Castlevania: When Will Season 4 Return To Netflix?
By Phillip David Russell
July 4, 2020 12:40 am EDT
Castlevania is a Netflix original horror animation series adapted from the popular video game name of the same name. Powered by powerhouse animation, Castlevania Netflix is one of the lesser-known animation titles.
Although many anime fans prefer dub subtitles, it is one of the best English dub quotes in a series. The series has become one of the most in-demand original series on Netflix and is well worth the wait despite the long hiatus between seasons.
Castlevania Season 4 Netflix Renewal Status
Official Netflix Renewal Status: Updated (Last Updated: 07/04/2020)
We are awaiting a renewal, and we can be happy to announce that Castlevania will be returning to Netflix for the fourth year in a row! He also said that "the third season shows little attention, and it's common to see viewers bouncing around," unusual.
What to expect from the fourth Castlevania period?
By the end of the third season, fans had a lot to dig into. Here's what we hope to see in the fourth season.
His father lost Dracula only a month's time, but the loneliness began to catch Alucard. It doesn't take long for visitors: Taka and Sumi are the early vampire Lord Cho. After spending several days with the couple, he began to teach them how to fight vampires and uncover the secrets of Belmont.
After a very close confrontation, the pair surrender to Accord, thinking that she is hiding their secrets to teach magic. Before beating Taka and Sumi, Accord uses a magical sword to wrap his neck. In order to prevent others from entering the palace, as his father had done previously, he hung Alchard's stare and Sumi's body.
How many episodes will the Castlevania season 4 air?
Each season could be between four and ten, given that there were separate episodes. We believe that at least eight episodes will come next season: anything less can be extremely disappointing.
When will Castlevania Season 4 release date?
Castlevania already had release dates for it.
Become 5 March 2020
Between one and two, there were 15 bars respectively, and the difference between two and three was 17 months.
We expect Castlevania to return after this format between June and August 2021.
While the release date of Summer 2021 is speculation on our part, the evidence indicates that we are correct. If its release is already early, then amazing! If later, we hope to see flashlight and ball attachments in the comments below.
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Edward H. Anderson
September 5, 1947 — July 10, 2017
Edward Howard Anderson 69, of Galesburg, Ill., died suddenly Monday, July 10, 2017, at his home of an apparent heart attack. Born September 5, 1947, in Burlington, Iowa he was the son of Howard and Lura Prehm Anderson. He married Jennifer Hirschler on February 15, 1975. They later divorced. Mr. Anderson graduated from New London High School in 1965. In 1969, he received a degree in agriculture from Iowa State University graduating cum laude. He began his career in Fairfield, Iowa at Production Credit Association and then was transferred to the Mt. Pleasant office. He moved to Knoxville, Ill. and worked at the First Midwest Bank. He then worked at 1st Farm Credit Services in Monmouth until his retirement in 2010. He translated his love of farming into a career that served the very people he so admired. He was active in the Jaycees in Mt. Pleasant. He was an avid country music fan and enjoyed going to concerts. An Iowa State fan, he also loved the St. Louis Cardinals and was a devoted Seinfeld fan. A lifelong Iowa farm boy, he enjoyed farming with his father on the weekends. After his retirement, he enjoyed working out at the gym. He had a wonderful sense of humor and always enjoyed a good practical joke. He loved his family and would drop anything for them at a moment's notice. Mr. Anderson is survived by his son, Christopher (Sara) Anderson of Bradford, Ill.; his life partner Judy Owens of Monmouth, Ill; his mother of New London; his sister Sandy (Kenny) Garrels of Danville; and his brother Bob (Gina) Anderson of New London. He also leaves his two precious granddaughters, Peyton and Evelyn and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father and grandparents. He was of the Christian faith. Visitation for Mr. Anderson will be at Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Home in Knoxville, Ill. on Thursday, July 13, 2017, from 5-8 p.m. The graveside burial service will be at Long Creek Cemetery, rural Danville, Iowa on Friday, July 14, 2017, at 11 a.m. with Rev. David Mixon officiating. There is a memorial established for the New London 4-H Clubs. Online condolences can be left at www.hurd-hendricksfuneralhome.com To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Edward H. Anderson please visit our Sympathy Store.
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#1. Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious. - Author: Jennifer Aniston
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#2. She extends a fingertip. After a moment's hesitation, Manfred extends a fingertip of his own. They touch, exchanging vCards and instant-messaging handles. She stands and stalks from the breakfast room, and Manfred's breath catches at a flash of ankle through the slit in her skirt, which is long enough to comply with workplace sexual harassment codes back home. Her presence conjures up memories of her tethered passion, the red afterglow of a sound thrashing. She's trying to drag him into her orbit again, he thinks dizzily. She knows she can have this effect on him any time she wants: She's got the private keys to his hypothalamus, and sod the metacortex. Three billion years of reproductive determinism have given her twenty-first-century ideology teeth: If she's finally decided to conscript his gametes into the war against impending population crash, he'll find it hard to fight back. The only question: Is it business or pleasure? And does it make any difference, anyway? - Author: Charles Stross
#3. She looked like a hippie who'd been kicked to the side of the road maybe forty years ago, where she'd been collecting trash and rags ever since. She wore a dress made of tie-dyed cloth, ripped-up quilts, and plastic grocery bags. Her frizzy mop of hair was gray-brown, like root-beer foam, tied back with a peace-sign headband. Warts and moles covered her face. When she smiled, she showed exactly three teeth. - Author: Rick Riordan
#4. To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off. - Author: Bruce Sterling
#5. Where do you go when you disappear? What do you see on the other side?"
"Come with me," she said, running her tongue over her teeth. "See for yourself."
The goose flesh rose on my arms. I never asked her again. - Author: Mike Driver
#6. The high-strung Frieda made the mistake of telling Frau Fleschner that she had a toothache. She was taken to a dentist. He pulled ten of her teeth! After one day, they put her back in the fields, spitting blood. She was twenty-one years old. - Author: Edith Hahn Beer
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#7. Meanwhile, Furious George continued his noisy tantrum. Long arms flailing wildly, massive teeth exposed, the angry creature charged out into the water, splashing and shrieking. - Author: Brian Harmon
#8. Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. - Author: Dale Carnegie
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#9. I am yours," Trent gasped through clenched teeth, and my hand sprang from him, thinking I was betrayed. Trent fell to a knee, looking up at me, pleading. "I. Am. Yours. Claim me, Rachel! Damn your morals and claim me! - Author: Kim Harrison
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#10. Amelia groped for the ring and began tugging and twisting it. "It's stuck again." She sounded disgruntled.
Cam pinned her wrist and bent his head, taking her finger into his mouth. She gasped as his tongue swirled around the base, leaving it wet. Gently, he used his teeth to draw the gold band off. Taking the ring from between his lips, he slid it back onto his own finger. Her hand, now bare, flexed as if bereft, and she looked at him uncertainly.
"You'll get used to wearing it." Cam smoothed his hand along the plane of her midriff and stomach. "We'll try it on you a few minutes at a time. Like breaking a horse to harness." He grinned at her expression. - Author: Lisa Kleypas
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#11. Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap. - Author: Michael Drayton
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#12. If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline's fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness? - Author: Kristen Reed
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#13. You can't leave, Zach," Corinne said through gritted teeth.
He walked right past her. "Watch me. - Author: Anastasia Hopcus
#14. She felt his teeth sharply nip her ear lobe and then he whispered, "Then keep those flirtatious looks of yours saved for me, mate. I'm a very jealous beast." - Gage - Author: Jessie Lane
#15. You share the same destiny as everyone else, the same history, the same hardship, the same rot, the same Tram beer, the same dog kebabs, the same narrative as soon as you come into the world. You start out baby-chick or slim-jim or child-soldier. You graduate to endlessly striking student or desperado. If you've got a family on the trains, then you work on the trains; otherwise like a ship you wash up on the edge of hope - a suicidal, a carjacker, a digger with dirty teeth, a mechanic, a street sleeper, a commission agent, an errand boy employed by for-profit tourists, a hawker of secondhand coffins. Your fate is already sealed like that of the locomotives carrying spoiled merchandise and the dying. - Author: Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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#16. Samuel glanced at him. "That's right," he said. "Set your teeth in it. How we do defend a wrongness! Shall I tell you what you do, so you will not think you invented it? When you go to bed and blow out the lamp - then she stands in the doorway with a little light behind her, and you can see her nightgown stir. And she comes sweetly to your bed, and you, hardly breathing, turn back the covers to receive her and move your head over on the pillow to make room for her head beside yours. You can smell the sweetness of her skin, and it smells like no other skin in the world - - Author: John Steinbeck
#17. Behind every smile there's teeth. - Author: Confucius
#18. POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown. - Author: Ambrose Bierce
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#19. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist. - Author: Graham Nash
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#20. The Nurse's Song
This mighty man of whom I sing,
The greatest of them all,
Was once a teeny little thing,
Just eighteen inches tall.
