#Calder Walton

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Was Henry A. Wallace a spy or just a Soviet tool?

I think Wallace was just deeply idealistic and probably a true Socialist at a time when Americans could not differentiate between Socialism and "evil" Soviet Communism (well...Americans still can't do that), and that his idealism allowed the Soviets to use him to their advantage. But I definitely don't believe he was a spy or even a conscious Soviet asset.

Calder Walton wrote a book last year called Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) that was published my Simon & Schuster and I actually posted this excerpt a few months ago about Wallace and the Soviets during the Cold War that might answer your question a bit better:

Russian archival records obtained for this book show that [Joseph] Stalin colluded with his favorited U.S. candidate in 1948, Henry Wallace, [Franklin D.] Roosevelt’s Soviet-friendly wartime Vice President. The nature of Wallace’s relationship with the Kremlin has long been a subject of speculation. Soviet intelligence is known to have unimaginatively code-named the Vice President CAPTAIN’S DEPUTY during the war. But no evidence has ever emerged that Wallace was recruited as a Soviet agent. He was, however, we can now discern, a Soviet tool. He sincerely believed that “peaceful coexistence” between the Soviet Union and the United States not only could be achieved, but was essential for world peace. All the while, he looked away from (and naively followed Soviet propaganda denying) the existence of Stalin’s mass forced labor and terror programs. According to [President Harry S.] Truman’s counsel Clark Clifford: “It was never clear to me how aware he [Wallace] was of the uses to which the Communist Party was putting him, but whether he knew it or not, he was following the communist line, serving communist ends, and betraying those Americans who supported him as a serious alternative to the two main candidates [in 1948].” Wallace’s naivete about Soviet communism turned him into an asset for Stalin, if not a recruited Soviet agent. Wallace decided to run in the 1948 U.S. election as the Progressive Party nominee. In April and May that year, he secretly liaised with Stalin about public policies that would be advantageous for the Soviet Union, coordinating his public statements with the dictator. Wallace secretly met with the youthful Soviet ambassador to the UN in New York, Andrei Gromyko, who dispatched the candidate’s messages to the Soviet foreign minister, [Vyacheslav] Molotov, and to Stalin himself. In his memoirs, Gromyko admitted to meeting Wallace, but downplayed the meeting’s significance, suggesting that after talking with him he considered that Wallace had lost contact with the pulse of American life. Archival documents in Moscow reveal that in fact Stalin took Wallace’s position and candidacy seriously, approving his public positions, and answering questions that the former Vice President put to him, which Stalin annotated in his distinctive pencil. Their alignment produced a published open letter from Wallace to Stalin, vetted by the Soviet leader in advance, to which Stalin then publicly replied, all as agreed between the two men. Wallace’s Presidential election bid in November 1948 dismally failed; he ended up getting barely 2 percent of the vote, while Truman, to his and the nation’s surprise, won a second term. He defeated New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey in one of the greatest upsets in U.S. Presidential history. Ironically, the staff of Wallace’s failed 1948 campaign included none other than the Soviet atom spy Ted Hall. Following his unsuccessful White House run, Wallace had a crisis of faith in his pro-Stalinism. This may have been caused by his realization that Stalin had used and discarded him after the election. Stalin had gotten what he wanted from Wallace. In 1952, Wallace published an article, “Where I Was Wrong,” describing “Russian Communism” as “utterly evil.” The Kremlin and its intelligence services nevertheless learned an important strategic lesson for later in the Cold War: that it could use the freedoms inherent within American electoral campaigns to influence candidates favorable to the Soviet Union.

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Edgar P. Jacobs “Le Rayon U (The U Ray)” (1943)

Wikipedia “Le Rayon U is set on an Earth-like planet which combines elements of the distant past, present and far future. Two of its nations, Norlandia and Austradia, are in conflict. A Norlandian scientist, Marduk, has devised a weapon called the "U Ray", but requires a mineral called uradium in order to put it to actual use. Marduk therefore organises an expedition into an unknown part of the planet in order to find the uradium. Those accompanying him include: his assistant Sylvia Hollis; the explorer Lord Calder; Adji, Calder's Indian manservant; and Major Walton and Sergeant Mac Duff of the Norlandian secret service. The explorers encounter all manners of threats, including prehistoric monsters, giant snakes and tigers, a tribe of hostile ape-men, and the meddling of Austradian spy Captain Dagon. More welcoming, but no less intriguing, is a civilisation of Aztec-like people.”

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hi!!! do you have any tips for someone getting into hockey for the first time. i want to follow the caps but i don't exactly know where to start especially since the season hasn't started (?) yet! thank you so much :-)

hi anon!!!! this ask genuinely made me smile, so i hope ur able to get something out of it (or at least maybe a list of what u don’t want to do lmao)

gonna put it under a readmore bc idk how to keep things short

ur right, the season hasn’t started yet! hockey season runs between october through the following april; there’s preseason games (for ✨funsies✨, no points) in september, and the stanley cup playoffs (our trophy run) happens from about mid to late april through till mid june.

the sport itself can be Really Confusing (no one knows what goaltender interference is), but luckily there’s a lot of online resources if ur interested in the rules, but you will Also just pick things up as you watch/listen. i’ve spent a lot of time (no joke) on the “hockey for dummies” webpage when i was watching minor leagues and couldn’t rely on announcers to tell me what was going on. that said: u don’t have to learn any of these things to be a fan, u can just be excited when ur team puts the puck in the net! that’s what we all want!

the two biggest tips i have are just: dive in and have fun. “dive in”: just pick a team (or a few, tho it sounds like you’ve chosen wisely hehe). “have fun”: exactly what it sounds like.

as for caps specific things:

the caps have an amazing broadcast team all around. if ur able to tune in (or pirate ;]) to televised games, u’ve got joe b and locker, some of the best announcers in the sport. if you’re like me, you’ll probably be listening to the radio broadcast with john walton! there’s no right way to enjoy the games, as long as you’re Enjoying them!! (and don’t feel like you have to tune into every game either, it’s nbd)

the caps fan community is truly great. since u sent me this ask on tumblr i’m assuming you’re active on here; the #caps lb tag is full of other fans that you can connect and chat with. and the ‘lb’ there means ‘liveblog’, we all tend to post our own reactions to the game as it’s happening (or talk about. unrelated things if the game is going poorly), that’s another great way to feel like you’re “watching with friends”.

if ur interested on “brushing up” on the team during the offseason, there’s a website called “russian machine never breaks” that’s been writing about caps and caps adjacent things (including reporting on the hershey bears’ calder cup win, our ahl affiliate!) since 2009 (which is around the same time i started following the team). they’re my go to resource for player profiles, game summaries, all that jazz. i recommend looking at some of the articles from the caps 2018 stanley cup run if you want some Feel Good Content

this is already long as hell and i’m not sure if i actually answered ur question so i’m actually gonna stop here and say if u have any other questions, i’m happy to answer them here or in my dms if you’d like! i’m always happy to make new fans feel welcome <3

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Chinaphobia: China Has Been Waging a Decades-Long, All-Out Spy War

While the West was distracted, the Chinese government began an intelligence assault that never stopped.

