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As wealthy New Yorkers established Washington Park (later renamed Washington Square) as a refined residential neighborhood, Brooklyn resident Henry Ibbotsen joined in. In 1835 he started construction of a brick-faced Greek Revival residence adjoining the magnificent Federal-style mansion of George P. Rogers, built seven years earlier.
Completed in 1836, the house was trimmed in brownstone and featured floor-to-ceiling parlor windows, a grand stoop leading to the entrance, and a rusticated brownstone basement. If Ibbotsen, a wealthy agent for Sheffield cutlery, ever intended to live at No. 20 Washington Square North (later renumbered No. 19), there is no evidence that he did so.
In 1838 Edward R. Biddle had moved in. A commission merchant, his stay in the mansion would be brief, lasting until around 1840. He was followed by crockery merchant Henry Chauncey whose family remained in the house until the mid-1850s.
The house became home to Morris Ketchum, a banker and financier. With his son, Edward, he headed the banking firm of Ketchum, Son and Company, and was a director of the Illinois Central Railroad. He died in the house on New Year's Day 1880 and his funeral was held in the parlor a few days later.
Wealthy lawyer and banker Eugene Kelly, Jr. and his family followed the Ketchum family in No. 19. He updated the house, hiring McKim, Mead & White in 1886 to design a masonry extension at the rear. It was possibly Kelly who gave the mansion the Italianate updates that survive today.
|At some point the house received an updated entrance with foliate brackets, and Italianate stoop newels, railings and fencing. In all probability a cast iron balcony once stretched below the parlor windows.
The Kelly family was accustomed to helping strangers; not always with a happy outcome. In 1893, according to The Evening World, "one Thomas Welsh, was sent to the island for forcing himself upon Mrs. Kelly, even writing her an abusive letter." Later that year, her husband would be ill-used by someone he tried to help.
Kelly befriended a 19-year old named Frank M. Vernon, who then moved on. In December 1893 Kelly received a letter from a Chicago undertaker notifying him that Vernon had died and requesting $108 for the funeral. Kelly responded with a letter asking for details of the death, and included the money.
On December 22 a letter arrived from A. E. Peltzer & Co. It spoke of the deceased in glowing terms, calling him "a remarkably bright young man, well read, etc." It dramatically spoke of his death, "Vernon suffered intense agony, but bore it bravely and spoke of you as his friend and benefactor."
The writer added that Vernon's watch and ring were being shipped to Kelly. The package arrived by American Express, C.O.D. $50. After Kelly paid the money, he found only a pack of playing cards in the box.
|19-ytear old Frank Vernon tried to scam one of NYC's wealthiest citizens -- The Evening World, March 8, 1894 (copyright expired)
Frank M. Vernon's scam would most likely have worked had he not gotten overly-greedy. Kelly reported the incident to police and Vernon was arrested in St. Louis in March 1894. The Evening World commented that the Kelly family "has had unpleasant experiences with swindlers they have befriended."
The family name scandalously appeared in the press later that year when Eugene Kelly Jr. was arrested for a highly unseemly crime--street fighting. Around 2:00 a.m. on October 16, 1894 the banker and Harry Andrews were taken to Jefferson Market Police Court "on counter charges of assault." Police found them at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street in a slug fest. "Neither would press the charge and both were discharged by Justice Voorhis."
On the whole, publicity surrounding the Kelly family was more upstanding. Eugene Kelly, Jr. was a subscriber to the erection of the Washington Arch in 1896; the same year that his wife, Margaret, supported the construction of a sanitarium for the St. Joseph's Home for Consumptives.
Following Kelly's death, the house sat empty for a few years. Then, on April 24, 1901, the New-York Tribune reported "The private dwelling house No. 19 Washington Square North, long occupied by the late Eugene Kelly, the banker, as a home, has been sold to Mrs. Shattuck, wife of Albert R. Shattuck, for about $65,000."
Banker Albert Richardson Shattuck was fabulously wealthy, having made his fortune in New Orleans. He was married to Mary Strong, daughter of the former New York City mayor William L. Strong. Moving into the mansion with the childless couple was Mary's widowed mother, Mary A. B. Strong.