I knew him as a tiny tot,
I nursed him on my knee.
I used to sit him on the pot
And wait for him to wee.
I always washed between his toes,
And cut his little nails.
I brushed his hair and wiped his nose
And weighed him on the scales.
Through happy childhood days he strayed,
As all nice children should.
I smacked him when he disobeyed,
And stopped when he was good.
It soon began to dawn on me
He wasn't very bright,
Because when he was twenty-three
He couldn't read or write.
"What shall we do?" his parents sob.
"The boy has got the vapors!
He couldn't even get a job
Delivering the papers!"
"Ah-ha," I said, "this little clot
Could be a politician."
"Nanny," he cried, "Oh Nanny, what
A super proposition!"
"Okay," I said, "let's learn and note
The art of politics.
Let's teach you how to miss the boat
And how to drop some bricks,
And how to win the people's vote
And lots of other tricks.
Let's learn to make a speech a day
Upon the T.V. screen,
In which you never never say
Exactly what you mean.
And most important, by the way,
In not to let your teeth decay,
And keep your fingers clean."
Author: Roald Dahl
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#21. After the show, everybody would go out drinking, but I was always in bed by eleven thirty. There was no partying for me; I was the boring one. I lived in constant fear that my voice would give out on me, so I tried to rest it, eat right, get lots of sleep. I ate chicken breasts and whole potatoes like they were apples to keep up my energy and maintain my weight. When I came home after the show, Nan would leave my dinner ready and waiting in the microwave, and I would just heat it up. The Ballases always had a thing about not eating alone. Even if it was midnight, Nan would hear me banging around the kitchen, come downstairs in her robe, light up a cigarette, and keep me company. We'd chat about our day for about an hour while I ate, and it was our time together. I don't know if it's an English thing or what, but getting my Nan to say "I love you" was like pulling teeth. I came from a family where it was said often, and I was determined to teach her. So I would joke with her and grab her: "I'm not going to bed unless you say you love me back!" She would kind of mumble it, but I would insist she say it properly until she eventually caved in. I continued doing this whenever we parted ways, until eventually it became natural for her to say. - Author: Derek Hough
#22. Her home was so...shiny. She was shiny too, her skin, her hair, her shoes, her teeth. I hadn't even realized before; I am matte, dull and scuffed. - Author: Gail Honeyman
#23. The afflicted are almost upon them. The air is a din of hypersonic bursts, snarls and empty shell casings. But still I hear him. As his people start to fall. As his pistol clicks empty. As he rises with only his knuckles left between him and the sheer brutality of mathematics. As the music swells above the carnage, still I hear him breathe the words. "Tell them I was thinking of them. At the end." They pile onto him. All snarls and teeth and fists. But as he falls, I am holding his hand. Easing him into his long good night. "I will tell them, David." The last words he will ever hear. 'I promise. - Author: Amie Kaufman
#24. Before I even had the chance to try, a current of energy washed through me, pulling a gasp from my lips. Strength and familiarity tripled through the air between us. The powerful sensation swarmed over me like a thousand little teeth nibbling on my skin, and shook me to the core. - Author: A.K. Morgen
#25. You'll not go anywhere," he announced. "Yes, I will," she said, through gritted teeth. "You'll use a chamber pot." "I will not!" He thrust his hand in front of her face. The heavy silver ring sat prominently on his middle finger. "This says you'll obey me," he growled. "You'll use the chamber pot because I command you to do so!" "You'll have to hold me there and that just isn't going to happen," Jessica argued. "What is the difference between that and - " "Richard!" He made a sound of impatience. "'Tis nothing to be ashamed of, Jessica. I would expect the same care from you. And if memory serves, I had it when I had the fever before. Isn't that so?" "It was different." "Aye, 'twas me with my arse bared to the daylight! - Author: Lynn Kurland
#26. One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth. - Author: P.J. Parker
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#27. You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can do is burn it, or throw it out a window, or draw, mm, big hairy moustaches on all the ancient illustrations, and blacken the teeth of the women and children, and-- Oh God, don't. It's like talking about drowning babies. You are a terrible person. - Author: Lady Jaida
#28. Godzilla, you see, is toppled, is depleted, is immobile and breathless, the non-conversative dictator and his polemical primeval tyranny dashed to social smithereens... for some his demise will evince agitation, adulation and appraisal, but for me, Yasuhiro Dustin T-Bird, it returns the lingering largesse of an inconsolable fear. The fear is this: that there's a thing as big as pirate continents in the China Sea that we've together mythologised up to now currently obstructing the procession of metropolitan traffic all the way to Yoyogi. His formidable draconian jaw with its legend of gargantuan teeth slacks open like a lifelong foe's long-withheld liability, and sulphur rents the air in acrid, acid plumes as though the most cultured and violent yellowcake fart in categorical memory. - Author: Kirk Marshall
#29. I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading squad and getting into a good college and all the other things, both big and small, that she turned into a contest when Janie and I were young, going all the way back to whose baby teeth came in first, according to my mother. - Author: Emily Giffin
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#30. The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.
My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.
I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!
It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers. - Author: Eskay Teel
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#31. His familiar husky voice sent a wave of wistfulness through me. A thousand memories spun in my head, tangling together- a rocky beach strewn with driftwood trees, a garage made of plastic sheds, warm sodas in a paper bag, a tiny room with one too-small shabby loveseat. The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter. It felt sort of like homesickness, this longing for the place and person who had sheltered me through my darkest night. - Author: Stephenie Meyer
#32. Problem?" a silky voice murmured.
I ignored Torin and turned my attention to the stack of notebooks near the couch.
"I am sorry for what I said about your father this morning," he said. "It was beneath me."
I still didn't say anything.
"Being trapped thus is incredibly frustrating for me, and occasionally I take it out on others. Again, I apologize. Now, if you'd like, I can help you with what you're seeking."
Knowing I'd probably regret it, I crossed the rom and yanked the canvas off the mirror. As before, he was sitting on the table, smirking at me.
"Jackass, jackass on the wall, where's the info on Hex Hall?"
Torin laughed long and loud at that, and I saw that his teeth were slightly crooked. Seeing as how he was from the sixteenth century, I guess he was lucky to have any teeth at all.
"Oh, I do like you," he said, wiping tears from his eyes. "All these bloody warrior women are so serious. It's nice to have a real wit around the place again. - Author: Rachel Hawkins
#33. They were hometown hippies who primped in the cracked mirror of their egos and saw themselves as more intelligent, more humane, more real than their plastic deodorized elders. They were the victims of a freeze-dried generational racism which would not forgive their long loathsome hair and their scuzzy tramp-clothes. So now, cast in a psychodrama partly of their own design, they grew their hair even longer and let their jeans get grubbier. They asked for it: the audience reaction was confirmation of all their halfbaked theories. They screamed "Fuck You!" with every gesture and found applause in the cops' teeth-gnashings and housewives' cringings. - Author: Joe Eszterhas
#34. You meet that chick yet?" "Who?" "Emily. The coffee shop chick." "Briefly." "You should make that shit less brief. Woman's fuckin' hot as hell, the right kinda pain in the ass and so sweet she made my motherfuckin' teeth hurt. Jenna's it for me. But if she wasn't, I'd be drinkin' coffee for every meal and eaten the coffee chick's pussy for dessert. - Author: Norma Jeanne Karlsson
#35. Mommy set the phone aside as Liam whined and plucked at her shirt. "Are you hungry?" she asked gently. He nodded. "I can't nurse you when you're like this, sweetheart, not with all of those razor-sharp teeth."
That was the saddest thing he had ever heard in his whole life. He lifted his head and looked at her, grief stricken. - Author: Thea Harrison
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#36. If anyone poisoned your drink, I'm not to blame." She bared her teeth. "This time." A hard swat on her shoulder made her jerk away. Cinnia glared at her, a blush dusting her cheekbones. "Lou, stop being so rude!" She offered a conciliatory smile to Ambrose. "My apologies, Ambrose. She's always been a scold in the morning." He huffed and raised his tankard in mock toast to Louvaen. "You must live a life of eternal morning. - Author: Grace Draven
#37. That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even more difficult to maintain, whose beauty derived at least in part from its unlikelihood. Long ago the pragmatic justifications for both marriage and wooden-boat building had been lost or superseded. Why invest countless hours, years, and dollars in planing and carving, gluing and fastening, caulking and fairing, when a fiberglass boat can be had at a fraction of the cost? Why struggle to maintain love and commitment over decades when there were far easier ways to live, ones that required no effort or attention to prevent corrosion and rot? Why continue to pour your heart into these obsolete arts? Because their beauty, the way they connect you to your history and to the living world, justifies your efforts. A long marriage, like a classic wooden boat, could be a thing of grace, but only if great effort was devoted to its maintenance. At first your notions of your life with another were no more substantial than a pattern laid down in plywood. Then year by year you constructed the frame around the form, and began layering memories, griefs, and small triumphs like strips of veneer planking bent around the hull of everyday routine. You sanded down the rough edges, patched the misunderstandings, faired the petty betrayals. Sometimes you sprung a leak. You fell apart in rough weather or were smashed on devouring rocks. But then, as now, in the teeth of a storm, - Author: Ayelet Waldman
#38. You missed him," she said. Somehow it didn't seem possible. He was so sure of himself, almost invincible in his manner.
