#daley marin

[art-by-moosie]

And the final installment of the marine life series is done! And is also a joke because moose are known to swim between islands in places like Alaska, the Salish Sea, and Puget Sound.

Winsor-Newton cotman watercolors on Daley Rowney The Langton watercolor paper.

art tags: @ilovedainironfoot @estethell

[theredandwhitequeen]

Sports thoughts:

Tom Daley and Noah Williams got silver in synchro 10 meter platform. Which is really cool. Tom’s won 5 medals and gone to 5 Olympics as well.

The US men’s gymnastics team won bronze medal for the team event. They were amazing and I’m so proud of them.

The Mariners have been busy before the trade deadline and swept the White Sox who are terrible. We got Justin Taylor today from Toronto, he is a good hitter and has a terrible ugly beard, but he’s a good player.

You should follow Tom Daley on instagram and YouTube he’s really fun.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.16 (after 1960)

1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. 1990 – The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac. 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. 1994 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter. 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. 2005 – An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people. 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. 2009 – Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention. 2013 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2019 – A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

[chloeunitfive]

Young Designers Showed Sustainability in the Fashion Industry

The frenzy of fashion month may frequently clash with the industry's pressing need to mitigate its environmental effect. While brands committed to more ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during Cop26 in November, there were few signs of what tangible action is being taken to achieve that, with the exception of some stand-out moments at familiar names such as Gabriela Hearst, Stella McCartney, and Vivienne Westwood, and new innovations at Balenciaga and Diesel. What was notable this season was the amount of young designers advocating sustainability. While names like Marine Serre, Collina Strada, Bethany Williams, and Ahluwalia have made their mark in recent years, a new generation of talent is emerging. – including the likes of Conner Ives, Harris Reed, and S.S. Daley, who all use upcycled materials to create their designs.

Despite just graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2020, Ives' reconstructed creations, built from vintage T-shirts, jerseys, and silk scarves, have already proven popular, with Rihanna among his followers. While sustainability is inherent in his creations, he, like many other designers of his age, does not regard it as a selling factor. "I would love [people] to buy the product because they think it's a nice product, and through the process of buying it, realise that it's sustainable and responsible."

It's a sentiment shared by Priya Ahluwalia, who presented her debut runway show in London this fashion month after previously opting to exhibit via film. "I've said from the beginning that sustainability is part of the foundation of the brand, but sometimes I think I don't get my flowers for actually being a designer," she remarked. Nonetheless, the filled benches at Ahluwalia this season, as well as recent collaborations with Ganni and Mulberry, and the debut of her first full womenswear line, demonstrate the designer's rising reach - and, yes, her environmental practises. Continuing to build her business in an environmentally sustainable manner will be a priority in the future. “I want to show that you can be [a] thriving business while also being responsible – that’s my goal,” the designer continues. When Ahluwalia and Ives move into production, acquiring bigger numbers of deadstock fabrics to match their runway or lookbook designs can be difficult. "In our first year, a store wouldn't know what colours they were going to get [for our T-shirt dresses]," says Ives. "We saw that as an advantage - you can know for a fact that this is a one-of-a-kind dress that no one else will have." At the same time, Ahluwalia started Circulate last November in collaboration with Microsoft in an attempt to crowdsource unwanted apparel. "I wanted to create something that will solve an issue within the business [and] encourage people to engage with sustainability," the designer goes on to say. "A future plan would be to figure out how to keep the B2C [business-to-consumer] elements but also open it up as a B2B [business-to-business] platform, so businesses could also submit big batches of [deadstock]."

