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Home › News › Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat tackles issues
Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat tackles issues
The Report: April / May 2004 vol.25 num.2
he recently-created Canadian Health Professionals Secretariat (CHPS) held a highly successful two-day meeting in Ottawa at the end of February to plot strategy for tackling the many challenges health professionals across the country are expected to face this year.
During the meeting the Secretariat welcomed three new independent unions as members: the Association of Allied Health Professionals Newfoundland and Labrador (AAHP), the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan (HSAS) and the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP).
Hosted by the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), the meeting took on special significance in view of a wide range of key issues that unions will confront on behalf of members throughout the year, including wages, job security, workload, labour shortages, and effective infectious disease control systems.
Labour and politics
James Clancy, national president of NUPGE, presented an overview of the public sector labour relations and political environment across Canada and beyond. He emphasized the relationship between declining worker rights, expanding corporate rights and a growing -democratic deficit" in Canada and around the world. -Increasingly, unions must take these broad domestic and global trends into account when they bargain local contracts," he said.
Clancy also congratulated the group on its success and extended an invitation to all participants to attend the convention of the National Union in June 2004. -Were pleased with the success of CHPS and we are indebted to everyone involved for the strong leadership displayed in bringing the group together," he said. -Cooperation, respect and a broad perspective have been hallmarks of CHPS meetings from the beginning. We look forward to continuing the work the Secretariat has begun. It will definitely create a stronger and more dynamic movement of health professionals in Canada," he added.
HSA president to co-chair
The secretariat co-chairs praised all who took part in the meeting.
-This was a valuable opportunity to discuss common issues related to bargaining and public policy, to report on major activities, to build strength from each others experience and to promote common action," said HSA President Cindy Stewart, a Secretariat co-chair.
-All of the participants demonstrated a clear resolve to continue to work together and build momentum in pursuit of a progressively greater vision for health professionals in Canada," Stewart added.
Carol Meyer, co-chair of the Secretariat, and Managing Director of NUPGE, said it is essential that heath professionals and their unions continue efforts to adopt a focused national approach to cope with modern health care realities and challenges.
-It is essential that we join hands to establish and achieve common goals. The fact that health professionals and their unions are joining forces through the Secretariat is a positive and promising development for these workers specifically and the health care system in general," Meyer said.
Created by NUPGE
The secretariat was created by NUPGE to address challenges and opportunities facing health professionals across the country and enhance the recognition of the valuable contribution that professionals who provide diagnostic, clinical and rehab services make to the health of Canadians.
Health professionals share a broad community of interest. Their ranks are made up of more than 100 specialized disciplines, including radiological and laboratory technologists, radiation therapists, pharmacists, occupational and physiotherapists, dietitians, speech language pathologists, respiratory therapists, prosthetists and orthotists, psychologists, and social workers, among many others.
These professionals work in acute-care and long-term care hospitals, as well as in mental health, home support, public health agencies and community-based settings.
The Secretariat brings together a potential community of more than 70,000 health professionals.
The unions involved in the CHPS use their individual and shared strengths to raise the profile of health professionals, to advocate on public policy and human resource issues, and to enhance gains in collective bargaining.
As well as reporting on major activities and exploring issues related to collective bargaining and public policy, other key items discussed at the two-day meeting included:
the ongoing effort to raise the profile of health professionals and the CHPS in the larger health policy community in Canada by forging relationships with professional associations, licensing bodies and government agencies;
a new communications leaflet to promote the CHPS;
the benefits of advancing the CHPS agenda through increased political activism;
the publication of a survey circulated by the CHPS on market supplement payments;
a new human resources planning project undertaken by the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT), which includes the participation of a CHPS representative;
the large and growing caseloads facing social workers; and,
the increasing trend toward public-private partnerships in health care and the potential impact on health professionals.
Participants also had the opportunity to meet with senior officials from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSD). A detailed discussion on federal health human resources priorities took place. One of the main concerns expressed by CHPS representatives was the need for a nationally-coordinated labour market plan to address the serious shortage of health professionals in Canada.
-Too often, health professional human resource planning is intermittent and limited to isolated provincial and territorial initiatives, with an emphasis on short-term fixes," Co-Chair Stewart told the senior government officials. -This approach will not ensure the appropriate supply, mix and distribution of health care professionals that Canada needs now and in the future."
CHPS participants also pointed out to the officials that inter-provincial mobility has created an obvious national labour market for most health professions and that this is precisely why the federal government must play a leadership role.
Both the CHPS and the federal government officials expressed a desire to work toward a long-term strategy to maintain an adequate, highly-skilled and effective health professional work force.
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Elton John impersonator at The Wharf, Outlander Music & Arts Festival top Manitowoc events
Here are 8 things to do in Manitowoc and Two Rivers this week.
Elton John impersonator at The Wharf, Outlander Music & Arts Festival top Manitowoc events Here are 8 things to do in Manitowoc and Two Rivers this week. Check out this story on htrnews.com: https://www.htrnews.com/story/entertainment/2019/07/24/manitowoc-events-elton-john-impersonator-even-stephen-wharf-outlander-music-arts-festival-top-week/1795481001/
Brandon M Reid, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Published 6:12 a.m. CT July 24, 2019
MANITOWOC - A new event, the Outlander Music & Arts Festival, headlines this week's list of things to do in the Manitowoc area. Here's a look at that event, and some other things to do this week:
1. Attend inaugural Outlander Music & Arts Festival
The inaugural Outlander Music & Arts Festival kicks off at 2 p.m. Friday and ends at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ice Center and Shelter Pavilion at the Manitowoc County Expo grounds, 4931 Expo Drive.
The festival aims "to truly show what we stand for by bringing a diverse community of new, young and familiar music lovers together to a place where you can experience the newest and best up-and-coming artists in the Midwest."
Cost is $45 general admission or $75 for general admission, plus camping. Food and beverages will be available for purchase on site. The festival will feature EDM (electronic dance music) bands, including the following by day:
Friday — Lazyflex, Davilla, The HomeReckers, Alex Keys, The Wonk Brothers, Kevbot, Riles, Fallout, Jet Black, Sleepy Turtle, Scurler, NB, C.A.M., Headgames, Ill Capone and The Mackinacks; and
Saturday — Inf1n1te, Berrix, Crimson Child, Deerskin, Aliens at Work, D-Ski, SAV, SOMA, Spookybro, Lockvibe, Tu2zi, Ace, FMJ, Grandeur, Phynvl 3nd3v3r, Nottafazee, Susie GI, Kioti, Double A, Radiius, Wattage, T.Reese, Jordan Jackson, Seth Woods, ET, Arzik and BJ Bonics.
More info: outlanderfest.com.
Aliens at Work (Photo: Provided)
2. See Elton John impersonator
Even Stephen, voted the No. 1 best Elton John impersonator in the world, will perform Elton John hits at The Wharf in downtown Manitowoc Saturday. Doors to the show open at 5:30 p.m. with show starting at 7:30 p.m.
The Wharf said on its website: "This special concert features a live recreation of one of the world's biggest rock stars of all time. Even Stephen 'IS' Elton John! The concert will feature all your favorite hit songs like: 'Rocket Man,' 'Bennie And The Jets,' 'Candle In The Wind,' 'I'm Still Standing,' 'Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting),' 'Crocodile Rock' and may more! Complete with the iconic costumes and crazy glasses that made Elton John famous."
A ticket is required to attend the show.
The Wharf is at 606 Quay St. and online at wharfmanitowoc.com.
Even Stephen as Elton John. (Photo: Provided)
3. Go to Owl Fest
Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve, 3000 Hawthorne Ave., will host Owl Fest from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Cost is $5 per person for members or $15 per family for members, or $8 per person for non-members and $20 per family for non-members.
Activities will include guided nature walk for adults, guided nature walk for families, Wildlife of Wisconsin presentation with live birds of prey at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Plus, the event will also include a bake sale, face-painting, owl art with Rahr-West Art Museum staff, Little Wings Play Area activities and Butterfly Garden strolls.
More info: 920-793-4007.
FILE - Owl Fest at Woodland Dunes in Two Rivers. (Photo: Yi-Chin Lee/HTR Media)
4. Take the Brew Dash
The Two Rivers Brew Dash will run 9 a.m.-noon Saturday on Main Street in downtown Two Rivers.
Cost for the 5K Run/Walk is $45 per person.
The event will consist of a 5K run/walk that starts and ends in Central Park. The route will take runners across the 17th Street bridge, through Neshotah Park along the beach, and then back downtown. Check-in will be from 8 to 9 a.m. the day of the race.
Plaques will be awarded to the top three male and top three female finishers. Medals are guaranteed to the top 50 finishers. After the run is completed, each runner will be able to re-hydrate with a variety of microbrews between 9:30 a.m. and noon. Non-runners are also invited to sample the beer for a small charge.
More info: tworiversmainstreet.com.
Two Rivers Brew Dash 5K
Runners cruise along Lake Michigan on Neshota Beach during the Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Camie Knorr grabs her medal after finishing the Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Runners strain to finish the last few feet of the Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Jeff Schmid takes a sip of beer after running the 5k Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Jon Rudebeck runs along Neshota Beach during the 5K Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Bryan Elias gives a thumbs up during the 5K Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Becky Bradl runs along Lake Michigan on Neshota Beach during the 5K Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
A volunteer hands Angie Boness a beer after she ran the 5K Brew Dash Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Tammy Marnocha high fives Jon Rudebeck after running the Brew Dash 5K Saturday, July 28, 2018, in Two Rivers, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
5. Attend Tony and Tina's Wedding
The Forst Inn Arts Collective will present the raucous improvisational comedy Tony and Tina’s Wedding at The Forst Inn in Tisch Mills July 26-Aug. 10.
The show is an improvisational participatory theatrical event staging the nuptial celebration of Tony Nunzio and Valentina Vitale in all its tacky and hilarious glory. The performance includes a wedding service followed by a reception where the wedding party and their bickering family entertains their guests along with a pasta dinner, wedding cake and dancing.
Performance dates are July 26-28, Aug. 2-3 and Aug. 8-10. Evening performances begin at 6:30 p.m. and a July 28 matinee begins at 2 p.m. All performances begin at the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Norman, Wisconsin, and then move to The Forst Inn for the reception. It features music by a wedding band, The Fusions, as well as an Italian meal, wedding cake, and an evening of frolicking and fun.
The Forst Inn is located at E2910 County Road BB in Tisch Mills. More information is available at forstinn.com or by calling 920-310-7228.
The Forst Inn Arts Collective will present the raucous improvisational comedy Tony and Tina’s Wedding at The Forst Inn in Tisch Mills July 26-Aug. 10. (Photo: Provided)
6. Watch disc golf action
Manitowoc's Silver Creek Park and Reedsville's Rollin' Ridge Disc Golf Course will host the Silver Cup XIX B-Tier intermediate-recreational divisions disc golf tournament this weekend.
Food, vendors, spectator events and activities will be included.
Early check-in, 3-6 p.m., Silver Creek;
One round Flex Start C-tier Singles and optional Doubles (bring your own partner), noon-5 p.m., at Silver Creek
Saturday
Check-in, 7-8 a.m., at Silver Creek for all divisions
Player meeting, 8 a.m., all shotgun starts
A Pool — Round 1 at Rollin' Ridge at 9:30 a.m.; free lunch at Silver Creek; and Round 2 at Silver Creek 19-36 at 2:30 p.m.
B Pool — Round 1 at Silver Creek at 8:30 a.m.; free lunch at Silver Creek; and Round 2 at Silver Creek 1-18 at 1:30 p.m.
Awards — 6:30 p.m. at Silver Creek
Silver Creek is at 3001 S. 10th St., Manitowoc, and Rollin' Ridge is at 21315 U.S. 10, Reedsville. More info: silvercupdiscgolf.com or 920-629-9997.
Silver Cup XVIII Pro Disc Golf Tournament
Pro Patrick Brown takes a shot on a hole near Lake Michigan in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Isabella Everard, 9, takes putting tips from pro JohnE McCray at a clinic hosted by pro disc golfers during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro disc golfer Nate Perkins, of Austin, Tex., shares some tips at a clinic during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro JohnE McCray teaches a putting clinic during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Nolan Patt, 5, takes a break from a putting clinic hosted by pro disc golfers to pet a dog during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Nolan Patt, 5, practices his backhand skills at a clinic hosted by pro disc golfers during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro Sarah Hokom gives forehand tips to Jason Johnston, of Manitowoc, at a clinic hosted by pro disc golfers during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Teresa Ayling, of Minneapolis, Minn., takes advice from pro Sarah Hokom in a clinic hosted by pro disc golfers during the Silver Cup Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Jake McKnight, of Sheboygan, takes a shot in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro Barrett White tests the wind in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Jaren Warren, of Kohler, takes a shot in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro Nate Perkins, of Austin, Tex., takes a shot in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
JohnE McCray lines up a shot in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro JohnE McCray tees off in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro Sarah Hokom takes a shot in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVIII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Pro disc golfer Nate Perkins, of Austin, Tex., tees off in the ProAm scramble during the Silver Cup XVII Disc Golf Tournament at Silver Creek Park Thursday, July 12, 2018, in Manitowoc, Wis. Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Josh Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
7. Hear about Charles Dix, Abstract Expressionism
Rahr-West Art Museum, 610 N. Eighth St., Manitowoc, will host Barbara Timmel as part of its Art of Conversations lecture series and in conjunction with the Pure Energy: Charles Dix and Doris White exhibit.
Timmel's lecture will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday. She will talk about her brother, the late Wisconsin artist Charles Dix, and his experience as an artist in Wisconsin.
In the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism took the art world by storm. Large canvases by artists like Jackson Pollock, Paul Jenkins and Helen Frankenthaler exploded with color and energy filled galleries and museums across the country. In Wisconsin, Charles Dix and Doris White were influenced by Abstract Expressionism and both made successful careers creating color-saturated, expressive work.
The Rahr-West Art Museum offers the exhibit Pure Energy: Charles Dix and Doris White through Aug. 11 to examine their work. Drawing mostly from the Museum’s permanent collection, the Pure Energy exhibit features 42 works, allowing visitors to experience the major stylistic trends of each artist.
The lecture with Timmel will give more details on Charles Dix, who was first raised in Wauwatosa and then moved to a lake home with his family in the Dousman area. Dix was inspired by two main things: color and outer space.
Admission to Timmel's lecture is free and open to the public. More info: rahrwestartmuseum.org or 920-686-3090.
The Far Reaches, 1976, Charles Dix (American 1939-2005). Acrylic, 36 inches by 48 inches. Gift of Robert Fritsche. (Photo: Courtesy of Rahr-West Art Museum)
8. Take in Kiel Municipal Band concert
Kiel Municipal Band, under the direction of Jon Meyer, will present its fourth summer concert of this season at City Park at 7 p.m. July 31.
The concert continues a KMB tradition, a “guest conductors’ concert” featuring members of the band. Each guest conductor will lead the band in one piece of music, with selections varying from traditional marches to music from motion pictures. The guest conductors have been or currently are music educators and directors from around the area.
The guest conductors and their pieces are as follow:
Karen Schmahl, Elkhart Lake, “John Williams Swings,” a collection of big band-style tunes from this famous film composer arranged by Jay Bocook.
Ernst Gutschow, Kiel, “Gentle Annie,” a Stephen Foster melody arranged by Paul Woitschach.
Donna Wirth, Kiel, “Goldrush Rag,” by Stephen Goodman.
Ryan Rabe, Plymouth, “Mustang March,” by Eric Osterling.
Karren Cobble, Elkhart Lake, “American Riversongs,” an overture of folk songs by Wisconsin composer Pierre LaPlante.
Scott Weir, New Holstein, “Opening Fanfare from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’,” in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Katie Sohn, Howards Grove, “David of the White Rock,” a beautiful setting of a Welsh folk song by Philip Sparke.
Barb Pahr, Plymouth, “Invercargill,” a march by Alex Lithgow.
The Kiel Municipal Band, shown in 2015. (Photo: Courtesy of Lena Kiel)
Rounding out the concert program, the band will perform “Pie in the Face Polka” by Henry Mancini, featuring members of the clarinet section.
The band will also play “Frisch Auf March” by Kiel composer Emil Meinardus, one of the founders of the early Kiel bands.
The concert is free, family-friendly and open to everyone. Location in case of rain or excessive heat is the City Hall second-floor gym, which is handicapped accessible and air conditioned.
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The 2019 EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am
Jordan Barbeau, of Manitowoc, dives for a save during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
The men's pros compete during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Fog rolls off Lake Michigan during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Miriam Ward returns the ball during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Alex Swan bumps the ball during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Shauna Fruzen, of Manitowoc, punches the ball over the net during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Jordan Barbeau, of Manitowoc, returns a serve during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A fog rolls off Lake Michigan during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Miriam Ward bumps the ball during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Alex Swan spikes the ball during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
People take shelter after a tornado warning is issued during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
The 16u championship finishes up as skies darken during the EVP Coolest Coast Pro Am at Neshota Beach Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Two Rivers, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Photos: 5th Annual SubFest
Rafael Carducci, 11, of Las Vegas, tries on a hat from a sidewalk sale vendor during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A kayaker does a rollover in the Manitowoc River before the races during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Stand-up paddleboarders warm up before the races during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Eli Burton, 4, waits patiently as he gets his face painted during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Submarine veteran Robin Onsoien shows people a ration can on a tour of the USS Cobia during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
People gather on the Eighth Street bridge for the kayak and stand-up paddleboard races during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A woman stays cool with an umbrella during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Kayakers start their race on the Manitowoc River during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A kayaker gets off to a fast start in the kayak race during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Kayakers race on the Manitowoc River during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Stand-up paddleboarders start their race during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A stand-up paddleboarder races with a kid on his board during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Kayakers start their race during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Kayakers collide during their race at SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Kaykers race during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A kayaker emerges from the water after rolling over in the Manitowoc River during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Mya May, 5, of Two Rivers, gets her face painted as a lion during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
People sample the food from the trucks during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Abriella Nenahlo, 4, takes a bit of pizza during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
People enjoy SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Children play on a giant propellor at Burger Boat Park during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
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Rising Phoenix performs at SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
The sun goes down on the Wisconsin Maritime Museum and the USS Cobia during SubFest Saturday, July 13, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
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Outrageously Powerful Electric Dragster Wants To Dethrone Top Fuelers
Jason Siu August 4, 2017
One race team in Australia is looking to dethrone Top Fuel dragsters with electric power.
Top EV Racing has its eyes set on achieving eight world speed and elapsed time records, in both drag racing and land speed. Led by electronic engineer Michael Fragomeni, Top EV Racing is working on a 1,000-volt, 5,000-some horsepower electric powertrain that will generate more than 17,000 pounds-feet of torque. The team believes it won’t take long before it can beat Top Fuel cars in the quarter-mile, and it’s likely the electric powertrain will be more reliable in doing so. The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA), has already agreed to let the Top EV car race alongside Top Fuel cars once it’s sanctioned.
But beating Top Fuel dragsters isn’t the only goal for Top EV Racing. The team is eyeing land speed records too, with the goal of reaching 380 mph down an airplane runway. Recently, New Atlas had the opportunity to interview Fragomeni on the team and got a few updates. Currently, Top EV Racing is about 12 months away from a debut run, which means the car will have to complete a burnout, show it can launch, and complete the quarter- and half-mile tracks.
Unlike Top Fuel race cars, Top EV Racing is having to build everything from scratch, developing new technology along the way. Naturally, the idea is to build up a multi-car drag racing team, but to also have technology that can be used in everyday applications. The team’s end goal is to set eight world records, including best E.T. and top speed in both the quarter and eighth mile, the Guinness World Record for fastest accelerating electric vehicle, and fastest accelerating wheel-driven vehicle outright. Top EV Racing is also eyeing the land speed elapsed time and top speed records.
A version of this article appears also at AutoGuide.com
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Volume 4 of this acclaimed cycle sustains the high standards of its predecessors, presenting a careful selection of works from across Mozart’s career. Alina Ibragimova’s approach to the keyboard-dominated juvenilia is revelatory, her ‘accompaniments’ enhancing Cédric Tiberghien’s dextrous, expressive playing at every turn, giving meaningful weight to passages of imitation, as in the surprisingly driven Allegro maestoso of K28, conveying the vitality and humour of the rondeau finale of K26, and providing a kaleidoscope of tonal colour throughout. Intonation is flawless, articulation is crisp and phrasing is empathetic.
Ibragimova and Tiberghien choose to ignore K13’s ad libitum cello parts but include Maximillian Stadler’s imaginative completion of the finale of K403, dashing through it at an express allegretto; but they allow us to savour Mozart’s original first two movements and the K360 Variations, revealing unexpected facets along the way. The gems of this disc, though, are their accounts of the more mature sonatas, in which the violin has a more equitable role. They realise the contrasts inherent in the slow-fast-slow-fast opening movement of K303 with seasoned expertise, and linger lovingly over the first theme of the subsequent Adagio. They give K377 and K378 a fresh and invigorating sense of volatility, whether on account of the slick, exuberant Allegro and imaginatively executed Andante variations of the former, or the subtle agogic accents and clean articulation of the outer movements of the latter. Hyperion’s recording is clear and warm, and balance issues are generally well calibrated. It is hard to imagine more vital, committed or persuasive performances than these.
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Pursuit (Blu-ray)
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Brand New 2K Master! The Ultimate Weapon is about to be Unleashed! What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heart-stopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller from the creator of Westworld, Coma and Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, Looker, Runaway) makes an impressive directorial debut in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn’t get any higher. When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara, The Neptune Factor) investigates political extremist James Wright (E.G. Marshall, Nixon), he uncovers a diabolical plot to blast lethal nerve gas into San Diego during the Republican Convention. What’s worse, a computer hacker (Martin Sheen, Loophole) has provided Wright with a psychological profile to help him outwit Graves. Can Graves find a way to stop Wright before the ultimate nightmare begins? Co-starring Joseph Wiseman (Dr. No) and William Windom (The Detective).
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian Lee Gambin and Comic Artist/Writer Tristan Jones
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Bournemouth Residential Visit
Please enjoy our recounts of our four day Educational Visit to Bournemouth.
A long coach journey, we arrived at the D-Day museum at long last. We learnt a lot, but the dummies were too creepy!
We arrived at the hotel and found out which rooms we had for the next few days. We decided our which beds we would have. Mrs. Long was on our floor. Every night she called us out and we played 21 cards and then went to bed. Jess had her 1st ever soup on that day. The food was gorgeous and we really enjoyed it and it was a 3 course one.
Mrs Long came in and said “Good morning, good morning, good morning” she said it was because there were 3 of us in that room. Tam snored a lot at night, but we still slept a bit. We got dressed and went down for breakfast. We had our breakfast, it was sausages and egg. Jess had just sausages and Yining just had egg.
We went to get ready to go and we were allowed to watch TV.
Later, we got on the coach and went to Corfe Castle model village. It was incredible. It showed what the village used to look like. They had little trees and people and animals. It must have taken forever to make. All the little houses were really cute.
Afterwards, we went to the Swanage railway, we got on the train and met our guard. He was called Bob (Robert). We went through a lot of tunnels but they were very small. The train seats were worn out and battered but were very springy!
Then we went back to the hotel for a bit, then walked down to the beach. We ate lunch there and then everybody took place in a sandcastle contest. Yining and I made our own Sandcastle and it got big, but we were on our own.
After lunch we went to the aquarium. It was really cool with all the different fish. There were sting rays and sharks too. Everyone took lots of pictures.
When we went back to the hotel we did a quiz about Bournemouth and CBeebies!!! We had our dinner and secretly played 21 cards. Then we went to bed.
Mrs. Long said “Good morning, good morning, good morning” We had breakfast.
We went up to our rooms to get ready for Longleat house and safari park.
When we finally arrived we visited the house-it was really ancient and aristocratic. The house was split into three different parts. One part was where Lord Bath (Present owner of the house) lived with Lady Bath. There were the two other places we looked round. There was a room with all the clothes they might wear. Some of which were worn at coronations.
Later we arrived at the minstrel’s gallery and Yining played on Lord Bath’s piano! It was amazing looking round the house that we’d seen on TV. We then looked round the shop and there allsorts. There were cuddly toys and we each brought one. Jess got a white tiger and Yining got a giraffe. There were souvenirs of all kinds.
After we made our way to the coach and picked up our lunch. After we were filled up we went to the safari. We drove through the tigers, lions, wolves and our favourites the monkeys. They were really cheeky and kept trying to take things off the coach. The car behind us lost their Ariel!!! Later we made our way back to the hotel. We had dinner then went bowling. Neither of us won but we had a great time.
We went back to the hotel and went to bed. Oh we played our last game of 21 cards before bed.
Day 4(the final day)
We did the normal routine with Mrs Long and breakfast. We went to Corfe castle and it was really entertaining. Our guide (Jessie) told us loads of gross stories. One was:
The two pillars
There are two pillars around today. One stands slightly lower than the other; it used to be the same though this is how it happened:
In a time before King John owned Corfe it was owned by a man and his wife. The man ran away and was never heard of. The wife was left with her children with no money and eventually it was taken over by King John. He ordered all his soldiers to dig tunnels under all castle. They then filled the tunnels with gunpowder, and half the castle was ruined. On the blowing up of the lower pillar. Two men were under when they blew up the pillar. But unfortunately, the gunpowder went off too quickly. The pillar flew up into the air and came flying down at the men. It killed them and they are probably still under there.
Another story was: How King John died
Who would know that your favourite food and drink could kill you? Well, King John died because of them.
He was eating his favourite dried apricots. When, he’d eaten about 60 apricots. Then, he felt thirsty. So he drank about 6 pints of cider. Meanwhile, in his stomach all the apricots were enjoying this and took up their chance. They absorbed all the cider and grew and grew and grew till there was no space left in the stomach and then…
He EXPLODED!!! So that’s how he died…
King John was a nasty man who came to a fatal end. But he owned a dungeon in Corfe castle. If someone disagreed or did something that he disagreed with. You’d be thrown into his dungeons. The dungeon was a room that went down low and you couldn’t get out. They would not feed you and they wouldn’t come to get you out. One day a women and her boy were thrown in when fetched out they were examined and apparently the women started to eat her boys cheek because she was so hungry.
After being totally grossed out we decided to go home.
Yining and Jessica
7:30 Travel to Bournemouth We had lots of fun talking.
12:30 D-Day Museum It was very interesting especially the boat car.
16:00 The Hotel Are beds were comfortable and we even had a T.V.
19:30 Night walk we walked on the beach even though it was chucking it with rain.
The Hotel wake up
8:00 We went down to breakfast, the food was very nice.
Corfe castle model village
9:30 We walked around Bournemouth’s Corfe castle model village.
10:30 Swanage railway On the train we sat on the train with Chloe and Jade we were very fascinated in the journey.
13:30 Bournemouth aquarium There was lots of fish including starfish, shark, stingray, turtle and catfish etc.
15:45 Beach-sand castle On the beach we made a sandcastle that was taller than Edward, it was GARGANTIUM!
19:00 Quiz The quiz was tedious except learning the names of the people in the night garden.
6:30 wake up we had a shower, and then went down stairs to breakfast the food was scrumptious.
7:30 Longleat Safari Park we saw lots of animals including, monkeys, flamingos, tigers etc.
19:45 Bowling We played bowling and I scored 89 (Charlie S) and I scored 69 (Bradley).
Corfe castle 9:00 We got a tour of Corfe castle we were very lucky.
Journey back 3:00 We are happy to say we had a secure and relaxing journey thank you to the driver Graham.
By Bradley and Charlie
Bournemouth Report
The journey from school to Bournemouth took us about 5 hours.
We arrived at Portsmouth at the D-Day Museum at 12:00. First we had lunch near the sea. After lunch we went to see a 15 minute film about the D-Day landings. Next we saw admired and answered questions about the overlord embroidery. We then explored some of the equipment used in the D-Day landings.
At 4:00 we arrived at the Mount Stuart Hotel. The facilities were brilliant! Our rooms were superb! We had comfy beds, a pleasant bathroom and a TV. After dinner we went for an evening walk, even though it was chucking it down with rain. But we still had fun.
After we woke up and had breakfast we travelled to the ferry port, the ferry took us to Corfe. From there we went to the Corfe Castle model village, we took turns to be placed in the pillories (stocks). Meanwhile, other children gazed at the wonderful sights around them. Following on, we journeyed to Nordon railway station and also took a ride on the train and headed for Swanage station. Then we went back to the hotel to prepare for the trip to the oceanarium. We saw plenty of tropical fish and various types of local fish. Following on, we strolled to the beach.
On the beach we had a sandcastle building competition, one of the sandcastles was nearly 1m tall. When we got back we went to the lounge to have a 20 question evening quiz, about some of the things we had seen so far.
The next day, we were woken up annoyingly early by the teachers because we ahad to get to Longleat Safari Park. We got a tour of the magnificent house that was built in the 17th Century. About an hour after the tour we took off for the safari park, it was great fun watching
the monkeys mucking around! When we got back we got changed to go bowling. It was fantastic! Jade J got the highest score, scoring a whopping 101 points.
That morning we went to Corfe castle, they took us on a tour around the remains of the castle. It was really interesting. After lunch we took the journey back home.
Oliver E.
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Mexico office expands team and provides local support to rapidly growing market
Mexico City (September 30, 2015) – Kenshoo (www.Kenshoo.com), the global leader in agile marketing, today announced the opening of its new office in Mexico City to build on the established success serving the Latin American market. With many successful clients already operating in the region, the new office will better position Kenshoo and its award-winning Infinity Suite to help marketers continue capitalizing on the rapidly growing market.
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AMNT 2016: President of the German Atomic Forum calls for joint decisions in nuclear technology
On the occasion of the 47th Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology (AMNT 2016), the President of the German Atomic Forum, Dr. Ralf Güldner, called for important joint decisions with policy-makers.
Güldner expressly welcomed the proposal made by the Commission on the Review of Financing the Nuclear Phase-out for a division of tasks into decommissioning and dismantling on the one hand, and interim and ultimate waste disposal on the other hand. He said that, unfortunately, the Commission had not successfully achieved the balance between securing financing in the interest of public authorities and imposing a financial burden on the companies. Güldner thanked the Commission members of the Commission Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste Materials for the dedicated and thematically linked work. He said that clarification was needed before the final report for the question regarding the scope of involvement of social stakeholders in the final repository search process and the corresponding time required until a secure final repository is provided. According to Güldner, "It is also essential, in terms of a transparent and confidence-building search process, for host rocks and therefore also sites which may be considered for a final repository to be assessed according to consistent scientific criteria."
Güldner also stated that the nuclear fuel tax was no longer economically feasible given current electricity prices. Moreover, in the proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court regarding the political phase-out decision, it was also about a question of legal certainty for long term investment in Germany as a business location. At the same time, Güldner stressed the priority on safety, "There will be no compromises on the safety of nuclear power plants. Plants will be rather shut-down prematurely if economic prospects cease to exist."
On Germany's future international role in nuclear technology, Güldner reminded the audience of the national responsibility for the energy mix. He called for "German expertise to be incorporated constructively for the purpose of further developing international safety standards", and he also stated, "We have extensive industrial expertise in our country and we set standards in safety. The state should therefore assist German industry with exporting." Güldner said that in view of the vital need to preserve expertise in nuclear technology in the long term, it would also be disastrous in Germany as a site of knowledge if nuclear professorships in publicly funded research centers and universities were not adequately filled or if limits were imposed on the scope of independent research.
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Population: 7,547 (2016 Census)
Elevation: 480 m (1,570 ft)
Travel through the Eagle Valley and Revelstoke, and you're travelling on some of the most beautiful roadways in Canada. Nestled between the Monashee and Columbia mountain ranges, the alpine city of Revelstoke has something to offer in every season.
During the summer months, visitors are drawn to the Grizzly Plaza where there is nightly entertainment in the band shell. Strolling through the beautifully restored downtown, you can see over 60 buildings that date back to the late 1800's. Heritage Walking Tour maps may be obtained from the Visitor Info Centre.
Adventure abounds in and around Revelstoke. Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park are renowned for recreational climbing, wildlife viewing and hiking. Alpine meadow hiking, glacier hiking and hut-to-hut hiking can all be done through outfitters who organize heli-excursions in the area. River tours and white water rafting are also available. Take time to visit the Railway Museum. Extensive displays, rolling stock, books, clothing and memorabilia are a few of the things you'll find here. Guided group tours are available year-round by appointment. Snowmobile opportunities, alpine and cross-country skiing are all plentiful during the winter months.
Things to See and Do in Revelstoke
Enchanted Forest, Skytrek Adventure Park, BC Hydro Revelstoke Dam Tours, Rafting & Kayaking on the Illecillewaet River, Stand-up Paddle Boarding on Lake Revelstoke, Revelstoke Aquatic Centre, Revelstoke Golf Course, Three Valley Lake Chateau & Ghost Town, Crazy Creek Waterfalls & Suspension Bridge, Beardale Miniatureland.
Not far from the downtown core of funky cafes and charming old homes, a splendour of trails await adventure cyclists. Two of the most notable high-alpine trails are Keystone-Standard Basin and Frisby Ridge. Free Spirit Sports & Leisure is the original outdoor equipment store for the city.
Famous for the point where the last spike on Canada's first transcontinental railway was driven, joining the part from the west.
Heritage Downtown
Pick up a Walking Tour Map at the Visitor Centre and explore Revelstoke's downtown. There's also a Heritage Trail featuring interpretive panels and scenic views, near Centennial Park. The downtown area also of course offers a number of great eating establishments such as Woolsey Creek Bistro. The Cabin has a happening lounge and fully-stocked snow and skate retail shop. And more:
Big Eddy Pub
There are many to pick from: BC Interior Forestry Museum, Revelstoke Museum, Rogers Pass National Historic Site, Railway Museum, Firehall Museum.
City of Revelstoke History
In 1811, David Thompson mapped the Columbia River for westward expansion. During the Big Bend Gold Rush of the mid-1860s, the river and its streams yielded mineral wealth to some for a short time. Surveyor AS Farwell applied for a provincial land grant and surveyed a townsite where it was obvious the railway would cross the Columbia. Revelstoke was incorporated as a city in 1899.
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Winter brings outstanding snowsports at Revelstoke Mountain Resort.
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Revelstoke is home to hundreds of world-class trails.
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KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining
KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining Posted: April 10, 2007
Andy DeVito
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Re: Proposed Rule: Abandoned Coal Refuse Sites
72 Fed. Reg. 2136 (January 17, 2007)
Dear Andy:
These comments are submitted on behalf of the membership and Board of Directors of the Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. (KRC), a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization providing legal and technical assistance without charge to low-income individuals, community organizations, and local governments regarding air, waste, water, mining, and resource extraction and development concerns. The Kentucky Resources Council has reviewed the proposed rule, and offers these comments for consideration by the agency in the finalization of the rule. KRC appreciates the additional time granted by Mr. DeVito in which to research and draft these comments.
As noted by the agency, the authorization for development of a separate set of permitting and performance standards for abandoned coal refuse sites is found in the 1992 Energy Policy Act, which amended Title V of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act to create a new Section 501a to read:
ABANDONED COAL REFUSE SITES
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to the contrary, the Secretary of the Interior shall, within one year after the enactment of this Act, publish proposed regulations in the Federal Register, and after opportunity for public comment publish final regulations, establishing environmental protection performance and reclamation standards, and separate permit systems applicable to operations for the on-site reprocessing of abandoned coal reuse and operations for the removal of abandoned coal refuse on lands that would otherwise be eligible for expenditure under section 404 and section 402(g)(4) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.
(2) The standards and permit systems referred to in paragraph (1) shall distinguish between those operations which reprocess abandoned coal refuse on-site, and those operations which completely remove abandoned coal refuse from a site for the direct use of such coal refuse, or for the reprocessing of such coal refuse, at another location. Such standards and permit systems shall be premised on the distinct differences between operations for the on-site reprocessing, and operations for the removal, of abandoned coal refuse and other types of surface coal mining operations.
(3) The Secretary of the Interior may devise a different standard than any of those set forth in section 515 and section 516 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, and devise a separate permit system, if he determines, on a standard-by-standard basis, that a different standard may facilitate the on-site reprocessing, or the removal, of abandoned coal refuse in a manner that would provide the same level of environmental protection as under section 515 and section 516.
(4) Not later than 30 days prior to the publication of the proposed regulations referred to in this subsection, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives, and the Committee on Energy and Natural resources of the United States Senate containing a detailed description of any environmental protection performance and reclamation standards and separate permit systems, devised pursuant to this subsection.
30 U.S.C. 1251a.
The legislative history sheds some additional light on Congress? goals in amending SMCRA to specifically address abandoned coal refuse sites:
Section 2801(e) is premised on the Committees view that encouraging reclamation of abandoned coal reuse piles is a critical element in any remining strategy.
The Committee intends for the standards and permit systems to distinguish between those operations which reprocess abandoned coal refuse piles on-site, and those operations which completely remove an abandoned coal refuse pile from a site either for the direct use, or the reprocessing, of coal refuse at another location. As such, the Committees intention is for more than one type of permit system to be devised, i.e. a permit for on-site reprocessing, a permit for the removal of coal refuse for its direct use at another location such as at a small power generating plant that burns coal waste, and a permit for the removal of coal refuse for processing at another location such as at a coal preparation plant.
Except for operations for the on-site reprocessing of coal refuse, the Committee intends for the Secretary to consider devising permit systems that enable an operator to engage in a contractual arrangement with a state regulatory authority for coal refuse removal operations. Under such an arrangement, the operator would still be required to reclaim the site under the standards devised by the Secretary pursuant to this subsection.
House Report No. 102-474(VIII) pp. 2345-6.
The Secretary of Interior is authorized, but not obligated, to establish performance standards and permitting systems distinct from those of other surface coal mining operations for reprocessing of abandoned coal refuse piles on-site and for removal of such piles. According to the statute, [s]uch standards and permit systems shall be premised on the distinct differences between operations for the on-site reprocessing, and operations for the removal, of abandoned coal refuse and other types of surface coal mining operations[,] and where the Secretary departs from the existing performance standards in Sections 515 or 516 of the Act, that departure is required to be justified on a standard-by-standard basis as being equally protective of the environment as would be the application of the standard itself.
In reviewing the proposed rules, KRC has these comments and concerns:
I. Questions Concerning Agency Background Assumptions
Prior to turning to the specific proposals for definitions, performance standards and permitting requirements for abandoned coal refuse sites, KRC has some questions and some concerns regarding background assumptions that the agency has made in the preamble to the proposed rule, and which affect the agencys determination on the protectiveness or sufficiency of alternative standards.
A. Appalachian coalfield hydrogeology must be considered in determining the potential for adverse effect on aquifers during redisturbance and reprocessing of coal refuse piles
On p. 2138 of the proposed rule, the agency observes that abandoned coal refuse operations to not have the potential to remove or otherwise disturb rock strata that serve as aquifers. On that same page, the agency notes that abandoned coal refuse remining operations do not remove the host rock of the groundwater aquifers.
KRC is concerned that OSMRE has not considered the diversity in groundwater flow regimes among the various coalfields, and in particular, of the Appalachian region. The lack of disturbance of rock strata does not mean lack of disruption of aquifers, since in the Appalachian coalfields, the aquifer(s) most directly impacted by mining and by coal refuse piles are surficial stress-relief fracture flow aquifer systems where the dominant groundwater flow system is a secondary permeability flow through stress-relief fractures and bedding planes, with the aquifer being an unconfined aquifer located in the unconsolidated colluvial material.
Baseline groundwater data to confirm the presence or absence of impacts, and during-operation monitoring is necessary to determine the presence of and trends in qualitative impacts on these shallow aquifer systems.
B. The likelihood of increased conductivity and decreased pH during redisturbance of abandoned coal refuse sites must be considered and controlled adequately
KRC does not disagree that surface- and ground- water impacts have commonly resulted from the prior dumping of coal refuse. The placement of the material has, in the case of abandoned coal refuse sites, likely resulted in direct leaching of elevated metals into the shallow groundwater system. As noted by Stewart and Tyson in their paper Potential Use of Coal Combustion Byproducts in the Eastern Coal Region: Site Characteristics, the abandoned coal refuse piles are likely to exhibit low to extremely pH due to the weathering and production of acidity from pyritic materials, and high electrical conductivity values indicative of high levels of dissolved salts produced during pyrite oxidation and subsequent acid attack on minerals. As the oxidation runs its course, the pH values will rise and the EC values will decrease as the salts are leached away. Id. For abandoned pre-law sites the leaching of materials exposed to air and water may have run its course, so that the site may be stabilized in terms of chemical leaching.
The agency needs to keep in mind that because the leaching that has occurred from these abandoned sites occurs through the interaction of exposed pyritic material, water and air, the redisturbance of the material in conjunction with reprocessing and removal will expose new material and new surfaces of rock and coal fines to oxidation and cause new leaching and dramatic declines in pH and elevation of conductivity values over a short-term period in removal operations and over a longer period where the material is to be reprocessed on site.
Baseline surface runoff data and during-operation controls on run-on and treatment and monitoring of run-off that is in contact with disturbed coal refuse and associated rock and colloidal material is necessary to determine the presence of and trends in qualitative impacts on receiving streams.
In this, and in other alternative standards proposed by the agency, it is also important to bear in mind that the repermitting and redisturbance of these sites under Title V makes the sites ineligible for future expenditure of Title IV monies.
C. Absence of topsoil or other soil medium
Another assumption that KRC questions is the assumption assumes that abandoned coal refuse sites generally lack topsoil or other on-site material that could be utilized for revegetation. The factual basis of this assumption is unclear, since KRC is not aware that historic coal refuse dumping included site preparation through removal of existing soil material.
D. Disturbance of lands associated with reprocessing
The final observation on p. 2138 that concerns KRC is the suggestion that on-site reprocessing operations typically affect very little, if any, previously undisturbed land. This observation is contradicted by the description of the modern coal processing operation utilizing heavy-medium separators, which the agency acknowledges to utilize a great deal of water, and commonly need considerable land area for associated ponds and slurry cells.
E. Assumption of Existence of Baseline Data
KRC is concerned that the proposed rule assumes that significant site-specific hydrologic data will be available to the SMCRA regulatory authority (RA) from data generated under the Clean Water Act and under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program. This assumption is not accurate in Kentucky, and likely not accurate in other coalfield states.
Initially, OSMRE needs to bear in mind that Kentucky, as is the case with 23 other states, has no more stringent than clauses that prohibit the state from imposing any conditions or adopting any standards that are in excess of the minimum federal standards. The federal floor preemption contemplated by Congress has become the ceiling for state regulation of surface coal mining, KRS 350.465(2), and for adoption of standards in state-counterpart permits under the NPDES program. KRS 224.16-050. In Kentucky, the state regulatory agency cannot impose under any permit issued
any effluent limitation, monitoring requirement, or other condition which is more stringent than the effluent limitation, monitoring requirement, or other condition which would have been applicable under federal regulation if the permit were issued by the federal government. There is no requirement for the surface coal mining category of effluent limitations that baseline monitoring of in-stream conditions or site runoff be collected or reported, or that the biological or chemical health of receiving waters be documented prior to mining activities, and Kentucky would not be authorized to impose such an obligation through the NPDES program unless such a requirement would have been imposed had the permit been issued by EPA. The assumption on p. 2140 that baseline water quality and flow of all discharges and receiving waters is required in the NPDES permit application is inaccurate, particularly in those cases where (as in Kentucky) there has been a categorical general permit issued that allows a permittee to opt under the coverage of the general permit without detailed water agency permit review based on the possession by that permittee of a Title V SMCRA permit.
OSMRE should be careful not to assume baseline data collection or hydrologic analysis under the Clean Water Act has been undertaken, or is sufficient to satisfy Sections 515 and 516 of SMCRA.
II. Specific Comments On Proposed Regulations
KRCs specific comments concerning the proposed performance standards and permitting requirements follows, referenced by proposed regulation:
A. Section 515(b)(2)
KRC opposes the lowering of the standard for site restoration. The agency posits that the land use that existed prior to mining is often not known, yet by reference to areas adjacent to and not affected by the dumping of coal refuse, it is likely that the prior use(s) of the land can be determined.
The replacement of a requirement to restore lands to a condition capable of supporting uses prior to mining with a standard that merely requires the restoration of the land to a condition capable of supporting a use equivalent to . . .the land use prior to commencement of the abandoned coal refuse remining operation allows the permittee to leave the abandoned coal refuse site in the current condition after reprocessing, thus allowing the removal of recoverable coal fines and re-abandonment of the site in an unreclaimed status.
For removal operations, there is no justification for failure to fully restore the land to those potential uses existing prior to any coal refuse dumping. For reprocessing operations where the material will be separated from recoverable coal and redeposited in a compacted, constructed fill on site, the permittee should be held to a standard of proper revegetation and reclamation of the redisturbed area comparable to other Title V sites.
B. Section 515(b)(3)
Where the abandoned coal refuse pile was placed on a mine bench, OSMRE is obligated to apply the AOC requirements in conjunction with the reprocessing and reclamation of an abandoned coal refuse pile. Additionally, in considering the redepositing on-site of reprocessed coal refuse material for those operations that are not completely removing the refuse piles, OSMRE should consider, consistent with the protection of the hydrologic balance and minimization of impacts on streams, requiring that the permittee evaluate the potential for disposal of the reprocessed material on previously-mined benches and abandoned mine land areas rather than redepositing of reprocessed material in valley fills or coal waste impoundments.
C. Section 515(b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6)
Where topsoil material exists at an abandoned coal refuse disposal site, OSMRE cannot categorically ignore the obligation to separate remove and replace the material. An obligation to remove, segregate and replace the topsoil should be incorporated in addition to allowing the use of other vegetation-support material where the topsoil was previously removed. The diversity of coal refuse sites in how native soil materials underlying the historic refuse piles were handled and whether they were disturbed, militates against categorical assumptions of the lack of existing topsoil and blanket waivers of obligations to remove, store and restore such soils.
D. Section 515(b)(10) / Proposed Section 786.3
KRC questions the agencys assumption that coal refuse piles and the reprocessing of same will have no impact on the recharge capacity of an aquifer. The deploying of heavy earth-moving equipment, removal of, redeposition and compaction of coal refuse materials can impact the unconsolidated materials and near-surface fractured materials that constitute the shallow groundwater system in the Appalachian coalfields, and can alter the recharge capacity of soils and spoils in a manner that can cause localized alterations in the groundwater flow. Changes in recharge capacity should be monitored during and after reprocessing or removal operations in areas where the coal refuse piles are in hydrologic communication with unconsolidated or unconfined valley bottom or stress-relief aquifers.
The proposal to allow use of best management practices in lieu of actions otherwise required under applicable performance and reclamation standards is opposed for the reason that there is no evidence that employment of best management practices results in a predictable or replicable reduction in water pollution. The agency proposes to allow state regulatory authorities to allow a removal operation to use a range of actions that have proved effective in other remining settings to prevent or mitigate water quality problems and to control sediment, yet identifies no such evidence. The comments of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in response to EPAs promulgation of remining regulations offers a markedly different perspective on the use of best management practices in lieu of, rather than in addition to, performance standards:
With regards for the substitution of BMPs for effluent limitations, the application of BMPs are for the prevention of environmental degradation from sources which are not easily controlled through the application of point source requirements. BMPs can also be used as a supplement to a point source program, but they are not a stand-alone control device. As an example, the Division of Water requires the use of BMPs on all mining and remining sites as a supplement to the point source requirements. Kentucky has developed a BMP guidance document with recommended BMPs for use by the industry, however none of these BMPs have a documented reproducible correlation between the application of a BMP and a quantifiable improvement in water quality.
Absent that documented reproducible correlation between the application of a BMP and a quantifiable improvement in water quality, the OSMRE proposal to allow BMPs to be used in lieu of those measures required by the performance standards of Section 515(b)(10), such as sediment ponds, cannot be supported as being as protective as the requirements of that section.
Congress did not intend that OSMRE blanketly waive Section 515(b)(10) obligations on the basis that the state could impose BMPs; rather if there are specific BMPs that the agency believes are as protective as regulations OSMRE has imposed and which are necessary because the regulations are inappropriate to the proposed reprocessing or removal operations, OSMRE must identify those BMPs and provide the basis and documentation for the assumption that they will provide equivalent environmental protection. Any proposal by a refuse reprocessing operation to use a specific BMP must be accompanied by documentation that such practice is effective, monitoring to demonstrate the efficacy, and an enforceable limit to gauge effectiveness of the practice. BMPs cannot be used in lieu of applicable of categorical effluent limitations for this category of operations, since Congress did not authorize the agency to vary the terms or requirements of the Clean Water Act when it allowed case-by-case departures from Section 515 and 516 performance standards. See: Section 702(a)(3).
E. Section 701.5 Definitions
KRC believes that the distinctions reflected in the proposed definitions between the impacts of coal refuse removal operations and reprocessing operations are generally valid, regarding the temporary impact of removal operations relative to the potential impacts on land and water resources of reprocessing operations. The re-placement of reprocessed material should be regulated consistently with operations that process run-of-mine coal and dispose of coal refuse, since other than the source of the coal, the processing facilities have a similar footprint on land, air and water resources. For all reprocessing facilities, the agency should require the permittee to evaluate the alternative of pneumatic or hydraulic backstowing of refuse in mined-out workings, both in order to minimize subsidence and to avoid or minimize the necessity of surface disposal sites affecting navigable waters. While the agency is correct that backstowing of underground mine works has not been regulated as a surface coal mining operation, 72 F.R. 2145, and is instead regulated as a Class V well under the Safe Drinking Water Act Underground Injection Control program, OSMRE has authority to require the minimization of impacts to the hydrologic balance and can and should require that the applicant avoid surface redeposition of processed mine wastes where feasible.
In closing, KRC appreciates the effort that OSMRE has expended in finalizing the effort begun in 1993 to promulgate regulations addressing abandoned coal refuse removal and reprocessing operations. In seeking to alter the Section 515 and 516 standards, however, KRC is concerned that the agency has weakened or waived protections that may be applicable to these refuse disposal sites. It must be remembered that the repermitting and redisturbance of these sites under Title V will make the sites ineligible for future expenditure of Title IV monies, so that proper planning and execution of a mine plan for recovery of the combustible fraction of the abandoned refuse, and permitting and bonding of such activities, should be done in a manner that will assure long-term protection of landowners and the environment.
Thank you for your consideration of these comments. Please let me know if you need copies of any documents cited herein.
Tom FitzGerald
By Kentucky Resources Council on 04/10/2007 5:32 PM
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Doping in Sport: Global Ethical Issues
Author: Robert Butcher; Angela J. Schneider; Fan Hong; J. A. Mangan; Boria Majumdar
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This book considers ethical arguments about performance enhancing drugs in sport in a global context. It examines: * The forces that are bringing about the debate of ethical issues in performance enhancing drugs in sport * The sources of ethical debates in different continents and countries * The variation of ethical arguments in different cultural, political, ideological and sports systems. Whilst there has been a significant body of work that has looked at the importance of ethical issues in performance enhancing drugs in sport - there has been little, if any, consideration of the various ethical concepts in different countries and cultures involving sport. This is a major omission. This book fills the gap and provides a thorough review and analysis of the ethical literature on performance enhancing drugs in sport in the global society. It makes a major contribution to the worldwide anti-doping campaign in sport. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Sport In Global Society.
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Student govt. at Harvard votes to condemn student newspaper for asking ICE for a comment
On Sunday, the Harvard student government voted to condemn the school's daily student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, after the newspaper asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a comment about an anti-ICE protest in September on the school campus.
The story: Over 900 people and several student groups like the Harvard College Democrats have signed a petition calling for the newspaper to "apologize for the harm they inflicted on the undocumented community," "stop calling ICE," and "declare their commitment to protecting undocumented students on campus."
“In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping them off, regardless of how they are contacted,” the petition stated. On Sept. 12, students gathered for a protest organized by the student group Act on a Dream in Harvard Yard to call for the termination of ICE, according to Fox News.
After the event, the Harvard Crimson requested a comment from ICE about the protest for an upcoming story. The newspaper defended its decision to seek comment from ICE, saying in a note to readers that it follows “a commonly accepted set of journalistic standards.”
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“Foremost among those standards is the belief that every party named in a story has a right to comment or contest criticism leveled against them,” the paper said.
“At stake here, we believe, is one of the core tenets that defines America's free and independent press: the right — and prerogative — of reporters to contact any person or organization relevant to a story to seek that entity's comment and view of what transpired,” it added.
"A world where news outlets categorically refuse to contact certain kinds of sources — a world where news outlets let third-party groups dictate the terms of their coverage — is a less informed, less accurate, and ultimately less democratic world,” The Crimson said.
Harvard College Democrats, however, said on Twitter they are “not talking to @thecrimson until they stop calling ICE on students.”
The Harvard Undergraduate Council called on the student-run newspaper to "revisit their policies and make adequate changes."
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"We condemn actions or policies that endanger undocumented and immigrant students on campus, and we encourage the Harvard Crimson to revisit their policies and make adequate changes. It is imperative for the Harvard Crimson to commit to journalistic practices that do not put students at risk," the council wrote in a post on Facebook.
The Crimson president Kristine Guillaume also defended the paper's decision, saying in a statement:
“Fundamental journalistic values obligate The Crimson to allow all subjects of a story a chance to comment. This policy demonstrates a commitment to ensuring that the individuals and institutions we write about have an opportunity to respond to criticisms in order to ensure a fair and unbiased story.”
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Kerry Sholicar joined Magma Digital Ltd in 2009 as a designer, when the Preston based company had just four employees.
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The University of Central Lancashire graduate has been a loyal member of the team and now occupies the position of Senior Designer. She has taken on the responsibility of supervising a less experienced designer and is also more involved with the ongoing strategic aspects of the business.
Kerry said: “I like being a designer at Magma Digital because I love the array of different projects. I enjoy having a variety of work that consists of our own internal marketing and design work, along with all the bespoke client work that we do, which involves learning about a whole new business and understanding the goals that they wish to achieve.”
Managing director Jeremy Coates said: “We are delighted that Kerry chose to start her career with us and even happier that she has stayed with us this long. Kerry has and continues to bring a huge amount of value to the team, leading on everything from digital to branding and traditional design. Magma Digital are incredibly grateful to Kerry for her on-going hard-work and commitment.”
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Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) has lost his job in a factory, so he travels to Istanbul to find new employment. He stays with a relative of his, Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir), who has lived in Istanbul for a long time and so is different from Yusuf, who has just arrived from a village. Yusuf tries to find work, but doing so in Istanbul is more difficult than he anticipated, and he doesn’t get along well with Mahmut. Their cultural and educational differences show how distant they are from each other, even though they are relatives and come from the same village.
"The movie points at Turkey’s economic crisis during the late 90s and the huge amounts of unemployment during the early 2000s. People lost their jobs, emigration towards the big cities increased, and city people also suffered joblessness."
This is the typical villager story, about the dream of working in the big city. In Turkey, most big cities, like Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, have ample job opportunities, and people migrate there not just from villages but also from other smaller cities, and when they move, they mostly stay with or near their relatives until employment is secured. This shows how family bonds are important to Turkish people. Even if they are not close relatives, the fact that they are relatives means that they must help each other. Mahmut gives Yusuf a room in his house and helps him with city life, but we can see that he does this only because they are relatives, since, at a deep level, he does not like this situation. The movie also points at Turkey’s economic crisis during the late 90s and the huge amounts of unemployment during the early 2000s. People lost their jobs, emigration towards the big cities increased, and city people also suffered joblessness.
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Kolkata, January 12: Strongly defending the new citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the dispute that has arisen over it has made the world aware of persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan.
He, however, deplored that a section of the youth is being "misguided" over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which is aimed at giving and not taking away anybody's citizenship rights. PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates Sound and Light Show at Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge), Leaves for Belur Math by Boat; Watch Video.
"CAA is not about taking away citizenship, it is about giving citizenship. Today, on National Youth Day, I would like to tell this to the youngsters of India, West Bengal, North East that this is not an overnight law for giving citizenship. "We must all know that any person of any religion from any country of the world who believes in India and its Constitution can apply for Indian citizenship through due process. There's no problem in that," he told a gathering at Belur Math, the headquarters of Ramkrishna Mission.
Modi said even Mahatma Gandhi had favoured Indian citizenship to those fleeing religious persecution and that his government has only delivered on the wishes of the freedom fighters. Referring to anti-CAA protests in the North-East, Modi vowed to protect the distinct identity and culture of the people of the region, and asserted the new law will not hurt their interests.
"We've only done what Mahatma Gandhi had said decades ago. Should we send these refugees back to die? Are they our responsibility or not? Should we make them our citizens or not?" he said, evoking a thunderous applause by the gathering.
Modi said some people with political interests are deliberately spreading rumours about the new citizenship law, despite "complete clarity" over the CAA.
"Our initiative to amend the citizenship act has created a dispute. It is the result of our initiative that Pakistan will now have to answer why they have been persecuting minorities for the last 70 years. Human rights have been demolished in Pakistan," he said.
Seeking to assuage the concerns of the people of the North-East, Modi called the region "our pride". "Their culture, traditions and demography remains untouched by this amended law," he said. He said the citizenship law was only "changed a little" for those who were ill-treated in Pakisan after Partition. Mamata Banerjee: 'Told PM Narendra Modi During Meeting to Withdraw CAA, NRC, NPR'.
"They were having a bitter time living there. Women were in danger of losing their pride," he said. "Young people have understood the whole thing but those who want to indulge in politics over it will not," he said.
Modi said five years ago, there was disappointment among the youth of the country, but the situation has changed now. "Not just India, the entire world has a lot of expectations from the youth of the country. The youth are not afraid of challenges....they challenge the challenges," he said at the Belur Math, the abode of Swami Vivekananda for several years until his death in 1902, aged 39 years.
Modi, an ardent devotee of Vivekananda, spent the night at the Math. He has a long association with the Ramkrishna Mission order founded by Vivekananda in 1897. Inspired by the teachings of Vivekananda, Modi had arrived at the Mission Ashram in Gujarat's Rajkot and expressed desire to join the order.
Swami Atmasthananda, who later went on to become the 15th president of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission, then headed the Rajkot branch and had advised him that sanyas was not for him and that he should work among people. During those days, Modi used to regularly meet Atmasthananda and sought his spiritual guidance.
Although Modi went back after spending some time there his the relationship with Swami Atmasthananda and the Ramkrishna Mission continued. Whenever Modi used to visit Kolkata, even during his days as Gujarat chief minister, he would travel to the Math.
In 2013, during his Kolkata visit, he had gone to Belur and sought the blessings from Atmasthananda. He had in 2015 called on ailing Swami Atmasthananda at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan, a hospital run by the Mission in south Kolkata and enquired about his health.
After Atmasthananda's death in 2017, Prime Minister Modi had termed it as a "personal loss". On Sunday, the prime minister paid tributes to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary, which is celebrated as the National Youth Day, and spent some time in the spiritual leader's room in quietude.
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MusicWorks
There's a new jam in town.
Do what you love and feel good doing it! Share your music knowledge with the less fortunate across L.A by leading a MusicWorks volunteer opportunity. All instruments and all skill levels welcome.
You'll be helping an under-served youth fall in love with music at one of these three volunteer opportunities:
Leadership Opportunities:
Prep Student Musicians for Show with Little Kids Rock (MUSICWORKS)
What: Show young musicians how to slay their rock band performances by helping to teach Voice, Dance, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Horns to LAUSD students with limited access to music education. About Little Kids Rock: Little Kids Rock is a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all public school children have the opportunity to unlock their inner music makers. The Volunteer Project: Under the guidance of the lead teacher, you may head a small group, work with an individual, help with instrument maintenance, or assist in any other number of ways. Whatever these middle and high school students need to get ready for their monthly performances, you're there for! But best of all... there's pizza at every rehearsal! Impact: Access to music education is tougher than ever and your presence allows for greater classroom management and more tailored learning. Volunteer Requirements: Must play either guitar, drums, keyboards, bass, or horns at at least a beginner level Voice and Dance coaches also needed Must clear NSOP Background check Interested? Click the Sign Up button below! Questions? Email the Opportunity Leader below.
*LEADER OPPORTUNITY: Make Beats With Kids
WHAT: Lead volunteers in teaching kids how to make songs on drum machines. DESCRIPTION OF NON-PROFIT PARTNER: Aviva is a non-profit serving Los Angeles children and families in crisis via compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance. THE VOLUNTEER PROJECT YOU'D MANAGE: At "MUSICWORKS: Make Beats With Kids", 3-6 volunteers help under-served kids write their own songs using drum machines. You'll lead the class and the volunteers. IMPACT: Did you know that music education has been linked to higher emotional stability, IQ, and fewer dropouts? You can be the person who helped make these statistics a reality. TIME COMMITMENT: Two Saturdays a month 11am-1pm. LOCATION: Hollywood ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Volunteers must: Be 18+ Have some experience with drum machines (Volunteers will have time to learn specific drum machine before leading) Complete an L.A. Works training and Aviva Background checks WANT TO SIGN UP? Click "Express Interest" below
*LEADER OPPORTUNITY: Help Public School Students Rock
What: Step up your volunteer game by leading music volunteers in LAUSD Modern Band classrooms. About Little Kids Rock: Little Kids Rock is a national nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all public school children have the opportunity to unlock their inner music makers. They do this by partnering with school districts, training public school teachers in their innovative curriculum, and donating all of the instruments and resources necessary to run rockin’ music programs. The event you'd manage: At "MUSICWORKS: Teach Kids to Rock," community volunteers skilled in an instrument help public school students learn to play and appreciate music. As the Project Leader, you'd: recruit and train volunteers assign, direct, and supervise volunteers manage all communication between volunteers, Little Kids Rock, and L.A. Works be led by a public school teacher who will be in charge of teaching the curriculum Time and Location: Leaders must commit to the role for a minimum of 6 months. Mid-Wilshire, 2-4 hours per week during school hours Griffith Park, One school day a week 10:30am-11:30am Boyle Heights, M, W, Th, or Fri 10:30am-11:30am Maywood, Every other Friday 9:10-9:55am, 10:25-11:20am, or 11:25am-12:15pm Pacoima, Every Thursday 11am-11:30am Northridge, Every Friday 1pm-2:30pm Granada Hills, 2-4 hours per week during school hours Glendale, One school day a week 11-11:50am Boyle Heights, Mondays 11:15am-12:20pm Highland Park, M, W, Th, or Fri 11:30am-12:54pm OR Tues 10:44am-11:49am Florence, Fridays 12:55pm-1:55pm Florence-Firestone, Wednesdays 2:15pm-3:30pm San Pedro, Thursdays 12:50-1:35pm, 1:35pm-2:20pm, or 2:40-3:40pm El Sereno, M & W between 7:45am-12:10pm or Fri 9:45am-11:30am Angeles Crest, Weds or Thurs 7:45am-8:15am Westlake, Thurs 3-4pm Rancho Palos Verdes, Tues, Weds, Thurs (Tues: 5 classes of 5th graders 820am-1230pm, Weds & Thurs: 10:40am-12pm) Gramercy Park, Mon, Tues, Thurs 8am-430pm West Adams, Thurs 130-230pm or Fri 130pm Venice, Mon, Weds, Thurs, or Fri ; 8:30-915am, 930-1015am, 1030-11:15am, 1-145pm Project Leader Requirements: Some facility with music and instruments required Leaders must attend an L.A. Works training. Leaders must clear any background checks required by their school Project Leader Benefits: Gain marketable leadership skills Learn about the non-profit world from the inside Make a bigger impact Network with other people and groups committed to bettering Los Angeles Interested? Click the Express Interest button below!
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NMSU professors postpone Pistol Pete petition
A faculty senate resolution opposing a new Pistol Pete monument has been postponed, but faculty members look to continue discussions about the mascot.
NMSU professors postpone Pistol Pete petition A faculty senate resolution opposing a new Pistol Pete monument has been postponed, but faculty members look to continue discussions about the mascot. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/nmsu/2019/03/11/nmsu-professors-postpone-pistol-pete-petition/3098908002/
Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 1:03 p.m. MT March 11, 2019
President Floros promises to include community in discussions of future monuments
Debate was sparked by miscommunication over a proposed traffic intersection
Some professors claim 2018 Pistol Pete statue violated policy
Pistol Pete is pictured in front of the New Mexico State University bonfire in 2015. (Photo: Gary Mook -- For the Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES - A resolution by some faculty members at New Mexico State University opposing construction of a new Pistol Pete monument has been postponed after it was confirmed that the project had not yet been approved or funded.
The NMSU Faculty Senate voted 29-18 at its March 7 meeting on campus to postpone the resolution calling for "a participatory and transparent process" in selecting campus art including representations of the New Mexico State Aggies mascot, which is loosely based on Oklahoma sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal Frank Eaton and often depicted wielding a pair of pistols.
Some faculty critics describe the mascot as a colonial representation and his guns as out of place in the context of frequent multiple-casualty shootings in public places, including university campuses, in recent years.
Several members of the faculty senate, including chairwoman Becky Corran, told NMSU President John Floros at the meeting they would pursue further discussion with the community over the university's mascot and what it represents.
The resolution was prompted when a sketch was published on NMSU's website depicting a large statue of Pistol Pete riding a horse on a traffic roundabout proposed for a University Avenue intersection near Interstate 25.
The New Mexico Department of Transportation says the project is still in the design phase, and any monument at the roundabout would be funded by the university.
No monument design or funding has been approved by NMSU.
The web page has since been updated to include an alternative illustration for the potential monument and now states, "No decisions have been made regarding what will go inside the circle. NMSU plans to seek opinions and have a broad conversation with the university community, faculty, staff and students."
At Thursday's meeting, faculty senators complained that a statue of Pistol Pete installed outside the Corbett Center Student Union last summer, at a cost of $25,800 per the university, did not follow university policy about public art construction on campus.
More: Bronze Pistol Pete sculpture installed outside of Corbett Center
Referring to the new intersection, Floros told the faculty, "There will be a circle that we need to do something about. This will eventually become the main entrance to this campus. Whatever happens, we will discuss this as a university community."
Corran said she was committed to involving the student government in plans to engage "interesting and meaningful conversations" about representations of the university on campus — including the significance of NMSU's pistol-packing cowboy mascot.
Algernon D'Ammassa can be reached at 575-541-5451, adammassa@lcsun-news.com or @AlgernonActor on Twitter.
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Personal data collected: types of data as specified in the privacy policy of the service
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The user has the right to propose a complaint to the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data. Addresses: garante@gpdp.it, http://www.gpdp.it (http://www.gpdp.it).
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The owner will collect the user´s consent again if the changes to this document concern data processing for which the consent is required.
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It is personal data that identifies or makes a physical person identifiable, directly or indirectly, and that can provide information on personal characteristics, habits, lifestyle, personal relationships, state of health, economic situation, etc.
Source: website of the Privacy Guarantor (http://www.garanteprivacy.it).
The information that is automatically collected during the browsing of www.leather-eshop.com is used, both from the website itself and from the third party applications included in the site. Examples of data usage are the IP address and the details of the device and the browser (including geographic location) that the user uses to navigate the site, the pages viewed and the length of time the user stays on the individual pages.
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It coincides with the interested party, unless otherwise specified.
Interested is the natural person to whom the personal data refer. So, if a treatment concerns, for example, the address, the tax code, etc. by Mario Rossi, this person is the interested party (article 4, paragraph 1, point 1) of the 2016/679 EU Regulation (http://www.garanteprivacy.it/regolamentoue).
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Trek Into the Jungle With Pariplay’s “Treasure Temple” Slot
By Doug Holmes Oct 23, 2019
Some of the densest jungles in the world have a reputation of being filled with treasure and mystery.
Pariplay has decided to use a jungle theme for its latest slot called “Treasure Temple” which takes players on a treasure hunt that aims to unearth some of these buried treasures. Players who are fans of the treasure theme will love playing this game.
When players start this game up, they will see an abandoned jungle temple which serves as the setting.
With two statues flanking the reels and plenty of gold, players are encouraged to try their luck. The game features five reels and 243 ways to win.
Just like all new slot games, the game requires players to get winning combinations. For this game, the main symbols are the A to 10 card symbols. They are pretty low value but they are the most common. The more valuable symbols include scrolls, maps and lamps, boxes with diamonds and treasure books.
The most valuable among them is the box with diamonds. Players who get five of it in a winning combination will get 10 times their stake. There is also the scarab beetle that acts as the wild symbol and replaces all high value symbols.
The game does have some interesting special features to make things more exciting. For example, when winning combinations happen, players will see them disappear from screen and new symbols drop down. Called the Tumbling Tiles feature, this continues as long as players get a winning combination on every tumble. Apart from this, every tumble increases the win multiplier by one, with a maximum of 7x.
Players can also trigger the Temple Free Spins feature. This is done by scoring three female adventurer scatters on the same spin. Players then receive 10 free spins with the Tumbling Tiles Feature active. Besides that, the multiplier is doubled. The first win will already have a double multiplier, too.
Players can also have a chance at the Treasure Jackpot Wheel feature. This happens when players land a scarab beetle wild. A multi-ringed stone wheel appears and then spins. Players need to collect the gems on the wheel. Getting three of the same color will give them a prize. The biggest win is 1,000 times their stake.
Overall, this game is pretty simple and easy to play. The real draw is how volatile the game is, with a high potential for winning a big jackpot.
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Man gets 10 years for five counts of indecency with a child
Frisco soccer coach Kevin Michael Hilty, 43, pleaded guilty to five charges of indecency with a child on August 18 in the Denton County Court, The Dallas Morning News local section reported.
Hilty was arrested in June 2013. He was advised that going to trial to fight the charges would likely result in a far greater sentence. Therefore, Hilty accepted the plea agreement, plead guilty to all charges, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Another stipulation of the agreement was giving up his right to appeal.
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We love what we do, sharing this special place with others, and we are committed to the highest standards of safety. If you’re in the Lake Tahoe area, be sure to link up with us for some rock climbing at Lover’s Leap!
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Petch has been climbing since 1989 and has passion teaching and guiding as much as he does for climbing. At the end of an eight month climbing trip that took him and his partner from Joshua Tree in Southern California to Devils Tower in the eastern part of Wyoming, and everything in between, the final stop turned out to be Lover’s Leap. The right turn towards Lover’s Leap landed Petch in the campground in 1993. Climbing for eight months and a bank account of zero, he quickly found a job at the Strawberry Lodge. Falling in love with Lover’s Leap and Strawberry he found making a home easy. A guiding job opened in 1996 with teaching youth backpacking and rock climbing. The exciting future of guiding as a full time profession led to the opening of Lover’s Leap Guides in 2003. With his enthusiasm and knowledge of Lover’s Leap, Lover’s Leap Guides has become the most popular and busiest service to climb at Lover’s Leap. He has spent countless ours working with the Access Fund, CRAGS, and the Forest Service to maintain trails, protect nesting raptors, and community outreach. Climbing most of the routes at Lover’s Leap, he has also added numerous routes of his own. From 5.5 to 5.12D, some of his first ascents have become modern day classics. A good chance you will probably climb one of his routes when you climb with Lover’s Leap Guides.
Petch is certified by the AMGA as a Rock Instructor and holds his certification as a Wilderness First Responder and CPR.
Pete Fasoldt
Pete Fasoldt hails from Maine, where he cut his teeth as a climber and as a guide. Now he’s a certified AMGA Rock Guide and Wilderness First Responder based in Truckee, CA. While his personal climbing achievements include first ascents from Patagonia to Pakistan, he’s most content climbing, guiding and instructing in what he deems to be the best rock climbing area in the world: Lake Tahoe. Not only is he an established guide in the area, but he also helps develop and maintain local crags around Tahoe so that he, and all climbers, can safely enjoy this amazing resource for generations to come.
Steve Schwortz
Steve started climbing over 20 years in the Shawangunks in New York. A traveler and generalist at heart, he has climbed a little bit of everything in a lot of places - boulders and clip-ups, desert towers and big walls, waterfall ice, alpine ridges and big peaks . Since moving to California in 2008 he has climbed many of the classics in Tahoe, Yosemite, Bishop and throughout the Sierra.
Steve has been teaching climbing in various programs since 1997 and also spent 15 years working as an academic anthropologist and archaeologist earning three degrees and working on dozens of field projects in the US, Europe and Africa. Leveraging his varied outdoor education, scientific fieldwork and experience, his focus is on delivering high quality climbing instruction, fun experiences and effective programming for climbers of all experience levels and backgrounds. Climbing and archaeology combined to provide effective ways to travel extensively throughout North America, Europe and Africa while exploring both the natural and cultural worlds.
Steve is certified as an AMGA SPI and CWI and is a Provider for the AMGA CWI Program as well as the AAC Universal Belay Program. He is a certified WFR and holds the CWA Work-at-Height certification for Qualified Climbing Wall Workers. He also guides at Donner Summit for NASTC and ASI, works with several climbing gyms in Northern California and teaches at Sacramento City College.
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Patrick English
Patrick splits his time between hunting down splitter cracks and rowdy ski descents. He left the steep sandstone of the South East and have been wandering the Sierra Nevada and beyond for inspiring climbs and beautiful areas. The fun climbing and endless obscure routes at the Leap keep him coming back for more. Patrick's main goals are to share the love of adventure and to help people become safe and efficient climbers.
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Etta James Buy This Song
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer. Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "Roll With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" for which she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch. more »
At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over and life is like a song, oh yeah
At last the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up clover the night I looked at you
I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill I've never known, oh yeah
You smiled, you smiled oh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in Heaven
For you are mine at last
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The MacCase Flight Jacket: 10 Years and Counting
It's been called the "The Greatest Laptop Case Ever Designed". When MacCase Chief Creative Officer Michel Santoro created the MacCase Flight Jacket he was not aware he was creating an icon, one of the most memorable and best reviewed cases ever. The iconic Flight Jacket has been in consist production since 2008. That's 10 years and counting for a laptop case in an industry whose product life cycles are similar to a fruit flies. Quality design endures. Quality materials endure. World class build quality endure.
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Our Legendary MacCase Flight Jacket Turns 10
Today we are talking with Michael Santoro, President and Chief Creative Officer of MacCase on the 10th anniversary of the launch of the the company's most iconic case design, the MacCase Flight Jacket.
JKD: As a designer who's had a lot of success throughout your career, what does this 10th anniversary of the MacCase Flight Jacket mean to you?
MS: It's astounding actually. I never in a million years dreamed that these little leather cases for what was then the 13", 15" and 17" PowerBooks would still be going strong in production 10 years later. Sometimes, you just get it right.
The Birth of an Iconic Design
JKD: What was the inspiration for the Flight Jacket's iconic design?
MS: It was a combination of things. The time I spent designing Jeeps at Chrysler taught me a lot about how to implement certain elements of a design vocabulary.
There were heralded details like the round headlights, the vertical bars for the grill opening and a certain stance the vehicle needed to have that were a challenge to use in a way that would never get old or look dated. These were some great, real world design lessons I put into these leather MacBook Pro cases when I first sat down to start sketching.
