"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1738, John Copley, painter
1854, Leos Janácek, composer
1860, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist and writer
1883, Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czech) Jewish novelist and short-story writer, whose disturbing, symbolic fiction, written in German, prefigured the oppression and despair of the late 20th century. He is considered one of the most significant figures in modern world literature; the term Kafkaesque has, in fact, come to be applied commonly to grotesque, anxiety-producing social conditions or their treatment in literature.
Kafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) on July 3, 1883. His father, a merchant, was a domineering figure whose influence pervaded his son's work and (as Kafka perceived it) stifled his life. Letter to His Father (1919; trans. 1966) expresses his feelings of inferiority and paternal rejection. Nevertheless, Kafka lived with his family most of his life, never marrying although engaged twice. His uneasy relationship with Felice Bauer, a young German woman whom he courted between 1912 and 1917, is revealed in the series Letters to Felice (1967; trans. 1973).
Although he had studied law at the University of Prague, Kafka took a civil service post and wrote in his spare time. With the strain of this dual life, added to his anxiety and depression, Kafka contracted tuberculosis in 1917 and died in a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, on June 3, 1924.
The themes of Kafka's work are the loneliness, frustration, and oppressive guilt of an individual threatened by anonymous forces beyond his comprehension or control. In philosophy, Kafka is akin to the Danish thinker Søren Aabye Kierkegaard and to 20th-century existentialists. In literary technique, his work has the qualities both of expressionism and of surrealism. Kafka's lucid style, blending reality with fantasy and tinged with ironic humor, contributes to the nightmarish, claustrophobic effect of his work—as in his famous long short story “The Metamorphosis” (1915; trans. 1937). In it, the hero, a hardworking insurance agent, awakens to find that he has turned into an enormous insect; rejected by his family, he is left to die alone. Another story, “In the Penal Colony” (1919; trans. 1941), is a chilling fantasy of imprisonment and torture.
Contrary to Kafka's wish that his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed after his death, his friend and biographer, the Austrian writer Max Brod, published them posthumously and thus established Kafka's reputation. Among these works are the three novels for which Kafka is best known (all first translated by the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa Anderson Muir, 1890-1962): The Trial (1925; trans. 1937), The Castle (1926; trans. 1930), and Amerika (1927; trans. 1938).
1937,
1962, Tom Cruise, actor
1775, 1775, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1819, The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1930, Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1951, Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the United Nations in the Far East.
Original proposals for the ceasefire talks were made by General Ridgway to the Communists who requested changes which have today been agreed to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2785000/2785543.stm
1956, Commonwealth heads honoured
The prime ministers of India and New Zealand have been made Freemen of the City of London.
Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir Sidney Holland of New Zealand were honoured in a ceremony at the Guildhall in the British capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2777000/2777357.stm
1962, After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain
A charter flight from Manchester has gone missing with 105 holiday-makers and seven crew on board.
The Dan-Air Comet jet left Manchester Airport at 1700 BST (1600 GMT) to make the short flight to Barcelona with passengers on a Clarkson tour and seven crew.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492087.stm
1986, President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1987, British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic, jumping into the sea as their craft went down off the Scottish coast.
1987: Nazi war criminal gets life
The former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie guilty of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492285.stm
1988, the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
Missing in Action
1966
1966 PHILLIPS DAVID J. JR. MIAMI BEACH FL REFNO 0382 LIVE POW REPORT 1984
1966 RENO RALPH J. FAYETTEVILLE NC
1967 SEYMOUR LEO E. TOWANDA PA
1972 CUTHBERT STEPHEN H. OAKLAND CA REMAINS RETURNED...I.D. 12/20/90
1972 MARSHALL MARION A. UPPER MARLBORO MD 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
North Dakota Headlines
North Dakota Sex Pervert Caught In Idaho
A man from my home state has been arrested in Idaho.
The girl's 9-year-old brother, Dylan, had not been found, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. He said the girl was spotted in her hometown by a waitress who apparently recognized her from photographs displayed in the media.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, of from Fargo, N.D., was arrested without incident and charged with kidnapping, Wolfinger said. Duncan was being held without bond.
They're still looking for the little boy.
Given this from the same article there is absolutely no reason why Duncan should have been out and capable of committing these crimes.
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/006348.php
Missing girl found with Fargo offender
By Erin Hemme Froslie and Dave Olson, The Forum
Published Sunday, July 03, 2005
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A Fargo high-risk sex offender was arrested early Saturday after a Denny's restaurant waitress in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, spotted him with an 8-year-old girl missing for six weeks.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, was later charged with kidnapping. He is being held in the Kootenai County jail without bond and could face more charges, said Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96704§ion=news
Duncan vented on Internet blog
By Teri Finneman, The ForumPublished Sunday, July 03, 2005
Days before two Idaho children disappeared and family members were found murdered, Joseph Edward Duncan III typed an ominous message into cyberspace.
