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(Yicai Global) March 15 -- As the government has failed to finalize this year's new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidy policy, China's NEV production and sales have both declined substantially since this year's start.
China's NEV production and sales both registered 25,000 in the first two months, down 33.5 and 30.5 annual percentage points, respectively, the latest data China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued yesterday shows.
February production and sales were both 18,000, a respective increase of 15.5 percent and 30.3 percent, respectively.
China's economic data at the beginning of a year is largely affected by the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) period, before or after which many economic activities slow down, and even tend to pause. This year's Spring Festival began in January, while last year's started in February, so the comparison of January-February economic data can better reflect annual changes in indicators.
MIIT also said that the overall production and sales performance of the automobile industry is good. From January to February, the industry's production and sales were 4.529 million and 4.459 million, respectively, an increase of 11.1 percent and 8.8 percent from the same period last year, and 7.3 and 4.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
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Ordeal by Planning
Ordeal by Planning
I have written this book reluctantly. I know that it will offend some of my friends and I fear it may hurt some of those with whom I worked in friendly co-operation during the war. But I had no option. For I believe that the recent melancholy decline of Great Britain is largely of our own making. The fall in our standard of living to a level which excites the pity and evokes the charity of many other richer countries, the progressive restrictions on individual liberties, the ever-widening destruction of respect for law, the steady sapping of our instinct for tolerance and compromise, the sharpening of class distinctions, our growing incapacity to play a rightful part in world affairs -- these sad changes are not due to something that happened in the remote past. They are due to something which has happened in the past two years. At the root of our troubles lies the fallacy that the best way of ordering economic affairs is to place the responsibility for all crucial decisions in the hands of the State. It is a simple error, it is certainly an understandable error. But it is one which, driven to its logical conclusion, as it is now being driven by those who have been constitutionally put into power, can bring upon us untold miseries and humiliations of which the past two years have given us a foretaste. Holding these views, and knowing that basically the men and women of this country are of such a quality that they merit, and can indeed in the right environment command, a better fate than now seems to be in store for them, it would have been disloyal of me not to attempt to say my part.
There will be those who will dismiss this book as essentially negative and destructive. And so it is, if clearing a field of weeds before planting the new crop is negative and . . .

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The United Nations, Peacekeeping and Global Governance
The United Nations, Peacekeeping and Global Governance
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With the recent developments in Syria the United Nations is once again making headlines. The failure to reach an agreement on a Security Council resolution demonstrates the continued problems in forging a coherent international response to crisis situations. This lack of coherence continues despite recognition of the need for more cooperation to solve the growing list of global problems. With the relative success of global governance initiatives in relation to the environment, health issues, and economic problems, the focus has increasingly shifted to the problems of international security. This timely and important book represents a response to that shift and the implications this has for the wider international system. Using a number of relevant case studies (including the UN interventions in Bosnia, Somalia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and East Timor) it examines the securitisation of global governance through the prism of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and demonstrates that the development of both global governance and global security governance have transformed the environment in which international organisations, such as the United Nations, are operating. Moreover this book brings together a number of the key academic debates surrounding both global security governance and peacekeeping. It combines an examination of the power relations of global security governance, with the changing nature of peacekeeping operations. By bringing the two areas together the book for the first time bridges existing literatures and debates, from theoretical discussions of global governance, to practical examinations of peacekeeping operations. UN-Tied Nations provides a concise and analytical introduction to the ongoing debates around the development of global governance, global security governance, and the continuous impact these are having on the ability of the United Nations to act as an international peacekeeper.


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Due to a recent outbreak of bird flu in Europe and parts of the UK, the Government has ordered poultry farmers to temporarily house birds in barns. As such, the poultry used to produce our free range eggs are currently housed in barns for their own welfare.
We remain very much committed to using free range eggs and supporting the farmers that supply them. We will be liaising closely with farmers to help navigate this period, in doing so strengthening our relationship and helping to achieve our free range commitment as soon as the temporary housing order has been lifted.


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All accepted and registered full and short, papers that are presented at TALE 2019 will be published in the conference proceedings (USB with ISBN) and submitted to the IEEE Xplore® digital library.
Content loaded into Xplore is made available by IEEE to its abstracting and indexing partners, including Elsevier (Scopus, Ei Compendex), Clarivate Analytics (CPCI—part of Web of Science) and others, for potential inclusion in their respective databases.
In addition, the TALE 2019 Organising Committee has negotiated with a number of prominent journals to expand the opportunities potentially available to authors. As a result, authors of selected papers in the Academic Stream will be invited to submit revised and expanded versions of their papers for possible publication in special issues of journals, which may include those listed below.
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Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is the official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education. It covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education. The journal provides perspectives at all levels, from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of 5-year-olds to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators, to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning. This breadth of coverage allows EAIT to examine fundamental issues at all levels, discuss specific instances and cases, draw inference and probe theory. This journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals.
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Looking great after a night of drinking too much takes some effort. Use these tips to help get you back to your beautiful self.
7. Try Some Sprite
Sprite increases the activity of ALDH. This enzyme helps alleviate the symptoms of a hangover (headache, nausea, sensitivity to light) by turning acetaldehyde into acetate. The acetaldehyde is the culprit behind all of your symptoms. (Soda water and ginger-flavored kombucha work well too!) After you're feeling better, drink some coffee or tea. These increase the rate that the alcohol is broken down.
6. What Should I Eat?
The chances are that you'll be craving carbs but opt for foods rich in vitamins and minerals. Avoid acidic and greasy foods.
5. What's That Smell? It's Probably You
Unfortunately, alcohol seeps out of your pores and breath. Prepare the next morning as if you're going out on a date. Scrub, brush and gargle well. Then, apply an extra layer of deodorant and spritz a little extra cologne or perfume. Don't overdo the scents. Instead, bring the bottle with you and use a bit to freshen up during the day.
4. Wardrobe Matters
- Your mentality is part of the battle. Now is not the time to dress in sweats and a t-shirt. Dress in clean, non-wrinkled clothing.
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Charisma Arts: Conversation Camp Review – Learn How To Charm Any Woman With Simple Words
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In this Charisma Arts - Conversation Camp Review you'll learn how you can change how a woman feels about you, all through conversation.
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Is it possible to walk into a coffee shop in the middle of the day and walk out with a hot coffee… and a hot girls phone number? Absolutely. In fact any guy can do it within a matter of minutes, all through the power of conversation. Knowing the right thing to say at the right time, is crucial for attracting women, this is what Wayne and his instructors will teach you.
Just think the amount of opportunities you've wasted walking by women in the street, sitting down next to you in a coffee shop, standing next to you in line… it's ridiculous. This course will teach you how to start talking to those women and then build attraction through conversation so you can meet up with her again, if you want to.
Intrigued? Click here to learn more about Charisma Arts: Conversation Camp.
