Their members choose the Senators of the Dutch Senate, in a manner similar to the members of the provincial councils in the European Netherlands.

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In this document you will find general information about the election, procedures and history of the Senate.

The 75 members of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament (the States General) are elected by the members of the twelve Provincial Councils and three Electoral Colleges from the Caribean part of the Netherlands.

These elections are indirect: the voters elect the members of the Provincial Councils and the Electoral Colleges, who in turn elect the members of the Senate.

As the members of the Senate are not elected directly by the voters, they are rather more remote from the realities of daily politics.

The criteria for membership are the same as those for the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament.

Since the 1983 revision of the constitution the Senate is elected in its entirety every four years by the members of the Provincial Council.

In 2017 the possibility to elect the members of the Senate through the Electoral Colleges in the Caribean part of the Netherlands has been anchored in the constitution.

The elections take place within three months of the Provincial Council and Electoral Colleges elections.

The Senate's main duties are in the legislative field, but it also plays a role in scrutinising the actions of the Government.

Formally the Senate can only reject or accept legislation.

In practice, however, it has rather more possibilities and debates are of importance.

For example, statements made by government ministers in debates on bills (draft legislation) can play a role in future lawsuits.

The debates in the Senate contribute to the interpretation of a law.

Moreover, members of the Senate can elicit undertakings from ministers about the implementation of a law.

Like their counterparts in the House of Representatives, members of the Senate are entitled to put written questions to the Government.

The debate on the Government's budget also gives them the opportunity to debate current and future policy with the government.

## How do the two houses of the Dutch Parliament differ?

Members of the House of Representatives are full-time politicians, whereas members of the Senate are part-timers who often hold other positions as well.

They receive an allowance which is about a quarter of the salary of the members of the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives is mainly engaged in day-to-day politics.

As such, it calls ministers to account, holds debates on new policy and undertakes detailed examination of bills.

As noted previously, the Senate is rather more remote from day-to-day politics, if only because the parliamentary parties in the Senate are not formally bound by a government programme.

The Senate is concerned only with the broad outline of policy.

It can operate rather more independently than the House of Representatives.

The Senate has a revising role in relation to draft legislation.

Its members do not have the right to amend bills (the right of amendment).

They can only vote on them and either accept or reject them.

Furthermore, the members of Senate make much less use of the right to ask written questions than the members of the House of Representatives.

Finally, the House of Representatives has exercised its right to institute an inquiry on several occasions, particularly in recent years, whereas the Senate has to date never exercised this right.

The bicameral system (system of two chambers) was introduced in 1815 when the Senate was established.

The Senate has remained in existence ever since, despite occasional criticism of its existence and functioning.

In due course there came to be wider acceptance of the value of a second chamber as an institution that assesses bills by reference to its own criteria after they have passed through the House of Representatives.

The legislative process can be fairly protracted.

Sometimes it takes five or six years before a bill becomes law.

The Government and the House of Representatives often amend the text of a bill during this process.

Furthermore, new information and ideas may emerge while a bill is passing through Parliament.

The main purpose of revision is to ascertain whether the final bill is of sufficient quality and to ensure that it does not conflict with the constitution or international treaties or jeopardise the rights of citizens disproportionately.

The legislation as a whole must also remain affordable.

## How did the Senate come into existence?

The Senate has existed since 1815, the year in which it was instituted by King William I.

When the Netherlands and Belgium were united in 1815 the Belgians in particular pressed for the introduction of a bicameral system.

In its early years the Senate served as a bulwark of the Crown (i.e. the King and his ministers) since it was still able to block bills that displeased the King.

Such bills were usually private member's bills from the House of Representatives.

At that time, the members of the House of Representatives too were elected indirectly.

The members of the Senate were not elected, but were confidants of the King and were appointed for life.

The Senate remained in existence after the separation from Belgium in 1830.

Much changed in the political sphere as a result of the introduction of a new constitution in 1848.

The position of the Senate and the criteria governing eligibility to stand for election were among the changes.

Monitoring the quality of legislation gradually came to be the main function of the Senate after 1848.

It thus became a revising chamber or 'Chambre de reflection'.

## How are bills dealt with by the Senate?

Directly after a bill has been passed by the House of Representatives it is sent to the Senate.

Here the bill is submitted to a parliamentary committee.

The committee decides whether the bill can be immediately put on the agenda of the full chamber or whether there should first be preparatory study of the bill.

If a bill is immediately put on the agenda of the full chamber, it will be passed as a formality without a debate.

The preparatory study of a bill consists mainly in written correspondence and the exchange of documents.

The members of the committee present the views of their parliamentary party in writing and put questions to the Government.

The Government replies in a note or memorandum of reply.

Sometimes, there may be several rounds of correspondence, but one is generally considered sufficient.

After the written preparations have been completed, the Senate is notified that the bill is ready for debate by the full chamber.

In due course the bill is then put on the plenary agenda.

## What else do members of the Senate do?

The main function of members of the Senate is to scrutinise and revise bills.

To do this effectively, they read the official papers and reports as well as letters and articles from newspapers and periodicals.

The members sometimes receive hundreds of letters before a bill is dealt with.

Members of the Senate also confer internally and externally.

Internal consultations are held for the most part within the parliamentary party or committee concerned.

The procedure to be adopted is one of the matters discussed in the committee meetings.

External consultations are held with organisations and citizens.

Sometimes members receive visitors or delegations.

And in special circumstances a committee may decide to hold a hearing.

Members of the Senate also have the right to ask the Government written questions about issues unconnected with a bill.

However, they make only limited use of this right.

The general view is that scrutinising the policy and actions of the Government is first and foremost the responsibility of the House of Representatives.

The Senate currently consists of 13 fractions:

VVD (People's Party for Freedom and democracy, 12 seats)

CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal, 9 seats)

"The Senate presents itself" is a film about the Senate and its members.

It shows the Senators at work as part-time politicians and as citizens with their own profession.

The scrutiny of the quality of the legislative bills is a priority for the Senators.

"The Senate presents itself" (Film, 16:55 minutes)

Biography President of the Senate Ankie Broekers-Knol

The Senate of the States General (brochure)

"European Senates convene on 22 May in Dutch Senate"

The electoral colleges for the Senate (in Dutch: "kiescolleges voor de Eerste Kamer") are the electoral colleges of the three public bodies of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea.


Peltier lives on the Unceded Anishinawbe Territory on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario.

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Host a Water Docs Where-You-Live Community Screening

Launched in 2018 on World Water Day, our annual Water Warrior Award is presented each year at the Water Docs Film Festival to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to protecting and raising awareness about threats and issues facing water.

The award highlights the work of someone who exemplifies and embodies Ecologos' mission—namely, to restore the human connection to water while motivating people to take action to protect our planet's most precious element.

Ecologos commissioned a local Toronto glass artist—Aurora Darwin—to design and create the awards.

Aurora was featured in the documentary The Peel Project, which premiered in Toronto at the 2017 Water Docs Film Festival.

During the premiere, Aurora displayed some of her art pieces that were inspired by her canoe journey down the Peel River Watershed during the making of the documentary.

We worked with Aurora to design a beautiful glass wave, capturing the powerful ability inherent in art to move hearts and minds to take action for water.

Read more about the Water Warrior Award.

The 2019 Water Warrior Award is being presented to two special water warriors whose powerful message about water has rippled through communities around the world: Grandmother Josephine Mandamin and her great niece, Autumn Peltier.

Autumn Peltier will join us on Wednesday, March 20 at Water Warriors: Screenings & Awards to accept the awards for both herself and her Great Aunt, Josephine Mandamin who will be with us in spirit.

This is a free event, but seats are limited.

Grandmother Josephine Mandamin (Feb 21, 1942 - Feb 22, 2019)

Autumn is a 14-year-old from the Wikwemikong Unceded Anishinawbe Territory located on Manitoulin Island.

She is also known as Mskwaa-Geezo Kwe (Red Moon Woman) of the eagle clan.

Autumn is currently in grade 9 and attends the Manitoulin Secondary School.

Autumn is being raised with her traditional ways, so she can pass our teachings onto her great grand-children in order to pass on the old ways and to protect our environment to ensure there is clean drinking water for our survival.