The refined entertainments in the Shattuck house included a series of three French lectures in 1902. The final lecture, held at 11:00 on the morning of March 4, was "An Hour of French Poetry," given by Professor Edouard Lance.
The socially correct Mary A. Born Strong was humiliated and incensed over the actions of her son, Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong that year. Strong resigned the United States Army and embarked on a world-wide tour "in company with Miss Maye Yahe," as reported in the New-York Tribune.
Mary Augusta Yohe, known as Maye Yahe, was not only an actress, she was a divorcee. She had recently divorced Lord Francis Hope (who gave her the Hope Diamond). Now in June 1902 newspapers reported that Strong had disappeared along with $100,000 worth of Maye's jewels.
|The beautiful actress stole Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong's heart; then he stole her jewelry -- The Era Almanack, 1894 (copyright expired)
The Shattucks and Mrs. Strong were in Lenox when the scandalous story broke. They were all drawn into the story when his mother received a suicide note from Putnam Strong, along with the pawn tickets for the jewelry.
Shattuck returned to New York and told a reporter that "he could not explain the affair, and did not know where his brother-in-law had gone." The New-York Tribune reported "It is understood that it was at his direction that the Pinkertons took up the search for Strong, although they yesterday denied all connection with the affair."
Mary A. B. Strong would not forget her son's unforgivable behavior.
In the meantime, Albert Shattuck was highly interested in the new automobiles that were taking the place of horses on the streets of America. He became Chairman of the Good Roads Committee of the Automobile Club of America and often spoke and wrote articles concerning automobile safety.
The pastime nearly put Shattuck in bad standing with his wife in September 1904. "While driving through Springfield [Massachusetts] this morning on an automobile trip from New-York to Boston, A. R. Shattuck, of New-York, lost a small bag containing jewels worth several thousand dollars," reported the New-York Tribune on September 17. The newspaper explained "The bag belonged to Mrs. Shattuck, and contained, among other things, her wedding ring."
Luckily for Shattuck, it was found by two young brothers, sons of George P. Houghton of Springfield, who returned it. "Mr. Shattuck gave the family $300."
A small article appeared in The Sun on December 9, 1917. It reported that "Heir looms and jewelry, said to be worth more than $10,000, was reported to the police yesterday as missing from the home of Albert R. Shattuck, 19 North Washington Square…The robbery is thought to have been committed while the family was at dinner Friday evening."
The Shattucks were convinced they knew who the robber was. Just after serving dinner, their French butler, Henri Boilat, "tucked a bag under his arm and buttoned an overcoat over his livery," said The New York Times later. He told a female servant he was going "just around the corner" and casually walked out of the house. He never returned, nor did the jewelry (the value was raised to $12,000 later) including Albert Shattuck's diamond-studded gold pocket watch.
The theft, amounting to more than $210,000 today, was unsettling; but Albert and Mary Shattuck had no way of knowing it was just the foreshadowing of a horrific ordeal to come.
Albert and Mary had purchased Edith Wharton's Lenox, Massachusetts estate, The Mount, in 1912. It was here, on July 27, 1921 that Mary A. Born Strong died at the age of 79. She left an estate of over $400,000 and her hard feelings over Putnam Strong's earlier indiscretions were reflected in her will. A New York Times headline read "Mother's Will Hits At Captain Strong" and the article explained that Mary Shattuck received about double that of her brother.
In the meantime, Henri Boilat had been living in Paris and had become an "Apache"—the French term for a gangster. Five years later and half a world away, he still remembered the Shattuck mansion and the loot he had so easily made off with. On April 2, 1922 he was back.
Boilat, whose real name was Gabriel Alfone Mauray, pulled together a group of five thugs in Paris for the sole purpose of robbing the Washington Square house. Around daybreak on April 2 they entered the front basement door with a passkey. Mauray knew that the servants would all be in one spot—the servant's dining room—at noon for lunch. He and his men hid in the basement for hours waiting for the right time.
At noon they broke into two groups. The first group focused on the servants and the second on the Shattucks. The New York Times recounted the terror initially faced by the servants.