Here's just some of what you get
- Start a conversation with any woman about any topic, it doesn't need to be complex or amazing… just a simple topic that helps break the ice and allows you to transition into other areas of conversation.
- How to talk to and charm groups of women, this works extremely well if you are in a bar or night club. There are right ways to talk to them and wrong ways, you're going to learn the BEST ways, which are proven to get the best results.
- How to make people laugh and be the centre of attention when you're out in with groups of people. You're going to naturally start attracting women like never before, it's amazing when it happens.
How do you know if Charisma Arts: Conversation Camp is right for you?
- If you never know what to say to women. You'll learn how to come out of your shell and be able to start a conversation with anyone. Whether it's in a supermarket or cinema, it doesn't matter.
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Workflow Unenrollment Not Working Properly
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If a user enters multiple workflows at the same time, HubSpot's unenrollment feature cannot discern the unenrollment criteria properly.
If a user enters multiple workflows, HubSpot will execution unenrollment rules based on miliseconds between enrollment events, which is a poor user experience and results in contacts receiving simultaneous workflow emails at the same time.
Here's an example:
To prevent confusion I'm going to refer to these workflows as A,B, and C.
At the time of a user's enrollment, the following settings were in place:
- Workflow B removes the contact from Workflow A.
- Workflow C removes the contact from Workflow A.
The next question I asked myself was, what was the order in which the user was enrolled in these three workflows? *time in milliseconds
- Enrolled in Workflow B first (1510255740790*)
- Enrolled in Workflow A second (1510255741489*)
- Enrolled in Workflow C third (1510255741497*)
If you look at the timestamps of both enrollment events, you can see that the two enrollments happened within milliseconds of each other. The order of execution for workflow enrollment is (roughly) as follows:
- The enrollment request is received
- The server logs an enrollment log event
- The first step of the workflow is scheduled, and the enrollment status is updated to ENROLLED
- The server checks the database for any other enrollments with status ENROLLED that should be unenrolled based on the workflow's unenrollment list
I believe what happened here was that the server received the request to enroll in A slightly before the request to enroll in C (step 1), which explains why the log event for A is timestamped before C (step 2). However, the two events were actually so close to each other that Workflow C's first step got scheduled before Workflow A's (step 3), so when the server checked to see if the contact was enrolled in Workflow A (step 4) it had not yet updated A's enrollment status, and therefore did not unenroll the contact from A (since it didn't know that the contact was in fact enrolled in A).
Unfortunately, there's not much we can do about making the behavior more consistent - when a contact is enrolled in multiple workflow simultaneously it is impossible to predict which one will get its first step scheduled first.


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Dragila Eyes Record at Millrose
AP Sports Writer
Not too many athletes would think about breaking a world record right after an injury layoff. Stacy Dragila has exactly that in mind for the Millrose Games.
Dragila doesn't pole vault higher than any woman ever has each and every time she competes _ it just seems that way.
The reigning Olympic and world champion broke the world record eight times in 2001, four times outdoors and four times indoors, including at the Millrose Games.
When she returns to Madison Square Garden on Friday for that track and field meet's 95th edition, Dragila will once again take aim at her own indoor mark, currently 15 feet, 5 inches.
And she doesn't plan on letting her recent month off because of a hurt left foot get in the way.
"I definitely would like to get after the world record," Dragila said. "Because of where I left off last year, I don't think it's going to be hard for me to come back and be in shape fairly quickly. Sometimes I even surprise myself and surprise a lot of people. I'm not going to put any barriers on myself."
She headlines Friday's field, which also includes two-time Olympic 100-meter dash champion Gail Devers (competing in the 60 here), 1996 Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion Allen Johnson in the 60 hurdles, Olympic bronze medalist Melissa Morrison in the 60 hurdles, and Olympic 1,500 bronze medalist Bernard Lagat in the Wanamaker Mile.
Lagat, who won the mile last year in 3 minutes, 58.26 seconds, says he'll try to break the meet record at the distance _ Eamonn Coghlan's 3:53.0 from 1981.
The women's mile includes Regina Jacobs, who broke the 16-year-old world best in the 2-mile on Sunday in the Boston Indoor Games by finishing in 9:23.38.
The men's 60-meter lineup at the Millrose Games is impressive, even without Maurice Greene, the world's top sprinter: Tim Harden (world indoor champion at 60), Terrence Trammell (world indoor champion at 60 hurdles), Tim Montgomery (world silver medalist at 100 outdoors and 60 indoors; anchor of world champion U.S. 400 relay team), J.J. Johnson (fastest 200 time in world in 2001), and Shawn Crawford (world indoor champion at 200).
The good news for the 30-year-old Dragila _ if there can be good news about an injury _ is that the foot she hurt (doctors "didn't really say it was a stress fracture, but they said there was some stress there," she says) was not the one she pushes off with on her vault takeoff.
While she was forced out of her standard training regimen, Dragila put in time working on technique.
She returned to regular workouts about 21/2 weeks ago, and last week she competed in a local meet in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho, vaulting 15 feet.
That's only 1 inch lower than she cleared to win the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, and an indication that 2002 could see the same flow of record-breaking that Dragila produced last year, when she won her second straight Jesse Owens Award for the nation's outstanding track and field athlete.
And don't think that she's going to ease up at all just because there are no Olympics or World Championships this year.
"A lot of people think, 'Gosh, Stacy, you're 30 years old, you're getting maybe to the peak of your athletic ability.' I try not to go into any year thinking, 'OK, we can kind of relax through this season,'" Dragila said.
"Every year I've built on something and made something positive out of it. It would be silly for me to sit back this season and not work on the things that I feel I can work on to get to that next height. I'm not taking a break."


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FIX: Hard Disk Disappeared After Update
Why is my hard drive not showing up in Windows 10?
- Run MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Run the Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter
- Initialize your disk
- Connect your hard drive to a different USB port
- Update your drivers
Well, we are in a bit of a pickle: if you update your operating system to the latest Windows 10 version, you might lose the connection to one or more partitions in your system. But you don't need to worry because we can fix this issue in the shortest time possible and bring back your Hard Disk if it disappeared after the update to the latest OS version.
Even if you update to the latest build in Windows 10 version, there are still some bugs that needs fixing and one of them being the Hard Disk disappearing issue. But with the help of an application you will manage to find your Hard Disk partitions again and continue working in Windows 10 as usual.
Hard Disk disappeared from my computer
1. Run MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Left click or tap on the link posted below in order to download the application necessary for this tutorial.
- Left click or tap here to go to MiniTool Partition Wizard official webpage
- From the pop up that shows, select the "Save File" feature.
- Now after the download has finished, go to the directory where it was downloaded .
- Double click on the executable file in order to start the installation process.
- Left click or tap on the "Yes" button if you are prompt by a user account control message telling you to allow access.
- Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the installation.
- Now double click or tap on the executable file of the "MiniTool Partition Wizard Free" application.
- Once you open the application, your partitions should appear on the screen.
- Now change the letter assigned to them using this application.