Autumn is known as one of Canada's youngest Water Activists and has become internationally known for her advocacy work and teachings to women.

She began her work in 2015 when she first attended the Children's Climate Summit in Sweden where she shared her story about the sacredness of water and the importance of clean drinking water for Indigenous people in Canada and especially in Ontario.

Since then Autumn has been creating awareness, sharing water ceremonies with young women and girls, participating in sacred water walks that she learned from her great auntie Josephine Mandamin who initiated the Great Lakes Water Walks before Autumn was born.

Autumn has travelled over 150,000 km and spoken at over 200 engagements all over Canada, the USA and overseas.

She also speaks on committees dealing with the Great Lakes, women's circles, youth groups, schools, ceremonies and countless conferences.

Her biggest event was speaking before world leaders on World Water Day in March 2018 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City where she told world leaders to "Warrior Up". Autumn is also a spokesperson for the Treaty Alliance of Canada and has been to the Kinder Morgan pipeline to protest against pipelines.

In 2017 Autumn was also invited to witness leadership sign a treaty to protect the grizzly bears against the Kinder Morgan Pipeline and then she was invited as a future Chief to sign the Treaty as well.

Autumn was awarded a Sovereign Medal of Exceptional Volunteerism for being an exceptional Environmentalist by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the Governor General o f Canada.

At her young age, Autumn's achievements include winning several awards: appearing in several magazines and books, being part of the school curriculum, giving keynote addresses, and she was recently added to Immigration Canada's information for new Canadians to know and understand about Indigenous people and for cultural education.

Autumn takes pride in her culture and in ceremony and enjoys working with her people.

For such a young person, Autumn's résumé is already several pages long and her journey has only just begun.

Wikwemikong Unceded NationGreat Lakes Mother Earth Water Walker

When challenged by one of her traditional teachers to not accept that she was powerless, Josephine suddenly came up with the idea of walking around Lake Superior to draw attention to the fact that water is the life blood of Mother Earth.

Other grandmothers eventually joined her in the walks around all five of the Great Lakes and, with the support of many people and financial assistance from donations, they accomplished the amazing feat of awareness-building about the critical water shortage and the political and spiritual issues around water.

Most importantly, they motivated other women to take part in sacred water walking by emphasizing the important role that women play in the protection of the earth's waters.

But it was her great love for the water that Josephine not only spoke about but also demonstrated.

She shared how her vision came to be, what it means today and what it will mean for the future.

Josephine pledged her life to the environment and always emphasized the importance of the protection of the water in all of her wisdom sharing.

Josephine's CV covered 30 years of life experience working with her own people, especially from the perspective of her great love of nature.

Challenged by life at an early age, she brought these experiences to light in all of her teachings.

These challenges not only motivated her, but also conditioned her to become the inspiration she was and also remains for so many and provided a legacy that will continue on for future generations.

To those who will hear the messages and songs, the encounter with them can never be forgotten.

Grandmother Josephine has left us with a renewed commitment to the tradition of protecting our waters by following closely in her footsteps.

Her legacy is in the example she demonstrated which helped to make us all aware of the great peril that we face if we don't protect the waters that are within us all

Josephine and the other grandmothers led by example and helped to bring together over 100 Tribes and First Nations to sign the Tribal and First Nations Great Lakes Water Accord in which all have pledged to work together to protect the waters… and for that, we will be forever grateful.

## 2018 Inaugural Award Recipient: Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow receives the inaugural Water Warrior Award at the 2018 Water Docs Film Festival

The inaugural award was presented to Canadian author and activist Maude Barlow.

Maude is the Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch.

She serves on the executive of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council.

Maude is the recipient of 14 honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the "Alternative Nobel"), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honour of the Sierra Club (US).

In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN.

She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 18 books, including her latest, Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever and Boiling Point, Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada's Water Crisis.

## Learn more about the ways you can get involved to take #ActionForWater.


He also has a master's, juris doctor, and doctorate degree from Ohio State University.

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Aaron Ford, who most recently served in the Nevada State Senate and was elected by his colleagues to serve as Majority Leader during the 2017 Legislative Session, is running for Nevada Attorney General.

Armed with a master's from George Washington University and a Ph.D., a second master's and a law degree from the Ohio State University, Ford is running for the statewide office "to be a champion for Nevadans who are struggling to pay their bills, battling addiction, growing up in unsafe neighborhoods or being taken advantage by unscrupulous scammers," details Ford.

"I'm running for Attorney General to fight for the people who need someone in their corner.

There is no criminal too ruthless and no corporation too powerful that I won't take on if they are hurting Nevada's families.

I will always be an attorney general who puts our families first."

Why are you running for Attorney General?

I grew up in a tough neighborhood in Dallas, Texas.

My father worked at a grocery store, and my mom did every job imaginable to put food on the table.

After my parents divorced, my mother made it clear it was up to me to be the man of the house and help her raise my two brothers.

I grew up wondering if the gas, the electricity or the water would be turned off.

My mom was working so hard, yet we never seemed to be able to get ahead.

But she always had dreams for me beyond my neighborhood and emphasized to me the importance of keeping my head in the books.

She signed me up for "Project Upward Bound," which helped me get into college.

I received a scholarship to Texas A&M University and ultimately, became the first in my family to graduate from college.

I went on to earn a Master's degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D., a second Master's and a law degree from the Ohio State University.

I worked hard but I was lucky to also have champions in my corner, from my mother to Project Upward Bound.

What are the top 3 issues you believe must be addressed by Nevada's AG?

As attorney general, I'll be focused on consumer protection and stopping those who try to take advantage of Nevada consumers and small businesses.

That means, I'll take on the scammers who prey on our seniors and the polluters who poison our water, as well as cybersecurity threats.

In addition, I'll fight to protect the privacy of Nevadans.

I will also make keeping Nevadans safe a priority whether they are at home, at work or out in their communities.

I will combat workplace sexual harassment, including ensuring taxpayers won't foot the bill to defend harassers.

I will work to find a solution and begin enforcing the voter-approved background checks on gun sales to prevent criminals and mentally ill from getting guns.

I also believe we can make our state safer by being both tough and smart on crime by focusing on going after violent criminals and drug dealers, supporting victims of crime and reducing recidivism.

I will make sure our brave law enforcement officers have the tools and resources necessary to go after anyone trying to harm Nevada families.

We must work on improving Nevada's mental health and substance abuse programs, as well as crack down on prescription drug companies who profit from dangerous addictions.

I have visited rehabilitation centers in Las Vegas and in Reno, and not only do these programs help people to transition out of a life of drug addiction, but they also save our taxpayers millions every year.

We must find ways to support these programs that help people get back on track.

We should also utilize diversion courts, so that those with mental health and addiction issues get the treatment that they need and become productive members of society.

As you are out campaigning, what have you found is the most important issue that Nevadans want to see addressed?

In the last few years, the attorney general's office in Nevada has become a vehicle to promote partisan politics and advance an extreme, ideological agenda that is far outside the mainstream and puts special interests ahead of our families.

Nevadans deserve better from their top law enforcement officer.

I will be an attorney general who always puts Nevada families first.

Whether that is combating workplace sexual harassment -- including making sure that taxpayers won't have to foot the bill to defend harassers, improving programs to combat drug addiction and address mental health, keeping our kids safe at school, or taking on scammers, criminals and drug dealers that prey on our communities, my focus will always be on keeping Nevadans safe, strengthening the middle class, and protecting our families.

And if the federal government tries to target our state, I will act as the first line of defense to stop them from attacking our citizens and the values we hold dear.

Do you have any specific plans with regards to the cannabis industry as it continues to grow?

Nevada's voter-approved marijuana industry has already created thousands of new jobs and generated millions in revenue for our state.

As attorney general, I would join a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general to support a bill in Congress to allow banks to serve legal marijuana businesses without fear of prosecution.

I was disappointed to learn that the current attorney general was the only attorney general from a state that has legalized recreational marijuana to fail to join this coalition.

Creating protections for banks that provide financial services to legal marijuana businesses would not only help the industry grow but also reduce a public safety threat.

Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo in January there has been a lot of uncertainty throughout the industry.

