Kingdom and the Mpororo Kingdom. Later the British added the iron rich Koki Kingdom in 1897.
The British used the East African Company, set up in 1888, to obtain concessions from the various mineral rich kingdoms, and with the British government's nationalization of the company in 1894, the kingdoms were transformed into more or less obedient British protectorates.
In 1908 the British succeeded in forcing the kingdoms together under the name Uganda (in reality the British Order in Council), and Uganda became an official puppet state of Great Britain.
The battle for the dominance of Africa was, as it is today, a balance on a razor's edge, and in 1899 the clash between the British and the French, who had occupied the Bahr Al Ghazal region at the Al Ghazal Riverin southern Sudan, just near the Lado border, became an "international incident".
A world war was prevented when the British swopped Morocco for the French quitting the Bahr Al Ghazal area. Even the US were involved when President Simpson Grant in 1869 decided to support the Turkish forces and sent the US army to occupy Lado, though with little success.
Today, as then, the Ladoans are standing firm and in harmony with their own constitution of May 9 1772 in which the women's position was affirmed with the sentence: "Without the women, Lado would not win".
Lado, the "Land without a Face", has a lot to teach the rest of Africa as well as the socalled "first world" who could benefit by adopting the Ladoan respect for other creeds, religions and


not least their equal rights for women which were facts of life already two hundred years ago when women were given the same opportunities in the administrative as well as the military areas of government, and perhaps most importantly, all financial power was handed over to the women.
In the West women are still struggling to obtain equal pay and equal opportunities and are fighting against old stigmas, but in the "Land without a Face" these rights have been natural ingredients of society two hundred years ago.
Who said backwards...

19 October, 1997

END

King of Lado states:
Give LADO independence now -
or War in Year 2000...

By Press Officer
Britt Bartenbach

While the war mongers of the socalled first world are getting ready to sharpen their swords and start the Third World War, the small centralAfrican enclave of Lado, and 2,698 year old kingdom, is holding the key to world peace.
On this the King of Lado, the Agofe John Bart Agami comments: "The solution to the endless conflicts appea-ring around the world in different continents and the bloody massacres in Africa is contained in Article 1 and in Article 33, including Article 73 in the UN Charter, which was signed by the victors of the Second World War on June 26, 1945 in order to end all wars.
It says in black and white in UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and in UN General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, that all colonial countries and all colonial peoples should be given Independence, and that the sovereignty of


their natural resources should be respected by the occupying countries.
That means that my country has illegally been under foreign siege jointly by Britain and Belgium since 1947, and it was to hide that fact that they had my father killed in 1948 just as he was leaving to address the UN General Assembly in New York on the issue of the Independence and the sovereignty of Lado.
This illegal occupation of Lado has been supported by the US who had a vested interest through the lucrative slave trade, an interest which was so great that in 1871 they sent massive troops to enforce the first oppressors of Lado, the Ottoman Empire who governed through their British administrator, Col. Sir Samuel White Baker.
The first move of the conspirators was tochange the name of Lado to "Equatoria" on May 20, 1871, which stroke the name of Lado from the world map. But it was all a big bluff because the occupation was not even an actual fact until May 26, 1871, six days later."
The plot was so effective though - that nobody quest-ioned the legality of taking over an unknown area of "Euatoria" which, according to the occupiers, was just a province of Egypt, which incidentally was a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and under Turkish sovereignty.
Today the occupiers (Britain and Belgium) are working through their transnational corporations, and former African colonies operating as puppet states.
One of these powerful corporations is the Barrick Gold Corporation operating from their world center in Toronto, Canada, whose aim it is


to exploit our vast natural resources.
"It is not only gold, diamonds, copper, oil and uranium they are after, says King Agami, "but also human resources in the form of "cheap labour" and cheap agricultural produce to feed the world population from the fertile Lado larder.
The ingenious mastermind behind this great plan is Imperial Great Britain who still rules the waves across the oceans and through their base in Uganda tries to control the state of Lado as their colonial possession in the Nile-Congo Watershed region (Africa).
Right now Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni's special troops, who consist of entities from the surrounding African states such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa (Executive Outcome Force), and even the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), are fighting bloody battles inside theState of Lado in a desperate attempt to control Lado and destroy the statehood of Lado."
It seems that no matter how many troops he sets in, the Lado Defence Forces are holding stance with a spirit of unrelentless resistance despite the cost and the price paid in human lives.
No rules of war or conventions concerning prisoners of war are observed by the puppet Ugandan president, Museveni, recently trying to portray himself as a model democratic African leader on BBC's Hard Talk programme, who gave orders for the slaughter of 57 Lado officers and soldiers held in captivity as prisoners of war in Kampala Prisons, a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention for POW's and human rights.
Despite of all this, Lado is still hoping that negotiations and talks with


the superpowers, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (USA, Russia, China, Britain and France) and the neighbouring African countries (Sudan, Congo-Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, including Egypt) will pave the way to the Independent State of Lado by January 2000.
"Whatever any of these countries are planning against the state of Lado and its Independence and Sovereignty, they cannot escape the UN General Assembly Resolution 48/52 of 10 December, 1993, which reaffirms the UN General Assembly Resolution 43/47 of December 1988 concerning the total eradication of colonialism between 1990 and 2000 A.D.," King Agami says.
"So by the year 2000 it will be the end of all colonial rule on this earth, and the world will enter a millenium of freedom, liberty, prosperity and peacefor all mankind, not forgetting the people of Lado and the state of Lado in the heart of Africa."

30 January, 1998
END

The Lado Issue will be
the Fall of Kabila...

By Press Officer
Britt Bartenbach

As President Laurent Kabila of Congo/Zaire is bracing himself for the unavoidable invasion of the capital Kinshasa, and may be fighting his last fight in Africa, the African Continent is waking up to the Anglo-American Recolonisation Strategy.
To the ordinary observer the war in Congo/Zaire is a fight to topple yet another African dictator, but in reality the war is not at all a just fight for freedom and democracy. It is a well orchestrated military and mass media exercise to effectively kill all African initatives to liberate the African Continent from Recolonisation.