- Save the changes and close the application.
- Reboot your Windows 10 operating system.
- After the system starts you can check if you have your hard disk visible again and ready to use.
2. Run the Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter
If you don't want to download a third-party tool on your computer, you can also try to run the built-in hardware troubleshooter. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Troubleshooter > locate and run the troubleshooter.
3. Initialize your disk
- Go to Start > type 'disk management' > double click on the first result to open Disk Management (Create and format disk partitions)
- A list of all your hard drives and partitions should appear on the screen. If you find a disk listed as Disk 1 or Disk 5 (or other similar names), you'll need to localize it.
- Right-click on that partition > select Initialize Disk
- Select the GUID Partition Table (GPT) option > hit OK.
- The partition should now be listed as Basic and Online but won't have any unallocated space. To fix this minor issue, right-click on the the box > click on New simple volume…
- Click Next, and assign a drive letter and then format your new drive. Choose the NTFS file system, and run a quick format.
4. Connect your hard drive to a different USB port
External hard drives may disappear because of faulty USB ports. You can quickly fix this issue by connecting your hard drive to different port.
5. Update your drivers
Another common reason why your hard drive disappeared after updating your Windows 10 computer is due to missing or incompatible drivers. To fix this problem, you need to install the latest driver version.
Open Device Manager, locate your hard drive on the list of devices , right-click on it and select Update driver. Select 'Search automatically for updated driver software' and wait until Windows 10 installs the latest drivers. Reboot your computer and check of the hard drive is now visible on your machine.
There you have a few simple ways to bring our Hard Disk back if it disappeared after you made the updated your Windows 10 system. If you have any additional questions, we remain at your disposal (you can contact us by using the comment section below).
- Best Ways To Free up Hard Disk Space in Windows 10
- Fix: Internal hard drive won't show up in Windows 10
- Full Fix: Windows 10 Does Not Recognize Portable Hard Drive
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in February 2015 and has been since updated for freshness, and accuracy.


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Fat and the Moon
$ 12.00
This product is currently sold out.
Petroleum Jelly has found its far superior replacement. Sunflower oil infused with calendula, St. John's wort and homegrown yerba mansa has healing and regenerating medicinal properties that are both gentle and effective.
- Calendula is great for treating slow-healing cuts and stimulates the production of collagen at wound sites which minimizes scarring.
- St John's Wort has healing properties both internally and externally and works to treat cuts and burns.
- Yerba mansa is a lesser known herb, native to these here parts in CA--the leaves promote skin repair.
- This salve is great for healing scrapes, cuts, burns and bites as well as chapped and cracked hands. We also use it as a lip balm, and a knee and elbow softener.
- Ingredients: sunflower oil*, calendula*, St John's wort*, yerba mansa*, beeswax / *organic


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There are many things that contribute to a restaurants success in Philadelphia. Innovative design and solid construction go hand in hand with location and excellent customer service. It is vital that you choose a construction company who not only possesses the skills to knowledge to build your vision from the ground up, but also knows the Philadelphia are.
At Brick GC Group, our culture and business model is rooted in the satisfaction of our clients. We are locally based, so the success of our community is our success as well. To make sure that we are always able to deliver the high level of customer satisfaction that we insist on we provide the highest quality materials and crews. At every step of your restaurant construction or remodel, we offer creativity and flexibility to ensure that your vision comes to life.
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Brick GC Group provides specialized full-service construction management. We can act as your single source solution for planning, pre-construction, coordination, and management of your project from the beginning to the end. We strive to exceed every client's expectations so the construction process runs as smoothly as possible.
Can utilize a portion of our comprehensive services or choose to use our full-service Philadelphia restaurant offerings. Regardless of which you choose, we will work closely with your to make sure that your needs are met every step of the way. We keep our lines of communication open to produce a functional and financially affordable restaurant for your company.
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When it is time to revitalize your restaurant or dining establishment, your selection of a construction company can impact your bottom line. Brick GC understands the restaurant industry and is prepared to ensure timely delivery of your remodel or renovation. Our team maintains a safe and clean environment while we provide our services so that you can keep your business open.
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Our knowledge, expertise, and experience make Brick GC Group the top choice for retailers across Philadelphia. We understand that time is money, and we do not want to waste either. That is why our team focuses on efficiency, quality, and excellent management skills.
Brick GC Group provides these attributes and more to every project that we work on in Philadelphia. If you are ready to break ground on a new project or remodel a currently owned restaurant, call Brick GC today at PHONE NUMBER.


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Cellar d'Or Winery Tours
Save Water, Drink Wine
Save Water, Drink Wine
A glass of wine at the end of a long day is good, but a day full of winery hopping in Margaret River is so much better.
Whether organising a weekend getaway with friends or wanting to become more acquainted with the Margaret river region (and most importantly its fantastic wineries), Cellar d'Or tours are ready to show you the best it has to offer.
After pick up from your accommodation in the morning (I recommend a substantial breakfast!), this whole day tour covers 5 wineries, a platter lunch and tastings at a micro-brewery, as well as cheese, olive oil and chocolate sampling before dropping you home in the evening. The best part is it will only set you back $88 dollars per person!
You Had Me at Merlot
Owners Nicole and Simon White bought the business back in 2014 which had been originally established 8 years ago.
Moving to Margaret River in 1997, the couple bought an old dairy farm of 75 acres to establish their own vineyard. 16,000 vines later, Nicole and Simon were supplying fruit to well-known wineries in the region including Vasse Felix, Clairault and Howard Park- while keeping a small amount to make wine for themselves, family and friends.
After selling their vineyard in 2013, the pair began their search for a new adventure when Cellar d'Or came onto the market. Indulging their passion for wine and being able to share it with like-minded people every day, Nicole and Simon knew it was the perfect fit.
Combined with a number of established contacts in the industry, and great knowledge of the region, Simon and Nicole knew they could provide an excellent service its visitors.
Stop and Smell the Rosé
With a host of wineries that they frequent often, each tour is different. Every day is tailored to your area of pick up, with no more that 10 – 15 minutes between each stop- meaning more wine and less driving!
When organising tours, they favour smaller, family owned wineries who can provide a more personal touch as you often have the tasting run by the owner or winemaker.
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In the Heart of the Heart of Despair
"In the Heart of the Heart of Despair: Seclusion in the Fiction of William H. Gass" was presented at the American Literature Association annual Conference on American Literature in Boston, May 25-28, 2017. It was part of the panel "The American Recluse: Contesting Individualism in Narratives of Isolation and Withdrawal," chaired by Susan Scheckel, Stony Book University. The panel was organized by Matthew Mosher (Stony Brook), and he presented his paper "'Our Inviolate Realm': Self-Reliance and Self-Destruction in E. L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley."
