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I will be hosting a Facebook Live Town Hall event Tuesday, June 23rd at 5:00 PM PT to answer questions from constituents and discuss ongoing current events. Topics will include police accountability, racial bias, his recent legislative efforts, the impacts and response to COVID-19, and more.
If you would like to ask a question for this town hall, you can post it in the comments here or ask one live in the chat during the event. To RSVP and join the Facebook Live, please use the Facebook link here or below.
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I look forward to speaking soon.
Sincerely,
Adam
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Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain.[1] This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for “children’s transport”).
His work went unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years, until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme That’s Life!, where he was reunited with several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the “British Schindler.”[2] In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for “services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia”.[3] On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. He died in 2015 at the age of 106.
From the Old Farmer’s Almanac
Like Mother’s Day, the modern American version of Father’s Day has a history that goes well beyond greeting cards.
The first known Father’s Day service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, after hundreds of men died in the worst mining accident in U.S. history. The Sunday service happened because of the efforts of Grace Golden Clayton, the daughter of a dedicated reverend.
While missing her own dad, who had died in 1896, Mrs. Clayton wanted to honor the many fathers who had died in the mining explosion, which killed more than 360 men and boys, and left about 1,000 children fatherless. Although the Fairmont service was the first known to honor fathers, it did not turn into an annual event, nor was the idea promoted (a large July 4 celebration in Fairmont and a tragic young death from typhoid fever took over the news at the time).
Father’s Day Gains Momentum
Several other people across the nation had similar ideas throughout the years, but Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd is credited for being the one to popularize it, starting events that led to Father’s Day becoming a U.S. national holiday.
Her story began as she sat listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Mrs. Dodd thought that it might be nice to honor fathers as well. Her father, William Smart, had raised his SIX children alone on his farm in Washington after his wife died giving birth.
Mrs. Dodd proposed to the Spokane Ministerial Association and the YMCA that they celebrate a “father’s day.”She chose the 5th of June because it was her father’s birthday.
The idea received strong support, but the good ministers of Spokane asked that the day be changed to give them extra time to prepare sermons on the unexplored subject of fathers. The first Father’s Day in Spokane, Washington, was observed on June 19, 1910 (the third Sunday in June), and became an annual event there. Soon, other towns had their own celebrations.
From Local Celebration to National Holiday
In spite of widespread support, Father’s Day did not become a permanent national holiday for many years. The first bill was introduced in Congress in 1913, but in spite of encouragement by President Woodrow Wilson, it did not pass. In 1966, Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation designating the third Sunday in June to honor fathers.
Finally, in 1972, President Richard Nixon signed a law declaring that Father’s Day be celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June. It has been an official, permanent national holiday ever since.
Why did it take so long for Father’s Day to pass into law (unlike Mother’s Day which was quickly embraced)? Read the full history of Father’s Day.
Thanks Sybil Ann
By Peter Baker in the NYT
John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, plans to publish a damning book next week depicting President Trump as a corrupt, poorly informed, reckless leader who used the power of his office to advance his own personal and political needs even ahead of the nation’s interests.
The book, “The Room Where It Happened,” describes Mr. Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at Mr. Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges, but attention has focused mainly on his assertions that the president took a variety of actions that should have been investigated for possible impeachment beyond just the pressure campaign on Ukraine to incriminate Democrats.
Mr. Bolton, who did not testify during House proceedings and whose offer to testify in the Senate trial was blocked by Republicans, confirms many crucial elements of the Ukraine scheme that got Mr. Trump impeached in December. He also asserts that the president was willing to intervene in criminal investigations to curry favor with foreign dictators. And he says that Mr. Trump pleaded with China’s president to help him win re-election by buying American crops grown in key farm states.
Here are some of the highlights:
The book offers firsthand evidence that Mr. Trump linked his suspension of $391 million in security aid for Ukraine to his demands that Ukraine publicly announce investigations into supposed wrongdoing by Democrats, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the heart of the impeachment case against the president.
If Mr. Bolton’s account is to be believed, it means that Mr. Trump explicitly sought to use taxpayer money as leverage to extract help from another country for his partisan political campaign, a quid pro quo that House Democrats called an abuse of power. At the time of the impeachment hearings, Republicans dismissed the accusation by saying that the witnesses offered only secondhand evidence. Mr. Bolton, by contrast, was in the room.
Mr. Bolton says that he and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper tried eight to 10 times to persuade the president to release the aid, which Ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against a continuing war with Russia-sponsored forces. The critical meeting took place on Aug. 20 when, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Trump “said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over,” referring to Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Bolton otherwise confirms testimony offered by his former Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, that he objected to the “drug deal” being cooked up by Mr. Trump’s associates to force Ukraine to help and that he called Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was hip deep in the affair, “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.” He writes that he suspected that Mr. Giuliani had personal business interests at stake and adds that he had the matter reported to the White House Counsel’s Office.
