THE HUMAN RACE WITH THE MISUSE OF RACKETEERING REAL ESTATE REDLINING
2) 18 U.S. CODE OF CHAPTER 115- TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
3) COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE, CITY OF EAST ORANGE, ESSEX COUNTY, STATE OF NEW JERSEY
4) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 1GENOCIDE CONVENTION5) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 GENOCIDE CONVENTION6) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 3 GENOCIDE CONVENTION7) VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 4 GENOCIDE CONVENTION8) SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF THE HUMAN RACE WITH RACKETEERING REAL ESTATE REDLINING AND EXTORTION9) CULTURAL GENOCIDE BY MISUSE OF RACKETEERING REAL ESTATE REDLINING AND EXTORTION10) BREACH OF IMPLIED COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING11) DEFAMATION12) NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS13) FRAUD AND INTENTIONAL DECEIT14) NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION
II STATEMENT OF CLAIM
Threatening and ENDANGERING the lives of all of the Essex county and State veterans with misuse of RACKETEERING and EXTORTION. NEGLIGENT failure to stop City of East Orange and Essex County carrying out theft real properties and valued antiques, Complicity to Genocide, and Aiding in physical genocide within Essex County inside the State of New Jersey: Financial Investments, Trade, Surveillance Systems, Facial Recognition, and Engaging in Cultural Genocide of veterans and humanity via Cybernetics. Not informing veterans and citizens that their private data is being used to create an Artificial Super intelligence on Quantum AI Technology with 5G and 6G systems that can eliminate and destroy all the worlds veterans through nation state conflicts, virus's, and surveillance. NEGLIGENT, incompetent and treasonous conduct by allowing State, County
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The morning of May 18th, eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia. The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools. We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency., eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia.
The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools.
We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency.
2018
May 18 | Mount Zion High School
The name of this victim has not yet been released.
May 18 | Santa Fe High School
Jared Black
Shana Fisher
Christian Riley Garcia
Aaron Kyle McLeod
Glenda Ann Perkins
Angelique Ramirez
Sabika Sheikh
Christopher Jake Stone
Cynthia Tisdale
Kimberly Vaughan
March 20 | Great Mills High School
Jaelynn Willey
March 7 | Huffman High School
Courtlin Arrington
February 14 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Alyssa Alhadeff
Martin Duque Anguiano
Scott Beigel
Nicholas Dworet
Aaron Feis
Jaime Guttenberg
Chris Hixon
Luke Hoyer
Cara Loughran
Gina Montalto
Joaquin Oliver
Alaina Petty
Meadow Pollack
Helena Ramsay
Alex Schachter
Carmen Schentrup
Peter Wang
January 31 | Lincoln High School
Ralph Kennedy
January 23 | Marshall County High School
Preston Ryan Cope
Bailey Nicole Holt
2017
December 7 | Aztec High School
Francisco "Paco" Fernandez Jr.
Casey Jordan
November 14 | Rancho Tehama Elementary School
Danny Lee Elliot
Barbara Ann Gilsan
Michelle Iris McFadyen
Joseph Edward McHugh III
Diana Lee Steele
September 13 | Freeman High School
Sam Strahan
April 10 | North Park Elementary School
Karen Elaine Smith
Jonathan Martinez
2016
September 28 | Townville Elementary School
Jacob Hall
Jeffrey Osborne
June 8 | Jeremiah Burke High School
Raekwon Brown
February 12 | Independence High School
May Kieu
2015
November 20 | Mojave High School
Taylor Brantley
February 15 | Tenaya Middle School
Benito Aguirre
2014
November 20 | Miami Carol City High School
Khambrel Manning
October 24 | Marysville Pilchuck High School
Shaylee Chuckulnaskit
Andrew Fryberg
Zoe Galasso
Gia Soriano
October 3 | Langston Hughes High School
Kristofer Hunter
August 14 | Saunders Elementary School
John A. Nieves Jr.
Bryant Wilder Jr.