First of all, I'd like to thank Matt Mosher for inviting me to join this panel on recluses in American fiction. His invitation encouraged my wife Melissa and me to attend this terrific conference for the first time, and visit Boston for the first time. More important, however, Matt has opened my eyes to an aspect of William H. Gass's work that is so obvious and so foundational I never quite saw it in spite of spending the last decade of my scholarly life focused primarily on Gass (aka, "the Master"). From his very first fiction publication, the novella "The Pedersen Kid" in 1961, to his most recent, 2016's collection of novellas and stories, Eyes, Gass's protagonists have almost always been solitary souls, withdrawn from their various social spheres: in a word, reclusive. In various papers and reviews of Gass's work, I have nibbled around the edges of this realization, discussing the loneliness and/or isolation of individual characters—but I've never noticed the pattern, a proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room of Gass scholarship.
As the title suggests, my main focus for this paper will be Gass's early experimental story "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" (published independently and as the title story of his seminal collection in 1968); it's important to note, though, that I could have tossed a dart at my William H. Gass bookcase and whichever spine it came to rest in would have provided ample material with which to write this paper. According to the law of probability, I likely would have landed my dart in The Tunnel, and it would have been an especially fruitful stroke of fate. I say it would have been likely because Gass's American Book Award-winning novel tips the scales at more than 650 pages, and I have three copies (plus the audiobook) among the volumes in my Gass bookcase. I describe the dart's prick as fruitful because the first-person narrator William Kohler (a sort of William Gass doppelgänger) spends the entire 650 pages of the book sitting alone in his basement writing a highly personal and ego-centric memoir, which is The Tunnel itself.
I've chosen to focus primarily on Gass's earlier work, however, because it's more manageable given the context of this paper, and also it provides ample insights to what I believe is at the core of this phenomenon: this pattern of isolated characters in Gass's fiction. (As I write this paper, I'm anxious to hear what Matt and my fellow panelists have to say on the subject of reclusive characters and see if it complements or contradicts my ideas about Gass's characters.) I shall leave you, for the moment at least, in deductive suspense regarding my theory.
Earlier I referred to "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" as an experimental story. "Experimental" is certainly true; for "story" one must broaden one's sense of the word. A story is normally something with a plot, that is, a discernible conflict and at least a nod toward resolution. Not so with the Master. "In the Heart" features 36 sections with subheadings. The sections vary in length from just a few sentences to several pages, and their styles range from coldly clinical to lusciously lyrical. There is no central conflict, at least not in a typical sense. The story was somewhat inspired by William Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927)—in fact, it begins by more or less quoting from the poem's second stanza, "So I have sailed the seas and come . . . to B . . ." —and its structure is loosely based on the ottava rima form that Yeats used for his 32-line poem. It is their kindredness in theme, though, which is of greatest importance to our purpose here.
Yeats begins by lamenting the deterioration of his physical self due to old age (he was in his sixties when he wrote "Sailing to Byzantium"), but ends with the understanding that the physical is fleeting while the soul that aspires to a higher artistic ideal is immortal. In Gass's story, the unnamed first-person narrator is an aging poet who has come to B, a small town in Indiana, and is reflecting on his life in this mundane Midwestern locale, season upon season, year upon year. "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" is not merely a prose interpretation of Yeats's poem, which ends on a more optimistic note than it began. On the contrary, Gass's story starts bleak and only grows darker. Repeatedly the narrator refers to his own isolation and loneliness, as well as to the isolation and loneliness of his Hoosier neighbors. Early in the story, he tells us that he is "in retirement from love," and "I'm the sort now in the fool's position of having love left over which I'd like to lose; what good is it now to me, candy ungiven after Halloween?" (173). The story concludes, 28 pages later, with the narrator's sense of isolation at Christmastime in the town, a time which represents the pinnacle of the town's communal life. He finds himself (or merely imagines himself) in the deserted downtown, which has been bedecked for the holiday: "But I am alone, leaning against a pole—no . . . there is no one in sight. […] There's no one to hear the music ["Joy to the World"] but myself, and though I'm listening, I'm no longer certain. Perhaps the record's playing something else" (206).
Meanwhile, in the heart of the story, the narrator describes, here and there, his various fellow townspeople, especially his neighbor Billy Holsclaw, who "lives alone" (179). The narrator paints a sad picture of Billy (unshaven, dirty with "coal dust," dressed in "tatters"), and ends the initial section about him with the statement "Billy closes his door and carries coal or wood to his fire and closes his eyes, and there's simply no way of knowing how lonely and empty he is or whether he's as vacant and barren and loveless as the rest of us are—here in the heart of the country" (180). We note that the narrator describes Billy's actions inside of his house even though it is not possible for him to know what goes on after Billy shuts the door; thus, the narrator seems to be assuming Billy's behavior based on his own, alone in his own house. This point brings up an important issue in the story: How does the narrator have access to all that he describes in B? H. L. Hix asserts, "He does not wander out into the world, so the reader gets not a picture of B, but a picture of the narrator's confinement, the view from his cell" (49). Not literal cell of course: the cell of his isolation, his loneliness: the cell from which he projects everyone else's isolation and loneliness.
Referring to the narrator's view underscores what would become a major motif in Gass's fiction: the window. There are numerous references to windows and what the narrator sees framed in them in "In the Heart." He describes the windows of his house as "bewitching [. . . with] holy magical insides" (179). Through his window he views vivacious young women and fantasizes about them: "I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my finger, hold your bare feet in my naked hands" (179), and "[Y]our buttocks are my pillow; we are adrift on a raft; your back is our river" (188). However, he knows he is well beyond the point when any such contact could reasonably take place. This realization makes especially poignant his later observation that rather than interacting with the world directly he has "had intercourse by eye" (202). That is, he has lived mainly through observation of his fellow human beings, not by talking to and connecting with them directly.
As I said, references to windows are everywhere in Gass's oeuvre. The story "Icicles," also collected in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, begins with the main character, Fender, sitting down to a lonely dinner eaten from a tray in his living room and looking through his picture window: "[H]is gaze pass[es] idly along the streets in the wheel ruts and leaping the disorderly heaps of snow. He was vaguely aware of the ice that had curtained a quarter of his window . . ." (121). Here the ice emphasizes the coldness of this sort of existence, an existence void of human warmth for Fender, even though his profession as a real estate agent requires him to interact with people all the time. Unlike the narrator of "In the Heart," Fender does engage with people, but this engagement does not lessen his isolation; it only amplifies it. This is an important variation on the theme of isolation in Gass's work. Often, Gass's characters are not literally alone, but they feel isolated and lonely nevertheless. William Kohler in The Tunnel is married, but to a wife he hates and who has no interest in his life's work as a historian. As the title suggests, Babs, the wife in the novella Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, is isolated, lonely and horny in spite of her marital status, or perhaps because of it. The ironically named, antisocial Mr. Gab of the novella "In Camera" spends his dreary days inside his shop that sells black-and-white photographic prints, with only his assistant Stu (short for "stupid") for company. The boy-narrator, Jorge, in "The Pedersen Kid" is living among his family on a farm in North Dakota but is as desperately lonely as a boy can be thanks to his bellicosely alcoholic father, brutalized and traumatized mother, and live-in farmhand Hans, who may be molesting Jorge. The list goes on and on. (The Master is a real feel-good kind of author.)
