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Sometimes it takes an epiphany to get you to think "Digital First"
Steve Buttry, who has the impressive if murky title of "Digital Transformation Editor" for Digital First Media, the entity that now operates the combined newspaper and television properties of the Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group, spends a lot of his time speaking not only to working journalists but to journalism students. He preaches the gospel of digital media as not only the future, but the present reality of the news business.
I happen to agree, and was glad to meet the man at an all-day Digital Media Workshop at the University of Colorado, sponsored by the Digital News Test Kitchen, a cutting-edge media think-tank. Buttry, who's based in northern Virginia, spent the workshop sharing his views on the importance of embracing the evolving tools and technologies of news, and also giving hands-on tips that journalists can employ to tell stories for the new age.
He had lots of examples of newspapers doing innovative work and trying new ideas, like using a board on one Journal Register paper's Pinterest page to show the local police's Most Wanted mugshots (arrests increased). He also offered do's and don'ts for other social media and digital tools.
In true digital-first fashion, there was a flurry of tweets during the workshop posted by attendees (lord knows when Buttry found the time to re-tweet some of them while he was still presenting), and Buttry posted on his blog about the workshop within a few hours. The post includes helpful links to all the examples of great multimedia and cutting-edge work that he used during his talk, and they're worth checking out for anyone interested in the best that digital journalism has to offer.
His blog post includes a link to a Storify timeline, a compilation of tweets and photos uploaded live as the workshop progressed, curated by a journalism student, Rob Denton. Denton signed up for Storify when Buttry mentioned it, and created the timeline during the workshop. That's how easy it can be to try out and learn some of the cool new tools that are available for journalists to use.
On his blog, Buttry also uses a service called Slideshare to upload all the slides from his presentation – a wealth of intelligence available for anyone to learn from. Slideshare is a social network to distribute PowerPoint presentations, and a perfect way to share expertise (assuming that your PowerPoint presentation isn't a snoozer, and Buttry's aren't).
During the Q&A session, I asked if there was an epiphany in his career, which began in traditional newspapers that led him to embrace online media. "It's really more a process than an epiphany," he said.
He noted that he went into journalism in part because he knew he'd learn something new every day, and embracing new tools and platforms hasn't been so different. He did remember that in 1984, he was in charge of a Des Moines Register initiative to raise community engagement by "crowdsourcing" news into a "Hometown" section. The idea didn't fly with traditional journalists, but he was impressed with the power of the people who contributed.
He also remembered an early introduction to the Web as a research tool through a "Computer Assisted Reporting" (that's what they used to call online, database-driven journalism stuff back in the day) project for the Omaha World Herald as the closest thing he had to an epiphany.
My epiphany was when I was entertainment editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette in 1994 (we were one of the first five American newspapers to have a website), and I got an email from a reader. He was thanking me for the paper's arts coverage because he was a local scientist stuck in Antarctica for the winter, and our website allowed him to keep up with the rich local arts scene.
The knowledge that someone halfway around the globe could instantly read what I was publishing online changed my whole concept of news media. I realized that family and friends in Japan could now instantly follow what I was doing, and read my articles. Today that doesn't seem too shocking, since we could Skype around the world for free and video-chat on Google Hangout, or read live tweets and watch live streamed video from anywhere in the world — or even outer space.
But back then, I have to admit, the idea blew my mind. That's when I knew the Internet would be the future of news media, and that I had to find my place in it during the dawn of this evolution. I haven't regretted the decision once.
If you had an epiphany about online media, send it along to firstname.lastname@example.com — I'd love to hear your stories.
