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Arthur Bremer (top photo with glasses) aims his weapon (circled) at Alabama Governor George Wallace at the Laurel Shopping Center May 15, 1972.
Bremer emptied his revolver hitting Wallace four times and wounding three other people. Wallace, however, did not die of his wounds but was paralyzed from his waist down.
In the bottom photo, Wallace’s wife Cornelia comforts him as he lays on the parking lot in Laurel.
Wallace was a segregationist who in his inaugural speech in 1963 called for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever” and who famously “stood in the schoolhouse door” to block African American students from entering the University of Alabama.
He ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1964, 1972 and 1976. He ran as a third party candidate in 1968 and is the last third party candidate to win electoral votes. In his campaigns, he called for “states’ rights” and used other coded racial language.
In 1972, Wallace was the object of protesters in Maryland at Frederick, Hagerstown, Capital Plaza and Wheaton Plaza prior to being shot at Laurel Shopping.
At his appearance in Cambridge, Maryland in 1964 during the height of desegregation protest and occupation by the National Guard, a demonstration was broken up by police and National Guard using tear gas and batons.
Wallace later moderated his racial views and expressed regret for his earlier remarks. He died in 1998.
Bremer initially sought to kill President Richard M. Nixon, but realized it would be difficult so he settled on Wallace stalking him in Wisconsin, Michigan and Maryland.
Bremer attended the rally at Wheaton Plaza, but the anti-Wallace crowd booed and threw objects at Wallace so he did not enter the crowd to shake hands, depriving Bremer of the opportunity to attempt the assassination.
Briefly beaten while being subdued in Laurel, Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison in August 1972. The sentenced was later reduced on appeal to 53 years. At a parole hearing in 1996, Bremer argued that he should be released because, “"Shooting segregationist dinosaurs wasn't as bad as harming mainstream politicians."
Bremer was released Nov. 9, 2007 at the age of 57 and will be off of probation in 2025.
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Schottenstift
Schottenstift Exterior - © Schottenstift
In the heart of Vienna lies the abbey of Our Lady to the Scots, the habitat of Benedictine monks who know themselves addressed by this sentence from the book of Psalms in person.
By the aim of the search for God and by the concrete form of life the monks are associated with the many Benedictine monks and Benedictine nuns all over the world. In addition, they know themselves in solidarity with all people of good will, like them, seeking true life.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Following the Benedictine rules, the monastery but provides also very specific services. In the spirit of Benedictine hospitality the Schottenstift offers »monastery for a limited time", in the as a bed and breakfast run Benediktushaus guests from all over the world are welcome. The pastoral and spiritual care are just as much part of everyday life of the members of the Convention as the teaching in the traditional Scots high school and youth work in the basement. In the spirited Scots parish a lively cultural activity can unfold.
History of the Schottenstift
Duke Henry II Jasomirgott made Vienna the residence of Babenbergerreiches (Kingdom of the Babenberg). To emphasize the importance of the new capital, he convened in 1155 iroschottische (Irish-Scottish) monks from the St. Jakob monastery in Regensburg to Vienna. The new foundation in the first place should be a place of prayer, but then also a place where pilgrims and guests could find admission, a refuge for asylum seekers (the name "Freyung" still today reminds of that) and a center of cultural life.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In the years from 1160 to 1200 outside the former city limits arose a mighty Romanesque church, which was a lot bigger than today's church, and the eastern part of the Roman church reached about 25 meters beyond the east wall of the present house of worship. In 1200, the church and convent were consecrated by the Bishop of Passau Wolfger von Ellenbrechtskirchen. Already in 1276 much of this troublesome erected complex fell victim to a fire. Earthquakes in the years 1348 and 1443 again left traces of destruction. In the mid-15th Century thus arose a new monastery.
Scots Church - © S. Gaube, Citype
In 1418 the era of Irish-Scottish monks ended, since in the course of the Melker Reform they were encouraged also to integrate locals into their ranks because junior staff more and more became sparse. The Iroschotten but prefered to return to their mother abbey in Regensburg. The name "Scots" but remained to this day.
Schottenstift Deed - © Schottenstift
Deed of Foundation
The fundamental redesign of Scots Abbey falls in the 17th and 18th Century. 1648, the present church was completed, in the following decades the monastery complex was changed from its very foundations.