June 10 | Reynolds High School
Emilio Hoffman
April 21 | St. Mary Catholic School
Nina Castro
April 11 | East English Village Preparatory Academy
Darryl Smith
2013
December 13 | Arapahoe High School
Claire Davis
October 21 | Sparks Middle School
Michael Landsberry
August 23 | North Panola High School
Roderick Bobo
January 7 | Apostolic Revival Center Christian School
Kristopher Smith
2012
December 14 | Sandy Hook Elementary School
Charlotte Bacon
Daniel Barden
Rachel D'Avino
Olivia Engel
Josephine Gay
Dawn Hochsprung
Dylan Hockley
Madeleine Hsu
Catherine Hubbard
Chase Kowalski
Nancy Lanza
Jesse Lewis
Ana Márquez-Greene
James Mattioli
Grace McDonnell
Anne Marie Murphy
Emilie Parker
Jack Pinto
Noah Pozner
Caroline Previdi
Jessica Rekos
Avielle Richman
Lauren Rousseau
Mary Sherlach
Victoria Leigh Soto
Benjamin Wheeler
Allison Wyatt
October 19 | Banner Academy South High School
Terrance Wright
March 6 | Episcopal School of Jacksonville
Dale Regan
February 27 | Chardon High School
Demetrius Hewlin
Russell King Jr.
Daniel Parmertor
2011
March 30 | Worthing High School
Tremaine De Ante' Paul
January 5 | Millard South High School
Vicki Kaspar
2010
October 1 | Alisal High School
Jose Daniel Cisneros
February 5 | Discovery Middle School
Todd Brown
2008
November 12 | Dillard High School
Amanda Collette
October 16 | Henry Ford High School
Christopher Walker
August 21 | Central High School
Ryan McDonald
August 14 | Lakota Middle School
Omero Mendez
February 12 | E.O. Green Junior High School
Lawrence "Larry" King
2007
January 3 | Henry Foss High School
Samnang Kok
2006
October 2 | West Nickel Mines School
Naomi Rose Ebersol
Marian Stoltzfus Fisher
Lena Zook Miller
Mary Liz Miller
Anna Mae Stoltzfus
September 29 | Weston High School
John Klang
September 27 | Platte Canyon High School
Emily Keyes
August 30 | Orange High School
Rafael Castillo
August 24 | Essex Elementary School
Linda Lambesis
Mary Alicia Shanks
2005
November 8 | Campbell County High School
Ken Bruce
March 21 | Red Lake Senior High School
Derrick Brun
Dewayne Lewis
Chase Lussier
Daryl Lussier
Neva J. Rogers
Chanelle Rosebear
Michelle Sigana
Thurlene Stillday
Alicia White
March 2 | Cumberland City, Tennessee
Joyce Gregory
2004
February 2 | Ballou High School
James Richardson
2003
September 24 | Rocori High School
Seth Bartell
Aaron Rollins
April 24 | Red Lion Area Junior High School
Eugene Segro
April 14 | John McDonogh High School
Jonathan Williams
2002
February 20 | Washington High School
Joseph Johnson Jr.
2001
March 30 | Lew Wallace High School
Neal Boyd IV
March 5 | Santana High School
Randy Gordon
Bryan Zuckor
2000
May 26 | Lake Worth Middle School
Barry Grunow
February 29 | Buell Elementary School
Kayla Rolland
1999
November 19 | Deming Middle School
Araceli Tena
April 20 | Columbine High School
Cassie Bernall
Steve Curnow
Cory DePooter
Kelly Fleming
Matthew Kechter
Daniel Mauser
Daniel Rohrbough
Rachel Scott
Isaiah Shoels
John Tomlin
Lauren Townsend
Kyle Velasquez
William "Dave" Sanders
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Recently, studies published in reputable journals have shown that, generally, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) want to learn how to live independently.