All fictive writing is autobiographical to some degree, but Gass has never been one to make the veil especially opaque. The autobiographical elements flash neon in his work, and in his copious interviews he has been happy to connect the dots for readers and critics. In The Tunnel (his magnum opus) and Willie Masters' he's given the main characters his own name, or variations of it. The tunnel-digging William Kohler is a university professor, as was Gass, with a history and a list of interests quite similar to Gass's. Eerily similar; disturbingly similar for some readers. Joseph Skizzen of the novel Middle C is an isolated music professor who specializes in Arnold Schoenberg, the composer whose twelve-tone system Gass used to structure The Tunnel. Like Jorge in "The Pedersen Kid," Gass was born in North Dakota and grew up an only child in a family devastated by alcoholism and hatred. The list goes on and on.
Understanding the extremely close—at times, uncomfortably close—connection between Gass himself and his characters is especially important when viewed alongside his fascination with windows. Hix explains: "The window, which represents the ambiguity of our connection to the world, our looking out on a world from which the very looking out separates us, has appeared as a metaphor regularly in Gass's […] fiction" (124). Windows, then, and their representation of separation through observation, seem to be a commentary on Gass's own sense of isolation: that is, Gass the writer, Gass the intellectual, Gass the artist. It is the artist's job—their curse perhaps—to observe the world around them, closely; to think about it, deeply; and share their interpretations with the world, honestly. It is a vital function, but one that requires and creates distance from one's family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. In a 1984 interview, Gass identified himself as "a radical, but not one allied with any party. Parties force you to give up your intellect" (Saltzman 92). In other words, he was, in essence, a lone-wolf radical. To clarify, Gass has not seen himself as a writer with an overt political agenda, but rather one with a loftier, more ethereal, more profound goal: the alteration of his readers' consciousness. [About the photo: William H. Gass painted by Philip Guston for his lecture at Yaddo, "Why Windows Are Important To Me," 1969.]
In his landmark essay "The Artist and Society" (1968), Gass writes that the artist is "[naturally] the enemy of the state" and "[h]e is also the enemy of every ordinary revolution" (287). Moreover, he "cannot play politics, succumb to slogans and other simplifications, worship heroes, ally himself with any party, suck on some politician's program like a sweet. […] He undermines everything." Again, the artist/writer as lone-wolf radical. The payoff, though, can be sublimely effective. Gass writes, "The artist's revolutionary activity is of a different kind. He is concerned with consciousness, and he makes his changes there. His inactions are only a blind, for his books and buildings go off under everything—not once but a thousand times. How often has Homer remade men's minds?" (288). In other words, to be the sort of artist, the sort of writer, the sort of radical Gass admires most—the sort whose work will be worth reading a century from now, or a millennia—he must be solitary and isolated: the observer behind the window encased in ice.
If this paper were to be extended, I'd try to make the case that Gass's philosophy may be traceable to one of his idols, the French writer Paul Valéry, of whom he said, "He dared to write on his subjects as if the world had been silent . . ." (Fiction and the Figures of Life, xi). Known mainly as a poet and essayist, Valéry also wrote the novella "The Evening with Monsieur Teste" (1896), whose title character is an isolated intellectual very much akin to many of Gass's fictional creations, especially William Kohler and Joseph Skizzen. In the Preface to his novella, Valéry describes the philosophy which led to the creation of the character Monsieur Teste (or, in English, essentially "Mr. Head"), and I think at this point we can see that it could have been written by his devotee, William H. Gass. I shall let Valéry's translated words be my final ones here:
I made it my rule secretly to consider as void or contemptible all opinions and habits of mind that arise from living together and from our external relations with other men, which vanish when we decide to be alone. And I could think only with disgust of all the ideas and all the feelings developed or aroused in man by his fears and his ills, his hopes and his terrors, and not freely by his direct observation of things and himself. . . . I had made for myself an inner island and spent my time reconnoitering and fortifying it. . . . (4-5)
Works Cited
Gass, William H. "The Artist and Society." Fiction and the Figures of Life, Godine, 1979, pp. 276-88. [The complete draft, from William H. Gass's papers, is available online via Washington University.]
—. "Icicles." In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, Godine, 1981, pp. 120-162.
—. "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country." In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories, Godine, 1981, pp. 172-206.
—. Preface. Fiction and the Figures of Life, Godine, 1979, pp. xi-xiii.
Saltzman, Arthur M. "An Interview with William Gass." Conversations with William H. Gass, edited by Theodore G. Ammon, UP of Mississippi, 2003, pp. 81-95.
Valéry, Paul. Monsieur Teste. Translated by Jackson Mathew, Princeton UP, 1989.
Chapter One of An Untimely Frost
Below is the first chapter of my new novel An Untimely Frost, published by Twelve Winters Press earlier this month. The story was inspired by Washington Irving's rumored courtship of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Listen to an interview by WUIS's Rachel Otwell.
from An Untimely Frost copyright © 2014 Ted Morrissey. All rights reserved.
Chapter One
The London streets confounded me. I had the address of her residence, obtained via my London publisher—how difficult could it be to find, 261½ Wicker's Lane? How difficult indeed! The cut of my suit was like a giant flame for the moth-like streetpeople, hawking their wares directly in my face, so that I smelled their rotting teeth and breakfasts of spoiled turnips and onions. And solicitous women . . . at ten in the morning? Even Old New Yorkers waited until after a proper luncheon for such engagements, I would think.
In spite of the distractions I found the inauspicious house on Wicker's Lane. I stood across from it and gazed somewhat in awe: here was the residence of Margaret T. Haeley, authoress of so many of my fretful nights. For months after reading Dunkelraum, before I could settle into sleep, I would check under my bed and in the wardrobe for Mrs. Haeley's monster—ridiculous, I knew even then, for a giant to be lurking in such small places. But if it were possible at all for her monster to exist, my still childish mind must have reasoned, then it was equally possible for him to break the physical laws of space.
My wonder at Mrs. Haeley's monster contributed in no mean part to my wanting to take up the pen myself. (Which reminded me, I still needed to finish the proof-sheets for Andersen's Romance; Murry—that was Mr. A. B. C. Murry of Claxton House—was, I imagined, growing impatient as he wanted to capitalize on the renewed interest in America in Sunnydale, my second book and first full-length novel; there was a stage play in the works, rumored to be starring none other than Mr. Junius Booth. Murry had had the proof-sheets delivered to the hotel and the stack was waiting in my room upon my arrival. No rest for the weary, they say.)
