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From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and the ten-year old son he never knew he had.

Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy college town, he spends his days browsing the Shakespeare shelves at the campus bookstore, managing the oddball faculty in his department and caring, alongside his formidable mother-in-law, for his wife Marjory, a fragile shut-in with unrelenting neuroses, a condition exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided affair with a visiting poetess a decade earlier.

Then, one evening at the bookstore, Tom and Marjory meet Rose Callahan, the shop's charming new hire, and Marjory invites Rose to their home for dinner, out of the blue, her first social interaction since her breakdown. Tom wonders if it's a sign that change is on the horizon, a feeling confirmed upon his return home, where he opens a letter from his former paramour, informing him he'd fathered a son who is heading Tom's way on a train. His mind races at the possibility of having a family after so many years of loneliness. And it becomes clear change is coming whether Tom's ready or not.

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As always, “Five & Three” brings you my favorite things in comics this week. Every week I pick my five favorite covers and three favorite panels to create “Five & Three”. I like to talk about why I picked the covers and panels and welcome hecklers and trend setters alike.

Vertigo probably wins covers this week but I'll get to those last. To start us off let's go with a simple character cover for "Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor" #2. The art isn't a spectacular action sequence or an impossibly complex artistic composition. It's just a beautifully done rendition of David Tennant’s Doctor and it's wonderful.

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I let the amazing Brandigirlio pick this cover. She likes horror and dark stories but she also really likes cats. This cover has just about everything she likes about comics and it's also a great piece of art to boot.

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Allison Strejlau does the cover for "The Regular Show" #14 in the style of M.C. Escher and I picked it because it's fun.

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The first Vertigo winner this week is "Dead Boy Detectives" #8. It should be no surprise to long time Comic book fans that Mar Buckingham rocks the cover picks this week. The colors, the trippy windmill, and the snow-scape make this one another home run from Buckingham.

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I think the cover for Vertigo's "Bodies" #2 is cool. I like how the bars of the prison cell become the negative space of the cover. The composition is not the usual schtick for my favorite cover artist Francesco Francavilla but that only means Francavilla hasn't shown us all of the tricks in his bag.

Five and Three - Bodies

The three panels picks for the week come from books with great moments too good to be spoiled. In an attempt to tease rather than spoil, here are some pages that should peak your interest without ruining the story.

How about a masked Superman asking for help from Shazam over in "The New 52: Futures End" #18? Superman has been facing off against Rampage for the last two issues. He isn't doing so well here when he gives in and asks for help. What's the former Captain Marvel doing in the future of the New 52?

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Charles Soule's "Letter 44" continues to boggle and intrigue with contemporary sci-fi. The political wheels spin against one another on Earth whilst the military and science teams in space continue to hope for survival against an Alien threat. That threat is becoming increasingly hostile. The altruistic hopes of the science team seem to be lost as the First Lady of the United States tries to keep her husband’s presidency out of a tailspin by offering herself up as barter. If you aren't reading this book you are missing out.

Five and Three - Letter 44

More questions with subtle answers this week as "The Guardians of The Galaxy" reveal how Star Lord and Thanos escaped the Cancerverse. Only half of the story has been told and I'm already happy. If the next issue has the same level of action and fantastic art, I don't think I'll care how Thanos escaped too.

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That’s all for this week. If you disagree with a pick, let me know in the comments or on Twitter @MarkAvo or on Instagram @TheMarkAvo. If you think I should’ve picked something else or if you have a pick in mind for next week, give me a shout out and let me know. If you’d like to check out more “Five and Three” comic book moments start with “Five and Three” from last week. Until next week, is it better to Burn Out or Fade Out?

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Cynthia Morgan, Klint Da Drunk, Yaw and many others End PO The Stage Play in Grand Style

After ten side-splitting Sunday nights filled with laughter and electrifying performances throughout the month of August the critically acclaimed stage play ‘PO’, ended in grand style on Sunday August 31 as some of the biggest names across the Nigerian entertainment, telecommunications, media and sports industry gathered to watch the last viewing which showed at Terra Kulture in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The satirical playwritten by Femi Branch and artistically directed by Obi Martinsdepicted the lives of two long-suffering government sanitation workers or in the actors own amusing words “road sweepers.”
Featuring the hilarious duo of Wazobia FM on-air personalities Nedu & Ogbolor, nicknamed “two mad men on stage” the play showcased the daily challenges of the Nigerian society such as corruption, bribery, injustice and politics presented in a lighthearted, rib-cracking humour and emotional punch.
The finale evening witnessed standing ovation performances from top comedians including Funny Bone, Odogwu, Bow Joint, and spoken word by Glorydpoetgenerating  ripples of applause amongst the audience, followed by a mind blowing performance from the Don’t break my heart crooner Cynthia Morgan all preceding the stage play itself.
Obi Martins, the director said of PO, “There is no doubt that the success of the play has paved a pathway for stage drama not only in Nigeria but globally”. He expressed gratitude to the producer, Yaw of Wazobia FM as well as the acting duo for the hard work and commitment to make the stage play memorable.
Some of the notable faces at the well-attended event included Klint Da Drunk, Yaw, Bunmi Davies, Zoe Chinaka, Ouch, Lolo, Cynthia Morgan, Funny Bone, Katherine Obiang among many others.

