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AFL NSW/ACT and the AFL recognises the importance of education as a key driver to shifting attitudes and behaviours, and to achieving better club environments and club culture.
AFL NSW/ACT offer community sessions designed to target key social issues, using players and club officials love for football to creative positive change. The AFL has highly trained presenters available to come out to your club to present to the players, coaches and volunteers about creating a strong club culture and shifting the attitudes and behaviours within the club.
AFL is passionate about education as it allows clubs to set the highest standards within the community.
Sessions available to clubs include:
Vilification and Discrimination – Aims to change the language within our clubs so that clubs are inclusive of every background and culture.
Respect and Responsibility – Raises awareness and defines the causes and common misconceptions associated with violence against women. The program educates clubs on ways to make people feel safe, to be treated with respect, to be valued and feel accepted for who they are
Cyber Bullying and Social Media – Educate and raise awareness of the affects of social media whilst informing of the social responsibilities and the benefits social media can play.
Anti- Doping (ASADA) – Provide guidance on what players can and cannot take in relation to WADA/ASADA guidelines. Not just an issue for elite sport, a player from any level of football can be sanctioned, even if they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong.
Drugs and Alcohol – Designed to educate on the issues of alcohol and binge drinking and the dangers of illicit drugs use (provided by endorsed service provider).
Depression – Educate and raise awareness of the prevalence and impact, casual factors and categories of mental illness that exist across the community. To build the capacity of the AFL industry to recognise the signs, activate early intervention and support those that may be suffering a mental illness (provided by endorsed service provider).
Sessions are interactive, engaging and are available to clubs every year. Sessions will be modified for Senior and Youth clubs.
To register for a session please email Jacinta Houston at jacinta.houston@afl.com.au with 3 alternate dates and times, the program/s you would like covered and a venue.
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A Week In Music - The Cribs Look Back Over A Decade, Palma Violets Cause A Stir, Adam Ant's Awkward Return, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hitting The Road
By Hayley Avron in Music / Festivals on 28 January 2013
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A Week in Video... Wakefield’s indie rockers The Cribs release ‘Leather Jacket Love Song,’ a nostalgic look back at their last decade of existence as a band. The video inter-splices archive footage of one of the brothers’ early gigs at Ossett Town Hall in Yorkshire, with the Cribs circa 2013 observing their younger selves. The Cribs’ sounds hasn’t altered a great deal over time, but their popularity seems to show no signs of wavering; their commitment to their DIY roots remains strong and even with Ryan breaking out with his new band Exclamation Pony, we reckon there’s a few years left in The Cribs yet.
Palma Violets have been causing a stir, with their accessible, psych-tinged garage rock. The video for ‘Step Up For The Cool Cats’ is a vaguely trippy, home-video style shoot; footage of the band playing is mixed with footage of them driving around in a car together, looking like it’s being played back on an old TV set. The band have gained a lot of attention since playing recent slots with London based Savages. It looks like 2013 could well be their year.
Continue reading: A Week In Music - The Cribs Look Back Over A Decade, Palma Violets Cause A Stir, Adam Ant's Awkward Return, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hitting The Road
'The White Album' Announce Arrival With 'Season's End' (Video)
By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 24 January 2013
We’re still not sure how Danes 'The White Album' managed to get their moniker past the Bad Band Names committee, but there we go. The group are becoming known for their sweeping, melodic rock – as well, obviously, for deciding to call themselves directly after a Beatles album - and today they revealed the new video for their track ‘Seasons End’. Have a look at it below.
The song’s called ‘Seasons End’ plural, but there’s only one time of the year that this is set in; a deepest darkest Scandinavian winter. In it, one of the band is walking around the seemingly shut theme park at night time, possibly in reminiscence of when it was open. There flashback shots to a bright colourful time when the stalls were open and he could buy popcorn, throw balls at objects to win prizes and generally lark about.
Continue reading: 'The White Album' Announce Arrival With 'Season's End' (Video)
The White Album - Seasons
Denmark folk outfit The White Album can now present to you the melancholy video to their wintry track 'Seasons End' which has been taken from their debut six-track EP 'Conquistador' released in September 2012 through Popular Recordings/Tri-Tone.
It's a particularly well designed and gripping video featuring actors Henrik Jongdahl and Dines Vesterkaer Slavensky as the man and the boy respectively. Produced by one of the band members Claus Arvad and his filmmaker friends Jakob Nimb Jensen and Thomas Lund, the video features a man walking through a snow covered deserted amusement park and imagining the lights all being on and even buying popcorn at a refreshment kiosk. He also keeps imagining the figure of a young boy playing at the park which is the Brakken amusement park near Copenhagen. The filming is all in slow motion suiting the down-tempo sombreness of the track. The haunting vocals and echoing guitar melody is truly enchanting to the ear and perfect for the wintry season.
The idea of the video was a deep mix of emotional contrast as Claus points out, 'There is a fantastic contrast in the warmth of the lights VS the cold and ghost-town like feel of the deserted, dark and snow covered amusement park.'
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Kaiser, major union form not-for-profit for workforce development
Kaiser Permanente and a union representing 57,000 of its employees jointly announced on Wednesday a new organization focused on growing the number of certified healthcare workers in California.
The not-for-profit group, called Futuro Health, has received $130 million from Kaiser to increase those qualified for skilled healthcare jobs such as medical coders, medical assistants and care coordinators, which face shortages.
The new organization was created in response to a four-year agreement Kaiser came to with the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West union in October that included Kaiser establishing a $130 million workforce development program.
Futuro Health, which is independent from Kaiser and the union, aims to graduate 10,000 new licensed healthcare workers by 2024.
Members of SEIU-UHW are going to help Futuro recruit potential new workers by holding career fairs in California communities, said Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro. She most recently served as executive vice chancellor of workforce and digital futures of California Community Colleges, which includes 115 institutions.
Ton-Quinlivan said Futuro wants to raise awareness about the different career options available in healthcare. People are often unaware that there are well-paying healthcare jobs available other than being a physician or nurse.
“Around the dinner table there is little discussion … about lab (technicians) or medical scribes,” she said. “The work we have to do is raise the general level of career awareness that these good jobs and good careers” exist.
Cost of education to receive certification in these jobs can be a barrier, so the bulk of the $130 million investment from Kaiser will go towards helping students pay for their education, Ton-Quinlivan said.
Futuro Health has also partnered with Western Governors University to provide students with competency-based options to make their education more affordable.
In addition to building the workforce, Futuro will also focus on helping those currently in skilled healthcare positions advance their careers with additional training and credentialing opportunities.
Ton-Quinlivan said Futuro hopes to expand its services to other states in the future.
“Initially, Futuro Health will focus on California but we know the shortages are nationwide … so our intent is to do the work here first, to gain experience, and then if we do it right, open the doors to others outside of California,” she said.
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Precision Long Range Shooting and the Coriolis Effect
You may not be taking this into Account in Precision Long Range Shooting
If you’re into long range shooting, its important to understand how the “Coriolis effect” affects your shot at 1000 yards or greater.
The Coriolis effect is the rotation of the earth and the movement of a target downrange from the shooter. This is another element that a long distance shooter has to consider for along with wind, rain, snow, distance, elevation and a many other factors. Accounting for all these factors signifies the skill sets needed for precision long range shooting.
Below highlighted is the simple layman’s term and explanation from Jeremy Winters of Gunwerks, he also demonstrates taking a shot from 1000 yards out to the west and easterly direction.
“if you’re shooting West, your target’s gonna rotate up and towards us, which is gonna cause the bullets to hit lower.”
“if you’re facing east, the target’s going to be dropping and slightly moving away, which is gonna cause the hits to be higher.”
Jeremy points out these small errors can cause huge misses at greater distances than 1000 yards if you don’t pay attention to.
It is one more element that a long distance shooter has to account for along with wind, rain, snow, distance, elevation and a myriad of other factors.
Hi I’m Jeremy Winters, Product specialist here at GunWerks. Today we’re going to go over one of the common issues guys have when collecting data to either build a drop chart, or build a ballistic compensator like we use on our systems.
We field hundreds of calls a month where guys cannot re-verify their data once they’ve shot one day and go out and try to return the same data -let’s say- a week later. And one of the common issues is -that we see- is the Coriolis effect, and what guys are not doing is taking into account the effect that this can have on your shooting at longer ranges.
Now real quick, let’s explain the Coriolis effect in laymen’s terms: The Coriolis effect that when the bullet leaves from the gun, it is actually leaving the surface of the earth, so as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, the Earth is still rotating, and the bullet is not rotating with the Earth, so the Earth will actually rotate from out the underneath of the bullet while it is in flight.
So as the Earth rotates, it actually rotates from the West to the East. So what that’s gonna do to our targets is, is if you’re shooting west, your target’s gonna rotate up and towards us, which is gonna cause the bullets to hit lower. And if you’re facing east, the target’s going to be dropping and slightly moving away, which is gonna cause the hits to be higher. Now why this is important is, out to a thousand yards, you could have almost a full minute of correction due to Coriolis effect, depending on which direction you sighted in your zero. Now to show you guys just how much effect there’s going to be, we’re going to put on a little shooting demonstration here, I’ve got targets West and East of us, exactly 1000 yards in each direction.
So what we’re going to do to prove this Coriolis effect on our rifle here, is we’re going to shoot it out to a thousand to the west, and we’re gonna shoot it out to a thousand on the east, and we’re gonna measure the difference in those group centers. And hopefully it’s gonna show you guys that this kind of error can lead to bigger errors in your drop data.
[Shooting]
Alright, got three hits on the steel down there, we’re gonna switch directions, switch the bench over, and we’re gonna shoot East now.
Alright, we got three more hits on this steel down here, now we’re gonna rack up all our gear and we’re gonna check these out, measure ’em up, show you the results.
Alright, we made it down to our target that we shot at the west, this is our west target here. As you can see, they’ve all dropped down quite low. We’ve got eight inches from center to the center of the group, which is a little lower than we expected, but we were dealing with some pretty stiff mirage, so we’ve got a nice little group here, we’re gonna pack up this target and head down to our target that we shot to the east, and we’ll compare the two groups, and show you the difference of just switching directions. That’s all we did. We switched from West to East.
Alright, we’ve made it down to our target on the East target, now, and as you can see, they’re not quite too high, we’ve got about three inches, maybe three-and-a-half to the center of the group above bulls-eye, so if we compare this to our other target, we’re three inches high here, we’re eight inches low there, that’s eleven inches, just over a minute of difference between just shooting from the west to the east.
Now how does this affect you and your data? One minute with this seven LRM that we’re shooting, at a thousand yards, is worth 70 feet per second if you were trying to develop drop data, and that could make huge differences in your drop data and your custom turret if you were actually to figure the data shooting east and west. So the tip today is, always do the data either North and South, that will eliminate Coriolis up and down, or know how much effect that has on it, and take that into account on your ballistic data.
Source: Jeremy Winters of Gunwerks, Andy Van Loan
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Patrick Daniel held the position of President and CEO of Enbridge Inc from January 2001 to October 2012. Pat's energy experience spans over 40 years. His background includes process engineering, information technology, business development, and corporate planning with Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas and Enbridge (and its predecessor companies). He was responsible for the start-up of Enbridge's technology and consulting business unit, its international division, and its expansion into the Natural Gas business. As CEO, Patrick led Enbridge's entry in wind, solar and geothermal energy. During his tenure as CEO, Enbridge was named Canada's most sustainable corporation and always among the Top 100 in sustainability in the world.
Pat is currently the Chair of Cenovus Energy Inc. and Director at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Capital Power. He also chairs the North American Review Board of Air Liquide. Pat is an active industry and community volunteer. He chairs the Daniel Family Foundation, a philanthropic charitable organization and volunteers with the Light Up the World charity. He has travelled to three continents on projects to bring energy to those who cannot afford it. The Daniel Family Foundation supports the Perimeter Institute, University of Calgary Psychosocial Oncology, Outward Bound Canada, Servants Anonymous, University of Alberta, and students at the University of British Columbia and McGill University.
In 2007, Pat was named Canadian Energy person of the year by the Energy Council of Canada. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Business Leader Award from the University of Calgary and the Chamber of Commerce. Patrick was named 2010 Resource Person of the Year by the Alberta Chamber of Resources.
In 2011, he was awarded Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year Award as chosen by an independent national advisory board. In 2013, he was named Canadian Business Leader of the Year as awarded by the University of Alberta.
Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science
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What is Quantum Mechanics?
Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics; it was developed between 1900 and 1930, and it explains the behavior of sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules and nuclei. Attempts to combine it with the general and special theory of relativity leads to new and revolutionary types of theories. Experimental evidence forced the creation of new concepts, like the particle properties of radiation, the wave properties of matter, the quantization of physical properties, or the idea that one can no longer know exactly where a single particle such as an electron is at any one moment.
Some of the basic insights of quantum mechanics.
Short timeline of the discoveries.
The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves. (Particle/wave dualism)
Energy is not continuous, but quantized: it comes in small but discrete units.
Particle movement is inherently random, and can only be described by a probability wave function.
Uncertainty principle: It is physically impossible to know the location and the momentum of a particle at the same time.
The quantum world is extremely different from the world we live in.
