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Former Ferrari Chairman Says Schumacher is ‘Not Good’
admin February 4, 2016 Headlines, Hot Seat, Racing No Comments on Former Ferrari Chairman Says Schumacher is ‘Not Good’
Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says the latest news about the health of former Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher “is not good,” but he has refused to elaborate.
“I have news and unfortunately it is not good,” former Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo told reporters Thursday. “Life is strange. He was a fantastic driver and only had one accident with Ferrari in 1999.”
It has been more than two years since Schumacher sustained severe brain injuries while skiing in the French Alps. He spent a number of months in intensive care in a Grenoble hospital before regaining consciousness. He was later moved to a hospital in Lausanne and returned home to continue intensive treatment in September 2014. Since then, there has been little information revealed about the 46-year-old and his recovery.
A spokesperson for the injured driver wouldn’t confirm or deny Di Montezemolo’s comments.
Michael Schumacher's spokesperson has declined to respond to Montezemolo's comments that the news on the former Ferrari driver is "not good"
— Richard Conway (@richard_conway) February 4, 2016
Prior to his accident, Schumacher was a seven-time F1 world champion, and is considered the greatest driver in the sport’s history.
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Home | Who We Are | What We Do | Publications | Contact
The Board of Directors of the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration (CEMAR) has concluded that 2016 will be CEMAR’s last year of operations. When CEMAR’s founder and Executive Director Andrew Gunther announced his intention in 2015 to step down as of June 30, 2016, the Board of Directors determined that several other CEMAR staff were also planning professional transitions. The Board decided that such a significant loss of key staff made it unlikely that CEMAR would be able to maintain the quality and effectiveness of our operations.
We are proud of our programmatic accomplishments and the collaborative relationships we have created, and how we have demonstrated the value of scientific knowledge in pursuit of the sustainable management of coastal ecosystems. This website will continue to be maintained into the future so that regional practitioners can access the information it contains.
What's New at CEMAR
Clean and Healthy Bay Measure on June Ballot
The San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority voted to place the San Francisco Bay Clean Water, Pollution Prevention, and Habitat Restoration Program, known as the Clean and Healthy Bay Ballot Measure, on the June 2016 ballot in all nine Bay Area counties. Passage of the measure will require approval by 2/3 of the total voters casting ballots cumulatively across all nine Bay Area counties in the June 2016 election. The measure would raise $500 million over 20 years to fund critical Bay restoration and flood protection projects. For more information go to: https://www.savesfbay.org/secure/restore
Restored Wetlands and the Floods in Our Future
CEMAR’s Executive Director Andrew Gunther published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle (October 26, 2015) regarding the importance of wetlands restoration as flood protection for the Bay Area.
Letter to the Editor Published
The San Francisco Chronicle published a letter to the editor from CEMAR’s Executive Director Andrew Gunther in response to a op-ed promoting the opinion that those seeking action on climate change are part of a religious orthodoxy. Read the letter.
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Steve Warren
Steve has been a popular radio personality since 1963, He is the author of the best-selling book on Radio Programming, RADIO: The Book, (Focal Press-NAB) and has been a radio professional starting at the age of 16. Since 1987, Steve has served as President of MOR Media International, Inc. an entrepreneurial media/entertainment company, developing, hosting and distributing radio programming, and radio station consulting and is currently Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Chinamerica Radio, the first 24 hour Internet radio station featuring the latest pop music from China. The station has studios in New York, but has an online global audience with Internet listeners, primarily Chinese and ex-pat Chinese young-adult professionals throughout the world. Steve projects a fun, entertaining radio personality. He’s topical, engaging, funny, and informative, speaking with authority on the contemporary media and entertainment scene. Since 1994, he’s been the host/producer of the weekly The Country Oldies Show, syndicated by the Envision Radio Network. From 1994-2000, he was an adjunct instructor at the International Academy of Broadcasting in Montreux, Switzerland. In 1998-1999 he was a prolific and compelling interviewer of radio industry leaders as Radio Editor of Radio Ink Magazine, a respected publication for radio Sales and Management. Starting in 1999, he designed and implemented all country music channels for Sirius Satellite Radio and was the first voice ever heard on Sirius (2001), conducting over 100 artist interviews in all genres of music and entertainment.
He’s sought after as an advisor, motivator, teacher, and cheerleader for compelling radio programming. His expert knowledge and love of the industry has secured his position as a radio programming authority. Clients include: NABEF Career Fair , NAB Radio Show, NAB Las Vegas conference and exposition, Country Radio Seminar, The Conclave, and the NAB European Conference, and State Broadcaster Associations in Tennessee, Indiana, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Michigan.
Read more about Steve’s rich history in radio in this fantastic article from Astoria Characters.
The Country Oldies Show is produced by MOR Media International, Inc.
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Foreman presser in NYC tomorrow!
PRESS RELEASE: Undefeated middleweight Yuri Foreman was about to bite into a foot high pastrami-corned beef-turkey sandwich at the Carnegie Deli when someone dutifully asked: “What’s your weight class?” “Heavyweight,” laughed the Israeli fighter, who now boxes out of Brooklyn. He would not eat the sandwich, not by a longshot. The undefeated middleweight Foreman (18-0, 7 KO’s) will put his winning streak on the line against the tough-minded Ismail "The Arsenal" Arvin (13-0-1, 6 KO’s) in the main event of “Summer Punch at the Taj” on Friday night, September 2, at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino’s Grand Ballroom in Atlantic City, NJ.
Foreman, who originally hailed from Belarus before migrating to Israel, now fights out of one of boxing’s hotbeds, Brooklyn, New York. Arvin, who is also unbeaten with a draw the lone “blemish” on his record, hails from Baltimore, Maryland.
The 10-round middleweight contest will be televised live on Showtime’s popular Shobox: The New Generation beginning at 11:00 p.m. ET.
In the co-featured attraction, a light middleweight contest, Atlantic City’s own Shamone Alvarez (12-0, 8 KO’s) squares off against Russell Jordan (10-2 6 KO’s) of Rochester, NY.
The Labor Day weekend kickoff on the shore will also feature local boxing catch of the day in separate bouts: lightweight Jorge "The Truth" Teron (4-0, 4 KO’s) of the Bronx, NY; super middleweight Joe Greene (5-0, 4 KO’s) of Brooklyn, NY; and heavyweight Kevin Johnson (7-0-1, 4 KO’s) Asbury Park, NJ; and light middleweight Raymond Biggs (3-0 3 KO’s) of Brooklyn, NY.
Tickets are priced at $100, $50 and $30, and are available at the Trump Taj Mahal box office (for information call 609-449-5150), and by calling TicketMaster at 800 736-1420.
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« Why do Colorado Senate Republicans think it’s a good idea to attack Jeffco voters?
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Radio host still upset that GOP elitism was big reason Republicans made themselves irrelevent in the presidential nomination process
It’s been a couple months since Colorado Republican Party Chair Steve House appeared on Craig Silverman’s radio show and said, in part, that it would be too unweildly to for Republicans to vote on the GOP presidential candidates at Colorado’s caucuses.
Silverman is still talking about House’s comment, arguing just yesterday on air that it would not be difficult to hold a straw poll at the caucuses. Silverman rightly maintains that without the presidential straw poll, which was nixed by an executive committee of state Republicans, Colorado is irrelevant in the national Republican nomination process.
Just because Silverman is saying the same thing repeatedly doesn’t really make me want to pay attention to it. He repeated himself for years about JonBenet Ramsey, and few cared. But in this case, I thought I’d head to the podcast archive and listen to what House actually factually told Silverman, whose show airs Saturday mornings on KNUS 710-AM.
It turns out that House said that holding a straw poll “inflates the number people who come [to the caucuses] by a dramatic amount, and all kinds of problems ensue.”
To be fair, House also argued that new GOP rules would bind Colorado Republicans to their straw poll selection, even if their preferred presidential candidate dropped out by the time the convention rolled around. And House didn’t want to risk that Colorado delegates to the convention would not be able to cast a vote.
But House said the logistics of running the caucuses with an increased number of participants was “one of the bigger reasons why the decision came down the way it did.”
Silverman called that an “elitist game,” and he hasn’t let go of it, to his credit.
Here’s what House said on air Aug. 29:
House: When you go to caucus – and I have run a county before — you go to caucus and instead of having 50 people show up you have 500 people show up because they want to vote in the straw poll, you’re trying to get the caucus process executed properly, which is very important because we have state politics that depend on that experience. And what goes on in selecting delgates — and ultimately, candidates –it’s very, very important for us to do that. When you add in the straw poll, during that experience, it inflates the number people who come by a dramatic amount, and all kinds of problems ensue. And I think that is part of the reason why the county chairs, on executive committee especially, were very opposed to doing it this way because they believed it will disrupt the overall process and it won’t gain us that much. So, I think that’s part of the – that’s probably one of the bigger reasons why the decision came down the way it did.
And here is the full discussion on the topic:
HOST CRAIG SILVERMAN: Well, I appreciate you coming on my show. The talk of the Colorado right now is, why don’t we get to participate in this exciting GOP presidential primary?
COLORADO GOP CHAIR, STEVE HOUSE: Well, we are going to participate. I mean, if you were sitting in that executive committee meeting when we had that discussion, I mean – the executive committee is made up mostly of large and small county chairs, and a lot of liberty activist folks are on the committee, and people believe that by picking the right delegates and giving them the authority to represent Colorado at the convention, we’re still participating. I don’t believe for a minute the Presidential candidates are not going to come out here and try to have impact on who those delegates are, and what they vote for. I think if the rules hadn’t changed, I don’t think – well, there would still be a question, Craig. Because there’s a fair number of counties that deal with preference polls at caucus, and I think that’s the other thing that a lot of people don’t understand. When you go to caucus – and I have run a county before — you go to caucus and instead of having 50 people show up you have 500 people show up because they want to vote in the straw poll, you’re trying to get the caucus process executed properly, which is very important because we have state politics that depend on that experience. And what goes on in selecting delgates — and ultimately, candidates –it’s very, very important for us to do that. When you add in the straw poll, during that experience, it inflates the number people who come by a dramatic amount, and all kinds of problems ensue. And I think that is part of the reason why the county chairs, on executive committee especially, were very opposed to doing it this way because they believed it will disrupt the overall process and it won’t gain us that much. So, I think that’s part of the – that’s probably one of the bigger reasons why the decision came down the way it did.
SILVERMAN: But it seems like such an elitist game. You talk about “the right delegates” being selected. How do people in the public know who the right delegates are? It seems like it’s all going to be Republican insiders.
HOUSE: You know, it’s not really the people in the public. If you are willing to go to caucus, and you’re still willing to go to caucus, and you work through the process, ultimately it comes down to picking 37 –acutally, 34 delegates – three are already designated, but picking 34 delegates and 34 alternates at the state assembly — that processes hasn’t changed at all. So, if you go participate, and you start to figure out, you know, which delegates are to going to represent your interests, they in many cases will talk about who they represent from a presidential perspective that, in the end, the people who go there are very invested, very committed Republicans who want to see the right thing happen to the state, and for the nation, as opposed to – you know, what if you did a preference poll where you said, “Look, instead of doing it in a caucus, you did a preference poll across the entire state to decide who our delegates are. Now you’re getting into the primary territory, and that’s where a lot of people are very passionate about caucus want those delegates to have the ability to pick the presidential candidate they want, and not be based on a straw poll in March, if they many things change between March and July, as they probably will.
SILVERMAN: Right. But why doesn’t Colorado have a primary? I think back to 1992, and my old Colorado College professor, Bob Loevy — who is going to be a guest next week on my show — he decries the way that political parties select nominees. It seems like a fixed process. Now we’re learning the Democrats, with their superdelegates, Hillary Clinton kind of the has it in the bag, if she can stay out of jail. But back in ’92, I remember when Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin — they debated in Denver, Colorado. And even back then with the Republicans there was incumbent George Herbert Walker Bush being challenged by Pat Buchanan and people in Colorado got to vote on those things. Coloradans like to vote. They like elections. How come you’re not giving it to them?
HOUSE: Well, look, you talking about a primary process that did occur back in ’92, and I think, that’s a legislative issue. I mean, that’s something where you’ve got to get to the legislators and decide how you want to handle that. Um, we really think that what will happen here is, the process is not any different than it was four years ago, now. If we don’t do a binding straw poll, it’s no different than it was four years ago. The delegates are selected the same way. They go to the convention unbound, exactly like they were four years ago. And there has been many, many people who defend that process very, very passionately. In fact, I’ll tell you that all the feedback I’ve got – besides, you know, Chuck Todd and his stoner comment, and as far as I’m concerned, we’d be stoned if we were going to listen to Chuck Todd to begin with. Um, you know, that whole thing – that whole process–
SILVERMAN: You mean, sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd? That’s what Donald Trump calls him. And, just to bypass the rest of this stuff, doesn’t this come down to Donald Trump? Isn’t it true that the Republican establishment really disdains Donald Trump and is going to design every role to pose an obstacle to him becoming the Republican nominee?
HOUSE: I haven’t heard Republican National Committee people say that, Craig, but, you know, look. When you go back—
SILVERMAN: But they feel it.
HOUSE: They may very well feel it. As far as I’m concerned, I’m very interested in hearing from Donald Trump as much as I am anybody else. And I believe they will actively come to Colorado, not only for the debate on October 20, but throughout the process to try to get Colorado delegates and people who support those delegates, to go their way. I think if the guy standing is there with 25% of the vote, you’ve got to take him seriously. He’s got a double-digit lead. I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t take every single candidate seriously. I had somebody ask me the other day, “Are you doing this to prevent fringe candidates from getting delegates?” And I said, “I don’t consider any of our people to be fringe candidates, I don’t know where you come up with that process.” So, the overwhelming response I’ve got has been that it’s better the way it is. If the preference poll were not binding and our delegates could ultimately go and make decisions based on what was current at the time – and especially if the potential exists for a brokered convention, although it doesn’t happen often — this is a very unique year. We will be in a lot more powerful position to influence what happens, and who the eventual nominee is, this way, than we would if we were bound to a preference poll five months before the convention
SILVERMAN: Steve House, the chairman of the Colorado GOP, good enough to join us.
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Top Management consists of the Chief Executive Officer and three Directors
Prof. Dorington O. Ogoyi is the CEO of National Biosafety Authority . Prior to his appointment, Prof. Ogoyi was an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology and Director of Research and Development at the Technical University of Kenya (TUK). He also taught for several years at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi.
Over the years, he has carried out research and mentored a number of graduate students in a wide range of research areas in Molecular Biology and Proteomics. Prof. Ogoyi obtained his BSc, MSc. and Ph.D. (Biochemistry) degrees from the University of Nairobi in the years 1986, 1990 and 1994, respectively. He gained his postdoctoral exposure at the Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, Netherlands (1995-1996) and at the National Institute of Entomological Sciences (NISES), Tsukuba, Japan (2000-2002). He is also a holder of MBA (Strategic Mangement) from Moi University.
Prof. Ogoyi is currently the National Focal point for the Biosafety Clearing House and a member of the Advisory Adhoc Committee on Biosafety Clearing House. Recently, he was also selected to represent the African region in the Compliance committee of the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. Prior to joining NBA, he participated in a number of Biotechnology and Biosafety awareness creation initiatives in the country incuding the agitation for the enactment of Biosafety Act, 2009. He is curretly a member of the African Food Safety expert network under the African Biosafety Network of Experties (ABNE).
Since joining NBA he has facilitated the establisment of a functional Biosafety regulatory framework in Kenya through establishment of a transparent and prectictable mechanism of review of applications based on sound science.
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Recomposing precarity: Notes on the laboured politics of class composition
The communism of capital?
Stevphen Shukaitis
13-3shukaitis.pdf
precarity
In Precarious rhapsody (2009) Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi argues that autonomous political movements in Italy in 1977 marked an important turning point in moving beyond modernity with its concomitant trends of progressive modernisation and class conflict as the driving motor of social transformation. Putting aside the epochal claims contained in this claim it is interesting to reflect on the role played by the notion of precarity in this description[1]. Berardi describes a moment in February 1977 when at the occupation of the University of Rome the head of the Communist Party, while attempting to give a speech, was thrown off campus by the students. Rejecting the party’s politics, in particular its almost exclusive focus on the wage earning industrial working class, the students shouted, ‘we are all precarious’. Berardi concludes that the students did not realise how correct they were. Over the subsequent years precarity has moved from what was then considered a marginal phenomenon, and one which was often held to be quite desirable (as a form of escape from the dictates of permanent wage labour in industry), to a much more central dynamic of neoliberal labour markets. Post-war social welfare programs were rolled back, and the presumed stability of employment has been undercut by massive increases in what used be referred to as ‘non-standard’ forms of work such as temporary contracts and project based work. Similarly, in more recent years, the question of precarity has moved from one of marginal importance to a much more debated area w ithin political and theoretical debates.
While in the English speaking world precarity more or less disappeared from the lexicon during the 1980s, it re-emerged in the late 1990s as sections of the anti-globalisation movement turned to it as a catalyst for developing a new radical politics of everyday life. Since then it has risen in status as an area of academic inquiry and research, from a point only several years ago where a declared interest as an area of research could be met with the objection ‘that’s not a word’ to a slew of new publications as well as seminars and conferences funded by impressively acronym-ed research bodies[2]. Over the past year income inequality has been put back on the political agenda. But if today we are really all precarious, what does that tell us about what it means to be precarious? What conceptual or political clarity is brought to bear by the concept? What I want to argue in this review essay and provocation is that there is an ambivalence located in the core of precarity as a concept. It is a tension between precarity as a strategic, political concept emerging from the autonomist and post-workerist traditions of politics, and a more sociological or empirical focus on precarity as condition to be investigated. This tension sometimes plays out in productive ways, and at other times risks emptying the concept of meaning through being too open, too undetermined. To explore this tension I will look at two recent books that take up and develop the notion of precarity, albeit in somewhat different ways: first the recent work of Guy Standing, who approaches precarity coming out of a background of international NGO politics and advocacy of basic income, and then through the recent writings of Franco Barchiesi, who approaches precarity through of framework of labour historiography and inquiry closer to the concept’s political roots.
Enter the precariat
First let’s turn to The precariat, which as a work of social theory has taken the idea of precarity from the pages of anarchist magazines and into the pages of The Guardian. Standing works at the University of Bath and for years previously worked at the ILO. His previous research focused on questions of work and the advocacy of basic income, as well as questions of security, welfare and citizenship. For better and worse this colours his approach to precarity. While his long-term experience with international labour organizing and NGO politics reduces the risk of seeing political developments as completely new and unprecedented, he is thus able to connect the areas he investigates with longer standing political questions. But this background also tends to lead Standing to approach precarity from an angle that departs from its political origins, although it is debatable whether that is necessarily a negative condition.
For Standing the precariat is primarily a class in the making. In perhaps more familiar Marxist terms it is a class in-itself but not yet one for-itself. And this is the crux of the political problem for Standing: what if the becoming of this incipient class does take the trajectory hoped for or desired? The word itself, precariat, is formed by combining precarity and the proletariat, but the combination of those words does not necessarily mean that its trajectory will take the same path or direction of the working class (although the development of working class politics frequently veers from outcomes that are expected of it by economists, party theorists, and union organizers alike). Standing’s main concern is flagged up in the subtitle as the idea of the precariat as the new dangerous class, which is to say precarity as a condition that has more in common with the Lumpenproletariat than the traditional working class. The precariat is the global result of several decades of neoliberalism, with its constant calls for increasing the ‘flexibility’ of labour marks, i.e. outsourcing increased levels of risk and uncertainty on to workers and their families. It is a condition that embeds insecurity across social status levels. For Standing the defining characteristic is its lacks of job-related security, more so than the particular status accorded to the form of labour. This is the prime concern for Standing: precarity not just as a condition of labour today, but how the development of the precariat, which does not correspond to traditional political or class categories, can lead to political energies and developments that are not containable within a pluralist-liberal framework.
Standing orients his project around several key questions about the precariat: What is it? Why should we care about its growth? Why is it growing? Who is entering it? And where is the precariat taking us (2011: vii)? All of these are key questions, and Standing rightly points out that it is the last that is the most pressing. Standing argues that if the becoming-class form is not given a form of political expression and experience of agency it could exhibit a very real tendency to support reactionary, regressive political formations, which he characterises as a ‘politics of inferno’. Against this he juxtaposes an argument for forging a new, mildly utopian form of politics, which he calls ‘a politics of paradise’ (although it sounds a bit like a reworked version of social democracy) to be taken up by politicians and civil society actors. But Standing is too clever, and sensible, to simply fall back on the idea of reviving a social democratic agenda, or to invoke calls to civil society without appreciating the limitations they contain.
Standing uses a definition and understanding of the precariat roughly similar with how the concept has been developed within autonomous politics and organizing, but also expands upon it. Standing argues that there are two basic ways of defining what is meant by the precariat, namely, either as a distinctive socio-economic group, functioning along the lines of a Weberian ideal type category that can be mobilised for empirical work (and thus stated whether someone is or isn’t in the precariat based upon a set of given criteria), and secondly as a political concept that fuses together a conception of precarity today with a class politics[3]. Throughout the book Standing moves back and forth between these two concepts, very much as such is often done in existing discussions about precarity. Standing expands his understanding of the precariat by defining it not in terms of class standing, but also class characteristics that go beyond an immediate position in the labour process. He argues the precariat is defined by these class characteristics, such as having minimal trust relationships with capital or the state, which makes it quite different from the position of what he refers to as the ‘salariat’ (people with higher degrees of job, economic, and social security, typically paid an annual salary rather than more contingent forms of wage-based income). The precariat experiences few trusting human relationships, particularly work-based ones. Standing argues that this is not simply the rolling back of social welfare programs developed within this century, but rather the undermining of the trust that has evolved in long-term communities and their institutional frameworks. Infinite levels of flexibility do not just threaten job security, but ‘jeopardise any sense of cooperation or moral consensus’ (2011: 22).
Standing identifies how those finding themselves in precarious positions are caught within a situation which is increasingly hard to escape from, a ‘precarity trap’ that is intensified by erosion of community support: ‘being in and out of temporary low-wage jobs does not build up entitlement to state or enterprise benefits, the person exhausts the ability to call on benefits provided by family and friends in times of need’ (ibid.: 49). When the labour market becomes increasingly precarious, it produces negative effects in terms of time and income for those at the margins, including the expectations and demands of those who are the beneficiaries of social support measures that trap them in marginal positions. This provides an important counter argument to the idea that those who are out of work ‘simply need to get a job’ or that there are sufficient forms of social support available for those finding themselves kicked to the increasingly casualised sectors of the economy. A scepticism to taking a job, any available job, far from being the irrational attitude of ‘job snobbery’ appears much more sensible when taking into account that those taking up temporary jobs tend to lower annual incomes and longer-term earning than whose who manage to weather unemployment longer for a better suited and better paying position.
For Standing this is especially a problem given that the public sector, which traditionally had been a bastion of stability, or at least higher levels of security or decent standards for labour, ‘is fast being turned into a zone of flexibility in which the precariat can grow’ (ibid.: 54). But the answer to this predicament is not simply more forms of job training or skills enhancement, which would traditionally be the fall back of a left liberal politics. Standing points out that for the precariat, finding itself in the thick of developments of technological and communicative labour, there is an ‘acceleration of occupational obsolescence’ where ‘the more trained you are, the more likely you are to become unskilled in your sphere of competence’ (ibid.: 124). Thus it is a problem of not just being as good as you were yesterday, but of having to constantly adjust to new standards of performance and expanding or shifting skill sets. This is why, paradoxically, ‘long-term employment can deskill’ (ibid.: 17) rather than be a space for the development of employees more highly valued for their experience. This condition can lead to varied reactions, from a frenzy of activity trying to upgrade skills or a feeling of dread because any course of action seems likely to fail eventually. Regardless of the response, Standing very justifiably points out that this creates something of an existential crisis for those who call for more training to address a lack of skills as the cause of economic insecurity, arguing that this ‘is not a social climate conducive to capability development; it is one of constant dissatisfaction and stress’ (ibid.: 124).
In this way Standing describes how precarity is not simply a contractual matter of job conditions, but a broader question where the intensification of labour through technological means and communication changes the very nature of the social fabric such that it is increasingly difficult to feel secure in any position. Precarity moves from a marginal concern sitting at the edge of the economy to one of itself defining features. In this way he seems to echo the arguments of Bifo (2009), who suggests that forms of immaterial labour and knowledge work, which have been much celebrated by the business press and autonomist theorists, have pathological side effects that prevent the emergence of a new form of politics adequate to the current situation. For Bifo it is the lack of a common space of engagement, outside of the overwhelming flows of data and information, which prevents the emergence of new political compositions. Likewise Standing argues that the overwhelming levels of technological permeation tend to encourage a short term approach, which for the precariat ‘could evolve into a mass incapacity to think long term, induced by the low probability of personal progress or building a career’ (2011: 18). Information overload, along with difficulties of sorting useful information from the useless, is argued to lead to anger, anomie, anxiety, and alienation. All of which shows that that despite the precariat being immersed in the bleeding edge of developments in work and its governance at the same time finds that these dynamics block it from developing a sense of agency in those very dynamics. This is what underlies Standing’s argument that the precariat is in the front ranks ‘but it has yet to find the Voice to bring its agenda to the fore’ (ibid: vii) – and thus the question becomes what are the necessary conditions for the finding of this voice.
Like Bifo also Standing marks the emergence of the precariat in a context of politics after 1968, as defined by a rejection of industrial society and institutionally organized labour politics. He is aware of, and does to some degree engage with, more recent forms of political organizing focused on precarity, in particular Euro May Day. But Standing’s engagement with them is somewhat varied and contradictory. At one level he wants to take these forms of formulating new political action seriously despite how they might seem to have little relevance to existing labour politics, noting for instance that their demands around free migration and basic income are far afield from traditional unionism. In this sense Standing’s work very much acts as a bridge between worlds, trying to find common ground between different political perspectives that doubt the effectiveness or usefulness of other approaches. Despite this Standing still tends to have a somewhat sceptical attitude to these very movements, arguing that as a left libertarian political current they have ‘yet to excite fear, or even interest, from those outside’ and that most of the activities have been public displays of ‘pride in precarious subjectivities’ (ibid.: 3) rather than forms of concerted political action. They have been forms of protest which Standing rightly characterizes as ‘anarchic and daredevilish’ rather than ‘strategic or socially threatening’ (2011: 3), as if bravado and a daring theatrically oriented political imagination could not be part of a strategic orientation to politics. While this simultaneous desire to embrace these forms of protest politics and keep a distance might not make sense at first, ultimately it is core to Standing’s approach. He wants to build upon the energies and importance he sees in a politics of precarity, but in the same way as these movements. This is why he regards a phenomenon such as Euro May Day as a precursor, bringing to light concerns that are quite important, but a precursor that needs to be superseded by being developed into a more mature form of politics. Somewhat echoing the ideas of Eric Hobsbawm he describes the politics of precarity so far as the ‘activities of primitive rebels preceding the emergence of collective action’ and building upon that argues that ‘now is the time for bodies that represent the precariat on a continuing basis to bargain with employers, with intermediaries such as brokers and with government agencies most of all’ (ibid.: 167).
One might wonder why Standing argues there is such a need for developing new institutional or representational forms for the precariat. This argument is supported by his analysis of the dangers of what could happen if they were not to take place. Standing argues that the existing forms of institutional politics do not represent or speak to the interests of the precariat. The danger with this is that the existence of a growing population whose interests are not represented within the existing institutional political arrangements could easily find themselves rejecting those very institutions and seeking more radical alternatives that are not contained within these institutions. The precariat composes a population that Standing describes as ‘floating, rudderless and potentially angry’ and thus is ‘capable of veering to the extreme right or extreme left politically and backing populist demagoguery that plays on their fears or phobias’ (ibid.: 4). Standing’s argument, in essence, is that unless a new form of labour politics or unionism is developed to address the concerns of the precariat there is a high likelihood that a sizeable portion of the precariat could embrace a radicalism of a strain, such as a reactionary populism, that would be best avoided[4]. In short, that unless ‘mainstream parties offer the precariat an agenda of economic security and social mobility, a substantial part will continue to drift to the dangerous extreme’ (ibid.: 151). While Standing rejects a narrative that frames the precariat as victim, he nonetheless insists that it cannot resist demagogic calls to neo-fascist politics and the further destruction of social welfare measures (ibid.: 153). That is, unless a new progressive politics formed around renewed social security measures and benefit programs such as basic income, coupled with new forms of flexible institutional politics, are developed.
There is much to be said for Standings’ approach. It is one that is a solidly left liberal form of progressive politics that through taking precarity seriously manages to avoid seeing the precariat purely either as victims or as the new revolutionary subject. He makes some comments about areas that are quite suggestive but could use further elaboration, such as his relatively brief commentary on the shaping of precarity in China and the way that precarity is taking part in a redefining of our basic categories of experience such as time. When he argues that as a counter-movement, ‘the precariat needs mechanisms to generate deliberative democracy’ (ibid.: 180), this seems like a sensible suggestion. It is not so far from what other left commentators have been calling for in different terms.
A ‘politics of the multitude’ or a call for ‘exodus’ likewise involves some consideration of new institutional forms, as well as developing rather the grammar of politics and networks. Standing is clearly not a Leninist, but the core of his project is in wanting to find the organizational and political form to move from an initial outburst of discontent among the precarious populations into something more durable, largely formed around demands for basic income. In short, it is a project of superseding these initial forms to develop this new ‘politics of paradise’ seemingly connected with a renewal of social movement unionism. Standing does not want to fall back on traditional unionism or welfare politics; he seems to know that the sell by date on them has passed. His is an approach that has learned much from anti-systemic movements, but he still wants a progressive strategy, albeit one that takes a new form. While the demand for basic income, and the call for deliberative democracy, might in some ways be quite sensible responses to what his analysis of the current situation suggest, they lack the imaginative flair and radicality to inspire continued struggles against and through precarity.
Precarious labour, precarious liberation
A common critique of the politics of precarity, as well as post-autonomist arguments more generally, is that they focus too much on the US and Europe, taking them as assumed background and framework. While this argument is debatable, in any case it is still a good sign to see such arguments explored outside of Europe. In Precarious liberation (2011), Franco Barchiesi examines the postcolonial politics of citizenship and work in South Africa. While discussions of precarity in Europe have tended to take the neoliberal turn in the 1980s as their backdrop, with its destruction of social welfare systems, discussing precarity in South Africa is complicated further by the connection and overlap between anti-apartheid struggles and the imposition of neoliberal austerity measures in their wake. It is the kind of conjuncture that often stymies political analysis, leading to questions of why ‘revolutionary’ governments, or even just left leaning ones, often end up implementing politics even more draconian then those of most ostensibly right wing regimes. Barchiesi is well placed to explore this conjuncture, examining how the tendency toward what the autonomist tradition refers to as ‘real subsumption’ serves to render even ostensibly progressive governance into an assemblage that serves capital accumulation.
The answer Barchiesi provides is more subtle and powerful than arguing that post-apartheid government sold out its deals or capitulated to the demands of the global economy (although both possess some degree of truth)[5]. Instead Barchiesi bases his argument on the importance and role that work has played in the political imagination in South Africa – from multiple angles – and also how the role and importance of work has been emptied out in the post-apartheid era. In short, Barchiesi examines what happens when work, after functioning as a central motif of virtue and national character, is fractured apart by the intensifying nature of precarious conditions. Precarity is examined here not just in the sense of labour, but as applied to the sense of national liberation struggles premised upon certain conceptions of labour as their foundation. This is where work functions as a guarantee of citizenship, national belonging, and forms the basis of the political imagination. But given the central role of work played, what happens when that falls away, or is undercut by growing precarisation?
Barchiesi provides a compelling account of the role that work played in anti-apartheid discourse, where the notion of the dignity of work played a key role. The national liberation struggle promised to restore work’s promise of solidarity and self-realisation, as did independent trade unionism. Because of this the position of black waged workers was of greater importance, as they could be seen to embody a dialectical movement toward democratisation, national liberation, and economic modernisation in their struggles. But this emphasis on work in terms of symbolic and political investment, in particular in its connection with citizenship, in turn presents a number of key questions that structure the book:
Has employment fulfilled its promise of emancipation and dignity in democratic South Africa? How did work relate to diverse visions of citizenship in the first post apartheid decades? How did government agencies, trade unions, and rank-and-file workers imagine such relationships? In what ways does the persistent precariousness of employment impact workers’ identities, discourse, and collective solidarity? Is it still possible to think of labour as a progressive subject of social transformation? (2011: 4)
Barchiesi’s answer is quite nuanced and complex, exploring the ways that an emphasis on work as subject of struggle and moral basis of the political imagination managed to take liberation struggles so far, but likewise managed to hold them back, and perhaps may even hobble their continued importance in the present. If one’s revolutionary politics is based around the value of work, it is perhaps not so surprising that as work itself becomes precarious the bases of those politics are themselves increasingly precarious.
At the most obvious level, basing liberation politics upon works tends to lead to the ignoring of political struggles that are not focused on work, or that occur outside or against it. In this way work becomes the only way to have a political voice. The status of precariousness, existing outside of long term formalised wage work, in this frame becomes a form of political speechlessness or exclusion from politics. During the 1980s the black labour movement was by far the most powerfully organized domestic force against apartheid, and thus it is not surprising that it would have the loudest voice. The problem with this, as Barchiesi suggests, is both that this ‘consigned to irrelevance and invisibility workers’ expressions not derived from occupational or political dynamics’ and tended to lead to an analysis that was sometimes reductively productivist and glorifying of wage labour, not as a target of resistance, but as an ‘immanent force of liberation and social empowerment’ (ibid.: 21).
This becomes more perplexing when Barchiesi investigates the ways that the emphasis on work and its glorification was not found just within the political imagination of the ANC, the national liberation struggle, and trade unions, but also played a similar role in the apartheid racial state. Barchiesi uses this argument, that political perspectives that appear at face value to be diametrically opposed on some values, can nonetheless share common positions in ways that might not be obvious. And these shared positions, in particular the assigned moral and political value of work, can be used to explain how the course of the liberation struggle has played out in ways incomprehensible without taking into account this overlap in the political imagination. Barchiesi suggests that this helps explain why the struggle against apartheid could end in a negotiated transition rather than cathartic break or rupture. Similarly, he suggests that this common valuing of work poses problems for the post-apartheid political order, suggesting that it ‘expose[s] a certain hollowness in the post apartheid project’ (ibid.: 61) through the failure to develop an alternative approach to the relationship between labour, citizenship, and political community. The continued role of work in the political imagination shows just how deeply it is embedded and continues to shape the field of politics in South Africa.
In the period of the post-apartheid transition work has moved to underpinning a notion of citizenship and as the basis of political inclusion. While the abstract universality of the employment contract at face value is quite preferable to previous racialised categories of governance and political inclusion / exclusion, Barchiesi suggests that it is not so clear-cut:
to understand why the postapartheid liberation of labour turned out to be precarious and hollow a focus on employment conditions is of limited use. Rather, the precariousness of black workers’ lives needs to be analysed as a social and existential reality… precariousness entails the contrast between the declining “centrality of the labour contract” in a social order where jobs are insecure (“precariousness of work”) and the norms that keep work central for individuals and households affected by the retrenchment of public programs and the official praise of work over welfare (“precariousness of subsistence”). (ibid.: 9)
The nexus of work-citizenship can thus be understood as a technique of governance, as the normative criteria for producing subjects and marking the bounds of official discourse. Barchiesi suggests that with the 1994 elections ‘the spirit of the worker was reborn in the body of the citizen’ (ibid.: 63). Citizenship, as a de-racialised status, came to function as the most important realm of rights and responsibilities. Notions of democracy, citizenship, work, and production ended up becoming inseparably linked, providing a conceptual cluster that not only served to indicate the possibility of post-apartheid politics, but that could also serve to hold back and place limits on the desires of popular movements. The linking together of work with democracy and citizenship starts to become a problem precisely because of how the lived material experiences of work, marked by increasing levels of precarity, diverge too starkly from work’s given glorification. Barchiesi suggests that precarity in South Africa today is not just a question of material insecurity, but also a precarity of the political imagination. This is particularly the case for those having not lived through the social struggles underpinned by this mythology (or theology) of labour, who find it hard to hold back a cynicism to this celebration of work: ‘The idea of dignified wage labor sounded increasingly hollow and distant in daily survival struggles haphazardly patching together irregular jobs, social grants, and economies of smuggling and counterfeiting’ (ibid.: 80).
Barchiesi’s approach, similar to Standing’s, is to consider precarity not just as a question of the workplace or of particular workplaces, but rather as a fundamental transformation of the wage relationship itself and the way the wage relationship is embedded within a larger social fabric. Precarity then is not just then part of reshaping particular employment contracts but rather is an integral part of transforming the social contract more broadly. The spreading of precarity as a condition is part of a broader intensification of labour, as those whose conditions are rendered more unstable are induced into taking on self-entrepreneurial strategies, constantly trying to upgrade their skills, abilities, contacts, and so forth, while attempting to secure some modicum of existence for themselves. While this may be more readily obvious in the coping strategies of migrant workers and communities who end up juggling expectations (as well as possibly forms of employment) to support themselves, it is a shift that marks the way we interact more broadly, from education to health care. In this framing all actions become thought of as individual investment decisions, for which one be called to account for, rather than as collective social arrangements. In this sense precarity is not simply a transformation of wage relationship, but nearly the death of the social itself, insofar as the social is something more than what can be subordinated to economic interactions.
Barchiesi suggests that these varied coping skills and ways of living developed by precarious workers are of immense value, and are most often indirectly appropriated by employers who do not have to provide compensation for them, as they occur outside of understood working hours. This is why analyses too narrowly centred on production are questionable in how they run the risk of essentialising and naturalising the primary location where workers express and enact their desires. Barchiesi questions these assumptions, which he sees as being held both by the social sciences and labour organizers, to ask whether the workplace is actually so central to the formation of workers’ subjectivities. What if workers’ strategies are not oriented to transforming the workplace but rather to escaping from it? This is an important question because Barchiesi does not argue that the previous over-focus on the bounded workplace should lead to disregarding it in favour of another area of analysis (for instance looking at the ways subjectivity is produced through consumer behaviour) as replacement for a labour politics. Rather Barchiesi is arguing for a form of approaching labour politics that is much broader than the workplace, as a politics of living labour more generally and not the bounded forms of work it is embodied in.
This is critical precisely because of the ways that work and its meaning are much more variable for South African workers, never really conforming to the discourse praising its glories and value. This is especially the case for black workers, both before the fall of apartheid and after, who tended to experience work as amplifying precarity rather than as a bulwark against it. While arguably there has long existed a juncture between this stated glorification of work and its lived realities, this disjuncture has become more readily apparent since the fall of apartheid, revealing what Barchiesi describes as ‘the spectre of insecurity, the powerlessness of union organizing – that underlie the incommensurability between the official glorification of work and its experienced realities’ (ibid.: 25). It is this gulf between the proclaimed status of work and its reality that helped to fuel workers’ desire to escape from work through ideals of self-employment, or led them into what Barchiesi describes as an emerging ‘politics of labour melancholia’ where discontent with conditions of work inadvertently feeds into a desire for restoring order secured by authority granted by the status of work.
In this way Barchiesi comes to a position close to Standing’s about the political risks posed by precarity in so far as it undermines the role of work in the political imagination. The increasing level of insecurity makes it clear that the ideological role of work can no longer function in the same way. Barchisi suggests that chauvinist attitudes and a regressive attachment to fixed forms of identity can step in to fill the symbolic space left by the decline of work as the central ideological fulcrum. Or perhaps more accurately not the decline of work in this role, but rather when the disjunction between the ideology of work and its reality are so wide as to not hold together. Barchiesi suggests that the politics of workers’ melancholia is formed by a continuing attachment to work where the workers perceive the meaningless of wage labour ‘as a bitter betrayal of emancipatory projects once vested in the labour market’ (ibid.: 255). But this is not used to argue for an abandoning of labour politics, or the drive for emancipation, but rather for ditching the limited view of a labour politics focused solely on the workplace. Barchiesi argues for ditching employment-based notions of liberation, instead placing ‘the precariousness of employment, rather than its idealized celebration, at the core of a new grammar of politics’ (ibid.: 247).
This brings us to what is perhaps the sharpest difference in the positions taken by Barchiesi and Standing, namely their quite divergent perspectives on the question of basic income. Barchiesi is in some ways broadly sympathetic to the arguments for basic income, for instance noting that it would serve to compensate value-creating activities outside the bounds of the wage relation and thus could serve to diminish the compulsion to work for survival. Basic income could thus fill a useful role in reducing the weight of the workplace in peoples’ activities and lives, thus opening possibilities for ways of living and political imaginaries not so bound by the necessity of work. But while he might seem sympathetic at that level, Barchiesi is quite critical of the position that basic income could be understood as a political solution to the question of precarity. This is in part because of how he argues that basic income can serve to maintain the centrality of work in the imagination of citizenship. Basic income becomes a way to transform work into a realm of self-actualisation rather than an activity undertaken out of compulsion. While this represents a move away from a development over previous ideas, the problem for Barchiesi is how basic income can serve to ‘salvage the connection between wage labour, rights, and human dignity whereas active labour market policies are at risk of merely forcing people into low-wage jobs’ (ibid.: 124). Barchiesi argues that such a conception of basic income provides not an alternative to precarious labour but rather an inducement to it by providing protection against the more egregious effects of the precarisation of work. Barchiesi rejects this conception of basic income in his displacement of a limited conception of work in the political imagination. Rather than redeeming the value of labour Barchiesi suggests that basic income is valuable as a critique of wage labour, not as a new form of policy intervention to ameliorate its excesses.
Ultimately what Barchiesi argues is that precarity is important not just for understanding the shaping of particular forms of labour, or of the security of conditions, but as applied to the ongoing stability of the national liberation project. This is South Africa’s precarious liberation, marked by the strange situation where political antagonisms were played out by competing forces that ‘have often held similar fantasies of order and normality’ (ibid.: 93) where the official imagination of post-apartheid politics has delegated these fantasies to the nexus of work and citizenship. In one of the interviews Barchiesi conducted for writing the book a waste worker draws on an image that resonates deeply with those used in the autonomist tradition: the waste worker describes democratisation as a liberating exodus, but one that has been halted by the precariousness of work. This worker describes how the 1994 election was a moment when they thought they were leaving Egypt, to find a better life not under tyranny, but that today they are still suffering. For this worker the fall of apartheid was ‘like coming from Egypt and now we are going back to Egypt. The old government was Egypt and we thought we were going to Canaan, but instead with this new [waste] utility we are going back to Egypt’ (ibid.: 190).
The fragility of any institutionalised liberation project is perhaps a bit fragile, and risks that the gains secured in the exodus are turned into the exact opposite of the freedom that was sought. It is perfectly clear that the exodus from apartheid was indeed a liberating process. But the problem is that while rejecting ‘going back to Egypt’ is clear enough, this leaves undefined what to do. Barchiesi’s central argument is that it is impossible to even begin to answer the question of what is to be done as long as the centrality of work, now displaced to the citizen, in the political imagination is maintained, as this is a position that has become untenable today, although it could equally be argued that it has always been untenable and that this has only become more recently apparent. Barchiesi takes the long-standing autonomist theme of the refusal of work and expands it, not just as a practice, but also as a central political motif and perspective, one that puts precarity at the centre of a new grammar of politics.
Ambivalence and/of transversal compositions
The emergence of precarity as an object of academic analysis corresponds with its decline as a political concept motivating social movement activity. (Neilson and Rossiter, 2008: 53)
The two versions of approaching precarity discussed here are in many ways quite similar, although also having important points of contrast. They agree that a focus on only the wage workplace leaves large populations out of the frame, and that this has quite negative political effects. They both share a concern with the rise of political currents who step in to fill the void left by the decline of a certain conception of labour in the political imagination, and that this could risk a sharp turn to the right and to forms of neo-fascism. Despite this level of agreement there are profound levels of disagreement, for instance on the question of basic income, and more fundamentally whether precarity is a political category to be incorporated into a renewed form of institutional politics, or one that requires a drastic critiquing and rethinking of the concepts used for thinking about politics and the position of work.
Perhaps rather than asking the question of what precarity is it is more useful to ask what precarity does, which is to say, what does precarity add to political analysis and strategy? This is a useful perspective precisely because it points to the reality that precarity is not one thing, but rather a versatile concept that has been deployed differently in varying situations and contexts. To compare the few examples discussed thus far, first we looked at precarity as a way to frame the desires of young workers in 1970s Italy to escape the factory and the constraints of regular wage labour: precarity as something beautiful and worth celebrating. In this framing precarity is the common ground of those who reject the Fordist compromise for a different conception of politics, life, and labour. By the time the concept reappears in the discourse of movements arising in the wake of the anti-globalisation movement, precarity is understood far differently, not as something to be celebrated but as a conceptual framework for theorising the shared ravages of neoliberalism across varying position of status, and income. Precarity is used to find a common ground for the positions of migrant workers and freelancers, with all problems that go along with such a proposition. Standing takes up precarity as a way to refocus labour politics upon populations ignored by only focusing on wage labour and unions, and to bring those stuck in more precarious positions into a common political project. Standing seeks to draw upon the energies of ‘primitive rebellion’ to rebuild a new institutional context for politics. Finally, Barchiesi rethinks the question of precarity within the context and complexity of the politics of national liberation in South Africa, in particular how they are rooted in a conception of work undercut by the growing precarisation of work. While each of these perspectives has its value, I’d suggest that Barchiesi’s work is the most profound, precisely because it tries to employ precarity not as a category to be applied, but rather as a moment of instability within the radical political imagination that is as much promise as threat. The precariat might indeed be the new dangerous class, but that could very well be part of its political potential rather being a danger. In each of these cases what we see is the tension between precarity as a sociological and as a strategic and political concept.
Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter in their (2008) analysis provide a very useful insight into the politics of precarity and the ambivalence existing within precarity as political focus and analytic category. They declare the last thing they want to do is to ‘sociologise precarity’, to render into a concept that can be applied to map out the changing nature of class. In short, they are arguing against the use of precarity as a concept in the way that Standing seeks to develop it as concept, one that assess the current shape of labour and develop a new politics around this class formation. That is not to totally reject empirical approaches, which Neilson and Rossiter agree can be of assistance in identifying different types and experiences of precarity. But they argue that while this work can be a prelude to political organization, it is in itself not enough to generate a political intervention adequate to the challenges of the current situation. Rather than precarity as a concept to be applied, Neilson and Rossiter argue for a conception of precarity that cannot be grounded. For them precarity is not an empirical object but rather an experience, one that is best investigated through a ‘transpositional movement between the theoretical and the practical’ – a transversal movement that is never stable (2008: 63).
This in part explains why Neilson and Rossiter comment that the decline of precarity as a political focus connects to its rise as an academic area of investigation. It is not simply a comment on how academic work lags woefully years behind the pace of political developments and thus can only serve to pick up the pieces of social movement developments after they have subsided (although there is something to be said for that). Rather it is that the approaches employed in investigating precarity have entirely different ways of working. Or to express it in their framing, the investigation of precarity as a sociological phenomenon wants to fix it as a category that can be used for empirical work. While this fixing of the category, the agreement over what the concept is, can seem entirely reasonable on a certain level, this represents a kind of blocking of the transversal and transpositional moment that they argue is what was valuable in precarity as a political concept. Neilson and Rossiter suggest that precarity still has a critical potential, albeit one that is limited, but a potential that can be realised more by rejecting sociological framings and expectations of analytical and descriptive consistency.
It is in this sense that it is most useful to rethink precarity by connecting it back more closely to the autonomist tradition. That’s not to say that there is some ‘purer essence’ of the concept that is employed by political actors and not by academic writers. That would be to re-install a kind of essentialist theory-praxis divide in political analysis. Rather, what can be seen in the concept of precarity is a kind of tension between analysis and politics that has long existed in the middle of autonomist politics. One can see this in the tradition’s key concepts, such as the paired notions of technical and political composition. The former is used to understand the current composition of capital and workings of the economy including technical skills, knowledge, level of scientific development, and so forth. The latter is the existing political energies and capacities of the working class, or as the notion has been expanded even more broadly, the capacities of political actors in revolt, to transform the world around then. The autonomist tradition is marked heavily by a radical subjectivism that rejects narratives privileging capital’s perspective in explaining and understanding social and economic crisis and transformation[6]. Perhaps the most important element of the autonomist tradition is to emphasise this radical subjective becoming of political composition over the more traditionally political economic analysis of technical composition – and to privilege it as the basis of analysis and political strategy. But this very privileging of political composition and subjectivity brings along its own difficulties. If applied in a dogmatic and extreme fashion such an approach can lead to grand declarations about new forms of emerging subjectivities and political energies that lack a sufficient connection to the conditions around them. It can become almost a form of prophecy and declaration, unmoored from the composition of the social.
It is this ongoing tension between technical and political composition that is perhaps one of the greatest strengths of the autonomist concepts, but also their weakness. This is why the multiple meanings and roles of precarity, what it does as a concept, is not a problem of its lack of coherence, but rather an expression of its value. The meaning of precarity is not determined by a set of criteria that define it, and thus can be operationalised as tools of research (or at least solely as them). Rather it is a political tool whose meaning is shaped by the context from which it emerges, the composition of labour and politics in which it is utilised. Precarity is thus beautiful, an escape from the factory, and horrible, in the conditions of intensifying neoliberal globalisation and destruction of social welfare programs. It is like Walt Whitman, large, containing multitudes, and possibly contained by multitudes. Precarity is most useful not as a concept for mapping out new class categories for integrating them into a new institutional politics, but as a tool for intervening in the shaping of new struggles. Precarity is not just a question of the changing composition of labour, but of experimenting with modes of being and community that are not determined by labour. The task then for the politics of precarity today is not to refine it as a sociological concept to be applied in research but to renew it as a compositional project for the development of new forms of autonomy.
[1] The protest movement that Berardi describes in some ways seems quite similar to the tactics and approach of the recent occupation movements (or of the global justice movement) in a rejection of fixed party structures, a focus on joyful convergences in the streets, and a heavy focus on media politics.
[2] To list just a few of the more notable ones: Ross (2009), Gill and Pratt (2008), Raunig et al. (2011). Previously activist publications dedicated issues to examining precarity including Greenpepper Magazine (2004), Mute Magazine (2005, 2006), and fibreculture (2005). In terms of militant research on precarity it is important to point towards the Precarity Web Ring, which is mostly now defunct (http://precarity-map.net) and the activities of the Precarious Workers Brigade (http://precariousworkersbrigade.tumblr.com). Funding bodies that have started to fund research on precarity include the ESRC and the Carolina Asia Center. These examples are only some of the more obvious ones I’m aware of, there are surely far more currently existing.
[3] For Standing the precariat has a ‘truncated status’ in the sense that it does not correspond to the previous social position of the proletariat where ‘labour securities were provided in exchange for subordination and contingent loyalty, the unwritten deal underpinning welfare states’, and does not map neatly on to any craft occupation status (2011: 8). In this sense Standing picks up on the popular discussions of precarity that use it to characterise not just labour conditions, but the growing uncertainty of conditions of life in late neoliberalism.
[4] Strangely enough he doesn’t give nearly as much consideration to the idea that a left wing form of radicalism might be embraced as a result of growing precarity.
[5] For instance, Barchiesi argues that the democratic transition has largely benefitted business more than the people it was supposed to free, with the ongoing economic crisis amplifying forms of precarity experience by large parts of the population. Given that, the neoliberal measures that are responsible for this seem all the more troubling precisely when framed in revolutionary and Marxist jargon, such as when members of parliament defend their housing policy as ‘dialectical unity’ of government subsidies and corporate finance (2011: 20).
[6] A recent article by Bar-Yuchnei (2011) in the journal Endnotes makes a critique of this core autonomist notion, suggesting that in current ‘conditions of austerity’ the capacity of class antagonism to act as a motor of social and economic transformation has reached its end. This, however, is not framed as an argument to return to an analysis based upon analyzing ‘tendencies to crisis’ or other more economistic frames. Rather it seems to indicate that this emphasis on political composition as subjective becoming has reached something of a dead end. Bifo has made similar arguments. Perhaps it is the further incorporation of subjectivation as factor of production in flexible, creativity oriented economy that precludes it operating in the same role it did before. But it would seem that if subjectivity is more essential to the workings of the economy and class structure that its incorporation, its dynamic of decomposition, would serve as a basis for a new form of political recomposition. This remains to be seen.
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Gill, R. and A. Pratt (2008) ‘In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work’, Theory, Culture & Society, 25(7-8): 1-30.
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Standing, G. (2011) The precariat: The new dangerous class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Pandemic times. A conversation with Lisa Baraitser about the temporal politics of COVID-19
Laura Kemmer, Annika Kühn , Vanessa Weber
Blok, A, Farías, I., & Roberts, C. (eds) (2019) The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, London: Routledge. (HC, pp. 458, $245, ISBN 9781315111667)
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin cross-letters of the reins
It is an era to an end. As the company faced a series of antitrust investigations and installation of employee unrest, its two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced that last week the two of them down from their leadership roles in the company. A page has been the CEO of Google the parent organization of the letters, and Brin as President. Transport-related information, the current CEO of Google, will continue his work, and in addition take in the CEO letters.