While collecting antique and deadstock might take time, neither Ives nor Ahluwalia are concerned about running out of pre-existing materials. "If the industry continues at the trajectories that we're going at now, I will never run out of T-shirts," Ives said. But, as Gabriela Hearst pointed out this season, finding high-quality deadstock from mills may be difficult for more known labels, since a rising number of firms follow the practise of using unused materials. "While [using deadstock] is a great disruptor for young [businesses], more established brands have a hard time tapping into enough deadstock or vintage materials," adds Dio Kurazawa, founder of sustainable fashion consultant The Bear Scouts. Although the entire industry is unlikely to convert to deadstock and vintage anytime soon, there is little doubt that young designers are playing a significant part in undermining the established economic paradigm. S.S. Daley, for example, sells recycled "drops" online alongside the brand's core collections, while Ives has elected to exhibit only once a year to enable more time for research and development. Meanwhile, Harris Reed's demi-couture approach demonstrates that exclusivity truly pays. He told British Vogue's fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen about the difference between his model and that of his Central Saint Martins contemporaries who went into ready-to-wear: "They have to get all their orders out… I can acquire what they make from four stores' orders in a pair of pants and boots. That seems really impolite, yet there is an experience there." Whether it’s moving away from virgin materials or embracing the art of slow fashion, these designers are showing how it is possible to build a brand in a sustainable way – and without having to sacrifice on creativity or style. The rest of the industry would do well to take note.

Reference:

Emily Chan. (2022). This Season, Young Designers Showed What A More Sustainable Fashion Industry Could Look Like. [Online]. British Vogue. Last Updated: 11 March 2022. Available at: https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/article/young-sustainable-designers-aw22 [Accessed 7 November 2023].

[laresearchette]

Friday, September 29, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: FLORA AND SON (Apple TV+) INTERRUPTING CHICKEN (Apple TV+) NIGHTMARE (Shudder/AMC+) SHARK TANK (CTV) 8:00pm DATELINE (City TV) 9:00pm 20/20 (CHCH/ABC Feed/Check Local Listings) 9:00pm GOLD RUSH (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm KILLER CASES (A&E Canada) 9:00pm MURDER IN THE 21ST (A&E Canada) 10:00pm REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (HBO Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? 72ND MISS USA PAGEANT (CW Feed) WHO’S TALKING TO CHRIS WALLACE (Premiering on October 6 on CNN at 10:00pm) REBUILDING BLACK WALL STREET (TBD - OWN Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA GEN V (Season 1)

CBC GEM THE LIGHTHOUSE PAUL O’GRADY FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS

CRAVE TV JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS SHORESY (Season 2) TAKEN THERAPY DOGS THIS IS THE END VIOLENT NIGHT

DISNEY + STAR BEAUTIFUL, FL BLACK BELTS EXPLORER: LOST IN THE ARCTIC THE GHOST MARVEL STUDIOS LEGENDS (Season 2, new episodes) MAXINE PROJECT CC THE ROOF

NETFLIX CANADA CHOONA (IN) DO NOT DISTURB (TR) NOWHERE (ES) POWER RANGERS COSMIC FURY REPTILE

CURLING (TSN/TSN4) 11:30am: PointsBet Invitational Curling: Women's Elite 8 (TSN) 4:30pm: PointsBet Invitational Curling: Men's Elite 8

MEN’S RUGBY WORLD CUP (TSN5) 3:00pm: New Zealand vs. Italy

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 7:00pm: Rays vs. Jays (SN Now) 9:30pm: Astros vs. Diamondbacks (SN1/SN Now) 10:00pm: Rangers vs. Mariners

NHL HOCKEY (TSN4) 7:00pm: Leafs vs. Habs

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN) 8:00pm: Argos vs. Blue Bombers (TSN3) 10:30pm: Roughriders vs. Lions

YESTERDAY (Global) 8:00pm: After a worldwide power outage, struggling musician Jack Malik wakes up to discover that no one has ever heard of the Beatles. When he starts to play the band's songs, he soon becomes a pop sensation in the eyes of the media and the adoring public.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (CTV2) 8:00pm: Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) joins forces with Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) and others to prevent four of history's worst villains from conquering the world.