Decisive role in these buildings had Abbot Carl Fetzer (1705-1750). Today's "Schottenhof (Court)" under abbot Andreas Wenzel (1807-1831) by the architect Josef Kornhäusel was classicist redesigned. The intensive study of science and close ties to the in 1365 founded University of Vienna resulted yet in the times of irish-scottish monks in the emergence of a first library. Although from those roots today almost nothing remains, the number of medieval manuscripts and incunabula in the following centuries grew. In this regard, wrote Albert P. Huebl (1867-1931) all currently valid printed catalogs. During the reorganization of the monastery, a new library hall was built under Abbot Andreas Wenzel for printed books, whose current division Vincent P. Knauer (1828-1894) had created. Under his leadership, a handwritten nominal catalog of books was created in 1883.
In 1807 on the request of the emperor it came to the foundation of the "Schottengymnasium" which took up the old school tradition of the house on the Freyung and should it continue. The prestigious school has become a main area of work of the monks. Concerning the building structure, the two world wars the Schottenstift on the whole has survived intact, for the Convention itself they entailed great damage, be it the economic troubles after the first world war or the great human bloodletting in the years 1939 to 1945. Numerous brothers fell in the war or did not return, the gates of the school remained closed from 1938 to 1945. The Second Vatican Council for the Scots Abbey, too, entailed the profound reflection upon the peculiarities of the monastic life and the tasks, which a Benedictine community in the world of today should and can shoulder.
The museum in Schottenstift
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Important art dating back several centuries
The Vienna Schottenstift on Freyung is among the most important Benedictine monasteries in Austria. Yet in the 15th Century, the Abbey of the Scots developed into a center of the Vienna spiritual and city life. Not coincidentally shows the Scots masters altar the first topographically correct view of the city of Vienna. The reign of Barockabtes (Baroque abbot) Carl Fetzer (1705-1750) was an economic and cultural heyday. The 1826-1832 by Josef Kornhäusel designed Prelature now houses the "Museum in the Abbey of the Scots". In addition to an extensive collection of paintings, furniture, tapestries, vestments and liturgical utensils and vestments, it shows an impressive documentation of the monastery history.
Schottenstift - © Schottenstift
Scots Champion - © Schottenstift Scots Masters - © Schottenstift
The high altar of the original Gothic collegiate church was removed about 1640. Today, the altar of the "Wiener Scots Master (Schottenmeister)", originating from 1469 to 1480, is a masterpiece of late Gothic painting in Austria and the center of the museum in Schottenstift. History, development process, workshop operations, among others, illustrates an informative documentary, which complement the successor works to Flemish painting of the 17th Century by Josse de Momper the Younger and David Vinckboons.
In Schottenstift the Interested visitor finds in addition to major religious paintings (among others by Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Cossiers and Giovanni Battista Pittoni), portrait and landscape painting of the 17th and 18th Century (eg by Johann Christian Brand, Christian Seybold, Christoph Paudiss and Simon de Vos) and Vienna Biedermeier painting by Johann Baptist Drechsler, Johann Knapp, Thomas Ender and Johann Peter Krafft. Works of the Dutch and Austrian still life painting of the 17th and 18th Century complement the valuable private collection. The large-sized former Baroque high altar painting by Joachim von Sandrart »The heavenly glory" (1671) in Prälatensaal is, like the lecture hall with works of Austrian baroque painters, as Peter Paul Strudel and Tobias Pock, integrated into the museum complex.
A poor shot which I will retake, but an interesting memorial to something I had not heard of before.
Bossingham Wood is now better know, to me and other snappers, as a place to get shot of Nuthatches, but was a place of violence 200 years ago.
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The Battle of Bossenden Wood took place on 31 May 1838 near Hernhill in Kent; it has been called the last battle on English soil. The battle was fought between a small group of labourers from the Hernhill, Dunkirk, and Boughton area and a detachment of soldiers sent from Canterbury to arrest the marchers' leader, the self-styled Sir William Courtenay, who was actually John Nichols Tom, a Truro maltster who had spent four years in Kent County Lunatic Asylum. Eleven men died in the brief confrontation: Courtenay, eight of his followers and two of those sent to apprehend them.
