The U.S. International Trade Commission: An Introduction
The U.S. International Trade Commission, Material Injury Determinations, and Remedies for US Manufacturers: An Introduction
Written by Dan Pickard of Wiley Law
The U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) is one of the most powerful, but least known, agencies in the Federal Government. The ITC is an independent, quasi-judicial, federal agency, which, in trade remedy investigations, determines whether a domestic industry is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by dumped or subsidized imports. The ITC’s decisions in these trade remedy cases, generally either antidumping or countervailing duty investigations, can have major effects on both international trade and domestic industries, specifically by determining whether U.S. manufacturers and their workers are entitled to a remedy against unfair import competition. This article provides a brief introduction to this important agency.
The ITC is composed of six Commissioners, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. No more than three Commissioners may be of any one political party (i.e., there are typically three Democrats and three Republicans) The Commissioners serve overlapping terms of nine years each, with a new term beginning every 18 months. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are designated by the President for two-year terms. The Chairman and Vice Chairman must be from different political parties, and the Chairman cannot be from the same political party as the preceding Chairman. The ITC has a staff of over 300 professionals, including investigators, analysts, economists, attorneys, and technical support personnel.
The ITC has four primary responsibilities, namely: (1) investigate and make determinations as to whether unfairly priced imports have injured a domestic industry; (2) investigate claims that imports have violated U.S. intellectual property rights; (3) provide independent analysis and information on tariffs, trade and competitiveness; and (4) maintain the U.S. tariff schedule.
The ITC is likely best known for its role in antidumping investigations. As explained in a previous article in this series, before antidumping duties can be assessed on unfairly priced imports, the ITC must find that the imports are a cause of material injury (or threat thereof) to the U.S. industry. In this regard, injury is defined as harm that is more than inconsequential, insignificant, or immaterial. Indeed, the domestic industry can demonstrate injury in a number of ways, typically through downward trends in financial data (production, shipments, profits, etc.). Operating losses are not a necessary component of material injury if it is otherwise clear that the industry would have been better off absent the subject imports. As long as the dumped imports are found to be a cause of material injury or threat thereof, the ITC will make an affirmative determination, even if there are other, more important causes of such injury or threat.
If the ITC makes a final affirmative determination (i.e. 3 or more of the 6 Commissioners finding material injury or threat of material injury) then an antidumping order will be issued that will require payment of duties for all covered imports from all producers in the subject countries in an amount to offset the unfair pricing. The antidumping order is issued for a five-year period but which can be re-issued for subsequent five-year periods through a “sunset review” process. Antidumping orders frequently result in U.S. manufacturers regaining lost market share, increased pricing levels in the United States, and improved operating profits and profit margins.
The ITC also conducts “Section 201” investigations (also known as “Safeguard” cases) which are one of the strongest trade remedy actions available under U.S. law. These cases are less common than antidumping investigations and to examine whether a particular import is causing or threatening to cause “serious injury” to a domestic industry (as compared to “material injury” in an antidumping investigation).
Both the injury and causal standards are higher in a Section 201 investigation as compared to an anti-dumping case. However, the remedy provided in a Section 201 can be much broader – covering imports potentially from every country in the world – and more meaningful than in an antidumping/countervailing duty case. Additionally, Section 201 does not require a finding of an unfair trade practice, as do the antidumping and countervailing duty laws.
If the ITC makes an affirmative injury determination under Section 201, the investigation proceeds to a remedy phase. During the remedy phase, ITC recommends specific actions to address the serious injury to the domestic industry. The ITC generally must make its injury finding within 120 days (150 days in more complicated cases) of the initiation of the Section 201 investigation, and must transmit its report to the President, together with any relief recommendations, within 180 days after initiation. The President can then accept, reject, or modify the ITC’s recommendation.
For more information regarding the U.S. International Trade Commission, please do not hesitate to contact Daniel B. Pickard, a partner in the International Trade practice of Wiley Rein LLP, in Washington DC. He can be reached at 202.719.7285 or via email at [email protected].
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“HANOJGA” [noga is Hebrew, means to shine] Monthly No. 1
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“OSTROWER LEBEN” [“Ostrow Life”]
“NOSIV” [Hebrew, means route]
Collected writings from Kibbutz “Nasiv” in Ostrow Maz.
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The History of Ostrowa
By Arja Lejb Margolis, Tel-Aviv
Translated by Judie Ostroff Goldstein
For various reasons, Jews settled in Mazowsze [Mazovia] later than in other parts of Poland. The reasons being:
The political independence of the realm with its own court and political traditions.
Economic independence and strong opposition on the part of the Catholic Church.
Until 1526, Mazowsze was an independent duchy and the connection to the crown was weak, but the Mazowsze nobles recognized the Polish Kings and the government. By mid 14th century they swore loyalty to the Kings, but until 1526 they maintained their independence.
The Polish kings were able to incorporate Mazowsze into the crown in a process that began in the 15th century. Whenever a Mazowsze noble died without children, their land was incorporated into Greater Poland. In 1462 the districts of Rawa and Gostynim were incorporated in this manner. In 1464 – Sochachów and in 1495 Plock and Ostrowa. The largest part of Mazowsze Duchy was incorporated into the crown after the death of the last two dukes of the old Pyast dynasty died without heirs.
This happened in 1526. The area that was incorporated into the crown in 1526 was given wide autonomy and had their own judicial courts.
After 1526 the entire Mazowsze Duchy was divided into three provinces: Rawa, Plock and Czersk (Mazowsze). (ref. “Historja Polska”, 104 by S. Koczewy). In 1578 King Batory instituted the Polish judicial system in Mazowsze.
There were several attempts by the nobility, from the 15th through the 18th century, to pass a law expelling the Jews from Mazowsze, but none were successful.
We hear demands from all sides to expel the Jews from Mazowsze until the end of the 18th century. Even the “Council of the Four Lands” produced a rabbinical decree that no Jews should settle in Mazowsze. In 1669 the interdiction decrees from the “Council of the Four Lands” was read aloud in the Tikocyn synagogue. (Pinkus Tiktyn)
A law was passed by the King, beginning 28th March 1789 and in force until 1862, forbidding Jews from settling in Ostrów Mazowiecka. In 1856 the Jews were already a majority, two thousand four hundred ten Jews to one thousand five hundred sixty Christians.
I found this in the “Jewish Encyclopedia”, Petrograd, published by Efrun (volume 12, Pg. 28-147). Also from a population census in 1897, the number of inhabitants in the Ostrów district totaled ninety-eight thousand – seventeen thousand two hundred ninety were Jews. The population of Ostrowa itself was ten thousand four hundred seventy-one of which five thousand nine hundred sixty were Jews.
There were many attempts to keep the Jews out of Mazowsze by both Christians and Jews, however none of them were successful. The Jews continued to live in Mazowsze and spread out into all the cities and villages, including the Jewish community in Ostrowa.
Ostrów Mazowiecka, a district city, had belonged to Lomza Gubernia. The city is located on a flat, hill-less area that is the water table for the Narew and Bug rivers. The inlets from the two rivers flowed into the third, the Brok. (ref. Slownik Geographiczny).