"Just as the five were seated, a door flew open and two men, their faces concealed by black handkerchiefs with eyeholes, entered with pistols and gave orders both in French and English for the servants to throw up their hands and line up against the wall."
Mary Shattuck was upstairs in her living room and Albert was in the library. "Mrs. Shattuck saw two masked men tiptoeing in with pistols She shrieked before they could utter a threat.
"Mr. Shattuck, who is 69 years old, rushed in from the library. The two pistols were turned on him"
With one gun just inches from Albert Shattuck's temple, one of the thieves warned "We'll kill you both if you call for help."
The Shattucks were taken to the wine cellar where they were bound with ropes. Before long the five servants were with them, bound, gagged, and locked in the cellar. While the robbers ransacked the upstairs, one of the maids was able to wriggle her hands free. The Shattuck's doorman, Victor Tirosi, later told police "The vault was small, dark and air-tight, so that they were gasping for breath because of the exhaustion of air."
The maid untied another servant and eventually all the prisoners were loose. The butler, Charles Zaung, was able to work the combination from the inside and open the vault. Both the butler and doorman ran from the back of the house to get help.
Police swarmed the house and four of the robbers ran down the front stoop and disappeared. Large, heavy bags filled with silver and other bulky items were abandoned on the floor inside. The uproar drew scores of people from Washington Square to see what was happening. All the time the fifth bandit was still in the house.
Policeman Morris Greenburg was about three blocks away when the last burglar headed out of the house. The crook waved a handgun at the crowd outside and they quickly made way. As he ran, he realized that Greenberg was behind him, so he shed an overcoat weighed down by $5,000 worth of jewelry.
The robber dived into a dark cellar with Greenberg directly behind. Eugenio Diaset, a 27-year old French sailor, was arrested and he confessed his part in the robbery. The Times said that the jewelry recovered was estimated to be about one-fifth of the entire haul—later estimated to be about $80,000.
A physician was called to the Shattuck home to check on Mary Shattuck, whose nerves were understandably shattered. Albert, now twice the victim of his former butler, was determined that Mauray and his confederates be caught. His mission turned into an obsession and he and Mary sailed to Paris soon after the robbery—she in an attempt to distance herself from the Washington Square house and he in an effort to find the robber.
Shattuck returned to New York briefly, then returned in July to continue to spur the French police in the search for the criminal. He offered a reward of $15,000 to any detective bringing about the arrest of Mauray, alias Boilat. Mary had remained in France, "for the reason, it is said, that she still was too unnerved when her husband returned to this country to go back to their Washington Square home," explained The New York Times on July 22, 1922.
"Mrs. Shattuck has said that she never will able able to rest at ease in the Washington Square mansion so long as Boilat is at large," a family friend told a reporter. "She is afraid that she always will suffer from the fear of the former butler coming back and forcing her and her husband through the same ordeal that came near causing four deaths in the last robbery."
The Washington Square house remained closed until, one by one, the thieves were caught and sentenced. Each received sixty years in prison, except Mauray, the ringleader, who was sentenced to death. His term was later commuted to life imprisonment.
It all took a dreadful toll on the Shattucks. In 1925, a year after Mauray was tried, Albert sailed from London back to New York. Mary was in Paris. He arrived in June and went to The Mount rather than the Washington Square house. A few weeks later he suffered a severe heart attack. A telegram was sent to Mary who arrived the first week of August. She stayed at his bedside almost constantly until the afternoon of November 5, 1925 when he died. The New York Times said "Most of Mr. Shattuck's friends believe that the shock of the robbery at his New York home on April 2, 1922, undermined his health and hastened his death." It added "At the time of the robbery Mr. Shattuck was 70 years old and it is understood that the shock of the robbery and the subsequent strain made inroads on his health."
As a side note, the newspaper mentioned "The Shattuck home in Washington Square was often referred to as one of the most artistic in the city."
Mary Shattuck retained possession of the mansion, somewhat surprisingly, until August 1931. After exactly three decades in the house, she sold it to the Theatre Operating Company. In reporting the sale, The New York Times said "The four-story, vine-clad dwelling stands as a symbol of the past in a district which has been invaded by tall apartment houses." Mary sold the house for $125,000—a significant amount during the Great Depression; equivalent to about $2 million today.