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Background[edit]
Her father, Canadian billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Sr., met her mother, Rita Webb, the daughter of an English pub owner from Essex, England, in Marbella, Spain.[1][2]Webb changed her first name to Georgiana and married Bronfman in 1975, two years after his divorce from his first wife, investment-banking heiress Ann Loeb.[3] Webb gave birth to Sara the following year, then Clare two and a half years later.[1]
Shortly after Clare's birth, Georgiana asked Edgar for a divorce. After Edgar married again in 1980, then was again divorced, the two sisters visited their father at his homes outside Charlottesville, Virginia; in Westchester County; at Sun Valley; and on Fifth Avenue in New York City, though their lives were centered in England and in Kenya, with their mother.[1][4]
Work in Libya[edit]
Sara Bronfman first became involved in aiding Libya after traveling as a delegate with the Independent Libya Foundation in November 2011, during the Arab Spring and after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. The delegation was headed by president and founder Basit Iglet (whom she would later marry) and consisted of multiple humanitarian experts, including Adam Hock and Joseph Hagin. They toured post-Gaddafi Libya and presented their "multi-phase re-integration program," which was accepted by the local authorities of Benghazi, who were appointed by the Libyan National Transitional Council.
She has been involved with the U.S.-Libya Chamber of Commerce since its founding in November 2011 with the purpose of developing viable economic links between American and Libyan enterprises. The chamber announced that Sara, who was then a member on the board, would be the new president after the conclusion of a vote conducted by the organizations board members on February 20, 2012. The announcement occurred after Adam Hock resigned as president and board member to pursue private ventures within the country. In a press release Sara stated "as I am able to devote my efforts to the development of the Chamber to support bilateral trade between Libya and the United States, it is a privilege to take on this significant role as the President of the US-Libya Chamber of Commerce."[5] In an interview with the National Journal, Bronfman stated that the situation in Libya provides an opportunity for the State Department to change their tactics, and "rather than enforcing our ways on them, we need to understand their ways, learn from them and discover which of our country’s many strengths we can (use to) best support them."[6]
Sara Bronfman is also involved with the Canada-Libya Chamber of Commerce, which was founded on March 12, 2012. Bronfman and husband Basit Igtet are the inaugural president and chairman of the board respectively. Positioned to provide help and advice to the people of Libya, the Chamber of Commerce discourage continued business with groups such as SNC-Lavalin, who allegedly did business with the Gadaffi regime.[7] The group is one of several working to restore the economy in the region.
Involvement in NXIVM[edit]
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At the age of 25, Sara was introduced to NXIVM by a family friend. NXIVM is a multi-level marketing organization founded by Keith Raniere that claims to help individuals achieve self-discovery, offering personal and professional development seminars, but is sometimes referred to as a cult. According to the family friend, Sara was "desperately looking for some purpose in her life. And she found it at NXIVM." " Sara has described herself, prior to discovering NXIVM, as “dilettantish.”[8] After her introduction to NXIVM, Sara urged Clare, then 23, to become involved. This time, Clare was passionately committed to her equestrian career—she was a competitive jumper, trained horses, and owned her own company, Slate River Farm, but was described as being "a bit withdrawn and certainly the type to stay in and read while everyone else goes out."[1][4] After attending the first sessions at the NXIVM branch in Monterrey, Mexico in 2004, Clare's trainer and classmates stated that Clare had changed and had become more open.
Sara and Clare became committed followers of NXIVM and of its leader, Keith Raniere, relocating to upstate New York to work as NXIVM trainers.[9]
“As Sara would later explain on her blog,” wrote Suzanna Andrews in a profile of the sisters for Vanity Fair, “she was 'in search of finding ways to bring peace to the world.' According to [a] family friend, who put it more prosaically, she was desperately looking for some purpose in her life. And she found it at NXIVM.”[10]
Sara began working with Raniere's company Executive Success Programs, Inc. (ESP) and its “proprietary technology” Rational Inquiry™, which had been created by Raniere.