The thought of the house's occupant quickened my pulse but the narrow-shouldered structure itself was remarkably unremarkable: brown-stained boards (in need of fresh stain) which led one's eye to black-shuttered windows that were too small for the house's two and a half storeys; the windows gave the impression the old house was squinting. I recalled the boyhood trick of squinting at an object until the act of only partial seeing—of shutting out more and more light—transformed the object into something altogether of another world. I was tempted to narrow my eyes at the old structure. . . .
Church-bells' pealing in the neighborhood broke my reverie. I was readying myself to cross the lane and call on Mrs. Haeley when I noticed a slightly built black fellow approach the house with a leather tote of wood—wood, yes, I realized, but not split logs or kindling as such—rather broken pieces of furniture: a severed table leg protruded conspicuously from the tote, which the fellow balanced quite easily on his narrow shoulder. He bypassed Mrs. Haeley's front steps and instead went to an alternate door to the side, below street level, that I had not observed at all. A moment to fiddle with the lock and the black fellow with his sticks of furniture disappeared from view.
I waited for a dray to pass; the malnourished beast pulling it deposited a fresh dollop of manure in the lane. Then, dodging the droppings, I went to Mrs. Haeley's front door. There was a bell-key positioned beneath a pane of stained glass, glass which was too smudged and greasy for me to make out its figures. I turned the key and heard the rattling chime within. I imagined its echoing in the empty foyer of a haunted and abandoned house. . . . Thinking of Mrs. Haeley's monster had worked its old spell on my fancy.
I waited, listening to the noises of the streetpeople behind me. I did not want to appear rude but I turned the bell-key again. After all, I knew someone was inside. Another long period elapsed. I took my card from my vest pocket (beforehand I had added the name of my hotel, The Saint Georges) and I was intending to slip the card through the postman's slot when I heard footsteps inside, then the bolt . . . bolts (four!) were moved aside, and the door slowly and creakily receded but only about a hand's length. "Yes?" came a man's voice, English but not a Londoner it seemed. It was gloomy inside Mrs. Haeley's house but with the little daylight leaking into the narrow space I realized the gatekeeper (I thought of Macbeth's jocular one) was the slightly built black fellow.
"Hello there; I've come to pay my regards to Mrs. Haeley—a mutual friend recommends me." Friend was a bit strong as I wasn't certain that any true ones existed in the book business but I hoped the innocent embellishment would gain me admittance.
"Mrs. Haeley is not receiving callers today, sir. Thank you . . ." and he began to close the door.
"Wait—please—I've come such a long way—" It was true, and my feet were starting to pain me again. "Will you at least present her my card?" I held it in the narrow opening and felt the foyer's draft on my fingers. The fellow's hand came up, perhaps reluctantly, to take it. The realization struck me that there was no proper servant in Mrs. Haeley's house, just this taciturn handyman or whatever he was, who completed the task and shut the door without further word. The bolts were slid back into place.
I stood a moment at Mrs. Haeley's door, nonplussed at being turned away so unceremoniously; then I began my descent of the five steps but halted when I heard the bolts again. The door opened more fully this time and the black fellow stood in its frame. "Jefferson Wheelwright—author of Sunnydale and the Old New Yorker stories?"
I had turned and was looking up from the second step. "That's correct, my good fellow—at your service." I put a finger to my hat brim (a high, round-crown affair I was informed was the epitome of London vogue, though I had not seen a one since stepping from the Chaos, an old packet whose crew made certain she was aptly named).
"Mrs. Haeley is not taking callers but she would not wish me to turn away a man of letters without some refreshment. Won't you step indoors, sir?"
"Most kind; thank you." I was still disappointed at not meeting Mrs. Haeley, but I was feeling most fagged and some tea and a taste of biscuit sounded quite glorious. I went in and removed my allegedly fashionable hat (it was chocolate brown velveteen made from the same bolt as my coat lapels, vest and cuffs—I was sparing no expense for my tour of England and the Continent). When Mrs. Haeley's man closed the door the foyer was plunged into a profound gloom for which my eyes were ill prepared.
"This way, Mr. Wheelwright."
"Your name, sir?"
"Mrs. Haeley has always called me 'Thursday.'"
"Like Crusoe's Friday."
"Yes—but one better, she says." The pride in Thursday's voice was evident. From the foyer we went into a long narrow hall. The irregularity of the walls made me think they were in sad disrepair; then my adjusting eyes discovered the appearance of irregularity was due to the fact the walls were lined with books, stacks and stacks of books, each reaching close to the fourteen-foot ceiling. Actually it was my nose that helped my eyes to interpret clearly: the wonderful smell of old books permeated Mrs. Haeley's house. There were hundreds of books just in the hall—perhaps thousands!
Thursday paused for a moment and deftly removed a book from the middle of a stack, about eye height, and handed it to me before turning a corner into a room I soon discovered was the parlor. Daylight filtered in through slightly ajar shutters and sheer curtains—enough light to allow me to read the spine of the book: Sketches of the Old New Yorkers. The volume, I was happy to see, was well thumbed.
Thursday took my hat. "It's very nice—I've not seen one quite like it."
"So I'm beginning to suspect."
He placed the hat on a coat rack in the corner from which a long woolen scarf and a dark jacket already hung. The room was of good proportions with several couches and armchairs and low seats of the Ottoman style. A large oval table occupied the more or less center of the room. It all gave the impression, however, that though it was a place to welcome guests, none had been welcomed there for some time.
Thursday invited me to sit while he fetched "a nuncheon of tea and crackers." I took a couch opposite one of the room's three windows. I smelled the dust that was unsettled by my sitting. There were no pictures on the walls, though there were darkened rectangular spaces where ones had been hanging for years. The motif of the book continued as there were stacks here and there in the parlor, none as prodigious, though, as those that stood in the hall.
My eyes had adapted totally and I perused the volume of Sketches Thursday had handed me. I opened the cover and there was the India-ink portrait of me rendered by young Melissa Blackwood, my neighbor's daughter during my Albany days (the Blackwoods had moved to Brussels and I planned to visit them on my tour). Little Miss had done a remarkable job on the portrait for such a youthful artist but the likeness was not perfect. Her affection for her "Uncle Jeff" had caused her to widen the space between my eyes and to thin my lips and to tuck in my ears (the ears which had acquired for me the grammar-school nickname of "Chimp"). I realized that the inclusion of my portrait rendered by such a juvenile hand was apropos in so much as the sketches themselves were unpracticed in their way, too—though at the time I considered them the masterpieces of the age. Only two years elapsed between Sketches and Sunnydale, yet they were worlds apart in craft. I trusted that my new work demonstrated a similar advancement in my technique, but I wasn't so certain: I'd often felt in something of an artistic rut.
The musing reminded me of one of my chief reasons for calling upon Mrs. Haeley. Like the rest of the literary world, I wondered if the authoress was at work on something new. Other than the posthumous volume of her husband's verse that she had edited and for which had written a touching introduction, nothing had come from her pen, save, I supposed, for letters to family and friends (I held out hope of becoming one of the latter).