"I hit what I was aiming at," he answered quietly. "We have to keep moving. I'm hoping I slowed them down, but we can't count on it." He forced the oars through the water with his powerful arms and the boat shot through the channel toward open water.
"I didn't feel anything."
His gaze brushed her face, an odd little caress she felt all the way through her body, just as if he'd touched her with his fingers. "I wasn't aiming at you."
She caught the fleeting glint of his white teeth in what could have been a brief smile. One dark eyebrow rose in response. "Has anyone ever told you your sense of humor needs a little work?"
"No one's ever accused me of having a sense of humor before. You keep insulting me. First you accuse me of missing, and then you try to tell me I have a sense of humor."
His face was made of stone, his tone devoid of all expression. His eyes were flat and ice cold, but Dahlia felt him laughing. Nothing big, but it was there in the boat between then, and the terrible pressure in her chest lifted a bit. "And it needs work," she pointed out. "Get it right." She even managed a brief smile of her own to match his. - Author: Christine Feehan
#39. Hair and hole, horn and teeth - hedgehog, walrus, ape, Josef Breuer. He - Author: Irvin D. Yalom
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Cabinet orders joining of pipelines in six months
Cabinet has given energy sector managers up to March next year to ensure the Ghana Gas Pipeline is joined with the West African Gas Pipeline to enable reverse flow of gas from the Western Region to Tema.
The reverse flow mechanism will allow the evacuation to Tema of up to 350 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of gas, which is more than Jubilee's capacity.
The distance from the Ghana Gas Pipeline to the connection point is estimated to be 1.5kilometres.
Prof. Thomas Akabza, Chief Director of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, told the B&FT that the process to join the two pipelines, estimated to cost between US$5mllion and US$8million, is "quite advanced".
The ministry, he said, is facilitating negotiations between Ghana Gas and the West African Pipeline Company (WAPCo) to bring the project to fruition.
"Technically both have agreed that Ghana Gas will construct its portion to the end of the West African pipeline, then WAPCo will also put in the necessary meters at their end for the connectivity to take place," he said.
"We are looking at between four and six months for this project to materialise. In fact, that is what cabinet has actually given us."
The joining of the two pipelines has become necessary to deal with the situation where operator of the Jubilee field, Tullow Oil, wants to increase gas supply to the processing plant but is unable to because the Aboadze power enclave does not have enough plants in operation to absorb it all.
The Tema enclave, meanwhile, is often left in need of gas when supply from Nigeria through the West African Pipeline is cut or reduced to inadequate levels.
Up to 120million standard cubic feet of gas per day (MMSCFD) could be got from the Jubilee field, but supply has so far swung between 50million and 60million MMSCFD.
The West African Gas Pipeline from Nigeria runs through the coastline of Tema where it delivers gas to the Sunon Asongli thermal plant and other VRA plants, and onward to the Western Region.
For the most part, since the pipeline started delivering gas in 2011, the stretch between Tema and Takoradi has been empty because the gas is often inadequate and so gets used up in Tema.
Located in Tema are power plants belonging to the Volta River Authority (VRA) as well as the privately-owned Sunon Asogli thermal plant (200MW) and the Cenit thermal plant (126MW).
Sunon Asogli is working on a second-phase 360megawatt plant, also in Tema, while the VRA has almost completed a 220megawatt power plant there that will also take additional gas.
On November 27, 2014, Petroleum Minister Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah told an emergency meeting in Accra of the Committee of Ministers of the West African Gas Pipeline Project that addressing the issue of reverse-flow of gas was an "immediate need".
Gas evacuation is likely to become significant in the next few years, as the recently-signed Sankofa deal is expected to produce at maximum 170 MMSCFD in addition to the 120 million from the Jubilee Field and 50 million from the Tweneboah, Enyeara and Ntomme (TEN) project.
Source: http://thebftonline.com/commodities/oil-gas/15177/Cabinet-orders-joining-of-pipelines-in-six-months.html#sthash.rH8fZYBf.dpuf


New "Dune" film disappoints
Kyla Schwarzbach
Some people enjoy reading the last page of a book before finishing the first chapter. If you're one of these unique readers, then "Dune 2021" might be the movie for you. However, if you prefer to experience the twists and turns of a novel along with the characters, "Dune" may not be your ideal movie-night pick. Please note there is a very minor hint to a spoiler in this review, so read at your own risk.
In keeping with the tradition started by the 1984 movie adaptation, the opening scene of
"Dune" spoils the largest twist in the book — the value of spice — the fictional drug the book is based around. In the book, the reveal is left for the final pages and forces the reader to re-examine the contents of the novel. To lose this reveal undermines Frank Herbert's carefully crafted world.
Speaking of misconceptions, Zendaya (Chani) — who was advertised as Timothee Chalamet's (Paul Atriedes) co-star — only appears in about 10 minutes of the film, and her exceptional range is not utilized. Half her screen-time was spent dramatically turning towards the audience as the score crescendos. Even in part two (the fact that the film will be split into two halves was cleverly hidden from viewers) Chani will likely not take on a significantly larger role.
Putting this aside, "Dune's" stars should all look forward to receiving Oscars this spring. Jacqueline West, Paul Lambert and Patrice Vermette's skill is impossible to overlook. And before you wonder who Patrice Vermette played, know that the average viewer hasn't heard of any of these actors before because the publicity team has been highlighting the wrong craftsman.
As costume designer, West's clean and modern creations made me ponder functionality and style across a violent and futuristic universe. Visual Effects Supervisor Lambert gives audiences effective CGI and Effects and Production Designer Vermette's work cannot be overlooked. The breathtaking design of the world, from the spaceships to the jaw-dropping panoramic views of deserts are thanks to Vermette's skill.
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This time, rather than focusing on The People VS OJ Simpson, the show will tell the tale of The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
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"Where Are They Now?" is a new series where we catch up with past Lamda Legal plaintiffs. This month, we're highlighting Jessica Hicklin.
In her groundbreaking 2016 case, Hicklin v. Precythe, Jessica Hicklin and Lambda Legal sued the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and its contracted healthcare provider, Corizon LLC, for denial of medically necessary healthcare. In 2018, in one of the first decisions to do so, a federal court struck down that policy allowing Jessica hormone therapy, permanent body hair removal, and access to gender-affirming canteen items. In addition, the ruling struck down a "freeze-frame" policy, which banned denying hormone treatment to any transgender person not receiving such therapy before incarceration. Jessica was also a plaintiff in our successful challenge to Kansas's birth certificate policy.
In 1996, Jessica was incarcerated at the age of 16 for murder and later sentenced to 100 years. Yet, because of a Supreme Court ruling that deemed charging minors with life without parole as cruel and unusual punishment, she was released in 2022 after serving 26 years. She's currently the Chief Technology Officer at UnlockED Labs, an organization that focuses on educating incarcerated people to ensure a stronger future.
In her own words, Jessica briefly discusses her story, the impact Lambda Legal had on her life, and why incarcerated people should have access to quality health care and education.
Before POZ Magazine, I had no language for what I was experiencing. But I remember reading an article, and I knew that was me: We had the same story. That right there was my exposure. Finally knowing who I was, I came out, changed my name, and had my declaration of truth. I was 100% sure that I was getting my treatment. So the prison telling me "no" only galvanized me. I refused to accept it because they could not invalidate me as a human being. First, I filed a grievance and waited for 8-9 months, but then Lambda Legal and I sued the prison.
It might have taken a few years, but we won. I was able to get access to the care to embody the woman I was supposed to be and come home the woman I am. Part of being that woman is the work I do with UnlockED Labs, which I wouldn't be doing if I had not received treatment. My aunt told me that before transitioning when she would come to visit, I would barely talk, and my head would be down. But once I came out, she said, "Jessica, you're a force when you speak." That's the power of living in your truth and having access to care that affirms that truth.
This is what all trans people deserve. We are human and access to health care is a basic human right [and for incarcerated people, the U.S. Constitution requires it.] Most importantly, everyone should be entitled to the care they need to live authentic lives and denying them that is cruel and unusual.
...there's this idea that because I am trans and marginalized, that means we can only contribute marginally. That just isn't true.
Since I've come home, I've been working to be part of the solution. I tell people that I went in at 16 and spent 26 years in concrete walls and had to learn how to survive and be a productive member of society. In that, I co-founded UnlockED Labs, whose mission is to make sure that incarcerated people have a chance through education. Our motto is "a better justice system from the inside out." We've taught people how to code, created curricula and software provided inside universities. It's important to know that incarcerated people have a lot to contribute, a lot of work to do if you just give them a chance.