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Researchers and HIV Santuaries Need Smart Innovations For AIDS Eradication
HIV/AIDS has had a devastating impact on the socio-economic growth of the world in the last three decades, leading to the loss of life, increase in the number of orphans all over the world, the increase in the number of child-headed families, reduced labour supply, reduced labour productivity etc., though quantifying the impact may not be so easy, but it has had gross implications on the socio-economic and political set of many nations especially the developing ones. The macroeconomic effects of HIV/AIDS in the world but most especially in Africa are substantial, and policies for dealing with them may be controversial - one is whether expensive antiretroviral drugs should be targeted at economically productive groups of people. Four million
people died from AIDS in 2014, making it the world's fourth biggest cause of death, after heart disease, stroke, and acute lower respiratory infection. Over 70% of the world's 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS are in Africa. Besides the human cost, HIV/AIDS is having profound effects on Africa's socio-economic and political development and hence its ability to cope with the pandemic. While the impact of HIV/AIDS on people may be well documented, it has been much more difficult to observe the pandemic's effects on the African political economy as a whole or to assess how it might affect Africa's future development. Nevertheless scientists, researchers and medical professionals have dedicated a lot of time and money on various inventions, innovations and research experiments to understand these broader causes and effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in order to form effective policy responses aimed at eradicating it. But what went wrong?
A goal-directed research sanctioned by the Global Healthcare & Education Initiative-Uganda Chapter (GHEI-Uganda) focusing on the progress of HIV/AIDS prevention, control, treatment and positive living, found out that with or without treatment, prevention must remain a priority for most developing countries, emphasizing the need to address gaps in HIV prevention and implement interventions which have the highest impact, such as making condoms available, ensuring injections and blood safety, behavioral change campaigns to address risky sexual behaviors and stigma. According to Mr. Kasozi Dickson of GHEI-Uganda, "to reduce new HIV infections, adolescent girls, young mothers and key populations must be placed at the centre of the response. Intensive focus is needed to improve their access to sexual and reproductive health services. Antiretroviral therapy and voluntary male medical circumcision need to be scaled up, along with powerful prevention strategies such as pre-exposure prophylaxis for high risk populations. For testing HIV, we need to explore new ways of delivering HIV testing services including the potential of self-testing". The same report of GHEI-Uganda indicates that the success we have achieved so far gives us hope for the future, but as we look ahead, we must remember not to be complacent. AIDS is not over but it can be.
Fundamental political, financial and implementation challenges remain, but we should not stop now. It is time to move forward to ensure that all children start their lives free from HIV, that young people and adults grow up and stay free from HIV and that treatment becomes more accessible so that everyone stays AIDS-free. Henceforth, we all share the challenge to ensure that those who are identified to be HIV positive are initiated on treatment. The full benefits of HIV interventions and services are not being realized in many areas of Africa. There are many people living with HIV who are unaware of their HIV status. In addition, there are so many people living with HIV who are not accessing antiretroviral therapy. Discrimination, Stigma, gender inequality and gender base violence continue to hinder their access to health services particularly for children, adolescents, young women and key populations most at risk". Therefore, the responsibility to end HIV and AIDS rests on each of us. We need to scale up social behavioral change communication programmes, through the use of multiple communication channels that include print media, social media and interpersonal communication initiatives.
Optimism has never run higher that the AIDS epidemic can be defeated. Effective medications have reached millions of people worldwide over the past decade, and new research also suggests that even more investment in distributing HIV drugs might help slow the disease's spread. More success has been realized in countries like South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Uganda and Ghana. We should all aim at putting an AIDS-free generation on the horizon.
But for those living in the hardest-hit parts of Africa, there are risks in the policy shifts underway in Washington and other Western capitals. The rising enthusiasm for providing more medicines threatens to come at the expense of promising initiatives for preventing HIV infections in the first place - initiatives that could save many lives, with less money. Ambitious treatment efforts and smart prevention programs are, of course, not inherently at odds. But especially in an era of fiscal constraint, these two goals could come into conflict. The result, wasteful in dollars spent and lives diminished, would represent only the latest misjudgment by powerful donor nations such as the United States, which still struggle to understand the root causes of an epidemic that has spread most widely in weaker, poorer nations.
In Africa, the most important cause of the epidemic is sexual cultures in which it's not unusual for people to have more than one partner in the same week or month. Sound strategies for stemming the spread of HIV would pay particular attention to those places where Africans themselves - in nations such as Uganda, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe-have reversed the epidemic and saved millions of lives by changing sexual behavior.
The growth of sex work is often cited as the key element of the epidemic. But even more consequential was a shift away from traditional polygamy - common across much of Africa but scorned by Christian missionaries - toward more informal relationships. In these, men often had one wife but maintained secretive and less permanent relationships with other women. And with their husbands often spending months at a time working at far-off mines, plantations or factories, wives increasingly took sex partners outside of marriage.