Another big influence on the Flight Jacket was the teachings of Professor William Fogler. I studied with him at Pratt. He taught me things about how elements should relate to each other within and across a design that are in everything I've done since then. These ideas all over the Flight Jacket cases too.
Lastly, I would say living in California, in the West in general. It's a big, beautiful place, big in land mass but also in spirit. I think about the people who came out here 150 years ago. How brave they must have been. I've tried to channel a bit of that spirit into the design as well.
If you put those things together with some of the best quality, richest and aromatic hides available, you better not mess that up! (laughing). In the end, I sat down to design the best case I could. The MacCase Flight Jacket was the right combination of elements, influenced by the right things, filtered through a career of trying to do good work.
The MacCase Flight Jacket Design Process
JKD: You talk about MacCase's first principles of design, one of them being timelessness. Flight Jackets have been out on the market for 10 years now yet they seem to have not aged at all aesthetically. How were you or are you able to achieve this?
MS: I don't really know. I know I'm supposed to know, but it's not like there's a button or a setting on an app that you just push and a design that never gets old pops out. I wish it was that easy!
I think if you commit to doing creative work at a certain level, and you keep pushing yourself and your abilities and stay open to the voices that keep you humble, every once in a while, all the pieces come together and you can achieve something special. I believe that's what happened here.
Another major thing I had going for me when I sat down to design this bag is that the job it needed to do lent itself to my visual skill set. What I mean by that is that the case needed to do X, Y and Z. Those things happened to be 3 things I could balance easily. I knew how to do this before the pencil hit the paper.
I always make the analogy to music. Some artists have a long career and have some good albums and some not so good ones. But the great artists are able to pull all the pieces together to do a St. Pepper, a Born to Run or an American Idiot. Those are the moments you hope, wait and work for. The MacCase Flight Jacket is one of those moments.
The other thing I want to say about the idea of creating a timeless design is, you don't know it when your doing it because time has to pass before it becomes this iconic thing. Timelessness can only be viewed after the passage of time. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
Creating a Contemporary Design
JKD: The thing that strikes me about the MacCase Flight Jackets is that they do not look old. What I mean is that there are so many bags out there that look like they were designed in 1808 not 2008. Their overall aesthetic is extremely dated. Some how the Flight Jackets look contemporary. How were you able to achieve this and was this a conscious choice?
MS: Let's start with the easy one first. Yes, it is always a conscious choice. The only reason I can think of why bag manufacturers make their designs look like they are from the 1800's is because they don't have anything new to say. If they did, wouldn't they?
Would you buy a car that looked like it was from 1930's? Or wear a suit or dress from the 1910s? Yet bag makers somehow feel it's OK to purposefully make their products look old and dated. Customers pony up and pay for bags that have no innovation in them as all. It's crazy.
So yes, it was most definitely a conscious choice to not make the Flight Jacket or any other MacCase look old, as you put it. Of course it's infinitely harder to make a design new, contemporary, innovative and beautiful, or in this case, timeless as well.
I think that is partly the explanation for the success of the Flight Jackets over the last decade. The designs are contemporary. They are not some throw-back to some begone era. They are not "retro". People can relate to the proportions and the detailing. It makes sense to them in this new century.
Yet you take this contemporary design and finish it in our warm, inviting, romantic vintage hides and you have something that speaks to the past as well as the present. The vintage hides speak to the time of handmade things, or a certain quality. A MacCase Flight Jacket in vintage evokes this.
I think this is one reason the design is still so popular after ten years. It's a blend of everything that people perceive as positive about the past within a compact modern, well proportioned form. That's a tough combination to beat.
Do you have an idea to improve the MacCase Flight Jacket?
>While we offer a full breathe of case designs and styles we are always looking to improve them. We're interested in getting feedback from customers and potential customers on what they're looking for in a new Flight Jacket and ways to improve our current models. If you have an ideas, you can use the contact link below to write and let us know.
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Brandon's wish...
“I wish to stay in a log cabin by a river”
11 years old, Wales
Auto-inflammatory syndrome
Donate to wishes like Brandon's
Brandon lives by a farm and is fascinated by nature and David Attenborough, so when it came to choosing his One True Wish, he knew that he wanted to stay in a log cabin by a river.
Brandon playing with a dog during his wish
Brandon's story
It started with nosebleeds when Brandon was three years old, too heavy and too often to be normal for a young child. Then rashes started coming up, and other symptoms started creeping in; joint pain, weight loss, tiredness. It was all too much to ignore for mum, Sarah, who lives with Brandon and his stepdad in Wales.
Brandon is now 11, and the family are yet to receive a confirmed diagnosis. Doctors suspect that Brandon's illness is a form of auto-immune syndrome, meaning his immune system is attacking healthy cells and his future is uncertain. Sarah says that, at his worst, "Brandon looked like he was at death's door. He struggled to walk, was white as a sheet and covered in rashes. When he was too poorly for school, he struggled emotionally and lost a lot of self-confidence."
Now that Brandon's on medication that seems to be helping, he's getting his confidence back slowly, which is a big thing for him. His medication has to be injected daily. Brandon has overcome his fear of needles and now administers his own injections every day. "He's grown up so much after everything he's dealt with," says Sarah, "he often seems like an older person in a little person's body. He's lost his childhood to this illness, but he's fearless now”.
Brandon's wish
Brandon standing in front of his cabin
Sarah said, "When the hospital suggested we apply for a wish for Brandon I was quite upset – I thought Make-A-Wish only granted wishes for children with terminal illnesses.
"Brandon didn't think he deserved a wish because he said there are other people worse off than him. But when his wish book arrived, filled with ideas and prompts, that got his imagination going. He's nature-mad, and is a big David Attenborough fan! We live by a farm and Brandon has spent a lot of time around nature and horses with me. He had this idea stuck in his mind when the wish visitors came to discuss his wish – he wanted to stay in a log cabin by a river in the Highlands!
"Wishgranter Lucy worked closely with the family to plan an amazing adventure for Brandon. Mum, Sarah, unfortunately had an injury in the run-up to the wish, so it was postponed so that she could recover. When the new date rolled around in June 2019, they were raring to go.
Brandon riding a horse during his wish
Sarah said, “We went on plenty of adventures! Pony trekking in Glen Affric nature reserve on native Highland ponies, camera stalking high up in the highlands in an Argo buggy, we saw so many deer and Brandon found some antlers which he bought home. On his birthday, he went fishing on the river glass in a little boat, he caught his first ever fish!!! A little brown trout. Tobias, who runs the dog sled team, kindly bought the dogs to meet Brandon and he was lucky enough to have a blast round the track as the weather was cool enough. We visited Loch Ness and so many other places!! He planted an oak sapling near our log cabin and we have promised each other if we don’t go back before we will go back in ten years to see how much it has grown!!
Brandon holding antlers on his wish in the Scottish Highlands
"We would like to thank everyone who made this amazing wish possible, we’ve made so many happy memories that will last a life time!"
Sarah, Brandon's mum
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Editor in Chief / Joined 8 December, 2011
Joel Lee has a B.S. in Computer Science and over six years of professional writing experience. He is the Editor in Chief for MakeUseOf.
6 Useful about:config Tweaks You Should Know for Firefox 8+
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5 Free Apps for Managing & Playing Your Music [Android 2.2+]
Whether you’re a tech-geek fanatic or a tech-illiterate layman, there’s at least one thing that resonates between both groups – a love for music. Regardless of genre, whether it’s country, metal, classical, or dubstep, most people love music in one form or another. And if you’ve got an Android smartphone, you may as well be using it to play back your favorite tunes on the go.
5 Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Setting Goals
Goal setting is a great way to cut down on procrastination and boost productivity. If you don’t have goals, you don’t have direction. Without direction, it’s easy for you to feel lost and confused. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways you can keep track of your goals, whether you use an online goal tracker, an iPhone app, or even just a pocket notebook.
3 Fun Typing Games To Race Your Friends With Your Keyboard
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, yet much of our digital communication still relies on the keyboard. Starting with the typewriter – which debuted way back in the middle of the 19th century – we’ve had to supplement our speaking and writing with typing. Even now, we still use the keyboard to communicate from computer to computer – websites, forums, chatrooms, instant messengers and email.
The Top 10 Photoshop Blunders Of All Time
Over the past decade or two, Adobe’s Photoshop image editing software has become a staple in the world of graphics and media. In fact, Photoshop’s popularity and usage is so widespread that the word “photoshop” has become a colloquial verb meaning to edit and touch up an image. Unfortunately, not every image that is put through Photoshop turns out well.
5 Best Animal Rescue Sites To Find Your Next Pet
If you’re thinking of adding a new pet to your household, you may want to look into adopting or rescuing one from a shelter instead of buying one from the nearest pet store. Local animal shelters and rescue groups temporarily house homeless dogs, cats, and other animals that are in need of owners. Why rescue from a shelter instead of buying from a pet store?
Joel Lee January 6, 2012 06-01-2012
5 Ways To Kick Your Moleskine Notebook Up A Notch
Over the years, the Moleskine notebook has become a trademark staple for anyone dabbling in creative endeavors. In fact, the Moleskine is almost as iconic as the Apple laptop, the hipster glasses, and the daily visits to Starbucks. But simply having one of these notebooks won’t be enough to spark your productivity and get your steam pumping towards optimal efficiency.
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How To Remove The Google Redirect Virus From Your Computer
Are all of your Google search results redirecting to weird, obnoxious, or otherwise shady websites? If so, your computer may be infected by a form of the Google Redirect Virus (GRV). While the virus can be problematic, it is possible to remove it completely off your system. Unlike most cases of malware, this virus embeds itself deeper into your system.
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Category: February 2015
Mariscos Carlos
February 1, 2015 January 11, 2018 Manzanillo Sun Writer
By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition (You may need a treasure map to find this restaurant, but the trip is well worth the trouble). I would like to tell you about all the great seafood at this restaurant but I can never get past the appetizers; in particular, the shrimp tacos, and the […]
If only there was a way to find “Our Song”
By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition Before staring this month’s article, I wanted to update my review of the Sonos speakers I wrote about last month. I was concerned that I may have been a bit hasty giving such a glowing review of the Sonos speakers. The controller app kept losing the connection […]
An Aztec Dwarf Story
By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition A dwarf’s life in the courts of Europe during the Dark Ages and on into the Renaissance was probably one of misery. Within the courts they were cast as jesters and fools. They were little people although cute but also to be persecuted because of their size. […]
February 1, 2015 January 11, 2018 Suzanne A. Marshall
By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2015 Edition Most of us relate to silly moments in life that we’d like to take back. This is largely because in retrospect you can see it all so clearly and wonder ‘what was I thinking’. It’s Christmas time (Navidad) on the beaches of Manzanillo. New Year’s Eve is […]
At The Movies – Amistad
By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition Mystique builds as a contralto hums a haunting Negro spiritual during the opening credits of this 1997 Steven Spielberg film. Then, with the background sounds of creaking sailing ship rigging, Mr. Spielberg builds a compelling suspense. His camera focuses across the eyes of a black man. One […]
At The Movies – From Time To Time
By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition Starring: Maggie Smith, Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Pauline Collins Directed by: Julian Fellowes “A hauntimg ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for […]
At The Movies – Labor Day (2013)
By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2015 Edition Starring: Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Tobey Maguire Directed by: Jason Reitman “Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the wounded convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their […]
Madagascar Palm- I Planted Roots In Mexico
February 1, 2015 February 4, 2019 Tommy Clarkson
By Tommy Clarkson from the February 2015 Edition Pachypodium lamerei Family: Apocynaceae Also known as: Devil’s Backscratcher The genus of Pachypodium are shrubby succulents, most of which have thick, prickly stems, strap-like leaves and five-petaled, funnel-shaped flowers terminal clusters. The unique Madagascar Palm combines features of both palms and cactus and your guess as to its […]
February 1, 2015 January 16, 2019 Manzanillo Sun
In this issue: Nature Madagascar Palm – Tommy Clarkson King Alexander Palm – Tommy Clarkson Living in Mexico Cafe Review – Mariscos Carlos – Allan Yanitski Double Trouble II – Suzanne A. Marshall Good Intentions – L. C. Allard Movie Reviews St. Vincent – Suzanne A. Marshall Labor Day – Suzanne A. Marshall Time to […]
At The Movies – St. Vincent
By Suzanne A. Marshall from the February 2015 Edition Starring: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts Directed by: Theodore Melfi (and screenplay) “A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.” This is a ‘feel good’ movie and who doesn’t […]
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Fossil fuels = climate change = health impacts. Helping Medibank join the dots
Market Forces today led a delegation of doctors, health professionals and Medibank customers, who visited Medibank’s offices to hand over materials outlining the link between fossil fuels and public health impacts.
The group – including representatives of Doctors for the Environment Australia, The Australian Medical Students Association, Healthy Futures and the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association – pointed out to Medibank that it is in their interest, and the interest of the entire insurance sector, to divest from fossil fuels and actively fight for a transition to a low-emissions economy.
At their AGM in November 2016 Medibank faced a number of questions from shareholders regarding their investment in coal, oil and gas companies, due to the negative impact that these industries have on public health directly and via global warming.
Since then, and with HCF becoming the first Australian insurance company to announce divestment from fossil fuels (in February), the calls for action from health professionals and Medibank customers have been growing.
There is a growing shift out of fossil fuels across the health sector more generally, with the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians recently putting out strong statements calling for climate action and fossil fuel divestment.
Back in 2009, the world’s foremost medical journal, The Lancet, declared climate change as the “biggest global health threat of the 21st Century”.
So it is disappointing that most private health insurers, including Australia’s biggest, Medibank, are still investing their customers’ money in coal, oil and gas companies.
But with Medibank currently reviewing its environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, we are asking Australia’s biggest health insurer to make the right call and divest from fossil fuels. We want Medibank to take their rightful place alongside us in the fight for cleaner air and a safe climate.
Medibank has already divested from tobacco and “controversial” weapons, acknowledging the hypocrisy of investing in products which threaten human health. Divestment from dirty fossil fuels is needed for exactly the same reason.
Do you have private health insurance? Use the form on this page to tell your insurer to ditch fossil fuels. To find out more about our health insurance campaign click here.
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I am a member of yours and I recently learned that health insurers HCF, Medibank and NIB have announced their divestment from fossil fuels, due to their negative impacts on human health. Latrobe Health Services, Doctors Health Fund and Westfund have also confirmed their investments are fossil fuel free. I would like to know what proportion of your investment portfolio is invested in fossil fuels - including coal, gas & oil companies in addition to fossil fuel infrastructure. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. Fossil fuel extraction, transportation and combustion also directly cause pollution and ecological destruction - having terrible impacts on human health across the globe and in Australia. One clear example of this is the growing concern over miners in Queensland and New South Wales being diagnosed with black lung disease and other respiratory illnesses. The Lancet, the world’s foremost medical journal has described climate change as the “biggest global health threat of the 21st Century”. Here in Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) divested from fossil fuels in 2015, saying: "The RACP is committed to leadership in reducing the adverse health impacts and realising the potential health benefits of climate change. As a first step in reducing its own carbon footprint, in 2015 the RACP decided to divest from all financial holdings in or directly linked to fossil fuel industries.” I would find it incredibly hypocritical if my fund is invested in fossil fuels when the latest science suggest that they are causing a global health catastrophe. Please advise of your plans, if any, to reduce your exposure to fossil fuels. And if you don't have any fossil fuel investments, then I would like to see a commitment from you that you won't be investing in them in the future, like Latrobe Health Services has done. For the record I would like to state that for the reasons outlined above, I want a health insurer that is not investing my money in the fossil fuel industry and never will. If you are unable to guarantee this, then I will start looking for an alternative fund that can. I look forward to your response.
I am a member of HCF. I was pleased to see that HCF has announced its divestment from fossil fuels, due to their negative impacts on human health. I would like to congratulate you for becoming the first health fund in the country to make this announcement. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. I am aware that you have now completed fossil fuel divestment from your international share portfolio and have committed to developing a strategy for your Australian shares. What is this strategy? I hope you are not abandoning your commitment half-way through. If divesting from fossil fuels is in line with your values, then remaining invested in these dirty industries in Australia goes against what you publicly stand for. Please keep me informed of your progress with your Australian shares. I hope you will keep your word and let me know your strategy for dealing with them soon. Yours sincerely,
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Dear Bupa I am a member of yours and I recently learned that other health insurers HCF, Medibank and NIB have announced their divestment from fossil fuels, due to their negative impacts on human health. I’ve also heard that Latrobe Health Services, which, like Bupa, currently doesn’t have any equity investments, has pledged not to invest in fossil fuels in the future. I am writing to ask that as a company that’s interested in promoting good health among your customers, you make a similar public commitment to never investing in coal, oil and gas companies and infrastructure. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. Fossil fuel extraction, transportation and combustion also directly cause pollution and ecological destruction - having terrible impacts on human health across the globe and in Australia. One clear example of this is the growing concern over miners in Queensland and New South Wales being diagnosed with black lung disease and other respiratory illnesses. The Lancet, the world’s foremost medical journal has described climate change as the “biggest global health threat of the 21st Century”. Here in Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) divested from fossil fuels in 2015, saying: "The RACP is committed to leadership in reducing the adverse health impacts and realising the potential health benefits of climate change. As a first step in reducing its own carbon footprint, in 2015 the RACP decided to divest from all financial holdings in or directly linked to fossil fuel industries.” When the latest science suggests that fossil fuels are causing a global health catastrophe, I’d like to be reassured that my premiums will never be used to worsen this crisis. Please advise if you are willing to commit to never investing in fossil fuel companies. If you won't, then I will consider shifting to a health insurer who will. I look forward to your response.
Dear Latrobe Health Services, I am a member of yours and I recently learned that you have committed never to invest in coal, oil or gas companies and infrastructure. I would like to congratulate you for this stance. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. It pleases me greatly that my health fund has shown such leadership when it is so desperately needed throughout the financial community. I would also recommend that you make an effort to publicly advertise your position of being fossil fuel free. Yours sincerely,
Dear Doctors' Health Fund, I am a member of yours and I recently learned that you have confirmed that you don't invest in coal, oil or gas companies and infrastructure and you won't be investing in the future. I would like to congratulate you for this stance. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. It pleases me greatly that my health fund has shown such leadership when it is so desperately needed throughout the financial community. I would also recommend that you make an effort to publicly advertise your position of being fossil fuel free. Yours sincerely,
Dear Westfund, I am a member of yours and I recently learned that you have confirmed that you don't invest in coal, oil or gas companies and infrastructure. I would like to congratulate you for this stance. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. I would like to request that you take one more step in the right direction by committing to never invest in fossil fuels in the future. Can you do this? It pleases me greatly that my health fund has shown leadership when it is so desperately needed throughout the financial community. I would also recommend that you make an effort to publicly advertise your position of being fossil fuel free. Yours sincerely,
Dear NIB, I am a member of yours and I am pleased to hear that you have divested from most fossil fuel companies in your international share portfolio. These companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. It pleases me that my health fund has shown leadership when it is so desperately needed throughout the financial community. I am writing to ask that you take the next logical step by divesting your customers' money from fossil fuel companies in your Australian share portfolio. Please extend your commitment to public health across all your investments. As a customer I do not want to have my money used to fund activities that pollute the air and water and worsen climate change. If you can't provide that, then I will look for an insurer who can. Thank you, and please keep me informed of your progress with your Australian shares. Yours sincerely,
Dear Teachers Health, I am a member of yours and I am pleased to hear that you have partly divested your international share portfolio of fossil fuels. Fossil fuel companies are the primary sources of carbon emissions causing dangerous climate change, which is already having measurable impacts on public health. For the record I would like to state that I want a health insurer that is not investing my money in the fossil fuel industry and never will. I urge you to complete your fossil fuel divestment process as soon as possible, by extending your international share divestment to all coal, oil and gas companies and by divesting your Australian share portfolio. Please let me know when this will be done by. Yours sincerely,
Dear Medibank, I’m writing to congratulate you on taking a stance against fossil fuels and their negative impacts on public health. Your commitment to divest from coal, oil and gas companies will send a strong signal to your customers, shareholders and the general public that Medibank takes its role as a health organisation seriously. As a customer I am proud that you have taken this step. I am aware that you have completed divestment of your international and domestic share portfolios. I also expect Medibank will use its position as Australia’s largest health insurer to speak out more often in defence of strong action on climate change and a rapid transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, for the sake of public health. Warm regards,
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How to Write a Successful Media Release
August 30, 2018 /0 Comments/in Frontpage Article, Public Relations /by Maureen Eppen
There’s no guarantee a chief of staff, editor or producer will respond well to your request for coverage in their newspaper or on radio or TV. However, having the right information in a media release will maximise your chances of success.
At a time when we are all inundated with information from countless sources every day, one of the greatest challenges facing organisations is how to tell as many people as possible what they do and how they do it.
Many organisations are experiencing great success in connecting with clients or customers via social media and other digital marketing channels. But an equally large number find tapping into traditional print and broadcast media much more difficult.
Believe it or not, many major organisations fail to deliver the most basic information when they submit a media release.
As a result the risk missing out on opportunities for invaluable promotion, engagement and connection.
It only takes a few seconds for a chief of staff, editor or producer to decide whether your story may interest their readers, listeners or viewers, and there are some easy ways to ensure your request for a story ends up allocated to a reporter for follow up, rather than dumped in the waste paper bin for recycling.
It may seem obvious that a professional looking Media Release will be more likely to be taken seriously, but you’d be surprised how often organisations get it wrong.
Making the initial contact
Getting in touch with the decision makers in traditional media involves doing your homework, making smart choices and being prepared at a moment’s notice to pitch your potential story in a couple of short sentences.
If you’ve never had any dealings with the media and the idea of contacting an editor or producer is intimidating, following these tips may eliminate any sense of anxiety and improve your chances of a positive response:
Target the right media for your message. Read newspapers and magazines, listen to radio programs and watch TV news and current affairs programs to determine which would have the most appropriate readership, listeners or viewers for your story. There’s no point pitching a story about a fundraising drive for a local charity to a specialist financial newspaper.
Call the news organisation up front. If you can’t be put straight through to the right person to contact, find out their name and email address, if possible, and address your covering email to them.
Some organisations will give you a generic or shared email address, in which case you should address your email to the chief of staff, editor or executive producer, as appropriate.
If you get put through to the news desk, make sure you know exactly what you want to say. Consider rehearsing a brief spiel with a colleague or friend, ensuring you focus on what makes your story unusual or compelling.
When sending a pitch via email, include a brief synopsis in the body of the email, and attach the media release (see tips below) plus a clear, high-resolution photo or photos.
Make sure your phone number is included in your email signature. The easier it is for an editor or producer to contact you, the better.
Writing a standout media release
Use your organisation’s letterhead, and type the words Media Release (centred in bold) immediately below the letterhead details.
Include the current date on the next line, along with an indication of whether the information is for immediate release or embargoed until a specific date.
Use a pithy but powerful headline to grab their attention. Many people make the mistake of trying to say too much in the headline. Keep it as simple as possible, and make sure it sums up exactly what the release is about without giving too much away. You want to intrigue the editor, and encourage them to read further. Consider the types of newspaper headlines that grab your attention, and practice emulating them.
Put the most important information in your first paragraph, but keep it relatively short and use active, positive language. The first couple of paragraphs should explain the ‘who, what, where, when and why’ of the product, service or story you want to share, but if they’re too long or too complex your message will be lost.
Use the ‘inverted triangle’ technique to structure the remaining body content, with information progressing from most important (near the top) to least important (near the bottom). Writing this way is the most basic form of journalism, ensuring that the key details are not lost if a reader is short of time.
Keep your language simple and straightforward. Avoid technical jargon and don’t use trendy terms or buzzwords. Editors often recommend writing to ensure a 12-year-old can understand what you are trying to convey.
Use facts and figures to substantiate your claims where possible. Ensure that if you are stating that your product is the only one of its kind, you can back this up with conviction.
Incorporate quotes from a spokesperson for your organisation to give your message a personal touch. Use the first name and surname of the person you are quoting, as well as their role within your organisation. Check the style of the publication or program you are targeting, to determine whether they attribute quotes with full name, first name or surname only, or if they use demonyms such as Miss, Ms, Mrs or Mr, and present your Media Release to suit their needs. It’s frustrating for a reporter to have to check this information if you haven’t provided it.
Keep your Media Release short – a maximum of one to one-and-a-half double-spaced A4 pages – but make sure all the most important details are covered. Ask yourself what you would want to know if you knew nothing about your product, service or event, and incorporate this information in your release.
Your final paragraph should include the name and number or email address of a contact person within your organisation, intended for publication or broadcasting, so that readers or listeners can contact them for further information, if needed.
If you are sending a photograph with the media release, you should also include a caption describing what’s happening in the photo and providing the names and titles of all people from left to right (and make sure you indicate that the names are listed from left to right).
Insert a solid line at the end of your release – or type the word ENDS – and on a new line write the name, number and email address of your organisation’s ‘media contact’, so a reporter or editor can contact them directly for further details, to arrange a photo shoot or to record an interview. By separating this information from the body of the Media Release, the editor or producer will know it’s not for publication.
Consider also providing a ‘boilerplate’ paragraph about your organisation after the media contact details. This is a few sentences to describe your group or organisation, as background information and to reinforce your legitimacy.
The most important step in preparing a Media Release is to have a friend with strong writing skills proof read it before you send it. You don’t want to send a release riddled with typos or grammatical errors.
The accompanying image
Finally, if you’re including a photo, or photos, with your media release – and I recommend you do – keep the number of people to a minimum and get up nice and close to them, while ensuring there are no shadows on their faces.
If it’s absolutely necessary to have a shot of a large group, focus on two or three people up close with the others in the background.
Study photographs in local, state or national newspapers for inspiration, and to gain an understanding of what editors want.
If you do include a photo, or photos, make sure you also highlight in your covering letter that representatives of your group can be available for a photo shoot, if needed.
Download a media release I wrote for children’s charity Operation Sunshine
Children’s charity Operation Sunshine approached me to write a Media Release, to help them source volunteers to put together “Sunshine Packs” — backpacks with practical and comforting goods for children and youth entering care or escaping domestic violence.
After chatting with Founder Leah Atkinson, I put together a release seeking volunteers for the “Sunshine Session”, and this release was sent to local newspapers and broadcast media outlets.
As a result, one local paper published a front page story and half-page photo and a local radio station will be interviewing Leah about Operation Sunshine’s ongoing efforts on behalf of children in need. The organisation has more than enough volunteers for the Sunshine Session, and is now gearing up for another media campaign ahead of its annual Christmas Present Appeal.
Feel free to use the media release I wrote to help guide your own efforts.
Media Release – Operation Sunshine (PDF)
Maureen’s first picture book for children, Every Family is Different was published by Serenity Press early this year. It celebrates diversity among families and encourages tolerance and acceptance. Copies are available via the Serenity Press website.
Maureen Eppen
Maureen Eppen is a Perth-based communications professional with more than 35 years’ experience in print and digital media. She has been a newspaper sub-editor and editor, operated as a freelance journalist for a range of newspapers and magazines, and now works in corporate communications. Early in her journalism career, Maureen won the Perth Press Club and Post Newspapers Award for the best work appearing in a suburban newspaper in Perth.
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Moana Surfrider Celebrates 115 Years in Grand Style
A nostalgic concert that will hearken back to a magnificent, glorious opening day more than a century ago… is one of the major events being planned for the Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa’s 115th anniversary celebration on Friday, March 11.
On that day, the First Lady of Waikiki will stage two events – one under the stars, and the other, a concert, under the famed banyan tree – that will benefit several Hawaii non-profit organizations.
At 6 p.m. on its Diamond Lawn, Ocean Vodka and the Moana present a peek at the hotel’s future with a cool new series called “LOL: Love Of Libations.”
It will include action stations and beverage pairings by the Beach Bar at the Moana Surfrider, RumFire from the Sheraton Waikiki, Scratch Kitchen & Bake Shop, The Pig and the Lady, Koko Head Café, MW Restaurant, MAC 24-7, and Square Barrels.
Part of the proceeds of this event will benefit the Life Foundation – Hawaii Chapter.
The cost is $75 per person. Tickets for this event are available at HonoluluBoxOffice.com.
A Modern-Day Tribute to Moana’s Musical Past
On the Banyan Courtyard stage that same evening at 6:30 p.m., slack key virtuoso Makana presents a modern-day tribute to Moana’s musical past with a “Hawaii Calls” concert.
The original “Hawaii Calls” was a long-running radio show that introduced Hawaiian music to the world.
While entertainers played on the very same Banyan Courtyard stage, show emcee Webley Edwards’ voice could be heard across the globe:
“From the Banyan Court of the Moana Hotel overlooking beautiful Waikiki Beach, it’s Hawaii Calls!”
Makana is widely regarded as one of the masters of slack key guitar in Hawaii, having been featured on three Grammy-nominated albums including the soundtrack for the Academy Award-winning film, “The Descendants.”
Renowned performers Nina Keali‘iwahamana, Palani Vaughn, Pomaika‘i Lyman and Taimane Gardner are also expected to join Makana on stage that evening.
The cost of this event is $115 per person (inclusive) and includes a pre-concert reception featuring some of the beachhouse’s finest offerings, two drinks and hosted parking.
A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit the Bishop Museum, Historic Hawaii Foundation, and the Waikiki Aquarium.
A limited number of individual tickets for this event are also available at HonoluluBoxOffice.com.
Birthday Celebrations All Month Long
Moana Birthday Month celebrations get underway in earnest on March 1 with a variety of specials at its signature dinner restaurant, the beachhouse at the moana, the Beach Bar and the award-winning Moana Lani Spa.
All month long, enjoy a beachhouse Birthday Dinner Special of $115 for dinner for two that includes baby romaine Caesar salad and a wagyu tomahawk steak with the choice of two side dishes.
Over at the Beach Bar, enjoy the new drink, “Ode to 1989,” a toast to the year the Moana Surfrider reopened after a massive project that restored the First Lady of Waikiki to her original luster and grandeur.
The cocktail is $12 at the Beach Bar and is similar to Moana Sands, a signature cocktail that was served back in 1989 when the hotel reopened.
At the award-winning Moana Lani Spa, a variety of specials are being planned including a “Birthday Special” treatment – an unforgettable experience that includes a macadamia nut scalp treatment with the focus on the neck and shoulders, followed by a warm stone foot massage.
The ritual is slow, gentle and relaxing…and all for just $115 for the 45-minute treatment.
The “First Lady of Waikiki” package includes a head-to-toe experience with an express hydra facial, pedicure, shampoo, style and champagne for $240.
For more March specials, contact Moana Lani Spa at (808) 237-2535.
Bringing Art to Life
The 115th anniversary is a celebration of all things Moana, including a special Artist-in-Residence program featuring renowned artist Juno Galang.
Don’t miss Juno in the hotel’s main lobby between Monday, March 7 and Saturday, March 12.
Enjoy live painting demonstrations by Galang, whose theme during the week will be the “Moana Surfrider: yesterday and today through the eyes of an artist.”
Although Galang paints in various mediums, the artist is best recognized for the vibrant colors of his acrylics.
Known for painting the “color and flavor” of the islands, Juno depicts Hawaii’s people and places with precision.
His technique requires endless hours of exacting brush strokes and a keen eye to detail, often combining traditional painting skill with contemporary abstraction and translucence.
Book a Room!
In celebration of 115 years, the Moana Surfrider is offering a 115th Anniversary room package. For stays of at least four nights, the last night is just $115.
In addition, guests who book this package will receive a $115 resort credit (applicable toward dining or spa services), as well as a welcome basket with a Moana Surfrider historical book and other gifts.
The package is good through December 25 and is commissionable for travel agents.
To book the package, simply go to the Moana Surfrider website and book rate plan 115AN. Or, call the hotel at (808) 922-3111.
The "First Lady of Waikiki" welcomes guests with the grace of a bygone age and the comforts of a modern, world-class landmark.
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London Rainbow Theatre concert review - NME, 20 January 1973 by Steve Clarke
Last week’s Wishbone Ash gig at the Rainbow was the band’s final appearance before they set off for a new American tour. To put it in a nutshell, it was faultless.
Faultless to the extent that I wondered whether the band are getting just a little too flash, a little too professional. Their timing is perfect. Their act is perfect – each member of the band moving round the stage in the right way at the right time.
Andy Powell and Ted Turner strut over to each other and trade licks. Martin Turner strolls around behind Steve Upton’s drums; Andy walks over to the far right of the stage (just a little too embarrassed to lower his guitar to crutch level). The spontaneity seems missing.
Wishbone opened with ‘Time Was’; Steve got in some nice rolls and the twin guitars reeled off the first sortie. Andy and Ted are find in the context of Wishbone Ash. But I have my doubts as to whether they’d make it outside the band. Their playing is a little too devoid of feeling – everything is too calculated.
For me, their finest hour on Tuesday night was ‘The Pilgrim’ from their second album. Andy plays the backing melody in front of Steve Upton’s hypnotic cymbals, while Ted Turner tops it off with clear piercing notes. Then Upton gets heavy and the song is in full swing. It’s Andy’s turn to solo and Ted takes over the backing lines. A beautiful song, beautifully played.
Another highlight was ‘ Phoenix’ – complete with smoke bombs. With its sue of dynamics it’s similar to ‘The Pilgrim’ in many ways.
Andy then it was all down to an encore. Ted Turner played pedal steel on what Andy Powell introduced as an Everly Brothers number. Whatever it was, the Rainbow audience lapped it up. More rock and roll for the band’s last single, ‘ No Easy Road’. By this time, people were dancing in the aisles and – I dare say – there must have been a few sore hands judging by the amount of hand-clapping going on.
I enjoyed the concert even if it was a bit slick. Best of luck, States-side boys.
Earlier Stackridge had turned in a set which can only be described as entertaining. Flautist Martin Slater did his usual antics in a rousing version of ‘The Stanley’, shortly to be released as a single. Best of all, though, was ‘Slark’, which ought to be re-released as a single.
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It’s a small island but it packs a punch when it comes to things to do, especially if your main interests are water related. (The island was recently ranked “Best Dive Site” by Scuba Diving Magazine.) The blend of nations that has formed this island’s population makes for an easy transition to overseas retirement.
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Pedasí, Panama | Overseas Haven Report
In a golden corner of Panama’s Azuero Peninsula sits the town of Pedasí. It’s a town with a village atmosphere—large enough to feel like you can live there, yet small enough to make you feel like an active stakeholder in a thriving community.
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By: Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
Rob Jones (Stagecoach MCSL), on how buses can help combat our climate emergency.
Rob Jones, managing director of Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire, on how buses can help combat our climate emergency.
2020 is set to be a pivotal year not just for our planet as a whole, but for local communities right across the UK.
Why? Because for the first time ever there is a political consensus that we are facing a climate emergency which threatens the future of our planet – and something must be done to address it.
Scientific evidence demonstrating the scale of the crisis and the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions quickly has never been clearer. We can no longer afford a ‘business as usual’ approach to managing the climate emergency. Radical changes are needed.
The UK will host COP26, the United Nations climate change summit, in Glasgow in November 2020. But this is not just an issue for debate and negotiations among global leaders. It is a local crisis that needs urgent local action.
Growing emissions
Surface transport is single largest producer of carbon emissions in the UK and the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions are growing. We can see the disturbing evidence of this all around us as dozens of towns and cities across the country continue to breach World Health Organisation annual limits on air pollution.
Public Health England estimates that air pollution – of which cars are a key cause – contributes to around 700 deaths a year in Liverpool city region. The biggest transport source of that air pollution – some 41% – is diesel cars. An unsustainable use of cars is also responsible for the worsening congestion that is not just a drag on our regional economies, it is killing our children.
Poor air quality already causes 40,000 early deaths in the UK, with these health impacts beyond the terrible human cost estimated at £20bn every year. Halving average city traffic speeds due to congestion leads to a 50% increase in NOx emissions from larger vehicles.
All of this means that it is time for tough decisions by us all, including politicians who are the custodians of policies which affect our future.
The UK government has set a 2050 net zero carbon target. It has also introduced an Environment Bill which will toughen regulation to improve air and water quality, tackle plastic pollution and restore habitats so plants and wildlife can thrive. Legislation will also create legally-binding environmental improvement targets.
But we cannot wait a further 30 years to make the behaviour changes we owe to our children. Research last summer by Greener UK and the Climate Coalition found that nearly 70% of British people want urgent political action to tackle climate change and protect the natural environment.
The good news is that the solution to a large part of the problem already exists – the bus. Contrary to the outdated image of ‘dirty buses’, buses are amongst the cleanest forms of transport.
Ambitious targets
New ultra-low and zero emission bus technology delivers huge environmental improvements – Euro VI buses are up to 95% cleaner than earlier models and cleaner than equivalent cars. Not only that, buses offer up to 20 times the carrying capacity of standard cars. Indeed, without buses it will be impossible for governments to deliver on their ambitious targets.
Over the past decade across the UK, Stagecoach has invested more than £1bn in new greener vehicles and by the end of 2020 it will have one of the biggest electric bus fleets in Europe. Our benefit also comes not just from making our own business more sustainable, but from providing a ready-made cleaner alternative to the car.
Analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research shows that without Stagecoach bus services, there would be 0.19m tonnes of extra CO2 a year from passengers using cars and other transport.
But the benefit of buses to our local communities goes even further. Buses are central to the health of our high streets, which data continues to show are in intensive care.
High streets
Data from the British Retail Consortium showed high street stores in 2018 suffered their worst Christmas in a decade as retail sales flatlined and massive discounts failed to lure shoppers. The signs are that 2019 was no better. Fewer people visited UK shops on the last Saturday before Christmas this year, with visitor numbers falling 8% on last year.
However, again the bus provides a route to revitalising our high streets. On average bus passengers spend more money per head in our high streets than those who arrive by car.
So instead of building a local transport system that is centred on lower revenue generating and higher polluting cars, evidence suggests the bus should be central to how we envision our town and city centres in the future.
New Years are time for reflection and resolutions. They are also a time of hope. In 12 months’ time, when we look back on 2020, we hope we can say that it was finally the ‘year of the bus’.
Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire
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Can Ken turn a packed church hall and polite reception into votes?
September 9, 2011 - Martin Hoscik@martinhoscik
Livingstone addresses as audience in Tooting.
Shortly after he was selected as Labour’s 2012 Mayoral candidate, Ken Livingstone promised to visit all 32 London boroughs as he gathers material for his manifesto.
He’s now around two thirds of the way through his ‘Tell Ken’ days which consist of walkabouts/visits in the day and an open Q&A in the evening.
I’ve already been along to observe the daytime goings-on at Croydon and Southwark and last night popped along to observe a Q&A in Tooting.
I caught up with Team Ken at Clapham Junction just a few yards from where an angry crowd heckled Boris Johnson in the aftermath of the riots and some shouted that they wanted Livingstone.
If you’re prone to rising blood pressure at the merest hint that Livingstone has even residual popularity you might want to look away about now.
It’s fair to say the locals weren’t exactly scattering rose petals at his feet but a good number of shoppers and passersby happily stopped to take a leaflet or talk to the man himself and, as on past occasions, some wanted their picture taken with him.
On the bus from Clapham Junction to Tooting commuters were fascinated by their celebrity fellow passenger. Many waved, smiled and called out and one slightly nervous young guy came up to tell Ken he’d be backing him “to stop the cuts”, a sentiment several people sitting nearby nodded along with.
Perhaps Livingstone’s anti-coalition, anti-cuts rhetoric is fertile ground after all?
At the Q&A venue campaign team members were handing out more flyers in the hope of tempting people into the hall to share their thoughts with Ken.
In the end a mix of Labour members and ordinary folk formed a crowd of around 130, larger than expected which meant some of us had to stand.
As people entered they were asked to sign in and state whether they were party members, Ken’s press officer suggested later that around two-thirds were not.
I can’t verify that but when attendees were asked to put their hand up if they were members the majority of arms stayed firmly down, though it’s possible shyness played a part in this.
One intensive note-taking member of the audience was fingered to be the evening’s not so undercover Boris spy.
The sound quality isn’t great but you can hear Ken’s opening remarks in the clip below:
Ken Livingstone speaks at Tell Ken campaign event (mp3)
Questions covered all the issues you’d expect – fares, housing, transport, policing – and critics including LibDem hopeful Brian Paddick will be pleased to hear Ken once again referenced Margaret Thatcher.
On housing Ken said we needed to move away from the idea that renting a home from the council was something to be ashamed of and “bacK’ towards mixed rental developments of all income and social groups.
Council homes should not be “a ghetto”, he also seems to have picked up on Boris’s ‘size matters’ rhetoric as there was a reference to using the London Plan – the Mayor’s development policy – to ensure homes were a decent size.
Ken’s favourite whipping boy Tony Blair came in for some criticism for failing to build more council homes.
As Adam first reported some months ago, he’s also firmly closing the door on further congestion charge zones or extensions, insisting restoring the WEZ would cost “£100m” which the 2012 winner won’t have and, prepare yourself, suggested that the larger a congestion charge zone is, the less effective it is.
His campaign team declared themselves pleased with the night but can Ken turn friendly applause and polite leaflet taking into sufficient votes to win next May?
Your guess is as good as mine but I’m increasingly certain that writing him off, as Paddick does, as a yesterday’s man with no chance at all is folly.
For their part, Team Ken are openly dismissive that Paddick can deliver on his rhetoric of converting his second preferences into enough first round votes to be in the final two runners with Boris.
But just in case, and while they’ll clearly devote most of their firepower and resources on Boris, don’t be surprised if the Livingstone campaign put just a little bit more effort into attacking Paddick than they did in 2008.
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Papa John's Founder Sues Agency Over Secretly Taped Conversation
by Steve McClellan @mp_mcclellan, December 6, 2019
Papa John’s Founder John Schnatter filed suit Thursday against the company’s former ad agency Laundry Service for breach of contract and other claims, stemming from a conference call that, according to Schnatter, the agency secretly taped in May 2018.
According to the suit portions of the conference call were subsequently leaked by the agency to Forbes, which reported that Schnatter had used a racial slur (the “N-word”) during the call. The Forbes story was followed up by numerous publications around the country, embroiling the company in a national scandal.
By leaking the contents of the secretly taped conversation, Schnatter alleged that Laundry Service violated confidentiality provisions of the service agreement contract between the agency and Papa John’s. The agency announced that it had resigned the account sometime after the conference call.
Schnatter also alleges that his use of the N-word during the call was taken out of context and that in fact never uses the word.
The leaked tape led to Schnatter’s ouster as chairman of the company, his removal from all company advertising and his subsequent departure from the company’s board of directors, all of which Schnatter alleges amounted to tortious interference with prospective economic advantage on the part of the agency.
The suit, filed in Louisville, KY, also names the agency’s parent company, California-based Wasserman Media and highlights a commercial dispute between the agency and Papa John’s during which Wasserman CEO Casey Wasserman, allegedly told papa John's then-CEO Steve Ritchie that he would "bury the founder" if Laundry Service was not paid $6 million.
Schnatter issued a statement announcing the suit: "Today, I've taken a major step forward in search of the truth of what happened that caused me to lose my company, which resulted in thousands of franchisees and employees suffering from the economic fallout. The facts will show that my words were taken out of context and used to manufacture a scandal against me based on a completely false narrative.”
Laundry Service and Wasserman had not returned queries seeking comment by deadline.
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Paris: Cafes, Consumerism, Cultural Icons
September 4, 2019 Comments Off on Paris: Cafes, Consumerism, Cultural Icons read Attractions, Everything is Terrible, France, Travel
Holiday display at À la Mère de Famille
We started the day in the Marais, having coffee at Le Bouledogue. It was our final day in France and I had some shopping to do. First of all, I had some gifts to bring home, to thank people for watching over my home and my horse. I elected to buy them chocolate assortments from À la Mère de Famille, a chocolatier in business in Paris since 1761, a full fifteen years before Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Afterward, we did some personal shopping, what little our backpack space would allow. At La Plume du Marais, a stationary and gift shop, I bought a beautiful Christian Lacroix notebook that I’ve subsequently treated as too good for the likes of me to use, and at Le BHV Marais, Jason bought a scarf with accents of metallic thread and scattered sequins.
A snack at Izakaya Ramen stoked Jason’s fire for Japanese food and made him want to go get some sushi. I absolutely did not want to get sushi, and so we split up for a while so we could pursue individual interests. I thought I might like to do some more shopping, see if there was any France-only makeup in Sephora or maybe buy a bra that isn’t preceded by the word “sports” but even in one of the best cities in the world for shopping, I did not have a lot of patience for it, traveling down the escalator into the perfume-clouded shop and immediately back up.
Tour Saint-Jacques, the only remaining portion of a 16th century church that was destroyed during the French Revolution. Nicolas Flamel, scribe and rumored alchemist who reputedly discovered the Philosopher’s Stone and thereby immortality, is buried under the floor. He died at age 78; immortality apparently isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
On many corners in Paris were works by French artist Invader; his small tile video game mosaics are now on streetcorners around the world.
John Hamon posters are also all over the streetcorners: some color, some black and white, some defaced.
Subtle pit check.
There’s a condition that only tourists develop in Paris: Paris Syndrome. Paris has been idealized in popular media, particularly in Japan, and so when some tourists who have taken that idealized depiction deeply to heart arrive and find Paris is not a pristine, glimmering background for stick thin models who spend their days alternately shopping at high end designer stores, lounging glamorously at cafes, and on couture photoshoots but a city with all its attendant issues populated by all kinds of people, their shock and disappointment is so deep that it affects their physical health. People experience heart palpitations, dizziness. They sweat and hallucinate.
These same symptoms, when experienced in Florence, are said to be caused by exposure to objects of great beauty.
It seems possible that any well-traveled city would have a small subset of visitors who experience these symptoms, and it’s up to the tourism board to capitalize on their particular syndrome. Seattle Syndrome could be caused by proximity to wild orca whales. San Diego Syndrome, caused by the ubiquity of the deliciousness of any restaurant that ends in “bertos”.
Poor Stockholm.
While I didn’t experience Paris Syndrome, this trip did wreak havoc on my body. I generally don’t deal well with drastic time change, at least at first. There’ll be a couple days at the start of a trip where my stomach is feeling tender, and nausea will color my first few meals. This trip was on a whole new level. From Winter Wonderland onwards, my guts were in disarray. I was so sick in the sole occupancy restroom in what is basically the middle of the dining room at Imagine that I hoped that I would just die in there so I wouldn’t accidentally make eye contact with anyone after emerging from its paper thin walls. After the terrible pizza in Montmarte, I got worse, shuddering in a restroom an average of once an hour. At night, there was very little time for sleeping with all of the sweating and cramping I was doing. The reason I first selected the toilet row on the train to Chantilly was because I was afraid I’d need to use it, and this was after having to pay to use the restroom in Gare du Nord. In Paris, I watched a man pull down his pants and defecate in front of a statue, and near Les Halles, I was afraid I’d have no choice but to do the same thing because three quarters of the public toilets were broken. That’s basically all I did while Jason was off enjoying sushi–desperately look for a toilet. I was thirsty and tired and wrung out and fed up. And then we arrived at the Louvre.
The Louvre: originally a fortress, then a palace of the Kings of France, it’s the art museum that even non-museum enthusiasts know about. I knew it would take at least a full day to see properly, and though we did not have that kind of time to dedicate, we found ourselves with a free afternoon and decided a few hours would be better than nothing at all.
There are signs all around the Louvre warning tourists not to purchase anything from street vendors around the site, particularly tickets, as official tickets are only sold inside the museum itself. So of course when we were approached by someone asking if we needed tickets, Jason responded in the affirmative and that is when I grabbed him by the elbow and marched him away. I’m glad his sushi wasn’t followed by a timeshare presentation or we would definitely own a week a year in a horrible condo that never has a free week available.
Inside the museum, the noise was deafening, on a Wednesday, in the off season. I cannot even fathom the volume during peak season, honestly, and I used to sell guitar amplifiers for a living. My enthusiasm was draining rapidly, but instead of listening to my gut and getting out, I bought the tickets and went in deeper. I didn’t find the going any easier inside: it was just so loud and so hot and and after watching someone attempt to climb onto a plinth to take a selfie with a statue rendered me temporarily blind with anger, I waited in the twenty person line for the restroom and discovered that I also got my period. Not just got it, it was like it was exploding out of me. And I can’t remember precisely anymore whether they didn’t have any kind of dispenser or whether it was broken or whether it ate my money because frustration has swallowed the details but I know that by the time I left that bathroom I was just done. I was so done, I couldn’t be in the museum anymore. I was so done, I started yelling at Jason on the street when he suggested that I look on the bright side. I was so dehydrated from all of the various fluids that were shooting out of my holes that I was practically mummifying in front of him, and he thought I could find a bright side? No. NO. I AM MELLZAH, ENDER OF WORLDS!
And then we went into a pet store and some puppies licked my fingers and the apocalypse was temporarily averted.
Getting Medieval in Paris: Notre Dame, Unicorns, Chocolat
August 19, 2019 Comments Off on Getting Medieval in Paris: Notre Dame, Unicorns, Chocolat read Attractions, Everything is Terrible, France, Masticating With Mellzah, Travel
Place de la République, with a statue commemorating the French Revolution.
Our first stop when we arrived in Paris was our hotel for the remainder of the trip, the Hotel du Vieux Saule, in the Marais neighborhood. Of all the hotels we stayed at, this is one I would say I settled on, after shifting the budget to accommodate the palace-adjacent properties we stayed in earlier in the trip. When I think back, while I can’t say it with 100% certainty, this place springs to mind as the most likely candidate responsible for our brush with bedbugs and the deep cleaning frenzy* that ensued afterward.
Why do I point the finger in their direction? Given that I had many bites on different parts of my body, I have to assume that there wouldn’t have been enough time for it to take place on public transit (Through my winter coat? Not likely.), or really even any place where I was staying only one night. The only other hotel we stayed in more than one night was in Nantes, and just statistically based on population, it’s more likely that the Parisian hotel had bedbugs than the one in Nantes. Also, when we checked in, there was a half-consumed beverage and garbage in the minibar and some pubes in the shower that said cleaning might not be their top priority. That’s basically it. And I’m still salty that the one time we allowed staff to come in to make the bed (implying they cleaned would be a violation of my journalistic integrity), some things went missing, things with no value–souvenir ticket stubs and the like. Why? If you can’t throw away actual trash, why take it upon yourself to konmari my possessions while I’m still renting the room? Argh.
But we didn’t know about the bedbugs just yet so we commenced walking around Paris.
Hôtel de Ville, the town hall
Science, Jules Blanchard, c. 1882
Before its closure, more than thirteen million people passed through the enormous wood and wrought iron doors at Notre Dame every year. People looking for absolution, people looking for peace, people looking for architecture, people looking for a medallion with the face of the Pope. It was the most visited monument in Paris by far, one of the most heavily toured monuments in Europe**.
This Gothic icon, built in the twelfth century, is so beloved now that it’s hard to believe that after the Napoleonic wars, it was almost demolished because it was in such a terrible state. Victor Hugo published Notre-Dame de Paris (better known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in 1831, which raised public awareness of its decay so that thirteen years later, “citizen-king” Louis Philippe I ordered that it be restored. (The same time period during which Les Miserables is set.)
Notre Dame took over twelve million francs to restore over twenty years. That restoration involved low quality stone and cement and even before the fire in April 2019, those restorations were starting to crumble, gargoyles cleaving from the structure to fall to the ground below, replaced with pvc pipe to drain water, the Catholic church (which permanently rents the building from the government of France, for free), not contributing nearly enough to its upkeep. Now, in the wake of the fire, it struggles more as people and businesses who vowed to donate to its restoration struggle to find their checkbooks as they already reaped the benefits of the public accolades and the news cycle has moved on. There are other practical concerns as well: how do you replace a roof made from an entire forest of trees when logging has all but eliminated the old-growth trees that would be large enough for such a project?
That teeny tiny little speck on top of the cross on the spire is a rooster as big as an average adult human torso, filled with religious relics.
The gargoyles/grotesques were added in the 19th century, some 600 years after the cathedral was finished.
Most of these biblical kings were beheaded during the French Revolution in a frenzy of king beheading after Louis XVI only had but one to give his country and the crowd remained unsatisfied.
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One of the rose windows, dates back to the 13th century; these survived the fire in April.
No word on whether these important relics were saved.
The doorknocker of Notre Dame; the 13th century wrought iron on these doors is so fine that a rumor began to spread that the blacksmith, Biscornet, had sold his soul to the devil for the ability to create them, because no one ever gets to be really talented at something without the credit going to someone above or way below.
Charlemagne et ses Leudes / Charlemagne and his Guards. Charlemagne laid the first stone at Notre Dame and almost assuredly no others.
Our route took us down Rue Dante, a street with many shops of general nerd interest: toy stores, comic book shops, purveyors of pulp fiction, and a creperie with intergalactic decor named Odyssey that advertised in its window its right to refuse service to Jar Jar Binks. Our destination? The Musée de Cluny, Paris’ medieval history museum, constructed on the remnants of Gallo-Roman baths, rebuilt in 1510, and currently open to the public while undergoing a major renovation.
The entrance to the Musée de Cluny was not designed with modern security in mind but a conveyer belt x-ray machine and metal detector are wedged in there regardless. Personal belongings are funneled into an alcove with a narrow entrance, passable by one person. When it was my turn, I went in to grab my things, and an impatient older woman crammed in right behind me–she couldn’t get at her belongings, and I couldn’t get out. There was literally nowhere for me to go and she’s trying to reach around me with freaking zombie arms and I’d had just about enough of being physically forced around by other human beings all week and that’s the story of how I ended up snapping “MOVE” at an old lady because “pardon” and “excusez-moi” weren’t getting through. Because honestly? Have some spatial awareness. Consider the fact that other people exist. Good grief.
We were at the Musée de Cluny for their Magical Unicorns exhibit, along with what appeared to be every schoolchild in greater Paris. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, having just returned from Sydney, were the centerpiece, a set of six enormous red weavings whose meaning yet remains a subject of debate; the most likely theory in my estimation is the one that posits that the series of six tapestries is the five senses, plus one to grow on. In addition to the tapestries were some seventy other pieces related to the licorne from the museum’s collection, a common subject in medieval art, when it was believed to be a real animal.
What the unicorn tapestries look like to people with undiagnosed myopia.
Unicorn water vessel
Wild Woman with Unicorn, a chairback cover from about 1500, her dress is not made of skink tongues but hair.
Sight, The Lady with the Unicorn
Touch, The Lady with the Unicorn
A Mon Seul Desir, the final tapestry in the Lady with the Unicorn series
The only thought that went through my brain upon glancing at this display of ivory is “Look how many elephants had to die so we could collectively gaze upon more awful monk haircuts.”
Some of the original heads of the biblical kings of Notre Dame that had been removed, discovered in 1977.
This spectacular chocolate death mask of Tutankhamun lured me into Maison Georges Larnicol though I didn’t end up buying any actual chocolate, leaving with an array of “kouignettes” and an obscene amount of tender, buttery salted caramels, both in assorted flavors . These mini kouign amann up the ante for richness. It’s the kougin amann equivalent of eating the center out of a cinnamon roll: the densest, softest part, with the highest ratio of filling to dough, except instead of cinnamon sugar, it’s a sticky-crunchy caramel swirled with raspberry, Grand Marnier, pistachio, or chocolate ganache. Given the abundance of butter, their petite size is just right. Their caramels are the best caramels I’ve ever eaten, with flavors like apple crumble, mirabelle plum, and sesame.
Fontaine Saint-Michel, 1860
The Seine at sunset
The French term for “window shopping” is léche-vitrine, or window-licker.
The Louvre after dark
I’m not the biggest fan of the metro but I do love these swooping art nouveau entrances.
To The Smoking Dog
Amorino Gelato, mango gelato with a mango Santa macaron
We spent the rest of the day wandering around the city and snacking: croque monsieurs and frites, gelato, paprika chips…mmm, paprika chips.
* It was definitely a brush with bedbugs: I had six bites in a line from my upper arm to my elbow, and another four in a line on my opposite hip. The itch was so deep I could always feel the desire to scratch, over everything else. Since I never saw a physical bug and didn’t know until after I got home that I was bitten, this meant that I had to assume that my entire home was contaminated. Our luggage was garbage bagged and exiled. Our mattress was encased in plastic. Every single textile was laundered on super hot regardless of the care instructions and then quarantined in garbage bags until the entire job was finished. We vacuumed and vacuumed and vacuumed. I canceled social engagements in case there was a chance I could spread them. I warned people before they attempted to hug me. (That part was the hardest, feeling like the kind of dirty that can’t be cleaned with the people whom I most enjoy having that kind of closeness, which makes sense because it’s not like you’re often given the opportunity to hug an enemy or even a frenemy to infest them, like a Kiss of Death except it just psychologically tortures them for weeks.) The pest control guy could not find any evidence of bedbugs in our home (see: all the cleaning) but set some traps with bedbug lures which have never caught a single bedbug. I haven’t had any bites appear since and I have to conclude that I was bitten and either didn’t carry any home with me or that my quarantine and extermination efforts did the trick. Do I still feel uneasy any time I feel the faintest tickle on my body in the night? Damn right I do.
**Let’s be real, though: Notre Dame is smack in the middle of Paris, on an island in the Seine which splits the city in two, so it is in the primest of locations for foot traffic. If every time we walked by was a “visit”, Jason and I visited Notre Dame about twelve times.
A Grey Day in Montmarte
July 29, 2019 Comments Off on A Grey Day in Montmarte read Attractions, Everything is Terrible, France, Masticating With Mellzah, Travel
So much of this day was just off. It was pouring for our walk to the train station in Nantes and I remained slightly soggy for hours until I was able to change at the hotel in the afternoon. Our ride to Montmarte didn’t improve my opinion of the Paris metro. The air not filled with other bodies was stuffy with body odors, and after wandering under the earth for what felt like three and three quarters miles in the seemingly endless white tiled exit tunnel, I finally emerged into an open-air market of sorts where one can purchase items that were liberated from the trash or nearby homes. This is not the Barbes/Rochechouart market but one nearby where you can buy, for instance, a remote control for a TV that is nowhere to be seen.
We stayed at Montmarte Mon Amour, a kitschy boutique hotel near the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur with a window that refused to close and where we were warned to avoid the Arc de Triomphe due to the yellow vest protests: noted.
Instead, we contemplated the number of stairs to Sacré-Cœur, the highest point in Paris, and elected to take the back road up the hill of rue du Chevalier de la Barre.
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
I didn’t particularly care for my visit to Sacré-Cœur. It probably has a lot to do with my midwestern Protestant upbringing– indoctrinating a child with Sunday school every week plus mandatory weekly Wednesday evening confirmation class for three years plus two summers in a row of bible camp tends to make the lessons linger. It bothers me to see churches stuffed with riches while people are sleeping in those howling metro tunnels. It bothers me to see churches that charge you to light a candle or that have vending machines of medallions with the pope’s face on them (what is a graven image if not that?) even though I do recognize that having a constant stream of visitors flowing through your church is a different sort of business from being a non-famous church.
Around Sacré-Cœur were many aggressive street vendors selling light up Eiffel Towers and locks for a new fence for tourists to menace. We had a snack at nearby La Galette des Moulins and learned that while our train chugged out of the station in Nantes, protesters blocked the runway of the Nantes airport and tollooths throughout France. We learned about the vandalization of the Arc de Triomphe, the burning of an entire street of cars three miles away.
They look like they’re all blopping.
Rue du Mont Cenis Stairs
We had dinner at Pink Flamingo, where Jason promptly spilled nearly his entire beer and we shared one of the worst pizzas I’ve ever eaten. I feel like it had to have been an off pie; people consistently rave about this place online but the pizza I had was overwhelmed by thick, underbaked, slippery cheese.
It was one of those days where if I was at home, I would just call it a mediocre day and have it over with but since I was IN PARIS it feels like I have to pretend that the mediocrity was somehow meaningful, that I need to display gratitude because another in my place may have enjoyed it. But the only thing I was grateful for that day was the knowledge that the next morning, we’d be moving on to somewhere else.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's bizarre health regimen sparks debate
Published: Apr 14, 2019, 14:21 IST | IANS | New Delhi
Jack Dorsey's unconventional eating habits (five meals a week) has created a debate among the health-conscious on social media
Jack Dorsey. Pic/AFP
New Delhi: Fasting over weekends and taking food only on Sunday evening, eating one meal a day along with three ice baths -- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has created a storm over social media with revealing a punishing health regimen that helps him "stay sharper".
In a podcast with Ben Greenfield on "Diet Fat Loss and Performance", Dorsey who earned $1.40 as salary in 2018, said the one meal a day consists of "meat or fish with salad or green vegetables, followed by mixed berries or some dark chocolate".
"During the day, I feel so much more focused. You have this very focused point of mind... I can go to bed and actually knock out in 10 minutes, if not sooner than that," Dorsey told Greenfield.
Dorsey's unconventional eating habits (five meals a week) has created a debate among the health-conscious on social media.
"These aren't 'wellness hacks'. These are disordered eating behaviors. Encouraging anyone to eat one meal a day and to go an entire weekend without eating as part of "wellness" is normalizing and glamorizing eating disorders. This is dangerous and offensive," tweeted one user.
"It sounds like Jack Dorsey might have a serious eating disorder. Walking 5 miles a day while only consuming one meal per weekday and no meals on weekends is not a wellness hack… it's a disease," tweeted another.
Dorsey, who also does two-hour meditation daily, walks to office and take "lots of vitamin C" every day, tweeted in January his eating routine, facing a barrage of criticism from users.
"Been playing with fasting for some time. I do a 22 hour fast daily (dinner only), and recently did a 3 day water fast. Biggest thing I notice is how much time slows down. The day feels so much longer when not broken up by breakfast/lunch/dinner. Any one else have this experience?" he tweeted.
One user replied: "Ahh yes. Disordered eating to approximate the suffering induced by poverty and/or access to potable water. Playing is so much fun".
Nutrition experts, however, say intermittent fasting and eating one meal a day is not harmful where person shortens the eating window.
"This is an old practice of fasting to shorten the eating window. However, it depends from person to person and should be done under supervision which the Twitter CEO must already be doing," nutrition specialist and Pilates expert Madhuri Ruia told IANS.
According to Dorsey, ice-cold bath in the morning "unlocks" his mind and he can take on any challenge while a 15-minute "sauna" in the evening, followed by another three-minute ice-bath, relaxes him.
On his birthday on November 19 last year after visiting India, Dorsey did a 10-day silent meditation in Myanmar.
"For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. We went into silence on the night of my birthday, the 19th," he tweeted.
In Myanmar, the Twitter CEO lived in a single room. "During the 10 days: no devices, reading, writing, physical exercise, music, intoxicants, meat, talking, or even eye contact with others," he tweeted.
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Students get tolerance lesson - Puritan style
MIDDLETOWN - Turning intolerance to tolerance, jealousy and hatred to love and acceptance and fear to understanding were among lessons taught in a performance at Snow School Tuesday.
SLOAN BREWSTER
Published 12:00 am EDT, Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Students from kindergarten to fifth grade were taught that Hartford was the place where Puritans in the 17th century first began to accuse and hang women as witches.
They also learned that intolerance is a product of fear and that understanding one another is the best path through differences.
The Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble and Women of the Cross used movement, song and dance to impart the lessons to the children.
Performers drew the audience into the show by asking questions and encouraging audience participation. Children leaned forward and back to denote the swaying of a ship, repeated a key phrase in sign language and shouted its meaning aloud.
"Let's celebrate differences," they collectively hollered at the end of the performance.
Using excerpts of "The Witching Hour," performers demonstrated the story of Katherine Harrison, a woman from Wethersfield who was accused of witchcraft in 1670.
Though Harrison's true story ended with her banishment, performers encouraged the audience to make up various endings to the story. Kathy Gerstein asked children to raise their hands and offer suggestions for endings.
As children came up with scenarios, including hanging and freeing Harrison, the troupe improvised matching skits.
In the end, Gerstein assured the children that Harrison lived though she was banished, and even told them that some
people believe the woman secretly returned to Wethersfield and lived out her life in her home.
Leslie Bird of Women of the Cross sang an African American folktale called "The People Who Could Fly."
The lyrics painted the tale of African slaves working in the fields and singing.
"The chants that gave them wings to fly," Bird sang. "Watch them fly. Touch the sky. Flying high. Flying home."
With the last notes of the song still resonating through the air, Bird had the children wave their arms to indicate flight and then smiled down at them.
"Wow! Everybody in the audience is flying," she said. "Come back." And the children stilled their arms.
The performance kicked off a five-week program of interdisciplinary movement and literacy residency, which will encourage children to read, dance and create songs.
Members of the Women of the Cross and the Dance Ensemble will work with fourth- and fifth-graders, choreographing dances and writing songs based on the themes of accepting others, with a cultural focus on Africa, said Principal James Gaudreau.
Those themes were prevalent in Tuesday's performance, and while some children may have understood, for most, it will take repetition before they come to embrace the message, Gaudreau said.
That is one reason performers will return to work with students.
"I think the most important aspect of the presentation was children learning to accept others' differences," Gaudreau said.
Fourth- and fifth-graders who study with the troupe will perform what they create on Nov. 30 at Snow School.
Tuesday's performance and the literacy residency were funded by the Aetna Foundation and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
To contact Sloan Brewster, call her at (860) 347-3331, ext. 211, or e-mail her at sbrewster@middletownpress.com.
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Children's Middle Grade Book Picks (9-12yrs) January 2017 - UK Published Post Two
Julia Lee - Nancy Parker's Spooky Speculations (Nancy Parker 2) - Published by OUP Oxford (5 Jan.2017)
Maidservants, Mystery, and Murder! Everyone's favourite housemaid-detective is back! Now Nancy has a new job working at Oxcoombe Grange. It's great except for one thing - Nancy is convinced the house is haunted! Ella Otter, now a reluctant pupil at nearby Seabourne Grammar School for Girls, demands a scientific investigation. Together, Nancy and Ella set out to do some spooky snooping, and to uncover the mysteries of the Grange's cellars. But in doing so they make a few enemies, discover a few surprising secrets, and put themselves into a little more danger than they were bargaining for . . .
A funny and energetic middle-grade mystery, narrated part in the third person and part through Nancy's illustrated journal. Perfect for fans of Murder Most Unladylike and The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow.
David Grimstone - Thunderbolt: Book 2 (Outcasts) - Published by Hodder Children's Books (12 Jan. 2017)
Self-named The Outcasts; Jake (Dealmo) and his friends Kellogg, Lemon and Fatyak like to spend their spare time playing role playing games. But things are about to get a little more interesting ...
Armed with new superpowers, the friends are on a mission to stop a ruthless organisation from ruining the world.
This time, it's God of the Sky, Zeus's Thunderbolt they must save.
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Barry Hutchison (Author) Katie Abey (Illustrator) - Worst Ever School Trip (Beaky Malone 2) - Published by Stripes Publishing (12 Jan. 2017) - Book Review Here
A hilarious new series from best-selling author, Barry Hutchison, perfect for fans of Tom Gates, Wimpy Kid and Barry Loser.
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It’s been 92 hours since Beaky last told a lie. So far he’s survived two full days of school with only three light beatings, two telling-offs and one wedgie ... but the annual school trip is going to take Beaky’s survival skills to a whole other level – especially as a mix up in the school office means that Beaky and his class are on a trip to Learning Land, an educational theme park aimed at eight-year-olds. And home to cheery-but-creepy Clumso the Clued-up Clown whose job is to dish out fascinating facts to one and all.
But there is worse to come when Beaky’s partnered with Wayne, a.k.a the school bully, who has a morbid fear of clowns. With Beaky unable to tell a lie and Wayne intent on beating him up, things aren’t looking good. And that’s before they find themselves on the run from a manic clown who’ll seemingly stop at nothing to track them down…
Rob Lloyd Jones - Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake - Published by Walker Books (5 Jan. 2017)
The Atlas family is in trouble: Jake hides an addiction to stealing; his twin sister, Pan, has to conceal her genius, for fear of bullies. The siblings can't stop fighting - with each other and with their parents, stuffy professors of Ancient History. But Jake's and Pan's lives take a dramatic turn the day they discover the truth about their boring mum and dad. When the family go to Cairo on holiday, Jake and Pan's parents mysteriously vanish and it's up to the twins to find them. They must team up with shady tomb robbers, master high-tech gadgets and locate a lost tomb in this story of a family that finds itself in the deserts of Egypt.
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New 2011 Jetta introduced as early as June
Discussion Starter • #1 • Dec 6, 2009
I assume that that's just the unveiling, not when they'll actually go on sale. I'm assuming about 1 more year until they are arriving on dealer lots in any quantity. Hopefully they will carry over the TDI engine. What would you like to see on the next Jetta?
http://blog.caranddriver.com/vws-u-s-plans-jetta-name-confirmed-two-door-concept-coming-series-production-coupe-possible said:
Ambitious Volkswagen is preparing a massive assault on the U.S. market—the company wants to grow sales from something like 220,000 units annually to 800,000 by 2018. At the Los Angeles auto show, we spoke with U.S. CEO Stefan Jacoby and a few other insiders.
The cornerstone of Volkswagen’s U.S. strategy is the new Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant, which will build VW’s Camry-fighter, a.k.a. NMS (New Mid-Size Sedan). It will make its debut at the 2011 Detroit auto show. While this large sedan of over 192 inches is yet unnamed, Jacoby confirmed the smaller, Mexico-built NCS (New Compact sedan) will be called Jetta. Slated for a U.S. debut in June 2010, it will be exported to Europe in late 2010, where it might receive a different name. VW will continue to offer a GLI, based on the new Jetta.
VW might even keep the Passat in the portfolio—it is smaller but more expensive and technologically more sophisticated than the NMS (which shares components, like its rear axle, with the Golf). The Passat will receive an extensive facelift next year to bring it in line with VW’s new styling language—but, given that VW will keep the CC in the lineup, bringing the new Passat to America seems like overkill.
There is no decision yet on whether the Polo will be brought to the U.S., although there is a strong proclivity towards offering VW’s compact and efficient entry-level car, says Jacoby. We believe that while the natural fit would be the four-door sedan, hatchback versions of the Polo are a very real possibility. The Ford Fiesta and Mazda 2 may be breaking the ground for VW here.
VW will also facelift the Tiguan and the Eos, to obliterate the garish grille and taillights, relics of the Murat Günak styling era. The U.S.- and European-market Tiguan models will get a distinct facelift, not the one currently seen on the stretched Chinese-market Tiguan debuting at the auto show in Canton.
Jacoby says that the Phaeton won’t come to the U.S. even after an extensive mid-2010 facelift. But the next, completely re-engineered model, which we expect to come not before the 2014 calendar year, could well be offered here.
But VW might offer another model—a two-door coupe with a notchback, targeting specifically the U.S. market and likely over 180 inches in length. Gauging public reaction to the concept car that will hint at a possible series production model is so important that VW has decided to push back the debut of the new Touareg by several weeks. We are sure that it will make the Japanese competition look fairly old.
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#2 • Dec 6, 2009
They have stated that they are trying to reduce the cost so I see some major decontenting. I wish they offered options that you can't get now so I hope they keep everything! HID lights, real leather, and power seats. I'll concede AWD to Audi.
2nd, give more options so that you can buy a cheap TDI if you want or get a loaded TDI. They've sold every car they put out so far so why not build a bigger range of options? They'll still sell every one of 'em.
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Opioids in the Home Building Industry: Making it Your Business
Contact: David Jaffe
djaffe@nahb.org
Opioid addiction is our nation’s leading public health crisis, and it affects people across all socioeconomic classes, races, genders and jobs. The home building industry is no exception.
More than 700,000 people died as a result of a drug overdose between 1999 and 2017.
Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.
On average, 130 Americans die every day as a result of an opioid overdose.
There are close to 200 fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. every day. That’s eight overdoses per hour, including at least two from workers in the home building industry.
People who work in construction are significantly more likely to become addicted to opioids, like prescription painkillers, than are workers in the general population and are six times more likely to die as a result of overdose. The impact on a business can be significant and includes loss of productivity, healthcare expenses, absenteeism, turnover and much more.
NAHB is pleased to provide a private sector slate of helpful resources and possible solutions to stem the tide of the opioid epidemic’s reach into the home building industry. These tools will complement similar efforts by federal, state and local governments and healthcare organizations.
NAHB and its partners, Job-Site Safety Institute (JSI) and the Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP), are taking an innovative approach to addressing opioid use and misuse, viewing the problem holistically and creating solutions and educational resources that address intervention points across the spectrum of prevention, treatment, recovery and return-to-work. A proactive approach to this crisis with knowledge and without stigma is critical to the health of the industry and the people who work in it.
Together, we’re Making Opioids our Business.
NAHB Resources
Download a comprehensive toolkit on how to prevent problems with opioids before they begin.
Supervisor Training: Opioids at the Worksite - Prevention
Learn what to do when you suspect opioids misuse at work with this toolkit and podcast.
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Learn how to develop a successful return to work policy for workers in recovery.
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Watch a webinar recording and download resources that explain why action is needed in the home building industry.
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Find out about heroin and other illicit drugs and which treatments work best.
Learn about commonly prescribed opioids and how to reduce the risk of addiction.
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Listen to episodes of the NAHB podcast, “A Constructive Response to the Opioid Epidemic.”
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The opioid crisis is a top priority for federal policymakers and public health officials. Below are some national resources for employers and workers:
What is Substance Abuse Treatment? A Booklet for Families
Safe Treatment Locator – A free tool for finding qualified treatment facilities
SAMHSA Opioid Treatment Program Directory
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
Department of Health and Human Services 5-Point Strategy to Combat the Opioid Crisis
MorePowerfulNC.org: Overpowering NC's Opioid Epidemic
NAHB has joined the Construction Alliance for Suicide Prevention in an effort to raise awareness of the prevalence of suicide in the construction industry. Use the Needs Analysis & Integration Checklist to evaluate your company’s preparedness for addressing mental health and suicide in the workplace, and be sure to review the 10 questions and 10 action steps companies can use to save lives.
Click on the link for your state below to access resources from local public health officials.
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Strategies for Effective Improvements to the BioWatch System: Proceedings of a Workshop (2018)
Chapter: Appendix A: Statement of Task
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Strategies for Effective Improvements to the BioWatch System: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25014.
Statement of Task
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee to organize and plan a public workshop that will explore alternative effective systems that would meet requirements for BioWatch as a biological detection system for aerosolized agents. Systems identified need to be capable of being deployed by the Department of Homeland Security by 2027, and enable dual use with day-to-day environmental surveillance that would be of value to the public health and medical community.
Specifically the ad hoc committee will develop the agenda for the workshop and identify and invite speakers and discussants to address the following questions:
What new technologies (current and emerging within the next 10 years) are compatible with the existing architecture of the BioWatch detection system for aerosolized agents and would significantly improve current performance, particularly with respect to time, sensitivity, specificity, range of agents, indoor applications, autonomy, quality of confirmatory response, and/or cost?