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Liars wrecked my marriage – Chris Okotie’s wife

The estranged wife of Chris Okotie, Stephanie, tells the story of their collapsed marriage in soulful posts on her Facebook page.

For the first time since June 24 when the pastor of the Lagos-based Household of God, Rev. Chris Okotie, announced his separation from his spouse of four years, Stephanie Henshaw, the latter has taken to Facebook to tell her story.
Writing on her Facebook account (Stephanie Adie Henshaw), which appeared to have been opened a few days after the separation, she indicated that the separation was not her initiative.
The initial information posted on Sunday read,
“Today makes it three weeks I was asked for a separation and a week and four days I packed out. Romans 8:28: ‘All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them. I am as shocked as most people are, as there has not been an argument in my home. In over a year we have been as happy as everybody thought we were. I wait because I know in time God will make known what has gone wrong.”
In other postings, Henshaw, who has reverted to her maiden name, disclosed that she had known her ex-husband for almost two decades.

“Twenty years I have known a man, 15 years we have been the closest friends. I prepared all his meals for 10 years, including the four years we were married. The day I was asked to leave I prepared his meal, served it and I left. For the four years he never fell ill but today I am called all sorts of names -’ ‘witch’, and ‘mermaid spirit.’ I have served Jesus with clean hands and a clean heart. I have loved all that have come my way and if I do not live through this pain and hurt as sure as Jesus lives my children will see my vindication.”

Speaking through various other posts, an obviously aggrieved Henshaw, also gave hints that she was implicated and falsely accused by ‘certain church members’.
“Lies, not from the world but the church; accusations not from the world, but the church. Where are the spirit filled Christians, the ones who fear and hear the Lord? My husband loves and adores me; he is not the one saying these things, the enemies from within who hate me. They hate the grace God showed me. They hate the mercy God has had on me. So, they come up with all kinds of lies. My going can bring one Mrs. Okotie, but what happens to the rest of you? You bring shame to the body of Christ out of your jealousy and selfish desire and in the process expose your pastor. The work he has to do cost Jesus his life, don’t joke with it. Our friendship is not based on marriage. You manipulate things at the expense of God’s work and name. It is not about me. It has never been: it is about the will of God.’’
In another post, Henshaw, who hails from Cross River State, prays for a vindication.
She cries, “Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection. I will hide beneath the shadow of your wing until the danger passes by. Vindicate me, Lord. All things are open before you, righteous judge. I remain still, speak on my behalf. I submitted to the end. I did all I was asked to do, Lord. I left that home blameless before you. I have loved but have not been loved. I have given and not received; but that is contrary to your word, Lord. So, today I ask your word be made manifest in my life.”

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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

School system asks for Facebook access for teacher's aide; another company connects social media abuse to "hostile workplace" legal risk

ABC News is reporting at least two more cases of employees being disciplined over Facebook-related activity.

In one case, a teacher’s aide took a picture of a coworker, somewhat compromising, perhaps, and posted it with permission.  The school asked for permission to see her page, without the Union present. There is some question as to whether union representation matters in social media questions with teachers and school employees.  This case also reminds us that photographs of people in public are starting to create controversy (even just within the past year, compared to how things were two years ago) because of the possibility that others could tag the photo (although Facebook offers ways for the subject of the photo to refuse to be tagged).

In another case, someone vented on Facebook on a public page and was fired for being “disrespectful of other employees in a public forum”.  The company claimed that her Facebook post could create a “hostile workplace environment”, a point I have been making about managers (or people with direct reports) when they blog about controversial materials, as far back as 2000.

The link for the story is here.  There are two short videos that will play in sequence; watch them both.  See earlier similar story March 14.

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Children as young as 14 were being used to sell illegal and counterfeit cigarettes around the country.

Children as young as 14 were being used to sell illegal and counterfeit cigarettes around the country.

Governments World Wide ‘complacent’ over cigarette smuggling. Anti-tobacco groups have accused the Government of complacency over the use of children by organised crime gangs to smuggle cigarettes into Ireland.

Ash, the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Heart Foundation said they were shocked and outraged at the investigation aired this week by RTE’s Prime Time , which found children as young as 14 were being used to sell illegal and counterfeit cigarettes around the country.

The investigation found that the smuggled cigarettes were on sale openly in casual markets and estimated that each carton of 200 sold on the black market represented a loss of about €65 to the exchequer.

“In the Dáil yesterday, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan appears to have ruled out a tobacco price increase in the forthcoming Budget even though it would yield an estimated a badly needed €420 million to the Exchequer, without any significant impact on inflation. Instead the Minister, in a letter to us, has cited the excuse of smuggling as a reason not to increase tax on tobacco, even though there is compelling evidence to show that such an increase would deter young people from starting and encourage smokers to quit,” said Irish Cancer Society chief executive John McCormack.

Cigarettes have particular appeal to potential smugglers because taxes often account for a large share of their price (which Brack Obama in the USA has recently raised again), making them a highly profitable product to smuggle. Economic models of smuggling are used to develop techniques for measuring the extent and nature of the worldwide cigarette smuggling problem.