Ostrów Mazowiecka was ninety-three versts from Warszawa, forty-one versts from Lomza, ninety versts from Bialystok, fifteen versts from Malkinia (railroad station on the line Warszawa-Petrograd) and ten versts from the Bug River.
A top grade, important highway goes through Ostrowa from Serock and Wyszków to Bialystok. There were not many rivers in the Ostrów District. (Neighbouring Ostroleka District was rich in water.) The middle area in the northern part of the district had no water. The southern and eastern parts have the Brok River with several inlets from the Bug River.
Almost the entire Ostrów District, starting from the historical era, was one large, first growth primeval forest, in which there were very sparse, scattered, small communities (colonies). Communities during the hunting age were in the forests around Brok. The principal for the city was the hunting-palace of the Dukes. The unproductive soil was not conducive to establishing a lot of colonies. This was not a good area for large agricultural endeavors. There were some middle-sized, but mainly small peasant holdings and there were only fifty-seven noble households.
In the realm of communications, Ostrów District, particularly the southern and eastern sections were well provided for.
The Bug River flowed at the southern border of the district. The railroad Warszawa-St. Petersburg cut through the southeastern portion of the district for thirty versts with stations in Malkinia Górna and Czyzewo.
The top-grade Bialystok highway cut through the district, for forty-three versts, from southwest to northeast. Another second-grade highway went through the district (through Ostrowa to Ostroleka) for twenty-eight versts. About the founding of Ostrowa, there is a version that states the city had royal privileges and the city had been established in 1410.
The Duke of Mazowiecka, Boleslaw IV, had given his village (Ostrowa) the privileges of a city in 1410. The Mazowiecka Princess Anny (when Poland gained independence the old market, called Rynek, was renamed “Plac Anny Mazowiecka”) never extended the privileges.
In 1930 (when I was a member of the city council) the city celebrated its 500th anniversary. The Mayor, Jan Zakszewski (who thought of himself as an historian) put out a brochure about the history of the city.
After the incorporation of Mazowiecka (into the Polish crown) the Polish kings confirmed the privileges of the city Ostrów Mazowiecka. According to a decision by the Sejm in 1565, Ostrów was united under one Governor.
In 1616 in back of the city was a royal court, where trials took place in matters concerning the villages and the city. At that time there were four hundred fifty-three houses in the city. Behind the city there was also a mulberry tree plantation (with a total of thirty thousand trees) run by A. Bogucki.
In 1660, Ostrowa together with surrounding villages had 5,509 inhabitants. An order from the King dated the 28th of March, 1789 (in effect until 1862) forbid Jews from settling in Ostrów Mazowiecka. In 1856 the Jews were already a majority with 2,410 Jews to 1,560 Christians.
In 1827 there were 184 houses and 1,792 inhabitants in the city and in 1860, 297 houses and 4,119 inhabitants (of which 2,486 were Jews).
The spreading Ostrów District became part of Lomza Gubernia that was established in 1867 with eight communities from the old Ostroleka District and two from Pultusk District.
There was already a railroad line to Warszawa in the district in 1867. There were 77,700 inhabitants in the District – by religion: 61,761 Catholics, 2,797Evangelists, 67 Protestants and 12,515 Jews. In Ostrowa there were two elementary schools and in the surrounding villages: Brok, Nur, Andrzejewo, Wasewo, Zambrów, Czyzewo, Dlugiosiodlo and Komorowo – only one school.
The Ostrów District was divided into twelve communities, in which there were four hundred twenty-six villages. Roads were built to Wyszków and Bialystok.
Six fairs a year were held in Ostrowa. There was a tobacco factory, a lot of windmills and a famous toilet water factory owned by the pharmacist and established in the pharmacy. Afterward, a hospital was built (Christian, not used by the Jews), a Post Office-Telegraph building, and government buildings for the civil servants.
In 1886 there were two schools (one for boys and one for girls), a Justice of the Peace for four districts, a district office, a City Hall, Post Office-Telegraph office. There were 472 houses (five were brick) with 7,800 inhabitants: 2,688 Catholics, 6 Protestants, 18 Evangelists and 5,088 Jews.
From the population census of 1897, the total number of inhabitants in Ostrów District was 98,000 of which 17,290 were Jews. In Ostrowa of 10,471 inhabitants, 5,660 were Jews.
Of all the villages in the district, these had more than five hundred inhabitants. Andrzejewo had 1,448 inhabitants (of which 586 were Jews). Brok had 2,657 (1,296 Jews). In Wasewo there were 576 (196 Jews). Dlugosiodlo numbered 1,249 Christians (800 Jews). Zareby Koscielne had 1,241 Christians and (1,063 Jews). Malkinia had 1,091 Christians (348 Jews). In Nur there were 2,133 Christians and (1,212). Poreba had 541 Christians (74 Jews); Suchcice 522 Christians (88 Jews) and Czyzewo 1,785 Christians (1,596 Jews).
At the end of the 19th century there were sixty-three windmills with a yearly output of 53,450 rubles, nineteen water mills with 6,620 rubles, Liquor Distilleries: in Branszczyk, Zoszków and Trynosy with an output of 88,500 rubles; Tobacco factory – 19,615 Rubles; Brewery – 7,500 Rubles. At the pharmacy there was a toilet water factory (famous throughout the country).
In the 20th century, thanks to Jewish initiative and organization, industries grew. The forest was a treasure. There were two sawmills in the city and forestry was the largest industry in town, as well as in the villages around Ostrowa. Lumber was sent to Warszawa and other cities far and wide, as well being exported to Germany and England.
Due to the large military presence in the city and in Komorowo, steams mills were built and had a large output especially the large mill “Automat”. With twenty-four pairs of rollers it was one of the largest in Poland and shipped product all over the country.
The brewery also increased its output and was known for its high quality beer that was also shipped to Warszawa. There were also some small manufacturing enterprises such as a glass factory, a vinegar factory, etc.
The Jewish population however did not grow because a lot of Jews had moved. A lot had left (especially the young ones) for the large cities, like Warszawa, Łódz, etc. An even larger number had emigrated to America, Argentina, Uruguay and other countries around the globe. Some of the young people had made aliyah.
In 1921, the population of the city was 13,425 of which 6,812 were Jews.
In 1934 (after Komorowo and other villages were incorporated into the city), there were 20,000 inhabitants of which 8.000 were Jews.
A Walk Through the City
By Arija Lejb Margolis, Tel-Aviv
In the eastern part of Poland, in Mazowsze, lies our town Ostrowa, whose name became Ostrów Mazowiecka. The city is surrounded by forests, depended upon for the past five hundred years. Back when people began to inhabit the city, there was one large forest that extended for many kilometers. Now roads stretch in many directions. First of all there is the highway from Warszawa which cuts through Radzymin, Wyszków, then goes through Ostrowa and continues on to Zambrów, Bialystok, Grodno, Wilno and as far as Peterburg [St. Petersburg].
Entering the city, off to the right, is the road to the village of Brok on the “Bug” and on the left stretches the road to Goworowo, Rózan-Maków-Pultusk.