According to one source, “She founded the company's VIP Programs, which provide distinguished individuals with special training and coaching. These programs[,] facilitated by the company's President Nancy Salzman, were responsible for launching ESP into the British and Irish markets in 2005.” Soon Sara Bronfman was on the Executive Board of ESP and had become “Director of Humanities, Regional Vice President, Professional Coach and Head Trainer.”[11]
Non-Profit Work[edit]
Ethical humanitarian Foundation[
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Sara, along with her sister, Clare Bronfman, formed a non-profit organization called the Ethical Humanitarian Foundation after being "conceptualized" by Keith Raniere in 2007. She, Clare and Keith Raniere also established a non-profit organization called the World Ethical Foundations Consortium. Sara is listed as a Trustee of the organization.[12][13][13] The group claims that its goal is to move humanity "towards a more noble civilization" by adopting a "humanity first foundation".[14] As part of their involvement in WEFC, Sara and Clare were credited with being able to bring the Dalai Lama to Albany to participate in the WEFC's inaugural event on May 6, 2009.[4][15] Sara had long been eager to meet the Dalai Lama. “She wanted the Dalai Lama to be her friend,” wrote Maureen Tkacik in a New York Observer profile of the sisters. “She had been obsessed with him for two and a half years.”[8] “I was literally in my bedroom one day listening to his tapes and thought to myself, ‘Wow, this guy is amazing!’” Sara explained in a radio interview the day before the Tibetan spiritual leader arrived in Albany.[8]
Sara Bronfman has been described as being “determined to stay true to her philanthropic roots” and as being “[i]nspired by the humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors of her father and late Grandfather, Edgar M. Bronfman, and Samuel Bronfman, Ms. Bronfman has been seeking to pursue the family tradition in ways that will truly benefit humanity. She views her work with ESP as a way of further developing herself personally and professionally, and as a means by which to inspire people and families such as her own to invest both themselves and their resources ethically.”[11]
A Capella Innovations[
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Sara is a VIP Liaison with A Cappella Innovations, a non-profit organisation whose goal is to share the joy and enlightenment that comes from singing. The organisation hosted several events at the EGG performing arts center in Albany, New York, in 2008. These events included performances by Blake Lewis, Allison Mack, and Fork.
Special Olympics[
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In 2009, the Special Olympic games were held in Boise, Idaho, 85 nations were to be in attendance with over 3000 athletes competing in seven Olympic type sports. The event was to be attended by several dignitaries, including the Dalai Lama.[16]
On January 7, however, just a month before the games were set to begin, the Dalai Lama canceled under unclear circumstances. Two weeks later, on January 21, Sara Bronfman who had heard rumors that the invitation to the Dalai Lama had been withdrawn, wrote a letter to the Idaho Mountain Express, a local Blaine County newspaper, demanding that the Special Olympics board explain the cancellation. She stated that she would formally resign as an honorary board member of the Special Olympics if it turned out that the Dalai Lama had been dis-invited by no fault of his own. She would do so, she said "not as a stand against the Special Olympics, but rather as a stand for the values she hoped to uphold when she chose to support the organization".[17] While the media drew no formal conclusion, official statements were made by both the Special Olympics Organizing Committee, which claimed that the Dalai Lama had turned down their invitation, and the Office of Tibet, which claimed that the organizers tried to appease Chinese opposition by rescheduling his visit to a date on which it would be impossible for him to attend.[18]
Personal life[edit]
She is married to Libyan Muslim businessman Basit Igtet; they have one daughter.[19] She was also Lama Tenzin Dhonden's lover, the "Dalai Lama's gatekeeper," which came to light amidst a corruption scandal involving the latter's taking money for access to the Dalai Lama.[20]
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Charnette Frederic, Irvington Council Member, Builds Bridges Through Education
Charnette Frederic, 2nd Vice President of the Township of Irvington, New Jersey. Courtesy photo.
By Larisa Karr
Growing up in the quaint village of Cazale, Haiti, Charnette Frederic’s parents always put education first for their family. Later, when she gave birth to her son in Irvington, New Jersey, she sought to put his education needs first too.
Little did Frederic know that would lead to her entering politics and then becoming the first Haitian-American woman elected to office in New Jersey. As a council member and second vice president in Irvington, Frederic now spends much of her time educating Haitian-Americans in Irvington about resources available. She also teaches city officials about the needs and power of her vibrant community.
“My biggest accomplishment as the only Haitian-American on the council has been to encourage people to work together for the betterment of our community,” said Frederic, 42. “You have immigrants coming in that I constantly try to support, especially with the language issue.”
Recently, Frederic’s efforts to drive voter turnout, reduce insurance burdens on taxi drivers and create an environmentally sustainable city have cemented her reputation as a bridge-builder. Particularly, between the immigrant community made up of mostly Haitian-Americans and city officials.