Page and Brin are not completely out of the picture. The two co-founders will remain employees of the alphabet, and retained their seats on the boat, where they together control 51. 3%of the voting rights, according to a recent regulatory filing. In other words, they still effectively control the company, although they will no longer run.
“Today, in 2019, if the company is a person, it will be a young adult of 21 and it will be time to leave the roost,”Brin and Page wrote in a joint press release. “Although having a huge franchise, deeply involved in the daily management of the company long-term, we believe that it is time to assume the role of the proud parents with advice and love, but not every day nagging!”
Page and Brin founded in 1998, when they were computer science graduate students at Stanford University. “I thought he was annoying. He’s really strong opinion about things, I guess I did too,”page said on the Bollinger wired in 2005. “We both found each other obnoxious,”Brin countered.
But to complement each other and together turn into a search engine to boot into a Silicon Valley huge ambitions to change the world through technology and therefore abandoned the motto of”not evil.” From its early days, as Nitasha described the company in a recent Wired cover story, Google has a unique Open Culture. Employees are encouraged to”bring their whole self”to work, and that if they see something they disagree with. Last Thursday, Google will host a company-wide meeting called TGIF, employees can ask managers challenging questions.
Under the guidance of their investors, Brin and Page hired Eric Schmidt, who became Google’s first CEO in 2001. Ten years later, the pages bring back the reins and become more involved in the company’s daily operation than Brin. But the page is too large, will eventually take a step back his involvement after the reorganization of the company, in 2015.
Four years ago the letter is to create a holding company, the separation of Google’s core advertising and Internet business, from the company’s more ambitious research projects and other acquisitions. A, long-term Executive, to become CEO. Since then, Page and Brin—each now worth more than $ 50 billion has to a large extent is still not the spotlight, dedicate yourself, rather than experimental projects, such as flying vehicles and the future of robots. They have rarely appeared in public or spoken on the investor call. To not even attend Google’s Annual Shareholders Meeting in June.
Brin and Page exit to just Google is working to solve some of the most difficult challenges. Although the company continues to print money, the US Congress, the state attorney General and Federal antitrust regulators are to review its dominant market position. Just this week, European regulators announced a preliminary investigation into Google and Facebook over how they collect and use data for their advertising business.
The company has to solve the high-end of tensions between the employees. The end of last month, more than 200 workers gathered outside the company’s San Francisco office supporting several staff members were released administrative leave and later transmit what they said reached the ILO. Last Tuesday, the former employees said they plan to file unfair labor practices complaints with the National Labor Relations Commission. In the past few years, Google’s workforce presented a protest against the company’s contracts with US government agencies, as well as due to the cancellation of the project, to establish a review of search engine in China. And in November last year, 20,000 employees, the employees get out of the sexual harassment, discrimination and pay inequality in the firm.
Despite such resistance, Google, the letters continued to grow, with the acquisition of such intelligence, of course, billions of dollars of profits. If the company’s co-founders have any concerns, where something is going, they issued shows that they lived in contact with the people they leave in charge. “We plan to continue with the sun large letter regularly, especially the title on, we are full of passion!” They write in their announcement.
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J Balvin, Rosalia Lead Latin Grammy Nominations
by Rosy CorderoSeptember 20, 2018
Photo by: John Parra/Telemundo
The nominations for the 19th Annual Latin Grammy awards was released this morning, and it's no surprise that urban superstar J Balvin leads the charge with a total of eight nominations. The Colombian-born singer received recognition in the following categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year (twice), Best Urban/Fusion Performance, Best Urban Song (3 nominations), and Best Urban Music Album.
There's no doubt he'll be celebrating this weekend when his Vibras tour comes through Los Angeles!
Spanish singer Rosalia follows his lead with a total of five nominations including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Urban/Fusion Performance, Best Alternative Song, and Best Short Form Music Video.
Coming in with four nominations each are El David Aguilar, Jorge Drexler, Kany Garcia, Natalia LaFourcade, and producers Mauricio Rengifo and Andres Torres.
Other nominees include Juanes, Raquel Sofia, Bomba Estereo, La Santa Cecilia, Residente & Dillon Francis, and many more.
Check out the complete list of honorees via the Latina Grammys website
The awards show will take place on Thursday, November 15th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. You can watch the celebration live on Univision starting at 8pm.
Congratulations to all the nominees!
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45 Latinas Who Have Changed the World!
by Latina StaffFebruary 26, 2018
Every day we are inspired by women who work to achieve more and give more. These Latinas show us that everyone has the potential to change the world and that it's up to us to make a difference! Here are 45 amazing Latinas who have changed the world.
- With additional reporting by Irina Gonzalez and Maria Arevalo
Name: Maria Elena Salinas
Roots: Mexico
How She Changed the World: Maria Elena Salinas was the longest running female news anchor on U.S. television and the first Latina to recieve a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. Salinas used her platform to shed light on various Latino issues including unaccompanied immigrant children. She actively works to increase voter registration in the Latino community and works to help Latino youth become journalists. Since leaving Univision, Salinas is working on the second season of her English-language series, "The Real Story with Maria Elena Salinas," on the Investigation Discovery network.
Name: Gina Rodriguez
Roots: Puerto Rico
How She Changed the World: In 2015, Gina Rodriguez won the Golden Globe for her performance in the wildy popular CW show 'Jane the Virgin.' She said of her win, "This award is so much more than myself, it represents a culture that wants to see themselves as heroes." Since her win, Rodriguez has stepped into the roles of Director and Producer as she works to bring Latinas and their stories to the film stage. She is currently developing projects for CBS and The CW centered around the Latin American community.
Name: Ana Mendieta
Roots: Cuba
How She Changed the World: Ana Mendieta was a refugee at age 12 when she fled the Cuban regime. Her trials and tribulations resulting from her displacement affected her life's work. The art she created was pro-feminist and pro-nature. She reconnected with her roots through her art, inlcuding having facial hair transplants on her face. According to the Guggenheim, Mendieta has said "I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source." In 2009, Mendieta was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cintas Foundation.
Name: Demi Lovato
How She Changed the World: Demi Lovato has become an advocate for those struggling with mental illness. The stigma behind mental illness, especially in Latin American cultures, can prevent many from seeking help. Through becoming vulnerable and being open about her own experiences with depression and bipolar disoder, Lovato has paved the way for others to seek guidance and counsel. In 2017 she released her documentary titled 'Simply Complicated' wherein Lovato says, "When I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it just made sense... When I was younger I didn't know why I would stay up so late writing and playing music, and then I learned about episodes of mania and I realized that that's probably what it was... I was manic. In a way I knew, it wasn't my fault anymore. Something was actually off with me."
Name: Rosie Perez
How She Changed the World: Along with being a successful actress, Perez has made a name for herself in the world of activism. The documentary 'I'm Puerto Rican, Just so you Know' follows her activism. She starred and directed the Spanish AIDS PSA campaign 'Join the Fight'. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Perez to The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and she now serves as the chair of the artistic board for Urban Arts Partnership.
Rita Moreno
Roots: Puerto Rican
How She Changed the World: The legendary singer, dancer and actress has had an amazing career. She won acclaim for her role as Anita in the film adaptation of West Side Story, had a successful Broadway career and even performed at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. She was only the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award and is still the only Latino who has earned the prestigious EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony).
Name: Selena Quintanilla
Roots: Mexican
How She Changed the World: Despite having her life tragically cut short, Selena accomplished more than most artists in her lifetime. She helped put Latin and Tejano music on the mainstream map. She was known as ‘The Queen of Tejano” and her voice transcended borders in hits like, “Como la Flor” and “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.” Very few stars have been able to live up to the Grammy winner’s grace, talent, and ambition. And thanks to a M.A.C makeup collab, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and a wax figure, this Tejana is still a shining inspo for generations of young Latinas!
Name: Cristina Saralegui
Roots: Cuban
How She Changed the World: Known as the Latina Oprah, Cristina inspired and motivated for decades with her self-titled hit Univision show. Known for ending each episode with the Spanish phrase, ‘Pa'lante, pa'lante, pa'tras ni pa' coger impulso’ (Move forward and never look back) the Cuban journalist instantly won over the hearts of millions.
Name: Gloria Estefan
How She Changed the World: As if selling over 90 million albums isn’t enough, Gloria has served as a role model for women across the globe. The legendary singer is known for her energetic performances and one of the first Latin stars to crossover into the mainstream pop market. In 2010, Gloria also launched a charity single, “Somos el Mundo” to help support Haiti after the devastating earthquake. The Queen of Latin Pop is an icon with true love for her community.
Name: Celia Cruz
How She Changed the World: “¡Azúcar!” While most singers came and went, Cruz’s career lasted a span of nearly six decades. Her profoundly soulful voice and colorful presence revolutionized salsa and transformed her into a musical legend. Most importantly, the Cuban singer taught us that ‘life is a carnival’ (in one of her many hits “La Vida Es Un Carnaval”). The late singer was also a strong voice for freedom in Cuba and was strongly against Fidel Castro’s regime.
Name: Claribel Alegria
Age: Died at age 93
Roots: Nicaraguan
How She Changed the World: With over 25 published works, this former novelist was a powerful voice in contemporary literature in Central America. The George Washington University grad focused on the people’s movement, which helped overthrow dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
Name: Julia de Burgos
Age: Died at 39
How She Changed the World: The renowned Puerto Rican writer and poet was a feminist at heart. Her poems, “Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta (“I Was My Own Path”) and “A Julia de Burgos” symbolized messages of individual and nationalistic freedom. As the oldest of thirteen children, Burgos pursued her education at The University of Puerto Rico and would go on to become one of the most influential Caribbean civil rights activists.
Name: Sylvia Rivera
Age: Died in 2002, at age 50
Roots: Puerto Rican – Venezuelan
How She Changed the World: Orphaned at the age of 3, Rivera learned how to take life’s punches at an early age. The transgender activist fought for the LGBTQ community and organized plenty of protests fighting for gay rights in the 1970’s in New York City. Her legacy is still strongly felt within the community and she has been honored in the musical, Sylvia So Far.
Name: Hilda Solis
How She Changed the World: Solis knows how to work it! The former labor secretary, who has degrees from California State Polytechnic University, Ponoma, and the University of Southern California, won recognition from labor unions for pushing wage and hour laws, and also job safety regulations. “Growing up in a large Mexican-American family in La Puente, California, I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to serve in a president’s Cabinet, let alone in the service of such an incredible leader,” she said in a statement.
Name: Shakira
Roots: Colombian
How She Changed the World: The generous pop star is known for giving back to her community thanks to her foundation Pies Descalzos. While her music career has continued to flourish, Shakira has never forgotten her roots. She has raised millions dedicated to improving the quality of education in her hometown and throughout Latin America. As a UNICEF ambassador, the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer has also committed to making a global impact for the less fortunate. She is now a proud mami to boys, Milan and Sasha.
Roots: Dominican
How She Changed the World: The Domican-American poet, essayist and novelist gained national acclaim after her 1991 novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, illuminated what it’s like to be a Latina immigrant in the U.S. Her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, detailed the death of the Mirabal sisters during the Trujillo dictatorship in the DR. Her contribution to Latin American literature brought on future Dominican-American writers like Angie Cruz and Junot Diaz.
Alicia Alonso
How She Changed the World: The Cuban prima ballerina and choreographer changed the Cuban ballet, despite being afflicted with an eye defect that left her partially blind at the age of nineteen. She became famous for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen in New York and Havana, where she founded the Ballet Nacional de Cuba and continues to direct to this day.
Maria Teresa Kumar
How She Changed the World: Growing up in a bicultural household propelled this Colombiana to change the world by getting out the Latino vote in the U.S. as the president and CEO of Voto Latino. She revolutionized the non-partisan organization when she joined shortly after Rosario Dawson founded it in 2004, developing the first voter registration via text message in 2006 and grown Voto Latino into a leading social media and online community.
How She Changed the World: Being the third female justice and the first Latino to sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States is no small accomplishment for the New York City native. Other than her inspirational work as a Latina in the legal work, Sotomayor published her memoir, My Beloved World, earlier this year, which recounts her early life of growing up in housing projects in New York and the challenges she overcame.
Dolores Huerta
How She Changed the World: Along with Cesar Chavez, Huerta co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which eventually became the United Farm Workers (UFW), in order to unite farmers into a union that fights to protect their rights. She is a labor leader and civil rights activist who has also advocated for immigrants’ and women’s rights, earning her the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights and Presidential Medal of Freedom. She's still fighting for justice via her Dolores Huerta Foundation, run by one of her eleven kids. Carlos Santana recently produced a documentary about her amazing life, directed by Peter Bratt.
Roots: Venezuelan
How She Changed the World: The elegant business woman made a name for herself as a fashion designer who has dressed everyone from countless celebrities to many First Ladies, including Jackie O (Jacqueline Onassis) and current First Lady Michelle Obama. Known for the clothes’ impeccable, worldly style without being fussy, Herrera earned the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2008—but even that hasn’t stopped her and she is still designing beautiful clothes, accessories and even fragrances.
Roots: Guatemalan
How She Changed the World: She is an activist who has dedicated her life to helping the world recognize the plight of Guatemala’s indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War. She has promoted indigenous rights in the country, ran for President of Guatemala in 2007 and 2011 and even received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2991 and the Price of Asturias Award in 1998. Her fight for the people of Guatemala has forever inspired recognition of indigenous rights in South America.
Maria Felix
Age: Died in 2002 at age 88
How She Changed the World: Known as “Maria de los Angeles Felix”, she is considered the most iconic leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She often played tough film characters and won three Ariel Awards for Enamorada, Rio Escondido and Dona Diabla. She forever changed the world of cinema.
Vilma Martinez (civil rights attorney)
How She Changed the World: The Mexican-American civil rights attorney was the first woman appointed to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 but has been a diplomat since President Jimmy Carnet appointed Martinez to her first position in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps in 1977.
Linda Chavez-Thompson (labor leader)
How She Changed the World: The Mexican-American woman is a union leader who was formerly the vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1995 until 2007, working on behalf of the fifty-six national and international unions to represent more than 11 million workers. Since her retirement, she ran to be the Lieutenant Governor of Texas and was the vice chair to the Democratic National Committee.
Michelle Bachelet (Chilean)
Roots: Chilean
How She Changed the World: An inspiration to all, Bachelet was the first female president of Chile, serving from 2006 until 2010 and from 2014 until now. The former pediatrician is also incredibly educated, speaking her native Spanish, as well as English, German, Portuguese and French.
Dilma Rousseff (Brazil’s First Female President)
Roots: Brazilian
How She Changed the World: The former president of Brazil also happens to be the first woman to hold the office. She served as the Chief of Staff to the President of Brazil from 2005 until 2010, and then assumed the role of President in January 2011. Her distinguished honors include receiving the Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award and being named one of Forbes’ most powerful women in the world.
Soledad O’Brien
How She Changed the World: The Cuban-American broadcast journalist made waves as the anchor of CNN’s morning news program Starting Point and American Morning. Today she is recognized as one of the top journalists who fights for social change, has won an Emmy award for co-hosting The Know Zone and a Goodermote Humanitarian Award for her reporting of Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She continues to strive for excellence in reporting as she starts Starfish Media Group, which will allow her to continue to confront difficult topics and tell underreported topics.
How She Changed the World: Although she had been acting in her native Mexican, it was Hayek’s move to Hollywood in 1991 that earned her worldwide recognition as a Mexican-American actress, director and producer. She is best known for her role as Frida Kahlo in 2002 film Frida, for which she received numerous nominations and awards. She is also an advocate for increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee supporting the reauthoring of the Violence Against Women Act and is a board member of V-Day, a charity aimed at ending violence against women and girls. Most recently, the gorgeous mom of one bravely shared her #MeToo story about sexual assault.
Name: Victoria Soto
Age: Died in 2012 at the age of 27
How She Changed the World: This courageous teacher was hailed as a heroine after she died protecting her young students during the Newton, CT shootings on December 14, 2012. She demonstrated tremendous strength when she hid her students in a closet and told the shooter that they were in the gym. She was killed protecting them, after the shooter didn’t believe her and she shielded her room from the bullets with her own body. President Barack Obama awarded Soto the Presidential Citizens Medal, describing her as a selfless and courageous woman who “inspire[s] us all to look for opportunities to better serve our communities and our country.”
Name: Concepcion Picciotto
Roots: Spanish
How She Changed the World: Her name isn’t well known but she is one hard-to-forget inspiring Latina. The Spaniard-American woman commonly known as “Conchita” has been living in Lafayette square in Washington, D.C., since August 1, 1981. That’s when she set up a peace camp across from the White House in order to protest nuclear arms. She is known for carrying out the longest continuous act of political protest in the U.S. and has been featured in Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.
Name: Eva Longoria
How She Changed the World: Known as one of the highest paid actresses in television history, the Desperate Housewives star made a cool $13 million for her seductive role as Gaby Solis. However, that was only the beginning for Longoria. She has developed into a powerful figure behind-the-scenes as an executive producer of the ALMA Awards as well as Devious Maids and Telenovela. Her philanthropic work with PADRES Contra el Cancer has also helped millions of families affected by the illness. The newly married Longoria is a huge political activist championing equal pay and diverisity in Hollywood among other causes. Her and hubby Pepe Baston are welcoming their first child these year.
Alicia Dickerson Montemayor (Latina activist)
How She Changed the World: The Mexican-American activist from Laredo, Texas, was one of the first truly inspirational Latina women. She crossed a lot of barriers for women, becoming the first woman elected to national office (that wasn’t created for a woman specifically) as vice president general of the League of United Latin American Citizens and also the first woman associate editor of the LULAC newspaper. She encouraged girls and women to join the Latin American activism movement and is designated as a Women’s History Honoree by the National Women’s History Project.
Jovita Idár (journalist)
Age: Died at age 60 in 1946
How She Changed the World: The Mexican-American journalist, who was born in Texas, was a major figure to worked to advance the civil rights of Mexican-Americans. She wrote for a newspaper called La Cronica where, under a pseudonym, she exposed the poor living conditions of Mexican-American workers and supported the Mexican revolution, which started in 1910. She also served as the first president of the League of Mexican Women, which was founded in 1911 to offer free education to Mexican children in Laredo, Texas. She continued writing to advocate for the issues being faced by Mexican-Americans in that time.
The Mirabal Sisters
Age: Particia was 36, Maria was 34 and Antonia was 25 when they were killed
How They Changed the World: Patricia, Belgica, Maria and Antonia (commonly known as Patrisia, Dede, Minerva and Maria Teresa) became involved in the political movement against dictator Trujillo. They formed the group Movement of the Fourteenth of June in order to oppose his regime, but they were incarcerated and tortured on several occasions, resulting in the deaths of Patricia, Minerva and Maria Teresa. Their amazing courage and persistence in the face of endless opposition remains an inspiration to many. The day of their deaths, November 25th, is now official the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Name: Frida Kahlo
How She Changed the World: Although her artwork wasn’t well known until the 1970’s, Kahlo was always considered an important figure in folk art. Many of her works were self-portraits that captured her pain and anguish from surviving a bus accident and her rocky romantic relationship with artist Diego Rivera. With each brush stroke, her vibrant style and cultural depiction has inspired countless Latinas ever since.
Name: Claudia de la Cruz
How She Changed the World: As the founder of Da Urban Butterflies (DUB), Cruz is dedicated to youth outreach for Latinas in the Washington Heights area in New York City. The group, which has been around for 8 years, helps empower young women between the ages of 18 to 30 with sex education and career workshops. “Here you find yourself in a space where they are telling you yes, you are worth something. We care about you and you can create the world you want. That is really empowering,” said Cruz about her organization.
Name: Isabel Allende
How She Changed the World: As “the world's most widely read Spanish-language author," Allende has captivated readers for decades thanks to her mythical storylines and gripping narratives in classics like, The House of Spirits and City of Beasts. She helped transform the non-fiction literary landscape and has won countless of awards for her works.
Name: Arisa Batista Cunningham
Roots: Panamanian
How She Changed the World: Arisa runs the boardroom as the VP of global diversity for Johnson & Johnson. She helps come up with strategic planning for franchises worth a total of $24 billion. Since earning her MBA from Ohio University, Arisa has made it a point to increase diversity in the workplace and has won the J&J Equal Opportunity Award.
Name: Ellen Ochoa
How She Changed the World: As if being the first Latina astronaut isn’t enough, she’s also the co-inventor of three patents related to optical inspection systems. She received her doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently the director of the Johnson Space Center. Talk about reaching for the stars!
Name: Rosario Dawson
Roots: Puerto Rican and Cuban
How She Changed the World: This actress has never been content with just being a Hollywood superstar. The co-founder of Voto Latino has inspired and empowered a new generation to hit the polls in a major way. Rosario is just as passionate about other issues concerning our community. She has shown support for arrested undocumented immigrants, and raised awareness for the Purple Purse Campaign, which aimed to donate over $250,000 to the YWCA for their domestic violence survivors and women in need.
Name: Jennifer Lopez
How She Changed the World: J.Lo may not have completed her degree at Baruch University, but she’s still considered one of their top alumni with a total annual net worth of $52 million in 2012 alone. Jenny From The Block hit the jackpot from her humble beginnings in the Bronx and gives back to her community as a spokesperson for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the founder of Lopez Family Foundation, her nonprofit organization which helps provide medical care to women and children across the globe. Her signature curves also helped transform Hollywood’s standards of beauty. And nearing 50, J Lo looks hotter than ever, and with a Vegas residency and TV projects, this proud Boricua ain't slowing down anytime soon!
Name: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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YORK v. MILLER.
(168 Ga. App. 849)
(310 SE2d 577)
POPE, Judge.
Action on debt. DeKalb State Court. Before Judge Carlisle.
Appellant Ronald James York filed suit pro se in the State Court of DeKalb County against appellee Harold A. Miller, III alleging Miller owed York $50 as a result of an alleged agreement to refund a portion of a retainer fee. No jury demand was filed of record. Miller denied liability and counterclaimed for quantum meruit. The case was originally called for trial on July 27, 1982 and was dismissed for want of prosecution when York did not appear. This order was later set aside when it was learned that the clerk had failed to give notice of the trial to York. In its order to set aside, the court set a new trial date and stated that the case would be before a jury. On February 16, 1983 the case was tried before the court without a jury, and judgment was entered on March 4, 1983. The court found for Miller on the main claim, and in favor of York on the counterclaim. The sole enumeration of error is that the case was tried before the court rather than before a jury.
"The right of trial by jury as declared by the Constitution of the state or as given by a statute of the state shall be preserved to the parties inviolate." OCGA 9-11-38 (Code Ann. 81A-138). "Cases heard on contract where an issuable defense is filed require trial by jury unless waived. [Cits.]" Redding v. Commonwealth of America, 143 Ga. App. 215, 216 (237 SE2d 689) (1977). "The parties or their attorneys of record, by written stipulation filed with the court or by an oral stipulation made in open court and entered in the record, may consent to trial by the court sitting without a jury." OCGA 9-11-39 (a) (Code Ann. 81A-139). In exceptional circumstances a party may waive his right to jury trial by his actions. See Servisco, Inc. v. R. B. M. of Atlanta, 147 Ga. App. 671 (250 SE2d 10) (1978) (a party who participated in a non-jury trial without demanding a jury until subsequent to the entry of an adverse judgment on the merits was held to have waived the right to a jury trial).
The record before us indicates that York had a right to a jury trial in this contract case. The issue presented is whether York waived this right, either expressly or by his actions. No stipulation to trial by the court pursuant to OCGA 9-11-39 (Code Ann. 81A-139) is contained in the record now before us. Unfortunately, we cannot determine independently from the record here whether or not York waived his right to a jury by his actions at trial because the trial was not reported and no transcript or stipulation of the proceedings below has been filed with this appeal. "There is a presumption, in the absence of a showing to the contrary, that a public official, including a trial judge, performed faithfully and lawfully the duties devolving upon him by law. [Cit.] And, an appeal with enumerations of error dependent upon consideration of evidence heard by the trial court, will -- absent a transcript, be affirmed. [Cit.]" Curry v. State, 148 Ga. App. 59 (251 SE2d 86) (1978). It is the duty of the party asserting error to show it by the record. Attwell v. Heritage Bank Mt. Pleasant, 161 Ga. App. 193 (2) (291 SE2d 28) (1982). See also OCGA 5-6-41 (Code Ann. 6-805). Assertions of evidence in briefs or enumerations of error cannot satisfy this duty. Holzmeister v. State, 156 Ga. App. 94 (1) (274 SE2d 109) (1980). Therefore, we must conclude that the trial court correctly heard the case at bar without the intervention of a jury.
Torin D. Togut, for appellee.
Ronald J. York, pro se.
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ARNOLD v. BRUNDIDGE BANKING COMPANY. (209 Ga. App. 278) (433 SE2d 388) (1993)
MCCLASKEY v. JIFFY LUBE, INC. et al. (197 Ga. App. 537) (398 SE2d 825) (1990)
EVANS v. GREEN et al. (194 Ga. App. 394) (391 SE2d 11) (1990)
U. S. XPRESS, INC. v. W. TIMOTHY ASKEW & COMPANY. (194 Ga. App. 730) (391 SE2d 707) (1990)
SOUTHERN MEDICAL CORPORATION v. WILLIS. (194 Ga. App. 773) (391 SE2d 803) (1990)
DENNY et al. v. NUTT. (189 Ga. App. 387) (375 SE2d 878) (1988)
RICHMOND LEASING COMPANY, INC. v. FIRST UNION BANK OF AUGUSTA. (188 Ga. App. 843) (374 SE2d 746) (1988)
WILLIAMS v. THE STATE. (187 Ga. App. 859) (371 SE2d 673) (1988)
BENTLEY-KESSINGER, INC. v. JONES et al. (186 Ga. App. 466) (367 SE2d 317) (1988)
HUDSON v. THE STATE. (185 Ga. App. 508) (364 SE2d 635) (1988)
GOSS et al. v. BAYER. (184 Ga. App. 730) (362 SE2d 768) (1987)
EDWARD McGILL, INC. v. WISE. (181 Ga. App. 486) (352 SE2d 809) (1987)
BELLAMY v. EDWARDS et al. (181 Ga. App. 887) (354 SE2d 434) (1987)
HOWARD et al. v. ESTATE OF JULIUS HOWARD. (176 Ga. App. 86) (335 SE2d 171) (1985)
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by Mark Ruffin
When Dave Love first heard the San Francisco band Person To Person, he knew they were right for his contemporary jazz record company, Heads Up International. When he saw a picture of the band, he had other ideas.
“I called them immediately,” Love said from his Seattle office. “I told them if they dropped the band name and feature the woman on guitar,
they’d have a deal.” “I guess sex sells,” responded that woman, Joyce Cooling. “That
was a real hard decision, but on no one else’s part but mine. My partner, Jay Wagner, and the band were very cool with whatever worked. I’ve always considered myself a team player. I shine best in a team. I don’t like pick-up bands. This is a band. That’s how I’m most comfortable and that’s how I like it. So it was hard on me.”
After relenting, Cooling had a one on one with Love and he gave her the sexist pitch. “I made it real clear to Dave that that sex thing wasn’t going to work. I love music, that is what propels me. That’s what has to come first, anything else doesn’t work.”
Sex worked for Heads Up in 1996 with saxophonist Pamela Williams. Her “Saxtress” album was one of the biggest contemporary jazz albums that year. Love said up to a quarter of the consumers he surveyed, who bought that album, did so strictly on the basis of the very sexy pose on the cover. “You have to do what is right for you,” Cooling said of Williams’ image. “You’ve gotta be yourself and if a request from someone is not that big a deal, and it’s okay with you, do it. That’s all right. I’m not here to judge anyone.”
“It was pretty dressed up on the inside too,” Love said referring to Patti Labelle, Tina Marie and other guest stars on Pamela Williams’ album. “Joyce is the real deal. You can hear in her soloing that she is familiar with the jazz guitar tradition. This music will sell itself, although it doesn’t hurt that on the cover she’s looks like
Sandra Bullock.” “I wish we could exchange paychecks,” the guitarist said laughing.
Cooling appears on the album in a plain shirt and jeans holding her instrument. She jokingly called the cover “Sandra Goes Guitar,” and said she doesn’t get the comparison very often in public, but it does happen. Along with the good looks, she has a very outgoing personality, the voice of a radio announcer sings on two tracks on the album, But, she wants none of that, including the guitar playing to overshadow compositions, even when it comes to marketing the music.
“I have to present the music first, that’s what I’m all about,” she said. “Hopefully people will close their eyes and take the music in, and it won’t matter if it’s coming from male, female, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, black, white or Latin. Let the music move you. “I don’t consider myself a glamour girl, never have,” she continued as self-effacing as possible.. “I was one of those feminine kind of tomboys when I was young, and today, before I’d buy a new outfit, I’d buy 50 cd’s and a new piece of equipment.”
Californians have known about Cooling, her long time partner, keyboardist Jay Wagner since the early 90’s when Person To Person’s first album “Cameo” was a staple on both the Urban and Contemporary jazz stations in both San Francisco and L.A. However, she was born and bred in the New York City metropolitan area.
She doesn’t remember her life without music. Her mother was a music teacher who loved classical and Brazilian music. Various relatives were involved in a variety of musical genres. Cooling insists that it that environment and the diversity of New York City, especially the Latin bands and great be-bop guitarists that shaped her musically.
But as it is with many guitarists, it was Wes Montgomery that changed her life. “It was a spiritual musical experience,” she remembered ” I was doing the dishes, rubber gloves and all. I had a Wes record on and this cut came on “If You Could See Me Now.” When he solos and gets to the bridge, he plays the simplest most beautiful melodic line to date that I’ve ever heard. It almost brought tears to my eyes. I took off the
gloves and picked up the guitar.”
Her fondest memories of New York include checking the salsa scene and hearing Latin giants like pianist Hilton Ruiz and working one of the many supper clubs and having legendary drummer Max Roach come in with bassist Charlie Haden. She also had a brush with greatness after moving to San Francisco and hooking up with Jay Wagner. “We were playing a festival where we opened up for Stan Getz and he
really liked us. He said ‘hey look you guys, I’m putting on this concert called “Stan Getz & Friends” out at Stanford. I’d like for you
guys to come out and play and we’ll play on a few tunes.’ “So we went over to Stan’s house and we rehearsed some tunes with him and we did the gig.”
The music she makes today is decidedly more pop-ish than be-bop and Cooling makes no apologies for that. She said she writes “as artistic as possible without sacrificing the type of melodies many listeners can enjoy. I write tunes that are both musical and commercial.” That’s the kind of talk Dave Love, pardon the pun, loves. He pointed out that for five weeks, Cooling held the number one position at the three major magazines that measure jazz radio airplay and was nominated for several year-end awards.
“These women need to be heard,” Love said. “And I need all the bullets in my gun when I’m ready to fire and I’m loaded for Pam’s next release in March. It’s called “Eight Days of Ecstasy,” and wait till you see the cover.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (December 23, 2019) – From the renaming of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport to multi-million dollar investments at Ford and UPS, to a greater focus on growing tech talent, Mayor Greg Fischer today outlined the city’s many achievements in 2019 and looked ahead to progress and momentum continuing into 2020.
“As we begin a new decade, it’s a great time to review our city’s progress and to look ahead. This is something we do regularly at Metro Government, where we believe in learning from the past, living in the present and preparing for the future,” said the Mayor. “That approach, along with years of hard work and a long list of community partners, has helped produce an incredible economic and cultural renaissance in Louisville.”
Since 2011, Louisville has added 83,000 new jobs and 3,000 new businesses, with more than $14 billion dollars of investment flowing into the city since 2014 alone. Nearly $1 billion of that investment is happening in west Louisville, an area of historic disinvestment that the city and its partners are working to reverse. 2019 marked the city’s 9th consecutive year of job growth since 2010, the bottom of the Great Recession and the city’s unemployment rate averaged 3.9 percent for the year.
In briefings with local media, the Mayor outlined some highlights from 2019, including:
Helping lead the conversation around the future of work:
We’ve enjoyed a continued unbroken stretch of tech job growth.
Microsoft announced that Louisville will become a regional hub for artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and data science for the technology giant.
JP Morgan Chase’s AdvancingCities initiative awarded Louisville a $3 million grant for digital inclusion and economic resilience initiatives in low-income neighborhoods.
The city launched LouTechWorks, a major initiative to boost Louisville’s efforts to rapidly expand its tech talent pipeline.
CBRE named Louisville an “up-and-coming tech talent market.”
The continued tourism boom:
Thanks in part to Bourbonism – the act of enjoying Louisville’s unique local food and bourbon scene – the city welcomed more than 16.4 million annual visitors, representing $534 million total economic impact.
The city’s airport is now officially Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, part of efforts to build tourism around Louisville’s most famous citizen.
American Airlines launched nonstop services between Los Angeles International Airport and Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in April.
The Kentucky International Convention Center hosted more than 130 groups, generating more than $92 million in estimated economic impact
More than 289,000 people attended Trifesta, the outdoor music festivals Hometown Rising, Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life held at the Kentucky exposition Center over three weekends in September.
Michter’s Fort Nelson Distillery became the latest bourbon attraction to open on historic Main Street, bringing the total of bourbon attractions to nine.
Kentucky Performing Arts opened Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, a $12 million, music/entertainment venue that can accommodate as many as 2,000 patrons.
Additional economic highlights:
UPS Worldport confirmed its commitment to Louisville with a $750 million investment that will result in 1,000 new jobs.
Ford announced a $550 million investment in its two Louisville plants in preparation for a new Escape and Lincoln Corsair.
Business owners Mike and Medora Safai transformed the old Axton Candy and Tobacco Warehouse into the bustling $1.6 million Logan Street Market, a 27,000-square-foot urban market in Shelby Park.
Construction began on the first new Beecher Terrace building, which will house low-income seniors, and is scheduled for completion in September 2020.
The Northeast Regional Library opened in June and has since checked out more than 319,000 items (highest in the system), served more than 116,000 visitors (2nd highest in the system behind the Main Library), and seen more than 8,000 children and 2,000 adults attend library programs and events.
Dare to Care partnered with Kroger to open the new Zero Hunger Mobile Market, part of an ongoing city effort to address food insecurity, and with support from the city and the Novak Family Foundation, Dare to Care broke ground on its new Community Kitchen in Parkland— tripling the size of its current facility.
Colonial Gardens opened in south Louisville with Union 15 and El Taco Luchador; two more restaurants coming soon.
The $28 million Republic Bank Foundation YMCA opened at 18th and Broadway, focused on strengthening community and improving health. It will be supported through partnerships with Norton Healthcare, Republic Bank & Trust, ProRehab Physical Therapy, and Family and Children’s Place.
Louisville Metro Animal Services opened its new shelter at 3516 Newburg Road.
Mayor Fischer said he was especially pleased to see Louisville in April become one of only four cities to receive What Works Cities Gold Certification — a national standard of excellence in innovative and efficient city governance.
“At a time of tight budgets and increasing need for the services we provide, this is a significant affirmation of our systems, our commitment to excellence, and the work that Louisville Metro Government employees are doing every single day,” he said.
In 2019, the city also took steps toward becoming a city of even greater equity and compassion, launching Lean Into Louisville, a community initiative to confront the history of all forms of discrimination, including the Synergy Project, designed to strengthen relationships between police and residents, and increase collaboration grounded in trust and legitimacy.
Russell: A Place of Promise received several grants to further its work of regeneration without displacement in Russell, ensuring that the people who built the soul of the neighborhood are a part of its redevelopment.
Also in 2019, Louisville celebrated 20 years of its Fairness Ordinance, launched the city’s first LGBTQ chamber of commerce, Civitas, and for a fifth year in a row, received a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Scorecard.
Continuing its record-breaking streak, the Mayor’s Give A Day Week of Service, in partnership with Metro United Way, broke its own world record with more than 235,000 volunteers and acts of service. And with city support, Evolve 502 continued building toward a system of wrap-around supports for all children and families and a promise scholarship.
When asked about the city’s looming budget challenges due to the growing pension costs, the Mayor said, “Though our economy is growing, the FY19 and FY20 budgets reflected challenges due to rapidly increasing pension costs, and the FY21 budget will as well. Going forward, we will work with state leaders and Metro Council to establish new streams of revenue to help us not only provide public safety and basic services to our residents, but also to focus even more attention on such complex issues as affordable housing, climate change and homelessness.”
The Mayor noted that he’s looking forward to more exciting announcements in 2020, including the opening of the first phase of the Louisville Urban League’s Norton Sports Health Athletics & Complex in the Russell neighborhood and the opening of Lynn Family Stadium in Butchertown, which will serve as the centerpiece of the $200 million stadium district, as well as home to Louisville City FC and Louisville’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Proof Louisville FC.
The Mayor also reminded residents of the upcoming 2020 Census, noting that participation is critical to ensuring the city receives the federal funding it needs and deserves. Learn more about the Census 2020 Complete Count at https://louisvilleky.gov/government/resilience-and-community-services/census-2020-complete-count.
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By Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Senior Vice President, Government Strategy & Policy, US Government, Inmarsat
When it comes to providing satellite services to customers, we are fierce competitors. When it comes to the Commercial Integration Cell (CIC), we are close collaborators.
By “we,” I am referring to the six satellite services companies—DigitalGlobe, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Iridium Satellite Communications and SES Government Solution—that have signed six Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) and joined together as part of the CIC.
On June 1, 2015, the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) launched the CIC pilot program to explore a partnership between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the satellite industry. Through the ensuing expanded cooperation and synergies, JSpOC is seeking greater space situational awareness while improving the command and control capacity of US Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC Space).
According to US Navy Commander David Samara, the former deputy director of strategy and plans at JFCC Space, “The CIC will allow for rapid identification, diagnosis and resolution of on-orbit anomalies while also increasing the overall resilience of US government satellite operations."
Lieutenant General Jay Raymond, former Commander of JFCC Space and the 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), said that JSpOC tracks 23,000 objects in orbit and that number will increase as new technologies, such as the Space Fence, come online. He described the CIC pilot as “the next step in our ongoing efforts to partner with like-minded space-faring entities to promote the peaceful and responsible use of space” through the enhanced integration of industry capabilities into day-to-day space operations.
With the private sector embedded into relevant exercises and training sessions, the CIC promises to usher in major advancements in the reporting, tracking and resolving of events that compromise satellite communications. (Lieutenant General David J. Buck, JFCC Space and 14th Air Force commander, also advocates for the benefits of the CIC—he has recently approved a Concept of Employment for the CIC as all parties move forward under the CRADAs.)
DoD leadership originally conceived of this idea during the September 2014 Schriever War Game, during which Lieutenant General Raymond had access to a CIC within the exercise’s operations center. Options made available via commercial resources were found to boost efficiencies and fidelity throughout the entire space situational awareness enterprise, which then paved the way for discussions about an expanded deployment of CIC.
Since the pilot program’s launch, industry partners have lent their insights into commercial best practices in order to help JSpOC optimize data sharing and decision-making related to space situational awareness, interference events, indications/warning and contingency operations, thereby leading the way for a superior state of crisis preparedness. As governed by CRADAs, the CIC has used existing IT support and working facilities on the JSpOC floor.
General John Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command, has repeatedly cited the US National Space Policy of June 2010 as a prime driver of this very level of partnership. The policy states that “a robust and competitive commercial space sector is vital to continued progress in space” to “increase assurance and resilience of mission-essential functions … against disruption, degradation and destruction, whether from environmental, mechanical, electronic or hostile causes.”
Budget Allocations Prove Promising
The CIC is one of several initiatives being highlighted by the US Air Force since the White House approved $5 billion worth of funding from fiscal 2016-2020 for “space protection” measures.
“Space capabilities are vital to US national security and the ability to understand emerging threats, project power globally, support diplomatic efforts, and enable global economic prosperity,” according to a White House report that was prepared in support of the fiscal 2017 budget entitled Meeting Our Greatest Challenges: National Security and Global Leadership. "[The budget] supports a variety of measures to help assure the use of space in the face of increasing threats to US national security space systems. In addition, it supports the development of capabilities to defend and enhance the resilience of these space systems. These capabilities help deter and defeat interference with, and attacks on, US space systems.”
As part of the CIC, Inmarsat has worked with leaders on the JSpOC floor literally every day. During highly productive focus group sessions, we have directed our attention to two key technology and data sharing areas intended to introduce improved processes and commercial/government integration: conjunction assessment and electromagnetic interference and resolution.
In the modern age of both a crowded space environment and the potential for hostile nations to target the nation's orbital assets, conjunction assessment has emerged as crucial—a single collision or attack can destroy a satellite. This destruction impacts not only the missions supported by the satellite, but also threatens other satellites with the remaining debris. Thus, a single incident could derail much needed progress for many, many years.
“We must reinforce the peaceful use of space while ensuring continued space operations through partnerships and resiliency,” said Admiral Cecil D. Haney, USSTRATCOM commander. “The US continues to partner with responsible nations, international organizations and commercial firms to promote responsible, peaceful and safe use of space. We also strive to maximize the advantages provided by improved space capabilities while reducing vulnerabilities; and seek to prevent, deter, defeat and operate through attacks on our space capabilities."
This is why the sharing of best practices with the Department of Defense (DoD) is imperative for the industry. These conversations have been a rich and even an eye-opening exchange of ideas—an unprecedented, cohesive effort between the government and the industry’s leading companies.
With regard to the latter, competitive interests are put aside each time the team walks inside JSpOC’s doors. The purpose is unified and all are committed to ideals that benefit the nation; the troops on the ground, in the air and at sea; and, lastly but still significantly, all of the commercial interests in space.
At Inmarsat, recognized is the tremendous value in being good stewards of the space domain. The company shares the same space with many other operators. Thanks to the CIC, all can work together to protect that space.
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Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch is Inmarsat’s Senior Vice President for Government Strategy and Policy in the United States Government Business Unit, based in Washington, D.C.
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(2017-04-10) A group of ten senior journalists from leading media houses of Bangladesh called on the Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.
During the interaction, the Foreign Secretary highlighted that Pakistan and Bangladesh are bound in a fraternal relationship. She emphasized the importance of strengthening bilateral relations in the fields of trade, education, culture and enhancing people to people contacts. She referred to the special links between the people of the two countries that are based on a common history, culture, religion and values.
The delegation reciprocated warm sentiments that the people of Bangladesh have towards Pakistan. They thanked the Foreign Secretary for the hospitality accorded to them
The media delegation is presently on a week-long visit to Pakistan where they are scheduled to interact with senior officials, think tanks and media.
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English Version: "Never Forget: Views on Peace and Justice Within Conflict-Affected Communities in Northern Iraq"
This survey offers a snapshot of the perceptions and attitudes about peace and justice within communities affected by the conflict with the...
الترجمة العربية (Arabic Version): "Never Forget: Views on Peace and Justice Within Conflict-Affected Communities in Northern Iraq"
Gabrielle Cahill
Sweet Hope Mapatano
Ariana Marnicio
Civil-Military Coordination in Humanitarian Protection
Podcast URL:
http://atha.se/webcast/civil-military-coordination-humanitarian-protection
Especially in complex humanitarian emergencies, effective civil-military coordination can be crucial to maintaining humanitarian access, protecting civilians, and managing the security of aid workers. After all, military forces often play a lead role in response to natural disasters or conflicts. Yet “civ-mil” coordination poses a number of challenges, particularly in terms of preserving the neutrality, impartiality and independence of humanitarian operations while operating alongside militaries.
This podcast will explore legal and operational challenges associated with civil-military engagement in Pakistan, which puts the challenges of civ-mil engagement in stark relief. There, armed conflict, instability and natural disasters have combined in recent years to produce a series of complex humanitarian crises and the large-scale displacement. With the military controlling access and aid distribution to significant areas of the country as part of counter-insurgency operations, humanitarian operations have depended on close coordination with military forces. In the process, however, humanitarian agencies have struggled to secure access to vulnerable populations while maintaining adherence to the humanitarian principles. With their neutrality, impartiality and independence frequently called into question by anti-government forces, aid workers have come under frequent attack in Pakistan; at least 90 have been killed in the country since 2001.
Humanitarian Negotiation Series: The Role of Laws and Norms
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Posted on November 2, 2020 December 16, 2020
Three generations of Boothroyds – John Edward, William and Haydn
In September 2020, Haydn Boothroyd ” discovered ” this website and contacted me. As a Netherthongian , who had left the village in 1956 to go to University, the site enabled him to travel back in time to his youth. Reading the various chapters acted as a catalyst and he started to pass on many of his memories of the village as well as supplying great photographs. Initially the information was about his grandfather, John Edward, who had been a master baker at the Deanhouse Institution and later on had his own bakery in Outlane.
All the memories and photos he sent I put into the appropriate chapters, but I then decided , as Haydn continued to supply more information, that a separate chapter of the three generations comprising his grandad, his father and himself, would be more appropriate. There will be some duplication as I will include information from other chapters.
The following photograph, taken in 1947-48, shows the three generations at Blackpool ( see the tram in the background). Haydn, aged 11-12, is on the left with Grandad, John Edward, in the centre, and father William on the right. Haydn told me that he still has his grandad’s walking stick .
Three generations of Boothroyds 1947-48
I will start with Grandad John Edward Boothroyd. He was born in 1883, probably in Almondbury, and died in 1955 aged 72. He worked at Deanhouse Institution as a master baker, see photograph below ( 1910s-1920s). He is the gentleman in the middle, sitting on a box with arms crossed, surrounded by other workers. Next to him is a young apprentice and the man on the far left with his cap and watch was probably the foreman. I have included an enlargement of John below the main photograph.
John Edward at Deanhouse Institution.
In October 1915, John made an application requesting permission to join HM Forces and the request was referred to the Workhouse Guardians Committee. I could not find any report on what decision was reached but, in my chapter on soldiers who fought and survived WW1, his name does not appear, which indicates the Committee managed to make a case for his exemption.
His grandson, Haydn, said that at some date after the war, his grandfather was the owner of a bakehouse in Outlane and Haydn sent me his memories of the bakery.
” I can’t vouch for the previous owners of the bakery in the 30s, nor do I know when “Baker Boothroyd” took over. Growing up through the 40s, it seemed always to have been in the family. And in those days we never asked questions and the “old ones” didn’t talk a lot. I remember loaves, brown and white, baking in the oven – coke fired. Also teacakes – plain and currant and hot cross buns at Easter. With a weighed portion of dough, grandad could mould a teacake, with a rotary motion, in each hand. The doughs were allowed to leaven before being baked. I can still feel the heat as the oven doors were opened to see how a batch was getting on. Perhaps they were put back for a bit or moved to a higher oven to finish off. Currant pasty, jam pasty and biscuit cake were the sweets of the day. Cream was not readily available. Bread rationing was still on in those days and I can remember going round the village and Deanhouse selling bread from a large flat basket and cutting the coupons from the ration books. The bakery also made meat and potato pies, with a crust, in white basins which we took down to “the mill” ( Deanhouse) for workers’ lunches. My Auntie Kathleen ( nee Boothroyd ) worked in the bakery until its closure. Later she served in the Co-op, mainly in the drapery section and she was a member of the WI. At this time in the 50s, Pontefracts in Holmfirth was a somewhat larger bakery and when Baker Boothroyd retired he sold his concern to them.”
The following photograph, probably dating from the 1930s, shows John holding the reins of a horse. The location is unknown but Haydn has vague memories that his grandad owned ” a leg in a racehorse ” but was never sure whether it was true or simply ‘family badinage’.
John and ‘ racehorse’
The above photograph is of John Edward Boothroyd, in the early 1950s, just outside the front door of Fox Farm where he lived. The little lad is Edward Roebuck, who was four to five years at the time. The contraption on the right was a hand pump which raised water from a well. Haydn said he used to be fascinated at the time, because after heavy rain water would appear in the cellar and climb 18″or so up the cellar steps and it was lovely and clear.
The young boy with John unfortunately drowned in New Dam. The report is in my chapter titled ” The family history of the Roebucks ” but I have reproduced it here because of the Boothroyd connection.
“A family death occurred in September 1952 that shocked the whole village. A six year old boy, James Edward Roebuck, son of Mr. & Mrs. John Roebuck of Ox Lane Farm was drowned in New Dam. An unsuccessful attempt to save him was made by Norman Hobson of Holmroyd Nook Farm who dived into the water several times without being able to locate him.
Along with his brother, John Keith, they had been playing near the dam and, when he fell into the water, John ran home across the fields to tell his mother. Mrs.Roebuck and a neighbour, Mrs.Eveline Kaye, of Moor Lane who ran to the dam but could not see the boy. Mr. Gerard Hobson and Mr. Norman Hobson had also run to the dam and with Mr. Albert Briggs of Sands Farm tried to find the boy using a hay rake and a farm drag. Mr. Norman Hobson stripped off and dived into the water several times but as the water was very dirty he could not find the boy. In the meantime Mrs. Kaye had run to the village to ring for the police. When they arrived they eventually recovered the boy after dragging for two hours. Haydn remembers it was a Saturday afternoon and he had been to ‘Town’ and got off the bus at the top of the hill where the road narrows. In those days there was a lane which led behind the farm , across two fields, to the dam. It was obvious from all the vehicles that something had happened and of course it transpired that Edward had died.
At the inquest the District Coroner, Mr.B.Little, recorded a verdict of ” Death by misadventure “. Sergeant I. Williamson said that he was present when the body was recovered and that the New Dam was on the property of Messrs. Thomas Dyson and Sons, Deanhouse Mills, and was private property with no public right of way. He estimated that the depth of water where James fell in was about 20ft. The Coroner concluded that Mr. Hobson had made a very commendable effort to rescue the child and that it would be quite improper for him ( the Coroner ) to make any suggestion for added safety precautions as the dam was on private property.“
Haydn came across a family tree which must have come from the effects of his Auntie Kathleen and it shows Grandad had two younger brothers: The eldest was Crowther (b.1884)who lived in Berry Brow and had a son, George, who was married but had no children. In his day, George was an accomplished cricketer (bowler) playing for a number of clubs in the Huddersfield League and at that time a club was allowed one paid,” professional”, player and George was one such. I knew about him by reputation and can recall looking for his performances in the Huddersfield Examiner. The second brother was Charles Alfred ( 1890-1959) who lived in a lane in Deanhouse and had a son and five daughters.
William Boothroyd was born in 1904 and registered in Almondbury. On his birth certificate, his father wrote as his profession – ‘Bread baker, Journeyman’. In the photograph below, which dates from early 1910s, young William is on the left of the top row next to the girl with long black hair. Looks like there are seven teachers in the photo and the five children in the middle dressed in army uniform are intriguing.
William in school photograph 1910s
Haydn’s mother, Nellie Wilkinson, was born in 1903 , and in the school photograph she is in the second row, 4th. from the left. The boy in the middle of the bottom row is holding a board saying ‘Netherthong Nat. School. Group A. The first photograph is an enlargement.
Nellie at school.
T. Dyson was a well-known and respected inhabitant of Netherthong and he gave lantern slides on a wide range of topics and used various local friends to operate the lanterns. In 1928 he gave a show at the Methodist Church titled “All about Yorkshire ” and William was one of his lanternists.
The Home Guard was operational from 1940 to 1944 and was set up by the British Army. It’s nickname Dad’s Army was due to the average age of local volunteers who signed up and were ineligible for military service usually because of age. They were originally called Local Defence Volunteers or LDV, and their role was to provide a local defence in case of an invasion. There was a Holmfirth Home Guard. Haydn Boothroyd told me his father, William, was a member from its beginning until it was disbanded – he did not pass his service medical exam because of severe varicose veins. The ‘battery’ was in a field alongside the lane behind the Ford Inn. His father told him he could throw a hand grenade the furthest in the squad. The photograph shows the volunteers with William on the far left in the top row. Others named in the photo are Hildred Dyson ; Frank Dickinson ( officer) -( he was born in 1882 and died in 1958. He served in WW1 and achieved fame for singing to the troops in France. His name is on the WW1 Roll of Honour in the Parish Church).; Stanley Hepworth ; Clarence Daniel ; Stanley Turton : Harold Hinchliffe 😕 Ellis. Mr. Roberts ( he could be Herbert Roberts born in 1884 who was a private in WW1 and his name appears on the Roll of Honour in the Parish Church ). The second photo is an enlargement of William.
Co-op outing
Once a year the Netherthong Co-Operative Society had a day outing for staff, committee members and their wives. Invariably they went to Blackpool or Bridlington. The photograph above was taken in the late 40s/early 50s and include both William and his wife Nellie. William is second in from the right on the back row wearing a dark suit. The fellow in the front with his hands crossed was Phillip Dixon, who with his wife lived in the house that was the Methodist Chapel at the bottom of Outlane. Nellie, with glasses, is just behind Phillip and on her side in the white cardigan, peeping round is Aunt Kathleen, who until her death lived in the big house at the top of New Road with the gable facing onto the War Memorial. I have also included two enlargements of the photograph showing William and Nellie in more detail.