Scheme of the
Anglo-American Trustees
The clever scheme is


to use Rwanda and Uganda, both Tutsi controlled countries, to attack the obstinate Kabila and take control of the largest, richest and most populated country in Central Africa, the Congo/Zaire.
But behind the Tutsi rebel invaders are the Anglo/American Trustees whose vital interests are at stake in dominating the Central African countries of which Lado is the key.
The destruction of Lado is the key to the total control of the African Continent, or as King John Bart Agami of Lado puts it:
„When you control the heart, you control the whole body“.
Since 1947, when the Sovereignty and Independence of Lado (raised by the then Soviet Union) was about to become a fact in the United Nations, every Prime Minister of Lado has been assassinated by the British, just like KingAgami’s father was gunned down on 14 April 1948 two days before he was scheduled to go to New York for the final presentation at the UN General Assembly.

Time is
running out
Time is running short for the enevitable implemen-tation of the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 saying that all colonial countries and colonial Peoples must be Independent and the UN General Assembly Resolution 43/47 of December 1988 which dictates that all countries pending Sovereignty and Independence must be Independent before Year 2000.

Desperate
Players
That explains why the Anglo/American Players are acting in desperation and are in such a hurry to prevent the Independence of Lado before Year 2000.
The Colonial Players are using the ideal conditions of ethnic conflicts, created poverty and borderline conflicts as a means


Africans are beginning to wake up to the cruel fact that the continued fighting and escalating wars in Central Africa are just a strategy to Recolonise the African Continent and to obliterate and crush the State of Lado whose recognition as a Sovereign State is the key to Freedom and lasting Stability in Africa.
Freedom and Stability are the last things that the Colonial Anglo/American Players want to see in Africa, and people of insight and understanding do not give a cent for US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s crocodile tears demonstrated in the fu-neral parade for the American victims of the bombings.

Orchestrating
the War
Same Madeleine Albright is now flying to Nairobi to orchestrate the War in Congo/Zaire, and the next step Sudan, which is a plot to oust PresidentLaurent Kabila, the one Central African President who has seen through the scheme and has refused to obey the British/American command to participate in the final slaughter of the State of Lado („Equatoria“), also known from its ancestral area the Upper Nile Valley.
After the fall of Kabila, the African forces, controlled and financed by the Anglo/American Colonial Players and Big Business, are moving swiftly northwards to overthrow the Sudanese Government in Karthoum.
On their way on destruction they pass through the State of Lado where they will have a free hand to effectively eradicate the Existence of Lado as a Political and Ethnic Entity so the Colonial Players are once and for all rid of the tiring claims for Sovereinty and Independence of the People of Lado.

"Terra Nullus" is


the
Overall Plan
And particularly to end the Lado obstruction to Terra Nullus (i.e. the European decision at the Paris Conference from August 1875 to take and maintain African land for the Europeans), which led to the bona fide Colonialisation of Africa. The Berlin Conference, ending in February 1885, legalised the Paris Conference Decision from 1875: „Terra Nullus“.

Last Chance
for Imperial Dreams
The remaining one and a half years to Year 2000 is the absolute last chance for the Colonial Players to implement their Imperial Dreams of Terra Nullus.
To this end the perfect alibi is to use troops from Uganda and Rwanda, as well as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), to do the donkey job for the Colonial Players.

Will to fight Invaders
with Bows and Arrows
However, in spite of the seemingly unavoidableTerra Nullus implement-ation in Africa, the African people are still determined to fight for their Freedom and Liberty, be it even with Bows and Arrows.
The Agofe of Lado, King John Bart Agami puts it bluntly: „The People of Lado will do everything necessary, and whatever it may take, to remain a Political Entity as an Independent and Sovereign State in Africa.“

14 August 1998
END

Africa-Conflict:
The Code Word for Peace
and Security is: Lado...

By Press Officer
Britt Bartenbach

Africa is the burning point for Third World War, but holding the Key to Peace in Africa is the small central African State of Lado, which the Anglo-Ameri-can Governments have tried to eradicate from the world map.
Hunger, displacement, genocide and endless suffe-rings for the people of the African nations are on the daily menu in the


television stations around the world.
Behind all this misery and refugee movements is the military build-up and massing of troops in Southern Sudan, Northern Uganda and around the area of the Nile Region of Lado (formerly Equatoria, Province of Egypt).
Right now forces from U-ganda, Tanzania and Kenya are being trained to make a united front and strike an attack on Sudan, apparently over the Southern Sudan issue (the SPLM rebels).
The allied African front is, however, just a covert exercise by Britain and the US to divert the International Community’s attention from the real issue, viz. the Independence of Lado.
This issue is so unbearable for the former Colonial Powers, particularly Britain, who without success have tried to colonise Lado for fifty years, and still today, together with their ally theUS attempt to block the issue in the Uni-ted Nations.
Little do these Superpowers realise though that the building-up of the tension in the heart of Equatorial Africa is the direct path to the Third World War.
The next „Holy War“ could potentially break out with the next strike against the Islamic state of Sudan who is fighting against the SPLM Rebels led by Col. John Garang, who has been given sanctuary by Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
High tech arms are supplied in plenty to the Ugandan Government directly by the UK and the US who operate through the multinational companies, who again operate their covert activities through such companies as Sandline Int. and Executive Outcomes whose head office incidentally is placed in South Africa.
These companies act as fronts for


governments and supply the skilled man-power, i.e. professional mercenaries, who by the way were also responsible for the genocide in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo/Zaire, including Sierra Leone.
The Military Hardware is shipped to the port of Mombasa in Kenya and then taken by trucks to Uganda who, in addition to being a "pseudocolony" of the Anglo-American Government's errand boy Denmark, is the central point for the African United Front (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and partly South Africa).
The battle ground for the „Battle of Africa“, which is really the rich world’s battle for oil, diamonds and other essential commodities, will invariably be on Lado Territory as Lado has been enveloped with Sudan, U-ganda and Congo/Zaire.
The next holy „Big Bang“ between the Muslim and the Christian Worlds will happenin Equatorial Africa inside Lado right at the world’s axes in the Nile-Congo Watershed Region.
Unless there is an international intervention with or without the initiative of the United Nations.
The situation is highly explosive and dangerous for World Peace and Security since an attack by the Christian cohesion against the Islamic Sudan will trigger the Third World War.
Both parties are supported by heavyweight World Powers, and the entire Arab World, with the Muslim North African Nations, are committed to defend Sudan whom they regard as their Islamic Brother.
While all this scheming and massing of arms and troops is taking place behind the television cameras, and in hiding behind the refugee presence, the World’s Global Power Elite is getting ready to wage the next World War III.
The hidden agenda by