See also the following articles:
Quantum Nonlocality
1901 Planck Blackbody radiation
1905 Einstein Photoelectric effect
1913 Bohr Spectra theory
1922 Compton Photon scattering
1924 Pauli Exclusion principle
1925 de Broglie Matter waves
1926 Schroedinger Wave equation
1927 Heisenberg Uncertainty principle
1927 Davison & Wave properties of Germer electrons
1927 Born Interpretation of the wavefunction
Interactive guide to quantum mechanics, Kansas State University
Qubit News: News and information for the quantum community
Quantum teleportation research, IBM
Quantum mechanics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
New Scientist, Quantum World
Philosophical Implications of Quantum Mechanics
Stephen Hawking’s explanation of creation of matter and energy
Higgs Boson – How Particles Acquire Mass
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The Tall Man
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When Cameron Doomadgee was found dead in the Palm Island police station, his injuries were like those of someone who’d been in a fatal car crash. The police claimed he had tripped on a step. The Palm Islanders rioted and burnt down the police station. The subsequent trial of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley – who had been decorated for his work in Aboriginal communities – made headlines day after day, shadowed by Queensland police threatening to strike.
THE TALL MAN tells the gripping story of the trial, of the complex Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, and of the Doomadgee family as they struggle to understand what happened to their brother. Atmospheric, gritty and original, The Tall Man takes the viewer into the courtroom, into the once notorious Queensland police force, and into the Indigenous community of Palm Island of Australia’s Far North – places where people live lives like no others, have a relationship with the land like no others, and a history, culture and a catastrophic present like no others. This is Australia, but an Australia few of us have seen.
Based on the book The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper.
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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Announces 2016 Innovation Grant Recipients
Feb 8, 2016, 22:24 PM by Paul Wang
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $2 million to non-profit organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and support promising entrepreneurs. Now in its fourth year, the Blackstone Innovation Grants program supports innovative regional initiatives and events that foster entrepreneurship.
Thirteen Organizations Awarded $2 Million to Support Entrepreneurship and Innovation
New York, February 8, 2016 – The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced that it has awarded grants totaling $2 million to non-profit organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems and support promising entrepreneurs. Now in its fourth year, the Blackstone Innovation Grants program supports innovative regional initiatives and events that foster entrepreneurship.
Through these grants, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is helping outstanding organizations pilot, expand or replicate programs and convene high-impact events that will catalyze the growth of successful businesses, industries, and communities in their regions. As part of this program, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is working to create a global network of entrepreneurship-focused organizations across sectors in which participants can share best practices, methodologies and intellectual capital.
“Over the past four years, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation is proud to support a diverse set of dynamic organizations that complement the work of our Entrepreneurship Initiative and build momentum around entrepreneurship in their regions,” said Amy Stursberg, Executive Director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. “This year’s cohort of Blackstone Innovation Grant recipients have already helped hundreds of companies and entrepreneurs to create over 9,000 jobs – we couldn’t be more excited to support them as they continue that work in the year ahead.”
For the 2016 grants, more than four hundred and fifty organizations submitted proposals through a Request for Proposals (RFP) process established by the Foundation for both program and event-focused grants. The reach of the grantees’ programs and events extend across eight U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and the United Kingdom, and the entrepreneurs supported by these programs represent communities from across the globe.
The grant recipients are:
4.0 Schools (New Orleans, LA and New York, NY), $200,000 – Our grant will support expansion of 4.0's Communities of Innovation program to 10 local ecosystems across the US and expand capacity and diversity of 4.0's entrepreneurship training program for leaders creating breakthrough schools, learning spaces and ed tech companies.
Ashoka (London, England), $75,000 – Our grant will fund Ashoka’s Change Maker Summit in November 2016, which convenes world class social entrepreneurs for a two day conference in the UK to share best practices, showcase entrepreneurs global impact and strengthen the Ashoka community of social entrepreneurs and supporters.
Coalition for Queens (Queens, NY), $175,000 – Our grant will help catalyze low-income entrepreneurship by funding a product development track within Access Code, a program to teach low income, diverse participants how to develop their own custom-built mobile apps.
Idea Village (New Orleans, LA), $100,000 – Our grant will fund Idea Village’s New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week in March 2016, a unique festival experience that celebrates and elevates the New Orleans entrepreneurial ecosystem through a week of entrepreneurship focused programming.
Iowa Startup Accelerator (Cedar Rapids, IA), $150,000 – Our grant will fund the next iteration of Iowa Startup Accelerator, an intensive program that matches tech-based startups, with world-class mentors, Midwestern work ethic, seed funding, and development expertise to take entrepreneurs from concept to successful launch in 90 days.
Launch Tennessee (Nashville, TN), $75,000 – Our grant will fund Launch Tennessee’s 36 | 86 conference in June 2016, which brings together top talent from across the south to further the conversation about entrepreneurship, investment and culture, and to identify and highlight some of the top early stage companies throughout a 12 state SE region.
Mass Challenge (Boston, MA), $75,000 – Our grant will support the MassChallenge Awards in November 2016, an event which brings together key stakeholders and top entrepreneurs at the conclusion of the 4-month accelerator program to share best practices and pitch their companies for $1.5 million in no-equity cash awards.
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Social Capital Markets (San Francisco, CA), $100,000 – Our grant will fund Social Capital Markets’ SOCAP 2016 Conference in September 2016, which convenes a global community to share best practices in entrepreneurship, social enterprise and impact investing.
Social Innovation Summit (Washington, DC), $75,000 – Our grant will fund the Social Innovation Summit in June 2016, which brings together cross-sector entrepreneurs and leaders to come together to investigate solutions for the world’s most pressing problems and to catalyze inspired partnerships.
TEDWomen (San Francisco, CA), $200,000 – Our grant will fund TEDWomen in October 2016, which will gather some of the world’s most insightful and influential women to celebrate the vital ideas percolating through their dynamic and diverse communities. Through the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s support, TEDWomen 2016 will offer structured opportunities for female entrepreneurs and game-changers to meet, learn and share.
Penn Medicine and DreamIt Ventures (Philadelphia, PA), $325,000 – Our grant will fund the Dreamit Health Philadelphia 2016 program. In this cohort, Dreamit will partner with Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross to reimagine and expand a world class health care entrepreneurship program.
Village Capital (Houston, TX), $250,000 – Our grant will fund the Village Capital Energy: US 2016 program, a three month venture development program that will find, train, and fund US-based entrepreneurs solving major energy problems nationally and globally through a unique peer-selection methodology.
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The Sixties: Kirk Wilde at KPUG Radio, Bellingham, WA
Kirk Wilde inset photo. KPUG studios, 1949-1999, located on Sunset Dr.
I spent nearly 30 years in radio. My first career was working as a disc jockey, newscaster, program director, operations manager, general manager and a radio station owner. Friends and acquaintances have asked me what factors influenced my decision to enter broadcasting. The personal story told here answers that question.
In 1966, Bellingham was a small town with a population of about 27,000. One of my favorite pastimes, being a 14 year old, was biking or walking downtown. Usually, I tied my travels into buying a 19 cent burger and fries at The Shack--an early drive-in, across the street from Bellingham High School, on Cornwall Avenue.
The Shack, 1960s, photo credit to Sue Hilton
Downtown Bellingham was the hub of the county’s business district; this was 22 years before Bellis Fair Mall was built. Cornwall Avenue, then and now, runs through the center of downtown and it is still one of the most popular streets for retailers. Back then, four anchor stores––J.J. Newberry, J.C. Penney, F.W. Woolworth and the 88 Cent Store—were all situated near one another on Cornwall. During the annual Blossom Time Festival, now known as Ski to Sea, that part of Cornwall would be closed and the carnival would set up rides.
Carnival rides on Cornwall Ave, 1964 photo
One afternoon in February 1966, I was walking downtown on Cornwall. Music was coming from a loudspeaker on the sidewalk outside Newberry's. The local rock 'n' roll radio station was broadcasting live: a fundraiser for the March of Dimes. I looked in the storefront window and discovered KPUG "live guy" Kirk Wilde behind the microphone.
Kirk Wilde, KPUG promotional photo, 1966
In my youth, I seldom listened to the radio or music--but watching Wilde work that day piqued my interest. In junior high school, I was doing well in speech classes and my older Canadian cousin was a successful announcer at a Calgary radio station. After observing Wilde for a half hour, I went home and tuned my radio to KPUG. From that day forward, Kirk's show became my afternoon entertainment. Once, on a weekend, I walked out Sunset Drive to the KPUG studio. Wilde and another deejay, Gary Shannon, were friendly and they explained to this 14 year old kid how he might prepare to someday obtain a radio job. Obviously, Kirk Wilde was a major influence in my decision to enter broadcasting--which took place four years later when I was 18.
Happening upon that downtown remote was a fortuitous moment for me, although it was probably predictable since KPUG did more live broadcasts than the other local stations. In those days, KPUG would transport turntables and a microphone to a retail store and a disc jockey (almost all jocks were male back then) would broadcast his show live from that location.
1960s "remote" at Newberry's. KPUG's Dick Stark at the mic
Kirk Wilde was a great example of what "top 40 radio" could be. He was one of the most popular and memorable air personalities ever to work in Bellingham. Kirk was high energy, with a fast paced delivery--everything happened with rapid-fire precision. He was funny sometimes, but humor was not his primary focus. Wilde’s occasional on-the-air sidekick was a recording named Julius Funkley. Mainly Julius would belt out, in a high pitched screech, "That's RIGHT." But once, during a student body election at Bellingham High School, Kirk promoted Julius as a write-in candidate for president. The fictional character won, but somehow he was never inducted. In previous blogs, over many years, I have shared a few of my memories of listening to Kirk Wilde.
Kirk Wilde, 1973, at KDKO, Denver/Littleton, CO
In Bellingham, Wilde's radio show on KPUG was a big deal. We had one rock station in town and, in 1966, AM radio was king. A 50 year old radio survey confirms the audience dominance that Wilde commanded in the local ratings. This was in spite of clear signals that reached the market from other rock stations in Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. During his show, the share of the audience (red circle) was double or better that of all of the competition (percentages displayed in the two right side columns).
Barr survey, 1966. Today a dominant station is lucky to achieve even a 7% share
Wilde's interest in radio developed in the early 1960s, when he was a student at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. His professional career began at stations in Oregon and Washington. Kirk arrived at KPUG in 1964, but left that same year to work radio jobs in Klamath Falls and Corvallis. Wilde came back to Bellingham, as KPUG’s afternoon deejay and music director, in 1965. In the capacity of music director, Wilde recognized the talent of The Unusuals--a popular Pacific Northwest band. Babe It's Me, their 1966 single, spent several weeks at #1 on the KPUG chart. Kathi McDonald, the group's gutsy female vocalist, became a world-renowned blues and rock singer.
After exiting KPUG for the final time in 1966, Kirk was hired by other prominent stations including Everett's KRKO, Seattle's KOL, KSND and KING. His career was mainly spent working top 40 rock formats, but Wilde is very proud of smoothly transitioning into R&B music--he was readily accepted by the predominantly African-American listening audience at KDKO in Denver.
Caricature of Kirk Wilde. KDKO, Denver promotional survey
Kirk Wilde left radio in 1975, choosing instead to work as a school bus driver. The change in direction provided job security and benefits that were rarely offered at radio stations of that era. Today he is retired and still living in Denver. Kirk keeps up with musical innovations and shares with friends, who belong to an Email group, his knowledge and reviews of both current and older music.
At the present time, any of Wilde's original airchecks are unavailable. Therefore, to commemorate the impact he had on my career decision, I have created a custom video montage. It features the top hits from late February 1966--when I first heard Kirk Wilde on the radio.
The mid-sixties were interesting times; the British Invasion was upon us and the Beatles, the Stones, Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury hippies, flower power, and psychedelics pervaded popular culture. The hit music of that era was difficult to classify, ranging from teen-oriented pop to soul, country, a patriotic ballad and even mariachi brass.
KPUG survey, 1960s flower power art theme
Everyone is pressed for time these days, so two short video montages are included here. The first 5 minute quickie counts down the Top 20 hits at KPUG the first time I ever heard Kirk Wilde on the radio. The lower video is shorter still: In 3 minutes it counts down the Top 10 hits only. If you were around in 1966, either one of these videos will be a blast from the past. And, if you're too young to remember the 1960s, you will see and hear some important cultural context. The videos feature photos of Kirk Wilde, the KPUG studio and a KPUG jingle that was aired in 1966.
Montage: Top 20 Hits in Five Minutes
Salute to '60s DJ Kirk Wilde: 20 KPUG Oldies In Five Minutes from Steven L. Smith on Vimeo.
Montage: Top 10 Hits in Three Minutes
Salute to '60s DJ Kirk Wilde: 10 KPUG Oldies In Three Minutes from Steven L. Smith on Vimeo.
If you enjoy nostalgia and music of yesteryear, click on Elvis' gold record to visit This Day In History. To explore The Stories Behind The Music blog posts click on the electric guitar.
10 comments • Steven L. Smith • November 16 2016 07:38PM
What a wonderful tribute. I'm glad you had someone inspire you in such a profound way.
Posted by Lauren Williams, CPO, Professional Organizer: Puget Sound homes (Casual Uncluttering LLC) about 3 years ago
Thanks Lauren. I enjoyed putting it together.
Posted by Steven L. Smith, Bellingham WA Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc.) about 3 years ago
I never knew this side of you Steven L. Smith. I too was in radio broadcasting before I got drafted for a very short period. I went to Clover Park Voc. Tech's broadcasting school. Then KLAY for a very short period...
Gary Shannon did make it to the Seattle market place and was big for a long time...
Posted by Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS, Tacoma Washington Agent/Broker & Market Authority! (RE/MAX Northwest.) about 3 years ago
Several other well-known Seattle radio personalities were at Kpug in the mid-sixties. That includes not only Gary but Charlie Brown, then called Harvey Brown; Norm Gregory; and Steve West. Later on in the seventies, Randy Evans from up here changed his name to Ichabod Caine. Pat O'Day at KJR imported all those guys into Seattle. Several announcers who worked at my station, which was country, ended up in radio or TV in larger markets. Best known in Seattle was probably Stubbs, Lorraine in real life, at Kmps.