Courtenay had appeared in Canterbury in 1832, standing unsuccessfully in the December 1832 general election and, although suspected of being an imposter, becoming a popular local figure. He had been convicted of perjury in 1833 after giving evidence in defence of some smugglers. Originally sentenced to transportation, he had been transferred to Barming Heath Asylum after a woman from Cornwall, Catherine Tom, identified him as her missing husband and said he had previously been treated for insanity.[1] On his release from the asylum in October 1837, instead of returning to his family in Cornwall, he stayed in Kent and built up a following in the area of Boughton under Blean, Hernhill and the Ville of Dunkirk. The area had already experienced agrarian discontent and protest against the New Poor Law of 1834 and the farm labourers, and a few of the smallholders and trades people, were receptive to Courtenay’s millenarian preaching and promises of a better life.[2]
On 29 May, Oak Apple Day, Courtenay and a band of followers began to march around the nearby countryside with a flag and a loaf of bread on a pole (a traditional symbol of protest).[3] Courtenay rode a grey horse; his followers were on foot. Although at this stage the protesters were acting peacefully some wealthier landowners were becoming alarmed, and on 31 May 1838, a local magistrate, Dr Poore, issued a warrant for Tom's arrest.[4] It is not clear exactly what the warrant was for – to arrest Courtenay or to arrest workers who were in breach of contract with their employers. [5] A parish constable, together with his brother, Nicholas Mears, and an assistant, went to find Courtenay at Bossenden Farm, where he was staying with his followers. Courtenay shot and killed the constable.
When news of the killing reached the magistrates, they sent to Canterbury for soldiers and a detachment of the 45th Foot was despatched from the barracks. It was led by Major Armstrong, with three junior officers and about a hundred soldiers. The regiment had recently returned from India, and the following year they would kill twenty Chartists at Newport. While they were waiting for the soldiers, a group of armed gentry and farmers took shots at Courtenay and his band as they moved around the Hernhill area.[7] By this time some of Courtenay’s followers had escaped. There were about 35 or 40 left, armed only with sticks, except for Courtenay who had pistols and a sword and one follower who had a pistol.[8]
The soldiers split into two groups to execute a pincer movement. One of the groups, led by Captain Reid and magistrates Knatchbull and Baldock, divided again, with Lieutenant Henry Boswell Bennett at the head of one of the small groups. It was this group that approached Courtenay’s band in the clearing, while the other group, under Major Armstrong and magistrate Poore, circled round to the far side of the clearing.[9] There was a brief fight, lasting only a few minutes. Courtenay shot Bennett dead and then was himself shot and killed as Armstrong’s men opened fire and charged with bayonets. Eight of Courtenay’s followers were killed or mortally wounded.[10] A young man from Faversham, George Catt, who had been helping the magistrates was caught in the soldiers’ fire and killed.
On Saturday 2 June Lieutenant Bennett was buried in Canterbury Cathedral precincts with full military honours.[12] On the same day an inquest at the White Horse, Boughton, returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide" on the deaths of Courtenay and his followers. Those who were following Courtenay and were killed were: Stephen Baker (22), William Foster (33), William Rye (46), Edward Wraight (62), Phineas Harvey (27), William Burford (33), George Griggs (23), and George Branchett (49). Griggs and Branchett were buried in Boughton churchyard; all the rest, including Courtenay, were buried in Hernhill churchyard.[13]
Over the following days about thirty of Courtenay’s followers were arrested and appeared either at the inquest or at the petty sessions in Faversham. Sixteen were committed for trial on a charge of murder. Ten men would eventually stand trial at Maidstone Assizes in early August, the rest having been discharged by the assize grand jury.[14] Two (Thomas Mears and William Price) were charged with the murder of the brother of the constable and nine (Thomas Mears, Edward Curling, Alexander Foad, William Foad, Richard Foreman, Thomas Griggs, Charles Hills, Edward Wraight, and William Wills) with the murder of Lieutenant Bennett, with one, Thomas Mears, charged with both murders.[15]
Thomas Mears and William Price stood trial first. The jury returned a guilty verdict, with a recommendation for mercy. The judge, Lord Denman, duly pronounced sentence of death but immediately told the men that the sentence would not be carried out. Seeing this result, the nine charged with the murder of Lieutenant Bennett pleaded guilty; they too were sentenced to death but immediately reprieved. Thomas Mears and William Wills were sentenced to be transported to Australia for life, William Price for ten years, and the rest were sentenced to a prison term of one year.