HARMONY FROM THE HEART (CTV Life) 8:00pm: Musical therapist Violet and doctor Blake butt heads over methods while taking care of Blake's grandfather, but they soon come to realize that sometimes love is the best medicine of all.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF JERSEY (Slice) 8:00pm: I Should Coco

FRIDAY NIGHT THUNDER (APTN) 8:30pm: Victor Bomberry shares his story of sobriety and returns to the oval for his second time with a great start to the night. He later learns that he needs to be able to hear the race director and follow instructions or he'll be slapped with a harsh penalty.

BIG DATING (CBC) 9:00pm: Exploring the big industry behind dating apps and their impact on human connections.

MAKING SCENTS OF LOVE (W Network) 9:00pm: A woman falls in love with a guy after spilling a love potion.

THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS (Crave) 9:00pm: A man desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people, but he struggles to come to terms with her new relationship.

I HAVE NOTHING (CTV) 10:25pm (SERIES PREMIERE - If you missed it on Crave): After years of dreaming, Carolyn finally begins her quest to choreograph a pairs figure skating program to Whitney Houston's 1992 hit, "I Have Nothing."

THERAPY DOGS (Crave 3) 10:30pm: Two friends set out to make the ultimate senior video during their last year of high school, blending real-life footage with scripted content.

[citylifeorg]

Apex Predator of the Cambrian Likely Sought Soft Over Crunchy Prey

A pair of Anomalocaris canadensis appendages. © Alison Daley New biomechanical research reveals that Anomalocaris canadensis was speedy, but not strong enough to crack trilobite shells Biomechanical studies on the arachnid-like front “legs” of an extinct apex predator show that the 2-foot (60-centimeter) marine animal Anomalocaris canadensis was likely much weaker than once assumed. One of the…

[defensenow]

Sgt. Emily Daley Women’s History Month Profile

https://defenseflashnews.com/marines/f/sgt-emily-daley-women%E2%80%99s-history-month-profile

4th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office | Story by Spc. Collin MacKown | Friday, February 24, 2023

[sciencespies]

Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

https://sciencespies.com/nature/fossil-site-reveals-giant-arthropods-dominated-the-seas-470-million-years-ago/

Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods — relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders — dominated the seas 470 million years ago.

Early evidence from the site at Taichoute, once undersea but now a desert, records numerous large “free-swimming” arthropods.

More research is needed to analyse these fragments, but based on previously described specimens, the giant arthropods could be up to 2m long.

An international research team say the site and its fossil record are very different from other previously described and studied Fezouata Shale sites from 80km away.

They say Taichoute (considered part of the wider “Fezouata Biota”) opens new avenues for paleontological and ecological research.

“Everything is new about this locality — its sedimentology, paleontology, and even the preservation of fossils — further highlighting the importance of the Fezouata Biota in completing our understanding of past life on Earth,” said lead author Dr Farid Saleh, from the University of Lausanne and and Yunnan University.

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Dr Xiaoya Ma, from the University of Exeter and Yunnan University, added: “While the giant arthropods we discovered have not yet been fully identified, some may belong to previously described species of the Fezouata Biota, and some will certainly be new species.

“Nevertheless, their large size and free-swimming lifestyle suggest they played a unique role in these ecosystems.”

The Fezouata Shale was recently selected as one of the 100 most important geological sites worldwide because of its importance for understanding the evolution during the Early Ordovician period, about 470 million years ago.

Fossils discovered in these rocks include mineralised elements (eg shells), but some also show exceptional preservation of soft parts such as internal organs, allowing scientists to investigate the anatomy of early animal life on Earth.

Animals of the Fezouata Shale, in Morocco’s Zagora region, lived in a shallow sea that experienced repeated storm and wave activities, which buried the animal communities and preserved them in place as exceptional fossils.

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However, nektonic (or free-swimming) animals remain a relatively minor component overall in the Fezouata Biota.

The new study reports the discovery of the Taichoute fossils, preserved in sediments that are a few million years younger than those from the Zagora area and are dominated by fragments of giant arthropods.

“Carcasses were transported to a relatively deep marine environment by underwater landslides, which contrasts with previous discoveries of carcass preservation in shallower settings, which were buried in place by storm deposits,” said Dr Romain Vaucher, from the University of Lausanne.