Well written, as usual. Well put together, as usual. A great history, as your history blogs are, as usual. What more can be said!?
Posted by Jay Markanich, Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia (Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC) about 3 years ago
Jay....thanks for the comments. It was fun to write that, delve into local history that was personal to me. I started writing this when I got sick in April. I am much better now. Sorry if I have not responded to some your past comments, but I had not been getting notifications from AR. I am now.
Bruce, had it not been for my stumbling on that "Milk, Motorcycles and Rock N Roll" post of yours more than five years ago, I never would have connected with Kirk. I had tried to figure out where he was prior to that, but your post was the link I needed. Then you had him put me on his music feature and critique list. Since then, with various online content we have added, he comes up quite nicely in the search engines. And that is much deserved, he was good.
No luck yet on getting the dust off his old airchecks, but he has indicated that he will try to get to that. He is an excellent writer. I had him check the piece for accuracy and he had great suggestions as to edits and streamlining content.
Do checkout the videos, I put lots of effort into those...in some cases editing together bits and pieces of raw internet footage to make complete 30 sec snippets. In most cases, for better quality and lip sync, I stripped the music tracks and replaced or repositioned them. There is even a Kpug jingle there, it was aired from 1966 to 1967.
There was a comment problem for a while for everyone I think. It seems to be resolved.
Glad you're better. I had a procedure yesterday and it seems to have been fine. No ill effects.
In high school in the 60's DJs were like gods to us. Also, living in Oklahoma, at midnight I would turn the transistor radio on becasue I could hear Wolfman Jack broacasting from Del Rio Texas with the transmitter on the Mexican side and outside US jurisdiction. Slways wanted a color photo of jesus Christ, suitable for framin' as the Wolfman used to say.
Posted by Joe Pryor, REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties (The Virtual Real Estate Team) about 3 years ago
Radio was really fun back then, I got into radio in 1970 and it was still fun for many more years. It was getting sterile by mid eighties. The way it is today, I think I would say no thank you to the career opportunity. Wolfman was a one of a kind legend. He has a biography out, written before Bob Smith (real name as I recall, passed. You should read it...entertaining as heck.
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Articles Posted in the " the skin I live in " Category
Top 10 Films Named After Songs
By Florence Vincent on May 06, 2013 0 comment
Pedro Almodóvar’s new film Los Amantes Pasajeros, or I’m So Excited to us English-speaking jerks, is officially out in cinemas everyone! It’s obviously going to be totally weird because it’s by Pedro Almodóvar. Did you guys see that movie, The Skin I Live In? WHAT WAS THAT? Anyway, this film is more or less The Skin I Live In On a Plane. More importantly, though, the film shares its English title with a very famous song by The Pointer Sisters, which got us thinking: what other films out there have famous songs for titles? Turns out, loads. Because nothing in this wretched world is original.
Almodóvar to try his hand at sci-fi
By Florence Vincent on November 20, 2012 0 comment
You know it’s going to be weird.
Midnight in Paris and The Descendants triumph at WGA Awards
By John Underwood on February 20, 2012 0 comment
SO MANY GUILDS
The Artist wins all the BAFTAs ever
Would you like Steven Spielberg to come over there and lick your toes clean, Michel Hazanavicius? That’s probably the only accolade left.
Cheat Sheet: Antonio Banderas
By John Underwood on December 06, 2011 0 comment
Antonio Banderas is back on our screens in a big way this year, starring in a Pedro Almodóvar film for the first time in two decades and voicing his Shrek character Puss in Boots in a high-profile spin-off. But how much do you know about his winery? EXACTLY. Thank God for you we’ve just written a Cheat Sheet…
Nominations announced for 2011 Moët British Independent Film Awards
By John Underwood on October 31, 2011 0 comment
GO ON GARY
Save our independents: Why it’s time to give up on Multiplexes
By Duncan Vicat-Brown on September 20, 2011 1 comment
Perhaps you’d noticed, but multiplex cinemas are starting to get really, really pricey. This would be fine if the experience was improving, but it’s not. It’s getting worse. After one too many sub-par screenings, maybe it’s time to find somewhere else to get our fix..
Top 5 London Summer Film Events
By John Underwood on July 13, 2011 0 comment
What do you mean, you haven’t meticulously planned your summer around the amazing film events which are going on all over London? You’re not right, mate. Fortunately, we definitely have organised our getting-burnt-in-the-park sessions so they work around the special screenings we just can’t miss – and if you’re nice, you can peek in our diary.
Films to see in August 2011
So after a wet and blustery June and a less than tropical July, it looks like August is going to be no better. So, rather than delay the inevitable, best face facts now: that barbeque is staying in the shed, you’re not going to get a chance to wear that bikini and picnic food tastes rubbish when it’s covered in rain. However, last time we checked cinemas are all rain free! Huzzah! Here’s your pick of what’s to come next month!
Second trailer for The Skin I Live In (it still makes no sense)
By Natasha Hodgson on June 21, 2011 0 comment
Almodovar is a right minx.
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FC Hradec Kralove U19 (@1.36) vs 1. FK Pribram U19 (@5.5)
FC Hradec Kralove U19 will win
FC Hradec Kralove U19 vs 1. FK Pribram U19
FC Hradec Kralove U19 – 1. FK Pribram U19 Match Prediction | 22-09-2019 05:00
In 15 (88.24%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Zlin U19 average scored 1.37 goals per match in season 2019. Below the text is a list of the direct games. Teams Hradec Kralove U19 Zlin U19 played so far 2 matches.Hradec Kralove U19 won 0 direct matches. In 13 (76.47%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 5.00 goals per Match.Hradec Kralove U19 in actual season average scored 2.15 goals per match. 0 matches ended in a draw. In 13 (76.47%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals. In 17 (100.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. Zlin U19 won 2 matches. Below you will find a lot of statistics that make it easier Predict the result for a match between both teams.
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For the last 15 matches, Hradec Kralove U19 got 9 win, 3 lost and 3 draw with 25 Goals For and 13 Goals Against. The match of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19 in Czech Youth League is started at 2019-5-25 17:03. The average of Goals For is 1.4 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.3 per match. For the last 15 matches, FK Pribram U19 got 7 win, 5 lost and 3 draw with 21 Goals For and 19 Goals Against. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 40%; The rate of win is 47%; The average of corners is 6.8 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -. Hradec Kralove U19 got 2 win, 0 draw and 3 lost with 5 Goals For and 6 Goals Against. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Hradec Kralove U190.0; The initial Goals Odds is 3.0. Except the history stats of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19, ScoreBing also offers predictions and lineups of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19, that may help you predict or replay the match. Totally, Hradec Kralove U19 and FK Pribram U19 fought for 8 times before. The average of Goals For is 1.7 per match and the average of Goals Against is 0.9 per match. Over Goals occurred for 0 times and Over Corners occurred for 0 times. The rate of Over Goals is 33%; The rate of Handicap Win is 60%; The rate of win is 60%; The average of corners is 5.9 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -.
Hradec Kralove U19 - 1.FK Pribram U19
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Except the history stats of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19, ScoreBing also offers predictions and lineups of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19, that may help you predict or replay the match. The average of Goals For is 1.3 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.9 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 70%; The rate of Handicap Win is 20%; The rate of win is 27%; The average of corners is 6.3 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -. Totally, Hradec Kralove U19 and FK Pribram U19 fought for 9 times before. Over Goals occurred for 1 times and Over Corners occurred for 0 times. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Hradec Kralove U19-1.0,-1.5; The initial Goals Odds is 3.0. The match of Hradec Kralove U19 vs FK Pribram U19 in Czech Youth League is started at 2019-9-21 17:00. Hradec Kralove U19 got 2 win, 0 draw and 3 lost with 6 Goals For and 7 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 2.7 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.5 per match. For the last 15 matches, FK Pribram U19 got 4 win, 8 lost and 3 draw with 19 Goals For and 29 Goals Against. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 73%; The rate of win is 60%; The average of corners is 6.2 per match and the rate of Over Corners is -. For the last 15 matches, Hradec Kralove U19 got 9 win, 3 lost and 3 draw with 40 Goals For and 23 Goals Against.
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Issue: Jul, 1962
Tags: environment
3 Comments on BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP (Jul, 1962)
BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP (Jul, 1962)
BUBBLE TROUBLE ON TAP
By Volta Torrey
We use 320 billion gallons of water a day but by 1970 pollutants may cut our ration NOT LONG AGO, a woman in Long Island, N.Y., was filling a cooking pot with water from her kitchen tap. Suddenly the pot foamed over with crisp, white suds.
These suds, she knew, were caused by synthetic detergents that had drifted over from neighborhood septic tanks and were adulterating her well. Since the sudsy water is distasteful, she uses tap water only for cooking and washing. She buys drinking water in bottles in another town for herself and her family.
Some months earlier, another housewife found that detergents were corroding metal parts in her automatic washing machine.
This corrosion of parts, and sudsing of tap water, are among the first signs a community has that something is happening to its water supply. This something is so widespread that some washer manufacturers are finding it necessary to forestall corrosion by using plastic or stainless steel parts. Automatic garbage disposers have been affected, too. While a heavy stream of cold water usually will flush the stuff out, one maker now puts a polypropylene lining into his disposers to cut servicing costs.
These annoying occurrences in homes and to appliances, however, are only signs of a grave crisis in store for our water supply by 1970, if something is not done. This crisis is developing, say experts, because we have to reuse our water more rapidly as our population grows. Many of our facilities for restoring water to reusable purity are not up to the job, and, for another reason, we have not yet learned to deal with many beneficial chemical inventions such as detergents which, unfortunately, can cause harm when disposed as waste into our water supply.
In many areas, the fight, at least for the present, seems lost as suds come billowing out of streams that once were pure, or flow out of control into a neighborhood’s wells.
The basic problem is that synthetic detergents (syndets) defy both nature’s and man’s standard methods of purifying water.
Soap, the kind your mother used, was made from animal fats on which bacteria and other micro-organisms fed and thrived. Soap’s molecules consist largely of long chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached to them. After soap goes down the drain with waste water and into cesspools, sewage-treatment plants or surface streams, the bacteria destroys the chains of molecules and effectively disposes of the waste.
Synthetic detergents were invented during World War I, because Germany’s supply of soap was cut off. Dr. Fritz Gunther devised a detergent that could be made from coal tar. But it and other detergents that have since come on the market are not considered good eating by the bacteria and micro-organisms which thrive on animal-fat soaps. And because the syndets are not eaten by bacteria, they tend to remain in the water system and escape destruction by standard water purification techniques.
Syndets have long chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached and, in addition, they often have a benzene ring hooked to an atom of carbon. It is this ring which makes it more difficult for the micro-organisms to break up the stuff after it has been consigned to the sewage-treatment plant.
This was not a serious problem 25 years ago when there were few detergent manufacturers. Today there are more than 250 in the U.S. alone, and detergents outsell soaps two to one. Housewives like syndets because they lift and disperse many kinds of dirt liable to be found on dishes, in clothing or other things washed with water. Detergents lower surface tension and make things soluble that ordinarily are not. When water is hard, as in many parts of the Middle West, natural soaps tend to leave a “bathtub ring.” Synthetic detergents create suds and work better than natural soaps in such water.
According to the U.S. Public Health Service, four billion pounds of syndets are produced each year and each pound ends up as waste in water.
Manufacturers use an inexpensive product of crude oil and many of their detergents also contain the foam-maker, alkyl-benzene sulfonate, or ABS. This is the stuff that is creating mounds of slippery foam in some city sewage treatment plants, and by its foaming presence, is revealing the extent of the pollution problem.
ABS is not the only fly in the otherwise beneficial detergent ointment, however. Some types of detergent also carry phosphate compounds that promote the growth of scum and other unattractive by-products. ABS, however, attracts attention because very small concentrations of it—a few pounds per million gallons—will make water foam. Consequently ABS is easily detected and serves as the tattletale which has put the experts on guard.
If a town puts syndets into a river near the headwaters, it can carry some of them to the next town downstream. This town’s water may not be affected seriously, but when it adds syndets to the river in its waste, the third town may get too many in its water.
This cycle may be repeated from five to ten times along the river and towns near the river’s mouth may receive waste overburdened with syndets.
We apparently can consume such small concentrations of ABS as have been put in our water so far, without becoming ill. But the consequences of continued consumption of such water for long periods of time are not yet known. It is probable, however, that water containing enough ABS to be harmful is likely to be so unattractive that we would object to drinking it.
ABS, though, isn’t the only chemical that may be harmful. A standard reference book, used by filtration engineers, states that a wide range of chemicals goes into the complex compositions we know as synthetic detergents. Any one of these individual chemicals may be an irritant. The book further points out that the early synthetics touched off a large number of cases of contact dermatitis. Although considerable progress has been made in removing the irritants, the incidence of dermatitis of the hands is considerably higher than* it was before the synthetics took over the market.
A postscript to this information is added by Edward J. Zimmer, director of Chicago’s Plumbing Testing Laboratory: “If it’s rough on the tough hides of hands, what do you think it does to the delicate interior plumbing of the human being?”
Syndets also can get into ground as well as surface water and they may remain there undetected until they are so concentrated that costly removal methods or new sources of water are needed. In one Long Island, N. Y., development that has four to five homes per acre, syndets recently were found to have penetrated a third of the wells. In other suburban communities even deepening the wells has failed to yield water free of syndets.
What can be done to remove ABS from water? One way to do the job is to run water through activated carbon. This is an added expense, but authorities at the Department of Health, Nassau County, N. Y., where the technique has been tried, urge further study of its use both with water from private wells and in large water-treatment plants.