The changing sexual mores alarmed colonial officials, who worried about the future of the workforce as birth rates plunged from the ravages of syphilis and chlamydia. In the Belgian Congo, a levy was imposed on all single women to encourage monogamous, Christian-style marriages. Instead, a new, freewheeling sexual culture took hold, one efficient at spreading disease.
Another factor was also crucial. The ancient ritual of circumcising boys was as essential to most African societies as it was to Jews and Muslims; on most of the continent, nearly all men were circumcised. Though no one knew it at the time, the simple absence of foreskins - the parts of men's bodies that were often infected - was a powerful drag on HIV's spread. Yet some ethnic groups, mainly in southern and East Africa, did not circumcise, and others saw the tradition fade away, often under the influence of Westernization. The way could be cleared by encouraging safe medical male circumcision. Post-colonial sexual practices and low circumcision rates combined to create an explosion in the AIDS epidemic. Perhaps one out of 100 adults in colonial Congo, where men were circumcised, contracted HIV. In countries such as Zimbabwe and Botswana, where few men were circumcised, the virus would eventually infect about one in four adults.
As we remember, President George W. Bush's $15 billion commitment to fighting the epidemic overseas was a turning point in the drive to get AIDS medicine to nations that couldn't afford it. President Obama also oversaw an expansion of funding and a focus on providing drugs and other biomedical tools for fighting the epidemic. All these efforts are doing wonders in Africa up to today. Of course, AIDS drugs do not cure the disease; recent estimates suggest that even well-treated patients may have their life spans shortened by about a decade. Still, these treatment initiatives allow many people with HIV to live much longer, better lives.
On the prevention side, however, the United States and other donors have fallen short. Part of the problem has been the polarized nature of AIDS politics, with its battles over condoms vs. abstinence. Few outsiders - not the U.S. government, the United Nations, religiously based charities, or even the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - have made impressive gains in preventing the spread of HIV among adults, despite massive investments of money and political will. For AIDS experts and policymakers, the long-standing frustration with donor-funded prevention campaigns has fed the excitement about new science on the power of drugs to slow the spread of HIV. People treated effectively are much less likely to pass the virus to others, and healthy people given a daily, low-dose regimen of medicine are less likely to contract HIV.
These breakthroughs have raised hopes that further widening access to AIDS drugs is the key to reversing the epidemic's march. With all such endeavors in practice, can we say that it is time to consider shifting funding from AIDS programs that seek to alter sexual behavior toward those that expand access to drugs. Western policymakers call this approach "treatment as prevention," while some activists go further, saying "treatment is prevention." But the relationship between treating AIDS and preventing HIV infection is hardly so simple, and the enthusiasm inspired by "treatment as prevention" already is sapping resources and energy away from some other initiatives for fighting the disease. It's also not clear that, even with massive new investments, the drugs can reach enough people to cause meaningful declines in HIV's spread. Even in the United States, with a medical system far superior to any in Africa, most people with HIV are not in treatment or are not taking drugs consistently enough to suppress the virus to the point where the risk of transmission is significantly reduced.
When debating how to prevent HIV, liberals like to talk about condoms, while conservatives often talk about abstinence. Yet the track record for both ideas has been disappointing. Reported condom usage rates soared in many parts of Africa years ago, but HIV infection has remained high, probably because they are not consistently used in ongoing sexual relationships. Abstinence programs have prompted some teens to delay sexual activity, but only briefly, typically pushing the risk into the future by a year or less. Both sides often fail to emphasize what some Africans in the hardest-hit countries have brought up when discussing how to stop the AIDS epidemic: having fewer sexual partners. Africans know that polygamy is part of their culture; Swaziland's king, for instance, has 14 wives and counting. They also know that modern variants of polygamy, in which both men and women have a spouse and another partner or two, are even more common. The connections between such practices and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases are unavoidable.