Continuing through the city via the market, ahead on the right is the road to the railroad station Malkinia Górna, 15 kilometers from Ostrowa. On the left stretches the road over to Komorowo village - 3 kilometers from Ostrowa, which continues to Ostroleka and as far as the German border.
The highway then goes over to Zambrów (30 kilometers from Ostrowa), to various other villages and on to Bialystok.
From ulica Ostrolecka turn off to ulica Lubiejewska (once called ulica Kosa) which is the road to the railroad station Siedlce-Lomza (which is located three kilometers from the city) and then the road over to Sniadowo and on to Lomza, fifty kilometers from Ostrowa.
Around Ostrowa are the small villages Wasewo, Poreba, Czerwin, Nur, Sterdyn, Brok, Dlugosiodlo, Andrzejewo, Zareby Koscielne and Czyzewo; whose merchants buy and sell in Ostrowa, the same as in scores of Prince's estates such as Biel, Ligiawe, Trynosy, and Kalinowo. There are also hundreds of large and small villages from which the peasants bring their products to sell and then to buy the goods they need for their farms and homes. The market was held every Monday and Thursday; once a month (Monday) was the Monthly Fair; four times a year – there was what people called the “Year-Fair”.
The grain trade was a major industry, as there were several steam-mills; the main one being the large mill “automat”. Also the lumber trade played a major role in our livelihood. There were two large sawmills: one belonged to Zelman Jozef Nutkiewicz and the other to the family of the late Hirszel Tejtel. Forestry was important. But in Poland the wood was sent to foreign countries to become various materials. Grain and wood actually were the two main industries providing employment in the city.
In the centre of the city lies the old marketplace where the City Hall now stands, built 1925 to 1927, in the Kraków style with a tower and a clock on all four sides. The City Hall was used for town council sessions. The city committee (subordinate to the town council) which managed the city affairs met there as well. The town council and committee were chosen every five years.
In former times, before the First World War (1914 -1918), Jews had no influence over decisions made at City Hall. The city President managed the city himself, asking nothing of anyone and in charge of everybody. The Jews struggled to pay high taxes and had no say in the matter.
Tejtel family sawmill
From right: Michal Tejtel, A.D. Pokrzywa and Awigdor Tejtel
During the German occupation, there was a small change for the better. There was a Jewish Vice-Mayor (Hirszel Tejtel) as well as some Jewish officials (Icchok Morgensztern, Kaplański and others).
During the era of Russian rule, Shamas Natan Zelig and Shamas Hirszel Balbier - called “szkolnik” [Polish, “teacher”], were often at City Hall as they registered the marriage and birth acts in the municipal record books. And at times the books were not in order. Some births had not been registered, or had been registered late. Later these irregularities created confusion when boys were asked to report to the military committee (conscription). Since the names in the register were not correct, the committee was not always able to determine who should report for the draft. An “expert” at doing this was Shamas Hirszel.
Around the four sides of the marketplace stood low wooden houses, in ones and twos. All the businesses in the market, wholesale and retail, were Jewish: food, iron, fashion goods, leather, haberdashery, kerosene, paint, food products - a to z.; as it had been for hundreds of years.
In the last years between the two world wars, the Christians had already opened businesses in the city. The Christian owners competed with the Jews, not by lowering prices, but by inciting the Christian population to boycott the Jewish merchants.
The entire life of the city was concentrated around the old marketplace. The streets branching off from the market were: Warszawer, 3go Maja, Pułtuska, Nurski, Malkińska, Solna, Jatkowa and the streets that joined with ulica Ostrołęcka to Komorowo.
Streets run between the wooden houses, here and there a brick house, straight and crooked, the length and breadth of the entire city as far as the fields, forests and highways which connect with other cities and villages. Narrow and wide streets connect street with street in the city itself.
The Jewish quarter exists first from the Old Market (as far back as the uprising in Poland named “Plac Kzienznej Anny Mazowieckiej”) and also the streets: Warszawska, Brokowska, Chausée Brokowska, Miodowa, Pułtuska, Rożanska, Koza (or Mieckiewicz), Jagielońska, Nurski, Solna, Ostrołęcka, Jatkowa and Batorego. Mixed streets were ulica 3go Maja, Malkińska, Pocztowa, Kosciuszki Alley, Ugniewska, Cmentarza, Lubiejewska and the Piaskes. Clean gentile streets were away from the centre– around the outskirts of the city, with their own gardens and orchards.
Warszawska Street
ulica 3go Maja
Pocztowa Street
At each of the corners (four) of the marketplace there was a water-pump (four in all) where people went to get “hard” water for use in the house and for livestock. The pumps squeaked and groaned each time the curved handle went up. In winter there was usually a pile of ice around the pumps that hampered access. Often the water carrier had to put down burning pieces of wood to melt the ice.
“Soft water” or “tea water” from the wodoczong [water pump] was also available at the old market. The water carrier used to deliver water from house to house. Crazy Icchok carried water for many years. He believed that he was an Emperor with his own militia (In summer when the military would leave the city to go on maneuvers, he deserted his pails and went off with the military, carrying a pack on his shoulder like a rifle. The officers already knew him and did not interfere). Szepsel wasertreger [water carrier] was also popular. Later, a fire hut [fire station] was put up near the wodoczong. (In 1925 during the building of the city hall, the wodoczong and the fire hut were removed).
Besides being large and small wood and grain merchants, Jews were: buyers, sellers, re-sellers, brokers, wagon drivers, porters, craftsmen and old clothes peddlers at the fairs here in town and away from home.
The “rulers” of the small market were the fish, fruit and vegetable merchants, for whom the housewives would tremble with fear and if not careful were taken in “by their big mouths”. During the winter, the merchants' wives wore warm coats, padded with soft cotton, sat on top of the stalls, kegs and baskets with a pot of glowing coals between their knees to stay warm.
Fish was delivered in wooden “berths” and fruits in small wooden barrels or round, deep baskets. Spread out over the wooden stalls were red and yellow cherries, green gooseberries, rosy red-berries, plums of all kinds, large apples, pears, black radish, red radish, yellow carrots, onions, beets, fruits and vegetables - all to delight the eye with cool, fresh produce. The small market was full, even in the weeks before the arrival of Yontef.
The streets were paved with round fieldstones (cobblestones), pressed together and wild grass grew between the stones.
In latter years, along Warszawska (later Pilsudskiego) and 3go Maja (formerly Przedmieszcze) there were sidewalks made of cement slabs only on one side of the street. In the lanes there were none; only a deep gutter where a gully, divided by pointed stones, kept the rainwater in the gutter. Young boys took off their boots and socks and waded in the water, which froze in winter
Two young, heder boys
and became a slide. Trees were found only on the Christian streets. The Jewish shtetl consisted of a lot of wooden houses, a few brick houses [covered with stucco], narrow lanes, open courtyards used as public access to get from street to street, narrow footpaths and inner courtyards. They told about a poor, unassuming, but respectful life; a partnership between house and house, courtyard and courtyard. Despite their forlorn appearance, every street had its own way of life, local colour and history.