Five activists of the Just Stop Oil environmental campaign have been handed prison sentences for their involvement in organizing protests that blocked a major London highway in 2022, PA media reported, sparking a wave of criticism from climate advocates. CNN
‘Just Stop Oil’ co-founder Roger Hallam, 58, Daniel Shaw, 38, Louise Lancaster, 58, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 35, and Cressida Gethin, 22, agreed to cause disruption to traffic by having protesters climb onto gantries over the M25 highway that encircles London for four successive days in November 2022, Judge Christopher Hehir said at the sentencing hearing at a court in the British capital on Thursday, according to the UK news agency.
Hallam was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment while the remaining four defendants were each handed four years in prison each.
Today, 30 March 2021, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) delivered its judgments confirming, by majority, the decision of Trial Chamber VI (“Trial Chamber”) of 8 July 2019, which found Bosco Ntaganda guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2002-2003. Furthermore, the Appeals Chamber unanimously confirmed the Trial Chamber’s decision of 7 November 2019, by which Mr Ntaganda was sentenced to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The conviction and the sentence are now final.
Look at this picture... I don't know who took this. Bwahahaha... It really made me smile...
It looks like I was reading a bad news to this man.
Noooo... actually we were praying hehehehe...
Nancy Messieh of The Next Web posted yesterday that "Iranian web programmer" Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident, faces the death penalty in Iran. His previous sentence for "insulting the sanctity of Islam" was upheld by Iran's highest court. Malekpour wrote in a March 2010 letter posted by Persian ... Posted via email from Joe On Tech
As Giacomo Pirazzoli, the collegue who call me to work on this recostruction, loves to say: "...siamo i meglio, anzi, i troppo meglio..." :-) and that evening we felt just in that way, after all the hundreds people visiting the inauguartion were gone and me, Filippo and Sergio were alone with our "one year efforts" work to give a new dignity to this monument. :-)
Original shot taken with a Polaroid Land Camera 450 on Fujifilm FP-100 silk color instant film, almost no post processing, just scanned.
Alisha Walker was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the stabbing death of Alan Filan, a teacher in a Catholic school. Filan had contracted Walker and another sex worker to come to his home for a sexual encounter.
According to Walker, Filan brandished a knife when he began to argue over the terms of the evening. Walker grabbed the knife during the struggle that broke out and by her account, stabbed him 14 times in self defense.
A group of Chicagoans gathered to denounce the 15 year sentence as a miscarriage of justice for a woman with a dangerous job who was only trying to defend herself.
On 22 March 2017, Trial Chamber VII of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its decision on sentencing in the case of The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, Aimé Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidèle Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido at a public hearing held at the seat of the Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, in the presence of the convicted persons. The Prosecution and the Defence may appeal the decision on sentence within 30 days.
Suining Public Security Bureau
Indictment Opinion
Suining Public Security Indictment Opinion (2010) No. 1
The suspect Liu Xianbin, male, Han nationality was born on August 25, 1968. His national ID card number is 510902196808252657. Liu is university educated and is a resident of the Panshan District of Suining City with household registration at Qiaodong Community 4-100, Lingquan Office, Chuanshan District and currently resides at the Baisheng Jiayuan, Building 2, No. 2, sixth floor #2 at 40 Kaixuan Road in the Chuanshan District. He is unemployed.
In December 1992 the Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced the suspect Liu Xianbin to 2 years and six months of imprisonment for counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitation. He was released in October 1993 after completing his sentence. On August 7, 1999, the Suining City, Sichuan Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to 13 years imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for three years for subversion of state power. On November 6, 2008, he was released after completing his sentence. On June 28, 2008, Suining Public Security detained him on suspicion of inciting the subversion of state power. On July 5, 2010, with the permission of the Suining City Procuratorate, he was arrested according to law.