The following photograph was probably taken at a Co-operative outing to Skegness. William and Nellie are in the front. Aunt Kathleen, William’s sister is walking behind him with her friend, Sheila Sykes. The gentleman on the right is Arthur Wild, who was the manager of the Co-op. The second photograph shows William and Nellie on holiday when the temperature was obviously much warmer( no coats ).
William and Nellie
William and Nellie on holiday
The next photograph shows father William and young Haydn on holiday c.1949. It is very interesting to note the formal ‘holiday ‘ attire with Haydn wearing a school-cap and tie.
In the 1949 Co-op Society report , it recorded that William was one of the three retiring committee members who were re-elected, which explains why he and Nellie went on the outings, There was no other reference to him. Haydn had a memory of “stock taking” at the Co – op which he thought took place in the spring – probably in time for the end of the financial year. The Co – op closed over the week – end. His father seemed to “draw” the drapery every year, and each item , with a price, got listed in a little book – thimbles, reels of cotton, vests, pillow cases, tea cloths, you name it, it was there. Then came the calculations ; 20 x 3/6, etc. etc.; half pennies and there may even have been some items priced in farthings. Then the adding up! Quite a carry on. One tried to be accurate but it was tricky adding up the pence.
Haydn Boothroyd was educated in the village school and has shared some of his memories of his time there. “I’ve been reading the School chapter, and Margaret Lax’s account of her years there tallies absolutely with what I recall, with one exception. In my day the school garden was a “going concern”, all neat and tidy producing lots of vegetables. One lunch time, perhaps in my last year, a group of we lads had been sent to collect pea sticks ( on Miry Lane) and were walking back along Giles Street waving them in the air. Later in the afternoon, we were summoned by the Headteacher, Mr. Hinchcliffe, and caned for unseemly conduct and bringing the school into disrepute.
In 1941, and through all my time, Miss Wilson was the reception/infants teacher and Miss Johnson took Standards 1 & 2.
I had forgotten the Headteacher was a cricketer, but I now recall playing rounders in the yard and him “slogging” the ball into the rough ground alongside The Cricketers. In the winter we used to make slides down the playground from the high wall towards the school. Health and Safety eat your heart out! I don’t remember any broken bones or anyone stopping us from doing it.” ( Further to Haydn’s comment that no-one was damaged by sliding down the school yard in the frost, Margaret Lax wrote that she got a scar on her chin from one of the slides. Someone took me to Dr Meyer’s in Holmfirth, and he stitched me up – no anaesthetic in those days!)
I have had the photograph below for over seven year and Haydn was able to identify three of the fellows in it. On the far left was Morley Mallinson, who lived in Deanhouse. Third from the right was his uncle, Hubert Wilkinson, who later in life lived at 3, St.Anne’s Square, Outlane. Harold Wimpenny was on the far right.
1920s/30s. Far Left Morley Mallinson of Deanhouse. 3rd. from Right was Hubert Wilkinson, who later in life lived at 3 St.Anne’s Square. Far Right was Haroldd Wimpenny.
Haydn supplied the following photograph, dated 1934, which showed four generations. The lady with the V-neck top is Haydn’s paternal grandmother, Jane Boothroyd, the wife of John the baker. The elderly lady in the centre is his great grandmother, Mrs. Woodcock, who lived in Holmebridge. The lady on the right in the flowered dress is my grandmother’s daughter ,Renee, my father’s elder sister and my aunt. She’s the mother of Derek, the baby, in the photo who is my eldest cousin.
The Deanhouse Mill was the major employer for the villagers , and the history of all the Mills in the area has its own chapter. Haydn has many memories about his family and relatives involvement with the mill. His father was a “tenterer”, which involved drying the pieces after they had been scoured. When the Mill closed, he ended up doing night work at a mill in Meltham. His mother had been a warper, readying the long threads to go onto the loom. My (half) brother was an ordinary weaver at this time and later became a skilled pattern weaver and my uncle (mother’s brother), Hubert Wilkinson, was in charge of the department where the warp and weft were brought together to be woven on a loom . So at one stage there were four family members working in the mill.
Haydn mentions David Wilkinson as great uncle David ( brother of his grandfather Tom), who had been a hero of WW1, laying down his life for his country. He is remembered on the Roll of Honour in the village War memorial.
The photograph below is of a group of Deanhouse Mill ‘menders’. These were usually highly skilled ladies who mended any flaws, which they could detect from the weaving process when either the weft or warp threads broke. The photograph was taken outside the scouring department – it and the tenter room were either side of the boiler house to make maximum use of the hot water in the scouring process and the heat for drying the cloth. Haydn’s father is on the right with Mrs. Morley Mallinson sitting on his knee. The man in the centre with a cloth cap was Edgar Beardsell, who worked in the scouring department. The lady kneeling in the front wearing black overalls was Cissie Wild, sister of John Arthur Wild who managed the Co-Op.
Deanhouse Mill Menders
The following account of Haydn’s holiday memories may ring a bell with people of a certain age who lived in Netherthong and the surrounding villages and remembered the Holiday Week.
As I recall holidays for us were a “must”. We always went away in the summer, perhaps it had to do with “recharging the batteries”. The week in August was governed by the Deanhouse mill closure which, in turn, was linked to the Huddersfield holiday week. Invariably we went to Morecambe one year or Bridlington the next. (My mother didn’t like Scarborough – “it was too hilly”). Day trips tended to be to Blackpool. In those days Baddeleys and Castles were the two coach companies in Holmfirth – we mostly used Baddeleys. Having found or been recommended a good boarding house, we went back year after year. With full board, you got a midday meal but were not expected to use your room on a rainy day. We always seemed “to get lucky” – good summers. Having settled in on Saturday lunchtime, the thing to do in the afternoon was to book for the various shows, which were on that summer, so you could be sure to get in – Arthur Askey, George Formby, Norman Evans, Albert Modley, Sandy Powell, Vic Oliver, whoever was on that season. My memory may be playing me false, but one year I think we saw Laurel & Hardy in Morecambe. Those were the days when a comedian could last a whole season with one routine. There was also a huge lido where the “Miss Morecambe “ competition was held.
Bridlington did not have the same range of venues but they did have the “Bridlington Belle”, a boat which did trips across the bay to Flamborough Head and the sea birds on Bempton Cliffs. The crossing could be quite choppy at times.
In the late 40s Walls ice cream was just becoming available again and I can remember buying blocks wrapped in paper and wafers to put the ice cream in.
Blackpool Tower Circus was in its pomp in those days. Two performances stick in my memory, on one occasion whilst the clowns were amusing us, attendants built a big cage around the ring before the lions came out with their “tamer”. Another year it was elephants – placing a foot on the head of the “trainer”. On another occasion the ring floor dropped, water poured in and we were treated to a water spectacular finale.
Haydn mentions his Aunt Kathleen, who was his father’s youngest sister and she appears in many of the photographs in this chapter.. She was married to Bill Woffenden, whose best man at his wedding was Jim Ellis, well known in the village for making walking sticks ( see article in the chapter ‘Portraits of people and events’). The photograph below , dated 1947, is of Kathleen’s wedding with her guests identified. From the back left : Emer Brook, groom’s brother in law, husband of Leila and father of Sheila : Jim Ellis, best man : Bill Woffenden, groom : Kathleen Boothroyd, bride : John Edward Boothroyd, bride’s father : William Boothroyd, bride’s brother. From the front left :Sheila Brook, groom’s niece : Jenny Hine, nine years old, bride’s niece : Leila Brook, groom’s sister, wife of Emer and mother of Sheila : Jane Boothroyd, wife of John and bride’s mother : Helen Bray, bride’s friend.
The next photograph shows Grandad and Dad with a studio portrait of them in their wedding suits with button holes.
Below are several more photographs of Aunt Kathleen. The first one, dated October 1942, was taken five years before she married. The second photo is dated October 1943.
She was obviously well-loved and close to Haydn’s mother as shown in the next two photographs. The first, from about 1937, is of Haydn’s mother holding him with Aunt Kathleen standing by her side. The second photo, taken in spring/summer shows the two friends sitting on a bench by the roadside, part way up Wolfstone Heights ( The bench is still there in 2020 ).
Kathleen had a deserved reputation for the quality of her cakes, probably learnt from her father when she worked in the bakery until its closure, and the photograph below from the Vicarage Party in July 1979, shows her on the left at her cake stall. She served in the Co-op and was a member of the WI.
1979 Autumn Fayre Cake stall ladies with Kathleen on the left.
Early Haydn
The photograph above is of a very young Haydn.. He is about 18 months old sitting in a wheelbarrow in a field at the rear of Fox Cottage. In the background is Sands Farm, which seems to have changed little in 80 years. Haydn has added a few more memories of his time when he left the village.
After leaving junior school I attended Holme Valley Grammar School, as it was called in those days, I left Netherthong in 1956 to go to University in London – the London School of Economics from 1956 to 1959. It was a major cultural shock to leap from Moor Lane to the Festival Hall, West End and all the other attractions in London. I spent 1959-60 at Reading University studying for a Diploma in Education which is where I met Jill who was on her way back south having studied French at Leeds. We married in October 1961 (half term!) and lived in Morden. During the 60s I taught at three London boys’ schools. Inner London had only recently “gone comp.” and the traditions of former grammar schools still persisted and teaching was no problem. I was introduced to marking geography examination papers for both Cambridge University Overseas School Certificate and the Metropolitan Regional Examinations Board for C.S.E. In 1970, I was successful in filling a new post with the East Midlands Regional Examinations Board here in Nottingham where my family have been ever since, through the growth of C.S.E. and then the establishment of G.C.S.E. Our three children were educated here and went on to higher education.
I retired early at Christmas 1995 and have since been involved with setting up a local Probus Club and a branch of U3A. A daughter lives in the South Lakes and we occasionally, in summer, cross the Pennines via Holmfirth having lunch at The Bridge Inn. I cannot get over how small the villages now seem with all the cars about – they were not built for the age of traffic!
Posted on March 1, 2020 December 18, 2020
Norman Smith – WW1 survivor, hero and medallist
2018 was the centenary of the end of World War 1 and I carried out extensive research into trying to identify the names of soldiers with a Netherthong connection, who had fought in that war and survived. The chapter titled “Netherthong- details of soldiers who fought and survived WW1” was the result. I managed to find 163 survivors, one of whom was Norman Smith and I was fortunate to find a few details about him and the fact that he was awarded a medal for bravery. Then, in January 2020, I was contacted by his grandson who sent me some photographs and ephemera. He also mentioned that his grandfather had written his memoirs about his experiences during the war. This was sufficient justification for me to give Norman his own chapter.
He was born in Scholes on 17 July 1895 . He moved to Upper Oldfield ( in the Parish of Netherthong ) sometime in 1901 which must have been after the date of the 1901 Census ( 31 March 1901 ), because that Census shows him still a resident in Scholes. He stayed at Oldfield and, until he was 15, his schooling years, ( as evidenced by his 1908 attendance certificate), were at Netherthong National School. When he was 15 years old in 1910, he must have moved away because in the 1911 Census his family is shown as residing at Golcar. This explains why his gold watch, citing his valour/MM, is inscribed as from the residents of Golcar. Because of those years in Netherthong, his name was included on the Parish Church ROH and listed as a Corporal in the 1/5 Battalion of the Duke of Wellington 49th. West Riding Regiment. He enlisted as a private on 19th.December 1914 and went to France in June 1915. During his service he was promoted to Corporal. When he was 21, he was awarded the Military Medal and ribbon for gallantly rescuing a comrade on the battlefield under fire. After the war he lived in Longwood, Linthwaite and Cowlersley/ Milnsbridge. The Golcar District Heroes’ Fund recognized his meritorious conduct by presenting him with a solid gold ten- guinea English- made watch ( see photo below ). In circa 1978 at the age of 83 he wrote about his experiences as a Corporal in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and these memoirs are held as Catalogue No. KX212 in Kirklees West Yorkshire Archive Service. The photographs and ephemera were supplied by his grandson ( January 2020).
Reverse of the watch presented by Golcar District Heroes Fund.Reverse of the watch presented by Golcar District Heroes Fund. The photograph below gives a much clearer image.
A soldier pal of Norman called Sid James.
A group of Norman’s pals – Wilson and Maurice marked. The x is Norman.
Photo of four of Norman’s pals – one marked Joe Taylor.
In June 1986 the Huddersfield Daily Examiner carried an article about Norman’s memoirs of his experiences during the war. As they filled about 50 pages, the reporter, obviously limited by how many column inches he was allowed , used a combination of what he considered key points as well as quoting sections of Norman’s own words. There are a number of anomalies in the report particularly over dates.
I’ve included the article below.
The horrendous conditions endured by soldiers in the trenches of the battlegrounds of France during WW1 are graphically portrayed in the memoirs of a Huddersfield man. The writings of Mr. Norman Smith have only just come to light four years after his death at the age of 84. They were discovered by his daughter, Mary, at their family home for the last 58 years in Cowlersley. For four years before his death Norman had chronicled his memories of WW1. He was born in Scholes in 1895 and was the son of a weaver. He enlisted in December 1914 and during the next four years he was to witness death and destruction on a terrible scale and survived the battle of the Somme.
After only a few weeks basic training Norman left Southampton aboard a paddle steamer bound for France as a member of 2/5 Duke of Wellington Regiment .His pay was 1/- per day. After further training including guidance in the use of gas masks, he was sent to the front line trenches. He described his first night on sentry duty in a trench only 25 yards from the German lines. ” The trenches were dug about two feet into the ground with the rest of the depth being made by building sandbags up to about five feet high. Sentry duty, during the hours of darkness, was two hours on and two hours off during which time the infantrymen were expected to grab some sleep. Any show of smoke from the trenches would have brought shelling from the Germans and the men fried bacon and boiled water using “smokeless fuel.” Norman described the trenches being strewn with bodies and parts of bodies and yet men were expected to drink water that had collected in shell holes.
One of the communication trenches was named Colne Valley and it was whilst travelling down this trench that Norman experienced a mortar attack. ” You could hear the thud and then see them coming over, two of three in the air at the same time. They made a very large report. Going down the trench, pieces of timber could be seen marked ‘ unknown soldier buried here’. At one place a pair of leather jackboots were showing in the side of a trench-the feet of a German soldier. In the aftermath of such an attack, stretcher bearers attempted to reach the wounded – they had to crawl full length through the smashed trenches under file from German snipers. Another threat was that posed by the whizz-bangs, small artillery shells, fired at the trenches. They travelled at a very fast rate, the shells arriving over our trenches before we heard the report from the German guns.”
Norman spent this period of the war near Ypres with four day stints on the front line. When the rains arrived and conditions worsened, some trenches were two foot under water and others were just streams and the men were issued with thigh boots. ” We had a very tough time during October, November and December 1915 although casualties were light but sickness was very heavy and, at the end of December, when we were relieved, the platoons were less than 20 men strong. To ward off trench foot, soldiers would rub whale oil on their feet.” After surviving the ordeals of Ypres, Norman and his colleagues began to join what was described to them as ‘a new army’. Their destination was the Somme. He described the preparations made for the Battle of the Somme. Two months before the attack it was quite obvious what was coming and was openly talked about by the officers, NCOs and men. Late on the night of January 30 1916, Norman, whose job was company runner, set out with his battalion in full marching order and carrying two days rations. Their first stop was in a trench near Aveloy Wood which was about one mile from the front lines.
About midnight on July 1 with the battle now raging, Norman got orders to move to near Thriepval. “The roads were choked with artillery and streams of captured German soldiers , many of them wounded. One German , laying on a stretcher, asked me very politely if I would give him a drink of water, which I did. He told me he had lived in London and looked old enough to be my father”. On July 2, stories began circulating of heavy Allied losses. One of the messages he had to relay said the 147 Brigade will not attack. Attack cancelled. For the next seven weeks, without a break, Norman was among those who held the front line. Nights were spent repairing the trenches and burying the dead. As fighting continued, B Company was reduced from 150 to 28. Relief came when Norman, now a corporal, was instructed to return to England and resume work at David Browns.
He was a civilian once again until April 19 1919, when he received orders to return to his unit in France. He was sent to join the 10th. Duke of Wellington Regiment, not in France but in Padua. He describes heavy fighting and loss of life and it was whilst he was in Italy that the Armistice was signed. His demobilisation came in early March and he returned to Huddersfield. Most of the rest of his life he worked at John Crowthers in Milnsbridge. He was awarded the Military Medal. Norman did not want his son to fight in WW2 and he went to work in the pits as a Bevin Boy.
His memoirs are titled :
Memoirs of Norman Smith MM, 1895-1980.
5th. Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment and
18th. Duke of Wellington 23rd. Division.
They are far too long for me to include them in their entirety in this chapter so instead I have selected paragraphs in Norman’s own words that are especially interesting. At the end of his writings, he added what was effectively an addendum titled -Notes on different topics. They are so poignant that I have copied them and listed them after his memoirs.
“ During October, I was sent on a few days instructions on the Mills bomb. This was at a farm near Poperinghe. Before the Mills bomb, we had a bomb made out of empty jam tins, very poor. These were ignited by striking the fuse on a piece of sandpaper tied on the back of ones hand. During October and November our Colonel left us, it was said the trouble was nerves. Col. Headlam ( later on Major General ) was very strict, he started to smarten us up ( we needed it ). He noted a large number of hat badges were missing and gave the order that they had to be replaced. After this, anyone losing his cap-badge must go in front of him to explain the reason ( see photo of cap badge ). We were now doing more training, but also plenty of working parties. During October 1915 the rains came. Trenches were flooded , communication trenches became streams. The front line, in some places, was 2 feet deep in mud and water. The dug-outs were out of use. I think we went into the front line twice in those conditions. Afterwards we received thigh boots and the frontline period was reduced to 48 hours. There were saps of ours which went up to 25 yards from the German trenches. These were now withdrawn and the front line was manned by posts of platoon strength about 30 yards apart. The first time we went in with the thigh boots, we drew them at a place behind the Canal Bank, changed into these waders ( in the rain ) and then made our way over the top, as communication trenches were not usable. We carried over our own boots with us , and afterwards found the platoon we were relieving, who were in a short stretch of trench, perhaps one foot deep in mud and water.“
“ On the day of the gas attack, which was on December 19, 1915, we were taken up to the Canal Bank. Our gas mask had now been improved, being a kind of bag made out of flannel, with the eye piece made of mica, and with a mouthpiece of rubber, to enable one to breathe out. The open end of the bag was tucked into the neck of the tunic. They were very uncomfortable although better than the other two types which we had. We passed through the hamlet of Brelin, although about two miles from the Canal Bank, it had still ladies who sold coffee, tea and biscuits. In this hamlet there was a smell of gas ( musty hay ) and we fixed gas masks, took them off after getting through the place. Only on this particular day did we go to the Canal in daylight. We had to crawl a certain distance before we reached the Canal safely. A number of gas casualties were laid out behind the Canal Bank, perhaps waiting for darkness to remove them. The only people I saw attending to them were two padres, some of them appeared to be very sick. We had to move on and man the reserve line on the top of the Canal Bank. I think we stayed there two days and then went up to the front line. Was in the line on Christmas day 1915, very quiet, bread and cheese for dinner. 49th. Division was relieved after Christmas and marched to Naours for a rest and refit. I visited the new Talbot House at Poperinghe, must have been one of the very first to do so, would be in the early part of December 1915 and I remember signing the Visitors’ book. One amusing thing was when we asked for a book to read, we had to hand over our caps. These were returned when we took the book back”.
“ It was very tiring marching to Naours, not very fit after all those weeks in the mud and water. While on the Canal Bank sometime during November, a rather amusing incident happened to me and my friend Claude. We were in the Canal Bank in reserve, and we two were detailed to take a dixie of rice pudding to the men holding the fron line. This would be about 10pm. There was no communication trench we could use, so had to go over the top and find the platoon. We were on the extreme left of the BEF where the front crossed the Canal, the French troops being on our left. We had to cross the canal by the bridge on our extreme left and this could only be used in darkness, as it was under observation by the Germans during daylight. At night they frequently turned their machine guns on the bridge. The procedure was to wait ( undercover ) until the Germans traversed the bridge with the gun, and when the gun stopped to get across as quick as possible. This we did but the Germans broke their sequence this time and turned the gun on the bridge when we were very near the centre. It was a very low bridge , no tow rails. We dropped down at once, the dixie fell into the canal. I had my head over the offside of the bridge and my cap fell into the canal ( steel helmets had not yet come ). As soon as the machine gun stopped, we ran back to the end of the bridge, where we had come from and where there was protection. Then we had a discussion on what to do, decided to go back to our dug-out and say no more about it. Never heard any more about the rice pudding, but I had lost my cap and worse still, my cap badge. I received a new cap without any problem but had to go in front of our CO about the badge, told them the truth. He never asked any word about the pudding, gave me four days C.B. and paid for a new cap badge. “
” One officer, whom I went out with acted rather strangely, playing with a Mills bomb and suggesting he would like to blow himself up. A few days later he was taken away ( mind ). It was during one of these patrols, that we came across two German soldiers and took letters we found on them, which I still possess. ( See photograph at the end of this report ). These bodies must have been lying there for several months, according to the dates on these letters. When relieved from this area we went back several miles to a village called Reincheval, reinforcements arrived and we soon found out what our next job was to be.”
” During the last of the four days, we were completely exhausted. Food had been short, raining all the time, and the Platoon Sergeant, one of the old brigade seemed to have drunk what little there was of the rum ration. On that 4th. day, I did something I regretted. After telling the Sergeant that I was going down a dug-out to have a few hours sleep before darkness, the dug-out was very deep and was joined at the bottom by the steps to another dug-out. The other one was for officers. The one I was in was for signallers. The dug-out was full of soldiers, did not see any from our platoon. I very quickly crawled under a wire bed to have a nap before the Sergeant came to waken me, but at that moment the new company officer came in with a revolver in his hand, turning everyone out except the signallers. He did not see me but I was out and up the steps as soon as he had gone back. I never saw anything like this before, but the officers spent a lot of their time in that dug-out. What a difference this might have made as I was given the Military Medal and received promotion.”
This last paragraph deals with Norman finally going on the leave he was due and avoiding the continuing carnage on the Somme, spending a year in civvy-street before being mobilised again and going to fight in Italy.
“In November 1916, I was expecting my 1st. leave home since coming out in the Spring of 1915. I was certainly overdue, I had not complained but our local press in Huddersfield took up the case and probably this came to the notice of our Adjutant. Order soon came I was to go on the next leave. Finally in March 1917, had to report to base and catch the ration train on its return journey and report to 49 Div. Base orderly room. I had to wait two days and then had to report to HQ, Huddersfield. After a few daysI received my transfer to Class W Army Reserves and was back working as a civilian at the firm ( David Browns ) which I had left when I joined the army. Carried on working there until April 1918 when I received telegram ‘ Mobilisation of Class W Army Reserves ‘. I had to report at once and proceed to unit in France. I reported to the Reserves Battalion at Ripon, and I was sent out to our 10th. Battalion Duke of Wellington Regiment, 23rd. Division. The train journey through France took five days , arrived at Padua ( Italy ). The front seemed very quiet compared with France. I left at the end of February 1919 for demobilisation. The band played us off with ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Tears came into my eyes, but they were tears of joy, and I did not want to see the army again. I was demobbed early in March. Work was waiting for me.”
” I have had a good life, plenty of work and good health, happy family and am now nearly 80 years.
Addenda.
LIVING CONDITIONS. Very bad winter for infantry, particularly in the trenches, when out on rest during the winter, I remember sleeping on a concrete floor, just one blanket between you and the concrete. In February 16, we were sleeping in huts near Bousingcourt. The huts were boarded and covered with roofing felt. The sides were a wooden framework with green canvas with dirt floors. These were new huts.
FOOD. As regards myself, always on the short side- I suppose I had a good appetite, not easy to satisfy mostly bacon and bread for breakfast. Dinner nearly always stew, sometimes we might have a joint chiefly mutton. Sometimes rice pudding( not much sugar or milk ), sometimes we might have hard biscuits softened up and mixed with raisins.
TEA. Chiefly bread and margarine with jam or cheese. About once a month we would have a piece of cake with currants and raisins in. Bully beef was quite often used in the stews, a good stand-by, always seemed to be plenty of cheese, if we wanted supper, mostly bought by ourselves. Often tea would be about 4.30. Nothing else until 8 next day, even in the trenches. This was so , even though the weather might have been bad.
SHELL SHOCK. Very bad. They had my sympathy, morale got very low sometimes in our battalion, and there were a few self-inflicted wounds. Also there were some who ate the cordite from the bullet casing to bring on a high temperature. There were a number of accidents through carelessness.
NARROW ESCAPES. Was practising throwing of Mills Bombs, September 1916. The new man dropped the bomb when starting to throw and, foolishly, we were standing on a wooden foot board raised little higher than the bottom of the trench. The bomb fell underneath the board…. out of the trench and fell flat. Neither of us was wounded, but others who were standing quite a good distance away were wounded. Was ready to mark off in columns, perhaps on the second day of the battle of Italy, the Lewis gun section was just in front. On the command quick march, No.1 Lewis gunner ( they had not yet got their handcarts over the river ) threw his gun upon his shoulders and the gun let off a single round, just appearing to pass over my head.
THE TRENCHES. In the early days in the trenches we often had to cook our own meals. Nights appeared to be long and cold. If you did get a place to sleep, you would wake up cold and move about for a little to get warm. We were often troubled by louse.
SMELLS. Very bad in the trenches, particularly in warm weather or when you were digging and you struck a dead body.
THE TRENCH SYSTEM. Very bad in some places. During October, November and December we went into the front line for two day periods. No communication trenches, we had to go over the top and drop into what was the front line, up to the knees in water and mud. The Officer and Sergeant had a piece of corrugated iron to give a little protection. We remained in water and mud all the time.
CHURCH PARADES. Always appeared to me to be a mockery.
LATRINES. Sometimes very crude. In August 1915 in Warboy our latrines were on the side of the road on spare land. Just a trench about 18 inches deep with a canvas about four feet around the trench.
COURSES. Had courses on Mills Bomb 1915. Lewis Gun 1916. Sniping 1916, several NCO courses all these, courses taking place chiefly when the battalion was on rest. Watched Sir John French go by in car – December 1915. Watched Sir. D.Haig go by in car – September 1916. Marched past Lord Cavan in Italy – November 1918.
ARMY COMMANDERS. 2nd. Army was visited by General Plummer and given a speech after leaving his command – January 1916. 4th. Army – never saw Rollinson – 1916. 5th. Army – never saw Gough – 1916. 3rd.Army – never saw Allenby – 1916-17. 1st. Army – did not know who the commander was at that time.
CORPS. COMMANDERS. Lt. Allenby – never saw him in 1915. LT. General Moorland – never saw him 1916. Lt. General Snow presented me with colours, Military Medal – 1916. Lt. General Babbington – passed by in car – 1918. Never knew who Corps. Commander was in the 1st. Army.
LEAVE. Was out for 16 months before I got my first leave, was going on leave before the Somme offensive , but leave was cancelled in May 1916 for several, months.
ENTERTAINMENT. Our Division had its own concert party which visited occasionally. First going into the trenches, looked forward to going in but soon changed my mind.
OVER THE TOP. Knew we had to do it, forgot about oneself when in action, but while waiting a little worrying, looked forward later to receiving a slight wound to take us back to Britain.
GAS. Very uncomfortable wearing respirators of whatever type, the ones we used at Ypres in 1915 were smothering. I was company runner during early part of the Somme battle taking ………..
Norman made some ( small ) contributions to ” The First Day of the Somme ” by Martin Middlebrook, ISBN 0 7139 0194 2, published 1971. They were credited to Pt. N.Smith, Cowlersley Yorkshire.
His grandson informed me that Norman went back to Italy many years after the war. He also took his grandson, when he was 14, to the Somme battlefields and Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. This Memorial is dedicated to the 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen, who died at the battles of the Somme between 1915-1918, with no known graves. It may be pertinent that five soldiers from Netherthong are included in that list- they were Irvin Barrowclough, George Richard Gledhill, John Henry Hoyle, Edward Smith and John Roberts.
The photograph below is of the letter Norman found on the body of a dead German soldier plus a one Mark note.
The following set of four photographs show Norman’s uniform stripes and badges with a close-up of his cap badge ( which he refers to in his memoirs ). There is also his Disembodiment Certificate, which was the term used when a whole unit is stood down at the end of the war, lastly is a Certificate associated with the Medaille Commemorative des Batailles de la Somme awarded 1956.
Norman in common, I guess, with most if not all his fellow soldiers brought back ‘souvenirs’ from the battlefield. Below are four photographs of his items. The first is a shell nose, picked up at the battle of Ypres, which he mounted on a wooden base. It is a German Graze Action Percussion Fuse KZ14 which first entered service in 1914. It was fired from a 77mm FK96 or FK 16 field gun. The shell would have contained TNT or High Explosive + shrapnel or a chemical agent such as chlorine or phosgene. These gas shells were used at Ypres for the first time on 31 May 1915 and, as this one came from Ypres , it may well have been associated with the chemical attack. The second is an example of trench art of a ring, made from a brass ammunition casing and inscribed Ypres – no provenance. The third item , also with no provenance, is a corkscrew which was made from a bullet and dated 1916. The last item is a collection of Italian banknotes dated 1918 from his time in Italy.
In c.1968, Norman took his grandson on a visit to the Somme battlefields and they brought back a fragment of shrapnel – see photograph.
Charles Arthur Hudson – WW1 survivor
Charles Arthur Hudson was a Netherthong lad, who enlisted in 1914 to serve his country and was fortunate to survive the horrors. He is listed in my “Chapter, Details of soldiers who fought and survived WW1”, with what few details I was able to find.
He was born on 10/11/1894 and was baptised on 06/01/1895 in All Saints Parish Church and his parents were John Henry and Ann, who lived in the village. His father was a cloth finisher. He attended the village school and, like many of his friends ,he became a scout in the Netherthong troop. His name appears in a list of soldiers in the Holmfirth Express Roll of Honour (ROH), issued January 9 1915, as serving in the Army. In the framed Roll of Honour in the Parish Church, he is listed as a Private in the 9th. Battalion of the Duke of Wellington regiment with his enlistment date given as October 17,1914.
, In the baptismal records for all Saints’ Church, his Christian names are given as Charles Albert and not Charles Arthur. His birth date appears correct as it tallies with him giving his age as 20 years when he enlisted. He did have an older brother, Harry, who was born on 17/05/88 and in the 1891 Census Harry is listed as being two years old. The baptismal records give another brother, Willie, who was born on 12/12/84, but who was not included in that Census.The same baptismal records show that his father, John Henry was born on 02/07/1860 but was not baptised until much later on 25/07/1869. His parents were John and Mary, who lived in Thongsbridge, and they would have been Charles grandparents.
photograph of Charles Hudson courtesy of Tim Parsons – August 2019
Full size render from Holmfirth Express – supplied by Paul Sims
I received the first photograph of Charles from Tim Parsons in August 2019 and he also sent a number of certificates and forms relating to Charles enlistment , service and discharge from the army. Unfortunately they were very badly damaged and, as can be seen in the images below, large portions are illegible. However they are important documents, as they would have applied not just to Charles and all his friends in village but to all the soldiers who enlisted in WW1. I have augmented the details by extracting additional information from Google.
Image 1. The form above is the Short Service Attestation and it was introduced by Lord Kitchener in 1914 under which a man could serve for three years or the duration of the war, whichever was the longer. This was instead of the 12 years of service normally demanded when joining the army.
You can make out the list of questions –
1. What is your name ? – Charles Albert Hudson
2. What is your address ? – ?? Netherthong
3. Are you a British Subject ?, -Yes
4. What is your age – 20 years 7 months,,
5. What is your Trade or Calling, – ??
6. Are you married, – No
7.Have you ever served in the Forces, – No
8. Are you willing to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated? Yes
9. Are you willing to be enlisted for General Service.? Yes
10.Did you receive a notice …?
11. Are you prepared to serve upon the following conditions…
signed by Charles Albert Hudson.
Image 2.
Image 4. Record of promotions, reductions,transfers etc. during active service. Awarded Military Medal 1916. Transferred to Class “Z” Army Reserve on Demobilisation, Date 3-4-1919.
Image 5. Form – With reference to your application stating you have lost your discharge certificate. I am to request that you state overleaf the circumstances as under which the Certificate….. On receipt of your declaration , the question of replacing the Certificate or book will be considered. The declaration must be made before one of His Majesty’s Justice of the Peace ….. and returned to me when it is completed. It was signed by Officer I/c Records.
Image 6. The reverse side of the form in Image 5. and is his declaration. I sincerely declare that I have lost my Discharge Certificate. It got destroyed among some more old papers on October 17, 1937. Signed by Charles Hudson, present age 44, place of birth Netherthong, present address Upper George St. Huddersfield. Signed in the presence of Commissioner of Oaths on August 1939 in Huddersfield.
Image 8. Army Form B5112, Forwarding of accompanying medals and a request to complete receipt and return card. Signed by Hudson on March 11th. 1921.
Image 9. Dispersal Certificate ( Soldier ).
Image 10. Military History Sheet. Listing his Campaign Medals. Awarded Military Medal on 21/10/16. 1914/15 Star.
Image 11. Certificate of Medical Examination.
A search on Google shows that there were over 1100 Army Forms.
Details of local places from 1892 map – then and now
Dave Pattern is involved in an ongoing project to index historical maps of the Huddersfield area. One relevant to Netherthong and District ( Thongsbridge, Deanhouse and Oldfield ) is titled Hudds. Exposed 1892 Honley, and is centered on grid ref. SE 4145 4105. The accompanying chart features places from that map and details ( 2018) their current situation after 126 years.
Dave has very kindly agreed that I can use this information in my website.
name & location
Albert Hotel, Miry Lane. Now a private residence known as "Old Albert" Thongsbridge public house yes but new use
Inn, School Street Netherthong inn yes but new use
Star of the Day, Oldfield Road Oldfield public house yes but new use
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, St. Mary's Road Netherthong chapel yes but new use
All Saints Church, Town Gate Netherthong church yes
All Saints' Church Graveyard Netherthong burial ground yes
Bastile, Moor Lane Netherthong property yes
Brown Hill, off Moor Lane Netherthong property yes
Calf Hill Wood Netherthong wood yes
Crodingley, off Thong Lane Thongsbridge property yes
Cross Lane End, corner of Oldfield Road & Cross Lane Oldfield property yes
Deanhouse Workhouse, off St. Mary's Road Deanhouse hospital, etc yes
Dock Hill Netherthong area yes
Forest Cottage, Spinner Gate (now Bradshaw Road). Also known Wood Cottage Oldfield property yes
Free United Methodist Chapel, Giles Street. Now Church House Netherthong chapel yes
Green Cottage, Holt Lane (now Broomy Lee Lane) Netherthong property yes
Har Royd, off Dean Brook Road Netherthong property yes
Holmroyd Nook, off Knoll Lane Oldfield farm yes
Manor House, Church Street Netherthong property yes
Mission Church, Miry Lane. Also known as the Parish Church of St. Andrew Thongsbridge church yes
Moor Croft, Spinner Gate (now Bradshaw Road) Oldfield property yes
Moor Lane Farm, Moor Lane Netherthong farm yes
Moorfield House, off Springwood Road Thongsbridge private house yes
Mountain Cottage, corner of Spinner Gate (now Bradshaw Road) & Wood Nook Lane Oldfield property yes
New Hagg, off Oldfield Road Oldfield property yes
Newland Wood Thongsbridge wood yes
Newlands, Huddersfield Road Thongsbridge property yes
Oldfield House, Oldfield Road Oldfield property yes
Railway Cottages, Springwood Road Thongsbridge property yes
Sands, off Moor Lane Netherthong property yes
School, off School Street. Now Netherthong Primary School Netherthong school yes
Spring Grove, Huddersfield Road. Also known as Spring Bottom (1854 map) Netherthong property yes
Spring Lodge, Calf Hill Road. Previously known as Spring Cottage (1854 map) Thongsbridge property yes
Spring Wood Netherthong wood yes
The Hey, off Heys Road Thongsbridge terraced row yes
Thongsbridge, Miry Lane. Road bridge over the River Holme Thongsbridge misc feature yes
Upper Fear Nought, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong property yes
Vicarage, Miry Lane Netherthong vicarage yes
View Terrace, Miry Lane. Row of 4 back-to-back properties Thongsbridge terraced row yes
Well Green, Holt Lane Netherthong property yes
Well House, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong private house yes
Woodlands. Property originally set in Longlands Wood and approached via a footpath Thongsbridge private house yes
Woodville, off Calf Hill Road Thongsbridge private house yes
Albion Mill, off Miry Lane. Woollen mill Thongsbridge mill partially
Quarry Netherthong quarry partially
Alma Mills, off Thong Lane. Woollen mill Thongsbridge mill no
Deanhouse Mills, off Dean Brook Road. Woollen mill Deanhouse mill no
Elmwood, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong private house no
Gas Works Deanhouse works no
Inn, Huddersfield Road Thongsbridge inn no
Lower Fear Nought, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong terraced row no
Mill dam for Thongsbridge Mills Thongsbridge mill pond no
Moorfield House, off Spinner Gate (now Bradshaw Road) Oldfield property no
Oaklands, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong private house no
Prospect House, off Heys Road Thongsbridge property no
Quarry, off Calf Hill Road Netherthong quarry no
Robin Royd, off Huddersfield Road Netherthong property no
Thongs Birdge Station. Railway station on the Holmfirth Branch Thongsbridge railway feature no
Thongsbridge Mills, off Miry Lane. Woollen mill Thongsbridge mill no
Folly Dam. Mill pond for Deanhouse Mills Deanhouse mill pond maybe
Size and Bone Works, off Miry Lane Thongsbridge works maybe
Posted on July 31, 2017 December 30, 2018
How this History started, website activity, statistics and other useless information.
I first started researching the history of Netherthong in 2002 and I began to realise, that with the amount of information that was becoming available, publishing it as a book was not going to be the answer. The only alternative was to set up a web site in 2005 and the large number of people who have visited the site and supplied information, memories and photographs has more than justified that decision. What is encouraging is that in July 2017, 12 years after the start, I had a new visitor who had been born in Rob Roy, the house standing by itself on the right hand side of New Road opposite Netherfield Drive, and she corrected the dates of several photographs and supplied a number of her own which are dotted through the various chapters. They include two good photographs of the ” big snow ” in 1947 and some great ones of the school including the school orchestra.
In 2010 Google Analytics was installed and this system records very comprehensive data each time anyone clicks on my History. It includes the number of sessions, the number of users, page views, the pages read per session, the average session duration, the Bounce Rate ( the percentage of single page sessions of which there was no interaction with the site ), the percentages of new sessions and returning visitors. There is a pie-chart comparing these percentages and there is also a moving monthly chart, updated daily, of the number of visitors per day. At its peak there were 500 a month but over the years that number has steadily dropped to between 250 – 350 . As I said in the first paragraph, people are still discovering the site and 70% of the current visitors are first timers.
The Analytics also details the nationality and language groups of the visitors. The UK is obviously top with 72% followed by the U.S. with 20% and Australia, Canada and New Zealand feature as they are countries that villagers would have emigrated to. Other countries on the list include Brazil, Russia, Germany and Italy. Since it was installed there have been over 16,000 visitors to the site, many of whom have been returning visitors, and this figure does not include the people who would have visited the site in the five years from its start in 2005 to 2010 during which time no statistics are available.
I find it hard believe that after 15 years of research just how much information I have accumulated about this delightful little village of ours. The History has a word count of over 250,000 plus 315 photographs, maps and other ephemera and this compares with Moby Dick at 209,117 words, East of Eden at 226,741 and yours and my favourite bedtime read of War and Peace with 544,406 .
The History is split into more than 80 chapters and, because of the large amount of information in certain categories, I decided it would be appropriate to split them into more easily manageable chapters of between 5,000 to 7,000 words. Crime and Punishment needed to be split into four with the Wesleyan Church , All Saints Parish Church, Football, Deaths, Deanhouse Workhouse/Hospital and Interesting Odds and Bods all being split into two. One exception is A Netherthong Story which is nearly 11,000 words long, much of it written in Yorkshire dialect. ( I’m not sure if anyone has actually read it from start to finish ).
Deanhouse – a hamlet that shows the changes of time
In April 1973 the Holmfirth Express printed two articles titled ‘A brief history of Deanhouse – a hamlet that shows the changes of time.’ It was written by Eileen Williams, who was the secretary of Holmfirth Civic Society. It is superbly researched and, as Deanhouse features throughout the history of Netherthong, it is a valuable addition to this web site. With acknowledgements to Eileen.
” Few hamlets in the West Riding can show the changes of time as clearly as Deanhouse. It now comprises two separate entities, on the one hand are the neat rows of modern dwellings, while barely a stone’s throw away, via a ginnel passing the 18th.C. Wesleyan Chapel, a cluster of 17th. and 18th. cottages still survive – one bearing a date-stone marked 1698 above the door. Deanhouse Mills standing just below give their evidence of the Industrial Revolution.
Earliest traced record of Deanhouse is given in the Poll-Tax of 1379 in the Haneley ( Honley ) section which included a Johanne Dean whose homestead sited in the modernised section was to become Deanhouse. Little is known about him but he grew his own corn, taking it to Honley Mill to grind. 200 years later in 1569, John Beaumont, a husbandman of Deynhouse, bought land from the Stapletons of Honley and appeared to be thriving. Beaumonts remained at Deanhouse until 1675 when Abraham Beaumont sold to Joseph Armitage. From Armitage the property passed to a Woodhead, a Wilkinson and then Sir John Lister Kaye spanning the years to 1763 when Godfrey Berry bought ‘ Deanhouse and other lands at Honley for £400.
In the latter half of the 18th.C , Deanhouse was a very small community of farmers, clothiers and handloom weavers. They were among the first of the followers of John Wesley and Methodism and they built their own chapel in 1769. In 1772, John Wesley visited the chapel but had to walk from Hagg. A Mrs. Dinah Bates accompanied him back to Hagg and she was a noted Leech-woman, held in deep respect for the curing of ailments. The panorama of the Deanhouse Valley was then unbroken by the Deanhouse Mill which was built some years later. The brook into which three streams converged flowed unsullied through woods and pasture land. Above it the bridle path, now known as Haigh Lane, led directly to the Chapel skirting a two-storied double fronted dwelling with a substantial barn, presumably a farmhouse, now the Cricketer’s Arms.The four weavers’ cottages stood at the brow of the bridle path while below them was a drinking trough for the horses. Behind these weavers’ cottages was a fold with smaller cottages, one of which still carries the date stone of 1698 above the door.
It is recorded that in 1798, Nathaniel Berry of Deanhouse was a Constable and a church warden of Honley. In 1838 the Deanhouse passed to Joseph, Ben and John Eastwood, the family then connected with the mill. Joseph Eastwood and Sons being recorded as fulling millers. By 1838, a John Jordan had taken over the scribbling and fulling while Joseph Eastwood and his brothers were then known as woolen merchants.
At that time there was no record of an inn in Deanhouse but an unnamed beerhouse was listed in 1853. As farmhouses in those days often brewed and sold beer as a sideline, the conversion of farmhouse to inn, first known as ‘The Blazing Rag’ seems to have been a gradual one. While officially the Cricketers today, it is still known locally as ‘The Rag’. May 1860 brought about the most significant change to the old Deanhouse community when the house and grounds carrying the name of the hamlet was conveyed from the Eastwood family to the Guardians of the Huddersfield Union as a site for a new Workhouse.’
The second article dealt with the rise and decline of the dreaded workhouse of Deanhouse. I have a chapter covering the the Workhouse in detail so I have just pulled a few interesting items from her report.
‘ The first inmates were admitted at the beginning of September 1862. Before the end of the month a boy named Thomas Clough absconded and was found drowned near Huddersfield the same day. No regrets or mention of an inquiry were made in the minutes. The following year, in September 1863, the list of absconders over the boundary wall was proving a worry and included a Sarah Jane Hobson who had escaped taking her three children with her to Honley, one man took his workhouse clothing with him and a young female got over the wall for an immoral purpose. As a result a higher boundary wall was built at a cost of £150.’
Posted on March 24, 2013 October 14, 2020
Deanhouse Workhouse 1916 to 1968
The second part of the history of the Deanhouse Workhouse covers the period from 1916 to the closure of St.Mary’s Hospital in 1968.
In January 1916 the master presented his half yearly report to the Board of Guardians. He said that large portions of the Institution had been painted but more still needed painting and plastering and the exterior also required attention. He reported that the gas supply had failed on several occasions and asked the committee to condemn the present lavatory basins and replace them with modern pans.
In May of the same year the Board approved that the wages of J.Settle, engineer, be increased from 31/- to 34/- a week with leave on alternate Sundays. Mr. Froggatt, the handyman, received an increase from 27/- to 30/-.
1917. In September the Board of Guardians agreed to increase the salary of Dr. Smailes, the medical doctor at Deanhouse , from £70 to £100. The half-yearly report of the Master said that he had considerable trouble evolving a dietary, which is within the limits of bread, meat and sugar suggested by the Food Controller, and had been forced to introduce oatmeal gruel into the breakfast dietary. But in view of the state of world events , he thought the committee would find the diet had been satisfying if not as varied as usual.
In November 1918, about a dozen blind inmates were entertained by Cllr. J.Sykes and Mr. G.Batley. A most enjoyable time was spent and, in spite of the restrictions, there was a “ good spread “.
Dr. Smailes presented Mr. & Mrs. Rowbotham, the retiring Master and Matron, in April 1919 with a Queen Anne tea service which had been subscribed to by all the staff and friends.
The Christmas Day celebrations were said by everyone to have been one of the best ever- Mr. Settle , the engineer, said that it was the 25th. time he had attended.
Through the energies of Mr. Lodge and Mr. Beaumont, a concert was given in February 1920 under the direction of F.Whitely. At the Board of Guardians meeting in October , the Deanhouse Committee minutes were read in which they recommended that thanks be given to Mr.Beaumont for providing 48 patients with a charabanc trip. The resignations of Mr. & Mrs. Hill, the porter-book-keeper and the porteress- laundress were received as well as the resignation of Leah the cook. After discussions the Board accepted the resignations. In the same month the inmates were entertained by Mr. P. Sandford’s party . The concert was highly successful and, as a bonus, chocolates and sweets were supplied to all patients. At the Guardians meeting in December, the Board discussed a proposal for the erection of a nurses home at the Institution. The estimate was £12,000 and, after lots of discussion and concern about the cost, it was agreed to delay the matter for 12 months.
Christmas day was a very special occasion as it marked the starting of the electric lighting installation. It consisted of a Crossley 23 brake horsepower engine to run an electric light plant providing for 300 lights. Mr.Broadbent was asked to start the engine and switch on the lights and he christened the new engine ‘Betty’ after the name of the daughter of the master of the Institution, Mr.Beavis. The normal Christmas activities for the inmates started at 7.30 with breakfast after which the wards were visited and fruit, sweets and tobacco were issued. Dinner was at 12 and was presided over by some of the Guardians and their friends and was followed by games and entertainment. Mr.Tom Bamforth, a patient, said the day was one of the best within his recollection and the food was of first order, beautifully cooked and well served. A concert was given at the Institution on 2 February 1921 by ‘The Middles’ a male voice concert party from Meltham.T he first reported meeting of the Board of Guardians of that year was in March and the Deanhouse Committee’s minutes showed that the number of inmates at the start of the year was 177 compared to 163 for the same time the previous year. Considering the large number of weak-minded patients, the fact that no restraint or punishment had been necessary was deemed highly satisfactory by the Board.
The inmates were entertained in April 1921 to a concert given the Huddersfield Tramwayman’s Concert Party. The reporter wrote that due to the length of the programme the encores were limited.
Several months later in August , members of the two House committees of the Huddersfield Board of Guardians ( Crosland Moor and Deanhouse ) played bowls on the tennis court at Deanhouse for the Silver Rose Bowl trophy, which had been offered by Miss Siddon several years before. Deanhouse had won the trophy for the last three years but this time Crosland were the victors by 373 points to 363. The following month 92 members of the Institution plus ten officials and six members of the Board had an enjoyable outing. They were conveyed in five motor coaches to Marsden and went to the Liberal Club for tea, after which they were entertained by local artistes. In October it was found that the disease of smallpox was prevalent in the Workhouse and this had caused a great deal of alarm. At that time there was a total in residence of 180 people and staff and, after the presence of the disease was discovered, an investigation showed that eight inmates, seven men and one woman, were affected. As soon as the disease was found all visiting was stopped and extensive vaccination and re-vaccination was carried out. Because of the number of people who had been in contact with the Institution, they were all advised to be vaccinated immediately. No obvious cause for the outbreak was ever found.
In January 1922 the Board of Guardians Deanhouse Committee agreed to open the Institution for visitors, subject to the approval of the medical officer. Later in the year in August, thanks to the kindness of Miss Seddon, 130 patients, staff and Guardians had an enjoyable day out. A total of seven charabancs took them to Fryston Hall at Pontefract. They had a substantial meal on arrival and were given tobacco, cigarettes and pipes for the smokers and sweets for the women and non- smokers. At 4.30 they were fed again and sat down to an excellent tea. The patients, who couldn’t make the trip due to sickness or infirmity, were not forgotten and were supplied with chicken, beef, tongue and jelly and custard.The Deanhouse Committee met in September and agreed that payments for work involved in the extermination of rats in the Institution be left with the Master to agree with the man concerned. They met again in December to discuss the quality of the accommodation for the nurses. Some of the nurses were sleeping six to a room and many of those rooms were like prisons which was why, all over the country, Deanhouse was being boycotted by nurses. It was agreed that the question of accommodation would be considered further. Near the end of the month a meeting of the full Board of Guardians discussed the future of the Institute. Among the items was the movement of the whole management structure to Crosland, and another idea was to build an extension, such as a new wing. A special sub- committee would be formed.
To finish off the year they had a great Christmas party with lots of food and music. Mr.J.Lodge, who was chairman of the Deanhouse Committee, presided and Tom Bamforth, one of the inmates, moved a vote of thanks ,which was seconded by John Morley, another inmate. Mr.E.A.Beavis was the Master.
1923 started off with two concerts in February, the first was by the Holmfirth ” Merry Makers ” followed a few weeks later by the Crosland Moor United Hand Bell Ringers. There was a great feeling of loss when the Board of Guardians reported in June the death of Miss Seddon who had been a member of the Board for 41 years with specific responsibilty for Deanhouse and had been chairman for a long time.
The Hospital Day was celebrated on Saturday, August 18, 1923 with a Procession and a Fancy Dress Parade plus a Public Tea and Grand Gala. The attractions included an Aunt Sally,Kicking Dolly, hoopla, coconut shies, pony rides and top of the bill was Prof. T. McMenemy, a ventriloquist. It was a great day and a profit of £30 was made.
In October of the same year, Mr.& Mrs. Beavis, who had been Master and Matron since March 1919, left to take up a similar appointment at Crosland Moor Institute
After many discussions the Board of Guardians gave formal approval for the enlargement of the present building occupied by the nurses but it wasn’t until July 17th. 1924 that the work was finally completed. On that date, in the presence of members and officials of the Board of Guardians, the nurses’ home, which had been added to the Institution, was officially opened by Mr.J.Lodge, chairman of the Deanhouse Committee. The scheme had been carried out from plans prepared by J.Ainley, architect, and provision had been made for accommodation for 23 nurses. On the ground floor there was a large dining room and sitting room. It had been furnished throughout by Shaw’s of Holmfirth and other work was carried out by : Mallinson & Son of Lockwood – mason’s work; carpentry and joinery by Batley & Sons, Netherthong ; plumbing, glazing and electrics by E. Rayner of Milnsbridge ; plastering by Oldfield Bros. Honley and the painting was done by W. Holroyd, Huddersfield. J.Dyson of Holmfirth was the concreter, T.Allison of Milnsbridge were the slaters and, last but not least, the heating engineers were H.Rayner & Sons. of Huddersfield. Not suprisingly there were lots of speeches and Mr.Ainley, on behalf of the contractors and himself, presented Mr.Lodge with a gold key to open the door of the nurses home. The key was inscribed ” Presented to James Lodge Esq. on the opening of the Nurses ‘ Home, Deanhouse Institution on July 17th, 1924. After the ceremonial opening all the assembled company sat down for tea.
The following photo supplied by Haydn Boothroyd could very well have been one of a number of photographs taken to celebrate the event. It is marked on the back ‘ Nurses and Staff of the old Deanhouse Workhouse about the year 1924/5.’ The man on the far right in a white uniform and a baker’s cap was John Boothroyd – Haydn’s grandfather.
Nurses and Staff
The next photograph also supplied by Haydn Boothroyd shows a number of the workers/tradesmen . Grandad John, the baker, is in the middle sitting with his arms crossed. Next to him is a young lad, probably an apprentice. The man on the left with his suit, cap and watch chain could be management. Photo probably dates from 1910s/1920s.
Deanhouse workers
In December 1923, the Board of Guardians discussed the efficiency of having a single master for Crosland and Deanhouse and it was agreed to try the idea for a probationary period. Deanhouse would be treated as a secondary part of Crosland Moor.