What would you want patients and the cannabis industry to know about your views on Nevadans' access to cannabis?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to rescind a policy that protects our state's recreational marijuana industry from overzealous federal intrusion could cost Nevada millions of dollars in revenue, kill jobs, and hurt our schools and local economy.

This clear example of federal government overreach is nothing more than an attempt to infringe on our state's sovereignty and is a direct insult to the Nevadans who voted in favor of a regulated marijuana industry.

As Nevada attorney general, I will do everything within my power to defend our state's voter-approved and regulated industry and send a clear message to the federal government that they should stay out of Nevada's business.

Nevada has had adult-use marijuana since July 1st but no place for tourists to legally use it.

Is that a state fix or should each jurisdiction handle their own consumption regulations?

During the 2017 Nevada Legislative Session, Senator Tick Segerblom authored a bill that would address this issue, but that bill did not pass the Assembly.

While a state-wide policy would provide uniformity and guidance to local communities, I believe it is unnecessary.

I agree with other legal experts that state law allows local municipalities to authorize these types of establishments locally.

Ultimately, local communities can define what works best for them regarding these establishments.

Lack of banking has been a thorn in the side of the cannabis industry.

Do you have any solutions in mind for the safety challenges that this presents?

Currently, Nevada's voter-approved marijuana businesses are forced to largely operate on a cash-only basis because of uncertainty around marijuana's status under federal law, thereby, forcing Nevada's legal marijuana businesses to operate in the so-called "grey market."

Creating protections for banks that provide financial services to legal marijuana businesses would not only help the industry grow, but also decrease the chance that these cash-intensive businesses will be targeted by criminals.

It's a bipartisan, common sense measure that would help keep people safe.

Nevadans were severely affected by the 1 October tragedy, what are your thoughts on gun control in Nevada?

I remember watching the news unfold on October 1st and frantically calling friends and family to see if everyone was okay.

No city or town in America should have to experience what Las Vegas went through, and I am committed to doing what I can to make sure we never experience it again.

I am a strong proponent of background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

In addition, I worked on a bill that closed a dangerous loophole allowing convicted stalkers to buy guns.

Nevada women are often the targets of gun violence by their abusers and stalkers.

This bill, which became law in a bipartisan fashion, will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

In 2016, Nevada voters narrowly approved a ballot measure to require background checks for gun sales between private individuals.

More than a year later, the resulting law isn't being enforced.

In the Legislature, I supported the 2013 background check measure, which was ultimately vetoed.

I also strongly supported the background check ballot initiative that was passed by voters in 2016 but is not being enforced by the current attorney general.

As Nevada attorney general, I will work with anyone including the governor, the Legislature and national and state law enforcement to find a solution and begin enforcing background checks on gun sales.

As Senate Majority Leader, I didn't back down from a fight when it came to protecting Nevadans.

I've taken on the DC gun lobby, big pharmaceutical companies and other powerful special interests.

As attorney general, there will be no criminal too ruthless and no corporation too powerful that I won't take on if they are hurting Nevada's families.

What one thing should a voter know about you before they step in the voting booth?

My mother used to tell me that actions speak louder than words.

I have tried to live that value as a father, husband, public servant and as a Nevadan.

My record in the State Senate speaks for itself, and I'm proud of the bipartisan work done to help fund our schools, make our communities safer and help businesses create high quality jobs.

As attorney general, I want to make Nevadans safe, strengthen the middle class and protect families.

I'll take on scammers who rip off our seniors, insurance companies that deny care, polluters who poison our water, and criminals and drug dealers who prey on our communities.

I will always be an attorney general who puts our families first.

#### Elevating the Conversation with John S. ...

#### Inhale/Exhale with Shoshanna Silverberg ...

Ford was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He is the oldest of three sons from a working-class family where money was tight. Ford earned a scholarship and received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in 1994. He was the first in his family to graduate from college. He earned a master's degree from George Washington University. He studied international education at George Washington University while teaching at a local high school.


The bridge over the River Tolka in Drumcondra at Millmount Avenue/Botanic Avenue was named Droichead Frank Flood on 14 March 2018.

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## Speech at the unveiling of Frank Flood Bridge, Drumcondra.

Dublin's newest plaques were unveiled today on the Frank Flood Bridge, Drumcondra.

They commemorate a young and fearless IRA Active Service Unit commander, a mere 19 years of age at the time of his execution.

A student of University College Dublin, Flood was among the 'Forgotten Ten', buried in Mountjoy Prison until a state funeral in 2001 saw the men reburied in Glasnevin cemetery.

I was asked to say a few words today to put Frank Flood in context and to explain the importance of the Active Service Unit in the War of Independence:

Frank Flood, in some ways, was an unlikely radical.

The son of a policeman, he was a very capable student of the same university attended by his friend Kevin Barry.

Before this, he had been a student of the CBS North Richmond Street school, and perhaps therein lies the answer.

This remarkable school was attended by republicans as diverse as Ernie O'Malley, Seán Heuston, Éamonn Ceannt and Sean Lemass.

It was an atmosphere that nurtured nationalism.

If radicalism was found closer to home, it was in his siblings.

Seán Flood, a brother, was a member of the 1st Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the IRA, serving under Ned Daly in 1916 and throughout the subsequent years of struggle.

Young Frank, born in December 1901, joined the Volunteer movement in the aftermath of the Rising in 1917.

The family lived at 19 Summerhill Parade.

Six Flood siblings played a part in the revolutionary period.

Flood proved capable of balancing student life with his involvement in the Republican movement.

An active member of the college Literary and Historical Society, he involved himself in college life, in a university that could count Seán MacBride, Sean Ó Faoláin, Kevin Barry and Todd Andrews among its student body.

On the day Kevin Barry was hanged, young Seán MacBride was among those to raise a tricolour to half mast over the university, leading to a military raid on the college.

Flood was a quick rising star of the IRA, which found itself operating in difficult terrain in Dublin city centre, far removed from the rural hills and valleys of the Flying Columns.

Flood was among the men who raided King's Inn's for arms in June of 1920, securing a Lewis gun among other captured items.

Such acts were a morale boost to the movement, as well as providing crucially important arms.

Flood was among the participants in the Church Street Ambush in September 1920, when British soldiers at Monks Bakery were fired upon by an IRA party, resulting in several fatalities.

A young Kevin Barry, hiding under a lorry in the confusion that followed the attack, was captured at the site.

Barry's sister later recalled Frank Flood's heartbreak at Barry's detention, insisting to her on several occasions that he and his comrades would do all in their power to break him out.

The creation of the IRA's Active Service Unit in Dublin was a landmark moment in the conflict.

As James Harpur recalled, "it was the intention of the Army Council to increase the activities of the I.R.A. and to counter increased British activities in Dublin, and to this end the Active Service Unit was being formed."

Harpur recounted being addressed by Oscar Traynor, and "he informed us that the

British were becoming a bit too 'cocky' in the city and were being allowed too much freedom of movement to carry out their policy of subduing the population, and that it had been decided to counter this activity on their part by giving them battle on our own ground."

It was dangerous and stressful work; ASU member Patrick Collins recalled Traynor telling the men "if any man felt that the work now or in the future would cause him too great a strain he was free to withdraw at any time without any reflection on him."

Flood immediately took a prominent leadership position in the northside ASU's.

On the 21 January 1921, Flood led an IRA ambush party near to here.

Dermot O'Sullivan, a surviving participant, recounted the events of that day in his Bureau of Military History Witness Statement:

On the 21st January, 1921, No. 1 Section was detailed to take up positions at Binn's Bridge, Drumcondra, at 8.30 a.m. and to ambush a party of Black & Tans which usually came into the city at that time from Gormanstown….

…The Section Commander's instructions for the attack on the Tan lorry were that the lorry was to be allowed to pass through our first pair of men and when it came in line with the -pair located on the north side of Binns Bridge they were to open fire on it.

We were all to fire simultaneously likewise when it came abreast of our positions.

The entire Section remained in position until 9.30 and as no Tan lorry came our way within that time the Section Commander decided to withdraw to a position further down the Drumcondra Road in the vicinity of Clonturk Park.

The detection of the IRA men in the area by a passing police man created a dilemma, and the DMP man continued on his way, no doubt altering authorities.

O'Sullivan recalled their decision to attack a military van which approached from the Whitehall direction.