Thursday returned with a silver tray and pot, both slightly tarnished, two delicate-looking cups, and a plate of crackers. I wondered then if Mrs. Haeley would be receiving me after all. But Thursday, after pouring my tea and adding a spot of cream at my request, fixed himself a cup and sat in a chair adjacent to my couch. I was not used to such behavior from a domestic, and it occurred to me that maybe Thursday was more than that to Mrs. Haeley. When did Haeley drown? It'd been more than ten years. Sipping at my tea, I tried to examine Thursday's features more acutely in the parlor's poor light: his nose was somewhat broad and his lips thick, but his hair, which was brushed straight back, was more Italian in appearance than African; so he seemed of mixed parentage.
"The tea is very good. Thank you for it." I took a cracker from the plate. It proved stale but was tolerable (and welcome) with the tea. "When might Mrs. Haeley be receiving?"
Thursday lowered the cup from his lips. "It is difficult to say. She does not see many visitors so there is no regularity to it."
I would imagine journalists were a constant bother to the household. She had been, after all, notorious in her youth, before Haeley's yachting accident. I recalled the headline in the Post: Celebrated English Poet Dead! / Stephen Hæley's Yacht Capsizes During Storm. A romantic teenager at the time, I immediately fantasized courting and wooing Haeley's young widow, of taking his place at her side, a new King with the Queen of English literati. I had not thought of all that for years but perhaps the notion lay on the underside of my mind when I made my plans for the tour.
We sat in silence for a time with our tea and crackers. I was trying to think of something to say when there was a creaking overhead as if someone were walking about upstairs. I looked to Thursday, perhaps to confirm it was the lady herself.
"Old houses and their rheumatic joints." Thursday smiled, his teeth as white as alabaster in the gloomy parlor.
"Indeed." Then I had the crazy thought that Mrs. Haeley was not there at all . . . that Thursday was an invader of her home, had murdered the famous (infamous?) authoress and buried her in the yard. There were instances of actresses and opera dancers having overzealous supporters who would not leave them be and who sometimes broke into their rooms—even a case or two wherein the worshipper did harm to their chosen idol because of their twisted devotion. To my knowledge, authoresses did not generate such a following (nor authors for that matter), but there is always a first case. "How is Mrs. Haeley?"
"Oh Mrs. Haeley is fine. I make certain she gets her meals and her rest." There was more of that pride in Thursday's voice, though it sounded as if he were referring to a prized equine and not the lady of the house. On the one hand, I had no reason to doubt Thursday's assertion but on the other my first impression of Mrs. Haeley's house was not of its being a place of sound health. It seemed like a home from her fiction, a birthplace for a monster. Perhaps her upstairs apartment was all light and cheerfulness, a place she could revel in the sort of vitality Thursday implied. After all, Mrs. Haeley was still a young woman, only some eight years my senior. It was just that she achieved literary fame at such a young age, her novel the buzz of New York City, London, Paris, Brussels, all coinciding with her twentieth birthday. Quite remarkable really.
I finished my tea and crackers, feeling somewhat refreshed, which was good as I would likely have to hike up to Fullham Road on aching feet to find a cab. I had been dropped there, wishing to walk the remaining blocks, to take in the sights and sounds of the OldCity. My head was filled with London stories—of the strolling gentlemen and ladies, of the fancy carriages, of the gay chimneysweeps. This idealized tableau was not the London I found. Perhaps it was somewhere else, in another district. I wondered at the impression of Old New York my book created and whether visitors were taken aback by the genuine thing. I was no doubt giving myself and my pen too much credit.
"Well," I said, placing my cup upon the tray, "thank you, Thursday, for the refreshment; it worked wonderfully and I feel quite able to return to the hotel."
"I'm sorry, sir, you did not see Mrs. Haeley, but I will tell her of your visit and present your card." We both had risen and Thursday was crossing the room to retrieve my hat.
I appreciated Thursday's politeness but it wasn't the same thing as insuring me a future audience with Mrs. Haeley.
He handed me my hat. "One thing more, sir, if you would." He went to a small writing desk in the corner of the parlor and returned with a pen and ink-bottle. I understood, and sat on the edge of the couch to autograph the volume of Sketches. It took me a moment to decide what to write but after turning to the cover page I inscribed: "To Mrs. Haeley and her 'inmates,' Best Regards, J. Wheelwright." The "inmates" remark, of course, was meant as an allusion to her novel, where the childhood Hans mistakes the word intimates for inmates, and it proves ominous foreshadowing. I wondered though if my cleverness—my wanting to illustrate my level of familiarity with Mrs. Haeley's work—would be grasped . . . and appreciated. It was done now. I used the ink-bottle to hold open the front cover and first pages until my inscription would dry, and I lay the pen besides.
A moment later I was on the stoop listening to Thursday quadruple bolt the door. And the sounds and smells of Wicker's Lane were instantly upon me. I began making my way—sore feet and all—toward the hotel, resolving to hail the first cab I saw. I felt the old melancholia beginning to stir. I hadn't a clue what a visit to Mrs. Haeley's home would yield, but my experience was a disappointment of the first order.
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This is a scalable context timeline. It contains events related to the event July 16, 2002: Blair Claims Attack on Afghanistan Only Possible After 9/11. You can narrow or broaden the context of this timeline by adjusting the zoom level. The lower the scale, the more relevant the items on average will be, while the higher the scale, the less relevant the items, on average, will be.
British intelligence agencies send a report to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other top officials warning that al-Qaeda is in "the final stages" of preparing an attack in the West. The prediction is "based on intelligence gleaned not just from [British intelligence] but also from US agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency," which cooperate with the British. "The contents of the July 16 warning would have been passed to the Americans, Whitehall sources confirmed." The report states there is "an acute awareness" that the attack is "a very serious threat." [London Times, 6/14/2002] This appears to be similar, but not identical, to a warning to British leaders from MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, 10 days earlier (see July 6, 2001).