Foam fractionation is another possible way of combating syndet contamination. This process has been known for years, but was not considered seriously in connection with water pollution until recently.
In foam fractionation, a gas (usually air) is put into the polluted water to create a stream of rising bubbles. Since the chemicals usually flock to points where air and water meet, they cluster around these bubbles and ride them to the surface. The resulting foam then can be skimmed off like the head on a glass of beer.
In small-scale tests, researchers of the Esso Company have demonstrated that 90 percent of the detergents can be removed from sewage-plant affluent this way. The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare has contracted for further study of this technique.
The federal government also is supporting studies of possible dumping places for troublesome chemicals and investigations of ways of making discarded materials useful again. Businessmen have become concerned, too, and both university and industrial laboratories are tackling the pollution problem’s many aspects. The Midwestern Research Institute in Kansas City, for example, is seeking more fundamental knowledge of the washing process by using a vibrating jet method to study the surface tension at the surface of freshly formed detergent solution.
Prof. Rolf Eliassen, Stanford University, has challenged the chemical inventors to come up with a solution to the problem their products have created. “It should not be difficult,” he says, “for the chemical industry to develop a different series of compounds, and produce some which could be broken down by bacteria and still be relatively inexpensive.”
Sugary Detergents?
Detergents that bacteria can destroy after they’ve been used can now be made from sugar-based materials. These are said to be biologically soft detergents, and efforts are under way in many laboratories to develop soft detergents that can be competitive in cost and popularity with the hard ones.
Hard detergents still could be used in coastal communities where waste water is discharged into the sea, and soft detergents where that water must soon be used again in some other community. People with soft water might also be encouraged to go back to using soap.
Finding ways to change or oust the pollutants is a problem that is not restricted to American’s back yards. The problem is a worldwide one that has already arisen in England, West Germany and Russia.
Manufacturers have cooperated with government authorities in England to place only certain kinds of detergent on sale in some areas, and in West Germany legislative action has been taken. Even the Russians have not yet claimed to have invented a solution. Their public health journal, Hygiene and Sanitation, reports that new combinations of sewage and waste are causing so much pollution in the U.S.S.R. that it constitutes a threat to the “entire national economy.,, The U.S. Public Health Service has set a limit on the detergent level permissible in the water of interstate carriers. Few water supplies have syndet levels anywhere near that maximum now, but more public awareness of the problem, research, and engineering know-how is needed to stop the suds from rising.
“The problem has not yet been solved,” says Dr. James M. Symons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department, “but I have every confidence that an intensive research effort will bring an adequate solution within the next few years.”
There are signs already that research on the problem is paying off. For example, Continental Oil Company recently announced that it is building a $10,000,000 plant to turn our “straight-chain” industrial alcohols from petroleum. These new alcohols are expected to be used in detergents. Because they are much simpler in chemical composition than existing compounds, they probably will be much easier to “break down” at the time they have done their job and must be destroyed.
The detergent manufacturers themselves, for 10 years, have been working toward a solution of the problem (though they deny that the problem, basically, is one of detergents). The Soap and Detergent Association, in a statement to Popular Mechanics says: “First of all, the residues of detergents, as present in waste water, have been shown to be nontoxic. While they may be a cause of froth in some situations, they are not a cause of taste and odor; but rather are indicators of concurrent, invisible sewage pollution which causes such taste and odor.
“In areas of high population density, there is agreement that no lasting solution to this problem exists short of public water and sewer services. In modern sewage-treatment plants, the present surface-active material in detergents is broken down as much as 50 to 70 percent; it’s not indestructible, but is one of a number of persistent or ‘refractory’ organic wastes, all of which must be dealt with in such treatment in the future.
“Today, research is proceeding along two lines: Companies in our industry are seeking individual product improvements which will increase their amenability to treatment while maintaining cleaning efficiency and low cost. At the same time, the U. S. Public Health Service and others are seeking improvement of treatment processes which will deal successfully with all the new and persistent waste material.”
That’s the problem, to date. And a bubbling, seething problem it is, for it will affect the palatability—and safety—of your drinking water.
Your shirts may be whiter these days, because the syndets are highly efficient at wiping away dirt. But the syndets themselves are stubbornly refusing to vanish.
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John Savard says: November 28, 20111:08 pm
Of course, this problem was addressed by banning phosphates from detergents.
I’m surprised. I thought they banned phosphates, but a web search shows that never happened, because no adequate substitute was ever found. But the phosphate binder caused eutrophication – algae blooms and the like. It was the surfactant, alkyl benzene sulfonate, that was causing streams to suds up – and that was replaced – with biodegradable linear alkyl sulfonates.
tampopo says: November 29, 201111:58 am
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Development in Floodplains
The City of Johnston participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and has adopted regulations to manage development in floodplains. The floodplain regulations adopted by the City of Johnston establishes a flood fringe (FF) overlay district and a flood way (FW) overlay district. The regulations are found in Chapter 169 of the Zoning Ordinance, which outline permissible development in those areas. A floodplain development permit is required.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issues floodplain development permit also and a permit may also be required from them based upon the type of construction proposed.
To determine if your property is within the floodplain, review the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps. Copies are available at Johnston City Hall for review. Electronic copies of the maps are also available from FEMA.
Floodplain Regulations
Because of the city's floodplain regulations, residents in the city are eligible to purchase flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program, please contact your insurance agent about flood insurance or review this link for more information.
For additional floodplain information, please contact the Community Development Department at 515-727-7778 or by email.
Preliminary FEMA Maps Released
The current FIRM maps regulating properties within Johnston were adopted on July 19, 2000. However, over the last couple of years FEMA has been working to update all FIRM maps within Johnston based upon:
Re-delineation of flood hazard areas using updated topographic information, affecting all flood hazard areas within Johnston. The 2000 FIRM maps were prepared using 10 foot topographic contour data, while the preliminary maps use 2 foot topographic contour data.
Updated hydrologic and hydraulic analysis of portions of Little Beaver Creek, affecting flood hazard areas generally north of NW 70th Avenue and east of NW 86th Street; and,
As a result of this work, FEMA has published updated FIRM maps and an FIS for Johnston dated February 1, 2019. To continue participating in the NFIP, the City is required to officially adopt these updated maps as presented by FEMA and update our existing floodplain development regulations and Zoning Ordinance Overlay Districts prior to that date.
In order to move forward with the required City approvals resulting from the proposed FEMA maps, we have set Public Hearing dates as follows:
Planning and Zoning Commission, Monday, October 29, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
City Council, Monday, November 5, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Both of the above noted meetings will be held at Johnston City Hall, 6221 Merle Hay Road. An opportunity will be available for anyone wishing to make comment about the updates, you may also address any comments to the Planning and Zoning Commission or City Council in writing by contacting me at the contact information contained below. I would suggest if you have specific questions about your individual property that you contact City Staff directly, as it will be difficult to address impacts to specific properties during the Public Hearing process.
Draft Ordinance 1001, which would adopted the new FIRM Maps, amend the Johnston Floodplain Management Ordinances as required by the Iowa DNR/FEMA and amend the Official Zoning Map to reflect the updated Floodway and Floodway Fringe Overlay Districts; Ordinance 1001 (PDF)
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A copy of the preliminary FIRM maps and Flood Study, and all of the information noted above, is also available for review in the Community Development Office at Johnston City Hall, located at 6221 Merle Hay Road. You may stop in anytime during regular office hours from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. to review this information. Should you desire to discuss this information with a staff member, it is suggested that you schedule an appointment in advance by calling 515-727-7778.
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Finding Each Other on the Road to Emmaus
as preached at First Parish Church, Ashby, MA, April 1, 2018
It is good to see you all this morning. Last night I was with many of you for the seder the congregation hosted. It was lovely. The company was excellent. The food was delicious. And the afikomen was found quickly. It was also a nice reminder that as Unitarian Universalists we celebrate and draw all of the religious traditions in the world. Indeed, many of us come from interfaith families or have multiple religious identities. My own family background is Jewish and Christian. My parents raised us Unitarian Universalist because they felt Unitarian Universalism was a religious community in which both of their religious traditions would be honored. And I think that the confluence of Passover and Easter this year has been a nice reminder that they were right. We can authentically celebrate both, in part because we have both people of Jewish and Christian identity in our community. We recognize that religion begins with personal experiences of awe and wonder at the great mystery that is life. We all interpret those experiences from different perspectives and different cultural backgrounds. And so while last night we hosted a seder, this morning we are offering an Easter service.
Since it is an Easter service, I thought it appropriate that we take our readings from the Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament. The two I picked are traditionally paired together during the Easter season. From all of that text I want to focus on a sentence fragment found at Luke 24:16. We read it as "but their eyes were kept from recognizing him." I want us to use a slightly different translation. It runs, "but something prevented them from recognizing him."
The fragment comes from a longer passage known as the Road to Emmaus. In the text, we find two of Jesus's disciples hustling towards a village called Emmaus. It is Easter Sunday, the first Easter Sunday. They are discussing Jesus's execution, the empty tomb, and all that has happened in the past months. Well, actually, they are not having a discussion. They are having an argument. And they are not out for a casual afternoon stroll. The text suggests that they are fleeing Jerusalem. They are part of a revolutionary movement on the verge of collapse. The movement's leader has been executed. Its members are scared and confused. They had been expecting victory and experienced defeat. "But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel," the text explains.
Into this hot mess steps Jesus. As the two disciples hasten along bickering about, I suspect, everything, up walks Jesus and asks what is going on, "but something prevented them from recognizing him." In that whole story this is the verse I want us to linger upon, "something prevented them from recognizing him."
Wrestling with the text we can imagine all kinds of reasons why the two disciples were prevented from recognizing Jesus. The Catholic priest and antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan took a fairly literal approach. Berrigan suggested that Jesus's disciples failed to recognize him because his body was broken. Jesus appeared as he was, the victim of torture: bloodied, bruised and swollen.
Another interpretation suggests that it was the sexism, the misogyny, of the disciples that prevented them from recognizing Jesus. The initial eyewitnesses to the empty tomb were women. In the verses immediately before our passage, Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, along with some number of unidentified women, try to convince the rest of the apostles that the tomb is empty. The male disciples do not believe them, call their story an "idle tale" or "nonsense." Recognizing Jesus might have required these disciples to recognize their own sexism. It would have required them to acknowledge that the women they had chosen not to believe were telling the truth.
Whatever the case, the text tells us this: there were two people traveling a path together; they were joined by a third; and they did not recognize him for who he truly was.
This is an all too human story. It is too often my story. I imagine you are familiar with it too. Think about it. How often do you encounter someone and fail to fully recognize them? Let us start with the mundane. Have you had the experience of thinking you are near a friend when you are actually in the vicinity of a stranger? More frequently than I would like to admit I have my made way across a crowded room to greet someone I know. When I arrive I discover someone who merely resembles my friend. They have the same haircut, a similar tattoo, or are wearing a shirt that looks exactly my friend's favorite shirt. But beyond the short dark bob, double hammer neck tattoo, or long sleeves with black and white stripes is a stranger.
Such encounters are embarrassing. Blessedly, they usually last a fleeting moment and then are gone. Other failures of recognition carry with them much greater freight than mistaken identity. For another kind of failure of recognition is the failure to recognize the human in each other. And that can carry with it lethal consequences.
When police officers murder people with brown and black bodies they fail to recognize the human in the person who they shoot, choke, or beat. The police officer who shot Mike Brown said the young man looked "like a demon." That is certainly an apt description of failing to recognize someone as human.
Reflecting on the murder of Trayvon Martin, theologian Kelly Brown Douglas has written we "must recognize the face of Jesus in Trayvon." She challenges us to consider that Jesus was not all that different from Trayvon. They both belonged to communities targeted by violent structures of power composed of or endorsed by the state. Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Korryn Gaines, and just last week Stephon Clark, the list goes on and on. What would it mean if their killers had recognized the human in each of them? What was it that prevented police officers from recognizing the human in 313 people they have killed thus far in 2018?
I want to let that unpleasant question linger. Let us return to our text. It contains an encounter with the holy. Our two disciples were on the road to Emmaus. They discovered the divine. But they did not realize the divine was amongst them until it was too late, until Jesus disappeared.
One of the principal theologians of our Unitarian Universalist tradition is William Ellery Channing. He taught that each of us contains within "the likeness to God." Jesus, Channing believed, was someone who had unlocked the image of God within. He did this by seeing the divine in everything, "from the frail flower to the everlasting stars." Channing might be labelled by more conventional Christians as a gnostic. The gnostics believed that Jesus came not to offer a sacrifice to atone for the sins of the world but to teach us how to shatter earthly illusions and find enlightenment.
This suggests a reading of our text that focuses not on the resurrection of Jesus in the body but the resurrection of Jesus in the spirit. Remember, on the road to Emmaus Jesus appeared from seemingly nowhere. The disciples were walking and there he was. Remember, he disappeared immediately, as soon as the bread was broken.
Maybe what happened was this: as our two disciples debated, and argued, and bickered as they fled down the road to Emmaus they finally understood Jesus's teachings. As they recounted what had happened, the divine became palpable to amongst them. And when they broke bread together they felt the divine stirring within. It was the same feeling they had when they were with Jesus before his execution. They felt Jesus still with them when they recognized the divine in each other. They found each other on the road to Emmaus.
Understood this way, the story is not about what prevents our two disciples from recognizing Jesus. It is about what prevents them from recognizing each other. What was it? What is it that prevents us from recognizing the human in each other?