“She’s a dominant star in bringing people together,” said Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss. “She calls me on behalf of her constituents and she’s constantly connecting them with people in the administration through the different departments they need to be in contact with.”
Lessons in determination
Frederic began developing knowledge of immigrants’ needs when she immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 17 from Cazale. Her mountain village, about 45 miles north of Port-au-Prince, is known for its Polish settlers.
Growing up, Frederic’s family instilled a love of education at a young age, she said. Her parents, Marie Charite Orelien and Joseph Orelien, sent her to strict schools in Port-au-Prince where failing a class meant expulsion. That level of rigor taught Frederic the importance of determination, a trait she would carry with her when she moved to Irvington in 1999.
In the working-class township, Haitians make up about 14.1% of Irvington’s 54,233 residents. From that established enclave, Frederic faced new challenges — chiefly, completing her education.
“My dad did not like the Irvington school system and he made me apply to the community college, despite having limited English,” Frederic said. “Because I had excelled in math and science in Haiti, I received strong grades in both of these fields.”
And despite the language barrier, Frederic became a math tutor by her second semester at Essex County College. She earned an associate’s degree in biology and two years later, Frederic graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s in biology and chemistry.
Later, Frederic earned a master’s in health care administration from Seton Hall University, where she is now pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry. She began to use her scientific background to actively pursue making Irvington an environmentally-friendly city.
While working toward her advanced degrees, Frederic also married Joseph Betissan Frederic and gave birth to her only son Ben. She also learned to navigate life as an immigrant, including becoming fluent in English and accessing various systems, offices and information.
It was after attending the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University that Frederic learned more about local government and its impact on citizens’ day-to-day lives, especially those of immigrant backgrounds. She decided to run for a board of education seat, in 2009 and 2010. Frederic was unsuccessful then, but did not rule out another run in the future.
“A friend on the council”
In 2012, an opportunity opened on the city council, and Frederic successfully ran.
“I wanted to be the voice to help out other Haitians whose first stop was Irvington,” Frederic said. “I was able to change certain laws to give Haitian-Americans more opportunities and remind them that they have a friend on the council.”
Recently, when drivers with the Irvington Taxi Committee complained about insurance prices, Frederic helped amend an ordinance to lower their insurance rates. In the lead-up to the November elections, even though she was not on the ballot, Frederic encouraged the community to be civically engaged. She took to Haitian radio to instruct residents in Creole how to properly complete voting ballots.
“It’s so amazing when you can speak to someone in Creole and be able to use it to help others,” Frederic said. “It’s really important that we provide that kind of support by letting them know that it’s OK to feel welcome and it’s OK to speak Creole. [Being] able to connect with people is priceless.”
Through her eponymous nonprofit civic organization, Frederic also organizes a Haitian Independence Day celebration, brings Haitian-American artists to Irvington for Haitian Flag Day, and otherwise highlights the talent and creativity of Haitian-Americans.
“Anytime I’m holding an event, like a clothing drive, she is always there to support financially and brings other council members to our events,” said James Louis, who works with the Haitian-American Civic Association. “This is not just for me and the organization, but this is the testimony from everybody I’ve talked to within the community.”
Besides lifting up Haitian-Americans, Frederic has also focused on making Irvington part of the Sustainable Jersey program. In 2014, the city became bronze certified, a designation awarded to cities that implement sustainability measures, and she was named a Sustainability Hero.
Her current focus is on educating residents about the impact of lead paint on children and how to remediate such structures and promoting health and wellness in the township.
Balancing city council, her full-time job and a family can be overwhelming and she sometimes feels like giving up, Frederic said. But, remembering the residents in need renews her determination.
This article was originally published in The Haitian Times.
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24 July 2020
Missing numbers
Investment in preventive services, like children's centres and youth services, could make a real difference to children's lives - but the lack of consistently good-quality data makes it difficult frontline staff, local authorities and central government to understand what works.
That's one of the conclusions of a new report I've published with my colleague Colm and the excellent team at Nesta. We hope that as well as being useful to those in the children and young people's sector, the findings - and the recommendations - will be useful more widely to people working with and thinking about data. There's a graphic for thinking about data in different ways, and everything.