A social evening in May 1924 was enjoyed by officials and staff when they were entertained to supper by the newly appointed Master and Matron, Mr.& Mrs. H.Johnson. After supper they had musical items, recitations and dancing.
The Christmas Day celebrations in 1924 maintained the high standards, and Mr.& Mrs. H. Johnson, the Master & Matron, presided over the festivities with 240 patients in residence.
At the end of January 1925 a fire broke out at the Institution. At about 1.30a.m. an inmate discovered that a building used as a store room adjoining the main block was on fire. The Institute buzzer was sounded and the Huddersfield Corporation Fire Brigade was summoned. The staff set to work using fire-extinguishers and when the Fire Engine ” Wilfred Dawson ” reached the scene about 15 minutes later, it was found that a quantity of hay in the loft was burning.The Holmfirth Fire Brigade also attended and in a short time the fire was extinguished and the damage, which was confined to the roof of the building, was estimated at £100 but covered by insurance. The fire was discussed at the Holmfirth District Council meeting regarding the response time of the Holmfirth Brigade and the capability of its engine.
At the Board of Guardians meeting in March, Mr.Wraith, the district auditor appointed by the Ministry of Health, attended to hear the views of members on his decision to charge individual members of the Board in respect of Christmas dinners eaten by them at Poor Law Institutions on Christmas Day 1923. He objected to an item of £1 7s 11d in respect to Deanhouse, which provoked a great deal of discussion, with the auditor adamant that it was illegal expenditure , that he had no discretion and that he must disallow what could not be supported in law. The matter rumbled on and was discussed again at the Board’s meeting in September. The question of ” free food “for the Guardians, who had helped at the Christmas festivities and which the District Auditor had taken exception to, had been referred to the Ministry to approve payment. They said that on this occasion they would approve the amount of £5 12s 5d made by the Board in respect of meals provided to members who visited Institutions at Crosland Moor and Deanhouse on Christmas 1924. The sanction was given on the understanding that no further charges of a similar kind would appear on the accounts.
A youth, who was employed at Deanhouse Poor Law Institution, was charged with stealing a silver watch and gold chain, valued at £5, the property of a man who had been an inmate. When the man had been admitted he was in possession of the items but ,when he was discharged, he no longer had them and his relatives reported the loss to the Guardians and the police. The youth was seen and at first denied knowledge of the stolen property but later admitted he had stolen them. At Holmfirth Police Court he pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. The Guardians asked that the Court to exercise clemency and put him on probation and, as a result, he was discharged on the undertaking that he would be on good behaviour for 12 months.
Mr. Armstrong and a party from Meltham visited the Institution in October and gave a concert of quartets, duets and solos. Also in October, T.Dyson gave one of his lantern slide lectures on the subject of Hardcastle Crags.
The Christmas festivities at the end of 1925 were to the usual high standard with 120lb. of pork, 120lb. of beef, 12 chickens and 140 plum puddings being consumed under the watchful eye of the Master and Matron, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Music was by the Holme Silver Band.
In their first meeting of 1926, the Board of Guardians agreed to the installation of a wireless system at a cost of £92 17s.
The inmates were entertained twice in December. The first was a lantern lecture given by T.Dyson on the Yorkshire Moors and Dales using 100 lantern views lent by the L.N.E. Railway Company. The second followed on a week later and was a musical entertainment by members and friends of Netherthong Parish Church Mothers’ Union.
The Christmas treat maintained its high standards with the Institution beautifully decorated and masses of food. The Mayor and Mayoress of Huddersfield paid a visit.
A motion at the January 1927 meeting of the Board of Guardians stated ; ” That his Board appoint a committee to consider a report on the advisability of disposing of the Deanhouse Institution to one or other of the Mental Hospital Boards or other similar authority as a mental hospital and thus enable the Board to concentrate the administration at Crosland Moor. ” It was discussed and approved.
The Huddersfield & District Band of Hope Union gave a lantern display and concert in March to the inmates. It was directed by J.Pitchforth with views of London plus humorous slides. Recitations and dances were given by Miss Hilda Hawkyard and Lily May with Miss Hilda Townsend on piano. The latter part of the programme was sustained by a party of girls from Deighton United Methodist Church who were known as The Merry Coasters. A vote of thanks was proposed by one of the inmates and seconded by the master, Mr.Johnson.
At the Board of Guardians meeting in September a letter was read out informing the committee that the late Mrs. Amelia Benderlow of Dalton had given the Guardians a sum of £100 to be used for the supply of comforts for the inmates of Deanhouse Institution.
Mr.T.Dyson and party paid one of their regular visits in October and gave a lantern slide lecture entitled ” The message of the flowers “.The show finished with a large selection of Hymns.
Lindley Liberal Club visited the Institution in December and gave a pleasing programme to the inmates. A carol party from the WMC got the Christmas celebrations off to a good start and, after the breakfast, super dinner and distribution of gifts, the Merrymakers rounded off the day with a rousing concert.
Mr.Dyson and friends visited in February 1928 and gave an entertaining lantern slide show to the residents.
At the February meeting in 1928 of the Board of Guardians, the Deanhouse Committee recommended that a 1st. class man be appointed as charge- house attendant. He should hold the medico- psychological certificate, have musical ability and be able to play the piano. The motion was approved. The committee had received a report by the Medical Officer, Dr. Smailes, and the Master, Mr.F.Johnson, on the accommodation of the Institution, the nursing and accommodation of male patients in the hospital and the employment, recreation and staffing of male patients. The report stated there were 269 beds in the Institution and there was sufficient room for 231. It was now two and a half years since the experiment of nursing male patients by male staff had been put into operation and it had proved satisfactory in spite of inexperienced attendants being appointed. The employment scheme had proved beneficial to the inmates and to the Institution. The garden, poultry, roads and paths, firewood, painting and general cleaning of the Institution kept the whole of the more-or-less able men fully employed. Cricket, football and walks provided adequate out-door recreation and concerts were a welcome diversion. Of the nine male attendants at present employed, seven were temporary and these latter were taken on from unemployed men who were working on the land here or from Labour Exchanges. None of them had any previous experience and this fact emphasised the need for a charge house attendant.
Cricket was on the menu again in July 1928, when the Holmfirth Group of Toc H paid a visit to the Institution to fulfill a cricket engagement against a team selected from the inmates. The visitors batted first and scored 96. Jones and Webster opened the innings for the Institution but Jones was run out having only scored one run. Webster did much better reaching 19 but the innings closed at 71.
They had another match later in the month against a team representing the 1510 Coronation Lodge R.A.O.B. Honley. The Institute batted first and, in spite of Epton top scoring with 39, could only achieve 63. The visitors scored 77 with Richardson taking 6 wickets. Later in the year in October the same group showed their versatility by giving a well received concert.
Mr.& Mrs. Johnson, the Master and Matron, were appointed in September to the Harton Poor Law Institution under the South Shields Union.
On Christmas morning two parties of carol singers traversed the Netherthong district. The WMC, conducted by H.Preston, stopped and sang on 29 occasions. The other group was the Male Voice Choir, who had a great time and raised funds for their choir. The Holme and Hinchliffe bands also visited the area and every group paid a visit to the Institution.
1929. In 1925 it appeared that the question of Board members having “free meals ” when helping at the Institutions had been resolved but it raised its head again four years later. At their meeting in March the Huddersfield Board of Guardians were flustered when the District Auditor asked why the Guardians had shared the Christmas festivities of the Deanhouse inmates, and why they should not be surcharged for the cost of their entertainment. The Guardians are not allowed to feed at the ratepayers expense. 41 Guardians had visited Crosland Moor and others had visited Deanhouse and all had had dinner and tea. It had got rather confusing and bitter as some of the Guardians who didn’t have dinner, had received notices of surcharge and a few who “ went the whole hog “ got no notice at all. The sums involved amounted to £6 11s. 8d. and £1 7s. 11d. The outcome was never reported !
The Board of Guardians announced in February 1929 that Mr. &.Mrs. F.Lewis, the Master and Matron at Berkhampstead Institution, had been appointed to the same roles at Deanhouse. They replaced Mr.& Mrs. Steadman who had moved to Crosland Moor. Mr.J.Settle of Miry Green, who had been employed at the Institute as an engineer, died the following month. He had had a honorary connection with the Sons of Temperance, was one of the trustees of the Wesleyan Chapel and had been caretaker for a period. In July members of the Honley Group of Toc H visited and played a game of cricket against a team composed of attendants and inmates.The Institute batted first and scored 92 runs but Toc H passed this total for the loss of only two wickets.
The Christmas day celebrations involved a visit by the Mayor & Mayoress of Huddersfield, Alderman & Mrs. Priest. They were welcomed by the Master and Matron, Mr.& Mrs. Lewis. The superb dinner was followed by lots of speeches and thanks and the evening’s entertainment was provided by the Merrymakers.
The first entertainment for the inmates in 1930 was in February, when the Netherthong Operatic Society visited and gave several selections to an appreciative audience.
April 1930 was a a very important date when the Board of Guardians, which had been formed in 1834 and had always been unpopular performing a very difficult duty, ceased to exist as a local public body. A special valedictory dinner was held for its members. It was replaced by the new Public Assistance Committee.
June saw the return of cricket when a team from the R.A.O.B. Coronation Lodge Honley narrowly beat the Institution by 93 runs to 82.
The able-bodied inmates at the Institution had a very enjoyable outing in July visiting Southport accompanied by Mr. W. Stephenson, the vice-chairman of the Institute committee and the Master & Matron. The party travelled in six motor vehicles, three for the men and three for the women. Several months later Mr. Dyson gave a lantern slide lecture of a trip to Southport with illustrated slides, which were of particular interest as the inmates had visited many of the places shown during their earlier outing.
The Patients Sports Day was held in August with a full programme including flat races, potato sack races, egg and spoon, tug-of-war and throwing the cricket ball . The tug-of-war was most popular with 15 nurses and female officers competing against 11 male officers, which was finally won by the men. The proceedings were organised by the Master & Matron, Mr.& Mrs. C .Billington, and tea was served on the sports ground. Later in the year, Mr. T. Dyson gave a lantern show titled – Views of North Wales. The patients were entertained in October with a concert by Mr. A. Taylor’s Concert Party from Meltham consisting of vocal and instrumental items. The next month, St.Georges ( Brockholes ) children’s concert party visited on Guy Fawkes Day and presented a play ” The Enchanted Forest “. There was even more entertainment during that month when the Male Voice Choir visited and, during the interval, went round the infirmary wards and sang for the bed-ridden patients who had not been able to attend the concert. At the end of the month there was a concert presented by Moldgreen Congregational Church Married Ladies Party organised by Mrs. George Brown. The show was a great success and patients were amused by the Party of Midgets and the Yorkshire dialect was very much in evidence.
The first entertainment for the inmates in December was a concert organised by the Meltham “Lyric ” Male Voice Quartette accompanied by Mr. Herbert Downes. The humorous element was provided by John Drake, the once-champion Yorkshire humorist from Meltham. The penultimate treat of the year was for the deaf, dumb and blind patients, who were entertained to a tea arranged by Mr.& Mrs. Batley, through the generosity of anonymous friends. The tea was partaken in a comfortable room provided by the Master & Matron and was followed by an excellent concert for all the patients presented by the Speedsters Concert Party.
The hospital was beautifully decorated with holly and bunting on Christmas Day and the Mayor of Huddersfield, Alderman T. Shires paid a visit. After a superb dinner, the patients received presents from the tree that had been donated by Mrs. Law Taylor. To round the year off, the entertainment on New Years Eve was provided by the Woodroyd Handbell Ringers.
The first entertainment in 1932 was a concert presented by the Thongs Bridge Church Married Ladies and, during the interval, sweets, tobacco and cigarettes were distributed among the patients. A very successful Whist Drive and dance was held at the Hospital in February in aid of the Local Government Officers Benevolent and Orphans Fund. Over 130 people attended and music was provided by Monreve Dance Band. Mrs. C. Billington (Matron) and her staff served the refreshments and the Master was in charge of the dancing, with the assistant manager running the Whist drive. Under the auspices of the Colne Valley Divisional Labour Party, a large group visited the Hospital. They were shown round everywhere and then walked to Holmfirth for tea at the Co-operative cafe.
The Hospital Sports Day for 1932 was arranged by the Master and Matron and they organised 21 events which included flat racing, egg and spoon, team races, potato races and tug-of-war. Upwards of 200 patients were entertained. The Holme Silver Prize Band played music during the day and also, for dancing, in the evening. Mrs.Law Taylor presented the prizes.
Several friends, resident in the Hospital, arranged an outdoor concert one afternoon in September. Music was by the Marsden Senior School Brass Band . After an interval for tea at the Wesleyan School, the inmates returned to the field for dancing. T. Dyson visited in October and gave his lantern entertainment with slides of a miscellaneous nature. Harold Atkinson of New Mill also entertained with stories and songs.
The deaf, dumb and blind patients were given an enjoyable and appetising tea in November by Lt. Col. Sir Emmanuel Hoyle and Lady Hoyle. All the patients were presented with buns, sweets and fruits and the males received cigarettes. T. Dyson gave another of his lantern lectures in December on Christmas Hymns and their writers. He was assisted by C. Bray and T. Dufton.
Two of the early entertainments in 1933 were a concert party in February organised by Mr. F. Merritt followed in March by a T.Dyson lantern lecture on ‘Messages of Flowers’. A most unusual item was headlined ” Killing the Pigs ” by the Holmfirth Express. The Huddersfield Town Council had commented at one of their meetings on the fact that pigs were being killed by the old-fashioned method at St. Mary’s Hospital. Councillor W. Scott pointed out that the Corporation abattoir at Great Northern St. was equipped with modern electrical killing instruments and he suggested that the pigs should be sent from Deanhouse to be slaughtered there. Mr.J. Barlour pointed out that the killing of pigs was not governed by the regulations of the Huddersfield area and that no action should be taken.
The Annual Sports and Field day for the patients at St. Mary’s was held in August 1933 in ideal weather and 150 patients took part. There was a full programme of 18 events and the proceedings were enhanced by the Holme Silver prize band. The outstanding events were the tug-of-war contests and the potato race. Cllr. Barlow made some pleasant remarks and his wife presented the prizes.
In October Mr. T Dyson presented one of his lantern slide shows of holiday pictures and local beauty spots.
At the end of the month the Express printed a very interesting letter . It was entitled ” Jolly Times at St.Mary’s ” and was a message from Deanhouse Institution by someone who signed themselves C.G.
“Some of my friends who possess considerable knowledge of this delightful valley of ours have not the slightest idea of where St. Mary’s really is. Now if you come up to Netherthong you cannot miss it. It is a most lovely spot in summer or winter. One lady said she thought she might have mistaken her way and must be in Cawthorne and St.Mary’s was Cannon Hall but she had seen no swans and thus could not make out where it was. However we were able to guide her and put her right for that ancient little village of Holmfirth. There is not much chance of getting lost and you are in one of the beauty spots of the North of England. The object of these famous places is to have a home for every poor cripple, persons who have lost their sight or who have lost control over their mental powers or the use of every organ of their bodies.
St.Mary’s is governed on Communistic lines. Do not let anyone be frightened. We are much in advance of the “Red Flag “of 20 years ago. It is more like a New Haven with gardens, poultry farms, piggeries, heating appliances, cookeries and electrical machinery. All work under the principle of every man and everything working for others as well as for themselves. Also every trade and profession are represented here at some time or another, We have tinkers, tailors and skilled gardeners. In our gardens besides the ordinary things of life such as potatoes, onions, cabbages, turnips etc. we go in for salads of all kinds, herbs, tomato culture and flowering plants. We have a little mission church or chapel in which some of the ablest preachers in the district visit. We have some delightful times in the wireless and occasionally friends from Deanhouse and other parts of the district will come to entertain us.”
In November the inmates were treated to a Firework Display on the Saturday and, on the following Monday received a visit from the Berry Brow Wesleyan Choir. The final entertainment of the month was a lantern slide show by T. Dyson entitled ‘Christmas hymns’. The Christmas festivities were up to their normal high standard and the Mayor and Mayoress of Huddersfield, Alderman and Mrs. A. Hirst, paid a visit.
The first show of 1934 was in February by F. L. Merritt and his concert party who entertained both staff and patients. This was followed in March by a concert by Mr. A. Taylor and party from Meltham. In the same month they were treated to a lantern slide show on Bonnie Scotland but not this time by T. Dyson. Miss Jessop was the lecturer and her address was interspersed by songs by G. Earnshaw, accompanied by Miss R. Dufton on pianoforte.
August saw the Annual St. Mary’s Field Day with flat races, egg and spoon races and the ever popular tug of war. The Master and Matron, Mr. & Mrs. C. Billington presided over the events.
T. Dyson made a welcome return to St. Mary’s in October to give a lantern slide lecture titled ” A tour of Ireland “. They were entertained in November by the Gay Girls Concert Party of Heckmonwike. The firework display had to be held on November 6 due to the very bad weather the previous day, and Mr. Edwin Greenhalgh sent them a parcel of fireworks.
The Master, matron and a guard at St. Mary’s Hospital. Date ??
The first entertainment in 1936 was in March when Mr. Dyson gave a varied lantern slide show on Yorkshire scenery, Blackpool in Winter, the Netherthong Jubilee and the School’s festival. Later the same month Mr. Nelson of Huddersfield gave a concert that was very well received. Nothing else was reported for the year but at Christmas all the patients were treated to the normal special festival feast.
In 1939 the Master and Matron were Mr. & Mrs. D.S. Pugh ( Ivy Guest and David Stanley Pugh ). They were in charge of two other local hospitals until they retired between 1951 -52, and moved to Sheffield where they took over a public house called the Beehive ( which is still there today ). The Pughs had two daughters, Barbara and Dilys, and recently, February 2019, I talked to Barbara about her memories of her time in the village and the Workhouse. She was born in Todmorden and moved to the Workhouse when she was two years old and then moved, when her parents retired to Sheffield when she was about 14 years old. She said that her parents were always on duty and she and her sister seldom had very much quality time with them and instead were looked after by a very kind lady called Mary Brown. She attended the Wesleyan Chapel and went to the National School and remembered many of the names of her classmates who are listed in the chapter on Schools and was pleased that I had a reference in it to her being crowned School Queen in 1949 ( see photos below ). One very intriguing memory was of the teachers asking children to collect elderberries and bring them into school. Barbara said that when she first saw equipment bubbling and boiling , she wondered that, maybe the staff were making illicit ” moonshine “, but then realised that they were more likely to have been making jam, ( I like the moonshine story best). A good day out was to go to the Lido in Holmfirth, have fish and chips for lunch, and then go to watch a cricket match, but Barbara said she and her friends were less interested in the cricket but more in eyeing up any young men there. She had little recollection of what went on in the Workhouse and the gardens, but clearly remembers the baker in the bakehouse making her chocolate eggs. One very strong memory of her father was that he had a Jaguar car and also liked a pint, so he would drive his car to the Cricketer’s Inn. Barbara sent me photocopies of some of the photos from her family album.The first set of three shows her father and his beloved Jaguar car, which was very well known in the area. The second is another view of the car with her father holding their dog , Susie. The lower picture is a family group with Dad, Janet, Barbara, Dilys and Alan.
Barbara Pugh
The second set of photographs shows on the top left – Dad, Barbara, Mum and Dilys. Next is Susie, Dilys, Barbara & Joan Settle ( the Engineer’s daughter ). The two photos underneath are not notated.
Workhouse family
In the third set of photographs taken at Whitsun 1949, the one on the left is of Dilys and Auntie Jean( her father’s sister ), Sister Clayton is in the RH photo and the lower photo is of dad, Barbara, Jean and Yvonne Hinchliffe plus the car.
Workhouse photos
The next set of photographs has Mrs. Ross, Master & Matron , Matron with a group of the nursing staff and underneath Barbara with her mother and susie on the front step of the hospital.
Workhouse picture
The photo below, which also appears in the chapter on schooling, shows on the left Barbara with her crown and dress after she was crowned the School Queen in 1949, she is with her older sister, Dilys. In the lower picture she is leading a procession with her maids of honour- in Miry Lane? The third picture , probably dated 1940 shows a young Barbara and her sister with their father and mother.
Crowning of School Queen
The Christmas festivities were up to their normal standard and 226 inmates were entertained by the Male Voice Choir.
Numerous rumours in October 1938 caused a great deal of concern among the 200 inmates and their relatives because the West Riding County Council were proposing to transfer all the inmates to other Institutions. Many were going to be sent to Pontefract, Penistone, Todmorden, Clayton and others. Huddersfield Corporation owned Deanhouse Institution and, for the last three years, had leased it to the West Riding County Council. When the lease expired there was a dispute between the Corporation and the County Council as to the terms under which the County Council should continue to occupy the buildings ending in the County Council’s decision to evacuate the Institute. There were no further reports until December when the Holmfirth UDC reported that the patients were likely to go back to Deanhouse as negotiations between West Riding Public Assistance Committees and Huddersfield Corporation on the future of the Institution had reached a successful conclusion. The Institution would be repaired and when completed the patients would be taken back. It would then become a County Institution.
The repairs must have been completed very quickly as all the residents enjoyed their normal Christmas treats.
1939. In January the West Riding County Council approved a proposal by the West Riding Assistance Committee that Deanhouse Institution should be purchased from the Huddersfield Corporation for £15,000. There had been a public outcry in 1938 because the majority of patients from Deanhouse were transferred to other institutions in different parts of the West Riding, miles away from their relatives. Previously the County Council had rented the Institution from the Corporation at a rent of £848. The Public Assistance Committee in their report said the institution was an old one, structurally in good repair but about £5,000 was needed to provide adequate heating arrangements. They were satisfied that an Institution in that part of the County was essential and recommended the purchase of the building and land at the price named.
In September a member of the Board of Guardians stated “ It would appear that the inmates were evacuated from Deanhouse sometime in August due to a Home Office order. Friends and relatives had experienced hardship, inconvenience and expense to visit the patients at various other institutions throughout the area “ – his report concluded “ it will be the Committee’s earnest endeavour to have all the patients returned to Deanhouse as soon as the present crisis has been brought to a definite and victorious conclusion.” The above reports were taken from the Holmfirth Express but there does appear to be some confusion between the events in 1938 and 1939.
The situation must have been resolved because, in November Thomas Dyson gave one of his lantern slide shows titled Shakespeare’s County – Warwick to the patients. Mr.C.Bray was the lanternist and many songs were sung including Holmfirth’s anthem.
In December 1939 the patients of St.Mary’s Hospital spent a most enjoyable Christmas. Members of the Netherthong Male Voice Choir visited and sang carols and hymns. As usual there was a special dinner with gifts and in the evening there was a concert. On Boxing Day, the staff held their own celebrations and enjoyed various presents sent by local firms and individuals.
Male patients at a Netherthong field day 1940
The same picture as the one above but this time eight nurses have miraculously appeared.
In October 1940 the patients at the hospital were treated to a meat tea, supper and a concert. The artistes were Mrs. J. Dixon ( soprano ), Mrs. Merritt ( elocutionist ), F. Dickinson ( bass ), E. Mortimer ( baritone ), A. Sanderson ( tenor ) and the Male Voice Quartette. Tobacco, cigarettes and sweets were handed round to about 60 guests.
In spite of the restrictions due to the war the patients at the hospital enjoyed the Christmas festivities. There was no pork or poultry available but they still had a good meal. In place of a concert they were entertained by gramophone records and the wireless. The nurses had their dinner on Boxing Day.
The following photograph shows many of the nurses at the hospital – it is undated but I suspect it must be circa 1940s.
Nursing staff – date unknown
In July 1941, 60 old women from a bombed-out convalescent home on the coast were sent to the Institution. Among them was 97 years old Mrs. Mary Giese with curly white hair, rosy cheeks, twinkling eyes and a keen sense of humour. She had been bombed-out twice but very quickly won the hearts of everyone at Deanhouse.
The old folk at the Hospital were treated in June 1942 to a concert by the “ Oh Kay Gang “. The audience thoroughly enjoyed the show and among those present were Mr. and Mrs. S.Pugh , the Master and Matron.
In the same month Mary Wimpenny aged 82 years passed away peacefully at the hospital.
In February the patients were entertained by the Four H’s Trombone Quartet directed by Mr.W.Kay.
The “Balt Cygnet ” Scheme was the first labour scheme which marked the influx of DPs ( displaced persons ) into Britain, mainly from various eastern European countries.The main purpose of this plan was to relieve the acute shortage of nursing and domestic staff in hospitals and sanitoria. Initially recruitment was limited to single women , between 20-40 years old, coming from the Baltic States under the condition that they could not change employment without the permission of the Ministry of Labour. The first recruits arrived in mid- October and Huddersfield was among the first places to receive its share. In 1947 many more came to the area and 15 went to St.Mary’s Hospital and the Holme Valley Hospital. The term “Cygnet ” symbolised ” a spotless white femininity ” and, to ensure good assimilation and acceptance, a desirable and social background were key factors. They used every opportunity to present themselves well and six Estonian war orderlies were involved in a staff pantomime called ” Babes in the Wood ” which was presented to the immobile elderly patients at St. Mary’s at Christmas 1947. A special feature was the dancing of the Estonian workers who appeared in their national costume. An excerpt from the St.Mary’s Hospital staff records shows the names of the Estonian persons and the dates they started and left their jobs. e.g. Lia Astrid Sormus started in 5/2/47 and left in 8/4/49. The 1948 Christmas festivities followed the normal pattern with plenty of meat, plum pudding , cake and mince pies. On the Wednesday prior to Christmas the choirs of the Meltham Nonconformist Churches visited and sang carols to the patients. In the new year the staff held their annual dance.
An ” Estonian ” wedding was held in the village in March 1949 and was attended by 30 Estonian guests, some of whom were colleagues from St.Mary’s and Holme Valley hospitals plus workers from Washpit Mills with the reception being held in its canteen.
This information is taken from a superb document written by Frank Grombar titled ” Brief Encounters : Baltic Hospital Workers in and around Huddersfield 1946-1951″. It can be found on the internet.
May 1949 was a very special occasion for Mr.C.Hobson, a patient in No.8 Ward, as it was the first time in two years that he had been out into the open air. He and five other patients were taken by taxi on a half-day trip round New Mill, Penistone and Hade Edge. All the six patients were able to afford the 10/-, which was the cost of the trip, and thought it was money well spent after such a long time in the hospital. Most of the other patients did not have enough money to afford such trips. Mr.J. Whittaker, the male nurse in charge of Wards 8 & 9, tried to get help from some philanthropic organisation. Holmfirth British Legion offered to meet the expenses of ex-Servicemen.
In September the Hospital Clerk , Mrs.Robertson, was fined by Holmfirth Magistrate’s Court for fraudulent conversion. Old Age Pensions money had not been paid over to bed-ridden patients. There were six summonses totalling £12 5s and, after the Chairman ( Major Brian Tinker ) had announced that the Magistrates had found the case proved, Mrs.Robertson asked for a further eight cases totalling £9 10s to be taken into consideration. A fine of £5 was imposed on each of the six cases with witness costs of £1 1s 2d, and she was also ordered to make restitution of the amount of £12 5s. The Express devoted three columns to a detailed report of the case. In May 1950, members of the Holmfirth Inner Wheel Club entertained 19 patients to a bus outing to Wharfedale and also thanked the two nurses who accompanied them.
In 1951 the death occurred at the Hospital of Miss Mary Mallinson, daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. John Mallinson. She was 90 years old and the oldest lady in the village and had been closely connected with the Parish Church. Because of the prevalence of influenza among the staff in February, a ban was imposed on visitors for three days. At that time the number of staff suffering had risen from 15 % to 20% and it was also discovered that there were six fresh cases in one of the wards. In January of that year , following on from complaints made by visitors regarding the difficulties of obtaining transport to the hospital, the Huddersfield & District Hospital Management Committee discussed the matter. They decided to support an application to the Traffic Commissioners for the institution of an additional bus service.
In December 1953 the patients were entertained over Christmas by several local choirs. The Moorland Singers turned up on Christmas Day and sang carols as dinner was served by members of the house committee. In the evening there was a film show of the Coronation and the Queen’s visit to Edinburgh.
The festivities for the patients of the hospital in December 1955 were spread over a long period . They were entertained by the Huddersfield Co-op choir, Holme Silver band, Meltham Baptist Choir, Netherthong Church Choir, Linthwaite Church Choir and Slaithwaite Church Choir. On Christmas morning they were visited by Father Xmas and entertained by the Moorland Singers. Relatives and visitors were welcomed by Miss Smith, Matron, and Mr.A.Stangroom, secretary.
The Chairmen of Holmfirth, Meltham and Colne Valley District Councils paid a visit to the hospital on Christmas Day 1966. They were received by the Matron, Miss M.A.Smith and the Assistant Matron, Miss E.Nesbitt. Turkeys on each of the wards were carved by the visitors and all the patients received a gift. The entertainment was by the Moorland Singers.
A report in the new look Holmfirth Express stated that, on Tuesday 16th. 1968 , Deanhouse Hospital, St. Marys, would close and the 53 patients transferred to other hospitals in the surrounding areas. It added that the future of the premises would be decided by the Regional Hospital Board. Alfred Stangroom, who lived in the Lodge at the hospital and had been the hospital secretary for 16 years, died aged 55. He had also been the treasurer of the Parish Church and one time chairman of the Holme Valley Scouts.
In March 11 members of the staff of the now closed hospital received awards for long service as hospital employees. All had completed 25 years service of which a minimum of 10 years had been worked in the Huddersfield Group of Hospitals. The awardees were Miss M.A.Smith ( Matron ), Misses N.Smith, C.Bray and E.Beever ( State Enrolled Nurses ), Miss A.Winter( Enrolled Nurse ), Mrs.M.Leach ( dressmaker ), Mrs.A.Brooke ( housemaid ), the late Mr.A.Stangroom ( Hospital Secretary ), Mr.W.Rhodes ( deputy Hospital Secretary ), Mr.D.North ( barber ) and Mr.H.Taylor ( porter).T he Express reported in August – ‘ the former patients of the late Dr. Brian de la Harpe Meyer will be pleased to know that the teal seat, which was presented to the hospital in his memory, has now been handed over to the Holmfirth UDC and placed in a new position at the junction of Victoria Street and Huddersfield Road in Holmfirth.’
On November 1st. 1968, the Secretary of State for Social Services sold the buildings and the land to B.Dunford of Flockton for £8500. He started work straightaway demolishing all the buildings, except for the Lodge, and the first people to move in said that by 1970, two new houses had been built and all the demolishment was completed the same year with the estate finished by 1974. The Lodge, which had been semi-detached with one half the accomodation for the Master and Matron and the other half for the Engineer, was converted into one residence and remains so to this day.
This brought to an end over 100 years of an Institution that had been a key factor in the life and times of Deanhouse and Netherthong residents.
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Kinzer M. Pointer, pastor of Liberty Missionary Baptist Church, speaks at a briefing on how UB’s Community Health Equity Research Institute has engaged with the community to more effectively respond to the pandemic.
A powerful partnership that brought University at Buffalo faculty and community leaders together to fight against health disparities has allowed the community to blunt the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens.
“We may be the only community in the country that’s been able to mute the impact of this pandemic. ”
Kinzer M. Pointer
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The partnership between UB’s Community Health Equity Research Institute, the African American Health Equity Task Force and the Buffalo Center for Health Equity also puts Western New York in a better position for the challenges that lay ahead.
One of the most telling indicators is that while the region couldn’t escape the ravages of the pandemic, it is one of few nationally that managed to reduce COVID-19 fatalities among African Americans over the course of the pandemic. The UB-community partnership played a key role.
“If you look at national numbers, 34 percent of COVID-19 deaths are among African Americans,” says Kinzer M. Pointer, pastor of Liberty Missionary Baptist Church and co-convener of the African American Health Equity Task Force.
That’s in contrast to African Americans comprising a much smaller proportion of the U.S. population, at 13 percent.
Building on Achievements During Possible Second Wave
But in Erie County, Pointer notes, since the pandemic began, African Americans have comprised 16 percent of COVID-19 deaths and they make up 14 percent of the county’s population.
“We may be the only community in the country that’s been able to mute the impact of this pandemic, and that’s directly attributable to the work we did with our university partners that started in previous years,” he says. “There is a real commitment to shoulder this together and not just watch people die.”
“UB is our partner in ways that it never had been before,” Pointer adds. “UB is now actively involved in community work and that should be attributed directly to President Satish K. Tripathi. He saw the value of it, listened carefully and then gave resources, encouragement and support to the ones actually doing the work. The partnership situates us well for what’s coming.”
Timothy F. Murphy, MD
That cautious optimism is also expressed by Timothy F. Murphy, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of medicine and director of the Community Health Equity Research Institute and UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
“The fact that this community-university partnership was able to mitigate the high mortality among African Americans in the first wave puts us in a position to build on that achievement during this coming flu season and a possible second wave,” he says. “And it’s something that can be replicated in other communities.”
The critical difference has been in the way the UB institute was organized and built, according to Henry Louis Taylor, PhD, professor in the School of Architecture and Planning and the institute’s associate director. “The Community Health Equity Research Institute evolved out of activities UB faculty became involved with through the African American Health Equity Task Force,” he says.
This graphic shows that Erie County is one of the few communities nationally that has managed to reduce COVID-19 fatalities among African Americans during the pandemic. The UB-community partnership played a key role.
Giving the Community ‘a Voice and a Vote’
Henry Louis Taylor, PhD
“UB and the community came together to say we want the community’s needs and desires to be the engine that drives this process,” Taylor says. “We have created a unique governing structure that has integrated community residents in all layers of the institute so that the community will always have a voice and a vote and a perspective on every single thing we do.”
Even before “New York State on Pause,” which started March 22, UB faculty were collaborating and advising the groups led by local clergy, such as Pointer and the Rev. George F. Nicholas, pastor of Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church and co-convener of the African American Health Equity Task Force.
They were mobilizing with local groups, such as the Visiting Nurses Association and the National Witness Project, to add rapid testing centers, and to get food and other resources to residents.
“This unique collaboration rests on the strongest possible foundation,” says State Senator Tim Kennedy. “UB, with the full complement of health sciences disciplines, has its nationally renowned medical and public health experts at the table working side by side with our community’s tireless advocates, like the Rev. Nicholas, Pastor Pointer, and the entire Task Force. Through their shared mission to recognize and directly address the health inequities that exist, this kind of collaboration is truly helping Western New York, and the entire state, mount an effective response to this devastating pandemic.”
Understanding, Changing Health Disparities
While Taylor’s urban planning expertise helped focus resources within neighborhoods, the infectious disease specialists in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were in conversation with those coordinating neighborhood canvassing.
During the peak days of the pandemic, the partners helped 15 churches establish call centers and work in neighborhoods to find out what residents needed, to coordinate neighborhood testing, to distribute food and personal protective equipment and to provide transportation to health care facilities.
UB faculty helped facilitate communication campaigns, writing Facebook posts and op-ed articles to encourage people to wear masks and to practice social distancing.
“UB is an essential part of the system,” Taylor says, noting that none of the people who have boots on the ground are infectious disease specialists, but they could turn to Murphy and Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate professor of medicine and senior associate dean for medical curriculum, who are, to draw on their expertise.
“At the university, our job is to pull together scholars on this campus to bring the best minds together to find solutions,” Taylor says.
Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD, senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School, and a member of the African American Health Equity Task Force, says that the difference lies in how research at UB is being used to effect change.
“Rather than be a university that describes disparities, such as how long you live depends on where you live, we have to try to change it and to do that, we need to understand it,” she says.
Increase in Maternal Mortality a Big Concern
As the institute’s director, Murphy has worked to explore the range of social determinants of health that created the disparities that this pandemic has laid bare.
They include, prior to the pandemic:
low levels of employment — 15 percent of Black people in Buffalo were unemployed versus 5 percent of white people
depressed average home values — $48,000 for Black people in Buffalo versus $138,000 for white people
and less access to higher education — 14 percent of Black people in Buffalo have a bachelor’s degree versus 35 percent of whites
One statistic is especially revealing — that of maternal mortality. While the number of women who die during pregnancy has steadily fallen throughout the developed economies of the world, the rate of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in the U.S. has risen sharply recently, from about 17.5 in 2000 to 26.4 in 2015.
“The fact that African American women in particular face such daunting odds even when undergoing childbirth in this country demonstrates what our community is up against even with normal medical procedures,” says Crystal Peoples-Stokes, New York State Assembly Majority Leader. “It is critically important that during a global pandemic we make sure that UB and its community partners are able to take advantage of all possible resources as they continue to fight this ongoing, global battle.”
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The institute’s research agenda includes studying the dynamics inside African American communities that make them vulnerable, including the high proportion of essential workers, multi-generational households, and households where self-isolation is difficult or impossible.
“We are aware that the coming fall and winter will present new challenges, but together with our partners, we are confident that our experience so far provides this community with a strong foundation going forward,” says Murphy.
Taylor concurs, adding: “What’s unique is that we are using health disparities and the social determinant of health as a framework for all the inequities in African American communities, such as poor housing, deplorable physical conditions and the lack of jobs. At the end of the day, the goal is not just to mitigate issues like the pandemic, but to eliminate the conditions that make these populations so vulnerable in the first place.”
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Wow What a Woman! Lady Mary Brecknock
When I come across a photograph of someone spectacularly styled from the past I automatically want to both emulate their dress and find out more about the historical person if possible. Especially if they are wearing a combination of vintage ‘casual’ wear or attire suitable for wearing in the country. Hence, why I got very excited about the photograph of Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock above.
Lady Marjorie was born Marjorie Jenkins on 28th June 1900 in London. Her parents were Colonel and Mrs. Jenkins and spent most of her formative years following her father about as he was an active member of the British Army. If a location became unsuitable for a young child to go to Marjorie spent time with her cousins includin Edwina Ashley who would be a lifelong friend and would later become Edwina, Countess of Burma and wife of Lord Mountbatten.
Marjorie was a young teenager during the First World War and was too young to formally join any of the women’s services or nursing contingencies although she did assist nursing staff at a convalscent home Marsh Court, Stockbridge. It is unclear if Marjorie was a VAD or just an assistant at this home.Marjorie married John Charles Henry Pratt, Earl of Brecknock in 1920 and two children; Lady Mary in 1920 and the future Earl of Brecknock, David Pratt.
Marjorie as a child with Edwina Ashley, later Edwina, Lady Mountbatten. c.1906-1910,
Black and white photograph, Wherwell.net.
Marjorie’s life between the birth of her children and the oubtreak of World War Two is not well recorded bar a few scant photographs of her at society events like the one above. I like to think that she was a typical society lady of this era attending the London Season, dressing fashionably in the best clothing money could buy, attending cocktail parties and entertaining at her country house estate of Wherwell House in Hampshire.
Recently, I came across an interesting post on a military re-enactment group that I’m part of on Facebook about a collection of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) uniforms, pamphlets, medals, diaries etc. that happened to belong to Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock and pointed me in the direction of the photograph above. The items are now owned by the member of the Facebook group and are used for re-enactments across the UK. It seems a shame that these items are used for re-enactments as this collection of items are one of the rarest collections of a complete set of ATS uniform equipment that I’ve ever seen. These items gave me more information and a clearer picture of Lady Marjorie’s role in first the F.A.N.Y (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and then when the F.A.N.Y. amalgamated into the ATS.
‘Join the ATS’, poster, printed poster, 761 mm x 505 mm, Imperial War Museum,
Art.IWM PST 14542.
Because these items are being used on a regular basis it is perhaps not unlikely that these items will become dispersed from their original collection to other collectors. If the items were donated in tact they would offer an excellent opportunity for a museum to acquire an en-tact set of ATS uniform and acroutements. The ATS were the auxiliary female service attached to the British Army in the Second World War and were founded in September 1938. The ATS were the the female counterpart to the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) (later Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Army Corps or QMAAC) of the First World War. The ATS’s first director was Dame Helen Gwyne-Vaughan who served with the QMAAC (Overseas) in the First World War.
The First QMAAC Controller in France, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, CBE, DSC by William Orpen,
Oil on canvas, 914 mm x 762 mm, Imperial War Museum, Art.IWM ART 3048.
Lady Marjorie was too young to volunteer for the WAAC or QMAAC during the First World War and as mentioned above assisted in a nursing home for recovering solders. It is perhaps this experience led her to volunteer with the St. John’s Ambulance Service prior to the Second World War and subsequently volunteering for the F.A.N.Y in 1938. Marjorie had a colourful wartime service ranging from providing first-aid as a member of the F.A.N.Y and serving with F.A.N.Y motor companies and assisting on anti-aircraft guns. Marjorie ended the war as a senior British Officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force or S.H.A.E.F as it’s better known. Marjorie continued her service with the British Army in the Women’s Royal Army Corps (W.R.A.C) as can be seen in the below photographs of her WW2 F.A.N.Y/A.T.S. uniform that also contain post-war W.R.A.C badges.
Details of Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock’s pre-war and post-war uniform, Canvas, Silk, Wool,
Cotton, Brass, c.1938-1950. War Relics EU.
Marjorie continued to be active within St. John’s Ambulance throughout the remainder of her life; it is perhaps her experiences during the Second World War that encouraged her to do this. Marjorie retired from the service in 1970 having played an instrumental role within it as Superintendent-In-Chief of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade from 1960 and 1970 and also working to promote the ethos of the St. John’s Amublance further afield than the UK.
Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock as Superintendent-In-Chief of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade,
c.1960-1970, War Relics EU.
Marjorie continued to take an interest in St. John’s Ambulance affairs before her death in 1989 but concentrated on spending time with her family, travelling abroad and tending to her farm on her estate as well as taking up the sport of shooting! It is not surprising that I have never heard of Marjorie (even though she was a Senior Commander in the A.T.S. and played an important role in the St. John’s Ambulance brigade) as women’s history is endemic with un-told stories of extraordinary women in often extraordinary times such as the First and Second World Wars. Marjorie’s story may be typical of many of her class in joining the F.A.N.Y. and serving in the A.T.S and possibly gaining Officer status due to family connections. However, what must not be under-estimated that Marjorie played an important role in shaping how women are preceived in modern armed forces in that she was on of the first women to gain an important Senior Commander role and continued this work with the W.R.A.C after the end of the War. Marjorie’s surname might have been ‘pratt’ but she was definitely no ‘pratt’ when it came to her role in history; a truely remarkable women who deserves more credit for the work she has done.
‘Vintage 1900,’ Wherwell.net, 1980 http://www.wherwell.net/uploads/5/9/1/0/59105475/anthology-1980-booklet.pdf
‘The History of the Auxiliary Territorial Service,’ The History Press, Undated, https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/the-history-of-the-auxiliary-territorial-service/
‘Honours and Awards to the Auxiliary Territorial Service,’ Undated, https://www.nickmetcalfe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/ATS-Honours-and-Awards.pdf
‘The Jewel in the Crown,’ 2012, War Relics EU, http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/collections-display/jewel-crown-167349/
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Fabrication and characterization of SU-8-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for airborne applications
Joseph, Jose and Singh, Shiv Govind and Vanjari, Siva Rama Krishna (2018) Fabrication and characterization of SU-8-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for airborne applications. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, 17 (01). p. 1. ISSN 1932-5150
We present a successful fabrication and characterization of a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) with SU-8 as the membrane material. The goal of this research is to develop a post-CMOS compatible CMUT that can be monolithically integrated with the CMOS circuitry. The fabrication is based on a simple, three mask process, with all wet etching steps involved so that the device can be realized with minimal laboratory conditions. The maximum temperature involved in the whole process flow was 140°C, and hence, it is post-CMOS compatible. The fabricated device exhibited a resonant frequency of 835 kHz with bandwidth 62 kHz, when characterized in air. The pull-in and snapback characteristics of the device were analyzed. The influence of membrane radius on the center frequency and bandwidth was also experimentally evaluated by fabricating CMUTs with membrane radius varying from 30 to 54μm with an interval of 4μm . These devices were vibrating at frequencies from 5.2 to 1.8 MHz with an average Q -factor of 23.41. Acoustic characterization of the fabricated devices was performed in air, demonstrating the applicability of SU-8 CMUTs in airborne applications. © 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Vanjari, Siva Rama Krishna UNSPECIFIED
Singh, Shiv Govind http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7319-879X
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Republican Jewish Coalition Candidate Forum: Michelle Bachmann
December 12, 2011 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidate 2012 Forum in Washington, DC.
I’m honored to be here today in the company of so many friends. Thank you Dan for that kind introduction. Like this organization, I have been a long-time advocate for the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. My love for Israel and its people deepened while I worked on a kibbutz just after graduating from high school.
Today, we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On that fateful day a 19-year-old Minnesotan on board a submarine patrol in the waters outside of Pearl Harbor reported sighting a Japanese submarine, but the warning sign of the bigger calamity to come was all but ignored. The same is true today with Iran and other dangerous actors in the world. We are ignoring the warning signs, and I worry what other ‘Pearl Harbors’ might be in our future.
It seems as if lately, our president has forgotten the importance of Israel to America and thinks of our relationship only in terms of what we do for Israel. The president is more concerned about Israel building homes on its own land than the threats that Israel and America face in the region.
The president was right to promise to veto the Palestinians’ bid for statehood in the U.N. Security Council. But in large part it is the president’s weakness in the Middle East that has emboldened the Palestinians to attempt to achieve statehood through the U.N. rather than at the legitimate negotiation table with Israel. Our policy has confused engagement with appeasement and has inspired Israel’s enemies.
The Palestinians must recognize Israel’s right to exist and renounce violence against Israel in order to become a serious partner in peace with Israel.
My administration’s policy will be that, the Palestinian Authority’s compliance with its prior agreements is the first step that must be taken to assure peace in the Middle East. The Palestinian Authority must meet its existing written obligations to collect illegal weapons; pursue terrorists; cooperate with Israeli security forces; change the Fatah Constitution which still calls for the complete eradication of the State of Israel; and to stop inciting terrorism.
I stand with Israel. And aid to Israel now more than ever, is a necessity-they are our most trusted ally and the only real democracy in the Middle East. But if we are to continue to provide assistance to Israel, we must get our own fiscal house in order.
A vocal minority, called Occupy Wall Street, otherwise known as the Obama re-election team, believes that the economic problems we face are capitalism or free markets. They’re not. The problem is government doing what both the constitution and decent morality prohibit, that is cronyism capitalism, or forcefully taking your money for the purpose of paying off a politician’s political friends. The problem is one set of standards for individual Americans and another set of standards for those who make political donations to candidates.
The problem is an individual tax code with 3.8 million words that’s too complicated for the average American to understand and a corporate tax code that makes America hopelessly uncompetitive at almost 40 percent when you add the federal and state taxes. And a tax code that contains loopholes that are exploited by companies large enough to hire an army of lawyers. As Investor’s Business Daily wrote, in 1981 the entire developed world had high corporate tax rates, averaging 47 percent. Then capital became mobile and rates plummeted to 25 percent and haven’t stopped falling. The United States remains stuck since 1986 in an out of date high corporate tax rate that sent companies fleeing America for a more competitive tax climate. Just ask any number of companies why they left America and they’ll tell you that between the high tax and unreasonable regulatory burden in America, other nations are now a more profitable place to do business. For your sake and your future, America, and Occupy Wall Street in particular, needs to wake up and stop blaming job creators for the failures created by selfish politicians who wink at their political donors.
Politicians assure their friends that with government’s financial backing, their businesses will never fail.
It happens every day, and it has to stop. After all, we’re not a Banana Republic; we’re the United States of America and we need to act like it.
We need a system that forces large, well connected corporations to play by the same rules as small businesses and individual Americans and that protects and provides fair competition in free markets.
You see, there’s a reason our Founding Fathers decided to establish our political capital in a different city than our financial capital. It’s time for us to reaffirm the wisdom of that decision by getting Washington D.C. out of free markets. I’m running for president because I understand the difference between free markets and Bernie Madoff style government.
My administration will stop the Obama administration’s dangerous policies and delegitimization of Israel. Obama has delegitimized Israel by wrongly describing Israel as a 60-years long occupation, which displaced and caused Palestinian suffering, and by wrongly blaming Israel and settlements for the lack of peace in the Middle East.
Obama abandoned prior U.S. policy and U.N. Resolution 242’s insistence that Israel is entitled to defensible borders. The Obama administration also abrogated former President Bush’s commitments in Bush’s 2004 letter to Ariel Sharon. Bush’s letter and subsequent Congressional resolutions committed the U.S. to the policy that Israel will retain large West Bank settlement blocks, that there will be no right of return to Israel for ‘Palestinian’ refugees, and that the Palestinian Authority’s compliance with its obligations, including the Palestinian Authority’s obligation to stop inciting terror, is the first step that must be taken towards Middle East peace.
Instead, Obama improperly calls for Israel to retreat to indefensible 1949 armistice lines with swaps, and to then still face further demands to divide Jerusalem and allow a Palestinian ‘right of return’ to overrun the entire State of Israel. The Obama administration has also unconditionally given the Palestinians unprecedented amounts of U.S. foreign aid, and opposed Congressional efforts to condition aid on the real steps that would bring about peace.
The so-called Palestinian ‘right of return,’ would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs who never lived in Israel, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently once again publicly displayed this administrations disdain for Israel putting Israel on the same footing as the Palestinians and declaring that they ‘get to the damn table’ to resume peace talks. And the president derisively said Israel’s Prime Minister was someone ‘he had to deal with everyday.’ But the president’s ambassador to Belgium went even further and justified anti-Semitism because of Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians, and the president should fire him for those irresponsible remarks.
Instead of defaming Israel, as the Obama administration has done, my administration will recognize that, in the words of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, Israel is a country that ‘is based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets,’ and which has ‘safeguard[ed] the sanctity and inviolability of the shrines and Holy Places of all religions.’
And like Israel’s Declaration of Independence, my administration will similarly call upon Israel’s neighbors to cooperate with the Jewish nation and return to the ways of peace for the common good of all.
While the president demands Israel give back land necessary to protect their existence, he has taken his eye off of the most serious threat to Middle East security, a nuclear Iran. Some 80 years ago the world saw evil rising. A mad man spoke, but the world did not listen and the world sank into an enormous conflict and millions of Jews lost their lives.
Today a mad man again speaks and once again it seems as if the world isn’t really listening though Iran’s president has made his intentions for Israel clear. He intends to wipe Israel from the face of the earth once he obtains nuclear weapons, and he will seek to use them against the United States shortly after achieving his first goal.
Consider the Iranian constitution, which states that Iran’s Army and Revolutionary Guard ‘will be responsible…for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world.’
And Iran has made good on that promise over the last 30 years from the bombing of the United States Marine base in Beirut to being the leading supplier of arms to kill Americans in Iraq. Iran is at the heart of much of Israel’s problems.
Two principles must guide U.S. policy toward Iran. First, we must never allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. And second, we must realize that this is as much a threat to U.S. national security as it is to Israel’s and should not outsource U.S. national security to the United Nations. This is the moment for clarity in standing with Israel and against Iran.
We can’t afford to wait until the election to change course, the president must make it the policy of the United States now to support the dissidents of the current regime in Iran to bring down the terrorist leaders and replace it with a democratic government at peace with the U.S., Israel and the free world.
The U.S. must be clear that it is the policy of the United States to stop Iran from building and deploying nuclear weapons. In leading from behind the president has been ambiguous with Iran and has given them the luxury of time to advance their nuclear weapons program without real punishment as we learned from the IAEA report last week.
The U.S. should develop and deploy comprehensive ballistic missile systems on land, at sea, in the air, and in space to protect the American people and our allies from the threat of ballistic missiles. Iran, with the help of the Chinese has obtained missile delivery systems for nuclear weapons that pose a threat to Israel, to the region and potentially the United States.
While the United States does not buy oil from Iran, Iran is a major player in the oil market and affects its price, which directly affects the United States. We need to legalize American energy production to free us from Iran’s influence through oil.
The U.S. must immediately end appeasement and weakness towards Iran and pursue decisive, common sense strategies ignored or rejected by the current administration.
We need Secretaries of State and Defense who fully support a pro-freedom and security policy towards Iran, and we need them to replace those in the bureaucracy – especially at State – who will not fully support this policy.
“We need crushing economic sanctions on Iran, including on the central bank and the oil and gas industries. We must hurt the Iranian economy more severely by doing damage to their oil revenues and their central bank.
The president stands with Occupy Wall Street, but he doesn’t stand with Israel. When Israel looks at President Obama, they don’t see a friend. The State Department should regularly expose the atrocious activities of the Iranian regime that are arresting, imprisoning, torturing and murdering innocent Iranian citizens.
We must accelerate covert operations and cyber operations in Iran and order the CIA Director to take all means necessary to stop Iran from getting the Bomb before it is too late. The Pentagon should prepare a war plan, as a last resort, should all else fail in preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
But the president’s lack of leadership and the failure of the Supercommittee this week will lead to, in Defense Secretary Panetta’s words, ‘devastating cuts that will seriously damage readiness’ making a military response more difficult. President Obama has seriously damaged the security of Israel by decreasing our status as a military superpower.