Let me suggest that failing to recognize the human in each other is an unpleasantly enduring feature in many of our professional lives. As many of you know, in addition to being a minister, I am also an academic. So, let me share some observations from that context. Perhaps they will be familiar to you. A regular feature of academic life is the question and answer sessions that follow presentations and lectures. These sessions have a scripted dynamic. Someone from the audience asks a question, the presenter responds. Harmless enough, such exchanges further the collective project of the intellectual community. Except... these exchanges sometimes include failure of recognition.
Have you witnessed any of the following: the individual who asks the same question no matter the subject of the lecture; or the person who aggressively repeats someone else's query as their own; or the comment in the form of a question? Each of these comes from a failure to listen.
Failures to listen are failures of recognition. They often come from failing to imagine someone else as a conversation partner, as an equal, as another person with whom we are engaged in a shared project. If we lift the curtain behind failures to listen we will frequently find insidious cultural dynamics, corrupting structure of power. I have seen, over and over again, an older male colleague restate a younger female colleague's question as his own. I have seen white academics ignore the words of people of color or try to co-opt their work. I have seen graduate students comment on each other's work not in the spirit of inquiry but in the spirit of currying favor with their faculty. To be honest, I have done some of these things myself.
When I commit them I am locked in my own anxieties, my need to appear smart, my desire to impress, even my longing to be a hero. Instead of listening to what someone is saying, I focus on my own words. And so, I miss the conversation. I do not fully recognize who or what is around me. Have you ever done something similar? How often are we, like our disciples on the road to Emmaus, oblivious to the holy?
Recognizing the human and the divine in each other is hard. Let us think about race. Race is a social construct. Race is a belief. White supremacy is a belief system. It requires that there are people "who believe that they are white," in Ta-Nehisi Coates's memorable words, and that those people act in certain ways and believe particular things.
Most people who believe they are white believe in white normativity. This is the idea that an institution or community is primarily for or of white people. The assumption is that normal people in the institution are white and that other people are somehow aberrations. Religious communities are not immune to this.
The theologian Thandeka came up with a test for white normativity. It is called the "Race Game." The game is straightforward. It has one rule. For a whole week you use the ascriptive word white every time you refer to a European American. For example, when you go home today you might tell a friend: "I went to church this morning. The preacher was an articulate white man. He brought with him his eleven-year old son. That little white boy sure is cute!"
The "Race Game" can be uncomfortable. It can bring up feelings of shame. Thandeka reports that in the late 1990s she repeatedly challenged her primarily white lecture and workshop audiences to play the game for a day and write her a letter or an email describing their experiences. She received one letter. According to Thandeka, the white women who authored it, "wrote apologetically," she could not complete the game, "though she hoped someday to have the courage to do so."
It might seem a little absurd to play the “Race Game” in a community like Ashby that, according to the last census, is 97% white. But, on some level, that is precise the point. We risk failing to recognize each other when we assume that our own experiences are normal and that the experiences of others are aberrations.
Does it require courage to recognize the human and the divine in each other? What was it that prevented our two disciples from recognizing Jesus? What assumptions do each of us hold about what is normal and is not that prevent us from recognizing each other? We could play variations of the Race Game as a test. The Gender Game: "The preacher was a cis-gendered straight presenting man." The Social Class Game: "He was an upper middle-class professional." The Ableism Game: "The able-bodied man with no noticeable neurodiversity." Such games might be difficult to play. They reveal the social constructs that prevent us from recognizing each other.
But something prevented them from recognizing him.
But something prevented them from recognizing each other.
But something prevented us from recognizing each other.
What must we do to recognize each other? Again, I turn to the text for an answer. Recall that our disciples were part of a revolutionary movement. Remember, they had given themselves over to a liberating struggle, a common project. Two thousand years ago they did not accept the status quo of the Roman Empire. Today, we can recognize the divine when we join in struggle against the world's powers and principalities.
Last week’s March for Our Lives could be interpreted as a cry that we, collectively, as a country learn to recognize the human in every person. It was a statement that human lives must come before the right to own highpower firearms. The Black Lives Matter movement of recent years can be understood as an attempt to prompt our historically white supremacist culture to recognize the human in people of color. The Women’s Marches of the past two years are part of an effort to dismantle patriarchal power and, in doing so, create a society that fully recognizes the human in people of all genders.
The first year of the current President’s regime has been been a sickening reminder of what is at stake when we fail to recognize the human. The afflicted are not comforted. The comfortable are not afflicted. The brokenhearted do not have their wounds bound. The stranger is not welcomed. People die from the violence of white supremacy, from the violence of military action, from the violence of state sponsored poverty.
Our disciples finally recognized Jesus because they were part of a revolutionary movement that was committed to welcoming the stranger into its midst. A movement that bound wounds, healed spirits, and denounced violence. But more than that, it challenged people to find the divine amid and amongst themselves. For as Jesus said, "You cannot tell by observation when the kingdom of God comes. You cannot say, "Look, here it is," or "There it is! "For the kingdom of God is among you!"
It is the poets who sum this sermon best.
T. S. Eliot:
"Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
--But who is that on the other side of you?"
Jimmy Santiago Baca:
"the essence of our strength,
each of us a warm fragment,
broken off from the greater
ornament of the unseen,
then rejoined as dust,
to all this is."
denise levertov:
"Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent"
Let us join together in a closing prayer.
Heart's hunger,
holy mystery,
spark that leaps each to each,
source of being
that in our human language
so many us of name God,
stir our hearts
so that we may have the courage
to uncover
all that prevents us from recognizing
and the divine that travels amid
our mortal community.
Grant us the strength,
and the compassion,
that we need to go together
down the revolutionary road,
liberating the human within each of us,
binding the wounds of the broken,
welcoming the stranger,
afflicting comfortable,
comforting the afflicted,
renouncing violence,
and encountering the truth,
the holy is never absent when we join together in struggle.
May we, like our two disciples,
find each other on the road to Emmaus.
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Progress! Creating Safe Routes to Common Ground and a More Connected West Rock Neighborhood
by Joel Tolman, Director of Impact & Engagement
Starting August 26th, CT Transit buses will loop through the West Rock neighborhood, passing by Common Ground on their way to and from downtown New Haven.
Great news: After concerted organizing by members of the Common Ground community and our neighbors in West Rock, CT Transit has committed to significantly improved bus service to our school and neighborhood! Starting on August 26th — in time for the next school year — city buses will loop past Common Ground on their way to and from downtown. This means Common Ground students will be dropped off and picked right at our site, rather than choosing between an extra 15-20 minutes on the bus or braving two dangerous intersections and a bridge with no sidewalks in order to get to school.
Just as importantly, this route change is a big win for West Rock Residents. Students at the federal Job Corps Center and residents at Westville Manor — just up the street from Common Ground — will be able to ride directly to and from downtown for school and work. Because the city bus will now loop through the West Rock neighborhood, people will be able to travel between their homes in New Haven Housing developments, the new West Rock branch of Hill Health Center and the corner store next door, Common Ground, and the programs at the Brennan Rogers Family Resource Center, Solar Youth, and the Boys and Girls Club.
We are making progress on other fronts, as well. At the same community meeting that CT Transit announced these route changes, Traffic, Transportation & Parking Director Doug Hausladen announced that the City of New Haven was ready to take a number of steps toward making a safer, more connected community:
Installing schools safety zone signage, and potentially other traffic calming measures, around Common Ground’s campus.
Placing flashing “your speed” sign coming down the hill toward Common Ground from Job Corps.
Building speed bumps on Level Street, where drivers between Hamden and New Haven often violate speed limits.
Creating bus shelters in the housing developments north of Common Ground’s campus.
Pursuing funding to close the big sidewalk gap in the West Rock neighborhood — seeking to connect Common Ground, Southern Connecticut State University, residents in public housing, and other community resources.
Meadeshia Mitchell (SCSU grad student & community health leader), Ms. Lensley Gay (head of the Brennan Rogers Family Resource Center), and Makia Richardson (neighborhood resident & community health leader) kick off a community meeting.
This progress is possible because of lots of work by lots of people!
For years, West Rock residents and community organizations have been getting organized to improve our neighborhood. Ms. Lensley Gay — head of the Family Resource Center at Brennan Rogers School — has created a space where children and adults can come together to connect with each other and the supports they deserve. Young people and adults have rallied when acts of violence threaten our community. Community anchors like Solar Youth, Common Ground, and New Haven Job Corps have stepped up to support residents and share their own concerns. Staff from the New Haven Housing Authority and Alder Michelle Sepulveda have stepped forward to support these neighborhood-driven efforts.
The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (now housed at Southern Connecticut State University’s School of Public health) stepped up to support this neighborhood organizing — facilitating focus groups related to transportation and economic opportunities, helping to lay the groundwork for community meetings, and supporting a year of work by two neighborhood health leaders: Westville Manor Resident Makia Richardson and SCSU grad student Meadeshia Mitchell.
Last summer — when Common Ground’s farm director was struck and injured while riding her bike to Common Ground — we got organized around a Complete Streets Proposal to improve safety and connectivity in our neighborhood. Common Ground student Elliot Faulkner collected more than 150 signatures on a petition, and parent Montreal Johnson has collected hundreds more. Parents and community members reached out to CT Transit demanding action. The President and other key leaders at Southern Connecticut State University, and members of the West River Watershed Coalition, sent letters of support.
Mayor Toni Harp shares how city departments can respond to resident concerns in West Rock.
This winter and spring, neighborhood residents and community stakeholders showed up in force to a series of community meetings to share their concerns and develop solutions. They met first to identify community priorities and identify spokespeople. At a second meeting, Mayor Toni Harp and members of her leadership staff, along with Transportation commissioner Douglas Solensky and members of his team, showed up to hear our neighborhood’s concerns. And, earlier this spring, residents gathered a third time to hear the commitments that city and CT Transit were ready to make in response to these demands!
Bigger moves in the neighborhood — again, the result of neighborhood organizing and problem-solving by local agencies — have also allowed for this progress. After decades of division, the last stretch of fence separating the New Haven public housing developments up the street from their neighbors in Hamden came down this spring. The removal of the fence allows for busses to loop through the Brookside and Rockview developments for the first time — and, more importantly, for residents to travel freely to and from their neighborhood.
We aren’t done! We need to keep organizing and problem-solving to make sure our students and neighbors are safe and connected. And we need to keep building a stronger, more connected community, ready to face any challenge that heads our way.
Right now, we need to keep following up with City Hall to make sure they move quickly on their commitment to install school zone signs — while also advocating for other traffic calming measures that will slow down traffic around Common Ground’s campus.
YOU can help by signing this petition, or by reaching out to Mayor Toni Harp and Doug Hausladen at the City to express your support for speedy action to improve safety and connectivity in West Rock.
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Paul Turner
After months of research listening to countless number of Cds, we knew we had to find a composer with the versatility of doing music across genres. For Mel, an emotionally frozen hedonist in search of the next high, electronic music, with it’s stark, controlled rhythms was an appropriate choice to reflect his inability to connect with his feelings. The distinctive metallic sounds somehow seemed to reverberate in his cold hard surrounding. For his more tender love scenes with Todd, we decided upon jazz for its deep, sexy and sophisticated late night atmosphere.
As for Ash, apart from the Chinese songs we selected, the Latino flavour appeared to resonate for his character- tango for it’s passion, mambo for it’s quirkiness and samba for it’s colourful and camp vibrancy. On top of being able to produce all that, we also needed a composer who could create cutting edge dance music for the club scenes, cheesy 80’s hi-energy disco for the flashbacks and convincing and evocative Chinese music for Ash’s love scenes. A very tall order indeed for any musician.
Paul is essentially the heart of NUDE MUSIC. A classically trained pianist, he started his working life with Opera North, Northern Ballet and The Really Usefully Theatre Company. He has scored several feature films and soundtracks including “Case 603” for the acclaimed American director Teddy Hayes and he wrote and produced music for Bafta award winning director Eddie Joffe on the film “Treason”, due to be released in 2005. He wrote and produced work for the epic Russian film “The Romanovs” and is set to score a remake of the classic Charles Bronson film “Hard Times” later this year. He has composed numerous television programmes including Resurrection Queen X and Paramount Comedy. Recent commercial work include campaigns for Warburton’s, Virgin Music Awards, Green Flag, Conqueror, The Telegraph, GMTV Weather and Clairol Herbal Essence. Paul is also a trained film and television editor, which as a music composer gives him a unique insight into scoring music to picture.
With his experience, ability, flexibility and patience Paul has been invaluable in helping us find the right notes to flesh out the comedy, emotions and nuances of each scene. The score has been enhanced with contribution from Liu Xiao Hu, a London based Chinese musician using a variety of Chinese wind instruments.
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Chinese Holiday
After a dim sum lunch one day with Richard Tay, an old friend of Chowee’s, we adjourned to his flat to listen to some music. Richard, the owner of Sepia Records (www.sepiarecords.com), has an extensive collection of records by old Chinese Divas dating back several decades. After several hours sifting through his collection and picking out many fantastic songs, we suddenly fell silent. The haunting voice of Bai Kwong – the Chinese Billie Holiday, wafted through the air, lamenting the loss of youth and halcyon days. The song was perfect for the character of Ash. It revealed his traditional romantic idealism with melodramatic effect.
Ghost of Past Dreams
Withering blossoms, fading spring,
Only the sorrowful East Wind is blowing.
Cherry blossoms, morning dew,
Only fills me with melancholy.
Lost youth will never return,
Not to be found for eternity.
Flying swallows and dancing butterflies
Only remind me of days gone by.
The rose-like beauty and the nightingale sweet voice
Battered by the ruthless passing of time.
Ahhh,
I am haunted by the ghost of my past dreams.
What remains is a heart filled with despair.
Even though you search the end of the world.
Left alone in the autumn years,
Last night I danced with the ghost of my past dreams.