— March 28, 2023 | By Calder Walton | Foreign Policy

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One week ago, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was questioned by members of the U.S. Congress, before the world’s media, about whether the Chinese government uses the wildly popular video-sharing app to spy on Americans. His testimony came several weeks after the appearance of a Chinese spy balloon floating across the United States. What are we to make of these two stories, which are at their core both about Chinese espionage?

To borrow a phrase from Mission: Impossible: Relax, it’s much worse than you think. We are now witnessing some of the effects of a decision made years ago by China to use every means and medium of intelligence-gathering at its disposal against the West. Its strategy can be summarized in three words: collect, collect, collect. Most Westerners do not yet appreciate just how sweeping China’s intelligence onslaught directed at their countries is; for decades, their own governments likewise didn’t understand because their attention was largely directed elsewhere.

After 9/11, the U.S. intelligence community was overwhelmingly geared toward counterterrorism. U.S. spy chiefs followed priorities for this agenda set by decision-makers in Washington. The U.S. government’s strategic focus on combating terrorism took place at the expense of focusing on resurgent states such as China and Russia. As we pass the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, it is useful to understand how China’s intelligence and national security establishment reacted at the time.

The strategy that China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), its principal civilian intelligence service, took toward the United States after 9/11 followed a Chinese saying, ge an guan huo, which roughly translates as “watch the fires burn from the safety of the opposite river bank, which allows you to avoid entering the battle until your enemy is exhausted.” The MSS followed this saying to a T. Its long-term aim was to contain the United States, and then supplant it, in Southeast Asia. As the United States was mired in the Middle East, the gains being made by the MSS went by largely undetected or appreciated by U.S. intelligence.

Beginning in 2005, the MSS declared war on the U.S. intelligence community. From that point on, all of the service’s best resources and personnel were marshaled against U.S. intelligence—while the United States was pivoting to the global war on terrorism. According to one CIA official with deep expertise on China, with whom I had an exclusive interview on condition of anonymity, internal MSS deliberations from that time were marked with glee as the U.S. government was consumed, if not distracted, by the global war on terrorism.

Chinese intelligence was soon winning its war on U.S. spies. As previously reported in these pages, in 2010 the MSS dismantled a major CIA network being run from its station in Beijing. It reportedly led to the killing or imprisonment of more than a dozen CIA sources in China over more than two years. Details about how Chinese intelligence compromised the U.S. network remain murky. It seems, however, that the MSS hacked into the CIA’s supposedly secure communication channels. There are also whispers that the network may have been compromised by a human agent—a mole, to use John le Carré’s phrase—in the CIA. That person may have been Jerry Lee, a former CIA case officer working on Chinese affairs. After leaving the CIA, Lee sold U.S. secrets to Chinese intelligence. He was later caught—a U.S. counterintelligence success—and in 2019 was sentenced to 19 years in prison. There is little information in the public domain about what secrets Lee delivered to his Chinese handlers.

At this point, you might well say, fair enough—spies spy, just as robbers rob. Perhaps China has been doing what all states do, only better? This might be called the realist school of espionage in international affairs. Such a line of thought about China, usually said with a shrug, is misleading, however. China’s intelligence services operate in a fundamentally different way from those in the West—in nature, scope, and scale.

Unlike those in Western democracies, China’s intelligence services are not held to account by independent political bodies or the public, nor are they subject to the rule of law. Instead, the Chinese government fuses together a “whole of society” approach for collecting intelligence. This sets it apart from anything undertaken by Western governments. Chinese intelligence and commerce are integrated in ways without comparison in the West. Contrary to what may be thought, the U.S. government does not conduct industrial espionage to advantage U.S. businesses. In China, by contrast, thanks to successive national security legislation passed under President Xi Jinping, Chinese businesses are required to work with its intelligence services whenever requested to do so. They are effectively silent partners in Chinese commerce with the outside world. Another difference between Chinese intelligence and Western powers concerns what those in the spy world call ubiquitous technical surveillance. Facial recognition, phone apps, and CCTV all make China an infinitely harder target for Western agencies to collect intelligence on than Chinese services’ targets in open Western democracies. A fundamental asymmetry thus exists in the shadowy intelligence battles between China and the West.

China’s foreign intelligence offensive has reached new levels since Xi took power in 2012. Its purpose involves what all intelligence agencies do: to understand the intentions and capabilities of foreign adversaries. But China’s offensive goes much further: to steal as many scientific and technical secrets from Western powers, principally the United States, as possible to advance China’s position as a superpower—challenging and overtaking the United States on the world stage.

China’s Unprecedented Economic Boom This Century Has Been Fueled By an Equally Unprecedented Theft of Western Science and Technology.

China’s unprecedented economic boom this century has been fueled by an equally unprecedented theft of Western science and technology. Back in 2012, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency warned that cyber-espionage constituted the greatest transfer of wealth in history. China was—and remains—the greatest perpetrator. Beginning around 2013 or 2014, Chinese operatives carried out a massive hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which holds some of the most sensitive information in the U.S. federal government: information obtained during security clearances. This information is that which people often hide from their nearest and dearest—extramarital affairs and such. Chinese intelligence thus has millions of datapoints for potential blackmail, what the Russians call kompromat, to recruit agents with access to U.S. secrets. The OPM haul was followed, in 2017, by China’s hack of the credit rating bureau Equifax, which gave China sensitive data on approximately 150 million Americans. If you are an American, it is more likely than not that China has sensitive data about you.

Then there are Chinese businesspeople who in reality are undercover MSS operatives. Take the example of Yanjun Xu, an MSS officer (not just an agent) who posed as a businessman to steal U.S. aviation trade secrets. He was caught and is now in prison. Xu is hardly alone. A common tactic on the part of the MSS is to dangle a lucrative deal to U.S. businesses, obtain a target’s underlying intellectual property, scuttle the deal, but keep the IP and manufacture the product. In some cases, the Chinese intelligence front companies sell the product back to the original target market.

According to the FBI, in 2021 it was opening a China-related investigation every 12 hours. Even Britain’s traditionally secretive services—MI5, MI6, and GCHQ—have now come out of the shadows and publicly warned about the threat posed by Chinese espionage.

The above, then, is the real context for China’s spy balloon this year. Certainly, balloons seem so last century—or even the century before. But that should not fool us about their capabilities. According to Western signals intelligence officials with whom I have spoken, China’s balloon was equipped with state-of-the-art sensors capable of eavesdropping on electronic signals from near space that satellites could not.