Are there specific considerations for indoor surveillance?
What new technologies (current and emerging within the next 10 years)–that are ideally compatible with the existing BioWatch architecture–would enable detection of common public health threats (e.g., novel or known viruses, harmful volatile gases, etc.), as well as threat agents identified by intelligence assessments?
Given the current state of technology for biological detection systems, how might technologies evolve and advance by 2027 so that one or more could serve as an alternative to the currently deployed polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based system?
In addition are there other technologies that may be available to use to supplement or modify the current PCR system to enable greater flexibility of the detection system and provide a bridge to future detection solutions?
The committee may commission white papers to help inform discussions at the workshop related to the aforementioned questions. The papers will be made available to workshop participants at the event or in advance. An individually authored summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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BioWatch is the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positioned strategically across the country to continuously monitor the air for biological threats. As currently deployed, BioWatch collectors draw air through filters that field technicians collect daily and transport to laboratories, where professional technicians analyze the material collected on the filter for evidence of biological threats.
As part of the BioWatch program’s efforts to enhance its effectiveness and capabilities, particularly with regard to detecting biological threats in challenging indoor environments, DHS requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hold a workshop to explore alternative and effective biodetection systems for aerosolized biological agents that would meet BioWatch’s technical and operational requirements, integrate into the existing system architecture and public health infrastructure, and be deployable by 2027. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Front Matter i–xvi
1 Introduction and Overview 1–17
2 Assessment of Current Performance 18–31
3 Developing Effective Biological Detection Systems 32–64
4 Compatibility of BioWatch Improvements Within the Existing Biological Detection Architecture 65–79
5 Overview of the Workshop 80–87
Appendix A: Statement of Task 89–90
Appendix B: Workshop Agenda 91–95
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee 96–100
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers 101–112
Appendix E: Invited Paper: BioWatch Program Overview: A Local Public Health Perspective for Enhancing Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response 113–125
Appendix F: Invited Paper: Current Quality Assurance (QA) Approach: DHS BioWatch Program 126–143
Appendix G: Invited Paper: Use of Dispersion Modeling Tools in Optimizing Biological Detection Architectures 144–154
Appendix H: Invited Paper: Technology-Focused Outlook for Future Biological Detection Systems 155–190
Appendix I: Invited Paper: BioWatch Improvements Within Existing Biological Detection Architecture 191–206
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Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS)
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The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) published between 1 October 2018 - 30 September 2019 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Life Sciences 130 60.97
Earth & Environmental Sciences 22 3.96
Chemistry 74 32.96
Physical Sciences 222 71.67
A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star
Measurement and implications of Saturn’s gravity field and ring mass
Observation of two-neutrino double electron capture in Xe with XENON1T
A productivity collapse to end Earth's Great Oxidation
Tumor Microbiome Diversity and Composition Influence Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes.
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
9.64% Domestic
90.36% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (22 total)
Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel
Domestic institution
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel (18.93)
Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel (14.65)
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel (8.32)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel (4.41)
Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel (3.51)
Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, Israel (3.35)
Israel Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Israel (2.60)
Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), Israel (1.25)
Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel (0.99)
Meir Medical Center, Israel (0.82)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1243 total)
Foreign institution
Max Planck Society, Germany (14.42)
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany (13.26)
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (9.16)
Harvard University, United States of America (USA) (8.63)
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia (7.56)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) (7.16)
Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) (6.87)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) (6.69)
University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) (6.17)
The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) (5.94)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Amit Lab for ImmunoGenomics, WIS
Azrieli National Institute for Human Brain Imaging and Research, WIS
Bioinformatics and Biological Computing Unit, WIS
Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (D-REAMS) Laboratory, WIS
Department for Biological Services, WIS
Department of Molecular Genetics, WIS
Department of Science Teaching, WIS
Electron Microscopy Unit, WIS
Faculty of Biochemistry, WIS
Department of Biological Chemistry, WIS
Department of Biomolecular Sciences, WIS
Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities, WIS
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, WIS
Faculty of Biology, WIS
Department of Biological Regulation, WIS
Department of Immunology, WIS
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, WIS
Theatre Lab, WIS
Department of Neurobiology, WIS
Department of Veterinary Resources, WIS
Faculty of Chemistry, WIS
Department of Chemical Physics, WIS
Department of Chemical Research Support, WIS
Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, WIS
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS), WIS
Department of Materials and Interfaces, WIS
Department of Organic Chemistry, WIS
Department of Structural Biology, WIS
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, WIS
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, WIS
Department of Mathematics, WIS
Faculty of Physics, WIS
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Program (AMOS), WIS
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, WIS
The Joseph and Belle Braun Center for Submicron Research (SMC), WIS
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, WIS
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, WIS
The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, WIS
Feinberg Graduate School (FGS), WIS
Helen Kimmel Center for Planetary Science, WIS
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, WIS
Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (INCPM), WIS
Ilana and Pascal Mantoux Institute for Bioinformatics, WIS
Maurice And Vivienne Wohl Institute For Drug Discovery, WIS
The Israel Structural Proteomics Center (ISPC), WIS
de Botton Institute for Protein Profiling, WIS
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, United States of America (USA)
European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT), Italy
Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, Australia
Human Brain Project (HBP), Switzerland
International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Germany
Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology (MPWC), Israel
Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology (MPWC), Germany
Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI), Israel
Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface (MARGO), Germany
PHENIX Collaboration, United States of America (USA)
The ZEUS Collaboration, Germany
Xenon100 Experiment, Italy
Beetle bacteria could save our coconuts
Kyushu University
The path to more intelligent drug design
ShanghaiTech University
All queued up for metabolite regulation
University College Cork (UCC)
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Experience the popular Foothills Trail, hiking on the route of an abandoned rail line between East Puyallup and historic Carbonado in Pierce County. The trail is open to bikers, in-line skaters, and equestrians.
The 21-mile Foothills Trail was built on a former historic railroad bed and snakes through the Puyallup River valley southeast of Tacoma in Pierce County. It is a popular 12-foot wide paved commuter route and recreational destination for hikers, bikers and in-line skaters. It also has a soft shoulder path for equestrians. One of the most scenic sections for the unobstructed views of nearby Mountt Rainier begins in Orting and follows the Carbon River upstream through farmland and forest.
Foothills Trail: East Puyallup to McMillin
4 miles one-way
This is the most popular section of the Foothills Trail. It is four miles, winds through trees and farms, and runs alongside an active railway. It is a great alternative to riding on SR 162.
Foothills Trail: McMillin to Orting
2.3 miles on-way
The McMillin Trailhead is a popular starting spot for bikers, skaters and families with strollers. Most of this 2.3 mile section parallels SR 162 and is the original "Model Mile" of the trail. Many consider it the most scenic part of the trail.
Foothills Trail: Orting to South Prairie
11 miles one-way
This diverse, nearly 11-mile section of the trail is the longest. There are three rest stops, a cattle farm and a buffalo ranch, two salmon bearing streams (Voights Creek and Roush Creek), eight bridges, four of them are former railroad trestles that were converted for trail use, and the real feature, the Carbon River, South Prairie Creek and the railroad trestles crossing them.
Foothills Trail: South Prairie to Buckley
This section of the trail is under construction and should be completed by the end of 2017. Keep an eye on the Land Manager's website for updates.
Foothills Trail: Buckley to Cascade Junction
2.4 miles one-way
A 2.4-mile paved section of the trail that starts at the White River at the north end of Buckley and passes the stadium used for the annual logging contests and a historical display of logging industry artifacts. The pavement ends at a "use at own risk" sign south of town.
Foothills Trail: Wilkeson to Carbonado
3 miles one-way with 400 feet of elevation gain
This is a unique opportunity to experience two historic towns, Wilkeson and Carbonado, on one hike. Both flourished during earlier mining days and have vestiges remaining of those glory days that we can observe. The trail is unpaved and secluded, and the 400 feet elevation gain over three miles makes this an easy hike or mountain bike.
Suitable Activities: Day Hiking
Seasons: Year-round
Weather: View weather forecast
High Point: 1,191 ft
Land Manager: Foothills Trail (Pierce County)
Parking Permit Required: None
Recommended Party Size: 12
Maximum Party Size: 12
Maximum Route/Place Capacity: 12
Recommended Maps:
see Land Manager
Day Hike - Foothills Trail: South Prairie to Buckley
Day Hiking Trip
Experience the newest section of the Foothills Trail, following a former railroad grade one way
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Registration opens Jan 27
Day Hike - Foothills Trail: Wilkeson to Carbonado
Experience the history of Wilkeson and Carbonado on the former rail line connecting the two,
Registration opens Feb 10
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The New England Ball Project
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Amos F. Shattuck1
M, #22451, b. circa 1832
Display family
Pedigree to immigrant Nathaniel Ball of Concord MA
Amos F. Shattuck was born circa 1832 at NH.1 He was the son of Amos Shattuck and Margaret Ball.1
Census, Occupation & Residence
7 October 1850 Hollis, Hillsborough Co., NH "Amos F." age 18, b. NH, with parents, etc.1
[S7] 1850 (June 1) U.S. Census, Hollis, Hillsborough Co., NH, p. 630 (back of stamped 315).
Mira A. Shattuck1
F, #22452, b. circa 1835
Mira A. Shattuck was born circa 1835 at NH.1 She was the daughter of Amos Shattuck and Margaret Ball.1
7 October 1850 Hollis, Hillsborough Co., NH "Mira A." age 15, b. NH, with parents, etc.1
Daniel Wyant
M, #22453
Child of Daniel Wyant
Daniel Bradley Wyant
Hartley Ball1
M, #22454, b. December 1894
Hartley Ball was born in December 1894 at NY.1 He was the son of Howard Ball and Elizabeth Fish.1
15 June 1900 Litchfield, Herkimer Co., NY "Hartley" age 5, b. NY, with parents, etc.1
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Litchfield, Herkimer Co., NY, ED 50, Sheet 7B (back of stamped 35).
Asa K. Ross1
Asa K. Ross married Clarissa P. (????)1
Child of Asa K. Ross and Clarissa P. (????)
Edgar L. Ross1 b. c 1858
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Worcester, Worcester Co., MA, vol. 318, p. 369.
Clarissa P. (????)1
F, #22456
Clarissa P. (????) married Asa K. Ross.1
Child of Clarissa P. (????) and Asa K. Ross
George W. Clark1
George W. Clark married Hattie G. (????)1
Child of George W. Clark and Hattie G. (????)
Franklin C. Clark1 b. c 1853
Hattie G. (????)1
Hattie G. (????) married George W. Clark.1
Child of Hattie G. (????) and George W. Clark
John Hapgood Brooks1,2
John Hapgood Brooks married Olive Ellis Morse.1
Child of John Hapgood Brooks and Olive Ellis Morse
John Hapgood Brooks1 b. c 1849
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Holden, Worcester Co., MA, vol. 246, p. 268.
[S2847] Christopher Brooks, "Brooks and Ball Line Crossings - email 02," e-mail message from Christopher Brooks (Bethleham NH) to David G. Ball, 19 April 2016.
Olive Ellis Morse1,2
Olive Ellis Morse married John Hapgood Brooks.1
Child of Olive Ellis Morse and John Hapgood Brooks
Annie F. Ball1,2
F, #22461, b. 25 December 1860, d. 17 April 1877
Annie F. Ball was born on 25 December 1860 at Rockingham, Windham Co., VT.1 She was the daughter of Lozien Osborn Ball and Mary E. Johnson.1 Annie F. Ball died on 17 April 1877 at Malden, Middlesex Co., MA, at age 16.2
[S29] Vermont Vital Records 1760-1954, Public Records Division, General Services Center (Middlesex VT), on-line at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1784223
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Malden, Middlesex Co., MA, Vol. 293, p. 123.
Monroe O. Rogers1
Monroe O. Rogers married Bertha M. (????)1
Child of Monroe O. Rogers and Bertha M. (????)
Herbert M. Rogers1 b. c 1854
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Spencer, Worcester Co., MA, vol. 327, p. 330.
Bertha M. (????)1
Bertha M. (????) married Monroe O. Rogers.1
Child of Bertha M. (????) and Monroe O. Rogers
James Freeman Clarke1
James Freeman Clarke married Isabella G. Davis.1
Child of James Freeman Clarke and Isabella G. Davis
James Cummings Clarke1 b. c 1863
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Concord, Middlesex Co., MA, vol. 470, p. 153.
Isabella G. Davis1
Isabella G. Davis married James Freeman Clarke.1
Child of Isabella G. Davis and James Freeman Clarke
Sebra Thomas1
Sebra Thomas married Polly Donelson.
Child of Sebra Thomas and Polly Donelson
Aurelia Thomas+1 b. c 1824
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Deerfield, Franklin Co., MA, vol. 37, p. 252.
Polly Donelson
Polly Donelson married Sebra Thomas.
Child of Polly Donelson and Sebra Thomas
Aurelia Thomas+ b. c 1824
Nettie Ball1
F, #22468, b. circa 24 July 1857, d. 3 January 1888
Nettie Ball was born circa 24 July 1857 at Colrain, Franklin Co., MA; age at death 30y 5m 10d.2 She was the daughter of Robert Riddle Ball and Aurelia Thomas.1 Nettie Ball died on 3 January 1888 at West Brookfield, Worcester Co., MA.2
16 June 1870 Colrain, Franklin Co., MA "Nettie" age 12, b. OH, with mother, etc.1
[S9] 1870 (June 1) U.S. Census, Coleraine, Franklin Co., MA, p. 7 (stamped 73).
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, West Brookfield, Worcester Co., MA, vol. 393, p. 583.
Ella A. Ball1
Ella A. Ball was born circa 1860 at OH.2 She was the daughter of Robert Riddle Ball and Aurelia Thomas.2 Ella A. Ball married Eli A. Pike, son of Elisha Pike and Margaret (????), on 31 December 1881 at Colrain, Franklin Co., MA.1
16 June 1870 Colrain, Franklin Co., MA "Ella" age 10, b. OH, with mother, etc.2
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Colerain, Franklin Co., MA, vol. 325, p. 355.
Samuel Holman1
Samuel Holman married Nancy (????)1
Child of Samuel Holman and Nancy (????)
Lorral Holman1 b. c 1826
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Lunenburg, Worcester Co., MA, vol. 80, p. 235.
Nancy (????)1
Nancy (????) married Samuel Holman.1
Child of Nancy (????) and Samuel Holman
Samuel W. Burbank1
Samuel W. Burbank married Hannah (????)1
Child of Samuel W. Burbank and Hannah (????)
David B. Burbank+1 b. c 1838
[S20] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives, images online at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/Database/MASS_BMD/default.asp, Pepperell, Middlesex Co., MA, vol. 172, p. 143.
Hannah (????)1
Hannah (????) married Samuel W. Burbank.1
Child of Hannah (????) and Samuel W. Burbank
George Heath1
George Heath was born circa 1851 at CT.1 He was the son of Samuel A. Heath and Harriet N. Ball.1
5 June 1860 New York, New York Co., NY "George" age 9, b. CT, with parents, etc.1
[S8] 1860 (June 1) U.S. Census, New York, New York Co., NY, p. 24.
Ida Heath1
Ida Heath was born circa 1853 at CT.1 She was the daughter of Samuel A. Heath and Harriet N. Ball.1
5 June 1860 New York, New York Co., NY "Ida" age 7, b. CT, with parents, etc.1
All right, title, and interest in and to original content included in the New England Ball Project is owned by David G. Ball unless a publisher or copyright owner is specified as the source of data.
Compiler: David G. Ball, (click on name to send email) North Vancouver, BC, Canada (site last updated 10 January 2020)
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The Steppe Wolves
The series is set in a modern-day provincial town, Stepniye Kurgany, in southern Russia. The town is literally owned by the criminal gang called “Steppe Wolves” whose members have been constantly terrorizing the citizens.
A young investigator, Dymov, a man with principles, arrives in Kurgany to take up a new job. He soon discovers that the Wolves have set their own rules and everybody must pander to them.
After a while the investigator comes to realize that in a small town where everybody is connected with everybody else by family or business ties he should be more flexible and willing to compromise. Sometimes he is even forced to concede that the kind of justice meted out by the Steppe Wolves is more effective and useful than the one coming from the law. During such moments the investigator experiences a serious inner crisis. He observes his system of values crumble and no longer knows where he stands. Yet he is able to overcome those crises and stay on his job.
At times, it gets personal. The investigator’s fiancé who followed him to Stepniye Kurgany falls in love with a member of the Steppe Wolves. Now she faces a difficult choice between the good guy and the bad guy with the former and the latter locked in a fight. They are no longer sure whether they are fighting against each other as a cop and a robber or as rivals in love
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KCR Welcomes Jagan's Three-capital Formula, Cautions against Farmers Protest in Amaravati
Will Not Remain a Mute Spectator and Will Ensure Citizenship Law is Upheld, Says Kerala Guv
News18 » Politics
After Reddy explained to Rao the social and political circumstances under which he is mulling the idea to develop Vishakhapatnam and Kurnool along with Amaravati, the latter gave him some suggestions on the same.
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Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao with his counterpart from Jagan Mohan Reddy. (News18)
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday decided to act in a spirit of give and take on all issues concerning the two states.
Both the leaders reached a consensus on transferring Godavari river water to the irrigated area served under Krishna river. Reddy and Rao, who is also known as KCR, had a meeting for about six hours at the latter's camp office-cum-official residence here and discussed issues concerning the two states and also local and national political situation, a press release from the Telangana CM's office said on Monday night.
The chief ministers also decided to soon resolve issues mentioned in the 9th and 10th schedule of the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act (concerning division of government corporations, institutes and others).
The duo said they felt that farmers of Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana's Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts, whose irrigation needs are served under the Krishna river, are facing shortage of water in view of inconsistent availability of water in Krishna, it said.
They decided that the irrigation needs of these farmers can be met by transferring Godavari river water to the irrigated area served under Krishna. They decided to discuss in detail on the modalities for transfer of Godavari water in their next meeting, it said.
Rao and Reddy spoke to their respective Chief Secretaries and asked them to meet soon towards resolving the issues concerning 9th and 10th schedules of the AP Reorganisation Act. These issues remained unresolved since the bifurcation of undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2014.
In their previous meetings after Reddy became the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, the duo had decided to work on sharing river waters for the benefit of both the states.
Regarding YSR Congress government's proposal to decentralise the administration by developing Visakhapatnam as executive capital, Rao is said to have supported the move.
Sources said after Reddy explained to Rao the social and political circumstances under which he is mulling the idea to develop Vishakhapatnam and Kurnool along with Amaravati, the latter gave him some suggestions on the same.
Rao is also said to have cautioned the first-time chief minister of the ongoing agitations by farmers of Amaravati who are protesting against the move. The farmers had donated lands during the previous Telugu Desam Party (TDP) government led by N Chandrababu Naidu for the development of the capital city.
(With inputs from PTI)
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K Chandrasekhar Rao
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Scientists Make Single-cell Map to Reprogram Scar Tissue into Healthy Heart Cells
UNC McAllister Heart Institute scientists led by Li Qian, PhD, developed a single-cell genomics pipeline to discover the molecular roadmap underlying the conversion of human scar-making fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes.
18-Jun-2019 11:05 AM EDT
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UNC School of Medicine scientists create a road map detailing how scar tissue cells can be turned into functional cardiomyocytes (iCMs) -- healthy heart tissue.
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Regenerative Medicine, Heart Attack, Fibroblasts, Cardiomyocytes, Cardiology
Newswise — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Every year 790,000 Americans suffer a heart attack, which leaves damaged scar tissue on the heart and limits its ability to beat efficiently. But what if scientists could reprogram scar tissue cells called fibroblasts into healthy heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes? Researchers have made great strides on this front with lab experiments and research in mice, but human cardiac reprogramming has remained a great challenge.
Now, for the first time, researchers at the McAllister Heart Institute (MHI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a stable, reproducible, minimalistic platform to reprogram human fibroblast cells into cardiomyocytes. And by taking advantage of the latest single-cell technologies and mathematical simulation, the researchers have produced a high-resolution molecular roadmap to guide precise and efficient reprogramming.
This work, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell today, was led by senior author Li Qian, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Associate Director of MHI, a pioneer in cardiac reprogramming over the past decade. Her lab’s latest work has pushed cardiac reprogramming in human patients one step closer to reality, with an eye toward helping millions of people recover from the debilitating effects of heart attacks.
“We’re confident our interdisciplinary approach of combining biological experiments with single-cell genomic analyses will inspire future crucial steps toward understanding the nature of human cardiomyocytes and translating this knowledge into regenerative therapies,” Qian said.
Qian and her team introduced a cocktail of three genes – Mef2c, Gata4, and Tbx5 – to human cardiac fibroblast cells with a specific optimized dose. To increase efficiency, they performed a screen of supplementary factors and identified MIR-133, a small RNA molecule that when added to the three-gene cocktail – and with further in-culture modifications – reprogrammed human cardiac fibroblast cells into cardiomyocytes at an efficiency rate of 40 to 60 percent.
Next, the group sought to answer how the process of converting cells into cardiomyocytes actually works. To answer this, they looked at the molecular changes of individual cells throughout the process of reprogramming. Their analysis identified a critical point during the reprogramming process when a cell has to “decide” between progressing into a cardiomyocyte or regressing to their previous fibroblast cell fate. Once that process begins, a suite of signaling molecules and proteins launch the cells onto different molecular routes that dictate their cell type development.
The researchers also created a unique cell fate index to quantitatively assess the progress of reprogramming. Using this index, they determined that human cardiac reprogramming progresses at a much slower pace than that of the previously well-described mouse reprogramming, revealing key differences across species and reprogramming conditions.
“You can think of this cell reprogramming process like map routes on Google,” Qian said. “The starting scar-forming fibroblasts are like cars looking for the right GPS instructions to get them home – to a cardiomyocyte fate. Our work identified roadblocks, wrong exit ramps, and gas stations – the genetic facilitators – to get the fibroblasts to the destination we want. Our newly developed cell fate index is like a gauge on the dashboard, predicting how far home is.”
This work illuminates previously unidentified characteristics of human cardiac reprogramming and provides new research tools to better understand the processes of cell fate transition and reprogramming within humans.
“Our single-cell pipelines and new algorithms can certainly be used for studying other biological processes, including differentiation, de-differentiation, or drug response of a cell.” Qian added. “This research approach is not limited to the heart, but heart disease remains the number one killer in the world and the main focus of our lab.”
In addition to Qian, other authors on this paper are Yang Zhou, PhD (currently at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham); Ziqing Liu, PhD, at the UNC McAllister Heart Institute; Joshua Welch, PhD (currently at University of Michigan); Li Wang, PhD, Tiffany Garbutt, PhD, Benjamin Keepers, Hong Ma, MD, PhD, Jan Prins, PhD, and Jiandong Liu, PhD, all from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Xu Gao, PhD, and Weining Shen, PhD, both from the University of California-Irvine.
The work is supported by the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), the American Heart Association, and generous gifts from Dr. Hugh “Chip” McAllister and Cecil Sewell.
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Gov’t slams ICTR lawyers for ties to Genocide fugitives
KIGALI - The government has condemned some defence lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the several jurists mainly based in Europe, for their continued provision of platforms to indicted Genocide fugitives.
Published : May 19, 2010
REVEALED; Martin Ngoga (File photo)
The condemnation as triggered by a conference slated for this week in the Belgian capital Brussels, which is expected to feature some Genocide fugitives as key speakers.
The International Criminal Defence Conference that starts on May 21 under the theme; ‘lessons from the defence at the Ad Hoc UN Tribunals and prospects for International Justice,’ was organised by defence attorneys at the ICTR.
“For a few years now, some defence lawyers at the ICTR have so badly deviated from their professional duties and turned into activists and advocates of Genocide denial,” said Martin Ngoga, the Prosecutor General ,when contacted yesterday.
Among the speakers is Eugene Rwamucyo a medical doctor residing in France who was indicted by Rwandan prosecution for his role in killings of thousands in the former Butare Prefecture, now in the Southern Province.
He was late last year suspended by a hospital he was working for in France after it was established that he was on an Interpol Red Notice for Genocide charges he is facing in Rwanda.
“That this movement is now shamelessly inviting Genocide suspects who are indicted to join them in conferences, only serves to show how far they can go in the pursuit of their agenda,” added Ngoga.
“It also means that they can no longer camouflage their zeal…it is very absurd and in a very bad taste.”
According to Gerard Ntwari, Rwanda’s Ambassador to Belgium, the mission in Brussels sent a Note Verbale to the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest.
“We were surprised to see on the list of speakers, people indicted for Genocide. We immediately notified the government here through the Note Verbale, with the names of these suspects,” said the envoy in a telephone interview from Brussels.
“We are however yet to receive feedback.”
Another fugitive on the list of participants is Charles Ndereyehe, who was recently sighted in Holland and prosecution has since sent his indictment to the Dutch government.
According to prosecution, Ndereyehe, a former Director General of ISAE-Rubona, an agricultural research institute based in the Southern Province, is accused of bankrolling the killings in Butare town; using his personal wealth and money he forcefully trimmed from salaries of the institute’s employees.
A programme of the meeting that The New Times has obtained shows several lawyers known for their efforts to negate or trivialise the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
They include American lawyer, Peter Erlinder, a former defence attorney of Genocide mastermind, Col. Theoneste Bagosora, who is currently serving a life sentence handed to him by the ICTR. Erlinder does not bother to hide his advocacy for genocidaires.
Others include Jean Paul Puts who is very active on internet social networks of genocide deniers and goes by the pseudonym ‘Agacurama.’
Sources from the Belgian capital say that civil society organisations in Europe are gearing to protest against the conference.
By Felly Kimenyi
The government has condemned some defence lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the several jurists mainly based in Europe, for their continued provision of platforms to indicted Genocide fugitives.
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Iowa Researchers Test Concrete for Use in Wind Turbine Towers
City in India Chooses Concrete for Major Road Project
Wood vs. Concrete Building Choice Takes Root in Vancouver Condo Market
How to Market Concrete Roads in Florida Gets Worldwide Attention
Navy Facility in Virginia Briefed by NRMCA on Pervious Spec Changes
New York Mixer Driver Earns Second Truck Rodeo Championship
Local Home Builders Association Reaches Out to NRMCA
Concrete Overlay Market Expected to Grow
ACI 330 Webinar on Concrete Parking Lot Design Set for Friday, May 31
Ready Mixed Concrete Production Statistics Updated Through March 2013
Deadline Nears for CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 Speaker Applications
ACI Selects New Slate of Officers at Spring Convention
OPERATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL, SAFETY & HR
Registration Now Open for August Plant Manager Certification Workshop
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EDUCATION &TRAINING
Entries Sought for Innovation in Training Award Program
NRMCA Offers Compilation of ASTM Standards for Ready Mixed Concrete
NRMCA's celebration of the 100th anniversary of ready mixed concrete in the U.S. continues its May offerings with the histories of another Producer and Associate member. See below for the two companies we've selected for this week, along with a link to those companies respective Web sites for more information. This week's industry milestone: Founded in 1916, the Portland Cement Association has had the same mission for almost 100 years: "Improve and expand the uses of Portland cement and concrete."
Ameron Hawaii - Honolulu Construction & Draying Co., Ltd. was formed in 1908 by a quarry owner, three construction men and a retired sea captain. The base of the business was the draying of construction materials by horse-drawn wagons. In the business community, the company became known as HC&D. In 1932, a moving and storage division was formed with quarrying and ready mixed concrete remaining the major business operation. During the 1930's and 1940's, quarries were located in Palolo and Moiliili, but in 1949, rock production moved to the Kapaa Quarry site due to increasing suburban development. Read more.
Ash Grove Cement - The Ash Grove Cement Company started in 1882 in Ash Grove, MO, under the name Ash Grove White Lime Association. The lime that was produced was used for construction and sanitary purposes. In 1908, Ash Grove opened its first cement plant in Chanute, KS. Read more.
As more and more wind turbines pop up across the state and country, researchers at Iowa State University are studying a new way to build the towers that hold them up into the sky.
Grant Schmitz, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, says they’ve been testing the use of pre-cast hexagon-shaped concrete panels as the industry moves toward taller towers. He says one of the first advantages is cutting the need to truck the giant steel columns now used for the towers along highways.
Source: May 16 posting by RadioIowa. Read more.
Officials in New Dehli are using concrete for at least 500 roads in the city because they are looking to improve the life span of stretches prone to waterlogging. Experts say while the cost of "carpeting with concrete" is almost double that of bitumen, concrete roads survive five times longer.
Source: A May 17 article by The Indian Express
The current vogue in Canada for using high-tech wood products as a green building material has spawned a flurry of proposals for "timber towers." But some new concrete low-rise projects in the Vancouver area seem to be going against the grain. Proponents of concrete cite advantages that include acoustic privacy, building quality and return on investment. Its "green" qualities include durability and energy efficiency.
Source: The Globe and Mail (Toronto) for May 17. Read more.
Many of you have already been aware of NRMCA Producer member Titan America's Tim Kuebler and his eight rules to live by when promoting concrete. Well, now his work is gaining a worldwide audience. The Web site WorldCement.com is featuring Kuebler's strategic game plan over a period of weeks. Read more.
NRMCA Senior National Resource Director Phil Kresge recently met with representatives from the Naval Facilities Engineering Group (NAVFAC) in Norfolk, VA, to discuss proposed changes to the Unified Facilities Guide Specification (UFGS) for pervious concrete. The meeting was requested by Kresge after it was brought to NRMCA’s attention that there was a problem with certain tolerances within the specification.
"I was first made aware of the issue by Tom 'Zeke' Zinchiak," Kresge said. Zinchiak is president and owner of Z-Con Concrete Specialists in Woodbine, MD, and is an NRMCA Certified Pervious Concrete Craftsman. "Zeke told me he was working on a project for the National Security Agency (NSA), but there was a pretty restrictive requirement relating to elevation tolerances. My first thought was that the project had used an outdated specification, but further investigation revealed the error in the UFGS document."
NAVFAC agreed with Kresge that UFGS should follow the recommendations of ACI 522.1, and said it would make the appropriate changes as quickly as possible. "Although it has promised to act quickly, there will certainly be projects out there that may not reflect the changes," Kresge said. "I’d ask anyone with any questions regarding existing pervious projects utilizing UFGS to contact me directly and I’ll assist as needed."
For more information, contact Phil Kresge at pkresge@nrmca.org.
Vice President Greg Novitzki with the New York Construction Materials Association (NYCMA) was the master of ceremonies for the New York Mixer Truck Rodeo held recently on the banks of Oneida Lake in Brewerton, NY. The 7th annual event pitted mixer truck drivers from across New York State in a three-part competition which included events in visual truck inspection, a written exam and navigating an obstacle course with a mixer truck.
"As with our national championship, these drivers must pilot their way through this course in an unfamiliar vehicle," said NRMCA Senior Director, National Resources Doug O’Neill who was invited to assist with judging the competition. "We take for granted just how much skill is involved with handling these sophisticated vehicles. To parallel park one of these bad boys is amazing to watch. These guys are good!"
The day belonged to Steve Sommer from Manitou Concrete (an Oldcastle company) in Rochester, NY, who became a two-time champion and will represent NYCMA at this fall’s NRMCA National Mixer Driver Championship held outside Las Vegas. Barney & Dickenson driver Nick Clark came in second with Buffalo Redi-Mix driver Ed Wheeler earning third place honors.
For more information, contact Doug O'Neill at doneill@nrmca.org.
"The message left on my voice mail was not typical," said NRMCA Senior Director, National Resources Jon Hansen. "As I listened, I appreciated the fact that this executive director of a local National Association of Home Builders chapter in Washington called the concrete industry for the correct information."
"We are looking for general guidelines for jointing of concrete floors, driveways and sidewalks. A community next to us requires it one way, while another community requires it another way. We want to help guide the local specifications based on concrete industry standards. Can you help," the message asked.
"Being a member of the ‘Life Spike’ club with the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), I am aware of the trials that local HBA’s have dealing with concrete issues since concrete contractors often find it hard to find a ‘fit’ within these groups," Hansen explained. "This call brought to my attention the importance for local concrete producers, concrete contractors and concrete association members involvement with home builder groups. As home building begins to ramp back up, we need to be at the table as a resource."
According to a recent Portland Cement Association (PCA) analysis of the concrete overlay pavement sector, the industry will gain market share in the overlay sector in the coming years. This is attributable to greater awareness of the technology as well as changes in the relative price of concrete versus asphalt that favors concrete.
Between 2000 and 2009 asphalt prices increased 89 percent. Concrete prices increased only 47 percent. Since 2009, asphalt prices have increased 20 percent while there has been no to minimal increases in concrete prices. With rising asphalt prices, concrete’s market share should grow. Using Oman data, PCA estimated that concrete’s market share increases 0.14 percent for every one percent rise in relative asphalt prices. PCA estimates that the overlay share will increase from 1.6 percent in 2012 to 3.2 percent in 2020 and 8.5 percent in 2030. This translates to roughly 375,000 metric tons in 2012 to 1.1 million metric tons in 2020, and nearly 2.3 million metric tons in 2030.
Source: PCA Executive Report e-newsletter for May 20. Read the overlay report.
Mark your calendars for the final NRMCA promotion-focused Webinar scheduled for May: ACI 330 R-08 – The Gold Standard of Concrete Parking Lot Design. Click on the link below to learn more and then to register online.
Friday, May 31 - ACI 330 R-08 – The Gold Standard of Concrete Parking Lot Design
The preliminary estimate of ready mixed concrete produced in March 2013 is 21.3 million cubic yards, 2.9% lower than in March 2012. The production through March 2013 is estimated at 56.5 million cubic yards, 0.6% higher than during the first quarter of 2012. Details of ready mixed concrete production are posted on the NRMCA Web site for access by NRMCA members. This includes the production by state for the first quarter of 2013.
NRMCA requests its members, the concrete industry and interested parties who want to deliver an education session at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 to submit their proposal(s) no later than Friday, May 31. Speaker proposals can only be submitted online. Submittals will be reviewed by the CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 Education Committee for topic and audience balance within the total program, application, newness and practicality of session material; relevance and significance to the marketplace; structure and organization of a session and speaker's ability to engage the audience. Commercial product sessions are not acceptable topics. Contractors, by far, are the heaviest attendees at education sessions.
Session tracks include concrete, aggregates, asphalt, safety and regulatory compliance, heavy machinery, equipment management and maintenance, workforce development and business best practices. The CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014 seminar program will run Tuesday, March 4, through Friday, March 7, 2014. Seminars may also be scheduled on Saturday, March 8, 2014. Presentation dates of a selected proposal is the sole discretion of CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014.
For more information, contact NRMCA’s Eileen Dickson at edickson@nrmca.org or 240-485-1164.
The American Concrete Institute (ACI) introduced its 2013-2014 president, vice president, and four board members during the ACI Spring 2013 Convention in Minneapolis last month. Anne M. Ellis was elected to serve as president of the Institute for 2013-2014, Sharon L. Wood has been elected ACI vice president for a two-year term, and William E. Rushing, Jr. is now the Institute’s senior vice president, which is also a two-year term. Additionally, four members have been elected to serve on the ACI Board of Direction, each for three-year terms.
Ellis is vice president, government initiatives, AECOM, Springfield, VA. Prior to joining AECOM, Ellis represented the concrete and cement industries as regional structural engineer for the Portland Cement Association and as applied engineering manager for NRMCA. Ellis is a frequent speaker at universities, professional societies and industry forums. She received her BS in civil engineering from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, and has been a professional engineer in Virginia since 1984.
Click here for more information on Anne Ellis and each of the other ACI officers.
NRMCA will host the August 13-16 Plant Manager Certification workshop in Silver Spring, MD (metro Washington, DC). This class not only serves producers, but specifically meets the Army Corp of Engineers' contract spec requirement for personnel who must be certified as part of awarded federal contracts. It is also a required class in the NRMCA Operations and Production Track in the STEPS program.
According to NRMCA’s Industry Data Survey, Operations and Production account for approximately 90% of producers’ expenses. Therefore, with your bottom line at stake, it has never been more important for your crew to be at the top of its game when it comes to efficiency and productivity. Whether your operations staff now manages more plants, is new to plant management and batching or has unplanned down time, the curriculum intensely covers product knowledge, plant safety, environmental regulations, plant operations and ready mixed industry business principles.
The only other 2013 Plant Manager Certification class will be December 10-13 in Orlando. Registration is also open for that class.
Click here for more information, registration options and staff contact.
Proceeding of the 2013 International Concrete Sustainability Conference, May 6-8, in San Francisco are now available for download at www.nrmcaevents.org. The conference provides learning opportunities on the latest advances, technical knowledge, continuing research, tools and solutions for sustainable concrete manufacturing and construction. Over 60 world renowned speakers presented at this year’s event, attended by nearly 200 construction industry professionals.
For more details on the conference and upcoming events all over the world, visit
http://www.concretesustainabilityconference.org/. For more information, contact NRMCA's Lionel Lemay at LLemay@nrmca.org or 847-918-7101.
The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) held its annual conference in Seattle last week with the theme of Resilience and Regeneration. Approximately 1000 deep-green professionals from the construction, design, products and chemical industries attended the conference by the publishers of the Living Building Challenge (LBC).
In what must have seemed like the early years of GreenBuild, the audience rallied behind the illuminating speakers Paul Hawken, Jason McLennan and David Suzuki. Like the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system, the Living Building Challenge is gaining interest from design professionals and building owners who want to accelerate the green-building movement by adopting a more stringent set of criteria, including net-zero energy and water. The General Services Administration (GSA) recently reviewed the LBC program for potential adoption for federal buildings and were in attendance.
While the many educational sessions focused on resilience, biomimicry and lessons from Hurricane Sandy, the highlight of the conference was certainly not in the meeting rooms, but the recently completed Bullitt Center. The new 6-story commercial building built by the organization headed by Denis Hayes (who spoke at the 2012 International Concrete Sustainability Conference) is registered under the LBC program and is a testament to what is possible to achieve its "Greenest Building In the World" status. The Class-A office building was designed and built to last 200 years, will store and use all its water needs, generate more energy than it uses and offer a working environment that has less toxins than most children’s hospitals. This was accomplished with a 15% construction premium.
NRMCA’s Tien Peng is monitoring the adoption of the Living Building Challenge and used this conference as an opportunity to educate and inform decision-makers on the issues relevant to material selection in buildings.
For more information on the Living Building Challenge, please contact Tien Peng, tpeng@nrmca.org or 206-913-8535.
The American Public Works Association (APWA) held its Sustainability in Public Works Conference in San Diego earlier this month. The conference covered a wide range of sustainability topics, including low impact development, solar power, biofuels and green transportation initiatives. Concrete’s versatility as a sustainable material for infrastructure was certainly present at many of the sessions and discussions, reports NRMCA Senior Director of Pavement Structures Brian Killingsworth who attended the conference.
For example, pervious concrete pavement was highlighted as part of the City of Bellingham’s green streets initiatives in the state of Washington. Additionally, the FHWA’s INVEST 1.0 Web-based transportation sustainability self-evaluation tool was presented. This tool allows users to evaluate the cost savings of sustainable design, materials and construction practices in highway applications upon which concrete’s sustainable "value" may be captured. Other transportation related sustainability rating systems were also compared in another session. The INVEST 1.0, EnvisionTM, STARS, Greenlites, PEACH Roads, and the STAR Community Index assessment tools were all compared and contrasted. Each of these tools has the ability to capture concrete’s sustainable attributes and use was encouraged on projects where the value of sustainability is to be assessed.
Killingsworth spoke with many public works officials about the use of concrete in street and road applications; they were informed about NRMCA’s Design Assistance Program. NRMCA will continue to seek these decision makers and educate them about concrete’s value proposition from both an environmental and economic perspective.
For more information about concrete street and local road technical assistance, contact Brian Killingsworth at bkillingsworth@nrmca.org or 830-438-2690.
Media articles on Congress, transportation infrastructure, regulation, taxes and other subjects, each of which relate to the ready mixed concrete industry, are updated each week by NRMCA's Government Affairs staff. To access the most recent compilation of articles for the Week of May 13 - 17, please click here.
The Educational Activities Committee invites ready mix producers to submit their company’s most innovative training initiatives of 2012-2013. Companies must submit their entries no later than Friday, August 2. The Innovation in Training Award winner will be recognized at NRMCA's ConcreteWorks to be held September 23 in Las Vegas. Additionally, the producer’s program will be featured in a best-practices article in NRMCA's quarterly magazine, Concrete InFocus. MTSU's Concrete Institute Management faculty will serve as judges.
For more information, click here or contact NRMCA's Eileen Dickson at 1-888-846-7622, ext. 1164 or by e-mail, edickson@nrmca.org.
NRMCA has made available a new compilation of 38 current ASTM standards related to ready mixed concrete. NRMCA Publication 2PCONCRETE13, ASTM Standards for Ready Mixed Concrete includes ASTM C94, Specification for Ready Mixed Concrete and most of the standards referenced in the specification and other standards used for quality control testing of aggregates and concrete. Cement specifications and The Manual of Aggregate and Concrete Testing are also included in this publication. This is a must-have reference for technical services and quality control personnel in the cement, aggregates, admixtures and ready mixed concrete industries.
By special agreement with ASTM, this publication is available at a considerable discount from the ASTM list price only to NRMCA members. Non-members of NRMCA will need to purchase this publication from ASTM at www.astm.org. To purchase a copy, contact NRMCA's Jacques Jenkins. For a listing of the standards, click here.
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GE Measurement & Control Announces Patents for Ultrasonic Inspection Product
GE Inspection Technologies GmbH 310, Hürth, Germany
Multi-axis robotic device improves ultrasonic inspection of parts
Lewistown, PA - April 3, 2015 - GE Measurement and Control, Inspection Technologies division, announced the issuance of two patents for the use of dual multi-axis robotic devices for parts inspection (U.S. Pat. No. 8,833,169 and UK Pat. No. 2497418B). The patents cover a robotic inspection system that uses a pair of cooperating, multi-axis robots mounted on linear slides to perform ultrasonic inspection of parts. Features described in these patents can be found in GE’s Hydrastar ultrasonic inspection product.
Hydrastar systems are deployed globally at several aerospace manufacturers, specifically those that build composite airframe and jet engine components for major airframe and engine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These systems have proven to be very flexible, are high through-put machines, and are available with a variety of ultrasonic end effectors for both conventional and phased array ultrasonic methods.
“We’re extremely pleased to be recognized for the development of automated ultrasonic inspection technologies for critical airframe and aircraft engine structures which is consistent with industry needs for flexible, high productivity solutions,” said Jeffrey Stetson, Testing Machine Leader for GE Measurement & Control, Inspection Technologies division. “By utilizing commercially available six axis robots, GE’s Hydrastar platform provides an outstanding, standardized solution, replacing conventional Cartesian-based gantry systems.”
Additional proprietary application technologies available on the Hydrastar platform include GE’s Wide Phased Array TTU squirter tool (U.S. Pat. No. 8,650,959), which can provide up to six times the through-put of conventional ultrasonic squirter tools and GE’s Phased Array Surface Adapting ultrasonic method (U.S. Pat. No. 7,581,444), which uses the time of flight information from an ultrasonic signal to provide real-time adjustment of phased array focal laws to accommodate changing geometries.
About GE Measurement & Control
GE Measurement & Control is a leading innovator in advanced software and services; sensor-based measurement; non-destructive testing and inspection; flow and process control; turbine, generator and plant controls; and condition monitoring. Providing for the industrial health of our customers’ most critical assets, we deliver accuracy, productivity, predictive maintenance and safety to a wide range of industries, including oil & gas, power generation, aerospace, metals and transportation. Through our advanced approach to connecting intelligent machines, big data and analytics, we help our customers navigate complex operations, tighter regulations and a growing skills gap; while improving asset and operational performance - ultimately driving better business outcomes. Headquartered in Boston, USA, Measurement & Control has more than 40 facilities in 25 countries and is part of GE Oil & Gas. For further information, visit www.gemeasurement.com.
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NEC appoints Inside One as its Partner and Systems Integrator for the Mid-Market and Large Enterprises across Spain and Portugal
NEC and Inside One target significant market share growth
Madrid, Hilversum, 30th September 2019 - NEC Enterprise Solutions, global leader in Communications and IT solutions, has appointed Inside One as a systems integrator partner for solutions and applications aimed at the mid-market and large enterprises across Spain and Portugal. Inside One will look to provide both new and existing customers in the region with a first-class support service as well as access to NEC’s latest range of advanced Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions.
Inside One is a systems and solutions integrator with a track record in the UC and Digital Experience (DXP) spaces providing solutions to clients across Europe and Latin America. They will bring to market the renowned NEC UC platforms and combine them with a new-look service model and integrations that will allow clients to take advantage of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to gain further efficiencies and capabilities from their NEC solutions.
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"We could not be happier to become a Systems Integrator for NEC Solutions in Iberia, combining our ambition with their position as the Global No.1 in the IP-PBX Call Control market. Their communication systems are characterised by technological excellence, unrivalled reliability, and excellent value for money,” says Graham Johnson, Managing Director of Inside One in Spain.
”The broad and powerful portfolio of this world leader enables us to further expand our offering in the market and we expect to grow our services and regional presence in the coming months in order to meet the increasing demand and fulfill our growth ambitions"
NEC offers a broad range of enterprise communications solutions - ranging from small to very large systems that effectively support enterprise and SMB customers whose requirements span from traditional TDM to full (S)IP and 100% software-based deployments.
“We are very pleased to have Inside One as a Systems Integrator in Iberia,” says Bert Plasman, Managing Director of NEC Enterprise Solutions in Europe. “The Inside One team in Europe are very familiar with our products and their in-depth knowledge of the sector and the needs of organizations in the region, will help us further promote our powerful range of solutions. Inside One has the knowledge, enthusiasm and complimentary capabilities in order to build a successful partnership with NEC in this important market.”
Extracting maximum value from their investment
Graham Johnson further explains: “Our aim is to deliver the best possible value to our customers. Our added value comes from the quality of the products and solutions we distribute, as well as our ability to extract the maximum performance through integration. The highly successful NEC solutions are based on the latest technology and are of the highest quality, giving us all a great base from which to work.”
“With their powerful and intuitive applications that meet the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce, they are an excellent fit to the customer requirements in the region. Their quality gives us full opportunity to successfully address the market, with a scalable architecture, market leading functionalities, secure solutions, and excellent price point. NEC's technology, local expertise and longstanding presence in the region really stands out from the crowd,” Johnson concludes.
For more information please contact in EMEA:
Robert van Amerongen
robert.van.amerongen@emea.nec.com
About NEC Enterprise Solutions:
NEC Enterprise Solutions provides IT & Communication solutions to small, medium and large enterprises in both the private and public sectors. Designed for open connectivity, high availability and flexible growth, our innovative solutions incorporate the latest voice, data and video technologies and enable real-time, collaborative working, increased productivity and customer satisfaction. Our servers, storage solutions, software and virtualized workstations enable businesses to maximize operational efficiency, performance and profitability.
NEC Enterprise Solutions serves its customers across EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) through a network of direct sales organizations, business partners and value-added resellers. For more information, please visit: http://www.nec-enterprise.com.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com
NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. ©2019 NEC Corporation.
About Inside One
Inside One is a Systems Integrator that originated in Argentina over 14 years ago but has since spread to Spain, Portugal, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay and that specialises in UC and Contact Centre related solutions as well as AI and RPA platforms and technology.
The group in Iberia is led by Graham Johnson who has significant experience in both the region and also the NEC portfolio through his previous roles as Managing Director of Connectis and COO for the Getronics Group worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.insideone.cloud
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Permission Isolation in GCP
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Aug 09 2019 Colin Estep
When Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions are not sufficiently isolated using the structure provided by the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the results could be disastrous. Ideally, if you must provide a service account with permissions at a Folder or Organization level, the service account should be created in its own project, which is well insulated from external traffic and contains multiple layers of protection.
For example, a GCP project that contains externally exposed workloads and also has a service account with permissions at the Organization level is something that should never occur in your environment. This situation could allow an attacker to tear down security controls, establish persistence, and expose data. This post will go into more detail about how someone could effectively exploit this type of configuration, specifically looking at GCP’s Compute Engine.
The content in this post is based upon a presentation I did at DEFCON 27. For more information about a specific scenario that eliminated a service perimeter and exposed data, refer to the slides from my DEFCON talk available here.
Assigning Permissions in GCP
Identity types in GCP include users, groups, domains, and service accounts. They are all assigned permissions in GCP the same way, by assigning them roles at various levels of the GCP Organization structure. When permissions are assigned to an identity, it’s called an IAM binding. As you can see in the diagram below (from Google’s documentation), bindings can be applied at every point of the hierarchy, and the permissions are inherited down:
The roles are actually just a collection of permitted API calls. The roles in the diagram above are called predefined roles, which are provided by Google. The predefined roles are based on certain job functions. Google also supplies primitive roles by default, which are not recommended for use. The primitive roles are fairly permissive, they are the following:
Viewer – read-only permissions to view resources or data
Editor – permissions to modify existing resources (as well as create / delete in most services)
Owner – permissions to modify resources, as well as manage permissions and billing
Once these primitive roles are assigned at the project level, the identity has the permissions for all the resources in that project. Keep the Project Editor role in mind, as we will come back to it.
Service Accounts and Impersonation
A service account in GCP is an identity that is provided to allow applications to authenticate and make calls to the GCP APIs. It does not use passwords, but uses RSA keys to authenticate. If you are familiar with IAM roles in AWS, this is the same concept for GCP. When you assign a service account to a resource, Google automatically rotates the keys for you. This is better than having to store static credentials in your code.
One important concept to keep in mind for GCP is that a service account must be created in a project. However, a service account could be given bindings at a level higher than a project, such as permissions at the Folder or even Organization levels. I will refer to these types of permissions as “elevated bindings.” These are dangerous, because the permissions at higher levels could give you access to other security controls, and all the projects under that structure will inherit the permissions.
Resources, applications, users, and even service accounts can all impersonate a service account. Impersonating a service account means that you are able to authenticate as the service account, and now have whatever permissions were granted to it. Logs will show any actions as being performed by the service account. It’s important to understand impersonation, because it could be used in unexpected ways in your environment to escalate privileges.
The Default Service Account
When you first enable the Google Compute Engine, it automatically creates a “Default Service Account.” If you don’t make any custom changes while launching a new virtual machine, it will automatically use the default service account. This means that your virtual machine will authenticate as the service account, so it can make any GCP API calls as that service account. If a user were to SSH into the virtual machine and start running “gcloud” commands, it would utilize those service account credentials to interact with GCP.
Google recommends that you immediately remove the default service account. They recommend that instead you create your own service account and assign it only the permissions required. Why would that be the case? Well, the default service account contains a lot of permissions.
The default service account from Compute Engine is automatically given the Project Editor role. This role contains more than 1890 permitted API calls at the time that this post was written, including permissions to impersonate other service accounts. If your virtual machine is compromised and running the default service account, that could open you up to privilege escalation and further compromise.
Access Scopes
The only thing stopping the default service account from being able to utilize all of its permissions are the “access scopes” assigned to the virtual machine. This is a control that dictates which APIs the service account is able to access. So, if the service account is granted access to the Storage API in the IAM policy, the account still cannot access the Storage API if the access scopes do not include the Storage API. Here is an example the access scope options available in the GCP console:
If you have “Allow full access to all Cloud APIs” selected, then the service account can use all of its permitted API calls. This is configured per virtual machine, so your environment could have varied levels of access for its virtual machines.
If one of your workloads has been compromised while running the default service account and it also has full scopes enabled, then it could easily enumerate other service accounts in the same project, and even impersonate those service accounts. This is because the default service account has project editor permissions. Those permissions include the ability to impersonate other service accounts in that project.
If the same project contains service accounts with elevated bindings (permissions at the Folder or Organization levels), then that service account can be easily impersonated by the compromised workload. Once the workload is used to impersonate it, that account is now only limited by the permissions granted to the service account with elevated bindings. This could include adding new users, tearing down VPC Service Controls (or other security controls), and launching its own workloads.
Due to the dangerous nature of the default service account running with full scopes assigned, we recommend doing the following in your GCP environment:
Designate a project that will be used for any accounts that require elevated bindings. Keep that project as secure as possible and do not populate it with any public workloads.
Keep track of who or what can impersonate service accounts. If you lose track of this, privilege escalation becomes a much larger risk.
Don’t use the default service accounts for your workloads. If your workload does not need to access GCP APIs, then remove the service account all together.
Don’t create bindings that include primitive roles whenever possible. These are broad, and permissions should be more granular.
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Joe is a fun brainteaser that requires precise timing as well as reflexes and strategic planning. You control Joe, a Pac-Man-lookalike who has to get to the exit on each level. Along the way, Joe must collect keys to unlock doors and avoid sharp obstacles. Played from the 2D side view, the gameplay is easy to learn: the arrow keys move Joe around and make him jump over obstacles. What makes Joe a tricky game is the fact that you must precisely calculate each jump so that Joe doesn't land on the thorns, which will force you to start the level over again. The game is quite difficult, but the challenge should keep puzzle fans happy if they haven't already given up after the first few levels. The game also adds more challenges in later levels, including Igor, Joe's enemy who chases him around the level, lifts, and other items you can interact with. Overall, I had a lot of fun with the game, although the huge playing area and frustrating difficulty will make puzzle novices think twice before attempting this freeware old game.
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From left to right: Sean Hastings; Alex Tam; David Herrera; Barbara Fouts, NIU Assistant Director of Career Services; Cathy Doederlein, NIU Director of Internships and External Relations; Liz Skorupski; Jaquis Covington; Charles H. Howlett, Instructor and Director, Professional Sales Program; Mark Groza, Assistant Professor in Marketing; Rajan Kaul, Instructor in Marketing
It’s safe to say David Herrera means business.
A senior majoring in marketing, Herrera was one of six Huskies who put their business acumen to the test during a sales management trainee summer internship program at Enterprise Holdings.
“I have gained an inside experience on sales and customer service along with tips on running a business,” Herrera, of Aurora, Illinois, said. “The internship was definitely worth it.”
Herrera and NIU students Alex Tam, Liz Skorupski, Jessica Mendoza, Sean Hastings and Jaquis Covington were part of the summer internship program that allows students to take what they have learned in the classroom and apply it in real-world situations.
“Internships allow students to demonstrate to employers what they do and what they know,” NIU Career Services Director of Planning and Assessment, Brandon Lagana, said. “When they get back to the classroom after these experiences, the content of their courses means more to them because they have firsthand experience.”
Drew Butts, group talent manager for Enterprise Leasing Company of Chicago, said the summer cohort included 39 interns from area universities who were trained and “taught levels of sales and service recognized as the best in the industry.”
“The entry-level opportunity gives students a chance to learn and grow proficient in running our business,” Butts said. “They also receive professional development along the way and promotions are all internal which means they are ahead of most employees if they come back after graduation.”
Lagana shared the sentiment.
“The Enterprise internship is one that many companies – in many industry sectors – are very aware of as one that is an outstanding experience that helps students prepare for the work world,” Lagana said. “Students come out of the program well prepared for a variety of fields.”
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“Over the past 15 years, NIU has placed more interns in our program who have gone on to great careers at Enterprise than any other Midwest university,” Butts said. “They are hardworking and truly embody the spirit of teamwork, initiative and creativity.”
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NJ Kids Movie Review: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Posted by: Jane Louise Boursaw - December 31, 2014
SYNOPSIS: Ben Stiller returns as our favorite night guard Larry Daley, as he spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic of the museum before it’s gone forever.
Reel Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Reels
MPAA Rating: PG for mild action, some rude humor and brief language
Released in Theaters: Dec. 19, 2014
Best for Ages: 7+
Genre: Family, Sequel, Action/Adventure
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Studio: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson
Official Site: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
REVIEW: I’m not gonna lie. I didn’t have high hopes for this third installment of the “Night at the Museum” franchise. After all, how far can you go with a similar premise across several movies?
But I was actually pleasantly surprised at how cute this movie is. And a bit melancholic, since it’s one of Robin Williams’ final films. They gave him a touching sendoff that probably involved some last-minute editing to change a few scenes at the end. It made me a little weepy.
The story follows Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), who’s still working at New York’s Museum of Natural History. When things go horribly wrong at a big fundraising event — the exhibits that spring to life were supposed to be organized but instead caused havoc — that’s when Larry learns that the ancient tablet of Ahkmenrah is starting to die, and with it the magic of the museum.
So Larry takes the gang — including Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Octavius (Steve Coogan), Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Laa the Caveman (Stiller in a dual role), Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), and Dexter the Monkey (Crystal the Monkey)– to London to figure out whether Ahkmenrah’s (Rami Malek) parents know the secret that will save them all … or if this is the end for our beloved museum exhibits.
Every time I see Rami Malek in anything less well produced than “The Pacific” (which is basically everything), the 2010 WWII miniseries in which he played Merriell Shelton, I really wish someone would get him a nice dramatic, long-running TV role. He was SO good in that series, and it makes me a little sad to see him dressed up in an Egyptian costume in what’s basically a silly family movie.
But … on the other hand, there’s a place for silly family movies, and “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” is really sweet. All the characters work together to fix things, and there are some really comical moments that made me laugh out loud.
There’s also a sub-plot involving Larry’s son, Nick (Skyler Gisondo), a high school senior who wants to be a D.J. instead of going to college. Rounding out the cast are Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley on “Downton Abbey”) as Sir Lancelot, Ben Kingsley and Ajali Jay as Ahkmenrah’s parents, Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, Rebel Wilson as Tilly (a guard at the British Museum), and Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs as the old-timer guards. (And by the way, someone get Dick Van Dyke on “Dancing With the Stars”! He does a great little dance number in this movie.)
Overall, there’s not a lot new in this third film, but it’s fun to revisit the characters, and there’s nothing too objectionable for kids, who might actually learn something about history in the process.
THE DETAILS (May Contain Spoilers):
Sex/Nudity: Laa and Tilly flirt and kiss.
Violence/Gore: The museum exhibits spring to life and terrorize guests at a swanky event. Lancelot fights a dinosaur and giant snake with a sword, and turns on the group at one point. Octavius and Jedediah are trapped by lava and fire from a volcano. In one scene, it appears that some of the gang have died.
Profanity: Mild language includes “dang it” and “hell” (which could have easily been replaced with “heck”).
Drugs/Alcohol: Young adults drink something out of red solo cups at a party. Grownups drink wine at a fundraiser.
Which Kids Will Like It? Kids seven and older who like the first two “Night at the Museum” movies.
Will Grownups Like It? There’s not a lot of new stuff in this movie, but it’s still cute and sweet.
JANE’S REEL RATING SYSTEM:
One Reel – Even the Force can’t save it.
Two Reels – Coulda been a contender
Three Reels – Something to talk about.
Four Reels – You want the truth? Great flick!
Five Reels – Wow! The stuff dreams are made of.
Jane Boursaw is the film critic and editor-in-chief of Reel Life With Jane. Contact her at jboursaw@charter.net and check out the shop for fresh editorial content.
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Josh Gottheimer push for border funding bill angers NJ liberals
Liberals in NJ's Fifth Congressional District are again at odds with Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, this time over his push for border funding.
Josh Gottheimer push for border funding bill angers NJ liberals Liberals in NJ's Fifth Congressional District are again at odds with Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, this time over his push for border funding. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2019/06/29/josh-gottheimer-push-border-funding-bill-angers-nj-liberals/1597310001/
Terrence T. McDonald, North Jersey Record Published 6:05 a.m. ET June 29, 2019
Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s support of an emergency border funding bill loathed by immigrant advocates has reopened the divisions between the Democratic congressman and his district’s liberal activists.
Gottheimer, who represents New Jersey’s Fifth District, has walked a tightrope during his three years in Congress, hoping to satisfy his progressive constituents without alienating the district’s many conservative voters. But his decision on Thursday to help pass the $4.6 billion spending bill that did not include proposed amendments favored by liberals was a step too far, immigrant advocates say.
"He’s lost my vote completely," said River Edge resident Kate Jerome, who voted for Gottheimer twice. "I'm voting Republican next year."
Gottheimer defended his support of the bill, intended to aid the migrant crisis on the southern border, in an interview with NorthJersey.com and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey. The measure provides more than $1 billion to shelter and feed migrants detained by the border patrol and nearly $3 billion to care for unaccompanied children turned over to the federal government.
“Is any legislation perfect? Absolutely not,” Gottheimer said. “But was this legislation going to help children right away, immediately, and start helping the humanitarian crisis? Absolutely.”
More: Josh Gottheimer's uneasy search for a political middle ground: Kelly
The bill passed the House on Thursday by a bipartisan 305-102 vote. Nine of New Jersey’s 12 House members voted in support. President Donald Trump has pledged to sign it.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer speaks during the annual Bergen County freeholder board's reorganization meeting, photographed at Bergen County Plaza in Hackensack on 01/07/19. (Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/Northjersey.com)
New Jersey liberals have focused much of their ire on Gottheimer because as part of a group of moderate Democrats, he publicly advocated for the House to pass the bill, which was approved 84-8 by the Senate on Wednesday, while the House’s progressive wing wanted to amend it to include items like more stringent care requirements for detained migrant families. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday the Senate would not approve those amendments, leading to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to take up the Senate version.
“This was a simple choice for me,” Gottheimer said. “Get humanitarian aid immediately to children at the border or let the perfect be the enemy of the good and do nothing. And I made the very clear choice to get humanitarian aid immediately to children at the border.”
Immigrant advocates have characterized passage of the bill as a “cave” by Democrats, who won control of the House in November but remain outnumbered in the Senate. They noted that the bill gives $280 million to ICE and more than $1 billion to Customs and Border Protection.
“They’re going to use the funding to deport more people," said Johanna Calle, of Hackensack, director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.
Madeline Trimble, of Fair Lawn, is on the steering committee of Indivisible 5th District, a local anti-Trump activist group. Trimble said she is "disappointed" that Gottheimer advocated for the Senate bill over an amended version.
“There is no point in having a Democratic House if you don’t use the leverage you get from having a Democratic majority," she said. “Josh Gottheimer is enabling the Trump administration.”
Gottheimer was first elected in 2016 after defeating seven-term Republican incumbent Scott Garrett by five points. He was re-elected last year by a wider margin, winning by 14 points over John McCann.
He represents parts of heavily Democratic Bergen County and the more conservative Sussex and Warren counties, plus two Republican-leaning Passaic County towns. The district went narrowly for Trump in 2016.
Gottheimer has never won the Sussex and Warren portions of his district, though his allies note that he garnered 5,000 more votes in Sussex County in 2016 than the Democrat who lost to Garrett in 2012 and last year won 10,000 more votes than the losing Democrat did in 2014. If moderate voters from either party or unaffiliated voters think he tacks too liberal, his support could crater, they say.
But Gottheimer is highly dependent on votes from Bergen County’s liberal strongholds. In 2016, his total margin over Garrett was 14,897 votes. He received 21,391 votes in just Hackensack and Teaneck. If liberals are not enthusiastic about Gottheimer in 2020, his critics say, he may not get a third term.
Krista Jenkins is a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University who oversees the school's PublicMind polls. Jenkins said she thinks liberal Democrats unhappy with Gottheimer now will likely move back into his corner once they are in the voting booth next November.
“We all have these issues that really push our buttons, but at the end of the day it’s a binary choice. It’s either the Republican or the Democrat,” she said. “And if the Republican candidate is somebody who is so far to the right … is a Democrat really going to abandon their partisan loyalties?”
Nedia Morsy, of immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New Jersey, said her office has been inundated with calls from immigrants fearful of Trump's warned deportation raids, raids she thinks will now get funding thanks to Thursday's action by the House.
“This is Trump made chaos," Morsy said on Friday. "What Josh Gottheimer did yesterday was sign a blank check for Donald Trump so he could keep doing more of that."
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Cooper: Late disputed goal gives Ramapo edge
After first saying no goal, refs change mind and Ramapo earns 4-2 win
Cooper: Late disputed goal gives Ramapo edge After first saying no goal, refs change mind and Ramapo earns 4-2 win Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2gB3NpV
Darren Cooper, Local Sports Columnist, @VarsityAces Published 7:49 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2017 | Updated 8:03 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2017
Ramapo celebrates their game winning goal scored by Liam Nelson late in the game. (Photo: CHRIS PEDOTA, Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
FRANKLIN LAKES – First of all, it wasn’t a goal. Then it was.
Ramapo got an extremely questionable call with 2:46 left that led to the go-ahead goal for the Green Raiders in Sunday’s Bergen County boys soccer tournament semifinals. They added a breakaway goal by Andrew Furman to make the final score 4-2 over Glen Rock, and set up a chance at a historic fourth straight county title – something no program has ever done.
Unfortunately, though, the quality 80 minutes of soccer displayed by both teams was overshadowed by a crazy few minutes that left Glen Rock fans enraged, and even Ramapo players and coaches not sure what happened.
Let's set the characters in our story. Furman is a master of the long throw-in, which Ramapo uses as a valuable weapon. Early in the game, Panthers coaches asked the line judges to make sure Furman was releasing the ball without touching the line. If he did, it would be illegal.
At approximately the three minute mark, Furman angled in a throw-in from the sideline in front of his own bench. The line judge, about 40 yards behind the play, raised his flag, which would seemed to indicate an illegal throw in.
Andrew Furman of Ramapo scores his team's fourth goal of the game. (Photo: CHRIS PEDOTA, Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
No one appeared to notice, as the ball eventually bounced around the box and was tapped in by Ramapo sophomore Liam Nelson for a 3-2 Ramapo lead.
While Ramapo celebrated, finally the raised flag was seen and the officials conferred.
The official who was in the field of play, then pointed to the spot where the throw-in occurred, to indicate that it would be Glen Rock’s throw-in.
Then, more discussion and the official and the line judge who made the call got together again.
Mike Lee and Kevin Belknap try to keep Sebastian Varela of Ramapo from heading upfield with the ball. (Photo: CHRIS PEDOTA, Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
After discussing it with the coaches, the point went to the center circle. It was a goal.
“I don’t know if my foot was on the line,” Furman told NorthJersey.com reporter Sean Farrell. “I was trying to look out for it because I have typically never been called on it before. To see [the flag up] I was kind of shocked after. I guess the flag was up for a play previously and the ref never took his flag down. At least, that’s what everyone was saying.”
There was some talk on the sidelines that it was possible the ref still had his flag raised because of a corner kick Ramapo had taken about a minute before the Furman throw-in.
Ramapo celebrates their first goal of the game by Liam Nelson in the first half. (Photo: CHRIS PEDOTA, Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
At least, that’s one theory.
Glen Rock coach Casey Schick spelled out what he saw carefully.
“The ref called a foul throw because [Furman’s] foot was over the line,” said Schick. “The refs got to talking, they called the goal off. Then they talked a little more and they said it was the interpretation of the play. I’m not really sure, but I’m not an official, so I’m not really sure what the final reasoning was.”
This would seem to indicate that perhaps the official’s point was no discernible advantage was had by Ramapo if Furman’s foot was over the line. In that case, soccer rules say play on.
Also, it may be worth wondering whether or not the flag was seen by the head official too late to stop play.
“They said that they couldn’t call it after a play occurred,” said Ramapo coach Evan Baumgarten, adding that with a three-man officiating system calls are sometimes changed.
James Gomez of Glen Rock and Sung Jae Lee of Ramapo go for the ball. (Photo: CHRIS PEDOTA, Chris Pedota/NorthJersey.com)
The controversy ruined a spectacular Sunday afternoon of soccer, and tensions were high at the final whistle. Glen Rock fans were yelling at the officials. Schick deserves credit for diffusing as much of the situation as he could. He made his players stay back.
Schick was near the line judge when the flag went up.
“I was talking about where the throw-in should have been,” he said calmly. “It should have been about 5-10 yards back. That’s what I was communicating to him. While that was happening, he saw that his foot was over the line. I could not [see it] because I was not on the line, but that’s why we have a line judge and he made the correct call.”
The biggest shame is Glen Rock was playing superbly, and Ramapo was as well. A great finish was brewing, but then spoiled.
After the game, Ramapo players were jeered, one woman called out “cheaters” while Baumgarten was talking with reporters.
Like Schick, he said he was proud of his team, and wasn’t concerned with what other people thought.
“I can’t control what other people think,” said Baumgarten.
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Women in Road Transport initiative gathers pace
An initiative to diversify and grow the transport industry workforce has just has its first birthday and has already made some great progress in promoting the sector as a career option for women.
The Women in Road Transport (WiRT) initiative was launched in August last year as a strategy to help combat the expected shortage of drivers.
The initiative is driven by an industry-wide oversight group which is seeking to highlight the transport sector as a career option and raise the participation rate of women from its current rate of around 16 per cent.
“We’ve had some amazing progress to date, with great publicity resulting in a significant amount of interest being shown in the initiative,” says Jackie Carroll of Tranzliquid Logistics Limited, one of the oversight group members.
A range of business and strategic plans are being developed by the oversight group and a nationwide network is also being put in place to provide support and mentoring to both employers and drivers.
“During these early stages of WiRT it is about getting the message out, showcasing existing women in the industry, with the objective to get enquires that will lead to career choices within the industry,” Jackie says.
The Transport Agency is backing the move, with General Manager Access and Use Celia Patrick saying “This is a fantastic initiative; it’s great to see the transport industry working together to tackle the forecast shortage in drivers and we wish them every success.”
The NZ Transport Agency works to create transport solutions for all New Zealanders – from helping new drivers earn their licences, to leading safety campaigns to investing in public transport, state highways and local roads.
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Ride for the Wild
By Ryan Applegate | Feb 27, 2009 February 27, 2009
Today’s post is from Ryan Applegate, assistant manager of our Dillon, Montana, store. Last summer Ryan took two months off work to pedal his bike 2,300 miles from Yukon’s Watson Lake to Yellowstone National Park. But Ryan’s trip was more than a summer bike tour. Working with the Freedom to Roam Coalition, he and six others rode on behalf of wildlife, which is losing more and more habitat to development and finding itself increasingly challenged by climate change. Funded with an environmental internship grant from Patagonia, Ryan received both salary and benefits during his hiatus.
I became familiar with the concept of a Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) wildlife corridor while studying conservation biology in the ‘90s, and my attention was refocused with the recent launch of Patagonia’s new long-term environmental initiative, Freedom to Roam. Freedom to Roam emanates from the understanding that climate change is significantly altering the earth, and that the key to maintaining healthy, wild populations of creatures of all sizes, depends on their freedom to move, when necessary, to new habitat. It realizes that the best hope these animals and plants have for survival lies in people working, lobbying, donating, volunteering, buying, knowing and/or doing whatever it takes to ensure we protect and manage physical connections among larger protected areas. It is also about raising public awareness to this need, and that is where my Ride for the Wild came in.
Karsten Heuer – a wildlife biologist, park warden and author ofWalking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon – jumpstarted The Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative in 1998, when he embarked on a 1½-year, 2,200-mile journey on foot, skis and canoe from Yellowstone National Park to Watson Lake on the British Columbia/Yukon border. Along the way, he organized public speaking engagements in hundreds of communities to introduce the new concept of landscape-scale conservation.
Inspired by Heuer’s experiences, 10 years later, my partner Isan Brant and I decided to travel with a small group of dedicated friends and family through communities in the Y2Y region and learn from residents about the opportunities and challenges to the Y2Y wildlife corridor concept. We chose to pedal what Karsten had hiked in reverse, meeting with locals and giving presentations about the Freedom to Roam Coalition and our adventures through the Y2Y region. On August 12, after three months of planning, seven of us journeyed to the Yukon to begin our adventure.
The yellow line shows our route from Watson Lake to Yellowstone, and describes the 12 priority regions within the ride portion of the Y2Y region. Click here for a larger map of the Y2Y priority areas.
Isan, Alex, Teagan and I left Montana, in my fully loaded Honda Odyssey after making contacts and setting up presentations in communities through which we would pass. We hitched four bikes to the top of my van and three off the back, gear for seven stowed inside. We’d boxed food for the first four weeks and dropped them along the way. Mark and Cedar braved a three-day Greyhound adventure. We picked up Anna at the airport in Fort Saint John and all converged at the Downtown Trailer Park in Watson Lake, Yukon, the night of August 16.
The TEAM!: From left to right: Anna Mumford, Teagan Hayes, Alex Applegate, Ryan Applegate, Isan Brant, Mark Sundeen and Cedar Brant.
In Watson Lake we met with Tom Cove, who still sets trap lines that have been in use for generations. Tom hosted Karsten at the end of his trip 10 years ago. He told wonderful stories and helped us to understand the fragility of the expansive landscape we would be traveling through. Tom spoke of the need to create a definition of wealth that includes more than monetary gain, and warned of the fast, large-scale ecological damage that mass industrialization brings, citing as example the Alberta tar sands. He sent us off with gifts of salmon steaks and moose for our first few nights on the road.
In the first 10 days we traveled around 375 miles through the Liard River Basin and over the Rockies, cutting a transect through the northern tip of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area and into Fort Nelson, BC. Passing rainstorms hit us every day. We battled headwinds, dense fog, aches and pains, and experienced the vast beauty and supreme generosity of the landscape and people of the Northern Rockies.
Our second night camped on the beautifully vast, icy-cold and unpopulated Liard River. Moose tracks dotted the sandy shores.
Biking into the Northern Rockies, we entered the northern tip of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area – a network of preserves and highly regulated industrial areas that are seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park.
Following a tip from a park attendant, we followed the old, unpaved Alaska Highway for six miles. This side trip led to multiple stream crossings and cross-country hikes, where the road had been demolished by flash floods.
Isan and Cedar climb Steamboat Pass along the Alaska Highway.
Our first presentation was in Fort Saint John, where the Peace River Valley Environmental Association hosted us. We spent two days there hearing the concerns of the small but hearty conservation community. The most pressing among them was BC Hydro’s proposed Site C dam on the Peace River. The only river to transect the Rockies west to east, the Peace creates a temperate microclimate for the region’s best farming and provides critical late-winter browse for wildlife. Site C would create a reservoir on the last free-flowing part of the Peace through the Y2Y corridor, drowning farms, critical wildlife habitat and blocking the movement of wildlife.
The entrance to Ken and Arlene Boone’s farm in the Peace River Valley. Much of their land would be drowned in the reservoir behind Site C dam. Here’s what they have to say about the impacts Site C would have:
The Peace River. To learn more about the Peace River Valley visithttp://www.peacevalley.ca/.
Crossing west over the Rockies for the second time at Pine River Pass and into Prince George, we were hosted by members of the Backcountry Recreation Society. Concerns here focused on efforts to conserve the temperate inland rainforest. Ecologically unique, this forest extends in patches from central Idaho to northern BC, along the western toe slope of the Rocky Mountains. It is under continuous threat from logging interests. Biodiversity in this inland rainforest exceeds that of tropical rainforests. It’s also critical habitat for the globally threatened mountain caribou, which eat the moss and lichen assemblages growing on the trees. Hugh and Kathy Peterson gave us a tour of the newly finished, community created Ancient Forest trail. To learn more about the Ancient Forest trail visit.http://ancientcedar.ca/html/trail_news.htm
Inside the rotted out innards of an ancient cedar tree. The same fungus that rots out the insides of old-growth cedars penetrates every cell of the tree and gives the wood its rot-resistant property. It’s nearly impossible to tell the age of rotted out trees. Estimates range from 1,000 to more than 5,000 years old.