the Anglo-American Govern-ments (London and Was-hington) is to hand over Lado Territory to the SPLM Rebels and ultimately destroy the Government of Sudan which is to be replaced by SPLM people led by Col. John Garang.
That would mean the total annihilation of Lado as a Political Entity, and at the same time it would mean the end of all hope for peace in Central Africa, and indeed the rest of the world.
If the Anglo-American plan is to go ahead unhindered, Africa will be engaged in a long-term war which will bleed the Continent of all human resources and involve the rest of the world in a Muslim/Christian Holy War.
The Anglo-American Go-vernments know very well that the Issue of the Independence of Lado is the key to lasting peaceand stability to the African Region, and that is exactly why they are diverting the international attention to the conflicts and „rebel movements“ in Southern Sudan.
So in case the UN are genuinely interested in keeping the Peace in Africa, and avoid a full-scale World War, the UN Security Council must direct the UN Secretary General to call a Conference to solve the political problems of Central Africa.
And in this the State of Lado holds the key to World Peace...

END.
May 8, 1998

Albright’s Holocaust in Central Africa
may trigger Third World War...

By Press Officer
Britt Bartenbach

With the aid of USA, Britain and Big Business, Uganda is exterminating the People of the small Kingdom of LADO in ethnic cleansing operations and in concentration camps.
Before the Year 2000 all countries in the world are


the end objective of gaining World Supremacy.

Uganda is annihilating
the LADO People
One of these puppet countries is Uganda who, with the willing and hipocritical help of the Number One Humanitarian Champion of the World, Denmark, is systematically slaughtering the People of LADO, the country which the former colonial masters have handily renamed „Equatoria“ and mutilated into parts of Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Zaire (now the Congo).

Denmark acts as
the Go-Between
Denmark’s role in this game is top secret, but public scrutiny is now focusing on the fact that Denmark, through her foreign aid organisation Danida, has placed Danish officials in strategic postings throughout Uganda, and that high ranking Ugandan ministerial civil servants are getting their salaries paid by Britain - but with pay cheques issued and forwarded by the Danish ForeignMinistry in Copenhagen.

Many Danida
Projects in Uganda
Under the cover of „Foreign Aid“ Danida runs numerous „projects“ in Uganda, and the Danes are pumping millions of dollars, camouflaged on the state budget as „Humanitarian Projects“, into a country which is ruled by a cynical dictator, Yoweri Museveni, who from his exile in Sweden took power by a state coup in 1986.

Danish Politician
most helpful
Museveni owes his rise to power to the Danish Conservative MP Viggo Fischer who earned the nickname „The Man without Memory“ after his remarkable loss of memory during his testimony in the infamous impeachment against the former Secretary of Justice, Erik Ninn-Hansen, which followed the Tamil Case scandal toppling the Danish Conservative/Liberal Coalition Government in 1992/1993.

State Coup financed
by Denmark and Sweden
Viggo Fischer was a personal friend of the


position of LADO in the heart of the Nile Valley from where one has control of the whole of Africa, and not least the enormous and unexcavated natural resources in the form of Uranium, Gold, Diamonds and Oil which the giant Multinational Mining Corporations and the International Banking Elite, such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements, just to name a few, have cast their greedy eyes upon.

Protected Camps
are KZ Camps
King Agami, who himself has received his training at British military academies, from which institutions they also recruit people for their intelligence organisations, is fully aware who are his enemies and who are behind the cynical genocide of his people.
„Museveni performs ethnic cleansing on the direct orders of Britain and thecomparable to those which prevailed in the Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War where torture, executions, rapes and medical experiments were the order of the day.

One and a Half Million LADO’ans have already been killed „About one and a half million of my people have either disappeared or been killed by socalled „military activities“, the technical term for ethnic cleansing, but the genocide taking place inside the State of LADO never gets to the world’s attention“, says King Agami, who for the past twelve year has been tirelessly drawing the international attention to the plight of the LADO people.

200,000 slaughtered
in LADO
„A recent example of the hidden ethnic cleansing in LADO, is 200,000 LADO civilians who were slaughtered in all secrecy in the Ituri Province in eastern


Zaire while Kabila kept the world’s attention focused on his invasion.
Behind the horrifying massacre was the Ugandan President Museveni, and masterminding it was the Director of the US Refugee Committee, Roger Winter whose colleagues in the State Dept., Tony Hall and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Susan Rice, act as the perfect backing group. The unmistakable State Dept. involve-ment explains why Kabila was ordered not to accept a UN investigation into the murders.“

Madeleine Albright
is not working for Peace
„This gloomy scenario is finansed by taxpayers in the West who believe their hard earned money is being used to help the starving masses in the socalled „Third World“. Through friendly satelitte states, such as Denmark, who have very close ties with the US and Britain, limitless funds andresources are being channelled into the vulnerable African nations, already struggling with their colonial borders. The sole purpose is to step up chaos and unrest.
US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, herself originally a refugee who emerged from the smoking chim-neys of the European holocaust, is in charge of US foreign policy, and in unison with the US Secretary of Defence, William Cohen, she is calling the shots.“

Albright is waging
War in Central Africa
It is a joke that Madeleine Albright has earned the reputation „The Woman who travels the World for Peace“. When she visited Uganda last year, she urged President Museveni to wage war against the State of LADO and the LADO People according to reports from our secret intelligence organisation“, adds King Agami.
„Albright’s and Cohen’s first step towards