Standing between Warszawska and Brokowska highways, at the Russian Orthodox Church, is a water pump; opposite the water pump is the white brick house of the Jewish doctor Kliaczke (during Word War One, 1914-1918 he was exiled to Russia), which was later used by the cultural society and public library.
On the other side of the Orthodox Church was the Promenade Garden (that the Poles called Napoleon Square) During the day the children played there and at night - couples in love.
On Sunday the bells from the Orthodox Church called people to prayer. From the other corner of the city, on ulica 3go Maja, the Catholic Church did the same and they competed with each other to see which would overpower the other with their bim-bom, bim-bom.
A new era arrived. The Poles took some land from the Orthodox Church and added it to the promenade-garden.
Further along ulica Warszawska, past the brewery was the sadzawka. Who does not remember the sadzawka from childhood, the natural pond where children caught small fish. Also, during the summer, the elders would rest in the shade of the beautiful trees and in winter, there were skaters on the frozen pond.
Past the sadzawka is the house of Abram Icchok Frejman. He supplied meat to the Polish military in Komorowo and other towns.
Next to it - the home of the big lumber merchant, Jozef Froimowicz, partner in his father-in-law's sawmill. Opposite right - the building of the Governor in Ostrowa - and its garden - one of the prettiest in the city. Only the garden separated the 2 roads: the one on the right, the Warszawska Highway, via Wyszków and Radzymin. The forest runs the entire length of the road. There one rented summer cottages and also strolled; on the left - the highway to Brok, ten kilometers from Ostrowa. The entire road - full of woods where most people strolled and on Shabes the poor craftsmen and workers came to rest with their families. These woods could tell many tales from the romantic era.
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Sebastian Rotella is a senior reporter at ProPublica. An award-winning foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, he worked for almost 23 years for the Los Angeles Times before joining ProPublica in 2010. He covers international security issues including terrorism, intelligence, organized crime, human rights and migration. His reporting has taken him across the Americas and Europe, and to the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.
In 2020, Sebastian was part of the ProPublica team whose coverage of the pandemic and the CDC was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service. The Association of Health Care Journalists gave that coverage the Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in the investigative category.
In 2016, he was co-writer and correspondent for Terror in Europe, a Frontline documentary that was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors broadcast/video award. In 2013, his Finding Oscar investigation with This American Life won a Peabody Award, a Dart Center Award, and two awards from the Overseas Press Club. In 2012, he was recognized with Italy’s Urbino Press Award for excellence in American journalism. His A Perfect Terrorist investigation of the Mumbai attacks (with Frontline) was nominated for an Emmy, and the online version of the story got an Overseas Press Club Award in 2011.
In 2006, he was named a Pulitzer finalist for international reporting for his L.A. Times coverage of terrorism and Muslim communities in Europe, which won the German Marshall Fund’s senior award for excellence in European reporting. He was part of a team whose coverage of al-Qaida received an Overseas Press Club award and finalist honors for Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2002. In 2001, he won Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his career coverage of Latin America. His work in Latin America also won honors from the Overseas Press Club, Inter-American Press Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
At the L.A. Times, Sebastian served as a correspondent at the Mexican border, in South America and in Europe. His border reporting inspired two songs on Bruce Springsteen’s album The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995).
Sebastian is the author of three novels: Rip Crew (2018), The Convert’s Song (2014), and Triple Crossing (2011).He is also the author of Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (1998). He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, studied at the University of Barcelona, and was born in Chicago.
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1LT Francis Noel Barbarin
Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Georgetown, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Amphitheater, Lot 137 East. Unmarked burial.
Age 81 years, 9 months, 16 days. Buried March 1, 1883.
14th Annual Reunion Of The Association Of The Graduates Of The United States Military Academy, At West Point, New York, June 12, 1883, Courier Printing Co., East Saginaw, Michigan, 1883.
Francis N. Barbarin
No. 237. Class of 1820.
Died February 28, 1883, at Georgetown, District of Columbia, aged 82.
Francis Noel Barbarin was born in Brooklyn, New York on the 12th of May 1801 and died in Georgetown, D.C., on the 28th of February 883, being in his 82d year.
He entered the Military Academy at West Point as a cadet March 1815 and graduating in 1820 was commissioned in the Artillery Corps in 1821.
His death leaves but one survivor to the class to which he belonged.
In 1829 he was married to Miss S.M. Totten, sister of Joseph G. Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army.
After serving in the Army for sixteen years at Arsenals and Posts, as Assistant Instructor of Infantry Tactics at West Point and as Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, he resigned his commission as First Lieutenant in the United States Artillery Corps and was for some time engaged as a Civil Engineer in the construction of Railroads in North Carolina, of which his friend, Major Walter Gwynn, a graduate of the class of 1822, was Chief Engineer. On January 10, 1845, he was appointed Chief Clerk in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, discharging the duties of that officer until 1871, when declining years rendered them too arduous for his performance and he was placed in immediate charge of one of the important branches of the office, which position he filled up to the time of his death, his clear, unimpaired mind and vigorous memory combining to render his services specially valuable. He was a man of exemplary character, of affable and courteous manners and during his long service in office he had the confidence of the several chiefs of the Bureau and their associates and the esteem of his fellow clerks. Always blessed with remarkable health, he was rarely absent from his post of duty and his death was caused by a severe cold contracted the last day he spent at his office, which, resulting in an attack of pneumonia, proved fatal on the third day and he passed to his rest as gently and peacefully as he had always lived.
He was buried from the Chapel of Oak Hill Cemetery, D.C. and in that beautiful home of the dead he sleeps with the beloved wife who had preceded him but a few years.
Cullum's Register of Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy
Appointed from New York.
Military History: Cadet at the Military Academy March 1, 1815 to July 1, 1820, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Third Lieutenant, Ordnance, July 1, 1820. Served on Ordnance duty July 1, 1820 to August 20, 1822; in garrison at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina 1822‑1824 and Fort Monroe, Virginia (Artillery School for Practice), 1824‑1826; at the Military Academy, as Assistant Instructor of Infantry Tactics January 19 to April 20, 1826; on Ordnance duty, April 20, 1826 to November 2, 1827; in garrison at Fort Wolcott, Rhode Island 1827‑1833 and on Ordnance duty January 1, 1834 to September 16, 1836. Resigned, September 16, 1836.
Second Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, in Re-organization of Army June 1, 1821 to rank from July 1, 1820.
First Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, February 28, 1827.
Civil History: Civil Engineer in Virginia and North Carolina, 1836‑1840. Chief Clerk of United States Engineer Department, 1845‑1871 and Clerk, 1871‑1883. Died February 28, 1883, at Georgetown, D.C. Aged 82. Buried Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Maryland accused of race discrimination over scrapping of Baltimore rail project
Governor Larry Hogan faces a civil rights lawsuit after axing plans for a light rail line serving African American areas and switching funds to roads in the suburbs
Baltimore has remained radically segregated in practice, if not in law, to the present day. Photograph: Alamy
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Civil rights groups are alleging Maryland violated federal discrimination laws when it canceled plans for a long-considered Baltimore transit line that would have benefited predominantly African American neighborhoods.