The Suining Public Security Bureau discovered the case of the suspected involvement of the suspect Liu Xianbin in incitement to subvert state power in the course of its work. On December 26, 2008, a formal investigation began. On June 28, 2010 the suspect Liu Xianbin was detained in connection with this case. The investigation into the involvement of the suspect Liu Xianbin in incitement to overthrow state power has concluded.
Investigation according to the law has determined that the after the suspect Liu Xianbin was released on November 6, 2008 with the completion of his sentence, owing to his dissatisfaction with our country's people's democratic dictatorship system of state power and with the socialist system, pledged to overthrow our country's political system and to fight it to the end. Between April 2009 and February 2010, Liu Xianbin, at his home at Baisheng Jiayuan, Building 2, No. 2, sixth floor #2 at 40 Kaixuan Road in the Chuanshan District, took advantage of the Internet's characteristic speed, wide reach, strong social influence and the great attention paid to it by the masses. He wrote and transmitted through the Internet articles for publication. These articles appeared in publications outside the borders of mainland China such as "People and Human Rights", "Beijing Spring", "China Weekly", "Democratic China", "China Human Rights Semi-weekly". He slandered the people's democratic dictatorship political power led by the Chinese Communist Party as "autocratic rule" and on several occasions incited the overthrow of our country's political regime and socialist system.
These articles written by the suspect Liu Xianbin start rumors and contain slanders:
•"Baptism of Blood and Fire",
•"Liu Xianbin: 100 Days Since Release from Prison",
•"A Late Remembrance: Remembering the Death of Zhao Ziyang Five Years Later ",
•"Looking at China with Vaclav Havel's Eyes ",
•"Street Actions are an Important Tactic for the Chinese Democratic Movement",
•"A Discussion Starting From "'The People Are Masters in Their Own Homes'",
•"Choices for the Chinese Movement After the Heavy Sentence that Liu Xiaobo Received", and
•"My Twenty Years in the China Democracy Movement -- The Arrest of Chen Wei, Part 1",
Rumors and slanders such as:
•"The rule of the Communist Party has always been characterized by high pressure and terror",
•"The Communist Party authorities "rely on naked violence",
•The evening news television broadcast is "an important tongue of the authorities for idiotizing the people",
•The Chinese people live under "the terrorizing rule of the political police", and "live their lives mechanically like slaves", and
•"The officials of the Chinese authorities I have actually had contact with have all been playing the role of accomplices to the inhumane state apparatus".
His incitements:
•"Create a strong opposition organization",
•"When the people become interested in politics" will be the time to "create an organization and to publish a charter",
•"Calling on every member of the opposition to continually carry out open opposition", "once the moment is ripe",
•"Quickly become a strong political organization with real fighting power",
•"Large scale street actions will be decisive",
•"Let more and more Chinese citizens realize the true nature of this political regime and political system", "Put more and more pressure on the regime" in order to make its political base fall apart.
Others linked to Liu's articles or copied them to other websites where people also read them. They had a very bad influence.
The above-mentioned criminal evidence was established through the statements of witnesses, the records of on the spot investigations, electronic evidence, records of investigation, conclusions drawn from investigation of evidence, physical evidence, written evidence and frank admissions by the suspect Liu Xianbin.
The criminal facts described above are clear, the evidence confirmed, adequate and sufficient to make a conclusion.
The suspect Liu Xianbin was imprisoned previously for the crime of incitement to overthrow state power. After serving his sentence, while deprived of his political rights, he committed once again the crime of incitement to overthrow state power. According to Chapter 66 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China", he should be considered a recidivist and receive a heavy punishment.
As has been described above, the suspect Liu Xianbin used the Internet to openly publish issue incitements with the intention of overthrowing state power. His behavior violates Chapter 102, Section 2 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" involving the crime of incitement to overthrow state power.
According to Chapter 129 of the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China", this case is transferred to the Procuratorate for indictment.
Hereby transferred to the Suining City People's Procuratorate.