Aerial reconnaissance has a proven track record. After World War II, as the Cold War set in, the newly founded CIA suffered a succession of human intelligence failures in heavily guarded police states behind the Iron Curtain. It was largely due to those failures that the CIA pioneered the use of overhead reconnaissance. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the CIA to develop a top-secret spy plane, the U-2. Subsequent U-2 flights allowed U.S. intelligence to peer inside the otherwise dark interior of the Soviet Union.

Aerial Reconnaissance Has a Proven Track Record.

Papers held at the Eisenhower Presidential Library show the value of U-2 intelligence given to the small circle of those in Washington indoctrinated into its secrets. U-2 overflights of the Soviet bloc revealed that the “missile gap”—the claim that the United States trailed the Soviet Union in missile development—was erroneous. In May 1960, one of the CIA’s U-2s, flown by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down over the Soviet Union. Believing the pilot had been killed, Eisenhower authorized a cover story, similar to China’s recent claims about its balloon: that the U-2 plane was a U.S. weather-monitoring aircraft that had strayed off course. When Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced to the world that Powers was in fact alive, and in Soviet custody, Eisenhower was left scrambling. The CIA gave a closed briefing to Congress about the U-2 program. The CIA’s head, Allen Dulles, was surprised to receive a standing applause from the senators briefed. Eisenhower, however, chose not to reveal to Americans at large the nature of the U-2 program, not wanting to reveal U.S. intelligence sources and methods. That was understandable, but it was also a missed opportunity. It is likely that, if they had known about it, Americans would have rallied behind the U-2 program as Congress did.

The U-2 program continued after the shootdown, playing a major role during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. Thereafter, both sides of the Cold War, East and West, threw increasing resources to collect intelligence from even higher overhead—space. Both sides of the Cold War relied on technical intelligence collection, from satellites and overflights, about each other’s arsenals. This made it possible for each side to verify the other’s compliance with arms reduction treaties in the later years of the Cold War. Without what was euphemistically called “national technical means”—a combination of signals intelligence, imagery intelligence, and that gleaned from electronic emissions—such arms reduction treaties would have been impossible. Those treaties, backed by mutual Eastern and Western intelligence collection, helped to stabilize the Cold War.

We should not, therefore, be surprised in principle that China would be using overhead platforms to collect intelligence. The United States has done it in the past—and it proved useful. What is surprising is how relatively easy the U.S. government has made it for the Chinese government to steal secrets in key U.S. sectors.

You can’t blame a wolf for going after chickens in a coop—especially if the door is left open. A recent report by Strider Technologies, an open-source strategic intelligence start-up, has revealed how Chinese scientists were able to obtain valuable research and development (R&D) from Los Alamos, home to the U.S. government’s cutting-edge laboratories. The report—which also demonstrates the power of open-source intelligence in today’s digital world—reveals that Chinese scientists at Los Alamos brought R&D from there back to China, which the Chinese government then used in defense technologies such as hypersonics. In some instances, the Chinese scientists at Los Alamos had been funded by U.S. research grants. The United States was thus effectively funding its own competitive disadvantage with China in these sectors.

Cold wars tend to start before Western countries are prepared. Intelligence records reveal that in 1945 the Soviet government was effectively already engaged in a cold war with its Western counterparts. This was based on its long-term ideological opposition to capitalist powers and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s belief that he had to contain them. Before and during World War II, Soviet intelligence undertook an unprecedented espionage offensive against Western powers—including the Soviet Union’s wartime allies Britain and the United States—to collect political intelligence and steal as many scientific and technical secrets as possible. Soviet spy chiefs were pushing at an open door as their Western allies were distracted, if not consumed, by fighting the Axis powers. By the end of World War II, Soviet spies had acquired secrets of the nuclear bomb, whose later development would shape postwar international security. Soviet agents had also penetrated the most sensitive parts of Western governments. This allowed Stalin to calibrate his strategies toward his former wartime Western allies—who were never his allies in the sense they thought—based on secrets from the inside. Western powers were ill-equipped for a struggle they were already in by 1945.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. There are rhymes with the Cold War and U.S.-China relations today. As in the Cold War, from the view of intelligence and national security, the United States is already in a cold war with China. Like the last century’s superpower conflict, Western intelligence agencies are again racing to recalibrate and catch up.

Chinese Spies are Real in The Same Way Soviet Agents Were Real.

The Cold War offers two warnings. First, Chinese spies are real in the same way Soviet agents were real. An uncomfortable public policy conversation is urgently needed about the nature of Chinese students, academics, and businesspeople—some of whom may have malign intentions—as well as talent programs and cultural outreach programs in the United States. But that does not mean that Americans who happen to be of Chinese heritage are spies, any more so than left-leaning Americans were Soviet agents.

Second, sunlight is the best disinfectant. The U.S. government must be transparent about its knowledge of Chinese intelligence. If such information is not forthcoming—and scrutinized, debated, and challenged—there is a real prospect of another McCarthyite witch hunt. Today, Chinese Americans are often the victims of the Chinese government and its intelligence services. Finding the balance between security and civil liberties is our challenge ahead. China will continue to spy, using all means available—balloons, businesses, and bytes. We need to determine what trade-offs we are willing to put up with between security and civil liberties.

Now is a moment for nuance, not grandstanding. TikTok provides the Chinese government with a potential platform to collect intelligence on Americans, behind the endless videos posted on it. It also offers the Chinese government the opportunity to shape public opinion. So far, however, it has not been demonstrated in Congress that TikTok actually does either. TikTok should certainly be banned from phones carrying Western state secrets because of the potential for Chinese espionage, but its wholesale ban in the United States is so far not justified on national security grounds. Unless or until evidence emerges that TikTok constitutes more than a potential security threat at large, it is surely the right of Americans to post as many videos as they want online and potentially have their data mined in China if they wish.

— Calder Walton is a historian at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of the forthcoming Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West.

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United States Rebel Academia

Because there are structures of power and influence taking advantage of us everyday and there is nothing more dark academia than learning information that is technically free to the public but largely brushed over by people in power because they don’t want anyone to see it. In these times the act of learning is resistance.

(This is 95% USA because I live there, but if you’d like to make a Rebel Academia post for the country you know most intimately, please go ahead! Even if your following is tiny or you only have a few bullet points for your country, we’d all love to see it! I know I would!)

Reading PDFs of documents stamped with “classified” that were released during court proceedings

Listening to the podcast Swindled to learn about “true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil” that have “shaped our world in unimaginable ways. All in the name of greed.”