The registered sex offender from Fargo wrote in his Internet journal that he planned to harm society as much as possible and then die.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96705§ion=News
Complete coverage:
http://www.in-forum.com/
Troubling Questions Surround Idaho Case
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Sunday, July 03, 2005
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho
A day after missing 8-year-old Shasta Groene turned up with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant in her hometown, investigators struggled with a troubling question: What happened to her 9-year-old brother?
http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8B44G3G0
Opinion:
Bush's Testosterone Driven Society Strikes Again.
The Pedophile Community of the USA under Bush has gone from covert to aggressive killing families to satisfy their perverted sexual desires.
Nearly three years to the date on July 16, 2002, five year old Samantha Runnion was found dead in California. She was abducted by a pedophile. After that the "Yellow Alert" was developed to secure the public's help in finding a child immediately after the abduction.
At the time Samatha was abducted George Walker Bush spoke to the nation regarding this horrible crime. NOTHING. I DO MEAN NOTHING has been done to HANDLE pedophiles who we know are incurable of their crimes.
Now, with Shasta Groene age 8 returned to society out of the clutches of a known sex offender we can AGAIN reflect on the incompetency of this administration.
During the past three years we have witnessed a very aggressive community of pedophiles that seek their pleasure at the deaths of sleeping parents. The deaths of Shasta's family excluding herself and her nine year old brother Dillon, was the acts of a pedophile intent on having a child to molest. The fact Shasta was in a Denny's resturant with her abductor is proof of the twisted mind of this community at large. The abductor thought being out and about in the early hours of the day would allow them more freedom and not less. He never once expected people to be suspicious of a child at a resturant at that hour of the morning. She was being rewarded by him for good behavior and we can only guess what that good behavior was.
Joseph Duncan is just the most recent pedophile with an incomplete pedophile record requiring federal legislation and a sharing by states of all the sex offenders in their state with the other 49 states.
This type of crime and the lack of this administration to deal effectively with it, realizing a concentration of these crimes have occurred in Florida, clearly illustrates the incompetency of the Bushes in dealing with social issues that effect us all. They call on 'Community Awareness' to handle this 'States Rights' issue while providing no tools for the states to talk to each other regarding criminals of this nature.
Three years and we are still seeing families slain and children stolen to lead shattered lives when they are lucky enough to be found by 'Community Awareness.' We need new leadership in this country. Can there be any doubt ?
M. D. Sweeney letter: Flood waters will pollute the big lake
The Forum
Published Sunday, July 03, 2005
Canadian legislators have shown much concern regarding the pollution potential that may occur by water from Devils Lake.
I suggest that they should be more concerned about the amount of pollution going into Lake Winnipeg from the present flood waters. How many tons of fertilizers, pesticides, etc.?
M. D. Sweeney
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96516§ion=Opinion
North Dakotans clean up after another storm
Associated Press, Associated Press
Published Tuesday, June 28, 2005
It sounded like a freight train and it hit fast, Cooperstown-area rancher Norm Tafelmeyer said. When it was over, he had broken windows, damaged buildings and trees down everywhere.
"We had a lot of trees surrounding our house and everything fell away from the house," Tafelmeyer said after the heavy rain and high winds hit early Monday.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96222§ion=News
Berry Petroleum Acquires Acreage in North Dakota
Monday June 27, 11:50 am ET
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2005--Berry Petroleum Company (NYSE:BRY - News) announced that it acquired interests in approximately 20,000 gross acres in the Williston Basin of North Dakota; and is in the process of purchasing additional interests in another 100,000 gross acres in the area. These acquisitions, totaling approximately $9 million, represent another step in diversifying Berry's asset base and provide the Company an entry into the emerging Bakken oil play in the Williston Basin. The acreage covers several contiguous blocks located primarily on the eastern flank of the Nesson Anticline. Development activity in the Middle Bakken play is expanding to the area surrounding the Nesson Anticline, the oil producing heart of North Dakota.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050627/275746.html?.v=1
BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE: North Dakota receives $1 million to cope with BRAC job loss
Most to be spent in Grand Forks area
By Stephen J. Lee
Herald Staff Writer
North Dakota's Job Service will get a $1 million grant to help the Grand Forks area respond to losing about 2,700 civilian jobs at Grand Forks Air Force Base under the realignment announced recently by the Pentagon.