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In a Title VI civil rights complaint filed this week against Maryland, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) charges that the decision by the Republican governor, Larry Hogan, to eliminate the plans for an east-west light rail line in Baltimore – and transfer the state funds slated for it to road projects in largely white suburban and rural parts of the state – discriminates against the city’s black residents.
“Maryland’s cancellation of the Red Line is the latest chapter in a long history of racially discriminatory decisions regarding the allocation of transportation and housing resources in the state,” said the complaint, filed with the US Department of Transportation on behalf of a coalition of civil rights groups and the African American residents of Baltimore.
A transportation economist cited in the complaint found that the switch from a subway line to the new highways initiative would cost African Americans $19m in user benefits by 2030, while white Maryland residents will gain more than $35m in user benefits during that period.
Mickey Martin, a middle-aged African American man waiting for a bus as cars streamed by near the Lexington Market, the city’s hub for public transportation, said he did not know if it was discriminatory or not, because he does not own a car and has no idea how the other half lives.
For his part, Martin, who no longer works, said he spends around 14 hours a week on the city’s buses, making at least two transfers to make it out to Edmundson Ave, one of the areas the new light rail line would have reached.
“It sucks,” said Amy Johnson, who was waiting on the bus to return home from her job at the University of Maryland hospital, of the city’s public transportation.
Baltimore’s bus system functions so poorly that, last week, the city offered a $100k forgivable loan to the online retail giant Amazon, which opened a warehouse in the area, to fund shuttles because the bus system “does not provide access to where the jobs are available now”, a spokesperson for the Baltimore Development Corp told the Baltimore Sun. “From some parts of the city, the commute to some areas where there are jobs can be as long as 90 minutes each way.”
Each day the city’s single existing light rail line is packed with people commuting south towards low-paying jobs at the BWI airport – the line’s final stop.
Proponents of the proposed light rail line, called the Red Line, believed it would similarly allow many of the city’s impoverished African Americans to reach jobs they would not otherwise be able to take.
“The lack of mobility, long commuter times, have critical implications for families in Baltimore,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for LDF. “We regard the cancellation of the Red Line as a critically important moment that must be addressed and must be engaged.”
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The federal government had already promised $900m for the project before Hogan announced in June that his administration would scrap the plan – and forfeit the federal funds.
“I never thought, ever, in my closing year in the US Senate, I would see a letter saying the Baltimore region rejects $900m in federal investment,” Senator Barbara Mikulski said at the time.
A history of transportation discrimination
Though the press conference announcing the complaint put it in the context of the economic and social conditions that caused unrest after the death of Freddie Gray in April, the complaint makes it clear that discriminatory transportation is nothing new in Baltimore.
“Maryland, including the City of Baltimore, has exhibited a preference for its white residents over its African American residents in highway construction decisions since at least the 1930s,” the complaint reads.
In the 1960s, “government officials devised new expressway proposals, all of which planned to use at least a portion of the predominantly African-American Franklin-Mulberry corridor in Baltimore’s Harlem Park neighborhood,” the complaint reads. “As a result, Harlem Park residents stopped investing in their homes, and the neighborhood became filled with deteriorating and abandoned buildings.”
Harlem Park neighbors Sandtown-Winchester, where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested in, and they are often grouped together in studies.
The city long had strict race-based housing covenants and the practice of blockbusting, where real estate speculators would exploit white fear of black neighbors to get them to sell at artificially low prices, kept the city radically segregated in practice, if not in law, until the present day.
When the light rail system was first proposed in 1965, residents of predominantly white areas surrounding the city, such as Anne Arundel County, objected, complaining that “that the Metro would enable poor, inner-city blacks to travel to the suburbs, steal residents’ TVs and then return to their ghettos in Baltimore”.
Just last year, nearby Carroll County introduced a “Mass Transit Protection Resolution”, intended to keep public transportation riders from Baltimore out.
Many saw it as emblematic that shortly after the governor announced that he would reallocate transportation funds, his administration released a transit map that did not include Baltimore City at all.
“Literally took #Baltimore off the map. Just gone. Lots of #Maryland-ers not apart of infrastructure improvements,” Ben Krimmel tweeted in a typical reaction at the time.
Antero Pietila, the author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, said that the city has always struggled with east-west transportation and that various plans to build highways that cut through the center of the city have “created lots of damage to the urban fabric of the city without solving any of the transportation problems”.
“This case is about the Red Line but it’s also about so much more than just the construction of the Red Line,” Ajmel Quereshi, assistant counsel for LDF, said. “It’s about the 50 years that went into consideration.”
Governor Hogan, who has announced a $135m overhaul of the city’s bus lines as a replacement for the Red Line, said through a spokesperson that the complaint has “zero credibility or legal standing” and characterized it as “nothing more than a press release”.
The Hogan administration rejected the plan partly because of a tunnel – estimated to cost $1bn – that would cut through Baltimore.
Lost opportunity
According to the complaint, the Red Line would not only enable many of the city’s African American residents to reach new jobs, it would bring jobs to them.
“Strong transit connections to West Side neighborhoods would attract economic development, and many areas along the Red Line route were rezoned for mixed-use, transit-oriented development in anticipation of the Line’s construction,” the complaint reads.
The complaint also alleges the loss of up to 10,000 construction jobs, in a city whose unemployment rate is over 7%, two percentage points higher than the rest of the state.
And, unlike many construction jobs, the complaint alleges, these jobs would not all be temporary. “As part of the construction process, training was to be provided to local adults and students at the Edmondson-Westside high school so that they would be qualified for jobs in construction, maintenance, and operations of the transit line,” the complaint states.
But some who agree with the complaint’s allegations of discrimination are not necessarily fans of the light rail as it was planned.
“If you want to see the reality of a light rail system in Baltimore take a train from Hunt Valley to BWI airport and time it. And it will take you about an hour and a half,” said Pietila, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who was born in Finland where he said he has experienced truly convenient public transportation. “When we turn from the light rail to the Red Line as proposed, I wonder how popular it would be. If it isn’t frequent and fast people wouldn’t want to use it.”
At the press conference, the complainants said that while they “certainly would like the Red Line to get reinvigorated”, the issue of taking funds from predominantly African American areas and investing it in predominantly white areas is the larger problem.
“Most of that money can be reinvested in Baltimore where it belongs,” Ifill said.


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In a case that received press several years ago, a lawyer from Pennington was driving his girlfriend in his BMW SUV. The two were having a dispute, and at one point, the woman fell from the car and onto the street. She later died from her injuries. The Pennington lawyer had been drinking and was charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI). While it was unclear whether there was foul play on the part of the lawyer in the woman’s accident, the one thing that was certain is that the lawyer was now facing a DWI charge. If you were recently charged with a traffic violation, from a minor moving violation to a DWI, you should be represented in court. Even with minor offenses, an experienced attorney has many tools available to help you possibly get the charge dismissed. And with something as serious as a DWI, it is vital that you have representation. We are The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall. We specialize in handling traffic charges for our clients in Pennington and throughout Mercer County. Call us at (609) 683-8102 for a free initial consultation. We are available 24/7 to speak with you.
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Let’s discuss the more common offenses that occur in the Pennington area.