Reading Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis, watching 13TH, watching Just Mercy, taking notes from Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk, and devouring everything you can get your hands on to understand the prison industry

Earrings made to look like black roses

Listening to the podcast series White Lies to understand how easily the justice system can be rigged in favour of the ruling majority, how the Jim Crow era still lives on, and what it means to be white in America

On that note: Listening to 1619 and Natal to understand how racism emenates from every system today and Code Switch to address how that racism has woven its way into you

Letting your facial hair grow out a little bit over the weekend to feel like a haggard investigative reporter

Reading the actual text of laws, court rulings, and executive orders instead of summaries

Falling in love with Oyez

Fighting tooth and nail against your ingrained bigotry, checking your privilege every time you notice it, accepting criticism of your bias graciously and without lashing out and immediately working to fix your mistake

Reading Counter-Intelligence: A Documentary Look at America’s Secret Police to understand some of the corruption of the FBI

And learning about some of the CIA’s interesting little gigs

Deep black coffee, animated conversations late into the night, consoling shaken parents

Being well aware that the Russian disinformation and misinformation campaigns are still going stronger than ever, and protecting oneself by getting world information from legitimate newssource, and refusing to spread conspiracy theories (even to make fun of them) with the knowledge that by spreading them one risks presenting them to the less critical among us and endangering them

Educating yourself about Russian disinformation campaigns by listening to their history, reading Spies, Election Meddling, And Disinformation: Past And Present by Calder Walton, reading A Guide to the Russian Toolbox of Election Meddling: a Platform to Analyse the Long Term Comprehensive Kremlin Strategy of Malign Influence by Marius Lauriavičius, and (if one has the time) the Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III

Putting on a calming lofi playlist to hum along to while reading PDFs

Completely disregarding clickbait

Taking mental health breaks and taking Yana Buhrer Tavanier’s advice from her TED Talk on Activism Burnout

Learning what the Communication Management Units are

Watching Poverty Inc. to understand more about nonprofits and how they can function as an unexpected tool of neocolonialism

Listening to episodes of Stuff You Missed In History Class to get the stories ignored by traditional textbooks

Learning everything you can about the human trafficking industry (here are a few basics)

Voting and contacting representatives

Obviously, this all only scratches the surface. I’m only sixteen, and I’ve only just started figuring out what to look out for and where to find reliable resources on the corruption and chaos built into my world. I beg of you, do more research. You cannot fight what you do not know is there. May we learn together for the good of our nation and humanity.

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MPACK Band Live Music in Maplewood Crossing Social Distancing Concert 7-_16_2020.mp4 from Gregory Burrus on Vimeo.

First concert after Corona Virus hit NJ hard. MPACK Band Live Music in Maplewood Crossing Social Distancing Concert 7_16_2020. MPACK BAND Led by Clarence Conover on Bass, Vovals and Keys, Patricia Walton on Vocal, Bret Calder on Guitar, Scotty "Funky" Jordan on Drums and Joe Scarpitto on Bass.

Elite Properties will be presenting their Maplewood Crossing and 1701 Springfield Ave residents a Live Music Social-Distancing Concert at Maplewood Crossing - Thursday, July 16, 2020, 6-8 pm. patch.com/new-jersey/southorange/social-distancing-live-concert-mplwd-crossings-1701-springfield

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Peluches Disney Boutique

Nous voulions donc faire quelque chose où les gens de tous les âges peuvent participer. Lamison III, est décédé en 1977. Micky toit qui est le concepteur et propriétaire d’un magasin à ithaca, ny appelé le jewelbox. Ce qui distingue quoique colliers monogramme à part des autres. Après avoir travaillé de nombreuses facettes de l’entreprise, en, il a décidé d’ouvrir son propre magasin de vente au détail et a été à elle depuis. Depuis août 2005, l'accusation et la défense ont été combats plus Cadeaux Disney comment prouver lequel des centaines de pièces -- de nombreux encore dans leur boîte ou avec des ventes étiquettes attachées -- appartiennent à la Severn femme et qui avaient été volés. Sur un autre jour, une autre femme entre et dit, je suis venu pour obtenir mon disneyland reduction.comme un séminaire Catonsville étudiant il y a 30 ans, Barker a visité sa grand-mère, qui était sur son lit de mort après qui luttent contre le cancer. Il est appelé steel montre pasha seatimer les hommes disney et se vend à sur leur site web. Drame a été abondante dans ses bijoux, avec de gros et un moderne ambre colombien place eurodisney promo dont le schéma de métal, turquoise et argent apporté les mobiles d'Alexander Calder à l'esprit. Jetez un oeil à la fabrication d’un anneau à partir de cad à pièce finie. Je pris cette vieille, bracelet cassé et l’avait fait dans un Papeterie pour enfants Disney anneau. Les bijoux est organisé par couleur, et aucun des accessoires est dans les cas ou inaccessibles aux clients. Je obtenir encore d’avoir pauses collation lorsque la part de madison vient sur Mémorial Disney Star Wars (il est si ennuyeux. Bien sûr, je me suis assuré d’obtenir un peu de temps et je ramené six anneaux antiques vraiment uniques.Mais même pour un ballon pour Barack Obama, smart shoppers peut trouver fashions que donner plus pour leur argent. Ne soyez pas pris au dépourvu au moment de déterminer la taille de votre bague dans des pays comme l’angleterre, le japon, l’allemagne et la france. Mes cadeaux vente privée sejour disneyland 2015 venaient tous deux antique de walton: platine anneau, vers tardif montre de cocktail en or blanc, gravée ‘esther xmas,’ voici une autre année. www.boutique-disney.com/films-disney

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I always felt kind of bad for (Henry) Wallace. To me, he always seemed more naive than malicious, but that's just me.

The passage that I excerpted earlier from Calder Walton's recent book Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) relies on previously unavailable research unearthed in the archives of the former Soviet Union, and it certainly raises some questions about Henry Wallace, but I'm inclined to agree with your opinion. I think Wallace was almost unabashedly idealistic at a time when it could often be politically dangerous to be idealistic and progressive in the post-World War II/early Cold War-era United States

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news analysis podcasts the magazine channels newsletters FP INSIDER ACCESS: POWER MAPS CONFERENCE CALLS SPECIAL REPORTS SIGN IN SUBSCRIBE ARGUMENT Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus Intelligence agencies will play a growing role in keeping their countries safe during the pandemic—by any means necessary. BY CALDER WALTON | APRIL 3, 2020, 2:07 PM A janitor mops the floor at the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia, on March 3, 2005. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES The coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping across the world is more than a public health emergency. It poses unprecedented threats to national and international security, and fighting it, as the leaders of several countries have stressed, will resemble a major war involving similar numbers of fatalities. Intelligence services will have a major role in this struggle, just as they have in previous wars throughout history. That role will largely be played in the shadows—but it will be no less significant for its secrecy. There are four ways that intelligence services will contribute to the war against COVID-19. First, they will provide policymakers with assessments about the vir

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Masterpost: Water

This has started to become a theme in some of the asks, so this post is going to be here for those wanting a new water / ocean / sea... you get the point, right?

we also included mythology-related water names here!