Part of that plan should be to direct the Navy to make preparations for a possible blockade of Iran’s ports from all oil and gas imports and exports to cut off critical petroleum revenues from going to the regime in Tehran.
We should continue comprehensive missile defense development while moving additional Aegis and Patriot missile defense systems into the Middle East to protect U.S. citizens and assets, Israel and our allies. We must sell Israel the additional fighter jets, bunker buster bombs, refueling tankers and other materials they need to defend themselves.
A Bachmann administration will recognize that Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people, a vibrant democracy and America’s staunch ally. My administration will fully recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, and will be the first administration to finally implement the laws passed by Congress requiring the State Department to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. My administration will also recognize Israel’s 1980 annexation of the Golan Heights and any settlements, which Israel, as a sovereign state, chooses to annex. Simply put, my administration will accord Israel the respect to which sovereign, democratic nations are entitled.
On the day of my inauguration as president I will announce that the U.S. Embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I do not take lightly the prospect of committing U.S. troops in an effort to stop Iran. Only a fool wishes for war. But we must be prepared to do whatever is necessary to stop the Iranians from obtaining a nuclear weapon and massively destabilizing the region by attacking our ally Israel, and supplying those weapons to even more radical regimes or individuals that would use them to do harm to America and its way of life. I recognize that the security of America is intertwined with the security of Israel.
Hitler once famously said in justification of his order to murder millions of Jews, ‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’ Ahmadinejad is counting on the same collective memory today as he marches toward a second holocaust.
We must send him the message that – we will never forget!
God bless you and God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America.
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 16:43 GMT 17:43 UK
Thai prime minister to step aside
Mr Thaksin said he was stepping down out of respect for the king
Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he is stepping down, and has urged Thais to re-unite after months of political crisis.
Speaking on national TV, he said he would remain a caretaker prime minister until a new premier was chosen.
Monday saw Mr Thaksin claim 57% of the vote in Sunday's snap election, which he called in a bid to end the crisis.
His opponents, who accuse him of abuse of power and corruption, had threatened fresh street protests unless he quit.
Mr Thaksin's televised news conference came after he met the country's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
This is our victory. If we had not helped each other [in the protests], today would not have happened
Chamlong Srimuang
Protest leader
He said he was "sorry" he would not be accepting the post of prime minister when the post-election parliament convened.
But he said he would remain a caretaker prime minister "until the selection process for the next prime minister is complete".
He apologised to the 16 million people who voted from him on Sunday, but said he had made the decision out of respect for the king, who marks his 60th anniversary on the throne this year.
"I decided that the unity of the country is the most important thing for Thailand," he said.
Protest leaders - who earlier on Tuesday said they would call off fresh demonstrations if Mr Thaksin resigned - welcomed the announcement.
"This is our victory. If we had not helped each other [in the protests], today would not have happened," Chamlong Srimuang, Mr Thaksin's one-time political mentor, said.
THAKSIN'S POLITICAL CRISIS
23 January: Thaksin sells 49.6% family stake in telecoms company Shin Corp
4 February: 50,000 attend rally in Bangkok demanding Thaksin's resignation; similar rallies continue in the capital
24 February: Thaksin dissolves parliament and calls snap election
27 February: Three main opposition parties say they will boycott the polls
2 April: Thais vote for new government amid opposition boycott
3 April: Thaksin says his Thai Rak Thai party has won more than 50% of vote
4 April: Thaksin says he will step down
Profile: Thaksin Sinawatra
But while on the surface the prime minister's announcement looks like a victory for the protesters, the crisis may be far from over, the BBC's Jill McGivering says.
Mr Thaksin's party will still dominate any new parliament, and he will have a large say in who succeeds him, with some fearing the new prime minister could be a Thaksin protege, giving him a sort of leadership by proxy.
It is not yet known when parliament will convene as by-elections in 38 constituencies must be held after candidates failed to get the 20% of votes needed to claim victory.
On Monday, election officials said they would carry out the by-elections within 30 days so parliament could convene with all seats filled, as required under the constitution.
Protest vote
Mr Thaksin's announcement was unexpected, as it came a day after he claimed an election victory, saying his Thai Rak Thai party had won 57% of the vote.
But he acknowledged that his share of the vote had dropped, from 19 million in last year's election to 16 million.
Mr Thaksin faced opposition both in parliament and on the streets
He proposed setting up an independent committee to investigate a way out of the crisis - adding that he would step down if it asked him to - but it was rejected by his opponents.
Before the election, Mr Thaksin said he would step down if he failed to get more than half of the votes.
Opposition parties boycotted the poll, and there were signs of a large protest vote, particularly in Bangkok and in the south of the country.
Mr Thaksin has been under increasing pressure following his family's decision in January to sell its shares in one of Thailand's biggest telecom groups, Shin Corp, which netted them and others $1.9bn.
The move angered many urban Thais - already discontented over his perceived brash, authoritarian style of leadership - who took to the streets in protest, complaining that the prime minister's family had avoided paying tax and passed control of an important national asset to Singaporean investors.
BBC NEWS: VIDEO AND AUDIO
See Mr Thaksin announce his resignation
THAI POLITICAL CRISIS
KEY STORIES
Court calls for resignations
Election result ruled invalid
Thai judges heed king's appeal
PM exit leaves questions
Thaksin to step aside
Press unconvinced by Thaksin
Heading back to the ballot box
What the prospect of fresh elections means for Thailand
Leadership contenders
Thaksin's long goodbye
Thais hope for stability
Profile: Thaksin Shinawatra
Country profile: Thailand
Thai government
Democrat Party (in Thai)
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I Will Defeat Buhari in 2019, Governor Fayose Vows, Declares For President In Absence Of Party Officials
Published: Wednesday, 27 September 2017 13:44
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has expressed confidence that he would defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in a free and fair presidential election, citing his record of having defeated two incumbent
governors in separate governorship elections in Ekiti State.
Mr. Fayose made his assertions Thursday in Abuja at his official declaration to contest the 2019 presidential election as a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). PDP party officials were conspicuously absent from the governor’s declaration of his desire to dethrone Mr. Buhari whose close aides have reportedly started organizing his reelection bid.
Governor Fayose vowed to wrest power from the incumbent President under a free and fair election, adding that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had deceived Nigerians for more than two years. He said it was imperative to put an end to the APC’s deceptive government by 2019.
Gov. Ayodele Fayose
Mr. Fayose promised to steer Nigeria’s economic fortune back to a height of glory and ensure diversification of the country’s economy through agriculture, adequate power supply and creation of jobs for youths.
“Our country is faced with myriads of problems, our economy that was the fastest growing in Africa when our party was in power has gone comatose with the present managers who are completely clueless,” Mr. Fayose stated.
He remarked that Nigeria had never been more divided along ethnic and religious lines as it is now under the present Buhari administration.
“Most worrisome is the fact that our country is now more divided than ever before with the unity of the country being threatened due to nepotism, religious bigotry, and favoritism of the present government,” said the Ekiti State Governor.
Regarding the PDP’s position that it has zoned the presidency to the North, Mr. Fayose maintained that no one had come out to express interest, adding that the PDP should not wait or beg anyone to fly its presidential flag. He said he was also confident of defeating other aspirants in the party, pointing to the Biblical David’s defeat of Goliath.
“I challenged the North to come out with their candidates. I want to challenge all of them to the field. What are you afraid of? Come out. I [have thrown] my hat in the ring. Let them come and face me,” said the Ekiti Governor.
Mr. Fayose said he had no regrets for publicly declaring his support for his Deputy Governor to become the Governor of Ekiti in 2018. He said that there was nothing stopping anybody to aspire to the highest position in the land if such person was performing.
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Engineer, Artist & Curator
Born in 1990 and brought up in Delhi, Swati Gupta has had a brilliant academic record graduating with University and College Honors from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She has earned degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Economics, plus two minors. Before returning to her homeland, she also worked on Wall Street, New York City, excelling in investment finance. Swati later completed her Masters in Business Administration with the highest awards from the Indian School of Business.
Swati’s association with the arts has been special since childhood. At the age of thirteen, she pursued a diploma in Fine Arts from the Bangiya Sangeet Parishad. She owes her accomplishments as an artist to Shri Sher Singh Kukkal, under whose aegis she honed her skills and developed her own style & form.
Swati’s work is often imbued with social, emotional and geographical trajectories that influence our sub-conscious. Her paintings are largely rendered in watercolor, acrylic, ink and mixed media. Her creative photographs have been developed using both, film and digital cameras, often with the help of laser pointers. With her belief that art has no boundaries, she makes use of various materials as her canvases: leather, cotton stoles, old dhotis, waste printed cloths, gessoed boards, various papers as well as traditional canvas. The subject determines her choice of style, material & medium.
A non-conformist attitude brings varied perspectives to all of Swati’s endeavors. For her, a coin has more than two sides and she will gladly call a spade a spade. In her attempt to personify her experiences through her works, Swati translates her personal inquiry within into potent mindscapes that draw the viewer into the stream of consciousness. Her belief that watercolors are on the verge of becoming a lost medium creates a special resonance with her. She is enamored by their fluidity since, just as her thought process, they assist her in going with the flow. Having experimented with various styles in the medium, she is currently focusing on the wash style.
Swati lives in New Delhi with her husband, Piyush, & together they manage their business full-time. She successfully straddles contrasting worlds— the stress-filled corporate and the ever-satisfying art.
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True Detective as Minotaur Myth
by Melissa Milazzo | in Articles | Mon, 25 August 2014
I recently binged all of HBO’s True Detective. Though not perfect, the show is gorgeous and full of enough mystery and symbolism to keep me puzzling over it long after I was finished watching. Nic Pizzolatto’s writing and the performances by Woody Harrelson as Marty Hart and Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle make this a really memorable piece of work.
[SPOILERS BELOW...]
After heading online to read what other people had to say, I was surprised to find that some viewers and critics found the show boring or disappointing – especially the season finale. These criticisms didn’t make sense until I realized that most people probably came to the show thinking that it would be a mix between psychological horror and police procedural. It’s not an unreasonable expectation, given that True Detective is influenced by the grit of Pulp Detective Fiction, cult horror classics like The King in Yellow and authors like Thomas Ligotti. If viewed through that lens, True Detective is filled with too much philosophical mumbo-jumbo and offers an unsatisfying resolution to the core mystery. Maybe it’s just an unhealthy tendency to obsessively over analyze, but I viewed the show as a modern retelling of the Theseus and the Minotaur Myth where instead of two Athenian kids facing down a monster in a labyrinth, two Southern detectives face down a monster… in a labyrinth.
Why don’t you start askin’ the right fuckin’ questions?
– Rust Cohle
True Detective is not a linear story. It flashes forward and backward in time, winding through almost 20 years in the lives of Detectives Hart and Cohle. It twists around and around in search of answers, but the questions always seem to be shifting. At the outset of the show the question is clear: who murdered former prostitute Dora Kelly Lange and used her dead body as an art project? As straightforward as that question seems, it quickly leads to others. Are previous unsolved murders connected to the Dora Lange case? Why is Rev. Tuttle so interested? Why the pressure to hand it off to a special task force? Should the detectives obey the letter of the law or the spirit of the law to get the information they need? Underneath all these surface level questions lies the real mystery at the center of the series: what is the true nature of Evil? (I’m using the capital “E” Evil here because I mean the big concept of evil, not any one particular act of evil doing.) The detectives need an answer to this question in order to find the killer’s motivation and track him. They need it in order to understand the clues that he has left behind. After a new killing comes to light decades after they believed the original killer to be dead, Hart and Cohle need to know the answer to this for personal as well as professional reasons; they are both haunted by the evil they have seen in the course of their careers. By the mid-point of the show both Cohle and Hart have both killed in the line of duty and lied about it. They need validation that they are different from the other bad men in the world, that there was truth in the justice that they meted out as agents of the law. For all the twists and turns in the investigation, the desire to understand and define Evil is the question that drives Detectives Hart and Cohle and, in turn, the entire series. All the other questions are false paths or dead ends in a dark and confusing labyrinth.
Someone once told me, “Time is a flat circle,” everything we’ve ever done or will do we’re gonna do over and over again.
- Rust Cohle
One of the key symbols in True Detective is a spiral. It first appears on the Dora Kelly Lange’s corpse 1995, but it pops up elsewhere in the investigation, as a tattoo on a suspect, and in the shape of a flock of birds as it flies over the abandoned church.
A spiral is defined by the fact that it is open, rather than closed. A spiral is a line that circles itself, winding and growing but always retaining the exact same shape. It’s the repetition of a spiral that evokes a sense of inevitability. Once the pattern is established, it will never change. The idea of spirals and repeated patterns doesn’t just appear visually in True Detective – it also comes up in language and thought, most notably in Cohle’s rambling interview responses, where he says, “Someone once told me ‘time is a flat circle.’ Everything we’ve ever done or will do, we’re gonna do over again.”
The spiral is also significant in that it is a naturally occurring shape. We see it in everything from a nautilus shell to the Milky Way galaxy. We also see it in hurricanes, which come up repeatedly in True Detective. Though we don’t see or experience hurricanes Rita, Andrew or Katrina in True Detective, they are all mentioned by name. These storms force residents of the Gulf Coast into an unending cycle of destruction, loss and rebuilding. They also provide a key plot point by destroying evidence held by the police and paper files held by Reverend Tuttle.
Hart and Cohle enter their own cycle of destruction and rebuilding when they see the spiral drawn on Dora Kelly Lange’s corpse and they spend twenty years spinning around that central point. Over the course of the show we see two cycles in the investigation of the same crime. The two detectives follow the same trajectory in both 1995 and 2012: a murdered woman, an uneasy partnership, a growing trust, a breakthrough after months of investigation, a step outside the boundaries of the law to catch the killer and finally, a feeling of dissatisfaction even after thwarting a killer and being lauded as heroes. The show drives home the idea of repetition and inevitability by using the same characters from 1995 to act out the 2012 portion of the story. Hart’s wife and daughters, Reverend Tuttle, the revival preacher and the girl from the trailer park brothel are all slightly different than when we first saw them, but they still have roles to play. They are trapped in this same spiral just as much as Detectives Hart and Cohle.
Most importantly for our analysis, a spiral is also a labyrinth; the open end is an invitation to follow the curved path of empty space between the lines. It’s notable that the season finale of the show is named “Form and Void,” a title that could be a description of the actual labyrinth through which Hart and Cohle chase the killer – the form being the walls of the labyrinth and the void being the dead space between. That negative space is where Hart and Cohle live and work. It’s the space between what is known and what is yet to be discovered, what is legal and illegal, what is right and what is wrong. In modern English the words labyrinth and maze are synonymous, but in classical terms there is a distinction between the two. A maze is a puzzle with multiple paths and choices of direction. A labyrinth is a shape with a single, non-branching path that leads to the center. It supports the idea that there is a single, inevitable truth to be found if one only follows the path all the way to the end. The viewers, like the detectives, want there to be a central truth, a clear answer at the end of the long and winding investigation, but sometimes a singular answer does not provide solace or resolution.
It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room…and like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.
In the detective genre the term “monster” is nearly synonymous with the concept of big Evil – it’s not tossed around for street thugs who kill over drug deals gone bad or squabbling in-laws who shoot one another over a borrowed car. “Monster” is reserved for those who commit the most heinous of crimes: the rapists, the torture artists, the child killers. True Detective operates under the same rules. We see a parade of terrible people doing terrible things, but there’s only one individual referred to as a “monster.” It’s not even Reverend Tuttle, he of the child porn tapes. “Monster” is reserved rather for Errol Childress: the man with the scars, the man that Hart and Cohle chase through a labyrinth and kill.
The most famous labyrinth in the Western world is the Cretan Labyrinth, designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur. Being the product of bestiality, the Minotaur fits the classical definition of a Monster, but he is also the living reminder of the sins of his father, King Minos. When he ascended to the throne of Crete, King Minos was obligated to sacrifice a beautiful white bull to show honor to the gods. Being greedy, King Minos ignored his duty and kept the bull for himself. The gods had their revenge on the selfish king. They made his wife, the queen, lust after the great white bull so much so that she copulated with it and birthed a deformed child with the head of bull and the body of a man. The Minotaur’s deformity and his entire existence is a direct result of his father’s greed and selfishness.
In True Detective, Errol Childress, the scarred man, also bears the sins of his father and grandfather. In episode 7, Hart and Cohle learn that Errol is the illegitimate grandchild of a member of the wealthy and powerful Tuttle family. If Sam Tuttle, Errol’s grandfather, had not been so sexually greedy and fond of philandering, there wouldn’t be a murderous bastard grandchild on the loose in the bayou. Like the Minotaur, Errol Childress also has a facial deformity that can be traced to his father. In talking to a former Tuttle family domestic servant, Hart and Cohle learn that Errol’s father burned him when he was just a child, giving him his trademark scars.
Both the Minotaur and Errol Childress are monsters and both fit the big “E” definition of evil; they are murderous, incestuous, the products of brutality and bestiality. Though they are removed from society these monsters still exact their tolls. In the Minotaur myth, every seven years the city of Athens chooses seven youths and seven maidens to be eaten by the Minotaur or die while lost in the labyrinth. Similarly, Errol Childress abducts and murders his young victims on a schedule and with a great deal of ritual. When Detective Cohle chases Errol into a series of labyrinthine tunnels we see what appears to be a human skeleton with antlers wrapped in a shroud, a pile of children’s clothes and an altar made of branches and human skulls. Errol’s labyrinth is a final resting place for sacrificed children, just as much as the labyrinth of the Minotaur. Both places are shrines to death of innocents and the endurance of Evil. A chosen few enter, but only the monsters survive.
In most myths resolution comes with the death of a monster, but True Detective subverts this pattern. Hard and Cohle slay monsters in both 1995 and 2012, but they do not gain any satisfaction or resolution from their heroic deeds. If True Detective followed a standard narrative, the story would have ended in 1995 after the Detectives killed the bad guys and rescued a little girl. Instead, this “success” leads to a collapse of the partnership and further doubt and unease about the morals by which they live. No one else seems to notice it, but the detectives know theirs is a tainted victory. In truth, they didn’t really save the children they found. The boy was already dead when they arrived and the girl was irreparably damaged by her abuse. Cohle is particularly haunted by his actions, and the incomplete nature of his victory. When recounting the incident he says, “and that little boy and that little girl, they’re gonna be in that room again, and again, and again, forever.” In 2012, Hart and Cole chase Evil again, but this time there are no innocents to save. No children to rescue. The second time around, the Detectives want something more than to save people or protect their community. They want the truth about Evil, they want an answer to the question that haunted them for 20 years: why does Evil exist? When Hart and Cohle find and kill Errol, the physical embodiment of Evil, they find no answers. The center of the labyrinth may have held the monster, but it was devoid of the truth that they so desperately sought.
We don’t need to look to fiction to understand why catching a flesh and blood monster isn’t satisfactory. In real life, the government captured, tried and convicted Jeffrey Dahmer. Top forensic psychologists spent months questioning Dahmer, trying to learn what drove him to torture, rape, kill and eat his victims before decorating his home with their bones. Their interviews gave us more detail than anyone would want to know about these activities, but left us with no more insights as why such an Evil exists in the world. Capturing this real life monster left us with a few more tools in our psychological profiling kit, but it left the good people of the world just as powerless as we were before. We have as much hope of stopping the next serial killer as we do of stopping the next hurricane that will hit the Gulf coast. Evil is a cycle, a spinning force of nature repeating the same patterns over and over again. It cannot be stopped permanently, but it can be contained by structures like the labyrinth and held in check by men like Theseus and Detectives Hart and Cohle.
The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.
Detectives Hart and Cohle are bad men in the position to do bad things. As Cohle points out to a prostitute, “Of course I’m dangerous. I’m police. I can do terrible things to people with impunity.” It’s a common theme in pulp and detective fiction that in order to stop criminals the men who chase them must become equally as brutal. What makes True Detective unique is that it doesn’t focus on the morality of Hart and Cohle’s decisions. It remains focused on the bigger question: Why does Evil exist? If Evil did not exist, there would be no need for men like Hart and Cohle voluntarily spend decades of their lives chasing it. If there were no monsters, we would need no labyrinths to contain them and no heroes to slay them.
In the Minotaur myth the hero is Theseus, a brave youth who volunteers to kill the Minotaur in order to end the practice of sacrificing boys and girls to him year after year. Cohle clearly fills this role in True Detective, being the driving, obsessive force who runs headlong into the labyrinth in pursuit of the monster. But it’s Hart who fills a more quiet, but equally important role: that of Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos who falls in love with Theseus and gives him the ball of string he uses to make it out of labyrinth alive. For all the jokes about the “bromance” in True Detective, there’s no denying that Hart and Cohle are involved in a meaningful relationship. On Cohle’s side, the interest seems largely driven by utility at first – Hart is a good partner and does solid police work. Hart’s interest in Cohle is a little more enigmatic. Hart is well respected by his superiors. He’s on track to rise through the ranks of the police force, should he want to, and yet he chooses to partner with Cohle, an obvious trouble maker. Cohle bothers him on a visceral level, challenging Hart’s religion and calling him on the hypocrisy of spouting family values while cheating on his wife. There seems to be no gain for Hart in maintaining his partnership with Cohle, and yet he chooses to follow him into the labyrinth once in 1995 and again in 2012.
In his interviews, Hart fancies himself a great judge of character, but ends up telling us more about his own nature than he does about anyone else. He is a man who knows what matters in life, what keeps people tethered to their communities and responsibilities. In the first episode, he describes the problem with Cohle by saying, “Past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing.” In a later portion of the interview, he talks about his security business and Private Investigative work telling the younger detectives, “once you’re out [of the police work], you have to stay busy. Most end up in the cemetery.” Both are good pieces of advice, but Hart isn’t great at following through on them. He loses his family through infidelity and his retirement is far less busy than he would have people believe. Still, he can see the thread that ties people and society together, just as clearly as Cohle can see the spiral pattern of the universe. Theseus and Ariadne, Hart and Cohle, both pairs of characters need each other in order to kill monsters and live to tell the tale.
One of the first things Cohle says upon waking up in the hospital after killing Errol Childress is, “We didn’t get them all.” Even fresh from a coma Cohle knows that the job of slaying Evil is not done. It is Detective Hart, the man who holds the string, the man who knows the way out of the labyrinth and back to society, who keeps Cohle from getting sucked into his destructive spiral again by reminding him, “but we got ours.”
Detectives Hart and Cohle have done their time as bad men guarding the labyrinth. They’ve played their part and in turn, the job has taken a toll on them. By the end of the show Hart is gone to seed, divorced and estranged from his daughters. Cohle is a suicidal alcoholic. The only way for them to have a happy ending is to step away from the chase, to stop running down the same path only to find a different monster at the end each time. There are other, younger men like Detectives Papania and Gilbough to guard the labyrinth and fight the monsters. In time they too will age or die and the cycle will begin again with new names, new faces, new monsters. Time is a flat circle and this story is another version of a myth about a labyrinth, a monster to be slain, and two people searching for a way out.
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Semaphore (Vahn’s World) - Vahn and Games In The Dark
As the colony established itself, and the flow of information through the system expanded from a trickle to a flood, the willingness of various officials to be... profit oriented... has encouraged the creation of the thriving black market. Like many planned cities on terraformed worlds, the city of Conímbriga features massive tunnel works, dating back to its founding in anticipation of future expansion. The black markets have taken root down in the tunnels and thrived. So much so that the various black marketeers are collectively known as Tunnel Corps in the city. For the last two decades, these marketplaces have been one of the foremost locales for various islander groups to acquire the seed tech packages that they hope will sustain them in their dreams of independent living on the fringes of the Fourth Population. For various copyright and patent holders the place has been an ongoing thorn in their side, but during the Shohan planetary blockade the black market proved to be a true lifesaver for the planetary population. Its illicit designs and unregistered G3Ps provided a large portion of the necessary goods required to keep the city functioning while it was cut off from the outside world.
Unfortunately, their new found power spurred rounds of gang violence and blood spilled down tunnel drains as the various tunnel corps have tried to consolidate their power. Most of the violence died down prior to the liberation, some say with quiet government intervention. However, with the blockade now lifted and the communications flowing again, organizations like the Consórcio that had fallen with the blockade are rising again. The tunnel corps have no intention of relinquishing their new found power without a fight. The city of Conímbriga finds itself balanced precariously between three major powers: the Government under the leadership of charismatic president Augusto Alto; the Consórcio, emboldened by the military’s ravenous need for Tangle after nearly a decade of fading power; and the newly ascendant Tunnel Corps.
Sidebar: The Tunnel Corps
Despite the consolidation of the underground powers, there are several factions operating in the Underground. Among them are:
The Yellow Book Group - One of the older, more established outfits in the Underground. During the blockade wars, it was able to subsume several other tunnel corps during the conflict and remains one of the largest of the tunnel corps. It is led by Matias “Bombinha”, the so called “Firecracker” of the tunnels, who proved himself to be an effective and cunning leader in the gang wars. A giant of a man, Matias towers over his compatriots, but wears a special breathing apparatus to aid his breathing in the planet’s heavy gravity. The group is committed to holding on to the power they’ve taken and are working to create some kind of unified front among the remaining tunnel corps to oppose government and corporate efforts.
The 27th St. Corp - Another of the survivors of the blockade wars, the group used to control territory underneath 27th street, where many of the colony’s telecoms had Tangle banks. The corp had used this advantage to gain the inside track on cutting edge designs and data. However, when the blockade went up, this turned out to mean little. Although it survived the wars, it is a shadow of its prior self, even losing its namesake territory. These days, while they are publically receptive to The Yellow Book Group’s overtures to form a unified front, internally, they are willing to do whatever advances their own interests, hoping to play the other factions against each other.
The Light at the end of the Tunnel - More simply known as The Light. While the other groups have maintained the pretense of being simple businesses, The Light has leaned far more into the idea of being a gang. Comprised mostly of survivors from the various losing Tunnel Corps, that couldn’t or wouldn’t cut a deal with other outfits. This organization has been escalating its actions against all comers. While it’s the most overtly violent of the tunnel groups, it is also hard at work suborning corporate and government officials through blackmail and intimidation. Currently its biggest liability is the lack of a clear leader. As an amalgam of several defunct corps its board of directors all jealously guard their remaining power. No single person has managed to unify the unruly group.
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Robert Plant & Roger Daltrey Rock Forest Hills Stadium
Robert Plant on left with members of the Sensational Space Shifters, Photo by Michael Perlman
Roger Daltrey, Photo by Michael Perlman
For the sixth year, the iconic Forest Hills Stadium has attracted a diverse mix of legendary artists and a full house. Classics never die, as proven by two of the season’s earliest concerts. Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters performed with special guest singer, humanitarian, and nine-time Grammy recipient Sheryl Crow and folk singer, songwriter, instrumentalist Seth Lakeman on June 13, followed by Roger Daltrey performing The Who’s “Tommy” with The New York Pops on June 17.
Full house at Forest Hills Stadium's Roger Daltrey & NY Pops concert, Photo by Michael Perlman
Seth Lakeman, Photo by Michael Perlman
Sheryl Crow, Photo by Michael Perlman
For over 50 years, Robert Plant, the lead singer and lyricist of Led Zeppelin, has never lost his wide and powerful vocal range, and is known as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. His charismatic performance features gestures include dancing, jumping, and clapping, making the audience feel energized. His dynamic band, the Sensational Space Shifters, as of 2012, is as sensational as the title implies. His “Carry Fire” tour featured classics such as “The Lemon Song,” “Going To California,” and “Whole Lotta Love,” making the audience go wild, and included newer numbers such as the “The May Queen.”
Robert Plant, Photo by Michael Perlman
Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters, Photo by Michael Perlman
Forest Hills native Glenn Lurie called it a thrill to attend big name concerts in his hometown. “We must all do what we can to keep the terrific music of the sixties and early seventies alive,” he said. For him, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” was a showstopper. He explained, “When Robert Plant performs Led Zeppelin tunes, it brings me back to reliving my high school days, when Zep's music was just part of the growing up experience of music, playing such a major role in my life. His voice sounds as clear and moving as it did in 1969.”
Sofia Monge, co-owner of Continental Photo, felt it was one of the best concerts ever. She said, “When I heard Robert Plant was performing, I was excited and curious. His voice is powerful as ever, just like in the old Led Zeppelin days, and the man is almost 70 years old. I’ve become an instant fan! It’s nice that he seeks out music from all over the world and has been influenced by it, and he has garnished the amazing Sensational Space Shifters band to create some incredible music.”
Kew Gardens resident Eric Schreiber, a child of the 1970s, considers Led Zeppelin a favorite band of all-time. He said, “Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were one of the most prolific songwriting tandems in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, comparable in magnitude to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. As a solo artist, Plant has really done the delta bluesmen proud.”
Schreiber felt “The Lemon Song” was a great opener, setting the show’s tone. He continued, “’Going To California’ and ‘Gallows Pole’ were tracks from albums I wore out the grooves on while coming of age. ‘In The Mood’ from The Principle of Moments, was a prime selection from his early solo career, which didn't push his vocal cords beyond their comfort zone and sounded good. ‘Bring It On Home’ and ‘Whole Lotta Love’ were the perfect note to close on. I left wanting more, and as we filed towards the exit, the last encore was still playing in my head.”
As for opener Sheryl Crow, Schreiber said, “It was interesting that she had spoken with tennis legend John McEnroe who told her he first played at Forest Hills Stadium when he was nine, but meanwhile, Robert Plant mentioned he had to ask his friends if he had ever played here, since he couldn't remember.” He compared her to Linda Ronstadt and praised her set and band. “She still has the pipes that established her as a multi-platinum act 25 years ago.”
Roger Daltrey & The Who band members, Photo by Michael Perlman
Spanning over 50 years, singer, musician, and actor Roger Daltrey continues to be a shining rock star, highly regarded for his charisma, powerful vocals, and energetic stage presence. His signature move is swinging a mic by its cord, as evident in the opening. In the mid-1960s, he founded the rock band, The Who, and became the lead singer. The Who took the stadium stage for two nights in 1971, and in 2015 for “The Who Hits 50!” tour. Considered the largest independent pops orchestra countrywide and the sole professional symphonic orchestra specializing in popular music, The New York Pops played Forest Hills for the past 4 years. Daltrey and some regulars of The Who band and The New York Pops united for a Father’s Day engagement of The Who’s “Tommy,” the rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy and his life experiences.
The New York Pops, Photo by Michael Perlman
His set opened with “Overture” and brought everyone to their feet with classics such as “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me,” and “Tommy Can You Hear Me?” His encore consisted of “Who Are You” and The Who’s signature number, “Baba O’Riley,” which featured a violin solo by virtuoso Katie Jacoby, and a suitable conclusion, “Always Heading Home.” One of Daltrey’s most memorable statements was “’Tommy’ is all of us, and all the characters in ‘Tommy’ are different people in all of us.’ We all have the potential to come out if we are careful. It’s all in there somewhere in the human mix.”
Commuting from Manhattan, Stuart Haber felt the collaboration between Roger Daltrey and The New York Pops initiated an additional depth to the score. He said, “You didn’t need videos above the stage. I saw Roger do the Tommy tour at Nassau Coliseum about six years ago and I saw The Who do it last year at Royal Albert Hall, but the orchestra made so much of the difference, and it felt closer to a Broadway musical than a rock concert.” While the score was outstanding, he considered “Go to The Mirror Boy,” “I’m Free,” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as best. “For all the times I heard ‘Baba O’Riley’ live, this was the only time the violin was used, and it was transcendent!” he continued.
Jane Schulyer Carucci of Forest Hills has seen The Who for over 30 years including their 2015 stadium appearance. “The New York Pops added to their music a classical component, which is timeless for the ages. All generations can enjoy this, as I've seen youngins really enjoying the show.”
Robert Schnell wearing The Who coat commutes in style
Forest Hills Gardens concertgoer Robert Schnell proved just that. “The highlight was bringing my 5-year-old daughter Ishanika Gabriele Schnell to her first concert and watching her dance to daddy’s music.” Reminiscing his own childhood, he added, “My brother Rich turned me on to Tommy when I was 10 through the Woodstock album, and finally The Who’s first ‘rock opera’ is performed by an orchestra with the band, which is 49 years in the making!”
Ivy Hammer and her husband Steve made New York Pops concerts their summer tradition. She extended additional praise to Daltrey. “He’s now 74 and terrific. He moved around the stage easily and sounded the same as in his younger days with his clear and strong voice.”
Arriving early to the Roger Daltrey & NY Pops concert, ready to rock the night away, Photo by Michael Perlman
Labels: Concert, Forest Hills Stadium, Historic, Katie Jacoby, Led Zeppelin, Michael Perlman, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Seth Lakeman, Sheryl Crow, The New York Pops, The Sensational Space Shifters, The Who, Tommy
For Sale: Ben’s Best Deli Seeks New Owner ASAP!!!
For parties interested in acquiring Ben’s Best, email unlockthevault@hotmail.com
Jay Parker, the longtime owner of Ben’s Best Delicatessen at 96-40 Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, announced that it may soon be history, if a buyer is not found for one of the last mom and pop kosher delis citywide. On June 7, a notice stated, “Regretfully, after 73 wonderful years, Ben’s Best will be closing its doors on June 30th. We are very grateful to everyone who has supported us, and we hope to see you one last time.”
In response, this columnist, as Chair of Rego-Forest Preservation Council, submitted a preservation proposal to the owner. It explained that time is of the essence to find an individual who will acquire this historic business. Parker was receptive and responded, “I had every desire to continue the business through other hands. If you find an interested party, we can reconstitute the business. My staff would love to continue working here.” Parker is open to meetings with prospective owners, and if a contract is negotiated, the staff members and ambiance would be retained.
Parker attributed his business’ recent decline to bike lanes and the loss of approximately 200 parking spots since last summer. “Bike lanes are murdering us,” he said. A banner across the façade now announces “curbside service,” and a petition calling for its removal has been placed inside.
Staff posing alongside Harry Glaubach's Ben's Best wooden art piece & wall of fame
Painting of Ben's Best founder Benjamin Parker & his son Jay Parker, Photo by Michael Perlman
Ben’s Best was opened by Benjamin Parker in 1945 and was purchased by his son Jay Parker in 1984. “There was an approximate 1,500 kosher delis in the 5 boroughs in 1938, but today there’s about 12 remaining,” said Parker. In an average week, Parker would serve an estimated 900 pounds of pastrami, nearly the same for corned beef, and around 250 pounds of white meat turkey.
Benjamin Parker circa 1940s, Courtesy of Jay Parker
Ben’s Best scored a Zagat excellent rating of 4.3, while there are not many Zagat-rated delis. Ben’s Best caters private and corporate events, has a national air freight business, and has enticed the palates of numerous notables including Israeli President Shimon Peres, actor and comedian Jerry Lewis, Senator Jacob Javits, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Mayor Ed Koch, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Ben's Best classic depiction on Lower East Side by famed artist Harry Glaubach
Ben's Best classic depiction on wood by famed artist Harry Glaubach
The classic ambiance features portraits of notables and plaques, and a 65-seat wood-paneled dining room with historic Rego Park scenes and a painting of Benjamin Parker. A map reads “You’ve been in our home. Where is yours?” and allows patrons to pin their residence. Designed by famed artist Harry Glaubach is a classic wooden work, which provides an illusion of Ben’s on the Lower East Side and memorializes the Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, and The Three Stooges. The famed logo on the façade sign and menu depicts a man on a bicycle riding by a deli window.
Danny DeVito & Jay Parker of "The Comedian," Courtesy of Jay Parker
Ben's Best 1980s staff photo with Jay Parker, 2nd from left
Ben's Best in late 1980s Vlasic pickles commercial, Courtesy of Jay Parker
Ben’s Best occasionally becomes a production set and is featured in written works. “The Comedian,” a Sony Pictures Classics film starring Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, and Leslie Mann, had a wide release in theaters on February 3, 2017, and Ben’s Best was featured in four scenes, with Parker cast as counterman. It was featured in this columnist’s book “Legendary Locals of Forest Hills and Rego Park” and on The Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” in “From Crepes to Kreplach” (season 11, episode 9). The deli also appeared in “Deli Man,” a documentary which chronicles cross-country deli owners.
Numerous patrons among deli fans immediately conveyed much support for Ben’s Best and shared memories and their hopes. Scott Aronofsky explained “What set Ben's Best apart from the other less memorable old school kosher delis in Queens is that everything was made the old-fashioned way, from recipes handed down and taught to Jay by his father. Nothing was frozen or canned. Even if Ben's is saved, and I hope so, there's a certain skill set for making chicken in the pot, Hungarian goulash, kreplach, mushroom barley soup, stuffed cabbage, and of course pastrami the old-school way. It takes just one spice added the wrong way, and it won't be Ben's.”
Last Thursday, Ari Silverstein was enjoying lunch and then was shocked for a couple of reasons. He was among the first to hear the news. “I ran into somebody I never thought I'd see in a kosher deli, jazz singer Vicki Burns who I rarely see her out of her natural habitat, a jazz club. I told her she was in a local legendary restaurant. Then Jay told her ‘you didn’t have the pastrami?!...who goes to a deli to have salad?’ Then he told us he will be closing. I listened to Jay and Marty tell stories about their most memorable times, and especially the one about creating an outdoor seating section for a large bus group, right on Queens Boulevard.”
Lori Rosen immediately thought, “Oh no, not another neighborhood icon gone.” She reminisced, “When Ben's turned 50, they sold hot dogs and matzah ball soup for only a nickel to commemorate it, and the mayor even came to honor them. Since my mother's passing, my brothers and I have sought comfort in their food, atmosphere, and great memories. My mom loved their rice pudding and we both loved their amazingly sweet kugel. We also catered on many occasions.”
“Where does the flavor of a community go without maintaining tradition?” asked longtime patron Miri Malach. “In the 1980s, my aunt, uncle, and their three sons came every week from Westchester. When my brother moved to L.A., dad would always pack him a sandwich for the plane.” “My eldest son launched a sports program in Forest Hills and teaches in preschools, so on our weekly meal, we get him corned beef till this day to keep him strong,” she chuckled.
Arthur Cohen, whose family has also patronized Ben’s since the late 1940s, called it the premier kosher deli. “In its heyday, it was always packed especially on weekends to either dine in or take out, and even Sid Caesar came here when he lived nearby in Walden Terrace. One of my favorite deli meats was rolled beef, which I’m not sure is even made today.” He offered an idea to attract a diverse clientele. “If a new owner is found, they can combine the kosher deli with a lighter menu to take in changes of tastes with a more modern twist.”
Ben's Best owner Jay Parker outside his deli, Photo by Michael Perlman
“Ben’s Best represents a direct link to the end of WWII and is a landing zone to the American Jewish experience,” said Robert Rosner, who feels that the neighborhood that he was raised in has been in the “crosshairs of very destructive business practices and city government actions.” He continued, “Some things get lost to time in progress, but Ben’s Best should not be one of them. Katz‘s Delicatessen has been thriving in this environment of Jewish deli decline, and that key to success needs to be harnessed by the present or new owner.”
Third generation patron Ellen Chernick makes the commute from Woodside. “Closing Ben’s represents a demise of Queens Boulevard, and I’m still getting over the closing of Alexander’s.”
Owner Jay Parker poses with memorabilia & pin-your-location map, Photo by Michael Perlman
You've been to our home. Where is yours? - Photo by Michael Perlman
A vintage hand-drawn Friday menu special, Photo by Michael Perlman
Ben's Best Delicatessen's classic menu cover, Photo by Michael Perlman
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Namibia Consider Solar Power As Another Source Of Energy
Namibia is seriously considering solar power as an additional source of energy, to counter the diminishing electricity capacity in the country and the SADC region, as a whole.
Mines and Energy Permanent Secretary, Josef Iita, says the continued over-dependence on fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil for energy, will not be possible in future, if alternative renewable energy sources are not looked at.
"This can be attributed to the fact that fossil fuels have a limited lifespan and the excessive use of fossil fuels is known to give rise to the serious environmental problem of climate change, with its possible numerous devastating effects"
Iita says as Namibia is not exempted from prospects of diminishing sources of conventional energy, the government is committed to finding alternative sources.
Iita says solar energy is one such alternative, given that Namibia is amongst the countries with the highest solar radiation levels, in the world.
The ministry during this week held a National Renewable Energy Workshop, which pointed out solar energy as an alternative energy source for the future of the country.
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Showing posts from February 6, 2011
Mayor Jones Statement on the Passing of Leroy Hassell
By Office of the Press Secretary to the Mayor - February 09, 2011
Mayor Dwight C. Jones issued the following statement today: "I am saddened by the loss of this groundbreaking leader, the former Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr., the state's first black chief justice. He was a well-respected justice and his passing represents a loss to the legal profession. Our hearts are with his family during this very difficult time." ###
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A few burning issues (Column ~ 06/16/10)
While my wife has a lot of great qualities, common sense is not always one of them. As a matter of fact, I think somewhere along the way she lost her common sense and just has not been able to find it...
Honest criticism lacking in politics (Column ~ 06/16/10)
Over the past two weeks - following a self-imposed sabbatical - I have had the time to more fully view the political landscape as presented by the mass media. Granted, it's impossible to get any honest assessment from watching the talking heads on television but I tried nonetheless...
Dennis Ledbetter (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
SULLIVAN -- Dennis J. Ledbetter, 51, died May 23, 2010. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition.
Eddie Watson (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. -- Eddie Watson, 70, formerly of Haywood City Mo., died June 13, 2010 at the Glen Oaks Medical Center in Glendale Heights. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Jimmy Aters (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
EAST PRAIRIE - Jimmy Aters died June 15, 2010, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete.
Gloria Bagby-Coleman (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
SUMTERVILLE, Fla. -- Gloria Jean Bagby-Coleman, 69, died Feb. 19, 2010, at the Lane Purcell Hospice House in Sumterville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Patricia Ohmes (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
SIKESTON -- Patricia J. Ohmes, 61, died June 14, 2010. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition.
Rose Mary Littleton (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
SIKESTON -- Pallbearers for services held Tuesday for Rose Mary Littleton, 83, who died on June 11, 2010, were: Harry Littleton, Clayton Rakey, Scott Barnes, Justin Rakey, Ben Littleton and Andrew Littleton.
Lillian Braden and Larry Braden (Obituary ~ 06/16/10)
SIKESTON -- A joint memorial committal service will be conducted Friday for Laurence P. and Lillian Braden. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Scott City, Risco players head up coaches all-state team (High School Sports ~ 06/16/10)
JEFFERSON CITY -- The 2010 all-state baseball teams have been selected by the Missouri High School Baseball Coaches Association. Scott City's Skylar Cobb was a first team selection in Class 2 as a utility player. The senior has already signed to play at Three Rivers Community College next season. The left-handed Cobb went 7-1 with a 1.10 ERA over 50 2/3 innings. He struck out 95. At the plate, he batted .426 with two homers, 26 RBIs and 22 runs scored...
Numbers show how bracelets can save money (Local News ~ 06/16/10)
scottw@standard-democrat.com BENTON -- Scott County commissioners have said electronic monitoring bracelets could save the state money. Now they have a concrete example of just how much that could be. For the complete article and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...
Rains reduce wheat harvest (Local News ~ 06/16/10)
michellef@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Farmers have been out in the fields harvesting their wheat crop for about a week now. And although yields are above average, this year's harvest is projected to be far less than typical, due to fewer acres being planted...
Team building (Local News ~ 06/16/10)
michellef@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- There is tons of competition this month as various businesses fight for bragging rights in the 13th Corporate Games. "This is a good team-building event for companies," said Jiggs Moore, director of the Sikeston Parks Department, which sponsors the now biennial event...
Some liquor control duties will now switch to city (Local News ~ 06/16/10)
SIKESTON -- Sikeston businesses can expect enforcement of liquor laws to take on a more local flavor. City Manager Doug Friend said during the special meeting Tuesday that due to cutbacks in the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, various liquor control duties will be shifted to the city...
City council OKs budget for FY-2011 (Local News ~ 06/16/10)
scottw@standard-democrat.com SIKESTON -- Sikeston's next fiscal year will be all about maintaining reserves while waiting for the economy to fully recover. City Council members approved the city's Fiscal Year 2011 municipal budget along with the staffing and compensation ordinance during a special meeting Tuesday...
A Natural (High School Sports ~ 06/16/10)
Oran's Haley Glastetter won the school's first track-and-field state championship in the 100-meter hurdles despite having no hurdles for practice.
Northwest Tennessee blazes past Squirrels (High School Sports ~ 06/16/10)
The visiting Blazers scored four runs in the final inning to secure an 8-3 win over the Charleston Squirrels.
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About TWCH
About the Pierres
Schedule a Team
The Agape House
Make a lasting impact in a child's life
Become an Ambassador today!
“We love because He first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
The Agape House was started at the end of 2013 when Stephen and Autumn Byxbe of Together We Can–Haiti were asked to prayerfully consider assuming responsibility of 14 children in a local children’s home. The Byxbes had known the children for years having served as house parents for them in 2011 and part of 2012. It was also the home where they had found their son, Josiah, in 2011. When approached with this need and the opportunity to continue to invest in the lives of these children, the decision was very clear. The Byxbes have always considered the Agape House children as an extension of their family.
The prayer and heart of The Agape House is to provide a home for these incredible children in which they all grow up experiencing the love of Christ. While some of them may be adopted into loving families, TWC-Haiti recognizes that (due to the difficulty of international adoption out of Haiti) many of them may not, so our goal is to offer these children unconditional love and security through a family unit approach to their care.
In a country where there is no functioning foster system, the goal of the Agape House has always been first and foremost to fight to keep families together whenever possible. The Agape House has successfully fostered, rehabilitated, and reunified multiple children with their birth families when their health had deteriorated due to serious malnutrition or health issues and they needed temporary foster care. The Agape House also fights to help families stay together when severe poverty compels desperate parents to bring children our way by providing micro loans to help them get back on their feet and provide for their children. Unfortunately there are cases in Haiti – just as in any other country – where no matter of intervention can ensure that a child could safely stay with their birth families in circumstances of abuse at the hands of their parents. Sadly, that’s why safe places like the Agape House are needed when vulnerable children are left with no other options. At the Agape House, we make every effort to provide homes that are small enough to function as family units where the children’s care can be very focused. In an effort to help foster healthy attachment and bonding for children who have virtually all endured terrible trauma, we have intentionally structured these homes so that the Haitian mamas serving as the primary caregivers can be constants in the children’s lives rather than employing a continually rotating staff.
Education is a very important aspect of The Agape House’s efforts to nurture these children as well. The Agape House children have classes in Haitian Creole, French, and English on a daily basis. Discipleship and biblical training are also central pillars of their education. For the children in our care who struggle with learning disabilities or special needs, the Agape House is also striving to provide life skills and career training in an effort to afford each child with every opportunity to reach his or her fullest potential both now, and in their futures.
The Agape House’s main objective is to provide Christ-centered homes in which these children come to find their greatest purpose, identity, and eternal worth in belonging to a Heavenly Father who has promised to never leave them and whose love will never fail.
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Recession Hits Summer Camp: Parents Seek Deals on Fees
Posted byadmin July 2, 2009
In the five years since Jed Dorfman has been running Camp Walt Whitman, a posh haven complete with waterskiing and private boats in Piermont, N.H., that charges as much as $9,450 for a seven-week stay, he has had to work out payment plans and extend deadlines to help one or two families. Until this year, that is. A few months ago, with the enrollment deadline fast approaching, he called the families of several kids who had been coming to camp for years but hadn’t signed up yet for 2009. He heard details about grandparents who had footed the bill for camp losing their money to Bernie Madoff. He heard about parents who worked on Wall Street no longer getting a big enough bonus to cover camp. And the list went on. To keep his loyal campers coming back, he cut some deals: while everyone paid the same, more families than ever set up payment plans. “In the macro picture, we’re in the same place we’ve always been, but in the micro picture, we’ve had families who have gone through real changes,” Dorfman says.
With its registration levels near normal, Camp Walt Whitman is one of the lucky ones. Across the country, camps have reported drops of 10% to 20% in enrollment. Parents are also opting to send their kids for shorter periods.
Summer camp is big business, a multimillion-dollar industry that provides child care for more than 3 million campers every year. But much like buying a car or choosing a college, this year parents have been more apt to shop around and try to find the best deals. “We’ve seen a great increase in parents going to camp fairs,” says Peg Smith, executive director of the American Camp Association. “We think that is encouraging, because generally the last dollar a parent is going to cut will be one they spend on their children.”
Camps have been eager to negotiate. Some are even leaving it up to parents to decide what they can afford. In New York City, overnight YMCA camps have started a tiered-payment system in which parents essentially use an honor code to determine whether they need to get up to a $400 discount on the $1,397 tuition for the two-week sessions. As of June, 43% of enrollees had opted to pay the full amount, 13% took $200 off and 44% took all $400 off.
At Camp Yosemite Sierra, a Christian adventure camp in Bass Lake, Calif., executive director Sara Kuljis says she has been looking for different ways to help parents afford camp. Many children are coming for free in exchange for their parents working at the camp. Compared to years past, when a few parents worked as nurses for a session, this year parents are bartering everything from their skills as guest speakers to designing sets for camp plays. “It’s been a way of working together just to get kids back to camp as much as we can,” Kuljis says.
Not all camps can cut such deals. Because of NCAA regulations, many sports camps cannot give any type of financial aid to campers in high school because they are considered potential recruits. Sports camps, which are often held on a college campus and run by college coaches, have limited options to avoid economy-related enrollment drop-offs. Charlie Hoeveler, who runs U.S. Sports/Nike camps in 49 states and Puerto Rico, says he braced for the worst when he saw the early enrollment numbers this year.
“Right now, we’re probably 10% to 12% down, which I think is amazing considering how tough business is these days,” Hoeveler says. But even a 12% decline is an improvement from the 20% drop-off he was predicting earlier in the registration period. “I think people are just waiting on the sidelines, wanting to sign up,” he says. “They’re just waiting for the right time.”
And as the school year ends, Hoeveler, like many others in the camp industry, is happy to see that some parents are still slipping their children in after the relaxed registration deadlines. “As long as kids have summer vacation,” he adds, “parents will need something to do with their kids.”
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The Rogue Folk Club presents
The Rakish Angles & Mark Perry Trio
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The Rakish Angles (BC)
Mark Perry (BC)
MEL LEHAN HALL AT ST. JAMES i
3214 West 10th Ave, Kitsilano
Accessible All ages
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The boundary crossing, genre-blending stringband The Rakish Angles weave an intricate tapestry of Newgrass, Latin, Gypsy-Jazz and Oldtime music. The quartet's members come from musical backgrounds as diverse as Classical, Bluegrass, Jazz, and Heavy Metal. The Rakish Angles common influences include The David Grisman Quintet, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien, Edgar Meyer, and fellow Canadians The Creaking Tree String Quartet and Jayme Stone.
What makes the Rakish Angles unique is the collaborative spirit in which they put their pieces together - each musician composes original instrumental and vocal pieces for the group, and then they all come together to arrange the diverse tunes. They recognize and encourage each others different strengths and backgrounds, which is heard both in the compositions and in the way each musician is given space to shine.
The Rakish Angles' impeccably crafted debut album consists of thirteen pieces all written, arranged and produced by the band. The album captures the exuberance, beauty and creativity of their live show. The quartet has been nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award (2009), Western Canadian Music Award (2010), and was selected as a finalist for an Indie Acoustic Project Award (2009). The Rakish Angles have shared stages with Tony Trischka, Doug Cox, Po'Girl, Celso Machado, The Red Clay Ramblers, Frazey Ford, Jesse Zubot, The Voyageur Guitar, and Tanya Tagaq.
Having played Folk, Jazz, and even Writers festival stages, as well as theatres, cafés and house concerts across western Canada, the Rakish Angles are beginning to garner Nation-wide attention and airplay and have had music used for film. The quartet will be releasing their second album in the summer of 2011 featuring something new - the energetic 4-part vocal harmonies of the band.
The Rakish Angles are: Boyd Norman (Bass), Serena Eades (Violin), Dan Richter (Guitar) and Simon Hocking (Mandolin)
Mark Perry is a prolific songwriter from Northwestern British Columbia, with 7 albums to his credit. His 8th recording, West, will be released in September of 2011 and was recorded in Victoria BC with producer Joby Baker. It features fine West Coast musicians, Joby Baker, Steve Dawson, Tobin Frank, Rick May and even includes a special appearance by Alex Cuba.
In his early teens, Mark played in basement bands and at school dances and weddings. From weekend bands to hitting the road making a living in the bars, playing music became a major part of his life.
In 1990 Mark recorded Dreams of the Highway with a West Coast hero of his, Roy Forbes (Bim). Seven albums later, and having worked with numerous producers, Mark continues to write and record. I've worked with quality people over the years and I have good things to say about all of them. I've tried different combinations searching for the right fit. To me, music and song writing is like life's journey, start writing and see how the story unfolds.
Mark has played at festivals, coffee houses, theatres and bars across western Canada. He writes about hockey games on frozen lakes, plane crashes, bank robberies, towns dying, towns being born, laughs, tragedies and the people that come with them.