In brief:
On the subject of Missing Numbers... you may remember the project launched last year by Anna Powell-Smith (Data Bites presentation here). This week, she's launched the Centre for Public Data which will look at improving data provisions in new legislation. It's a great idea. More details here.
Data has gone missing from DCMS (well, bits of policy, including 'government use of data' and open government), as responsibility has been transferred back to the Cabinet Office. My lukewarm take here.
We're missing Data Bites this August to give me/everyone a summer break. Back in early September. Watch back the archive here.
Flourish joined the ranks of those subject to missing attribution this week. They also join a very select group that includes Neil Kinnock.
In case you missed it, yesterday marked a year since Boris Johnson became Conservative leader, and today marks a year since he became PM. It's been another quiet year in British politics, etc.
Finally, Warning: Graphic Content will be missing from your inboxes over the next few weeks as I take whatever passes for a holiday in these strange times. There definitely won't be a newsletter next week, and it will be intermittent through August. Have a lovely summer (or whatever passes for that in the UK or wherever you are), and see you again soon!
Very best
Gavin
Today's links:
Tips, tech, etc
End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home (The Guardian)
Digital remote working - research findings (Essex County Council)
The home-working revolution: new normal, old divides?* (New Statesman)
How well does working in open work when working from home? (Nick Halliday and others)
Putting feeling into policy making (CSaP)
Make a mask (Reuters)
Graphic content
Viral content: coronavirus
Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before we developed vaccines to protect ourselves (Our World in Data)
Where the Virus Is Sending People to Hospitals* (New York Times)
After the Recent Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Are Now Rising Too* (New York Times)
A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S.* (The Upshot)
The World Is Masking Up, Some Are Opting Out* (Bloomberg)
The UK And US Were Ranked Top For Pandemic Preparedness. What Went Wrong? (Huffington Post)
How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers (ProPublica)
T-cells: the missing link in coronavirus immunity? (FT)
When a simple gif is possibly the only way to show something: news desk wanted a size comparison of antibody, virus and T cell (FT via Ian Bott)
Viral content: consequences
The psychological toll of coronavirus in Britain – a visual guide (The Guardian)
Which jobs can be done from home? (ONS)
Amid a Deadly Virus and Crippled Economy, One Form of Aid Has Proved Reliable: Food Stamps* (New York Times)
US airlines fly in different directions in middle-seat debate* (FT)
How Remote Work Divides America (Reuters)
The costs of coronavirus: Just how big is £190 billion? (House of Commons Library)
US politics
Race and America: why data matters* (FT Data)
What Coronavirus Job Losses Reveal About Racism in America (ProPublica)
Republicans And Democrats See COVID-19 Very Differently. Is That Making People Sick? (FiveThirtyEight)
New polling makes clear what Trump refuses to see: His pandemic response has been a political disaster* (Washington Post)
At least 76% of American voters can cast ballots by mail in the fall* (Washington Post)
Everything else
The Living Standards Audit 2020 (Resolution Foundation)
Ministerial directions (Oliver for IfG)
Civil service pay (IfG)
Location of the civil service (IfG)
How much warmer is your city? Behind the scenes of our climate change interactive (BBC Visual and Data Journalism)
Where does the British public stand on transgender rights? (YouGov)
Meta data
MOG OMG
Machinery of government change: government use of data (and commentary from me)
DCMS loses government data policy to the Cabinet Office (Computer Weekly)
Cabinet Office takes charge of government use of data again (Civil Service World)
Viral content: testing times
Coronavirus: England's test and trace programme 'breaks GDPR data law' (BBC News)
Coronavirus: Government admits its Test and Trace programme is unlawful (Sky News)
Government admits that NHS Test and Trace programme is unlawful* (Wired)
Viral content: the only way is app
Coronavirus: The inside story of how government failed to develop a contact-tracing app (Sky News)
Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success (The Guardian - 'works'?)