Masculine Names That Relate to Water (+ Mythological Ones)

Afon - “river” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Agam - “lake” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Aegaeon - god of violent storms (Greek mythology)

Anup - “watery” (Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi)

Aqua - “water” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Aquarius - “water” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Arausio - god of water (Celtic mythology)

“orange” (French)

Assan - “waterfall” (Irish)

Attewater - “at the water” (English)

Bada (바다) - “beach, sea” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Barse - “fresh-water perch” (English)

Bo ( 波 ) - “wave” (Chinese) [masc + neutral]

Bo - “to live” (Swedish, Danish) [masc + neutral]

Bolívar - “mill river”, also the last name of Simón Bolívar, a Bolivian revolution leader (Spanish [Latin American])

Boseon (보선) - “boiling water spilling out” + “good, kind, charitable, virtuous”

Cain - “clear water” (English)

Caindale - “from the clear water valley” (English)

Calder - “from the stony river” / “stream” (Celtic)

Caspian - derived from the Caspian Sea (place name) [masc + neutral]

Dax - a French town by the water (French)

Deniz - “sea” (Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Derya - “sea, ocean” (Persian, Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Dongha (동하) - “east river” (Korean)

Donghae (동해) - “east sea” / Korean for the “East Sea” / Sea of Japan (Korean)

Doeun - (도은) - “east clouds” (Korean)

Dongeun (동은) - “east clouds” (Korean)

Dover - “water” / “a seaport” (English)

Dylan - “son the river” / god of the seas (English, Welsh mythology)

Fjord - “passage in the sea” / “narrow inlet between seas” (Scandanavian) [masc + neutral + femme)

Garam (가람) - “river” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Glaucus - prophetic sea god who protected fishermen and sailors in difficult times at sea (Greek mythology)

Göksu - “sky river” (Turkish)

Gürsel - “flowing water” (Turkish)

Hai (  海 ) - “sea, ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

He (  河 ) “river, stream” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 和  ) “harmony, peace” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

(  荷 ) “lotus, water lily” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Irvin - “green water” (English) 

Irving - “green water” (English) 

Irwin - “green water” (English)

Jafar - “stream” , name of main antagonist in Aladdin (Arabic)

Jubal - “stream” (Hebrew, Biblical)

Kai / Kaia - “sea” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

“uncertain” (German, Finnish, Swedish) 

Kaimana - “sea, ocean” + “power” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

“diamond” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Ken / Kenn - “clear water” (English)

Ken - “healthy and strong” (Japanese)

Laec - “lives near water” (English)

Lynn / Lin / Lynne - “waterfall” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Lin ( 林, 琳 ) - “forest” “fine jade, gem” (Chinese) [masc + femme]

Llyr - god of the sea / “the sea” (Welsh mythology, Welsh)

Maayan - “spring water” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Marlowe - “remnants of the lake” (Old English)

Moana - “ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea” (Maori, Hawaiian, other Polynesian languages) [masc + neutral + femme]

Morgan - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Mortimer - “still water” (Old French)

Minoo / Minu (민우) - “streaks in jade, gem” + “rain” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Mizuchi - mythological water serpent (Japanese)

Muir - “sea” (Scottish Gaelic)

“moor, fen” (Scottish)

Ocean - “a large body of water” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Oceanus - father of the oceanids (Greek mythology)

Niraj - “water-born” (Sanskrit, Indian, Hindi)

Neptune - God of the seas (Roman mythology)

Pegasus - “from a water spring” (Greek)

“strong” (Greek)

winged horse that sprang out from Medusa’s blood after her death (Greek mythology)

Phorcys - God of hidden dangers of the deep (Greek mythology)

Poseidon - God of the seas (Greek mythology)

Río - “river” (Spanish, Portuguese)

River - “river” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Segar / Seger - “sea warrior” (English)

Sevan - “lake” (Armenian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Shui ( 水 ) - “water” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Triton - God and messenger of the sea (Greek mythology)

Walton - “stream town” (Old English)

“wood town” (Old English)

“wall town” (Old English)

Wilburn - “stream” (Old English)

Wilton - “well town” (Old English)

“willow town” (Old English)

“on the river Wylye” (Old English)

“tricky” (Celtic)

Yam - “sea” (Near Eastern mythology)

Yang (  洋 ) “ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 阳 ) “light, sun” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Neutral Names That Relate to Water (+ Mythological Ones)

Afon - “river” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Agam - “lake” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Aqua - “water” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Aquarius - “water” (Latin) [masc + neutral]

Bada (바다) - “beach, sea” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Bo ( 波 ) - “wave” (Chinese) [masc + neutral]

Bo - “to live” (Swedish, Danish) [masc + neutral]

Cascade - “waterfall” (French) [neutral + femme]

Caspian - derived from the Caspian Sea (place name) [masc + neutral]

Clyte - “water nymph” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Deniz - “sea” (Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Derya - “sea, ocean” (Persian, Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Edlen - “noble waterfall” (English) [neutral + femme]

Fjord - “passage in the sea” / “narrow inlet between seas” (Scandanavian) [masc + neutral + femme)

Fontaine / Fontayne / Fontana “water source” / “fountain” (French) [neutral + femme]

Garam (가람) - “river” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Haeju (해주) - “sea, ocean” + “precious stone, gem, jewel” (Korean)

Hai (  海 ) - “sea, ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

He (  河 ) “river, stream” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 和  ) “harmony, peace” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

(  荷 ) “lotus, water lily” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Hongyu (홍규) - “clear, deep pool of water” + “stride of man” (Korean)

Kai / Kaia - “sea” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

“uncertain” (German, Finnish, Swedish)

Kaimana - “sea, ocean” + “power” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

“diamond” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Kaito ( 海 翔 ) - “sea, ocean” + “soar, fly” (Japanese)

Kelvin - “narrow river” (English)

Lake - “inland body of water” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Lynn / Lin / Lynne / Lynna - “waterfall” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Maayan - “spring water” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Maxwell - “great stream” / “stream” (English)

Minoo / Minu (민우) - “streaks in jade, gem” + “rain” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Moana - “ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea” (Maori, Hawaiian, other Polynesian languages) [masc + neutral + femme]

Morgan - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Morgance - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic)

Morgane - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic)

Nereus - “water” (Greek, Italian)

Nerio - “water” (Greek, Italian)

Ocean - “a large body of water” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

River - “river” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Sevan - “lake” (Armenian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Shui ( 水 ) - “water” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Yang (  洋 ) “ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 阳 ) “light, sun” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Feminine Names That Relate to Water (+ Mythological Ones) 

Adra  - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Latin)