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Cigarette Smugglers in St. Louis, New York City, Charlotte and Tampa Funnel Money to Terror Groups like Hezbollah.
The ICS said it was shocked by the Government’s attitude to what it described as “a major public health issue”. There are an estimated 7,000 deaths every year related to tobacco, with 1,700 people dying from lung cancer.

Chief executive of the Irish Heart Foundation Michael O’Shea said the organisation was angered by the Government’s “apparent inability” to control the smuggling of illicit tobacco products into Ireland.

“The failure by government to tackle the growth in smuggling is not a good enough reason not to protect the health of our children from cigarette smoking. This is a national disgrace,” he said.

“It is not acceptable to let criminal activity dictate social measures to protect the health of our children and young people. It is not acceptable to say there will be no increase in tobacco prices – a proven deterrent to new and existing smokers – because smuggling will increase.”

He called for the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern to increase resources to deter smugglers through measures such as increased penalties and prosecutions. See UPDATE Thursday, April 02, 2009, ATF Arrests $3 Million Dollar Chinese Cigarette Smugglers In Queens NY, Guang Ming Wang and his son, Feishan Wang

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DENYS DE LA RONDE, LOUIS (he signed La Ronde Denys), officer in the navy and in the colonial regular troops; b. 2 Aug. 1675 at Quebec, son of Pierre Denys* de La Ronde and Catherine Leneuf de La Poterie; m. 20 July 1709 at Quebec, Marie-Louise, daughter of René-Louis Chartier* de Lotbinière, and first cousin of Louise-Élisabeth Joybert*, wife of the governor-general of New France, Philippe de Rigaud* de Vaudreuil; had three sons and three daughters; buried 25 March 1741 at Quebec.

Louis Denys de La Ronde entered the naval service as a midshipman at Rochefort, France, in 1687. For the next 20 years he served in a wide variety of campaigns: he accompanied the deposed English king James II to Ireland in 1689, and saw action there at Bantry Bay and again off Beachy Head, England; in eight campaigns to New France between 1692 and 1705, serving several times under his older brother, Simon-Pierre Denys* de Bonaventure, he came to know the New England coastline well; in 1697 he accompanied Pierre Le Moyne* d’Iberville on his final and most dramatic campaign to Hudson Bay; and in 1699–1700 and 1701, at the specific request of d’Iberville, he served in the Mississippi expeditions. He was given his first command in November 1701, when d’Iberville entrusted him with the Enflammé for the return voyage to France. The following year, on his way to Quebec, he suffered a serious shoulder wound in an action against an English vessel. Twice, in 1695 and 1704, he was taken prisoner by the English on the high seas.

La Ronde began his colonial service in 1705 when he was given command of a small frigate to be used against English shipping in Acadian and New England waters. To counter France’s increasing inability to meet the wartime requirements of the colony, the governor of Acadia, Jacques-François Monbeton* de Brouillan, had decided to have the Biche, 18 to 20 guns, built at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.). Finding the vessel unfinished when he arrived, La Ronde took charge of a brig and began privateering and reconnoitring English strength along the New England seaboard. In 1706 he went so far as to put in at Boston “on the pretext of making inquiries about developments . . . regarding exchanges [of prisoners].” It may have been on this occasion that he made contacts which later would be useful to him.

Just as the Biche, with a crew of 60 Canadians under Charles-Joseph Amiot* de Vincelotte, was ready to sail from Port-Royal in the spring of 1707, a force of New England provincials under John March* arrived before the town. The energy of the new governor, Daniel d’Auger* de Subercase, aided substantially by La Ronde and his men, compelled the New Englanders to withdraw; La Ronde carried news of the successful defence to the court. While in France he had the Biche replaced by a larger frigate, the Vénus, and after an arduous crossing he returned to Port-Royal on Easter Sunday 1708. Anticipating a new English attack, Subercase ordered him to take up his command of the infantry company awarded him in 1707 following the resignation of Louis-Simon Le Poupet* de La Boularderie.

It was only late in August therefore – and despite the desertion of the greater part of his crew – that La Ronde was able to resume his privateering. Taking on 40 men recently arrived from the West Indies, he set out from Port-Royal on the Vénus and promptly captured two prizes worth more than 115,000 livres. But contrary winds forced him to put in at Plaisance (Placentia, Nfld.), where the governor, Philippe Pastour* de Costebelle, persuaded him to join an expedition against the English forts at St John’s. Leaving Port-Royal to its fate, La Ronde carried munitions and supplies to St John’s by sea, while troops under Saint-Ovide [Monbeton] proceeded overland. On New Year’s Day 1709, barely hours after the French arrived, the English under Thomas Lloyd* surrendered. When the station was abandoned by the French in the spring and the forts destroyed, La Ronde carried the artillery back to Plaisance aboard the Vénus. He then agreed to transport the English garrison of St John’s to Quebec and, once there, stood by in anticipation of the massive British invasion expected for 1709. It was on this occasion that he married Marie-Louise Chartier de Lotbinière. When it became apparent that Canada would enjoy a respite in 1709, La Ronde returned with his bride to Plaisance in October.