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The Booby Clift Affair in Valdosta
October 6, 2018 at 9:22 am	(African American, Governance & Civics, Uncategorized)
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The Clift Affair occurred at the Valdosta Courthouse on Saturday, April 4, 1868. Much of what has been written about the incident at Valdosta has minimized what would today undoubtedly be categorized as a terrorist attack.
The Clift Affair occurred just days after the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, probably under the leadership of former Confederate General John B. Gordon, began its reign of political terrorism in this state with the murder of Radical organizer George Ashburn at Columbus, GA. (Georgia would later name its largest military training base of WWI and WWII Camp Gordon in honor of General Gordon). In Valdosta, group of young white men attempted to detonate an 18 lb keg of gunpowder to disrupt a gathering of freedmen attending a political rally. The speaker, Joseph Wales Clift (derisively referred to as Booby in the southern press), was a Radical candidate for the U.S. Senate seeking the vote of former slaves. Local public outcry over the Clift Affair in Valdosta, condemning equally the actions of the candidate and the bombers, was led by Richard A. Peeples, a prominent Confederate veteran and lawyer of Valdosta, and former Clerk of the Court of Berrien County, GA.
Joseph Wales Clift, circa 1861-1865. Source: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, National Archives.
Joseph Wales Clift was born in North Marshfield, Plymouth County, MA. on September 30, 1837. He attended the common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. He graduated from the medical school of Harvard University in 1862. He entered the Union Army and was acting surgeon from July 13, 1862, to August 7, 1865, then served in the Army of the Potomac until November 18, 1866. Afterwards he moved to Savannah, GA with his brother, Walter Lovell Clift. J. W. Clift established a medical practice and Walter L. Clift practiced law. J. W. Clift joined the Georgia Medical Society and was elected Librarian of the organization in January, 1867. The brothers became activists encouraging freedmen to exercise their right to vote which had been granted in the Sherman Military Bill. J.W. Clift spoke at a Savannah gathering of several thousand freedmen on March 18, 1867. On May 25, 1867 the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer announced J. W. Clift had been appointed to the board of voter registration for the city of Savannah by order of Major General Pope under the Reconstruction Acts. Of the 5,330 voters registered in Savannah that year, 3,061 were African-American. At a meeting for the organization of the Republican Party in Chatham County, J. W. Clift was elected as a delegate to the Republican State Convention to be held July 4, 1867 in Atlanta, GA. Both brothers spoke at the Savannah Republican rally October 21, 1867, attended by about 4000 freedmen according to the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer. W. L. Clift was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. In early 1868, Dr. J. W. Clift was considered as a Radical candidate for mayor of Savannah, but at a mass meeting of freedmen on March 16. 1868 he was nominated as the Radical candidate for the U. S. Congress.
Hitting the campaign trail, J. W. Clift came to Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA. In Pines and Pioneers, J. Shelton described Cliff's event here:
A candidate for Congress, J. W. Clift arrived in Valdosta to make a campaign speech. Clift sought the Negro vote, and he scheduled an address for Saturday night, April 4, 1868. Without bothering to secure from the authorities the required permission to speak publicly, Clift began his talk to an audience at the courthouse. There was an explosion, for a group of young Confederate veterans had placed a keg containing a "small modicum of powder" beneath the building. No one was hurt, but the young men succeeded in breaking up the meeting.
Primary sources on the Valdosta bombing attack, the Valdosta Times and Savannah Daily News and Herald, ensconced the event in a shared language that derides the victims and excuses the perpetrators. language that many references have maintained up to the most recent years.
The political candidate, Dr. J. W. Clift was constantly referred to as a "prowling, sniveling booby," "vagrant scalawag, " or "carpet bagger." The terms scalawag and carpetbagger have sometimes been redefined in the modern narrative as neutral; scalawags were "southerners who supported Reconstruction" and Carpetbaggers were "northerners who came south after the war to seek their fortune through politics." But in 1868, these terms were unquestionably pejorative; carpetbaggers were unscrupulous Yankee profiteers and scalawags were the white southern traitors who collaborated with them and the freedmen. In a clipping from the South Georgia Times reprinted August 20, 1868 in the Atlanta Constitution, Berrien County bragged that it had no scalawags: "NO SCALLAWAGS IN BERRIEN! No scalawags in Irwin and Telfair, and that's the reason no election is ordered for those counties. Y.M.D.C. is organized here, but there is not enough radicalism to keep it lively." (The Young Men's Democratic Club was the public political wing of the KKK,) Dr. Clift's brother, Walter L. Clift, a lawyer and delegate to the state constitutional convention, was referred to as a "little cheese-eyed man" and both the Clift brothers were alternately tagged with the description as "a sour little fellow, with weak, wicked eyes…[and] industrious imbecility." In an extended tirade, the Thomasville Enterprise referred to Dr. Clift as "a silly, overweening school boy, about to be elevated above his capacity…we were never more astonished at the extreme feebleness and want of prestige and capacity in a candidate for so high an office…Such is the contemptible creature who has the effrontery to ask the colored citizens of this district for their votes to send him to Congress of the United States… an unknown adventurer, destitute of talents, character, courage and every manly attribute – an ignorant, insolent upstart, who in the face of an outraged and indignant community, meanly seeks by falsehood and misrepresentation, by appeals to the prejudices and passions of their newly enfranchised race – by hypocrisy and deceit and every base and contemptible artifice, to obtain a position for which he is neither intellectually, morally, legally or socially qualified.
White Valdostans asserted that by holding the meeting, Dr. Clift himself precipitated the incident – that he was acting"illegally" since he did not have the approval of civil authorities, although the entire state was then under military rule and Clift was exercising free speech to address a peaceable assembly. The Valdosta Times even suggested that J. W. Clift planted the bomb himself, in a diabolical plot to implicate "the poor rebs," widen the divide between the "good men" of Lowndes county and the "Negroes," and create a sensation among his black supporters.
Valdosta Times referred to Clift's audience as " a mass of villainy, ignorance and vagabondism," and the "ignorant and credulous classes." The Valdosta Times wrote that the gullibility of the freedmen was illustrated in their naive belief of Clift's statements that "white men would have to pay the tax to educate negro children.
The conspirators were just "some of the boys [who] concluded to have a little fun." They only "intended to create a 'big scare'."
The bomb was just a "prank"…"a small modicum of powder, enough to make a little fume with the aid of fire." Further, it couldn't have been a real bomb because it was preposterous that any white man would have risked accidentally blowing himself up in the company of "negroes."
Subsequent reports suggest that the conspirators and their allies, having failed in the full destructive effects of the explosion, further broke up and dispersed the crowd of freedmen by force of arms, surrounding the Courthouse building and holding it throughout the night. At the time of the bombing on Saturday April 4, 1868, Valdosta and all of Georgia was still under the federal military occupation of Reconstruction, and Federal officers viewed the civil unrest as a collapse of local authority. Albert B. Clark, Freeman's Bureau agent at Quitman, "quickly reported to military headquarters at Thomasville that a riot had occurred and that local authorities were 'powerless' to do anything about it."
By Monday, April 6, newspapers all over the country were mentioning the Clift Affair in Valdosta, many attributing the violence to the KKK.
The Philadelphia Age
At a Republican meeting at Valdosta, Georgia, Saturday night, a disturbance was caused by the discovery of a keg of powder under the speaker's desk. The meeting dispersed amid general excitement.
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Janesville, Wisconsin Gazette
The Tribune's special Savannah of the 5th says the Republican meeting at Valdosta yesterday was broken up by a band of regulators of Ku klux Klan. Powder was placed under the building in which Dr. J. W. Cliff, the Republican candidate for Congress was to speak.
A New Georgia Encyclopedia article on Reconstruction violence in Georgia notes "It is impossible to untangle local vigilante violence from political terrorism by the organized Klan, but it is clear that attacks on blacks became common during 1868. Freedmen's Bureau agents reported 336 cases of murder or assault with intent to kill on freedmen across the state from January 1 through November 15 of 1868."
At Valdosta, a number of concerned white residents of met to discuss the bombing and attorney Richard A. Peeples, was called to the Chair. Peeples was a former Clerk of the Berrien County Courts. R. T. Myddleton was appointed Secretary. Following a motion by Col. A. J. Little, Peeples appointed a committee to draft a resolution expressing condemnation of the actions. The committee, consisting of Henry Burroughs Holliday, Col. A. J. Little, B. F. Moseley, G. T. Hammond, and M. C. Morgan quickly composed the following:
Whereas one J. W. Clift a candidate for Congress came to this place on Saturday last, and without giving to the civil authorities the notice required by military orders – so as to enable said authorities to have a police in readiness to preserve order – did at night hold a meeting composed of a large number of negroes, many of whom were armed and standing as guard around the house.
And whereas, certain irresponsible parties did, in a most irregular and disgraceful manner disperse and break up said meeting – thereby endangering the lives of many persons – much to the regret of all good citizens,
We the citizens in meeting assembled, do hereby, express our condemnation and dissapproval of said riotous conduct.