Wang Minghua (seal)
Suining Public Security Bureau
July 21, 2010-8-3
Attachments:
1. Ten volumes of case materials, totaling 794 pages;
2. See the transfer of custody list for the evidence transferred along with this case;
3. The suspect Liu Xianbin is now in custody at the Suining City Detention Center.
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Liu is being accused of slandering the people's democratic dictarorship led by the Communist Party as "dictatorial rule". The Rights Defender website put online a scan of the indictment opinion sent by Suining Public Security to Suining Procuratorate in the case of arrested rights activist Liu Xianbin. Among the offenses Liu has committed is writing that the Communist Party maintains itself in power by using naked force the official party controlled media is used by the government to "idiotize the citizenry".
The scan is available on many websites outside of China -- search on 刘贤斌 and 起诉意见书
Defense Attorney Fed Cohn talks to his client Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero though interpreter Susan Rosas in the Kenosha Courthouse. Lopez-Quintero was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
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Covid: Dutch go into Christmas lockdown over Omicron wave
The Netherlands has announced a strict lockdown over Christmas amid concerns over the Omicron coronavirus variant.
Non-essential shops, bars, gyms hairdressers and other public venues will be closed until at least mid-January. Two guests per household will be allowed - four over the holidays.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the measures were "unavoidable".
Countries across Europe have been tightening restrictions as the heavily mutated variant spreads.
The new rules in the Netherlands - the strictest to have been announced over Omicron so far - come into force on Sunday.
"I stand here tonight in a sombre mood. And a lot of people watching will feel that way too," Mr Rutte told a news conference on Saturday. "To sum it up in one sentence, the Netherlands will go back into lockdown from tomorrow."
Under the new rules, people are being urged to stay at home as much as possible. Strict limits will be placed on the number of people who can meet - a maximum of two guests aged 13 and over will be allowed in people's homes, and four on 24-26 December and on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Events are not permitted other than funerals, weekly markets selling groceries and professional sports matches with no spectators.
All schools will be closed until at least 9 January, while other lockdown measures will remain in place until at least 14 January.
Restaurants can continue to sell takeaway meals, and non-essential shops can offer click and collect services.
The BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague said the announcement was being met with disbelief and dismay.
"I can now hear the whole of the Netherlands sighing. This is exactly one week before Christmas, another Christmas that is completely different from what we would like," Mr Rutte said.
But, he added, a failure to act now would likely lead to "an unmanageable situation in hospitals".
Earlier on Saturday, people rushed to do their Christmas shopping amid reports that new measures were about to be introduced.
"It's too busy, but I'm coming before the Christmas holidays to pick up gifts, it seems like a new lockdown is coming," Ayman Massori told AFP news agency.
For weeks, curfews have been placed on hospitality and cultural venues in the Netherlands in an effort to limit the spread of Omicron.
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health has reported more than 2.9m coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, and over 20,000 deaths.
It says the Omicron variant currently still accounts for a minority of coronavirus cases in the Netherlands, but is spreading rapidly.
Officials say it is expected to become the dominant variant by the New Year.
The head of the Dutch outbreak management team, Jaap van Dissel, said the new measures would "buy time", allowing more people to get booster shots and for the healthcare system to prepare for a possible rise in infections.
"As a country we are best protected if as many people as possible get a booster vaccination," he said.
More than 85% of all adults in the Netherlands have been vaccinated, but so far fewer than 9% have had the booster shot.
Health Minister Hugo de Jonge said all adults would now get an invitation for a booster appointment by 7 January.
France, the Republic of Ireland and Germany have also announced measures designed to curb the infections.
The Omicron variant is "spreading at lightning speed" in Europe and will likely become dominant in France by the start of next year, French Prime Minister Jean Castex has warned.
France has imposed strict travel restrictions on those entering from the United Kingdom - the hardest hit country in the region, with nearly 25,000 confirmed Omicron cases on Saturday.
Europe has already seen more than 89 million cases and 1.5 million Covid-related deaths, according to the latest EU figures.
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Omicron coronavirus cases surge in UK, scientists see bigger wave
■ Number of cases of Omicron coronavirus variant jump
■ London mayor declares "major incident" to help hospitals
■ Government scientific advisors say many cases unreported
■ Advisors say more action needed to prevent hospitalisation surge
■ Johnson faced anger from his own lawmakers to existing measures
LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Britain reported a surge in cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday which government advisors said could be just the tip of the iceberg, and London's mayor declared a "major incident" to help the city's hospitals cope.