Driving With A Suspended License. Driving while suspended is a very serious offense. A conviction for a first offense will result in a $500 fine and an added 6 months of license suspension. A second conviction will result in a mandatory jail sentence of 1 to 5 days, plus a $750 fine, and another 6 months without driving privileges. A third conviction results in a 10-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. What happens if you are involved in a car accident while driving with a suspended license? It is a 45-day jail term, even if the accident was not your fault.
Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). DWI is not considered a criminal offense in this State, which means that you do not have the right to a trial by jury for a DWI in New Jersey. That said, the punishment can still be significant. A conviction for a first offense results in a 1-year license suspension. A second conviction is a 2-year suspension, and a third conviction is a 10-year suspension. Further, a third DWI conviction means the judge must impose a jail sentence.
The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall have a leg up on other attorneys specifically with regard to DWI offenses. Not only have Marshall attorneys successfully helped many clients charged with DWI, but also our attorneys have specialized training in the sobriety test procedures employed in DWI cases.
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Traffic offenses in New Jersey have consequences beyond monetary penalties. Some offenses may even result in jail time. Given that you most likely need a car to go to work and support yourself, do not go it alone in court when you have been charged with a traffic offense. The lawyers at The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall are here to assist you. The first consultation is free, so call our Lawrenceville office at (609) 683-8102.
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Feast on Fido? Pyongyang serves dog ‘sweet meat’
Dog meat is eaten in Asia. South Korea, mindful of criticism attached to eating dogs in the West, has made the practice more discreet and better regulated,but isolated North Korea attaches no public stigma to consuming the meat.
“Let's see by a show of hands, who won't be having sweet meat? Five? We're going then.”
With that quick vote, it was decided that a delegation of 21 South Koreans visiting Pyongyang this month for a conference would be having an extravagant lunch where every one of the eight courses would be a dog meat delicacy.
“A once-in-a-lifetime experience!” a North Korean official chaperoning the group said enthusiastically.
While South Korea, mindful of its overseas image and the criticism attached in the West to eating dogs, has made the practice more discreet and better regulated, isolated North Korea attaches no public stigma to consuming the meat.
Dog meat restaurants in the South are usually back-alley fare catering to middle-aged men. In the North, dog meat has become a celebrated part of the culture served at its best dining halls to the few in the impoverished state who can afford it.
Dog meat is eaten in other countries in Asia, including Vietnam. In South Korea, “boshin-tang” which translates as "health preserving soup" is usually braised meat, stewed in a spicy broth and served with steamed rice. But marinated ribs, as found in North Korea, are rare.
In the North's capital, the recipe calls for less spice, presumably to highlight the natural flavor of the ingredients, and a variety of cuts are served for a leisurely meal accompanied by rice wine.
Defectors in the South said Korean cuisine, which varies according to region, undergoes further change in the North because there is less money for elaborate spices and ingredients. This means food is simpler in the North, the taste is lighter and little is wasted.
Sweet and soft
The pungent odor of dog meat is far more noticeable in the North's cuisine with its fewer spices, leading a few uneasy Southerners to forego the feast. They were instead served a set that included chicken, fish, shrimp and vegetables.
“You want to go easy at first, or else, near the end, you won't have any room left,” said Shim Jae-hwan, a human rights attorney from Seoul who was part of the South Korean delegation dining at the Pyongyang Sweet Meat Restaurant.
Following a bowl of clear broth for a starter, an impressive roast was served, its texture soft and sweet as it easily tore from a 15-cm (6-inch) segment of the vertebra.
Then came an assortment of meat in a variety of sauces, one more exotic than the next, and the meal ends with a hearty bowl of spicy soup and rice.
The North's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is said to be a fan of dog meat, and state media said he often offers advice on how the dish should be prepared, such as: “To get the broth right, the meat should be cooked with its skin intact.”
Together with restaurant Okryu-kwan, which seats nearly 10,000 people a day and is known for Pyongyang's trademark dish of cold noodles, the Pyongyang Sweet Meat Restaurant has become a popular spot among the North's elite and visitors from the South.
The restaurant near the Taedong River in central Pyongyang can accommodate more than 2,000 people a day and manager Pak Song-suk boasts all the meat comes from home-grown canine.
“Sweet meat is considered the best remedy when the appetite is low because of hot weather or fatigue,” a feature article in the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.


Russia. Masks. Vaccinations.
A story in the Telegraph overnight should have had the market moving
A story in the Telegraph overnight should have had the market moving, but has been largely ignored so far… They’re writing that the government’s ‘central working assumption’ is that there will not be a deal done with the EU ahead of the end of the year and that we’ll be trading with each other on WTO terms thereafter. The latest round of face to face talks end tomorrow and with nothing likely to be agreed upon, it means Boris will also have missed his target of getting something across the line before the end of July. The news of this being the government’s working assumption is disappointing on the one hand, but on the other it means that at least the next few months can be spent preparing as best as we can for whatever disruption this brings.
Additionally, the FT is reporting that the government has given up hope of getting a deal done with the US ahead of the presidential election in November -perhaps no bad thing given who’s in charge.
The long awaited release of a report on Russia’s possibly interference into UK politics was finally over, yesterday. The report highlights that Russia did try and influence the outcome of Scotland’s independence referendum, but was unable to determine if they got involved in the Brexit vote. The committee behind the report has urged the UK intelligence services to carry out their own investigation into whether or not the Kremlin were involved and publish an unclassified summary of it. This report was fairly damning of Russia and said that they consider the UK “one of its top intelligence targets”. It also talks about London being open for business in welcoming oligarchs and their vast wealth, whilst asking very little questions over the origin of the funds. The report raises as many questions as it answers, its just a shame it took a year for the government to publish it! Reuters has some more detail and the Times is reporting that Boris will hand more powers to security services to stop this happening again – though he’s confident that Russia didn’t interfere in the Brexit referendum.
Clinical trials of the Oxford covid vaccine are going well and early indications are positive that it creates a strong immune response. This has led them to cautiously predict that it could be rolled out by the end of the year. A 10,000 subject strong trial is now underway and there are plans for a larger 30,000 person trial to get underway shortly.
Yesterday’s New York Times Daily podcast was focused on the possible uptake of a vaccine in the US and their public health reporter believes that as many as 50% of Americans wouldn’t want to get vaccinated. They cite issues such as anti-vaccers with a lot of influence, fear over the pace at which it has been developed and therefore the unknown long term side effects and also the concern that Trump would be the one to effectively sign it off as reasons why people wouldn’t volunteer to get it. Creating herd immunity through vaccination would require about an 85% vaccination rate and at 50% would mean that the virus would hang around potentially for years to come.
Trump has changed his tune and held his first covid briefing for three months. The president now recommends the wearing of face masks and taking social distancing measures, saying that doing so is being patriotic. He’s also warned that things are likely to get worse before they get better. His remarks come as the virus continues to grow and Dr Faucci warned senators that 100,000 people per day could become infected if things carried on as they are. The cynic in us thinks this might have as much to do with Trump’s polling numbers as it does public health, which are universally lower than Biden’s by enough margin to lose the election.