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On the evening of Monday, April 6, the civil authorities at Valdosta moved to preempt military intervention in the case. The Mayor M. J. Griffin, of Valdosta, ordered the arrest of five suspected conspirators in the bombing: A. H. Darnell, J. D. Calhoun. Iverson L. Griffin, B. L. Smith and J. J. Rambo.
A slightly more detailed version of the events in Valdosta, highly sympathetic to "the boys," was published in the Savannah newspapers.
Savannah Daily News and Herald
Our readers have had rumors of a muss of some sort got up by the vagrant scalawag who aspires to represent the negro constituency of this District in Congress. We have heard various statements in regard to the affair, but nothing authentic until we met the following in the Valdosta Times of the 8th inst. The editor says:
On Saturday night last there was quite a stir in our town. One Clift, surnamed booby, was here to make a speech, to induce the colored people to vote for him. He went illegally to work, having no fear of the military before his eyes, called his meeting, went to speaking, sans ceremonie, without so much as saying "by your leave, Mr. Mayor." Having placed himself in the wrong by his lawless course, it is not to be wondered that there was as little sympathy for him as for his cause. Some of the boys concluded to have a little fun, and placed under the building a keg in which it was said there was a small modicum of powder, enough to make a little fume with the aid of fire.
Another version of it is, that it was placed there with the cognizance of the said Clift, surnamed as above, for the purpose of making a finishing stroke to the poor rebs, as thereby and therein they were to be demolished indirectly by the gunpowder, but directly by his masterly strategy. It is idle to suppose that there was any intention on the part of the boys, if they did it, to blow up their friends and relations, some of whom were in the building. They intended a "big scare" and carried out their purpose quite effectively.
We condemn in the strongest terms we can use, all such proceedings. They are both unlawful and unjustifiable. They tend to harm the cause they would subserve. The negroes will, of course, be inclined to listen to those who will endeavor to persuade them that it was really the intention to blow them up, and thus the breach be widened that good men are endeavoring to close up as far as may be practicable and right. And so far as this goes Clift has been partially successful, if his is the strategy that laid the explosive train.
Our citizens have had a meeting and condemned this procedure in unqualified terms of disapproval.
The strong presumption is that this diabolical gunpowder plot was "a weak invention of the enemy" – a resort of the prowling, sniveling Booby to create a sensation and to increase his electioneering capital with his ignorant and credulous classes.
The idea that the young men of Valdosta would attempt with a handful of powder to blow up such a mass of villainy, ignorance and vagabondism as must have composed Booby's auditory, is perfectly absurd – especially when it is considered that the Guy Fawkes of the enterprise in exploding the powder, to which no train or fuse was set, must necessarily have blown himself up with the rest. However fearless and self sacrificing the projector of such a plot might be, it is utterly preposterous to suppose that any white man would be willing to be blown to Ballahack or anywhere else, in such company.
Valdosta Times
We are sorry that the Radicals have not sent a man of sense to run as a candidate for Congressional honors in the First Congressional District. The negroes yesterday "damned" Clift "with faint praise." His speech was a feeble, sickly tirade against somebody or something, or nobody or nothing. Not one of his hearers could tell to-day what he said or what he meant. Some of them seemed to arouse when he said that white men would have to pay the tax to educate negro children. The response of one was "Bress God, brodder, let us pray.'' The more sensible among them know how to estimate such a pretender. They are not quite so senseless as he took them to be.
Valdosta Times April 8th.
About the accused, this much is known:
IVERSON L. GRIFFIN
Eighteen-year-old Iverson L. Griffin was the son of a wealthy planter and merchant of Valdosta. His father, Thomas B. Griffin, had served as a Confederate state senator of Georgia from 1861-1863 and was therefore disallowed from taking the Oath of Allegiance to restore his U.S. citizenship. His father had been the owner of 12 slaves, including 4 mulatto children under the age of 4. It is also noteworthy that the Mayor of Valdosta at the time was M. J. Griffin; the only M. J. Griffin that appears in the Lowndes County census records of that period is Iverson Griffin's brother, Marcus J. Griffin.
JOHN DANIEL CALHOUN
At the time of the Clift Affair, 24-year-old John Daniel Calhoun was a deputy sheriff of Lowndes County, GA. Census records suggest he may have been orphaned at an early age. His early childhood was in the household of Harmon Sapp. In the 1860 census, he was enumerated as a teenager in the household of William Bradford, working as a laborer. Also in the Bradford household was Richard Ault, who would later serve as blacksmith for the Berrien Minute Men. By the 1880s Calhoun would move to Berrien County, GA where he farmed in the 1145 Georgia Militia District. In 1905 he was serving as Postmaster in Crossland, GA.
ALEXANDER H. DARNELL
Darnell was a young merchant of Valdosta. He was native of Kentucky and the first record of his presence in Lowndes County is his signature on the Oath of Allegiance to the United States, signed October 18, 1867. He was 25 years old at the time of the Clift incident. He died in Lowndes County in October 1869 from an "abscess of the liver".
JOHN JAMES RAMBO
Rambo, age 17 at the time of the Clift Affair, was an orphan of Confederate veteran Dr. John Rambo and Mary Ark Ryals. According to The Rambo Family Tree, his parents were both born in England and immigrated to Georgia. His father received his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia in Atlanta, graduating in 1847. John J. Rambo was born January 18, 1851 in Perrys Mill, Tatnall County, Georgia. After his mother died of brain fever in 1859, his father married a second time to Maria Clifton. His father was enumerated in 1860 as the owner of 7 enslaved people. During the Civil War, his father served as a surgeon in the 47th Georgia Infantry Regiment, rising to the rank of Major. His step-mother died on March 14, 1862 His father left the army on September 17, 1862 because of a physical disability. Some time during or prior to 1863, John J. Rambo came with his father to live in Valdosta, leaving his half-brother William in the custody of his Clifton grandparents. John's father died in Valdosta about August 28 1864 at the age of 34. After the Clift Affair in Valdosta, John and some of his Ryals relatives kidnapped his younger step-brother, William Rambo, and traveled by boat to New York. There, John J. Rambo studied to become a doctor and took up medical practice in Brooklyn, NY for the remainder of his life.
Mayor Griffin's quick action was temporarily effective in preventing military intervention. By the time Lt. Bard and Corporal John Murray arrived in Valdosta with a detail of federal soldiers the five suspects were already in civil custody. For the time being the U. S. soldiers took no action. But a week later, after the alleged bombers were released on bond, the soldiers moved over night to arrest them and transported them to Savannah for confinement in the federal barracks. Valdosta Mayor M. J. Griffin protested the military arrests and Thomas B. Griffin, father of Iverson L. Griffin, traveled to Savannah to visit the accused in jail. The South Georgia Times report of the arrest was reprinted in the Savannah Daily News and Herald, along with an exchange of telegrams between Mayor Griffin and military authorities.
The Military Arrests in Valdosta.
{From the South Georgia Times}
We are sorry to have to state that Monday night last some of our young men were taken from their beds and immediately hurried off to Savannah by United States troops, we presume to undergo military trial. It is alleged that they were engaged in the gunpowder sport referred to in — last. They have already given bond – the four are under arrest – to appear and answer before the civil tribunals. Our Mayor and Sheriff promptly discharged their duty in the premises. The hardship of the case is, that civil law has but a name. The iron is —ering in into the soil, and liberty and law is fast passing away. These young men are to be tried where perhaps their case is already prejudged, far away from their homes and sympathy and kindness of friends. Time was when such an act would have fired the great heart of the country from one end of is bounds to the other. They should have been tried by their peers of the vicin– — age, and if guilty of the violation of law, punished as that law would punish them, and not at the behest of prejudiced strangers.
Our Mayor sent the following telegram to Gen. Meade relative to what had been done here. General Meade's reply is appended. Alas! for the rights for which our fathers fought, and of which we have so much boasted.
A telegram was received by Mr. M. J. Griffin, at 6 o'clock yesterday, from Mr. T. B. Griffin that "the boys were all comfortably quartered in the barracks, and well cared for."
Valdosta, April 14, 1868
Major Gen. Meade, Atlanta, Ga.
Sir: – At a late hour last night, without my knowledge, a party of U. S. soldiers arrived here and carried away the following persons, viz. A. H. Darnell, Iverson Griffin, John Calhoun, Ben Smith, John Rambo – who are alleged to have been concerned in a riot at this place on the 4th inst. These men, as Mayor, I had arrested and bound to appear at the Superior Court of this county to answer for the same. I respectfully request to be informed if they were arrested by your order, and if not, that they be released and take their trial before the civil tribunals of the county.
I have the honor to be,
Your Obedient Serv't
M. J. Griffin,
Mayor Valdosta
Atlanta, GA., April 14th, 1868
M. J. Griffin, Mayor Valdosta:
The persons named in your telegram were arrested by General Meade's order, and will be held for trial by Military Commission.
R. C. Drum, A. A. G.
In subsequent days state and national newspapers provided additional details.
The Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph
The Clift Electioneering Trick At Valdosta.
Yesterday, Lieutenant Bard, United States Army, arrived in this city on the train from Valdosta, having in charge five young men, whom he had arrested there the day previous, on a charge of having been the originators of the disturbance which occurred at that place on last Saturday night week. –
This is the general supposition, as nothing was said by the arresting officer of the why and the wherefore of their being taken into custody. Their names are Alexander H. Darrell, John Calhoun, John Rambo, Benjamin L. Smith and Iverson L. Griffin. They are all young men of good family, and entirely innocent of all blame in the matter. Mr. Calhoun was Deputy Sheriff of Lowndes County, and a faithful and efficient officer.- Mr. Griffin was not present at the Court House on the night in question, and in no way connected with the affair. Thus are innocent men torn from their families and thrust into prison by the strong arm of military power, and made to suffer by the rascality of a Radical carpet-bag adventurer. [Sav. Rep., 15th.
Indianapolis Journal
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A REPUBLICAN MEETING – Information has reached the Congressional Committee rooms that on Tuesday last [Saturday, April 4, 1868] an attempt was made to blow up the Court House at Valdosta, Georgia, where a Republican meeting, composed mostly of colored people, was being addressed by Dr. J. W. Clift (white). A keg containing eighteen pounds of powder had been purchased at a store in the place, and a portion take out to make a train, and the remainder of the powder was placed under the Court House. Fortunately the cask was discovered and removed in season, but the train [fuse] was fired, and in an attempt of the persons present to escape, they were fired upon by a gang of white men outside, who had surrounded the building. This party held possession of the place that night, but on the next day they were dispossessed by the military, and the meeting was held.
Bedford Inquirer
Terrorism In The South
Our Democratic brethern would have the people believe that the South would be a perfect paradise if such men as Meade, Pope, Sickles, Sheridan, &c., were kept away. General Hancock has had several months control of the Southwest trying to carry out a different policy from that of the before-mentioned heroes with what results is indicated in the following article from the Pittsburg Chronicle of a few days ago:
The dispatches which we published in yesterday's issue, relative to the brutal murder of Hon. George W. Ashburn, of Columbus, Georgia, by a gang of villains in disguise, and the breaking up of a Republican meeting at Valdosta, Georgia, by a band of regulators of the Ku-Klux Klan, come at the heels of much similar information through letters and newspapers, and show that in portions of the South, a reign of terrorism is in actual operation. It verily seems that these ill-fated people are moved by some malignant fatality to thwart all efforts which look towards their gradual restoration to order and prosperous enterprise. Not satisfied with opposing every political measure that has been devised to enable them to get out of the dreadful slough in which they were left upon the suppression of the rebellion, they are actually engaged in the suicidal business of convulsing society so utterly by lawlessness, as to put a complete quietus upon the views and schemes of all those adventurous Northern capitalists, who had begun seriously to meditate risking their families and fortunes in the South…It is not pleasant for us to be compelled to state that at present, in many Southern States, it would he unsafe for a Northern man to buy property and attempt to carry on any farming or manufacturing enterprise. We have never gone out of our way to give added circulation to the prejudicial stories that are periodically current about the South. Whenever we could, consistently with the truth, present the bright side of the picture, we have cheerfully done so .But it is, in our judgment, perfectly clear from the accumulated information which pours in upon us, that, notwithstanding the cheerful fancies of such military optimists as General Hancock, there is an immense amount of crime perpetrated in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, and portions of Arkansas and Missouri. How far it would be possible to curb these excesses by military power we cannot determine. It is probably impossible to keep perfect order over so wide an area and amongst a population so thoroughly demoralized by a long and unsuccessful war. Years will elapse before anything bearing the faintest semblance to the orderly and regulated institutions of the North will prevail. Then will slowly set in a desirable immigration, and the wasted and cursed South will begin to recover, to get strength,to enjoy the blessings of law, and to reap the fruits of sensibly directed industry.
The citizens of Lowndes county presented a bond for the release of the alleged bombers to the military authorities in Savannah, but this offer was rejected.
STILL IN CUSTODY – The young men who were arrested by the military at Valdosta, because Dr. Clift attempted to blow himself up with gunpowder, for political capital, are still held in custody at the United States Barracks in this city, awaiting the orders of General Mead.
The men were kept incarcerated through the election of 1868, and for a couple of weeks afterward. After about a month of confinement, the suspects were finally released on bail secured by citizens of Savannah.
Release or the Valdosta Prisoners on Bail.
—Yesterday Messrs. A. H. Darnell, J. D. Calhoun. Iverson L. Griffin, B. L. Smith and J. J. Rambo, who, it will be remembered, were arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the supposed attempt to blowup a Radical meeting at Valdosta, previous to the election, while one Clift was addressing it, were released on bail in the sum of $10,000 each, to appear for trial when summoned by the military authorities. This was done by order of General Meade. Captain J. L. Moseley brought to the city a bond of $60,000 of the citizens of Lowndes county, which Col. Maloney would not accept, and six citizens of Savannah, representing nearly $200,000, offered themselves as security, were accepted and the prisoners released. The late prisoners requested us to publish the following:
Savannah, Ga., May 8, 1868.
Editors News and Herald: We, the Valdosta prisoners, who have been confined in the United States Barracks at this place, wish, through your paper, to render our thanks to Col. Maurice Maloney and his command, for their kind treatment, both to us and to our friends who visited us.
A. H. Darnell, Iverson L. Griffin, J D. Calhoun, B. L. Smith, J. J. Rambo, Savannah, GA, May 8,1868.
To the Citizens of Savannah: We wish to return our thanks for their kind attention and hospitality while we were in confinement at this place in the United States Barracks, and to the noble-minded merchants who have so generously stood our most unreasonable bail required by the military authorities. We trust we may at some future time be in such a position as to repay the many obligations under which we have been placed.
A. H. Darnell, Iverson L. Griffin, J D. Calhoun, B. L. Smith, J. J. Rambo,
The Georgia Election of April, 1868
The election of 1868 was a four day affair which commenced on April 20. Throughout the voting period, the southern newspapers maintained a cacophony of allegations of voter fraud, corruption, official vote rigging, coercion, voter ignorance, and other irregularities. By 1867, the conditions of Reconstruction required an Oath of Allegiance to the United States in order to be listed in the register of qualified voters. White southern men whose national citizenship had been renounced by way of the Ordinance of Secession, oaths of abjuration of national citizenship, oaths of allegiance to Confederate states, or acceptance of Confederate citizenship were required to swear a new oath of allegiance to the United States in order to have their national citizenship restored and to qualify for the right to vote. Some whites who had held posts in the Confederate government or the governments of Confederate states were disqualified from having their citizenship restored through the oath of allegiance.
The April 1868 election in Georgia was a vote for state officers and U.S. congressmen and a vote on ratification of of a new state constitution. When the votes were counted, the new constitution was approved by a vote of 88,172 to 70,200. In the race for governor Rufus Bullock, defeated Confederate General John B. Gordon 83,527 to 76,356. In the elections for state representatives, Radicals won 84 of the 172 House seats (29 of them black) and came within three seats of taking control of the House. In the state senate, however, the Radicals (3 of them black) carried a solid majority, with 27 seats to the Democrats' 17 seats. The Radical believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
Clift Wins Seat in House of Representatives
Under Reconstruction, the results of the election were subject to certification by the military authorities. In the announcement made by General Meade, Dr. J. W. Clift was declared the winner in the First Congressional District of Georgia.
Milledgeville Southern Recorder
Headq'rs Third Military District, Department of Ga., Fla. and Ala.,
Atlanta, Ga., June 30, 1868.
General Orders No. 93,
From the returns made to these Headquarters by the Boards of Registration, of the election held in the State of Georgia for civil officers of said State and for members of Congress, under the provisions of General Orders No. 40, (Paragraph III,) issued from these Headquarters, which election commenced on the 20th day of April, 1868, and continued four days, it appears that in said election the following named persons were elected Representatives to the Congress of the United States from the Congressional
Districts to their names respectively attached, viz :
First District—J. W. Clift.
Second District—Nelson Tift, Sr.
Third District—W. P. Edwards.
Fourth District–Samuel Gove.
Fifth District—C. H. Prince.
Sixth District—John H. Christy.
Seventh District—P. M. B. Young.
By order of Major General Meade.
R. C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Following the ratification of the 14th Amendment by the newly elected General Assembly, the US Congress initially readmitted Georgia to the Union in July 1868.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." By directly mentioning the role of the states, the 14th Amendment greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment.
Joseph Wales Clift served in the Fortieth U.S. Congress from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869.
Second Valdosta Attack on Representative Clift
Representative Clift did not enjoy a triumphant return to Valdosta. While passing through the "notorious" town in October 1868, he and his brother, Walter Lovell Clift, were again assaulted and their lives threatened.