O'Sullivan's Witness Statement tells us:

Almost simultaneously with the arrival of the van we noticed that an armoured car and a few lorries of military were coming in our direction from the city and another armoured car and some lorries were also approaching our position from Whitehall direction.

It was clear to us then that someone must have summoned the aid of the military and Tans as the place seemed to be surrounded.

We saw there was nothing for it but to get out as quickly as we could, so we made our way down Richmond Road in the direction of Ballybough with the intention of cutting across country towards Clontarf.

As we reached the junction of Gracepark Road we saw two tenders of Black & Tans approaching us from the Ballybough direction.

We wheeled up Gracepark Road and into Gracepark Gardens.

At that time Clonturk Park was open country.

A Lewis gun which had opened fire at some of our section crossing Clonturk Park (which was not then a built-up area) could have brought us under fire.

In fact, one of our men, McGee, was killed as he was trying to get away.

Hopelessly surrounded, most of the remaining the men surrendered.

The following day they were interrogated by intelligence agents from the Castle, with O'Sullivan recalling Frank Flood was "Struck across the face with a butt of a revolver and told to take the grin off his face."

Despite their efforts, their interrogators learned nothing of the inner-functions of the ASU, which was quickly attacking crown forces on the streets of the capital again.

O'Sullivan lived to tell that tale, his life being spared on the basis of his youth, though one could hardly consider Flood and his comrades old men.

Four of the party which participated in the planned ambush were executed on the 14 March 1921.

The crime for which Frank Flood was executed was 'High Treason', yet he had acted not out of any sense of treason, but loyalty to the idea of the Republic proclaimed at Easter Week, and reaffirmed in the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil.

In the words of Canon Waters inside the prison, these condemned men "walked to the scaffold like lions."

In recognition of their contribution, the men were rightly reburied in Glasnevin cemetery in 2001.

Let this new memorial, like their prominent resisting place there, remind Dubliners of their bravery and heroism.

on March 14, 2018 at 1:54 pm | Reply RockNRollResilience book author

Thank you for the time and effort to create this honourable tribute.

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Flood was a close personal friend of Kevin Barry, and asked that he be buried as close as possible to him. He had taken part in the September 1920 ambush during which Barry had been arrested and had been involved in the planning of several aborted attempts to rescue him. Flood would remain buried at Mountjoy Prison, together with nine other executed members of the Irish Republican Army known as The Forgotten Ten, until he was given a state funeral and reburied  at Glasnevin Cemetery on 14 October 2001 after an intense campaign led by the National Graves Association.
 Students of University College Dublin established the Frank Flood Shield, an annual debating competition, in his memory.   Flood and the other five men executed on 14 March 1921 are commemorated in Thomas MacGreevy's poem "The Six who were Hanged".


She would continue to learn from her father for another 13 years.

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# Interview with Chinese violinist Vera Tsu Weiling: From the Cultural Revolution to Now

As a child learning to play the violin in Shanghai during China's Cultural Revolution, Vera Tsu Weiling hid in a dark basement to practice, using sheets of music copied out in pencil, always with the fear of being discovered and gravely punished.

She never could have imagined where she would be a half-century later: back home in Shanghai, sitting among some of the most distinguished violinists in the world - now her colleagues - in a new hall built for the Shanghai Symphony (conducted by her husband Long Yu), serving on the jury of the first-ever Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

Though she has represented China on juries for many of the most prestigious violin competitions in the world, this one had particular meaning for her.

"Before, I couldn't even dream of all these people in my own city, and also being a judge in an international-level competition," she said.

"We were so isolated in China: no music, no recordings, no live performance, no idea what real music is.

And now, we have our own competition, bringing so many great musicians together in this city.

Weiling's musical journey took her around the world, to study with Dorothy DeLay and Rafael Bronstein, to play as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, and to be associate concertmaster for the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Now she is one of the most sought-after violin teachers in China, teaching at both the Central Conservatory in Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatory.

While in Shanghai, I spoke with Weiling about what it was like to learn to play the violin during the Cultural Revolution, being one of the first students to be admitted to China's Central Conservatory afterward, Isaac Stern's 1979 visit and the state of Western classical music in China today.

Vera Tsu Weiling was born in Shanghai in 1960.

Both of her parents were amateur musicians; her father, an electrical engineer, played the violin; and her mother, a doctor, played the piano

She was not forced to play the violin by her parents; she wanted to learn.

"One day, as my father was going out, I stopped him.

I was three, and I said, 'I want to play the violin.'

And my father said, 'No, no, you are too little to start the violin.'

I'm going out now, and if you can hold the position like you're holding a real violin, until I come back, then I will get you a violin.

Her father left, and naturally, he forgot their deal.

"So I was just standing there, for hours!

"Finally he returned, and I was still standing there.

My face had turned green by then!" she laughed.

So I got a small violin, a one-eighth size.

"I took lessons from my father for 13 years," she said.

Communist leader Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution began in 1966, with the aim of destroying old customs, culture, habits, and ideas and replacing them with revolutionary new ones.

Its effects on China's cultural and educational institutions were devastating.

During those 10 years, schools were shut down; and "allowable" music was restricted to eight Peking operas approved by Mao Tse-tung's wife, Jiang Qing.

Western music was off-limits, and many who had been playing and teaching it were jailed and tortured.

The government-sponsored persecution drove some 10 professors from the Shanghai Conservatory to suicide, according to a number of sources.

Estimations vary wildly, but most agree that millions were persecuted, tortured and killed in China during that time.

In this environment, Weiling somehow defied the odds and learned to play the violin; but it wasn't easy.

Her father had studied with a Jewish teacher from the Soviet Union, with amateurs, then later with Tan Shuzhen.

Shuzhen, who was a performer, teacher and luthier, describes his own terrifying ordeal -- being locked away for 14 months in a basement closet, tortured and then made to work as a janitor -- in the Academy Award-winning movie about Isaac Stern's 1979 trip to China, From Mao to Mozart.

"I had to hide to practice," Weiling said.

"We had a basement, actually, a very small room, and I practiced very secretively.

You had to draw the curtain and play in a dark room, using a mute.

You could not let people see you practice, because they called it 'unhealthy music.'

We had seven or eight 'red songs' from Peking Opera, and they were all that was played.

That was the only kind of music that people were allowed to hear."

Resources were scarce -- a kind of pre-Internet scarcity that is hard to imagine in modern times.

"There was no book store, you couldn't buy anything.

Everything we had was from the people who came from the Soviet Union; it was very little."

When a visiting musician from the Soviet Union would come to town with sheet music, "then three people would copy from it.

People used pencil to copy this new music, and of course there were many wrong notes and wrong rhythms."

They did manage to scrape together some etudes: Kayser, Schradieck, Sevcik, Mazas, Kreutzer, Dont, Dancla.

The big concertos were much harder to find.

Weiling still remembers when they finally found a copy of the Mendelssohn Concerto -- something they didn't even know existed until then.

"Somebody managed to get a copy, I remember."

Her father had a number of pupils, and the father of one little boy became their secret copyist.

When a piece of music came into their hands, "the father would do all the copying for all of us, overnight," she said.

"He didn't sleep, because he had to return this precious copy to somebody the next morning."

"So this is how we learned," Weiling said, "with no recordings, nothing.

It was very difficult situation during the Cultural Revolution."

Her own family was being punished for her grandfather's connections as a classmate of Chiang Kai-shek's son.

Weiling was an only child, and that was one bright spot for the family.

Though China did not yet have its one-child policy, "if you had more than one child, somebody -- your brothers or your sister -- would have to be sent to the countryside."

Some used musical study to avoid being sent to the countryside labor camps.

"If you had a skill, you could audition for some army band," she said.

"There was no serious symphony orchestra in Shanghai back then, in the late '60s, early '70s."

The Shanghai Symphony, though it had existed since 1879, stopped playing Western music and played only the government-approved fare, while Shanghai musicians and professors of music were tormented by Red Guards.

Weiling was a sophomore in high school when Mao Tse-tung died and shortly later the Gang of Four -- which had been controlling all cultural and educational systems in China -- collapsed.

"There had been no college students for 10 years, 1966 through 1976.