Climbing east, up the Mackenzie River, we headed into the largest protected complex of land in the whole Y2Y region, the Canadian National Park complex, which includes Jasper and Banff. The economy in this area has shifted from one based on resource extraction to a leisure economy in which the aesthetic of the landscape is now the economic engine. Writer and biologist Doug Chadwick (who penned “The Wolverine Way,” a wonderful environmental essay on one particularly capable wolverine, for the Patagonia Spring 2008 catalog) spoke to the fact that the valley bottoms of Banff and Jasper provide critical habitat for wildlife, but also are where human activity is most concentrated. “We’re sort of doing reconstruction biology,” Doug said, regarding efforts to connect and protect land in the Y2Y region. Click here to listen to more of our conversation with Doug.
We invented a new sport: Therma-rafting the ice-cold Athabasca River as it flows under the peaks of Jasper National Park. The week before we arrived a snowstorm swept through the park. We were greeted with 10 days of the crispest blue we could have dreamed of!
Barb rides toward the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park. The glacier has retreated just under a mile in the last 100 years.
A full moon peeks through the clouds at Honeymoon Lake, Jasper National Park.
Following the Athabasca River through Banff National Park.
Water break at a roadside spring, Banff National Park.
Climbing over Bow Pass and dropping into the Bow Valley, we connected with Karsten Heuer, Leanne Allison and their 3 year-old son, Zev to talk about the challenges and successes of wildlife corridors in the area. We visited the narrow wildlife corridor sandwiched between the town of Canmore, and the golf course community on the fringe of the valley. Karsten described the removal of manmade structures and human activities near the town of Banff, which allowed wolf traffic in the area to grow by 700% in one year. Leaving Canmore, Cedar and Alex spotted a wolf off the highway making its way around a cement plant. Hear more from our conversation with Karsten.
Isan walks with Karsten and Zev toward the wildlife overpass in Banff National Park. About 150 feet-wide, this linkage enables ungulates and grizzlies to safely cross the Trans Canadian Highway.
From Banff we traveled through Kananaskis country and over the highest pass in Canada, which is closed during the fall and winter to allow wildlife undisturbed wintering grounds. Trailheads and rivers heavily loved by recreationists presaged nearby Calgary.
Out of the mountains and onto the eastside plains following the Cowboy Trail in Alberta.
Cumulative exhaustion began to set in as we pushed through head colds and a wicked headwind over Crowsnest Pass. Crowsnest wears a necklace of old mining towns; a railroad and major highway present obstacles to wildlife. The pass is one of two critical corridors for grizzly bears to move from Glacier/Waterton to Banff National Park.
Back in the states, our first stop and presentation was in Whitefish, Montana, where we met with Crown of the Continent coordinator Steve Thompson. A passionate urban revivalist, Steve used the term “weed-ettes” to describe the five-acre ranchettes that have sprung up all over the West. Steve has worked with National Geographic to create a geo-tourism map for the Crown of the Continent area. The map celebrates the cultural and physical attributes of the region, helping tourists to experience the unique flavor of the place. Some video of our visit with Steve is here.
Shuttling Panniers over the Clearwater River to camp.
Big Sky Country in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
We pedaled, tired and fulfilled, into Gardiner, Montana, on Oct. 4. Renowned tracker Jim Halfpenny hosted us and described the political challenges and complexities of managing the growing wolf and bear populations in the West. In his view, politics decides animal population levels; a recognition that underlines the importance of Y2Y and The Freedom to Roam Coalition. Only by building public awareness about the vital importance of habitat for North America’s last large mammals, will historic corridors be preserved and new ones built.
Two months and 2,300 miles later, we made it to the northern entrance of Yellowstone National Park!
[Special thanks to Ryan for all of his beautiful photos.]
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Most people have never heard of the Owyhee Canyonlands, let alone pulled over to visit. On a map of Oregon, it’s that mostly blank expanse in the southeastern corner of the state near the Idaho/Nevada border—a place most would call nowhere. Rome, Burns and Jordan Valley are the nearest towns… Read More
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Given that it implies a christian god, I would say yes it does, but United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the motto does not violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. The United States Supreme Court has not ruled on the issue. They (the ninth circuit) basically said god in the motto is generic and doesn't put one religion over another, never mind that the government shouldn't be involved in religion at all.
BTW "In God we trust" as a motto for currency first appeared on coins in 1864
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Title Year Nominal size Condition Price
Titfield Thunderbolt 1953 UK 1 sht - 27"X40" Fine on linen £765
Notes: One of the best and funniest of all the 'Ealing Comedies', it is so quintessentially post war British that it could not have been made by any other than Ealing Studios. The plot is simple - British Railways decide to close a local branch line and a group of villagers led by the local squire and vicar battle government red tape and the local bus company to run their own railway, eventually using an ancient locomotive (Thunderbolt) from the museum to pull their train. This is a rare UK country-of-origin one sheet, linen backed in excellent condition with airbrushing to borders.
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To Catch a Thief 1955 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Very Good/Fine on linen £1,250
Notes: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly star in one of Hitchcock's most stylish thrillers. This is from the first release in the USA, linen backed in generally excellent condition. Although the blue and yellow tones on this poster are bright and unfaded, this poster does have some minor fading to the red tones on the two characters' faces. Despite this, it does still present extremely well and the difference is only possible to spot if you compare it side by side with an unfaded copy. Offered at half the price of a perfect copy, this is an excellent opportunity to pick up a bargain.
To Catch a Thief 1955 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Fine on linen £2,250
Notes: Cary Grant and Grace Kelly star in one of Hitchcock's most stylish thrillers. This is from the first release in the USA, linen backed in excellent condition with airbrushing to borders.
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 UK quad - 40"x30" Fine/Near Mint on linen £965
Notes: Atticus Finch (Peck), a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. This is an extremely rare poster from the film's first release in the UK, folded in excellent condition.
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 UK quad - 40"x30" Fine on linen £895
Notes: Atticus Finch (Peck), a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. This is an extremely rare poster from the film's first release in the UK, linen backed in excellent condition.
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Tobor the Great 1954 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Fine/Near Mint on linen £1,750
Notes: Tobor ('robot' spelled backwards) is the invention of an elderly scientific genius. The inventor's grandson (Billy Chapin) befriends the robot during the development of its complex brain and artificial personality. Commie spies kidnap the inventor and the boy, attempting to get their hands on the valuable robot. Classic 50's sci-fi which manages to weave in early communist cold war paranoia. Linen backed in excellent condition.
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Tom and Jerry (Flying Cat) 1952 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Fine/Near Mint £965
Notes: Tom is foiled by the canary's ability to fly, until he finds that he can make wings out of a discarded corset, which allows him to fly after the canary and Jerry. This is a rare poster from the first release in 1952, folded as issued, in excellent condition.
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Tom and Jerry (stock sheet) 50's US 1 sht - 27"X41" Fine on linen £625
Notes: Rare 1950's stock one sheet for the legendary duo from MGM. While most Tom & Jerry cartoons had individually printed posters, the alternative was to have a generic poster that could be overprinted for any of the shorts shown with the main film. Featuring great artwork, this is a rare find. Linen backed in excellent condition.
Tom and Jerry (stock sheet) 60's US 1 sht - 27"X41" Near Mint on linen £495
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Tom and Jerry (That's My Pup) 1952 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Near Mint on linen £1,250
Notes: Tom and Jerry meet Spike's pup... This is a stock one sheet from 1952 for this 1952 short, linen backed in excellent condition
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Tom and Jerry - Cruise Cat 1952 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Near Mint on linen £2,250
Notes: Rare first release poster from 1952 with artwork of Jerry pushing Tom overboard and waving bon voyage! Full size posters for individual Tom & Jerry film titles are very rare as print runs for a three minute cartoon were small and distribution was limited. This one has been linen backed and looks superb.
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Tom and Jerry - Jerry's Cousin 1951 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Fine on linen £1,650
Notes: Rare and beautiful poster for this Tom & Jerry short (just 3 minutes long). Jerry's Cousin, the 1951 Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon comedy short, produced by Fred Quimby, about Jerry writing to his cousin "Muscles Mouse", who is amazingly strong. Muscles comes for a visit, and manhandles Tom. Tom works out with weights and gets help from the neighborhood cats, to no avail! Linen backed in excellent condition.
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Vertigo 1958 Yugoslavia - 20"x28" Fine £795
Notes: The iconic Saul Bass design for Vertigo is one of the most famous poster designs in the world and US examples now fetch well over £5,000. Surprisingly, almost all countries outside the USA did not use this design for their own first release posters adding to the design's rarity. One exception (the other is Argentina) was Yugoslavia.. This is from the first release in Yugoslavia in 1960, folded as issued, with some minor bleed thro' of writing on the reverse that does not affect the overall presentation.
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Waterloo Bridge 1940 Italian 2-foglio - 39" x 55" Fine on linen £975
Notes: Vivian Leigh reported that of all her films, "Waterloo Bridge," was her favorite. This war-time drama stars Vivien Leigh as Myra, a shy ballerina whose life is irrevocably altered in war-torn London. It's love at first sight when Myra meets handsome, aristocratic British officer Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor). This larger format poster features stunning artwork by Brini and is from the first release in Italy shortly after the war ended. Linen backed in Fine condition.
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West Side Story 1961 US - 30"x40" Fine £525
Notes: The Sharks fought the Jets in a modern day Romeo and Juliet romance. This is a super-rare pre-oscars poster from the very early days of the film's release, not only this but it is also a 30 x 40 rolled cardstock version from the USA. Designed by Joseph Caroff, these were expensive to make and so were produced in very small numbers for outdoors use only.
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West Side Story (pre-oscars) 1961 US 1 sht - 27"x41" Fine on linen £595
Notes: The Sharks fought the Jets in a modern day Romeo and Juliet romance. This is the super-rare pre-oscars poster from the very early days of the film's release, linen backed in excellent condition. It was designed by Joseph Caroff, although it is often misidentified as being designed by Saul Bass.
Notes: The Sharks fought the Jets in a modern day Romeo and Juliet romance. This is the super-rare pre-oscars poster from the very early days of the film's release, linen backed with the usual retouching to the fold lines and a repair to lower right hand corner. It was designed by Joseph Caroff, although it is often misidentified as being designed by Saul Bass.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (style E) 1988 US 1 sht - 27"x40" Near Mint £745
Notes: It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble. The mylar style E of Jessica Rabbit with the tag line 'I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way' is one of the most sought after posters of any animated feature film. Dayna Stedny was the artist from Lucas film (the mark at the bottom of the circle, which is a 2263, is her trademark. It's her birthday Feb 2, 1963). The poster is mylar with additional gold leaf on the borders and details so it was produced in very limited numbers - only 750 were made.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (style E) 1988 US 1 sht 27"x40" Fine/Near Mint £625
Notes: It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble. The mylar style E of Jessica Rabbit with the tag line 'I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way' is one of the most sought after posters of any animated feature film. Dayna Stedny was the artist from Lucas film (the mark at the bottom of the circle, which is a 2263, is her trademark. It's her birthday Feb 2, 1963). The poster is mylar with additional gold leaf on the borders and details so it was produced in very limited numbers - only 750 were made. This particular copy has a row of small creases running down the centre which are difficult to see from the front of the poster and do not affect the presention.
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Wicker Man 1973 UK 1 sht - 27"X40" Fine/Near Mint £695
Notes: "Flesh to touch...Flesh to burn! Don't keep the Wicker Man waiting! Edward Woodward in the definitive version of the cult movie set in Scotland. This poster is from the film's first release in the UK for this british movie, folded in superb condition.
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Wicker Man (Christopher Lee estate) 1973 UK 1 sht - 27"X40" Fine/Near Mint £895
Notes: From the Christopher Lee estate with full documentary provenance from the estate sale, this is the Uk 1 sheet poster for this British horror classic. Moreover, this is a very rare rolled copy in generally excellent condition showing just a little light wear from cinema use.
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Wild One 1953 US 1 sht - 27"x41" Fine on linen £695
Notes: The Wild One was Brando's classic motorbike movie. Hot feelings hit terrifying heights in a story that really boils over! Wild in the extreme! This poster is from the film's first release, linenbacked.
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Wings 1927 French 44†x 53†Fine on linen £9,950
Notes: Released in 1927, Wings is one of the most important films in movie history and not just because it won the first ever Best Picture Oscar. Wings also set new standards for technical excellence with its extraordinary aerial dogfight sequences and changed the way films were made forever. This particular poster is unbelievably rare and the only larger format original 1927 poster that I have ever seen or heard of for this landmark film. While lobby cards and window cards do appear every few years and several US 1 sheets have surfaced (Heritage have sold two for £50,000+), I have been unable to find evidence of any larger format posters ever coming to the market. This one is from France (the scene of the action in the film) and, although the lower credits have been lost and the outer white borders replaced, the main artwork of the RAF fighter plane is in excellent condition with little wear, minimal retouching and no fading. It was printed using a stone litho rather than offset litho press which gives more vivid colours (offset litho presses took over in the 1930's because they were faster and more accurate). Quite possibly a unique opportunity.
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Woman Like Satan 1960 UK quad - 40"x30" Very Good/Fine on linen £395
Notes: 23 year old Brigitte Bardot excelled in her role as the sex kitten and this poster from the first UK release has wonderful artwork. Linen backed with overall wear from use.
Woman Like Satan 1960 Italian 2-foglio - 39" x 55" Fine on linen £1,950
Notes: 24 year old Brigitte Bardot excelled in her role as the sex kitten and this country of origin poster from the first Italian release has wonderful artwork. Linen backed with minor restoration to folds, this poster has excellent unfaded colour and looks spectacular. It comes to us with a frame which is available at no extra charge for London pick up if required, otherwise we can just send the poster out rolled as usual.
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World without End 1956 US 1 sht - 27"X41" Good/Very Good on linen £595
Notes: This is the perhaps the best script from a writer's point of view of any of the 1950s low-budget "B" sci-fi films. Four astronauts returning from mankind's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war... This poster is from the first release, linen backed with a small area of paper replacement in the man's body.
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You Only Live Twice 1967 US 6 sht - 81"x81" Fine/Near Mint £2,250
Notes: When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. This is a very rare large format 6 sheet poster in superb condition, printed in four sections as issued. N.B. The six sheet features all three artwork styles from the Style A, B and C posters.
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You Only Live Twice (advance) 1967 US subway - 60" x 45" Near Mint £1,250
Notes: Very rare to find in this condition, this is a rolled copy of the large format US subway advance poster. This is the fourth and final poster in the teaser sequence for the advance which featured the four preceding Bond films added one by one. In the first week the poster only featured the Dr no panel at top right, the next week From Russia with Love was added followed by Goldfinger in week three. In week four Thunderball was added and the latest film was revealed to be You only Live Twice. This is from the film's first release in the US in 1967. Rolled in superb condition.
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You Only Live Twice (Bath) 1967 Australian 1 sht - 27"X40" Near Mint on linen £665
Notes: Of the two design variants of Australian one sheet that were used for the first release of You Only Live Twice, the 'bath' style was the rarest. This fact, and the somewhat risqué artwork (featuring a Japanese girl with her hand washing below the waterline) makes this poster a favourite with the true Bond aficionados. Australian posters are printed using the distinctive stone litho method that gives far stronger more saturated colours than current offset litho printing methods giving a much more dramatic look. From the first release in 1967, linen backed in superb condition.
You Only Live Twice (Bath) 1967 Italian 2-foglio - 39" x 55" Very Good/Fine £695
Notes: This is a rare first release Italian poster. This fact, and the somewhat risqué artwork (featuring smirking James Bond and a Japanese girl with her hand washing below the waterline) makes this poster a favourite with the true Bond aficionados. From the first release in 1967, folded.
You Only Live Twice (Bath) 1967 UK quad - 40"x30" Fine on linen £2,950
Notes: Of the three design variants of British quad that were used for the first release of You Only Live Twice, the 'bath' style was by far the rarest. This fact, and the somewhat risqué artwork (featuring a Japanese girl with her hand washing below the waterline) makes this poster a favourite with the true Bond aficionados. From the first release in 1967, linen backed in excellent condition, this poster has airbrushing to the white borders but is otherwise very clean with bright colours and no yellowing.
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You Only Live Twice (Little Nellie) 1967 US subway - 60" x 45" Fine/Near Mint on linen £1,250
Notes: Of the three design variants that were used for the first release of You Only Live Twice, the 'Little Nellie' style was the most striking. This is a large format subway poster from the first US release in 1967, linen backed in excellent condition.
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You Only Live Twice (Volcano) 1967 US subway - 60" x 45" Near Mint on linen £1,150
Notes: There are three variants for the first release UK quad for the James Bond classic, You Only Live Twice. This one features the volcano artwork. This is a rare larger size that is used on the US subway system. Few were printed and, because they were typically pasted up, hardly any survived. Linen backed in excellent condition.
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Zulu 1964 UK quad - 40"x30" Fine on linen £895
Notes: On January 22nd 1879 the British Army suffered one of its worst defeats when Zulu forces massacred 1,500 of its troops at Isandlhwana. A short time after the main battle a Zulu force numbering in excess of 4000 advanced on a British hospital guarded by 139 Welsh infantrymen. The film concentrates on this bloody 12 hour battle during which the British force won 11 Victoria Crosses. This poster is a rare country of origin UK quad from the first release in 1964, folded in excellent condition. Such was the demand for this film when it was first released, there were two printings of the poster. This is from the second print run by Kent art printers of Rochester, the first printing was by S&D,S. Text and layout were identical but there were colour differences with more red on the warrior figures and less yellow in the background in the second run.
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A Middle East Holocaust — Paul Craig Roberts
March 30, 2015 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article
Dear Friends: We have had a satisfactory response to our request for your support. As long as you support this site, I will as well. Without your support the website would not exist.
Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no corporate support; it only has your support.
I have been around for a long time and have experienced more than most. The current situation in my experience is the most dangerous time of all for humanity.
Nuclear weapons are no longer restrained by the Cold War MAD doctrine. Washington has released them into pre-emptive first strike form.
The targets of these pre-emptive strikes–Russia and China–know it, because Washington proudly proclaims its immorality in public documents describing its war doctrine.
The result is to maximize the chance of nuclear war. If you were Russia and China, and you knew that Washington had a war doctrine that permits a surprise nuclear attack, would you sit there waiting while Washington cranks up its anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda machine, demonizing both countries as a threat to “freedom and democracy”?
The fools in Washington are playing with nuclear fire. Noam Chomsky points out that in a less dangerous time than currently exists, we came very close to nuclear war. https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/Noam_Chomsky_on_Institutional_Stupidity
Harold Pinter, one of the last Western intellects, understood the danger in Western arrogance. He denounced the West’s crimes and called for the crimes to be subject to established law before it is too late for humanity.
“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice.” Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
“An Iraqi Holocaust” by Gideon Polya http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230315.htm and “Genocide In Iraq” http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150315.htm provide abundant evidence for convicting Bush and Blair.
Dr. Gideon Polya is a professor of science in one of Australia’s leading universities. He has a moral conscience, something increasingly rare in the Western world.
His articles are based largely on the just published by Clarity Press two volume heavily documented Genocide in Iraq by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tarik Al-Ani. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani is a British-educated lawyer with a Ph.D. in International Law and a Ph.D. in electronics engineering. Tarik Al-Ani, is an architect, translator, and researcher.
Currently I am reading the two-volume work and intended to review it. But Professor Polya’s articles suffice as an introduction to Genocide in Iraq. Washington has committed a terrible crime in our name. Washington not only murdered Iraq, Washington has murdered the Middle East. Washington and its despicable vassals–”the Coalition of the Willing”–are responsible for a Middle East Holocaust.
For people in the Anglo-American world who have a moral conscience, the facts are soul-wrenching. The populations of the countries whose governments comprised “the Coalition of the Willing” are contaminated with war crimes committed by their governments in the Iraq Genocide. A progressive modern state was obliterated, and 2.7 million Iraqi people were murdered.
The crime was covered up with propaganda that demonized Saddam Hussein and created fear of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraqi genocide was based on a lie, and both Bush and Blair knew it. The two satanic leaders simply decided to destroy a people who they first demonized and marginalized.
Cheney and the neocons continue to justify the genocide and the illegal torture regime that they created in order to produce fake “terrorists” as a justification for their war crimes. The Western media, especially the New York Times, is also complicit in the Iraqi Genocide as are the insouciant Western peoples themselves who stood by cheering while millions of people were destroyed on the basis of a blatant and transparent lie.
What does the West represent? Greed? Lies? War? Torture? War Crimes? Selfishness, Intolerance? Destruction of life on earth?
The “Christian” West is a master at propaganda and self-deception. Look at the evangelical churches. They support a criminal, inhumane regime while professing to be followers of Christ.
Look at American “conservatives.” They support the militarized police state. They support the routine police murders of dark-skinned American citizens. They support every war Washington dreams up and even more. Indeed, there are not enough wars for the satisfaction of Congressional Republicans who now want war with Russia and with Iran.
Look at the Republicans in Congress and in state governments. They hate the environment. They love polluters. They worship Israel and Israel’s destruction of the Palestinians and the ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ country, a 60-year old activity. Just look at the map of shrinking Palestine. More is stolen each day.
Washington has supported this theft of an entire country. Yet, Washington is able to masquerade as a great defender of human rights. Whose rights? Washington’s and Israel’s. No one else’s rights count.
How does the world survive the American-Israeli aggression? Probably it will not. The evil is now directed at Iran, Russia, and China. These countries cannot be bombed year after year after year with no consequences to the bombers.
Iran is limited in its destructive ability. But Iran could destroy Saudi Arabia and Israel. Russia and China can destroy the US and all of Washington’s vassal states. The intensity of Washington’s propaganda war is driving the world to destruction.
How can it be stopped when Putin himself says over and over that Washington continually ignores every thing that the Russian government says. Putin is the peacemaker. Every peace proposal he brings is ignored by Washington whose response is to beat the drums of war louder.
Unless European governments recognize the danger in Washington’s aggression and dissolve NATO, planet earth hasn’t long to live.
The American public needs to understand the consequences of Washington’s illegality and criminality. On the one hand it means that those subject to Washington’s aggression have to endure war crimes, but on the other hand it means a growing hatred for America. As Washington’s easy targets are used up, Washington engages countries that can reply to force with force.
Unless the neoconservatives are ejected from the Obama regime and banned from inclusion in any future American government, mushroom clouds will go up over Washington, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago. The American mid-west, which hosts the ICBM silos, will become uninhabitable except by cockroaches.
Americans, and the populations of the American puppet states, desperately need to understand that Washington is incapable of speaking the truth about anything. Washington is an evil force. Washington is Sauron. Washington is Satan.
Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Look at Libya. Look at Syria. Look at Somalia. Look at Ukraine. Nothing but destruction comes from Washington. Will life on earth be Washington’s next victim?
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Wave Energy Scotland has announced the results of its latest funding allocation, with 10 projects named as beneficiaries.
The projects, devised by individual companies and partnerships, will explore the potential of different materials and processes in the production of wave energy converters (WECs); devices that convert ocean waves into electricity.
Currently these devices are predominantly made from steel, which is strong and durable but costly and susceptible to corrosion.
Alternative materials have not yet been sufficiently investigated for their longevity in harsh marine conditions. Finding a material that works well in the sea and is cheaper to produce will increase commercial viability of converters.
The Wave Energy Scotland (WES) funded Structural Materials and Manufacturing Process (SMMP) projects will investigate the use of materials such as rubbers, plastics, concrete or combinations of these to build wave energy converters, and then test how well they survive in different sea conditions.
This latest announcement from WES brings the total investment by the organisation in wave energy development to £15million across 51 projects in less than two years.
Minister for business, innovation and energy, Paul Wheelhouse said: ‘Continued innovation is vital in emerging renewable technologies such as wave energy. This funding could result in longer lasting wave converters that are better able to harness the power of the sea and more efficiently turn it into renewable energy.
‘Wave energy has great potential to contribute to Scotland’s energy supply and that of the UK and EU and I am aware of the strong interest in the technology in international markets beyond the EU too. If we are able to maximise the economic potential of this important energy resource, there are great opportunities to generate exports to the rest of the world where Scotland is, rightly seen as being at the forefront of the development of the sector.
‘I would like to congratulate the successful applicants and look forward, alongside the team of Wave Energy Scotland to seeing the results of their ongoing work.’
Tim Hurst, managing director of WES, added: ‘We were delighted with the huge response to our call for SMMP projects, with many new organisations submitting applications. The successful projects present a superb opportunity to bring further skills and experience that can be shared with others in the WES programmes and make further progress towards commercialising the wave energy sector.’
WES was set up as a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in December 2014 and is fully funded by the Scottish Government. The organisation is seen as a fresh approach to tackling the issues which have proved challenging in the wave energy sector.
Details of the 10 successful SMMP projects are available here.
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FTC: Congress should rein in data brokers
By Grant Gross
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Data brokers should give consumers more control over their personal information, and Congress should consider legislation that reins in the ways data brokers can use that information, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is recommending.
The data-broker industry “largely operates in the dark,” with most U.S. consumers unaware that companies are collecting data about consumers’ place of residence, interests, children, health conditions and income, said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.
“Most consumers have never heard of the data-broker industry, let alone the names of the largest data brokers,” she added during a news conference. “The industry suffers from a fundamental lack of transparency.”
Data brokers collect consumer data from “extensive” online and offline sources, largely without consumers’ knowledge, with sources including consumer buying data, social-media activity, warranty registrations, magazine subscriptions and religious and political affiliations, according to a 110-page FTC report released Tuesday.
The FTC has concerns about the “sheer breadth and complexity” of the data broker industry, Ramirez said. Data brokers store “billions[b] of data points about nearly every U.S. consumer,” she added.
In addition, many data brokers use “troubling classifications” based on race, health conditions and income to pigeonhole consumers, Ramirez said. A classification focused on a consumer’s income could lead to limited offers for credit and other financial products, she said.
A representative of the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group representing data brokers and other companies using data-collection services, didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment on the FTC study.
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In many cases, data brokers share information with each other, with consumer data often passing through “multiple layers” of data broker, the report said. Seven of nine data brokers studied by the FTC said they shared information with another broker, the FTC said.
The FTC wants to “lift the veil of secrecy that clouds the data broker industry,” Ramirez said.
Congress should consider legislation requiring data brokers that provide marketing products to create centralized portals where data brokers share information about their practices and provide links to tools where consumers can access their information and opt out of data collection, the FTC report recommended.
Legislation should require data brokers to give consumers access to their data and should require data brokers to disclose the names or categories of their data sources, the FTC said.
Congress should also require retailers and other consumer-facing entities to receive consent from consumers before collecting sensitive personal information and sharing it with data brokers, the FTC recommended.
For brokers providing people-search products, Congress should require data brokers to allow consumers to access their own information and opt out of having the information included in a people-search product, the FTC said. Those data brokers should also disclose the original sources of the information so consumers can correct it, and disclose any limitations of an opt-out feature, the agency recommended.
The FTC report is a “powerful and disturbing privacy wake-up call,” said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer privacy advocate. “The report reveals the largely invisible Big Data-driven complex that regularly spies on every American, comprehensively following our activities both online and off.”
Unlike a big data report, issued by the White House earlier this month, the FTC study “provides a much more realistic—and chilling—analysis of an out-of-control digital data collection industry,” Chester said by email.
But the FTC’s calls for greater transparency and consumer control are insufficient, without additional legislation, he added. “The real problem is that data brokers—including Google and Facebook—have embraced a business model designed to collect and use everything about us and our friends—24/7,” he said.
The FTC voted in December 2012 to compel nine data brokers to disclose information that was included in the study. The nine data brokers in the study are Acxiom, CoreLogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf and Recorded Future.
Grant Gross edits and assigns stories and writes about technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for the IDG News Service. He is based outside of Washington, D.C.
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30th Anniversary Edition of this delightful classic for babies and toddlers.
Peepo! is the much-loved picture book classic by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
Peepo! is a modern classic that continues to delight generations of babies and toddlers and their parents. Look through the holes to spot details from the wonderful illustrations. Peepo! A perfect gift for new babies and parents, no home should be without a copy!
Here's a little baby
One, two three
Standing in his cot
What does he see?
Peepo! has become a classic for babies and toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style full of wit, charm and ingenuity. A series of holes peeping through to the next page leads the child on to the next stage in the day, giving a hint of what is to come.
Praise for Peepo!
'The best book ever published for babies' - Books for Your Children
'Surely no one - baby, child or adult - could fail to enjoy Peepo!' - Sunday Telegraph
'A book to last a lifetime . . . this is a perfect book for sharing' - Nursery World
Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books. The Baby's Catalogue was inspired by their daughter, Jessica. The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal.
Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg:
Burglar Bill; Cops and Robbers; The Baby's Catalogue; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm Book; Two Wheels Two Heads; Funny Bones; A Pair of Sinners; Happy Families; Peepo!; The Ha Ha Bonk Book; Help Your Child to Read; Ten in a Bed; Please mrs Butler; Daisy Chains; Yum Yum; Playmates; Foldaways; Woof; The Cinderella Show; The Jolly Postman; The Jolly Christmas Postman; The Jolly Pocket Postman; The Clothes Horse and Other Stories; The Mighty Slide; Starting School; Heard it in the Playground; The Bear Nobody Wanted; It was a Dark and Stormy Night; The Giant Baby; Baby Sleeps; Blue Buggy; Doll and Teddy; See the Rabbit; Please Mrs Butler; The Better Brown Stories; The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
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Burglar Bill; Cops and Robbers; The Baby's Catalogue; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm
Pub date: 28 March 2011
Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as Each Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Sussex.
Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Christmas Postman, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and The Baby's Catalogue, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.
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Shellfish operations in jeopardy: two derelict boats sink in Deep Bay, another taking on water
At least 40 full-time jobs in the shellfish industry on the line — MP Gord Johns expected to visit the site Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
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Apr. 2, 2016 12:00 p.m.
Two derelict boats have sunk in 80 feet of water in Deep Bay, raising concerns about how the fuel they had aboard could affect nearby shellfish operations.
The Canadian Coast Guard responded quickly Friday by placing a boom around the cluster of boats, sending officers from French Creek aboard the Cape Cockburn. The coast guard was back at the scene Saturday — only 100 metres offshore from Vancouver Island University’s Marine Field Station.
Bill Veenhof, the chair of the Regional District of Nanaimo’s board of directors and the area rep for Deep Bay, has been at the marina both days. He said the 70-foot wooden tug Lorna Foss sunk to the bottom, dragging a 30-foot sailing vessel with it. It was originally thought the vessels were tied to the 100-foot tug Silver King, which was listing Friday but the coast guard’s efforts the last few days have kept it above water.
Stellar Bay Seafoods and Odyssey Seafoods have a hatchery, nursery and farms within 200 metres of the sunken vessels and the cluster of derelict boats. There are other, smaller oyster farms in the same proximity to Deep Bay and the derelicts.
“There’s a lot riding on this,” the owner of Stellar Bay and Odyssey, Keith Reid, told The NEWS on Monday morning. “We were told by Environment Canada that if that big vessel (the 100-foot tug Silver King) was to go down they would have no option but to close the Deep Bay area for shellfish for a year, which would essentially put us out of business.”
Reid said 40 people are employed full time by his companies. He also said 50 million oysters a year go through his Deep Bay facilities.
“We’ve been fighting this battle (about derelict boats) for eight or nine years now and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it,” said Reid.
Veenhof said trying to identify ownership of what have been called “derelict” vessels have proven difficult over the years.
“That’s part of the problem,” said Veenhof, who said Monday morning that MP Gord Johns was to visit the scene today (Tuesday).
On Saturday, Veenhof said he was more concerned about any fuel aboard the vessels, especially the ones that have sunk. He said there was a “slick” in the water Friday, likely diesel, much of which he estimated would have evaporated on Friday, the sunniest, warmest day in the region to date in 2016.
Washington State has a fee attached to boating licences that basically funds salvage operations. Through a private members’ bill, MP Sheila Malcolmson (NDP — Nanaimo-Ladysmith) has been trying to get both the former Conservative and current Liberal governments to fund the coast guard for these salvage operations.
“For too long, responsibility for abandoned vessels and the risks they represent has been shuffled from one government department to the next, with no senior government taking responsibility,” Malcolmson said in the House of Commons in February. “This bill continues the work done by former MP Jean Crowder so we can finally get to work dealing with these vessels and protecting our harbours and waterways from contamination and debris.”
Former Conservaive MP John Duncan (Comox) favoured the Washington State model. Veenhof would just like those boats out the marina area and away from the shellfish operations.
“Sheila Malcolmson’s bill is s step in the right direction and needs to be supported, but honestly it’s about the money,” said Veenhof. “We have to find a funding line.”
Veenhof also said he’s heard stories about the successes in Washington State.
“They have a barge with an excavator attached to it and last year they removed 300 vessels,” said Veenhof.
UPDATE: here’s a news release (unedited) received by The NEWS from Canadian Coast Guard communications officer Dan Bate at 10 a.m. Monday:
“ At approximately 8:00am on Friday April 1st, the Canadian Coast Guard received a report that two derelict vessels, one a 63ft tugboat Lorna Foss and a smaller 30ft sailboat had sunk at Deep Bay, an area approximately 60 kilometers north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Both had been tied to a larger tugboat the Silver King.”
“The Canadian Coast Guard tasked crews from CCG Station French Creek and CCG Environmental Response from Victoria to confirm the report and conduct an initial analysis. The French Creek lifeboat (CCGS Cape Cockburn) was on scene by 10:20 am, deploying boom around the area to contain any potential upwelling of fuel.”
“CCG Environmental Response contracted with Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCRMC) to conduct booming, containment and recovery operations. WCRMC stood down as there was no evidence of recoverable fuel. It was noted that the tug Lorna Foss had only residual fuel on board at that time, hence the minimal release upon sinking.”
“CCG received reports on Saturday that the vessel Silver King was taking on listing and in danger of sinking. CCG Station French Creek attended the area on Saturday to pump out water from the vessel and close hatches on the deck. This is the same vessel which CCG Environmental Response removed up to 6000 litres of oil and oily water in from in July 2014.”
“CCG Environmental Response will continue to monitor the area. Absorbent boom will stay in place through the near term.”
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Sterne’s Fiction and the Mid-Century Novel: The ‘Vast Empire of Biographical Freebooters’ and the ‘Crying Volume’
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Edited by Alan Downie
Literature, Literary Studies - Fiction, Novelists, and Prose Writers, Literary Studies - 1701 to 1800
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.35
Select Bibliography
The Book Trade at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Business of Fiction: Novel Publishing, 1695–1774
Social Structure, Class, and Gender, 1660–1770
Making Publics and Making Novels: Post-Habermasian Perspectives
The Continental Influence on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: ‘The English Improve What Others Invent’
Criss-Crossing the Channel: The French Novel and English Translation
Religious Writings and the Early Novel
Travel Literature and the Early Novel
Secret History, Politics, and the Early Novel
Restoration Fiction
Testing the Market: Robinson Crusoe and After
Gulliver Effects
‘Labours of the Press’: The Response to Pamela
Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel
Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance
Novels of the 1750s
Epilogue: The English Novel at the End of the 1760s
The Book Trade, 1770–1832
The Rise of the Illustrated English Novel to 1832
‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Novels? Gendered Fictions and the Reading Public, 1770–1832
Reviewing the Novel
‘Ordering’ Novels: Describing Prose Fiction, 1770–1832
The Rise and Decline of the Epistolary Novel, 1770–1832
Developments in Sentimental Fiction
Philosophical Fictions and ‘Jacobin’ Novels in the 1790s
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance
Novel and Empire
The Popular Novel, 1790–1820
The Evangelical Novel
‘Pictures of Domestic Life in Country Villages’: Jane Austen and the ‘Realist’ Novel
Authorizing the Novel: Walter Scott’s Historical Fiction
Parody and Satire in the Novel, 1770–1832
This chapter offers a detailed reassessment of the relationship between Sterne’s fiction and the mid-century novel. Tristram Shandy, it argues, is best understood in the context of the ‘new species of fiction’ as it developed in the wake of Fielding’s and Richardson’s seminal successes. Sterne’s masterpiece is, in part, a burlesque of conventions of the tradition of comic ‘Biography’ inaugurated by Joseph Andrews. It is also a comic novel in its own right in which Sterne draws on and develops germs of ideas, situations, and narrative strategies that he found in novels of the 1750s. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Sterne’s much-debated ‘sentimentalism’, arguing that while he engages with contemporary debates about the social virtues and the ethical dimension of feeling, A Sentimental Journey stands out from other novels of the 1760s in ways which support his sense of it as ‘something new, quite out of the beaten track’.
Keywords: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 1750s, A Sentimental Journey, ‘biographical’ fiction, Fielding, Richardson, sentimentalism
Dr. Tim Parnell is a Senior Lecturer in English in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
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Social media uncovers profane Allison tweets
On a day when rookie Geronimo Allison caught his first NFL touchdown pass, social media circulated screenshots of old tweets from his Twitter account.
Social media uncovers profane Allison tweets On a day when rookie Geronimo Allison caught his first NFL touchdown pass, social media circulated screenshots of old tweets from his Twitter account. Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/2eKugy2
Michael Cohen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:45 p.m. CT Oct. 30, 2016 | Updated 11:10 p.m. CT Oct. 30, 2016
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Geronimo Allison (81) reacts after his first half touchdown during the Green Bay Packers NFL game against The Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, October 30, 2016 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta Georgia.(Photo: Rick Wood /USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
ATLANTA - On a day when Green Bay Packers rookie Geronimo Allison caught his first NFL touchdown pass in a 33-32 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, social media circulated screenshots of old tweets from his Twitter account that contained reckless profanity, lewd vocabulary and a number of derogatory slurs toward women.
An undrafted rookie from Illinois, Allison made his debut Sunday after being promoted from the practice squad earlier in the week. He caught two passes for 21 yards against the Falcons, one of which was a 4-yard touchdown from quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
After the game, Allison was asked if he had published the tweets, which originated in 2012 and 2013 on his account, @813MrFreakShow. The Twitter account was deleted later Sunday.
"It’s kind of hard to say," Allison said as he viewed the screenshots on a reporter's cell phone. "That was back then. It’s kind of hard to say. But I apologize about that, that it is on my account. I can’t say if that was me or if it wasn’t, but it’s on my account and I apologize about that."
When asked if he remembered posting the messages in question, Allison offered the following response: "I can't say if that was me or if it wasn't."
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PTI, PAT resume talks with govt but deadlock remains
by STAFF REPORT , (Last Updated June 3, 2015)
Ishaq Dar and Ahsan Iqbal say govt has agreed to all substantive demands by PTI, PAT but it won’t submit to demands for PM’s resignation
PTI’s Shah Mahmood Qureshi says they have presented six original demands to govt team
The negotiating teams of the government, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) resumed the dialogue process Friday but they failed to break the political impasse as the latter two stuck to their demands of resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while the former claimed that it was willing to accept all demands of the protesting parties except the calls for Sharif’s resignation.
Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of Friday’s talks at the Convention Centre, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his party had asked the government to offer an explanation over the position it took in parliament earlier in the day.
“The government’s response in the National Assembly was fallacious,” Qureshi said, adding that the difference in the versions of PTI and the government was reflective of the trust deficit prevailing between the two sides.
“However, we still went ahead with the meeting,” the PTI leader said, adding that the party’s delegates again briefed the government representatives about the six points that the party had originally laid out before it.
The meeting came hours after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan rejected the impression that the government had sought the army’s help to mediate the deadlock in Islamabad.
Friday was also the first time that the government held joint talks with delegates from the PTI and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT).
The dialogue as it began was being seen to have reached a definitive round especially after army chief General Raheel Sharif held separate meetings with Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri late on Thursday night. However, the developments as they transpired have only given the impression of a continuing impasse.
For Friday’s round of discussions, the government’s committee was led by Ishaq Dar and included Pervaiz Rashid, Ahsan Iqbal, Abdul Qadir Baloch and Zahid Hamid. The PTI was represented by Asad Umar, Jahangir Tareen, Pervez Khattak, Shafqat Mahmood and Shah Mehmood Qureshi. The PAT had sent Khurram Gondal, Raheeq Abbasi and Sahibzada Hamid Raza from its side. Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, who has been shuttling from his base to Karachi and Islamabad, had managed to reach the meeting some time after it began.
GOVT DIGS IN HEELS OVER RESIGNATION DEMAND:
Briefing reporters on the talks’ outcome, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that Prime Minister Sharif’s resignation was out of question.
He said that the PAT delegation had demanded the FIR registration of the Model Town incident which had already been done. “PAT’s FIR is exactly what their lawyers had given to the police. If there is some issue it can be rectified,” he said, adding that PAT had also demanded the formation of a new judicial commission to investigate the Model Town incident.
“All the reforms agenda formulated by PAT will be considered and the government will look into the options whether such changes could be brought through some constitutional amendments or an executive order,” said Ishaq Dar.
Reiterating the government’s resolve not to bow to the demands for the PM’s resignation, the finance minister said such demands were unreasonable and could not be entertained.
“We have said the same about Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif that he will only resign if he is proven guilty by courts,” said Dar.
Addressing reporters, Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said that all the substantive demands of PTI and PAT have already been accepted by the government.
“Insisting on resignations means that PTI and PAT do not want the talks to move further,” he said.
Responding to questions regarding a tweet by the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Dar said that clarification regarding ISPR DG’s tweet had already been given by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
“The prime minister had explained the issue in detail in the National Assembly,” he said, lamenting that Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri were using the words ‘mediator’, ‘guarantor’ and ‘arbitrator’ while army had just been asked to play the role of a ‘facilitator’.
He said that DG ISPR’s statement was exactly in accordance with statements given by Prime Minister Sharif and Interior Minister Nisar in the National Assembly.
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OUTSPOKEN - August 29, 2014 said:
pakistan of naapaks -police army now refusing to follow orders of the pm ..
Stephen - August 30, 2014 said:
We welcome Gen. Sharif's role as a "facilitator" in the talks between the PM and PTI and PTA.The army,however,should remain neutral in
this dialogue;and, above all,not entertain the idea of seizing power.Your resources will dry up..
jamshed kharian-pak - August 30, 2014 said:
We the Pakistanis Muslims & all others communities of Ir Pakistan we remember our forefathers/Mothers Like Quaide Aazam Mohammad Ali Jinnah & Great past ladies with thanks, it's appeled to our Leaders & great ladies in sit-in of today that you shell be inshaAllah Forefathers/Mothers of our childrens of tommorow, please make things honestly in Pakistan's fever in fever of Islam & Islamic Civilisation respecting all Pakistanis may Allah the Great Guide you with Justice By Justice long Live Armed Forces & Peoples of Islamic Republic Of Pakistan
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Wayne Mattei, better known as “The Maniac” in the wrestling arena, reads Philippine Sentinel while en route to Manila
by Philippine Sentinel 2020-01-06
By Dino Crescini
As seen on the September 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel
August 14, 2019 ━ This writer was seated right beside him on board Philippine Airlines flight PR 212 but did not realize his seatmate is a well-known personality in the world of professional wrestling.
What was very noticeable was his physique and I couldn’t help but make a friendly comment that he must be a body builder. And indeed, he is but he is much more than that. He is a wrestler and has appeared in many movies. He is also the General Manager of Shadow Security Group which has highly trained and motivated security specialists who provide crowd control, security guards, cash in transit and personal protection.
Mr. Mattei mentioned that he was visiting clients not only in the Philippines but also in Malaysia and many parts of Asia.
Film Career
As an actor, Mattei has appeared among others as ‘The Big Nurse’ in the post production of Never Too Late; as an ‘inmate’ in Broken Hill; and as ‘The Maniac’ in Nightmare Wrestling: Barbarians at the Gate.
He holds office in Adelaide, South Australia and can be contacted via email at ssg@outlook.com.au or website: www.shadowsecuritygroup.com.au
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Anna Gaines, leader of recall drive against Mayor Gordon, arrested at Sheriff Joe book signing, and more...
Stephen Lemons
Stephen Lemons | July 26, 2008 | 9:53pm
Wing-nutty Hobbit-lady and recall wench Anna Gaines, from a file photo. Saturday, she was briefly arrested at Borders Books on Camelback...
Capping off a disastrous day both for Sheriff Joe and for the Phoenix anti-immigrant movement in general, Anna Gaines -- the founder and chairperson of American Citizens United, the nativist organization currently gathering signatures in an attempt to recall Mayor Phil Gordon -- was arrested in the Borders Books on Camelback during a Joe Arpaio book signing event there.
According to Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Steve Ong, Gaines was arrested, then cited and released for trespassing after an incident involving Biltmore Fashion Park security. Witnesses said, after Gaines got her book signed by Sheriff Joe, she tried to circulate a petition sheet in the store for the recall of Mayor Gordon. Apparently security asked her to leave and she declined. As she was being detained by Phoenix PD, store goers saw Gaines ask Phoenix police officers to ask Joe to vouch for her. At one point, she dropped the petition. One witness said he saw it, and that the petition was completely blank.
Before she was arrested, I spoke to Gaines while she was in line waiting for Joe's John Hancock, and she swore that ACU had 80 percent of the sigs needed to force a recall of Gordon. I asked her how many of the signers were from Phoenix, as is required by law. She declined to answer the query. I have a very strong suspicion that ACU will submit their sigs, but that a large portion of them will be found to be not allowable for one reason or another. At that point, you can anticipate the nativists will howl that they were robbed.
Prior to Gaines being handcuffed and placed in the back of a PPD SUV, Sheriff Joe punked out of addressing the crowd, once he saw that it had been owned by anti-Arpaio activists. At least 90 percent of the crowd was anti-Joe, and when he observed this, he declined to speak, just like he declined to step foot in Mesa during his anti-brown dragnets in that burg. Store manager Mark Panza announced that Joe was feeling under the weather, and that was Joe's excuse for not addressing the audience before signing books. Of course, that was a major pant-load. Like every bully in history, Joe chickened out when faced with significant opposition. I was truly disappointed, as were many of the pro-immigrant crowd in attendance, who let out a giant, "Awwwww..." when told that Arpaio was weenie-ing out.
Arpaio, seated with wife Ava, greeting one of his few supporters at Camelback's Borders Books...
While he was signing books, several of the anti-Joe folks messed with the Sheriff in one way or another. One woman, with book in hand to be inscribed, asked him why he hated immigrants. Another, challenged him on his bringing terror to Hispanic communities. At one point, a young lady raised a large anti-Joe banner, only to have it ripped down and confiscated by some MCSO bodyguard.
Weirdly, there was a situation in which a man was shoved by an undercover Sheriff's deputy. But after being arrested briefly and taken to the back of the store, he was let go. According to several accounts, he was pushed by the undercover deputy for no reason, and when he asked why he'd been shoved, he was arrested. Thing is, there were loads of attorneys around, and he'd done nothing wrong, so they ended up letting him go.
Though Joe bantered a bit with me and with the pro-immigrant folks, he looked haggard, as he has in other, recent events and press conferences. The criticism and opposition is wearing on him. And I think even he is beginning to doubt whether or not he can win reelection, despite all of his bravado.
The crowd waited him out, chanting, "Speech, speech, speech," at one point. But after he was finished autographing tomes, Joe slithered away via the back entrance. Outside, the anti-Joe people sang that old Steam hit, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."
The demonstrator is right: At best entering the country illegally is a misdemeanor...
The nativist biker crowd wussed out as well. None of them showed to the Arpaio event, that I could tell. Earlier, activist bad boy Dennis Gilman and I tried to bird dog them down at Grant Park, where they were supposed to have some sort of racist picnic minus the cross-burning. We got there around 10:30 a.m., and nearly everybody was gone, save for a handful of knuckledraggers, seeing to one of their motorcycles, which had broken down while they were circling the park. The park is right across from El Portal, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox's restaurant.
Earl Wilcox, husband to Mary Rose Wilcox, standing guard outside El Portal...
According to Mary Rose's husband Earl Wilcox, about 25 nativist bikers circled the place a few times around 10 a.m. or so, then headed out. (The joke is, there were 25 bikes, and around 60 teeth, total.) I'm getting the feeling that they recognized that the neighborhood -- a Hispanic one -- was not very receptive to their presence.
What, no firetruck? I wanted to see Buffalo Rick's red fire truck, perhaps rented for the event. It wasn't there. The nativists had nothing set up. Nada. Zilch. Zip. The Hispanic neighborhood had them pissing in their pants, unlike alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener, who reportedly perfers a plastic bottle.
The nativist nitwits tried to cozy up to the members of the American Legion Post next door, Post 41 -- a largely Hispanic American Legion Post, which is historic because it was built by WWII vets, when other American Legion Posts nearby were hostile to Hispanics joining their rolls. Barry Goldwater very famously joined Post 41 in solidarity with fellow veterans there. It's especially ironic that Barry's nephew Don Goldwater had been listed as a scheduled speaker for the nativist biker event, sponsored by United for a Sovereign America, the most vicious racist hate group in the Valley. I can promise you, if his uncle'd been alive to hear that, he would've kicked his nephew's ass on principle. (That's assuming the nativists weren't lying about Goldwater, which is possible.)
The Hispanic heroes mural inside American Legion Post 41; a duplicate takes up a wall outside Post 41, next door to Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox's restaurant El Portal...
In any case, it sounds like the U.S.A.-ers and the men of Post 41 were polite to each other, but one Post 41 member, Oscar Santa Cruz said he asked the nativists to lower an American Legion flag one of them had flying from the back of his truck. They agreed to, but Earl Wilcox says he believes that the nativists did not comply with the request.
As mentioned, one biker had his hog break down on him in front of El Portal. Security for El Portal offered to watch it for him, but the rider was too afraid to let them do it. Ultimately a tow truck showed up to haul it away. As this was happening, an MCSO van slowly passed the Mexican eatery. Later, two bikers came by and took a few pics of El Portal. One of them was this moron named Kevin, who rides a cheap-ass Suzuki and runs a Web site featuring enemies of the nativists called The Pursuit. Word is he has profiles of people like Gilman and myself up there. (You have to sign in to read it -- more candy ass hiding from the nativists.) Lately I've been told he's posted my home address, which I guess is supposed to have me shivering in my boots.
The Suzuki-riding tard who supposedly has posted my address to his Web site...
Take your best shot, Hinckley, I mean, Kevin. And don't you worry about the voices in your head. They just want what's best for you -- a long, restful sojourn at a local mental institution, with plenty of Thorazine, and the occasional lobotomy...
The nativists are claiming their super-dooper-secret meet-up was a success 'cause no one ever figured out where it was. Hey, you racist albino oafs, if a tree falls in the forest, and all that jazz. If your meeting was some giganto success, then why keep it a secret? Unless your event ends up being a pathetic cop-out. (See where the nativists skeedaddled to below.)
They want to keep it a "secret" so they don't have to reveal the depth of their failure. Take the protest at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday. The anti-Joe forces had a huge turn-out, and mercilessly dogged the Supes throughout the event. Why would the pro-immigrant forces want to hide this triumph? (They didn't want to hide it, natch.) You only want a self-announced event to remain secret if it has failed. The nativist picnic was a bust, which is why the bigoted pinheads are so eager to lie about it.
Little Man's Disease: Anyone know this a-hole nativist? He talks big, trying to compensate for his size...
Sunday Update: The white pride wuss-out continues. Seems Rusty Childress' nativist cult United for a Sovereign America assembled elsewhere after chickening out on setting up at Grant Park, which, as they learned, is in a Hispanic neighborhood, and was having nothing to do with them. If you haven't seen a redneck in a while, you can catch pics of some eating wieners at their hide-out, on the Riders U.S.A. Web site.
Check out that racist sign, which falsely claims that 71,000 Americans have been killed by illegal aliens since 9/11. That sign gets around. First time I ever saw it, Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready was carrying it (or one like it) at a demo. Then during the Pruitt's demonstrations last year, a small gaggle of neo-Nazis was seen carrying one. It's bullshit, of course, but it does show you that U.S.A. and the neo-Nazis have much in common.
Riders U.S.A. is the biker arm of United for a Sovereign America. Along with members of other groups, they attempted to terrorize the Grant Park neighborhood with a ride-through on Saturday. It didn't work, and the big bad bikers beat a hasty retreat. Essentially, these local nativists have earned themselves such a poor reputation in Phoenix and elsewhere that they're turning inward, going underground, hiding out, lying about their plans, changing them at the last minute, and becoming increasingly delusional. Their continued impotence bodes well for the local immigrant-rights community.
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Stephen is a former staff writer and columnist at Phoenix New Times.
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What experiment would disprove string theory?
What Would be the Experimental Signature of Composite Leptons?
What Exactly are Supersymmetric Cycles in String Theory?
What are Donaldson-Thomas Invariants in Physical String Theory?
What are the anomalies that arise with quarks and leptons being extended to N=2 multiplets?
Why does supersymmetry ensure that the entropy of a black hole calculated for g=0 can be extrapolated to be valid at finite string coupling?
What is the state-of-the-art on spacelike singularities in string theory?
What precisely, is the string theory landscape in 10 dimensions?
What Observations could undeniably support string theory?
What exactly are the ADE type of gauge theories?
What are some experimental results that support the predictions of string theory?
I've read about a number of different experiments that support the predictions of string theory and supersymmetry lately, and I am interested in a list of some such other results. Things that are not exactly experimental results, but otherwise still interesting hints in favour of string theory and its predictions, are also welcome, but are best off in the comments.
Note that I will be answering this question myself, but I'm looking forward to seeing other responses too.
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asked Oct 18, 2014 in Phenomenology by dimension10 (1,975 points) [ no revision ]
This 2.5-sigma excess seen in a Higgs + Top production (summary on TRF) hints to the existence of a gluino.
This prediction finds an anomaly at something around 135 GeV (summary on TRF), which could be a hint of an MSSM Higgs.
This little 3-sigma deficit maybe, just maybe a hint in favour of string theory. Read more on TRF.
This 2-sigma excess hints towards the existence of third-generation bosonic superpartners.
The \(B_s^0\to\mu^+\mu^- \) excess is often considered a prediction unfavourable to supersymmetry and thus string theory, but here's an alternative interpretation.
The observation of the Higgs at 125 GeV is also a prediction of the MSSM, which is at the field-theoretic limit of string theory with \(\mathcal{N}=1\) supersymmetry.
CDMS, Supersymmetry, and Extra Dimensions
A 3-sigma supersymmetric excess in Search for supersymmetry in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in s = √8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector (summary on TRF)
A 2.5-sigma excess hinting at a 220 GeV Higgs as predicted in some SUSY models e.g. NMSSM (summary on TRF)
A 2.8-sigma excess detected by the CMS collaboration (summary on TRF) might be connected to a 2.1 TeV right-handed \(W_R^\pm\) boson relating to the \(E_8\times E_8\) heterotic string (summary on TRF).
A stringy model that agrees with this 2.4-sigma excess (summary on TRF).
There was also a relevant article at this URL but it's unfortunately gone now. If anyone has a saved copy or an online archive, it would be appreciated if you could share it! Thanks!
answered Oct 18, 2014 by dimension10 (1,975 points) [ revision history ]
edited Mar 28, 2015 by dimension10
These are hints for low energy supersymmetry. Good idea to keep a systematic (and best: updated) list of these! But since low energy supersymmetry itself is only a hint for string theory, these are maybe better thought of as just "hints for hints for" string theory. Nothing wrong with that, but maybe good to keep in mind.
commented Oct 18, 2014 by Urs Schreiber (6,025 points) [ no revision ]
As an experimentalist, I consider that the fact that a string theoretical model can embed the standard model, is the best experimental support at the moment. Think about Keplers laws about planetary motion , the data of centuries fitted like a glove. Even if new data were hard to come by no great imagination was necessary to see them as a perfect fit to the data.I think it is the great multiplicity of possible models of string theory that confuses the issue ( no such multiplicity in classical mechanics).
On the lines of possible string signatures, I keep remembering the soft photon excess seen in hadronic experiments for years . Here is a preprint by DELPHI. The excess of soft photons over the calculations (scale of 4), is still there as I checked with a colleague who had been chasing the effect over several experiments. Here is an overview of the soft photon data and theoretical modeling.
commented Oct 20, 2014 by anna v (1,885 points) [ no revision ]
edited Oct 21, 2014 by anna v
@annav, you say:
I think it is the great multiplicity of possible models of string theory that confuses the issue
Indeed, this has led to confusion. I sense a little bit of that also when you continue to write:
(no such multiplicity in classical mechanics).
because this is not true: the available choices of "models" in classical mechanics is almost entirely unconstrained and forms a vastly infinite-dimensional space. On the other hand the space of consistent string backgrounds is highly constrained. It is also much more highly constrained than models in plain QFT (without special assumptions on the Lagrangian).
So the space of models in string theory (the "landscape") is certainly much smaller than the space of possible models in quantum field theory and much much smaller than the space of possible models in classical field theory (where not even anomaly cancellation gives a constraint).
What confuses people is that this space may still be large. It's a curious psychological effect: as long as the spaces of possible models (in classical and quantum field theory) were unimaginably large, nobody wondered. As soon as the space becomes small enough, in string theory, to get any sense of it at all (such as in arguments that it may actually be finite in some corners) people marvel at how big a finite number such as the iconic \(10^{500}\) is.
It's like when you tell kids that there are \(\aleph_1\)points in the real line, they'll shrug, it means nothing to them. But when you tell them that there are at least a "thousand times thousand times thousand" points there, they'll be impressed.
@UrsSchreiber Could you please make clear with an example how another classical theory could fit the planetary data as well as the newtonian one?
@UrsSchreiber You are telling kids the continuum hypothesis is true?? No wonder they disagree...they are very well versed in logic :-P :-P :-P
commented Oct 21, 2014 by yuggib (360 points) [ no revision ]
@annav, classical mechanics (classical field theory) does not predict that there is precisely a gravitational force relevant at astrophysical distances, nor that there is a sun with planets of given mass at given distances. All that is part of the model. Once you specify the model, it makes predictions. But the model is chosen such as to make the right predictions, for if it wouldn't, it would be abandonded for a different model within the same theory.
The theory (classical mechanics, classical field theory) admits many, many models. Essentially any local Lagrangian on any space of fields is one model of classical field theory. That's a humongous space of models. Quantum field theory cuts this down a bit, by admitting only those local Lagrangians which are free of quantum anomalies. String theory cuts it down much more, admitting only those local Lagrangians which give scattering amplitudes that are the low energy limit of a string perturbation series induced from a 2d SCFT of central charge -15. That's very restrictive.
See at string theory FAQ -- How do physical theories generally make predictions, anyway?
edited Oct 21, 2014 by Urs Schreiber
@URSschreiber My simplistic analogy/ point is that once the planetary model was presented and the constants fitted ( yes, they could be anything) there is no other competing classical mechanics theory because this is what the data says and the predictions of the model, within classical dimensions/sizes are correct.
A large number of string theory models can incorporate the existing data that are encapsulated into the standard model , but people demand more than in the classical case , that a unique ST model will predict successfully beyond the standard model. This of course is desirable, but it should not leave the impression that the embedding of the standard model is trivial, It is a solid experimental validation for the set of possible models from which the final model will emerge..
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Uninformed evolutionists believe that Charles Darwin came up with his hypothesis all by his lonesome, and deny that evolution is actually an ancient religion (Paul debated the Epicurean philosophers in Acts 17, who were evolutionists way back then). The science aspect had been in the works for years before Darwin popularized it. However, even with the trappings of science, evolution is still religious in nature.
Using presuppositions that evolution happened, proponents use that as their starting point when attempting to interpret evidence — especially anthropologists. Of course, many questions remain unanswered, and their speculations often raise more questions than they claim to answer. The real answer is that evolution did not happen, everything was created.
There’s something magical about believing in evolutionary anthropology: a sense of numinous awe at how much they don’t know but believe might be possible.
A man ponders a bone in his hands, holding it as if it were a sacred relic. “Fossil raises puzzling questions about how upright body plan of great apes evolved,” reads the subtitle of a piece called “Walk like a Man” in the Harvard Gazette. Harvard staff writer Peter Reuell seems to relish the mysteries that lie beyond the great unknown. One thing is certain: he doesn’t ask “if” upright posture evolved, but “how” it evolved. That dogma is beyond question; everything else is up for grabs.
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Homosexual "Marriage", Creation, and the Bible
by Cowboy Bob Sorensen
There are about 30 links provided for further reading, curiosity, and research. They can be springboards for people who want to do further research. Each should open in a new window or tab when clicked. I do not endorse every site, or even every article, so I do expect all y'all to utilize your own minds.
As most people expected, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) voted to legalize same-sex "marriage". This has serious implications for Bible-believing Christians, not only in the US, but everywhere. But it's not like the US was the first country to do this, just the latest to date.
Let me point out right now that some professing Christians are expressing rage over the ruling. Frustration and righteous anger are understandable (especially when faced with the ridicule and gloating of "gay rights" supporters), but there is no justification for acting in a sinful manner toward homosexuals!
Those who demand "tolerance" are often exceptionally intolerant of those of us who believe the clear teachings of the Bible. Indeed, look at how many people are "offended", a leftist tactic which in cases like this essentially means, "I can't be bothered to think and respond rationally, and I can't control my emotions, so I want to stifle your free speech because you say things I don't like".
People tend to "think" with their emotions, and "gay rights" proponents utilize that fact quite effectively. The word gay has been co-opted from its original meaning to indicate people with a homosexual preference. When Bible-believing Christians say that homosexuality is unnatural and violates God's prescribed manner of marriage, we are called homophobes, which is a meaningless emotion-laden word used for labeling, ridicule, and provoking emotional reactions. As I've often said, I don't phobe any homos, and I don't know anyone who is afraid of them. Another appeal to emotion is when people say that "everyone has a right to love". Can homosexuals love? Yes. Sexual activity is not to be equated with love.
Homosexual "marriage" has been made into a civil rights issue, which is ironic, because fewer homosexuals want to be "married" than people have been led to believe. "Gay" is not the "new black", and there are black people who are offended by the comparison. Sexual preference and ethnic origins are a horribly fallacious comparison, but people are emotionally manipulated into accepting that comparison anyway. Homosexuals are not victims, despite the rhetoric — well, they're victims in places like Iran, but not in the United States. Did you know about that? It's difficult to get accurate information when the news has a leftist slant.
Did the SCOTUS redefine marriage? Yes and no. Those tinhorns who voted in favor of it were waving their bony middle fingers in the face of God, and rejecting thousands of years of societal norms. Dissenting Judge Antonin Scalia had some strong remarks about what the Supreme Court has become. Yes, they redefined marriage on paper, and essentially made it meaningless. (See what Matt Walsh says in "Gay Marriage Still Doesn’t Exist, No Matter What the Supreme Court Says".) I can redefine our Basement Cat as a salamander, but that does not change reality — she's still a black cat, not a green or brown reptile.
The Gaystapo insists that homosexuals have been denied a right to marriage, but where do they get that right? Evolution? Not a chance. By simply asserting it? Because they're "born that way"? Let's work with this for a moment. People have urges that they have to restrain. I can think of several women that I would like to have sex with (or even marry as a group). Do I have the right to give in to my urge? No, and never mind that God and my wife would strongly disapprove of my actions! Or this: I am a white heterosexual male who believes that the Bible is the Word of God, that that everything was created recently, and salvation is to be found in Jesus alone (John 14:6, Acts 4:12). To use evolutionary logic, we're just bundles of chemicals following electrochemical impulses, and there is no right and wrong. I was born that way, you have no right to complain or object, so accept and celebrate my choices! Makes perfect sense.
I received a letter from a homosexual friend. Each of us knows that the other is not like the stereotype. This section was interesting:
"Marriage" has a meaning, it's had that meaning (and in all the other languages that have words that mean the same thing) for thousands of years. Why couldn't these activists settle on a different word, have their own different institution if they really needed one, and I'm sure they could have been gladly given the same legal rights. That's not good enough for one reason: the purpose is to destroy something, not to build something new. John Nolte at Breitbart got onto this before the marriage decision, when the [Confederate] flag issue was still raging. Can't have the rebel flag flying on government property? Fine, then the same should go for the symbol of anti-Christian hatred that has tormented bakers and photographers and pizza makers and flower shop owners (and Mozilla CEOs - I quit using Firefox by the way) — the "rainbow pride flag" — which has flown from plenty of government buildings including US embassies. There is nothing to be proud of in that flag of bigotry, but last night the freaking White House was all done up in its colours to celebrate its "win." [Click here for the White House colors.]
Those who are demanding "tolerance" of homosexuals are extremely bigoted and inconsistent themselves. They force Christians to go against their convictions. How about when they are seeking out a Christian bakery and suing the owner who refuses on religious grounds, railing against Chik-Fil-A, persecuting a pizza parlor, and so on? Meanwhile, those hypocrites have no problem with Mohammedan bakers who refuse to bake a cake for a "gay wedding". How about the UK couple who is threatened to sue a church in 2014 to force it to perform their "wedding"? Some of us have enough civility and common sense that, if someone refuses to serve me because it would violate their religion, we'd just saddle up and go elsewhere, problem solved.
For that matter, I don't reckon it's any of my concern about the sexual preferences of the waitress in the diner, the bus driver, the mail carrier, my co-workers, my neighbors, my doctor, or anyone else. Just do your job.
It's almost laughable that when homosexuals "come out of the closet" and declare their sexual preference, people applaud them as "brave". A lot of people respond with, "Big deal. I didn't want to know that about you anyway". Nowadays, the culture is pro-homosexual, and people who believe what Scripture teaches are not tolerated — those of us who stick to our principles are the ones who are really brave!
Where do rights come from, anyway? Demanding and asserting that you have a right does not make it so. Sure, some rights are made through legislation, and the US Constitution has guaranteed some rights for Americans, such as free speech (but those are eroding for Christians very quickly). God is the final authority for rights. He has established the institution of marriage (Genesis 1:27, Genesis 2:24, Mark 10:6-9). We were not created with a "gay gene", which would be a mutation, and my remarks about restraining our urges apply even if we did have one.
By the way, if someone decides that he or she is the wrong sex (except in the rare, difficult area of hermaphroditism), guess what? Mutilation and hormones won't change your XY chromosomes — you're born that way (male or female), and how you feel does not change biological reality. People get "gender reassignment" surgery and have had regrets; their suicide rate is very high.
Some people have argued that since homosexuality exists to a small extent in nature, then it must be all right for humans, too. Yes, this generalization passes as "logic" for some people.
There are occasional complaints that Christians are hypocritical for focusing on homosexuality as the primary sin and ignoring their own heterosexual sins. To some extent, this is valid — God hates all sin, and we cannot justify our own adultery and fornication; we must confess and repent of them. Adultery and homosexuality were both capital offenses under Old Testament Law. However, homosexuality is specifically referred to as an abomination, תֹּעֵבָה (Lev. 18:22). It is a sinful choice that can be changed (1 Cor. 6:9-11 NASB, Rom. 1:24-27 NASB). No, the Bible makes it clear that homosexuality is a sin. God is the one who instituted marriage and the family unit, and he is the one who makes the rules. People demanding "gay rights" have a lousy epistemology. Unfortunately, many people do not bother to consider that Christianity is logical, as are our reasons for objecting to homosexual "marriage".
Many homosexuals are atheists, but there are also some homosexuals who call themselves Christians, choosing to rewrite and twist Scripture to suit their own feelings. Dr. James White extensively refuted the disingenuous efforts of "apologist" Matthew Vines. Those "tolerant" gay rights supporters put pressure on Christians, such as trying to force us to go against our convictions. We have to decide if we should attend a "gay wedding" or not, for example, but "gay marriage" is the result of compromise on Genesis. Did you notice that people who tend to accept homosexuality have also compromised on the literal truth of Genesis?
Whether atheist, liberal Christian, or something else, acceptance of homosexual marriage is a rebellion against the authority of God's Word. While the Supreme Court legalized and redefined "gay marriage" on paper, they cannot change reality. Before you hail these mortal, sinful men and women as "wise" because of this decision, remember that in 1857, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision said black people are not citizens, and upheld slavery. Wrong then, wrong now. This homosexual "marriage" decision will be used against Christians, and persecution will increase; some of us will continue to speak the truth while we still can. We have a great deal to learn, and a great deal to do. Those of us who believe the Bible must remain faithful and remember to keep our faith in God and our eyes on him (Heb. 12:2).
Addendum: Four podcasts that are worth your attention. First, Chris Rosebrough at "Fighting for the Faith" discusses the ruling, persecution, and what he calls "coercive legislation". The segment begins at the 7-1/2 mark, click on "Decide to Make Today a Landmark Day?". Two full podcasts from "Stand Up for the Truth": "Same sex marriage: where do Christians go from here?" and "Losing relationships over biblical truth".
Labels: Bible , Creation , Evolution , Genesis , God , Homosexuality , Logic
Viewing Dinosaurs and Logical Fallacies from the Bunker
Lots of reading, listening, and viewing for you today.
Derek Gilbert allowed me back on "A View from the Bunker", and it was a combination of two main points. First, we discussed dinosaur soft tissues and other evidence that dinosaur fossils are not millions of years old. Next, we went into an area of special study of mine, logical fallacies. We had some fun, too. The logical fallacies are important so that Christians and creationists are not lassoed by atheists and anti-creationists, and learning about them carries over into other areas of life. I gave several examples from my own experience. Also, I mentioned my article on "Evolution and the New Atheo-Fascism", which deals with some of the material.
Many shows have a fair amount of "show prep" before recording. Not here, it just a little. I prepped myself beforehand, but didn't use my notes all that much. It was more of a free-flowing conversation. Different shows and interviewers have different styles, after all.
One fallacy example that was not used there that I'll use here. I've long said that some people want us silenced. One way is to try to negate what we have to say, and the most frequent attack is through ad hominem and outright ridicule. "You don't want to listen to that person or group because...", and proceed with mockery. In my article, "Feral Fundamentalist Anti-Creationist Antics", I referred to someone who claims to be an academic — this tinhorn sayss that he is hiding his real identity for fear of retaliation from creationists! (He gives no reason to take his statements seriously.) This "academic" mentioned my claim that they want us silenced, and added that no, he doesn't want us silenced. Instead, he wants me to keep babbling "nonsense" so the public can see how silly creation science is. Of course, he didn't deal with the substance of the article, and inadvertently proved me right. Remember, he's an "academic". Not hardly. No, I'm not linking to him and giving him the publicity he wants.
So anyway, if you have a mind to, click on "VFTB 253: Cowboy Bob Sorensen – Dinosaur Blood" to listen online or download for free. There are also several links below regarding new developments in dinosaur soft tissues and evidence for their comparative youth. Also see the video a mite below those links by Mark Armitage, the scientist who lost his job for his work on soft tissues. You can also see an interview with him on "Genesis Week", here.
Dinosaur proteins and radiocarbon wreak ‘Jurassic World’ havoc
Original Animal Protein in Fossils?
Preserved Cretaceous Collagen and Dinosaur Blood: Common Clues to a Catastrophic Past?
Is Jurassic World Unrealistic?
Carbon-14 Found in Dinosaur Bone
Dino Soft Tissue Confirms Creationist Prediction
More Dino Blood Found — Evolutionists In Denial
Can Iron Preserve Fossil Proteins for Eons?
More Soft Tissue Confirms RSR Dino Prediction
Dinosaur Soft Tissue is Original Biological Material
Labels: Atheist , Bible , Creation , Creation Science , Dinosaurs , Evolution , Logic , Podcast
Location: Kingston, NY, USA
Evolutionists Should Remain Low-Key About "Loki" Organisms
Advocates of Lokiarchaeota-to-locksmith evolution assume that such evolution is true and backed by observable science. However, they keep searching for missing links to support their conjectures, whether it clinging to the defunct "Lucy" knuckle-walker story, or this instance of Lokiarchaeota as an missing link way back yonder in the single-celled years.
Lokiarchaeota (nicknamed "Loki") has them all a-twitter. The "science" is dismal, to say the least. Genomic information is seriously lacking, but that doesn't stop some evolutionary biologists from speculating, making assertions, telling comic-book-style stories, and just plain getting excited about finding another alleged missing link. Darwinists assemble! Pay homage to the god Evolution! Puny god. The evidence supports the real God, our Creator.
Single-celled organisms called Lokiarchaeota are making headlines as missing links in our supposed single-celled ancestry. A small fraction of their genes resemble those normally associated with more complex cells. Some claim this discovery clinches the case for archaeans, rather than bacteria, as our closest single-celled ancestor.
“Loki” is short for the genus Lokiarchaeum and its phylum Lokiarchaeota. The organisms were identified in frigid sediment sampled near the mid-Atlantic Ridge, 1½ miles deep in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Norway, about 9½ miles from the hydrothermal vent known as Loki’s Castle. Like Loki—a mercurial character from Norse mythology—Lokiarchaeota are difficult to pin down, having never been cultured. The Lokiarchaeum composite genome was pieced together from genetic components of the sparse cells found in the sediment. And like the mythological Loki, they held some surprises.
To read more, click on "Does 'Loki' Show How Humans Evolved from Single-Celled Organisms?"
Labels: Answers In Genesis , Biology , Creation , Evolution , Genetics
Circular Reasoning and a British Jurassic Fossil
Evolutionary paleontologists are known for using circular reasoning. They deny this, of course, but take a look-see: The age of an index fossil is determined by the rock layer where it was located. The age of the rock layer is determined by the index fossil. Then they lay out the geologic column according to their long-age belief system and put it in textbooks. Looks good in books, because the geologic column you see there doesn't exist in nature.
Whitby Lighthouses / PublicDomainPictures / Pixabay
The cliffs at Whitby, England, down by the seashore (where maybe Sally sells seashells) are eroding and giving up some fossils. Most are no big deal, but there was one big deal, a Jurassic fossil. Circular reasoning and dating according to worldviews ensues, and a great time is had by all. However, the real world is not convenient for evolutionists. Instead, erosion rates and fossil yields support not only a young world, but indicate the global catastrophe called the Genesis Flood.
Crumbling seaside cliffs at Whitby in northern England continuously reveal new fossils. Most of them are remains of small plants and animals, but researchers from the University of Manchester described a much larger fossil: a giant vertebra from a sauropod's tail. How long ago was the rare bone buried?
Researchers described the rock formation containing this rare fossil in the online journal PLoS ONE. Sedimentary rocks containing sea creature fossils sandwich the Saltwick Formation, a roughly 80-foot-thick sandstone layer. Enlightenment Era naturalists assigned these rocks to the Jurassic System based on their evolutionary age expectations for certain fossils. The PLoS ONE authors repeated this assignment, writing, "Palynomorph [plant pollen fossil] evidence indicates that the latter formation is Aalenian in age." "Aalenian" refers to an "age" within a middle Jurassic time "Period," but these ages and periods only occur in man-made diagrams. The real rocks show no time stamps.