Entity Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Tony Blair, Al-Qaeda, National Security Agency
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
In a major post-9/11 speech, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will claim that "shortly before September 11, bin Laden told associates that he had a major operation against America under preparation, [and] a range of people were warned to return back to Afghanistan because of action on or around September 11." His claims will come from a British document of telephone intercepts and interrogations revealing al-Qaeda orders to return to Afghanistan by September 10. [CNN, 10/4/2001; Time, 10/5/2001] Would-be hijacker Ramzi bin al-Shibh will later claim that his message on what day the 9/11 attacks would happen reached bin Laden on September 6, 2001. If that is true, bin Laden would only have had a few days to warn others (see September 6, 2001). [Australian, 9/9/2002]
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Tony Blair, Ramzi bin al-Shibh
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, "I have seen absolutely powerful incontrovertible evidence of [Osama bin Laden's] link to the events of the 11th of September." However, he says that because "much of this evidence comes to us from sensitive sources, from intelligence sources," there is a question over how much of it can be made public. [BBC, 9/30/2001; Daily Telegraph, 10/1/2001] Three days later, the two British opposition leaders meet for a 45-minute confidential briefing with Blair, where he shows them this evidence. Following this briefing, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy says he now accepts there is "compelling evidence" of Bin Laden's guilt. [Daily Telegraph, 10/4/2001; Guardian, 10/4/2001] Blair refers to the evidence he has seen on October 4, 2001, when he presents to Parliament a paper indicating that al-Qaeda is responsible for 9/11 (see October 4, 2001), but again he says that because of sensitivity issues, "It is not possible without compromising people or security to release precise details." [CNN, 10/4/2001]
Entity Tags: Tony Blair, Al-Qaeda, Charles Kennedy, Osama bin Laden
Tony Blair presenting evidence on October 4, 2001. [Source: Associated Press]British Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly presents a paper containing evidence that al-Qaeda is responsible for the 9/11 attacks. [Los Angeles Times, 10/4/2001; Los Angeles Times, 10/5/2001] Secretary of State Powell and other US officials had promised on September 23 that the US would present a paper containing such evidence. [Los Angeles Times, 9/24/2001] However, the US paper is never released (see September 23-24, 2001). Apparently, the British paper is meant to serve as a substitute. [New Yorker, 5/27/2002] It begins, "This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Osama bin Laden in a court of law." Nevertheless, it continues, "on the basis of all the information available [Her Majesty's Government] is confident of its conclusions as expressed in this document." [BBC, 10/4/2001] In his speech, Blair claims, "One of bin Laden's closest lieutenants has said clearly that he helped with the planning of the September 11 attacks and admitted the involvement of the al-Qaeda organization" and that "there is other intelligence, we cannot disclose, of an even more direct nature indicating guilt" of al-Qaeda in the attacks. [CNN, 10/4/2001; Time, 10/5/2001] There has been no confirmation or details since of these claims. Even though most of the evidence in the British paper comes from the US, pre-attack warnings, such as the August 6, 2001 memo (see August 6, 2001) to Bush titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US," are not included. In fact, Blair's paper states, "incorrectly, that no such information had been available before the attacks: 'After 11 September we learned that, not long before, bin Laden had indicated he was about to launch a major attack on America.'" [New Yorker, 5/27/2002]
Entity Tags: Al-Qaeda, Colin Powell, Tony Blair, Osama bin Laden
British Prime Minister Tony Blair states, "We knew about al-Qaeda for a long time. They were committing terrorist acts, they were planning, they were organizing. Everybody knew, we all knew, that Afghanistan was a failed state living on drugs and terror. We did not act.… To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11."
[London Times, 7/17/2002] In a book released one month later, Clinton's former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger will similarly state, "You show me one reporter, one commentator, one member of Congress who thought we should invade Afghanistan before September 11 and I'll buy you dinner in the best restaurant in New York City."
[Miller, Stone, and Mitchell, 2002, pp. 219]
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THE car of the future could be growing in a field right now if Welsh plant scientists have their way.
They are playing a leading role in developing new car parts made out of flax, hemp, cotton and willow.
The team of bio composites experts at University of Wales, Bangor, is working with Government scientists and Ford to create trial panels which will be road tested for durability and performance.
It is intended to have production versions running by 2007.
The four-year project paid for by the Department for the Environment essentially transforms the cultivated plant fibres into a mat which is then turned into a panel or other component.
It is similar to the way fibre-glass matting is made into body components except that the plant fibres replace the usual glass fibres.
The invention is being managed by the Government's wholly-owned science and technology company QinetiQ which has emerged from the reorganisation of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Farnborough in Hampshire.
Bio mat project leader, QinetiQ's Robert West, said, "The search for more durable, ecologically sound materials is very prominent in a process of technological change that is enveloping the industry.
"With Bio mat, we hope to see an early adoption of our technology which could significantly support the automotive industry in its efforts to meet its green goals."
The Bangor scientists are working on matting which would be converted into interior components but also inlet manifolds on the engines.
Ford was experimenting with body panels made from soya plant fibres in 1941 and the Ford Mondeo and Focus models already use some plant materials in the door interior panels.
These plant materials are woven together with man-made fibres for door casings and armrests and the natural bending characteristics of the plant materials makes it particularly suitable in reducing the effects of side impact crashes.
A spokesman for Ford said, "One of the additional benefits of using plant materials is their natural flexibility and shock absorption in safety situations where man-made materials do not `give' as much."
He added that the four-year project would include studying the water absorption of Bio mat and its bio-degrading characteristics but the scientists and technicians were working towards production components in four years.
Apart from materials technology, the car makers are looking at alternatives to petrol and diesel.
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What does your dentist say about tooth whitening?
With images of Hollywood actors with a beautiful white smile assaulting our senses on television every day it is no surprise that questions about tooth whitening are common. We all want that perfect white smile.
So who can get whitening? There is no generic answer to this question. In order to determine if it will work for you, the cause of the discolouration needs to be assessed. There are a diverse range of causes which include foods or drinks, tobacco use, medications, disease, poor dental hygiene, the natural ageing process, trauma, dental materials, disease, genetics and environment to name a few. Your dental professional can assess the cause and give some guidance on what whitening method will work for you.
What will the dentist look for? The dentist will look for both the cause of the discolouration as well as factors that may influence the success of your treatment. This will include the thickness of the tooth enamel, any receding gums, existing crowns, fillings and veneers, oral diseases as well as your history including any past trauma or medications, which may have had an impact.
So will whitening work? Depending on the cause of the discolouration, results can range from impressive to disappointing. Your dentist should be able to give you a better expectation once the cause has been assessed.
What can go wrong? When done as per manufactures recommendations after appropriate diagnosis, there is no serious risk. You may experience some sensitivity which your dentist will give options to manage. Other less common side effects which are also associated with inappropriate treatment include reduction in the hardness of enamel, damage to gums such as inflammation or blistering, severe tooth sensitivity and multi coloured teeth due to existing fillings, crowns or veneers.
What types of whitening are there? There are two basic types of whitening. In office whitening will offer the fastest result with treatment completed in a single session. Take home whitening will require daily use of the product and can take from a couple days to several weeks to achieve a noticeable difference.
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New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal Thursday claimed that anti-BJP votes have been deleted across India at an "unprecedented scale"In a series of tweets, Kejriwal tagged the people who claimed their names or the names of their relatives have been deleted from the voter lists.
"Anti-BJP votes deleted all across India. Reports coming from all across India that votes have been deleted on unprecedented scale. Why are all faulty EVM machines seen to be voting always for BJP?" he said in a tweet.
Polling began Thursday morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections.
He re-tweeted and shared profiles of a number of people whose names have been deleted.
One of the them included businesswoman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw who said her mother's name has been deleted.
"My mother's voter ID has been deleted on some flimsy excuse that there was a report that she no longer lives at her address. She is so upset I can't tell you becos she has been at the same address for 19 years. So much for 'verification'," she said in a tweet.