Professor Allison Daley, also from the University of Lausanne, added: “Animals such as brachiopods are found attached to some arthropod fragments, indicating that these large carapaces acted as nutrient stores for the seafloor dwelling community once they were dead and lying on the seafloor.”

Dr Lukáš Laibl, from the Czech Academy of Sciences, who had the opportunity to participate in the initial fieldwork, said: “Taichoute is not only important due to the dominance of large nektonic arthropods.

“Even when it comes to trilobites, new species so far unknown from the Fezouata Biota are found in Taichoute.”

Dr Bertrand Lefebvre, from the University of Lyon, who is the senior author on the paper, and who has been working on the Fezouata Biota for the past two decades, concluded: “The Fezouata Biota keeps surprising us with new unexpected discoveries.”

The paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports, is entitled: “New fossil assemblages from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota.”

#Nature

[lonestarlong]

Cuppa joe coffee

#Cuppa joe coffee manual

To celebrate, we hit up Joe’s drive-thru and ordered up our favorite way to start a sunny summer morning: Cuppa Joe’s rich and smooth cold-brew coffee - dressed to impress with sugar-free coconut syrup, many drizzles of chocolate, and whipped cream - quickly transported to a bayside perch at Bryant Park, just a two-minute drive north. (Us, yes.) In fact, owner Sandy Daley just told us she’s opening a third Cuppa Joe location in Traverse City in just a few weeks - an east-side sit-down spot in the former Breakaway Cafe & Coffee Bar space at Four Mile Road and US-31. And, nearly three months into the not-so-business friendly pandemic, saw its Building 50 location flooded after recent storms.īut does the temporary inability to bake its famous blueberry-lime scones get Cuppa Joe down? Nope. Among the first businesses to plant its flag in Building 50 when Traverse City’s old state hospital was beginning its transformation into The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, Cuppa Joe has weathered a Starbucks moving in a few hundred yards from its drive-thru location at the southwest corner of Front St. You’ve got to hand it to Traverse City’s Cuppa Joe. ^ George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923 (2015, →ISBN: "Josephus Daniels famously banned alcohol from the officer's mess and official functions, though the phrase “cup of Joe” for coffee predates this action.Cuppa Joe’s Cold Brew, Dressed to Suit Bottoms Up By Lynda Wheatley | June 6, 2020.^ Simon Spalding, Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times (2014, →ISBN: "As if Josephus Daniels's legacy was not sufficiently confused already, some have questioned the etymology of the naval use of “cup o' Joe,” claiming that the idiom predates General Order 99.".^ Snopes, quoting Michael Quinion (2004), “Cup of joe”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.^ Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World.Fields (1880-1946) often requested a 'mokka java', a blend of Arabian and Dutch coffee. Derived from the words Java and Mocha, where originally the best coffee came from.” World Wide Words.

#Cuppa joe coffee manual

^ The manual states “Jamoke, Java, Joe.

Confusingly, some other sources consider the Daniels derivation unlikely for the opposite reason: they say "cup of joe" predates the order. Snopes considers this is unlikely because it says there is no attestation of the phrase "cup of joe" until 1930, 16 years after the 1914 order banning the wine mess. Navy who abolished the officers' wine mess and thus made coffee the strongest drink available on ships.

Another theory derives the term from Josephus Daniels (1862-1948), the Secretary of the U.S.

Washington Coffee Refining Company (founded in 1910) as a "cup of George", and that the common abbreviation of the name "George" ("Geo.") was then read as "Joe". CuppaJoe Coffee Roasters / Cuppajoe Coffee Burnaby. Our focus to simply provide you with a good cup of coffee means we pay close attention to where our beans are sourced and how they are roasted. We offer the ease and convenience of mobility with a minimalist aesthetic.

Another theory suggests that US soldiers in World War I (1914-1918) referred to a serving of instant coffee made by the G. Here at Cup of Joe Coffee, we value quality and accessibility as your neighborhood pop-up cafe.

