MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS:
NAMED AFTER THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
She is the Catalan Sybill, the eternal voice of Catalunya.
I wept deep tears on hearing of her death.
Deo Gratias.
‘Goyo de la Rosa’
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| Nick Begich | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska‘s At-large district |
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| In office January 3, 1971 – October 16, 1972 |
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| Preceded by | Howard Pollock |
| Succeeded by | Don Young |
| Member of the Alaska State Senate | |
| In office 1962–1970 |
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| Born | April 6, 1932 Eveleth, Minnesota |
| Died | Presumably October 16, 1972(aged 40) Alaska |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Pegge Begich |
| Children | Mark, Nichelle, Stephanie, Tom, Paul, and Nick |
| Alma mater | Saint Cloud State University,University of Minnesota,University of Colorado,University of North Dakota |
Nicholas Joseph “Nick” Begich, Sr. (April 6, 1932 – undetermined, presumed dead October 16, 1972) was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972. His son Mark Begich is currently the junior U.S. Senator from Alaska.
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The son of a Croatian immigrant, Nick Begich was born and raised in Eveleth, Minnesota. His father, John Begich (Begić), was born in Podlapača, Croatia.[1] He attended Saint Cloud State University and the University of Minnesota before pursuing his doctorate at theUniversity of Colorado and the University of North Dakota.
Begich worked as an expeditor and then a counselor in Anchorage, Alaska. He later worked in the administrative offices of Anchorage School District, eventually becoming Superintendent of Schools at Fort Richardson. In 1962, Begich was elected to the Alaska Senate, where he served for eight years. Begich also taught political science during parts of this period at the University of Alaska at Anchorage.
In 1970, Begich was elected to Alaska’s only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating the Republican banker Frank Murkowski– who later served as a U.S. Senator and then the Governor of Alaska. In 1972 for his re-election, Begich was opposed by the Republican state senator Don Young.
Posthumously, Begich won the 1972 election with 56% to Don Young’s 44%. However, after Begich’s declared death, a special election was held and Mr. Young won this seat and still serves in this position as of 2011.
On October 16, 1972, he was aboard a twin engine Cessna 310 along with House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana when the plane disappeared during a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Also on board were Begich’s aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz.[2] The four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.
In an enormous search effort, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force search and rescue planes looked for the four men and their airplane. On November 24, 1972, after proceeding for thirty-nine days, the air search was called off. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot’s or passengers’ remains have ever been found. All were declared dead on December 29, 1972. The accident prompted Congress to pass a law mandating emergency locator transmitters in all United States civil aircraft.
| Year | Republican | Votes | Pct | Democrat | Votes | Pct | |||
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| 1968 | Howard W. Pollock (inc.) | 43,577 | 54.2% | N. J. Begich | 36,785 | 45.8% | |||
| 1970 | Frank H. Murkowski | 35,947 | 44.9% | N. J. Begich | 44,137 | 55.1% | |||
| 1972 | Don Young | 41,750 | 43.8% | N. J. Begich (inc.) | 53,651 | 56.2% |
Nick Begich had six children, named Mark, Nichelle, Tom, Stephanie, Paul, and Nick. His son Mark Begich is currently the junior U.S. Senator from Alaska. He won this position after defeating the Republican Party‘s longest serving Senator, Ted Stevens, who was killed in a plane crash nearly two years later.
Nick Begich’s widow, Pegge Begich, ran for the House of Representatives seat in 1984 and 1986, but she was defeated by the incumbent, Mr. Young. She is retired now, and she resides in Nevada. Their eldest son, Nick Begich, Jr., is well known in Alaska for his own political activities. He has been twice elected as the president of both the Alaska Federation of Teachers and the Anchorage Council of Education. Nick Begich, Jr.’s current research focuses on the methods, actions, and ethics of various American governmental organizations. He has gained much popularity amongst conspiracy theorists, thanks to his tireless investigation of H.A.A.R.P. He authored the conspiracy theory book Angels Don’t Play this H.A.A.R.P.and appeared on the TV show Conspiracy Theory. [4]
His son Tom Begich is a singer songwriter who tours and performs around the world.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska 1971–1972 |
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According to Shimizu, despite isolation from mainstream Canadian Society
during this time, the development of young Japanese Canadians progressed
in almost the same pattern as any other Canadian teenager. One would have
thought that this internment experience would have embittered this group
and led to widespread despair and depression. Instead, says Shimizu, they
came away from the experience more determined to be successful Canadians,
contrary to the intention of those who promoted and carried out this
injustice of internment and exile.