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Running in History
Hard to imagine him running, for some reason, but Adolf Hitler's primary duty in the First World War was as a despatch runner between his List Regiment HQ and the trenches, a role in which he won an Iron Cross. He is said to have liked it so much that he turned down a promotion because it would have meant leaving the messenger group.
According to a fellow runner (they always ran in two's), the pair of them were 'falling more than running' across the mud and craters: 'We bent low, racing across open country. I could scarcely lift myself from the ground any more and still Hitler urged me onwards, onwards!......sweat dug deep rivulets into our faces......I dashed with Hitler to the battle HQ of the 17th regiment. He scarcely gave me time to get my breath back before we raced on to the 21st regiment.......grenades chased us through the darkness of the night......"Now push on!", said Hitler.' It wasn't to be the last time he said that at war, of course.
In his memoirs, 'Two Despatch Runners', this same fellow runner, Balthasar Blandmayer, described Hitler repeatedly refusing to rest between runs: ' "You're crazy", I cried out angrily. "How would you know?" was his prompt reply.'
In a letter from the front, Hitler describes himself hitting the ground in the face of a barrage of shells before making a run for it: 'If we are going to be killed, it is better to die in the open.......I jumped up and ran as fast as I could across open meadows and beet fields, jumping over fences, hedgerows and barbed wire entanglements.' He must have had some free time, though, as below is his 'Study at Fromelles', his drawing of the area where he served as a runner.
It was during the Battle of Fromelles at the Somme that a shell exploded in the message-runners dugout, causing severe shrapnel wounds to Hitler's thigh. He returned to his running duties some months later, but was wounded again at Marcoing, where a British soldier, Private Henry Tandey, came across him and took aim, but baulked at shooting a wounded, exhausted man. Unable to run, Hitler just looked and nodded at Tandey, and slumped away (this incredible story and its even more incredible aftermath is told in David Johnson's The Man Who Didn't Shoot Hitler). A later mustard gas attack caused Hitler to lose both his sight and his voice, so it was in hospital that he learned of the German surrender and began to form a plan for the Reich's resurgence: 'When I was confined to my bed, the idea came to me that I would liberate Germany and make it great again', as he put it in Mein Kampf.
Within two decades, he was Chancellor of Germany, and it was running that was to provide the greatest public humiliation to Nazi racial theories when the black American athlete, Jesse Owens, embarrassed the pride of the Reich on their own doorstep at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning four gold medals. Hitler is quoted as saying that 'those who have antecedents in the jungle have a better physique than civilised whites and hence should be excluded from future Games'. It is not recorded where he thought the whites' antecedents came from.
Qwens himself always asserted that he had been snubbed more by his own President than by Hitler, at a time when multiracial running events were forbidden in his home state, Alabama.
Hitler saw Greek classical sculptures of athletes, warriors and women as embodying the ideals of his supposed Aryan master race. He even bought the famous Discobolus, 'The Discus Thrower' (actually a marble copy of Myron's Greek bronze original, now lost). This iconic artwork was brought to life, literally, in Leni Riefenstahl's groundbreaking but controversial documentary about the Berlin Olympics, 'Olympia', which was later considered by Pauline Kael, doyenne of film critics, to be the greatest twentieth century film directed by a woman. The Running Muse will be returning to 'Olympia' to outline the way it revolutionised the aesthetic and technical aspects of the filming of sport, particularly athletics.
As for Private Tandey, who had won a Victoria Cross at the battle at Marcoing, he had cause to regret not shooting the messenger, not least because he was an air raid warden during the devastating Blitz bombing of Coventry in the Second World War.
Quotes are from Balthasar Blandmayer in John F. Williams' 'Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918: The List Regiment'; from Adolf Hitler's letter to his lawyer friend, Ernst Hepp; and from the Nazi architect and minister for armaments, Albert Speer, in his book, 'Inside the Third Reich'.
By The Running Muse, Oct 2 2014 01:42PM
'I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercise', said the man whose pulse rate more than doubled when taking one small step - Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong. He may have been the first to walk on the moon, but he clearly had no intention of being the first to run there.
That honour would fall to one of the two astronauts exploring the moon's surface during the next mission, Apollo 12's Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, both of whom found running to be a more efficient way to 'walk' in one-sixth gravity. Neither remembers which one ran first, however, and hardly any video footage of their lunar excursions exists, because Mr. Bean had apparently pointed the colour TV camera at the sun and damaged its sensor.
Since they were running extraterrestrially across one of the biggest craters in the solar system, an actual image would've made all those stunning Rave Run pictures in Runner's World look rather.....well, pedestrian. Fortunately, fascinating footage does exist of lunar running from the last time humans wandered there, as we'll see.
Bean also managed to leave several rolls of photographic film behind on the moon surface, which may be why he took to representing this and other missions in paint on his return. Below is his 'Fast Times on the Ocean of Storms', a self-portrait in acrylic and Moon dust. Yep, real Moon dust. Note that both feet are off the ground.
The frictional forces that give traction are proportional to weight and would thus be reduced, especially on a dusty surface. Although our weight is less on the moon, our mass, inertia and momentum are the same as on earth - add the 'long pause' waiting for the leg to land, which takes six times as long, as well as the cumbersome, pressurised spacesuits which have water sloshing around their inner layers for cooling, and you can imagine how the actions we are used to taking on earth could lead to problems maintaining stability, stopping, turning, going downhill, etc..
Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were not only running on the moon, but were actually comparing two different running styles - loping (as in the above clip) and bunny-hopping (see below). 'Loping's the only way to go', says Schmitt, the cameraman.
Walking is essentially controlled falling. As the body moves forwards and its centre of gravity vaults over the stiff front leg, the back ankle pushes off towards the front and the fall is arrested. Crucially, this involves a certain amount of bobbing up and down - in energy terms, potential energy converts to kinetic energy and back again, with energy being added by the muscles at push-off.
Running involves timing this so that the back leg leaves the ground before the forwards one has landed, i.e., both feet are off the ground at some point. This criterion is used to distinguish walking from running in competitive sport as well as in the dictionary. As the speed of walking increases, it becomes more economical to run in terms of the energy required, and thus in terms of oxygen consumption, the 'locomotive breath', so to speak.
Things feel a bit different when gravity is reduced and there is no atmosphere, though. To illustrate this, we'll take a topical case where the force of gravity is several hundred thousand times weaker than on earth. Here's how one commentator on today's astonishing Rosetta landing on Comet 67P explained what walking on its surface would be like: 'Step (carefully). Hurl through space. Flail. Slowly arc towards comet. Land. Bounce. Skid. (Repeat).'
Bean's lunar running experience also felt unfamiliar, albeit to a lesser degree: 'I was light on my feet, much as I expected. When I pushed off with one foot, there was a long pause before I landed on the other foot, like running in slow motion. I could feel my muscles completely relax as I glided along to the next stop. I seemed to float just above the surface.......I felt I must look like a gazelle, leaping long distances with each bound. I looked over at my partner........he was space-borne for a long time, but, to my surprise, he wasn't rising very high or leaping very far at all. Then I realised that in the moon's light gravity we did not have the traction to push hard backwards with our boots. I wasn't leaping like a gazelle - it only felt that way.'
Now I'm no fan of the treadmill, but in this next fascinating clip, astronaut Karen Nyberg shows us how she runs in zero gravity on the International Space Station, where the astronauts have to exercise daily because of the effects that the absence of gravity has on muscle mass and bone density. The treadmill has to be set on a vibration isolation system, otherwise unwanted loads are imparted to the whole space station.
I'm reminded of one of Mr. Christie's tortuous applied maths questions at school, which asked us to consider the forces acting on someone standing on a board on a ball of ice in a lift suspended by a spring in a moving capsule in earth orbit, and then calculate the overall resultant force - 'if any', as he put it.
That isn't quite as fanciful as it sounds: research experiments published in 2007 in Acta Astronautica investigated the optimum gait for moonwalking in one-sixth gravity by suspending spacesuit-clad walkers from a spring. Their results showed that bending your knee was indeed harder in a pressurised suit, but because its springiness tended to straighten it again, much of the energy put in to each step was recovered.
This finding led to a counterintuitive conclusion that confirmed the empirical reports of the Apollo astronauts: if your oxygen supply is low while strolling around in a spacesuit, you should run back to your base, not walk, because the extra springiness of running means a higher percentage of the energy used per unit distance is recovered.
Anyway, here's Karen of the vertical hair: note her strange running form, leaning back. In weightless conditions, she does not need to manage her centre of gravity into the usual earth position - her form is determined by the harness that keeps her perpendicular to the treadmill.
A dozen men have walked on the moon, and some even went backwards, using a kind of reverse shuffle, but most of them were running at some point. Within a few years, Police were singing 'feet, they hardly touch the ground, walking on the moon', and Michael Jackson was moonwalking backwards himself, rather more elegantly than Neil Armstrong was in first stepping on to the moon.
But here's a thought for those of you who may be taking part in the MoonWalk night marathons now happening annually in London and Edinburgh: you'd be doing well if you can move faster than those 12 men, relative to the earth - they were travelling at one kilometre per second.
Those first lunar footprints are still there, preserved by the stillness. Back on earth, a quarter of a million miles away and four million years before, some of the first footprints of our bipedal ancestors were made in volcanic ash, and they too are preserved on a Tanzanian sandbar at Laetoli. Next week we will be looking at the first human runners, but for now I'll leave you to meditate on these pictures......
By The Running Muse, Nov 29 2014 1:28PM
Runners these days come in all shapes and sizes, living a range of lifestyles and roles, but I think most people were still surprised to see tubby transvestite comedian Eddie Izzard running all those consecutive marathons, or to read that bad boy uber-rapper Eminem (below) enjoyed running over 16 miles a day (2 x '8 Mile', I like to think).
I myself confess to a childish thrill on learning that avant-garde novelist James Joyce won hurdling trophies, that his fellow Irishman, Abraham ('Bram') Stoker, author of 'Dracula', was an Athlete of the Year in Dublin, or that an overweight man with mental health issues won every Olympic event one year at the ancient games (until I discovered that he was also the most powerful man in the world at the time, the notoriously capricious Roman emperor, Nero).
But there are some recent historical and artistic figures I just couldn't visualise running at all, even when told that they did. As mentioned a few posts ago, Adolf Hitler is one of those, even though it was his job at one time (as a despatch runner). Below are five others, three of whom had reputations as hard drinkers, while the other two have been referred to as either terrorist leaders or freedom fighters, depending of course on who you ask and your own point of view.
All are men, for some reason. Discuss.
1. YASSER ARAFAT
In 1985 Israeli F-15's bombed the headquarters of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in Tunis, killing 73 people, but their target, the portly PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, escaped death because he'd left the compound to go out jogging that morning.
He lived to see one of his personal security guards, Majid abu Maraheel, who himself had been shot in the arm by Israeli border guards in 1991 while out on a training run, compete in the 10,000 metres at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta as part of the first Palestinian team to compete in the Olympics. He came last in his heat in 34 mins 40.5 seconds, but received a rapturous standing ovation for the 74 seconds he was alone out on the track on his final lap.
In this 2004 photograph, Arafat is lighting a flame outside his Ramallah office as a symbol of his commitment to a ceasefire truce during the Athens Olympics of that year, echoing the ancient Greeks' cessation of hostilities to enable athletes to travel and participate in the games, which in those days were just one part of a large religious festival.
2. DYLAN THOMAS
When the 39-year-old Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, a legendary drinker and smoker, died in New York in 1953, he had a newspaper cutting in his wallet which included this photograph of his triumph, aged 13, in the 1928 Swansea Schools one-mile race.
The publication of his first collection of poems was itself the result of a newspaper contest. His '18 Poems' included the arrestingly titled 'When, Like a Running Grave', a tortuous musing on the way 'time tracks you down......in a cinder death'. (The word 'cinder' here, besides conjuring up an image of funerary ashes, also recalls the cinder running tracks of his time).
His centenary in 2014 saw the creation in Swansea of the Dylan Thomas Mile in his honour. They of course should have called it the Llareggub Mile after the name of the fictional Welsh village where his most famous work, Under Milk Wood, is set. (Llareggub is a name best understood backwards.)
3. MAO TSE-TUNG
Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary communist founder of the People's Republic of China, was a great advocate of running, and he particularly recommended his own regimen of exercising in the nude twice a day, according to his appropriately named biographers, Pantsov and Levine (mercifully, no photograph exists of this, so the fully clothed action pic below will have to do).
'Long distance running is particularly good training for perseverance', he wrote in his 1917 'A Study of Physical Education', a statement of the obvious, perhaps, but one he thought needed saying. One presumes that he practised what he preached, but when he later became a communist, he little knew how that maxim was to be tested to the limit.
'A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step' is another quote often attributed to him, but this is actually from the Tao Te Ching, a classical Chinese wisdom text, and Mao actually said 'a thousand li' (as written in the Tao), not miles - one 'li' was a traditional Chinese distance now set as 500 metres, but as late as the 1940's, it had apparently varied depending on the effort required, so that a trip up a mountain was fewer li than the journey down!
His exhortations to persevere would come to the fore as he led the 1934 Long March, an 8,000-mile survival trek by 100,000 communists over treacherous rivers and mountainous terrain, all the while under constant attack by Chiang Kai Shek's nationalist forces (only 30,000 survived it).
His band's survival condemned millions more to die during Mao's own subsequent 'reign of terror', in which he would use the language of running to denounce whole classes of people as political enemies, calling them imperialist or capitalist running dogs, for instance, and regaling even moderates with that Confucius saying about the man who runs in the middle of the road getting run over by chariots going both ways ('stay safe - be an extremist' seems to be Mao's unorthodox take on the ancient philosopher's wisdom).
4. Norman Mailer
In 'The Fight', Norman Mailer's riveting account of Muhammed Ali's legendary 1975 'Rumble in the Jungle' world heavyweight boxing title fight with George Foreman in Zaire, the hard-drinking writer relates how, at 51, he went out on a 3 a.m. 5k training run with Ali a few days before the bout.
'That running takes more out of me than anything I ever felt in the ring', Ali himself had said, and, sure enough, after a couple of miles, Mailer couldn't keep up and found himself alone in a forest. Emerging on to a deserted road in pitch dark, he suddenly heard a nearby lion that roared 'like thunder, and it opened an unfolding wave of wrath across the sky and through the fields'.
He couldn't see a thing except for the lights of Ali's compound in the distance. Expecting the lion to leap on him at any moment, his life flashed before him, and he was already imagining both the headlines and his obituary. Pumped full of adrenaline, however, he chose flight over fight, picked up the pace and eventually arrived back safely, at which point it was Ali's turn to roar when he heard Norm's story, pointing out to him that he had just run past the local zoo.
5. JOE STRUMMER
'I train every night on stage', said Joe Strummer, lead singer of punk rock legends, the Clash, after completing one of his three city marathons in the 1980's. He had been his school cross-country champion, and it seems he relied solely on that base fitness and all that relentless thrashing around at gigs to get around the 26.2 miles.
He certainly wasn't a fan of putting in the training miles, judging by the account he gave to an American interviewer of his build-up to race day: 'Drink 10 pints the night before the race and don't run a single step at least four weeks before the race. It works for me.' A variety of cigarettes and distinctly non-performance-enhancing drugs also featured.
He entered his first London marathon on a whim at the last minute, running resplendent in a Clash 'Take the 5th' US tour T-shirt with its skull-and-crossbones motif depicting Uncle Sam. His girfriend, Gaby Salter, had failed to complete the race, but both finished the Paris Marathon the next year.
He heard London calling again for his final run in 1983, when he was part of a Sun newspaper team running in aid of Leukaemia Research. Whether his time would have been faster or slower than his 4hrs 13mins by sticking to the Runner's World 16-week marathon training plan, only the running muses would - oh, wait.....
.....well, some of them would know.
By The Running Muse, Apr 17 2015 07:23AM
' "I am sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear", he said, with a grateful sense of favours to come.'
The speaker here, Gabriel Oak in Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd', had mistakenly assumed that Bathsheba's running after him across the fields, face flushed, implied an acceptance of his marriage proposal, and so he immediately starts a conversation about their married life together. Her running in this context was a signal to him that she was up for it.
We have already seen in previous posts a few stories from Greek myth and German folklore that link running prowess with matrimony, where the prize was marriage to the loser or to a princess, for instance. Other tales involving some kind of running trial have marriage as the consequence rather than the prize, such as the 1957 western, 'Run of the Arrow' (see 'running quotes'), while the most popular ports of call for Spartan husbands prospecting for a wife were the rare all-female races of Greek antiquity (and this in a city-state which practised 'husband-doubling').
The human race goes on, of course, and it is not only in the animal kingdom that running has played a role as a kind of mating display to impress potential partners. Indeed, nuptials were a prominent and explicit feature of our history's oldest organised competitive games......as was divorce.
Let me first set the scene for the story of those games, which were first held 4,000 years ago, by recalling one of the more extraordinary feats of performing under pressure in a race - the story of Macha in Irish legend.
At a local tournament of games and races, Macha's husband, the brilliantly named Crunnchu, had boasted to the king, who had just won a chariot race, that his wife could run faster than the king's horses. To save him from being executed, she is forced to run against them whilst nine months pregnant. She not only wins, but also manages to give birth to twins at the finish line before the horses arrive in her wake!
The scene of the race was named Emain Macha, 'the twins of Macha' (today's city of Armagh), capital of the Ulaidh tribe who gave their name to Ulster, and home to the most celebrated of Irish mythological heroes, Cuchullain, himself no slouch as a runner: at the age of six, he could hit a hurling ball, throw his hurling stick and spear after it, then run and pick up the first two before catching the spear in mid-flight.
In Marie Heaney's version of the tale in 'Over Nine Waves', Macha's appeal for help from the crowd at the start of the race falls on deaf ears. As a result, she places a nine-year curse on them: in their hour of greatest need, they will become weak and defenceless from labour pains, the only men in 'history' to experience the pangs of childbirth.
When Ulster subsequently comes under attack from the army of Queen Maeve of Connacht, its soldiers' incapacity drives the heroic, single-handed deeds of Cuchullain, the only warrior immune to the curse, as he cuts a swathe through Ulster's enemies in epic adventures such as the 'Tain bo Cuailnge', the Cattle Raid of Cooley.
Now, Cuchullain's father was Lugh, who gave his name to the Gaelic festival that celebrated the beginning of the harvest in the last fortnight of July, Lughnasa. It was at this festival that he held funeral games for his foster-mother, Queen Tailtiu, thus inaugurating the Tailteann Games in Ireland, which predate even the ancient Olympic Games by at least a millennium and were held in their original form until well after the Norman invasion.
As well as athletics contests, including hurling, there were competitions and prizes for mental and artistic ability in tests of strategy, storytelling, singing, weaving, poetry and the making of jewellery.
The games were also the occasion for 'handfastings', arranged marriages after which the couple had a year and a day to decide whether they wanted to divorce on 'the hills of separation'. To do so, each of them would simply march up one of the twin earthen mounds there and turn their backs on each other across the Vale of Marriage, at which point the marriage was 'broken', without social consequences. No legal bills, no paperwork, no nothing. Just straight back down to the races, maybe, in search of another mate.
In medieval times, the games/handfasting combination continued intermittently as a fair at the original site at Teltown, County Meath, itself named after Tailtiu. They were then resurrected without the matchmaking after Irish independence, as the government and the Gaelic Athletic Association sought to create a new Irish sporting identity, eschewing British 'garrison games' such as football, rugby and cricket.
This modern version, open to all of Irish ancestry, was first held at Croke Park, Dublin in 1924. The extensive range of events included chess and music, but by 1936, the politics of the island's partition had scuppered the games, and the name only survives today in the Irish Schools Tailteann Interprovincial athletics festival (see below for an unusual and successful dip for the line in the Boys 800m in 2012).
The poem 'Ode to the Tailteann Games' won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1924 Olympics in Paris in the Mixed Literature 'event' of the arts competition (yes, there were modern Olympic Arts Competitions run by the International Olympic Committee until 1948, but that's another story, a fascinating one that will feature here soon).
The writer was Oliver St. John Gogarty, the senator, surgeon, poet and athlete on whom James Joyce based the character of Buck Mulligan in 'Ulysses'. He had just won a gold medal at the Tailteann Games themselves for his poetry collection, An Offering of Swans - W.B. Yeats was on the prize committee - and Gogarty had also competed in the archery there.
He is seen here in Orpen's 1911 portrait, now at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, but he is perhaps more widely known today for the famous music pub named after him in Temple Bar, Dublin.
As for matchmaking festivals, they continue elsewhere today, notably in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, during which they still have horse races, although the human athletics on display is limited to pub crawls.
Meanwhile, a certain amount of informal handfasting still goes on in running clubs and even at the modern Olympic Games, and it's a common sight these days to see proposals and weddings before, during and after city marathons. The current Citroën TV advert even has two strangers running in opposite directions and bumping into each other at a corner, with their future three children springing instantly from their collision.
Sadly, there are no modern equivalents of the 'hills of separation', unless you count leaving your partner sliding to the bottom of muddy inclines in an endurance race. Whether marriage itself is an endurance race, a hurdle race, a marathon or a sprint, I'm not sure the world is ready for Olympic Separation Trials or a Divorce 10k with a certificate in the goody bags.
The vicissitudes of marriage were handled so much more sensitively in those civilised race meets of 4,000 years ago, don't you think?
Over Nine Waves: a book of Irish legends (1994) by Marie Heaney, Faber and Faber
Top image is 'The Storm (La Tempête)' by Pierre Auguste Cot, 1880, oil on canvas, 234cm x 157cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Area 6 Set to Close
Each week we round-up the top fishing news from the Northwest and beyond. Do you have a news tip? E-mail us at news /at/ salmonuniversity.com.
Area 6 Fishing Ends February 22
Salmon fishing will close in Washington’s Marine Area 6 (East Juan de Fuca Strait) on February 22, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced this week. Before the salmon fishing season started, state and tribal officials agreed to 2,586 chinook encounters. Currently 70-percent of that number have been caught or released with the balance expected to be taken before the end of the month, according to the WDFW. On Salmon University’s Facebook page, reaction to the announced closure was largely negative.
The closure begins after the final day of the Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby.
Garmin Launches New High-Resolution GPSMAP 8400/8600
Garmin this week announced the launch of its new GPSMAP 8400/8600 series – all-in-one multi-function displays (MFDs). According to the company, the 8400/8600-series MFDs provide mariners the highest screen resolution on the market and are available in 17-, 22-, and 24-inch models that feature full HD in-plane switching (IPS) screens with multi-touch control.
“Garmin was the first to create a glass-helm design, and we’re excited to take it to the next level with the GPSMAP 8400/8600 series by offering increased resolution, larger display sizes and faster processing,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin vice president of worldwide sales, in a written statement. “This new series is a superior solution, offering the best in value, performance and ease-of-installation.”
Mariners can view videos in full or spilt-screen from a variety of media devices on the chartplotter’s display using the HDMI video input, or they can mirror the chartplotter screen on a TV or monitor using the HDMI output port found on these new devices. HDMI video is shared across the Garmin Marine Network and can be viewed on multiple displays. Users can even play digital audio from HDMI input through the boat’s stereo. According to Garmin, the new units will be available later this year.
Ashland Student Recognized for Salmon Work
Dominic Meads, 18, a senior at Ashland High School in Ashland Oregon, has been recognized as a state Distinguished Finalist in the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Meads is an advocate for environmental sustainability who has interned with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to help relocate young steelhead trout, and has researched the effects of forest fires on local salmon. The founder of his school’s fishing club, Mead has also volunteered with the annual Bear Creek Salmon Festival by planting trees along the river beds to keep the water cool for salmon in the infant stage of development.
Started in 1996 and presented with support from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards represents the United States’ largest youth recognition program based solely on volunteer service.
Fishing Board Game in Development
Anglers who are unable to score an opportunity to land a salmon before Area 6 closes, can stay indoors and sadly pretend to get the big one if a Kickstarter campaign is a success. The creator of “Florida Saltwater Fishing Tournament,” Michael Ball, promises it will be “the next best thing to a real fishing trip.” The proposed game has so far received two backers, and $100 in funding, toward its $20,000 goal. For more information, visit the game’s Kickstarter page.
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Will Maharashtra again witness a musical chair race for the Chief Minister’s Post?
Kamlesh Gaikwad
By On Last updated Jun 12, 2020
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray is now stable in his chair after being elected as a member of legislative council and fulfilling the established constitutional norms. Uddhav’s assurance to his late father and Shiv Sena (SS) chief Balasaheb Thackeray that a Shiv Sainik would become chief minister in the near future finally came true. The three parties Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena came together after stitching an alliance and Uddhav realised his dream in becoming the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
The BJP and SS were adamant over the Chief Minister’s post and they parted ways and ended their long term partnership. Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray were unhappy over the functioning style of Fadanvis and wanted the BJP to change their Chief Ministerial candidate. The BJP high-command in Delhi did not reverse their decision and stood behind Fadanvis. Later on the three parties came together and formed the Government in the state.
Uddhav Thackeray became Chief Minister on November 28, 2019 with the support of Nationalist Congress Party(NCP), the Congress, other smaller parties and some independent MLAs. After great efforts and out manoeuvring the saffron party, with the final tally of the Shiv Sena with 56, NCP 54 and Congress 44 MLAs respectively in the assembly, Uddhav finally got the coveted post. In the 2019 election, the Congress and NCP and some smaller parties jointly fought elections against the BJP-SS alliance.
There has been no woman Chief Minister in Maharashtra till date. When the BJP was in power in the state, Mrs. Pankaja Munde had openly stated her ambition to become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. She is on record known to have said on numerous occasions that she was the Chief Minister in the minds of the people. She was sidelined by Fadanvis after her name came in the chikki corruption case. She lost the election in 2019 from Renapur assembly constituency in spite of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then BJP Chief Amit Shah campaigning for her.
The BJP Maharashtra Chief Chandrakant ‘Dada’ Patil some days back said that, “BJP workers from Baramati Loksabha constituency must be ready for bye poll“ and has given indications about the politics in the state. Mrs. Supriya Sule, daughter of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, is a Lok Sabha MP from Baramati and Patil also added that Supriya Sule may be the frontrunner for the Chief Minister’s post from the NCP. After Uddhav Thackeray’s dream came true in becoming the CM, it is now the turn of Sharad Pawar to realise his dream as he wants his daughter to become the first woman Chief Minister of Maharashtra is yet to come true. The three parties came in an alliance without any written agreement and that Uddhav Thackeray would hold the post for the first half term and then a member from the NCP would hold the post for the remainder of the term.
In the 2004 assembly election, NCP was the single largest party in the state. Ajit Pawar was to become Chief Minister but Shard Pawar got three more ministries from the Congress and handed over Chief Minister’s post to them. Some political drama happened and instead of Sushilkumar Shinde, late Vilasrao Deshmukh became the then Chief Minister and Shinde was made the Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Sharad Pawar does not want his nephew Ajit Pawar to become the Chief Minister. Ajit Pawar commanded up to 30 MLAs but his first attempt of rebellion in the party was not successful when he became Deputy Chief Minister (DCM) in the short lived Fadanvis Government.
There are rumours doing the rounds in the NCP and some other circles that Supriya Sule is expected to become the Chief Minister during Diwali. Within the Shiv Sena, Subhash Desai and Eknath Shinde are also known to be harbour ambitious in becoming the chief minister and both Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule’s are also eyeing the same. The option now with the Congress party is that they be a part of the Government or withdraw support as the three parties formed an alliance to keep the BJP out of power in Maharashtra.
In the present situation BJP wants to destabilize the state Government on mishandling the Covid-19 situation. In Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Sangli and some other parts of Maharashtra, a large number of Covid-19 cases are coming to light daily. The government has not failed in properly handling the situation in Mumbai and Pune and a negative campaign being carried out by the BJP in the state.
Former Shiv Sena Chief Minister Narayan Rane, now in the BJP demanded that President’s rule be imposed in the state and the hospitals be handed over to the army for better results. The Union Government and the Governor’s office were fully ready to impose President’s rule in the state. But a ruling by the Ahmedabad High court made strong remarks against Government of Gujarat in not handling the Covid-19 situation in the state and this forced a rethink by the centre and did not impose President’s rule.
Home Minister Amit Shah “said that we are not in favour of imposing President’s rule in Maharashtra” and only Narayan Rane demanded the same. In a virtual rally, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that the ruling alliance should come together and run the government smoothly. His remark made after former Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that “we support the Government but do not take policy decisions” and added that Rahul Gandhi is also unhappy with the Maharashtra Government.
How long the Sena Chief Minister and his government would continue is left to Sharad Pawar. NCP and Congress were under the impression that they would not enjoy power because the BJP-SS were enjoying power before the state went to the polls in 2019. Sharad Pawar’s political sagacity was in play again when he sent out a message to the BJP to form the Government in the state with the Shiv Sena and smartly worked out and an alliance. To the Congress, the communal Shiv Sena has now become secular.
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Union MoS Railways and Belagavi Lok Sabha MP Passes Away in New Delhi
The BJP Completes One Year of Office In Karnataka
Can The Congress Party Win Back The Trust of The People Again?
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Well, there's so much to do and sort. I never realised how much work it would take to get the station up and running.
A major challenge we've had is the fact that we're nearly 4 miles from our nearest exchange. It's caused no end of problems keeping the station online during peak periods of the day during the test phase, but we're starting to overcome that through different strategies and planning.
We confirmed another presenter last night and so we're slowly filling the schedule. That's harder to do than I thought it would be. We're aiming to get great shows on board from lots of genres, however including the right presenter is proving more of a problem. I have to admit to being fussy about who we have doing shows on the station. But then again, I'm a bit like that in all things. All I can promise is that we'll have the best we can get.
We're working on the imaging for the station all the time. It's all about being feel-good to me. I want a station that you'll want to listen to because of how it makes you feel. We've got plenty of ideas, but they're going to take money to put in place so that's another area we've got to look at. This station isn't going to be a hobby. It's going to be where I dedicate my time and I'll need to make a living out of it.
I have big plans for where I want this station to go - after all, what's the point in putting effort into it if you don't want to get somewhere?
So sponsorship is another area we're looking at. It would be excellent to be able to raise some support to help the station in it's early stages. There's no doubt, I'm not afraid of hard work and am happy to do plenty of that, and having support behind you certainly would allow us to push on with our plans.
You see, for us, it's more than a radio station, it's about a feeling, and one we want to pass on to others. It's mighty hard out there in the real world for many people, and we'd like to think that people can tune into us to be uplifted and be given a reason to feel better.
There's no doubt, that getting this station up and running will be an all-consuming desire over the next few months - after that, getting us into your consciousness will be our next task as we continue to try and make Smile 101 part of your life!
It's all go....
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Cliff Banned!
And so another station says they'll not be playing Sir Cliff on their 60s station because he's not 'cool' enough.
It baffles me how one of this country's most celebrated artists is once again given the cold shoulder. I can only assume it's because of his religious beliefs and as we entered the 90s' and 00's he brought out a few religious singles.
Admittedly, they didn't do anything for me, but I'm confused at how you can block out such an important musical figure from and oldies station in the UK.
I don't like Abba - can't help it, I don't. But it's never stopped me playing their music at a disco and it won't stop me playing them on Smile 101. If the audience like them, who am I to argue?
I fully understand the fact that they've decided he doesn't fit their demographic. I'm sure there's music on Smile 101 I won't play. But surely narrowing their choice of artists to those that they consider cool and trendy, will only cut down on their audience.
I'm keen to play as many different songs on the station as we can. To give the listeners variety, and no doubt I'll be accused of not playing certain classic artists. Smile 101 is about feel good, and so artists that haven't played what could be thought of as feel good music won't be played.
However, I just think Cliff isn't cool because of his religious views and his goodie goodie image. Sorry, for me it's about his music, and whether I like it or not is irrelevant - he was a pioneer in the UK and therefore he should be in the playlist.
Just my opinion....
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Update time!
Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks - I made the decision, and we're well on the way to having our station launched.
Smile 101 will kick off early in the New Year - I'm not rushing it as I want to get it right before we launch.
The web site is up and running - a facebook page is in place, the logo has been designed, and now I'm testing the stream. You can check the stream here and see what you think.
So lots of things are going on.
We've started the search for presenters. Some have already agreed to join the line up and we'll continue looking until I find a varied selection of shows to keep our listeners entertained.
All we really need to do now is to get some sponsorship to help cover costs, some advertising to bring some money in and some promotion to bring in the listeners.
Now when I say it quickly, it sounds like we're almost there.......
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Hemp & Olive's Pet Care CBD Oil is actually identical in every way to our human-use CBD Oil. What we give to our pets is the exact same supplement that all of us at Green Gorilla take every day, so you know we take our pets and your pets very seriously. Pets are an integral part of many families, and we feel that they deserve the same quality of care as we would want for ourselves. At Green Gorilla we are committed to giving pets just that, and to making them as healthy and happy as they can possibly be!
Various concentrations of CBD are available in the H&O Pet Care line, including 150mg, 600mg, 1500mg, & 3,000mg of CBD. The pet CBD Oil supplements are packaged in identical 2oz bottles with micro-dispenser tops as our human CBD Oil come in. All of our products contain Zero THC, and have no psychoactive properties whatsoever, so you know your pets are safe from any negative reactions to a psychoactive substance. Product shelf life is 2+ years, and it should be stored in a cool & dark place, as heat, light, and air can all degrade olive oil over time.
Green Gorilla Co-Founder and Co-CEO Philip Asquith commented, “I'm thrilled to announce the launch of this this new Pet Care line. My family has lost two dogs to cancer, and I now have another with a serious autoimmune disorder. Creating this pet care line was something near to my heart, as I searched for the best possible treatments for the various ailments of our beloved animals. I believe that these products have made an enormous difference in the lives of my current pets, and also in the lives of other animals we have around my farm. While these products are designed for cats and dogs, they are already also being used for horses, goats, pigs, birds, reptiles, and more. All animals have receptors for CBD, so it stands to reason that all of them can get similar benefits from this remarkable plant extract.” Green Gorilla’s Steven Saxton added, “All humans know, almost instinctively, what’s best for our favorite furry companions. And at Green Gorilla, we believe that secretly, all pets want Green Gorilla's CBD Oil in their lives. I for one am excited to have this for my own pets, and to make it available to all our friends with pets in need."
With the release of these pet care products, Green Gorilla’s ‘Hemp & Olive’ line moves closer to becoming the most comprehensive and best formulated CBD product line in the world. The company now has dozens of unique products available, and is working up towards our full planned line, which will include well over 100 unique products for people and pets. Green Gorilla is committed to sustainably and ethically providing people with tools to live healthier and happier lives. The company is currently focused on utilizing hemp to create myriad products to that end. Hemp is an incredible resource, and the company sees great potential here for both helping people, and also helping to preserve and protect the planet. Philip Asquith concluded, “At Green Gorilla we love what we do, we love helping people, and we have gone to great lengths to create the very highest quality CBD products possible. We hope that our customers will find our Hemp & Olive products as amazing as we do, and that they bring happiness and health to each of them.”
Any product related statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, and our products are not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. Always consult your own physician before beginning a new dietary supplement program. All Green Gorilla products contain zero THC, and are produced and sold in compliance with US federal law.
About Green Gorilla: Green Gorilla is building an international brand in the hemp and cannabis industry. Our mission is to provide sustainable and ethical goods and services to a broad range of customers, with a primary focus on health and wellness. Green Gorilla prides itself on being a sustainable and ethical company, utilizing hemp to provide people with tools to live healthier and happier lives, while also preserving and protecting our planet. While federal policy is developing, the Company will operate only in areas that are unequivocally federally legal, and is initially focused entirely on hemp based products. The company is building a multitude of market leading product lines centered on hemp and the picks and shovels of the cannabis industry, as well as a state of the art web portal addressing a wide range of related goods, services, online interaction, and education. Green Gorilla was established in 2013 by founders Philip J.P. Asquith and Sir Steven Saxton.
About the Company Principals:
Prior to his new role as Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Green Gorilla, Inc., Philip J.P. Asquith co-founded and managed Green Monkey, a health and wellness company operating a chain of studios and wellness programs in southern Florida. Mr. Asquith also founded and managed Green Capital Investments, Inc., a structured finance group operating in the renewable energy space. GCI’s projects included wind-energy farms, biomass-energy facilities, and municipal waste-energy facilities. Mr. Asquith is 39 years old, and lives in Ojai, CA, on a certified organic permaculture ranch where for generations his family has produced an award winning extra virgin olive oils under Ojai Olive Oil, Inc. Ojai Olive Oil has been recognized as one of the world's top olive oil producers countless times, and Mr. Asquith awarded the title of “Master Miller”.
With over 30 years of experience, Sir Steven Saxton is a successful serial entrepreneur and film executive with credits that include Lone Survivor and The Kids are Alright. He is a highly regarded expert in corporate structuring, private equity, public companies, corporate refinancing, and capital rising for startups. Mr. Saxton has been the lead negotiator for numerous partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, IPO’s and rollups for private and public companies. Mr. Saxton was a former investment banker and stock and commodities broker. Mr. Saxton, the Co-Founder, and Co-CEO of Green Gorilla, is 52 years old, and currently resides in Malibu with his wife and daughter.
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Venice, Sarasota – The New Number One
Venice is a beautiful city in the county of Sarasota in Florida, USA. It has a significant selection of mainland as well as an island which is right off the coasts. It is a relatively small city with about 20,000 people in it which makes it the perfect place for retiring people to consider purchasing a real estate. The place is quiet, calm and enjoyable while having all the necessary establishments nearby.
Sarasota County – Growing Interest
For the first time since 2007, the most popular place to retire is no longer Asheville, NC. For almost an entire decade this was the city which was overly preferred by people for their retirement real estate. However, in 2016, the tides seem to have shifted as this particular honor goes to the city of Sarasota. Even though the contest was rather close, the top spot was conveniently taken by this West Coast Florida’s city.
Uprising of Sarasota Makes Venice Desirable
As we already mentioned above, Venice is already a very desirable city to retire in because of the comfort that it brings. However, as Sarasota is rising in popularity, so is Venice. As a matter of fact, people already see Sarasota as the second most influential cultural hub in the state of Florida right after the characteristic city of Miami. However, retirement in Miami is widely inappropriate as the city is overly known for the variety of different entertainment opportunities that it offers and it has hence become a particularly desirable tourist destination.
As far as the city of Venice goes, it’s important to note that it is also serviced by the U.S. Highway 41 which means that transportation to other major cities nearby is rather seamless. The city has its own newspaper called the Venice Gondolier Sun, and it is published twice every single week with a circulation of about 13,500 copies. It has a Theatre, and it’s the largest theater in the United State as per capital community. It has a huge operating budget of approximately $3 million. The Venice Symphony is known for holding quite a lot of performances at the locale. It goes without saying that there is no shortage of different things to do in Venice. Fom the Park Historic District to the Eagle Point Historic District, the city is dripping with historic sites and interesting things to do.
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International court urged for Central African Republic
Members of the U.N. commission that accused both sides in the conflict in Central African Republic of crimes against humanity urged the United Nations on Wednesday to establish an international court to prosecute perpetrators.
Law professor Philip Alston, a commission member, warned against a proposal being discussed by the U.N. to establish a special criminal court in the country. He said Central African Republic doesn't have judges with the independence and the ability to hold accountable the major political players who need to be prosecuted.
If the U.N. and Central African Republic go ahead with a national court, Alston said, the president and a majority of the judges must be from the international community and it must be well-funded.
Central African Republic, known as CAR, has been rocked by sectarian violence over the past year that has killed at least 5,000 people. U.N. peacekeepers are trying to stabilize the country, and both the Christian militia and Muslim rebels have agreed to put down their arms, but splinter groups of fighters have continued to clash.
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Belzec was one of the three death camps purpose-built by the Nazis in the east of Poland as part of "Operation Reinhard", which was the code name for the most "industrialized" part of the Holocaust. These camps, much smaller in size than the "regular" concentration camps, served solely for the mass murder of (almost exclusively) Jews, i.e., the "Final Solution" as it was dubbed in the Nazis' cynical bureaucratese.
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More background info: The camp at Belzec (pronounced "'bel(w)-jets", not "beltchek" as it is commonly mispronounced) was a pure "killing factory", like Treblinka and Sobibor. There had been a smaller labour camp in the small town of Belzec too, but that existed completely independently of the later death camp of Belzec. It was the first of the three camps specifically set up to implement Operation Reinhard, i.e. the "Final Solution", the systematic extermination of Poland's and Europe's Jews.
From March 1942 victims were transported to the camp in freight trains and sent into the gas chambers immediately, without being temporarily housed anywhere first. In the combined death camps/concentration camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau at least the impression could be created that newly arrived people might be assigned to one of the barracks that lay beyond the selection ramp. Still, even at Belzec the illusion was created that the victims were simply passing through a transit camp and only had to be "deloused".
First they were herded into rooms where they had to undress, and from there they passed through the "Schlauch", literally 'hose' or 'tube' – an open passageway with high walls on either side, which led straight to the gas chambers. The gas used at Belzec was exhaust fumes from a specially installed engine, earlier pure carbon monoxide was used too (but never Zyklon B, as in Auschwitz or Majdanek).
Afterwards, "Sonderkommandos", or 'special commandos' – groups of prisoners specifically selected by the SS for this purpose – had the gruesome task of emptying and cleaning the chambers and removing "valuables" such as gold teeth from the corpses. The corpses were then buried in huge mass graves. Often there were more corpses than the Sonderkommando could cope with, which repeatedly caused "operational problems" at Belzec. Normally, though, the whole process took only a couple of hours.
The death camp in Belzec existed for just about a year, from early 1942 to 1943. But in that short period of time some 435,000 people were murdered here in this industrial fashion. The victims were mostly Jews, but also a substantial number of Sinti & Roma as well as smaller numbers of other groups of victims. Some sources still state 600,000 as the total death toll.Initial estimates had been even higher but have since been revised – as so often (cf. Auschwitz, Majdanek, etc.). It is impossible to arrive at a finalized exact number in any case as no accurate records were kept and the operation of Belzec was at times rather chaotic. But what is certain is that Belzec had the third highest death toll, after Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, and as such counts as one of the very grimmest places of history's darkest chapter. And it nearly disappeared from the face of the Earth afterwards and was almost forgotten:
When Belzec's evil task was complete by the end of 1942, the perpetrators set about covering up every trace of what had happened there. A large proportion of the buried copses were exhumed and cremated on racks made from railway tracks. All installations were dismantled and demolished. Trees were planted on the grounds and the whole place converted into a make-believe farm, in an effort to conceal its former real use.
The killing machine of Belzec worked with an almost exhaustive efficiency which is unparalleled – there was only a minute number of survivors, and only a couple of these were still alive after the war. There exists only one proper eyewitness report from the point of view of a victim. And of the perpetrators, only a small number were ever brought to justice, as is the unfortunate norm with most such cases. Most of the perpetrators either lost their own lives in the subsequent years of the war elsewhere or successfully went undercover. Christian Wirth, the infamous first commandant of Belzec (and later overseer of Sobibor and Treblinka) was killed by partisans in today's Slovenia in May 1944.
In the immediate post-war years, Belzec again caused outrage, namely when it became known that local residents had been active in ghoulish attempts at further looting remaining corpses from the camp's mass graves. The area was then fenced off. But a small memorial apart, the place remained comparatively obscure for many years. It was hardly tended and nearly got forgotten.
That changed after the end of the Cold War, when more visitors from the West, in particular victims' relatives, wanted to come to the site. In the late 1990s the site was thoroughly examined archeologically, and finally a comprehensive reworking of the memorial was undertaken. The resulting new memorial was opened to the public in 2005.
What there is to see: The present, newly reworked memorial takes in the entire area of the former death camp, which isn't big, but looks so striking, that it's hard to miss when passing by the old Belzec train station, where the road leading to the site branches off.
The camp area extends up a slight uphill slope which has been covered with blocks of cinder. Encircling this area is a concrete path which roughly follows the outer perimeter of the former camp (ca. a 300 by 300 yards square). Set into this path are metal letters spelling out the names of the places that the victims had come from.
Straight through the centre of the area another path is carved into the slope. This forms the most striking part of the memorial, in that it resembles the "Schlauch" ('hose', 'tube'), i.e. it kind of recreates the way into the gas chambers. When walking into this horizontal path, the walls on either side rise and rise with the elevation of the slope around it … the oppressing effect being that you feel like you are entering further and further into a hellish darkness. It is indeed an impressive, though claustrophobic, experience. This grim effect is further enhanced by the edges of the "Schlauch"-path being marked by jagged metal spikes sticking out from the concrete.
At the end of the path you reach a granite wall into which the names of victims have been carved, which serves as the silent centrepiece of the memorial, and is also the site where wreaths of flowers and candles are placed. After all, having walked the length of the path you have just passed through one of the largest graves on Earth. The soil of the slope still contains the remains of the countless victims.
To the left of the main entrance to the site, a memorial structure has been erected which represents the pyres made from railway tracks used in the cremation of victims when the camp was dismantled.
To the right of the main gate there is now a low-rise new building housing a museum. The entrance area leading down to the exhibition room proper takes up the theme of the "Schlauch" again.
The exhibition itself recounts the history of the Belzec camp and the Holocaust in general, using pictures, explanatory text panels (in Polish, Hebrew and English), some artefacts and also some audio-visual material ... e.g. a video showing the confrontation with a former perpetrator whose undercover existence had subsequently been discovered.
The museum is well-made, and small enough for it to be possible to take it in in its entirety. It provides a good and sober informative contrast to the memorial outside, which rather works on a more psychological level.
The comprehensive, and visibly expensive reworking of the memorial site (partly financed with money raised in the USA) has to be regarded as a success – especially if you compare it to sites like Sobibor or Chelmno that are still rather underdeveloped.
Overall, Belzec probably has to count as the best of the memorials commemorating the purpose-built Operation Reinhard death camps, and also as one of the most impressively designed Holocaust memorial sites anywhere in Poland. It is obviously a lot smaller and far less comprehensive in coverage than Auschwitz, and given its far more remote location will never draw similar visitor numbers. But for any traveller in Poland with a serious interest in the Holocaust the Belzec memorial should be very high on the list of priorities!
Location: in the most south-eastern corner of Poland, near the Ukrainian border on the road to L'viv, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Zamosc, or 100 miles (160 km) south-east of Lublin.
Google maps locator: [50.373,23.457]
Access and costs: Quite remote, but manageable; free/inexpensive.
Details: Unless you're on an organized tour, it can be difficult to reach this remote corner of Poland without a private vehicle (or taxi). There is a train station in the village of Belzec, but as far as I could find out, there are hardly any connections these days. Bus connections are unlikely to be of much more help. So even if it should be feasible to get to this place by public transport, the effort, time and hassle it takes really suggests that you would be better off using your own means of transport. A small parking fee of 5 zloty is now levied.
Admission free. Guided tours have are offered too but aren't really necessary. Whoever makes it to Belzec is likely to be rather well-informed already. In any case, the museum's exhibition does a commendable job in this respect. The main thing anyway is the psychological experience of the site and the pretty special way it is laid out. If you do want a guided tour, then book ahead through belzec.eu or phone (+48-84-665-25-10). Guided tours are available in English, last ca. 90 minutes and cost 100 zloty for up to 10 people (150 zloty for up to 30), half that for tours in Polish.
Opening hours of the open-air site are: daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (in winter, November to March 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.); the museum exhibition is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (in winter to 4 p.m.). Closed Mondays and on various Jewish and other holidays (check details on belzec.eu).
Time required: You can more or less "do" the museum in about an hour. With regard to the open-air part of the memorial, the time to be spent here will depend on whether you only view the area from below, walk the length of the central "Schlauch" path, or even the entire outer perimeter path of the sloping camp area. All of this will normally take about another hour. Because of the remoteness of the location, though, a visit to Belzec will probably take the form of (at least) a half-day excursion (most likely from Lublin as a base).
Combinations with other dark destinations: In general see Poland. There are no further sights developed for tourism in the immediate vicinity – however, the villa of former camp commandant Christian Wirth can still be found just across the road (although currently empty and inaccessible to tourists).
Since Lublin is the most likely base for excursions in the south-east of Poland, a visit to Lublin's own site in this category is the most obvious option: the combined concentration camp and death camp of Majdanek.
Furthermore, the road from Lublin to Belzec leads past Zamosc – where the 'rotunda' near the centre houses a small museum about its dark past (i.e. the Nazi era).
Lublin itself is also worth a good look around – for the dark tourist the city's castle should be of special interest – it too was used as a prison and execution site by the Nazis during World War II. In addition, there are many traces of Lublin's Jewish past still to be found in the Old Town.
Moreover, from Lublin you could do a day excursion to the site of another of the three death camps of Operation Reinhard, namely Sobibor.
Combinations with non-dark destinations: The immediate area around Belzec has nothing to offer that could be of interest to tourists, except perhaps the pretty old town of Zamosc. Lublin, on the other hand, likely to be the base for a trip to Belzec anyway, has rather more to offer (see under Majdanek).
See also under Poland in general.
Belzec 01 - by the old train lines
Belzec 02 - entrance
Belzec 03 - even the letters are bleeding rust
Belzec 04 - menorah by the entrance
Belzec 05 - new museum and visitor centre
Belzec 06 - towards the core of the monument
Belzec 07 - into the stylized Schlauch
Belzec 08 - going deeper
Belzec 09 - and deeper
Belzec 10 - deeper still
Belzec 11 - the end
Belzec 12 - looking back
Belzec 13 - cinder and metal spikes
Belzec 14 - pyre mock-up monument
Belzec 15 - view from the top
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CHELSEA MCINTYRE
The Rise of Gothic Architecture in Europe (2013)
Throughout history, humans have had an appreciation for architecture. On a base level, the need for shelter drives our appreciation, but in other realms of thought, it exists for something greater— the Acropolis of polytheistic Athens, the Coliseum in Rome, even the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California each represent a higher understanding of and desire for architecture to perform not just as functional, but as a genuine form of tribute, inspiration, and art.
The Gothic period is a distinct example of the way architecture both reflects and promotes the development of more distinguished forms of building techniques, stylization, and the endowment of purpose in a space. Throughout the few centuries that span the true Gothic era, structures are created for a variety of reasons, but discernibly for divine and significant purposes. The people of the Gothic age dealt with issues similar to those that contemporary societies meet, and likewise the important matters of their time are evident in the things they produced. Communities once concerned with the afterlife, tradition, and religious culture, changed their focuses to new ideas, morals, and methods of expression. They began to explore thoughts and desires once forbidden or altogether not considered; they allowed themselves a freedom previously unknown for the centuries ahead.
In considering the evolution into Gothicism, it is important to approach it with an understanding of its predecessors. The Romanesque period, a time that focused intensely on the significance of the afterlife. Coming from the Western Roman Empire in the 11th century, the Romanesque had the profound influence of Catholicism guiding its creative direction. The people of this era were deeply concerned with the powers of Heaven, and ensuring their place in it for their immortal souls. God was an almighty, powerful figure in the everyday lives of the Romanesque citizens, and they did all that they could to maintain and better their image and relationship with Him. Thusly, much of the art of the period reflects the weight of this mentality on the people creating it. Images of biblical narratives, the Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity are more than dominant in the artwork that remains from the Romanesque. After the year 1150, however, a gradual but noticeable change occurs, becoming the distinctive attitude and style of the Gothic.
An important thing to note in looking at the merge into Gothic is that it was a change that evolved quickly in some areas, and was powerfully different from the Romanesque. From the perspective of the late Otto G. Von Simson, professor at University of Chicago, “Gothic architecture emerges suddenly and almost simultaneously with the great expressions of Romanesque art, not as its sequel or ‘logical equal,’ but its rival and antithesis” (6). Much of what is more distinctively Gothic style and influence can be seeing coming out of Western Europe, which developed the style more readily than Eastern European and Southern-Mediterranean countries. France is arguably the most accessible state in terms of evident Gothic tendencies and stylization. From the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians:
[Early] Gothic art…is geographically so closely identified with one territory and its historical destinies that the late Henri Foçillon[1] suggested, paradoxically but wisely, that Gothic
be defined as the Romanesque of the Ile de France. (Von Simson 6)
This idea should be taken to understand the absolute power that the Gothic style and mindset had in France, as well as its early, almost simultaneous rise to popularity during the continued Romanesque influence in countries slower to adopt the change, such as Italy and England. Due to this non-dismissible factor, France is a primary source for considering the ideas, values, and aesthetics of the Gothic period.