You can dig up the rest of the article by clicking on "Britain's 'Oldest' Sauropod and a Jurassic World".
Labels: Age of the Earth , Creation , Dinosaurs , Evolution , Fossils , Genesis Flood , Institute for Creation Research , Logic , Paleontology
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No Signs of Bat Evolution
As a child, I didn't bother to think much about bats, mainly because I didn't see them very much. Just thought they were mice with wings that might attack you. The concept that a bat is a rodent that grew wings and took off into the night sky is way, way off in left field. No, they won't seek to attack you, and many are beneficial by eating insects. They have an extremely advanced echolocation system and flight controls.
Proponents of dust-to-dark-knight evolution tell stories about how the bat evolved, but there isn't a shred of evidence for it — old fossil bats are like today's living bats. In addition, the echolocation system and advanced flight control are amazingly complex; everything has to be working together all at the same time, or nothing works at all. The bat did not evolve, it was created.
You don’t just put wings on a naked mole rat and make it fly. Bats are designed to be aero-bat-ic champions.
A primer on bat flight in Current Biology by Anders Hedenström and L. Christoffer Johansson begins with list of amazing facts that defy evolution:
To read what they said and more, click on "Bats Are Home-Run Flyers".
Labels: Biology , Creation , Creation Evolution Headlines , Evolution
Naturalism, Evolution, and the Bible
Quite a few people don't cotton to the notion that science is a philosophy. You may hear something like, "Science is science", as if it was a separate animal. But if you stop to ponder on it for a spell, you'll see that science (and the scientific methods) have philosophical foundations, as you can see in these definitions of science. However, science is also defined with naturalistic philosophies. That is, even though the logical conclusion of analysis is God, don't go there, girlfriend — the powers that be disapprove because of their naturalistic worldview. In the 2005 Dover trial, "science" defeated "religion", even though Intelligent Design is not a Christian doctrine per se, so the foolish verdict was rendered on the basis of definitions from philosophy.
How did we get there? In early days, Bible-believing scientists were making all sorts of discoveries and advancing science. Along came naturalistic philosophies, and the Christians backed off. From there, anti-theists took over and made their own definitions. Of course, Charles Darwin fit right in with the plan, and evolutionary thinking has impeded science and morality ever since. Worse, all of this has infected the way people approach their understanding of the Bible; naturalists want to explain it their way.
The truth is that evolutionists have many times and in various ways, attempted to explain the Bible. Or to be more precise, the same worldview that gave rise to the theory of evolution in the Western world, also gave rise to a new interpretation of the Bible. By the eighteenth century, the West came increasingly to enjoy and appreciate the benefits of the scientific achievements of such biblical, creation-believing scientists as Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton, born mainly of the Reformation. Innovation, invention and observation of the universe in which we live were growing exponentially.
In the midst of this scientific and intellectual revolution, anti-theists such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume, emboldened by the achievements of science and their own hubris, began to reject all forms of authority other than ‘science’. Philosophers and scientists all over the western world began to apply their own definitions of science to disciplines as diverse as economics and anthropology. This intellectual movement became known as the Enlightenment. It gave rise to any number of ‘isms’. Rationalism held the notion that reason alone was the determiner of truth. Naturalism was a ‘rule’ subjectively applied to the definition of science that excluded the possibility of the supernatural. Positivism claimed that only empirical science could provide real knowledge about the world and universe, including origins. Note two important delusions inherent in these ideas. Firstly these statements are, by their own definitions, self-refuting. Try and think of how one would use the scientific method to determine whether positivism is true or not. Obviously it cannot be tested by its own criteria. Clearly, much of what came out of Enlightenment thinking was not so much scientific but philosophical. Metaphysical anti-theism began increasingly to drive the science; not the other way around.
You can read the rest by clicking on "Evolutionists on the Bible — Philosophical naturalists ‘explain’ the Bible" in its full context.
Labels: Atheist , Bible , Creation Ministries International , Evolution , Science
Is "Jurassic World" Unrealistic?
At this writing, Jurassic World is in its first weekend. It had a yippie ky yay of an opening day, with $511.8 million USD. Reports are that audiences liked it, as well as many critics. People are excited about a Steven Spielberg movie, but he's not the director like he was for the first two, he's an executive producer.
A complaint was made because the first one was good, but this is just another monster movie because it's "unrealistic" — the dinosaurs didn't have feathers. (Sorry to break it to this tinhorn, but the whole thing is unrealistic. It's a movie, done like most others, to make money and entertain people.) Although most evolutionary paleontologists believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds, there is no significant evidence that dinosaurs had feathers. Also, for Bible-believing Christians, there's an irreconcilable difference in the creation order: birds were created before land creatures. There is a passel of evidence that birds and dinosaurs lived at the same time, including dinosaurs having eaten birds.
It's a movie, not an evolutionary propaganda documentary. If you want one of those, watch BBC, or the Discovery networks on television. Oh, and realism? The whole premise is unrealistic, so the term "suspension of disbelief" applies here. Velociraptors in the movie were far too large. I guess it's hard to terrify an audience with a critter the size of a large turkey or medium-sized dog, huh? Unless you have them stampeding and eating everything in their path, or maybe have them taken up by a funnel cloud and killing people that way, like in Sharknado and its sequels. Just a thought. Personally, I'm not into many movies with large-scale killing and violence, so I'll probably skip this chop fest.
Fans of the Jurassic Park trilogy have been eagerly awaiting the release of a fourth movie, Jurassic World. This highly anticipated sci-fi film [was] released in the US on June 12, 2015. Recently a trailer for the movie was released that has created a big buzz in the media. Reportedly, the film is going to be a “big disappointment” to dinosaur fans because “unlike the 1993 original, which was praised for its attention to detail and accuracy, the new film shows portrays [sic] its Tyrannosaurus Rex and velociraptors all wrong.” One paleontologist made this comment: “The original film showed dinosaurs that were not simply roaring, scaly monsters but were active, social, bird-like animals with dynamic bodies. Now, Jurassic World is simply a dumb monster movie and there has been a deliberate effort to make its animals look different from the way we think they should.” Apparently the problem with Jurassic World is that the dinosaurs—including T. rex and velociraptor—lack feathers, and therefore the movie is supposedly completely inaccurate.
To sink your teeth into the rest of the article, click on "Is Jurassic World Wrong for Portraying Dinosaurs without Feathers? For additional news on featherless dinosaurs, check out "Dinosaurs Wore Scales, Birds Wore Feathers".
Labels: Answers In Genesis , Creation , Dinosaurs , Evolution , Jurassic World
Deep Discoveries in RNA Editing
Genome research keeps getting more interesting. Basic views of DNA, RNA, and proteins have been modified with further research, and additional discoveries are even more amazing. Alternative splicing was already very interesting, but complex RNA editing has been discovered in an unlikely place: the squid.
Yes, I know that Squidward isn't really a squid, the character is a misnamed octopus thingie.
Evolution? Not hardly! The detail and complexity of RNA editing in the squid shows the hand of the Master Engineer at work, and there's still a passel more to learn.
When the workings of the genome were first being discovered, the central evolutionary dogma of molecular biology claimed that genetic information passes consistently from DNA to RNA to proteins. Now we know that RNA messages can be altered by a variety of mechanisms, and a new study in squid genetics has vaulted one of these processes—called RNA editing—to an unprecedented level of biocomplexity.
All major animal groups from jellyfish to humans use amazing cellular machinery to modify RNA transcribed from both protein-coding and non-coding RNA genes. One of the first such systems to be discovered was that of alternative splicing, where a single gene could have its modular components added, removed, doubled, or even combined with the products of a completely separate gene. Thus, a single gene can produce a wide array of RNA variants, including many different protein forms if the RNAs are translated (made into proteins).
To read the rest, click on "RNA Editing: Biocomplexity Hits a New High".
Labels: Biology , Creation , DNA , Evolution , Genetics , Institute for Creation Research , Intelligent Design
Further Findings Fluster Space Scientists
Mankind has always wondered about what's up yonder in the night sky. Hans Lippershey patented the refracting telescope, and it was tweaked by other early astronomers. The wonder increased as celestial objects were brought into focus (heh!), Isaac Newton made a practical reflecting telescope, others kept on improving until we got to the huge telescopes in observatories. Not good enough, we had to put the things up into the final frontier. Also, we sent probes to other planets so we could get a gander at them from images sent back.
But you know us, we still want to know more. Improvements in technology have led to better telescopes and more ambitious space probes. Unfortunately for long-age astronomers and cosmologists, the more we learn about the universe, the more it acts far younger than they want it to. Our solar system is also recalcitrant toward secular views, as more questions are raised than answered.
Now we are learning that Mercury has huge cliffs, asteroids Ceres and Vesta are not acting they way they're supposed to, the rings of Saturn were troublesome enough to try to explain (lousy explanations, by the way). Yes, plenty of things are troublesome to secularists, but biblical creationists are not at all perplexed — probably because they don't reckon to make excuses for when the data show a young, recently-created universe after all. You can read about these items and more by clicking on "Solar System Puzzles Needing Explanation".
Labels: Astronomy , Cosmology , Creation , Creation Evolution Headlines , Physics
Feral Fundamentalist Anti-Creationist Antics
Many evolutionists insist on believing in goo-to-geneticist evolution despite abundant evidence to the contrary. Whenever flaws in their speculations are presented (and especially when information is given that supports special creation), they circle the wagons to fend of raiding bands of us evil creationists.
There are Darwinists who want to go on about their evolution business, ignorant of what biblical creationists actually believe and teach; they do not go to the sources for their information. Instead, creationists are maligned with blatant misrepresentation, claims that we are "science deniers", calling us "liars" because they disagree with our interpretations of evidence, and other nonsense. Let's be blunt — they want us silenced. These people are intolerant in the real sense of the word.
It's common to find someone with a new, fake Facebook profile. The paint's not even dry yet, but they annoy the public by going on Pages and leaving inane, abusive comments. When they're banned, they lie to their friends with things like, "They won't tolerate me giving facts to them", and omitting how they were acting like jerks.
Obviously, rabid evolutionists, atheists, and the like have no respect for biblical creationists, especially when we dare to express our views. Instead of dealing with the topic at hand, they demonize people (which includes defamation, spamming, stalking, and more). Many of these feral evolutionists have little education, but pretend that they're smarter than the creation scientists. They "refute" creationist material by throwing around links to articles they don't understand (often times using outdated extracts) and once again fascistically branding people they disagree with as "liars".
Did these anti-creationists thoroughly read the creationists' material and check out the references? Very rarely. But then, they're in fear and denial because their evolutionary worldview is crumbling. It's a religious experience for them, so they desperately cling to evolutionism rather than humble themselves before the Creator, who makes the rules. With this passion and rage in the air, those thinking, honest evolutionists who have inquiring minds must dig deeper for information about creation science — they certainly won't get accurate information from those who misrepresent us!
One guy claims to be an academic former creationist and writes under several pseudonyms, but refuses to give his real name because of alleged threats from creationists. Yeah, sure. Yet, he still supposedly gives lectures in colleges. This kind of tale is common among atheists who pretend to be former Christians and also pretend to be former creationists. F'rinstance:
Have you ever seen an anti-creationist say, "That was a well-written article and made some interesting points that I'll need to consider. Also, I like the style". Me, neither.
Ironically, some act like it's their duty to rid the world of biblical creationists (we're "evil", remember), but they have no consistent standard of morality! Let's go back to the accusation of "liar". Why not? Evolutionists do it, and it's consistent with their "survival of the fittest worldview". If evolution were true (and if we really were dishonest), we're just bundles of chemicals doing what we need to survive; they have no right to complain. But by doing so, they're inadvertently appealing to the ultimate source of moral authority — God. This means they know that their own worldview is irrational, so they have to sake a claim on ours, which is based on the Bible.
Meanwhile, the angry anti-creationists go on their secularist jihad to spread their propaganda. Why? Because they want to believe in evolution despite evidence — and despite rational thought. There are times when anti-creationists are so passionately devoted to their religion of evolutionism that they are not able to use logic.
Atheists and evolutionists detest when Christians expose the flaws in their worldviews, and they especially hate the biblical creationists who refuse to compromise on the authority of the Word of God. They get meaner'n a burlap sack full of rattlesnakes when they see that they're clinging to evolutionism through blind faith, not evidence, and that said evidence actually affirms the Bible.
Some want to slap leather with us and — you know the expression, "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight"? Some won't even go that far, not even bringing a pointed stick. They attack with fresh fruit. That is, using logical fallacies (their favorites seem to be ad hominem and equivocation.) Two things that infuriate these people is to tell the truth about them, and use sound logic. We all know they've been defeated in the logic department, but they'll deny defeat anyway.
Many are deceived (often willingly), chanting the Dobzhansky mantra, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution", which has been shown to be false. Evolution has hindered science (for example, the claim that there is "junk" DNA, which turned into a huge embarrassment for them). And then there's the simple fact that someone's view of origins don't make no nevermind when calculating rocket trajectories or doing other practical science — which shows the foolishness in Bill Nye the Propaganda Guy's anti-creationist rants.
Evolutionary scientists are not the pillars of virtue that some people make them out to be. They have been known to fudge data if needed, bluster about "peer review" (an agenda-driven "good ol' boys' club"), and disingenuously call something "evolution" (even when evolution has nothing to do with the subject at hand). As a "settled science", evolution's predictive ability is as valuable as dust on the prairie, and its advocates spin a lot of yarns that get presented as science. When there is no evidence for their tall tales, they resort to "evolution of the gaps". Sorry to break it to some people, but scientists are fallible, just like everyone else. Just because we're told "Scientists say..." doesn't mean something is correct.
We have biblical creationists affirming the truth of creation, presenting evidence refuting evolution, giving evidence for a young earth, and defending the gospel. Then we have Darwinists, many of whom are conditioned to believe only the evolutionary party line, and are unaware that there is contrary evidence. Then there are the rabid evolutionists who are motivated by hatred, whose antics are described above. Creationists will continue to present the truth in hopes that it will not only strengthen the faith of Christians, but prick the consciences of the unbelievers. We do have the scientific evidence on our side, and we have the written Word of the Creator, who explains how to know him.
Note: This article began as an introduction to yesterday's "God of the Gaps" post, but got too long. So I developed it and let it stand on its own.
Labels: Atheist , Bible , Creation , Evolution , Evolutionism , God
Fundamentally Flawed Evolution is a "God of the Gaps"
Evidence and logic often indicate that the evidence shows the involvement of God. Atheists and other anti-creationists claim that creationists are invoking a "God of the gaps" excuse.
However, when evolutionists get puzzled, they make evolution into their own magical god of the gaps. Basically, "There's missing information, but we know that EvolutionDidIt®, and we know that someday, we'll learn how it happened. This means we can believe in our evolutionary god of the gaps because that's 'science'." Meadow muffins! That's blind faith, Fergus.
When a false god is called upon to solve gaps in knowledge, this is sometimes referred to as “god of the gaps.” For example, if someone did not know that ice is formed when water freezes and proposed that there was an “ice god” that occasionally causes ice to spontaneously appear, then they would be guilty of using a god-of-the-gaps explanation.
Biblical Creation Is Not a God of the Gaps
Atheists have often accused Christians of invoking God to fill in a gap in scientific knowledge. Even the great scientist Isaac Newton has been accused by atheists of using a god-of-the-gaps explanation when he said that the universe reveals evidence of design.1 But creationists like Newton do not believe in a god of gaps, but a God of absolute necessity. Newton recognized that the universe could not exist without the supernatural creative power of an almighty Creator.
Newton and most of the other founding fathers of science could see that the universe can only be fully explained with a combination of natural and supernatural explanations. Creationists only invoke God in origins when a supernatural action is necessary according to the laws of science. For example, according to the conservation of matter and energy (the first law of thermodynamics), it is impossible for a universe to come into existence without the supernatural intervention of an all-powerful being.
To read the rest of this excellent article by Professor Stuart Burgess, click on "Evolution (Not Creation) Is a God of the Gaps". There is a follow-up of sorts to this article scheduled for tomorrow.
Labels: Answers In Genesis , Creation , Creation Science , Evolution , Logic , Propaganda
DNA and Information Storage
The DNA molecule is amazingly complex, and more of its functions and properties are constantly being discovered. Its mind-boggling capabilities give lie to the concept of goo-to-you evolution, and affirm the amazing design of our Creator. DNA's abilities and storage dwarf even the best computers. In addition, it is known that DNA is unstable and quickly deteriorates, but has been found in dinosaur bones, along with soft tissues — which puts a burr under the saddle of those who believe in an ancient earth.
Modified US Army photo of ENIAC, ca. 1946
DNA stores a vast amount of information that is processed in living things, and even has its own repair systems. It's mighty ironic that people who believe that DNA, life, the universe, and everything are the products of chance and random processes want to intelligently design something based on God's handiwork (biomimetics). How about using DNA for data storage?
Living creatures not only contain enormously complex machines, they also contain the ‘instruction manual’ to build these machines—which can be seen as a sort of ‘recipe book’ programmed on DNA, the famous ‘double helix’ molecule (deoxyribonucleic acid). In many articles and books, we have pointed out two of its remarkable features:
1. Huge information storage capacity dwarfing that of the most advanced computer hardware.
2. Surprising chemical instability.
Now some recent high-tech experiments on information storage have further vindicated our articles.
To finish reading, click on "DNA: the best information storage system".
Labels: Biology , Creation , Creation Ministries International , Dinosaurs , DNA , Evolution
Dinosaur Egg Colors Defy Long-Age Beliefs
Although most fossilized dinosaur eggs seem to resemble stones in concrete, sometimes they are found with colors. But how can colors stay intact for the millions of years that deep-time advocates insist upon? A recent discovery is perplexing to secular scientists.
Dinosaur eggs photo from US National Park Service
Finding dinosaur soft tissues and red blood cells indicate that dinosaurs are nowhere near as old as secular geologists and paleontologists maintain, since the tissues and blood cells would deteriorate completely over long periods of time. Molecules for pigmentation are rather complex as well, and would also break down. No, the accumulated evidence shows that that the unfortunate critters were rapidly buried as a result of the Genesis Flood, just a few thousand years ago.
German scientists revealed that some Chinese dinosaur eggs probably looked similar to the dark blue-green hue of modern emu eggs. If the dinosaur’s original pigment molecules revealed the egg’s color, then a significant question emerges. Can pigments really stay colorful for 66 million years?
The eggs came from three different upper Cretaceous sites, and their dark color contrasted with the sediment that encased them. Curious about the color, the German team from the University of Bonn conducted chemical separation techniques to isolate original dinosaur egg pigments—the first discovery of its kind. Though the eggs have likely lost some of their pattern detail, the presence of specific pigments named protoporphyrin and biliverdin within the ancient shells confirmed they were probably a dark blue-green color.
To read the rest, click on "Colorful Dinosaur Eggs Challenge Deep Time".
Labels: Age of the Earth , Creation , Dinosaurs , Genesis Flood , Geology , Institute for Creation Research , Paleontology
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Giant Impact, Secular Miracles, and Bad Science
There are several secular models for the formation of the moon. Co-accretion (condensation) concept is that Earth and the moon were formed at the same time from the same nebula that formed the rest of the solar system. Another is the fission (spin-off) idea, where a molten Earth threw out a chunk of matter before it had cooled, and that became the moon. Then there's the giant impact hypothesis, where some cosmic wanderer about the size of Mercury smacked into Earth and the debris formed the moon, which was lassoed by gravity and yee haw, we got us a moon! None of these fit the data.
If the impact had happened, maybe it looked like this. Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Of the three main cosmic evolution failures, the least dismal failure is the impact hypothesis. Rather than give credit to the Creator, some owlhoots getting grant money spin yarns to keep that idea going. Problem is, they're being disingenuous. They invoke their version of miracles, and they tamper so much with the data, it has no basis in reality. Then this stuff is passed off as "science", and gullible anti-creationist tinhorns point to it and say, "See? Science is smrt! Yahyuh!" It happens far too often.
You can’t get Earth’s moon from a planetary collision without quasi-miraculous tweaks to the models.
Science TV shows often make the moon’s formation look simple: a body flies into the Earth, breaks it up, and out of the pieces the Earth-moon system forms. This accident of nature was unique to the Earth, since it didn’t happen for the other three rocky planets. Viewers of the animations may not be aware that the simple picture is false. Specifically, the materials making up Earth and the moon are too similar to be explained by some third body, which likely would have been composed of different materials.
A recent paper in Nature by Israeli and French astrophysicists reveals what secular naturalists are up against trying to explain Earth’s moon by purely physical processes, without design.
You can read the rest by clicking on "Moon Origin Models Require Cheating".
Labels: Astronomy , Cosmology , Creation , Creation Evolution Headlines , Evolution
Dis-CERN-ment and the End of the World
This article almost went to my "Biblical Creation and Evangelism" Weblog, but I reckoned that it was appropriate to put here. Tough call. Also, this was a painful article to write, and I aim to share it with all y'all.
Honey the Jersey heifer is unwilling to be dragged into false teachings.
People are spreading fear about CERN and the end of the world. So what is that CERN thing with 21 European member states, and what about that Large Hadron Collider, and all?
From the CERN site:
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature 1.
The Large Hadron Collider is a huge underground particle accelerator:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets. The electromagnets are built from coils of special electric cable that operates in a superconducting state, efficiently conducting electricity without resistance or loss of energy. This requires chilling the magnets to ‑271.3°C – a temperature colder than outer space. For this reason, much of the accelerator is connected to a distribution system of liquid helium, which cools the magnets, as well as to other supply services 2.
Many people have heard of the poorly-named "God Particle", the Higgs boson, which is supposed to give evidence for the Big Bang 3. Again according to CERN:
On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. The Higgs boson, as proposed within the Standard Model, is the simplest manifestation of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. Other types of Higgs bosons are predicted by other theories that go beyond the Standard Model.
On 8 October 2013 the Nobel prize in physics (link is external) was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider." 4
It would be a mite helpful if they updated their site, though, since the celebration and Nobel Prize chatter were way too premature 5. So, we see that, according to their official public sources, CERN is a group of scientists doing science stuff, with apparently secular materialist worldviews. Scientists work from their worldviews, so no big deal there.
Let me elaborate on that part about working from worldviews. We all have them, and they're comprised of our presuppositions about how the world works, how we should respond to situations, our emotions, and all sorts of things — not everyone is aware of their worldview, and few have systematically spelled it out. Secular scientists work from them, creation scientists work from theirs as well. Similarly, have you ever watched paranormal investigation "reality shows"? They have readings from various kinds of equipment, maybe an audio recording now and then — but just data. When they assert that they've found spirit activity, they are interpreting and presenting their material according to their worldviews. If you go to a gathering of "ancient astronaut" enthusiasts, expect them to assume that UFOs and alien visitations are a "given", then they work from that presupposition. Darwinists and old-earth geologists assume that evolution is true and that the world is ancient, and build from their conjectures. See? We all have worldviews and operate from them.
A few scientists have sounded an alarm, saying that the LHC could have disastrous results, even ending the world 6. (However, there is some contention that atheist Stephen Hawking's remark was misquoted 7.) Personally, I suspicion that some writers and members of the public are after the sensationalistic doomsday aspects, and not really citing the scientists correctly.
For that matter, some people think that because the LHC is underground, it's because they know something terrible may happen. The facts are disappointing, because the thing is underground for more mundane and practical reasons 8 (link removed, article missing). Another item that spooks a few people and leads to a passel of speculations is that a statue of the Hindu false god Shiva (sometimes called the destroyer, others call it the benefactor). This statue was a gift from supporters of CERN in India, where Shiva is "trampling ignorance" 9. This idol is annoying, but I don't see that it means CERN are up to no good.
None of this was painful for me. The material above was time-consuming, what with references and all. Here is where it hurts.
On a podcast of "Fighting for the Faith" 10, Chris Rosebrough showed how disgraced religious huckster Jim Bakker and his associates were using world-ending speculations, prophesies, inappropriate Scriptures, Apocryphal books and more about CERN. Saddle up, doomsday's a-comin', and we need to round up our supplies for when times get bad! Bakker's show conveniently sells survival gear and food for those dismal times 11. Indeed, if you look at the archives of "The Jim Bakker Show" starting with this one 12 (I see three in the series), and if you can endure it, survival items are being hawked (no relation to Stephen Hawking). Books, too. This seems like a religious-oriented shop-at-home network.
If the world is coming to an end, what good will it do to go broke on buying that stuff beforehand?
On "Fighting for the Faith", Pastor Rosebrough had an episode called "Cern and the Gates of Gozer" 13, which inspired this article. He played an excerpt and had a bit of fun with it that is well worth your time. Click on the number "13" just above and you can listen to or download the episode. The part I'm jawing about starts around the 16:40 mark, just after the foolishness of Chuck Pierce. Edit: Chris has another bit about CERN, this time with "prophet" William Tapley. You can listen to or download that here, at the 38:06 mark.
"Why are you talking about the end of the world when your ministry is about the beginning, Cowboy Bob?"
Glad you asked, and it's about time I got to that part.
Genesis is the foundation for all major Christian doctrines, 14 so the end of all things makes more sense if you have a solid understanding of the beginning. Also, biblical creation ministries often emphasize critical thinking 15 and discernment 16. What is in the Jim Bakker stuff above? Nothing resembling sound exegesis or biblical hermeneutics, that's for sure. No, those sidewinders are just as bad as atheopaths, using emotional manipulation to get people to react — in this case, to make money. People who are established in the Word and sound doctrine, as well as having some skill in critical thinking, should be able to get past the snake oil salesmen, and avoid getting roped into false teachings (resisting like Honey the heifer at the top of the article). Also, I think I heard one of those people on the Bakker show say that if you don't have the Apocrypha, you don't have the whole Bible. Really? It was left out for a reason. Also, I've seen many people who have odd views base a lot of their material on the Apocrypha.
While I'm at it, I want to add a few words of caution. There are social media Pages that claim to be creationist, and will even post links to valid material. But watch out, some slip in theistic evolutionist, agnostic, cult stuff, and other Bible-denying material. Sure, it may look good at its source, but you may be roped into some bad stuff. Before you tie up to someone's hitching post, find out what they really believe.
There are cults pretending to be creationists 17, and I know of one Page that is apparently run by a Modalist (where God is not a Trinity, but manifest himself in three modes). Ask them who God is, if they believe the Trinity, if Jesus is God in the flesh who died and bodily rose from the dead, if the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. As for me, look up top, I have a Statement of Faith, and I expect the moderators on our Facebook Page to agree to it. I reckon that some of these people are less concerned with equipping Christians and presenting the gospel to the lost than they are with bolstering their egos; some seem to embrace creation so they can vociferously attack atheists. Who gets the glory, God or themselves?
Earlier, I linked to material from Lutheran pastor Chris Rosebrough. Now I'm going to give you a link to Dr. James White, a Reformed Baptist. I'm in neither camp, but both of them give important information to help people from being deceived. I strongly recommend that you spend an hour (yes, really!) on how Tony Campolo used Scripture twisting and appeal to emotion in regards to homosexuality 18. The principles there apply to more than just that subject (click on the number "17" for the free audio links).
My exhortations are that you check with Scripture, pray, seek solid teachings, and just think about things. Don't react with emotions, that just gets people deceived and even trapped. Stand on the authority of Scripture first and foremost. It doesn't matter if someone is a religious celebrity, your spouse, a pastor, a friend, or something I write doesn't sit well with you. See what God's Word says, that's the final authority for Christians.
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January 24, 2019 News » Sea to Sky
E-bikes to ride in GranFondo Whistler's Medio
55-kilometre category will allow electric bicycles in 2019
By Keili Bartlett / Squamish Chief
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For the first time, cyclists with GranFondo dreams can sign up with their e-bikes, at least for Whistler's 55-kilometre Medio category.
"We embrace that change in technology. What we want to do, as we've done with everything else, is stay at the forefront and create an opportunity for people to cycle," Neil McKinnon, RBC GranFondo Whistler co-founder, said. "We don't think the introduction of e-bikes is dissimilar to any other category of cycling."
The added advantage of the e-bike, however, is also why they will not be part of the timed event. McKinnon said the organizers would not be able to accurately tell when the power assist offered by e-bikes is used during the Medio, so the focus for e-bike participants is to enjoy the experience, instead of racing against the clock.
"I think the purists would probably say that there's no place for e-bikes in an international event like the GranFondo. We agree with that, that's why we've limited it to the Medio portion of the event," McKinnon said. "Other people have said they welcome it because it allows for more inclusion."
Last year, the Medio was rerouted to begin and end in Whistler, giving all cyclists the chance to experience the rush of the starting line and flair of a big finish. It's the family-friendly category, with a speed limit at the beginning to keep all riders safe.
"We wanted to keep the Forte (152 km) and the GranFondo (122 km) as those physical challenges, those aspirational events that people put in their calendar. But the Medio, and what e-bikes represent, is allowing people of different ages or different athletic abilities to participate," he said.
Even with the addition of e-bikes, RBC GranFondo Whistler organizers aren't expecting a huge fleet of electric bicycles to hit the Sea to Sky this fall.
"Though the industry of e-bikes is growing quite significantly, it still represents a small percentage of bicycles on the road. A lot of people use e-bikes for transportation and commuting purposes," McKinnon said. "I think the first year we'll probably see a small percentage, but I suspect as word gets out and people feel comfortable being on their e-bike in an event, it will probably grow over time."
McKinnon said the 55-kilometre segment has five times more cyclists registered than last year's event, which already saw twice the amount of riders from the previous year.
So far, 1,500 cyclists have pre-registered for the Sept. 7 RBC GranFondo Whistler, and organizers are expecting 4,500 to race along the Sea to Sky this fall. The 2019 event in Whistler will also feature the World Series qualifiers, and the World Champs will be held on the same course in 2020.
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"Outstanding" Theater Performances in Pittsboro!
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Pixies, Kings and Magical Things
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Country star Alan Jackson is playing Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum in 2020
The Country Music Hall of Famer will play the Bucks arena Sept. 12.
Country star Alan Jackson is playing Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum in 2020 The Country Music Hall of Famer will play the Bucks arena Sept. 12. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/11/07/country-star-alan-jackson-playing-milwaukees-fiserv-forum-2020/2517831001/
Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 10:25 a.m. CT Nov. 7, 2019 | Updated 12:16 p.m. CT Nov. 7, 2019
Country Music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson is coming to Fiserv Forum Sept. 12. (Photo: Benjamin Edward Wick / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
It's been a busy morning for concert announcements for Fiserv Forum.
Less than two hours after the Milwaukee Bucks' arena announced it would host Michael Bublé's first Milwaukee concert in six years, Country Music Hall of Famer Alan Jackson revealed dates for his 2020 tour, including a Fiserv Forum stop Sept. 12. Jackson's last area show was at the Wisconsin State Fair in 2017.
Ticket prices and on sale information for the Fiserv Forum appearance will be announced at a later date.
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Classic rock band Journey is the first act announced for Alpine Valley Music Theatre's 2020 season. Tickets for the June 6 show go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Prices have yet to be announced. Rick Wood / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Pretenders will open for Journey at Alpine Valley Music Theatre June 6. Cameron Pollack, Detroit Free Press
David Gray is performing his breakout album "White Ladder" front to back on the road next summer, including a show at the BMO Harris Pavilion. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Prices TBA. Chris Wilson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Christian pop band Newsboys bring their "United" tour to the Miller High Life Theatre on April 19. Tickets are $21 to $49.75. Matthew Leimkuehler/Special to the Register
Christian singer Mandisa (pictured) and Adam Agee will open for that Newsboys show next spring. Matthew Leimkuehler/Special to the Register
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Nigeria National Conference
The 2014 Nigerian National Conference: Facts Nigerians Must Know, By C.D. Orike
Jonathan raises panel on implementation of National Conference report
2014 National Conference most difficult since Independence – Kutigi
Speech by Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, at the submission of 2014 National Conference Report
Remarks by President Jonathan On the Occasion of the Submission of the 2014 National Conference Report
Jonathan taunts cynics, pledges to implement National Conference report
Key National Conference Recommendations You Need to Know
New Map of Nigeria, as proposed by National Conference #NGConfab
Ex-Governor Attah, others ask Confab not to excise Akwa Ibom
Submission by Berom community to the National Conference
Update: National Conference ends, delegates adopt final report
Download: Nigeria 2014 National Conference Report #NGConfab
Kutigi’s peace moves succeed as National Conference ends without rancour
Northern delegates allege “third term plot for Jonathan, others
CONFAB: National Conference prepares new constitution for Nigeria
National Conference Review- Week 10 - June 10, 2014
National Conference review – weeks 8 & 9 - June 6, 2014
The battle to make fuel prices affordable and accessible at the National Conference; a post mortem, by Jaye Gaskiya - June 4, 2014
Nigeria National Conference Review — Week 6 - May 5, 2014
Corruption, insecurity, religion and ethnic issues top debate - April 3, 2014
‘We detected forged documents at the CONFAB’ – Umaru Hadejia - July 21, 2014
Jonathan never attempted to influence our report –Indabawa - July 17, 2014
There ‘ll be another National Conference — Nwoko - July 15, 2014
INTERVIEW: My views on Nigeria, Yadoma, youngest delegate at Confab, says - July 13, 2014
INTERVIEW: National Conference may be veiled attempt at tenure elongation – Lai Mohammed - June 12, 2014
Kutigi, Bakare clash again over religious recitation at National Conference - April 8, 2014
Recuperating Dora Akunyili says she’s fit enough to be at National Conference - March 26, 2014
National Conference delegate causes stir, demands water for elderly colleagues - March 25, 2014
PROFILE: Mahmood Yakubu, Asst.Secretary, Finance and Administration - March 19, 2014
PROFILE: Akilu Indabawa, Assistant Secretary, Conference Proceedings - March 19, 2014
PROFILE: Valerie Azinge, Secretary - March 19, 2014
PROFILE: Bolaji Akinyemi, Deputy Chairman - March 19, 2014
PROFILE: Idris Kutigi, Chairman - March 19, 2014
Day 22: Quotes - May 27, 2014
Quotes; Day 21 - May 26, 2014
Quote for Day 12 - April 10, 2014
Quotes for Day10 (08/04/2014) - April 8, 2014
Group Positions
Submission by Berom community to the National Conference - August 15, 2014
Motion by the joint Labour-Civil Society delegation and their allies on the modalities for implementing conference decisions - July 12, 2014
13 per cent derivation: Ijaw Youth threaten to cripple Nigeria’s oil production - May 15, 2014
Islamic group blasts CAN, accuses it of blackmailing National Conference - April 24, 2014
National Conference leadership accuses CAN of misinforming Nigerians - April 23, 2014
Niger Delta will boil again if 18% derivation fails- Akwa Ibom delegates warn - July 14, 2014
Committee on Public Service recommends part-time legislature - May 13, 2014
Remarks by Rt. Hon Prince Chibudom Nwuche at the National Conference (05/04/2014) - May 6, 2014
Submission by Hon. Prince Chibudom Nwuche, OFR to the 2014 National Conference - May 6, 2014
The opinion of the poor people of the Niger Delta region. - May 22, 2014
Memorandum To the Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal reform Committee of the National Conference - April 25, 2014
Memorandum submitted by Youth of All Nations (YOANEA) on the National Youth Service Corps - April 15, 2014
Devolution of Money (Power) – by Nnimmo Bassey - July 8, 2014
Following the National Conference: Regionalism, By Jibrin Ibrahim - April 14, 2014
Tunde Bakare and Nigeria’s Religious Snobbery, By Rotimi Akinola - April 1, 2014
Confab delegates and the unity of Nigeria, By Saleh Ashaka - March 31, 2014
The National Conference as a Terrain of Struggle, By Jaye Gaskia @jayegsakia - March 29, 2014
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Conference of Threats, Row and Deadlock, By Ibanga Isine - March 31, 2014
Perks, Rules, Dictatorship and all That, By Ibanga Isine - March 23, 2014
The 2014 Nigerian National Conference: Facts Nigerians Must Know, By C.D. Orike - September 19, 2014
Jonathan raises panel on implementation of National Conference report - September 5, 2014
2014 National Conference most difficult since Independence – Kutigi - August 22, 2014
Speech by Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, at the submission of 2014 National Conference Report - August 21, 2014
Remarks by President Jonathan On the Occasion of the Submission of the 2014 National Conference Report - August 21, 2014
Niger Delta Delegates to the National Conference hold Consultative Forum with Citizens
60 days after the inauguration of the Nigeria National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Pan-Niger Delta Conference (PNDC) today, Thursday May 8, 2014, held an interactive forum to deliberate on some matters currently being tackled at the National Conference, which affect the Niger Delta region.
The event which held at the Grand Montecito Hotel, along Sani Abacha Road in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, witnessed the presence of some delegates representing various constituencies in the region, amongst whom were Chief Sergeant Awuse, human rights crusader, Dr. Isaac Osuoka, and foremost environmental rights activist, Ann Kio Briggs.
Also present at the event were stakeholders and representatives from the civil society organisations, as well as invited guests from all walks of life.
The forum was an avenue for the delegates to report back to their constituencies, on the happenings and contentious issues at the National Conference, while taking citizens’ views on the way forward.
The interactive meeting, which commenced about 10am, was chaired by Professor Andrew Efemini from the University of Port Harcourt. In his opening remarks, Professor Efemini expressed his excitement over the convocation of the ongoing National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan. He stated that, “no amount of projects executed by Jonathan would have far-reaching effects for the Niger Delta as much as organizing a national conference, because the national conference can free the people of the Niger Delta from the shackles of pain, unemployment and illiteracy.”
He further emphasized that, “we do not want to discuss resource control but resource ownership, and the National Conference provides all of us with an opportunity to speak. This is the beginning of a mass support for our delegates at the National Conference.”
Chief Sergeant Awuse, while giving his address, stated that the Niger Delta region must be prepared to compromise in order to benefit from the National Conference. He said, “We have not yet come to a complete stock-taking with the geo-political zones. Consensus is built on give and take. We must give something to get something.”
Sergeant Awuse, a member of the Committee on Public Finance and Revenue generation, posited that the issues which have to be considered are, “How united are we in chasing what we are looking for?” and “How dependable can we assume the other parts of the southern Nigeria would be?
“For example, in the South-South meeting, we agreed that the federating units should remain the states, as going back to regional system would take us backward. But some parts of Nigeria, particularly the South-West group, have an agenda for a regional arrangement, which we had before. So, there are a lot of divisions. How much we can give in, would depend on how much compromise we get from other regions including the middle belt and other areas.”
On his part, Dr. Isaac Osuoka lamented that the current political order in Nigeria has nothing more to offer.
Describing it as the fourth republic, he said, “Examining all of the institutions associated with the 4th republic, including the tiers of government, there is nothing we can expect to come out of the system, except something is done to fundamentally recreate and restructure the foundation of the states.
“There are people in the National Conference who want to preserve the existing order, saying that only governance should be developed on. We differ from that view. Today, those who have been military dictators and military administrators, who have also participated in the looting of the treasury, are now talking of good governance.
“Boko Haram is attempting to tear Nigeria apart. They believe they can impose their own religion using terror against the people of the country. There is so much poverty caused by them.”
The human rights activist, who is a member of the Committee on Land Tenure and National Boundary Matters, maintained that we have to revert to the pre-coup status of 1963 constitution which, he said, was imposed by the military, but was a product of debates which included the people of Nigeria.
On the need for a compromise, he stated that the compromise is a negotiation which must be democratized, adding that, the Nigerian people should be allowed to participate in it if delegates act accountably by giving their people feedback on every process at the conference.
Osuoka finally called for the removal of the Land Use Act from the 1999 Constitution as it has not been for the good of the Nigerian people. “Right now, the Land Use Act is locked into the constitution. So the only way to amend it is by constitutional amendment, which is almost impossible owing to the long process”, he decried.
He also referred to the United Nations Environmental Project (UNEP) 2011 report, which revealed that the level of pollution of Ogoniland is unprecedented, being the worst in the world. The report he said, recommends one billion naira to clean up Ogoniland alone, let alone the other areas of the Niger Delta which have suffered environmental degradation from oil spillage as well.
Ann Kio Briggs, while speaking, emphasized three key issues which were 100% resource ownership (instead of resource control), onshore/offshore dichotomy, and the derivation rate at 50% for the Niger Delta region.
She said, “I am demanding for 100% resource ownership for the Niger Delta, and we would pay tax on it. Until we change the current position, nothing will change. But the Nigerian (1999) Constitution as it is today does not permit us to get it 100%. So we have to demand for a change in the law. The constitution is against the aspiration and survival of all the groups in the Niger Delta. From this conference, we must begin to think about our survival, our future.”
She went ahead to reel out figures in relation to the federal allocation to local governments in Nigeria for the month of April, 2013. She revealed that about N79 billion was given to the three geo-political zones of the Northern region of Nigeria, and about N65 billion was given to the Southern region.
Ann Kio Briggs, who is a member of the Committee on Devolution of Power at the national conference, also advocated for the oil to be left in the soil when she said, “The call for a moratorium from the exploitation of oil in the Niger Delta must be considered. Let us stop the exploration of oil and gas, until other viable options are explored and developed. So those who can fish should go and fish, and those who can farm should resume farming.”
During the Question and Answer session, the delegates were generally commended by some participants who praised their courage and requested them to fine-tune their strategies in upholding the various positions taken by the Niger Deltans on the respective issues.
The delegates in agreement, announced that a subsequent Interactive Forum would be organized before the end of the National Conference to further deliberate upon the collective interests of the region, in order to clearly articulate the way forward for the region in the final outcome of the National Conference.
The highlight of the event was the resolution passed by all the participants at the event, to uphold the strategic interests of the Niger Delta region as a united people championing a common cause for the development of the region.
It would be recalled that a Pan-Niger Delta Conference (PNDC) with the theme ‘Niger Delta and the National Conference’, was held in January 28, 2014 with a view to ascertaining and harmonising the interests of the people in the region, in order to present a clearly-defined and unified front at the National Conference.
The PNDC which involves leaders of thought, social justice activists and other stakeholders, has its Secretariat at the Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action), a non-governmental organization whose headquarters is situated in Port Harcourt.
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Let me first thank the conveners of this interactive forum for their foresightedness. This is the reason open and honest communication and feedback are integral parts of relationships. It’s a job well done, and further job well done by the …Niger delta delegates. That’s, assuming all of the delegates are on the same page and not thinking like Sergeant Awuse whose idea of compromise above is worst than despicable. Compromise what, resource ownership and for what?
Why must Niger delta compromise resource ownership and control having done so, fed the entire country and got nothing but deaths, hangings and environmental degradation in return? True that some Niger deltans like those in and at the corridors of power are benefiting. The common man who has nobody in government sharing money in bags or person to speak for him or her and can’t carry guns is confined to roast! So if the north can’t respect us to appreciate our contributions and sacrifice, why continue to allow them mistreat us and still get our oil and gas to the extent of claiming they own it? Their solid and otherwise resources/land aren’t confiscated by the current constitution and Land Used Act as does Niger delta land; so why not say, enough is enough and be prepared for whatever comes? No magic or miracle, no unseen hand or celestial bodies will work and fight for us. Other than unfounded abstractions, as historical facts shows, only humans think, work and fight to liberate themselves for the greater good, so the time is now!
If Northern delegates can insist that the status quo remains, and even demand the scrapping of Niger delta Ministry, NDDC, even though Ogoni has been cheated and denied by certain Niger deltans in-charge from benefiting despite its contributions of oil, ideas and blood, which alongside Isaac Adaka Boro brought the region this far. I wonder why Niger deltans at the conference can’t unite and quadruple their insistence for resource ownership and demand (or stop it by themselves immediately so others will think and create) a complete stop of oil exploitation from the region as Ogonis resourcefully did. This was after getting death and poisoned land in return for more than three decades of compromise and docility. Niger deltans can’t think of unity and become more Nigerian when others don’t, rather think only of our oil and prefer us remain as beggars and eaters of crumbs from the masters’ table.
As I’ve written in my articles: “Nigeria Conference: Open letter to Niger delta delegates,” and “Nigeria Conference: Jonathan and Niger deltans to blame should the status quo remains,” published on many Online newsreels and blogs. It’s expedient that Niger delta delegates maintain their positions on resource ownership and ‘control’ and shouldn’t return back with another sharing formula based upon oil and gas under our forebears graves. The cheating, disrespect and killing is too much, and only the people of Niger delta can redeem themselves-that redemption is now or never!
It’s an eye-saw that some Northerners can claim oil in my land belong to them, thus insisting and also threatening after killing my people. Of course, we know Nigeria is an illegal country forced upon the so-called minorities for the most, and it’s caused my people so much pains, except those dining and wining with the cabal, including confused Goodluck Jonathan, who knew these issues close to our hearts, such as resource ownership will demand constitutional amendment, yet continued. He knew the National Assembly isn’t and will not be in our favor when considering these issues, due to party divide and mostly the fact that it’s dominated by those reaping from where they don’t sow.
Except by magic, the conference can’t amend the constitution nor can it impose referendum as added outcome, though can only recommend. Jonathan swallowed every idea granted him without first considering the illegal military constitution he’s defending. The north misruled Nigeria for decades. These rulers caused the poverty, underdevelopment or the lack of it and hardship, lack of order and thirst for blood seen conspicuously across the nation and particularly the Northern region currently. Ironically, this same people are complaining about marginalization and underdevelopment. As such, you can see what they’ve used Boko Haram to cause, because a Niger deltan they’ve stolen so much from emerged as president, though they still control the establishment.
The drama at hand with Boko Haram, which Jonathan earlier refused U.S. classification as a terrorist group due to bad advise (and I also wrote sounding a warning of what’s ahead), is to further demonstrate what will come if Jonathan returns as president for a second term and not a Northerner of Hausa-Fulani stock. Therefore, Niger delta delegates should and MUST canvass and insist on resource ownership even though it leads to the country’s breakup, and not 50% derivation. The country missed many opportunities to negotiate 50% for our region as was the case in the 50s and ignored them due to greed and shortsightedness about the reality of the future.
Delegates should also demand regionalism, because it will dissolve this cheating state arrangement the north and others use to steal wealth from us when considering the many states they created for themselves. The north has already taken a position against resource ownership/control and regionalism. Both ideas worked well in same country during the regional regime; the north, west and east controlled groundnut, cocoa and palm produce, etc. Regionalism will permit regions to create only the number of states or units they can sponsor and maintain with the resources or revenue they generate and not to become parasitic and kill in anticipation of oil and gas or resources from other regions, though occasional helps may come only when necessary.
The conference should be a defining moment, which the negative tissue it originally was (since those of us who knew were clear nothing would come of it but mere talks and personal political benefits) can be turned to positive when Niger deltans will insist on resource ownership, fiscal federalism/confederacy-regionalism and also insist on implementation else oil will be stopped. This suggested model allows for higher degree of autonomy to the units, thus breed competition, checks and balances, responsibility and accountability against the national laziness, gross corruption or criminality and insecurity, bloodletting that pervades the land because everyone believes nobody owns the oil the country runs on despite the facts.
Lastly, the choice is Niger delta people to prove that they own the oil and gas overtly mismanaged and at best stolen from the communities. The Niger delta is overdue for independence, if it gets to that, and if the north insist. The region have suffered so much, and may have done so than many people who fought and gained independence today across the globe. It’s certain that freedom isn’t free, but an imagination, dream and hard work for it makes same real! Nothing should make these noble Niger delta delegates chicken out! Twenty-Fourteen is different from Nineteen-Sixty Seven. The world today is abreast with the Nigerian issues, particularly the Niger delta struggle that became internationalized by Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people. Delegates needs massive support from the citizens of the region. There must be no deal to sellout by betraying this righteous trust.
There is time for everything, so enough cry and shame for the Niger delta child that isn’t pitied by others, rather they’re demanding more of our heads for them to survive. Any deal to the contrary shall cause the blame on these delegates, Jonathan and the entire region, and posterity will not forgive those bestowed with this opportunity if they fail to deliver by defending and upholding the region’s interest. Niger delta delegates have so much power they can flex if they recognize it and I believe they do.
The rest of the country would reason with them and understand if they’re serious and wish the country continue, despite the arrogance of the north. It’s now the north and others’ turn to compromise, not Niger delta, which has fed the country for more than fifty years and has also been stolen from, made impoverish, object of mockery, death and pollution. So, seriousness and consistency on the part of our delegates is the key. If Niger delta can’t succeed now, then no other time exist and the suffering will continue and get deeper.
Thank you and keep the liberation flag flying!
Ben Ikari
Bamckary@hotmail.com.
Let me first thank the conveners of this interactive forum for their foresightedness. This is the reason open and honest communication and feedback are integral parts of relationships. It’s a job well done, and further job well done by the Niger delta delegates. That’s, assuming all of the delegates are on the same page and not thinking like Sergeant Awuse whose idea of compromise above is worst than despicable. Compromise what, resource ownership and for what? Why must Niger delta compromise resource ownership and control having done so, fed the entire country and got nothing but deaths, hangings and environmental degradation in return? True that some Niger deltans like those in and at the corridors of power are benefiting. The common man who has nobody in government sharing money in bags or person to speak for him or her and can’t carry guns is confined to roast!
Meanwhile, if Northern delegates can insist that the status quo remains, and even demand the scrapping of Niger delta Ministry, NDDC, even though Ogoni has been cheated and denied by certain Niger deltans in-charge from benefiting despite its contributions of oil, ideas and blood, which alongside Isaac Adaka Boro brought the region this far. I wonder why Niger deltans at the conference can’t unite and quadruple their insistence for resource ownership and demand (or stop it by themselves immediately so others will think and create) a complete stop of oil exploitation from the region as Ogonis resourcefully did. This was after getting death and poisoned land in return for more than three decades of compromise and docility. As I’ve written in my articles: “Nigeria Conference: Open letter to Niger delta delegates,” and “Nigeria Conference: Jonathan and Niger deltans to blame should the status quo remains,” published on many Online newsreels and blogs. It’s expedient that Niger delta delegates maintain their positions on resource ownership and ‘control’ and shouldn’t return back with another sharing formula based upon oil and gas under our forebears graves.
It’s an eye-saw that some Northerners can claim oil in my land belong to them, thus insisting and also threatening after killing my people. Of course, we know Nigeria is an illegal country forced upon the so-called minorities for the most, and it’s caused my people so much pains, except those dining and wining with the cabal, including confused Goodluck Jonathan, who knew these issues close to our hearts, such as resource ownership will demand constitutional amendment, yet continued. He knew the National Assembly isn’t and will not be in our favor when considering these issues, due to party divide and mostly the fact that it’s dominated by those reaping from where they don’t sow. Except by magic, the conference can’t amend the constitution nor can it impose referendum as added outcome, though can only recommend. Jonathan swallowed every idea granted him without first considering the illegal military constitution he’s defending.
The north misruled Nigeria for decades.
These rulers caused the poverty, underdevelopment or the lack of it and hardship, lack of order and thirst for blood seen conspicuously across the nation and particularly the Northern region currently. Ironically, this same people are complaining about marginalization and underdevelopment. As such, you can see what they’ve used Boko Haram to cause, because a Niger deltan they’ve stolen so much from emerged as president, though they still control the establishment. The drama at hand with Boko Haram, which Jonathan earlier refused U.S. classification as a terrorist group due to bad advise (and I also wrote sounding a warning of what’s ahead), is to further demonstrate what will come if Jonathan returns as president for a second term and not a Northerner of Hausa-Fulani stock. Therefore, Niger delta delegates should and MUST canvass and insist on resource ownership even though it leads to the country’s breakup, and not 50% derivation. The country missed many opportunities to negotiate 50% for our region as was the case in the 50s and ignored them due to greed and shortsightedness about the reality of the future.
Delegates should also demand regionalism, because it will dissolve this cheating state arrangement the north and others use to steal wealth from us when considering the many states they created for themselves. The north has already taken a position against resource ownership/control and regionalism. Both ideas worked well in same country during the regional regime; the north, west and east controlled groundnut, cocoa and palm produce, etc. Regionalism will permit regions to create only the number of states or units they can sponsor and maintain with the resources or revenue they generate and not to become parasitic and kill in anticipation of oil and gas or resources from other regions, though occasional helps may come only when necessary. The conference should be a defining moment, which the negative tissue it originally was (since those of us who knew were clear nothing would come of it but mere talks and personal political benefits) can be turned to positive when Niger deltans will insist on resource ownership, fiscal federalism/confederacy-regionalism and also insist on implementation else oil will be stopped.
This model allows for higher degree of autonomy to the units, thus breed competition, checks and balances, responsibility and accountability against the national laziness, gross corruption or criminality and insecurity, bloodletting that pervades the land because everyone believes nobody owns the oil the country runs on despite the facts.
Lastly, the choice is Niger delta people to prove that they own the oil and gas overtly mismanaged and at best stolen from the communities. The Niger delta is overdue for independence, if it gets to that, and if the north insist. The region have suffered so much, and may have done so than many people who fought and gained independence today across the globe. It’s certain that freedom isn’t free, but an imagination, dream and hard work for it makes same real! Nothing should make these noble Niger delta delegates chicken out! Twenty-Fourteen is different from Nineteen-Sixty Six. The world today is abreast with the Nigerian issues, particularly the Niger delta struggle that became internationalized by Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni people. Delegates needs massive support from the citizens of the region. There must be no deal to sellout by betraying this righteous trust.
There is time for everything, so enough cry and shame for the Niger delta child that isn’t pitied by others, rather they’re demanding more of our heads for them to survive. Any deal to the contrary shall cause the blame on these delegates, Jonathan and the entire region, and posterity will not forgive bestowed with this opportunity and failed! Niger delta delegates have so much power they can flex if they recognize it and I believe they do. The rest of the country would reason with them and understand if they’re serious and wish the country continue, despite the arrogance of the north. Seriousness and consistency is the key.
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Innovators 2015: Products
byPM360 StaffDecember 15, 2015
PM360’s Innovations Issue, established four years ago, serves as a comprehensive guide to our readers, providing a glimpse at the year’s most cutting-edge: Companies, Divisions, Startups, Products, Services and Strategies.
Here are our picks for the most innovative services of 2015, which include compelling offerings that help the industry tackle new challenges.
Building Mobile Sales Apps: App Data Room
Connected Health Services: Havas Lynx US
CulturIntel: XL Alliance
Design Experience Lab (DXL): PALIO
Digital Management Consultancy: The Stem
“Making Medicines” eLearning Course: Eli Lilly and Company
MerkleONE: Merkle
OneLaunch: Cadient, a Cognizant Company
Programmatic Audience Modeling & Targeting: Crossix Solutions
RWE Analytics and Insights Solution: SHYFT Analytics
Building Mobile Sales Apps
App Data Room
Matt Greener, Director of Marketing
mgreener@appdataroom.com
App Data Room is a versatile mobile solution for sales teams around the globe. Rather than just provide a pre-made sales app, the App Data Room platform allows businesses to build, brand and manage a mobile app to fit their sales needs. Companies can also integrate their own CRM and customer databases, as well as marketing automation processes, to provide their sales teams with a powerful, secure and functional app that aids every part of the sales process.
The App Data Room platform is intuitive and highly customizable. Clients select nearly every aspect of their app, from the color and logo to the features, user groups, languages and content. The result is a unique, easy-to-use app tailored to the client’s preferences that is web accessible and also runs native on any of the three major mobile operating systems: iOS, Windows and Android. Apps work offline if the salesperson does not have access to WiFi or a data connection, and for regulatory purposes all necessary updates are handled easily on the back-end and automatically pushed and updated on the end user’s device.
Any App Data Room app is ideal for delivering marketing material on a mobile device including giving a presentation, capturing leads, following up with clients or analyzing sales data on the go. It also shortens the distance between marketing departments in the office and sales teams in the field. The support team back home is able to manage content, monitor performance and communicate directly with salespersons anywhere in the world.
Connected Health Services
Havas Lynx US
Larry Mickelberg, President
larry.mickelberg@havashealth.com
In 2015, Havas Lynx launched Connected Health Services, a full-offering set built to serve clients in the growing connected health space. In this new era of connected health, marketers must fuse brands with advanced services, devices and digital technologies that engineer new ways to improve patient care and deliver better outcomes.
Connected health understands that the effectiveness of a drug depends on many more factors than how well it works pharmaceutically. The combination of targeted drug therapies, sensors, cloud-based analytics and feedback loops generates important new data and makes for a smarter system and a more potent effect. This allows clinicians and marketers to segment patients on the basis of which treatments will work for them; generate treatment algorithms and clinical decision support; apply predictive algorithms to tracking and monitoring data; and anticipate events and respond to triggers in real time.
Connected Health Services will help clients meet these needs with solutions spanning the health journey, such as aiming to provide personalized content and experiences to providers and patients, helping physicians identify and innovatively treat patients, and encouraging and promoting adherence to treatment regiments. And with billions of dollars flowing into the connected health space from all over (pharma, tech companies, venture capitals, etc.), Havas will also help clients harness this incredible dynamic with a focused approach that includes advisory services to help clients understand and evaluate the growing landscape of technologies and players, workbench to prototype and test solutions, and a series of service lines in the areas of patient services, data and analytics, (and more to come) with a variety of partners.
CulturIntel
XL Alliance
Patrick Furey, Chief Data Officer, XL Alliance
patrick@xlalliance.com
Liliana Gil Valletta, President XL Alliance
liliana@xlalliance.com
While dozens of social listening tools are available, none can mine digital and social “big data” inputs to be mapped through the patient-to-treatment journey. This gap was XL Alliance’s catalyst to redefine the way traditional research is done to deliver Social Cultural Intelligence. The company launched CulturIntel, a toolset and proprietary insights process that mines unbiased, unfiltered and real-time big data to identify meaningful interventions that improve access, treatment and outcomes for patients.
Through its unique methodology that uses an arsenal of tools such as key word Boolean, topical text analytics and artificial intelligence, CulturIntel draws quantitative evaluation of qualitative organic data and isolates key influencing topics, as well as emotional and cultural nuances that impact diverse patients differently at each state of the patient’s journey.
Harvard Medical School, Medtronic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealthcare, Pfizer, Merck and Novartis are some of the key businesses that have already used CulturIntel to help examine and identify behavioral, emotional, physical and spiritual drivers that influence their target through the consumer journey—unveiling new opportunities for growth.
Recently, in partnership with the Harvard Medical School and the American Cancer Society, the CulturIntel methodology helped mine over a million unique posts related to breast cancer treatments to unveil key barriers to treatment across ethnicities, which had not been studied and uncovered before. The final report by Harvard states how the report “presents powerful, real world data using this new modality for qualitative research. Future research should further focus on how to further employ and learn from this type of social intelligence research.”
Design Experience Lab (DXL)
Rafael Holguin, SVP, Design Director
rafael.holguin@inventivhealth.com
As with most other agencies, PALIO had been developing brands for print and then handing off the work to the user experience (UX) department for translation into digital. But earlier this year, PALIO recognized the changes happening in the way users interact with brands, and the agency saw a need for brands to be more responsive to a more complex environment of online and offline media. Their strategy: Build an entirely new core service, the Design Experience Lab (DXL), which brings together the talents of the brand design and UX teams to build responsiveness into brands from the point of inception. The goal: Build seamless brand experiences.
The DXL formally launched in January 2015 and immediately focused on pushing brand design to be more responsive to the comprehensive user experience—both current and future—and maintain unity across all mediums. But first, the DXL had to educate clients on how design and UX lay the groundwork for how audiences not only recognize brands, but also how they interact with them in different spaces.
Today’s brands have to be nimble to easily share content with their end users, regardless of the medium. As brands continue to move into new communication channels and platforms—YouTube, Spotify, game consoles—a brand design that adapts easily to this changing landscape helps maintain its authentic brand voice and “aesthetic DNA.” The agency does this by designing a modular brand design system, mapping out a comprehensive user interaction architecture, and by building a flexible interface design that translates globally. And most importantly, it ensures the experience is intuitive to the end user.
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The Stem
Gregg Fisher, Managing Partner
gfisher@thestem.com
Only 18% of pharma companies are satisfied with their digital activities, according to a recent industry survey from Across Health. And 77% of companies, according to an estimate from MIT, consider missing digital knowledge as the key hurdle to their digital transformation.
To help address the “digital knowledge gap” in life sciences, The Stem is a new breed of management consultancy. Founded in 2013 by digital health and strategy veteran Gregg Fisher, The Stem incorporates principles of the “gig” economy, popularized by startups such as Uber, to build a global network of independent consultants serving health industry leaders, including Merck, Celgene and Shire.
Unlike traditional consultancies, which rely on an internal talent base and supplement only where necessary, The Stem staffs more than 90% of its consulting assignments through an independent talent network comprised of more than 100 consultants. Additionally, the approach to each project is customized to the specific situation, so Stem consultants are staffed on-demand and matched to the needs of each client. All of Stem’s consultants have an average of 15 plus years of experience in the industry.
The Stem offers consulting solutions in the areas of digital strategy, customer insights and analytics, digital process and organization, and digital execution support. The Stem consultants consist of multichannel strategists, researchers, analysts, innovation experts, process designers, business technologists, program managers, and many other roles.
Some of the company’s recent successes include: Planning a three-year digital transformation for a top 50 pharmaceutical company, formulating a next-generation digital patient support experience for a leader in rare diseases and developing a digital product innovation strategy for an iconic consumer health brand.
“Making Medicines: The Process of Drug Development” eLearning Course
Yolanda Johnson-Moton, Director – External Relations U.S. Medical Affairs
johnson-motonyo@lilly.com
Research suggests the current perceptions of medical students, residents and many healthcare providers about the pharmaceutical industry are often influenced by the media, role models, peers and institutional policies. The medical expertise and processes that contribute to scientific-based drug development are often overshadowed, as impressions vary and may not accurately reflect the industry.
Eli Lilly and Company believes that students in a health-related field may benefit from additional education on this topic to better inform them and ultimately, help improve patient care. Eli Lilly determined that an eLearning course would offer a viable solution—possibly making it the first pharmaceutical company to develop a comprehensive education solution to be offered as an elective course to academic institutions.
Eli Lilly collaborated with 10 academic educators from multiple institutions (including Butler University, Duke University, Indiana University, Kansas State University, Marian University, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulane University and University of Illinois), FDA experts, and the NIH to develop an eLearning course titled, “Making Medicines: The Process of Drug Development.” Making Medicines is designed to offer institutions an online course to examine the fundamental concepts and techniques of the drug development process including insights into clinical trials and the regulatory environment.
The course launched in October and was unveiled at OMED 2015. Up to eight pilot institutions will begin to offer the course to students beginning in 2016. Early indicators suggest there is significant interest in the Making Medicines course. Since October 13, 2015, Eli Lilly has received more than 50 inquiries from individuals and organizations regarding the course.
MerkleONE
Merkle
Owen McCorry, EVP and General Manager, Health
omccorry@merkleinc.com
Success in today’s pharma marketing environment requires a people over product approach—in other words, “people-based marketing.” But achieving this often requires marketers to work within a complicated web of platforms, vendors, databases and agencies—all of which are in constant flux. Integrating all of these components is one of the largest challenges facing health marketers—and the inspiration behind MerkleONE, an all-in-one digital marketing solution suite for pharmaceutical marketers.
MerkleONE is a programmatic media targeting platform, arranged in four layers that leverages first-party CRM data and custom audience creation, and targeting across premium publishers. The solution addresses the difficulties companies face in connecting their first-party data to the direct targeting and delivery of relevant content to the right customer at the right time.
The platform does this by providing a specific set of tools and competencies to help marketers make the most of first-party and third-party data insights. In fact, it transforms data into visible, actionable insights that can then be used to activate targeted, data-driven campaigns that engage individual patients, physicians and HCPs—in real time.
Effectively, MerkleONE enhances integration between data sets previously siloed, thereby providing pharmaceutical marketers with the ability to adopt an insight-driven approach to people-based marketing. The platform not only empowers a company’s ability to target specific individuals, but also decreases the fraud risks in media buying—all while improving marketing viewability.
OneLaunch
Cadient, a Cognizant Company
Will Reese, Chief Innovation Officer
will.reese@cadient.com
In today’s complex healthcare landscape, brand launch innovation requires an approach that is more personal, agile and driven by business intelligence and data. Thus, the old industrial launch model—one that relied on large sales forces and one-size-fits all messaging—cannot be sustained in today’s environment. Brands only have one opportunity to successfully launch, and moving forward, differentiation will be driven almost exclusively by the customer experience they create and how effectively they use data. To address these needs and help clients get a competitive edge, Cadient and Cognizant created a new commercial transformation launch service called OneLaunch.
OneLaunch combines Cadient’s digital marketing methods and launch expertise with Cognizant’s deep analytics and infrastructure capabilities to create a unique and modern approach to commercialization. The service provides a more seamless launch experience for emerging biotech and specialty products both internally across global teams and externally across increasingly diverse customer sets.
The OneLaunch offering was built to reflect the customer environment of today and tomorrow: Launch must create a more personalized experience for patients, providers and payers while maintaining the right balance between human and digital interactions. Increasingly, launch teams are focused on specialty patient populations, thus requiring high touch experiences, and a much deeper appreciation of an integrated care delivery system. The service is rooted in commercial planning and driven by a combination of analytics and enterprise information management. The result is a more agile approach to launch which in turn establishes a more connected customer engagement ecosystem.
Programmatic Audience Modeling & Targeting
Crossix Solutions
Dan Stein, SVP, Product Strategy
dan.stein@crossix.com
Launched in 2014, Crossix’s programmatic audience targeting solution enables pharma marketers to identify, reach and engage with relevant online audiences based on predictive health data. This new approach goes beyond the more traditional demo/geo and contextual-based targeting approaches by leveraging a wide breadth of audience data sets across demand-side platforms (DSPs), data management platforms (DMPs), online publishers, mobile ad partners and other key ad tech platforms across the programmatic media landscape.
Crossix also overcame a significant hurdle—one that has held back some pharma marketers from using this approach. Since an individual’s personal health information can never be used for media targeting purposes per HIPAA, a prerequisite for the solution was that it must protect consumers’ personal data and preserve their privacy. Crossix solved this by developing data models that combine health data and consumer data (i.e., demo, geo and lifestyle variables) to determine the combination and weighing of consumer variables most closely correlated with the likelihood to perform a specific health behavior, such as treating within a condition category or with a specific drug brand (see image). The outputs of the modeling process are algorithms informed by these consumer variables that can then be applied to a given online audience to identify those with the highest treatment propensities. At no time is an individual’s actual health data used in the application of the models for media targeting purposes.
Within its first year, more than a billion digital campaign impressions have been delivered using the 170 plus different Crossix audience models developed to date, across more than 100 unique brand campaigns executed by more than 30 pharma companies and 25 media agencies.
Real World Evidence (RWE) Analytics and Insights Solution
Priya Sapra, VP of Analytics
psapra@shyftanalytics.com
SHYFT Analytics, a leader in cloud-based data and guided analytics solutions for global life sciences, launched its Real World Evidence (RWE) Analytics Solution in June 2015 to support the life science industry’s increasing need for real-world and evidence-based insights. Cloud-enabled and mobile-ready, this solution translates RWE data into patient-centric intelligence and analytics for use across the enterprise to improve the value of clinical research activities, shorten cycle times across brand lifecycle phases, as well as strengthen analytical competence for commercial teams to drive rapid change and market differentiation.
SHYFT’s RWE insights analyze and swiftly inform on the treatment journey across the health and managed care settings, physician and patient dynamics, behavioral influence and utilization patterns. Managing and utilizing millions of patient-level data electronic medical records (EMR), claims, reimbursement, health economic outcomes research (HEOR), and sales data enables customers to gain insights about safety, efficacy and cost benefits of a pharmaceutical product throughout its lifecycle.
Recently, a large global pharma company, recognized the importance of incorporating RWE data into its product lifecycle decision-making. However, capturing and aligning this data was no small task given its legacy systems and departmental data silos. The pharma company worked closely with SHYFT to aggregate the data, create meaningful insights and distribute them across the clinical-commercial continuum.
The integration of RWE data and the resulting actionable analytics increased speed and access to patient-centric analytics and insights allowing the global pharma company to more effectively react to market dynamics. The company was able to maximize the return on their $20 million annual data investment and gained a competitive advantage as the first mover with RWE data.
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High-frequency T-DNA-mediated gene tagging in plants
C Koncz, N Martini, R Mayerhofer, Z Koncz-Kalman, H Körber, G P Redei, and J Schell
PNAS November 1, 1989 86 (21) 8467-8471; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.21.8467
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R Mayerhofer
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H Körber
G P Redei
J Schell
An insertion element [transferred DNA (T-DNA)], transferred by soil agrobacteria into the nuclear genome of plants, was used for induction of gene fusions in Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana tabacum, and Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. A promoterless aph(3')II (aminoglycoside phosphotransferase II) reporter gene was linked to the right end of the T-DNA and transformed into plants along with a plasmid replicon and a selectable hygromycin-resistance gene. Transcriptional and translational reporter gene fusions were identified by screening for APH(3')II enzyme activity in diverse tissues of transgenic plants. The frequency of gene fusions, estimated by determination of the copy number of T-DNA insertions, showed that on average 30% of T-DNA inserts induced gene fusions in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana. Gene fusions were rescued from plants by transformation of the T-DNA-linked plasmid and flanking plant DNA into Escherichia coli. By dissection of gene fusions and construction of chimeric genes, callus- and root-specific promoters were identified that showed an altered tissue specificity in the presence of a 3'-downstream-located 35S promoter. Transcript mapping of a gene fusion and expression of a non-frame transcriptional fusion of bacterial luciferase luxA and luxB genes demonstrated that dicistronic transcripts are translated in tobacco.
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C Koncz, N Martini, R Mayerhofer, Z Koncz-Kalman, H Körber, G P Redei, J Schell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nov 1989, 86 (21) 8467-8471; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.21.8467
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Misinformation about bacteria at Navarre Beach sends swimmers into 'panic'
Navarre Beach safety officials are stressing that the Gulf of Mexico is safe to swim in after misinformation about water quality caused a bit of a panic among beachgoers Wednesday morning.
Misinformation about bacteria at Navarre Beach sends swimmers into 'panic' Navarre Beach safety officials are stressing that the Gulf of Mexico is safe to swim in after misinformation about water quality caused a bit of a panic among beachgoers Wednesday morning. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/09/04/misinformation-bacteria-navarre-beach-causes-panic/2212637001/
Annie Blanks, Pensacola News Journal Published 4:17 p.m. CT Sept. 4, 2019 | Updated 9:53 a.m. CT Sept. 5, 2019
Navarre Beach officials say water safe for swimmers
Ivy Fields, of Navarre, helps teach her nephew Lucas Cotten, 6, how to swim at Navarre Beach on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Navarre Beach officials are stressing to the public that the water is safe for swimming after misinformation about water quality raised concerns earlier in the day. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Navarre Beach on Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Mason McGregor, of Omaha, Nebraska, plays in the water at Navarre Beach on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Navarre Beach officials are stressing to the public that the water is safe for swimming after misinformation about water quality raised concerns earlier in the day. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
At left, Athena Miller, 8, and Janie Nowicki, 10, of Navarre, jump in the water at Navarre Beach on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Navarre Beach officials are stressing to the public that the water is safe for swimming after misinformation about water quality raised concerns earlier in the day. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Miranda Wiercinski, of Daytona Beach, sits along the water's edge at Navarre Beach on Wednesday, September 4, 2019. Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Navarre Beach officials are stressing that the Gulf of Mexico is safe for swimming after misinformation about water quality caused a bit of a panic among beachgoers Wednesday morning.
The misinformation began when a lifeguard began telling people that water sampling failed to meet water quality testing standards for bacteria levels, according to beach safety director Austin Turnbull. The lifeguard was citing information from Swim Guide, a Canada-based company that monitors water quality at more than 7,000 beaches, according to its website.
The information was posted on the Navarre Beach Lifeguards Facebook page and sent some beachgoers into a frenzy.
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But Turnbull and Navarre Beach Safety Chief Danny Fureigh said Swim Guide is not an official source that the lifeguards use to determine water quality, and the latest available sampling from the Florida Department of Health indicated the water was safe for swimming.
"Navarre Beach and Navarre Beach Sound is clear of any bacteria," Turnbull wrote in an email to county officials regarding the issue. "The source used for this information is inaccurate. I take responsibility for this information making it to the internet and causing panic. I have spoken with FDOH and all water surrounding Navarre Beach is absolutely safe to swim.
"I will have a discussion with my supervisors and reiterate that we do not post information about bacteria levels and water conditions in the future without confirming with at least two credible sources and/or FDOH," he added.
At left, Athena Miller, 8, and Janie Nowicki, 10, of Navarre, jump in the water at Navarre Beach on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Navarre Beach officials are stressing to the public that the water is safe for swimming after misinformation about water quality raised concerns earlier in the day. (Photo: Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com)
Dana Grissom, the environmental supervisor for the Santa Rosa County Department of Health, said data from the last available testing, which took place Aug. 26, did not indicate hazardous levels of bacteria on Navarre Beach. No health advisories have been issued for any Santa Rosa County beaches as of last week, Grissom said.
"Last week, the only sample that did come back with a bad result was Navarre Park, but the re-sample was good, so no advisory was issued," she said.
Samples were most recently taken Tuesday, and the results of that testing should be available by Thursday morning.
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Swim Guide representatives could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon. Santa Rosa County spokeswoman Brandi Whitehurst said she contacted the company about the incorrect information and they corrected it on their website.
The state health department routinely tests water for the presence of enterococci, more commonly known as fecal bacteria, in waters throughout Florida. If the water has dangerously high levels of the bacteria, a health advisory is issued for swimmers.
The only health advisory currently in effect for the Pensacola area is for Bayou Texar in Escambia County.
Annie Blanks can be reached at ablanks@pnj.com or 850-435-8632.
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If you wanted to summarise 2019 for Google, it should probably start with Hey Google. The company has pushed Google Assistant in a number of directions, but it's starting to feel as though Assistant is the glue that's holding together Google's many-stringed bow.
Google is really a data company: it knows what you search for, it knows how you're approaching the world, serving you with maps, indexing the contents of your photos and running about half the world's smartphones through Android, but it's Assistant, or rather Google's growing AI, that can return this data as something useful to customers.
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While Google has expanded its Home devices - now under the umbrella of Nest - and refreshed its smartphones, it's really Assistant and AI that makes these devices. Google's phones are good because of the camera AI, its home devices edge out Amazon because of Assistant's AI - and things like the live transcription of voice, or ability to answer phone calls for you only help to reinforce how important AI is going to be for Google going forward.
While the home devices have generally been well received, in 2019 Google struggled with its smartphones. The cameras are still great, but the Pixel 4 particularly was criticised for its short battery life; Google did find success with the Pixel 3a however, putting that potent camera in people's hands at a lower price.
Google Assistant and AI smarts
This is going to be a key focus for Google in 2020. In 2019 we saw the small (but hugely significant) detail that Google Assistant now did its voice processing on the device, rather than in the cloud. This is not only key for privacy, but it reduces data demands and latency: as Google's AI gets more sophisticated, we'll see more local processing as things get faster and remove the need to have a connection, making it more accessible for those in developing countries or on limited data plans.