So I was one of the very first college students, right after the Gang of Four collapsed," Weiling said.

"That's why I had a chance to audition for the Central Conservatory," she said.

"I was enrolled at the Central Conservatory and became a college student in 1977, the exact year the Gang of Four fell apart."

"Everything was different, but it was just the beginning," Weiling said.

The Cultural Revolution had left a landscape largely scoured of tradition, knowledge and outside influence.

When it came to recordings of Western music, "we had very limited records from the old Soviet Union -- old, scratchy vinyl records.

But we knew Oistrakh, we knew Kogan, we knew of Heifetz and of course, Isaac Stern."

In this context, Isaac Stern's 1979 visit to China was an earth-shattering event to musicians such as Weiling.

"We could never have imagined that one day we would see the great masters, face-to-face, until Isaac Stern and the Stern family came to China," she said.

"I was a sophomore, in my second year of college in Beijing.

Since then, everything has been different."

She remembers watching Stern emerge from his car, with his family and his pianist David Golub, and a film crew in tow.

"We couldn't believe what we were seeing, the moment he arrived, when he opened the car and he came out," she said.

During Stern's visit, Weiling played for him -- she can be seen in the documentary From Mao to Mozart, playing an excerpt from Ysaye's Caprice after a Waltz by Saint-Saens.

"I couldn't believe what was happening; it was too sudden, and too good to be true," she said.

Stern's presence alone represented a tremendous change; but his performances and master classes in China also left a lasting impression.

"Before his visit, we didn't know how a violin could sound, not until he showed us," Weiling said.

You could hardly breathe when you heard such a beautiful sound, coming from the same instrument!

We had no idea, because we hadn't been able to hear anything from the West.

We heard Milstein's recording, but a very bad recording.

Isaac Stern was the first one, and it was like being in the desert for so long, and then all of a sudden -- water!

Before, we knew only that we should play with the correct rhythm, no scratchy sound, be clean and accurate.

Good intonation, clean, not so out of tune -- only those kinds of things," she said.

"We didn't know about color, expression, interpretation.

We didn't know about using different parts of the bow to make music."

His visit also gave them a glimpse of what things might be like on the other side of the world.

In Weiling's case, it planted an idea: to study abroad.

When China adopted an open-door policy, allowing students to go abroad, Weiling took the opportunity.

"I was lucky because I had relatives in the States to give me financial support, to give the Chinese government all the paperwork they needed and just to ensure that I could survive in the States."

In 1980, she came to the United States to study, first with Daniel Heifetz at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then at Juilliard, with Dorothy DeLay.

"I was at Juilliard for three years, then I transferred from Juilliard to Manhattan School of Music, where I had Raphael Bronstein as a teacher.

He was a living disciple of (Leopold) Auer.

He was a great teacher and so much fun."

Weiling stayed in New York for a while after graduating, freelancing.

She won the Artists International Competition, among other competitions, and played in Carnegie Hall and in Avery Fisher Hall.

In 1993 she took a job as the first associate concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; in 2000 she started thinking about teaching, and about going back to China.

That year she was appointed Professor of Violin in the Central Conservatory in Beijing.

More recently, in 2014, she began teaching at the Shanghai Conservatory.

Weiling also has become a regular presence in international violin competitions, having served on the jury for the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky, Montreal, Sarasate, Menuhin and Shanghai Competitions, not to mention the upcoming Wieniawski Competition.

Vera Tsu Weiling, at the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition in September 2016.

Having heard so many top-level violinists, she was pleased by the level of playing represented at first-ever international competition in her home town, the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, which and her husband, Shanghai Symphony conductor Long Yu, helped to plan.

We have everything -- but not a serious, world-class violin competition.

We thought, we must do something to make this international city more glamorous."

The competition, named after Isaac Stern, brought the Stern family back to town and attracted competitors and jury members from all over the globe.

For those pursuing the violin in China, it was an important moment.

"Students don't have to go abroad to see a great competition, to listen to great playing and to see so many wonderful violinists," she said.

"Now they know what the real international level is."

Of course, the competition was streamed around the world on the Internet, but nothing beats the energy of an in-person event that brings together so many talented young people, expert jurors and interested audience members.

"To have such a wonderful competition in your own country, this gives the students a sense of the bigger picture," Weiling said.

It was a big event for musicians all around China, "not just in Shanghai and Beijing, but other cities: Sichuan, Wuhai, Shenyang, Xian, all the major cities, all the small and remote places.

Young musicians are eager to learn something, this has been big for them, and for Shanghai.

I feel this is something that has never happened before in China, and I hope it's going to be a big success.

I hope people will come and join us for the future."

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It is hard to imagine life without music, especially Western classical music.

It's also hard to imagine learning to play the violin without knowing about "color, expression, interpretation.

I am so impressed with Vera Tsu Weiling's commitment to learning to play the violin and to play it with artistry.

Thanks for this remarkable interview, Laurie.

Thanks also for your discussion of what happened during the Cultural Revolution.

I had no idea that millions of people were persecuted, tortured, and killed.

I am glad for the Chinese people that the long night without music is over.

September 30, 2016 at 08:44 PM · Thanks so much for your wonderful interview, Laurie!

Growing up in the same city during the same time as Vera, I feel that she told a story of many, many girls and boys in China back then.

It wasn't so much that we didn't have music, it was that certain music was considered unrevolutionary therefore was forbidden.

Thus, many of us had to go "underground" to access such music.

Sure we had a tough time then, sometimes very tough, but we learned so much at a very early age too.

Life is full of amazement for us and that's something to be thankful for.

October 1, 2016 at 05:49 AM · Hi Frieda, it's always an issue with Chinese names!

Vera's is a bit of a hybrid; she did not have a problem with the way I used her name.

October 1, 2016 at 12:36 PM · Laurie, you addressed in a friendly way.

Great interview with such a talented and lovely woman.

October 1, 2016 at 01:29 PM · Ms. Niles:

Thank you for bringing us Ms. Tsu's life story.

She must be an extraordinary person and musician.

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Tsu Weiling was born in the city of Shanghai, China, and began playing the violin at the age of 3 under the guidance of her father. Both her parents were amateur musicians; her father played the violin whilst working as an electrical engineer, and her mother played the piano whilst working as a doctor. Tsu Weiling was first denied violin lessons by her father due to her young age of 3. Upon protest from Tsu Weiling, her father made a deal that if she could hold her body and arms in the correct violin playing position during the time it took for him to run errands, he would teach her to play. Unfortunately, he forgot the deal, and she was left standing for hours such that upon his return, Tsu Weiling's face had "turned green" resorting to her being given a small one-eighth violin.


The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism apologized on behalf of the nation, and denied having any responsibility for how the events unfolded.

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# 'Luxury' Fyre Festival is cancelled with ticket-holders still stranded in Bahamas

A luxury music festival in the Bahamas, with tickets costing up to $12,000 (£9,200), has now been officially postponed after reports of no security and cancelled flights.

Fyre Festival, co-organised by Ja Rule, promised a "cultural moment created from a blend of music, art and food".

Tickets included a flight from Miami, a stay in a "geodesic dome" and activities including yoga and kayaking.

Festival-goers have described the event as a "complete disaster".

Now organisers have officially cancelled the event.

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William N Finley IV has been documenting his experience of Fyre Festival on social media.

"Night has fallen, we have no luggage," William later wrote.

Earlier Fyre Festival made an announcement on Instagram, saying flights to the event had been cancelled.

"Things got off to an unexpected start at day one of Fyre Festival," they said.

Blink-182, who were set to be headlining, pulled out of the festival on Thursday.

Major Lazer, Skepta and Disclosure were all set to perform as well.

For those still on the the Exuma islands, where the festival was being held, organisers said assistance would be available.

"We are working to comfortably accommodate guests and deliver a great experience," they said.

"If you have needs, please head to the Blue House on the main festival site.

Security, first aid and Fyre Festival staff are here to assist immediately, 24/7."

Image caption Fyre Festival's website even promised a choice of yachts

Some people are still trying to leave the festival but getting a flight is proving to be a problem for some.

Early on Friday, William was updating his social media from a plane bound for the US.

William is now back in Miami after finally taking off from the Exuma islands.