Newspapers reported that "The new owners plan to hold the property for the time being, but in some circles it was considered likely that the land eventually would be the site of a tall residential structure." Instead, with the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the elegant Shattuck mansion became a nightclub—The Washington Square Club, run by Barney Gallant.
Neighbors were not pleased. "For some time past the peace and quiet of the residents of Washington Square North has been disturbed by the operation of the premises at 19 Washington Square North," reported The Times on December 28, 1933, "which if continued will cause serious damage to owners of realty property around Washington Square North by greatly depreciating the rental value thereof."
In January 1934 the Rhinelander Real Estate Company purchased the house. It applied for a restaurant and liquor license, but was refused by the State Alcoholic Board. The company was undaunted. A week later, on February 6, The Times reported "The former Shattuck home at 19 Washington Square North…will be conducted, it was ascertained yesterday, as a private club for one year by Barney Gallant.
By establishing the Washington Square Club as a private club, the owners could circumvent the public restaurant requirements. The name was changed to the Washington Square Restaurant.
The magnificent mansion finally met the fate of many of New York's surviving grand homes. On October 19, 1944 it was announced that "The old Shattuck family home at 19 Washington Square North, the scene more than two decades ago of one of the most sensational robberies in the city's police history, will be converted into an apartment house." The interiors were sensitively divided to create high-end apartments, and the Washington Square Gallery moved into the basement level.
In the 21st century the house was purchased by New York University and converted to the NYU Abu Dhabi Offices. Here lectures, research workshops, exhibitions and other programs are staged as part of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute.
The handsome mansion is carefully maintained. Few passersby or students visiting the building can imagine that one of the most sensational crimes in Manhattan history played out within its walls.
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Well we are now heading into week 8 of the Real Salt Lake season, 7 matches in the books which is 20% of the season, so it is time to take a look at the numbers to find out how RSL stacks up against both their own past as well as against the rest of the league.
So let's start with how RSL matches up with the rest of the league at this point:
- 15 points is second best in MLS to Sporting KC's 21 points
- 11 goals scored is 3rd best in MLS to NYRB's 16 & SKC's 12
- +6 goal differential is tied for second best in MLS with NYRB & San Jose, SKC is first with a +10
- RSL is at the top of the Western Conference, but this weekends match with San Jose could change that
- RSL is currently 3rd in the Sagarin Power Rankings behind Sporting KC and the Houston Dynamo
So for me one of the always interesting ways to look at RSL and how they are doing is to compare them against themselves, I usually do that in 3 ways (Points, Goals For, Goals Against), do lets take a visual look at those categories:
So we are currently at 15 points, one behind last years tally after 7 matches, but we are 5 points ahead of our MLS Cup year of 2009. To me that isn't a bad thing at all, a solid start to the season.
How about the offense? Well let's look at goals scored:
Well as you see we are ahead of our 2011 pace which had us at 9 goals after 7 matches, but we are behind our 2009 total of 14 (highest total after 7 matches) but at 11 goals scored in 7 matches that is an average of 1.57 goals per match, which is ahead of our 1.29 average from last year and ahead of our best ever season average of 1.5 from the 2010 season.
This of course brings us to defense, which means goals allowed:
Remember this one is about being as low as possible, and the only time RSL's defense has gotten off to a better start that this year was last year when we didn't allow our 5th goal until week 11 of the season. It is interesting to note that in our historic defensive year of 2010 when we only allowed 20 goals to be scored against us all season, that we had allowed 8 goals to be scored in our first 7 matches. Can we get a streak of 6 straight shutouts like we had in 2010?
All of this tells me that RSL is off to a very solid start to the season, and while it might be overshadowed by the incredible start that Sporting KC has put together, reality is that at 15 points after 7 matches we are on a pace to hit 73 points this year, oh my what a year that would be.

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Thank you, Ron Gorchov; from snow on the body of the painting can be rendered simultaneouslybeautiful, grotesque and poetic.