As early as 1708 Subercase had complained bitterly not only of La Ronde’s insubordination in not returning to Port-Royal but of his mistreatment of minor officials who had opposed his attempts that year to undervalue his captured prizes, thereby cheating the government, which was owed taxes on the vessels, as well as the outfitters of his ship. Although he agreed that La Ronde ought to be severely punished, the minister of Marine, Pontchartrain, faced a dilemma: “I really do not know how to deal with him,” he remarked, “since he acquitted himself so well at St John’s.” La Ronde returned to France in 1710 to account for his conduct. Though at first glance he appears to have withstood the wrath of authorities, the balance of his career was adversely affected by his indiscipline. Despite his advancement at the normal rate (section leader of a detachment of midshipmen at 26, sub-lieutenant in the navy at 27, captain in the colonial regulars at 32), and despite a truly impressive record of service, he never rose beyond the rank of captain. He did, however, receive the honour of the cross of Saint-Louis in 1721.

In 1710 La Ronde sailed for Port-Royal only to learn before arriving of its surrender to Francis Nicholson* in October. He therefore stayed at Plaisance, much to the delight of his patron Costebelle, by whom he was soon to be dispatched on his most spectacular adventure. The following spring La Ronde, who, Costebelle claimed, “knows enough English to understand it and to make himself understood without an interpreter,” went to Boston under a flag of truce, ostensibly to negotiate an exchange of prisoners. In reality he was to make careful military observations, seeking at the same time, surreptitiously and with “great caution,” to subvert the fighting spirit of the New Englanders. He was to suggest “in conversation” that by subscribing to the cause of Old England in America, the colonists were in effect using “their own weapons for the destruction of the freedom of their republics.”

There was apparently no opposition to La Ronde’s presence in Boston, in spite of the fact that preparations were being made for a massive invasion of Canada. He may already have had contacts there, and in any case he was a personable man who made a favourable impression despite his uneasiness in his role. Sir Hovenden Walker* must have thought him amenable for he suggested that he aid the British cause by piloting a vessel to the St Lawrence – an offer La Ronde was probably not above accepting for a price. It was not long, however, before a copy of his instructions was discovered. Markedly less welcome now and anxious, as he later claimed, to get his news to the French, La Ronde made a dash by night for the safety of the open sea. In the first of many difficulties which “endangered his life several times,” he was stopped and thrown into the dungeon of Castle William. Although he had had the foresight to swallow the original text of his instructions, the General Court of Massachusetts summarily condemned him to hang. In the meantime, however, news of Walker’s disaster had reached Boston. Out of compassion, or influenced perhaps by La Ronde’s colourful personality, Governor Joseph Dudley intervened and gave the Frenchman the opportunity to make his escape. Otherwise he would have paid dearly for his rash plunge into the vagaries of international diplomacy in wartime. Late in 1711, having been “tossed about on the sea like a latterday Telemachus,” he drifted into Martinique. He returned to Plaisance in July 1712.

By the spring of 1713 the peace of Utrecht had ceded Acadia and Newfoundland to England, and in an effort to counter the loss France decided upon a new venture on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). Serving under Saint-Ovide, La Ronde reconnoitred the island, making recommendations for settlement and preparing charts and reports of his observations. It is perhaps significant that he noted with some emotion the vestiges of the pioneering efforts of his grandfather, Simon Denys* de La Trinité, who more than 60 years previously had built a trading post at Sainte-Anne (Englishtown). In the summer of the following year La Ronde joined Jacques d’Espiet* de Pensens on an unsuccessful journey to Nova Scotia to encourage the Acadians to leave the province and immigrate to Île Royale.

La Ronde carried the colony’s dispatches to France in January 1715. Upon his return he commanded the detachment at Port-Toulouse (St Peters) intermittently from November 1715 to the spring of 1720. In 1719, at the request of Governor General Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil and seemingly against his own wishes, he was appointed to the garrison in Canada. By procrastinating, however, he missed the last vessel to Quebec in 1719. In 1720 Robert-David Gotteville* de Belile, sent by the Comte de Saint-Pierre to command at Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), secured from Saint-Ovide, now governor of Île Royale, the services of an unenthusiastic La Ronde to assist in the founding of the colony. In November 1721 La Ronde prepared a detailed mémoire on their progress. Its reliability is highly suspect, however, for it seems that La Ronde was more interested in promoting himself as a colonizer than in reporting accurately. In 1722 he took advantage of some administrative confusion at Versailles to leave Île Saint-Jean and take up the Canadian post Vaudreuil had held for him since 1719.

La Ronde, with his knowledge of English and his contacts in New England, proved especially useful to Vaudreuil as a plenipotentiary. In 1723, for example, the governor sent him overland to Boston on a diplomatic mission, the precise purpose of which is unclear. He also impressed Vaudreuil’s successor, Charles de Beauharnois, who appointed him, on 6 June 1727, commandant of Chagouamigon (near Ashland, Wis.), a key post on the route to the far west. Even though his appointment included the right to trade for furs, for unknown reasons La Ronde did not immediately depart from Quebec.

In 1728 he became embroiled in the power struggle between Beauharnois and the intendant, Claude-Thomas Dupuy*. Dupuy charged that La Ronde was involved in illegal fur trade, presumably with his merchant acquaintances in Boston, and Beauharnois, forced to admit that the charge was true, refused him permission to go to Chagouamigon. The rare concurrence of the governor and intendant was apparently taken as proof of La Ronde’s guilt. After raising the possibility of dismissing him, in 1729 the minister of Marine, Maurepas, ordered Beauharnois to keep La Ronde at Quebec: “I cannot have any confidence in him,” he wrote. For La Ronde the possibility of further promotion was finally eliminated, but he was able, thanks chiefly to his friendship with Dupuy’s successor, Gilles Hocquart*, to take up his command at Chagouamigon in 1731.