We knew we had to have these songs in the film but there was a major problem. With hardly any budget for music clearance, we could barely afford the copyright for one song! But luck is on our side. Richard knew some of these divas personally and made enquiries for us. Negotiations were instigated with EMI to clear the usage of Bai Kwong’s Ghost of Past Dreams and Richard came back and told us that Rebecca Pan, now an art house actress herself was willing to help an independent production. And luck strikes twice as one of my oldest and best friends, Regina Szeto happens to be her niece. Regina kindly agreed to negotiate for us and the deal is sealed. Miss Pan will allow us the use of her songs for no charge. A few of her songs were already high on our wish list, so we jumped on her generous offer.
Sizzling Pan!!
1957, Hong Kong Ceasar Palace Night Club. A Shanghainese girl, Pan Wan Ching was recommended by a friend to temporarily step into the shoes of a singer who was leaving. After rehearsing with the band for three weeks, Rebecca Pan entered the limelight and was on her way to stardom. With her ability to sing in several languages, she started her voyage around the world and became 60’s Hong Kong’s biggest music export. From England, Israel, France, Spain, India, Australia to America her voice could be heard everywhere. Media around the world hailed her as “The Travelling Star”!
Enriched by her adventures and experiences overseas, Pan returned with new and daring ideas which brought her many ‘firsts’ in Hong Kong’s music history.
Rebecca Pan was the first singer in Hong Kong to have a fan club. In the 60’s, fan clubs were a western notion and there were none in Hong Kong no matter how popular a singer was. Diamond Records, a Portuguese company where Pan was contracted, decided to form a fan club for her. ‘Nie Nie, Wo, Wo’, was specially written for Pan and became a big hit and the fan club’s anthem. In Cut Sleeve Boys, this cute and sweet love ditty is used in the scenes when Ash dresses up as a woman before meeting and later, visiting Ross, the man of his dreams.
NEE NEE WOR WOR
Nee Nee….wonderful,
Wor wor….I love you,
No matter what I do dear, I always think of you dear,
But never know if you think of me.
I always dream about you, I just can’t live without you,
But never know if you’re in love with me.
Whenever you need me, I hurry come to you I won’t be late,
But next time you need me, I’ll say I have another date.
Next time I’ll be clever, and let you wait forever,
And then I’ll know if you’re in love with me
When Pan first came to Hong Kong from Shanghai in the 50’s, she loved nothing better than to sit next to the radio learning to sing English songs. One day, she heard a jazz number and fell in love with it immediately. From then on, she became strongly inspired and influenced by the style. In 1957 she studied jazz under Lee Bao Suen and had a song especially written for her – ‘Love Market’, also featured in ‘Cut Sleeve Boys’. However, in that era, Hong Kong was not ready for Jazz and the cynical lyrics- ‘when they say love is forever, it’s only a cheque that’s bounced’- was far too bitter for the romantic and sentimental Hong Kong public.
Love Market
Love is like a trade, don’t take it seriously.
Don’t squander your money and choose the right buyer.
A lot of people trade sand for gold.
Some lovers are a dime a dozen.
Some are fake and some are real,
Think carefully about the going price,
And never believe what the buyers say.
When they say love is forever,
It’s only a cheque that’s bounced.
To be troubled by love is silly,
To kill yourself for love is stupid,
Love is a game, don’t take it seriously
If you don’t like the goods,
Move on to the next store.
For the love market never closes!
Pan’s other great love is Broadway musicals. She dreamt of performing in an all Mandarin musical. So in 1972, she invested her life savings to produce the first Mandarin Broadway Musical, “Pai Niang Niang-The Legend of the White Snake”. This East meets West musical was controversial from it’s first performance. Some critics felt the show was ground-breaking, a successful fusion of Eastern and Western cultures but others called it ‘Chinese wine in a Western Bottle’. ‘ If Loving You Means Hurting You’, the most successful song from the musical is featured in Cut Sleeve Boys following Ash’s discovery of Ross’s dark secret.
If Loving You Means Harming You
I’ve no hatred, I only have love, why do I end up harming you?
If loving you means harming you, I would never have loved.
After ‘Pai Niang Niang’, Pan performed her swansong in Singapore before retiring. Though she stopped performing for seven years, music never left her heart. In 1980, China opened up to the West and Shanghai became a hot spot of the world. Hong Kong and Singapore held ‘Shanghai Nights’ themed events. But where could they find a Shanghainese star? The answer was obvious: Rebecca Pan. She epitomised a Shanghai woman – elegant, sophisticated, fun-loving, westernised and ambitious. This image so strongly associated with her that director Wong Kar Wai invited Pan to star in his international breakthrough movie ‘Days of Being Wild’. Pan played an ageing Shanghainese courtesan, the stepmother of Leslie Cheung’s character. The role won her both the Golden Horse Award (the Chinese Oscars) and the Asian Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1990. With her new career as an actress, Pan starred in several internationally successful art-house films notably “In The Mood For Love” and “Flowers of Shanghai”.
At the age of 70 she continues touring and recording, always pushing herself to the limit and never afraid to be adventurous. Not one to conform, Rebecca Pan is unique and a legend in every sense!
The producers of Cut Sleeve Boys would like to extend their gratitude and thanks to the sizzling Ms Pan for her generosity in allowing the use of her songs in the film.
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA).
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) was established in 1959, and is located 156 kilometers west of Arusha. Ngorongoro Crater is within NCA. The NCA is not a National Park, it is a Protected Area. “Protected areas” means areas entrance allowed by permit only including National Parks, Game Reserves and Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) covers some 8300 square kilometers. It boasts of the finest blend of Mountains landscapes shaped by rifts and volcanoes, wildlife, people and archaeological sites in Africa. The concept of multiple land use in a Conservation perspective is a deviation from a Traditional approach (National Parks & Game Reserves) of regarding conservation as complete absenteeism of human Interference.
It becomes one of the first Program in the World to pioneering experiment in multiple land use for the benefits of both Maasai people and Wildlife in Natural traditional setting. The multiple land use philosophy in the area is to maintain the co-existence of human (with social and economic factors) and Wildlife in a natural tradition setting. Pastoralism, conservation of natural resources and Tourism are the three Components that are considered to be compatible in the area. NCA is often called ‘African Eden’ and the ‘Eight Wonder of the Natural World’. Traditional African pastoralists Co-operate with Tanzania’s government bodies to help preserve the natural resources of the area and to ensure a fantastic experience for Tourists. NCA has more intrinsic and aesthetic values than what is needed by Tourists. One Researcher said “They can not know that they need it until they have it” It means unless you visit NCA, you can’t know its beauty and marvels. It has more diversity and stunning features than any protected area (National Park, Game Reserve) in the World.
Ngorongoro is the World Heritage Site and has also been declared an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. This is due to its outstanding Wildlife and Cultural values.
NCA has many Fascinating featuresexplains to you in detail 2 most outstanding among other features. (i) NGORONGORO CRATER (ii) OLDUVAI GORGE.
(i) NGORONGORO CRATER.
Ngorongoro is the largest/huge unbroken caldera in the World. It is also known as collapsed volcano, this natural amphitheatre have 250 square kilometers and 23 km wide. The Crater has very steep walls of an average depth of 600 meters. It’s at the altitude of 2,286 m above sea level. The crater alone has over 20,000 large animals (half of them zebra & wildebeest). This includes some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Animals are free to leave or enter the crater but most them stay because of the plentiful water and food available in the crater floor throughout the year. There are also gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog. Such vast numbers attract predators a plenty, mainly lion and hyena but also cheetah and leopard. More than 100 species of birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted here. Countless flamingos form a pink blanket over the soda lakes. For the best viewing and photography, approach the animals slowly and quietly and stay on the official tracks. Our Driver Guide will show you the Best of Game viewing.
(ii) OLDUPAI (OLDUVAI) GORGE;
It was here that Dr. Louis Leakey discovered the remains of Homo hablis or “handy man” regarded as mankind’s first step on the ladder of human evolution. Humans have being part of the Ngorongoro’s landscape for millions of years. The earliest sign of mankind in the conservation area is at LAETOLI, where hominid foot prints are preserved in volcanic rock 3,600,000 years old. The story continues at Olduvai (Olduvai) Gorge a river canyon cut 100 meters deep through the volcanic soils of the Serengeti plains. Buried in the layers are the remains of animals and hominids that lived and died around a shallow lake amid grass plains and woodlands, from 2,000,000 years ago to the present. The four different kinds of hominids found there show a gradual increase in brain size and in the complexity of their stone tools. But many more fossils have been discovered here including those of prehistoric elephants, giant horned sheep and enormous ostriches. Visitors can learn more details of this fascinating story by visiting the gorge where guides will give on site interpretation of the gorge. Oldupai Museum at the gorge is also very useful for information and education.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) has a number of other stunning features. These are shifting sands, Nasera Rock, Olkarien Gorge, Empakai Crater, Olmoti Crater, Active Oldonyo Lengai, Grassland, Lake Makat, Swamps, Lerai Forest; Acacia Woodlands and Complex Forests.
SHIFTING SANDS, North of Oldupai Gorge– a little black sand dune marches across the plains, covering 17 metres a year. Blown by a Strong steady wind it somehow maintains its size and somehow maintains its size and elegant shape.
GEOLOGY. Most of Rocks here are of Volcanic origin.
PEOPLE AND LIVESTOCK. In the past few thousands of years, a succession of cattle herding people colonized this area from the North. The most numerous and recent are the Maasai who arrived about 200 years ago. Their strong insistence on their Traditional custom and costume interests many visitors. Today there is over 42,000 Maasai pastoralists living in the area with their cattle, goats and sheep Visitors are welcome to learn about the culture of the Maasai and buy their handcrafts only in designated bomas commonly known as “Cultural Bomas”. Apart from commonly Wildlife Safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro and Meru climbing, game viewing Adventures and Beach Holidays, one can plan this extra ordinary adventure in lifetime. This extra ordinary Adventure is walking in the Ngorongoro. Walking in the Ngorongoro Wilderness is both adventurous and rewarding. Great opportunities are now available for long walking Safaris and short hikes. Enquiries are invited for walking from Olmoti areas where Visitors could walk includes the Northern Highland Forest reserve, the Eastern Serengeti plains that are Nasera Rock, Gol Mountains and Olkarien Gorge.
There are different detailed itineraries for Walking Safaris to the following points. Oldonyo Lengai Oldoinyo Lengai is the only active Sodium Carbonite Volcano in the world. This trip will take you to LakeNatron to view the flamingo breeding centre as well as taking you to the summit of this amazing volcano. This trip is 4 days long and is perfect to take either before or after a Kilimanjaro Climb. Lake Natron Flamingos breeding in the harsh soda lake conditions. Encircled by the Great Rift walls broken by the beautiful gorge of the Engaresero River. Ngorongoro Highland Trekking The Ngorongoro Highland Trek is a full on walking safari adventure. This 10 day trip takes you hiking round Ngorongoro crater and the surrounding area and also includes a climb of Oldoinyo Lengai. Ngorongoro Crater Trek The Ngorongoro Crater Trek is the baby brother of the Ngorongoro Highland trek. It is a 7 day adventure which covers slightly less ground than the Highland trek but also includes a climb of Oldonyo Lengai. Perfect as and on to a Kilimanjaro Climb. This is just few to mention but when you arrive in Ngorongoro Conservation area, you won’t be exhausted. There are so many places to Visit. There is unlimited information and we have revealed this Piece of Information to the public so that to awake the Spirit of Searching more about Ngorongoro Crater. Our advice is that Visiting Ngorongoro Conservation Area is the ideal way to know the physical Nature and so be proud to be well informed about the 8th Wonder of the Natural World.
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Cycling in Cities Research Program
safety & travel mode
safety, cycling, helmet laws
safety & route type
injury circumstances & severity
evidence-based training
Motivating Cycling
preferred route types
mapping bikeability
cycling & bikeway proximity
Study Publications
Brochures, Letters, Media
Our goal is to make research from the Cycling in Cities program, and elsewhere, into tools that are useful for policy-makers, planners, and the public.
We received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project with two components: an evidence-based audit of education materials related to cycling; and a tool to allow cities and citizens to evaluate the bikeability of their neighborhoods.
Creating bikeability maps
A large body of research has focused on walkability, and there are now popular online tools that allow individuals to calculate a “Walk Score” for their neighbourhood.
However, there has been little effort to define and map “bikeability”. There are important differences between walkability and bikeability. For example, whereas sidewalks are important to walking, our research has shown that bike routes (especially those separated from traffic) and flat terrain are key factors to encourage cycling.
Given that determinants of walking and cycling are different, and cycling is an increasingly popular travel choice, we created a measure of bikeability to add to the transportation planning toolbox. The components of bikeability are based on the results of our research on cycling motivators and deterrents. Our bikeability measure was piloted in the Vancouver area (“bikeability heat map” shown above).
We teamed with the Seattle-based company that developed Walk Score to create Bike Score based in part on our bikeability research. Environmental factors important to cyclists are used to calculate Bike Score:
cycling infrastructure (separated bike lanes and bike paths, local street bikeways, painted bike lanes)
topography (hilliness)
desirable amenities (grocery stores, restaurants, schools, etc.) and road connectivity (both are components of Walk Score, which was used to capture these elements within Bike Score)
Bike Score is calculated for each location in a city, then mapped. The score can range from a low of 0 (deep red) to a high of 100 (dark green). By examining the “heat maps” of Bike Score for their city, municipal planners can locate neighbourhoods that are currently underserved and target them for improvements. The maps can be separated into their component parts (bike lanes, hills, destinations) to allow planners to determine which components contribute to a lower or higher score in a neighborhood. Individuals can use the maps to choose areas to live or cycle in.