- Ugo Rondinone
Vito Schnabel is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition at his new space in the West Village, Ron Gorchov: Monsieur X. This marks the ten year anniversary of Schnabel's first exhibition, Incubator (NY, 2003). Monsieur X. will feature three black paintings from the past four decades: Spice of Life (1976), Samba (2005), and Monsieur X. (2013).
Ron Gorchov (b. 1930, Chicago) is an American artist who has been working with curved surface paintings since 1967. He created his first shaped canvas work in Mark Rothko's studio. Gorchov was part of a group of artists working in Manhattan in the 1960s and 70s, such as Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle, Blinky Palermo and Ellsworth Kelly, who helped to spearhead the shaped canvas movement. Gorchov is one of the last of that generation still working today. His paintings are included in many prominent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.
Schnabel has worked with Gorchov since 2005, when he presented an overview of the artist's work from the 1970s through the early 2000s. It was the first comprehensive exhibition of Ron's work and led to a solo exhibition the following year at MoMA PS1.


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Canadians continue to endure endless attempts by unscrupulous professional scam artists who try to defraud us of our hard earned money and identities. These scams are purely for a financial gain. This occurs all over the world.
If you receive any e-mails or messages advising you owe the government money or that they owe you money (i.e. Tax Refund) do not click any link. This is a Phishing Scam. The trick is to get you excited or worried.
To properly check the status of your tax return, create an account on the Canada Revenue Agency website at:
Once you are registered you will be sent a secret code either by mail or e-mail. Once you are completely set up and logged in, you will be able to view any of the details of your account with the CRA. No need to click links which will likely bring you somewhere you don't want to be but won't know until it's too late.
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Showing Perfect Time (Unobtrusively)
Via Simon Willison's Blogmarks, I came across an interesting idea regarding the display of timestamps on web pages, and how the nasty annoyance of time-zones can be dealt with in a fairly elegant manner. In a nutshell, "Showing Perfect Time" describes a method of displaying timestamps to visitors in the visitor's own time zone, using JavaScript to convert a seconds-since-the-GMT-epoch stamp into something pretty and localized.
I love the idea, but the implementation doesn't work for me. Importantly, it
relies on
 to display times for users without JavaScript turned on
document.write to dump out times for those who do. I'm not a fan of this
method, so I stood on the author's shoulders (who, by the way, was
standing on shoulders already), and wrote my own version.
PerfectTime.js is a self-contained JavaScript class that runs
onload, and
unobtrusively replaces the contents of a specially constructed
span with a
properly formatted timestamp. The code on the webpage might look something like
3/21/2005 1:03 CST
which I find to be more semantically meaningful, and accessible. This article details the process, but if you'd like to skip ahead and play with the code yourself, the PerfectTime JavaScript class is available for download.
Writing this class begins in much the same way as the other classes I've written about on this site. We ought to map out what, exactly, we're trying to achieve in order to give ourselves a clear goal to code towards.
Jan 1, 1970 00:01 GMT
span surrounds the time in some baseline acceptable format (e.g. whatever
you're currently writing out), and has a custom attribute
gmt_time that
contains the seconds-since-epoch integer associated with that timestamp.
Without JavaScript, nothing more happens, and your users see the timestamp
further, and dynamically replace the contents of this
span with a timestamp
keyed off the user's local timezone.
The steps, therefore, are straightforward:
- Find all the
spanson the page of class
- Extract the GMT stamp from each
- Translate each GMT stamp to a local timestamp.
- Replace the content of each
spanwith the new timestamp.
So, let's start coding.
We pick a name ("PerfectTime" sounds catchy) to distinguish this class from
others we might use in the future, and create the package as per usual
this to avoid scoping issues, as per usual.
function PerfectTime() {
var self = this;
self.instantiate = function () {
var spans = document.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (i=0, numSpans=spans.length; i < numSpans; i++) {
if (spans[i].className.match(/PerfectTime/)) {
handleEvent(window, 'load', self.instantiate);
We're looking for all the
spans on the page with a
className of
"PerfectTime", and calling a method called (astoundingly enough)
on each one. That's where we'll make the magic happen. As it turns out, that
magic is quite straightforward:
self.processSpan = function (theSpan) {
var GMT = parseInt(theSpan.getAttribute('gmt_time')) * 1000;
var newDate = new Date(GMT);
theSpan.innerHTML = self.strftime(newDate);
So, what's going on in these three lines?