Virtually every place in Africa that has seen a major drop in HIV infections also has seen a significant decline in the frequency of multiple sex partners. Uganda in the late 1980s had a famously effective program, called "Zero Grazing," in which cultural and political leaders urged people to not stray from their primary relationships. But there have been other successes, typically led by churches, popular singers and occasionally even politicians. The message is easy to grasp and, to many Africans, more appealing than admonitions about abstinence or condoms. Of course, many already have monogamous relationships, or in some cases none at all, because of the fear of AIDS. But if those with multiple relationships pare down their number of partners, the sexual networks that spread disease will start to break apart, and the pace of new infections will slow. Keeping sexual behavior at the center of the conversation about preventing HIV is essential to reversing the spread of the virus. Only in this way can the vision of an "AIDS-free generation" as championed by UNAIDS will someday become reality.
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Wednesday March 15 2017
Neil Hamilton, UKIP Group Leader in the Assembly, is backing an All Wales campaign to make drivers more aware of the dangers of not wearing seatbelts.
Mr Hamilton, AM for Mid & West Wales is supporting the All Wales Seatbelt Campaign, which was launched this week.
Dyfed Powys Police leads the campaign warning drivers they are risking their lives by not wearing belts, and cracking down on motorists and passengers who refuse to belt up.
Neil Hamilton said:
"Wearing a seatbelt really should be second nature to drivers these days. Failing to wear one can be a fatal decision even on short, familiar journeys and at low speeds.
"Although most road users are fully aware of the potential consequences of not wearing a seatbelt, I am amazed that, even after almost 30 years, there are still people driving around without using them. Whatever reasons people may have for choosing not to use them, it is as a known fact that it can save lives.
"If you are stopped by the police and not wearing a seatbelt you could face an on-the-spot fine of £100 and, if successfully prosecuted in court, the maximum fine is £500.
"During the campaign, which runs until Sunday March 26, police officers throughout Wales will be clamping down on those who continue to flout the law and I would urge drivers to make sure they 'belt up'."
Assistant Chief Constable, Liane James, said:
"Wearing a seatbelt is such a simple, easy thing to do. As police officers, we see the consequences of driving without a seatbelt all too often at crash scenes. While you will face a fine if you are caught without your seatbelt on, the key message we are trying to get across is that wearing a seatbelt really could mean the difference between life and death - and that applies just as much to passengers as it does to drivers and it also endangers other people within the car.
"It's such a simple act to carry out and we will continue to work closely with our partners in tackling these issues."
Motorists and passengers who choose to risk their lives by not wearing a seatbelt could receive a £100 on-the-spot fine or be summonsed to court, where they could face fines of up to £500.
Susan Storch, Chair of Road Safety Wales, added:
"We want to encourage people to recognise the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt and we know that there are still people across Wales who are taking that risk.
"Seatbelts are designed to work as an important part of life saving and injury prevention measures within the vehicle environment. Safety systems, such as airbags and head restraints, will not be as effective in reducing the risk of being hurt or even killed if an occupant is not wearing a seat belt."


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Aspire Academy is proud of all its past and present student-athletes who have achieved international representation and / or success. Their achievements add to the glory of our world-class sports academy.
Below are only a few of the student-athletes who have achieved sporting excellence resulting from Aspire's talent development program.
The student-athletes of the Academy's Football Program have been able to make a name for themselves at various occasions representing Qatar:
The percentage of former Aspire Academy players in Qatar's Senior National Team in the 2013-14 season was 26%. The following players represented their home country in official games:
The percentage of former Aspire Academy players in Qatar's U-23 National Team (Olympic team) was 54 percent. The following players represented their home country in official games:
All 24 players that were in the squad of Qatar's U-19 National Team that succeeded at the AFC U-19 Championship in Myanmar in 2014 and qualified for the U-20 World Cup for the first time in 33 years were current or former student-athletes of Aspire Academy.
Another Aspire Academy scholarship-holder was a member of the FIFA U20 World Cup Team with Ghana in 2009.
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Extreme Leftovers
Sometimes I feel like I'm a little too extreme about leftovers, like last Wednesday when I ate a leftover container of white beans for breakfast. Yeah, for breakfast.
But let's talk about making leftovers manageable and useful. Leftovers are a thrifty and green way to make your life easier! First, there are really two kinds of leftovers. The first kind is the little bit of food remaining after a meal. The other kind of leftovers are the kind you planned to have, by making a double batch of food, for example.