What is considered the first identifiably Gothic basilica (and almost certainly the first architectural work) is the Abbey Church of St. Denis. Completed in 1144, the transformation of the Church into the Gothic style was wholly the work of Abbot Suger. Appointed Abbot of the church in 1122 (at the age of 41), Suger made it his duty to rebuild the abbey (initially completed by King Dagobert of France in 775 and decaying by 1137) in honor of the patron saint of both Paris and the original church, St. Denis[2]. When approaching the task, Suger had already developed an appreciation for Byzantine art. The Byzantine style, in congruence with the Romanesque, came instead from Eastern Europe, Constantinople, and Parts of the Middle East and Mediterranean. These influences were brought to France through trading, exploring, and the great crusades of Europe. Suger was drawn to the angular shapes, vibrancy of color, and use of pictographic narratives and felt strongly about their abilities to enhance the experiential qualities of the abbey. In describing the effect of these attributes, Suger wrote:
…Sometimes when, because of my delight in the beauty of the house of God, the multicolor loveliness of the gems has called me away from external cares…transporting me from
material to immaterial things, has persuaded me to examine the diversity of holy virtues, then I seem to see myself existing on some level, as it were, beyond our earthly one, neither
completely in the slime of the earth no completely in the purity of heaven. By the gift of God I can be transported in an anagogical manner from this inferior level to that superior
one[3]. (Suger XXXII)
Hoping to endow St. Denis with this type of transcendent power, Suger, despite criticism from contemporaries, Suger set on constructing the abbey in his own take on the Byzantine style.
St. Denis Abbey Church features all the beginnings of a Gothic basilica. A grand three-portal entrance welcomes visitors at the west façade; Christian churches are always oriented due to Christ’s birth taking place in the east, where the apse is located. There are multiple levels on the structure—the ambulatory, the gallery, the clerestory and the tower—pulling the building taller and upward towards heaven, in contrast with more square-built, horizontal Romanesque and even slighter Gothic architectural styles like the English. The west façade features a display of lancet windows, depicting biblical scenes and stories in vibrant colors. A brilliant rose window is set over the center portal, which has been replaced multiple times due to damages. Especially typical of Gothicism, St. Denis features magnificent tracery and brilliant exterior crochets, adding a more decorated feel that characterizes the Gothic style. More naturalistic, individualized jamb statues embodying the ‘Gothic sway’ line the exterior of the building, while fanciful relief sculptures are embedded in the portal doors and the tympanum and archivolts above.
The interior of the basilica features early Gothic traditions—the many bays of arches lining the nave of the church are slightly pointed, still featuring a widened curve that is characteristic of both Romanesque and, even more so, Byzantine-Muslim constructions. Contrary to most recognizably Gothic churches, St. Denis is not established in a cruciform shape, but runs more linearly with a much shorter transept, thereby removing partially its ability to be titled a cathedral. Ribbed vaulting and bundled piers add to the development of more intricate detailing to come.
In recognizing St. Denis as the first truly Gothic establishment, it is important and not entirely difficult to distinguish the remaining traces of Romanesque in its design. Rounded arches, fundamental in Romanesque style, are present in St. Denis’ exterior. The tracery is less pronounced and the building is more blockish than many later Gothic structures will prove. The lack of heavy decoration, crochets, tracery, and a pronounced transept indicate that the basilica has not fully departed from Romanesque tendencies. In these ways, St. Denis gives itself away, in a manner, as the earliest of Gothic incarnates.
These aspects of architectural stylization, briefly described, personify the growing interest in matters of travel, style, and outer influences that occurred beyond the long held focus on divinity during the previous centuries. While the churches constructed in the Gothic were indeed glorious tributes to God, The Virgin Mary, and the many martyrs and saints after which they are often named or to whom they are dedicated, the people of the 12th century through the 16th developed their own understanding of the significance of life and existence. Considering St. Denis once more and looking at the importance Abbot Suger placed on the transcendental qualities of the glass and the inner chapel, it is important to recognize the potential reason behind his response to the architecture. Scholars have speculated:
There is something unexpectedly vivid and autobiographical about that private world poised between heaven and earth. Suger’s words sound like the personal confession of someone trying to describe a complex experience for which the ordinary vocabulary of his day made no adequate provision…the essential thing about it is that it was grounded in the physical beauty of the building and its appurtenances. Religious architecture was here performing what sensitive imaginative souls might consider to be its proper function, namely offering a foretaste of paradise through the senses. Instead of conducting the soul to heaven, it brings heaven down to earth[4]. (Kidson 7)
It is this last insight that speaks to the existential ideas driving the growth that occurred in the Gothic era. After centuries of fearing the Christian Apocalypse, citizens of the medieval age began to focus their attention and their religious priorities on understanding and investigating the self. One’s humanity and place on earth became a factor in the evolution of society, religion, experimentation, and art. Pioneers of exotic influence like Abbot Suger are essential in the motivation for the rest of the country, continent, and overall time period to broaden their knowledge and interests in their daily lives; not only their immortal soul, but their own purpose and pleasures to be experienced in life on Earth.
With St. Denis giving way to more extravagant basilicas and cathedrals well into the 13th, 14th, 15th, and even 16th century which encompass the Gothic period. One such example is Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France. Started in 1194 and completed in 1220, Chartres stands as an absolute example of progressive Gothic style.
Chartres is known for being incredibly brilliant in color. Given an appropriate name, “La Belle Verriere”—‘the beautiful window’—the rose window and the lancet windows around it feature the Virgin and Child as Sedes sapientia in stained glass most likely colored with lapis lazuli, giving the windows a distinct, “Chartres blue”. The windows depict biblical scenes and symbolism—the Last Judgment, Passion, the Tree of Jesse, the Infancy of Christ, and Old Testament stores such as the Visitation, the Annunciation, and the Nativity. The windows features detailed tracery, and the entire cathedral, set in cruciform, features pointed arches and Flamboyant style, spikier crochets and decoration. The exterior flying buttresses, moderately personalized and interactive jamb statues, and soaring towers (one completed much later and noticeably more Gothic) make for a well-rounded example of religious Gothic architecture.
While the emphasis on humanity and one’s place in life was grew ever more significant throughout the Gothic and into the Baroque—the invention of clocks, navigation tools, explorations of science by people like Aristotle and Thomas Equinas, and the development of music, literature, and philosophy and painting began to spread and evolve into more individualized regional styles and methodologies—religion was still a massive aspect of life in the middle ages. The need to create these houses of God was more present than ever, and in some ways, it became a business in itself for those that recognized the profit to be made from pilgrimages.
Medieval Europe was littered with small towns and dirt roads connecting them, some close and some a great distance away so that when en route to a pilgrimage site, visitors would have to stay a fortnight in one of the many towns through which they passed. Visitors on the pilgrim routes were most often hoping to reach a specific destination which was recognized to be a holy site, therefore paying tribute to God and making themselves clean of sin and pure enough for Heaven. The most recognized and visited sites include Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, where the apostle James is said to have traveled converting Celtic peoples to Christianity[5] and where his bones are said to have been kept; St. Peter’s in Rome, Italy, and Jerusalem, where Christ was said to be crucified, buried, and to have risen anew. In attempting to reach these places and achieve retribution, pilgrims would often stop at monasteries and smaller churches in smaller villages. These places, as well as the larger, more distinguished cities like Paris and Chartres, began capitalizing on the tourism they received by investing in or artificially crafting reliquaries and stories of religious significance in their towns’ religious buildings. This resulted in a massive expansion and growth in architectural constructs due to the increasing competition among villages to receive the pilgrims’ patronage. Tithing at mass even became a part of a clergy’s construction budget in order to expand and better a church’s sacred and aesthetic value.
When considering the massive duty of creating a holy place which brings people closer to their religion, it is even more impressive the time, money, and power invested in the creation of the divine architecture seen sprouting up and upwards in the Gothic period. Architecture in the Gothic period is both a lasting reflection of the goals of the people, as well as it was an inspirational tool for those who experienced its power as a holy space and those who continue to make the voyage today.
[1] Henri Foçillon (1881-1943) was an influential French art historian, museum director, college professor, poet, printmaker and critical writer. He is best known for his scholastic literature on medieval art.
[2] Halsall, Paul. “Medieval Sourcebook: Abbot Suger: On What Was Done in His Administration”. Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University, New York. Web. Nov. 26 1996.
[3] Suger, Abbot. The Book of Suger Abbot of St. Denis on What Was Done During his Administration. (ca 1144-1148). Print.
[4] Kidson, Peter. “Panofsky, Suger and St. Denis”. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 50 (1987): 1-17. Print.
[5] Sacred Sites. “Santiago de Compostela”. https://sacredsites.com/europe/spain/satiago_de_compostela.htm. Web. 1982-2013.
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Posted by Big Boo on September 14th, 2007
Originally released in 1982, E.T. is still a much loved and respected film from the prolific Steven Spielberg. Since the story is about a young boy and the alien he encounters it is generally classified as a kids film, but really it is a film that appeals to people of all ages.
A spaceship full of alien creatures lands one night in a forest somewhere in California, it’s purpose to collect samples of plant life for analysis. Unfortunately the aliens work is interrupted by the arrival of a group of humans, investigating the lights seen in the sky. The spaceship beats a hasty retreat, leaving one of the aliens behind in the rush. Startled by the noise of cars and the flashing of torch beams the alien creature runs away, finding refuge in the garage of a house in the suburbs of a nearby town.
A young boy called Elliott who lives in the house comes out to collect a pizza from the delivery man, and hears a noise from the garage. He goes to investigate, and ends up staring face to face with the alien visitor, who we finally see properly for the first time. The alien is a funny squat little brown creature, with a long extending neck and a strange bulbous head comprised of two huge eyes and a tiny nose and mouth. After initially being a bit scared, Elliott plucks up courage and late that night, lures the alien into his bedroom with a trail of sweets.
The next day, Elliott pretends to be sick so that he can stay home from school to learn more about this funny little creature, but time flies, and he is soon interrupted by the return from school of his younger sister Gertie, and his older brother Michael, and has to let them in on his secret. The children have lots of questions for the alien, but since it can’t speak it instead answers by way of one of it’s special powers, levitating various objects in an effort to build a model of the solar system to illustrate where it comes from. It also brings a dying pot plant back to life with a touch of it’s glowing finger.
Inadvertantly, Gertie teaches the alien to speak by watching Sesame Street, and soon the alien has named itself E.T., being short for Extra Terrestrial. It also becomes apparent that E.T. has formed some kind of psychic link with Elliott, as when the alien starts to help himself to beer from the fridge and becomes intoxicated, so does Elliott, despite being at school at the time.
However, E.T. really wants to return to his own people, so he constructs an odd communication device using household implements such as an umbrella and a Speak & Spell toy, sparking the famous quote “E.T. Phone Home“. Elliott helps E.T. transport the device to the woods on his bike, and E.T. helps him get home again by levitating his bike through the sky, thus creating the iconic image of the silhouetted bicycle against the full moon, which is still used by Spielberg today as the logo of Amblin Entertainment.
Unfortunately things start to go wrong, with E.T. disappearing one night and Elliott starting to become sick. Michael finds E.T. in the woods and returns him to Elliott, but the government have already tracked the family down and put the entire house into quarantine, covering it in plastic sheeting and the like. After examinations from doctors and scientists, it finally appears that E.T. has died, and Elliott begins to regain his health. However, the imminent return of E.T.’s spaceship brings him back to life, and Elliott manages to escape from the house on his bicycle with E.T., and after another flying bicycle trip they manage to return to the forest in time for E.T. to be reunited with his own people.
E.T. is a wonderful film for all the family. It covers such a wide range of emotions and conveys many messages such as family values, friendship, acceptance of others and even fear of government and it’s seeming ultimate power over peoples lives. Watch it again, but for a real memory lane trip, make sure you watch the original version, not the 20th anniversary which replaces some of the original E.T. model work with computer generated effects.
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Politics seeking any port for an artificial storm
By Nigel Collett (HK Edition)
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Hong Kong's coastline is littered with jetties and piers. Everywhere anyone conceivably wants to go, one can reach by sea. Sensible, really, as Hong Kong is a mass of islands and still has places you cannot get to easily by other means. Along with the rest of the population, the military have always used them. The British Army built many of them, as projects to help isolated communities, but also for its own convenience. It had to be able to reach everywhere in Hong Kong, and neither road nor helicopter would suffice to ensure this. The British military ran a network of ferries and crafts with schedules linking the major sites, particularly the military headquarters in HMS Tamar.
When the new naval base at Stonecutters Island was built, some of this was rendered unnecessary, but it was always recognized that there was an absolute need to be able to connect the military on Hong Kong Island with the rest of the city by sea.
The PLA has inherited this. Its needs and responsibilities are exactly the same. Its Hong Kong Headquarters remains on the Island connected by tunnel, air or sea to Kowloon and the New Territories, where most of the garrison is based. If the tunnels are blocked and there are insufficient helicopters able to fly, the garrison has to use the sea. There are two simple reasons for this: the need, in all circumstances, to move men and material onto Hong Kong Island from Kowloon or beyond, and the need to send them back out to the rest of the garrison. It means that PLA Headquarters has to have access to a berth.
All this was recognized in the run-up to the 1997 handover, so the Chinese and British governments agreed in 1994 that whatever happened to the waterfront by Tamar, there would remain 150 meters of land that would provide a berth for the garrison. The Hong Kong government had no say in this and has none now. The PLA has inherited both a requirement and a right handed down in an agreement concluded by the two sovereign nations.
Now that the plans for this berth are being implemented, an outcry has arisen that is as exaggerated as it is embarrassingly ill-founded. Stirred up by a few local opposition groups, which are, by some absurd logic, alleging a second era of colonialism on the part of their own government, the international press has taken up the cry. Hong Kong harbor is about to see, so the Wall Street Journal imagines, a new PLA base in the heart of Central. According to the Daily Telegraph, there will even be a new PLA port. Common sense has, it seems, evaporated and there is in some minds alarm at what is seen as a dastardly plan afoot to rob Hongkongers of their harbour front, and maybe even worse, their freedoms.
So what is it that the PLA wants to build that is so terrifying an assault on our liberties? It is, as the plans say, a berth, a pier or quayside where boats can come alongside. What could that look like? To answer that, think of the much-beloved Queen's Pier that was so manfully protected by defenders of the harbor. No matter that this was a symbol of colonial oppression without parallel, the place where British governors came ashore at the start of their incumbencies and where royalty inspected British troops. By the time it was sadly ripped down, it was part of the Hong Kong we all knew and loved. We wanted to keep it.
Well, the PLA berth will be something like that: a mostly empty space, concrete quay, a few bollards, maybe a sheltering roof. It is highly unlikely that the garrison will use it much, and even less likely that it will post anyone there when it is not in use. It may, perhaps, restrict access from the sea to prevent private boats using the quay, and no doubt when they are using it themselves they will ask the public to stand clear. There is nothing here to spoil the skyline or impair people's enjoyment of a walk down the esplanade. There is nothing here that we have not been used to all our lives.
What on earth are we getting so worked up about? Truly, this is politics seeking any port for an artificial storm.
I end with a small suggestion. If the PLA could accept it, why not replace the facade of the old Queen's Pier at the military berth? There would be a need for a new name, but no doubt we could argue happily about that without falling foul of our fears and without maligning a garrison that has been so scrupulous in its desire not to offend Hong Kong that it is scarcely visible. Hong Kong should be grateful that it has one of the best behaved garrisons imaginable. We should understand the needs of the military, not obstruct them needlessly and especially not when they offer no harm to the public whatsoever.
The author is a Hong Kong-based writer and businessman who served for 20 years in the British Army, seven of which were in Hong Kong, including one based in HMS Tamar. As a lieutenant colonel, he commanded a Gurkha battalion in Hong Kong.
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Kayley Loveridge April 17, 2018, 09:38 November 11, 2019
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Rapper Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music, breaking major records by becoming the first non-classical or jazz artist to receive the prestigious award since the Pulitzer’s inception some 75 years ago.
The prize was given for the 30-year-old’s 2017 album Damn, which also won the 2018 Grammy award for Best Rap Album. The album has sold more than three and a half million copies, including digital streams, since its release last year.
Dana Canedy, administer of the Pulitzer prizes, said, “The time was right.
“We are very proud of this selection. It means that the jury and the board judging system worked as it’s supposed to—the best work was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.”
Canedy added, “It shines a light on hip-hop in a completely different way. This is a big moment for hip-hop music and big moment for the Pulitzers.”
The Pulitzer board described Damn as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”
The record has received much global critical acclaim since its release. It topped the charts in the United States and Canada while reaching number two in the Australian charts. Damn was also certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and became the Billboard Year-End Number One Album of 2017.
The Swimming Pools artist has been lauded by critics for his distinct, honest and authentic sound ever since he first broke into the mainstream with the album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City in 2012.
Punch, the head of Top Dawg Entertainment, Lamar’s record label, tweeted that he’d better not hear anyone “speak with anything less than respect in your mouth for Kendrick Lamar.” Lamar has yet to comment on his historical win of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Irish Giant could finally be buried at sea
The remains of an Irish 'Giant', long held in a London museum should be buried at sea to fulfill the man's last wishes, according to a professor of medical ethics at University of London and a lawyer from Queen's University Belfast.
We've covered the tragic story of Charles Byrne already. The 7ft 7in man from Northern Ireland ended up in London in the 1780's where he worked as a 'freak' and ended up destitute and an alcoholic before dying, aged just 22 in 1783.
Despite his express wishes that he be buried at sea to avoid becoming a morbid curiosity in death, his skeleton ended up in the hands of the surgeon John Hunter who boiled the body in acid to remove the flesh from the bones. As one contemporary report put it: "The whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house just as harpooners would an enormous whale."
Writing in the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal, Len Doyal and Thomas Muinzer argue that while the remains had a valid role to play in medical research, it is now time to remove the skeleton from display and bury it at sea.
The bones did play an important role in medical research. As the authors note: "In 1909 the American surgeon Harvey Cushing removed the top of Byrne’s skull and observed an enlarged pituitary fossa, confirming a relation between the disease [acromegaly or'gigantism'] and adenoma [a benign tumour]".
The authors argue that there is no obvious reason why Byrne would have lacked the capacity or competence to make a decision about the disposal of his body.
"The fact is that Hunter knew of Byrne’s terror of him and ignored his wishes for the disposal of his body. What has been done cannot be undone but it can be morally rectified. Surely it is time to respect the memory and reputation of Byrne: the narrative of his life, including the circumstances surrounding his death."
The authors discuss the paper in this video from the BMJ >>
The skeleton is now in the possession of and on display in the Royal College of Surgeons in London and the authors of the BMJ article argue that its public display is no longer justifiable. "Past research on Byrne did not require the display of his skeleton; merely medical access to it. Moreover, now that Byrne’s DNA has been extracted, it can be used in further research."
"As a sign of respect for Byrne’s original desires, his skeleton should be buried at sea as part of a ceremony commemorating his life. We recommend that the Hunterian Museum and the Royal College of Surgeons organise this burial, along with a conference on related legal and ethical issues. At the very least, we suggest that more complete information is provided about the background of the acquisition and display of Byrne’s skeleton so that visitors can make a more informed judgment about the moral implications and appropriateness of its continued display."
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If you stopped your education before receiving your high school diploma and you plan to apply for a four-year Bachelor’s program in the United States immediately, universities may require you to sit the GED® test. The GED® test is a four-part test that measures the skills and knowledge that lead to the awarding of an internationally accepted U.S.-based high school equivalency credential. Since it was created in 1942 to promote the education of young members of the military returning from World War II, it has become the pathway for more than 18 million adults who did not finish school to earn a high school-equivalency credential. It validates U.S. high school and English language skills and provides International students an opportunity to earn a US high school credential, as a means to enter university in the United States or in additional countries around the world.
What subjects does the GED® test? The GED® test has four content areas: Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA), Mathematical Reasoning, Social Studies, and Science. The RLA test focuses on three grouping of skills: the ability to read closely, the ability to write clearly, and the ability to edit and understand the use of standard written English in context. The Mathematical Reasoning Test focuses on two major content domains: quantitative problem solving (45%) and algebraic problem solving (55%). The Science Test covers three major content domains: Life Science (40%), Physical Science (40%), and Earth and Space Science (20%). The content topics focus on science that reflects both what is taught in many high-school-level science courses and that which is most relevant and useful. Lastly, the social studies practices are skills that are key to social studies reasoning in both textual and quantitative contexts. The practices come from important skills specified in the college and career readiness standards and in the US National Standards for History. The Social Studies Test covers four major content domains: U.S. Civics and government (50%), U.S. history (20%), Economics (15%), and Geography and the world (15%). The social studies content topics from these four areas provide context for measuring a student’s ability to apply the reasoning skills described in the social studies practices. The content topics focus on key concepts that reflect both that which is taught in many high-school-level social sciences courses and that which is most relevant and useful for an adult population. In order to pass the exam and receive your GED® test credential, you must receive a score of at least 145 (with a maximum of 200) on each part and a total score of 580 across the four-part battery.
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State Parks – MidCoast Maine
Mt. Battie Tower, Camden Hills State Park
Birch Point State Park
Set on a secluded peninsula that juts into the Mussel Ridge Channel in Penobscot Bay, Birch Point State Park (South Shore Road, Owls Head; 207-941-4014) may be small, but its huge views more than make up for it. This ocean-front park boasts a crescent shaped sandy beach that’s perfect for fishing, swimming or picnics. This park is only open during the summer. Keep your eyes open for the resident harbor seals, ospreys and eagles, but leave your pets at home. Entrance fees start at $2 for adult residents, $3 for non-residents, and $1 for seniors and children.
Camden Hills State Park
Camden Hills State Park (280 Belfast Road, Camden; 207-236-3109) offers views of Penobscot Bay and Camden’s cityscape from atop 800-foot-tall Mt. Battie. The park is also well-known as a bird-watching destination; it’s home to migratory hawks, great blue herons, brown thrashers, bald eagles, nesting terns, ospreys and piping plovers. With 30 miles of hiking trails, 112 campsites with hot showers, a rocky shoreline and excellent fall foliage viewing, Camden Hills is a popular destination, spring through autumn. Leave the pets at home. Entrance fees start at $3 for adult residents, $4.50 for non-residents, $1.50 for seniors, and $1 for children.
Damariscotta Lake State Park
Damariscotta Lake State Park (8 State Park Road, Jefferson; 207-549-7600) is just a few miles from the state capitol at Augusta. This 17-acre park offers swimming, sunbathing and canoeing in the fresh – and lifeguarded — waters of Damariscotta Lake. The park has an activity field, a playground and picnic areas with running water, electricity and a communal grill. It’s open from Memorial through Labor Day. Pets are welcome. Entrance fees start at $4 for adult residents, $6 for non-residents, $2 for seniors, and $1 for children.
Moose Point State Park
Moose Point State Park (310 West Main Street, Searsport; 207-548-2882) is known for its stunning views of Penobscot Bay; the best way to take it all in is on The Loop, a 1.2 mile trail that rings the park. Climb the stairs to the water’s edge and explore the rocky tide pools, keeping your eyes open for the porpoises and seals. Take a break at one of the park’s seven picnic areas. Other hiking trails pass through cool, evergreen forests, complete with blueberry bushes and the resident bird population, which ranges from double-crested cormorants to bald eagles and loons. There’s also a playground, a gazebo and a group picnic shelter. Dogs are welcome, but must be leashed. Entrance fees start at $2 for adult residents, $3 for non-residents, and $1 for seniors and children.
Owls Head State Park
Owls Head State Park’s (106 Hogan Road, Bangor; 207-941-4014) lighthouse stands watch over the southern entrance to Rockland Harbor and dates from 1825. At 30 feet tall, this historic lighthouse’s location atop a promontory gives it height. You can spend an enjoyable day exploring the lovely grounds, poking through tide pools on the rocky shore, walking through the history cemetery picnicking in the park’s forested grove. Leashed dogs are welcome and there’s no entrance fee.
Popham Beach State Park (10 Perkins Farm Lane, Phippsburg; 207-389-1335) draws visitors with its long stretch of sandy beach, set where the Kennebec River meets the Atlantic Ocean. From bird watching to beachcombing, swimming to sea kayaking, this day-use park offers activities for the whole family. Set on 529 acres, it features bathhouses, cold showers, picnic areas with grills, and tide pools for the kids to explore. No dogs are allowed. Entrance fees start at $4 for adult residents, $6 for non-residents, $2 for seniors, and $1 for children.
Reid State Park (375 Seguinland Road, Georgetown; 207-371-2303), home of Maine’s first state-owned saltwater beach, was created in the 1940s. Its sandy dunes are home to piping plovers, least terns and other seabirds. Visitors can climb to the top of Griffin Head for stunning views of the ocean, lighthouses and islands. The park is open year-round and offers walking trails, picnic areas and a group shelter. Dogs aren’t allowed. Entrance fees start at $4.50 for adult residents, $6.50 for non-residents, $2 for seniors and $1 for children.
Swan Lake State Park
Swan Lake State Park (100 West Park Lane, Swanville; 207-525-4404) encompasses 67 acres, complete with a sandy swimming beach, picnic spots, hiking trails and washrooms. The beach is lifeguarded from Memorial to Labor Day. Other popular activities on this 3-mile-long lake include paddling and fishing for smallmouth bass and perch. Dogs aren’t allowed on the beach. Entrance fees start at $4 for adult residents, $6 for non-residents, $2 for seniors and $1 for children.
Warren Island State Park
Accessible only by private boat, Warren Island State Park (P.O. Box 105, Lincolnville; 207-446-7090) in Penobscot Bay offers the ultimate in low crowds. This 70-acre park is covered with spruce trees and offers 12 tent campsites and three Adirondack shelters with drinking water. It’s open Memorial Day through September and leashed dogs are allowed. Entrance fees start at $3 for adult residents, $4.50 for non-residents, $1.50 for seniors and $1 for children.
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Categories: Chinese Americans | U.S. ethnic groups | Chinese American history | Overseas Chinese groups
A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. Most Chinese Americans are descended from China's majority ethnic group, the Han. The rest are usually members of one of China's 55 minorities, such as the Hui.
Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are also one group of Asian Americans. Numbering 2.3 million in 2000, Chinese Americans make up 22.4% of Asian Americans (larger than any other Asian American subgroup), and constitute just over 1% of the United States as a whole.
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Chinese immigration to the United States has come in several waves.
Legend says that the first Chinese came to the Americas as early as 1421, the time when several Chinese Ming generals came sailing all over the world. According to Gavin Menzies, the Amerindians who inhabited around the coastal areas, especially Sacramento, had elements of Chinese DNA and used many words derived from archaic Chinese. This proved to be true, however, when several archaeologists uncovered hidden treasures under the sea and on land, ships containing Chinese pottery and artwork. This wave of Chinese sailors, however, were marooned on the Americas and through long-term intermarriage, their descandants lost touch with their ethnic identity.
According to the records from the United States government, the first Chinese arrived in the United States around 1820, but subsequent immigrants that came from the 1820's right up to the late 1840's were mainly men, who came in small numbers. However, due to the lack of Chinese women in the United States at that time, many of them intermarried with the Europeans. The best known Chinese immigrants that came during this period is the world-famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker.
The true initial wave only started around the 1850s. This was when the West Coast of North America was being rapidly colonized during the California Gold Rush, while southern China suffered from severe political and economic instability due to the weakness of the Qing Dynasty government, internal rebellions like the Taiping Rebellion, and external pressures like the Opium Wars.
As a result, many Chinese emigrated from the poor Say yup area (四邑 the four county area including Sun Wui 新會, Toi Shan 台山, Hoi Ping 開平, and Yun Ping 恩平) in Guangdong province to the United States in order to work on the railroads. People in Say yup lived in such poor living conditions that many were willing to sign up for prepaid long term labor contracts to work in the US. Many gave the sum of money to their family and didn't expect to be able to return home alive. They considered such act as selling themselves as pigs (賣豬仔). These Chinese, who mostly spoke Cantonese and its variant Toisanese (or Taishanese) clustered in Chinatowns, the largest population was in San Francisco. Some estimated over half of these early immigrants were from Taishan. This immigration (encouraged by the Burlingame Treaty of 1868) was stopped by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 which made Chinese immigration illegal until 1943. Many Western states also enacted discriminatory laws which made it difficult for Chinese and Japanese immigrants to own land or even find work. These laws were not overturned until the 1950s, at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement.
With the loosening of American immigration laws in 1952 and 1965, a second wave of Chinese immigration began. These Taiwanese Americans consisted of professionals from Taiwan who arrived in the United States on student visas. With the improving economy in Taiwan, immigration from the island began to decrease in the 1970s and was accompanied by an increase in immigration from professionals from Mainland China, which began to allow for emigration in 1977. Both groups of Chinese tend to cluster in suburban areas and tended to avoid urban Chinatowns. These Chinese tended to speak fluent Mandarin often in addition to their native dialect, which in the case of the Taiwanese Americans was often the Taiwanese language (also known as Hokkien, a variant of the chinese Min dialect, but in Taiwan is called 台语 literally: Taiwanese)
A third wave of recent immigrants consisted of undocumented aliens, chiefly from Fujian province who came to the United States in search of lower-status manual jobs. These aliens tend to concentrate in urban areas such as New York City and there is often very little contact between these Chinese and higher-educated professionals. They generally speak some Mandarin but mostly Min dialect, which is close to the Taiwanese language although this fact does not produce much affinity between this group and Taiwanese Americans. The amount of immigration from this group has begun to decrease as the economic situation in Fujian improves.
Ethnic Chinese immigration to the United States since 1965 has been aided by the fact that the United States maintains separate quotas for Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Absent from the list of Chinese Americans are immigrants from Hong Kong, who because of immigration law, tended to immigrate to Canada.
In the 1980s, there was widespread concern by the PRC over a brain drain as graduate students were not returning to the PRC. This exodus worsened after the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
Many immigrants from the PRC benefited from the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 which granted permanent residency status to immigrants from the PRC. One unintended side effect of the law was that the primary beneficiaries of the law were undocumented Fujianese immigrants, who unlike the Chinese graduate students, would have had no chance to gain permanent residency through normal means.
In the late 1990s, large numbers of professional Chinese Americans began to return to the PRC creating a brain gain. In a typical career pattern, a Chinese graduate student would emigrate to the United States and enter the job market and return to the PRC after encountering the glass ceiling; Chinese students had once been favored under affirmative action programs, but that was no longer the case after 1990. The number of Chinese graduate students returning to the PRC increased dramatically after 2000 and the dot-com bust resulted in worsening job prospects in the United States.
Legally all ethnic Chinese born in the United States are American citizens as a result of the Fourteenth Amendment and the 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court decision. Upon naturalization, immigrants are required to renounce their former citizenship. The People's Republic of China does not recognize dual citizenship and considers this a renounciation of PRC citizenship. The Republic of China on Taiwan not only recognizes dual citizenship, but also does not recognize the American naturalization oath as renouncing citizenship. In addition, the PRC does not recognize the American citizenship of children born to PRC nationals in the United States.
San Francisco Chinatown, one of the largest in North America. This photo shows Washington Street at Grant Avenue looking West.
Cities with large Chinese American populations include New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Houston. In these cities, there are often multiple Chinatowns, an older one and a newer one which is populated by immigrants from the 1960s and 1970s. In some areas, Chinese Americans maintain close relationships with other Asian groups, particularly Vietnamese Americans. These relationships are helped by the fact that many Vietnamese American are ethnic overseas Chinese, although most ethnic Chinese Vietnamese Americans do not classify themselves as Chinese American.
In addition to the big cities, smaller pockets of Chinese Americans are also dispersed in rural towns, often university towns, throughout the United States. Chinese Americans formed nearly three percent of California's population in 1990, and over one percent in the Northeast. Hawaii, with its historically heavily-Asian population, was nearly five percent Chinese American.
As a whole, Chinese Americans continue to grow at a rapid rate due to immigration. However, they also on average have birth rates lower than those of American whites, and as such their population is aging relatively quickly. In recent years, adoption of young children, especially girls, from China has also brought a boost to the numbers of Chinese Americans, although most of the adoptions appear to have been done by white parents.
Chinese Americans are divided among many subgroups based on factors such as generation, place of origin, socio-economic level, and do not have uniform attitudes about the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China on Taiwan, the United States, or Chinese nationalism, with attitudes varying widely between active support, hostility, or indifference. Different subgroups of Chinese Americans also have radically different and sometimes very conflicting political priorities and goals. It is for this reason that Chinese Americans do not have any unified political groups or any unified political viewpoints, although some subgroups such as independence oriented Taiwanese Americans do have some effective lobbying groups such as the Formosan American Professional Association.
In addition, many see the People's Republic of China as a potentially powerful rival to the United States.
Among Chinese in Mainland China and Taiwan, second-generation Chinese Americans known as American-born Chinese are often perceived as being a bit exotic. Chinese Americans have also strongly influenced politics both in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. A large number of major political figures in Taiwan (including Peng Ming-min, Shih Ming-teh, and Lee Yuan-tze) have had either permanent residency or citizenship in the United States, and many Taiwanese political figures including Lee Teng-hui, Ma Ying-jeou, and James Soong have advanced degrees from the United States. The son of James Soong is an American-born Chinese with United States citizenship.
The large number of Taiwanese with either dual American citizenship or relatives with American citizenship have led to some concerns about political loyalty on Taiwan and has resulted in the requirement started in the 1990s that high government officials (although not ordinary people) must renounce any dual citizenships. However, Taiwanese Americans make up important bases of support for both the pan-Green coalition and pan-Blue coalition and neither party appears interesting in pushing this issue much. During the 2000 Republic of China Presidential election, both pan-Green and pan-Blue ran active campaigns among Taiwanese voters in the United States, and an estimated 10,000 Taiwanese Americans returned to Taiwan to vote in the election.
In Communist China, the top leadership contains few persons educated in the United States: the Cold War period made for tenuous China-America links and the Cultural Revolution disrupted academic exchanges with the rest of the world. However, the middle ranks of the People's Republic of China government contain very large numbers of people who received their education in the United States, and a graduate degree from an American university has become an important benefit to political and economic career advancement. In addition, the sons and daughters of many Chinese political leaders, such as Jiang Zemin, are students in the United States. With the leadership transition to the fourth generation of Chinese leaders under Hu Jintao, American educated Chinese officials are increasingly found in powerful positions.
Two incidents have energized some Chinese Americans, particularly American-born Chinese in recent years -- the murder of Vincent Chin by white auto workers in 1982 and the unsubstantiated charges of spying against Chinese American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999, whom many believe was a victim of racial stereotyping .
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Americans, like all overseas Chinese, were viewed as capitalist traitors by the People's Republic of China. Chinese with relatives in the United States were put under extra suspicion. This attitude changed completely in the late 1970s with the Deng Xiaoping reforms. Increasingly Chinese Americans were seen as sources of expertise and capital.
One institution well known among Chinese Americans is colloquially called the Love Boat, a cultural and educational study tour to Taiwan whose overt purpose is to reacquaint American-born Chinese teens with their cultural roots. However, it also has a side motive for Chinese American parents wanting to stem out-marriage (i.e., miscegenation) by increasing the chances their children meet other Chinese Americans.
American-born Chinese
Chinese Hawaiian
Chinese Puerto Rican
Chinese Canadian
Demographics of the United States
hyphenated American
Immigration to the United States
List of Chinese Americans
List of U.S. cities with large Chinese American populations
Jook-sing
model minority
Organization of Chinese Americans
The Asians in America Project - Chinese American Organizations Directory
"Paper Son" - one Chinese American's story of coming to America under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values, May Pao-May Tung , Haworth Press, 2000, paperback, 112 pages, ISBN 0789010569
Chinese Americans: The Immigrant Experience, Dusanka Miscevic and Peter Kwong , Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2000, hardcover, 240 pages, ISBN 0-88363-128-8
Compelled To Excel: Immigration, Education, And Opportunity Among Chinese Americans, Vivian S. Louie , Stanford University Press, 2004, paperback, 272 pages, ISBN 080474985x
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History , Iris Chang, Viking, 2003, hardcover, 496 pages, ISBN 0-670-03123-2
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Engelhard and Sasol announce manufacturing and supply agreement
Engelhard and Sasol announced a manufacturing and supply agreement in which Engelhard will produce an advanced Fischer-Tropsch base-metal catalyst for Sasol Technology, an affiliate of Sasol. The catalyst, developed by Sasol and scaled up by Engelhard, will be used in the first commercial plants using Sasol's Slurry Phase Distillate (SPD) process, a proven method for converting natural gas into liquid hydrocarbons.
The combination of Sasol's custom Fischer-Tropsch catalyst and SPD process will enable energy companies to convert remote or associated natural gas, currently often flared off in the production of crude oil, into valuable fuel products. This will allow energy companies to tap natural gas reserves in remote areas by enabling them to convert the natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons such as diesel oil, which are much easier and less expensive to transport. In addition, diesel fuel obtained from the process is of excellent quality and essentially free of sulphur and aromatics.
Sasol is already in negotiations with several major international energy companies to license the SPD process or utilise it in joint projects, and has an agreement with Chevron to form a global alliance to implement gas-to-liquids ventures.
Jan Fourie, executive director of Sasol, said, "The combination of our unique Fischer-Tropsch catalyst and SPD process, together with Engelhard's catalyst development and manufacturing expertise, resulted in a commercially proven and economically viable product that provides a real opportunity to immediately monetise gas reserves. This is demonstrated by the Nigerian and Qatari gas-to-liquids ventures under development, which will utilise Sasol's well-proven technology. This agreement is a further step in Sasol's pursuit of attractive offshore business opportunities created by the utilisation of our world-leading gas-to-liquids technology."
"The commercial potential for this new, important technological process is significant," said James A. Martin, group vice president andgeneral manager of Engelhard's process technologies business. "We are excited by the potential of leveraging our work with Sasol to deliver value to customers world-wide." Engelhard has designed and will soon begin construction on a $ 20-mm capacity expansion at its manufacturing facility in De Meern, The Netherlands. The new capacity will be devoted to production of Sasol's Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. Engelhard and Sasol are sharing the cost of the expansion project.
Engelhard is a leading global provider of environmental technologies, speciality chemical and performance products and related services. The company's process technologies business delivers a uniquely broad portfolio of chemical, petroleum and polyolefin catalyst technologies used in the manufacture of a wide variety of products across a vast spectrum of industries.
Sasol, established in 1950, is a world-leader in the commercial production of liquid fuels and chemicals from coal and crude oil. The company has annual sales of $ 2.8 bn and is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (SOL), with a market capitalisation of $ 4 bn, and on the NASDAQ (SASOY). Sasol manufactures more than 200 fuel and chemical products at its plants in Sasolburg and Secunda in South Africa, as well as at several other plants abroad. The company's products are exported to more than 70 countries. Sasol has developed world-leading technology for the commercial production of synthetic fuels and chemicals from low-grade coal as well as the conversion of natural gas to environment-friendly diesel and chemicals.
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"Breakthrough in search for General Mihailovich's grave"
Vecernje Novosti
BELGRADE -- The military intelligence services have submitted information to the State Commission that General Dragoljub Mihailovich is buried on Ada Ciganlija.
According to the State Commission on Establishing the Truth about the Murder of Dragoljub Mihailovich, digging will shortly begin next to the gates of a former prison on Ada as part of the search for Mihailovich’s remains, writes daily Novosti.
“This is the first time that a state body has submitted tangible knowledge of the execution and burial of General Mihailovich. The conditions have therefore been created to begin excavations at that location,“ one member of the commission told the daily.
The commission said, according to Novosti, that all information received to date from the intelligence services (BIA), MUP, the Military Archives and the Archive of Yugoslavia had yielded little in the search for Mihailovich's’s final resting place, and that the information from the military intelligence services was a major breakthrough.
The place where the Commander of the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland is believed to be buried is right in front of a monument that marks the site where a prison for political dissidents was located before and during the Second World War.
The site in question, next to a bike hire shop and which now features an arrangement of red roses, is, according to certain earlier testimonies, the place where Mihailovich, together with seven other prisoners, was executed and buried on July 17, 1946.
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=09&dd=03&nav_id=61541
To get in touch with me, Aleksandra, please feel free to contact me at ravnagora@hotmail.com
Monument to General Draza Mihailovich dedicated at...
"EIGHT BAILED OUT" - by U.S.A.F. Major James Inks ...
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The scientific Archive 1919-1948
The Israel Antiquities Authority
The archive of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is located in Jerusalem. It essentially continues the archive from the British Mandate era. Following the conquest of Palestine by British forces, headed by General Allenby in 1918, the documentation and data collecting of ancient and archaeological sites had begun. Once a civil government was established by the British Mandatory Authorities in 1920, the Department of Antiquities was created and the archive had become an integral part of it.
The Department of Antiquities of the State of Israel was founded on July 26, 1948, Its activities were based on British Mandate Antiquities ordinances. In 1978, the Mandate ordinances were superseded by the Law of Antiquities that was passed by the Knesset. In 1990, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) was established and replaced the Department of Antiquities.
The IAA archive consists of several sections:
Mandatory : Scientific Record Files Collection (SRF), and Administrative Files, (ATQ).
Israel: scientific and administrative inspection files, excavation files and storage of files of the different IAA units.
Maps; plans and drawings; conservation files; books and cards of finds and squeezes (for details, see IAA link).
Advice: in order to expand your search, and for a better understanding of the results, we recommend you read the following:
Searching by Name
Searching by Sub-District
Searching by Project
Searching by ATQ or SRF number
The names of sites are organized alphabetically. Choose the first letter of the site name from the list on the left, then search through the list on the right for the site you are interested in.
As a general rule of thumb , the words in the following list appear after the name itself: Tell, Khirbet (Kh.), Horvat / Horevot (H.), `Ain, `Ein, `Enot, `Uyun, Wadi, Nahal, Har, Mount, Jebel, Qasr, Mezad, Mezudat, Fort, Qastal, Qal`at, Mivzar, Me`arat, Magharat, Me`arot, Mughr, Mughar, Giva'at, Monastery, Deir, Tulul, Tloliyot, Rehov, Street.
For example: search for Hazor, Tell not for Tell Hazor.
* Please note an exception to this rule: when the preliminary word is part of the actual name, or is commonly known as part of it, the name appears in full, as for example Tell-Hai, Ain-Karem or Horevot Shivta.
In the transliteration of Arabic names, the Arabic definite article "el"- and its assimilated forms (es-, ez-, et-, ed-, er-, esh- etc.) appear at the end of the name after the prefix.
For example: search for Qadi, Tell el- not for Tell el-Qadi.
Most sites in Israel (and throughout the Middle East) have multiple names, in Hebrew, Arabic and Latin. To simplify the search we have attempted to include all the names of every site in our search engine.
For example: Mount Berenice, Qa`qa`iya, Qasr Bint el-Malik or Qasra di-Teverya will all lead to the same files, as these are all different names
for the same site.
Many sites in Israel have the same name. To distinguish between them, the sub-district to which a site belongs appears in parenthesis at the end of a site name.
For example: Be'er Sheva (Haifa SD) and Be'er Sheva (Beersheba SD) are two sites with the same name, one in the Haifa sub-district,the other in the Beersheba sub-district.
Searching by sub-district allows you to filter the possible results of the search to the sites of a specific sub-district. When you choose
a sub-district from the list on the left, only names of sites in that sub-district will appear on the alphabetical search list on the right.
Please note that the sub-districts on the list correspond only to those of the British Mandate period, not the ones used today.
The "Search by Project" option will produce a list of categories, or projects, which group together a number of files that have a common subject that is not part of an archaeological site per se. Choosing a project category from the list will show the files assigned to this project.
The current projects are:
The Pro-Jerusalem Society Files: the Pro-Jerusalem society was established in 1918 in Jerusalem. The goal of the society was the protection of and addition to “the amenities of Jerusalem and its vicinity,” including preservation of antiquities and the establishment of museums. The society was active between 1918 and 1922.
District, Sub-District and Regional Files: These files deal with archaeological sites, towns and villages in broader perspective, and usually include some information on several sites within a district or region.
Town Planning Commission Files: These files deal with town or village planning, building permits and land ownership issues.
District Planning Commission Files: These files deal with broader regional matters of planning, permits and land ownership.
Palestine Exploration Fund Surveys: Maps, plans and drawings of the Palestine Exploration Fund surveys in Jerusalem.
The Ophel Excavation Files: In 1922 the Antiquities Department and the High Commissioner of Palestine initiated an international effort to "excavate and lay open to the world the City of David and the Ophel". This category groups all the files on the Ophel and its excavations.
Regional Surveys and Soundings: This category groups files of regional surveys and test excavations that cannot be assigned to a single archaeological site. More categories will be added in the future.
Each file in the scientific archives of the Mandate period is either an Administrative file (ATQ) or a Scientific Record File (SRF). Every site that was known during this period has a record in an SRF file, and might have one or more ATQ files. If you know the ID number of the SRF or ATQ file you are looking for, just type it into the search box.
The Mandatory SRF files contain records of many sites arranged alphabetically. Searching for an SRF file using the ID number will supply numerous results. Each is a record of a different site, but they all belong to the same Scientific Record File.
Sometimes an ATQ or SRF file deals with more than one site and we have assigned it to all the archaeological sites discussed within it. As a result, when you search for these files using the SRF or ATQ number search, these files will appear multiple times in your search results.
Reading the Results
Once you designate your search filters, you will receive the results as a list of files. Every result consists of the file's title, its attribution as an SRF or ATQ file and its ID number. Often the titles of the files will not correspond exactly to the site name you searched for. This is because different names were used for the same site or because some files contain information about several sites. Once you click onto one of the results you will see the texts, photos and all other components of the file. The title page of the file always appears first. The title pages of ATQ files sometimes show the dates of the material inside the file, but this is not always accurate. Sometimes you may see on the title page references to other ATQ files that deal with the same sites or subjects. You can use the "Search by ATQ Number" option to search for these files. The title pages of SRF files show the name of the site, the district it belongs to, its coordinates, how it was reached, sources of drinking water, pottery periods from the site, and often the number of the ATQ file number related to the site. You can use the ATQ number to search for this file using the "Search by ATQ number" option.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archive entered the government project of “intensifying national foundations and heritage”, with the aim of preserving and digitizing the British Mandatory section.
The purpose of the project is to enable the wide public in Israel and across the world accessing this unique data.
The digitations project includes, first and foremost, the physical preservation of the different files, which include hand and typewritten texts, photographs, maps and plans that appear on a variety of papers, including greaseproof, rice, stencils and others.
The process of digitations is done to preserve the original data for generations to come. The process prevents the physical deterioration of the material and its wear out, caused by the touch of human hands and the climatic changes. The process consists of digitizing the data and indexing it.
At this first stage, the digital archive includes the scientific Mandatory archive in English; accordingly, the site was developed in English, with a general explanation in Hebrew.
Searching by Name;Searching by Sub-District;Searching by Project;Searching by ATQ or SRF number;Search by Map
● As a general rule of thumb , the words in the following list appear after the name itself: Tell, Khirbet (Kh.), Horvat / Horevot (H.), `Ain, `Ein, `Enot, `Uyun, Wadi, Nahal, Har, Mount, Jebel, Qasr, Mezad, Mezudat, Fort, Qastal, Qal`at, Mivzar, Me`arat, Magharat, Me`arot, Mughr, Mughar, Giva'at, Monastery, Deir, Tulul, Tloliyot, Rehov, Street.
* Please note an exception to this rule: when the preliminary word is part of the actual name, or is commonly known as part of it, the name
appears in full, as for example Tell-Hai, Ain-Karem or Horevot Shivta.
● In the transliteration of Arabic names, the Arabic definite article "el"- and its assimilated forms (es-, ez-, et-, ed-, er-, esh- etc.) appear
at the end of the name after the prefix.
● Most sites in Israel (and throughout the Middle East) have multiple names, in Hebrew, Arabic and Latin. To simplify the search we have
attempted to include all the names of every site in our search engine.
● Many sites in Israel have the same name. To distinguish between them, the sub-district to which a site belongs appears in parenthesis at
the end of a site name.
For example: Be'er Sheva (Haifa SD) and Be'er Sheva (Beersheba SD) are two sites with the same name, one in the Haifa sub-district,
the other in the Beersheba sub-district.
● The Mandatory SRF files contain records of many sites arranged alphabetically. Searching for an SRF file using the ID number will supply numerous results. Each is a record of a different site, but they all belong to the same Scientific Record File.
● Sometimes an ATQ or SRF file deals with more than one site and we have assigned it to all the archaeological sites discussed within it. As a result, when you search for these files using the SRF or ATQ number search, these files will appear multiple times in your search results.
(To be added) Clicking on any site on the map will produce the files related to the specific site.
● The sites on the map appear according to the modern Israeli registration of the site. Every site is registered with geographic coordinates of two opposing corners of a rectangle that defines the limits of the archaeological site declaration. The points on the map represent the center of the registered site declaration area, and thus they do not always fall on the actual geographical center of the site itself but somewhere in its vicinity. The geographical network used today is the new geographic coordinate system for Israel, or ITM, while during the British Mandate, the old geographical coordinate system for Israel , also known as the Palestine Grid or ICS, was in use.
● Not only is the coordinate system used today for registered sites different from that used by the British Mandate Antiquities Department, so is the system of site registration. The geographical location of sites in the Mandate period was registered at the south-western corner (intersection of longitude and latitude lines) of one square kilometer within which a site is located. In 1944, this system was somewhat altered: instead of registering the south-western intersection of coordinates, the intersection nearest to the site was registered.
Hereinafter are the results of searching in the following folder: el-Kheiriya
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HPU Professor Publishes Poems In NY Journal
In: Press Releases
Dr. Marion Hodge, professor of English at High Point University, recently had two poems accepted for publication in “Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems” ? a journal based in Southold, N.Y. His second poem, “A Natural Color,” will appear in the summer issue. The poem presents a scene from Hodge’s youth, when he came upon the hide and bones of a calf which had apparently tried but failed to jump over a barbed-wire fence.
HPU Manager Of Budd Family Campus For EDP Program Presents Paper At Orlando Conference
Tara Shollenberger, manager of the Budd Family Campus for the Evening Degree Program at High Point University, recently presented a paper at The College Teaching and Learning Conference, held in Orlando. Shollenberger presented “Faculty Perceptions of Students with Learning Disabilities: A Review of Literature,” which detailed faculty perceptions, attitudes and views on accommodations to adult students with learning disabilities.
HPU Donates Vacant Homes To Organizations In Need
High Point University is doing its part to help community organizations in need, thanks to the donation of several vacant homes on university property. “High Point University is extending an offer to any non-profit organization or housing authority in the Triad area,” says Dr. Don Scarborough, vice president for Community Relations at HPU.
HPU Hosts Reception For Artist-In-Residence Fernanda Piamonti
High Point University recently hosted a reception in the Sechrest Gallery for talented guest artist Fernanda Piamonti. Piamonti served as an artist-in-residence for a week on campus, and her abstract art collection will be featured in the gallery through March 3. Piamonti, a 36-year-old from Argentina, is being hailed as the next up-and-coming artist, and wowed faculty, students and art aficionados with her unusual painting style.
HPU Theatre To Feature 'The Dining Room'
The High Point University Theatre will present “The Dining Room,” Feb. 18-28 in the Empty Space Theatre of the Old Student Center. The production is open to the public. “The Dining Room” is a humorous and compassionate play from American playwright A.R. Gurney. Scripted as a series of overlapping vignettes, the play visits a host of characters as they go about their daily business.
HPU To Host Fourth Event In Film And Lecture Series, Featuring Writer And Director Denice Ann Evans
High Point University will host writer and director Denice Ann Evans as part of HPU?s year-long “Turn Down the Lights/Turn Up the Volume: Women?s Documentary Film and Lecture Series.” The event ? the fourth in the series ? will focus on “Dating, Mating and Hooking Up.” The event will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Extraordinaire Cinema in the University Center.
HPU's Smith Library Awarded Federal Grant
Smith Library at High Point University will soon see a great deal of book and monograph additions to its current media collection, thanks to a recent $19,500 federal grant. The grant was one of only 185 awarded to North Carolina libraries during the 2009-10 fiscal year.
HPU To Bring More Than 5,000 Visitors To High Point In February
Thanks to High Point University, the city of High Point will see a flurry of activity from out-of-town guests during the month of February. The campus will bring in more than 5,000 visitors from two dozen states throughout the month as part of HPU-related events. Students and parents will visit campus twice this month for Presidential Scholar weekends on Feb. 5-6 and Feb. 19-20; and family members will be buzzing around HPU during the Winter Family Weekend, scheduled for Feb. 12-13.
HPU Alumnae Named 'Rookie Teacher Of The Year'
Sumia Mustafa, a 2008 graduate of High Point University, is receiving accolades for her teaching skills. Mustafa was selected as “Rookie Teacher of the Year” at The Academy at Smith High School in Greensboro. Mustafa, who was born in Pakistan and raised in New York, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and teacher education licensure in secondary biology.
HPU History Professor Presents Ridenhour Lecture
Dr. Frederick Schneid, professor of history at High Point University and recipient of the 2009 Ridenhour Scholarly and Professional Achievement Award, recently presented “Historical Problems and National Myths: The Second War of Italian Unification, 1859-1861.” Schneid’s lecture examined the problems with the historical narrative of Italian unification and the Franco-Piedmontese War with Austria.
HPU Raises Money For Haiti Relief
High Point University students came together in a big way, raising $5,242.76 during “HPU for Haiti,” a week of special activities to help provide relief for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. All donations from the week?s events went to the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Events during the week included a dorm storm, a Benefit Concert that featured the University Singers, the Chapel Choir, the Toccatatones and more.