Adrea - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Latin)

Adria - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Latin)

Adriana / Adrienna - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Latin)

Adrie - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Dutch)

Adrinna - “from the Adriatic [Sea]” (Latin)

Adva - “rippling water” (Hebrew)

Aedre  - “stream” (Anglo-Saxon)

Aegea - “from the Aegean [Sea]” (Latin)

Afon - “river” (Welsh) [masc + neutral + femme]

Agam - “lake” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Amphitrite - wife of Poseidon, queen of the seas (Greek mythology)

Araxie - a river said to inspire poetic expression (Armenian)

Assana - “waterfall” (Irish)

Assane - “waterfall” (Irish)

Aysu - “moon water” (Turkish)

Bada (바다) - “beach, sea” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Beverlee - “beaver river” (English)

Beverly / Beverley - “woman from the beaver meadow, beaver river” (English)

Brizo - patron goddess of sailors and fishermen (Greek mythology)

Brook / Brooke - “water, stream” (English)

Brooklyn / Brooklynn / Brookylnne - “water, stream” (English)

Cascade - “waterfall” (French) [neutral + femme]

Ceto - goddess of the dangers of the seas (Greek mythology)

Chelsea - “sea port” (Anglo-Saxon)

Clyte - “water nymph” (Greek) [neutral + femme]

Cordelia - “of the sea” (Celtic)

Cordelia - “jewel of the sea” (Welsh)

Cragan - “sea shell” (Welsh)

Deniz - “sea” (Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Derya - “sea, ocean” (Persian, Turkish) [masc + neutral + femme]

Diona - “from the sacred spring” (English)

Diondra - “from the sacred spring” (English)

Dione - “from the sacred spring” (English)

Dionna - “from the sacred spring” (English)

Dionne - “from the sacred spring” (English)

Edlen / Edlin / Edlyn - ���noble waterfall” (English) [neutral + femme]

Fjord - “passage in the sea” / “narrow inlet between seas” (Scandanavian) [masc + neutral + femme)

Fontaine / Fontayne / Fontana “water source” / “fountain” (French) [neutral + femme]

Garam (가람) - “river” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Genevieve - “white wave” (Celtic)

Hai (  海 ) - “sea, ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

He (  河 ) “river, stream” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 和  ) “harmony, peace” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

(  荷 ) “lotus, water lily” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Hama ( 浜 ) - “shore, sea” (Japanese)

Hamako ( はまこ ) - “child of the sea” (Japanese)

Jeevika - “water” (Indian)

Jinju (진주) - “pearl” (Korean)

Jharna - “a spring” (Indian)

Kai / Kaia - “sea” (Hawaiian) [masc +neutral + femme]

“uncertain” (German, Finnish, Swedish)

Kaimana - “sea, ocean” + “power” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

“diamond” (Hawaiian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Kawthar - “river in paradise” (Arabic)

Kelby - “the place by the fountain, spring” (Gaelic)

Kishi ( きし )- “beach, seashore” (Japanese)

Kishiko ( きし子 ) - “child of the seashore” (Japanese)

Lake - “inland body of water” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Leena - “wet meadow” (Irish)

Lynn / Lin / Lynne / Lynna - “waterfall” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Lin ( 林, 琳 ) - “forest” “fine jade, gem” (Chinese) [masc + femme]

Maya - “water” (Hebrew)

Maayan - “spring water” (Hebrew) [masc + neutral + femme]

Marella - “shining sea. variant of Muriel” (Irish)

Marilla - “shining sea. variant of Muriel” (Irish)

Maris - “of the sea” (English)

Meri - “sea” (French)

“the sea” (Finnish)

Minoo / Minu (민우) - “streaks in jade, gem” + “rain” (Korean) [masc + neutral + femme]

Moana - “ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea” (Maori, Hawaiian, other Polynesian languages) [masc + neutral + femme]

Morgan - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Morgana - “dweller of the sea” (Celtic) [masc + neutral + femme]

Nadia - “having dew on the surface” (Arabic)

Nadla - “a drink of water” (Arabic)

Nami - “surf, wave” (Japanese)

Nawfar - “water lily” (Arabic)

Nixie - “little water sprite” (German)

Ocean - “a large body of water” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

River - “river” (English) [masc + neutral + femme]

Rosemary - “dew of the river”, also the name of a plant (English, Latin)

Sevan - “lake” (Armenian) [masc + neutral + femme]

Shizue ( しずえ ) - “quiet inlet” (Japanese)

Shui ( 水 ) - “water” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Tal - “dew of the water” (Hebrew)

Talia - “dew of heaven” (Hebrew)

Talora - “morning’s dew” (Hebrew)

Talori - “morning’s dew” (Hebrew)

Taura - “many lakes; many rivers” (Japanese)

Talya - “dew of heaven” (Hebrew)

Torlan - “from the river bank” (Welsh)

Umiko ( 兎実子) - “child of the sea” (Japanese)

Vivien / Viviane - another name for the “Lady of the Lake” (Arthurian legend)

Yardenah - “from the river Jordan” (Hebrew)

Yang (  洋 ) “ocean” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

( 阳 ) “light, sun” (Chinese) [masc + neutral + femme]

Yerin (예린) - “clear water” (Korean)

See here for more!

water names for any gender (behindthename)

feminine water names (book of names)

femme “mermaid names” (nameberry article)

greek mythology water names for any gender (greek-gods)

masculine + feminine mer names (mernetwork)

and if you have anymore that you want / need in this list, send it as a suggestion and we’ll get around to it! uwu