“I thought the whole affair was bad policy, questionable legally, and unacceptable as presidential behavior,” Mr. Bolton writes. “Was it a factor in my later resignation? Yes, but as one of many ‘straws’ that contributed to my departure.”
From Sue H – thanks
This is an invitation to participate in an important online lecture series at the Mercantile Library of Cincinnati later in the summer. These free lectures are called A Pact With Reason and are brought to you by the Library, the Centre for Public Engagement with Science (University of Cincinnati) and a group of private sponsors. There will be ten lectures, one a week, beginning on Thursday, July 16, at 1 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time, 6 pmUK time). Our lecturer will be Piers Bursill-Hall of Cambridge University.
Why these lectures and why now? Since the time of the ancient Greeks, a powerful, rationalist, scientific tradition has run through Western thinking and Western societies. This tradition is far from perfect and has resulted in outcomes that are both noble and tragic. But, when all is said and done, we must acknowledge that this tradition has been the source of the dramatic dynamism and success of Western societies.
Unfortunately, we see in our time a weakening of belief in and support for that tradition. In our own society, we see daily evidence that many people are turning away from science and facts from reason itself as the basis for structuring our common life. This is a very dangerous turn of events and one that we need to combat vigorously. To do that, we need to understand our civilization’s “Pact With Reason” how it emerged, the twists and turns it has taken for two and a half millennia, and the place it has brought us to in 2020. Those are the topics that we will cover in these ten lectures.
Piers Bursill-Hall, our lecturer, is a highly regarded lecturer on the history and philosophy of science and mathematics at Cambridge University. His talks on the history of science, mathematics, and medicine are celebrated for their breadth of knowledge, insights, clarity, and wit. In a time when many have turned away from the very tradition that has made our civilization great, Piers will remind us how our future survival and success depend on our understanding of and fidelity to that tradition.
We hope you’ll join these fascinating and timely lectures. You can register by sending email to info@mercantilelibrary.com or, directly, at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/a-pact-with-reasona/ register. For more information, go to https://mercantilelibrary.com/calendar/a-pact-withreason-
a-lecture-series/2020-07-16/
Please join our moderator, Stephen Ellis, Katherine Graubard, our timer, and your friends and neighbors for a Skyline Soapbox discussion of candidates at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, July 27 th. There will be a limited number of seats in the Mount Baker Room, and the rest of us will join the discussion via Zoom.
Come and share your views on the candidates, or just come to find out what your friends and neighbors think. We ask only that you be civil and cordial, and talk about the benefits of your choice, not how awful the other candidates would be if elected.
Remember – this is a top-two election. Whoever gets the most votes, or second most votes, is on the ballot for the General Election. Four years ago we had a General Election race for State Treasurer between two Republicans because three democrats almost equally split 52 percent of the primary vote.
The Mix of Candidates
There are thirty-seven candidates for governor, ranging from the American Patriot Party to the Socialist Workers Party, three types of Republicans, (from Trump Republican to Pre2016 Republican), five Democrats, one Green Party, various independents, and others claiming affiliation in parties none of us would recognize.
We also have eleven candidates for Lieutenant Governor, a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, and a Progressive. We also have two candidates for State Treasurer, four for Secretary of State, three for State Auditor, four for Attorney General, seven for Lands Commissioner, six for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Three for Insurance Commissioner.
Finally, we have four candidates for the Ninth District Congressional seat, and three candidates for each of our State House of Representatives seats.
You can’t tell the players without a program, so read your Voter’s Pamphlet before you come – it should be in your mailbox by July 15 th. If you’d like more detailed information (complete list of candidates, websites, and who’s actually raising money, send a request for Jim’s spreadsheet to jimsanders1947@gmail.com.
A ray of hope, in the NYT.
“Scientists at the University of Oxford said on Tuesday that they have identified what they called the first drug proven to reduce coronavirus-related deaths, after a 6,000-patient trial of the drug in Britain showed that a low-cost steroid could reduce deaths significantly for hospitalized patients.
The steroid, dexamethasone, reduced deaths by a third in patients receiving ventilation, and by a fifth in patients receiving only oxygen treatment, the scientists said. They found no benefit from the drug in patients who did not need respiratory support.
Matt Hancock, Britain’s health secretary, said National Health Service doctors would begin treating patients with the drug on Tuesday afternoon.
The government started stockpiling dexamethasone several months ago because it was hopeful about the potential of the drug, Mr. Hancock said, and now has 200,000 doses on hand.
“Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in Covid-19,” said Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, and one of the chief investigators for the trial, said in a statement. “The survival benefit is clear and large in those patients who are sick enough to require oxygen treatment.”
Professor Horby said that dexamethasone should now become the “standard of care in these patients,” noting that it is inexpensive, widely available and can be used immediately.
Read more about the trial and the drug, which the National Health Service planned to begin using immediately.
Not too hard to imagine what’s coming in 2020 and things heat up.
From the Vanguard web site:
The CARES Act provides a temporary waiver of RMDs (Required Minimal Distribution) for 2020. You do not have to take your RMD for 2020 if you don’t want to.
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