Manitowoc Tribune
We are informed that about ten days ago Joseph W. Clift, M. C. [Member of Congress] from Southern Georgia, while riding in the cars on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, with his brother was treated in a manner which shows conclusively that free speech is not tolerated in that section of the country.
When the train stopped at Valdosta a town of one thousand inhabitants, distant from Savannah about one hundred and twenty miles, a large crowd surrounded the cars, and some fifteen or twenty ruffians, armed with heavy sticks, entered the car with the avowed purpose of taking them out and lynching them.
They were only prevented from doing this by the urgent entreaties of several prominent men, one of whom was an elector on the democratic ticket. The argument of the gentleman was, that the 'boys mustn't do it because it would injure the party and town!' The crowd outside becoming weary of waiting for the sport to commence, hooted and yelled 'Bring the d—-d Radical out!' and again the roughs seemed determined to accomplish their purpose but were again met by the same objections on the part of their friends and after heaping all manner of insults on them offensive gentlemen were quietly passing through their town, reluctantly relinquished their purpose and left the train. This town Valdosta enjoys an unenviable notoriety as the scene of a Ku-Klux monstralation last April when a band of forty or fifty armed men first placed eighteen pounds of powder under the Court house where Dr. Clift was about to address a Republican meeting and when by accident the infernal plot was discovered just in season to prevent their drunken tool from firing the train [fuse] and hurling three hundred people into eternity, the meeting was broken up by violence, and the mob took and held the town all night threatening to assassinate prominent Republicans and rendering it necessary to send for military aid before the meeting could proceed.
Several person prominent actors in the April affair, and now under bonds of $10,000 each for their participation in the same were leaders in the recent attack.
Returning to Washington, DC, Clift presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-first Congress but during the recess period actions in Georgia, including the expulsion of black legislators from the state Assembly and the Camilla Massacre, had resulting in the re-imposition of Reconstruction and federal military jurisdiction for the state under the command of General Alfred H. Terry. With Georgia's return to un-reconstructed status, Clift and the other representatives and senators of Georgia were not allowed to take their seats in the U.S. Congress.
"Southern Justice," Thomas Nast sketch of Reconstruction violence, Harpers Weekly, March 23, 1867 depicted a scene in Texas but aptly portrayed the events of the Camilla Massacre which occurred September 19, 1868.
In January 1870, General Terry removed ex-Confederates from the Georgia General Assembly, replaced them with the Radical runners-up, and then reinstated the expelled black legislators. "Terry's Purge"established a solid Radical majority in the Georgia legislature, which ratified the Fifteenth Amendment in February 1870 and chose new senators to send to Washington.
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution established voting rights for African American men by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote
On July 15, 1870, Georgia became the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
Upon the withdrawal of federal military rule from Georgia, the rise of KKK terrorism quickly suppressed the newly gained civil and political rights of southern blacks. When the midterm election put white supremacists back in control of the state senate, Governor Bullock resigned and fled the state rather than face impeachment by a hostile legislature.
Speaking from the steps of the Continental Hotel, Washington, D. C. on November 29, 1871, Dr. Joseph W. Clift made an impassioned appeal to the Radicals of Georgia, which was printed and circulated in a political leaflet.
An address to the Republicans of Georgia …. Joseph W. Clift. Continental Hotel, Washington, D. C. Washington. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.20602100/
AN ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLICANS OF GEORGIA.
Governor Bullock having resigned, and the duly elected Representatives of the people having decided by an overwhelming majority that a Governor should be elected for the unexpired term, on the 19th of December, 1871, leaving only twenty days to organize a campaign under peculiar circumstances, and understanding that prominent Republicans, whom I honor and respect, have discussed the advisability of sustaining the veto of Governor Conley, by refusing to nominate or vote for any person for Governor, on that day, thereby letting the election go by default, I am prompted to write this letter and advocate, with such vigor as I may, exactly the opposite course of action.
I admit the arguments of my friends:
First . That there is little time to prepare for such a contest.
Second . That Governor Conley's action, together with the silence of the Republican Representatives, who apparently acquiesced in it, have some force.
Third . Some minds may also be influenced by the depressing influences which still remain as the result of the election last December; and by the additional reason, that challenging for non-payment of the poll-tax, will prevent many colored Republicans from voting.
It has been said to me, let Governor Conley's position be legal or illegal, it furnishes the Republican party an excellent excuse for not voting, and being badly beaten, the conditions being so unfavorable to their success in the contest. To many, these reasons, with other reasons, may be conclusive against our party running a candidate, and voting December 19; to my mind, they are not good reasons for such a course of action, and I sincerely hope our friends will immediately reconsider the question , and so far from letting the election "go by default," make the above reasons alleged as sufficient to deter us from contesting the election with our Democratic friends, reasons for putting forth the most earnest and vigorous efforts to organize the party and meet the old enemies of Equal Rights, and exact justice to the colored man fairly and squarely in the teeth, and do brave battle for some pure-minded, honest Republican, who, if elected, will serve out the term with credit to himself and benefit to the State.
I am thoroughly convinced that this is the very best course for us to pursue. The contrary course seems to my mind neither wise, brave, patriotic, or just. We have as much time to work for the election as our opponents.
Governor Conley's position is at least of doubtful legality, and even if it were technically correct, the voice of the people, speaking through their Representatives, speaks in thunder tones, and most emphatically—and as I think wisely—construes the language of the Constitution of Georgia to mean that a new Governor must be elected next month.
Neither brief time for preparation, Governor Conley's position, the result of the last election, or the inability of our friends to pay their taxes, should for one instant shut our ears to this call of the people. It must, will, and ought to be obeyed at any cost.
The wishes of the people are entitled to respect, and the individuals, or party, who fail to heed them when so plainly expressed, and on so important a question as the one pending, will do itself great wrong, and suffer in the end accordingly.
I never did, and do not now believe in shirking a fight with Democracy under any pretext however specious, and circumstances however discouraging.
We ought to be ready and willing to meet them whenever and wherever duty calls, and defend the great principles advocated by our party since '56, and by many good men long before.
These principles are as good and true to-day as ever they were, and the bitter and relentless warfare waged by our unscrupulous opponents against everything which tends to unshackle the hands of the honest laborer of Georgia—and everywhere else—should only nerve every man of us to "gird up his loins" and fight like heroes for the education and elevation of the masses, and the defeat of the cardinal principles of Democracy.
Instead of giving up the fight, let it be continued, and give them no quarter, till the last stronghold of the greatest foe of Liberty, and Equal Rights in this country, shall be carried, and they shall surrender to the cohorts of Freedom, and to the Civilization of the nineteenth Century.
If we would save our "Common School System," in Georgia, and preserve the liberties of the people, we must fight it out with them, if we all go to our graves before the cause is finally triumphant. But triumphant it will be, and that at no distant time, as sure as a merciful God exists.
The wrongs of our poor people call loudly for redress, and the cry must be heeded, and responded to by all true hearts.
We must play no cowardly part in this fight, nor bow our neck to the Democratic yoke, otherwise we are not worthy the blessings we seek.
Let them, all the leading Republicans now in Atlanta, take Counsel together immediately, and prevail on Gov. Conley, Hon. J. S. Bigby, Ex-Gov. James Johnson, or one of a half dozen other pure and true Republicans of ability, and prominence, to allow the Party to make an effort to place them in the Gubernatorial chair.
Let Governor Conley reconsider his determination, and contest his right to his position before the PEOPLE, that Mighty Tribunal , higher than all courts.
Let us pay our poll taxes , rapidly organize our party in every county, and poll every vote we can; then , if we are ever so badly beaten, we shall have at least the satisfaction of meeting our old enemy face to face, and doing battle valiantly for the right.
It will put us in harness for the greater battle of '72, in which the principles of justice will surely triumph over oppression and wrong, and the result be perfect Peace.
JOSEPH W. CLIFT.
Continental Hotel, Washington, D. C., Nov. 29, 1871.
Joseph Wales Clift died in Rock City Falls, Saratoga County, NY on May 2, 1908; He was buried in the cemetery adjoining the Clift estate, North Marshfield, MA.


5 Things to Know About Cirque du Soleil's Volta
BY Dayanti Karunaratne
POSTED July 28, 2017 11:28 am
The circus is in town! Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal-based performance group (which is actually the largest theatrical production in the world, Wiki says), has opened in Gatineau. Their show Volta runs until August 27, bringing some completely awe-inspiring acts with it. Here, a primer on what to expect.
1. They're bringing the Big Top! Since 1984 Cirque has been toting its tents around the world — the first, in blue and yellow stripes, could host 800 spectators. The big top that went up this week in Gatineau reflects the urban spirit of Volta with black and white stripes. It will welcome 2,500 guests when it opens next week.
2. It's a first for Cirque: Gatineau has not yet hosted the international sensation that is Cirque du Soleil. (And yes, the Zibi site is technically on the Quebec side of the Chaudiere lands) A not-for-profit group called Place des Festivals, which brings large events to the Outaouais region, is working with the Windmill developers to bring Cirque and other such spectacles to Zibi in the coming years.