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CANTLON'S CORNER: A FEW MINUTES WITH RICK LEY

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - For Rick Ley, his second appearance at the Hartford Whaler Alumni weekend, is something he relishes and enjoys. Ley, now 70, can reflect on a hockey career where he played with many of the game’s best and was a major part of the development of Hartford hockey at its inception. “Hartford is always about a new beginning for me. When I left Toronto and we're in Boston and we got to Hartford, everything was new. The building, the fans, and the community. It was hard to explain. Trying to find a new house, get your life settled, and we really took the place by storm. It's still is a very special place for me,” Ley, who resides in the greater Springfield area in the summer and Florida in the winter, said. He loves to come back to Hartford for the yearly weekend in July. “The Yard Goats do a first-class job in remembering the Whalers, and it's so fun to see all these fans again.” Ley’s junior career with the Niagara Falls Flyers (OHA now OHL), where he won two Memorial Cup titles in 1965 and 1968 and where he played four full years, he got to see some of the game’s greats in their early years of development. His goalie for his first two seasons was none of there than, Bernie Parent. For two seasons he played with Derek “Turk” Sanderson who eventually won a Calder Trophy and two Stanley Cups, Don Marcotte (Boston), Jean Pronovost (Pittsburgh), Phil Roberto (Montreal, St. Louis), and Phil Myre (Atlanta). Some played in the NHL and many like him took the plunge with the WHA. The wild, wacky World Hockey Association began with that first championship, The Memorial Cup, which was then a seven-game series. They beat the Edmonton Oil Kings in five games with a 4-1 win in Game 5. It was Game 3, on May 10, which was memorable for all the wrong reasons. A big hit by Edmonton’s Bob Falkenberg in the first period on the late Bill Goldsworthy got the passion going. Sanderson jumped Falkenberg in the second period off a faceoff and beat him unconscious and he was taken off on a stretcher. That ignited the fuse. Early in the third period, Ley and Ron Anderson were each given match penalties for stick swinging. The referees called the game with 3:30 left in the third period after an initial fight between Rosaire Paiement and Al Hamilton ignited a brawl that got so bad that the police had to come out on the ice to stop it. Ironically, the teams were given three days off prior to the brawl-filled game because the building was being used for an evangelical revival meeting. “That was a wild night to be charitable about it. I earned the game misconduct. Anderson hit me in the head. I never wore a helmet then in those days, it wasn’t mandatory and was frowned upon among the players then. I speared him in return and earned the game misconduct feelings were running high. So myself, and Jean Pronovost, who didn’t play the game because of a bad back, when all hell broke loose with the players and the fans coming on the ice, grabbed our sticks to put them in the locker room so the fans wouldn’t attack us with our own sticks. It was chaos until the police came on the ice. That finally ended it.” Ley and Niagara Falls went to the Memorial Cup tournament again in 1968 in his last junior season. He was the team captain. The series had its own uniqueness. The Estevan Bruins and Niagara Falls both wore the same Bruins styled jersey (before merch was big) for Game 1 in Niagara Falls. In Game 2, they played in the fabled Montreal Forum. His Niagara Falls team opted to wear the Montreal Jr. Canadiens uniforms, and in Game 3, which was back in Niagara Falls, they wore the uniforms of the St. Catharines Teepees and did so for the remainder of the series. With five minutes to go in their 8-1 championship-winning game, the head coach had the team put on their regular black and gold jerseys. Ley then started out his pro career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, fresh off the wake of what was their last Stanley Cup championship. Again, he skated with some of the biggest names in the history of the game. The late Pat Quinn, who would be his assistant coach in his last NHL coaching job in Vancouver, Jim Dorey, and the great, Dave Keon, would play with both of them with the WHA Whalers. The others included, at the time, the future Canadian hero of the 1972 Soviet-Canada Summit series, Paul Henderson, who scored the game-winning goal that allowed Canada to win the tourney. Tim Horton, whose name is now emblazoned across Canada with its national coffee and donut chain, Mike “Shaky” Walton, a top-flight scoring center, and Bob Pulford, a long time serving NHL executive, and a great goalie named, Jacques Plante. In the summer of 1972, after four years in the NHL, got a phone call and an offer he never expected. “There was some uncertainty at the beginning, for sure, it was all brand new, a lot of promises were being thrown around. Once they signed Bobby Hull in Winnipeg, we knew it was real. That was a clincher for lots of players then, to give it try.” He would count as his junior teammates, four players who would be joining him on the first New England Whalers team that originally called Boston it's home for the first two years of the franchise before moving to their new building in Hartford. The players included Tom Webster, the all-time New England Whaler leading goal scorer, and defenseman, Brad Selwood, who both played all seven WHA Whaler years together. Then several players who spent a few seasons with him like Paiement and Garry Swain. “The thing that made a difference for us, Hartford had one of the most solid backings of any of the franchises and was one of the most stable franchises in the history of the WHA along with Edmonton, Quebec City, and Winnipeg. We never had the problems some other cities had.” The team won the first Avco Cup, a trophy that wasn’t in existence the week before the final game, and it was a nationally televised championship-winning game that would be bumped at the end of the contest by CBS-TV for a tennis tournament in Montreal. “It was a different time then for sure and remember the Bruins had their AHL team, the Braves, playing in Boston then too. We knew we're number three, but we made the best of it, and in the end, it all worked out for us.” Those two years in Boston produced a host of hockey war stories. The story of team equipment being stolen, and the late John Cuniff, who had a friend who knew, the now late gangster, Whtey Bulger, who ruled South Boston. He remembers it well. “What was even worse in losing the equipment, it was all brand new! We had just gotten the goalies' stuff that was measured for their pads and everything, and we had a home game two days later. So, we show up for practice and holy crap, all our gear was gone. Some of the thieves weren’t too bright though, some were wearing our jerseys playing on the basketball court, so they found out quickly who it was and we got everything back the next day.” Then came the move to Hartford, then a brand new building, market, and city that they could call their own. They were not going to have to compete with the Giant Spoked-B and the legendary number 4, Bobby Orr, or the shadow that drowned them out on the Boston hockey landscape at the Boston Arena (now known as Matthews Arena). “Having Tommy Webster Woody (Selwood) and Jim Dorey helped make the transition easier. We all were familiar with one another in a new place. To have good friends then, so I was very, very fortunate in that regard.” The on-ice portion of the experience was equally different. “When you get there the roles changed a bit, the biggest thing is you got more minutes to play. In Toronto, I was the fifth or sixth defenseman, and then with the New England Whalers, I’m one of the top pairs, so that was a major difference.  You got some power play and penalty killing time that you didn’t get in Toronto. "The NHL owners never thought the WHA would last and the pay was very different too. My last year in Toronto I was making $18,000 a year. In Boston, my first year of the WHA, I was making $78,000.” The WHA was his highlight. He played in six of the seven All-Star games and was named a first-team All-Star in the first and last year of the league. In the final year, he was named WHA Defenseman of the Year winning the Dennis Murphy Jr, Trophy, named after one of the league’s founders. The 1976 All-Star Game was in Hartford, the first European and North American pro hockey series were major highlights. So was the infamous, "Brawl in the Mall" with the Minnesota Fighting Saints. The fight was instigated by Jack Carlson, who suckered a then young heavyweight, Nick Fotiu, who would also play for the NHL Whalers, that would set off a 35-minute slugfest. “That was even crazier than that Memorial Cup game. I'd never been a part of anything like that, but Jack, who played with me in Hartford, hit Nicky when he went into the bench. Nicky wasn’t a guy you wanted to have upset at you. We all saw it and went to help him. We never thought it would go that long.” Ley proudly defends the WHA. “The league was knocked around by people, but remember the NHL, five-to-seven years after the merger, saw that half of the top ten scorers in the NHL were former WHA players. We helped make the first real changes in wages for pro hockey players and the players today, who were not even born then, have no idea how much the economics of the game today can trace their roots right back to the WHA.” The Whaler part of his life would last nearly two decades from his years as a player in the WHA (1972-1979), and the Whalers first two years in NHL (1979-1981) before he retired as a player, to his becoming an assistant coach (1982-1984), then a scout, then coaching for their AHL affiliate in Binghamton (1985-1987). He went on to coach the old IHL for five years, four with Muskegon and one in Milwaukee, before returning to Hartford for his last two-year stint as head coach for the Whalers from 1989-1991. Those last two years, Ley has some regrets, especially when he took the "C" off Ron Francis' jersey, which landed him in Whalers hell that lasts to this day. Ley sat straight up in his chair as he wanted to explain that whole incident. “I’m glad you asked that. For years Eddie Johnston (the team's GM) and I, caught a lot of (crap) from fans about that. It wasn’t our call. Prior to the start of the season, the owner, Richard Gordon, wanted to see us for a meeting. He told us, in no uncertain terms, we had to trade four players before the season was over. Their contracts were expiring and their salary requests were going up and he couldn’t afford them. Ronnie and Ulfie (Ulf Samuelson) were the first two. "I was captain in my career. It was one of the hardest things I ever did, but we had no choice then. Richard Gordon was a pleasant man to talk to. He had a Ph.D., but he thought he knew everything. He knew nothing about running a hockey team. He was a terrible owner. "Remember, you never want to be in the foxhole with the foxes,” Ley said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Ley went off to join Vancouver and hooked up with Pat Quinn as an assistant coach from 1991-1994 and then the head coach from 1994-1996 before Quinn replaced him mid-season. He was a Canucks pro scout for two years before returning to where he started in Toronto as an assistant coach for eight years before retiring in 2006. The Whaler move nearly 23 years ago now is conflicting for Ley. “Of course, I have deep feelings for Hartford after spending nearly twenty years here. You hated to see it. The support for too many years wasn’t there, however, everybody wants a villain. I really can’t blame the owner. The salary increases in the 1994 CBA were like the WHA increase and the spike was so high some teams, like Hartford and Quebec, couldn’t handle that unless they were prepared to borrow large sums of money or raise ticket prices too high. It was sad all the way around.” What isn’t sad is for Ley and the fellow players and coaches to have a July summer day to celebrate his time with the Whalers. Read the full article