In Europe: Getting the bailout package across the line pushed the euro higher across the board. The combination of loans and grants was signed off in conjunction with the first post-Brexit EU budget and lays down a seven year funding plan for the bloc, putting it in a good place for a strong recovery. Getting this across the line was seen as a key test of the Euro project, however it’s not entirely a done deal that funds will be distributed as planned, as countries applying for grants will have to submit detailed recovery plans that will be reviewed by all member states. Additionally, Europe has had to sacrifice a couple of its high ideals to get the deal done, watering down clauses to ‘respect the rule of law’, at the insistence of Poland and Hungary – the latter of which is working towards a dictatorship within EU. Poland also got a break from having to work towards stringent climate change targets – a relief for them as their industrial economy is heavily dependent on coal fired power stations, but a big setback in the EU’s world leading climate change combat agenda.
Looking to today: The data sheets are quite light, but we do get a live Q&A from Christine Lagarde, run by the Washington Post. We’ll also see a lot of US energy inventory data, which will have an impact on the oil market. The last set of numbers showed a much larger than forecast inventory build, which put the brakes on crude’s gains of late.
Lastly, it’s worth keeping an eye on the gold and silver markets, which are close to recent highs. The build in positions could be a pre-emptive flight to safety.


13 Mexican police officers murdered by suspected cartel gunmen in bloody ambush
Mexico-A group of armed gunmen believed to be part of a powerful drug cartel in Mexico ambushed a police convoy in the western state of Michoacan, killing at least 13 officers and wounding nine.
Some 42 state police officers had gone to the township of Aguililla on Monday to enforce a judicial order when they were met with more than 30 gunmen believed to be from the Jalisco New Generation, one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels at the moment.
Officials said the gunmen opened fire on the police convoy with .50 caliber sniper rifles and AR-15 and AK-47 assault-style rifles.
At least 13 officers were killed, some of their bodies still inside the patrol trucks when the vehicles were set afire.
“No attack on the police will go unpunished, and this was a cowardly, devious attack because they laid an ambush in this area of the road,” Gov. Silvano Aureoles said.


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The Government invests in the human capital of the country
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said Tuesday that the Government aims to invest in the country`s human capital and create a modern labor market with well-trained human resources that can effectively respond to the ever-changing conditions and growing challenges and demands of the modern economy, in his speech at the 29th Pancyprian Congress of SEK trade union. The speech was delivered on behalf of the President by the Minister of Finance Constantinos Petrides.
The President said that in the last years the Government has put special emphasis on the protection of workers` rights and the deepening of institutionalized social protection. He also referred to the future actions of the government in that context.
Among them is the completion of the social dialogue for the introduction of the minimum wage, based on the studies that have already been prepared by the Ministry of Labour with the support of the European Commission and the International Labor Office.
Furthermore, he referred to the revision of the Social Security System and the relevant Legislation, with the aim, of simplifying the Legislation for the benefit of the citizens and strengthening the coverage of the self-employed and workers with new forms of employment.
He also referred to the promotion of a pension reform for equitable pensions for all.
The President also spoke of an assessment of the current situation in the Social Security Services in relation to the organization and procedures and the study of good practices of other European countries. He said there would be a redesign and simplification of the procedures of the Social Security Services and training of the staff, for the digital transformation of the Social Security Services.
At the same time, he said ensuring that jobs provide good wages is essential to ensuring adequate working and living conditions, building a fair and resilient economy and supporting inclusive growth.
The President also praised the positive contribution of SEK in managing the pandemic crisis.
“The conditions created by the pandemic temporarily stopped a five-year course of extremely positive progress in the field of employment. Between 2015 and 2019, 72,118 new jobs were created, a net increase in the number of employees of 20.9%", he noted
He added that through the cooperation with the social partners it was possible to significantly mitigate the effects of the pandemic, by providing support to the majority of employees in the private sector and the self-employed, but also to the unemployed by extending the unemployment benefit for an additional 18 months, in addition to 6 months of unemployment from the Social Insurance Fund.
According to the President, support for employees, the self-employed and the unemployed to maintain their incomes and jobs has been extended to more than 210,000 people and amounted to more than 760 million euros from March 2020 until today, which brings the Republic of Cyprus in the second place out of the 27 countries of the European Union in percentage of workers that were supported during the pandemic. He also referred to the support of companies with one-off sponsorships for their operating expenses over 160 million euros, in addition to any other sponsorships and support they have received from the state.
"As a result of the efforts of all, but also of the targeted moves of the Government, from the second quarter of 2021 the economy records again positive growth rates while unemployment follows a significant downward trend reaching according to the latest data to 5.2% which is the lowest level since 2009.," the President said.


Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard among 2020 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees
Jan 14, 2020 @ 2:00pm
ABC/Image Group LAMultiple country stars will have their recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year.
The Recording Academy announced today that 26 recordings will added to the Grammy Hall of Fame, which preserves prominent songs of historical significance that are at least 25 years old.
Among the 2020 selections are Patsy Cline‘s “Walkin’ After Midnight,” which became her breakthrough single after its 1957 release, reaching number two on the Billboard country chart. Also on the list is Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard‘s collaboration on “Pancho and Lefty,” the title track of their acclaimed 1983 album.
Other country inductees include “I’ll Fly Away” by country gospel group The Chuck Wagon Gang, one of the top-selling gospel songs in history, plus the Allman Brothers Band album Eat a Peach, and “I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow” by The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys.
Nancy Sinatra‘s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin,’” “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” by gospel act Swan Silverstones, and “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” by Blind Alfred Reed, who recorded during the famous Bristol Sessions in 1927, will also be inducted.
Elton John, Neil Diamond and Joni Mitchell are among the many other multi-genre acts whose work will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.
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The Campaign Report – January 5, 2020
Washington Post: “After a year of campaigning, and with less than a month to go before the first and therefore most important single contest in the Democratic nomination fight, few if any are confident of the outcome. At least four candidates are seen as having a shot to win Iowa, or, alternatively, to suffer a crippling result that could hobble their campaigns going forward, especially if there is a late surge by a lower-tier contender.”
“The result is a hotly contested sprint to the Feb. 3 caucuses — a struggle that could either propel a clear winner into the next-voting states with momentum or open a months-long fight for the delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination. Unlike past primaries, several of the top candidates are expected to have the financial resources and dedicated fan base to wage long campaigns even if they finish in the middle of the pack in Iowa.”
The moderate middle is a myth. https://t.co/IeNXUXvBWu
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) January 5, 2020
Joe Biden lit into President Trump’s tweeting about the possibility of retaliating against Iran Saturday night, calling it “incredibly dangerous and irresponsible,” Politico reports. Biden accused Trump of taking reckless action as “the walls close in on this guy.”
The Washington Post reviews Donald Trump Jr.’s new book, Triggered, and notes it “fails as memoir and as polemic.”
“Its analysis is facile, its hypocrisy relentless, its self-awareness marginal. (The writing is wretched, even by the standards of political vanity projects.) But the point of Triggered is not autobiographical, literary or analytic, and it should not be read or evaluated on such grounds. Rather, the book is most useful as a preview of a possible Donald Trump Jr. 2024 presidential campaign, the contours of which grow clearer the deeper one wades into these pages.”