There a new chapter in his spectacular career unfolded. Having learned from the area’s Indians and from Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, a veteran officer in the region, that several islands in Lake Superior held rich copper deposits, he began to gather samples and to lay plans for a major industry. In 1732 he wrote to Beauharnois and Hocquart with a proposal to construct two ships on lakes Superior and Huron to carry ore to Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.); there it would be loaded on barges for the voyage to Montreal. In return he asked for a free nine-year lease on the fur trade at Chagouamigon to help him finance the venture. After Maurepas approved the plan in 1733 La Ronde formed a partnership with Saint-Pierre and Louis-Mathieu Damours de Clignancour, agreeing to put up half the capital. Since he apparently did not have it, he borrowed 25,411 livres in merchandise from the Montreal merchant Louis Charly Saint-Ange. In 1734 he drew another merchant, Simon Guillory, into the partnership. Meanwhile, Beauharnois and Hocquart modified the terms of his monopoly, allowing him to forgo the construction of the Lake Huron vessel until 1735 and to use the king’s barque on Lake Ontario.

The Lake Superior vessel was constructed by La Ronde and Guillory in 1734. The ore samples they sent to France were assayed at the royal mint in Paris as more than 90 per cent pure copper and led Maurepas to believe that “the venture could become quite important.” La Ronde, who, as Hocquart observed, possessed only “ordinary resourcefulness, which is not supported by any practical knowledge,” realized that expert artisans would be needed to select the best location for the mine and to set up the smelting furnace. In 1735 he petitioned Maurepas to send help from France at his expense. Maurepas chose instead to send two German miners, John Adam and Christopher Henry Forster, with instructions merely to assess the venture’s feasibility. The Forsters arrived in Canada in the late summer of 1737 but, as a result of various mishaps, did not reach Lake Superior until June 1738. After investigating the copper deposits and taking ore samples, they returned to Quebec in the early summer of 1739 where they also examined copper deposits at Baie Saint-Paul before sailing for France. Their report on La Ronde’s venture confirmed the existence of at least three rich copper deposits on Lake Superior but declared that the cost of exploiting them would be prohibitive.

La Ronde anticipated the effect of this report in France. In 1739 he wrote to Maurepas painting a bright picture of the mining enterprise and requesting a number of artisans, but his dispatch was couched in defensive terms. It sought to justify all his actions since 1736 and contained a lengthy account of his services since 1687. But Maurepas replied in 1740 that the enterprise was dead and angrily ordered La Ronde to reimburse the king for the sums advanced to the Forsters, more than 6,000 livres. He apparently did so, and Beauharnois and Hocquart requested that he be permitted to exploit the fur trade at Chagouamigon for two or three years so that he could also pay his private creditors. The certainty of the Forsters’ report cast doubt upon La Ronde’s sincerity about the mining venture; that the costs of labour and transportation would be prohibitive was so clear to them that La Ronde, even with his limited expertise, might have been expected to be aware of the problem. Moreover, in the seven years that he led the authorities to believe in the enterprise he achieved little, aside from building a ship on Lake Superior which would transport furs and trade goods as readily as ore. That his private financial support came from fur merchants who were all linked with the far western trade is also suspicious. Official documents suggest that La Ronde took the venture seriously, that he suffered losses, and that he was finally defeated by Canada’s geography, but it is worth noting that they can be given a different interpretation. It is at least a possibility that La Ronde used the mining venture as a means of obtaining a free lease on the fur trade.

After the failure of the mining enterprise, La Ronde sought promotion to commandant of the colonial regular troops in New France, as well as promotions for two of his sons, Philippe and Pierre-François-Paul, both of whom were officers. Philippe had served at Chagouamigon during his father’s absences and took over permanently when La Ronde died in 1741. In 1743 Mme de La Ronde went to France to ask for a further extension of her husband’s lease so that she and her sons could pay Charly the 30,000 livres she maintained were still owed him. This request may have sounded disingenuous since she and her children had earlier renounced their inheritance to avoid paying a 1,100 livres debt to the Canadian treasury agent, Thomas-Jacques Taschereau. Even so she was granted the fur ferme at Chagouamigon from 1744 to 1748 at 3,000 livres, and one-third of its product from 1748 to 1751.

It is difficult to assess La Ronde’s career. He was without doubt a daring soldier of fortune whose exploits covered the French Atlantic empire and ranged from heroic military feats to diplomacy, exploration, and entrepreneurship. On the other hand he was guilty of insubordination, apparently guided by self-interest, and often suspected, at least, of treachery. The many mysteries that surround him, concerning not only his motives for the mining venture but his contacts in New England and his alleged collusion with them, only add to the fascination of his career.

Bernard Pothier and Donald J. Norton

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Is growth ending? And if it is, how do we adjust?

While waiting for phone calls to be returned, I ran across this article on the New York Magazine web site.

The Blip

As a baby boomer and student of history, it's a subject that interests me. The questions it asks is "What if everything we've come to think of as American is predicated on a freak coincidence of economic history? And what if that coincidence has run its course?"