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 29, 2019 http://bit.ly/2XWyN3D

Reuters

Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic: The High-Stakes Confrontation Between Trump and Khamenei Neither leader appears to want escalating conflict—yet that’s precisely where things seem to be headed. President Donald Trump doesn’t want conflict. Ayatollah Khamenei doesn’t want economic collapse. Yet that is where things are headed. Put yourself in the shoes of Iran’s 80-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His regime is beset by nearly 50 percent inflation, a collapsed currency, persistent labor strikes, and an irrepressible women’s-rights movement. Epic floods recently killed more than 75 people and caused nearly $3 billion in damage. A locust plague is threatening 300,000 hectares—$9 billion worth—of farming land. “Things have never been this bad” is a refrain commonly heard from Iran these days. Read more ....

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 29, 2019

Why Russia, Iran seek deeper ties with North Korea -- Lewis Sanders IV, DW Explainer: What's at stake for Libya's oil as conflict flares? -- Ahmad Ghaddar and Aidan Lewis, Reuters An Afghan peace on whose terms? -- The Diplomat The Middle East comes to Sri Lanka -- A.J. Caschetta, The Hill From 9/11 to Sri Lanka: the terrorists’ deadly message we have failed to grasp -- Jason Burke, The Guardian A look back at Japanese Emperor Akihito's three-decade reign -- France 24 Jakarta fired up over clash with Vietnam vessels -- Asia Times Spain's socialist PSOE party mulls next move after victory without majority -- Sam Jones, The Guardian A Cold War solution for Serbia and Kosovo? -- Nenad Kreizer & Darko Janjevic, DW The Spies Who Came In From the Continent -- Calder Walton, Foreign Policy Spanish PM's three options after election win -- France 24 Freedom and democracy are under siege. The West must step up -- Stan Grant, ABC News Online from War News Updates http://bit.ly/2vrxe1o via IFTTT

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Uniquely Named

By:Victoria Anderson

How common is the title“Event Planner?” Why not give yourself a new name and do everything an event planner would do and more? Its time to be unique, and try something new. Just like the trends, times are changing and as specialist in this are, we are expected to ahead of them!

Calder Clark is the owner of her business http://calderclark.com/profile/ and identifies as the “Creative Director”  Hailed as the talk of the South by Garden and Gun magazine in 2011, Calder Clark has garnered a loyal national following for her modern spin on classic Southern entertaining. Designing impeccable affairs across the country, Clark spreads the mantra that parties can be relaxed and chic without being trendy. Layering events with bespoke linens, nuanced colors, hand-picked furnishings, and ambient lighting, Calder Clark has become established as the absolute go-to for the perfectly curated party. 

A Tennessee native, Clark has been producing seamless affairs since 1999. After Washington & Lee University, her career launched at Design Cuisine in Washington, DC, where she planned such events as the 2001 Inaugural Luncheon, The Kennedy Center Honors, the Rockefeller-Carnegie wedding, and the annual Bloomberg News/White House Correspondents’ Dinner After-Party. Longing for the low country, Clark hung up her big city lifestyle for Special Events at Charleston Place, where she designed off-property parties throughout the Carolina's. In 2006, CC was launched with great response. Today, Calder Clark plans a limited number of exclusive weddings and events annually, in addition to speaking nationally. Clark calls the Old Village home with her husband, Chaunce—and her proudest accomplishments are her two babies—Campbell and Walton. 

Alongside Calder, is Caitlin Whiteside who is the Director of Operations who studies at Rhodes college, Interior design. “ Caitlin’s background in spatial logistics plus an incredible sense of spot-on traditional styling make her a natural fit for the business of designing boutique affairs with a timeless aesthetic. Her attention to detail and Southern graces draw clients from all over the country to the offices of Calder Clark.”     

As funny as this may sound, there are a lot more unique titles for non profit organizers than there are for paid corporate or social organizers. They generally have a title to do with; manager, supervisor or volunteer. On the contrary, one event planner name that uniquely stood out to me was an organization of event planners. The AIM Group does it all,  https://www.aimgroupinternational.com/about-us/our-team

At AIM Group, we take great pride in being a boutique operation with the HUGE impact!  We specialize in Event Management for all types of event including Meetings, Conferences, Incentives and Holiday Parties or Corporate Parties. We offer a complete service and savings to our client and our goal is to make you look like a STAR!  Collectively we have several decades' experience on our team and our customer service standards are top of the line. We pride ourselves in providing the same personalized and results-oriented service regardless of event size. We make ourselves an extension of you and part of your team to ensure a seamless event from conception through to completion. Our team offers a wide range of activities requiring clear communication, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

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