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Today, Eurostat published new data on retail sales in the Eurozone. Data for October and November were revised downwards, data for December were a shocker. Remarkably, retail sales in the ‘core’ countries of the Eurozone, like Germany and the Netherlands are declining too, in the Netherlands even at an unprecedented pace. And remember: events like those in Greece and Spain are absolutely unprecedented in Western Europe in the period between 1948 and 2008 which suggests a causal relation with the introduction of the Euro and the horrible, horrible policies of the last years which were de facto aimed at increasing interest rates in southern European countries, to ‘discipline’ them, during what already was an extreme economic crisis.This mightEarly Childhood Education, Economic Development, and the Business Community

I'm delighted to be here at the University of Miami as part of your program, "Investing in Florida's Future." For the purposes of addressing you today, let me explain that I'm wearing two hats. One hat is the Federal Reserve hat. The other is cochair of a commission on early childhood education for a 13-county area that encompasses metropolitan Atlanta. It turns out that a linkage can be made between my responsibility as an economic policymaker and my role leading the commission. I'll touch on that in a moment. The commission is a creature of the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. The purpose of the commission is to assess the pre-K education landscape in the Atlanta area and recommend a


to labor productivity growth is estimated in various studies to be between 13 and 30 percent of total growth.

Research validates the claim that intervention early in life improves kindergarten readiness, performance in school, and later success in life as indicated by sustained employment, income, and health. Research further supports the claim that investment in early education for underprivileged, otherwise at-risk children yields the highest return. Some of this return accrues to the individuals as they advance through school and through adulthood. Some return accrues to society in the form of reduced public fiscal expenditure for remedial needs. The alternative to quality early education is to spend more down the road on criminal justice and social programs to treat a whole range of problems including school dropouts, teen pregnancy,your skills and understanding in the domains of financial disciplines like return on investment, business-model thinking, governance, and competitive market mechanisms.

I also believe business community leadership and advocacy—because of business's stewardship of the economic welfare of the community—is needed to sustain what David Lawrence wisely describes as a long-term movement. Investment in children in their earliest years for payback to the individual and community years later requires conviction grounded in confidence that the community can organize and execute a strategy in pursuit of a vision that will take time to mature.

I'll close with this thought: The national economy is now emerging from a very painful episode. As a central banker and economic policymaker, I see the recent financial crisis and recession as a wake-up call to think deeply


about and then move ahead to build a foundation for sustained economic vitality. I consider early childhood education an important element of that foundation.

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Bernanke, Ben. 2007. Education and economic competitiveness. Speech delivered at the U.S. Chamber of Education and Workforce Summit, Washington, D.C., September 24.

Cobb, Kathy. "Laying the Foundation." The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The Region, June 2008.

Dickens, William T., Isabel V. Sawhill, and Jeffrey Tebbs. "The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth." Brookings Institution Policy Brief Series #153, October 2, 2009.

Hart, Betty, and Todd R. Risley. "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3," The American Educator, Spring 2003.

Heckman, James J., and Dimitriy V. Masterov. "The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children." Committee for Economic Development, October 2004.Delta Kobra & Ben Armstrong

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This title occurs only in John 19:25. A comparison of the lists of those who stood at the foot of the cross would seem to identify her with Mary, the mother of James the Less and Joseph (Mark 15:40; cf. Matthew 27:56). Some have indeed tried to identify her with the Salome of Mark 15:40, but St. John's reticence concerning himself and his relatives seems conclusive against this (cf. John 21:2). In the narratives of the Resurrection she is named "Mary of James"; (Mark 16:1; Luke 24:10) and "the other Mary" (Matthew 27:61; 28:1). The title of "Mary of James" is obscure. If it stood alone, we should feel inclined to render it "wife of (or sister of) James", but the recurrence of the expression "Mary the motherof James and Joseph" compels us to render it in the same way when we only read "Mary of James". Her relationship to the Blessed Virgin is obscure. James is termed "of Alpheus", i.e. presumably "son of Alpheus". St. Jerome would identify this Alpheus with Cleophas who, according to Hegesippus, was brother to St. Joseph (Hist. eccl., III, xi). In this case Mary of Cleophas, or Alpheus, would be the sister-in-law of the Blessed Virgin, and the term "sister", adelphe, in John 19:25, would cover this. But there are grave difficulties in the way of this identification of Alpheus and Cleophas. In the first place, St. Luke, who speaks of Cleophas (24:18), also speaks of Alpheus (6:15; Acts 1:13). We may question whether he would have been guilty


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France: Elections not likely to change development cooperation policy

Published on Wed, 2017-04-19 18:16

All major presidential candidates promise in their platforms to increase the French development cooperation contribution to 0.7 per cent of GDP and yet "I bet you a bottle of champagne that whoever gets elected, when we gather again five years from now that promise will not have been met".

Jean-Michel Severino, the author of the bet, was speaking on behalf of Emmanuel Macron in a public debate about French international relations and development cooperation among representatives from the five leading presidential candidates, a contest so close that four of them are deemed likely to pass to the second and final round next May.

As former director-general of the French Development Agency, Severino knows what he is talking aboutwhen he says that "almost any other issue has a stronger constituency than development cooperation" and therefore the 0.7 per cent promise will not be high among the priorities of any politician.

European parliamentarian Yannick Jadot, speaking on behalf of the socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, was the most vocal defender of development cooperation, arguing that "four centuries of hegemony are at the base of our current development" and therefore cooperation should not be limited to official development assistance (ODA) but include a "do not harm policy, ending current and proposed looting commercial agreements with developing countries".

With less than 10 per cent of the votes in the polls, Hamon is the only one of the first five candidates seen as without chances of making it to the second round.

Bernard Feraud,


for which they could be useful".

The Socialist Party wants more public debate on defense issues and wonders if a huge budget is necessary, envisaging the United Nations disarmament negotiations as a promising alternative.

Severino briefly promised to "keep the dissuasion capabilities at the present level".

The issue of migration was the one where the "Republican front" expressed itself. When Marine Le Pen's father (and founder of her National Front) made it to the second round of the French elections in 2002, all other parties, left, center and right, formed a "Republican front" to vote against him.