I wrote some comments in response to it, which I'll share below. But I'd recommend you read the article first.

Our expectations of growth and prosperity are based on what happened during a very brief period of history, 1948 to 1973. During this time, Japan and Germany were rebuilding from the rubble they'd been bombed into during World War II. Our main competition was military and ideological, Communism in the Soviet Union and Red China. We enjoyed a fantastic standard of living. Business and organized labor were essentially partners in the great scheme of things.

Things began to change in the early '70s. Suddenly Germany and Japan had new factories and infrastructure, while ours was aging. To cover the costs of Vietnam and the Great Society, Nixon floated the dollar, undoing the Bretton Woods Accord of 1944. Automation became more prevalent. Americans began feeling the pinch.

No one likes to give up gains they have made. Our reaction was to pitch headlong into borrowing. Who had a credit card in 1970? Businessmen with expense accounts mainly. By the end of the decade they were being pitched to everyone (my first Bank Americard, in 1979, had an astounding limit of $500.)

In addition to the extension of credit came the decline of manufacturing and the embrace of consumerism as the economy's driving engine. Baby boomers entering the workforce embraced easy credit as essential to their standard of living.

That was as unsustainable as the postwar prosperity was, and 2008 was when it finally hit the wall. We were like a single engine plane flying up a mountain canyon. The higher we got, the thinner the air got and the less pulling power the plane had. If the head wall is too tall, you smack into it.

I would say the American Century was essentially 25 years, 1948-1973, the same quarter-century the Baby Boomers were born and raised. We expected to live twice as we'll as our parents and borrowed recklessly to sustain the illusion that we were. Younger generations I believe are going to have more tempered expectations, and that's probably a good thing.

I liked this quote in particular: “I strongly believe if we understand the end of growth, we can make provisions for the economy we actually have.”

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A Troubled Associated Press Has Become Less Transparent and Accountable

In recent months, it has become quite obvious that the Associated Press has made conscious moves designed to make its output and jounalistic operations less transparent. It’s also reasonable to ask whether these moves are also motivated by a desire to hide what appears to be a significant shrinkage in its available resources and perhaps even its number of personnel.

Readers who believe that how AP operates is relatively unimportant simply must understand these three things:

  1. It is, more than any other news organization, the primary gatekeeper deciding what news deserves national attention, and what news should be ignored.
  2. Its content, according to its 2016 audited financial statements, is disseminated to “a regular membership of US daily newspapers and an associate membership of broadcasters and non-daily newspapers totaling approximately 1,300.” (As of 2007, it also claimed that its content was used by 5,000 TV and radio broadcasters. Though the info may be out there somewhere, I could not find a current comparable number.) As a result, a large percentage if not still a majority of “the news” began with work done by AP reporters and their associates in photography and video.
  3. Over the past four or five decades the AP has used— really, abused — its gatekeeping power to attempt to dictate the narrative associated with important national stories with a leftist slant at an ever-increasing rate.

The AP began a “Big Story” site several years ago. Its intent appeared to be to preserve content considered particularly important or relevant for future researchers, historians, and its own reporters. Now it has disappeared.

“Hosted.ap.org,” which tended to preserve final versions of stories for a week or two before flushing them down the memory hole, appears to be virtually gone. The only evidence I could find that it is still active in any respect consisted of a few working links at MuckRack. Directly typing “hosted.ap.org” as a URL takes the user to APnews.com (to be discussed shortly).

There still is a hosted2.ap.org website. But its underlying content, which used to have public visibility, now has none. It used to be possible to search that site through Google and occasionally find stories hosted.ap.org had already dropped, or even earlier versions of stories since revised at hosted.ap.org. Now the site only gives readers a list of about a dozen or so “Recent Headlines” with introductory blurbs. Clicking on any of those story links is supposed to take the reader to a hosted.ap.org page — which is pretty funny, given that, as noted earlier, hosted.ap.org is almost completely inactive. Instead, the user ends up at the home page of APnews.com, and has to search on the headline to find what they were looking for.

APnews.com is from all appearances the single AP-controlled website which is on track to effectively replace all of the others. Consolidating a plethora of sites into one might seem like a good idea, except that APnews.com appears to have been designed to make content difficult to find and to make all but the most recent content disappear.

For example, the site’s search engine appears only to look for words in headlines and tags, and does not look for the non-sequential or even sequential presence of all of the term’s words in an article’s content. Thus, as seen in Saturday’s NewsBusters post, an AP-NORC poll on Americans’ attitudes about guns after the Las Vegas massacre, a search on “gun control” (not in quotes) at APnews.com did not return that dispatch, even though the term “gun control” is in the content. Why? I’d argue that after seeing the poll’s results, which even after rigging the sample to heavily favor Democrats and liberals showed that Americans’ attitudes towards gun rights haven’t changed, the AP decided that its findings should remain as invisible as possible.

Additionally, APnews.com has replicated hosted.ap.org’s nasty habit of revising stories on the fly without preserving any record of previous iterations. To find out what AP actually reported on a fast-developing story 12 hours ago, you have to conduct extensive needle-in-haystack searches at AP subscribers’ sites and hope that the older version is still out there somewhere.