The number of Omicron cases recorded across the country hit almost 25,000 as of 1800 GMT on Friday, up by more than 10,000 cases from 24 hours earlier, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.
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Summary
Number of cases of Omicron coronavirus variant jump
London mayor declares "major incident" to help hospitals
Government scientific advisors say many cases unreported
Advisors say more action needed to prevent hospitalisation surge
Johnson faced anger from his own lawmakers to existing measures
LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Britain reported a surge in cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday which government advisors said could be just the tip of the iceberg, and London's mayor declared a "major incident" to help the city's hospitals cope.
The number of Omicron cases recorded across the country hit almost 25,000 as of 1800 GMT on Friday, up by more than 10,000 cases from 24 hours earlier, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.
Seven people believed to have had the Omicron variant had died as of Thursday, up from one death in the UKHSA's previous data which ran up to Tuesday. Admissions to hospital of people thought to have the variant increased to 85 from 65.
The government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said it was "almost certain" that hundreds of thousands of people were being infected with the variant every day and were not being picked up in the figures.
SAGE said without a further tightening of COVID-19 rules, "modelling indicates a peak of at least 3,000 hospital admissions per day in England," they said in minutes of a meeting on Dec. 16.
Last January, before Britain's vaccination campaign gathered speed, daily hospital admissions in the United Kingdom as a whole surged above 4,000.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced a rebellion in his governing Conservative Party over some of the measures he has taken so far to try to curb COVID-19's latest spread. A newspaper said on Saturday that Johnson's Brexit minister, David Frost, had resigned in part because of the new rules.
The advisors said it was too early to assess the severity of disease caused by Omicron but if there was a modest reduction compared to the Delta variant, "very high numbers of infections would still lead to significant pressure on hospitals".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared a "major incident" - which allows for closer coordination between public agencies and possibly more central government support - as COVID-19 hospital admissions in the city rose by nearly 30% this week.
He said health worker absences had also increased.
"This is a statement of how serious things are," he said.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan visits a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pop-up vaccination centre at Chelsea football ground, Stamford Bridge in London, Britain, December 18, 2021. REUTERS/David Klein
Khan, from the opposition Labour Party, also declared a major incident in January, when rising COVID-19 cases threatened to overwhelm hospitals.
The Omicron variant is estimated to account for more than 80% of new COVID-19 cases in London, officials said on Friday.
EMERGENCY MEETING
Johnson was due to chair an emergency committee meeting over the weekend with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which have their own powers over public health.
A report in The Times newspaper said officials were preparing draft rules which, if introduced, would ban indoor mixing in England -- except for work -- for two weeks after Christmas when pubs and restaurants would be limited to outdoor table service.
People would be able to meet in groups of up to six outdoors, the newspaper said, adding that ministers were yet to formally consider the plans.
Johnson said on Friday "we are not closing things down".
A government spokesperson said the government would continue to "look closely at all the emerging data and we'll keep our measures under review as we learn more about this variant".
The number of all new COVID-19 cases reported in official data fell to 90,418 from a record high of more than 93,000 on Friday, but that was still the country's second-highest daily toll. Figures typically dip at the weekend.
Cases were up 44.4% over the seven days to Dec. 18 compared with the previous week.
Police clashed with a group of protesters opposed to the latest COVID-19 restrictions near Johnson's Downing Street office and residence on Saturday. A number of officers were injured but so far no arrests had been made, police said.
Baldessari, John. Fable: A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable. Hamburg, Germany and New York, N.Y.: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion, 1977.
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On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
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Kenosha Sheriff Deputies Ray Merlin and Dan McCann reacts to a emotional statement by Amy Fabiano during Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero's sentencing. Lopez-Quintero was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
Interpreter Susan Rosas leans toward Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero during his sentencing in a Kenosha Courtroom filled beyond capacity by law enforcement offiecrs. Lopez-Quintero was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
Igor sentenced to sitting in a chair...
elusive and mysterious post WWII childhood memories of Paris...
University of Wisconsin - Parkside Police Officer Jimmie Spino wipes tears during a memorial ceremony in front of the Kenosha Courthhouse. Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole by Judge Wilburn W. Warren III.