As much as Madame Le Pen has tried to distance herself from her father's fascist sympathies, it is very likely that even if she wins in the first round next April 23, as some pollspredict, all other candidates might unite against her in the second round of voting in May.

Le Pen's representative, Dutheil de la Rochere, considered migrants as a "reserve army" (of whom he did not specify) against France, arguing that assimilation is not working and "multi-culturalism equals decomposition."

All the other four panellists disagreed, with nuances in their views on migration.

Severino said that those policies would not have allowed his family of Italian roots to be in France.

Feraud reminded the audience that "all empires in history were multi-cultural" and said that "everybody deserving it should be admitted to France".

Jadot commented that [German chancellor Angela] "Merkel was left alone in her sensitive policy of accepting refugees" and Europe was now engaging in "shameful agreements with Libya and Turkey to forcefully retain migrants


Nb were examined and various Nb compositions were discovered with progressively, but only slightly higher, superconducting transition temperatures. In the early 1940's NbN was observed with a transition temperature of about 14°K; Nb3Sn was reported in the early 1950's; Nb3 (Al—Ge) was reported in the late 1960's; and Nb3Ge was reported in the early 1970's to have a transition temperature of about 17°K. Careful optimization of Nb3Ge thin films led to an increase of the critical temperature for such material up to 23.3°K. While this work led to progress the maximum temperature at which superconductivity could occur was raised to only 23.3°K since research started three-quarters of a century ago. The existing theories explained the superconductivity of these materials, but did not predict superconductivity of higher than 40°K.People who bought this also bought...

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Tony Blair has again been forced on the defensive over his decision to continue backing beleaguered Transport Secretary Stephen Byers.

Iain Duncan Smith attacked the prime minister for "rolling out the red carpet" for Mr Byers just minutes after he expressed "regret" for giving an apparently misleading answer on his role in the so-called 'Spingate' affair.

You are too weak to root out dishonesty

Iain Duncan SmithConservative Party leader

But Mr Blair, with Mr Byers sitting to his left, responded by challenging the Conservative leader over what he said were the real issues of getting the rail system running after a botched Tory privatisation.

Both the Conservatives and Lib Dems are angry Mr Byers is still in office, despite admitting he may have given a misleading impression of his role in the departureof his former press chief Martin Sixsmith.

'Fundamentally untrue'

Mr Blair insisted that he expected the "highest standards of propriety" from his ministers.

In feisty exchanges, the Tory leader pressed the prime minister: "Yesterday the transport secretary admitted to this House that he told the British people something that was fundamentally untrue."

Mr Sixsmith insists he did not agree to go

He said Mr Blair, before he came to power, had stated: "I would expect ministers in a government I lead to resign if they lie."

Mr Duncan Smith taunted the prime minister: "If that's so, why is the transport secretary today still in his job on the benches next to you?"

Mr Blair retorted: "I don't accept what you have said," adding that Mr Byers had made an "absolutely full statement".

"Mr Byers and his


department should now be allowed to get on with the issues that really matter to people."

Mr Duncan Smith said the prime minister "clearly isn't going to stand by his word", stressing that even rail passengers were petitioning for Mr Byers' removal.

'Scandal and gossip'

The prime minister said the Tories and parts of the media were following the agenda of "scandal and gossip", while the government was concentrating on matters affecting the economy, living standards and transport.

Mr Blair responded that Mr Byers would be judged on the the "real issues" of improvements in the transport system.

Mr Sixsmith has released to the BBC sections of detailed notes he kept throughout the affair, apparently backing his version of events.

Earlier Mr Kennedy argued that efforts to improve the UK's roads and railways wouldbe frustrated unless both Mr Byers and his top civil servant Sir Richard Mottram quit.

Mr Byers told the House of Commons on Tuesday he regretted that comments he made in a Sunday television interview may have suggested he played no role in discussions leading up to Mr Sixsmith's departure.

Mr Sixsmith insists he was forced out of his job over his dealings with Mr Byers' personal spin doctor Jo Moore.

But Mr Byers enjoys the support of much of Labour's backbenches with MPs cheering him during a meeting of the parliamentary party on Wednesday.

Kennedy says Byers position is "untenable"

In the Commons on Tuesday, Mr Byers told MPs there had been a "concerted attempt by a very small number of civil servants in the press office to undermine" his department.

He said


he was clear Mr Sixsmith "was not a suitable person to remain in government", but that ultimately, was not his decision as secretary of state.

But Mr Sixsmith's notes, given to BBC2's Newsnight programme, appear to show that Mr Byers was determined to save face by preventing Mr Sixsmith moving to another senior post in Whitehall.

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Just last week, it appeared Republicans were ready to finally accept Democrats' narrow win in a contentious governor's race. As it turns out, they weren't done fighting. In a surprise special session in the dying days of the old administration, some say the Republican-dominated legislature has thrown the government into total disarray, approving two bills aimed at emasculating incoming Gov. Roy Cooper's administration. One of them was signed into law by the current governor.

Cooper, the current attorney general, has threatened to sue. And many in the state are accusing Republicansbehind could only watch the debate through glass windows or listen to it online.

Hundreds stomped their feet and yelled outside the gallery, causing several Republican lawmakers to note they were having trouble hearing during the debate. Democrats repeatedly stated their objections.

"The kindergartners are getting rowdy," said Republican Rep. Dana Bumgardner.

He said Democrats were "creating out of thin air a talking point for the next election."

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who lost to Cooper by about 10,000 votes, quickly signed into law a bill that merges the State Board of Elections and State Ethics Commission into one board comprised equally of Democrats and Republicans. The previous state elections board law would have allowed Cooper to put a majority of Democrats on the elections panel.

The law would also make elections for


appellate court judgeships officially partisan again.

Another bill that received final legislative approval would force Cooper's Cabinet choices to be subject to Senate confirmation, would allow Cooper to designate up to 425 state employees as his political appointees, compared to a cap of 1,500 for McCrory.

Before adjourning, lawmakers also confirmed a salaried appointment to the state Industrial Commission for the wife of McCrory's chief of staff. McCrory nominated her.