Why are leftovers thrifty? If you are eating remnants, then you are saving money by making the food you have last longer. You can save your other food for later. If you are making double-batches, then you are saving money in heating/cooking costs, in labor, in time, and also in ingredient costs.
Why are leftovers green? You are probably going to be spending less energy re-heating leftovers than you used to cook the meal in the first place. That's saving energy. If you are eating food that might otherwise have been thrown out, you are reducing waste.
In my house, we make a double batch of every dinner. That way we each only have to cook once a week! (There are 3 adults in my house and we each cook double batches of dinner once a week. That leaves one day for eating out or having a "fend for yourself" night.) I really feel like this system has made our lives easier. We also have an easier time at the store because we have to buy fewer unique grocery items (that also makes it cheaper!).
So are you thinking that you'd get sick of eating the same thing two days in a row? Here are two solutions: 1. Stagger your meals and leftovers so that you don't eat the same meal on consecutive days. 2. Make your leftovers a variation on a theme. Can you do burritos instead of taco salad? Can you make your leftover rice, chicken, and vegetables into stir fry? There are many cookbooks designed with this system in mind. You cook X on day 1, and then on day 2 you turn those leftovers into Y. See if you can find one of these cookbooks at your library!
One last suggestion for all those little bits of food remaining at the end of the meal: turn them into a vegetable soup! Keep a resealable container in your freezer, and anytime there are leftover veggies or meat, toss them into the container in the freezer. Even if it's just one bean! When the container gets full, make up some broth, pour in your vegetables, add whatever else you have around in your fridge or cupboards, and you've got a great veggie soup! Although I have thought that this was a great idea for a long time, I have never tried it yet. My goal for this week is to get a veggie soup container started in the freezer. Will you try this with me?
Here are some dinner ideas that make good double-batches:
Anything in the crock pot. Meat + Potatoes + Carrots
Spanish Rice
Pancakes (they freeze really well!)
7-Layer Bean Dip
Stir Fry
Fried Rice
Taco Salad
Baked Potato Bar
Lentil Salad
16 Bean Salad
Tikka Masala
Happy Leftovers!
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Recipe for the Perfect Snowy Evening
A handful of loved ones
A dash of Mario Kart, Scrabble or any other favorite game
A few Christmas movies
Several dozen cream cheese sugar cookies (See recipe below)
2 large Cinnamon and Evergreen scented candles
A sprinkle of Christmas lights
An earful of Christmas music softly playing in the background
Several cups of hot cocoa or warm apple cider
Plenty of warm blankets
(Optional) Warm Fire Place
(Optional) Marshmallows for roasting
Lots of Christmas cheer
Mix ingredients well and serve in generous portions for best results.
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt, almond and vanilla extracts, and egg yolk. Beat until smooth. Stir in flour until well blended. Chill the dough for 8 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough 1/3 at a time to 1/8 inch thickness, refrigerating remaining dough until ready to use. Cut into desired shapes (half circles, half circles with small holes in the top) with lightly floured cookie cutters. Place 1 inch apart on un-greased cookie sheets.
- Bake for 7 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until light and golden brown. Cool cookies completely.
- Spread desired flavor of jam over whole cookies and sprinkle powdered sugar over cookies with the holes in the top. Combine.
- Enjoy.


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I want 2015 to mean something. I want to thrive in 2015 which means "why I do what I do" needs to be at the center of everything that happens.
I have known both of these students for a time. I love both of these kids. One did what they did because of the relationships that they have. They know they are a role model, that people look up to them and they perform because others are counting on them to do so…a noble task.
The other did what they did because they loved it. It was an accomplishment, a pride, that drove them to success and helped them persevere.
Then they asked me…
What makes me do what I do???
The answer was easier when I was in full time (paid) ministry, but tonight it just kind of spilled out. I do what I do because of tonight. Two students sharing their dreams and their lives with me on a drive home from pizza. Hearing about a young woman buying the Percy Jackson books for her "little" brother (through Big Brothers/Big Sisters) is why I do what I do. Getting to hear about a kid working out everyday so that he can ride bulls better; learning how to ranch from his father; building towards what he wants to do…is why I do what I do!