A new SurveyMonkey poll of Republican voters finds two children of President Trump — Don Jr. and Ivanka — as two of the top four picks for president in five years. The other two are Mike Pence and Nikki Haley.
Progressives have called the former vice president naive for his goal of bringing Republicans and Democrats together. But that’s a big reason his supporters love him, writes @elainejgodfrey. https://t.co/axOU6OWlJY
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 5, 2020
Andrew Yang will launch a write-in campaign in Ohio after a “bureaucratic paperwork issue” prevented him from appearing on the presidential primary ballot, The Hill reports.
President Trump took aim at Pete Buttigieg at a rally in a Miami megachurch, claiming the the Democratic candidate was faking his faith ahead of the election. Said Trump: “All of a sudden, he’s become very religions… this happened about two weeks ago.” Of course, he also made fun of Buttigieg’s last name.
Democratic hopefuls respond to Trump's war-mongering https://t.co/fUj1SW1L5f
— Joan McCarter (@joanmccarter) January 3, 2020
Politico: “Sliding steadily in the polls and battling a narrative that he couldn’t endure the kind of rigorous campaign schedule Iowans demand, Joe Biden’s Iowa prospects were just about written off earlier this fall. Even his own campaign began to downplay expectations.”
“But with 31 days left before the Feb. 3 caucuses, Biden has managed to turn his fortunes around.”
“He launched a successful, eight-day bus tour through rural Iowa last month that sparked an uptick in volunteers, precinct captain requests and caucus commitments. He doubled his fundraising in the last quarter, allowing him to flood the state’s airwaves with ads.”
Playbook: “Joe Biden is cycling three new ads into his $4 million Iowa ad buy. It’s a six-figure buy that will run in the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities and Sioux City media markets.”
“The first ad is Soul, which reiterates Biden’s message that the fabric of American society will change if Trump has another four years in office. Integrity has testimonials from people about Biden’s character. They also have a 15-second spot, Enough which has a Des Moines firefighter praising Biden.”
Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) announced Friday that he will not seek reelection, The Hill reports.
New York Times: “The morning after the Democrats’ last debate in December, the Democratic National Committee announced the thresholds to qualify for the next one, scheduled for Jan. 14 in Des Moines: 5 percent support in four qualifying polls, or 7 percent in two early-state polls. With those steeper requirements in place, just five candidates have qualified so far: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar.”
“Those who haven’t made the cut are getting angry about relying on the results of public polling — when no polls that count have been released since the last debate, on Dec. 19.”
“If any of the lower-tier candidates got a boost from that last debate, there have been no qualifying polls to reflect it. With just one week to go before the Jan. 10 qualification deadline, there’s been no way for Andrew Yang or Tom Steyer — who are on the fringe of making the debate stage — or anyone else (like Cory Booker, who needs a lot of help) to secure a spot.”
Sanders has an early edge establishing himself as the primary's anti-war candidate. https://t.co/Gfgceb9dEJ
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) January 4, 2020
President Trump rallied his evangelical Christian base of supporters on Friday, portraying himself as the restorer of faith in the public square and claiming that God is “on our side,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “Evangelical Christians of every denomination and believers of every faith have never had a greater champion, not even close, in the White House, than you have right now. We’ve done things that nobody thought was possible. Together we’re not only defending our constitutional rights. We’re also defending religion itself, which is under siege.”
Joe Biden has a unique electoral advantage — but it may prove less beneficial than it appears today. @EricLevitz writes https://t.co/S4cBUjvpZq
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) January 4, 2020
Amy McGrath (D) raised $6.2 million for her U.S. Senate campaign in the fourth quarter of 2019, “marking another impressive fundraising quarter even as she faces grumbling from some progressive Democrats in Kentucky,” the Lexington Herald Leader reports.
“The money McGrath raised in the final three months of 2019 brings her total to $16.9 million, just $2 million shy of what former Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes raised in her bid against U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014. McGrath’s campaign said it has $9.1 million on hand.”
'There’s obviously a lot of energy out there': Democratic donations surge heading into 2020 https://t.co/fwhEVHoMHg
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) January 3, 2020
Jonathan Bernstein: “The end of Julian Castro’s presidential campaign on Thursday offered another opportunity to complain about the nomination process, and plenty of pundits have been doing just that. After all, Castro has more relevant experience than South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who remains a contender, and he’s far more qualified than entrepreneur Andrew Yang or activist Tom Steyer, both of whom scored invitations to the November and December debates. Castro’s final debate was in October.”
“But while I’m a Castro fan (I live in San Antonio, where he was once mayor), it’s hard for me to see any legitimate complaints about the process in this case. I’d agree that Castro in some sense deserved to be one of the remaining candidates, but presidential elections aren’t really about what candidates deserve. Castro had his chance, and for whatever reason he failed to attract much support. He was going nowhere in the polls, both nationally and in the early states, and he ended up at only 1% in Nevada, where plenty of Latino voters joined white Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire in ignoring him.”
Winning office is a necessary step, but figuring out what to do once you’re in power—how to translate electoral wins into policy action—is an entirely different game. https://t.co/cOJI397CR9
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) January 4, 2020
“President Trump’s 2020 election strategy relies largely on the white, working-class base that he excited in 2016. But he faces a demographic challenge: The electorate has changed since he was last on the ballot in ways likely to benefit Democrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Working-class, white voters are projected to decline by 2.3 percentage points nationally as a share of eligible voters, compared with the last election, because they are older and therefore dying at a faster rate than are Democratic groups. As those voters pass on, they are most likely to be replaced by those from minority groups or young, white voters with college degrees—groups that lean Democratic.”
“That means Mr. Trump will have to coax more votes from a shrinking base—or else find more votes in other parts of the electorate.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $21.2 million for her presidential campaign in the fourth quarter of 2019, “a slight dip from the previous quarter and behind three of her top rivals for the Democratic nomination,” the New York Times reports.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar raised $11.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, “a sum that was more than twice what she collected during the prior three months but still left her no better than sixth in fund-raising for the last three months among Democrats running for president,” the New York Times reports.
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Luke Campbell: I will beat Vasiliy Lomachenko
Luke Campbell thinks that he’ll have come out victorious against WBA/WBO lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko on August 31 in London, UK. The 31-year-old Campbell is a big underdog in this fight and many expect him to lose in the same fashion as fellow countryman Anthony Crolla. Campbell will have the fans on his side, but that may not be enough for him to win, reports Boxing 24.
Lomchenko destroyed Crolla in four rounds last April in Los Angeles, California. Former WBA 135 pound champion Crolla (34-7-3, 13 KOs) took a frightful beating before the fight was halted with him lying bleeding and battered on the canvas.
Campbell (20-2, 16 KOs) fighting for a world title for the second time in his six-year pro career, and he’s hoping to have better luck in the scoring than he did when challenge Jorge Linares for his WBA lightweight title in September 2017.
“They all get beat in the end, don’t they? Sooner or later. I believe I will beat him. I’m fighting the elite of the elite. “I’m confident in the 19 years that I’ve put into this sport, always being disciplined,” said Campbell to skysports.com.