McCrory must decide whether to sign the second law passed by the General Assembly, a body that has repeatedly tugged him to the right even though he campaigned as a moderate in 2012 as Charlotte's former mayor.

Republicans insist the legislation is simply adjusting the constitutional powers already granted to the General Assembly. Many provisions had been debated for years but hadeither gotten blocked or the Democratic viewpoint previously won out.

"There's probably no better time than to deal with it in the present," Republican Rep. Bert Jones said of the judicial elections provision.

Democrats said it was an attempt by the GOP to cling to power a week after the Republican incumbent conceded.

"I really fear that we have harmed our reputation and integrity this week," said Rep. Billy Richardson, a Democrat.

Republicans gained power of both legislative chambers in 2010 for the first time in more than a century, and they have veto-proof majorities, holding 108 of 170 seats even though the state has been more closely divided in recent statewide and federal elections.

North Carolina is a presidential battleground state that Barack Obama won in 2008 by just over 14,000 votes.


Four years later, Mitt Romney edged Obama by about 92,000 votes. Donald Trump won in November.

GOP legislators have been able to expand their majorities thanks to approving redistricting maps in 2011. But nearly 30 of those legislative districts were struck down last summer. A federal court has directed updated maps be approved by March 15.

Cooper ran on a platform of defeating Republicans' agenda, saying he would work to repeal a law known as House Bill 2 that limits LGBT rights.

"Once more, the courts will have to clean up the mess the legislature made, but it won't stop us from moving North Carolina forward," Cooper said in a statement late Friday.

Republicans pointed to past sessions of the General Assembly, when it was dominated by Democrats. Democrats stripped the powersof the first and only GOP lieutenant governor of the 20th Century in the late 1980s. But Democrats said there's been no such widespread effort to limit the power of an incoming executive before he took office in such a session.

Still, Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said, "just because you disagree with something doesn't mean it's unconstitutional."


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HARRISON, N.J. - The world's fourth-ranked team, Ireland, scored nine tries at Red Bull Arena Saturday as the USA Men's Eagles opened the Emirates Airlines Summer Series with a 55-19 loss.

Nick Civetta, John Quill, and Ryan Matyas put the ball down in-goal in front of 22,370 fans for Head Coach John Mitchell's side in its first match against Ireland since 2013. The Eagles will stay settled at Drew University through the middle of the week, when they travel down to Georgia for the June 17 match against the 12th-ranked Lelos of the Republic of Georgia. Tickets for the second match of the Emirates Airline Summer Series are still available, starting at $20 at Fifth Third


Bank Stadium at Kennesaw State University.

Tiernan O'Halloran outwaited the final U.S. defender in a break three minutes into the game, finding Earls for the opening try, 5-0. Finding a rhythm with ball in hand afterwards, the Eagles did well to maintain possession inside Ireland's half. While AJ MacGinty opted against a kickable penalty from a high tackle on Ben Cima, David Tameilau had a gain-line breaking run at the 10 six minutes later nullified by a penalty in the following offload.

From the midfield lineout, Jacob Stockdale found space on the far wing to dot down in the corner. Martin Iosefo made a try-saving tackle with a half-field chase moments later, but a failed clearance kick resulted in a return in space and offload from Kieran Marmion to Earls,17-0.

Ireland was not forced to kick much from its own end, but Civetta surprised fly half Joey Carbery in the 20th minute when the Irishman looked to get his side away from its try line. The lock charged down the attempt inside the 22 and was the first to the ball to take it over the line for the Eagles' only try of the first half.

A two-try blitz in five minutes extended Ireland's lead to 29-7 at halftime, as hooker Niall Scannell dotted down from a maul in the 31st minute and Earls found an offload after a long run at the try line for Marmion to score.

The Eagles made several substitutions in the pack at the break, though Ireland scored again from the scrum four minutes into


Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a vehicle center console assembly. More specifically, the present invention relates to a center console assembly that includes removable accessories, including a thermos holder assembly.
Background Information
Most modern vehicle include a center console located with a passenger compartment between front seats within the vehicle. The center console assembly typically extends from between the front seats to a lower central portion of an instrument panel at the front of the passenger compartment.Today, 83 organizations and individuals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States sent a letter to their respective governments insisting that government officials defend strong encryption. The letter comes on the heels of a meeting of the “Five Eyes” ministerial meeting in Ottawa, Canada earlier this week.

The “Five Eyes” is a surveillance partnership of intelligence agencies consisting of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. According to a joint communique issued after the meeting, officials discussed encryption and access to data. The communique states that “encryption can severely undermine public safety efforts by impeding lawful access to the content of communications during investigations into serious crimes, including terrorism.”

In the letter organized by Access Now, CIPPIC, and researchers from Citizen


jobs across the border. Having managed the transition from a manufacturing economy to a service one just 10 years ago, the Asian tiger now faces another major restructuring as its economy becomes more mature.

DODGED BULLET. The earlier transition didn't cause much pain. While some 500,000 factory jobs disappeared, industries such as finance, tourism, and trade more than made up for them. Today, Hong Kong has some 1.5 million workers in the service industry, compared with just 400,000 in manufacturing.

But job growth in those industries has fallen off. In May, the unemployment rate hit an eight-year high of some 3%. Although low by Western standards, it caused alarm in Hong Kong, where full employment has long been the norm. Especially worrisome was a first-quarter decline in employment in finance,now stepping up efforts to assist the growing number of service-sector workers in search of jobs.

Labor activists want more. "The government should block the paging companies from moving," says Wong. Labor groups want the government to suspend a plan that lets foreigners work on construction projects such as the new Chep Lap Kok airport. They also want Western-style unemployment insurance to replace the current system, which doesn't offer assistance to laid-off employees if others in their family work. Only 5% of Hong Kong's unemployed qualify.

IMPORTS. Such moves are opposed by the business community. "Hong Kong has been a successful place because people rely on themselves and not social welfare," says May Chow, executive director of the Employers Federation of Hong Kong, which also opposes efforts to restrict the


entry of legal foreign workers. At the new airport site, workers are putting the finishing touches on dormitories with 6,800 beds--mostly for workers brought in from China and Southeast Asia.