I do what I do because I work with some of the best kids I have ever known and Jesus is working in their hearts which, in turn, works on mine!


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Constantine Phipps
Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave, PC (19 May 1744 – 10 October 1792) was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years War and the American War of Independence, seeing action in a number of battles and engagements. Inheriting a title, he also went on to have a successful career in parliament, and occupied a number of political offices during his later years.
Family and early life
Phipps was born on 19 May 1744, the eldest son of Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave and his wife, Lepell Phipps.[1] Phipps studied at Eton College with Joseph Banks.
Seven Years War
Main article: Great Britain in the Seven Years War
In January 1759 he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his uncle Captain The Hon. A. J. Hervey during Hervey's 21-week watch on the French fleet in 1759. Phipps remained with his uncle on the latter's appointment to the 74-gun HMS Dragon in 1761 and was present at the reduction of Martinique and St Lucia. His good service led to his promotion to lieutenant on 17 March 1762 by Sir George Rodney, and Phipps went on to serve in the battle of Havana.[1]
He was further promoted on 24 November 1763 to command the 12-gun sloop HMS Diligence, moving to the 24-gun sixth rate HMS Terpsichore on 20 June 1765.[1] In 1766 he sailed to Newfoundland as Lieutenant on HMS Niger. Banks accompanied him as ship's naturalist. From 1767 to 1768 Phipps commanded HMS Boreas in the English Channel.[1]
Political career and command
Phipps was elected to Parliament in the 1768 general election as Member for the constituency of Lincoln.[1] On 4 June 1773 Phipps set off from Deptford on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two ships, the Racehorse and the Carcass. Phipps took with him Dr Irving as naturalist and doctor, and Israel Lyons (1739–1775) as astronomer. The Carcass was commanded by Skeffington Lutwidge, while one of her midshipmen was a young Horatio Nelson. They sailed beyond Svalbard to the Seven Islands, but were forced back by the ice and returned to Orfordness on 17 September. During the voyage Phipps was the first European to describe the Polar Bear and the Ivory Gull, which were included in his A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken... 1773 (1774). Notably, the early descriptions of the characteristics of the polar bear in particular can be found in his voyage log book entries, dated 12th May 1773, and now kept in the British Library archives.
On 13 September 1775, he succeeded his father as Baron Mulgrave (Ireland). He became MP for Huntingdon in 1777, and was also appointed as one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Continuing an active naval career, he commissioned the 74-gun HMS Courageux in 1778, and played a leading role in the Battle of Ushant on 27 July that year. Phipps led the attack on the 90-gun Ville de Paris, but the indecisive nature of the engagement meant that the French ship was able to escape. Phipps returned to Britain and gave evidence at the subsequent court-martial, his evidence favouring Hugh Palliser.[1] The Courageux remained under his command until 1781, with Phipps serving mostly in the Channel under Admirals Charles Hardy, Francis Geary, George Darby and Richard Howe. On 4 January 1781 he captured the 32-gun French frigate Minerve in heavy weather off Brest. The Courageux was paid off at the end of the American War of Independence, and Phipps went ashore, never to serve at sea again.[1]
Later life
Phipps remained as MP for Huntingdon until 1784, when he became MP for Newark. In April that year he became Paymaster of the Forces and on 18 May he was appointed a commissioner for the affairs of India, and one of the Lords of 'Trade and Plantations', until being forced to resign in 1791 due to ill health.[1] He was created Baron Mulgrave in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1790, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.[1] He once entertained his miners underground in the Blue John Caverns in Castleton, Derbyshire. The particular cavern where they all dined as his guests is now named after him.
He died at Liège on 10 October 1792.[1] The title of Baron Mulgrave in the British peerage then became extinct, though his brother Henry Phipps succeeded him in the Irish barony.
The standard author abbreviation Phipps is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
1. "Phipps, Constantine John". Dictionary of National Biography. 1896. p. 231.
2. "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
Laughton, J. K. (1896). Leslie Stephen. ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 45. Oxford University Press.