Alternatively, perhaps a use of joe ( “ fellow, guy ” ), signifying that coffee was the drink of the common man.

Possibly a shortening of "cup of jamoke", from java + mocha: this origin was given in a military officer's manual from 1931, around when the term first appeared.

[mynonclicheblog]

#istandwithdaley

True homies know that Daley never stopped trying her best, managed to keep everyone in line as well as she could, was one of the (2) most grounded/rational teens in their group, and was absolutely right about her organization and voting system being the reason their little camp ran so smoothly for so long. She was fully gaslit into being the villain at the end. Like yes she could be prickly, but homegirl fully deserved to be!!! Daley was pulling WAY more weight than people ever want to give her credit for. She was done so dirty.

[sinnerwriter]

Melissa helping Eric - Flight 29 Down

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[hamarhemmo]

My favourite girlbosses ❤

From left to right, up to down:

Sanna Marin - Finland's prime minister

Barney Stinson - How I Met Your Mother

Patrick Bateman - American Psycho

Rebecca Bunch - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Barbie Roberts - You know who she is.

Larry Daley - Night At The Museum

Sharpay Evans - High School Musicals

DIO Brando - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Five Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.16 (after 1900)

1909 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia. 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War. 1915 – At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law. 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia. 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record. 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane. 1950 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army. 1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium. 1951 – J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye. 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. 1957 – KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people. 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. 1994 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter. 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. 2009 – Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention. 2013 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[lordlasse]

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[reidio-silence]

Foreign policy brush fires abounded in those Strangelove-obsessed weeks. In Panama, anti-American students rioted and burned the flag; in Cuba, Castro shut off water to the Marine base at Guantanamo Bay; General de Gaulle was shopping neutralization deals for Southeast Asia and, with the United Kingdom, was selling durable goods to Cuba. Goldwater called for sending in the Marines to Cuba and Panama and said that de Gaulle wouldn’t defy American policy if we would only give him more nuclear weapons. Johnson resolved the first two crises through negotiation, without, apparently, getting anything in return, and seemed to be doing nothing about the third. This laid down a perfect middle road upon which Nixon, in his speeches, gladly cruised to an admiring response. At the White House, President Johnson began to prepare for the eventuality of running against Nixon by taking steps to meet with Khrushchev and ordering the Democratic National Committee to prepare a memo on every flip-flop Nixon had made in his eighteen-year career.

Nixon was about to make one on race. On February 12, two days after the House began debate on the civil rights bill, 450,000 of New York’s one million public school students had boycotted class to protest de facto segregation—a disruption designed to artificially lower school populations during the week when the state gauged attendance to decide how much education money to dole out to municipalities. Evidence of discontent among blacks in the North still had the power and terror of revelation. It was partly because newspapers honored gentleman’s agreements with local authorities not to report racial disturbances ; in Chicago, few outside Mayor Daley’s high command knew, for example, that his Human Relations Commission had documented 260 such occurrences in July of 1961 alone. But you couldn’t hide a school boycott. Bayard Rustin told reporters: “By running to the suburbs, the whites are leaving to the Negro the total burden of improving schools. Whites must learn to share this burden. We will force them to learn—and I say force.” The ploy sparked a movement. Cincinnati schools emptied in a boycott, too. And Nixon, as it happened, had a speech scheduled for Cincinnati the next day.

He used the occasion to condemn the “irresponsible tactics of some of the extreme civil rights leaders” who have “created an atmosphere of hate and distrust which, if it continues to grow, will make the new law a law in name only.” (He neglected to take note of the threat to the law posed by the jury that four days earlier had acquitted Byron de la Beckwith of shooting Medgar Evers, although the defendant’s fingerprints were on the murder weapon; and the Alabama mayor who had just turned away six Negro students at an elementary school, because he said they would constitute a fire hazard; and the state troopers who, accompanied by a notorious local sheriff named Jim Clark, tortured a photographer with cattle prods for daring to cover the event.) For Nixon, the new civil rights militancy was a political opportunity.

— Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001)