Shimizu will also present a lecture on Nov. 23 at 3:30 p.m. titled ” A
Journey to the Past and Present: The History of the Japanese-Canadian
Internment in 1942 to 1946; Life in the New Denver Internment Camp” at the
Mearns Centre adjacent to UVic Archives.
This free exhibition runs November 19, 2011, to February 2, 2012, at the
Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery on the lower level of the McPherson
Library, University of Victoria.
For more information, please visit:
A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion.
The IAEA claim that a foreign scientist – identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko – had been involved in building the alleged containment chamber also has now been denied firmly by Danilenko himself in an interview with Radio Free Europe published on Friday.
The latest report by the IAEA cited “information provided by Member States” that Iran had constructed “a large explosives containment vessel in which to conduct hydrodynamic experiments” – meaning simulated explosions of nuclear weapons – in its Parchin military complex in 2000.
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Sarah Jenkinson
Sarah Jenkinson has been painting since 2008, and her work is exhibited now in a salon next to the Spiral Cafe on Craigflower.
My wife and I were quite impressed when we intruded today to inquire whose amazingly psychedelic work was on display there.
Sarah Jenkinson’s mandalas brighten up the salon’s walls and are for sale, and Appointments are suggested for a visit, but the owners were very accomodating, nevertheless.
[Please refer to the comments for a link to see more at Sarah Jenkinson's Healing Arts Victoria blog.]
- ‘Goyo de la Rosa’
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I think a collective cheer can be raised as we are now at 5,100 on the Occupy Smart Meters online petition, and the hard copies are probably about 1,000 to 2,000 – looking good and HALF WAY TO OUR GOAL OF 10,000!
Keep putting it out for more people to sign on all the different avenues, as well as remembering to total the numbers on the hard copy petitions and fax to John Horgan’s office at 250-387-4680.
Keep the goal of 10,000 in your mind – everyone think 10,000 signatures – that would be a fantastic achievement, and it is so easy for 10,000 to become 20,000, and 20,000 to become 40,000 and so on. Then the politicians will become wary of our power, and that is how this will work in everyone’s favour.
Keep going – retweet, more on facebook, put the word out everywhere you can – if each person gets one more signature, we are there!
Smart This, BC Hydro!
Occupy Smart Meters – NO-vember 19 update
Over Half Way to Goal of 10,000 signatures by November 22!
Awesome! Keep Going!
https://cstorg.wufoo.com/forms/q7x3s5/
Thanks and well done everyone!
Una St.Clair
Citizens for Safe Technology Society
www.citizensforsafetechnology.org
Click here for a schedule of the weekend. (ver el itinerario en español)
UPDATES from COLUMBUS:
Saturday, November 19: 1 pm, Thousands begin to occupy gates of Fort Benning to demand closure of the School of the Americas SOA/WHINSEC. Click here to see high-resolution photos of the rally by Tom Bottolene of MN SOA Watch.
Friday, November 18: 2 arrested in front of Stewart Detention Center at the immigrant rights vigil in Lumpkin, Georgia. SOA Watch understands that many immigrants to the United States are victims of U.S.-sponsored military training and atrocities in Latin America. In our fight to close the School of the Americas and to end U.S. militarization in the Americas, we continue to work towards a world that is free of suffering and violence. The SOA and the unjust immigration policies are parts of the same racist system of violence and domination. Now more than ever, we must be joined together in our fight to create a better world.
Click here to read Father Roy Bourgeois’ op-ed about Haitian President Michel Martelly’s plan for the reconstitution of the Haitian army, 
which was published yesterday. Martelly punted his army reconstitution plan - saying a commission needs to be drawn up first. A new survey shows that a big majority of people “strongly disagree” that the Haitian army should be brought back, while less than 1 percent “strongly agree” that it should. Stand with the Haitian people in the anti-militarization struggle. Prominent Haitian human rights lawyer Mario Joseph, who is representing political prisoners and victims of political violence in Haiti, will speak from stage at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia this afternoon.