Phipps, Constantine John, second Baron Mulgrave in the peerage of Ireland and Baron Mulgrave in the peerage of Great Britain (1744-1792), naval officer and politician, was born in London on 30 May 1744, the eldest son of Constantine Phipps (bap. 1722, d. 1775) and his wife, Lepell (1723-1780), daughter of John, first Lord Hervey. His father inherited substantial property, including Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, from the duke of Buckingham, and in 1766 was created Baron Mulgrave in the Irish peerage during his brother-in-law Lord Bristol's six-month tenure of the lord lieutenancy of Ireland. Phipps attended Eton College from 1755 to 1758, and in January 1759 went to sea with his uncle Captain the Hon. Augustus Hervey. On 17 March 1762, still with Hervey but by this time in the West Indies, he was promoted lieutenant by George Brydges Rodney. Four months later he was wounded in the bold attack which Hervey led on the Morro Castle at Havana. On 24 November 1763 he was promoted commander of the sloop Diligence, and on 20 June 1765 he became captain of the frigate Terpsichore. Next year he visited Newfoundland and Labrador with his old schoolfriend Joseph Banks the botanist. Already known for his scientific interests, Phipps was in 1773 appointed (by the Admiralty board, which included his uncle Augustus) to command the bomb vessels Racehorse and Carcass on an expedition to test the theory that in the open sea the Arctic Ocean might be largely free of ice, and offer a route to the Pacific. It did not, of course, and Phipps barely extricated his ships from the ice, but the expedition nevertheless marks an important stage in the progress from exploration to research, and most of his published report is taken up with detailed appendices on its scientific work.
As MP for Lincoln from 1768 to 1774 Phipps was prominent in opposition, but he was impressed by the experience of working on the Arctic expedition with Lord Sandwich, the first lord of the Admiralty, and in 1775 a political connection was formed between them through the good offices of their mutual friend Banks. In January 1776 Lord Mulgrave (as Phipps had become on his father's death the previous September) was elected to the Huntingdon seat vacated by the death of Sandwich's son, and in December 1777 he joined the Admiralty board. From then until the fall of the North ministry in April 1782 Mulgrave was the Admiralty's principal speaker in the Commons, and one of Sandwich's closest colleagues. 'How much I long for your return to town', Sandwich wrote in January 1779, 'and how lamely business goes on in your absence; when anything in which this office is concerned comes to be agitated in Parliament, I really know not what we shall do without your assistance' (Mulgrave Castle MSS). As a speaker Mulgrave was solid rather than brilliant, but his obvious mastery of his subject seldom failed to convince even a hostile chamber, and he carried a heavy load of parliamentary business. Yet officers were not expected to abandon their sea careers because they sat in the Commons, or at the Admiralty. In 1776 Mulgrave took command of the line-of-battle ship Ardent, followed in the spring of 1778 by the Courageux, in which he distinguished himself at the battle of Ushant in July, and continued to serve throughout the war under Augustus Keppel, Sir Charles Hardy the younger, Sir Francis Geary, Robert Digby, and finally Lord Howe-successive commanders-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, each of whom (excepting the last) took their orders from the board of which he was an active member.
After the resignation of Sir Hugh Palliser in April 1779 Mulgrave was the leading naval member of the board, and Sandwich's principal adviser in all professional matters. The situation was a remarkable one, of which we are particularly well informed because so much of Mulgrave's Admiralty work had to be done by letter while he was at sea, and both he and Sandwich were methodical in keeping their correspondence. As a strategist he was the main architect of the December 1777 plan to abandon the American War of Independence as a sideshow and strike in the West Indies before the French could intervene, which might have changed the course of the war if the ministry had pursued it wholeheartedly. He was deeply involved in managing the crises of 1779 and 1781 when apparently overwhelming Franco-Spanish fleets entered the channel. In June 1781 he was himself named to command a large-scale raid on Flushing, which had to be cancelled at the last minute. By then he was elaborating the bold and perhaps foolhardy strategy which the North ministry adopted, and would have put into effect in 1782 had it not fallen, of moving the main fleet to the Caribbean and leaving only minimal forces to hold the channel and North Sea.