The first line grabs the
gmt_time attribute off the
span, and turns it into
an integer using
parseInt (because the
getAttribute method always returns
a string). We also have to multiply this number by 1000 to account for the fact
that JavaScript's
Date object expects microseconds as opposed to seconds.
The second line creates our
Date object, and populates it with our GMT stamp.
The third line calls a method called
strftime to translate the GMT timestamp
into a localized timestamp, and sticks that information into our
innerHTML. We've taken care, therefore, of steps #1, #2, and #4.
strftime() handles the heavy lifting in #3.
strftime() is based upon whytheluckystiff's reworking of
Johan Sundström's's clever
formatTime method. I've simply moved the
code around so that it fits into our self-contained environment. The function
takes a
Date object as it's only argument, and returns the properly formatted
time string just as it would have been returned from any other
implementation (say, PHP's
strftime, which happens to have nicely
available documentation). The formatting string is set when the class is
instantiated with the following code:
self.defaultFormat = '%d %b %Y at %H:%M';
self.format = (arguments[0])?arguments[0]:self.defaultFormat;
We use the
arguments array of the constructor to determine if a formatting
string was passed in. If one exists, we use it. If not, we use the default
format string.
And that's it. Simple, eh?
I've set up an example proof-of-concept PHP script that writes out various Unix timestamps (in fact, the timestamps of each and every blog post on mikewest.org) that will hopefully make the process clear.
The demo is PerfectTimeDemo.php. The PHP source code for the example is PerfectTimeDemo.phps. The JavaScript class is PerfectTime.js.— Mike West


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A member of the AAP said Vishwas, had stopped campaigning in the state because of 'lack of support' from the leadership.
New Delhi: After being denied a seat in Parliament, senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas finds that he is being increasingly isolated in the party, with its top brass turning a deaf ear to his plans for an electoral campaign in Rajasthan.
A member of the Aam Aadmi Party said Vishwas, party in-charge for Rajasthan, had stopped campaigning in the state because of "lack of support" from the leadership.
There had been no response from the party leadership to Vishwas's demand that a bank account be opened to deposit donation money for the polls and for MLAs to campaign in the state, he said.
"Why will people trust Kumar bhai if the central leadership doesn't support him," the member asked.
The incidents reflect the growing isolation of the leader, who is a part of the all-powerful Political Affairs Committee of the party and an AAP spokesperson, but largely out of the decision-making process.
AAP had put him in charge in 2017 of the state which goes to the polls later in 2018.
The camp led by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal no longer trusts Vishwas, said a leader close to the AAP chief, alleging that the rebel leader had sought to engineer a "coup" in the outfit.
"He has indulged in acts which can only be dubbed anti-party. He had got far more leeway because of being a senior founder member. But it may not be the case any more," the leader added.
The poet-politician had a close bond of friendship once with Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
If Kejriwal took on Modi from Varanasi, Vishwas contested against Congress president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi. Such was the weight of Vishwas in the party that he even tried to broker peace with founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan after they questioned the AAP chief's style of working.
But that relations between Kejriwal and Vishwas were no longer warm became apparent in 2017 when Vishwas was kept away from campaigning in Punjab.
There were indirect attacks on each other. But what riled the top brass was the scathing criticism by Vishwas of the AAP leadership over the party's poor performance in Punjab.
The cold war intensified after Vishwas, in a video, attacked the AAP government in Delhi over corruption ahead of the MCD polls in 2017. The party was trounced in the elections, which made matters worse.
Vishwas had almost quit the party after Okhla MLA Amanatullah Khan called him a BJP-RSS agent but was persuaded to stay back after Khan was suspended from the party.
However, the theory that Vishwas had attempted a "coup" for a leadership change widened the crevices of mistrust to such an extent that a patch-up seemed next to impossible, said the AAP leader close to Kejriwal.
The party also did not consider Vishwas, known for his oratorical skills, for a Rajya Sabha seat.