Data collection in new Covid-19 app ‘troubling’ (Belfast Telegraph)
Coronavirus: New NHS England contact-tracing app may bring 'personal benefits' (Sky News)
Coronavirus: The great contact-tracing apps mystery (BBC News)
Isle of Wight infection rates dropped after launch of contact tracing app (The Guardian)
Government
A No10 data science unit could create more problems than it solves (Lewis for IfG)
DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION: Data to support policymaking (ODI)
Scotland’s Census to be moved to March 2022 (National Records of Scotland)
A few final reflections as Chief Statistician (Welsh Government Data and Digital blog)
Addressing trust in public sector data use (CDEI)
Driving forward trustworthy data sharing (CDEI)
The continuing excellent performance of the ONS in this pandemic... (Tom Forth)
ICO hails transformative year as average fine trebles (Computer Weekly)
Resources and tools (GOV.UK Design System)
Government sets out draft agenda for a 21st century tax system (HMRC, via Gemma)
Data ethics and AI guidance landscape (DCMS)
Creating great online services: how we test services in our research lab (Inside DVLA, via Oliver)
The digital government atlas 2.0: the world's best tools and resources* (Apolitical)
ICO launches self-assessment Freedom of Information toolkit (ICO)
Public services
Missing Numbers in Children’s Services: How better data could improve outcomes for children and young people (IfG/Nesta)
Health data chief says UK’s data deficit in social care during COVID-19 a “catastrophe” (diginomica)
Six months of binnovation in Leeds (ODI Leeds)
Big tech
The inside story of Babylon Health* (Prospect)
Should you delete TikTok from your phone? (The Guardian)
Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm (The Guardian)
Europe must not rush Google-Fitbit deal (Politico)
Recovery from Covid-19 will be threatened if we don't learn to control big tech (The Observer)
Vestager has tasted defeat, but she should not stop chasing Big Tech (The Observer)
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university that would rival Stanford and MIT and funnel tech workers into government work (Business Insider)
From Russia with ****
We need a single agency to be responsible for UK elections (Democracy Club)
The Russia report has shown our election laws are dangerously out of date (The Independent)
Sharing is caring
How Schrems II will impact data sharing between the UK and the US (Computer Weekly)
Further (unhappy) thoughts on Schrems II (Panopticon)
Applying new models of data stewardship to health and care data (ODI/The Health Foundation)
Frameworks, principles and accreditation in modern data management (Felix Ritchie and Elizabeth Green, UWE Bristol)
How Wikidata might help the Smithsonian with its mission to diffuse knowledge (Wiki Education)
Everything else
Professional standards to be set for data science (Royal Statistical Society)
Understanding Machine-Readability in Modern Data Policy (Data Foundation)
Data and the Future of Work (Common Wealth)
Talking about data (Citizens Advice)
We are facing a global crisis of widespread unverified information (DCMS Select Committee)
White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - a European Approach: contributions to the consultation (European Commission)
The UK address mess: a way forward? (Peter Wells)
Public attitudes to science 2019 (BEIS)
Opportunities
JOB: Head of Data Infrastructure (ESRC, via Catherine)
JOBS (HDR UK)
JOBS: Technology opportunities (ICO)
EVENT: Exploring data institutions: trustworthy, sustainable access to data (ODI)
And finally...
Sport and entertainment
Defining the ’90s Music Canon (The Pudding)
Empty stadiums have shrunk football teams’ home advantage* (The Economist)
Does home advantage exist without football’s partisan fans?* (FT)
Sneak preview: The Seinfeld Chronicles (Andy Kirk)
Politics
As it's #WorldEmojiDay, can you guess the Conservative MPs? (Conservatives, via Pritesh)
congrats to Newspoll, who, according to the Courier Mail's Sunday editorial, surveyed a whopping 124% of Queenslanders to find just 59% were satisfied with the Premier (Sinéad Canning, via Sarah)
Breaking: there is one new case of a disgraced politician in New Zealand (The Spinoff)
Everything else
Stop resisting it, editors - the vast majority of people say "data" should be treated as singular, not plural (YouGov)
We should start a competition (Maarten van Smeden, via Nick)
Food hazards from around the world data competition (University of Bristol, via a quantum of sollazzo)
Penguins (Allison Horst/Oli Hawkins)
Alright, let’s go back to hating pie charts. (Randy Olson, via Nick)
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