Sample Bike Score Heat Map for Calgary
In May 2013 Bike Score was extended to include 12 Canadian cities and ~ 150 US cities. The graph below shows data for the initial 10 Canadian cities (May 2012). In cities with a higher average Bike Score, more people cycle to work (2011 Census). Of the 10 Canadian cities, the highest average scores were for Victoria, Vancouver and Montreal, and these three also had the highest % of commute trips by bike (from 3.2 to 10.6% of trips). It is important to note that there is lots of room to improve, since Bike Score averages for Canadian cities are all below 75. And cycling in most Canadian cities pales in comparison to cities in northern Europe with 10 to 40% of commute trips by bike.
Average Bike Score for 10 Canadian Cities vs. % of Commute Trips by Bike
We also examined the relationship between Bike Score and % of commute trips by bike in 24 US and Canadian cities, at the census tract level. The association was not strong and differed by city, but on average census tracts with Bike Scores over 90 had 4% more commute trips by bike than those with Bike Scores of 25 or lower.
Last updated on March 30, 2019 @9:08 am
“Bike Score” Summary
We partnered with Walk Score, to create Bike Score. Heat maps are now available for 12 Canadian cities and ~ 150 American cities, based on our bikeability methods and our motivators and deterrents research.
This mapping tool allows neighbourhoods to be compared by individuals who want to decide where to live or cycle, and by planners who want to decide where and how to improve cycling conditions in their cities.
We presented this at Velo-City Global 2012:
Bike Score: Applying research to build web-based tools to promote cycling [pdf]
We also examined the utility of Bike Score as a potential predictor of cycling to work mode share. [pdf]
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To rejoice in thy strength
Byrd O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
Palestrina Kyrie from Missa brevis
Byrd Justorum animae
Palestrina Gloria from Missa brevis
Byrd Laetentur coeli
Palestrina Credo from Missa brevis
Byrd Sing joyfully
Sweelinck Unter der Linden Grüne (WN organ)
Palestrina Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa brevis
Byrd Miserere mei
Palestrina Agnus Dei from Missa brevis
Byrd O quam gloriosum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), primarily a prolific composer of masses and motets, was one of the towering figures of late sixteenth-century music; at the time of his death he was considered by some to be the finest musician in the world. Despite its title, the Missa brevis of 1570 is one of the most substantial and sonorous of all Palestrina’s four-part mass-settings. The music has a strong character with the motif of a falling minor third, usually followed by upward movement by step, appearing not only at the beginning of most movements but frequently during them, for instance in the remarkable sequence in all the parts of the ‘Amen’ in the Credo. The second, exquisite Agnus Dei expands to SSATB, with the ascending scale at the beginning of the first Agnus inverted at the start of the second.
William Byrd (1539-1623), a pupil of Thomas Tallis, was the most prodigiously talented and prolific English composer of his time. He became Organist and Master of the Choristers at Lincoln Cathedral in 1563, where he produced English works for Anglican services, before moving to the Chapel Royal in London in 1572. There he worked jointly with Tallis, and in 1575 they secured a royal patent for the printing and distribution of part-music. During the 1580s and 1590s Byrd’s Catholicism became the driving force for his music; he wrote and openly published motets and masses, almost certainly composed for small chapel gatherings.
O Lord, let thy servant Elizabeth was written during Byrd’s time at the Chapel Royal. Its text comes from Psalm 21, customized to address the queen by name. A relatively sober composition for SAATTB, it ends in an expansive Amen. The offertory Justorum animae, for the feast of All Saints and from the Gradualia of 1605, is a serene reminder that those who have died lie in the peace of God. Set for five voices (SSATB), it evokes a mood of tender confidence and faith, with gradual and subtle transitions between homophony and polyphony, harmonic dissonances and suspensions becoming apparent as the piece unfolds. The five-part (SSATB) Laetentur caeli and its seconda pars Orietur in diebus tuis come from the Cantiones Sacrae of 1589. A setting of the Processional Respond for Advent Sunday, they characterised by a virtuosic command of florid, imitative counterpoint. The six-part Sing Joyfully, for SSAATB and with words from Psalm 81, is Byrd’s most popular and arguably best anthem. There is some marvellous madrigalean word-painting, especially at ‘Blow the trumpet in the new moon’.
Published in his 1589 Cantiones Sacrae, the elaborate and penitential motet Ne irascaris, Domine, along with its seconda pars Civitas sancti tui, is one of Byrd’s masterpieces and must be one of his most forceful acts of protest against the persecution of English Catholics. The setting is of verses from Isaiah 64. The atmosphere is of quiet polyphonic contemplation, with the melody contained within the range of a fourth, before the stark homophony of ‘Sion deserta facta est’. The final phrase is a moving lament for Jerusalem – a metaphor for the Catholic Church in England – in which the poignant words ‘desolata est’ are heard a remarkable 54 times. The five-part Miserere mei, for SATBB, is from the second Cantiones Sacrae of 1591 and is a quiet prayer: a clear homophonic plea for mercy moves quickly into beautiful imitation, with especially powerful settings of ‘iniquitatem’ and ‘misericordiam’. O quam gloriosum and its seconda pars Benedictio et claritas also come from the 1589 Cantiones Sacrae. The texts used in the two sections had liturgical links with the Office texts for the Feast of All Saints, although Byrd’s publication of it was as a ‘sacred song’ rather than a liturgical piece. The text of the first section is derived from the Magnificat antiphon ‘O how glorious is the kingdom’, with that of the second from the service of None, ‘Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever’ (Revelation 7:12). The atmosphere gleams with lucid major triads and an even, suffused light.
The Netherlands composer, organist and teacher Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was one of the most important musical figures of his time: a renowned player, one of the first major keyboard composers of Europe and a sought-after teacher. Calvinist practice prohibited the performance of organ music during the service and Sweelinck held a civic position, performing concerts at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. His compositions include many variation sets on both sacred and secular tunes, including the set of four variations on the folk-tune Oonder een linde groen (Under the green linden tree).
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Baltimore Cops: Man Injured in Transport
CALL THE MEDIC
Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died this weekend a week after his arrest, was taken into custody "without force or incident," according to the police report. "During transport to Western District via wagon transport the defendant suffered a medical emergency and was immediately transported to Shock Trauma via medic," the officer wrote. At a press conference on Monday, the police commissioner said that Gray had asked for medical attention but did not receive it. The van was taken to Western District and then a medic was called to attend to Gray, who underwent extensive surgery and died on Sunday.
Read it at The Baltimore Sun
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Google Places (Maps & Local), Local Search, Loci - Important Articles for the Year
Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009
January 11, 2010 Mike Blumenthal 5 Comments
It seems to me that the two most important developments in local search during 2009 both came from Google. I suppose that’s not much of a surprise in the current local environment, is it? Here’s my top two:
Google Shows Local/Map Results on Generic Queries — you wrote about this on your blog, I wrote about it on Search Engine Land, and many others wrote about it, too. I called it a game changer. It’s huge because all of a sudden you have local business listings showing up prominently for thousands of keywords/phrases that they never appeared on before. It excused lazy search behavior. More importantly, it opened up a whole spectrum of exposure opportunity for small businesses. All of a sudden it was possible to rank on generic terms like “insurance agent” and “italian restaurant.” Huge development, and no surprise that both Bing and Yahoo had followed suit by the end of the year.
Google Launches Place Pages — I was in the middle of a two-month travelogue when this hit, and didn’t really appreciate it until much later when I got home and had time to see what it was all about. I think this will become a game changer, too. This idea of a single URL for “every place in the world,” as Google said (with typical hubris), is really compelling. It’s Google doing what the Yelps and Citysearches and IYP sites have been doing, so it’s kinda of a catch-up move in one sense … but Google has so much traffic and so much interest from business owners who want to be found. This can’t help but be big. I mean, Google’s already using place pages to show real estate listings; what else can they use them for?
And I’m shocked that Google isn’t indexing these pages. I suspect they will at some point. The URLs are already fairly SEO-friendly and some of the pages have really good content. Why not index them? So what if they’re already available in the 7-pack listings; why would Google include business listings from Citysearch or Yelp that may have less content and offer a poorer user experience, when it could show a Google place page in the organic search results?
(The flip side of all this Google talk, of course, is the ongoing saga of Google’s terrible support for small/local business owners. Miriam Ellis wrote a marvelous article about that. And no one’s done a better job of writing about Google’s ongoing problems with spam, hijacked listings, and general technical incompetence than you. So Google’s local track record is far from perfect … still.)
Some other things that stand out for me from 2009:
David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors remains the de facto standard for information about local SEO, and I could retire if I had a dollar for every time I’ve suggested a small biz owner read it.
I continue to love and be fascinated by the convergence of local search and social media. Small business owners were especially creative with Twitter last year, and I think that’s just the start of things. Twitter itself has made no secret of its plans to reach out to small businesses with formal services and tools, and they’ve said that local is an important part of their plans, so it should be interesting to see what develops in 2010.
And I think we collectively tend to under-report on Bing Maps and Local. I’ve always received a lot of traffic to my blog from people looking to learn how to get listed on MSN/Bing maps, how to optimize for it, etc. I documented some of that in this post, showing that eight of the top 50 keywords that send traffic to my blog are about Bing/MSN local, and only four of the top 50 are related to Google maps/local. I suspect that means something, though it might just be that you’re getting all the Google traffic. 🙂
Matt’s Bio:
Matt McGee is the Assignment Editor at Search Engine Land, and offers SEO consulting and training to small business owners (and sometimes big business owners, too). He blogs regularly at Small Business Search Marketing and Hyperlocal Blogger.
Loci2009: Matt McGee's Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009 by Mike Blumenthal
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5 thoughts on “Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009”
With a bunch of small local business websites, one has been strong enough to rank highly and get that “generic” query traffic for years.
This year, the big difference out of google, was during the periods when the 7pac was showing (with the business ranked #1 through most of the geography) and the high generic rankings co-incided Not only was there a ton of traffic….BUT….coversions just SOARED!!!!!
The visibility of a map coinciding w/ a search w/ probable local intent…but no local geo modifier is actually a tremendous boon for local businesses, and of course a dagger into the hearts of all the directories, IYP’s, vertical directories, etc…..that now sit way below the 7pac.
A very big deal, indeed, for the local search industry!!!
Matt (57 comments) says:
Earlpearl, if you managed to get a client to rank on page one for terms like “insurance agent” and “italian restaurant” years ago, you’re a much better SEO than me. 🙂
Dan (39 comments) says:
thanks for a great read 🙂
Jimmy (6 comments) says:
While google are showing local listings on generic search terms it does seem to be quite random as to what words trigger it, I am not sure if this is to do with words that they deem should trigger these searches or if its more that they dont have a “local” supplier of x in which case we will see more and more instance of this.
I think that the amount of focus that these local searches get at the top of the page will drop over time, at the moment they take up the whole of the page above the fold on the majority of setups.
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Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse
Thread: Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse
5 March Washington Post - Don't Send a Lion to Catch a Mouse by Shankar Vedantam.
...Two political scientists recently examined 250 asymmetrical conflicts, starting with the Peninsular War. Although great powers are vastly more powerful today than in the 19th century, the analysis showed they have become far less likely to win asymmetrical wars. More surprising, the analysis showed that the odds of a powerful nation winning an asymmetrical war decrease as that nation becomes more powerful.
The analysis by Jason Lyall at Princeton University and Lt. Col. Isaiah Wilson III at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point shows that the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003.
The same trend was evident when the researchers studied only asymmetrical conflicts involving the United States. The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war.
Essentially, what Lyall and Wilson are saying is that if you want to catch a mouse, you need a cat. If you hire a lion to do the job because it is bigger and stronger, the very strength and size of the lion can get in the way of getting the job done...
More at the link.
TROUFION
Four quotes from the Vedantam article:
"...the likelihood of a great power winning an asymmetrical war went from 85 percent during 1800-1850 to 21 percent during 1950-2003."
"The more industrialized a powerful country becomes, the more its military becomes technologically powerful, the less effective it seems to be in an asymmetrical war."
"The rise of nationalism over the past two centuries and the revulsion that colonialism now inspires might also explain the declining ability of major powers to subjugate weaker nations."
"While the findings are of immediate interest because of the situation in Iraq, the social scientists are really trying to address a systemic issue: America has gotten stuck in the Hollywood notion that a military with ever more powerful armaments is a more effective military."
I would love to get a full copy of the report this article is based on. It opens up many questions. Least of all what has been the effect of the communications and transportation advancements: the speed of horse and sail 1800-1850 to the speed of airplanes, radios and digital sat com. Also what role has the change in sensabilities had on these operations (particularly to the US and Western Powers). For instance: In 1800 a white male could own slaves, and generally treat them worse than draft animals, a ships captain was omnipotent holding the right to life and death at sea, orders from the President to an Expeditionary force would cover six month blocks of time or more. Further the average in-country tour was measured in years not months. Colonialism, manifest destiny, superior races, civilizing effects, were all considered normal practice and accepted while genocide was not even heard of. The world was a fundamentally different place.
The thesis analogies are good to work with but they sound more like excuses as to why we (US) are not 'winning' today. Does the actual report offer anything remotely resembling a solution to the stated problem?
While I fully believe there is no cookie cutter answer to small wars, there are trends. There are successful tactical-operational and strategic actions that can bring about victory in small wars regardless of the size-strength and capability of a nation. But again as I have not seen the actual thesis yet I withold any further comment.