Although ejected from the Admiralty with Sandwich in March 1782, Mulgrave continued to serve at sea until the end of the war. He remained part of Sandwich's party until December 1783, but they differed over Charles James Fox's India Bill, and William Pitt was able to win him to the new administration. At the general election in April 1784 he was brought in for a government seat at Newark, and given the lucrative office of joint paymaster-general. In May he was appointed to both the Board of Trade and the Board of Control. He continued a minor but active member of the Pitt administration, and in May 1788, when Lord Chatham became first lord of the Admiralty, Mulgrave was considered for the post of controller of the navy. On 7 July 1790 he was made a peer of Great Britain as Baron Mulgrave, but in the following year he was compelled by ill health to resign his offices. Mulgrave had not married until 20 June 1787, his wife being Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769-1788), daughter of the Yorkshire gentleman and former MP Nathaniel Cholmley of Howsham. She died in childbirth the following year, leaving a daughter who was Mulgrave's only heir. He died at Liege on 10 October 1792, when his English barony became extinct, and his Irish title passed to his brother Henry. He was buried at Lythe, Yorkshire, on 29 October.
Mulgrave was not an original thinker; his conventional attitude to the rewards of office and influence caused the reforming Sandwich some embarrassment, and he vainly opposed the introduction of carronades, a new type of gun which played a significant part in the navy's recovery from the worst days of the American war. In his virtues, however, he was typical of Sandwich's naval followers; he was not showy or well known, but a thorough seaman with a deep knowledge of the navy, who built up the finest naval library in England and founded his political position on his professional mastery.
N. A. M. Rodger
Sources DNB + Mulgrave Castle MSS + NMM, Sandwich MSS + N. A. M. Rodger, The insatiable earl: a life of John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich (1993) + I. R. Christie, 'Phipps, Hon. Constantine John', HoP, Commons, 1754-90 + The private papers of John, earl of Sandwich, ed. G. R. Barnes and J. H. Owen, 4 vols., Navy RS, 69, 71, 75, 78 (1932-8) + C. J. Phipps, A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 (1774) + A. Savours, '"A very interesting point in geography": the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the north pole', Arctic, 37 (1984), 402-8 + Augustus Hervey's journal, ed. D. Erskine (1953) + TNA: PRO, ADM 32/114, SB 1332 + TNA: PRO, ADM 32/79, SB 652 + D. M. Stuart, Molly Lepell, Lady Hervey (1936) + J. H. Broomfield, 'Lord Sandwich at the admiralty board: politics and the British navy, 1771-1778', Mariner's Mirror, 51 (1965), 7-25 + GEC, Peerage
Archives BL, Arctic journal, Kings MS 224 + priv. coll., Mulgrave Castle MSS + Scott Polar RI, description of Arctic plants and animals | BL, corresp. with earl of Liverpool, Add. MSS 38213-38223; 38304-38309, 38472 + NMM, letters to Lord Sandwich + TNA: PRO, Admiralty MSS, ADM 32/114, SB1332
Likenesses mezzotint, pubd 1774, BM · J. Reynolds, oils, 1777-9 (Society of Dilettanti), Brooks's Club, London · O. Humphry, oils, c.1779, NMM · J. Downham, watercolour drawing, 1782, NPG · line engraving, pubd 1782, NPG · T. Gainsborough, oils, c.1786, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC · by or after T. Gainsborough, Cincinnati Art Museum · J. Zoffany, group portrait (with five friends), Ickworth House, Port & Garden, Suffolk · attrib. J. Zoffany, NPG
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When I was young, too long ago to mention, I remember when Darwinian evolution (the change of one species "kind" to another over millions of years) was mentioned it was always preceded by the phrase "the theory of".
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Since Darwinian evolutionists believe that evolution can only take place over millions of years...and is unobservable...it is only logical to call it a theory rather than scientific fact.
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10 April 2018 h. 9.00 – 12.00
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In 2015, Med-TSO received a grant from the European Commission (Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, DG NEAR) to implement the "Mediterranean Project". The project promotes the creation of a regional electricity system, through the coordination of national development plans and the harmonization of rules to access the grids.
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The Project aims at the progressive harmonization and strengthening of the electricity markets in the Mediterranean region, following a bottom-up approach and direct involvement of Med-TSO Members.


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