It’s more than reasonable to argue that the disappearance of the Big Story site, along with how APnews.com is being handled, betray desires for less transparency and accountability. These moves open up greater opportunities to manage how stories are worded initially or at critical times of the day, e.g., just in advance of morning and evening TV news shows, without leaving readily discernible tracks once they’re revised and made to look more reasonable. If subscribing print, online, radio and TV outlets seem to be mindlessly mouthing leftist talking points, it is quite likely that they’re simply reading the AP content they have just been presented.

APnews.com has one other feature which longtime AP followers will find quite astonishing. Other new organizations’ content is now appearing there in large volumes. Does this reflect a generous desire to give subscribing outlets visibility, perhaps in return for some form of revenue or expense offsets, or is it happening because AP is no longer capable of producing a sufficient level of content by itself?

I repeated the “gun control” search to which I referred above at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday; results are here. At that time, it contained 50 items, and no links to additional pages with results for that term. Only 19 of the results linked to APnews.com stories produced by AP reporters. The others originated from other outlets — and to no one’s surprise, on the whole they lean clearly to the left. Some particularly odious headlines (links are to the outside publications’ sites): “Never Mind Gun Control, Disarm Trump” (The New London Day); “How the US government created and coddled the gun industry” (from The Converation, a publication of “academic experts”); “How America has silently accepted the rage of white men” (Philadelphia Tribune).

(If one clicks on the publication’s name instead of the article title, one learns that APnews.com has established separate pages for each contributing outlet, with, yet again, a single-page limit of 50 items.)

So at least for site searches — already far less effective than users have a right to expect, as noted above — the Associated Press appears to have turned over more than half of its content to other outlets.

The wire service’s category pages (e.g., business, sports, etc.) still contain all-AP content. But you get links and intro blurbs for (again) only 50 stories (“Lifestyle” example here), and that’s it.

So is the AP shrinking, or just revamping itself to leverage how news is currently found and produced? Arguments for the former include the following:

  • In December 2016, it laid off 25 employees in its global news department.
  • Its 2016 financial statements show that revenues fell by 2 percent, and that net income, which was $184 million in 2015, barely stayed above sea level ($1.6 million) in 2016 (the hit to pretax income, going from $24 million in 2015 to $4 million in 2016, was not as severe).
  • Its working capital fell from a deficit of $3 million at the end of 2015 to a deficit of $47 million in 2016. Cash on hand fell by over half, from $51 million to $25 million.
  • It’s total “compensation” expense dropped a bit, from $326 million to $324 million, which would seem to indicate a reduction in headcount.
  • With little if any fanfare, the wire service’s contract with its Editorial Union expired on September 30.
  • Management has proposed steep increases in employee contributions to its health care plan, which it claims will increase “employee contributions to premiums by 53 percent next year, increase deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums and increase employees’ coinsurance in the premium plan.” (Many of these reporters have written articles claiming that Obamacare hasn’t affected the healthcare market for employer plans for the worse. Really?)

As far as I can tell, unlike during previous contract talks, we aren’t seeing AP journalists conducting childish demonstrations or going on “byline strikes,” which are supposedly hurtful because one doesn’t know which reporter authored a given story (readers can be forgiven for not seeing any “logic” in this, as I certainly don’t).

The usually militant News Media Guild’s relatively non-hostile behavior arguably reflects the fact that it knows it can’t hope to squeeze any improvements out of AP; it can only limit the bleeding.

If I’m correct in believing that the AP’s moves described in this post are partially motivated by deteriorating financial conditions, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

While pretending be the prime propagator of objective news, three of its reporters were effectively campaign surrogates for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign even before she officially announced her candidacy. Its coverage was so obviously anti-Bernie Sanders during the primaries, and then so obviously anti-Donald Trump during the general election campaign’s final months, that their reports might as well have been pro-Hillary attack ads. After Trump’s election, its reports, its “fact checks” and its still present but completely undeserved reputation as an impartial gatekeeper have been a major contributor to the over 90 percent negative coverage found in studies looking at the coverage of Trump and his administration.

Like other news organizations in the Trump era, instead of examining how their own conduct might be hurting them, AP insists on continuing to do the things that have done it so much damage — see what it’s done to its hallowed Stylebook guidance just this year (here and here) for proof — while attempting to make calling them out for their ongoing egregious conduct much more difficult.

Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.

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Few Indians have realized the truth that the present High Court verdict is regarding a civil law suit involving three parties about the ownership of a piece of land. It is only natural for the concerned judges to think of legitimate solutions strictly based on the law of the land, facts presented in the court and the legal precedents in such cases. The present verdict needs to be viewed only in such a context.