Google Assistant is going to get smarter in 2020 and it's going to be in more devices. We're also likely to see more services like live translation and live transcription appearing in other services, and functions like Google Duplex getting wider international release.
Google Pixel smartphones
Google has only been making its own phones for four years. The success has been in the camera and that's what we're expecting the Pixel 5 to offer: more camera skill, better low light performance. But there's a general feeling that Google's rivals are out performing the Pixel in terms of battery life and excitement. Google is already showing that it's price aware and we're expecting a Pixel 4a to hammer home the affordable offering - but it's going to be all about computational photography rather than the number of cameras on the back.
Nest and home devices
Google has pulled Nest and Google Home together into the Nest brand, making Nest all about the home. The device that's not moved is the original Google Home, so an updated version of Google's original Home speaker could be expected, to fight back against the growth of the Amazon Echo.
Wear OS and wearables
You might have noticed that the Wear OS ecosystem has slowed, from the deluge of devices to a trickle from the same manufacturers. There's also long been rumours of a flagship Wear OS device - Pixel Watch - which was cancelled for 2019, having followed a couple of years of rumours. Wear OS sort of feels like a platform that Google's own hardware division isn't getting involved with - there's no pure breed champion as it were and think there should be.
But we think Google is going to pivot on wearables, leveraging the acquisition of Fitbit to bring smarter fitness devices using Google AI to sports fans.
We know that we'll be getting Android 11 and we know that it will likely bring AI boosts and more Assistant goodness. But what else will it offer? It's hard to predict what Google might add to Android, but there's already talk of scheduled dark mode as well as a sharing feature to rival Apple's AirDrop, which could make it easier to move your files around for everyone in the Android ecosystem.
Google's big cloud gaming service Stadia launched in 2019, but it's so early in the life of this platform that 2020 can only be seen as a chance to push the service and expand its growth as Google attempts to make it accessible to as many people as possible. We'd expect incentives, integration with other platforms and lots more games, because it's going to be competing with the new Xbox and the new PlayStation 5 for attention.
Chrome OS and Chromebook
Google has officially called time on Android tablets, so it makes sense to see Chrome OS as the platform for Google tablets moving forward. Chrome OS still has some obstacles to overcome, because it doesn't handle things like multiple accounts for the same user anywhere near as well as Android does. But with support for Android apps, Chrome is becoming a more competitive proposition, especially in the low cost laptop market, popular in education, even if Apple's Phil Schiller doesn't agree.
We're expecting a range of new Chromebooks, from premium to 2-in-1 from a range of partners. We might even see a Qualcomm Snapdragon powered Chromebook.
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2009 Ford F-150 Test Drive: Can America's Best-Selling Full-Size Pickup Truck Hold the Title?
By Basem Wasef
DEARBORN, Mich. — High gas prices combined with a worldwide economic meltdown have sent shock waves through the automotive industry. Cars and trucks that were hot sellers mere months ago now have money on the hood—huge cash-back incentives to try and lure back buyers. And the market for full-size pickup trucks has been perhaps the hardest hit. Industry trade journal Automotive News recently reported that "pickup truck sales won't bottom out until 2010, at a meager 1.7 million units." That's about 1 million less pickups than were sold in 2007, and it translates into big money lost for Detroit's Big Three. And the old trucks stuck on dealer lots translated into Ford delaying by two months its new version of the most popular truck in America: the 2009 Ford F-150.
"This is an interesting time to launch a new F-Series," Ford VP Jim Farley told journalists at the recent F-150 launch—something of an understatement given sky-high fuel costs and the iconic truck's precipitous drop in sales. CEO Alan Mulally might have expressed the company's sentiments more directly when Ford announced the F-150 delay: "We view the move to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles as permanent."
So where exactly does that leave Ford and the new F-150 we've been waiting for? Well, after driving a number of F-150 configurations and spending time with the competition (click here for our exclusive comparison test), we can say the F-150 may be the best new fullsize pickup on the market. Its frame feels incredibly robust, the interior is luxury-car quiet, and the retuned 5.4-liter V8 now provides enough grunt to keep pace with others in this battle-worn class. With 35 possible configurations, the lineup is incredibly diverse. And the all-new 2009 models are aimed at Ford's core customers—the ones who actually use a pickup for its intended purpose: hauling, towing and offroading. In other words, guys like us.
The 2009 Ford F-150 will be available in seven trim levels when it hits showrooms in about a month: XL, STX, XLT, FX4, Lariat, King Ranch and a new high-end Platinum series. The lineup offers three V8s: a base 4.6-liter, two-valve engine (which offers the same fuel economy and more horsepower than the outgoing V6 option), a 4.6-liter three-valve version, and a 5.4-liter, three-valve V8 producing 320 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque. The entire F-150 range comes standard with conventional stability control coupled with Roll Stability Control, which uses two gyroscopic sensors to measure vehicle yaw and roll. Diesel and turbocharged direct-injected EcoBoost options are expected by 2010.
The lineup averages a 1.5-mpg bump over last year's models, thanks to improved aerodynamics, weight loss and drivetrain updates which include a new six-speed automatic—standard on all but the base-level engine. The F-150's frame gains 10 percent more torsional stiffness despite a drop in weight, aided with the incorporation of hydroformed front and fully boxed mid and rear rails. All this enables a maximum 11,300-pound trailer-towing capacity.
An integrated trailer brake controller has trickled down from the Super Duty line, and is available on XL, XLT, FX4, and Lariat models equipped with the Trailer Tow Package or Max Trailer Tow Package. Using a seven-pin connector and an electronic module, the system adjusts trailer braking using information from the truck's ABS system. The FX4 model gets an electronic locking rear differential too, complementing its skid plates and other off-road-ready features.
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WARNER. A HISTORY OF BARNOLDSWICK
Post by Stanley » 08 Feb 2012, 04:16
A HISTORY OF BARNOLDSWICK
By Rev. J H Warner BA. Priced at 1/6 (seven and a half new pence). Published by the Craven Herald. 1934.
[This text has sunk into obscurity and it needs to be more accessible as it contains much original research based on original documents. Well worth a read….]
A Foreword.
THE Vicar of Barnoldswick, in writing the following account of the history of his parish, has obeyed the well-known precept, attributed to more than one diocesan bishop and repeated by many, that a parochial incumbent should also endeavour to become the parochial historian. Mr. Warner, with a genuine enthusiasm for his subject, has not been content to repeat what others have said before him, and perhaps to give their statements a more popular complexion; but he has gone for the sources of his work to original documents, from which he has extracted much that will be at once new and interesting to his readers. Even the best and most careful local historians sometimes succeed in writing very dull books : their task of bringing together miscellaneous evidence is difficult, and to give liveliness and a connected form to the result is even harder. In the present instance, these obstacles seem to have been less formidable than usual. Mr. Warner has "the shaping spirit of imagination" which enables him to reconstruct past history with fidelity to truth, and the power of exposition which readily harmonises diversity of material into a constructive and intelligible narrative. Inhabitants of Barnoldswick will recognise with appreciation his affection for the town and its neighbourhood and will welcome his attempt to put the fruits of his researches into readable shape for their instruction and profit.
A. HAMILTON THOMPSON.
This little book cannot claim to be a history of Barnoldswick. There are too many gaps in the narrative to permit such a claim to be sustained, intervals even of centuries during which things happened, eventful enough, no doubt, perhaps more so than many of the events here chronicled, but of which no record is to be found. And even of the material available some has had to be discarded. Many parish histories are dull reading. I have tried as well as I could to avoid dullness and make the pages of the past interesting to my readers ; and to this end I have omitted records of leases in the Manor Court, various old wills and other documents useful, to the historian but tedious to the general reader. At times a horrid misgiving assailed me, and I seem to see myself sitting prone on the ground, between the two stools of popular interest and historical value! If so, I hope I may be at least considered worthy of a little credit for having essayed a difficult task. The book suffers also from another fault, which my readers will no doubt soon discover : a certain discontinuity in style and matter due to its being written at such intervals as I could spare from the duties of my office as Vicar of the town whose history I have been trying to trace. If, however, the reading of it gives any pleasure to my parishioners, and perchance to a few non-parishioners, I shall be gratified. The writing of it has been a very pleasant task to me.
I gratefully acknowledge much kind help received from many friends; Prof. Hamilton Thompson, Colonel Parker, Dr. Vacher Burch, Mr. Alban Atkinson, Prof. Edmondson, of New York, and others. And I would like to record my appreciation of the assistance given to me by the Publishers.
To know Barnoldswick at its best one has to see it in the early days of June, when the hawthorn hedges are in full blossom, -white as snow," and the sunshine falls lovingly and lingeringly on the green springing grass and soft young heather of the hill-sides. Then "Weets," for so we name the hill which rises steeply behind our town, shows all its bewitching enchantments to those who look for them. Probably the name comes from the Old English "withig," which means withies, or willows ; or perhaps, it may be derived from the Norse "vithr," meaning "wide," and indicating the broad expanse of the hill, which in winter seems cold and bare but in early summer is lovely. The little cotton town with its somewhat drab streets and grimy mills-"sheds" we call them in this part of the world-stands in the midst of a fair scene. Behind it, Weets aforesaid slopes upward to a height of 1,300 feet, and over the shoulder of Weets a glimpse is caught of the still higher outline of Pendle, once famous for its witches, reminding us that we are on the edge of Yorkshire and very near to the county of Lancashire, which is at once the sister and rival of the shire of broad acres. In Barnoldswick, indeed, Lancashire flaunts her cotton skirts in the face of her fair sister long content with homely wool ; and if we are good judges of the dialects of the two shires we can detect the vowel sounds which betray the speech of the migrants from over the border, now no longer aliens in our midst. It is not always advisable to discuss cricket when the rival Roses are playing one another at Old Trafford, or Headingley, for Lancashire blood is then apt to announce its presence even in those who might be accounted “old inhabitants" here. Perhaps another trace of the influence of Lancashire upon this little corner of Yorkshire is to be found in the penchant which inhabitants of our town display for taking their annual holiday at Blackpool. To return to our story, however, and to turn our backs for the moment on Lancashire, we can look from the slopes of Weets, or even from the seats in Letcliffe Park, over one of the fairest and most extensive views in all England. To the left rise Harrop Moor and Bowland Forest, Croasdale Fell (1,483 feet high), Bowland Knotts and Whelpstone Crag, Ingleborough with its table top, Simon's Fell and Whernside, highest of the Yorkshire hills (2,414 feet). Then come the Settle crags, Malham Rye Loaf, with a peep of Pen-y-Gent behind, Fountains Fell (also over 2,000 feet high) and Great Whernside. Following on to the right we can see Rylstone Fell and Flasby Fell, Sharpah, Crookrise, Embsay Crag, and Simon's Seat above Bolton Abbey. The very names are redolent of romance, mingled with history; but we must not stay to dwell on these things. Taking our eyes
off the swelling contours of the hills, we look next on the valleys below, where the Ribble, the Wharfe, and the Aire, with many lesser streams, roll through rich pasture lands on their several ways to the sea. These rivers themselves are not indeed visible, but the added beauty which water gives to a landscape is supplied by the windings of he Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in these parts more like a river than a crowded commercial waterway. The pastures and meadows of Craven are famous, and Craven heifer beef takes its place with turtle soup at Aldermanic banquets. The tillage, which in Whitaker's (1), day had become "universally exploded," has never recovered from that catastrophic occurrence, and to this day there is scarcely an acre of corn land in the whole of Barnoldswick parish, and very few acres in all Craven. Pasture and meadow hold undisputed sway in the lowlands ; but up on the hills the heather and the bracken make green and purple cover for curlews and for grouse, and the sweet grass between the best of browsing for sheep.
From Letcliffe Park the prospect is almost entirely sylvan and rural. But you have only to climb up over Tubber Hill and you will be able to look right away over the moorland to the rolling smoke and black chimney stacks of Cottonland. Colne and Nelson, Burnley and Accrington, rank offences to the aesthetic and poetic, "dark Satanic mills" to those who do not find their daily bread within them, but with a strange, weird beauty of their own when the red sun flashes on them, and with their irresistible appeal of "whoam" to those who have toiled in them for a life-time. At night, when the lights are all aglow over miles of country-side, climbing up hills, dipping down into valleys, breaking out here and there into great patch-work patterns where some huge mill throws out its light from hundreds of windows, softened by distance, splashed with spaces of green, or reflected in silvery waving water, the scene is as of fairyland. Where else in England is so great a contrast to be found? Up here on the moorland with the curlews calling overhead or the startled grouse whirring up at your feet, you seem alone in the world. Yet in a short half-hour's walk you may be listening to the deafening din of the looms, or the clatter of the clogs on the feet of thousands of busy toilers. There is variety here, surely ; the variety which in living is the spice of life, and in nature is the soul of beauty.
Such then is the setting in which stands this little town of Barnoldswick, whose history we are essaying to trace. Unkind critics may call the town itself ugly. It was built in too great a hurry to allow of much effort after architectural splendour, and its buildings are useful rather than fine, its homes comfortable rather than
1 "History of Craven," 2nd edit., p 2. (Where Whitaker is referred to throughout this book the references are to the 2nd edit.].
picturesque. It escapes the slums which more pretentious places seek to hide. It might have had fine buildings, for in its neighbourhood are the Tubber Hill and Salterforth quarries, producing some of the finest stone in England. If, however, the buildings of Barnoldswick are not its chief glory, and cannot be pointed out with much pride to our visitors, we can ask them with conviction whether they know many towns with a fairer environment, many scenes more beautiful than that at which we have been gazing from the town park, where stands the town's Memorial to those who died in 1914 to 1918 for the sake of England's loveliness and her homes.
CHAPTER II.
Early Days.
WHERE and whence did Barnoldswick get its name? You must pronounce it with the accent on the second syllable, Barnoldswick, not Barnoldswick; or if you have been initiated into one of its mysteries you will call it "Barlick." Barbarous name in any case you may say, or at least think if you are too discreet to put your thoughts into speech ; and indeed it does not roll easily nor smoothly off the tongue. Yet there is an element of romance, as well as a puzzle in it, too.(1) We have to go back to the old days before William the Conqueror invaded England in order to trace the origin of the name. In William's survey of the country, known as Domesday Book, we find that its name was Bernulfeswic, and that it belonged to a Saxon thane called Gamel, who owned also other possessions in Marton and Thornton and round about even so far as Bradford. Bernulfeswic means the "wick" (Lat. vicus) or town of Bernulf, and Bernulf must have been some predecessor of Earl Gamel, who probably first built here a little simple manor house and attendant cottages or hovels, with a palisade round them, at the foot of Weets. A certain Beornwulf, King of the Mercians, fought at Ellandun against Egbert, King of the West Saxons, in the year 823 A.D., and Egbert got the victory, so the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle informs us ; but it would be hazardous to identify this Beornwulf as the founder of Barnoldswick.(2) Beornwulf was a not uncommon Saxon name, perhaps reminiscent of encounters with the bears and wolves that roamed the forests of old England.
We would like to try to picture to ourselves this Saxon hunter and warrior; and still more to picture the "wick" which he built here, and the country in which it stood. The hills far and near would have looked much the same as they look now; the same brooks came tumbling down the near hill-sides, and farther away Ribble, Aire and Wharfe flowed in the same courses in which they flow to-day. Many marshes and bogs lay in the lowlands, as well as much uncleared woodland, chiefly scrub and small trees, with an occasional great old oak or towering ash. The hills would mostly have been gaunt and bare as they still are, broken, nevertheless, by patches of primeval forest where deer harboured with boars, and even a wolf or two. In clearings here and there stood the townships, each with its palisade or " tun," each with its little cluster of poor mud and wattle hovels, windowless and chimneyless, where
1 The puzzle, namely, how its ancient name of Bernulfswick (see p. 1) ever got transformed into Barnoldswick. Smith, in his book, "Place Names of the North Riding," accounts for it as due to the weakening of the stress on "ulf" and compares Thoraldsthorp, originally Thurulfesthorp, and Gonalston, originally Gunulfston.
2 Yet it is not quite impossible, for Clitheroe and Skipton were both in the demesnes of the Earls of Mercia in the time of William I.
lived the ceorls or freemen ; each with its rather bigger and more pretentious abode of the earl or lord of the manor. The Roman historian Tacitus gives us a glimpse of the fashion in which they lived, these forefathers of our England, in the days before they came hither from the marshes and sand-flats that border the Baltic and the Elbe. "They live apart," he says, each by himself as wood-side, plain, or fresh spring attracts him." Yet also they lived in clans together, and each settlement had its common pasturage and its plough-land, bordered by the "march" of "waste" or fen-land which separated one township from another, and which no man might till or take for his own, for it was sacred to the fairies and will-o'-the-wisp. Simple and free were the lives they lived, unembarrassed by the complications of modern civilisation ; yet before we wish ourselves back in those " good old days" we might stay to count the sorrows and travail of the stark combats with wild beasts and wild neighbours, and the fears which filled men's souls in the presence of gods who were fiercer and more cruel than any human beings. We might reckon in also the fight with hunger and disease in the days when there were no hospitals, no "Lloyd George" money, and no unemployment "dole." Wars and forays were the joys of men's lives, and the tears of women were of small account when the earl rode out to battle, or to lead his fierce followers far across the sea.
For the great Empire of Rome was bowing its proud head before the blast which swept from the steppes of Asia. Hordes of Huns and Goths were swooping down on its decadent civilisation, and Angles and Saxons found the opportunity to lay the first rough foundation stones, cemented in blood, of an Empire which was to be greater and more far-flung than that of Rome and Constantinople. How amazed those rude clansmen who came hither with Beornwulf would have been had any man given them the vision of the days to be, when the "wick" they were building should be linked by threads of cotton, and the invisible bonds of commerce, with lands which the Romans, whom they were dispossessing, never knew.
Did the Romans themselves ever visit Barnoldswick? The vestiges of a Roman-or it may have been a British-road are to be found on the edge of the town still. For Brogden Lane was part of a Roman road. That road ran from Ribchester to Tadcaster, through Skipton and Ilkley. From Skipton to Elslack (1) it probably followed very nearly the same course which the railway now pursues. The remains of Roman fortifications have been found near Elslack Station, and remind us of the frequent skirmishes which Roman soldiers fought with British tribesmen ; unless, perchance, those entrenchments were thrown up to repel some foray of Picts and Scots in the days when Hadrian's Wall was not yet built. From Elslack, the road ran to Thornton and thence via Greenlees, Brogden, (2) Coverdale Beck, Howgill, Downham and Chatburn to Clitheroe. Traces of it are still to be found not only in Brogden Lane, which probably runs exactly as it ran, but in the higher grounds where the lane finally loses itself in the fields, and further on again at Pendleton Brook which it forded.(3) It was made of gravel not of stone, which is one reason why it may be supposed to be of British rather than of Roman origin; though, no doubt, the Romans used it and made it a part of the great road system with which they covered the country. Whether Barnoldswick existed when it was made, or when Roman soldiers and chariots journeyed to and fro upon it, we cannot now pronounce with certainty. No Roman remains have been discovered here, but that is not conclusive proof. Some earthworks were found, close to the Roman road, just north of the town, consisting of two small square platforms three feet high and about ninety feet long and broad, with vestiges of a slight ditch, but experts think that they were intended for the protection of sheep from wolves, not as fortifications against man.(4)
But we have digressed from our attempt to paint a picture of the little Saxon "wick" in order to take this fleeting glance at an even remoter past. Let us return for a brief moment to the days when England was nearing another great milestone in its history, and the next act in the drama was being prepared on the plains of Normandy. When Edward the Confessor was king in England, Bernulf’s "wick" had descended, as we have seen, either by inheritance or by some other right, to Earl Gamel. In Domesday Book, the Conqueror's great survey of the lands of his new kingdom, the following is the record given of Bernulfeswick
In Bernulfeswic. Gamel XII carr ad gtd. Berengr de Todeni tenuit sz m e in castellatu Rogr Pictuaensio.
From which we gather that Earl Gamel, who with his retainers from Barnoldswick and elsewhere had probably fought side by side with Harold in the Battle of Senlac Hill, was for this crime, or even only for the crime of being a Saxon, dispossessed of his lands, which were handed over by the Conqueror to Berenger de Todeni, a nobleman from Normandy. Berenger, it appears, did not hold it long, and it became part of the extensive possessions of Roger of Poitou, alias Roger the Poitevin. This Roger was a man of note and a favourite of the Conqueror's, from whom he received large gifts of lands in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The "castellate" referred to in the Domesday quotation is probably that of Clitheroe. (5)
1 Elslack probably derived from Elves lagh. Fairies Hollow.
2 Brogden-Beaver's Den or hole.
3 Vide Codrington's "Roman Roads in Britain."
4 Victoria County History of Yorks., Vol. II., p. 13.
5 So Whitaker, "History of Craven," p. 59.
which may have been founded by this Norman Baron but possibly was older still and of Saxon foundation. Roger of Poitou was also Lord of Halton Manor, and of Lancaster, which went with it ; and may have been the builder of the great castle the ruins of which now look across Morecambe Bay.
How Barnoldswick came to pass from the possession of Roger or of his family to that of De Lacy, or rather of the Earls of Norfolk, as we shall later see that it did, the present writer has not discovered, but further research may throw light on the matter.
We can only picture in imagination the troubles and sorrows of the hapless serfs or peasants, the inhabitants of Bernulfswick, who had to transfer their allegiance from a Saxon to a Norman lord. Doubtless there were many widows and fatherless children in the humble homes of this little village whilst the wars between invaders and invaded swayed to and fro. Whitaker, in his -History of Craven, tells us that he is sure that there was a Church here then, though no mention is made of it in Domesday Book. His reason is that Serlo the Monk, of whom we shall hear anon, tells us that in 1147 the Church in Barnoldswick was already an ancient structure. If there was a church, it would, no doubt, have been a very simple building indeed, of wood or wattle, plastered with mud and roofed with thatch, little grander than the poor huts of the people. But where there was a church there would be a priest, and we may believe that he would not have been molested by the Norman Christians, as his predecessors might have been when the heathen Saxons drove out British Christianity and for a time replaced Christian churches by the temples of Odin and Thor. He could and no doubt would minister the comfort of God to the stricken members of his flock.
This ancient Church of Barnoldswick stood probably at or near the spot where Calf Hall Shed stands now, or else on the site of the present market-place. It was certainly close to the field now known as Monkroyd.
CHAPTER III.
The Coming of the Monks.
In our next view of the panorama of the past of Barnoldswick we begin at the great Abbey of St. Mary, York. It was a Benedictine Monastery, and the Benedictines by the middle of the 12th century had lapsed from their pristine zeal and strictness, and had become luxurious and lax. Some of the inmates of St. Mary's, discontented with this, and unwilling to be spoilt by the overgood living of the Abbey, left its gates and migrated to Fountains, where the Cistercian monks were following a much more severe life of poverty and good works. But after a little stay within its hospitable walls the chance came to them of founding a daughter priory of their own. And it came in this way. Henry de Lacy, or de Lasci, grandson of one of William the Conqueror's barons, Ilbert de Lacy, fell sick and in his sickness vowed a vow that, if he recovered, he would build to the glory of God and the honour of St. Mary the Virgin a monastery to shelter some of the Cistercian monks. Unlike some others who have made vows when ill only to break them with equal facility when well, Henry de Lacy was as good as his word ; and looking over his great estates when he had risen again from his bed of sickness, he chose Barnoldswick to be the site of a new monastery. What impulse or spirit guided his choice we do not know ; but it is at least possible that it may have been due to the fact that another great nobleman, William de Percy, had also about the same time decided to found a monastery at Sallay, or Sawley, which is only a few miles distant from Barnoldswick. It may have been the other way about, of course, for both foundations took place in the same year, 1147; and which of the two was the first decided upon is not shown. The Barnoldswick foundation, however, was actually made on the 18th of May in the year 1147. Once again by the use of a little imagination we can picture to ourselves the scene when the company of twelve monks and ten lay brethren, with their Prior at their head, came to begin life anew in the secluded uplands at the foot of Weets. The fresh green would be waving the signal of spring from the pastures and the woodlands, and the air would be full of the scent of the hawthorn, which blossoms abundantly on these hill-sides. They might well think that the lot had fallen to them in pleasant places, as fair as the Fountains which they had left ; and they would not suspect the presence of the serpent which they afterwards found in their Garden of Eden. One writer speaks of them very glowingly as "those humble and self-denying men who left the luxurious halls of St. Mary at York to find a home and to found a [religious] house amidst the privations of a desert life." That their motives were pure and their heroism and self-sacrifice real there can be no doubt, but there was as we shall see a considerable strain of the "old Adam" even in these devout and good men. Their leader, Alexander, Prior of Fountains and first Abbot of "Bernulfeswick," and subsequently of Kirkstall, was no mean man. Whitaker finds convincing proof of his "skill and taste" in the fact that when he was rearing the magnificent pile of Kirkstall Abbey he "spared the fine woods which surround the house and brought the timbers from a distance.” The Abbey itself is a better proof not only of skill and taste, but of stronger qualities as well. Its ruins stand to-day on the outskirts of Leeds looking scornfully down from their remote antiquity on the encroaching environment of modern villas and ugly factories, and on the once pure and lovely but now contaminated and evil-smelling Aire, which rushes past them as if hurrying to escape their reproachful gaze. Though they cannot compare in size, nor in beauty of situation, with the remains of Fountains Abbey, still they are splendid and bear silent yet eloquent witness to the devotion of Alexander and his monks, who for thirty long laborious years toiled at their uprearing. In this work they were aided by the generosity and support of Henry de Lacy, who built the church of the Abbey at his own expense and gave other large gifts both of lands and money, including the continued possession of the Manor of Barnoldswick. To this he and other patrons during the succeeding centuries added other like gifts of estates and manors until at the Dissolution Kirkstall was one of the wealthiest and greatest monastic institutions in the North of England. During his lifetime Alexander acquired many of these estates for his abbey, and died at last after a thirty-five years abbacy, “an Abbot indeed and not in name only," as the Kirkstall Chronicler declares.
But we are anticipating, and must retrace our steps a little to the band of monks and conversi whom we left surveying the scene of their future abode on that fair day in May in the year of grace 1147. Part at least of the monastery which they were to occupy had been already built for them by their patron, but it would be not much more than a rude wooden shelter, which they would
have to enlarge and complete. Its position in a field still called Monks Royd (or Rood) is known from tradition, confirmed by the discovery of remains of tiles and lead pipes dug up there a century or so ago. Possibly further research might yield some interesting results, but I have not heard of anyone attempting it. As usual in the choice of monastic sites, it was not far from running water, close to Butts Beck where it tumbles picturesquely down its green-edged channel from the side of Weets. To their new home thus
placed, on slight rising ground, the monks (or Henry) gave the name
Mons Sanctae Mariae. The well from which they drew their water is still to be seen and is known as St. Mary's Well to this day but it waters are not used now, either for drinking or for healing.
They did not need to build a church, for they found one ready built, an ancient one even then, so their chronicler, Serlo, informs us, calling it “antiqua nimis et ab olim fundata.” There was a Vicar (or Rector) of Barnoldswick even in those far-off days, and he and his flock were wont to assemble for daily prayer and praise, and no doubt "sacrifices of the Mass" for the living and the dead. Conflicts, therefore, soon arose between the monks and the villagers, each wanting the use of the church at the same time, with the result that much ---bad blood" was engendered on both sides. And at last dissension rose so high that Alexander, who, being a masterful man could ill take any crossing of his will, gave orders, "minus consulte," admits Serlo, that the church should be pulled down., Perhaps, to give him his due, this rash conduct was not wholly due to rage and the "old Adam" in him, but was also partly actuated by the desires to build a larger and nobler church in its stead. But the days were wild and lawless, for at nearly the same time Murdac, Abbot of Fountains, was suffering hard things at the hands of his enemies, who compelled him to flee for his life because of his part in resisting the claims of William Fitz Herbert, Archbishop of York. His church was burnt, and his abbey sacked ; but he finally routed his foes and became Archbishop himself. The contention between the monks and the people of Barnoldswick was referred first to him as Archbishop, and afterwards to the Pope, by whom sentence in favour of the monks was pronounced on the ground that the step taken in demolishing the church was likely to result in the final greater advancement of true religion. I am inclined to take this as meaning that a finer church should be built in place of the demolished one, but historian Whitaker understands it to signify that monastic religion is a nobler type than the mere village stuff, and declares his astonishment and indignation at such "vile casuistry" and “pernicious doctrine.” That Alexander and his nobles did rebuild the church, though on another site, we know as a fact ; and that they did it whilst also building the great Abbey of Kirkstall seems to indicate some stronger compulsion upon them than that of conscience only ; yet, perhaps, this again is to give them less than their due.
But be this as it may, we find the monks engaged in a struggle not only with the stubborn inhabitants, but also with a yet more stubborn climate and soil which would not suffer hard labours at their crops to bring them their due reward. Their neighbours at Sawley were undergoing the same hardships. One of their patrons, Matilda, Countess of Warwick, describes the situation of that Abbey as being in a land "nebulosa et pluviosa" (“full of rains and vapours"), and a still nobler patron, Edward I. himself, in writing to the Pope describes it as lying close to the Irish Sea, astonishingly wooded and mountainous, and visited by wild tempests.(1) The vapours of the Irish Sea sweeping over Pendle descend upon Barnoldswick, also in showers which may be refreshing and cleansing, and good for cotton manufacturing, but are not conducive to good harvests. So we can enter with sympathetic understanding into the feelings of the colony of monks whose historian, Serlo, in a fine vigorous phrase, complains of the "importunity of the rains" (importunitas imbrium) which would not allow the crops to rejoice in the ripening rays of the sun. Nor was this all ; for in addition to outraged and therefore unhelpful villagers, and to Irish Sea vapours, the monks had to endure the depredations of pillaging Scots, whose thieving bands carried off cattle and sheep and sometimes greater spoil.
The monks of Sawley may have been made of sterner stuff, for they refused to be driven from their solitudes by Irish vapours or Scotch robbers. But neither did they have an Abbot Alexander at their head as the Barnoldswick monks had. This adventurous and ambitious man kept his eyes open for a "better 'ole," if one may be allowed to use this now classic phrase. He found it, too, in Kirkstall aforesaid ; and if any of my readers would like to know the negotiations and strategies by which he obtained possession of it, and built there the noble pile of the great Abbey and Church, he will find it set out in full in the Chronicles of Kirkstall and its Chartulary, or in the pages of Dugdale and Whitaker, and lesser historians who have followed in their wake. Barnoldswick people may reflect with pride that in a sense their town is the mother of the great Abbey whose noble ruins still look across the waters of Aire and which in its turn has become a possession of pride to one of the greatest of the great manufacturing and industrial cities of the North. We may venture to hope that Leeds people will not be wholly forgetful nor neglectful of the bonds which unite them to this homely old mother of theirs amongst the hills and moors.
1 Whitaker : History of Craven," pp. 43, 44.
CHAPTER IV.
Barnoldswick and Kirkstall.
HENRY DE LACY obtained his surname from the quaint little town of Lessay, or Lassy, in Normandy. He traced his descent from the Emperor Charlemagne, and was himself' brought up at the court of Henry III as a ward of the King. One of the most conspicuous and powerful barons of the realm, he was Lord of the Honour of Clitheroe, Baron of Halton, and hereditary Constable of Chester. He owned great estates in Yorkshire, Lancashire and elsewhere, including the Forest of Blackburnshire in which was some of the finest and merriest hunting in England in those days. Let me explain that the term "forest" in mediaeval usage did not necessarily mean woodland where trees grew thick together. It denoted stretches of hillside and countryside, moorland and marshland, as well as of timber. Now the "Forest" of
Blackburnshire bordered the manor of Barnoldswick for many miles across Weets and along the valley between it and Pendle. "Manor" also, by the way, is not to be understood in its modern signification, but as standing for the whole estate in arable land and pasture land, and even so-called "waste" of some baron or lord, with the humble homesteads and cottages of his retainers clustering round the hall. The contiguity of Blackburn Forest and Barnoldswick township and manor led, as we shall see, to disputes and lawsuits. But when Henry de Lacy granted Barnoldswick to Abbot Alexander and the monks, he came hither himself and with his attendant retinue "beat the bounds." The following statement of these bounds is extracted from Farrer's "Early Yorkshire Charters" :
"Notification by Henry de Lascy as to the boundary between Barnoldswick and his Forest of Blackburnshire as perambulated by him and his men when he delivered Barnoldswick to the monks of the Cistercian Order for the erection of an abbey there : namely by the stream called Blakebroc up the moor to Gailmers and so directly to Ellesagh across Blacko hill to Oxegill. and up Oxegill to the Pikedlawe called Alainsetc, thence to the ancient ditch between Middop and Coverdale."
The Kirkstall Chartulary also contains a similar statement of these boundaries, but with some variations : Clessaghe taking the place of Ellesagh, and Colredene that of Coverdale.' Dugdale's "Monasticon" substitutes Oregill. for Oxegille. (2) In Whitaker's 'History of Whalley’ he also refers to these boundaries, and adds this note : "Not one of these ancient names appears in the
1 V. Coucher Book of Kirkstall Abbey, published by the Thoresby Society, Vol. VII, Part II., pp. 189, 190.
2 Monasticon, V. p. 532.
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perambulation of the parish of Whalley of which the antiquity is uncertain but which cannot be later than the reign of Edward III. as it is found in the Coucher Book of Abbot Lyndlay" [of Whalley Abbey.] (1) Two hundred years, however, is a sufficiently long period to permit of the dying out of old names, especially in a forest.- Blacko, Midhope, and Coverdale still survive ; Oxegille is probably the present Ox Clough ; Ellesagh seems to have left no trace to modern days, but is no doubt identical with the Ellswater and Wauleswater mentioned in other charters. Blackbroc is undoubtedly the “County Brook" which now marks the boundaries of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The following note is added in Farrer's "Charters" :
'It will be observed from the description of the boundaries that Admergill was included in Barnoldswick. The boundary, after crossing Blacko Hill, ascended Oxgill in a north-westerly direction between Burn Moor on the right and 'Weethead on the left to the ' law ' or hill with a pike of stones on the summit, then known as ' Alainsete.(2) This was the summit of Burn moor (1,250 feet) and being an important point in the boundary of the Percy Fee in Craven, owed its name doubtless to a perambulation personally conducted by Alan de Percy in the time of Henry I.” (3)
I have not heard of any "beating of the bounds" of the parish of Barnoldswick within recent times, but it would be considerably more than a "Sabbath Day's journey;” for the whole round cannot be less, and may well be more, than 20 miles. However, the perambulation referred to above was not, of course, one of the whole boundary of the present parish, but only of that part of it which borders Lancashire.
Henry de Lacy's charter has been reprinted in "The Coucher Book of Kirkstall Abbey," for the printing of which all students of the history of bygone days are indebted to that Society. Amongst its "many witnesses" we find the names of Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York, referred to in a previous chapter. As he died 14th October, 1153, this confirmatory charter must have been given before then. The other witnesses include many priests (one of them a priest of Pontefract), a doctor, a "teacher of grammar," and one Gamellus, son of Besing, of whom we wonder whether he can have been a descendant of old Earl Gamel.
1 History of Whalley, I. 304,
2 ie., Alan's Seat. No trace of this name appears now to remain.
3 op. cit p.
The following translation of a few sentences of it will put my readers in possession of the main points of the Charter :
"Be it known to all men, living and to come, that I Henry de Lacy have given and granted, and by this my charter have confirmed, to God and St. Mary and the Abbot Alexander of Kirkstall and the monks there serving God, in pure and perpetual alms, for the building of an Abbey of the Cistercian Order, that place of Kirkestal and Bernolyeswick with all their appurtenances in wood and field, meadows and pastures and water, and in all which to the same lands belong, also Brackenleia (1) the vaccaria (2) next Lerundheia (3) and its pasture. And I grant these ... free and quit of all customs and soil-services for the salvation of my soul (4) and of the soul of Ilbert my grandfather and his wife Hawisia and [the souls of] my heirs and of my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and of Matilda my aunt and of all my ancestors and of all the faithful dead."
A fairly extensive list of the souls who were to benefit by the generosity of one mortal ; but this was, more or less, the regular form in which such donations were made in the Middle Ages.
The charter was confirmed a few years later by Robert de Lacy, son of Henry, who died in 1193. A copy, or the original, of Robert's charter was in the possession of Richard Hartley, of Barnoldswick, Coates, in the year 1655. Where it is now I do not know. Confirmation was again made by Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester, who died about 1211. It would seem, therefore that the title of the Abbey of Kirkstall to Barnoldswick was secure enough; but it was not, as we shall see in what follows.
In the first place, it is not quite clear whether Ilbert de Lacy had or had not received a part of the manor of Barnoldswick either direct from the Conqueror, or from Roger of Poitou. Domesday Book shows that whilst apparently the greater part of it had passed with the Castle of Clitheroe to Roger, some part of it remained in the hands of the King. Lawton, in his book "Collections relating to the Dioceses of York and Ripon" (edit. 1842), stated that Henry de Lacy gave to the monks the town, or vill, only, and adds, "The Manor of Barnoldswick in the parish of Gilkirke in Yorks. was formerly parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster and never belonged to the Abbey of Kirkstall, and therefore was not tithe free” He adduces no authority for this statement, however, and it is contradicted by the documents quoted a little further on in this book which expressly affirm the gift of the manor.
1 Brackenley, near Roundhay.
2 A vaccaria was a breeding ground for stock.
3 Roundhay, Leeds.
4 Another copy of the charter adds here the words, "and of my wife."
5 V.Coucher Book, pp. 68, 69.
But there was another and more serious flaw in the title deeds. Henry de Lacy, in making a present of Barnoldswick to the monks, was giving what, it appears, was not his to give, for his right to grant it was challenged by Hugh Bigod, the puissant Earl of Norfolk. Hugh declared that Henry was his tenant only, not owner of Barnoldswick ; and that he owed for it a yearly rent of five marks, or a palfrey of the same value, and a hawk. Hawks (falcons) and marks were valuable in those days, so we need not infer that Barnoldswick was only a mean possession because so seemingly small a rent was paid for it. Small or large, however, the rent had not been paid for many years and de Lacy may be forgiven for forgetting it, or, supposing that the Earls of Norfolk did not intend to exact it, nor to claim their possessions here again. Hugh soon dissipated this fond notion, for hearing of the mistaken generosity of Henry he asserted his claims, and the monks were obliged to surrender Barnoldswick. But Abbot Alexander was not the man to take meekly any despoiling of the possessions of his Abbey, and he went straight to the King (Henry II.) with his plaint. The King inclined a favourable ear to him, and summoning the truculent Bigod to his royal presence, reminded him that he, too, like de Lacy, was a sinner who needed the intercessions of Holy Church for the safety of his soul . Moved by this plea, in which Church and State so powerfully united, Earl Hugh restored Barnoldswick to the monks and their rejoicing Abbot, and did it in handsome terms. Like de Lacy, and being perhaps also unwilling to be the only sinner concerned in the transaction, he piously associated a dead aunt, and the rest of his ancestors in general, with himself. Perhaps my readers would like to have it in the original Latin, and I will leave it to them to translate. Here are the important words .
', Pro salute anime mee et Albrede de Insula amite mee et antecessorum. meorum .... totam terram de Bernolfewic cum Elfwintrop et omnibus alfis appendiciis suis in puram et perpetuam elemosinain."(1)
Henry de Lacy, ever active on behalf of the monks, obtained from the King a confirmation of this grant., so once more they appeared to be firmly settled in their possession of Barnoldswick. Perhaps it was just after this restitution and confirmation of their possessions here that they built Gill Church, in which to pray amongst other things, for the repose of the soul of Lady Aubrey de Lisle, the "Albrede de Insula" mentioned in Earl Hugh's grant.
The Elfwinetrop here mentioned, and also mentioned by Serlo, is said by some to be Ellenthorpe, near Gisburn; but this seems
1. Kirkstall Coucher Book, No. 266. (ie. f. 54). Notification of his gift by Earl Hugh to Roger Archbishop of York.
unlikely, and the Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, Vicar of Barnoldswick,. 1820 to 1836, has the following note about it in a small booklet published by him on the History of Gill Church, now out of print :
“I can discern no trace of this township within the limits of the present parish of, Barnoldswick, by any similarity of name in houses or fields. It appears, however, by no means impossible that Elwinthorpe is the same as Ingthorpe, now in the parish of Marton and in the possession of R. H. Roundell, Esq. For that parish as mentioned before was originally included in Barnoldswick, and there is good reason to imagine that Ingthorpe was at that time a hamlet distinct from Marton, and would therefore be separately mentioned as one of the component townships of Barnoldswick. There is a very strong similarity between the two names, and the spelling of those times was not very well defined, but 'we find Ingthorpe variously spelt Uctiethorp, Unkethorpe, Hunkethorp, etc. The place to this day is exempt from any contribution to the roads within the Parish of Marton; the remains of a village were found near the present house of Ingthorpe by the late possessor ; and there is tradition of its having been destroyed and its inhabitants massacred in a plundering incursion by the Picts and Scots. The grange of Ingthorpe, some years after the period of which we are treating, belonged to Bolton Abbey, and as it appears that a pension was regularly paid by the Canons of that House to the Abbots and monks of Kirkstall it may be supposed that it was paid to them as the representatives of the old monastery at Barnoldswick, in consideration of Ingthorpe."
The latter supposition is not quite correct, for the whole of Marton, not Ingthorpe only, had been given to Bolton Abbey, and the "pension" was paid for all Marton.
Somewhere about the year 1150 Abbot Alexander made application to Henry Murdac, Archbishop, praying that the chapels of Bracewell and Marton, hitherto dependent on Barnoldswick, might be raised to the dignity of mother churches with parishes of their own ; the future parsons of Bracewell having tithing and parochial rights from Bracewell and Stock, and those of Marton having the same from East and West Marton; the mother church of Barnoldswick to be appropriated to the use of the abbot and monks.(1)
In 1156, Adrian IV., Pope of Rome, took the monks of Kirkstall, their church and all their estates, including, no doubt, Barnoldswick, under his protection ; no small pledge of security and peaceful possession in the days when the Papal writ ran far
1 Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, vol. I, charter 1471. See also Walbram's "Memorials of Fountains," Vol. 1. p. 91, note.
and wide, and even powerful and unruly monarchs trembled before it. This also was an achievement of Abbot Alexander, and another proof of his ability and statesmanship.
The history of Bracewell requires a volume to itself, but it may be of interest to add here anent its connection with Barnoldswick in old days that in the year 1340, and in the abbacy of William, 18th Abbot of Kirkstall, Richard Tempest, son of Roger, released and quit claimed all his right in the advowson of the church of that place and all the lands and other things belonging to the said church to the Abbot and Convent of Kirkstall. In 1347 the church was appropriated to the said Abbot and Convent by Wm. de la Zouche, Archbishop of York, who “ordained a vicarage therein.” (1)
1. History of Kirkstall by James Wardell, 5th edition. P 34. See also the Zouche chapel MSS at York.
CHAPTER V.
The Building of Gill Kirk.
THE struggle of the migrant monks with the Scots, the clouds, and the villagers narrated in Chapter 111. continued for some six or seven years ; to be exact, until the year 1152.(1) Then in the early summer months again the monks turned their backs on unkindly Bernulfleswick and moved away to Kirkstall. Thenceforward for 400 years the history of the little village amongst the hills is bound up with that of the great monastery ; and, though not without dispute and interruption, as we shall see, the manor of Barnoldswick became a grange of the Abbey.
In the year 1160, or thereabouts, some of the monks returned to build here a church to replace the demolished one, and to be dedicated, like their monastery, in honour of St. Mary the Virgin. For some obscure reason, however, they chose to build it not on the site of the old one, nor even in the town itself, but away down by the side of the little stream which divides this parish from Thornton ; for which reason the church came to he named the "Church of St. Mary-le-Gill," or as it is mostly called in subsequent centuries,---Gill Kirk,"(2) and to-day “Gill Church” Perhaps they built it there, as Dr. Whitaker supposes, in order to provide means of grace for the people of Marton and Thornton as well as for those of Barnoldswick. There is, however, some ground for thinking that the real reason was not so creditable to the monks, but rather due to lingering malice against the unlucky inhabitants whose too punctilious church-going had inconvenienced them at first. They had to build a church, so we may suppose, in accordance with the Pope's sentence, but they vented their spleen by putting it in an out-of-the-way place. Marton folk certainly did not long require to use Gill Church, for the Marton estate was transferred a few years later to Bolton Priory, from which a yearly rent or acknowledgment of 20s. was regularly paid to Kirkstall. The Priors of Bolton built a church for Marton before 1186, when a certain William is mentioned as its Rector. (3) Thornton Church, very similar in its architecture, stands less than half a mile away from Gill Church. Whitaker thus quaintly comments on their proximity : “A traveller is struck with the vicinity of this church [i.e., Thornton] and that of Barnoldswick, which stand at the extremity of their respective parishes and look as if they had moved by agreement from their proper sites to give each other the meeting.” The building of Thornton Church was probably some fifty years later than that of Gill ; at least there seems to be no record of that church before the time
1 So the Victoria County History, apparently following Dugdale. Whitaker gives it as 1153.
2 With a great variety of spellings: Gilkirk, Gyllkirke, St. Mary le Ghyll, etc.
3 Whitaker: "History of Craven," p. 77.
of Henry III. This would rule out the interesting conjecture that the two churches were built contemporaneously by the monks, one band of builders vying with the other, and both sharing materials, and perhaps the supervision of Abbot Alexander himself when he could spare time from his greater labours' at Kirkstall.
Opinions differ as to whether any part of the original church of the monks still remains. Possibly, as Whitaker thinks, the present east end, with its three lancet windows and its slender buttresses, is that which these first builders erected. There is an early English (almost Norman) window in the north side of the chancel wall which may well be of that date. The 14th century was a period of active church repair and church building, and probably about then the low-pitched roof was raised and the south gable added. There is no mention that I have been able to find of a Chantry at Gill, otherwise the east end of that aisle, with the present vestry, may have been a Chantry Chapel. The solid massive tower, of unusual width, was added later still in the days
of Henry VIII., for it bears the date 1524 carved thus: "CCCCCXXIV." with the symbol M for 1,000 omitted, an omission of which Whitaker says that he has found no other example. (1) Some years ago a massive stone coffin was dug up in the churchyard. This may have contained the remains of one of the monkish builders who died whilst the work was still in progress. There is also an ancient lavabo, or holy water stoup, which probably belonged to the oldest church. The font is of early date, certainly pre-Reformation, and may have been put in by the twelfth century builders. The furnishings of the present church, its three-decker pulpit; fine carved oak Holy Table, and old pews
(with the exception of a few easily distinguished nineteenth century pitch pine ones) belong to the Jacobean period, about 1620 to 1630 ; and are the most interesting features of it now, because the zeal of the church restorers of last century has swept away most of the once numerous ecclesiastical remains of that period. The greatly needed restoration of the old stone-tiled roof tiles and timbers dating back to the fourteenth century, is being made as this chapter is being penned, and is being carried out with the help of the advice of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
For further information about the church, its memorials, etc., I may be allowed to refer my readers to a little booklet, "Gill Kirk," which I published a short time ago.(2) Sir Stephen Glynne, the famous antiquarian, visited the church in 1860, and the
1. "History of Craven," p. 70. Possibly the M was accidentally cut off when the stone was being chiselled to fit in its place, and was not replaced on the neighbouring one.
2. Price 6d., to be had from the Vicar, or Verger.
following note of his visit as recorded by himself, is copied from the Yorkshire Archaeological Society's journal :
(The church stands) ---In a lonely and rather romantic spot away from the populous part of the parish. Like the neighbouring churches, it is essentially late Perpendicular, has a nave and chancel each with south aisle, west tower, and south porch. There is one lancet (window) on the north of the chancel, and the east window is a triplet, the remains of original work. The other windows are square-headed, of three lights, mostly without foils but not entirely so. The arcade is of pointed arches with octagonal columns; those in the nave large and with capitals. There is no architectural distinction of nave and chancel, but the nave is of five, the chancel of two, bays. The aisle is low ; the roofs have stone slates. One window north of the chancel has a label and head corbels. There is a doorway on the south, within the porch which has a Norman look, but is doubtful. The tower is large and late Perpendicular, embattled with corner buttresses, a square turret, at the north-east, and is unbroken by strings. The belfry windows of two lights, no door, but a three-light west window, poor and without foils. The outer walls are partially stuccoed. There is an organ. The font has a circular bowl on a stem of like form. In the churchyard are some stone coffins, and what appears to be a font."
There is one rather strange-for so careful an observer-slip here. There are only five bays in all in the church, not, as one might gather from Sir Stephen's account, seven.
There are three bells in the tower, which were placed in position in 1723. The first of these has a diameter of 28 inches and bears the inscription: “Peace and good neighbourhood A.R. [Anna Regina] 1723.” The second is one inch larger in diameter, and its inscription is : “Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's and unto God the things that are God's, A.R. 1723” The tenor bell is 32 inches in diameter and has as its inscription : "Wm. Drake Esq., Ch. Warden A.R. 1723” William Drake, of Coates Hall, was the donor of the bells.
CHAPTER VI.
Scots Marauders.
WHILE these things were going on in Barnoldswick, things fraught with great consequence were happening in a wider world, and some at least of them sent their reverberations into the quiet solitudes of our valleys and hills. Barnoldswick, for weal or woe, lies off the main ways through which has surged the life of England in war and in commerce. We are in a back water among the hills, and for the most part captains and kings have passed us by. Yet even here, and in those days when our inaccessibility was tenfold greater than now, the events that were happening in England left their marks on our village, and it may be worth our while to glance just for a moment at this bigger world. Stephen, grandson of William the Conqueror, was king when the monastery was built here, and in the very year of its building, 1147, Matilda, his great rival, had escaped across the ice on the Thames to return to Normandy; and her ally, David of Scotland, had been defeated in the Battle of the Standard at Northallerton. Prior to that deliverance from them the marauding bands of Scots had penetrated into Craven, possibly to Barnoldswick, and a battle, with a different result to that of "the Standard" had been fought at Clitheroe in the summer of 1138. The following picture of an invading Scots army may raise a smile on our faces now, but in those old days their appearance filled with terror the hearts of the inhabitants of the towns and villages in all the North, almost as far as Trent itself :
"They are mounted on little hackneys that are never tied up nor dressed, but turned immediately after the day's march to pasture on the heath or in the fields. . . . They bring no carriages with them on account of the mountains they have to pass in Northumberland, neither do they carry with them any provisions of bread or wine, for their habits of sobriety are so in time of war that they will live for a long time on flesh half-sodden, without bread, and drink the river water without wine. They have, therefore, no occasion for pots or pans, for they dress the flesh of the cattle in their skins after they have flayed them, and being sure to find plenty of them in the country which they invade they carry none with them. Under the flaps of his saddle each man carries a broad piece of metal, behind him a little bag of oatmeal: when they have eaten too much of the sodden flesh and their stomach appears weak and empty they set this plate over the fire, knead the meal with water, and when the plate is hot put a little of the paste upon it and [bake] a thin cake like a biscuit which they eat to warm their stomachs. It is therefore no wonder that they perform a longer day's march than other soldiers." (1)
Whitaker gives us an extract from another chronicler (Ricardus Prior Hagustald) which affords us a glimpse of the same armies engaged in their work of pillage and rapine :
“In the year 1138, while David, King of Scotland, was engaged in the siege of Norham, he detached the Picts and part of his [Scottish] army, under the command of William, son of Duncan, his nephew, into Yorkshire. Here they laid waste the possessions of a celebrated monastry called Suthernesse [i.e. Furness, probably] and the province called Crafna [i.e. Craven] with fire and sword. In their work of destruction no rank or age and neither sex was spared; children were butchered before the faces of their parents, husbands in sight of their wives and wives of their husbands : matrons and virgins of condition were carried away indiscriminately with other plunder, stripped naked, bound together by ropes and thongs and goaded along with the points of swords and lances. Similar outrages had been committed in former wars but never to the same extent. In their march northward, however, some of the captors, touched with compassion, set their prisoners at liberty as offerings to the Church of St. Mary at Carlisle ; but the barbarous Picts dragged away their wretched captives without mercy into their own country. In short, these brutal savages to whom adultery and incest were familiar, after having fatigued themselves with acts of lust and violence, either retained the females as slaves in their houses, or sold them like cattle to the other barbarians." (2)
I need not reproduce the moralizings of the learned historian on this "shocking passage" ; but content myself with pointing out that there are some advantages in living in Craven Dale to-day rather than 800 years ago.
The same historian informs us that some years prior to this time a discovery had been made in a ditch close to the Church of St. Mary-le-Gill of "an old English tankard of wood with a broad rim of copper, gilt and richly chased, together with a small jar of bell metal, which last had it been found alone, or in other company I should have thought Roman; but they were probably thrown here in some of the plundering excursions of the Scots." (3) One would like to know what was the fate of this "find," and where these vessels are now.
1 Froissart's Chronicle, quoted in Green's "History of the English People.”
2 "History of Craven," pp. 13, 14.
3 ibid p 71.
The Great Lawsuit.
IN the days of Edward III, somewhere about the years 1330 to 1340, a great contention arose between the monks of Kirkstall and Queen Isabella, mother of the king, concerning the possession of a part of Barnoldswick. We have seen in a previous chapter that Henry de Lacy took some pains to make clear the boundaries between the manor which he had bestowed upon the monks and “his forest of Blakeburnshire.” In spite, however, of his beating of the bounds they remained vague and ill-defined, and frequent trespasses of the hunters in the Forest in their pursuit of game up the Lancashire side of Weets were followed by claims that these hill slopes belonged to them and not to the monks. By a curious coincidence the first, or at any rate an early, aggressor in this respect was another Henry de Lacy, the great Earl of Lincoln, about whom William de Driffield, Abbot of Kirkstall from 1325 to 1349, makes complaint that “in the time of King Edward II. grandfather of the king that now is he [the Earl] had hindered Hugh de Grymston sometime abbot. predecessor of the abbot that now is, and had possessed himself of about 840 acres of moor, wood, and pasture appurtenance of the manor [of Barnoldswick]" This was about the year 1300, just 150 years later than the grant by the first Henry de Lacy. In defence of the Earl it should be said that he may have thought that he had a legal claim to these acres. For in 1287 he had come very handsomely to the aid of the community at Kirkstall by advancing them a sum of 350 marks to pay off debts due to Jewish money-lenders, who, after the manner of their kind were pressing the monks and their abbot hard. As security for this money he had been given certain lands in "Blackburnshire," and it may quite well have been that he supposed these to include Barnoldswick, or a part of it. The curious may find fuller details as to the transaction in the pages of Whitaker or in the Thoresby Society's publications. (2) The correspondence quoted by Whitaker shows that the monks were not above using the "craft of the serpent" in their dealings with the Earl.
But the brush with the Earl of Lincoln was a bagatelle compared with the cause celebre of the quarrel with Queen Isabella thirty years later. Henry de Lacy bad surrendered the barony of Pontefract and other of his possessions to the King in 1292, and they had passed to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, and from him to Thomas Plantagenet, on whose attainder for treason King Edward Ill. had made a grant of the Forest of Blackburn to his mother, Queen
2 Vol. IV., p. 194.
Isabella. Her foresters were perpetually making inroads on the Barnoldswick preserves and even demanding "Puture" (1) of the tenants of the manor until at last things came to a head, as is shown in the following document extracted from the "Close Rolls" (A.D. 1328, Feb. 25, at York) :-
"To John Giffard, Steward of Queen Isabella’s lands this side Trent-
Whereas Henry de Lacy sometime lord of Blakeburnshire granted by charter to God and St. Mary and to Alexander then Abbot of Kirkstall and to the monks there the manor of Bernolveswyk co. York on the foundation [or, perhaps, towards the foundation ; original "in fundatione"] of the said abbey to hold in frankalmoin free and quit from all customs and worldly services and the king lately at the prosecution of the present abbot by petition before him and his council-suggesting that although the manor is outside Queen Isabella's free chace of Blakeburnsnire nevertheless Richd. de Merclesdon her chief forester of that chace and certain other of her ministers of that chace have exacted puture of the abbot on Friday in every week by reason of the said manor endeavouring to charge him therewith contrary to the tenor of the said charter-frequently ordered the aforesaid steward to cause the exacture of the puture aforesaid to be superseded if the manor is outside the said chace or to certify the king if there was any reason why he should not obey these orders and the steward has returned amongst other things that although the manor is outside the said chace he dare not supersede the exacture of the puture without consulting the King and Queen Isabella because he has enquired and learned from the said queen's ministers and by others that the aforesaid Richard and the other foresters aforesaid and their predecessors have been wont to receive the aforesaid puture from the abbot and his predecessors at the said manor from old time to wit in the time and throughout the time when John de Lacy sometime Earl of Lincoln, Edmund his son, Henry son of Edmund, Thomas late Earl of Lancaster, (2) the late king, and the present King, and Queen Isabella were successively lords of Blakeburnshire, as pertaining to the foresters aforesaid for the custody of the chace-and that the aforesaid Richard has the chief custody of the chace for the time of his life by the King's grant-but that he had not yet ascertained whether or not the foresters of the aforesaid John's ancestors in the chace were seized of the puture aforesaid because he did not find anyone living who remembered any lord of the chace before John's time-the King not wishing to aggrieve the abbot orders
1 Food for men, horses and dogs.
2 i.e., Thomas Plantagenet, who married Alice, only surviving child of Henry de Lacy.
the steward to cause Richard and the other foresters to desist from the exaction of such puture from the abbot notwithstanding the cause aforesaid which is naught and to relieve any distresses, levied from the abbot for this reason."
The above sentence-for it is all one sentence-contains 425 words ! Some of my readers may like to lighten their historical studies by getting a friend to read it aloud to them. Its lengthy wordiness is in keeping with the length of the suit between the King (or Queen) and the abbot. For in 1335 (March 28th) we find the following, also in the Close Rolls :
“At Nottingham: To Geoffrey le Scroop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the King.
The Abbot of Kirkstall has besought the King-whereas lately at his suit by his petitions before the King and his council in divers parliaments pretending that he has a right in certain parcels of pasture and wastes pertaining to the manor of Bernolfswyk and within the king's forest of Blakeburnshire which is in the hands of Queen Isabella by the King's grant, and Henry de Lacy late Earl of Lincoln and Hugh de Grymestone sometime abbot of the said place has been disseised of those pastures and wastes and the abbot has long prosecuted against the King and the said Queen for obtaining justice in this respect and the King had sent to those justices certain inquisitions taken thereupon together with the said petitions by his writ and had ordered them to proceed in the said affair and cause justice to be done, and afterwards the justices altogether superseded the process of that affair so held before them under colour of a writ of privy seal of the King directed to them that they should not proceed farther in that affair the King ordered them by another writ of privy seal to proceed to the final discussion of that affair notwithstanding the said order but not to proceed to render justice without consulting the King-that the King will be pleased to order judgment to be rendered thereupon-the King therefore orders the justices to proceed to render judgment in that affair with all possible speed notwithstanding the said order to the contrary.
By the King and Council.”
An earlier document throws light upon these delays of justice and changes of the royal mind:
Patent Rolls 4 Edw. III. (1331), March 16, at Winchester.
The steward in whose custody are the charters writings and other muniments of the honour of Pontefract and the lands and forest of Blakeburnshire is commanded to certify whether there is any writing or other deed which will avail the King to exclude the abbot.
There is no doubt that there was good hunting to be had in the valleys and on the hills round Barnoldswick, and the King was obviously reluctant to relinquish his claims to it even for the sake of Mother Church. The litigation was costly for Kirkstall for “a fine" of 40s.” was paid by them at York, January 28th, 1331, for a "Grant that they shall not hereafter be called upon to provide puture," which, by the way, in this document is said to have been exacted "every Wednesday," not Friday as stated in the Close Roll quoted. Wednesday being a "flesh day" (mostly) would entail a more grievous exaction, probably, than Friday, a "fish day."
There is also record of “an Inquisition" taken at "Blakhou by Colne" at which John, the Queen's steward, and others said “that the tenements are parcel and of the appurtenances of the free chace of Penhill within the forest of Blackeburnshire within the county of Lancaster and without the county of York."
This question as to within which county lay the lands in dispute afforded the King another pretext for delay. For finding that it was a question between Lancashire and Yorkshire he ordered a jury from each county to be empanelled to try the case, no doubt with further interminable wrangling. The land itself was of small value, for it is stated to be "sour" (morosa), worth only "a halfpenny an acre” and consisting of "rough uncultivated pasture fit only for large animals to feed upon." It was the hunting over it which made it valuable. The amount in dispute varies considerably, for while in one document it is said to be 840 acres in another it is alleged that no less than 3,000 acres "of the best place within the forest" were involved.
The documents relating to this dispute in the Kirkstall Coucher Book fill no less than 13 pages of that record. They have been made accessible to the student by the Thoresby Society.(1) They are partly in Latin, partly in Norman French. They are well worth studying for the information which they afford as to the processes of the law in the 14th century.
Another note of interest culled from these documents is that the grange of Barnoldswick had been leased by the Abbey to one Peter de Cestria, who held it till the end of his life in 1298. The Thoresby Editors inform us that he was Provost of Beverley, “a notable ecclesiastical pluralist, and a man of great wealth. He was also a judge."
1. Vol. VII., Part III, pp. 321-339, of the Publications of the Society.
CHAPTER VIII.
After the Lawsuit.
THE final verdict of the various courts which tried the case was in favour of Kirkstall as against the King and Queen. Nevertheless other delays took place in the execution of justice.
In 1340 we find a Roll bearing the strange date "May 32," at Westminster: ---“Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent” of Queen Isabella granting to the abbot and convent of Kirkstall all tenements then in her hands within the bounds of the manor of Bernolfwyk in the counties of Lancaster and York."
But a Roll dated May 16th, 1342, is an exemplification of a writ bearing date 26th June 14 Edw. III. (1341), commanding the bailiffs and foresters of Queen Isabella to permit the abbot and convent of Kirkstall "to have without impediment certain tenements in the counties of York and Lancaster lately recovered against the King and the said Queen by judgment of court as pertaining to the manor of Bernolswyk (1) co. York."
The legal proceedings had dragged on over the space of thirteen to fourteen years. And at the end of it all, and in spite of the judgment delivered in favour of the Abbey, the royal plunderers seem to have kept their prey. For in 1374 we find the following among the Fine Rolls :-
“48 Edw. III. May 13. Commitment to the Abbot of Kirkstall by mainprise of Hugh de Wombwell and Walter Toppeclyf of the county of York-of the keeping of 100 acres of pasture in Admergill, late of the said abbot which have been taken into the King's hands for certain causes by Richard de Radclyf escheator in the county of Lancaster to hold the same with the issues from the time of such taking until it be decided in the King's court whether the pasture ought to pertain to the King or the abbot, provided that he answer at the Exchequer for the above and for all other issues of the premises, if the decision be in the King's favour, and also keep the pasture without waste and destruction and support the real services and all other charges due and accustomed.”
Again in Whitaker's "History of Whalley" there is quoted a grant made by Richard II, in 1391 of the "vaccary"(2) of Admergill, to William, son of John de Radclyff. And a few years later, in 1406 (Nov. 16, Charter Rolls) we find recorded a grant made by Henry IV. at Westminster:-
"Grant of special grace to Thomas, Bishop of Durham, Wm. Gascoigne and Wm. Keteryng, their heirs and assigns, of free chace and free warren in their manor of Barnolfwyk, co. York."
1. Note the dropping of the " f," and the approximation to the present form.
2 ie. stock-raising ground.
Henry V., at Southampton, July 22nd, 1415, makes a yet more comprehensive grant :
"Grant to Henry archbishop of Canterbury, Henry bishop of Winchester, Thomas bishop of Durham, Richard bishop of Norwich, Edward duke of York, Thomas earl of Arundel, Thomas earl of Dorset, Ralph earl of Westmoreland, Henry Fitzhugh, Henry Lescrope, Roger Lecke, Walter Hungerford, and John Phillippes knights, Hugh Mortimer, John Wodehouse, and John Leventhorpe esquires of the castles and manors of Halton and Clyderhowe (1) . . . the wapentake of Blackburnshire (2)[sic] . . . the manors of Kylburne and Bernolfwyk with the chace of Bernolfwyk co. York ... Also all other lands late of Henry de Lacy earl of Lincoln, in the counties of Lancaster and Cheshire.” (2)[sic]
The bishops of the 15th century were not averse to other kinds of hunting than that of "souls" ; and the "chace of Bernolfwyk" was evidently a tit-bit. But these grants seem to prove that "Naboth's Vineyard" in Barnoldswick was finally retained by the Ahabs of the House of Plantagenet.
Perhaps the successors of Alexander in the abbacy of Kirkstall were not men of like calibre with him, and having no Elijah to vindicate their cause in the quarrel with royalty succumbed at last. Perhaps they regarded Barnoldswick as so distant a possession that its loss grieved them less than it might have done. That they did not lose the whole of the manor is evident from documents quoted later in this book ; but their estates here dwindled from the wide domains granted them by de Lacy to (probably) a few acres, and the church at Gill with the advowson and the tithes.
Nor was the litigation with Royalty the only trouble of its kind which befell the Abbot of Kirkstall in his dealings with Barnoldswick, for in 1344 (whilst the other suit was scarcely concluded) we have an account of a lawsuit between him and one Simon de Blakay in which the abbot complains that the said Simon (not so simple as some of that name) “had with force and arms cut down and carried away the abbot's trees at Bernolwyk to the value 0f 100s. [£5. SCG]" (2) Nor is this the only record if its kind.
As some compensation for these losses, we may remember the grant made to the Abbey by Richard Tempest, in 1340, of the advowson and lands of Bracewell.(3)
1 Various other names here omitted.
2 De Banco, Easter 18 Edw. III.
3 V, p. 17 supra.
CHAPTER IX.
Henry VI. and Some Other Henrys at Barnoldswick.
WE have no certain information as to whether any of the Kings and Queens of England visited Barnoldswick after taking possession of it as a royal manor, prior to the time of Henry VI. That monarch did come hither, albeit somewhat driven by force of circumstances against his will, if not to Barnoldswick itself, at any rate to its vicinity. After the Battle of Hexham in
1464 in which his forces were routed by the Yorkists, Henry found refuge for a time at Bracewell Hall, with Sir John Tempest, that staunch upholder of the Lancastrian cause. "King Henry's Parlour" still stands, though shorn of the splendour which it possessed when the King supped in it. It is thus described by the Rev. S. T. Taylor-Taswell, erstwhile Vicar of Bracewell:-
"The building is to the north of Bracewell Hall, and is about twenty-one yards wide by thirty to thirty-three yards long, and of proportionate height. The architecture appears to belong to the 13th century, but the stone mullions of the window are blocked up, and the place is at present used as a kind of barn. It was here, however, that the unfortunate King passed some considerable time. The church is quite close, and to that, too, he must often have repaired. It could be seen from the window on the east side. It was from the safe retreat of Bracewell that he passed to Waddington, where he was betrayed by the Talbots, and taken to London to be imprisoned in the Tower."
The people of Barnoldswick would almost certainly have caught some glimpses of the royal fugitive, either when riding abroad for exercise, or for hunting, when it was deemed safe for him to do so; or even at his dinner in the "Parlour."
The following documents show that this continued to be a royal manor in the time of Henry VII; and they afford so vivid and so interesting a glimpse of the life of our township in Tudor times that we make no apology for quoting from them at some length. The extracts have been made from the original MSS. of the Duchy of Lancaster now in the Public Record Office in London.
The first of them bears date 17 Henry VII. (i.e., 1501) :-
"To Sir Rich. Henson Kt. chancellor of the Duchy [Lancaster] Henry Pudsey Esq. fermor to the Sovereign Lord the King of his Lordshippe and manor of Barnolsweke in the county of Yorke parcel of the said Duchie : That one Christopher Banaster in forcible manner contrarye to the order of lawe hathe wrongfully occupyed a parcell of me said farm called Brokden having thereunto no manner of title ... by the mynes whereof your orator is gretly endangereth and unabille to contente and pay his scale and is like to lose the land."
Brokden is the modern Brogden ; the "orator" is the petitioner, Henry Pudsey.
"Answere of Christopher [Banaster] that the parcell of ground called Brollyn [sic] is the inheritance of our sovereign lord and the ferme thereunto is and hath been VIIl. VIs VIIId [£7-6-8] which by the space of XXXVIII years hath as well and truly at the days accustomed been paid."
"Replication of Henry Pudsey Esq. to the answer of Xpher Banaster.
The plot defendant calls Browyn is also known as Brokden part of the fermehold of Henry which he allowed Xpher to occupy for 3 or 4 years unto such a tyme that Newarke field (1) was where the Erle of Lincoln was slayne at which tyme the said Xpher being in the retynue of the said Henry then stole away from hym wherewith the said Henry was miscontented and warned hym thereupon to avoid (2) the said ground. He has by favour of his friends continued to hold it and withholdeth yerely VIs and IIId of the rent of old tyme due for the same and of the newe encrease of the same XLs ... and also he refuseth to be sworn [?]. to the Kynge accordyng to the Kynge's commandment and also refuseth to pay yerely such amerciaments (3) as be cessed uppon hym."
"Rejoinder of Christopher Banaster. Denies that he was with Henry at the said field or stole away as he hath of males(4) surmysed. For he fond a man to do the kynge's grace service (5) as the Retynue of the said Henry at the said tyme wherewith the said Henry was then contentyed ... and withouten that the said Christopher [sic, slip for Henry] would have had the said Christopher sworn to hym which he refuseth to doo. He says that Henry dovthe resseyve LXVI li and more and what the encrease is he knoweth not."
“Complaint to Richard Emson Kt. of Richard Botheman one of the kynge's tenauntes of the Lordship of Barnallwyke who sued for letters of Privy seal which was direct unto Henry Pudsey the elder the 20th April ordering him to apere within 12 days after the sight thereof & suffer your beseecher to occupy his fermeholde & to be in peace-which to do the said Henry would not in no wise but in contempt send John Atkynson Robert Sothorne Thomas Welles William Bracewell Robert Watson & Walter Rymmin unto the house of your beseecher and brake the hous & entered riotously with swordes bockelers billes and stakes and asked the wife of your poure orator where her husband was and she said that he was gone forth she couthe not tell whither. then sayd they except she told theyme where he was she should have the strokes that he should hade if he hade beyne ye ane in any wise she refused to tell theyme and then they smote her upon the hede and the armes and the sydes that she bare thare markes unto her grave and also drew her out of her hous by the hare of her hede unto the strete. She beyng impotent and grete with chyld lay under a hege all the nyght and ii days the said Henry commandyng that no man should help her nor socoure her then within VII wokes next after she laboured of chylde and then she toke it upon her salle [? Soul] (6) that the strokes that they hadde giffen her before were the
1. Battle of Newark, one of the skirmishes of the "Wars of the Roses."
2. i.e. surrender his farm at Brogden.
3. i.e. levies, the equivalent of the modern rates and taxes.
4. -Malice.
5. Feudal service by deputy or proxy was allowed.
6. i.e. she made dying oath.
cause of her dethe and of her childe then a crowners inquest were charged and they founde that she was perisshed by the strokes aforesaid butt which of theyme they couthe nott tell that gaff her the strokes please itt your gode maistership to provide a due remydie."
Replication of Henry Pudsey:-
“The said Richard Botheman is & was retained with Richd. Tempest was amerced in £iii or certain affairs and blodesheds agenst the King's peas and was possessed of the 2 kyne and 11 bushels of barley as of his privates godes and that Robert Sewthrom distreyned the said godes and was ledyng them to the hous of Henry at Bolton (1) & Tempest in riotous and forcible manner rescussed the said distress from the said bailiff & caste off the said corne of the horse’s bakkes. No hue or crye was levied or that the servauntes of the said Henry fledd from the said cornes as the said Thomas hath craftely and untruely feyned or that Nicholas Tempest lent the ii kyne to Rich. Botheman or by vertue of eny repleven as Thomas of hys malice hathe slanderouslye sermysed or that the wife of the said Botheman was murdered. he sayth she died by goddes visitation as is well knowen, & never strikken or mysentreted by any servaunt of the seid Henry."
Letter from the King :
“Trusty and welbeloved. We grete you wele leting you wite that it is shewed unto us and our counsaill by bille of complainte on the behalf of the tenauntes of our town of Barnalswyke reciting in effecte certain injuries and wronges surmysed to bee don unto thaym by oon Henry Pudsey thelder and Henry Pudsey his son as by the contynne of the said bille whiche we sende unto you herein closed ye may percyve more at large whereupon we trusting in yor wisdomes and indifferencies wol and desire you and by these presents give unto you full powre and auctoritie to call in or name the said parties before you and thereupon groundely to examyne the contentes of the said bylle with the circumstaunces of the same and thereupon to certifie the trouthe and playnes of the matier in writing unto or trusty counsaillr Sr Richard Emson Knyght Chauncellor of oure duchye of lancastre on this side the fest of all saintes next comyng without any failling as ye tender our pleasure and the good prferement of justice, given under our private seal at our manor of Grenewiche the last of Maye."
Petition of Henry Pudsey:
“The King by his indenture demysed to him the manor and lordshipp of Barnoldeswyke with the view of Frankpledge to him and his assigns at a rent named now Rich. Bouthman late a tenaunt & a man of evill disposion for iii several affraies to the grete disturbance of the kynge's peas was amerced xxs eche in all iii Ii [£3]and according to the usual custom distraint was made by one Robt Soltroun-viz on 2 kyne and 12 bushells of barley in Saxys & he drove the kyne to a close called the parke & intended to convey the saxys to Bolton & Thos. Tempest being a wild man & of light disposition with ix personnes in manner of warre with bowes arowes swerdes & bokelers toke from the said Robert the XII bushells of barley. Likewise Nicholas Tempest his brother with IX simple personnes Robt Waddyngton Henry Edmondeson Christopher Boutheman Christopher Weddaker John Hanson Thos Garforth Rich Wilson Wm. Knollys & Robt Wetley armed in like manner came into the manor of Barnoldeswyke breke open the loke and gates of the Parke and took away kyne to the gret damage of the fermor."
1 Bolton-by-Bolland.
Replication of Thomas Tempest:
“That Robt Soten came carying and leydyng the said barley throo the lordship of Craven & that the wife of Rich. Boothman raised the hue and crie that she was robbed and her substance despoiled and he made to overtake the seid Felons who avoided the corne from their horses and departed and he tooke the corne to the house of Henry Dykynson wher it yet ys .... and the wyfe of Richard was sleyn and murdered by on of the housewold servauntes of Henry Puddesey which servaunt is fleed. He says the ii kyne belonged to Nicholas his brodur and that he sued for them before the sheriff."
Petition of the tenants of "Barnarlswyke in Craven"
(Follows a list of 29 names.)