Despite its problems, the employment picture in Hong Kong is hardly dire. While some 80,000 have no jobs, there are also 60,000 vacancies, mostly in higher-end jobs that require more skills. Even so, the long-term structural changes aren't going away. Political rhetoric is likely to get more heated in the fall, with the approach of legislative elections. "Unemployment will be the issue," pledges Lee Cheuk Yan, chief executive of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and a member of the Legislative Council. Hong Kong residents won't need beepers to get that message.By Bruce Einhorn in Hong Kong102 is covered with a bumper face 101 made of flexible resin. The upper side bumper beam 102 is extended in a width direction of the vehicle at a front part of a vehicle body. The upper side bumper beam 102 and the lower side bumper beam 103 are supported by a radiator panel 106 at the front part of the vehicle body through an upper side bumper stay 104 and a lower side bumper stay 105, respectively.
The upper side bumper stay 104 has a double structure constituted of a long outer pipe stay 107, and a short inner pipe stay 108. The long outer pipe stay 107 is secured to both of the upper side bumper beam 102 and the radiator panel 106. The short inner pipe


vehicle body according to the invention, comprises a bumper and a radiator panel. The radiator panel has an upper frame and a lower frame both extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle at a front part of the vehicle body. The bumper is extendedly provided in a width direction of the vehicle in front of the radiator panel. The bumper comprises an upper side bumper beam extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle above the lower frame, an upper part bumper extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle and having an upper side impact absorbing material provided between the upper side bumper beam and an upper bumper face, the lower frame of the radiator panel, and a lower part bumper extendedly providedin the width direction of the vehicle and having an lower side impact absorbing material provided between the lower frame and an lower bumper face.
In the above-mentioned structure, the lower and upper bumper faces are integrally formed as a sole bumper face unit.
According to the invention, by forming the lower part bumper with the lower side impact absorbing material provided between the lower frame of the radiator panel and the bumper face, in providing the bumper having the upper part bumper and the lower part bumper both extendedly provided in the width direction of the vehicle at a front part of the vehicle body, the lower frame of the radiator panel is allowed to function as a bumper beam of the lower part bumper. This necessitates no space


on the knee. Therefore, a bending angle appeared at the knee can be made small to allow damage particularly to the knee to be reduced.
In the structure according to the present invention, it is advantageous that, the lower part bumper is provided with a top end position of the bumper face thereof being set ahead of a top end position of the bumper face of the upper part bumper.
According to the above-mentioned structure of the present invention, the top end of the lower part bumper is positioned ahead of the top end of the upper part bumper. Therefore, when a pedestrian has a minor collision with the bumper, the lower part bumper first butts a lower part of the lower limb, and then, the upper part bumper buttsthe vehicle body;
a bumper extended in the width direction of the vehicle body and located in front of the radiator, the bumper including,
an upper side bumper beam extended in the width direction of the vehicle body and located a position higher than the lower frame of the radiator in a vertical direction,
an upper part bumper extended in the width direction of the vehicle body and having an upper bumper face and an upper side impact absorbing material provided between the upper side bumper beam and the upper bumper face, and
a lower part bumper extended in the width direction of the vehicle body and having an lower bumper face and a lower side impact absorbing material provided between the lower bumper face and the lower frame of the radiator,


The White House Correspondents' Association said it would be an "unconscionable assault" on press freedoms were President Trump to follow through on his threat to crack down on news outlets covering his administration.

"Some may excuse the president's inflammatory rhetoric about the media but just because the president does not like the news coverage does not make it fake," the association's president Margaret Talev said Wednesday in a statement. The statement later added, "And a president preventing a free and independent press from covering the workings of our republic would be an unconscionable assault on the First Amendment."

Trump had said earlier in the morning that "the fake news is working overtime" to undermine his administration's accomplishments. "Why do we work so hard in working with the media when itto the planes of the first clamping surfaces, at least two opposed pressure-bearing surfaces spaced apart and located on longitudinal axes of the first clamping surfaces and disposed at an angle from the first clamping surfaces, and two rigid pressure-bearing points, one of said pressure-bearing points located to align when in use adjacent to one of the pressure-bearing surfaces and the other pressure-bearing point located to align when in use adjacent to the other pressure-bearing surface; and
means for imparting a longitudinal force such that the pressure-bearing surfaces are urged against the pressure-bearing points and, as the angled pressure-bearing surfaces slide over the pressure-bearing points in response to the longitudinal force, that longitudinal force is translated into a clamping force that urges the opposed clamping surfaces towards each other.
In


a particularly preferred aspect, the invention provides a clamp comprising:
two opposed clamping components each having (i) a first clamping surface, (ii) a second clamping surface disposed perpendicularly to the plane of the first clamping surface, (iii) a pressure-bearing surface located on a longitudinal axis of the first clamping surface and disposed at an angle from the first clamping surface and (iv) a rigid pressure-bearing point located to align when in use adjacent to the pressure-bearing surface of the second clamping component;
means for imparting a longitudinal force to the clamping components such that the pressure-bearing surface of one clamping component is urged against the pressure-bearing point of the other clamping component and, as the angled pressure-bearing surfaces slide over the pressure-bearing points in response to the longitudinal force, thatof the second clamping surface against the work-piece does not allow enough relative lateral movement of the two clamping components to provide sufficient clamping force from the first clamping surface.) The pre-tension member comprises a bearing plate mounted perpendicularly on a slide that runs along a groove in the U-channel member against the bias of a spring that is attached to a stop pin.
An alternative use of the pre-tension member is obtained by positioning it distal to the edge of the work-piece so that the movement of the bearing plate is limited by the stop pin before the bearing plate bears against the edge of the work-piece. By this means there is no pressure against the edges of the work-piece but only pressure exerted against the faces of


The 17th president defied Congress, personally insulted rivals, and accused them of staging a coup. Here's everything you need to know:

Why was Johnson impeached?