It's part of more than $28 million from the U.S. Labor Department announced Tuesday that will go to 35 states, the District of Columbia and Guam to help civilian workers affected by the Base Realignment and Closure process. The Pentagon's plan, subject to review by the BRAC Commission, is to close 33 major military bases and realign 29 more.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12019553.htm
Globe and Mail
Live 8 rocks the globe
London, Britain
03 July 2005 09:30
Bono effortlessly worked the crowd. Half a globe away, Bjork strutted the stage. Bill Gates was cheered like a rock star. And on the continent that inspired the unprecedented Live 8 extravaganza, Nelson Mandela outshone them all.
Live 8's long, winding road around the globe on Saturday has been an eclectic marathon.
From Johannesburg to Philadelphia, Berlin to Tokyo and Rome to Barrie, Ontario, musicians and fans sang and danced through a global music festival to raise awareness of African poverty and pressure the world's most powerful leaders to do something about it at the Group of Eight summit in Scotland next week.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244393&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Mandela appears at Live 8 Joburg
Johannesburg, London
02 July 2005 07:15
Nelson Mandela at Live8 in Joburg
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity but an act of justice, former president and freedom icon Nelson Mandela said at the Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty concert in conjunction with Live8 in Newtown on Saturday.
"While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."
Mandela addressed about 20 000 screaming fans at Mary FitzGerald Square in Johannesburg, saying the world was one of great promise and hope, but also of despair, disease and hunger.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244386&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
All aboard! Green light for Gautrain
Matebello Motloung Pretoria, South Africa
02 July 2005 04:27
Construction of the high-speed train connecting Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg International airport will begin "today", Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Saturday.
He also announced Bombela, a French-Canadian-South African consortium, as the preferred bidder for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project (Gautrain).
"Work begins today. Today we have to sit down with the preferred bidder and point out what is that we are not happy with and so forth," he said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244377&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
ANC remains 'a disciplined force of the left'
Mariette le Roux Pretoria
02 July 2005 04:27
The African National Congress (ANC) has reaffirmed its character as a national liberation movement, it emerged on Saturday from the party's national general council (NGC) meeting in Pretoria.
"As the ANC, we remain a national liberation movement," deputy secretary-general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele told reporters.
"We remain a disciplined force of the left."
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244378&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
CIA methods exposed by kidnap inquiry
02 July 2005 05:46
"I was walking down Via Guerzoni with my little girl and I saw a man with a long beard and a djellaba being stopped by two westerners with a cellphone. They were asking him, in Italian, for his documents, the way the police do," the witness said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244381&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Australia, New Zealand plan new moves against Mugabe
Sydney, Australia
02 July 2005 08:14
Australia and New Zealand agreed on Saturday on a range of new measures to increase pressure on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to respect human rights, including referring him to the International Criminal Court.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244365&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Moscow's Bolshoi to close ahead of $700m revamp
Moscow, Russia
01 July 2005 01:20
Russia's Bolshoi theatre will undergo a $700-million overhaul in the next three years, the Izvestia daily reported on Friday, a day after the last performance took place in the legendary building.
The price tag — an astronomical sum by Russian standards — is due to major wear and tear suffered by the ageing building and the need for fundamental structural work below ground, Izvestia said, citing a leaked document on the project.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244300&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Time reluctantly agrees to give notes to grand jury
New York, USA
30 June 2005 04:21
Time magazine warned of "chilling" new limits on US press freedoms as it reluctantly agreed on Thursday to hand over a reporter's notes to a grand jury probing the leak of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative's identity.
The move was partly aimed at protecting Time journalist Matt Cooper, who has been ordered to testify before the grand jury or face prison.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244228&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
World's largest freshwater fish ends up in the pot
Daniel Lovering Bangkok
30 June 2005 01:22
Thai fishermen caught a 293kg catfish, believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever recorded, a researcher said on Thursday.
The 2,7m Mekong giant catfish was netted on May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in northern Thailand, and was weighed by Thai fisheries department officials, said Zeb Hogan, who leads an international project to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=244194
Suicide bombers leave 26 dead in Iraq
Baghdad
03 July 2005 11:07
Suicide bombers struck in Baghdad and a Shi'ite city south of the capital in attacks that killed 26 people and injured nearly 50, Iraqi officials said. One of the attackers targeted bystanders and police who had rushed to the scene of an earlier blast.
In a separate incident on Saturday, a fire destroyed a United States military helicopter while it was conducting routine resupply operations near Camp Ramadi in western Iraq, slightly injuring one crewman.
The CH-47 Chinook caught fire on the ground and the cause of the blaze was under investigation, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
In the first suicide attack, an attacker blew himself up outside a recruiting station for police special forces in western Baghdad early on Saturday, killing at least 16 other people, including 11 recruits, police and hospital officials said. Another 22 people were injured. A statement posted on the internet claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244396&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
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