With the immense possibilities of appeals and counter appeals, the civil suit will take another 60 years to reach any conclusion, if at all. And even if there are no further appeals, the current division of 2.7 acres of land into three equal parts can never provide enough space for any major monument to come up. The entire land can be either left barren or all three parties can get together and grant it to one of them (or another outsider) to construct a single grand structure. Though attractive, chances of the latter option are almost negligible in the present prevailing air of suspicion and mistrust. We cannot expect those who support ‘invaders’ and ‘converters’ to compromise with the natural owners of the land.
But even if a grand Ram’s temple does not come up at Ayodhya, the relevance of Ram and Ayodhya shall remain unchallenged and undiminished forever among Indians, nee the entire humanity. Sanatana Dharma remains the oldest religious path identified by mankind and Lord Ram remains the first ideal human being who prompted the then evolving homo sapiens to think in terms of an ultimate reality (named as God) that lies further in the path of human evolution. The concept of incarnation (avatar) of God in the form of humans was prompted by none other than Lord Ram, though many earlier avatars have been recognized later on. Those who ridicule Lord Ram as a myth are only feigning blind under the influence of inferior ideologies who cannot challenge Sanatana Dharma either in terms of its robust content or its ever vibrant rationality. The poor duplicates know that over 5000 years of uninterrupted and unchallenged heritage is too overwhelming when compared to their own mere 2000 and 1500 years. Deception and ridicule have always been the chosen tools of the less evolved when confronted with such challenges.
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Importance of Lord Ram in the lives of Indians for the period till the arrival of foreign invaders needs no evidence for any student of Indian history. Perhaps that is exactly why the immediate descendents of the first invader (Baber) chose to confront Lord Ram by targeting Ayodhya. Forcibly erasing all the monuments related to local heroes is always a priority item for invaders to weaken the invaded. But Lord Ram was already a hero in the minds of all Indians living and yet to be born. The herd of skewed historians who doubt the reality of Ram and propose an Aryan Ram being unacceptable to a Dravidian South India need only to visit Sri Lanka and places like Rameswaram, Jadayumangalam etc., which lie in the south of India. Sensible and scientific among Indian historians can easily accept the reality of Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, Vedas, Epics, Upanishads etc., when each and every district of the Indian geography contains proof of India’s past as depicted in Vedic literature. Ordinary Indians do not need anymore proof for the existence of an eternal Ram in our midst.
India is no doubt a confluence of unlimited number of cultures, religions, tribes, opinions and even nationalities. But there are a few super threads that run through the entire fabric of Indianness – the so-called Hindutva which has been accepted by even the Supreme Court of India. The most ideal human Lord Ram and complete human Lord Krishna are integral components of what is Hindutva. The entire humanity cannot even think of a more ideal human being than Lord Ram and more complete human being than Lord Krishna. Our epics Ramayana and Mahabharata may be highly exaggerated stories about such superior humans who are correctly designated as incarnations of the ultimate reality. But the fact still remains that we cannot think of more ideal or complete forms of human behavior even now. Message to mankind from the words and deeds of Lord Ram remain unsurpassed in terms of its content and motivation. Men trying to become Rams and nations striving for Ramrajya are still part of ultimate idealism that our universe can still imagine.
Ubiquitous Ayodhya
It is a welcome relief that the skewed historians are not questioning the geographical authenticity of Ayodhya though they side with our enemies about the existence of Ram. These historians who have no doubt at all about the various sons of God and prophets in other parts of the world have always been casting doubts about the authenticity of Ram and Krishna. According to them the entire Indian history prior to Baber’s invasion is mythology and is somewhat clear only when it comes to the migration of Aryans from central Asia. Crooked historians like Thapar and Paniker could find no other way to deny India and Indians the credit for their unparalleled glory during the Vedic period. But their dirty tricks are no more working and the whole world has accepted the falsehood of the Aryan Migration Theory. For the young historians who have genuine doubts about Ram, Krishna, Ramayana and Mahabharata, just one all-India tour and a quick trip to the neighbouring countries are enough to clear their doubts. One of the dirtiest historical conspiracies of dividing Indians into Aryans and Dravidians will also become crystal clear to them.
Ayodhya literally refers to a land without war and it would be foolish for anyone to look for one outside India. It could never have existed nor could it ever exist in the Middle East, Africa, Europe or the Americas. Even hypothetically, it could have existed only in a land ruled by highly evolved rulers like Lord Ram and Lord Krishna where people enjoy freedom of thought, expression and action. Among people who are not tied down to a single ideology or book or hero. There must be no restrictions on criticizing the ruler or even the God, there must be freedom to question practices and there must be unlimited freedom to challenge religious beliefs. Learned men must write commentaries on the sacred books and rewrite them if required to suit contemporary times. The one and only ideology or religious belief that has allowed its followers to do so is Sanatana Dharma. An Ayodhya can exist only in such an environment and the whole of India is an Ayodhya belonging to an eternal Ram.
The truth of Ram and Ayodhya are thus very clear to Indians. The whole geographical entity called India belongs to Lord Ram and it is irrelevant whether a Ram temple can finally come up in a place called Ayodhya in modern times. Crores of people worship Lord Ram at millions of places. Addition of one more temple will not make any difference to the reverence and esteem of Lord Ram to Indians. But the attempt of some vested interests to position a barbarian invader like Baber against a divine incarnation like Lord Ram can be termed only as absurd. All invaders are our enemies and if someone claims that it belongs to Baber, then it is the first plot that should be taken over under the Enemy’s Property Act, 1968. Thousands of acres of our land are under enemy’s possession in Kashmir, but how can we allow an enemy territory right in the middle of India? That should be the concern and spirit of all Indians.
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One of the hallmarks of a "good" prison is surveillance, total surveillance of the population.

Pentagon contractors have figured out how to turn a buck on that and Congress has figured out how to collect.

Brasscheck TV's answer to the normal human question: "What can I do?"
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