His Republican adversaries in Congress accused him of defying the law, acting like a king, and speaking and acting in a way that was unbecoming of the presidency. America's 17th president took office upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amid a polarizing struggle in Washington over the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. Johnson was an outspoken, temperamental populist given to fiery speeches laden with insults, blatant racism, and suggestions that his political enemies be hanged. A semiliterate tailor with no formal education, Johnson rose to political power by aligning himself in his home state of Tennessee with a loyal base of poormountaineers and small farmers seeking a political champion. He was hated by that era's "Radical Republicans" for his adamant opposition to their attempt to impose racial equality and the rule of law on the defeated Confederacy. Rather than root out the institutional white supremacy that had fueled the Civil War, Johnson thwarted attempts to bring freed slaves equal protection under the law. "Everyone would and must admit that the white race is superior to the black," Johnson said.

How did he become president?

In 1861, Johnson demonstrated a stunning moment of political courage when he became the only senator from a Confederate state to remain loyal to the Union. "Damn the negroes, I am fighting those traitorous aristocrats, their masters," he said. (He owned a few slaves himself.) In an


attempt to forge some national unity, President Lincoln, a Republican, appointed Johnson, a pro-Union Democrat, military governor of Tennessee in May 1862. Two years later — with the Civil War still 10 months from conclusion — Lincoln added Johnson to his Republican re-election ticket. But Johnson's start on the national stage was inauspicious. Fighting off a bout of typhoid fever on Inauguration Day, he reinforced himself with three tumblers of whiskey and was visibly drunk when he belligerently called out Cabinet members by name, reminding them that their power derived from the people. His predecessor as vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, yanked on Johnson's coat in a futile effort to stop his jaw-dropping, 17-minute-long diatribe. Forty-two days later, Lincoln was assassinated, and Johnson succeeded him.

How did Johnson respond?

He abandonedLincoln's agenda. Once elevated, Johnson declared that America "is a country for white men" and guaranteed it would remain as such for "as long as I am president." In a meeting with black abolitionist Frederick Douglass at the White House, he suggested deporting millions of black freedmen. He also flouted Congress by pardoning more than 7,000 Confederates, restoring their property (aside from slaves), and authorizing former rebel states to hold constitutional conventions attended only by white delegates. He accused Radical Republicans of plotting a coup. As he lashed out at critics, opposition to "King Andy," as he was branded, began to crystallize in Congress.

What did Congress do?

Some members searched for evidence connecting Johnson with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The House investigated Johnson's drinking and whether he frequented


prostitutes. In March 1866, Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would have granted freedmen citizenship and the right to sue and own land. Both houses of Congress overrode the presidential veto — the first time that ever happened on major legislation.

What happened during his term?

Through the fall of 1866, Johnson toured northern cities to build support for his lenient approach to Reconstruction, casting himself as the only thing standing between whites and "negro domination." He compared himself to Jesus Christ and his pardons for Confederates to divine mercy. When a heckler in Cleveland yelled, "Hang Jeff Davis!" Johnson suggested that his chief political antagonist, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-Pa.), should be hanged instead. An aide begged him to consider the dignity of his office, to which Johnson replied,"I don't care about my dignity." Henry Raymond, publisher of The New York Times, asked, "Was there ever such a madman in so high a place as Johnson?"

What brought on impeachment?

During the tour, Johnson threatened to fire any Cabinet member who opposed him, prompting Congress to pass the Tenure of Office Act prohibiting such dismissals without Senate consent. Matters came to a head in early 1868 when Johnson fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who transferred his belongings to the War Department, barricaded the doors, and refused to leave the building. The House voted 126 to 47 to impeach Johnson on 11 articles. The first eight concerned Stanton's ouster; the ninth Johnson's circumventing of the chain of command by giving orders directly to a general; and the 10th


and 11th his conduct and rhetoric in office, saying he had attempted to bring "disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach" on Congress. The Senate trial began in March 1868 and was the hottest ticket in Washington for a month. In the end, with Walt Whitman watching from the gallery, the Senate fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to remove Johnson by a single vote — that of Sen. Edmund Ross (R-Kan.), who may have been bribed. Johnson completed his term but had little support or authority, and neither party nominated him for re-election.

Congress' struggle to impeach

Then — as is the case today — Congress labored mightily over what constituted an impeachable offense. Should the process be understood narrowly as a criminal proceeding that addressed the breaking ofBoston Bruins rookie Seth Griffith finds himself holding down a plum assignment these days, lining up as the club's first-line right winger.

Griffith endeared himself to the hometown crowd during Tuesday's game against the Minnesota Wild by channeling his inner Bobby Orr while getting the best of Niklas Backstrom.

(Courtesy: NHL.com)

Here's a still shot for the full effect.

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Griffith also scored during the first period, benefiting from his linemates' respective strengths: a big hit from Milan Lucic and a picture-perfect pass from David Krejci.

The goals were Griffith's second and third of the season, with more likely to come if head coach Claude Julien keeps him on the top line.


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More women than men are studying art, but once they leave art school they are having less exposure and success. In 2011-12, 62 per cent of arts and design students in the UK were female. But in the same year, according to one audit, 31 per cent of London’s galleries presented work by women.

Of works by living artists acquired by Tate last year, 21 per cent were by women*, and a similar proportion of the current 125 Royal Academicians are women. So unless you think women make worse art, you must conclude that the art world fails female artists.

This is not to obscure the many successes of female artists. As Keeper of the Royal Academy, I am responsible for the RA Schools and I am always very pleasedSheridan Lawrence

Sheridan Lawrence (April 8, 1870 – February 1, 1952) was a pioneer, farmer, rancher and judge in northern Alberta.

The son of Henry and Margaret Lawrence, he was born in South Stukely, Quebec and came to the Fort Vermilion area in 1886 with his parents. On their large farm, the family raised cattle, hogs and horses. Lawrence married Julia "Juey" Scott in 1900. In 1901, his parents turned over the farm to Sheridan. He operated a flour mill, a dairy, a sawmill and a slaughterhouse, and grew wheat. Besides farming and ranching, Lawrence ran a number of trading posts.

The success of this large farming operation so far north helped convince the federal government to establish the Fort Vermilion Agricultural Experimental Station, which was opened by Lawrence's cousin, Fred


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