But AAP watchers are keeping an eye on Vishwas to see what his next move would be.
Sources close to Vishwas said he would not quit the party but wait for the leadership to take action against him.
At a function to mark AAP's fifth anniversary late in 2017, Vishwas had taken a jibe at his detractors and likened himself to Abhimanyu, the warrior son of Arjun in the Mahabharat, saying that he would be victorious even in death.
Sources close to Kejriwal have ruled out any action in the near future that will make Vishwas a "martyr". It also wants to avoid any 'bloodshed' before state polls and the Lok Sabha elections.
Both sides are waiting to see who will blink first.


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Daily Monitor
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|Daily newspaper
|Nation Media Group
|Monitor Publications Limited
|Staff writers
|~300 (2016)[1]
|29-35 Namuwongo Road
(8th Street) Industrial Area
Kampala, Uganda
|Sister newspapers
|Saturday Monitor,
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The Daily Monitor is a Ugandan independent daily newspaper. Its name is shared by the Saturday Monitor and Sunday Monitor, which are also published by Monitor Publications Limited.[3] Daily Monitor averaged a daily circulation of 24,230 newspapers in September 2011.[4] By the fourth quarter of 2019, that figure had dropped to 16,169 copies daily.[5]
The headquarters of the Daily Monitor and the Daily Monitor Publications, as well as the printing press of the newspaper, are located at 29-35 8th Street (Namuwongo Road) in the Industrial Area of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[6][7]
The newspaper was established in 1992[2] as The Monitor, and relaunched as the Daily Monitor in June 2005. The paper asserts that its private ownership guarantees the independence of its editors and journalists.[8]
The newspaper headquarters are housed in the same building that houses the other investments owned by Monitor Publications Limited, including Daily Monitor newspaper, Monitor Business Directory, Ennyanda sports newspaper (in Luganda), 90.4 Dembe FM radio station (in Luganda and English),[6] 93.3 KFM radio station, Daily Monitor e-paper, The Monitor E-paper app, and Daily Monitor social media channels.[8]
Monitor Publications Limited and all its subsidiaries listed above are owned by Nation Media Group,[1] a media conglomerate, based in Nairobi, Kenya and whose shares are listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and are crosslisted on the Uganda Securities Exchange, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, and the Rwanda Stock Exchange.[9]
2013 police raid[edit]
The premises of the Daily Monitor were raided by Uganda police on 20 May 2013. This happened soon after the paper had published a letter allegedly written by army General David Sejusa, threatening that those opposing Muhoozi Kainerugaba for the presidency risked their lives. Kainerugaba is the son of the long-standing president Yoweri Museveni. The same letter was also published by another Ugandan newspaper, Red Pepper, whose offices were also raided.[10]
The police siege ended on 30 May 2013, and the newspaper and its radio stations 90.4 Dembe FM and 93.3 KFM Uganda, which had been switched off during the siege, were reopened.[11]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Moses Kaketo (30 June 2016). "NMG Closes 3 Radio Stations And One Television Station in Kenya and Rwanda, To Merge Operations in Uganda". Kampala: News.ug. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
- ^ a b Bloomberg (17 March 2000). "The Monitor Publications Limited: Company Overview". New York City: Bloomberg Research. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Monitor Publications Limited". Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
- ^ Karatsi, Roselynn (21 September 2011). "New Vision is highest read paper - ABC". New Vision. Kampala. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Uganda Business News (2020-02-14). "Circulation falls for Uganda newspapers in fourth quarter of 2019". Uganda Business News. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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- ^ a b Monitor Reporter (15 August 2012). "Monitor takes over Dembe FM". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Google (31 October 2016). "Location of the Head Office of the Daily Monitor" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ a b Daily Monitor (31 October 2016). "About Us: About Daily Monitor & Monitor Publications Limited". Kampala: Daily Monitor Online. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Juma, Victor (21 February 2011). "NMG set to list on Dar stock exchange". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ BBC Reporter (20 May 2013). "Uganda's Daily Monitor raided over Museveni 'plot'". London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ BBC (30 May 2013). "Uganda's Daily Monitor reopens after police closure". London: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Retrieved 31 October 2016.


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