Need Report
I'd like to see the full report. I'd like to make my own determination that the correlation drawn is meaningful rather than accidental (or to use Aristotelian terms, "essential" rather than accidental, or part of the actual essence of being a large armed forces). In other words, the size and technological superiority may nothing whatsoever to do with winning or losing small wars. The author may have landed on something that is uncorrelated to the outcome, and thus the thesis may be unsubstantiated.
Interesting article, but who knows unless we see the report?
Difference of sensibilities
Just to add a period note to reinforce the changing times-changing means, here is a note from the Boxer Rebellion, in other words why what worked in the past doesn't always translate too well today:
Tientsin: Allied Proclamation to the Inhabitants
To the Inhabitants of the City of Tientsin:
In bombarding the city of Tientsin the allied forces only replied to the attack made by the rebels on the foreign settlements.
At present, as your authorities, forgetting their duties, have deserted their posts, the allied forces consider it their duty to establish in the city a temporary administration, which you all have to obey. This administration will protect everyone wishing to deal in a friendly manner with foreigners, but will punish without mercy everyone who causes trouble.
Let the bad people tremble, but the good people should feel reassured and quietly return to their houses and begin their usual work. Thus peace will be restored.
Respect this.
Tientsin, the 16th July, 1900.
Allemagne: Von Usedom, Capitaine de Navire.
Autriche Hongrie: J. Tudrak, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
États Unis d'Amérique: Colonel Meade, American Marines.
France: De Pelacol, Colonel.
Grande-Bretagne: Le Général Dorward, Captain Bayly.
Italie: G. Sirianni, Lieutenant de Vaisseau.
Japon: Le Général Fukushima.
Russie: Vice-Amiral Alexieff.
Well, this isn't quite the whole report - its a pdf of a draft on the subject that was to be presented at the 2006 Annual American Political Science Association Conference held last August:
The American Way of War and Peace in Comparative Perspective
Why do states lose to weaker foes in so-called “small” wars? The United States, for example, enjoys a reputation for unmatched tactical proficiency on the battlefield yet has witnessed a post-1945 decline in its ability to secure its political aims in war. Using a new dataset of small wars and insurgencies (1800-2003), we argue the paradox of tactical success but strategic failure has afflicted all states since 1900. While crude indicators of military and economic power are an excellent predictor of war outcomes in the nineteenth century, such variables are no longer tied to political victory after 1900. Indeed, we argue that as states embrace the “modern” way of warfare – typified by mechanized warfare that uses rapid decisive operations (RDO) to strike an adversary’s center of gravity – they become less capable of winning small wars and insurgencies. Two variables serve to lock states onto this suboptimal path: (1) the process of industrialization and the rise of market-based economies and (2) a cultural understanding of modern warfare as appropriate, indeed, required, for civilized states. The paper uses a nested research design that pairs large-N statistical test (including fractal pooling) with a within-case comparison of American operations in Iraq (2003-06).
John T. Fishel
Rancho La Espada, Blanchard, OK
250 cases - what are they?
Interesting article in the Post and thanks to Jed for the full draft article. I scanned the article for a list of the cases - haven't had time to read the whole thing yet - but could not find a list. That,alone, gives mepause.When Max Manwaring and I wrote our origninal piece in Small Wars and Insurgencies, wepublished the entire list of 43 cases. So, I wonder what the cases are. For example, do the authors address every single Indian War in the US beginning with 1800? I should note that the outcome, despite some significant setbacks for the US Army such as the Little Bighorn, was victory in every case! In all the post-WWII insurgencies in Latin America, there have only been 2 victories for the insurgents - Castro in Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (1979). So, the definition of victory and defeat is of importance as well. The track record of insurgents is simply not very good. So, at a minimum, caution is indicated when we read the paper in its entirety.
goesh
Good point about the Indian wars, John T. From 1777 - 1787, in Kentucky alone, just over 1,000 settlers were killed or captured. The Shawnee were one of the main opponents in this phase of expansion yet by 1800, their power was pretty much negated. The likes of George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, experts in COIN at the time, saw to it. To give an example of their daring and ability, in 1789, Clark sent 3 scouts deep into Shawnee territory, Chillocothe to be exact, their principal village. That would be the equivilant of sending 3 men up to Fallujah during the initial invasion of Iraq to do some scouting/recon. They were that confident of their ability and that willing to take necessary, unexpected risks. Boonesborough and Franks Fort had been repeatedly hit in force and there was considerable marauding and Boone and Clark got wind of another force massing to the north and sent 3 men on a recon mission. Now that's classic, affective COIN doing the unexpected, high risk with the potential for real success. What Shawnee war leader would expect 3 white men to come snoopin' and poopin' deep into their turf? The mission was both a success and failure as Clark didn't expect his scouts to disobey ROE. They got up there, did their recon then took some Shawnee horses. Talk about balls, huh? Anyway, this apparently made the Shawnees more angry than the simple fact of scouting them. They gave chase, captured Kenton and killed my ancestrol Grandfather, Alexander Montgomery, at the Ohio river but the third man, whose name slips my mind, got away and returnd to his CO with the Intel. Typical of the asymentrical warfare our nation has had to engage in and the opponents we have had to face, the Shawnees repeatedly slapped Kenton's face with Grandpa's scalp ( at least they didn't put Grandpa's underwear on his head) held Kenton captive and frequently tortured him before he was able to escape. He ran the gauntlet 3 times. They didn't do beheadings back then, they burned people at the stake instead.
There are lots of details and particulars left out in reports such as this that essentially claim failure of our Nation but there is an accumulation of lessons learned, there is collective imprinting that becomes self-sustaining, creative and proactive in and of itself from lessons learned. It endures the test of time and that's what counts. Reports such as this may well cite the battle of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn as failures, but do they address the change of tactics needed for successful COIN? Following the defeats in the summer of 1876, the hostile were finally pursued in the winter. The troops were issued buffalo coats and winter logistics were put in place. In the spring of 77', Crazy Horse and Gall were done fighting and only Sitting Bull held out but was spending most of his time in Grandmother's Land (Canada). Some of the world's best light cavalry were done fighting by the summer of 1877, one year after two major defeats.
Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
43 Cases
Originally Posted by John T. Fishel
Can you provide a list of your 43 cases? I wonder how many of the Africa cold wars show up?
This paper has several implications for the study of warfare and its practice. It is clear, for example, that there is no uniform logic to warfare: states that excel at Type I war are precisely those states most at risk for suffering political defeat in so-called small wars. This points to both the need to bound our theories of conflict to specific types of conflict as well as to engage in fractal pooling to capture how variables’ significance change temporally. The results presented here do, however, point to the fact that leading explanations – both power-based realist theories and regime type accounts – are inadequate for explaining war outcomes outside of conventional conflicts. What we need now are better measures of more qualitative variables such as force employment and command climate at the unit level in order to capture how culture and economics interact to shape patterns of warfare.
The paper’s findings also shed some light into current debates about US force restructuring. In particular, the paper raises the question of whether the current “Revolution in Military Affairs” is not, in fact, locking the US even further into a suboptimal path of war-fighting. To be sure, modular force restructuring and other technological innovations promise to deliver devastating amounts of firepower at the tactical level. Yet such practices may simply exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, the problems facing mechanized modern forces in Type II and III wars. An appreciation of how armies in the nineteenth century fared and, in particular, their use of local intelligence, foraging practices, and sustained interaction with the local populace over lengthy deployments, may lead to more successful tactics and outcomes. Interestingly, the paper suggests that the real revolution in warfare may not be RDO-type operations post-1918 but the opposite: the embrace of asymmetric tactics and methods by weaker opponents at the turn of the century. Devolution may, in fact, be the revolution in warfare. In sum, the paper’s findings, if still tentative, suggest that there is profit in rethinking the links between the political economy of war, market-based principles, and the way states (and militaries) conceptualize why and how fight.
What I did not see in my quick read of the paper is an adequate examination of the leap of faith made regarding common military practices in the Age of Colonial Imperialism and how those practices--foraging to pick one--might play out in the 21st Century. The closest they come to this is in lightly discussing differences between the 101st and 4thID.
Interestingly, distance is highly significant and positively correlated with victory. This is a surprising result, for it suggests that states fighting insurgencies are more likely to win the greater the distance from their home capitals. By contrast, this result disappears and turns slightly negative in the 1900-2003 era. In effect, states in the nineteenth century appear to have had better power projection capabilities – if measured in terms of victories, and not quantities of material and men – than their twentieth century counterparts.
Here too is another weakpoint: the authors came up with the factor of "distance" as a physical measure and then to my mind misinterpret their own findings: that 19th Century States had great power projection than 20th Century states. What is missed is that the key variable in the equation was communications and what Dave Dillegge has talked about on here as strategic compression.
All of that said, however, I do have great empathy for the argument that our classic warfighting is defined by our own cultural parameters and we change only incrementally--usually at great cost. We go back to what we are most comfortable with and our arguments to support that position take on "10 Commandments-like" qualities.
Last edited by Tom Odom; 03-06-2007 at 02:22 PM.
Tom and others,
The full cite is "Insurgency & counterinsurgency: Toward a New Analytical Approach" in SMALL WARS & INSURGENCIES, Vol 3 No 3 winter 1992, Frank Cass, London.
"43 Internal Conflicts Involving Western Powers 1945 -1983"
1. Chinese Revolution Ph V 1945 -49
2. Vietnamese War for Independence 1945 -54
3. Israel War for Independence 1945 - 49
4. Indonesian War for Independence 1945 - 47
5. Algerian Troubles 1945
6. Greek Civil War 1945 - 49
7. Madagascar Uprising 1947
8. Malaya 1948 - 60
9. Huk Rebellion 1948 - 54
10. Colombia (La Violencia) 1948 - 53
11. Mau Mau 1952 - 56
12. Shifta Insurgency Eritrea 1946 - 52
13. Morocco Indepandence 1952 -56
14. Cyprus 1955 -59
15. Guatemalan Coup 1954
16. Algeria 1954 - 62
17. Vietnames Reunification Ph I 1954 - 62
18. Cameroon Civil War 1960 - 61
19. Cuba 1956 - 59
20. Spanish Morocco 1957 - 58
21. Muscat-Oman 1957 -59
22. Togoland 1957
23. Jordan 1958
24. Angola 1960 - 75
25. Venezuela 1961 -64
26. Bay of Pigs 1961
27. Vietnamese Reunification Ph II 1962 - 73
28. Brunei 1962
29. Guinea Bissau Ind Ph I 1962 -66
30. Oman 1965 - 75
31. Aden 1964 -67
32. Rafdan 1964
33. Mozambique 1964 - 74
34. Aden Crisis 1966 - 67
35. Guatemala 1966 -68
36. Bolivia 1967
37. Equatorial Africa 1969
38. Argentina 1970 -80
39. Moros 1972 -83
40. Uruguay 1972 - 80
41. Namibia Ph I 1973 - 80
42. Nicaragua 1972 - 79
43. Central African Empire 1979
Although there can be some argument, my count of these has 14 cases where the Western Power was on the losing end of the conflict. 14 of 43 (33%).
Congo/Zaire Wars and Angola
I would add the following to the list:
Congo 1960-1963: Belgium, US, UN: Government and UN "win"
Subset Katangan Secession: Belgium versus Congo, US, and UN: Congo win
Congo 1963-1965 US, Belgium, Congo versus Simbas with some later PRC assistance: Congo win
Angola 1975-1977(?) US, Holden Roberto (FNLA), Zaire versus MPLA, Cuba, USSR: MPLA "win"
Zaire 1977-1978 (Shaba 1 and 2) France, Belgium, US, Morocco, Zaire versus East Germany, Angola; Zaire win
That would make the total 47 with 15 cases where the Western power lost.
J Wolfsberger
Also from Shankar Vedantam's article:
Originally Posted by SWJED
The Peninsular War interests us because it is one of the earliest examples of an asymmetrical war -- Spanish insurgents faced down the powerful French army by using stealth, deception and the support of civilians.
Wasn't a gentleman named Wellington, commanding a few British troops, somehow involved?
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
At the time, he was merely Arthur Wellesley (sp?!
Yea, verily!
I'd submit that Wellesley and the British were nowhere near as critical to the defeat of the French in Spain as the Spanish and Portuguese insurgents, and that British victories in Spain were largely made possible because of the actions of the insurgency.
The g's did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been fighting the allies. The allies did tie up a lot of French troops who would otherwise have been suppressing the g's. The French would, IMO, have been successful against either alone, but failed against the combination. Thus, the author's generality, that the g's won outright by themselves, struck me as false.
Classic support for partisans
The Peninsula campaign is a classic example of Great Power support to partisans in a secodary theater of war. In this respect, it is not dissimilar to the anti-Japanese guerrillas in the Philippines supported by the US.Another example is the partisans in Yugoslavia supported by the UK, US, and USSR or the maquis in France before D-Day. In any event, if Great Powers are involved on opposite sides, the case is much more complex than a simple insurgency with carefully limited support from one Great Power or another. It is for this reason that I noted that someone else might break out the winners and losers among the Western Power supporters/participants differently than I did among out 43 cases.
slapout9
John, Tom Odom posted this paper on compound warfare awhile back and it has a great section on this subject and the theory of compund warfare in general.
http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/downlo...nd_warfare.pdf
Huber book
Thanks Slapout. Tom Huber is an old friend from Leavenworth days but I didn't know about that book.
To Tom Odom: thanks for the other cases.
Huber, Lewis, Yates
Welcome. Tom Huber, Sam Lewis, Spike Yates, and I used to do pizza and movie on Sundays at Leavenworth in the mid-1980s.
Tom--
I don't know if you knew that Larry has retired. His book (vol 1) on Panama is due out from CMH.
Yep I heard that Spike had hung it up.
Sam retired 3? years ago (we roomed together for nearly 3 years).
Huber is one of the handful left.
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