"They hold of your Highness and his ancestors time without mind a Barne to lodge their corne in & paid 20s for it & repaired it-now Henry Pudsey the elder steward of the lordship has taken it down and carried away the sclate to his own building at Bolton, so they have no place to store corn in & on the 17th April last Wm. Bracewell Robt Sothern Thos Willes John Atkynson & Robt Watson servauntes to Henry came to the house of Rich. Botheman oon of your tenauntes the said Rich. and his wife beyng from home aboute there besynes and there caste oute all the goods of the said Richard and an old woman thereyn beyng of thage of xx/IIII (1) yeres and more and caste oute all the said Richards chyldren upon the stones in the strete in soerche that on[e] off the said children of thage of V yern is sore hurt and lieth in jeopardy of his lyfe and also they toke away wt them XIII bushells of barley & the gooddes of the said Richard.
Then follow further complaints of ill treatment of John Edmundson and of Elizabeth his wife, whom "they bet wounded and evil intretyd." Further, "Henry Pudsey the younger with iiii men in the 16th yre of your reign at Barnalswyke bet wounded & ill intretyd the same John" so badly as to leave him helpless "ne able to labor for his owne lyvyn." And the complaint proceeds, "Whereas your tenauntes have always been accustomed to have wood and tymber to build and repair their houses they are nowe in such decaye they shall not be able to bild ne kepe them up & if they ask for any Henry bids them to sett fyre to them and go there way & yff they take any he empanells his servauntes as a jurye at court to fynd all such things as he shall comaund them."
In Henry's reply to this catalogue of crimes, he declares that he had notified the Chancellor of the Duchy about the decay of the barn and had been authorised by him to "save the best sclats in all about XX noders." He (Henry) had let Boothman the house “to hold of him," and had given him "lawful warning to go and avoyd" and he would not. That the oxen were on his land and doing damage and he had ordered them to be brought to the King's -lawfull pound." That Edmondson and Elizabeth began the attack. And that the tenants are not entitled to wood except at the will of the farmer.
1. ie. 80 years old.
This is a complaint of Henry Pudsey that certain tenants, viz., Michol Blakey, James Marsden, Rich. Mitton, Nicholas Smyth, the wife of Henry Sharve, Xpher Manknolles, Geoffrey Wylson, James Smythe, Henry Bakster, Robert Holgate, James Ackrandly, Richard Sandherd, James Wylson, Thos. Parker, Henry Parker, Ralph Smyth, Xpher Bawdekyn “have dygged turbes for their fewell to breune (1) to the losse of the kyng's grace."
Complaints of further misdemeanours of Henry Pudsey. In one of them it is stated that Henry had a lordship of his own called "Rymyngton," and it lies next the lordship of Barnoldswick. Henry has annexed 20 acres of the King’s land at “Fote house yate” (2) worth 13s. 4d. "He hath belded a house with the King's tymber on the King's waste and let it taking the rent."
Further, he has broken down a “grete barne” which he was bound to repair and carried the stone to Bolton, "except 6 lode of sclat with which he covered the King's Mylne.” His servant, William Bracewell “selled 3 okes 3 ashes and 3 crabtrees in the King's woodes." Further still he "hath letten a house in the
King's woods to one Thomas Welles a wright who dayley maketh cartes and waynes and chestes of the King's wood," which he sells, various folk to whom he has sold them being enumerated, and so “getteth hym meckell(3) money of the kynge's wod." To these charges, Pudsey replies by a brusque denial of the first, "He did not encroach on 20 acres at Fote hous Yate." The house he has
built is to the King's profit, and he does not call any of the Kinge's grounds his. That he has not caused waste by "takyng downe a gret barne." “That Wm. Braswell by his order sold “3 okes, 3 ashes and 3 crabtrees is not true." He continues with a further denial and a tu quoque: "That he did not take any of the king's wood to his own use, but Edmundson [the complainant] did take 1 part and Richd. Tempest and Xpher Banaster another, and that he sold a tre worth 6s. for Remyngton Bryge is not true it was a wyndfallen tre and belonged to him." John Edmundson is not prepared to take this lying down, but retaliates with other charges in which he states that Barnoldswick is---a towneship of 60 housholds and the tenants hold of the kind paying rent at the usual times." Henry Pudsey maliciously turned his [john's] cattle out of "the Parke which is part of his ferme and some of the said bestes the said Henry Pudsey drove away and broke with dogges." But there is a still more serious charge made against Henry the high-handed:
1. fuel to burn
2 Foot House Gate.
3 -Mickle, Much'.
"And Saturday after 15 servauntes of Henry with Jakes, Salettes (1), bowes and arowes came into the towne of Berlewike(2) and took, John Diconson to Bolton and keped hym in prison and yett keepes notwithstanding ye said suppliauntes labored to the sheriff and to the kynge's justice of peas." Also 15 others "came on St. Peter's eveyn to Berlewike" with the same weapons of war-“and made a sault upon one John Edmundson one of the Kynge's tenauntes and bett and wounded hym so that he is yett in perdie of his life." “Also he breketh downe dayly the hegges and dikes of their corne feyldes so that by the means and cautill wise of the said Henry their corn is destroyed and they cannot pay their rents." John Edmundson further alleges that the king's tenants have held "the Parke 40 years paying 32s. rent . . It has never been let for more."
Now comes an interesting document. Reply of Hy. Pudsey to John Edmundson :
"Declares his complaint true but that defendant is a tenant of the abbot of Cristall [sic] & lives in his ten[emen]t & there was an old ordinance that the abbot should hold no more than 4 tenements which the abbot had in possession for surcharging the Kynge's commons pastures and woods & the abbot & his successors have within 40 years bilded 8 others so that he now has 12 & takes housbote(3) & heybote(4) in the kynge's woddes & John dwells in one of them late bilded and misuseth himself in comyng to the comen pasture. However Sir John Hoddelston was baily and fermour in 2 yere of K. Richard & suffered him and Xpher Diconson to have the winter crop of the Parke for 32s and the complainant took the farm I Henry VII. & allowed them to occupy it ne they did not know its true value. They are supported by, Sir Edwd Stanley and Sir Thomas Tempest as tenants at will instead of at the pleasure of the fermor."
It would appear from this that, as stated in a previous chapter of this book,(5) the possessions of Kirkstall in Barnoldswick had been still further reduced after the royal appropriation of Admergill. The following extract from a Rent Roll of Kirkstall Abbey, given in Vol. 11. (Miscellanea) of the Publications of the Thoresby Society seems to prove that only a small portion, in that part of Barnoldswick called Coates, remained in their hands :
“The accompte of brother Robert Marie in the Bursar's office from the feast of Pentecost Anno Domini 1459 unto the same ffeast in the yeare following. The same Answerwth for Arrerage (6) as appeareth in the yeare past.
Received of Ferme at Will.
Coites at Will . . . And of XII li XXd Rec -Of the Lord's tenantes in Barnoldsweke Coites by a Rentall examoned."
Bracewell is also mentioned as a "ferme of the freeholders"
1. Jakes, Leather jackets, Salettes, a kind of helmet.
2. Note the contraction, the precursor of the modern ‘Barlick’.
3 Wood for repairing houses.
4 Wood for repairing haies, i.e. hedges or fences.
5 Chap. VIII, p, 27.
6 Arrears.
and “IIs VId” is given as received of "John Tempest, knight, there by rent service."
If we have not quite exhausted the patience of our readers with these records of ancient feuds and quarrels in our midst, here are one or two more extracts which relate to Henry Pudsey's rule as king's steward in the royal manor of Barnoldswick :
"Answer of Henry Pudsey the elder to the informacion made by the King's tenauntes of Barnaldeswyke and Richard Tempest, Esq. for old malice for as much as the seyd household servauntes of the seyd Tempest on Ashe Wednesday last passed slew an officer to the Kinge's grace called Robert Sothron at Barnaldeswyke under keper of the Kynge's wodes there & Bayly of the seyd towne. But for declaration of the Trouthe the seyd Henry seieth that he ys fermor to the king's grace there and also Forster of the wodes & as such hath tyme out of mynde to his proper use wyndfallen wode within the seyd Lordshyppe."
Henry again :
"Petition of Henry Pudsey who holdeth the lese of the Lordshippe. Now divers simple persons viz. [here follow 13 names] with 20 persons or more of which company some had visors & with craft hidd their visages entered the parke and brake down the hegges putt in theyr owne cattell have driven oute your beseecher's cattel and violently and despitefully cutt of the flesh markes to the hurte and rebuke of your beseecher and put him to such costes charges and losses he cannot pay his rent."
And one more, a later echo of the old controversy
"Petition of Thomas Banester that 40 years since great varyaunces sue and controversie was hadde between Henry Pudsey Fermoure of the Lordship of Barnoldswike & the customary tenants because he would constraine them by unreasonable fynes or els expel theyme & the tenauntes offered to pay £8 rent of increse if they might queyethlie have holde & enjoie their tenements & they so enjoyed them until of late one Laurence Habergen hath made a lease of a tenement called Brockden now in the tenure of the said orator worth £8 by which lease he hath discharged orator wherein his ancestors have dwelt for 200 years and more and demands £400 if he be let stay."
One relating to a rather different matter. Richard Tempest states:
“He has been fermor of the wapentake of Staynesclyffe & payeth xx markes yearly and hath been usyd to kepe letes and hold shireffes courts .... for which the king's fermor hath been usyd to pay VIs VIIId & a dyner piece a noble besides or ells a noble which amounted in all the Lord ships to 10 marks, now Henry Pudsey fermor of the Lordships of Remington in which manor the Baily and fermor have kept a lete time out of mind & had 6s 8d besides . . . [MS indecipherable] and in default of a dyner 6s 8d and Henry was behind 5 years ending Michaelmas 24 Henry VII for the said dyner i e 33s 4d Richard distreyned him in his goodes in consequence."
The Henry Pudsey who plays so conspicuous a part in this drama of life in old Barnoldswick was the son of Sir John Pudsey, or Pudsay, Knight, of Bolton-by-Bowland, and of Grace (nee Hammerton) his wife. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Conyers, of Hornby Castle, as his first wife, and had a numerous family. One of his sons, Ralph, married a Tempest of Bracewell, and so, we may hope, helped to heal the feud which seems to have existed between the two families in Henry's time. Another of his descendants in the reign of Queen Elizabeth attained considerable notoriety as the originator of the “Pudsey shillings," and only escaped with his life by obtaining the Queen's pardon. Those who wish to know more about this, and about the family and its connection with the Pudseys of Settle, and through them with the Percies, will find, as usual, a fund of information in Whitaker's “History of Craven.” No doubt the famous township of Pudsey, near Leeds, birthplace of a modern hero of "Test Matches," derives its name from this family. Before we quit this period of our history it may be of interest to note that a certain Vicar of Barnoldswick in 1361 appears to have fallen into bad company, being led away by love of “venerie" like the monk in Chaucer's "Tales." Here is the story, told in an old parchment :
“1361 Oct. 26 at Westminster: Commission of Oyer and Terminer to John Moubray, etc., etc. : Complaint by the kynge's son Edmund de Langele that .... John de Radclyf parson of the church of Bury Robert de Cliderhowe John del Holt of Salforthshire .... Robert that was the monkesservant of Bernelswyke chaplain .... John parson of the church of Bramworth .... broke his parkes and closes and entered his free warrens .... hunted in the warrens and in his free chases cut down his trees fished in his several fisheries dug- in his several turbaries and carried away the turves thrown up his fish trees and other goods and took and carried away deer from his parks and chaces and hares conies and partridges from the warrens."
We may infer from this that however much of the manor of Barnoldswick the monks had lost in the middle of the 14th century, they retained the advowson of the church (St. Mary-le-Gill), with the right of appointing “the chaplain."
CHAPTER X.
The Court of the Manor in Tudor Times and
a Tale of "the Belles."
THE records of the Duchy of Lancaster contain the following, amongst other, notes of transactions concerning Barnoldswick in the reigns of Henry VIII. and his successors.
1.-"Court of our Lord the King held at Barnolleswicke Saturday after St. Matthew Ap. 28 Henry VIII. [i.e., September 23rd, 1536]. Jury: Rich. Banaster sen. and jun., Rich. Edmunson, Rich. Baxter, Christ. Edmundson jun., John . . Alex. Hertely, Robert Dilworth and William Elles."
Sixty-seven persons were amerced, but their offences are not stated. As the population cannot have been more than three hundred or so, 67 is a large proportion of law-breakers, but most of the offences were probably very trivial. For example, it is recorded that Thomas Baxter and Christopher Ratclyff and Thos. Elles were fined for "not making, a sufficient way in le streit at Westfield; and Christopher Parker and Richard Dyconson were similarly fined for cutting and carrying away "browse" from the Wools.
2-In the following year (1537-1538) two courts were held, and in one, held –“Saturday after St. Thomas M.” (July 13th) Margaret, widow of William Watson, and Alice Monke were fined: “Rich. Botheman surrendered his tenement to the use of Christopher Michell, and Thomas Baxter surrendered to the use of Richard his son.”
3-In 32 Henry VIII. (1541) the jury of the manor court was composed of the following gentlemen: Rich. Banaster sen., John Campest gent., Rich. Wait of le haye, Rich. Edmundson, Rich. Atkynson, Thos. Lovecocke, John Boteridge Esq., Christ. Parker, Rich. Edmundson, Rich. Baxter, Christ. Brockleden, Will. Ellez, George Kyrke, John Alaide, Christ. Edmundson, and Thos. Ellez, sen. Among those "amerced" at this court were Sir Thomas Tempest and Rich. Tempest Esq., John Dylworth and John Edmundson fined for lopping underwood, and Rich. Dylworth for cutting down an "oak sapplyng."
4.-1542, 1st May, with a jury composed of Rich. Banaster sen., John Tempest of the Rane, Christ. Parker jun., Christ. Edmundson, William Ellez, Rich. Baxter, Rich. West, Rich. Edmundson, Rich. Atkynson, Robt. Dylworth and Christ. Brockden, John Edmundson and Rich. Dyconson [both evidently hardened offenders] were fined for "cutting down branches of trees in le browse” ; William Stoddart and Elizabeth relict of Christ. ,Grantusimull" made an affray (bothe fined)" ; George Brocksden trespassed with his animals; George Edmundson "invaded the land called le Stagges on the moor" and raised turves and sold them without licence.
5.-There is also proof that the methods adopted by Henry Pudsey and his contemporaries for vindicating rights supposed or real had their users also in a later day. Here is a plaint from Barnoldswick in 1580:
“Petition of Wm. Emetson [probably= Edmundson] re Moore Close: Now Sir Xpher Parker, Wm. Thos., and John Parker of Barnoldswick by force and armed with “daggers long pykes and staves entered the said close the 4th May finding Bartholomew Edmundson a young stripling, orator's son, beat hurte and wounded him and hadde slayne him iff one Thomas Murgatroyde and Robt. Bewe servants of Robt. Tempest gent: hadde not reskewed him . . . . who did hurte and strike Robt Bewe and hadde almost slayne him."
6.-And here is evidence of another dispute, or it may be the same one on a larger scale :
"Michael Lyster of Brockeden in the Lordship of Barnoldswick gent., Allen Edmundson the younger, yeoman, Wm. Brockden of Barnoldswick, yeoman, Rich. Lacocke, yeoman, of Barnoldswick tenants of the queene's majestee anent common rights of Blacke Brooke : The tenants had the right as far as Waules [Wanless? SCG] water running between the manors of Colne and Fowlerigge and right to haule turves and depasture their cattle on the waste called Whyt Moore and now a dispute is in court between Henry Banester and other tenants of Foulerigge Complainants and Robt Tempest and the tenants of Barnoldswick concerning the occupation of the waste called Whit Moor and both manors claim the right."
As we read this we seem to be back in the days of Henry de Lacy, and of the great law suit.
7.-Nor were the disputes confined to one side of the manor only, otherwise we might have thought them lingering remnants of the immemorial feuds between Yorks and Lancs. At the other side of the parish also we find a dispute going on about the rights of the inhabitants of Marton to "turbary" in Barnoldswick. This belongs to the reign of Edward VI.: [1547-1553]
"Writ of the King to Wm. Mallowe and Christopher Masefeilde gent. and John Aspeden clerk to call the tenants of Merton to enquire into a turbary in Barnoldswick and the rents thereof and what has been builded on the waste and now in occupation of Rich. Ellis, Christopher Edmundson, John Hudson and others and what rent is paid and what is the rent of divers closes in tenure of Xpher Stodert . . . Bracewell Tho. Parker, Rich. Edmundson, Rich. Lowcocke and Harry Stodert. The King is informed that £16 0s. 6d. was given to the use of a churche called Gyll churche beyng parcell of the Duchye. They are to enquire whether it was so given”
8 -About the church money more later. Here is another about the turbary : made before Clarence Towneley, Wm. Malam., Xpher Mesiford, gent and John Assedone clerk.
John Grene of West Marton says the tenants have always had turbary in Barnoldswick paying the deputy bailiff yearly afore 6 Edw. 6, for each wayne 6d. & carte 3d. & the tenants received this.
John Smyth of same agrees.
Christopher Edmundson depute bayliffe of Barnoldswick aged 50 tenant of John Tempest Kt sayd the tenants of Est Marton, Bracewell, Gysburne, Myddoppe and others had turbary in the manor of Barnoldswick and the tenants of Barnoldswick leased their fermes for 21 years for turbary and of the sum received about 26s. 8d. the tenants of Marton paid 8s. 9d, and he received the sum as wages bill. That the house of Xpher Ellis was built on the waste he pays no rent. He himself 5 years since built a house on the waste and pays nothing. He knows a close in occupation of Rich. Wilkynson taken from the waste ; that Rich. Verley built a house on the waste & Roger Blakebrooke has enclosed land from it.
John Wayne of Barnoldswick aged 60 deposes that Rich. Wilkynson enclosed 2 acres and pays no rent.
Richard Ellys of Saltersforth aged 40 by leave of John Tempest built a house and barn on the waste & that Rich. Lowcocke and Xpher Ellis disseised him.
Thomas Welles of Saltersforth aged 50 says that a house and garth was taken and enclosed by one John Hudson 36 years since.
George Ellis, of Saltersforth deposes to the same.
[More to the same effect.]
Thomas Dauncer of Gysborne tenant to Sir Arthur Darcy says Gysborn had the same right (1), and further that Thomas Banaster objected as he had that part of the moor tenanted to him.
9,-Letters Patent of 2-3 Philip and Mary granting Sir John Tempest, knight, William Lyster Esq., Christopher Kirke and Christopher Bracewell a lease of the common.
1 i.e. of turbary.
"There hath been much variaunce of late in the court of the Duchy between the tenants of Barnoldswick and the inhabitants of the hamlet of Cotes respecting the rights of pasturage and turbary on Barnoldswick moor. It has been agreed to assign 40 acres of the moor to Cotes for all title and claim thereto hitherto made.
Now the Crown lease to the above named parties all the portion of moor assigned to Barnoldswick and others whose names are in a sedule annexed. For 21 years at £6 13s 4d rent yearly."
So much for the "variaunces" about turbary rights, and the sly little annexations of the “waste"(i.e., the uncultivated land used for rough pasture) which made local life interesting in the days when Raleigh and Drake were enlarging the world and "singeing the Spaniards' beards," and Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer and others were being burnt at the stake.
10.-We must follow a little further the matter of the funds of "Gyll Churche":
“John Edmundson aged 64 & Wm. Ellys & John Wayte of Barnoldswick aged 60 and Thos. Lawcocke were churchwardens 18 years since and Wade says that they had in hand of the goods of the said church £17 10 which they delivered to .... Edmundson and Rich. Dyconson of Saltersforth deceased and Xpher Edmundson late of the Parke deceased then churchwardens.
John Edmundson says the sum was £11 12 4.
Will. Ellis does not know how much it was.
Nycholas Edmundson aged 60 and more churchwarden said the sum was above £12.
Henry Stoddart says the sum of £4 except a cowe was delivered to Richard Wayte how much the cowe stood for he does not know he thinks about 13s. 4d. He saith the steeple wyndows have been glazed and others repaired.
XPher Brockdone aged 60 says he was churchwarden 16 years since and had in hand £3.6.8. & delivered it to Thos. Ellys deceased.
Richard Wayte of Barnoldswick says he and Richard Wayte of the Heigg, Christopher Parker and Thos. Ellis were church wardens and had £3.
John Edmundson of Barnoldswick says he received 53s. and spent it on glasying windows & messyng of the same 19s, 6s 6d for lead & 12d at visitation and other visitations.
The parishioners of Gill Churche commonly repeated that Thos Banaster borrowed the money of Richard Ellys and .... John Edmundson of the barne.
John Halson [?] of Saltersforth aged 68 says there was £30 in the hands of John Wayte called John Edmundson of the Close, William .... and the late Thomas Lawcocke 18 years last past and given to a poore feller of the paryshe for to have bought belles which were for the use of the churche but what became of it he knows not."
We pity the judge or jury that had to sift this bewildering conflict of evidence! The discrepancies of the varying statements may, however, be partly explained if it be borne in mind that there appear to have been then, as there are now, four wardens of Gill Church (one for each of the three townships of the parish, viz., Barnoldswick, Salterforth and Brogden, and a vicar's warden) ; and that the responsibility of expending the church money was divided between them. The reference to the cow is interesting and shows that gifts in kind (not to say kine!) were given. Cardinal Gasquet, in his book "Parish Life in Mediaeval England," quotes several such instances. The cows were mostly let out on hire., The entrusting of so large a sum as £30 to a "poore feller of the paryshe" and the non-appearance of the "belles" are amazing features of the story, if true. The money, like the "poore feller,"' appears to have vanished.
1. e.g. The wardens of Woodchurch, in Cheshire, were left by will of Mr. James Godyker 20 marks wherewith to buy 20 bullocks to be rented (as beasts of burden) for the purpose of paying a curate. In another instance four cows, valued 10s. each, were leased out at 2s. apiece. A still more curious form of gift or legacy was a hive of bees !
CHAPTER XI.
Some Leases and Other Legal Documents.
THERE are a number of deeds relating to leases amongst the Duchy of Lancaster records of Barnoldswick manor. They are too numerous to be given here, but a few specimens may be of interest.
One of the most interesting is a lease 22 May 2-3 Philip and Mary [1555-1556] to Sir John Tempest, knight, "to digg for seacoles within the manor for 30 years." Coal had been found in Blackburnshire 300 years earlier as we learn from the "Compotus" of Bolton Priory for the year 1324.(1) Sir John's search may have met with some success, for in an Inquisition taken at the Castle of York 20 Sept. 20 Jas. 1[1603-1604] the following record is made : "Firmar miner carbonu et slate stones infra manor de Barnoldeswick ad XVIs. VIIId. p. annu insolut ptribus." The "slate stones" are likely to have provided the larger part of this not very rich reward to the miner. We may regard it as a blessing or not, according to our viewpoint, that no coal in workable quantities has been found on the Yorkshire side of the county border in the area round Barnoldswick.
Here are some others :
"Lease to John Lister of "a tenement in Barnoldswick called Hadmargill now in the tenure of Alexander Hartley, Nicholas Blakey, and Christopher Hunson, and another tenement now or late in the tenure of Christopher Mitchell with the woods and underwoods .... at a rent of £4. 0. 8, viz. for the former 64s. and for the latter 16s. 8d."(2)
This agreement, however, was subsequently cancelled by John and he Admergill tenements reverted to their former owners.
"Grant to John Tempest, knight, on surrender of a lease of 15 February 1548 of a tenement in Barnoldswick called Grenehill with its land, a pasture called Cowepasture, and the Newe Close. Paying for Grenehill £6.6.9½ for Cowepasture 119s. 4d. and Newe Close £4 18s."
Re-granted after fine of £240 for 99 years. 16 June 1558.
"Lease to Christopher Elles sen. citing lease of 28 April 1548 for 21 years to Alice Elles, widow, and Richard Elles of lands and a pasture called Calfall at 23s 3d rent. Richard died seised(3) and left the remainder to Christopher his brother who made entry and surrendered in exchange for a lease of 99 years paying £240 for fine."
1 vide history of Craven p401.
2. DL.40-.71; 14 Feb., 1550.
3 i.e., in possession.
"Lease to John Botheman, Richard Botheman, John Dillworth and Elizabeth Dilworth relict of Robert Dilworth, Thomas Wells and Thomas Parker, citing lease of 27 April 1548, called Shene in tenure of Robert, a parcell. of le Heigh Close in the tenure of Thomas Wells and demised 2 June 1548 to Thomas Parker in Saltford for 21 years at 49s. 2d., viz., for John Botheman 8s 11d Thomas Wells 5s 11d. Robert Dilworth 11s 3d Thomas Wells 5s 11d, etc."
Robert Dilworth died and left his interest to John Dilworth and Elizabeth his wife, who surrendered and are re-granted a lease for 99 years, paying £240. 16 June, 1558.
In another class of documents, that known as the "Feet of Fines," we also find deeds relating to Barnoldswick. We may explain for the sake of those not learned in these matters, that the "Fine" here meant is not a monetary payment but a final agreement between parties with regard to lands or rents or similar matters. It had five parts, the last of which is the "Foot" of “the Fine." This was the official summary of the agreement, and was cut off along an indented line (from which comes the word "indenture") and retained by the court which gave the parties the licence of the Crown to their agreement (no agreement was regarded as valid without the royal consent). For this "licentia con cordandi" a payment called "the King's Silver" was made. Sometimes the parties to an agreement for the transfer of lands tried to evade the payment of the King's Silver and to conclude a private covenant without the licence of the court. They were not, as a rule, successful, eg., John Hammerton and Nicholas Middleton are charged with purchasing, without licence, of John Banester a "capital messuage, parcel of the manor of Barnoldswick in Craven which is held 'in capite' " ; for which offence, however, they are granted the queen's [i.e., Queen Elizabeth] pardon.
In the Feet of Fines for 1566 we come across the following which may serve as an example:-The "Plaintiffs" [i.e., those applying for the estate which they have bought, are William Mason and Ralph Bankes ; the "Deforciants" [i.e., the present owners, or occupiers, who are technically supposed to be keeping the plaintiffs out of their estate] are John Hartley and Margaret his wife, Barnand [so spelt first time] Hartley their son and heir apparent, and Edward Hurst and Ann his wife. The lands in question are described as “A third part of 4 messuages and a cottage- with land in Barnoldswick and Gylkyrke to be held to Barnard [so, second time] and Elizabeth his wife for their lives, and on their decease to the lawful issue of Barnard, and failing such to the lawful issue of John Hartley." Licence is issued for the transference of this estate to the plaintiffs.
Strange vagaries in spelling still continue to haunt the scribes or clerks who drew up these documents. Coates is often given as “Cootes-in- Craven." Gylkyrke is another variant. But perhaps. the strangest of all is "Barnoldswykcotes" which can hardly be outdone in Wales !
Whitaker, in his History, informs us that in the time of Queen Elizabeth, Ralph Banester was a principal landowner in Barnoldswick-Cotes, holding there “ten messuages, ten tofts, ten gardens, 200 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, and 200 of pasture of the Queen in capite by the 40th part of a knight's fee." But I venture to think that he is inaccurate in his statement that this part of Barnoldswick manor belonged to Sawley Abbey, and was granted with the other estates of this House to Arthur Darcy by two charters in the 35th and 37th years of Henry VIII's reign. Darcy did, indeed, receive various possessions of Sawley, including Gisburn manor ; and with them he received an estate in Coates which, however, was confiscated land of Kirkstall Abbey, not of Sawley. For in 1553, January 30, a licence was given by King Edward VI., on payment of 28s., "to Arthur Darcy, knight, to grant his messuages and lands in Cotys in Craven in Gilkyrke parish, Yorks,, late of Kyrkestall, monastery, Yorks, to Richard Bonaster his heirs and assigns.”
The charters referred to by Whitaker are probably ones bearing date 1544 and 1545, the first of which grants in fee for 424 li. 17s. 6d. to Sir Arthur Darcy "the King's servant" : Nappaye manor, Yorks., St. Leonard's "hospital" in York, "with appurtenances in Gisbourne in Craven," Gargrave, Kildewike, Skipton, etc. ; also a tenement, etc., in tenure of Ric. Banester jun. of Cotes in Craven, lying in Cotes in the parish of Gilkirke Yorks. The second one, in August 1545 grants to Sir Arthur several Welsh possessions of Selby Abbey, and renews or reaffirms the grant of “a messuage and lands in Cotes in Craven in Gilkyrk parish, Yorks., in tenure of Ric. Banaster . . . lately belonging, to Kyrkstall monastery."(3) Whitaker's copy may not have contained these last words ; or he may not have noticed them. In October, 1545, "Lands in tenure of John Edmundson, Alan Edmondson, Ric. Waytes, Alice Ellys, Thos. Hudson, George Hudson, John Waytes, sen. and jun. and John Hobson in Cotes alias Barlewik Cotes in Cravyn in Gilkyrk parish Yorks." are granted to William Romesden of Longley, Yorks., Ralph Wyse of Redehouse, Yorks., and John and Roger Wise his sons.(4) Amongst the signatures to this deed are those of Gardiner and Petre. John Banester, father of the Richard Banester mentioned above, had married Isabel Popely, and divorced her in 1486, and the king issued a commission to
1. 7 Edw VI Pat. Rolls 856.
2 Cal. of letters and Papers of Henry VIII. Vol. XIX, Pt. 1.
3 lbid.No.266,20.
4 Ibid. 707, 27
Edward, Archbishop of York, to obtain evidence on the validity of the divorce, as it affected Richard's title to lands, etc., of which "Barlewike" is named as one, also Colne, "Folrigge," etc.
The Banester family was an ancient one in Barnoldswick and had occupied Brogden Hall for at least a century and a half before these transactions. One of the daughters of a previous Richard Banester, in the reign of Henry IV, married Laurence Lyster, second son of John Lyster, of Barnoldswick and Middop, who was son of Richard Lyster, of Derby.,
An altercation in which Sir Arthur Darcy engaged with Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, about a right of way and the ownership of Heskett “waste" is recorded in the records of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.
"Thanswere (2) of Sir John Tempest, knyght, to the byll of complaynt of Sir Arthur Darcy, knyght ....
Ye said tenauntes and inhabytantes of Gisborne have made one yate and had one weye through ye same [Heskett] ledying to the Lordship of Bernoldswik and other places there adioynyng."
Sir Arthur, in his "Replication" to this "answere," refuses to admit the right of way. "Heskett waste" was "a parcell of waste grounde contaynyng 100 acres of land" and adjoined Gisburn waste. (3)
In the year 1539 a muster was made of "archers and others on horse and foot ... in the wapentake of Staynclif commonly called Craven and in the forest of Boolande thereto adjoining, W.R. Yorks., before Sir Thos. Tempest, of Bracewell, and John Lambart, of Calton, commissioners thereto assigned."
"Barnaldesweke" (sic) mustered 71 men, and Skipton 110. The household servants of Sir Thomas numbered 20 men, five of them armed with spears.
1 See Whitaker's genealogical tree of the Listers.
2 The answer.
3 Op. cit., Vol. XLI. (1908), P. 91 ; printed from the Star Chamber proceedings.
CHAPTER XII.
The Fall of Kirkstall.
We have traced, as well as we could, the history of our town and parish from very early days down to the closing years of the 16th century. The records given in the last two or three chapters of this book will perhaps have seemed dry or difficult to many of its readers, but they are of some value to the historian ; and may also interest local readers who will recognise the names of their own forbears, and see them figuring with credit, or, it may have to be owned with occasional discredit in the episodes there chronicled. It has been a temptation to the writer to break off into moralising on some of the scenes of life in Barnoldswick in olden days ; and a still greater temptation to weave into the story the history of the wider world outside our town. But the temptation has been resisted, however hardly, because of the desire to keep this volume within moderate compass, and of a moderate price. We may, however, digress just for one moment to record the last stages of the history of the great Abbey with which Barnoldswick was for so long connected. In the days when Henry VIII. was king, the revival of literature and the spread of learning coincided with a policy of state largely, though not wholly, dictated by the desires and lusts of an absolute monarch, to bring vast changes in the religious outlook of England, and especially to bring about the down fall of the monasteries. The monks, with rare exceptions, would have nothing to do with the new learning. They were "lovers of darkness," so their enemies declared, unfortunately with too much truth. Green, the historian, writes of them :
"Most of their houses were anxious only to enlarge their revenues, and to diminish the number of those who shared them. In the general carelessness which prevailed as to the religious objects of their trusts, in the wasteful management of their estates, in the indolence and self-indulgence which for the most part characterised them, the monastic bodies simply exhibited the faults of all corporate bodies which have outlived the work which they were created to perform."'
The lesser monasteries were the first to suffer confiscation. In the year 1532 the Pope himself had by a Papal Bull given authority to Henry to suppress certain monasteries for the purpose of creating bishoprics. Even earlier than this no less a churchman than Cardinal Wolsey had contemplated, if he had not actually carried into effect some such measure. In 1536 all monasteries under the annual value of £200 were suppressed. The larger Abbeys, of which Kirkstall was one, were allowed to remain for a few years longer, and were even given honourable mention
1. Short History of the English People. P.333
in “The Black Book" laid before Parliament, recommending the suppression of the smaller ones as hotbeds of profligacy and crime.
The surrender of Kirkstall took place November 22nd, 1540. Its last Abbot, John Ripley, alias Browne, was allowed to remain in the lodge over the gateway of the Abbey, and to end his days there. In 1542 the site of the Abbey was granted to Archbishop Cranmer as part of an exchange of lands made between him and the king. Its great estates, confiscated to the king, were granted away by him to friends and favourites, or sold for “a consideration"; and as we have seen the moiety of them that remained in Barnoldswick passed to Sir Arthur Darcy. The tithes and advowson of the Church (Gilkirk), however, remained in royal hands for some time longer ; as did also the manor which the monastery had lost in the days of Edward III.
Thus barons and kings, popes and prelates, quarrelled and fought and the noise of their strife occasionally broke in upon the peace of these secluded and rural districts. Then, as now, Barnoldswick was “Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite beyond it" ; its people could watch the pageant flaunt by, and now and again, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, had some minor part to play in it. But for the most part the centuries rolled on, touching with but light pressure the lives of the men and women who ate and drank, married and were given in marriage, played and toiled, wept and laughed in these Yorkshire Dales, where, nevertheless, was being reared a race which should help to make England great. The peasants who could not-and probably would not if they could-remove like the monks to safer and serener habitations, still struggled on in despite of the "importunities of the rains" and the frequent forays of the Scots, to keep their own bodies and souls together and to supply grain and butter and game and ale and wool at first to the Monastery and afterwards to the King's stewards. Their wretched hovels of mud and timber would gradually be replaced by better buildings of stone ; and windows and chimneys would begin to appear in the more pretentious.(1) But the "oxgangs" of eight bullocks would still be used to draw the rough ploughs of wood. No fences divided up the common pasture lands, where all the flocks and herds fed and roamed together, tended by shepherds and herdsmen whose wages in the time of Edward I. were one halfpenny a day.
1. Yet it may half a century or more later before they did so. "In building and furniture of their houses till of late years they used the old manner of the Saxons ; for they had their fire in the midst of their house, against a hob of clay, and their oxen under the same roof, but within these forty years they have builded chimneys " So runs an old work published in 1656 relating to Cheshire. Yorkshire is not likely to have been more forward, at least in the Dales.
CHAPTER XIII.
In the Days of the Stuarts.
THE Manor of Barnoldswick remained a royal possession as part of the Duchy of Lancaster and, it appears, of the Honour of Tickhill, all through the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. In the Duchy records for the year 1619 we find a copy of a grant made by Sir Henry Hobart, knight, Chief Justice, and Chancellor, to Charles, Prince of Wales, and others, reciting inter alia that "he said Prime being possessed . . . of the house or manor of Barnoldswick grants by warrant to John Concliffe, gent., the office of bailiff of the said manor and the office of collector of rents there."(1)
A MS. in the British Museum which, I think, has not yet been printed anywhere, makes mention of Barnoldswick amongst other royal manors, and re-grants it to Edward Ditchfield, John Heighlord, Humphrey Clarke, and Francis Mosse. I venture to give it here, with apologies if I thereby infringe any copyright.
Exemplification of a final concord in the court of Common Pleas. Hilary 4 Charles I (2). The King querent: Edward Ditchfield, John Heighlord. Humphrey Clarke and Francis Mosse deforciants of the manors of Olney, Bucks., Matlock, Spounden, Chaddesden, Duffield, Beaureper, Holbrooke, Southwood, Heighedge, Erichey, Holland, Biggin, with appurtenances in and the park of Beaureper, 43 messuages, 30 cottages, 43 barns, 30 stables, 4 dovecots, 43 gardens, 43 orchards, 1100 acres of arable, 420 of meadow, 1640 of pasture, 60 acres of wood, 500 of mane, Common rights, common of turbary, and a free fishery in Wirksworth, Perwich, Hatton, High Peak, Kersington and Brassington, co. Derby. The manors of Deghall, Marthden, Campsall, Roundhay, Acworth, Credlinge, Knottingley, Allerton, Elmeshall, Rothwell, Scoles, Kippax, Leeds, Barwicke-in-Elmett, BARNOLDSWICK, Bradford, Roweliffe, Scryven, Aldburgh, Essingwold, and Laughton with appurtenances, and the park of Havera, 100 acres of arable, 20 acres of meadow, 60 of pasture, 20 of wood, in Slateborne and Bowland, co. York; and the manors of Mondenhall, Dunmowe and Langham, and the site of the manor of High Chester, etc., etc.
The deforciants recognize the right of the querent and quitclaim for themselves and their heirs. Querent regrants to Edward and his heirs in perpetual fee farm, to hold of the King as of his manor of Endfield by fealty, in free and common soccage and not in chief. Warranty as by statute of 12 Feb. 4 Chas. [1628-1629] (3)
Here is another belonging to Charles IIs reign, date 1674:
1 D.L. Miscellaneous Books, f. 286, Vol. 52.
2 1629.
3 B. M. Wolley MSS., Ch. XI, 29.
“Royal Warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a bill for settling upon the Queen Consort 1236L 16s 1 ½ d. per an. to be paid out of the hereditary Excise quarterly; as representing the value of fee farm rents in the schedule below being part of the said Queen's jointure, but the reversion of which after her life has been purchased by Viscount Latimer from the Trustees for the sale of Fee Farms ; but the possession of which is at the King’s desire to be vested and granted by the said Queen to Vere Bertie and Arthur Fleetwood for the use of the said Viscount Latimer as a gratification from the King to him, viz., the fee farms of the places as follow--
[Various]
The manor of Barnoldswick 80 16 2 ½ .”
The Queen Consort was Catherine of Braganza, Infanta of Portugal. After Queen lsabella's struggles, narrated in an earlier chapter, to claim the manor of Barnoldswick as hers of right it is interesting to find another Queen in possession of it so many centuries later.
Barnoldswick Cotes had passed to the Drakes soon after 1600. One of them, Thomas Drake, was Rector of Thornton-in-Craven 1623 to 1668. His son, William Drake, was J.P. in 1667 ; and two other Williams, son and grandson, of this William, held the Cotes estate. The latter, born at Cotes 21st September, 1682, was churchwarden of Gill Church in 1723, when the bells were hung in the tower ; probably they were a gift from him. He died in 1757, and was buried in the chancel of the church. Cotes Hall was the subject of a drawing made about 1718 by the artist, John Warburton, whose sketches of Yorkshire manorial homes acquired some fame. The Hall still remains, though not in its full ancient magnificence and may be seen on the left as one enters Barnoldswick from Skipton.
1 Cal. of Treasury Books, Vol. IV, p. 542.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Church Registers.
AT the period which we have now reached another kind of document becomes available to aid us ii our researches. into the ancient history of the parish. This consists of the Church Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths. The earliest registers were made in 1538 by order of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's minister and "Vicar General." Many of the ancient. churches of the land possess registers going back to that date ;. but the Gill Church registers now extant do not begin until some fifty years later, to be exact in 1587. There may have been earlier ones covering the period 1538 to 1587 ; but if so they are now lost. The extant registers are very defective in the earlier years, the oldest of all consisting only of a few tattered and mutilated leaves. Several of the others have been badly damaged with a brown gall stain used by some decipherer to make them more legible in the first instance, but which has alas! irretrievably ruined and rendered them indecipherable now in many places. Luckily, before this mishap befell them, a former Vicar of Barnoldswick, the Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, had partly copied them, as far as he could, the worst blanks being between 1650 and 1670; and the work of copying was continued by the Rev. Samuel Ireson (Vicar 1870-1879) and by a later hand down to 1786 (partially). Some of the burials (1587 to 1628) were printed in the Parish Magazine in 1924 and 1925 ; I do not think that any others have appeared in print. Most parishes possessing ancient registers have had them printed, generally by the aid freely given by various archaeological societies ; it would be well if the Gill records also could be preserved in this way, but for financial reasons I fear that it will not be possible unless some friendly person or society comes to our aid.
In the registers we find names occurring with which we have already become familiar through the records given in previous chapters of this book, e.g., Ellis, Baxter, Banister, "gent. of Cotes" (1587), Locock and Lowcock, Munch and Munches (also spelt Monks on a tombstone in the churchyard, date 1641 Dickenson, and, of course, Edmundson. We also find an entry regarding Tempest, "of Raine" or "Rane" ; but whether this family was connected with the Tempests of Bracewell, etc., is not to be discovered from the records. Other names also, both of places and of persons, stir our curiosity or our interest as we note them. There is, for example, the worthy gentleman who rejoiced in the name of Bezaleel Houlgate, and whose daughter Jane was baptised in 1627. We wonder whether he was a craftsman, and possessed the skill of his namesake in the book of Exodus. "Blackey in Colne" is no doubt the modern Blacko. Letcliffe as a place name is fairly frequent, and Letcliffe Top occurs once or twice. Coverden is found for Coverdale. We are informed of the burial in 1652 of Joseph Thompson, “son of Mr. Amara Thompson, minister of God's Word" ; and a baptism is recorded in 1662 of another son (apparently) of the same reverend gentleman whose name is, however, this time given, or copied (the original is wholly illegible) as "Avara Thompson, clark." [Alvery Thompson, Baptist minister. See Lewis; Hist of the Baptists in Barnoldswick] The family of Hartley, which is now a numerous and widespread one in Barnoldswick, had close connections with Gill Church if one entry which is copied as " Sarah Hartley of Gill Church" buried in 1616, is correct. Another Sarah Hartley, 'Daughter of John of the Gill," is mentioned as being buried in 1622. The name Ellinthorpe occurs more than once as a personal name, and leads to the conjecture that the family came from the Elwinthorpe of which we have already heard as a place name. Eanams and Heancholmes are variants which represent the modern Aynhams. In 1678 the following note occurs in the register: "Burials within ye parish of Barnoldswicke which were buried in woollen according to a late Act of parliament, an Act for burying in woollen within ye yeare of ye Lord God 1687 registered by me Timothy Lancaster present minister.”
The Act referred to was one passed to encourage woollen manufacture in this country, requiring that all corpses should be interred in woollen shrouds ; and an affidavit that this had been done had to be sworn by the person conducting the funeral. So in that and some subsequent years we have entries such as this : "John ye Son of John Baldwin of Barnolsewicke Cotes buried in wollen ye 21 day of September @ affidavit brought to me for ye same ye twentie eight day"
After the burials registered in 1680 there is a note which reads : - the following years were neglected and ye names lost for christening and burs. 81 and 82." Evidence that this neglect lasted for a longer period than 1681 and 1682 is seen in the records of marriages, which are curiously jumbled up, those for 1674 being given in two parts of the book, one following an entry for 1671 ; 1689 following 1684 (one marriage only is entered for that year) and being followed by 1683 ; none being entered for 1686; and various other sins of disorder being apparent. The Baptisms are similarly jumbled, and some are erased. The reason for this in no doubt, to be sought in the disturbed condition of the country in those eventful years, the plots and counter-plots of Charles II's reign, the Monmouth rebellion, and the final revolution against James II which brought about the downfall of the Stuart Dynasty in 1688.
The religious quarrels of the time are reflected in the parochial registers in another way. In the year 1705 and several following ones there are separate entries of the baptisms and birthdays of Dissenters-spelt "Decenters" and "Desenters"-a token of the abatement of the old prejudices which had refused baptism to the children of non-conformists in the days of the Stuarts. So also
in 1707 we find the record of the burial of "Martha Ellis of the parish of Broughton buried at the Quakers Sepulcar in Salterforth May the 16th" ; and a similar entry in 1708 of the burial of "Margret Hartley" in this "Sepulcar." Still more interesting is the marriage recorded in 1704 of "William Houlte and Ann Hartley, both of this parish. Married at the Quakers' Meeting House June
ye 15th day." One Mr. Alvery Jackson appears to have been “a Minister of Dissenters" here in 1719, for in that year there is the record of the burial of an unnamed son of his. After 1700 the occupations of those who received the Church's ministrations are recorded now and again, and we find "clothier," "skinner," “shopkeeper," "a soldier disbanded and a wanderer (1728)." and fairly frequently "teacher" or ' school-master." The above-mentioned Mr. Avery Jackson, "of Wood End," lost his wife Tamar in 1726, and in the entry of her burial he is described as "a teacher." not as before as "a minister" ; no doubt he combined both occupations. In 1703 a son of John Bradshaw, "of
Dye House," was baptised. Does this show that dyeing had become a local industry here early in the 18th century? Sixty years later one Wm. Proctor is described as a "woolcomber" Other entries record the burial of "an old widow," and (in the same year) “an ancient widow." What was the difference we wonder, between old" and "ancient"? Cotes Hall is mentioned in 1687, 1708, and again in 1738, when "Hannah Clough, Gentlewoman,, of Cotes Hall ' " was buried. In 1746 we have mention of one Wm. Hartley, 'Formerly of Hesket” recalling to mind the dispute between Tempest and Darcy. Some of the handwriting even in the oldest of the registers is extraordinarily clear, legible and beautiful, especially that of Parson Thomas Garfoot, Incumbent 1671 to 1678 ; if indeed, it is his and was not done for him by some clerk or churchwarden ; one entry signed by him, and evidently his own, is not so well written.
Before we leave the registers our readers may be interested to know that the total baptisms from 1587 to 1825 number 5 028, a yearly average of 21 ; the marriages registered average 6 per annum. ; and the burials totalling 5,089 from 1587 to 1855 give a yearly death-rate of 19. In 1623 there are 31 burials, evidently pointing to an epidemic of some kind in that year. The burials
in 1665, the year of the Great Plague in London, were 11 (if all were registered); but increased to 19 in the following year, and we may suppose that some of these were plague victims.
From the registers we are able to compile with a fair amount of accuracy the names and periods of service of the incumbents of the parish; and we apppend the list. Gill Church having been a "Peculiar," i.e., exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop and Archdeacon, until recently a record of its clergy has not been preserved at York, where the records of most of the other parishes .of this Diocese are to be found :
1595 (or a little earlier) to 1612. Robert Coldecke.
1612 to 1626 John Eastwood.
1626 to 1643 Francis Piell.
1643 to 1671 George Stott.
1671 to 1678 Thomas Garfoot.
1678 to 1717 Timothy Lancaster, also Vicar of Bracewell.
1717 to 1750 Arthur Tempest, B.A., also Vicar of Bracewell.
1750 to 1751 Charles Pindar.
1751 to 1772 John Riley.
1772 to 1785 William Burton, also Minister of Newchurch- in-Pendle.
1785 to 1791 David Greenough, presented by Edmund Starkie of Huntroyd.
1791 to 1820 Edward Capstack, presented by Nicholas Starkie of Frenchwood.
1820 to 1836 Mordaunt Barnard, B.A., also Minister of Thornton-in- Craven.
1836 to 1870 Richard Milner, B.A., presented by R. Hodgson, Esq.
1870 to 1880 Samuel Henry Ireson (Patron, Josiah Ireson Esquire).
1880 to 1887 Thomas Hayes, M.A.
1887 to 1890 John Woods.
1890 to 1922 Frederick William Patten (Presented by George Dawson of Tunstall, Co. Durham).
1923 to 1930 John Calderbank, M.A. (Patron, Lord Bishop of Bradford).
1930 to ---- John Henry Warner, B.A. (Patron, the Lord Bishop of Bradford).
CHAPTER XV.
Some Old "Churchwardens' Accounts."
CHURCHWARDENS' Accounts are another storehouse of interest and usefulness to those who seek to reconstruct the church history of the past. Unfortunately, none have been preserved for this parish of an earlier date than 1758, unless some undated ones may possibly be older. The first dated one which we have found is a lawyer's bill of that year, to the churchwardens as relieving officers. A copy of it is given.
7, 8 and 9 of January, 1758.
20th April [presented?]
Mr. John Cockshutt and Richard Ridihalgh as Officers of Barnoldswick-
Drawing a case touching the settlement of Hannah Stead otherwise Riley---and my other, trouble touching stating the case and fair copy) 6 8
Journey to Horsforth in order to make up the appeal
between Barnoldswick and Idle those
three Days out at 6s. 8d. per day. per day 1 0 0
My Expenses more than Mr. Cockshutt paid 2 0
Journey to Barnoldswick to take down the Examination
of many poor people and taking down the same filling
a whole sheet of paper on all sides. 6 8
Drawing a case relating to the Settlement of one Widow
Hargreaves and fair copy. 3 6
Paid postage thereof to Mr. Stanhope 6
Gave Mr. Stanhope therewith 10 6
His Clerk 2 6
Postage thereof from Mr. Stanhope 6
My trouble in sending the case to Mr. Stanhope and
other trouble relating thereto 1 8
8th July 1758 Reced the above contents in full for the use of my master and me.
Jno. HARTLEY Clerk to Mr. Barcroft.
Here is another, undated, referring to repairs at Gill Church :
6 yards of Inch Bords at 9d 4 6
Work at Cheeks and Dore 2 6
4 yards of Bords for vestery Dore 4 0
to work at the ffront of the Cobert that Is for making the
Dore and Cheks 2 6
9 yards of Bords for Inside of Cubert 6 9
To working the same 2 0
DO for Bare for Vestery Dore 0 9
A similar :
To Wm. Hargreaves for Deals 1-13-6 ½
for Church Dore 18-6 ½
for stones for steeple 1-11-6
A Sock 4-0
10lb. of nails 3-4
Carges to Otly 8-3
for oil & 1/- to Chris. Boothman 2-4
5-1-5 ½
And here are some of the "Church Expenses" for 1770:
Layd out of Church fds for 1770 recd of old officer*
Paid to Rogr Broughton 3-6
pd of Candles 0-7
Bread and Wine 4-6
Otley journey 9-4
Ringer 5 Novembr 1-0
3 Loads of Cole 3-6
pd of Candles 0-7
Lawce Anderson poyntg . 12-10
* In the original a line is drawn through the words ‘Recd of old officer’
The "old officer" (i.e., the retiring churchwarden for 1769) had evidently no balance to hand over, so the cancelled line is a tale of disappointed expectations. The candles were for the purpose of giving light to the choir, the rest of the congregation had to endure darkness. Church heating was not an expensive item in 1770. We are not informed of the purpose of the journey to Otley. It was not for the Archdeacon's Visitation, for at this period the incumbents of Gill "swore-in" the wardens themselves. Roger Broughton's receipted bill is attached to the accounts and included 1s. 0d. for "Drawing chimley pipe in vestrey." Lawrence Anderson's is also attached and is of sufficient interest to be copied here :
October ye 26 1770 Begoon to work at Gill Church for the parish
myself 2 dayes 0 3 6
Frances 2 dayes 0 3 0
William 2 dayes 0 2 10
for hare one shiling 0 1 0
sand sixpence 0 0 6
three lode of lime 0 2 0
Lime, like coal, was cheap in those days.
More repairs were required at Gill Church next year, as is seen by the following:
Work done at Gill Church Steeple flore
Lying 18 yards at 3d per yard 4 6
for Ould Flore puling up and Doore hanging 2 6
item for 5lb. of Lead 0 10
Item for puling higher flore up and Lying Downe 3 0
Item for seting Lock on 0 6
It appears, however, that the statement of accounts given above did not cover the whole expenditure of the year 1770, for at the Visitation of April 22nd, 1771, the wardens submitted accounts amounting in all to £13 1s. 2d. The practice seems to have been that each of the four wardens was responsible for a section of the expenditure. In that year the wardens were John Greenwood, Francis Heaton, George Smith and John Wilkinson. George Smith handed in the bill already quoted. John Wilkinson had accounts amounting to £5 13s. 6d. John Greenwood and Francis Heaton each paid 1s. to "Ringers." The "Clerk" received £2 10s. and Chris. Boothman received 10s. 8d. for “ringing and sweeping." 5s. 6d. was paid for "Kindling the fire and an Almanack." The latter item, generally described as a "Sheet Almanack," occurs in other accounts of that period. It must, however, be admitted that a copy of "Old Moore's" Almanac for 1814 is one of the legacies of the past preserved in the parish safe to this day! It would be interesting to reproduce some of its pages here, but we fear they would hardly be germane to the History of Barnoldswick. We may, however, quote the following sentiment, part of the verse which prefaces the calendar for the month of June. It is appropriate in the days of disarmament proposals, and of heavy taxation :
“Let Peace at Home echo to Peace Abroad
That is the way to ease us of the Load
Of Taxes, under which our Shoulders bend
Let's study for Content, then Times will mend."
The wardens' expenses were defrayed by the proceeds of one or more Church "Sesses."(1) In 1770 two of these cesses were made and the amounts are given:
George Smith collected 2 Sesses 5 9 3
Salterforth 4 6 8
Cotes 2 13 3
Brockton 2 2 1
"2 Sesses" made in 1772 yielded £14 10s. 8 ½ d., and £7 seems to have been the average amount of a cess over the four townships. Collections were also made, but irregularly, and probably for special purposes. A list of the amounts received is given, but not of the objects to which they were applied.
1 Also called "assesses," and "church lays."
So, e.g., in 1766, collections were made :
On ye 20th of March 3 04
On June 1st 1 09
On December the 28th 2 03
These were all the collections made that year.
On Good Friday, 1767 2 07
On Whitsunday, 1767 2 00
A collection on Christmas Day, 1768, produced 2s. 3 ½ d., and one on Easter Day, 1769, 2s. 5 ½ d.
Gill Church being as already stated “A Peculiar," a result of its old connection with the Monastery of Kirkstall, the churchwardens were not required to go to the trouble and expense of a journey to some distant place to attend an Archidiaconal Visitation. The incumbent, or " curate-in-charge," to give him his proper ecclesiastical title at that period, was allowed to swear them in himself, and received for so doing a fee of 6s. 8d. ; an arrangement, therefore, which seems to have been convenient and advantageous both to him and them; but has now been done away.
It would be tedious to my readers to peruse many more specimens of these old accounts, interesting though they are to antiquarians. 1 will, therefore, content myself with giving only one or two further items of this period, nearing the end of the 18th century. In the 1772 accounts we may be surprised and for a moment scandalized to read that 1s. 7d. was paid for "a pair of Bellies," until we realise that "bellies" means, of course, bellows for blowing up the church fire. In the same year one Mr. Winckley received £1 4s. 2d. for "searching the Augmentation Office," no doubt in order to discover whether the Living was receiving all the income due to it from Queen Anne's Bounty. In the next year a 'New surplus" (surplice) for the minister was needed, and was made at home, 6s. being paid for "making and buttons and thred." A "day work" cleaning the church (in 1766) involved the outlay of 2s. ; some modern vicars and wardens may wish it could be done for this now. The churchwardens were also dispensers of alms to the poor in the days when there was no "Poor Law," and the amounts given varied from 5s. to 1s. I have not found here the quaint items which I found in the wardens' accounts of another parish of which I was rector, e.g., for "bleeding" so-and-so (i.e., doctor's fees), or for 'Making a shift" for widow so-and-so.
CHAPTER XVI.
Visitations and Terriers.
IN SPITE of what has been said in the last chapter about Barnoldswick's exemption from "Visitations," this chapter will go to prove that its clergy and wardens did not wholly escape the necessity of having to give some account of their doings to higher authorities. The following, extracted from the Yorkshire Archaeological Society's Records, is a very interesting document of the middle of the 18th century :
Replies of the Vicar of Barnoldswick to Archbishop Herring's Visitation Questions, 1743:
Barnoldswick, Craven
I There may be two hundred familyes & many of them dissenters wholly, or some or more in a family. There are no Papists, but Quakers or Anabaptists commonly called. (Non bury in separate places except Quakers) one fourth nearly may be dissenters.
II. There is a meeting house (1) at Barnoldswick & another of the Quakers (2) at Salterforth in same parish. They of Barnoldswick refuse Infant Baptism and are called Baptists or by some Anabaptists & Antinomians & are very numerous. Their Teacher is one who dwells in the meeting house & they weekly assemble if not oftener except when he travells abroad.
III. There is a School at Barnoldswick maintained by the goodwill of the parishioners and public for all the parish. The Master teaches twenty or thirty children & is conformable(3) & & carefull to bring them duly to church.
IV. We have no almshouse Hospitable (4) &c. in our parish.
V. Barnoldswick peculiar is joyned with Bracewell contiguous unto it; the Minister resides at Bracewell.
VI. There is no curate besides myself.
VII. There are some who come to church of whose Baptism I am not well assured ; but so many as are of competent age I exhort very frequently to be prepared for confirmation.
VIII. The public Service is read every other Lord's day & when it is not there it is performed at Bracewell.
IX. The children and servants are almost constantly to say their Catechism in the afternoons of each Lord's day.
X. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered four times in the year for the most part, the number of the Communicants are generally near twenty or thirty & twenty received at Easter last.
XL I constantly read the exhortation required in the book of Common
1 The Meeting House referred to is the Bethesda Baptist Church, built in 1661. 2 Built in 1652.
3 ie. a churchman.
4 Sic=hospital.
prayr openly & timely before the administration. And none have been refused from Comunicating.
I submit all to your judgment & pray for your Grace's health & happiness & remain
Your obedient Servant, Arthur Tempest:
V. Arthur Tempest, Inst. 5th Dec. 1717.
C.W. Old: James Bullock.
Richard Fort.
New: --------
This Vicar was Arthur Tempest, B.A. (Trin. Coll., Camb., 1683), of whose learning piety, and poverty Dr. Whitaker writes a glowing eulogy in his "History of Craven." He lived in a "thatched cabbin" which did duty as Vicarage for the combined parishes of Barnoldswick and Bracewell. “Under a mean garb his person was dignified and his deportment graceful. His charities were saved not only out of personal indulgence, but almost out of necessary accommodation. His doctrine as I have been assured by competent judges who had heard him was no less edifying than his life : on the whole whenever I enter his miserable cottage I can scarce forbear exclaiming with Grotius, ' Vide paupertatem tanti apostoli.` It was an age of the general decline of all religion, in the dark days before the breath of the Evangelical Revival swept over the Church of England, and we may be thankful that here a man so good and true was found to minister amongst the people. The "Replies" make interesting reading in many respects. "Two hundred families" would mean that the population then was about 1,000. The Baptists now have two churches in Barnoldswick, North Street Chapel (the present building was, I am informed, erected in 1797) [not so, North Street was built after the schism of the 1860s after its congregation had worshipped in other venues for many years. The 1797 build was the new chapel on Walmsgate], and Bethesda Chapel, opened in 1852. (2) The Quakers also continue in Salterforth in their homely little meeting-house. In view of the multitude of services which are held nowadays, we wonder how church people would like to be transported back to the days when one service only was held, and that only on alternate Sundays, and the Holy Communion celebrated only four times a year.
Statements relating to the material possessions of the Church had also to be submitted from time to time by the Vicar and wardens. These were known as "Terriers" from the Latin "terra"-land. There are various of these relating to Barnoldswick Parish, the first now extant being of the date 1748 and bearing the signature of Arthur Tempest, the Vicar referred to above. It is written on an odd scrap of parchment and is as follows:
1 Yorks. Arch. Soc's. Record Series, Vol. 71, pp. 76, 77 ; printed as edited by Canon S. L. Ollard and Rev. P C Walker.
2-On the site of an older building. [Not so. This was a new build on a greefield site. SCG]
"The Terrier belonging to the peculiar of Gill.
From the Tyths of Barnoldswick four pounds thirteen shillings x four pence yearly.
The yearly rent of Miln-close nine pounds. The tenement of wch. Miln-close consists of an house and Barn joyned to it.
Two ings and two meadows containing about eleven Acres joyning westward and northward on the close belonging to Mr. Danson Roundell & John Wilkinson, the former called Westfield, the other Brigge Holme. On the east separated by a brooke from the fields of William Bracewell.
On the south of Esquire Drake's grounds.
The miln-close is an augmentation from Royal Bounty.
Churchyard : valued four shillings yearly or thereabouts.
Smaller dues.
To Minister for churching sixpence, Clarke fourpence, for Weddings Minister one shilling and tenpence, Clarke a shilling, for burials Minister one shilling and fourpence Clarke one shilling."
This document is not witnessed, though a space is left for witnesses' signatures. It is as brief and concise as the next one, which is dated 1777 in the vicariate of Wilfrid Burton, is long and prolix.
In one of 1809, Edward Capstack being "curate," we are informed of an addition made to the possessions of the Benefice by the purchase of "a farm lying within Starbotton in the parish of Kettlewell," which had been bought with the "second Augmentation' of £200 given by Queen Ann’s Bounty. It contained a little over six acres. Its various fields and fences are set out in precise and full detail in the Terrier ; and it was, no doubt, a more profitable investment of the £200 than that yielding the small interest of £4 per annum which was all that Mr. Burton got. "Third and Fourth Augmentations" had been granted by Q.A.B., part of which had been used to redeem the Land Tax. The balance, £388, bore interest at the rate of £2 per cent. per annum.
The next one was made in 1825, to be handed to the Bishop of York at Skipton on August 3rd. Mordaunt Barnard was "Curate" then, the dates of his tenure of the Benefice being 1820 to 1840. This is the longest and fullest document of all, extending to six large sheets of parchment, and though the ink is faded it is fairly legible. The parish was still without a “Parsonage House.” Mill-close farm and house (the latter apparently occupied as a vicarage) still continue ; but a change had taken place about which more will be said in a later chapter, and which is referred to in the following extract from this terrier :
“The Farm [Mill-close] has a piece or Parcel of Land Inclosed from the Late Common Called White Moor by the Authority and Direction of the Commissioners of the Barnoldswick and Salterforth Enclosure Containing By admeasurement Ten Acres Three Roods and Thirty Perches Statute Measure Walled Round with a Stone Wall."
Further, the Archbishop is informed that "A Grant also was made of One Thousand Pounds for the Use of the Curate of Gill Church Otherwise Barnoldswick By the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty at Michelmas One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen But the Interest thereof was not Claimed till Michelmas One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty which Interest Amounting to Two Hundred and Twenty Pounds was by the said Governors Directed to be Added to the Principal." Nor was this all, for we further read that in 1824 the sum of £100 was given by the Trustees of Pyncomb Charity in Somersetshire and another £100 by Sir John Lister-Kaye, Bart., then Patron of the Living ; and these donations were further increased by yet another £300 given by Q.A.B. as a "fifth and sixth Augmentation." The fees are still the same as in 1777, but the 6s. 8d. is gone, for in 1820 "The Churchwardens was [sic] Sworn into Office by the Archdeacon at a Visitation at Skipton and the fees Paid to him Accordingly." The pewter flagon and pewter paten mentioned in 1777 are still part of the "Church Furniture." Mention is also made of two large brass candlesticks, and we farther read
“There are Also The Ten Commandments Set upon the East End of the Church in the Inside thereof of a Large Size made of good Baltic Timber and well and Neatly Painted. Also the Creed and the Lord's Prayer. Set upon the North Side of the said Church. Also the King's Arms. Set upon the West Side of the said Church in the Inside thereof all made of good Baltic Timber of Proper Size and Materials made New and put up in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Five”
The possessions of the church were augmented on the outside as well as on the "Inside," for "There is also a Building Erected for a Stable and Solely for the Use of and convenience of the Minister and Parishioners to Bind up Horses when coming to the Church.", This announcement is followed by a full description of the dimensions of the stable and the materials of which it was composed. Like the “Ten Commandments," the "racks" and "mangers" of this building were made of "good Baltic Timber." It was put up in 1824, "Partly by subscription and Partly at the Expense of the Parish." A full copy is also give of the “Inscription on the North Side of the Building,” but any of my readers who want to know what it is can go and read it for themselves.
"The Clerk's Wages are Per Annum Five Pounds Paid by the Churchwardens by Custom," in addition to various fees. "The Sexton's Wages which he Receives by Custom is one Shilling for every Burial," surely a very inadequate payment for the digging of a grave.
This terrier is signed by "Mordaunt Barnard Curate Incumbent," by three Churchwardens, namely, William Armistead, William Horabin Edmondson, And Thos. Edmondson; a blank space
1 The land for this was given loaned by Robt. Proctor, Esq., proprietor of Gill Hall Estate.
being left for the fourth name. It is witnessed by seven of the "Principal Inhabitants." A footnote of later date is appended : 'The following is to be inserted in future terriers : In the year 1832 the Revd. Mordaunt Barnard the Patron and also the Incumbent of the Church gave for the use of the congregation a good eight-day clock fixed in the front of the gallery which has his initials M.B. in gilt letters thereon, with the request that it may be kept in good repair, and that in renewing the painting and gilding of the dial-plate care may be taken that the said initials may be carefully renewed and preserved."
Alas ! for poor human desires of immortal fame, the "good eight-day clock" stands now ingloriously mute and the initials have almost entirely faded out on its tarnished face. Yet it, and they, are possible of renewal. (1)
Another addendum of interest is given in 1835 :
“We whose names are hereunto subscribed do hereby declare that ye following musical instruments and singing books belong to Gill Church. Namely: a violoncello, ye gift of ye Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, Patron and Incumbent. A viola, raised by a general subscription. N.B. There is a good box for ye preservation of ye violoncello. Printed book of Tunes by Rogers. A Written Do. Do. A small base and treble book for Tunes.
As witness our hands this twenty-third of April, 1835, Thos. Hayes Stipendiary Curate, Thos. Heap, Jas. Duckworth, Jun., John Rawsthorn, Church Wardens.”
In the year 1836 the Diocese of Ripon was formed by division of the huge Diocese of York, and Charles Thomas Longley, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, became the first bishop of the new Diocese. In the next terrier, therefore, dated 1841, the Visitation, whilst still being held at Skipton, was conducted not by His Grace of York but by the Lord Bishop of Ripon. There is still no Parsonage House, but a further increase in the endowment of the Living is chronicled, viz., a "Parliamently Grant," neither the amount nor the date of which is specified, but which was sufficient to allow of the purchase of a farm called ‘Dudgeons’, situate within the parish of Thornton," and containing rather more than 62 acres and a house; and still to leave a sum of £1,760 13s. 6d. in the hands of Q.A.B., the yearly interest of which was £52 16s. 4d. ---The King's Arms" have been moved from the west end of the Church, and have been placed over the east window, where they still remain; probably because of the erection of the organ in the west end gallery in 1836. It is one of the mysteries of these terriers that no mention is made in any of them of the introduction of the organ, nor as to whether it was a gift
1 They have been renewed since
or bought by "public subscription" or how. I have been told by an old resident that it came from Burnley Parish Church in 1836, but the records of that Church also contain nothing about it. There is, however, in the 1841 terrier a note recording the making in 1836 of a 'Pew for the Use of the Churchwardens and Constable of the Parish for the time being," and a list of the names of these officers, which are inscribed on a brass plate affixed to the "Pew" and are still there for all men to read. There is a note about the choice of wardens : “There are four Wardens or Officers of the said Church out of which number the Incumbent has a right by custom to elect two and the remaining two is [sic] elected by the respective Townships for which they serve or by the Parishioners."
Some trouble had apparently arisen about this time over the question of the charging of double fees in Lent, for there is entered on the back of the last page of this terrier a statement that it is to be recorded in future terriers: "Resolved that the Double dues in Lent be abolished." No information is given as to the source of this resolution, but we may take it to have been the Easter Vestry. A later Vicar adds a note written just above this resolution : "The Parson’s double dues in Lent are not legally altered by below local arrangement, being Ecclesiastical fees ; such fees are only altered by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners acting with the consent of Vicar and Vestry and Bishop," and a formidable array of legal authorities is cited in favour of this contention. In 1877 there is a return almost to the terse brevity of Mr. Tempest's terrier of exactly 100 years before. An “Inventory of Moveable Goods in the Church of St. Mary-le-Gill” bearing that date is written on one side of a quarter sheet of paper (the previous ones are all on parchment). “The ancient pewter vessels" are included in this list, but there is no mention of the “large brass candlesticks.”
The following document may have more than a local interest:
SACRILEGE AT BARNOLDSWICK.
James Pilkington and William Scholefield, Charged with having on the 2nd day of November 1843, at Barnoldswick, broken into the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Gill, and stolen therefrom a Pewter Plate, Who took their Trial at York Assizes on Friday the 22nd day of December, 1843, before Mr. justice Manic, when William Scholefield was sentenced to Transportation for 10 years, and James Pilkington 12 Months Imprisonment to hard Labour.
Bill of Indictment preferred by the Incumbent, the Revd. Richard
Milner, etc., etc.
Ten years' transportation (to Australia) seems an almost savagely severe sentence for the crime committed, but it is evidence of the horror with which sacrilege was regarded.
The "Ancient Pewter" Holy Communion vessels were still at the Vicarage in 1877. They have disappeared since then; and the present Church authorities of St. Mary-le-Gill would be very grateful to anyone who could help them to trace and recover them.
Mill Close Farm after its long connection with Gill Church was sold in 1920 to the Barnoldswick Urban District Council for £4,000, under the Glebe Lands Act, and the purchase money was invested in “Consolidated and Funding Stocks" by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; the interest on which now forms a chief part of the income of the Benefice. The allotment on White Moor was not included in this sale, and still remains as the only piece of glebe land now belonging to the parish. Starbotton and Dudgeons (alias Dodgson's) farms have also been sold, and the proceeds of the sales invested in India Stock.
The various grants from Queen Anne's Bounty may be rightly regarded as restitution made for the confiscation of the Tithes of the parish at the suppression of Kirkstall Monastery in the reign of Henry VIII. Queen Anne's conscience was more sensitive than that of her royal predecessors and she founded "the Bounty" as a way of making amends for what had been done in Henry's time.
CHAPTER XVII.
The Tithes of Barnoldswick.
No writer on the history of any part of Craven Dale can dispense with frequent reference to the classical work of the Reverend Doctor Whitaker, in which is contained not only an immense amount of history culled with much laborious research from many original sources, but also reflections and disquisitions which are always worth reading on a great variety of subjects. The following remarks on “Tithe” are extracted from amongst some other very interesting "observations," as he styles them, on that subject :
“I would ask whether at the foundation of parishes, and for many centuries after, it were possible to devise a method of supporting an incumbent equally wise and proper with that of a manse, glebe, and tithes. The Pastor was not to be a vagrant among his flock ; an house therefore was to be provided for him; he wanted the common necessaries of life (for it was held at that time [note the sly humour of this "dig" at his own age] that even spiritual men must cat and drink) and money there was none to purchase them. A moderate allotment, therefore, of land was also required. But the growth of grain, a process which demands much care and attention [this also is a delightful little "aside"] would have converted the incumbent, as it has been well and frequently urged of late, into an illiterate farmer. It was proper, therefore, that the glebe should be restricted within such limits as would suffice for the production of milk, butter, cheese, animal food, and such other articles as require little labour, while the bread-corn and other grain of the minister, should be supplied by the industry of his parishioners. And if the minister fed the people, as it was his office to do, with 'the bread that endureth' there was an harmony as well as equity in requiring that they should feed him in return with that 'which perisheth.' "
That there was no “proper manse," as Whitaker calls it, in which the "Pastor" might live and not be "a vagrant among his flock," we have seen by the terriers quoted in the last chapter, and in a later section of this book we shall record how one came to be provided. The last chapter also relates how the glebe land was eventually all converted into a form of subsistence even easier to manage than the animal farming which the learned historian considers so much simpler than grain-growing.
But what became of the Tithes after the dissolution of Kirkstall, and the final spoliation of its properties here, of which they remained one, no doubt, to the last? Amongst the documents formerly kept in the church safe at Gill Church and now deposited for safer custody in the Diocesan Registry at Bradford, there are three that help us to answer this question. The chief of them is a very fine MS. consisting of five pages of parchment, each measuring 32 inches by 26 inches, beautifully written and scaled, purporting to be an "Indenture Tripartite" made on the 12th of May 1807 -between the Right Hon. Robert Edward Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle in the County of Essex, of the first part; Thomas Cockshott of Bracewell in the County of York, gentleman, Richard Greenwood of Bank Newton in the parish of Gargrave in the said county of York, gentleman, Joshua Windle of Gargrave aforesaid, gentleman, Richard Hartley of Swinden in the parish of Gisburn in the said county of York, gentleman, Edmund Wilkinson of Salterforth in the parish of Barnoldswick in the said county of York, gentleman, and John Parr of Colne in the County Palatine of Lancaster, gentleman, of the second part ; Charles Philip Lord Stourton of Ollerton Park in the County of York, and Sir John Courtnay Throckmorton of Buckland in the County of Berks [? Baronet] of the third part." The Deed is written with all the verbosity which characterized lawyers of that period and some other periods ; and I forbear from transcribing it in full, or even quoting further extracts from it beyond the statement that "the said Robert Edward Lord Petre . . . doth grant bargain sell alien release and confirm unto the said Thomas Cockshott [and the others] ... All the Tithes both great and small and of what nature or kind soever of the said Robert Edward Lord Petre Arising growing renewing or coming or to arrive grow renew or come ... from or out of all every or any of the messuages cottages lands mills commons moors wastes Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever within the parish of Barnoldswick otherwise Gill Kirk or Saint Michael le Gill. And also all the Tithe Barns .... or the Sites thereof with the Appurtenances to the same belonging ... And all the Moduses customary or prescriptive payments (if any there be) belonging to the said Rectory." There is, however, reserved “A yearly Stipend or sum of £4 13s. 4d. payable out of the said Tithes for ever to the Minister or Curate for the time being of the Rectory or Parish Church of Barnoldswick." (etc.).
The price for which the Tithes were sold was £2,827 2s. 8d. .'of lawful English money" ; and there is a statement that the purchasers had at their own expense redeemed the Land Tax.
The Tithes of Barnoldswick were, therefore, valuable; but they did not find their way to the provision of “bread corn" for the Minister who had, it seems, to be content to be "passing rich" on his little pittance of £4 13s. 4d. per annum. I do not know why this latter sum was exempt when the rest of the Tithes were alienated from their original purpose, unless it represented some original payment made not to the monastery of Kirkstall, but to the minister in his proper person.