Photo by Patrice Lamoureux
3. The story of Volta is one that touches on "the adventurous spirit" and is inspired by the culture of adventure sports. But really, just sit back and enjoy the show. Trying to find a narrative among the jaw-dropping feats these artists pull off can get in the way of the Cirque experience.
4. M83 composed the score. His nostalgic synth pop, which has already bolstered Hollywood movies and Victoria's Secret commercials, will give the show a wistful air, making it seem like something we've seen before but can't quite place.
5. For the first time in Cirque du Soleil history, BMX and parkour will be showcased. Kind of hard to believe, given the French roots of parkour (the sport that involves jumping and balancing was developed by a French naval officer in the early 1900s) and the prominence of unicycles and other wheeled playthings common to Cirque. If those feats inspire, you might want to try it yourself at Origins Parkour in Ottawa


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PTI Diversifies into Small Cells in the U.S.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Senior Editor
Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has expanded its reach into small cells in the United States with the purchase of Syscom Telecom, which manages and markets more than 80,000 sites
for small cell and macro cell deployments with various small cell master agreements in place with wireless operators.
"PTI has been evaluating opportunities to back a small cell focused team in the United States as a way to help our customers with their next generation deployments" stated Dagan Kasavana, CEO of Phoenix Tower International.
PTI is mostly known as a multi-national tower owner, owning or managing more than 5,500 sites in South America, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. But, recently, PTI has diversified with investments across the Americas, including the acquisition of fiber in Mexico, the DAS investment in Fast Site Solutions in Central America, and the small cell investment in Syscom LatAm in South America.
The key to expanding into other areas, such as small cells, is to find the right team with a differentiated offering, Kasavana said.
"We felt like these 80,000 nontraditional sites [of Syscom Telecom], which might have been seen as too small to hold a macro installation, are the perfect capacity, size and height for small cell installations. That was a way to differentiate our offering and we saw that the Syscom Telecom team over the last few years has major inroads with the carriers," he said.
With the deployment of 5G in the offing, carriers are developing dense networks of thousands of small cells. An estimated 80 percent of all new sites will be small cells in the near future. Kasavana said the timing is right to get into the small cell space.
Although the carriers have been self-performing to meet their small cell needs, Don Van Splunteren, global vice president of sales, said, they will need third-party help to meet the estimated small cell needs for 5G.
"The carriers are going to need partners that understand not only their roadmap from 4G to 5G but also the complexity that a small cell network brings with it," he said. "We need to offer them the infrastructure in a plug-and-play way and take the complexity out of the equation."
An essential component of small cell deployment is using a centralized RAN architecture with a tower as the hub. We continue to believe that small cells built around a tower can leverage the C-RAN architecture for the network needs. Tower are going to be an essential component of ongoing 4G deployment and most assuredly 5G," Kasavana said.
Phoenix Tower International Lands 600 T-Mobile Towers
By J. Sharpe Smith —
August 6, 2015 — Apparently T-Mobile did not sell all of its towers to Crown Castle back in 2012. This week, the carrier entered into a contract to sell the rights to more than 600 wireless communication tower sites to Phoenix Tower International, which will have the exclusive right to manage and operate the sites via its local U.S. subsidiaries.
Dagan Kasavana, Phoenix Tower International CEO, said the T-Mobile tower locations are well situated for additional lease-up opportunities. Terms of the transaction remain confidential, industry sources estimate the deal at between $150 million and $175 million.
Private companies have dominated the M& A market in 2015. The Phoenix Tower deal follows the Vertical Bridge's purchase of towers owned by CiG Wireless, U.S. Cellular and iHeartRadio, as well as NTELOS' tower sale to Grain Management and CTI Towers' sale to InSite Wireless.
"It's interesting that we are seeing private companies stepping up and beating public companies in these transactions," said Clayton Funk, managing director, Media Venture Partners.
Prior to co-founding Phoenix Tower International, Kasavana and Natalya Kashirina (VP of M&A), were involved in mergers and acquisitions of U.S.-based Global Tower Partners. Phoenix has owned a small portfolio of U.S. towers in the United States, but this is its first material domestic acquisition.
"The [Phoenix Tower] management team has significant experience operating and leasing tower sites in the United States and is thrilled to have a significant portfolio of high quality sites in the United States to offer to our customers," Kasavana.
Furthermore, this transaction represents another milestone in Phoenix Tower's expansion and allows us to service our customer's strategic needs across the Americas."
The U.S. tower acquisition was preceded by Phoenix Towers' acquisition of T4U Holding Brasil by Phoenix Tower in June. T4U's towers will be merged into Phoenix Tower's existing Brazilian tower business, Phoenix Tower do Brasil, which will own and operate 529 wireless infrastructure assets with a pipeline of more than 250 wireless towers under construction.
Including Phoenix Tower do Brasil, the T-Mobile acquisition brings Phoenix Tower's total site count to 1,600 towers.
In September 2014, Phoenix Tower International acquired American Tower's Panamanian business, which consisted of 60 telecommunications sites. Founded in 2013, Phoenix Tower has operations in Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Colombia, the United States and Brazil.
Kasavana Forms Tower Co. Targeting Latin America
Proving there is life after GTP, Dagan Kasavana, who ran the mergers and acquisitions department for Global Tower Partners, has started his own venture, focusing on acquiring, developing, owning, leasing and operating cell towers in Latin America. The company, known as Phoenix Tower International, was formed to focus on middle market transactions.
Kasavana
Of the major markets in Latin America, Phoenix Tower will be looking for opportunities in stable countries that already have public and private tower companies.
"There are key markets in Central and South America that are good for tower ownership," Kasavana said. "Brazil is an interesting market,where wireless growth and penetration are projected to be fueled over the next three to five years, but so are Columbia, Panama and Costa Rica.
"Growth is projected throughout the region, and we have the ability to capture some of the upside, which is similar to what we have seen in the United States in the last three to five years," he added.
Since Global Tower Partners sold its portfolio, Kasavana has considered opportunities running M&A programs for various tower companies as well as going it on his own. "I talked with investors who supported this concept for a new tower company that is focused on select opportunities [in Latin America] that others are not," he said.
In forming Phoenix, Kasavana has brought in several colleagues from his days at GTP. Former GTP Senior Legal Advisor Tim Culver has joined Phoenix in a similar position. Natalya Kashirina, who worked with Kasavana in GTP's M&A department, is now Phoenix vice president, mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Orlando Porras, formerly of Ernst and Young, who did many projects for GTP, is now chief financial officer for Phoenix.
Kasavana plans to deal with the cultural challenges of Latin America by using a personal touch. Phoenix will remain based in Boca Raton, Fla., but will build offices in a region as it gains significant market share there. "We are well suited to address these challenges because we don't see these as satellite offices leveraging off of the U.S. presence. We are going to build them from the ground up, leveraging the local people, the local customers and local operations. And I will be on a plane regularly to meet with them personally," he said.
A variety of equity investors are involved in Phoenix, which will be formally announced in the near future. The company has a number of transactions in the works and is working to close them.
"At GTP, we had a great run, and it is really fun to see [the former GTP partners] all blossom into new business lines to do new things after the sale," Kasavana said. "Obviously, we learned a lot of that from Marc Ganzi [former CEO of GTP]. I owe him a lot of credit for instilling the entrepreneurial spirit within me. It is something I take with me going forward."


Apple seeks approval for nine new iPhone models as WWDC nears
Category: #tech | By Nikita Chaurasia | Date: 2020-06-16 |
American multinational technology giant Apple Inc. has reportedly registered for a new computer as well as nine different models for iPhones with Eurasian Economic Commission. According to reliable sources, the filings were first cited by gadget comparison and research site MySmartPrice.
As per industry experts, the new range of iPhones are predicted to feature model names such as iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone Pro 12, iPhone 12 Max, and the iPhone 12. Besides this, documents regarding the new Apple computer were also discovered, which were apparently associated with ARM-based Mac laptop. Apple's new iPhone line up will reportedly feature OLED screens as well as 5G connectivity for all the models.
For the record, Apple and other tech companies are required to register details of their new lineup of products for approval for reasons including use of airwaves to transfer information and use of encryption methods for data security. The public versions of such filings are often limited for commercial purposes, however, sources claimed that the recent registrations by Apple are specifically for smartphones.
According to sources with the knowledge of the matter, the WWDC (Worldwide Developer's Conference) is generally held in California in June and attracts large number of people interested in Apple's upcoming products. However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WWDC will be conducted virtually this year. Experts further claim that although the products are not the primary focus at WWDC, Apple usually unveils one or two new products at the event.
Additionally, sources with credible information stated that moulds utilized by manufacturers to develop smartphone protective cases have been leaked and appear to confirm a design change in the new iPhones. Apple allegedly intends to use squared-off edges design in its new iPhone 12 models, which were used in iPhone 4, iPhone 5s, and iPad Pro.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12339990