Lamaan El Gallal was also stuck at the festival but is also back in the US.

She's told Newsbeat that the event was the "biggest scam ever".

"It was a very traumatic experience," she said.

"Although a lot of people are making it a mockery - that it's rich kids not knowing how to camp - that's not the situation at all.

"It was truly the worst 27 hours of my life.

They had an entire schedule, like yoga and massages and water sports - that's the kind of thing we enjoy doing.

"It ended up being the closest thing to war I've ever seen.

As soon as it got dark it was not a safe place to be.

"They had instructed us not to bring any cash with us.

Everything was inclusive and we had bands where we put money.

But without cash, it was a huge problem.

"There are still people there that can't leave whose passports are missing, their things got robbed and they have no way of contacting anyone or charge their phones.

Festival organisers said earlier that anyone having to leave the event would be refunded, but it's unclear if all ticket holders will get their money back.

"Your ticket and any funds uploaded to your RFID [contactless payment] band will be refunded.

"Thank you for bearing with us as we work through the growing pains that every first year event experiences.

"Revised itinerary information will be shared soon for the remainder of this weekend and weekend two."

Ja Rule has yet to comment on what's happened at the festival.

Earlier this week he shared photographs on social media of preparations.

The event had been endorsed by a number of high-profile models and influencers such as Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Baldwin.

Meanwhile, the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism has apologised to festival-goers on behalf of the nation.

Fyre Cay in the Exuma islands was once home to the pirate Blackbeard and Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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Due to circumstances out of our control, the physical infrastructure was not in place on time and we are unable to fulfill on that vision safely and enjoyably for our guests. At this time, we are working tirelessly to get flights scheduled and get everyone off of Great Exuma and home safely as quickly as we can. We ask that guests currently on-island do not make their own arrangements to get to the airport as we are coordinating those plans. We are working to place everyone on complimentary charters back to Miami today; this process has commenced and the safety and comfort of our guests is our top priority. The festival is being postponed until we can further assess if and when we are able to create the high-quality experience we envisioned. We ask for everyone's patience and cooperation during this difficult time as we work as quickly and safely as we can to remedy this unforeseeable situation. We will continue to provide regular updates via email to our guests and via our official social media channels as they become available. Many news organizations compared the chaos to William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies" and Suzanne Collins's novel "The Hunger Games".


They are seen weathering a sandstorm, followed by a snowstorm and a rainstorm which culminates in a standoff of sorts .

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# Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Put Their Stormy Relationship To The Test In 'IKWYDLS' Vid

Can these doomed lovers make it through the storm?

Just listening to the dramatic, he-says-she-says narrative of Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's new duet, "I Know What You Did Last Summer," is enough to give you goosebumps.

But in the track's accompanying music video, released Friday (Nov. 20), Shawn and Camila turn the turmoil up several notches while they weather one hell of a storm.

In the clip, the "Stitches" crooner and the Fifth Harmony cutie appear in a dark and desolate landscape.

They appear to be walking toward one another, but they're actually not moving at all: a proper metaphor for the conflicting and deteriorating relationship they're singing about.

As the tension heightens, they face rain, snow and storms (but never peel their eyes from each other), culminating in a soaking wet standoff of sorts as they attempt to repair their relationship.

Shawn and Camila also performed the song live for the first time on "Live with Kelly and Michael" on Friday morning.

And in case you had any doubt about it, rest assured their voices really do sound that silky smooth together IRL.

After the pitch-perfect performance, the two again recounted how they randomly wrote the song backstage at a Taylor Swift concert.

We weren't really consciously writing a song.

We kind of started spitting out melodies and put lyrics to it; I don't think we knew we had a song," Camila said, while Shawn added, "We were just messing around."

Camila also told host Kelly Ripa after the performance, "We were so nervous for that, you have no idea.

But we think it's safe to say they nailed it.

A music video for the song was released on November 20, 2015 and was directed by Ryan Pallotta. In the video, Mendes and Cabello, ages 17 and 18 respectively at the time of the making of the song and filming of the video, are seen walking through a dark and desolated landscape. They keep trying to walk towards each other but aren't moving.


The first legs were played on March 6–7, and the second legs were played on March 13–14, 2018.

(meta data) TITLE: Quarterfinal Matchups Set for 2018 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League

Eight clubs to battle in a home-and-away knockout format for a spot in the semifinals

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) confirmed today the matchups and kickoff times for the quarterfinals of the 2018 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League.

The tenth edition of the Continental club championship, is the first to feature the newly introduced, action-packed, home-and-away knockout format, which after the first two weeks has resulted in a field reduced from the original 16 to only eight champion clubs, each one step closer to the Confederation crown.

The Round of 16 action culminated on Thursday night in New York and Seattle, where New York Red Bulls and Seattle Sounders FC joined Mexican quartet Tigres UANL, CD Guadalajara, Club America and Club Tijuana, MLS Champion Toronto FC, and Panamanian side Tauro FC in the quarterfinals.

The quarterfinals will begin on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, in Mexico City, when seven-time CONCACAF champion Club America host Tauro FC at 8:00 pm ET.

The Mexican side qualified to this stage after overcoming Deportivo Saprissa 6-2 on aggregate, while Tauro FC overcame the 2016 MLS Supporters' Shield and 2016 US Open Cup Champions on away goal tiebreaker.

That same night, the New York Red Bulls will travel to Tijuana's Estadio Caliente to face Club Tijuana at 10:00 pm ET.

The MLS side earned a sport in the quarterfinals with an aggregate score of 3-1, over CD Olimpia.

Club Tijuana won its round of 16 series 2-1 over Motagua FC.The

first leg quarterfinals will continue the following night, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 in Seattle and Toronto.

Defending MLS and Canadian Champions Toronto FC will face current Liga MX Champions, Tigres UANL at 8:00 pm ET, followed by Seattle Sounders FC vs CD Guadalajara at 10:00 pm ET.

Toronto and Tigres advanced to the second round of the competition after defeating the Colorado Rapids 2-0 and CS Herediano 5-3 respectively.

The second leg quarterfinals will be played the following week, March 13-14.

The New York Red Bulls and Tigres UANL will host Club Tijuana and Toronto FC on Tuesday, followed by Tauro FC vs Club America and CD Guadalajara vs Seattle Sounders FC on Wednesday.

All quarterfinal matches will be broadcast by Univision Deportes on UDN and its digital platforms; Fox Sports Latam, Verizon and its family of media properties, including go90 and rights partners across the Confederation.

For more information, please check your local TV listings.

The range of dates for semifinal, first-leg games is April 3-5, while second-leg play is scheduled for April 10-12.

The finals – home-and-away, as well – are set for the last two weeks of April.

The winner of the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League will represent the region in the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.2018

Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League – Quarterfinal Schedule*ET and home team listed firstTuesday, March 6, 201820:00

Club America (MEX) v. Tauro FC (PAN)22:00 Club Tijuana (MEX) v. New York Red Bulls (USA)Wednesday, March 7, 201820:00

Toronto FC (CAN) v. Tigres UANL (MEX)22:00

Seattle Sounders FC (USA) v. CD Guadalajara (MEX)Tuesday, March 13, 201820:00

New York Red Bulls (USA) v. Club Tijuana (MEX) 22:00

Tigres UANL (MEX) v. Toronto FC (CAN)Wednesday, March 14, 201820:00

Tauro FC (PAN) v. Club America (MEX)22:00

CD Guadalajara (MEX) v. Seattle Sounders FC (USA)Home Stadium for the Round of 16 Matches*Listed in alphabetical orderCD Guadalajara (MEX) – Estadio Akron, Guadalajara, MexicoClub America (MEX) – Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, MexicoClub Tijuana (MEX) – Estadio Caliente, Tijuana, MexicoNew York Red Bulls (USA) – Red Bull Arena, Harrison, NJ, USASeattle Sounders FC (USA) – CenturyLink Field, Seattle, WA, USATauro FC (PAN) – Estadio Rommel Fernandez, Panama City, PanamaTigres UANL (MEX) – Estadio Universitario, Monterrey, MexicoToronto FC (CAN) – BMO Field, Toronto, ON, Canada


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Johnny Depp returns to his Academy Award®-nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, joined by Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Kevin R. McNally, Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Claflin in Fourth Entry of Blockbuster Franchise

Production has commenced on location in Hawaii, the United Kingdom and Los Angeles on Walt Disney Pictures' and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' sweeping comedy adventure "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," directed by Rob Marshall ("Chicago"), the fourth entry in the blockbuster franchise which has already reaped $2.7 billion in worldwide box office from the previous three films, and the first to be filmed and presented in Disney Digital 3D™.