This Deed is, however, of chief interest to the local historian by reason of its "Schedule," which enables us to trace the passage of the Tithes, and with them the Advowson of the Church, into the hands of Lord Petre. To begin with, Queen Elizabeth made a grant of them in 1578 to the Earl of Lincoln and one Christopher Gowsse, Gentleman. This Earl of Lincoln (perhaps he laid claim to them as a successor in that earldom to Henry de Lacy) whose name was Edward Clinton, alias Fiennes, was a man of note. He had been made Lord High Admiral of England by Henry VIII., and was created Earl in 1572. He did not retain the Tithes of Barnoldswick long, but sold them to two gentlemen named Thomas Crompton and John Motley, who in turn sold them to Thomas Walmsley, Serjeant-at-Law, and Edward Bradyll, Esq. The latter a few years later relinquished or sold his share to Serjeant Walmsley, who thus became sole owner of the tithes and advowson. The Walmsley family belonged to DunkenhaIgh, near Accrington, in Lancashire. They retained their interest in Barnoldswick, and no doubt exercised rights of patronage over Gill Church, until 1711, when Catherine, daughter of Bartholomew Walmsley, married, as her first husband, Robert, seventh Baron Petre. The union was, unfortunately, not a long one, for this hapless nobleman died of smallpox next year (1712) at the untimely age of 22, leaving his young widow who, as heiress of her brother Francis Walmsley, had received, amongst other possessions, the tithes of Barnoldswick. She married again in 1733 Charles, 14th Baron Stourton. She appears to have had a passion for making, and revoking, trusts and wills and codicils. When she died at a good old age in 1788 (according to other authorities 1785) she left her estates charged with a sum of £10,000 to be paid to the younger children of her late grand-daughter, Catherine Heneage. We feel we should like to know more of this wonderful old lady who had out-lived her grand-daughter, and who in her young days was the heroine of Pope's "Rape of the Lock." In order to help to pay the £10,000, together with interest accruing upon it making a total of over £12,000, the advowson and tithes of Gill Church were sold by her executors in 1807. The advowson was not sold with the tithes, but was made the subject of another Deed, also dated 12th May, 1807, by which Lord Petre sold to "Thomas Cockshott his heirs and assigns All that the Advowson donation and Right of Patronage and Presentation of and into the Rectory and Parish Church of Gill Kirk or St. Michael-le-Gill in the County of York whereof Edward Capstacks was then Rector or Incumbent with the Glebe lands, etc." No wife of Thomas Cockshott was to be dowable with the Advowson; and he was to take care when a vacancy occurred to present "some learned honest and well qualified clerk to succeed in and to the said Church as Rector or Parson."
We may enquire why Gill Kirk in these deeds is given the alternative title of St. Michael-le-Gill instead of St. Mary-le-Gill, by which name we have known it hitherto. It seems to be an example of the anti-Popery spirit of the times, and of the consequent desire to discourage the cult of the Virgin Mary.
Thomas Cockshott, by his will made 18th May, 1815, gave his sons, John and Thomas, and son-in-law, Michael Mason, power to sell the advowson ; and in July 1818 it was sold for £630 to John (afterwards Sir John) Lister-Kaye; from whom it was subsequently purchased by, or for, the Rev. Mordaunt Barnard, who in 1836 sold it to Mr. Richard Hudson. It became in turn the property of successive vicars, or their representatives, until in 1924 it was bought for the Bishop of Bradford, whose successors in the See now, therefore, are the Patrons.
The course of the tithes is, less easy to trace after their sale by Lord Petre. They were, apparently, sold in portions with the farms, etc., on which they were laid, to various purchasers ; so that Lewes' "Topographical Dictionary of England," 1835, is correct in stating that “the landowners are lay impropriators."
“Gylkyrk" in the “King's Books" is valued at £4 13s. 4d. per annum. In the “Parliamentary Survey" made in connection with Queen Anne's Bounty in order to ascertain the value of parishes and livings in the country, we find the following entry about Barnoldswick : “No minister. The impropriation is worth £50 per annum. Only £7 per annum, for maintenance. We recommend them [i.e., the parishioners] to the State, certifying thus much on their behalf that the said parish have always unanimously concurred to their great loss and damage in all good ways to promote the public service."(2) It is interesting and gratifying to local pride to find this high repute for public spirit in that period when the population and capacity of the parish were so much less than now.
The "Terriers" enumerated in a previous chapter convey information about the various "Augmentations" which increased the value of the Living, and which were £200 in 1731, £200 in 1771, 1200 in 1786, and again in 1794; £1000 from the Parliamentary Grant in 185, £300 and a further £300 in 1824 and 1826 from the same source; (300 from Sir John Lister-Kaye, and, £100 from the Pyncombe Trustees, £2,800 in all.
Whitaker says that "the certified value" of the Living was in his day £5 8s. 4d. (it is so given in Bacon's "Liber Regis," where the Patron is stated to be Edmund Starkie, Esq.), "but the actual endowment consists in an antient pension of fourteen nobles paid out of the great and small tithes ; a tenement valued at £12. ; the rent of the churchyard or 5s. ; £3. for preaching two sermons;
1 No doubt a rough statement of the £4 13. 4 and the £3 left by John Milner in 1718 to the "minister of Gill Church."
2 Vol. XVIII, p 215.
and one augmentation at least from Queen Anne's Bounty." The antient pension" is the £4 13s. 4d. already referred to more than once in the preceding pages.
In view of the present agitation in some parts of England on the subject of Tithes, it may be deemed fortunate for the vicars of Barnoldswick that their income is not now derived from that source ; and it may not be irrelevant to point out that the Church undoubtedly lost large revenues by royal, and other, robbery in the times of the Tudors ; and that tithes were bought and sold like any other property in the ordinary way of business. It is true that in the case of Barnoldswick and of several other parishes restitution, at least to some extent, was made by Queen Anne and by Parliament, but it should be remembered that it was restitution, not the endowment of the Church by the State.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The "Inclosure" Act.
IN the years 1829-1830 a very considerable change was made in the outward aspect and appearance of our township of Barnoldswick. This was brought about by the "inclosure" of the common and "waste" lands which from earliest ages had stretched unbroken by walls or fences round the town and up the side of Weets. It is true that each little "toft" or homestead had its “Croft" or small piece of tilled land, and that some sort of division, either a stone wall or a hedge, separated the corn-lands from the pastures. But the present patchwork, or irregular chess-board, of small fields did not exist, until the passing of the various Inclosure Acts in the early part of the last century brought them into being. The Act ordering the enclosure of the common lands of Barnoldswick was passed in 1814, but it was not until 1829 that the Award was made whereby the statutory surveyors or commissioners divided up these lands amongst the various owners whose names are recited therein. The Act is entitled "An Act for Inclosing Lands within the several Townships of Barnoldswick and Salterforth in the Parish of Barnoldswick in the West Riding of the County of York.” The Preamble recites that "there are within these Townships, in the Manor of Barnoldswick in the Parish of Barnoldswick. certain Tracts or Parcels of Commons, Moors, and Waste Grounds, called White Moor, and also divers other small Parcels of Common and Waste Lands within the said several Townships . . . containing in the whole by Estimation, One Thousand five Hundred Acres, or thereabouts." It continues : "And whereas Sir William Chambers Bagshaw, Knight, Edward Ferrand, Esquire, William Roundell, and William Atkinson Wasney, Clerks, Thomas Cockshott, John Parr, Richard Greenwood, and Edmund Wilkinson, Gentlemen, together with several other Owners and Proprietors of Estates, within the Parish of Barnoldswick aforesaid, are Lords of the Manor or reputed Manor of Barnoldswick aforesaid, and as such are entitled to the Royalties therein, and the Soil of the said Common and Waste Grounds," and goes on to state that it would be "of the greatest advantage" not only to these owners “but to the Public in general" that these Commons, etc., "should be divided, allotted and inclosed."
Thomas Buttle, of Kirkby Lonsdale in the County of Westmoreland, Gentleman," and his successors, to be appointed in Manner hereinafter mentioned," is [are] appointed the Sole Commissioner for dividing and allotting the said Commons, etc. Notice of "Sittings" of the Commissioner is to be given i(upon some Sunday, before or during Divine Service, by Writing, to be affixed upon the principal outer Door of the said Parish Church of Barnoldswick" ; also- by advertisement in the Leeds Mercury, or if that newspaper shall not be published, in some other newspaper usually and generally circulated in the County of York. "Sittings are to be held at Barnoldswick, or within the Distance of Eight Miles thereof."
Thomas Buttle, "or any other Commissioner who shall act in the Execution of this Act, shall be allowed the sum of Two Guineas and an Half, and no more, for his Trouble and Expences for each and every Day he shall necessarily attend . . . or be employed in travelling to or from the Places of Meeting." He is given power to settle disputes about claims but not “to determine the title to any Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever" ; also to assess costs. An appeal to the Assizes is allowed against any “Determination" of the Commissioner. He may also appoint surveyors or assistants, and order a “Survey, Admeasurement and Plan" to be made, and may "extinguish" or suspend rights of common. No Peat, Turf, Sods, Soil, Flags, Whins, or Furze may be cut, digged, pared, graved, flayed, or carried away, under penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of any Person or Persons so offending," after the passing of the Act. Other powers are conferred upon the Commissioner: "He shall and may scour out, deepen, widen or divert all Brooks, Streams, Ditches, Watercourses, Watering Places, Tunnels and Bridges .... and also shall and may set out, order, and direct such new Ditches, Drains, Water-courses, Watering Places, Tunnels, Water-gates, Floodgates, Banks, and Bridges to be made of such Depth, Breadth and Extent and in such Situations and Directions" as he shall think proper ; with due “Satisfaction" and compensation for any damage thereby done; and he is to order and direct by whom, at whose expense, at what Time and what Manner the said Brooks et hoc genus omne shall be thereafter repaired, cleansed, scoured and maintained.
Similar powers are conferred for the diverting, turning, or stopping of Carriage, Bridle, and Foot Roads, and Highways ; but in this matter he must obtain the concurrence of two Justices of the Peace ; and his decisions are subject to appeal. Furthermore, he is to assign, set out, and allot unto the Surveyors of the Highways portions of ground for public “Quarries, Watering Places for Cattle, and for getting Stone and Gravel" for the repairs of the roads, and is to order by whom these roads are to be kept in repair. "Mosses" and "Turbary Grounds" are also to be set out for such as in times past have had them.
Such “Part and Parts of the said Commons and Waste Grounds as lie on the West Side of the old road leading from Gisburn to Colne," and various other lands, are to be set aside for sale by auction in order to defray the expenses of "obtaining and passing this Act," and of the survey and admeasurement, and all other “incidental Charges and Expences." If there be any surplus, “then such surplus Money shall be paid by the said Commissioner unto the several persons interested in the said Commons and Waste Grounds in such Shares and Proportions as he shall appoint ; and the Shares of such of them as shall be Tenants in Fee Simple shall be paid to them respectively, and the Shares of the others of the said Persons shall be paid into the Bank of England."
When all these provisions have been made, and all these things set in order, the “Residue" of the common land is to be divided amongst the several owners and proprietors in proportion to the annual value of their respective inclosed lands, such value to be “Ascertained by the Land-tax Assessment of the said respective Township for 1813”. The allotments so made are to be held as “Freehold of Inheritance."
It is further enacted "That nothing in this Act shall prejudice, lessen, defeat, or in anywise affect the Right, Title, or Interest of the Tithe-Owner or Owners for the time being respectively, in or to any Tithes, Moduses, Dues, Payments, Mortuaries, Easter Offerings, Surplice or other Fees." The "Curate for the time being" of the parish of Barnoldswick is exempted from the payment of any of the costs of the carrying out of the Act if the proceeds of the sale of lands should prove insufficient and a levy have to be made on the other owners, for
which levy provision is made.
Direction is given that the Award of the Commissioner shall be deposited, together with the maps and plans explanatory of the same, in the Public Register Office at Wakefield, and duplicates are to be lodged in the Parish Church of Barnoldswick with the Parish Registers. A fee of five shillings is to be charged for inspection of the original at Wakefield ; or one shilling may be charged for the perusal or inspection of each of "the Instruments" (i.e., Award, Maps, etc.), so inspected. Nothing is said as to the fees which may be charged for inspection of the copies.
In accordance with the Act, Mr. Commissioner Buttle took the necessary oath at Eshton Hall before Mathew Wilson, Esquire, on July 18th, 1814; and the first meetings were held on August 16th and September 13th of the same year at the house of John Clark, Innkeeper, in Barnoldswick ; and were continued as needed whilst the survey and allotment were carried out, until 1829, an inordinately long time, one would think, for the business.
In further accordance, a copy of the Commissioner's Award, duly signed, scaled and stamped, and so in fact a second original rather than a copy, is now preserved with the parish registers. It consists of 103 pages of parchment and three maps, and is well bound in calf and kept in a specially made tin box. The first part of the Award sets out the roads : Colne Road, Gisburn Road, Gillians Road, as Highways; Lister Well Road, Moor Gate Road, Parks Occupation Road, and several others as "Public Footways" or as “Bridle Paths," and as -Private Carriage Roads" ; and declares who are responsible for their maintenance and repair. Quarries and a watering-place are also arranged for as the Act required. No less than 70 parcels of land, large and small, containing in all 109 acres, in Barnoldswick township, were sold by auction to defray expenses at prices varying from £700 to 3s., the total proceeds of the sale being £1,567 1s. 6d. In addition, three acres in Salterforth were sold for £72 11s., in eighteen lots. The largest purchaser was one William Shaw, who bought 63 acres for £700; but Wm. Mitchell acquired 31 lots, all of them very small. Amongst the buyers was “The Barnoldswick Friendly Society," whose Treasurer and Stewards acquired eleven perches for the sum of £5 10s. Was it the site of their place of meeting? The Vicar of Bracewell, Rev. William Atkinson Wasney, also figures as the purchaser of three perches of land at a price of one guinea, apparently for his Church.
Having dealt with these matters the Commissioner proceeded to divide out the remaining land amongst the various landowners, in proportion to their respective holdings. It is interesting to note that Altham Chapel, Lancashire, receives 14½ acres, probably in satisfaction of some old tithe claim. Gill Church is allotted 11 acres. My readers may like to know who were the landowners of Barnoldswick a century ago, so I give the list of names as they stand in the Award. In addition to the two churches we have: Sir Wm. Bagshaw, Knight, John Barritt, Wm. Bracewell, Mary Brogden, John Broughton, John Croasdale's Representatives, Thomas Chippindale, Thomas Cockshott's Trustees, Henry Dean, Edward Ferrand, Abraham Greenwood, Richard Greenwood, Richard Hartley's co-heiresses, Mrs. Hoyle's Trustee, Christopher Hartley, Richard Jepson, Richard Kirk, John Mancknolls, Robert Midgley, William Mitchell, Ellis Nutter, John Oddie, Henry Hoyle Oddie, John Parr's Trustees, Jane Preston, Wm. Robertshaw, Richard Henry Roundell, Thomas Smith, John Stockdale, William Siddall, Thomas Taylor, Christopher Waite, Thomas Walshman, Rev. Wm. Atkinson Wasney, Edmund Wilkinson. John Parr’s Trustees are the largest owners, receiving 172, acres. R. H. Roundell comes next with just over 100. Detailed orders are given for the making and repair of fences on each allotment.
A special section and map of the Award deals with the drainage of “Salterforth Moss," and the making of a "Public Main Drain" to be known as "Salterforth and Kelbrook Main Watercourse." Another drain, to be called "Salterforth Moss Catch Water Drain" and two subsidiary ones named "Fleets Covered Drain " and “Salterforth Beck to the Carrs " are also directed to be made. Thomas Thornber, of Colne, Edmund Wilkinson, of Salterforth, and John Broughton, of Thornton, “and their successors to be appointed from time to time by the major part of the owners and proprietors of lands and grounds situate in Salterforth Bottoms, Hague, and Kelbrook Ings, who shall be present at a meeting to be held for the purpose in the Vestry of the Parish Church of Barnoldswick aforesaid at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon the first Monday in October in every year," are appointed to see to the maintenance and repair of the drains at a charge of £10, instructions for levying which on the various landowners are also given. “Salterforth Beck to the Carrs" drain, however, is put under the care of R. H. Roundell, of Gledstone Hall, and John Broughton, and their successors similarly appointed, who are to levy £5 for the purpose.
The Award is “signed, scaled and delivered being first duly stamped" in the presence of John Hartley, Solicitor, Settle, and Samuel Swire, Land-surveyor, Skipton, on the 9th of January, 1829.
It has seemed worth while to give at some length in this History an account of an event which must have been of considerable local interest. These "inclosures" of the common lands, which had lain unfenced through all the previous centuries from the days of the early Britons onwards, were being made by similar Acts of Parliament all over England at about this time. In consequence of the Barnoldswick Inclosure some twenty miles of stone walls were put on the side of Weets, no doubt a profitable business for the dry stone wall builders, whose craft is a decaying one to-day. The hill-side thus became “strapped over with large bandages of stone, and [now] presents nothing to the eye but right-lined and angular deformity" thus girds the historian of Craven at a change of which he was an eye-witness all over the Dale. Doubtless the change was necessary, but as he also remarks, it spoilt the beautiful park-like appearance of the country.
It appears to have been about the same time that the Guardians of our town sold the Village Green for building purposes. The Commercial Inn now stands where was once the Green, the scene in olden days of village dancing and perhaps of cock-fights and bull-baiting. There was no bridge in Barnoldswick then, and many a wetting was incurred in fording the beck which ran across the highway. It was bridged in 1830. [This is the culverting of the beck in Walmsgate. SCG]
CHAPTER XIX.
A Worthy and Noteworthy Vicar.
OF most of the Vicars of Barnoldswick parish whose names are given in a previous chapter little in the way of personal history is known. Chapter XVI. contains a brief note on Arthur Tempest, and various references have been made to Mordaunt Barnard. But the Rev. Richard Milner deserves more than a passing reference. He appears to have been a man of very considerable energy, ambitious of the welfare of his parish. He served as curate to Mr. Barnard from December, 1835, until April, 1840, when he succeeded him as Vicar or Perpetual Curate. But from his first appointment he was practically in entire charge of the parish, Mr. Barnard having retired, probably on account of ill-health, to Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire, where he lived till 1840 or later. Immediately on coming here as minister, Mr. Milner took in hand the task of providing a new school for the town which might serve also as a chapel-of-ease, although the latter object was kept somewhat in the background at first. Prior to this a small day school had been carried on in a private house leased at a yearly rent of 10s. from William Armistead, of Aynhams, and described in an indenture of lease, dated October 6th, 1830, as “All that Messuage and Tenement formerly the ancient Schoolhouse called Barnoldswick School . . . now used and occupied partly as a Schoolhouse or Schoolroom partly as a Dwelling house." The exact locality of this building I have not been able to ascertain. The fact that the lease was due to expire in 1837 may have been one reason why Mr. Milner promptly set to work to get a new school built. But the accommodation in the old school was miserably inadequate, being only sufficient for 30 boys and 12 girls. There was a still smaller school in connection with the Baptist Church, with accommodation for 17 boys and three girls ; and these two little schools formed the whole educational provision for a town whose population had now grown to be about 3,000. The Church of England Sunday School was held in Gill Church "for want of better accommodation," as Mr. Milner says in his application for aid to the National Society. Those who remember how terribly bad until quite recently was the condition of Gill Lane, leading to Gill Church, as well as the distance, over a mile, of that church from the town, will appreciate the need of providing "better accommodation."
A public meeting was called on February 15th, 1836, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety and expediency of erecting a daily and Sunday School to be united to the National Society." The chair at this meeting was taken by the Rev. J. Rushton, Vicar of Newchurch-in-Pendle, who took a
considerable interest in the ecclesiastical concerns of this parish. The meeting passed the following resolution : “That it appears to this meeting desirable to erect a New School to serve the purpose of a Sunday and Daily School as well as an occasional Preaching Room" ; and a committee was appointed to endeavour to obtain subscriptions. It is puzzling, in view of the existence of the lease mentioned, to find that the meeting also appointed two gentlemen to make enquiries as to “the possibility of legally disposing of the present School and Schoolhouse in aid of funds." Perhaps Mr. Armistead, who was one of the chief supporters of the project for a new School and Preaching-Room, may have surrendered his lease to the Church. In any case, it seems that it was not sold, for no entry of its sale appears in the accounts of the building fund of the new school. Mr. Milner was appointed Secretary and Mr. Jas. Duckworth Treasurer to the Committee, and it was resolved to approach the National Society and the Lords of the Treasury for aid. The Committee was instructed to endeavour to secure a site "at the top of Blue Pot Lane, or as near thereto as possible, so as to accommodate the inhabitants of Salterforth and neighbourhood as well as Barnoldswick." A further resolution to the effect that "should not the Committee succeed in the accomplishment of their aim the expenses incurred shall be defrayed by the Constable of the Parish" is interesting reading and may excite the envy of modern promoters of such enterprises.
The efforts to secure a site in "Blue Pot Lane" did not meet with success, for at a later meeting it was resolved that Mr. Jas. Royds, of Mount Falinge, Rochdale, should be asked to give or sell a site. This application was crowned with success and Mr. Royds gave the site on which the present St. James’ Church stands. In a letter on the subject from his son the writer states that his father wishes a clause to be inserted in the Deed of gift to prevent its (i.e. the School) being used for any other purpose than the strict doctrines of our Church" ; but he does not, perhaps wisely, attempt to define these doctrines. One Mr. Wasney was authorized by the Committee to draw up documents “In every respect in strict conformity with this letter."
The National Society inclined a favourable car to the appeal from Barnoldswick, and made a first grant of £30, to which they added £50 later. They also forwarded a recommendation to H.M. Treasury that a grant of £200 should be given from that source. The Treasury gave £150. Meanwhile, subscriptions were being collected, and things appeared so favourable that at a meeting held on July 12th, 1836, Mr. Milner was authorized to get plans and specifications in readiness “with a view to commence the building immediately." They were "in readiness" by the 26th of the same month and at a meeting held on that date it was resolved that "the Letting (of the contracts) should be advertised to take place on August 9th." The stone for the hewn work was to be obtained from Low Delph, near Colne; the other stone from the local quarry on Tubber Hill. A copy of the bill advertising "the Letting," which it states is to be "By Ticket" is annexed to the Minutes. of this. Meeting and contractors are therein informed that the Committee will provide stone, lime, and sand. No letting was made however on August 9th, but at a subsequent meeting on October 3rd contracts were accepted from Thos. Smith for masonry (£120), Wm. Hall for carpentry (£69 10s. 0d.), Christopher Thornton for slating with blue slate (£12 16s. 10d.) and J. Watson for plumber's and glazier's work (£50). Even with the materials provided this seems an extraordinarily small sum, totalling only just over £250. It seems however, that the plans and specifications were afterwards considerably altered and enlarged, for the final cost of the building was £625. A gallery was added also, at an extra cost of over £200, and the provision of this gallery, or rather the method of paying for it, appears to have caused some friction between Mr. Milner and a section of the parishioners, by reason of which he resigned his position as secretary to the Committee, and there is a hiatus in the records of the meetings until 1838. The building, which was to be school and church in one, was finished in 1837, but was not opened until next year. Amongst those who subscribed to the Building Fund we find the Archbishop of York, who gave £10 ; the Bishop of Ripon, a like sum; Jas. Cockshott, £20; J. H. Bagshaw, £20; R. H. Roundell, £10. In addition to his gift of land, Mr. Royds gave £50. (1)
For a few years this building, dedicated to St. James’, was used as a school and to some extent as a place of worship. It consisted of one room only, with a partition (a curtain ?) between the boys and the girls, 300 of whom were received in it. They paid small weekly fees, "2 pence for weavers and labourers, 3 pence for others, and 4 pence for accountants." The master received £30 a year salary, and equipment cost some £15 annually.
In 1842 St. James' was consecrated as a church by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, Charles Thomas Longley. The document giving the "Arrangements" for the consecration is of considerable interest as showing how things of this sort were done in early Victorian days :
1 There is a tradition which I have been unable to confirm by any documentary evidence that Queen Victoria gave £10 for the Communion rails before the consecration of the church.
The BISHOP will drive to the gate of the Chapel Yard about a Quarter to Twelve am.
The CLERGY will walk in procession from the Vestry in their Surplices to meet his Lordship at the Gate of the Chapel Yard. After the Clergy the Gentlemen present will join the Procession. When his Lordship has got out of his carriage he will pass between the CLERGY, who will then stand on each side of the path. The CLERGY will follow the BISHOP to the Vestry, where his Lordship will receive the petition to consecrate the Chapel. Whilst the petition is being presented, the Congregation will be admitted to fill the pews, but not to occupy the Iles of the Chapel.
After the Petition has been presented, the BISHOP and the CLERGY will pass into the Chapel in the following order,
THE BISHOP. HIS CHAPLAINS.
THE INCUMBENT. THE PREACHER.
THE CLERGY,-Two and Two.
This Procession will pass up the south Ile, the BISHOP and CLERGY alternately repeating the 24th Psalm as is directed in the form of Service.
The BISHOP will take the Chair on the north side of the Altar; the Incumbent will go to the Desk; and the PREACHER to a seat near the Pulpit; and the CLERGY will take their seats in the Pews set apart for them.
The doors of the Chapel will then be opened, and the Congregation will be allowed to fill the Church, and the morning service will commence.
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered.
The CLERGY and others attending the Consecration are earnestly entreated to pay attention to these directions.
Before this event took place Mr. Milner, now duly instituted as Vicar, had set himself to provide yet another school in order that St. James' might be used as a church only. The story of his efforts in this direction has not been written by any contemporary hand, but the school stood in The Butts. [The Pigeon Club. SCG] In a report to the Charity Commissioners made in 1894 it is recorded that “a school had been in existence (in Barnoldswick) 'from time immemorial' and had been managed by the minister and churchwardens" in which about 100 boys and about 30 girls were taught "the usual elementary subjects." "The school building consisted of two small rooms, one above the other, and a large porch." In 1860, upon the Managers applying to the Education Department for a building grant for the purpose of enlarging and repairing the school it was discovered that they had no legal title to the building ; and the Department ordered that it should be vested in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands. The school was also placed under the management of "the minister of the parish, his curate, and eight members of the Church of England," to be conducted as a Church School, but subject to a “conscience clause." The present C.E. School in York Street was built in 1883, and enlarged in 1894, and again in 1898.
Having this secured a Chapel-of-Ease and a Church School for his parish, Mr. Milner next set himself to obtain a Vicarage and so to remove the reproach which rested on the established Church in Barnoldswick that its minister was what Whitaker calls “a vagrant among his flock." An appeal was issued in 1846 which we here transcribe. (1).
“The Population of the Parish of Barnoldswick, comprising the Townships of Barnoldswick, Brogden, Coates and Salterforth, as taken A.D. 1841, was 2,833, extending over 6,040 acres, and consists of small farmers, inferior (2) shopkeepers, and handloom weavers. In the Village of Barnoldswick alone (Population about 1,800) 197 families, or nearly 1,000 individuals depend on hand-loom weaving for support. There is not one member of the Established Church in affluent circumstances in the Parish. Under the Divine Blessing we have been enabled to erect a Church and a Day and Sunday School in this very poor and populous Village, at a cost of £1,700, of which nearly three-fourths have been raised by voluntary contributions.
I and my Parishioners (3) have great cause to thank God for putting it into the hearts of his servants to contribute the means by which we have been enabled to defray the expenses incurred in the erection of these buildings. The Spiritual good they have been the instruments of effecting has been great, and I trust through God's blessing will be abundantly increased.
In order to secure the services of a resident Minister in this portion of the Lord's vineyard measures have been taken to commence the erection of a Parsonage House. A suitable Site has been provided for the House, Garden, &c., by the liberality of Clement Royds Esq., Mount Falinge, Rochdale.
The estimated cost of the Parsonage is £700. The slender resources of this poor Parish are exhausted ; in order, therefore, that we may be enabled to accomplish this desirable object, I beg leave most respectfully to solicit the aid of those whom God has blessed with the means, and with hearts friendly to such undertakings.
1 am aware that many appeals of this kind are now made to the friends of the Church, yet I am sure you can rarely be called upon to give your assistance to a poorer District.
Hoping that this most earnest appeal will not be made in vain, I am, your obedient Servant,
RICHARD MILNER, Incumbent."
With the Appeal there was issued a first list of subscriptions. The list is headed by H.M. the Queen Dowager (Queen Charlotte) who gave £10. The Archbishop of York gave £20, the Bishop of Ripon £10, Mr. Roundell £21, Mrs. Laurence, of Studley Park, £20, J. H. Ainsworth, Esq., £25. There are many Leeds subscribers, and others range from Hove [Sussex] Amport [Hants.]
1 The capitals have been left as they are in the original, but the somewhat peculiar punctuation has been modernized.
2 This does not, of course, mean anything derogatory, only that they were in a small way of business.
3Conmpare – “Ego et meus rex"!
and Surry (sic) to Newcastle-on-Tyne and even to Berwick, and from Bath and Stratford-on-Avon to Burton-on-Trent and Stockport. They include several M.P's. and various Lords and Ladies, so that Vicar Milner appears to have had a considerable circle of influential friends.
The Appeal concludes on this practical note :
“Please insert a Shilling into the Card and return it to the Rev. R. Milner . . . . Any much larger sum will be specially and thankfully acknowledged. Subscriptions will also be received at the Bank of Messrs. Alcocks, Birkbeck and Co., Skipton." Evidently there were no banks in Barnoldswick in 1846.
In this aim also Mr. Milner was successful, and the present Vicarage [Now the Masonic Lodge at the end of Vicarage Road. SCG] is another substantial evidence of his perseverance and energy. It should be added that whilst this appeal was proceeding, or rather shortly before its issue, he had also got a school built and opened in the hamlet of Salterforth.
The following letter is interesting both as an evidence of his care for the parish in another way and as a side-light on ecclesiastical matters of 100 years ago. It is dated March 21st, 1838 :
"Dear Sir, The completion and early expected opening of St. James’s, Barnoldswick, reminds me of the conversation you and I had on the subject of a title. I write to know whether the term of your probation at St. Bee's has expired or is about to expire at Midsummer, and if so whether you would be disposed to accept a title from me. I must tell you that I have it in contemplation to take a curate, and to have one service in the morning jointly at Barnoldswick, in the afternoon one at Gill and one at Salterforth, and at night one at Barnolds., making four services. You are aware that my church would not of itself afford a salary, and that any proceeds of pew rents at Barnolds. wd. be insufficient to maintain a curate. I wd. therefore beg to know at the same time upon how liberal terms you might be disposed to accept my cure. The interchange of services wd. be light & wd. not require the close application to study and sermonizing as wd. be the case under other circumstances : more especially as I should not object to alternate with you. If agreeable to you a separate district might be assigned to you for pastoral superintendence and visitation of the sick, say Brockden & that part of Barnolds. North of the Village, while I take Cotes, Salterforth & rest of Barnoldswick, or the reverse. As to residence you know the district as well as myself."
The name and address of the person to whom this letter is indited are not given on the copy preserved amongst other papers of Mr. Milner's from which I have taken the above.
The following also, written to Mr. Milner by Rev. J. Rushton, Vicar of Newchurch-in-Pendle, and dated 13th March, 1838, is similarly interesting as illustrating the attitude of the Church Societies to applicants for grants in those days, and for other incidental remarks in it :
“My Dear Sir, I am sorry you have had to send over purposely for an answer to your important enquiries of 28th ult. Your architect Anderton told me yesterday you had resigned your office of secy on account of some dispute as to the rent of pews in the gallery. I hope this is not the case. It wd. appear very selfish after collecting the principal part of the means from the landowners either to sell or to let them. Selling is out of the question, you can neither reasonably nor legally do it. Letting is both practicable and proper. Fix in committee the annual sums, or quarterage, to be paid for each ; then as a security to the tenant that he shall not be disturbed in future possession so long as he rents & occupies the pew, let the site be put up at a meeting for competition, and the money so raised appropriated as the committee direct. The rents may go towards the maintenance of an additional minister, or form a sinking fund for repairs, exps of school, &c., &c.
I presume from your plan of 'pewing the floor' that you intend to make it a place of worship only, not a school; if so where are your funds for improving the old school? What prospect have you of obtaining an assistant from local, or charitable, or private resources? Will Mr. Stockdale take the duty for nothing in consideration of a title? Or do you depend upon the Past. Aid Society or Additional curates' fund for salary? Of all these, and many other circumstances I am ignorant : so that without further information I could not say what the Past. Aid Socy might do in your case. I am not aware of more than two cases up to Dec. 1837 of aid voted for places of worship and these were small in amount, and in fact but loans. The latter in my presence was granted on the understanding that it shd. be repaid (£50) by instalments, and an annual collection made for the general purposes of the Socy. Their income at present does not allow them to build. The question for your consideration is whether you wd. prefer calling upon them for a temporary grant of say 100£, or applying for the salary of an assistant. I ventured to throw out a hint to Mr. Morris that you might possibly apply for an assistant, and if successful he might assist at one end of the day at his new church. The amount of your population (2,500 I presume) would not alone be large enough to make out a 'strong case.' I am comparatively ignorant of the most essential particulars as to population, distance from other churches, & what amount of population wd. be affected by opening a church or oratory at Salterforth or Kelbrook on the one side, or you taking Salterforth and Gill at Barnoldswick, Brockden, or Rimington on the other. I think you will be obliged to unite other districts, or raise a certain proportion of the salary from local resources to meet any grant they might make.
Could you meet me at Barrowford by 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon (it is moonlight at night) and bring with you the population tables of the West Riding which you may possibly borrow of Mr. Wasney, Mr. Morris, Mr. Roundell, or other friend, I cd. form a better judgement of the case. In your future communications you will save expense by sending them to the Fleece Inn, Barrowford, where I am sure to be some part of the week. I am sorry to have kept your man so long, this is a work day, paying off arrears of correspondence &c.
Believe me yours J. RUSHTON.
Can you find me a curate. Is there not a church building Socy at York or elsewhere ?
This letter proves that Mr. Rushton could be a candid as well as a helpful friend. There is another from him on the subject of the building of St. James's, which shows him in the same aspects and in which he lightens a rebuke by a touch of humour. I quote this one sentence : " Mr …… and I are of opinion you will not have funds for a spire and think it foolish in your aspiring so high."
Instead of the condemned spire he suggests a small octagonal turret on which a pole might be set “on which to hoist your flag on gala days!”
Another letter of Mr. Milner's affords us a glimpse both of local conditions in his days and also of the man himself. It is written to the Secretary of the National Society, and is dated March 21st, 1838 :
“Rev. Sir, The Committee of Barnoldswick School have directed me to make the following statement of their case and to beg you will lay it before your committee. The school to which the Treasury granted 150£ and your Society 30£ has been completed, at least as far as the erection, but in winding up their affairs [they] find that the sum allotted for fittings has been necessarily expended in the general accts., and in addition to this they have to build out-houses and yard-walls--& to pay expenses of conveyance &c. From the treasurer's acct. it appears that the committee's liabilities for these things are £118 9s. 6d., for which they see not how to provide. The present depressed state of the staple trade of the place (hand-loom weaving), the absence of proprietors and the very general application already made to our local and distant friends seem to preclude the hope of raising the above sum without foreign aid . . . . . I have great pleasure in reporting the favourable prospect shown of it being both generally acceptable and extensively useful to the District : that it will become the nursery of young for the church, yea the means of reclaiming many from the ranks of political dissenters and the preventative of a counter-scheme of some of our would-be styled ' liberals ' who condemn catechisms, expunge creeds, banish the bible & preach up ‘useful’ to the exclusion of other knowledge. I feel reluctant after all your liberality to urge for further aid but feel it due to the committee, to our important cause, & moreover to this prospect of extensive good to my parish, next to an additional church and fellow-labourer, to place the whole case in the hands of your committee”
In another similar letter, a copy of which has been preserved, but without date and without showing to what Society it is addressed, Mr. Milner again emphasises the depressed condition of hand-loom weaving, and the consequent poverty of his parishioners. In support of his application he gives an example of the spiritual fruits of his labours which is worthy of being more permanently recorded. He is referring to his church people and writes thus :
"Many of whom from being scholars have become, what too rarely occurs in these manufacturing. districts, diligent teachers of others. I may mention one most interesting case : a stonemason, 50 years of age, unable to read, began his alphabet, learnt to read, was baptised and confirmed, became a communicant and regularly attended church. In process of time he becomes a teacher, brings his family - 3 sons and 2 daughters to assist in the school, precedes them to the communion, and has not failed to do this for fifteen years morning and evening from a distance of 2 ½ miles every Sunday in all weathers, except during an illness of two months."
We may infer from the above that Mr. Milner did not neglect the spiritual side of his work because of his efforts to improve the material resources of the Church in the parish. Some local reader or readers may be able to identify the man to whom he refers. Mr. Milner probably means that the family attended Church, not Holy Communion, every Sunday, for there were then very few churches indeed, either in town or country, where the Celebrations were more frequent than once a month.
It was due to his success in these efforts to raise money that the Vicar obtained the reputation of being “The best beggar in the parish." He was made chairman of the local "Dole Committee in the days of the "Cotton Famine" (American Civil War) and was deputed to go to London to endeavour to obtain assistance from the Mansion House Fund which had been opened for the relief of sufferers in those terribly lean years. He came back with a considerable grant-in-aid and so once more justified his reputation ; and also proved his interest in the welfare of his people in their struggles to win daily bread. Another side of his character is shown by the fact that he was one of the Vice-presidents of the "Barlick Snuff-takers Fraternity," [see Atkinson; ‘Old Barlick’. SCG] and was a "three-dipper," using three fingers in helping himself to snuff.
In 1868 an organ was placed in St. James’s Church at a cost of £105. It was about this time that evening services began to take the place of the hitherto universal afternoon ones, much to the disgust of at least one churchwarden of Barnoldswick, who declared that the daylight was good enough to worship God by, if only people would use it, without wanting artificial light (gas was beginning to be introduced). Two years later, Mr. Milner passed to his rest at he age of 70 years, having been Vicar here for 30 years, and curate for four further years. He was undoubtedly one of the worthiest in the long line of incumbents of Barnoldswick.
CHAPTER XX
Barnoldswick in the Early XIX. Century.
WE have traced the story of the little town which nestles under the hills at the head of the Craven Valley, from its beginnings in the dim Saxon times, and have tried to gather some idea of what life within it was like at various periods of its development. Let us look now for a moment at the manner of life here in the early days of the Nineteenth Century, and bring our story to an end with a glance at the changes which came with the development of the cotton industry about the middle of that century.
For the facts given in this chapter we are very much indebted to the researches and memories, almost contemporary, of Mr. W. P. Atkinson, one of Barnoldswick's worthiest and most respected citizens of the last generation. Many still living remember him well, and his deep interest in everything that could advance the welfare, material and spiritual, of his fellow townsmen. Especially do some among them recall with gratitude the pilgrimages which he often made carrying, with the help of his son, a little baby-organ, to hold simple services in their own homes amongst the scattered farmers of this far-stretching parish. His reminiscences and collections, chatty and interesting, are contained in a MS. which his son lent for the compilation of this chapter, a loan which I here take the opportunity of gratefully acknowledging. [Old Barlick. Also on the site. SCG]
In 1801 the population of the town was 1,401. In 1841 it was 2,844, which had dropped again to 2,828 ten years later. In 1891 it was 4,808, and in 1901 it had leaped to 7,193. It is now nearly 12,000, and only for the interruption of the "cotton-boom" by the War it would have been twice as large. But the growth of the population has been much less remarkable than the growth which took place in other respects in that amazing century. The physical features of the town have changed. Reference has been made to the selling of the Village Green, which was the common rendezvous and playground of olden days. This was in 1816. The Commercial Inn, and about 20 back-to-back houses were erected upon it. It is an evidence of the force of old habit and tradition that to this day open-air meetings are commonly held on Jepp's Hill, which was part of the old Green. An orchard and cottages stood where now stand Orchard Street and Garden Street. "New Town," now one of the central streets, tells its own tale. The old stone stocks were removed when Orchard Street was built, and appear to have since perished altogether. Dam Head Bridge was in existence in 1796; how much earlier it is not known to the present writer. The following document may be of interest to some readers of this book.
“Know All Men by these presents that we, John Broughton of Thornton in the County of York and John Broughton of Moses Lee in the Parish of Barnoldswick and said County of York Stone Mason are held and firmly bound to Richard Parkinson of Calf Hall in the Parish of Barnoldswick and County of York aforesaid Surveyor of the Highways and his Successors in the Sum of Eighty Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid to the said Richard Parkinson or his Successors or his or their Attorney, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves and each of us by himself for and in the whole, our Heirs [etc.]. Sealed with our Seals, Dated the Eighteenth day of July One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six.
The Condition of this obligation is such That if the above named John Broughtons or either of them [etc.] shall uphold maintain and keep in good and sufficient repair or cause to be upholden, maintained [etc.] for the Term of Seven Years from the Day of the Date hereof, a certain Stone Bridge commonly called or known by the Name of Damhead Bridge within the Township of Barnoldswick aforesaid Then this Obligation to be void, or otherwise to be and remain in full Force and Virtue."
On the other hand it was not until 1825 or 1830 that the beck between Westgate and Lamb Hill (as it was then called) was bridged ; and the ford, with its steep and awkward banks, done away with. A few years earlier a bridge had been made across Foul Syke, between Barnoldswick and Bracewell, and a ford and footbridge abolished. Until the coming of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal problems of transport, therefore, had been real and considerable. Coal especially was not easy to get, having to be brought ten or a dozen miles out of Lancashire over atrocious roads and dangerous fords. The Canal was begun in 1770 and opened for traffic in 1796, but work on it was not completed until 1816. It is said to have cost one million pounds to construct, a small sum compared with the cost, say, of the Manchester Ship Canal, but a large one for those days. Greenberfield, in this parish, where it is crossed by the old Roman road, is the highest point in its course ; the rise from Leeds being 410 feet, and from Liverpool 431 feet.
A railway line between Keighley and Skipton was opened in 1847, and two years later was extended to Colne. It was not until 1871 that the branch line from Earby to Barnoldswick was opened, a very great event in the local annals, and which brings us within the range of living memory. For twenty years the railway brought little or no profit to its promoters ; after that it paid fairly well. It was sold to the Midland Railway Company in 1899.
The improvement in the means of transport and of travel is certainly one of the greatest changes for the better that have taken place within the last century. Travelling little more than 100 years ago was difficult and dangerous, and many people never went further than Colne or Skipton. A journey to Manchester was as much of an enterprise as one to Paris, and one to London as adventurous as an air-trip to Constantinople is now. Handloom weaving was the chief, indeed almost the only, industry., The actual weaving was done by the elders, children assisted in bobbin-winding. The homes of the people were the workshops also, for the most part; there were a few small factories, the precursors of the vast modern mills. The largest, up to about the middle of the century, was Mr. J. Slater's, where fourteen looms were run, [loom shop on Manchester Road? SCG] one worker to each loom. Many inhabitants of Barnoldswick trudged all the way to Colne to bring home piece-work; and took it back in the same manner when finished. Mr. Slater employed a goodly number of home-workers, and kept several horses and lorries at work fetching raw materials and conveying away manufactured goods.
The homes of the dwellers in our town at that period were no doubt a great improvement on the mud hovels of Saxon times, and on the "tofts" of the days of the Tudors and Stuarts. But they left much to be desired. They were mostly back-to-back, giving no through ventilation, but affording opportunity for rats and other smaller vermin to migrate with ease. Chimneys had been introduced, and the chimney-sweep and his small boy, made familiar to us in the pages of “Water Babies,” were common sights in the streets. When the sweep was about the children used to chant a bit of doggerel beginning with
"Sweep O, penny po, sweep the luvver clean O” and ended: "jack put thee brush out at top."
The floors of the houses were flagged and sanded ; stone steps or wooden ladders served as staircases to the upper rooms. The roofs were open to the slates ; and there were no ceilings to hide the joists and floor-boards. The handlooms, generally spoken of as "Pair of looms," were mostly found in the bedrooms, which were thus workrooms by day, and sleeping rooms by night. Some three-storey houses were erected in the town by the Oddfellows' Club in 1831 The sanitary accommodation was both utterly insufficient and to our modern ideas indecent. The windows were mostly of the casement type, with a single pane made to open, this affording all the ventilation which was deemed necessary. Electricity for lighting was, of course, still a thing of the distant future, though a lad of Yorkshire extraction named Michael Faraday was making the experiments which were to revolutionize life for a later generation. Gas was not found in the houses of the people ; candles and, later, oil lamps provided all the illumination which daylight did not give. There was no laid-on water supply, with its convenient taps ; all water had to be
1 There were three small spinning mills, driven by water power, namely Gillians Mill, Clough Mill and old Coates Mill.
fetched from well or pump or beck. Milk was, of course, very much cheaper than it is now, but it was not delivered from door to door. It had to be fetched from the farms, mostly in a contrivance known as a "back tin," which held, perhaps, a couple of gallons, and was, as its name implies, strapped on the back. It may be that this arrangement was no bad one for the lads and lasses who had to do the fetching. It was an excellent preventive of round shoulders, for to stoop when the tin was fastened on the back was to receive down the outside of one's neck what was intended to travel inside !
The beds of the humbler people consisted of a wooden frame, with cords stretched across both ways, and a mattress stuffed with chaff or straw.
House rents ranged from sixpence a week for single-roomed cottages to two shillings or more for more commodious dwellings. In 1851 the Foresters' Club built four houses in Mill Lane, which had back doors and quite a good piece of garden in front of each. These were let at half-a-crown a week.
Skimmed milk and porridge, better known as "stirabout" was the staple food. A little meal was put into the frying pan after the bacon had been cooked, and mixed with water. The "back-stone," or bakestone, was seen in almost every cottage home. This was a rough hearth made of a few bricks with a large piece of iron laid across them on which were baked the oat-cakes which no one dreamed of being without. There were, however, several public bakehouses, some of which such as "old Polly Slater's," “Betty Simpson's," and others are still remembered. To these the housewife took her "measures of meal," perhaps seven or ten pounds, and fetched the cakes home a day or two later, ready tar stringing them on the “bread fleak" to dry. Living was cheap on the whole. Eggs at a half-penny each, butter at about ninepence a pound, bacon and meat seldom over sixpence a pound for the best "cuts," candles fivepence to sixpence a pound, were average prices. Even so, meat was not often found in the homes of the poor. When they had any, other than bacon, it was nearly always boiled, very seldom roast. The broth was thickened with oat-cake or dumplings. Vegetables, of course, were home grown; I do not suppose you would find a greengrocer's shop in all Barnoldswick in those days of a century ago.
Clothing also was simpler and more enduring than it is today. Boys up to ten or twelve years of age had no vests, and required no "gallasses" (i.e. braces), the jacket going inside the trousers, which were fastened to it by four buttons.
The material used for such suits was invariably drab fustian, or corduroy. The only pockets were in the trousers, and were generally called "toa" (marbles) pockets ; but no doubt were the “omnium gatherums" which boy's pockets ever have been and ever shall be. The trousers legs stretched to the top of the clogs. Men did not wear overcoats, but instead thereof were clad in woollen plaids (or "plods"), which were very warm, and being in various colours and designs were picturesque withal. They were fastened across the chest with a double-ended hook of brass or iron, which usually bore the initials of the owner. A good cloth suit would last from ten to fifteen years, but then it was the "Sunday-best," and not worn o' weekdays. In Mr. Atkinson's reminiscences he tells of a neighbour "who was proud to be wearing his wedding coat twenty years after the event. The coat was dark blue and cut swallow tail, and was adorned with gilt buttons." As for ladies' apparel, I quote further from his MS.-"Old Berry Bever (or Veevers), the travelling milliner from Colne, was the principal caterer for the women's headgear (due being very few milliners' shops then in Barlick), and did a roaring trade. She and her assistants (in the season) came loaded here at least twice a week, and were great favourites with the working-class young women. Old Betty could supply her customers with a good serviceable bonnet, with ribbon strings to tie under the chin and all other trimmings complete, and guaranteed for twelve months, for the reasonable sum of six, seven, or eight shillings at the most . . . . . Women generally wore shawls both week-day and Sunday ; a special Paisley shawl made from thin material and of beautiful design which could be worn in different ways . . . . never went out of fashion. Elderly women preferred the long dark graceful cloak or mantle. Women's and men's, also children's, clothing was all home-made in the town . . . . The same may be said of the boots and shoes and clogs . . . . The clogs were not finished by the clogger, but had to be taken to the blacksmith for completion with iron or rings."
Wedding and funeral customs have altered considerably since the middle of the nineteenth century. Up to then (1850 or so) the recital of the "Nominy" poem seems to have been a regular feature of wedding ceremonies. This was a piece of doggerel, part of which is given by Mr. Atkinson as follows: (it was recited within the church by one of the school children)
"As many happy days I wish you still
As there are honeycombs on Hybal's hill,
I wish you never may deceased be
Till sheep and wolves accord in unity.
All earthly joys and heavenly bliss betide
This youthful bridegroom and this comely bride."
The wedding procession on its return from the church was generally headed by a fiddler who conducted the party to one of the public houses, where the evening was spent in conviviality and dancing.
The same narrator also tells of the funeral processions he witnessed in his youthful days, with “the singers" walking in front of the coffin, which was borne by hand, or on the shoulders of the bearers, over the long rough road from the town to Gill churchyard. A most strange custom, to our ways of thinking, was "the funeral collection" made in the house amongst the mourners assembled before the coffin was closed. Each person was supposed to contribute a shilling; and in this way the expenses of the funeral were defrayed. This was in the days before Insurance and Burial Clubs were founded. A slice of currant bread and a biscuit, folded in white paper sealed with black wax were handed to each mourner. The fashion of having funeral cards came into vogue about 1850, and displaced the currant loaf. The poetry on these cards expressed sentiments such as this
"We shall from Sodom flee when perfected in love
And haste to better company who wait for us above.
A collection of funeral cards was quite a common adornment of the walls of Barlick homes a half-century ago !
The holidays of the people were not so numerous then as now. Chief among them in "the 'fifties" of last century was the " Club Walk," on June 24th, which began with a religious service in Gill Church, and was continued with a dinner and much merry-making of a rather coarse sort.
Dancing round the Maypole on the village green did not die out until the early part of the century, and as late as 1846 the "Repeal of the Corn Laws" was celebrated with such a dance at Salterforth, and the festivities included the distribution of portions of a large currant loaf. There appears to have been a public holiday known as "The Rush-bearing" in the previous century, reminiscences of which continued until well into the nineteenth. This was, no doubt, the day on which in older times, the church floor was strewn with fresh new rushes.
Another "amusement," the punishment known as "riding the stang," meted out to scolding women, continued as late as 1855 in Barnoldswick. It has gone the same way as cock-fighting and bear-baiting and other cruel pastimes of an earlier age. To the crowd who watched it and indulged in coarse jeers and jests at the expense of the unhappy victim, it was a "pastime," as was confinement in the stocks, but we may be thankful that both the punishment and the pastime have disappeared.
The women of the town were wont to assemble at the "mangle houses," as the men did at the public houses, and much 'gossip' good and bad passed there; but the introduction of wringing machines was the death-blow to this old fashion.
The beginning of a new order of things so widely different from the old as to be nothing short of a revolution made itself manifest when for the first time "power looms" were introduced in cotton weaving. They had got as far as Colne by 1829, but did not come to Barnoldswick for another ten years or so. Their coming, and the building of the new vast “weaving sheds," which to-day dominate the town, sounded the death knell of the old hand-loom weaving in the homes of the people. During the middle of the nineteenth century the building of these sheds went forward apace. But it was in the latter years of the century that the cotton-boom began which transformed Barnoldswick from a quiet rural village into a manufacturing town. The population had increased from 2,800 in 1851 to over 7,000 in 1901, and another three or four thousand were added to it in the next ten years or so. Employers scoured not only Lancashire but far more distant parts of England and Wales to find operatives to work the looms. It seems strange to read this now when we are suffering from the reaction, and unemployment is rife in the town. Yet what has been may be again, and the prosperity which for a moment seems to be little more than a memory of the past may return once more perchance in some new and better way, as little dreamed of now as were the steam-engine and the power loom by the toiling men and women of a hundred years ago.
Before we conclude this chapter we may add a brief paragraph on some of the old place names which we find in the town. “The Butts" tells of the days when it was the meeting place of the bowmen, who assembled to test their skill at the targets, and the quality and workmanship of their bows, made perhaps of yew grown in Gill churchyard. "Walmsgate" (the gate by the spring or well) and "Westgate" remind us of the palisade which once stood round the "wick," with its gates opening on the pastures and "wastes" beyond. "Calf Hall" is probably a corruption of "Gafol" the name given to the land which belonged to the “villeins" in feudal times. " Hollins" was the place where the holly grew. "Gillions" is the "ing" or meadow in the "ghyll." “Pickles Hippings" the little up-ing lying on the hillside. “Foul Beck," or "Fools Syke," is neither the resort of half-witted folk nor yet a very dirty stream. It stands for Fula’s brook, carrying our minds back to ancient days when Fula, the Saxon, dwelt by it in his little hut. So, at least in the names which are daily on our lips, we bridge the centuries, and confess that we are the sons and heirs of those who in far bygone days lived and died in Barnoldswick. To alter slightly Thomas Carlyle's phrase, “The last Rear of the host can read traces of the earliest Van." Perhaps we may continue as he continues and conclude with his question and partial answer-"Whence ?-O Heaven whither ? Sense knows not; Faith knows not; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from God and to God
' We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep? "(1)
1 Sartor Resartus, Chap. VIII.
Transcribed by SCG/12 November 2005
Re: WARNER. A HISTORY OF BARNOLDSWICK
Post by Stanley » 12 Sep 2015, 03:01
Post by plaques » 15 Nov 2015, 19:04
Still reading through this article but a small point cropped up that I could do with a little help with.
Chapter 5 Ref Ghyll Church refers to a date stone 1 :-" The solid massive tower, of unusual width, was added later still in the days of Henry VIII., for it bears the date 1524 carved thus: "GCCCCXXIV." with the symbol M for 1,000 omitted, an omission of which Whitaker says that he has found no other example." " 2 :- "1. "History of Craven," p. 70. Possibly the M was accidentally cut off when the stone was being chiselled to fit in its place, and was not replaced on the neighbouring one.".
Accepting that the first letter of this Roman numeral sequence "G" should be a "C" to make up 500, I would still have thought that the letter "D" would have been used instead of 5xC. The date then reading 'MDXXIV' which would have presented ample room on the intended stone. It could have been a stonemason's typo but equally just a cock up that was discarded.
My real point of interest is "Does anyone know where on the Church this date stone is located? A good quality photo would be appreciated for my records.
PanBiker
Location: Barnoldswick - In the West Riding of Yorkshire, always was, always will be.
Post by PanBiker » 15 Nov 2015, 19:32
Its on the South side of the tower (which is the porch side) according to the Journal of Antiquities site which is run by OG member Ray, (Sunray10). No picture though.
PanBiker. Thanks for the info: The last time I looked round Ghyll Church I never thought of looking behind the grave stone. It must be somewhere round ground level or I think I would have spotted it.
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Next time I am down I will make a point of trying to locate it. I have never noticed it in passing.
Post by Stanley » 16 Nov 2015, 04:22
I was certain I had done a pic of it but can't find it. During my rambles in the undergrowth I found an article I wrote in 2004 about the church which I can'r find posted o0n the site so I have put it in this morning....
I've just noticed that almost 6000 people have accessed Warner and this is only the total on the new site. Well worth the time it took to transcribe it in 2005!
Took a look at the book in Colne library. I can confirm that the 'G' in the date 'GCCCCXXIV' should read 'C'. an easy typo to make when transcribing so much information.
Thanks for that P, I'll correct it.
[It won't let me do it, it will have to be an Ian job! Earth to Ian.......
Post by plaques » 06 Jan 2016, 19:21
Some time back it was suggested that the date stone 'CCCCXXIV was located on the south tower. Since then I've visited Ghyll Church again and found what I think is the stone. I say 'think' because the stone is approx 20ft up from ground level and is heavily weathered. My attempt at taking photos is a bit amateurish, (David, help needed,)
A general view with the date stone under the text on the next course down to the right.
An enlarged detail showing the markings but not with enough clarity to make anything out. Probably needs a sunnier day with it just at the right angle to throw a bit of shadow.
Post by Stanley » 07 Jan 2016, 04:30
I have a pic somewhere P but can't find it. Not much better than yours....
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The first project done in 3-D clearly indicated the advantages the new technology could deliver, particularly in the area of innovation. Siemens designed an automatic magazine for 570 tools that delivers a new level of flexibility in the largest size range. Now tools can weigh up to 165 pounds and can have a length of up to 3.2 feet, such as boring bars for cylinder heads. The high execution speeds of up to 656 feet per minute can be reduced to guarantee perfect process security. Loading and unloading is accomplished by a turning station and automatic process surveillance. This, and automatic length measurement and tool cone cleaning-which includes flushing and brushing during the machining process-allow Burkhardt+Weber to offer a new level of unattended machining.
During design, the 3-D approach proves its worth, allowing the creation of assemblies containing manufactured components, purchased standard parts, commercial bar profiles and welded subassemblies. Drawing generation, the change management process and bill of material creation now run smoothly. A Tesis-built interface from Teamcenter to SAP/R3 makes sure that after drawing information is released it is automatically available company-wide in tagged image file format (TIFF). During the release process, BCT’s 3-D-Pool program writes standard parts data to SAP R/3. “In the past, valuable time was lost in these areas,” says Schuller. “By automating these processes in Teamcenter, we gain time for genuine development tasks.”
Integrated in-house production
All core parts of Burkhardt+Weber’s machines-particularly the big, complex components-are produced in-house using its own machining centers. With Teamcenter, models can be used as a basis for NC programs, even when the assembly is not yet released. Associative links ensure that the data will be permanently updated.
NX CAM’s ability to simulate machining sequences is an important step in the new development process. “Through the simulation of each operation in every setting, we make sure that the subsequent machining runs smoothly,” Schuller notes. The direct integration of all NC programs, tools and setup sheets, drawings and JT visualizations-a 3-D data format-is made possible by FIT4TC, the factory integration tool for Teamcenter from A+B Solutions. This tool is responsible for the DNC transmission of actual and target data, NC programs and machine optimized programs to Teamcenter. The program is in direct contact with the controls of the machining centers and a Zoller tool-initializing device.
Integration of Siemens 840 D
Next year Burkhardt+Weber will further improve the DNC operation of its machines-which are equipped with the Siemens 840 D control-through a direct integration of the control with Teamcenter. That will make it possible not only to transfer NC programs to and from Teamcenter at the DNC terminal, but also to collect remaining tool lifetime information in the machining centers. Every required cutting tool for new work pieces will be quickly identified by its ID numbers and its remaining running lifetime. This will allow the tool magazine for the next manufacturing task to be prepared including tool lifetime and necessary new tools.
NX CAM’s ability to simulate machining sequences results in shorter manufacturing cycle times.
During design, the 3-D approach enables Burkhardt+Weber to meet increased demand met without adding staff.
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Using a 3D Pen for Drone Parts
by Michael Niggel | Dec 13, 2019 | Opinions, Recommendations
If you have access to a 3D printer, there’s a wealth of parts you can construct for just about any quad frame. While they’ve come down quite a bit in price and relatively cheap 3D printers can be good, a 3D printer is still an investment—as much in time as in hard costs. It can take a lot of effort to find, download, and convert a file for your printer. If you can’t find something you want to print that already exists, designing up a new part requires a lot of measurement and 3D modeling before getting it ready for the printer. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just draw out your idea in three dimensions?
3D Extruder Pens
An extruder pen promises to bring your ideas to life in three dimensions by letting you draw them out right in front of you. It’s an intriguing concept, available at much less than the cost of even the cheapest 3D printers. You load up some filament and start it up, and it extrudes the softened plastic in a line that cools off a couple seconds after leaving the pen. The plastic is still stiff enough to hold a line, but if you push it together it will blob up and create thicker areas. In this way, you can both draw out shapes and weld them together.
For our testing, we checked out the MYNT3D. It’s a well-rated pen, costs about $60, and it comes with enough ABS filament for a handful of smaller projects. The pen has a small display that gives you the current temperature. This lets you know when it’s ready to use and allows you to set it for different types of filaments. Other popular extruder pens include the 3Doodler, Samto, and Scribbler. We’ve seen budget pens listed as low as $12 at Banggood and Gearbest.
Using the 3D Pen
Drawing with the pen was more difficult than the marketing would have you believe. As soon as the filament leaves the pen, it has a tendency to curl. Drawing a straight line is a real challenge. Counter-intuitively, the filament doesn’t really want to stick to things when it comes out—and this exacerbates the curling issue. Smooth surfaces are troublesome to work on, as the filament will easily lift and misshape itself as you draw. MYNT3D recommends a surface recently coated with a glue stick, which is a bit awkward to create and work on top of. It seems that the best case for the pen isn’t really drawing in 3D space at all, but building up a scaffolding from parts drawn flat, then welding them together and adding bulk afterward. Trying to draw directly in 3D space amplifies the pen’s tendency to curl its filament. To build a 3D shape with any strength, one must pass the pen back and forth often, giving the appearance of a hardened mass of plastic spaghetti. Each extruder pen will have slightly different characteristics, but we imagine most will have these same basic properties.
As for the created object, its properties will largely depend on the material you selected. The MYNT3D came with ABS, which is a fairly rigid material once it hardens back up. It has a fairly good amount of strength, but little elasticity—it will resist bending, then irreversibly deform if pushed hard. The filament did not tend to snap and break if an object was built with more than one layer. Not all pens can be used at different temperatures needed for printing different filaments, so check before buying if you plan to experiment.
Antenna Mount 1
After fitting the EXUAV stack to the Floss 2, the antenna mount left something to be desired. Fitting a short-cabled Foxeer Lollipop made the problem worse, as the antenna flopped around dangerously close to the prop arc. I set to work on building a bracket in free space with the extruder. It looks like a complete mess, but the resulting mount does work well. It has enough rigidity to hold the antenna away from the props and I’m no longer worried about damaging it mid-flight.
Setting another Lollipop into my Wizard frame, I wanted to hold the antenna away from the carbon so I built another extruded mount off the side of the top plate. This mount looks just as sloppy, and doesn’t do the job as well as the one on the Floss. The plastic doesn’t grip the carbon nor hold its shape around the plate enough to be reliable. In this instance, a zip tie would have been a faster and better solution.
Micro Quad Frame
For a more intensive experiment, I constructed a new frame for an old micro quad. I started with the flat approach: laying out a few parts to scale and drawing some 2D planes with the extruder, then welding them together and building up the mass for added strength. The end result still looks like a rat’s nest of plastic. This method did produce a frame that was rigid enough to function. Repairing the frame after a crash would be as easy as blobbing on some additional plastic over the break.
Unfortunately, my frame would not fly. As soon as it powered up, it would go into a continuous yaw spin. This was because the motors wouldn’t stay aligned vertically. Because they leaned over, the FC couldn’t correct for the spin. A careful layout and alignment of the frame would likely produce a usable result, but the effort involved is far beyond what can be done with a quick free-space doodle.
An extruder pen has its uses. The antenna mount on the Floss 2 is a great solution that was quick to create and custom fits the exact parts I’ve selected for the build—but the success of the mount relied heavily on its simplicity and in being located in an area that doesn’t take much stress. You could use it to build up flight camera mounts, small brackets for receiver antennas, or tidy up cable routing. But in our opinion, with falling prices of 3D printers, it’s a tough sell. While a 3D printed part takes more investment and effort to construct, the difference in quality and utility outweighs the cost and ease of use of the extruder pen. Not to mention the appearance—unless you happen to like the “scribbled into being by a 3-year-old” aesthetic.
You can get the MYNT3D off Amazon, or find a selection of budget 3D pens at Banggood and Gearbest.
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Effects of the A53E substitution on alpha synuclein aggregation and neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the presence in post-mortem brains of Lewy bodies with aggregated forms of alpha-synuclein (aSyn), a presynaptic protein that exists as both cytosolic and membrane-bound forms. Neuropathological findings suggest that aggregated aSyn is involved in neuronal cell death. However, mechanisms by which aSyn forms neurotoxic aggregates in PD are poorly understood. Data obtained by our group and others suggest that a disruption of interactions between aSyn and phospholipid membranes leads to a shift to an ‘exposed’ conformation that favors aggregation of the protein at membrane surfaces2. To further address this hypothesis, we characterized a new familial PD mutant form of aSyn, A53E, in terms of its propensity to undergo membrane-induced aggregation and elicit neurotoxicity, based on the rationale that the introduction of a negatively charged residue at position 53 could potentially interfere with aSyn-membrane interactions. The results of our studies yield insights into the molecular basis for the neurotoxicity of A53E and shed light on a potential role for membrane-induced aSyn aggregation in PD pathogenesis in vivo, thus setting the stage for developing therapies to slow neurodegeneration in the brains of PD patients.
The complexity of Parkinson's disease (PD) demands to be investigated at different levels in order to understand the nature of this catastrophic neurological motor impairment and propose valid therapies that can stop the neuronal degeneration. Our efforts are focused on finding molecular targets that can be modified in a controlled manner in order to discover potential therapies that can diminish the progression of PD. To meet our goals, it is necessary to combine biochemical, biophysical, cellular analysis, molecular biology, genetic, in vivo, and behavioral strategies. Our research skills allowed us to perform all this different disciplines in order to gather the data that will help to elucidate neurotoxic mechanisms that rule PD. Further more, our results will provide encouraging data that in the future can be translated into promising clinical trials and patient therapies which encompasses our research within medical and public health areas.
Since the beginning, the interdisciplinary life science PULSe program guided me into what would be the most enriching experience of my life. Back in 2013, when I was accepted into the PULSe program, I had already in mind that I wanted to be part of the development of new molecular strategies that could advance personalized medicine, but I did not know how I was going to meet my goal. Four fantastic rotations in completely different laboratories led me to understand that in order to be part of the big picture, I had to choose a scientific field where I could give my best and learn as much as possible. When I discussed my fourth rotation with Dr. Chris Rochet, I was surprised that he was explaining research projects that spanned multiple CNS disorders. I then realized that the interests of this lab were not limited to a single disease or technique. Instead this was a genuine interdisciplinary laboratory with limitless options in neuroscience. When I joined Dr. Rochet’s laboratory in 2014, I knew that I would meet my goals of contributing to the development of innovative techniques to advance the study of brain disorders. I feel proud to say that thanks to the PULSe program and the exceptional mentorship of Dr. Chris Rochet, I have become a contributing member of the scientific community that is working tirelessly to prevent the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.
During my years in the PULSe program, I was afforded outstanding opportunities to share my project at the World Parkinson Congress, Society for Neuroscience annual meetings, and other symposia sponsored by scientific travel awards, where our in vivo model captured the attention of many scientific colleagues who offered their suggestions for improvement and opportunities for collaboration. The powerful tool that we have developed allowed us to propose future in vivo PD treatment studies aimed at testing the effects of proteins with neuroprotective activity on aSyn toxicity. These proposals were selected for funding, during the same year, as research awards given by the Purdue Research Foundation and the Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Endowment, as well as a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation. During my Ph.D., I spearheaded the optimization of rat midbrain primary neuronal culture, and these efforts enabled me to carry out mechanistic studies related to the toxin-based development of PD (in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Jason Cannon). The results of this collaborative study were recently published in the journal Neurotoxicology. In addition, a first-author manuscript detailing the optimization of our rat midbrain culture protocol for the study of PD is in the final stages of preparation, and another first-author paper summarizing the A53E study will be submitted soon afterwards. As part of the PULSe program, I developed skills in mentorship by serving as a judge in the PULSe spring reception, taking part in science nights, and presenting at the PULSe retreat poster session, where I had the chance to share this wonderful experience with new PULSe students. I feel grateful that at the end of my doctorate program I have cultivated new skills that will allow me to become part of a network of scientists dedicated to high-quality research, with the purpose of breaking down limitations of performing first-rate science in developing countries, including my native country of Ecuador.
2018 Purdue University - Office of Interdisciplinary Programs - Excellence in Research Award
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2017 Purdue University, College of Pharmacy – Rodger D. Logan Travel award
2018 Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience – Travel Grant
2016 World Parkinson Congress – Travel Award
2013 Purdue University - Graduate School´s Lynn Fellowship
2013 Purdue University - PULSe Program Assistantship
2012 Ecuadorian Government - Senescyt Research Scholarship
Montenegro P.C., Rochet J.C. et al. 2018 Optimized rat primary midbrain mix-culture for the study of Parkinson’s disease. In preparation.
Cruz-Hernandez A., Agim, Z.S., Montenegro P.C., McCabe G.P., Rochet J.C., Cannon J.R., 2018. Selective dopaminergic neurotoxicity of three heterocyclic amine subclasses in primary rat midbrain neurons. Neurotoxicology 65:68-84.
Bademci G., Lasisi A., Yariz K.O., Montenegro P.C., Menendez I., Vinueza R., Paredes R., Moreta G., Subasioglu S., Blanton S., Fitoz S., Incesulu A., Sennaroglu L., Tekin M. 2015. Novel domain-specific POU3F4 mutations are associated with X-Linked deafness: examples in different populations. BMC Medical Genetics 16:9.
Hervas F., Torres K.P., Montenegro P.C., del Pino E.M. 2014. Development and gastrulation in Hyloxalus vertebralis and Dendrobates auratus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 8(1), 121-135 (e90)
Montenegro P.C., del Pino E.M. 2011. La gastrulación de Epipedobates anthonyi (Anura: Dendrobatidae) Revista Ecuatoriana de Medicina y Ciencias Biológicas XXXII1(2), 24-32.
Del Pino E.M., Venegas M.F., Romero A., Montenegro P.C., Sáenz N., Moya I.M., Alarcón I., Sudou N., Taira M. 2007. A comparative analysis of frog early development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 104(29), 11882-11888.
2018 Poster: Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Spring Reception. West Lafayette, IN, USA.
2017 Poster: Society for neuroscience annual meetig. Greater Indiana Chapter. West Lafayette, IN, USA.
2018 Poster: Health and Disease: Science, Technology, Culture and Policy Research Poster Session. West Lafayette, IN, USA.
2017 Poster: 48th Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting: Neuroscience 2017. Washington, DC, USA.
2017 Poster: 1ST Purdue Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Retreat. Turkey Run, IN, USA.
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2016 Poster: 4th World Parkinson’s Congress. Portand, OR, USA.
2016 Poster: Indiana Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience: IndySfN 2016. Indianapolis, IN, USA.
2015 Poster: 45th Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting: Neuroscience 2015. Chicago, IL, USA.
2015 Poster: Grand Challenges in Parkinson’s disease. Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2012 Speaker: International Course of Deafness, From the Clinic to the Molecular. México DF, México.
2012 Speaker: 3RD Ecuadorian Human Genetics Congress. Quito, Ecuador.
2011 Speaker: Real Time PCR Foundations and Applications in Biology and Medicine Course. Quito, Ecuador.
2009 Speaker: 2ND Ecuadorian Human Genetics Congress. Quito, Ecuador.
2009 Participant: V Human and Medical Genetics Latin American Course. Caxias do Sul, Brazil.
2008 Participant: Molecular Techniques for Genome Analysis CourseQuito, Ecuador.
2008 Speaker: 1ST International Symposium P.U.C.E. – Fulbright. Quito, Ecuador.
2005-2007 Speaker: XIX, XXX and XXXI National Biology Conference. Manta – Quito – Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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203 Allendale St is a single family residence located in Baltimore, MD 21229. Built in 1936, this property features 1 bathroom, 1,710 sq ft lot, and 1,252 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 203 Allendale St is $62,000.
For the surrounding community of Baltimore, MD 21229, the average sale price for similar homes to 203 Allendale St is $159,997. The nearby schools are below average and include Mary E Rodman Elementary, Edmondson Westside High and Forest Park High. The overall crime risk for this area is very high with 47 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
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Tyra Banks comes out of modeling retirement for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover
Tyra Banks and her smize have returned.
The model, TV producer, actress and businesswoman came out of retirement for the 2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, appearing on the cover for the third time. Banks is featured on one of three covers for the issue.
This is for everybody that has been told that they are not good enough because of their body, their age, their everything.#BanX is here to tell you that you ARE friggin’ fierce no matter what anybody says!
Drop mic now!@SI_Swimsuit 2019pic.twitter.com/bgUqGunhAe
— Tyra Banks (@tyrabanks)May 8, 2019
“My first one was 23 years ago, how crazy is that,” Banks said on Good Morning America earlier today after her cover was revealed. “I’m like damn — I’m 45 dog!”
In 1997, Banks was the first black woman to appear alone on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Her first cover in 1996 was shared with model Valeria Mazza.
"Since Tyra’s first cover in 1996, she’s transformed herself into nothing less than a mogul, a cultural force and a supernova of inspiration and empowerment," SI Swimsuit Editor MJ Day said, according to People. "She’s kind of the Swimsuit Issue ethos come to life, everything we know this franchise can be."
The shoot also recreated the polka-dot bikini look from Banks's first solo cover.
“I never thought it would be possible to be 45 years old and on the cover of this magazine again.” @tyrabanks is embracing her age and curves for #SISwim 2019. • • • @grandisleresort @visitthebahamas #grandisleresortexuma
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The other two covers of the 2019 issue feature USA National Women’s Soccer team player Alex Morgan and 2018 SI Swimsuit Model Search winner Camille Kostek.
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GST relief for hospitality sector; motown let down
The cess levied on top of the maximum 28 per cent tax rate on petrol vehicles with capacity to carry 10-13 persons has been reduced to 1 per cent and the same for diesel vehicles has been cut to 3 per cent.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
The all-powerful GST Council on Friday more than doubled the tax on caffeinated beverages to 40 per cent and slashed the rate on hotel room tariffs.
Briefing reporters after a meeting of the panel, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the GST on caffeinated beverages has been hiked to 28 per cent plus additional cess of 12 per cent as against the current rate of 18 per cent.
For hotels, she announced nil tax for those with tariffs of up to Rs 1,000 per night.
Hotels charging Rs 1,001 to Rs 7,500 per night room tariff would be levied 12 per cent tax as against the existing 18 per cent.
Similarly, the tax on room tariff of above Rs 7,500 has been slashed to 18 per cent from the existing 28 per cent.
Also, tax on outdoor catering has been reduced to 5 per cent from existing 18 per cent with input tax credit, she said.
The GST was also cut on marine fuel to 5 per cent while the same on railway wagons, coaches, roling stock has been increased from 5 per cent to 12 per cent.
Exemption from the GST has been given to imports of specified defence goods that are not manufactured in India.
A uniform GST rate of 12 per cent will be levied on woven/non-woven polyethylene bags.
The tax on almond milk has been set at 18 per cent, she said adding all rate changes would be effective from October 1.
The GST on slide fasteners (zips) has been reduced to 12 per cent from 18 per cent earlier.
Also, the tax on diamond job work has been reduced to 1.5 per cent from 5 per cent earlier.
The same on supply of machine job cut to 12 per cent from 18 per cent.
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