A Seattle man was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Friday after a drone he was operating injured two people during the city’s 2015 Pride Parade. Paul M. Skinner was found guilty of reckless endangerment in the incident, which left one woman unconscious.
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Inmate Kevin Robinson is serving a life sentence for torture. He works in the shoe factory inserting soles into the shoes. The factory makes high top and low top versions of the shoes. (Angela Carone/KPBS)
On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we drink some gin
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
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The T is for Training Meme
1) Your One Sentence Bio -- Professor of practice and consultant focused on digitization, digital libraries, copyright, social media and web 2.0, and having fun doing it.
2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name? -- Yes, I blog. Both blog names play off of the idea that we need to learn and that learning starts at the beginning. Hence, Digitization 101 and eNetworking 101: The Blog.
3) What is your professional background? -- I've worked in radio, IT and corporate libraries before striking out on my own as a consultant. Radio gave me more confidence for speaking in public. IT helped me understand technology and speak the lingo. Librarianship is what I wanted to do since fifth grade.
4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes? -- Besides teaching graduate classes in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, I teach workshops to library staff members on digitization, social media and copyright.
5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now -- Connecting with users.
6) Where do you get your training? -- A lot of my training has been on the job and learning from others, as well as diving into topics myself. I find interacting with people at conferences to be very helpful.
7) How do you keep up? -- I used to say that I kept up by reading blogs, but I do more skimming than reading these days. I pick up info via Twitter, FriendFeed, podcasts, etc. There is so much I could read/listen to/watch that is it tough. I try to stay focused on the areas/topics that matter most but even then there is so much content.
8) What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now? -- Getting their users to advocate on their (libraries') behalf for funding.
9) What are biggest challenges for trainers? -- Staying ahead of people's training needs.
10) What exciting things are you doing training wise? -- Learning new technology to use in my classes.
11) What do you wish were you doing? -- Living in Paris.
12) What would you do with a badger? -- Have it tell me how long winter is going to last.
13) What's your favorite food? -- At this moment, coffee.
14) If you were stranded on an island, what one thing would you want to have with you? -- Wifi
15) Do you know what happens when a grasshopper kicks all the seeds out of a pickle? -- She eats it.
16) Post it notes or the back of your hand? -- Post it notes.
17) Windows or Mac? -- Windows.
18) Talk about one training moment you'd like to forget? -- I've forgotten it already.
19) What's your take on handshakes? -- Better then being hugged by people I don't know. Given recent germ activity, though, waving is perfect.
20) Global warming: yes or no -- Yes.
21) How did you get into this line of work?
22) Why is the best part of your job? -- No two days are the same.
23) Why should someone else follow in your shoes? -- You get to interact with tons of people, have some influence over what they think/do, and have fun doing it.
24) Sushi or hamburger? -- Sushi
25) LSW or ALA? -- LSW
26) What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why? -- Hard for me to narrow down to one person. I'd like to have lunch with someone like Greg Mortenson who has dedicated his life to making a corner of the world better. I remember seeing a news story about someone who was teaching street kids to skateboard in Afghanistan and bet that would be a fascinating lunch conversation!
27) What cell phone do you have and why? -- iPhone. I'm been an AT&T/Cingular person for 10+ years and the iPhone just had my name written all over it! And it's even better than I imagined.
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Forrest fifteen months imprisonment.'
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The EU and the US criticize the lawsuit that led to the ousted Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi and over 100 other people were sentenced to death at the weekend.
‘The Court’s decision on the death penalty was taken after a mass trial that did not live up to Egypt’s...
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After the Republic released the Zombie Plague, all Rebels and Aliens were to be executed on capture...And the Easter Bunny also recieved the death sentence for being a Socialist Entrepreneur.
Today, 6 May 2021, Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") sentenced Dominic Ongwen to 25 years of imprisonment following the Trial Judgment in which the Chamber found him guilty for a total of 61 crimes comprising crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. The period of his detention between 4 January 2015 and 6 May 2021, will be deducted from the total time of imprisonment imposed on him. The sentence may be appealed before the ICC Appeals Chamber by either party to the proceedings.