Johnny Depp returns to his iconic, Academy Award®-nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, newly joined by Academy Award winner Penelope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Rob Marshall's "Nine"), Ian McShane (HBO's "Deadwood") and newcomers Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Claflin.

Also rejoining Johnny Depp and Captain Jack are Academy Award-winner and three-time nominee Geoffrey Rush ("Shine," "Shakespeare in Love") and Kevin R. McNally (first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, "Valkyrie").

The film is slated to open May 20, 2011.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" captures the fun, adventure and humor that ignited the hit franchise —this time in Disney Digital 3D™.

In this action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise, Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz), and he's not sure if it's love—or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Rush reprises his role as the vengeful Captain Hector Barbossa, and Kevin R. McNally returns as Captain Jack's longtime comrade Joshamee Gibbs.

Claflin stars as a stalwart missionary, while Berges-Frisbey is transformed into a mysterious mermaid.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is written by "Pirates" veterans Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio.

The executive producers are Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, Barry Waldman, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and John DeLuca.

Joining Bruckheimer and Marshall for the new voyage is a top-flight group of award-winning behind-the-scenes artists, including director of photography Dariusz Wolski (first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"), production designer John Myhre (two-time Academy Award® winner for Marshall's "Chicago" and "Memoirs of a Geisha"), costume designer Penny Rose (all three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"), visual effects supervisor Charles Gibson, who won an Academy Award for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," Oscar® winner and eight-time nominee special effects supervisor John Frazier ("Pirates of the Caribbean" films," "Pearl Harbor") and stunt coordinator George Marshall Ruge, who also devoted his talents to the previous three "Pirates" films as well as Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's "National Treasure" franchise.

The editors include two Oscar winners, Michael Kahn ("Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time") and David Brenner ("Born on the Fourth of July"), as well as Wyatt Smith (Marshall's "Nine").

Rob Marshall's first three films, "Chicago," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Nine," have been honored with a total of 23 Academy Award® nominations.

For his work on "Chicago," winner of six Oscars® including Best Picture, Marshall received the Director's Guild Award, an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award® nomination, a BAFTA nomination, The National Board of Review Award and the New York Film Critics Online Award.

A six-time Tony Award® nominee and George Abbott Award winner

, Marshall's extensive work on Broadway includes co-director and choreographer of the worldwide award-winning production of "Cabaret" and director/choreographer of the Broadway revival of "Little Me," along with many others.

He also produced, directed and choreographed the NBC television special "Tony Bennett: An American Classic," which earned seven Emmy Awards®, including three for Marshall, and directed and choreographed Disney/ABC's critically acclaimed movie musical "Annie," which received 12 Emmy nominations with two wins, including Marshall for Outstanding Choreography; it also won the prestigious Peabody Award.

First in partnership with Don Simpson, and then as the chief of Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Bruckheimer has produced an unprecedented string of worldwide smashes, impacting not only the industry, but mass culture as well.

Bruckheimer's films include (producing with Don Simpson) "Top Gun," "Beverly Hills Cop," "Beverly Hills Cop 2," "American Gigolo," "Flashdance," "Bad Boys," "Dangerous Minds," "Crimson Tide," "The Rock," and (producing solo) "Con Air," "Armageddon," "Enemy of the State," "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Coyote Ugly," "Remember the Titans," "Pearl Harbor," "Black Hawk Down," "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," "Bad Boys II," "Veronica Guerin," "King Arthur," "National Treasure," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "G-Force," "Confessions of a Shopaholic," "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

On television, Bruckheimer had an unprecedented 10 television series airing in the 2005-6 season, a record in the medium for an individual producer.

JBTV's series have included "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation" and its spinoffs "C.S.I.: Miami," "C.S.I.: NY" and "Without a Trace," "Cold Case," "The Amazing Race" and "Dark Blue."

Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Television have been honored with 41 Academy Award® nominations, six wins, eight Grammy Award® nominations, five wins, 23 Golden Globe® nominations, four wins, 88 Emmy Award® nominations, 18 wins, 23 People's Choice nominations, 15 wins, numerous MTV Awards, including one for Best Picture of the Decade for "Beverly Hills Cop" and 20 Teen Choice Awards.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" will film on the islands of Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii, followed by locations and studio work in the United Kingdom and Los Angeles.

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Sparrow is surprised to learn Captain Barbossa is now a privateer in the Royal Navy. Sparrow refuses to negotiate with them to locate the Fountain of Youth and escapes. Soon he crosses paths with his impersonator, an old flame named Angelica (Penélope Cruz). She shanghais him to serve aboard the "Queen Anne's Revenge", the ship captained by her father Blackbeard (Ian McShane), who forces Sparrow to search for the Fountain of Youth. Sparrow fails in his attempt to take over the ship in a mutiny against Blackbeard and save the naive Angelica from her evil father. After encountering dangerous mermaids, Barbossa, and the Spanish Navy, Sparrow locates the Fountain of Youth.  When Angelica is wounded, he tricks Blackbeard into sacrificing himself to save her, and Angelica blames Sparrow for her father's death. Sparrow and Angelica acknowledge their feelings for one another, but Sparrow maroons Angelica on an island, believing she may avenge her father's death. Gibbs, meanwhile, has retrieved the shrunken "Black Pearl" from Blackbeard's collection of shrunken ships in the hope of restoring it to normal size. Though he has forfeited his opportunity for immortality, Sparrow settles for being famous as the one who found the Fountain of Youth.


He was on the Glickenhaus team for 2016, but their car was crashed during a practice session.

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# Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus prepares for the Nurburgring 24 Hours on three-car debut

Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) has succeeded in its objective of ensuring that it is prepared for the epic Nurburgring 24 Hours, which is due to take place at the end of May, after entering three cars for the first time.

The team also took the opportunity to test some new components, and allow the crews – including two new guest drivers – to familiarise themselves with the machinery.

For the first time in nearly three years, the famous P4/5C was entered, now in Mk III specification.

This latest version benefits from a modified energy recuperation system and other revisions, and it will be driven at the Nurburgring 24 Hours by Top Gear television presenter Chris Harris and Evo journalist Jethro Bovingdon as part of the line-up.

The experienced Manuel Lauck was the first driver to give the car an outing and concluded: "For a first race after nearly three years, it was really positive.

We're still only at the beginning of this story."

Also entered for the Nurburgring qualifying race were the two SCG003Cs numbered Macchinauno and Macchinadue, driven by SCG's regular driver line-up.

All nine drivers, including Harris and Bovingdon on their P4/5C debut, were on the pace, while the cars completed some useful preparation work, with the SCG003Cs both running easily in the top 10 during the race.

Some technical issues prevented the cars from finishing, but this was not a major concern as a key part of this weekend was evaluation of new components.

The main priority was to ensure that all the drivers were match-fit.

Jeroen Bleekemolen, who started the race in Macchinauno, said: "The car felt very quick: it was fun to keep up with the top guys.

With this sort of pace, I'd say we're in a strong position."

Jeff Westphal was the starting driver for Macchinadue, and concluded: "It was a lot of fun.

The weather conditions were really variable, but this at least gave us an opportunity to experience everything."

SCG Programme Director Paolo Garella concluded: "We have a clear direction as we finalise our preparations for the 24-hour race, but the problems that affected us today were human factors – not on the part of the drivers – that were avoidable.

Of course we will take those as a learning experience."

Jim Glickenhaus, who created the SCG brand, commented: "Racing is tough and it was a tough day for us today.

We elected to retire the P4/5C due to a water pump cooling issue that affected the KERS unit, but it's not a problem for the N24, where we will be back even stronger.

The SCG003C cars showed top-five pace, which is very encouraging for the races ahead."

SCG's next outing will be the second round of the VLN Series in two weeks' time, when the team will conclude its testing programme for the Nurburgring 24 Hours.

The team's race at the endurance classic this year will be dedicated to the memory of Jim Glickenhaus's father, who passed away last night.

All three cars carried 'Honoring Seth Glickenhaus, 1914-2016' decals today, as a tribute.

Harris has had an extensive racing career.  He won his first race in a Formula Palmer Audi in 2000. Some of the racing cars he has driven include a Porsche 911 Cup, Renault Sport R.S. 01, Aston Martin Vantage GT12,  Van Diemen FF1600, Rover SD1 and a Jaguar E-Type. He has also raced in endurance races like the 24 Hours Nürburgring in 2010  and 2015.


Students that arrived late would have to check in with the front office, and staff members began to screen students with metal detector wands before allowing them to enter.

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# 'Almost No One Agrees With Us': For Rural Students, Gun Control Can Be a Lonely Cause

ImageA billboard supporting the students of Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky.

In January, two students at the school were killed in a shooting.

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The teenagers in rural Kentucky decided they were fed up after a 15-year-old with a handgun turned their high school into another killing ground, murdering two classmates.

Like so many other students, they wrote speeches and op-ed essays calling for gun control, they painted posters and they marched on their State Capitol.

The blush of activism made them feel empowered, even a little invincible.

It started with sideways looks and laughter from other students in the hallways, they said.

Friends deleted them from group chats and stopped inviting them over.

On social media, people called the teenage activists "retards" and "spoiled brats," and said they should have been the ones to die during a shooting in Marshall County High School's student commons four months ago.

In a more liberal city like Parkland, Fla., or at a rally in Washington, these students might have been celebrated as young leaders.

But in rural, conservative parts of the country where farm fields crackle with target practice and children grow up turkey hunting with their parents, the new wave of student activism clashes with bedrock support for gun rights.

Speaking out in a place like Marshall County, Ky., carries a price — measured in frayed friendships, arguments with parents and animosity within the same walls where classmates were gunned down.

The gulf between liberal and conservative America's responses to mass shootings was on display again in Santa Fe, Tex., population 13,000, after 10 people were killed at the high school there on Friday.

Republican leaders expressed no desire to pass gun restrictions.

Many residents and students agreed with them, saying that gun control would not stop the bloodshed at America's schools.

"If we had more guns on campus with more teachers armed, we'd be a lot safer," said Layton Kelly, 17, a student who hid in a night-black classroom next to the scene of the shooting in Santa Fe.

That view resonates across rural Kentucky, where state lawmakers did not pass any new gun restrictions after the Marshall County shooting.

Most of the debate, both here in Benton, the hamlet that is home to the county high school, and at the State Capitol in Frankfort, has been focused on how to make schools more secure and how to detect potentially dangerous students.

The school district in Marshall County has hired more armed officers and locked many of the high school's 86 doors.

Every morning, teachers and staff members search students' backpacks and wand them with metal detectors.

The question of guns stayed largely on the sidelines.

"I don't think the Second Amendment is the issue," said Kevin Neal, Marshall County's judge/executive.

"If somebody gets it in their head they're going to kill, they're going to do it."

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Mr. Neal, a hulking former Marine, is a staunch gun rights supporter who said he carried a pistol on his side as he finished his lunch at JoJo's Café.

He said that many adults thought the student protesters were simply "marching to march."

Some parents said the students were being goaded by anti-gun groups outside Marshall County and were just seeking attention.

"They want to show, 'Look at me, look at me,'" said P. J. Thomason, whose son Case was wounded in the shooting.

"Everyone that owns a gun is wrong — that's what they teach them nowadays."

Mr. Thomason said that Case survived that day because he is a competitive pistol and rifle shooter who recognized the sound of gunshots in the student commons and instantly knew to run.

Case was struck in the hip, but recovered quickly and is shooting again.

ImageFrom left, Hailey Case, Jordan Harrell and Lily Dunn at Jordan's home in Calvert City, Ky.

The three, freshmen at Marshall County High, have been active in calling for gun restrictions since the shooting at their school.

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"The reason he's alive is because of a gun," Mr. Thomason said.

The Marshall County students who decided to speak out for gun control said they understood the consequences of bucking the views of many of their parents, friends and neighbors on an issue as personal and emotional as guns.

"We knew we were going to get backlash," said Cloi Henke, 15, who was in a small group of students who participated in a local March for Our Lives rally one rainy day this spring.

"I just didn't think it would be so forward," said her 15-year-old friend Lily Dunn.

"When people started talking about me, it knocked me down a few pegs."

It was just after school one afternoon, and Cloi, Lily and their friends — all freshmen — were squeezed into a booth at the Benton Dairy Queen.

Since the shooting at Marshall, they cocoon together often, in their spot in the student commons or on a friend's willow-shaded back porch, to support each other and strategize about their tiny slice of the gun control movement.

"Almost no one agrees with us," said Hailey Case, 16.

That includes her father, who argued with Hailey after listening to her practice a speech she delivered at the local March for Our Lives rally.

One girl threatened to fight them after they held a gun control rally, they said.

Letters and commenters in local news media said the students were too young to know anything.

Cloi said she had been at a friend's house one afternoon when her friend's father pulled out his AR-15 to show her "what you guys are trying to ban."

Lily, sitting next to her, said a teacher had confronted her when she came to class wearing a T-shirt in the school's orange and blue colors, showing a constellation of dots for every school in Kentucky that had been affected by a shooting.

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According to the police and prosecutors, Gabriel Parker, a 15-year-old student at Marshall County High, opened fire on a group of students with his stepfather's handgun as a kind of twisted social experiment, to see how people would react.

Mr. Parker was arrested after he slipped out of the school among a group of students fleeing the carnage, and has been charged as an adult in the attack.

Across the country, about 60 percent of rural households own a gun — double the rate of city households — and many Marshall County students said that before the shooting they had barely thought about the gun debate.

They hunted and shot air rifles at camp on Kentucky Lake, and their fathers kept handguns for protection.

Afterward, though, the gulf between their views and their parents' became impossible to ignore.

Mary Cox, 18, a senior who is involved in theater and captain of her Speech team, got into arguments with her father when he tried to buy her a compact handgun to take with her to college.

One day, she said, when her father was driving her home from a rehearsal, he pressed her on her support for banning AR-15s.

If she was being attacked, wouldn't she want someone with an AR-15 to come help?

"We couldn't be more opposite in what we believe," her father, Ezra, said in an interview.

Still, he said, he and his wife had encouraged Mary to stay true to her beliefs.

ImageHailey in an "Enough Is Enough" T-shirt.

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One evening, three freshman friends who spoke at a gun control rally drove through town on their way to dinner, gliding past "Marshall Strong" signs on the Arby's and the Lake Chem Credit Union.

Four months after the shooting, reminders linger everywhere.

Blue-and-orange lawn signs poke up from drainage ditches.

Bible verses about faith and healing are still painted onto the windows of antique shops and insurance agencies downtown.

"I don't want to see it any more," Lela Free said, staring out from a back seat.

Sitting in front in the passenger seat, Korbin Brandon, 16, thought about how his life had changed since 7:55 a.m. on that day in January.

Korbin, a freshman who speaks like a cross between Encyclopedia Brown and Alex Keaton, the conservative teenager from "Family Ties," had always thought of himself as a Second Amendment supporter and a sportsman.

He'd fired a high-powered rifle when he was 8 years old.

But on Jan. 23, he was turned to face the glass walls that overlook the student commons when his classmates were being cut down.

Though he still calls himself a conservative, Korbin decided to join the students who were organizing speeches and rallies focused on safety and gun control.

When he returned to class after giving a speech that confronted the National Rifle Association, one friend yelled at him; others took a group photo without him; and a deacon at his church warned him that he sounded like a Democrat.

"They said I'd betrayed them," Korbin said of his friends.

"I'd turned my back on the good way, the sportsman's way.

He was surprised at the backlash, because he does not support banning guns or accessories.

But he said they should perhaps be harder to buy.

He has since tried to patch up those strained relationships, and quoted a Bible verse about avoiding foolish controversies to rebut one person who criticized him.

So many other people in his hometown had suffered deeply from that terrible January day.

"There's other people that need to be taken care of," he said.

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A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Gun Country Backlash When Rural Students Speak Out for Limits.

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