Student-Athletes Achieve 3.09 GPA In Fall Semester
High Point University student-athletes achieved a 3.09 grade-point average and eight Panthers earned perfect 4.0 GPAs during the fall 2009 semester. HPU student-athletes have a 3.04 cumulative GPA. “This accomplishment reflects not only on our student-athletes, but also on our coaches for the types of people they are bringing to High Point University,” said HPU Athletic Director Craig Keilitz.
HPU Loses Longtime Colleague Dr. Roy Epperson
High Point University is saddened by the loss of longtime friend and colleague Dr. E. Roy Epperson. Epperson passed away on Sunday, Jan. 24. Epperson served the university in many capacities for nearly a half-century, including serving as professor of chemistry, chair of the Physical Science Department, associate dean of the university, and as vice president of Administration.
HPU Named 2009 Tree Campus USA University
High Point University has been honored as a 2009 Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship ? the fifth university in the state to be given this designation. “High Point University continues to be dedicated to the enhancement of the campus and seeks to maintain a learning environment complemented by a diverse landscape.
HPU Graduate Promotes Nonfiction Work 'High Points And Lows' With Book Tour
HIGH POINT, N.C., Jan. 26, 2010 – Austin Carty, a 2009 graduate of High Point University, recently published his first work of nonfiction, “High Points and Lows: Life, Faith, and Figuring it All Out.” Carty will hold events throughout the Triad to promote his new work. All events are open to the public.
HPU's Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Hopes To Win $1 Million On Facebook For Philanthropy
Push America, the national philanthropy of Pi Kappa Phi ? a fraternity at High Point University ? has been voted as one of 100 small nonprofit organizations across the country given the chance to win $1 million through Facebook. Through voting on the social networking site, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will donate a total of $5 million through the Chase Community Giving Campaign.
HPU Student Named Gates Millennium Scholar
High Point University sophomore Erin Lonon knows how life-changing scholarships are ? especially since she was named a Gates Millennium Scholar, a prestigious and very competitive scholarship. Lonon, a native of Cumberland, Va., who is majoring in exercise science, says the renewable scholarship pays her entire college tuition. Naturally, it opened up a lot of doors for her.
HPU Provost To Appear On 'Triad Today' To Discuss University's Academics
Dr. Dennis Carroll, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at High Point University, will be featured on “Triad Today,” at 6:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 22. The program airs on the local ABC affiliate, WXLV-ABC 45 (Time Warner channel 7). During his appearance, Carroll will discuss the state of academics at HPU.
HPU Students Share Port Southern's Vision With Local Groups
High Point University students Steven Beck, Jeremy Hiatt and Nick Ruden, along with friend Zach Moore ? owners of the Port Southern clothing company ? recently made visits to local groups to help spread the message of their new company. Beck and Hiatt visited Westchester Country Day School to speak to the school?s investment club.
HPU Holds Week Of Events To Benefit Victims Of Haiti Earthquake
The High Point University family has come together to help provide relief for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti with “HPU for Haiti,” a weeklong event to help provide relief. “HPU has a heavy heart for the victims of this disaster,” says Hillary Kokajko, director of Student Activities at HPU. “Groups of students, faculty and staff were really concerned for the people of Haiti, so we all teamed up to help raise money.”
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My Expat Story: Gigi Griffis
By admin on Oct 20, 2014 in My Expat Story
At Global Living Magazine we want to connect with our readers — know what you’re all about, what you love, where you’ve been and where you’re going. The best way to do this? Hear it straight from YOU!
[Courtesy of Gigi Griffis]
We received an email from Gigi Griffis, an American expat living in Switzerland. After traveling full-time for almost two years, living for a month or two at a time in places like Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, Paris, Mexico, and Belgium’s Flanders, in late 2013 Gigi applied for residence in Switzerland. To her surprise and delight, she received it and has been living in a small town in the middle of the Swiss Alps ever since.
What’s your favorite part of expatriate life?
I love how connected I feel here. Living in Switzerland means I’m not only immersed in another culture, but I’m also only an hour or two away from even more culture, diversity, history, and languages. In two hours, I could be in Italy or Germany or France.
I also live in a big tourist area that attracts a lot of slow travelers – people who come for a few months or a whole season – so I’m constantly meeting new people from all over Europe and the world.
I think both of those things keep me curious, creative, and inspired.
What’s been the hardest part?
Not knowing the rules! Twice this year I’ve been fined for breaking rules I simply didn’t know existed (once for trying to buy a ticket on a train and once for not realizing that in Switzerland you have to register your dog not once but TWICE). It can feel really overwhelming and unfair to be penalized for something you had no idea was wrong and then wondering what else you’re doing wrong and what it’ll cost you.
Where have you lived around the world? Favorite places?
In a long-term way (more than 6 months), I’ve only lived in Switzerland and the U.S. (New York, Denver, Virginia, and Pennsylvania). But for almost two years I was a full-time nomad, which means I didn’t have a home base and really felt that I was ‘living’ on the road. So, if you count places that I lived for only a month or two, I’d have to add France (6 weeks in Paris), Scotland (1 month in Edinburgh), Belgium (6 weeks in Ghent), Croatia (1 month in Split), Italy (5 weeks in Perugia, Umbria), and Mexico (2 months in Sayulita; 1 month in Playa del Carmen) to the list.
Where do you want to move to eventually?
Right now, I just feel really lucky to have residence here in the Swiss Alps. I’ve been a lot of places, but I’ve never found one as beautiful as this. This is the one place in the world that I always feel like I’m coming home. I’m definitely a nomad at heart, so I’ll probably do a lot of traveling in the coming years and I may eventually move away, but for now, this is it.
What’s your sense of ‘home’?
For me, home is about how I feel. I’ve always been restless, always wanting to go see the next place and do the next thing. But this little town in the Swiss Alps kept drawing me back over and over again and there’s this feeling I get when I’m riding the train into the valley, where something inside me expands. I feel relieved, happy, home.
Share anything else you’d like us to hear!
I often talk to people who want to be expats and/or travel in a longer-term way, but feel like they can’t because of their commitments. One of the big things on that commitment list for people is their pets. They can’t imagine leaving them behind and they don’t think they can take them along.
This is why I like to bring up that I travel with my dog, Luna. She went with me while I was traveling full-time (she’s got 11 countries under her proverbial belt) and now lives with me here in Switzerland and travels with me when I’m traveling and writing.
Taking a dog with you – and figuring out ways to handle your other commitments from the road – is probably more possible than you think.
About Gigi Griffis: Gigi is a location independent magazine and guidebook writer. She is the author of the 100 Locals series, a local-centric series of guides that feature interviews with real locals instead of simply the opinions of one traveler. In addition to her books, she writes for a number of magazines and keeps a blog at gigigriffis.com.
If you’d like to be featured on our “My Expat Story” section, send an email to us at info@globallivingmagazine.com and tell us about your experience as an expatriate and/or global citizen by answering the above questions. Don’t forget to include your Twitter handle so we can help you connect with other expats from around the world!
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Rob Schneider is an accomplished actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the award-winning NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider has gone on to a successful career in films, television and continues his word-wide standup tour. Schneider’s first Netflix comedy special, “Asian Momma, Mexican Kids,” premiered globally on August 11, 2020. Filmed in February, the special gives viewers a look at Schneider’s family and personal life through hilarious anecdotes. The special ends with a surprise duet performance with Schneider’s daughter Elle King. Most recently, Schneider launched his first ever podcast “See What Happens,” available on streaming platforms. Hosted by Schneider and his wife Patricia Maya Schneider, the weekly show features occasional guests-from the duo’s Hollywood friend to their gardener while dissecting show business, their contrasting parenting methods, jokes, good food, philosophy and more. New episodes begin airing in August. The three-time Emmy nominated writer for SNL is having the best time of his life, enjoying raising his 7 and 3 year old girls, Miranda and Madeline, with his wife Patricia. Schneider is also the father of singer/songwriter Elle King.
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“The death of the Best Loser System will not by itself kill ‘communalism’ as we know it”
Mauritius Times | April 11, 2014 | Interviews | No Comments
Interview: Suren Bissoondoyal
“I am weary of empty slogans which do not mean anything, whether they be ‘one graduate per family’, or ‘unité nationale’ or ‘citoyenneté républicaine’… Why can’t we stick to our ‘unity in diversity’ until at least such time as we decide we should tear one another apart”
“We have been using the word ‘hub’ too freely… as a slogan without really trying to promote it properly”
What’s happening in our tertiary education sector which seems to be still grappling with ethical and existential dilemmas and difficulties and with the concerned authorities seemingly unable to come to grips with the problems that are coming up one after another? Why is that so, and what’s the way out? Suren Bissoondoyal believes that there is no solution other than “a well worked out Human Resource Development Plan and a well regulated tertiary sector, both of which are non-existent at present”. He also shares his views on the Electoral Reform Proposals made public recently and suggests that we should also go for constitutional reform…
Mauritius Times: Looks like much of our tertiary education sector seems to be still grappling with ethical and existential dilemmas and difficulties. And neither the different parent ministries nor the supervisory authorities connected with the training of undergraduates as well as medical personnel, etc., seem to be able to come to grips with the problems that are coming to the surface one after another. Why is that so, and what’s the way out?
Suren Bissoondoyal: The problems facing our tertiary education sector stem from an amateurish way we have been dealing with it.
It reminds me of the time private secondary schools were mushrooming all over the island, managed as money making businesses by unscrupulous managers — with a few exceptions — and with classes being held in garages by mostly unqualified teachers. The PSSA, when it was set up in 1977, had a hard task to put some order into that sector, which is at present well regulated.
We are witnessing the same tendency in the tertiary sector today in spite of the fact that there is a Tertiary Education Commission which is supposed to see to it that all conditions are met before a tertiary education institution is allowed to operate in Mauritius. We have seen a proliferation of third rate and dubious institutions being set up and operating in a few rented rooms without any resources deemed necessary for an institution at that level and being proudly called ‘campuses’ to fool students and their parents.
Furthermore there is no coordination among the different bodies that have to work together to ensure the proper running of the courses and the outcomes. Let us take the medical sector as an example. Courses cannot be started without ascertaining that there is proper training/attachment in a teaching hospital and without the Medical Council giving the green light as it is the Medical Council that will eventually authorize the successful students to register and work as doctors. But what do we see in practice? It’s a passing of the buck in a game of musical chairs in which TEC, the Ministry of Tertiary Education, the Ministry of Health and the Medical Council are involved.
What is the way out? There is no solution other than a well worked out Human Resource Development Plan and a well regulated tertiary sector, both of which are non-existent at present.
* There must be something terribly wrong with the system when a government-run university (the UTM) has to seek official confirmation from TEC on the recognition or otherwise of courses run and diplomas/degrees by a private university here. One would have thought that the green light to operate would have been given to universities and institutes (Mauritian or local branch of a foreign university) on the basis of, among other things, strong and recognized credentials. That’s the way it should have been, shouldn’t it? Rules-based?
The UTM also is in the same boat. On what basis does it agree to an institution being affiliated with it particularly for the running of medical courses? There is a glut of qualifications being awarded by all sorts of institutions throughout the world without such qualifications being recognized even in the countries in which the institutions operate. Nous sommes plus royalists que le roi? How do we deal with such bogus diplomas and degrees? This is why it is extremely important for Mauritius to recognize only qualifications awarded by well-established and internationally recognized institutions.
In the age of ICT, many Universities offer online courses. This is a welcome development particularly for people at work and who can only study at their own pace and in their own time. But here also the courses must be delivered by recognized institutions and the mode of delivery must be properly monitored to prevent illegal and dishonest practices. Many Mauritians go overseas for further studies or to work and the qualifications they obtain should be ‘portable’ internationally. A government which allows dubious and third-rate institutions to set up ‘campuses’ in its country is failing its students and doing a disservice to its citizens.
* At this rate we do not seem to be on the right track to achieving the objective of putting up an education hub worthy of the name, do we? But what does it take for such a hub to really take shape and to get going in the long term?
We have been using the word ‘hub’ too freely… as a slogan without really trying to promote it properly. Only institutions duly recognized internationally should be allowed to set up campuses in Mauritius, to be managed by the parent institutions themselves and awarding the same qualifications set down by the parent institutions. A visit to Malaysia where top UK and Australian Universities have set up proper and viable campuses with all the required infrastructure and proper facilities for the well being of the students will be an eye opener. We do not need offshore campuses which are like those offshore companies which operate as money laundering businesses, but academic institutions which will bring a ‘plus’ to the idea of a ‘knowledge hub’.
* The Catholic Church is reviewing its involvement in the education sector through the Kleopas project. It proposes to address the following issues: “Comment l’école catholique peut-elle être un lieu d’apprentissage d’un dialogue interculturel et interreligieux…” and “comment les catholiques qui fréquentent nos écoles peuvent-ils y apprendre à vivre de l’Evangile et en témoigner dans un dialogue respectueux avec les autrement croyants?” The question of whether public funded education should remain unbiased, freely accessible and secular has not been thrashed out as yet. What do you think?
The term ‘secular’ should not mean ‘anti-religious’ as some people tend to believe because religion has been a force for the development of values and civilizations throughout history. But misguided people have also used religion to persecute others who may not agree with them. Basdeo Bissoondoyal was jailed four times during British rule because he refused to seek the permission of the police to organize sermons on the Hindu sacred texts, arguing that Christian priests did not need to seek police authorization for similar functions.
But times have changed. There is a greater desire for intercultural and interreligious dialogue today. Many of the problems facing modern civilization stem from the notion that ancient cultures and religions are ‘outdated’ and are irrelevant in the modern world. What we need is to re-interpret the term ‘values’ in the context of the challenges facing humanity to enable us to have the moral force to stand on our feet but also to reach out to others. In this context the objective of the Catholic Church to review its involvement in education is commendable, and should be followed by other religious bodies. Young people, particularly Hindus, are very often required to follow rites and rituals without being taught the meaning of the customs and the age-old values inherent in them. They moreover find themselves unable to counter the onset of materialism and publicity materials telling them that happiness lies in keeping up with the Joneses.
* This question of ‘dialogue interculturel et interreligieux’ brings us back to an MGI-sponsored conference in 1996 when academics and research scholars pondered over the issues related to the ‘making of a multicultural society’ with particular emphasis on Mauritius. Is the Mauritian multiculturalism still at the stage of work-in-progress or do we have to move on to embrace interculturalism?
The aim of education, apart from the teaching of literacy and numeracy and other core areas should be to develop in young children a sense of multiculturalism. Uttam Bissoondoyal had proposed that all children should be exposed to a new area in the curriculum called “Cultures and Civilisations of Mauritius”. But this was shot down by people with a narrow vision about the aim and purpose of education.
Multiculturalism cannot be thrust on people with a magic wand and accepted by them instantly. It has taken centuries in many countries, including Mauritius, to emerge. We have to look at history on a long-term basis to understand how civilizations are influenced by invaders or mass immigration and vice versa. ‘New’ countries like Australia will have to wait a little longer for such osmosis to take place. Multiculturalism is for the masses, interculturism for the few. Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring!
* There has been a lot of canvassing undertaken to promote ‘Morisyin’ as a medium of instruction at the primary school level (although exposure to Kreol and its use as a medium of instruction from the primary up to apparently the tertiary level has since long been prevalent), and as a vehicle to bring about a particular form of ‘Mauritian culture’. (Dev Virahsawmy argues that ‘Morisyin’ will be instrumental in the making of our “yet-to-be nation”) Does not this look too much of political midwifery to be called in to deliver on that? Should not the moulding of the Mauritian nation be allowed to come on its own, naturally and gradually instead of having recourse to forceps delivery?
Languages, just like cultures, take time to establish themselves, and we should not impose any language on anybody for the sake of ‘moulding’ a Mauritian nation. Wars have been fought when people got the impression that their language was in danger. Bangladesh was created when the former East Pakistan fought against the imposition of Urdu by West Pakistan on the proud Bengalis. The national anthem of Bangladesh was written in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore just as that of India. India itself was in turmoil when the South (particularly Tamil Nadu) was asked to accept Hindi as the national language. The three-language formula (English, Hindi and a regional language) was then accepted by all States.
Nobody was forced to speak Kreol in Mauritius, but today it is a reality in all aspects of life. We do not need any ‘political midwifery’ to achieve any imposed and artificial ‘uniformity’. Another question is whether uniformity is desirable or not.
* What do you think of the prospect of a Morisyin-coloured culture? Will such a culture be the national Mauritian identity that is talked about? Is it desirable in our context, when we see that different cultural streams have till now co-existed in relative peace?
I have no idea what a Morisyin-coloured culture means or what it should look like. As I said earlier, everything in its own time. We should not rush anybody into such matters, disrupting their cultural habits. We should not try to impose our own ideas of a Mauritian culture on everybody. What is wrong with our multi-cultural culture, which has come about without it being imposed on anybody?
A kaleidoscopic culture is much more vibrant than a ‘unique’ culture as we see it in some totalitarian states which do not allow any form of dissent.
* We also hear about such concepts as “mauricianisme”. “unité nationale” and “citoyenneté républicaine”. What do they mean to you and do they really help the objectives of multiculturalism?
I am weary of empty slogans which do not mean anything, whether they be ‘one graduate per family’, or ‘unité nationale’ or ‘citoyenneté républicaine’, etc. Why can’t we stick to our ‘unity in diversity’ until at least such time as we decide we should tear one another apart…
* Besides constitutional safeguards (protection of minority rights, Best Loser system etc) and institutional support in the form of an Equal Opportunities Commission, does it require a measure of political patronage to ensure the sustainability of the multicultural experiment? Electoral reform as a stand-alone initiative or coupled with constitutional reform?
Let me start with the Best Loser System. There was a time during pre-independence days when the bogey of ‘Hindu hegemony’ was being dangled in front of ‘minorities’ for political gains and against the demand for independence. At the Constitutional Conference held in London to decide on the issue of independence Sir Abdool Razack Mohamed, leader of the C.A.M (Comite d’Action Musulman) argued the case for a separate electoral list as in the past no Muslim candidate could get elected in the then large constituencies. The British — true to their imperialistic design of divide and rule — did not refute such an argument outright, but were prepared to listen. Sookdeo Bissoondoyal, leader of the IFB (Independent Forward Bloc) gave the example of Abdul Wahab Foondun who was elected in a Hindu majority constituency (Bon Accueil). This example killed the demand for separate electoral lists and paved the way for a much more acceptable formula: the Best Loser System. It reassured the ‘minority communities’. Mauritius was thus spared a much worse scenario than the BLS.
The death of the BLS will be on paper only, although this will not by itself kill ‘communalism’ as we know it. But we have to be forward-looking, particularly after the Sik Yuen episode. But we also need to strengthen the democratic set up of our Constitution. The President of the USA, the most powerful country in the world, is not himself that powerful. The House of Representatives and the Senate (which together form the Congress) can veto important proposals coming from him. We have seen it in two cases recently — the budget deficit and Healthcare. In India the Electoral Commission has wide powers. Only a few days ago it threatened to cancel elections in some constituencies in West Bengal if the Chief Minister does not transfer some officials who were not being impartial during the election process. The Chief Minister had then to abide by the order of the Election Commission. This is the sort of Constitutional Reform that we need.
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SC Confirms: Gujarat Rajya Sabha Polls To Include NOTA Option
The Supreme Court has confirmed that the 'None of The Above' or NOTA voting option will be available for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat on August 8 despite oppositions from both Congress and BJP.
The NOTA option allows a voter to reject all the candidates that are running but was opposed by Congress and the BJP, saying that it is 'against the ethos of indirect elections'.
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Congress had requested the Supreme Court to put the NOTA option on hold for the elections, saying that "there is no constitutional provision for NOTA in the Rajya Sabha polls and no order from the Election Commission".
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Since the NOTA option has been added to the election if any lawmaker defies the party and chooses to vote for NOTA the lawmaker cannot be disqualified. While the party is free to take disciplinary action against the lawmaker, the vote cannot be canceled and would still be counted.
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There is a high proportion of older inhabitants in the village where I live. This is one reason why it was decided to build a whole section of 'modest' housing in the centre, to bring in young families to fill the schools. The village, being in the affluent north of Montpellier, was gradually dying as the prices of the original villas were too high for normal families. The new houses provide rental opportunities for those who are priced out of the market (like me) but still want to live in a safe, attractive environment.
Today, being Armistice Day, saw many of the older inhabitants gathered together in one place, in front of the War Memorial. A classful of primary school-aged kids also came, cajoled into it by their teacher to sing the national anthem after the wreath had been laid. There were few parents of children who, like me, took their kids because they felt it was important that their children remember those who died to maintain their freedom.
My boys were not enthusiastic about going. We participate every year and I suppose they felt they've been there, done it, got the tee-shirt. However, their freedom came at a price, and I feel that standing with others at the memorial for 20 minutes once a year is a small price to pay to remember those who couldn't live to enjoy that freedom which they paid for with their lives.
The ceremony was short; the mayor gave a good speech where he recognised the part other nations such as the British and Americans played in obtaining victory, they laid the wreath, had one minute's silence, sang the Marseillaise and then it was over. We didn't go to the 'Pot de l'Amitié'. I had to buy bread, knew practically no one who was there, and couldn't quite face Pastis at 11.30am. Plus, the boys were keen to go about their own affairs having done their duty.
Actually, I think maybe it's only as you get older and understand the fragile nature of the world and the lunatics that would go to war at the drop of a hat that you really appreciate the concept of freedom and be so thankful that we live in the free (such as it is...) world.
We should honour those that gave their lives for freedom to ensure that our freedom is maintained, and not chipped away by the threat of fear by those who would control us. Beware the 'benevolent government' who would protect us 'for our own good'.
Tags : Armistice Day, Freedom, Remembrance Day
Hello Sarah, You write so well that I could really picture the scene this morning and almost hear the reluctant comments of your boys 'doing their duty'.
This age thing does make one more open to the frailty of life. I never thought I'd ever become the sort of person I seem to be these days.
When you say you're not an expat because you pay your (French) dues, so do I but I still call myself an expat. Maybe I'm doing myself a disservice :)
Hello FF, thank you for your kind comments.
An expat, I always thought, was someone who was paid from their country of origin so paid no taxes in their country of residence and got all sorts of perks as a result.
As a resident, I work here, pay taxes here, and get no perks :(. Still, I can also stay as long as I like :)
Actually, we're immigrants :)
Michael Irwin 11/11/2008, 20:39
bon dit, Sarah !
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Making an impression
By: Matt McClellan | 12:00am EST September 21, 2006
Roland Garcia has been through some tough times with Original Impressions LLC, the business he founded in 1982. He sold his business to a Connecticut company in 1999 and, three years later, that company went bankrupt. Garcia’s longtime suppliers and customers needed reassurance.
“It affected us because everybody heard our company was going bankrupt,” he says. “It was a major stumbling block for us, but we survived it and came back stronger.”
Garcia and a partner bought back the business and fought to re-establish credit. During that process, Original Impressions, an offset and digital print provider, grew from 150 employees to 180, and the company posted 2005 revenue of $21 million.
Smart Business spoke with company president Garcia about building a reputation and finding employees who will make that reputation shine.
How do you develop a good company reputation?
It’s called customer service. In my mind, service is like a dial on a radio or the volume on a TV. Any company, it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, can determine the level of service they want to provide. That is within the reach of any individual at any company.
We do whatever it takes. We try to fit ourselves around the customer rather than the other way around.
How do you communicate that message to employees?
They see us here. We’re not out playing golf, we’re not out fishing, and we’re not out doing other things we shouldn’t be doing. People see us bringing work into the company; they see us involved in organizations and the community.
Our participation in the business is very visual. We are committed, and we make sure the employees see it. We really don’t have to make sure, it’s pretty obvious. You’re not out of touch, and people are not numbers.
What do you look for in your employees?
There are people who have a problem providing a service or being asked to do things. Most of our customer service reps are people we have trained.
In Miami, in the South Florida area, there’s a lack of skilled people just about in every position, whether it’s pressman or cutter or estimator or production manager or customer service representative.
You have got to select your people who fit the mold, identify them, then train them in that position; otherwise, you’re SOL. People who start here working in the office, they show they want additional responsibility. They show that they are friendly and willing to come through.
That’s the first feature I look for. Are you willing to come through? Does it bother you to get up if we can’t find our delivery person here, to get in your car and go deliver the job? If that bothers you, you’re not cut out for customer service.
You may be cut out for something else, you may work in accounting or another department, but customer service is not for you. We look for people who are service-oriented.
How do you retain quality employees?
Some large corporations constantly increase the person’s salary to a point that when rough times come, they have individuals who are way out of the ballpark salary-wise, and when rough times come, they are the first to go.
Regardless of how many years of service, regardless of how good they are, regardless of anything, companies try to get rid of overhead. We make sure that doesn’t happen by making salary increases in range with what’s being paid competitively. It could happen that in some positions, a salary won’t be touched for a year.
But if the rate goes up, we react to it accordingly. That way, we don’t have individuals who should be making $45,000 making $81,000 or $72,000. I see that in many corporations in the corporate world.
Rough times come in, stock goes down, and the first thing they do is get rid of overhead. I don’t think that’s fair, and people here know it.
We have never missed a payroll. Even when we went through Hurricane Andrew and other catastrophes, we have always paid our employees.
How do you keep your business up-to-date with the latest technology?
You read a lot. You subscribe to publications and services that keep you updated. Most importantly, listen to the customer. Listen to what the customers say, find out what they want.
We then invest in technology that makes sense for the customers, not just for the sake of saying, ‘We offer this.’ If we don’t have a use for it, if our clients don’t have a need for that software, program or equipment, then we don’t invest in it.
HOW TO REACH: Original Impressions LLC, www.originalimpressions.com
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"The Last Full Measure"
"The Last Full Measure" is the new Viet Nam war feature, based on a true story, written and directed by Todd Robinson, starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt and Jeremy Irvine, opening January 17, 2020:
"... a 'Pentagon staffer' (Stan) and Veterans fight for a 'Vietnam War Hero' who was denied the medal of honor. Fifty-three years after his death, 'Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr.' aka 'Pits' is awarded the nation's highest military honor for his actions on the battlefield..."
Pitsenbarger was a 'United States Air Force Pararescueman' who flew on almost 300 rescue missions during the Vietnam War to aide downed soldiers and pilots. April 11, 1966, he was killed aiding and defending a unit of soldiers pinned down by an enemy assault. He was initially posthumously awarded the 'Air Force Cross', later upgraded to the 'Medal of Honor'.
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Posted by Michael Stevens on Tuesday, November 26, 2019
"ROM: Spaceknight"
Screenwriter Zak Penn ("Ready Player One") continues developing an adaptation of the Hasbro (Parker Bros) toy and subsequent...
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Korean boyband SHINee’s main vocal, Kim Jonghyun, was found dead in a rented residential hotel in Seoul, South Korea’s Gangnam district in the early evening on Monday (December 18), sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry.
According to reports, Jonghyun’s elder sister received a text message from the 27-year-old that day, bidding goodbye to her.
“It’s been really hard for me all this time, so please send me off well. Tell me that I lived a good life. This is my last greeting (to you),” he wrote.
The local police only managed to locate the singer at 6.10pm, after his sister made a police report at 4.42pm. The singer was immediately transported to the hospital, but unfortunately, he did not make it.
SM Entertainment, who manages SHINee, released a official statement later that night confirming the singer’s passing.
The entertainment company also stated that Jonghyun’s family will have a private funeral service for him on Thursday (December 21) at 9am KST (10am SGT). Fans will be able to pay their respects to the singer at a separate memorial in the same building, from Tuesday (December 19), 12pm KST (1pm SGT).
Jonghyun’s close friend, Dear Cloud’s Nine, later released the 27-year-old’s last note on Instagram, sharing that Jonghyun had specified that the letter was to be released if he ever disappeared from this world. Nine also confirmed that the letter was only released to the public after much discussion with Jonghyun’s family.
The schedules of all SM Entertainment artistes have also been cancelled for the time being, in light of the news. SHINee was scheduled to start their Japan tour in February next year.
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GigaOM Acquires paidContent to Expand Editorial Coverage and Geographic Footprint
Deal includes all assets of ContentNext Media.
GigaOM and paidContent are a natural fit,” said Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM. “Integrating our teams will enrich our editorial coverage and expand our footprint in two key markets.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 08, 2012
GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, announced today that it has acquired paidContent from Guardian News & Media Limited. The company has acquired all the assets of ContentNext Media, including paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra.com and paidContent:UK, and will retain its editorial and business staff.
“With our shared commitment to journalistic ethics, GigaOM and paidContent are a natural fit,” said Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM. “paidContent is the leading voice covering the evolution of media, an area that is very important to us. Integrating our teams will enrich our editorial coverage and expand our footprint immediately in two markets that are critical to our growth – New York City and the UK."
paidContent is the defacto voice in the business of media – a business being transformed by technology and new methods of consuming information. Together, paidContent and GigaOM will cover this fast-changing industry even more closely and with more resources.
"We're very excited about the opportunity to be part of GigaOM and to join forces with their team," said Ernie Sander, executive editor of ContentNext Media. "Together, we've got a potent blend of distinguished content on the sites, smart events, and deep-dive research products. I think the combination of GigaOM and paidContent will be unstoppable."
Like GigaOM, paidContent produces industry-leading events that attract some of the most powerful names in media, information, business and technology. GigaOM readers can expect to see more coverage of social and digital media at events, on GigaOM.com and in GigaOM Pro research reports.
Staci D. Kramer, editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, said: “I'm excited about being part of the outstanding GigaOM team and especially pleased to be making the journey with so many people from ContentNext. I look forward to working alongside Om Malik, whom I've long respected, Paul Walborksy, and the combined staffs -- and applying the best of paidContent to GigaOM's expansion.”
Guardian News & Media will take a minority share in GigaOM, joining existing investors such as Reed Elsevier Ventures, Alloy Ventures and True Ventures. Other terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
Andrew Miller, CEO of Guardian Media Group (parent company of Guardian News & Media), said: “paidContent has a fantastic presence in the tech/media space and the match with GigaOM – itself a really smart and pioneering company – is a good one. We are delighted to become shareholders in GigaOM as part of the deal."
With staff already in Europe and New York City, making a larger investment in both regions will provide GigaOM with deeper roots in growing technology markets and bolster its position as the leading independent voice of the technology industry.
About GigaOM
Founded in 2006, GigaOM has grown into the leading provider of online media, events and research for global technology innovators. The company is one of the most credible and insightful voices at the intersection of business and technology, with an online audience of more than 4.5 million monthly unique visitors; industry-leading events; and a pioneering market research service and digital community, GigaOM Pro, which provides research on emerging technology markets from over 110 independent analysts.
About paidContent
paidContent, the flagship brand of ContentNext Media, provides global coverage of the economics of digital content and supports various events and conferences serving decision-makers within the media, entertainment, publishing, advertising, marketing, and technology sectors. paidContent and the other ContentNext brands – mocoNews, contentSutra and paidContent:UK – are known for breaking stories, offering in-depth analysis and maintaining a high level of journalistic integrity. As of January 31, 2012, the company served approximately 726,000 unique monthly visitors, corresponding to 1.54 million page views to its sites, and had hosted 17 paid events since the beginning of 2008, addressing the digital content, entertainment, advertising and mobile markets.
About Guardian News & Media
Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes guardian.co.uk, one of the world’s leading news websites, guardiannews.com, and the Guardian and Observer newspapers. GNM is the core business of Guardian Media Group (GMG), whose sole shareholder is The Scott Trust. The core purpose of The Scott Trust is to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity. Profits generated by GMG are reinvested to sustain journalism that is free from commercial or political interference. No individual can benefit financially from being a shareholder in The Scott Trust, making it a unique form of media ownership.
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McKibben’s Divestment Tour – Brought to You by Wall Street [Part VII of an Investigative Report] [The Wolves of Wall Street]
admin Dec 18, 2014 350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
The Art of Annihilation
Part seven of an investigative series by Cory Morningstar
Divestment Investigative Report Series [Further Reading]: Part I • Part II • Part III • Part IV • Part V • Part VI • Part VII • Part VIII • Part IX • Part X • Part XI • Part XII • Part XIII
Image courtesy of Mark Gould
“Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.” — Malcolm X
Prologue: A Coup d’État of Nature – Led by the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
It is somewhat ironic that anti-REDD climate activists, faux green organizations (in contrast to legitimate grassroots organizations that do exist, although few and far between) and self-proclaimed environmentalists, who consider themselves progressive will speak out against the commodification of nature’s natural resources while simultaneously promoting the toothless divestment campaign promoted by the useless mainstream groups allegedly on the left. It’s ironic because the divestment campaign will result (succeed) in a colossal injection of money shifting over to the very portfolios heavily invested in, thus dependent upon, the intense commodification and privatization of Earth’s last remaining forests, (via REDD, environmental “markets” and the like). This tour de force will be executed with cunning precision under the guise of environmental stewardship and “internalizing negative externalities through appropriate pricing.” Thus, ironically (if in appearances only), the greatest surge in the ultimate corporate capture of Earth’s final remaining resources is being led, and will be accomplished, by the very environmentalists and environmental groups that claim to oppose such corporate domination and capture.
Beyond shelling out billions of tax-exempt dollars (i.e., investments) to those institutions most accommodating in the non-profit industrial complex (otherwise known as foundations), the corporations need not lift a finger to sell this pseudo green agenda to the people in the environmental movement; the feat is being carried out by a tag team comprised of the legitimate and the faux environmentalists. As the public is wholly ignorant and gullible, it almost has no comprehension of the following:
the magnitude of our ecological crisis
the root causes of the planetary crisis, or
the non-profit industrial complex as an instrument of hegemony.
The commodification of the commons will represent the greatest, and most cunning, coup d’état in the history of corporate dominance – an extraordinary fait accompli of unparalleled scale, with unimaginable repercussions for humanity and all life.
Further, it matters little whether or not the money is moved from direct investments in fossil fuel corporations to so-called “socially responsible investments.” The fact of the matter is that all corporations on the planet (and therefore by extension, all investments on the planet) are dependent upon and will continue to require massive amounts of fossil fuels to continue to grow and expand ad infinitum – as required by the industrialized capitalist economic system.
The windmills and solar panels serve as beautiful (marketing) imagery as a panacea for our energy issues, yet they are illusory – the fake veneer for the commodification of the commons, which is the fundamental objective of Wall Street, the very advisers of the divestment campaign.
Thus we find ourselves unwilling to acknowledge the necessity to dismantle the industrialized capitalist economic system, choosing instead to embrace an illusion designed by corporate power.
Monetizing Natural Capital | Ecosystem Services
You may recognize Mindy Lubber’s name (President of 350.org partner, Ceres) from the Think Progress blog (excellent climate science source, funded in large part by Rockefeller) where she is referred to as “an expert on water scarcity” among the liberal left. Therefore, it should be of little surprise to anyone that a key focus of Ceres appears to be meticulously and cautiously preparing the ground for mass privatization (what Ceres refers to as “monetizing natural capital” or “ecosystem services”) of water in the United States (and beyond). [Restoring Flows, Financing the Next Generation of Water Systems, A Strategy for Coalition Building. Authors: Ceres and American Rovers, DOCUMENT]
“Unlike market development in Europe and Australia, the private sector has had a relatively small role in providing water infrastructure services in the United States. While some communities have entered into a variety of arrangements to ‘privatize’ their water services, there is a wide range of potential roles that private entities may play in the water market that fall short of being an outright full-service provider.” [Emphasis added]
Under “Needs and Opportunities” within the report: “Develop alternate model business plans for providers, including public, private and public:private partnerships.”
Preparing a populace – one that strongly opposes water privatization – for water privatization requires calculated language and schemes to keep the public at bay. Schemes that “fall short of being an outright full-service provider,” if outright privatization in its most pure form is not an option, are an imperative for “success.”
As president of Ceres, Lubber is well compensated for the task at hand with an annual salary from the Ceres non-profit of $193,025, with an additional $32,190 in “other compensation for the organization and other related organizations.” [Source: Form 990, 2012].
With Ceres receiving 60% of its revenues from foundation grants in the 2012 fiscal year ($5,233,360) with membership fees ($1,843,052) providing 22% of the revenues [2012 annual report] (conference fees, sponsorship, and individual family and “foundation family” account for the remainder to the tune of $8,316,636), the Ceres non-profit is in a position to pay flush salaries.
The monetization of Earth’s remaining natural resources (or “natural capital,” the carefully applied term that acts as a patina masking the true intent) sounds as though it is far too vile of an idea to ever be accepted by society. Yet, the elite establishment – with the non-profit industrial complex as their pimps of pathological ideologies – have every intent of seeing the commodification of Earth’s remaining natural resources transform into capital, for complete corporate capture in the not-so-distant future.
Consider the behavioural change experiment that took place on September 21, 2014 (branded as “The People’s Climate March”).
The People’s Climate March in New York City was a mobilization campaign created by Avaaz and 350.org, with 350.org at the forefront. Perhaps never in history have we witnessed 300,000 to 400,000 citizens (whose rights and freedoms are being systematically dismantled every day by a corporate-state that liberal elites continue to prop up) joining hands with their oppressors – literally marching with their oppressors in the streets both knowingly and willingly. This must be considered a benchmark in history by those who study behavioural change – a feat perhaps unmatched since 1929 when Edward Bernays brilliantly transformed cigarettes into “freedom torches” as the symbol of emancipated women for the tobacco industry.
[Video (running time: 2:52). Excerpt from the movie “The War You Don’t See” by John Pilger. Bernays, a pioneer of modern propaganda, persuaded woman to embrace smoking as a symbol of women’s liberation.]
The Road to Riches | Monetization of Earth’s Remaining Natural Resources
The following excerpts are extracted from the article This Changes Nothing. Why the People’s Climate March Guarantees Climate Catastrophe published on Wrong Kind of Green (September 12, 2014). It serves as an introduction to the PR firm Purpose (Inc.) – as a glimpse into a behavioural change/economics think-tank.
Vision: “Purpose is a global initiative that draws on leading technologies, political organizing and behavioral economics to build powerful, tech-savvy movements that can transform culture and influence policy.”
“Purpose was born out of some of the most successful experiments in mass digital participation. Our principals are co-founders of Avaaz, the world’s largest online political movement with more than nine million members operating in 14 languages, and the creators of Australia’s GetUp!, an internationally recognized social movement phenomenon with more members than all the country’s political parties combined….” [Source]
Avaaz and GetUp co-founders Jeremy Heimans (CEO) and David Madden are also founders of the New York consulting firm, Purpose Inc. Avaaz co-founder James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of Purpose at its inception in 2009.
The expertise behind both Avaaz and Purpose is in behavioural change. Where the employment of behavioural change infused by Avaaz is on display, the double-breasted, for-profit Purpose, with its non-profit arm, sells their expertise to further the interest of hegemony and capital. Whether it be a glossy campaign to help facilitate yet another illegal “humanitarian intervention” led by the empire’s U.S. militarism (an oxymoron if there ever was one), or the creation of a new global “green” economy, Purpose is the consulting firm that the wolves of Wall Street and oligarchs alike depend upon to make it happen.
“We’ve been talking in a broader way about the future of consumer activism, of organizing people not as citizens but as consumers.” — Jeremy Heimans, when asked how he was going to use the $100,000 he received from the Ford Foundation
Purpose (with its co-founders), a favourite of high-finance websites such as The Economist and Forbes, sell their consulting services and branding/marketing campaigns to Google, Audi, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many others that comprise the world’s most powerful corporations and institutions. In 2012 it raised $3m from investors. Ford Foundation, which has given Purpose’s non-profit arm a grant, “reckons it is shaping up to be ‘one of the blue-chip social organisations of the future.'” [Source] Purpose, like many other foundations such as Rockefeller (who initially incubated 1Sky, which merged with 350.org in 2011) also serves as an “incubator of social movements.” [Further reading on Purpose]
Make no mistake, the Yale (Avaaz co-founder and former U.S. Representative Tom Perriello) and Harvard graduates that comprise the Avaaz boys (many having been groomed by McKinsey and Company) are considered “the dream team” by the globe’s most powerful capitalists, including at the United Nations and the World Bank.
Heimans, the Avaaz front man of Purpose, is a darling of the high-finance corporate world. “In 2011, Jeremy received the Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary Visionaries Award. The World Economic Forum at Davos has named him a Young Global Leader, and the World e-Government Forum has named Jeremy and Purpose co-founder David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of the Internet and Politics.” [Source]
Heimans, like his co-founders at Avaaz, has close relationships with those at the helm of the push toward the illusory green economy, including Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace and Richard Branson, who has founded the B Team, of which Heimans serves as a “team member.” [Further reading on the B Team can be found in an upcoming segment of this investigative report.] Note that Avaaz and 350.org were the first two NGOs signed on to the 2009 Havas Advertising campaign TckTckTck. TckTckTck succeeded in successfully undermining the radical emissions reductions required, put forward by the State of Bolivia and the G77 at COP15. More recently Avaaz, 350.org and Greenpeace joined hands to form the NGO SumOfUs. [Further reading: SumOfUs are Corporate Whores | Some Of Us Are Not]
Like so many other left “progressives” jumping on board the “socially responsible investment” industry, Heimans is no exception, serving on the advisory board of Leap Frog Investments. [Source] On September 29, 2012 a media release announced “The Vital Few” – a new social media platform for The Asset Owners Disclosure Project, an online forum to link individuals who are concerned about their pension fund investments directed towards the fossil fuel industry. The release included statements from both Kelly Rigg (TckTckTck) and Heimans. “Supported by the head of the global trade union movement and other key civil society groups the platform, called ‘The Vital Few’ will allow pension fund members to drive transparency and accountability in a $60 trillion industry that has become the largest pool of investment capital in the world…. The Vital Few initiative, by starting with the issue of climate risk, is a milestone in helping restore genuine ownership to capitalism.”
The Strategy of “Changing Everything”
In the video published on November 21, 2012, filmed during a lecture on Purpose’s innovative model of “movement entrepreneurship,” Heimans discloses that the “demand for the green economy is in a rut.” He states:
“…how else could movement building and mass participation help transform society? And that’s what we’re working on at Purpose. We’re thinking at Purpose not just how you build political movements but now what are some of the insights from that, that can be used to do things like scale demand for the green economy? Right? Demand for the green economy is in a rut. There isn’t large-scale demand it. What if we tried to build a movement around that and organize people in a systematic way….”
In this Tedx talk (published September 7, 2012) the goal, and the campaign to achieve the goal, are made clear: kill “green” marketing (including the key term “green economy”) in order to push forward the green economy – without saying as much.
Heimans states:
“…Well, the results of our research really have two main conclusions I want to share with you today, and the first is a little startling and it may create a little bit of a disequilibrium… and that is that I think we need to kill the language and imagery and green in order to have any real shot at scaling sustainable consumption. Sustainable consumption just isn’t working right now as we’ll talk about in a moment. We’re going to have to kill green as a frame for consumers in order to try to rework that problem.”
Hence – you have the new terminology agreed upon and already being employed by both the foundations and the non-profit-industrial complex: The “new economy.”
Heimans continues:
“So they like the idea of green, it’s kind of a value they are happy to cloak themselves in, you know it’s a brand value, but the reality is market share just isn’t there because as soon as it’s even slightly difficult they’re out the door. So what do we do? So here’s some things that I think we can do that might up-end this situation and as I said, it does require starting with killing green as a friend. We can’t lead with green, because most of the green products that are out there start by knocking on the front door and hitting you on the head and saying, you know, ‘We’re green, do the right thing.’ We need a radically different approach to the way we introduce this issue to consumers. We need to put green aside.”
Heimans summarizes the methodology.
“… the answer we think is to get behind the businesses that are at this intersection of mass participation where you can get lots of people in a network, you can grow market share very quickly of the new forms of businesses that are green, but don’t knock on the door and announce themselves as green. If we can do this, if we can create a new economy that takes these models that can very quickly acquire market share and we can give people a sense they’re part of something much bigger, we’ll build the green economy, we just won’t talk about it and we won’t say that we’re doing it.”
As an example of Purpose’s work to build acquiescence and a normalization of the green new economy, we can look at Purpose’s work for Audi. The task at hand is how to take the human right of access to clean water and turn it into a commodity market that a public will embrace: “[Purpose Inc.] helps them to build mass movements to support their favourite causes. Audi, for example, wants to design and promote machines to dispense clean water in India, a market where it hopes to burnish its car brand.” Media is utilized to present the water ATM as an affordable benefit for the disenfranchised, underprivileged and poor: “The perception that rural people won’t pay for quality services is wrong, says Shah. ‘They want to be part of modern society. After a water ATM is set up, 15-20% of the people immediately start buying water. They like to claim “we have a water ATM.”‘” The idea of clean fresh water for all, as a human right rather than an “affordable” commodity, will quickly disappear as fast as the drinking fountains one used to find in our communities not that long ago. (One may wish to note that today, we find corporations writing many of their own articles for media, who in turn present them as journalism. Round and round we go.)
“Purpose also hopes to develop a business promoting ‘new economy’ products such as solar energy. It will recommend to its members that they buy solar power from such-and-such a provider. In return, it will charge a referral fee.” — The Economist, The business of campaigning, Profit with Purpose, January 26, 2013
We can assume this business model will be employed across the board. Purpose tells the story that entices the purchase, Purpose mobilizes the movements building on the foundation of the story, and Purpose receives their referral fee in the mail.
+++Further reading on behavioural change: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section II [link]
Ignoring the Obvious – The Only Number that Matters Has Always Been Zero
Ceres: “60-90% reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels is needed by 2050 to avoid worst case scenarios for global warming” [Source: CERES 2007-2008 Annual Report]
Ceres: “Companies will reduce GHG emissions by 25% from their 2005 baseline by 2020, by improving energy efficiency of operations by at least 50%, reducing electricity demand by at least 15% and obtaining at least 30% of energy from renewable sources.… The Ceres Roadmap expectations are aligned with the scientific targets recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that call for the U.S. to achieve reductions of 80 percent below 1990 baseline levels by 2050. —The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability current webpage [Source]
Reality: “There must be radical reductions of emissions starting from now. In our view, by 2017 we should cut, developed countries must cut by 52%, 65% by 2020, 80% by 2030, well above 100 [percent] by 2050. And this is very important because the more you defer action the more you condemn millions of people to immeasurable suffering. So the idea that you start from 4% today and you achieve 80 or 50 in 2050 simply means that you do not care about the lives of those who will be devastated in this period, until you pick up the pace.” — Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator of the G77, COP15, Source
On May 9, 2013, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history, the highest since the Pliocene. (The daily average for May 9, 2013 was 400.03 ppm)
It is slightly ironic that 350.org succeeded so brilliantly in the complete pacification of a global civil society by promoting 350 ppm as a “safe operating limit for humanity.” Thus, the message so skillfully projected/orchestrated in tandem with media, that global citizens were not/are not in any immediate danger, provided the means to further destroy our shared environment in order to allow the very economic structure systemically destroying all life on Earth to continue unabashed. The message that can be summarized as “continue as you were” was (and continues to be) in stark contrast to the message laid out to humanity in 1988.
At the Changing Atmosphere conference in 1988, in Toronto, Canada, scientists, politicians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) acknowledged the following:
“The stabilizing of the atmospheric concentrations of CO2 is an imperative goal. It is currently estimated to require reductions of more than 50 per cent from present [*1988] emission levels. Energy research and development budgets must be massively directed to energy options which would eliminate or greatly reduce CO2 emissions and to studies undertaken to further refine the target reductions.” [*In 1988 the average CO2 atmospheric concentration was 351.56 ppm.]
They warned that:
“Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment, whose ultimate consequences are second only to global nuclear war.”
Yet the non-profit industrial complex (in which both 350.org and its partner Ceres play leading roles) would have us believe that 25 years (over a quarter of a century) later, with atmospheric carbon emissions having exceeded 400 ppm, with planetary boundaries being surpassed, irreversible feedbacks having been set into motion, disappearing Arctic sea ice, ocean acidification, mass species eradication/extinctions, and hundreds of thousands of climate-related deaths each and every passing year, we can still afford to keep burning fossil fuels under the guise of “clean” energy and so-called carbon “budgets.”
“350 ppm is a death sentence.… The safe level of CO2 for SIDS (Small Island Developing States) is around 260 parts per million.… CO2 buildup must be reversed, not allowed to increase or even be stabilized at 350 ppm, which would amount to a death sentence for coral reefs, small island developing states, and billions of people living along low lying coastlines.” — Scientific & Technical Briefing to the Association of Small Island States (AOSIS), United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7-18, 2009 [1]
The NPIC Stop the KXL (Keystone XL pipeline extension) campaign qualifies as a brilliant and strategic, albeit suicidal, Trojan horse. Simultaneously, the campaign led by 350.org paved the way for our collective denialism to be embraced and embellished. For the past five years this multi-million-dollar campaign was relentless in the quest to ensure it was perceived as the key most important struggle in our climate struggle. Who can forget James Hansen referring to the KXL project as “the fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet” and “game over” for the climate? All while dialogue on consumption/growth fetish, industrialized capitalism, militarism, Fukushima/nuclear, transition to a plant-based diet, rapidly destabilizing methane hydrates (literal carbon bombs) and Warren Buffett’s newfound rail dynasty now transporting the same tar sands oil via bomb trains, was nowhere to be found. The focus on a single pipeline granted the American populace full permission to ignore the urgent need to connect the dots, as the window for any possible climate mitigation finally closed. Keep the economy growing was the underlying message. The chosen discourse, that of 350 ppm as our global target (the maximum / uppermost limit) was and remains an excellent way to avoid facing the fact that only by achieving virtual zero carbon emissions can the planet even begin to cool (cooling that would not even begin for centuries, if not thousands of years, after zero was achieved). Not to worry, once atmospheric CO2 reaches unfathomable numbers and the “target” of 350 ppm begins to sound ridiculous, 350.org et al will simply move on to the 400.org campaign. It’s already established and waiting in the virtual wings. [http://400.350.org/]
Above screenshot: 400.org campaign. It’s already established and waiting in the virtual wings. [http://400.350.org/]
Chalk up the bizarre fact that there appears to be no anger by the public whatsoever in response to this highly-financed recklessness and disregard for life. This is no doubt due to a lifetime of obedience, passivity, subservience and indoctrination – much of it hammered home, drilled into the ever more vacant minds, by the non-profit industrial complex itself. That being said, people will get mad as hell when the grocery store shelves go empty. Of course, that will be far too late.
“Even more disturbing is new research from Ballantyne, Axford et al. which says that during the Pliocene epoch, when CO2 levels were ~400 ppm, Arctic surface temperatures were 15-20°C warmer than today’s surface temperatures. They suggest that much of the surface warming likely was due to ice-free conditions in the Arctic.” [Source] Today, the Arctic sea ice is declining at an unprecedented speed. “Very soon we may experience the iconic moment when, one day in the summer, we look at satellite images and see no sea-ice coverage in the Arctic, just open water” (McKie, 2012).
To clarify, only by achieving virtual zero carbon emissions can the planet even begin to cool. [“In fact, only in the case of essentially complete elimination of emissions can the atmospheric concentration of CO2 ultimately be stabilised at a constant level.” [http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-10-3.html]
The concept of the “carbon budget” (legitimized by the Carbon Tracker et al reports, Bill McKibben (350.org) and the liberal left at large) is nothing more than a crafted mechanism that serves the reckless illusion that global society can continue to “safely burn” fossil fuels for many more decades. Ignore the fact that a “release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time”. [N. Shakhova, I. Semiletov, A. Salyuk, D. Kosmach, 2008] No, the mounting climate emergency is not today. Rather, it’s only a problem that we can put off dealing with until 30 years from now. (The so-called carbon budget will be discussed further in this report).
Apathy is slowly consuming the last vestiges of our humanity – we are slowly drowning in a sea of indifference.
Today, more than 25 years after the Changing Atmosphere conference in 1988, CO2 emissions have reached an all-time high. As corporate profits and corporate power have soared – so have emissions. The global community must acknowledge that the industrialized capitalist economic system cannot ensure our survival – it can only ensure our certain demise.
Ignoring the Fact that the Oligarchs Finance the “Movements”
The following excerpts [Further reading: Keystone XL: The Art of NGO Discourse – Part 1V | Buffett Acquires the Non-Profit Industrial Complex] serve as an example of how the oligarchs fund the movements.
During the last four years, Americans have been coerced into focusing on a single, symbolic campaign to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. This campaign was funded in large part by the Tides Foundation, which distributes the funds (from other foundations) to qualifying NGOs and groups. The number one funder of the Tides Foundation leading up to and during this time period was none other than the NoVo Foundation, founded on monies provided by Warren Buffett. [“NoVo was created in 2006 after Warren Buffett pledged to donate 350,000 shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the foundation.”] It is maintained by Warren Buffett’s son, Peter Buffett (co-chair) and partner Jennifer Buffett (president and co-chair).
“Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” — Drummond Pike, Founder of Tides
Drummond Pike founded Tides Foundation in 1976 [2]; the Tides Center in 1996 [3], the Advocacy Fund in 1994, Groundspring.org in 1999; Tides Inc. in 2003 [4], Tides Shared Spaces/Tides Two Rivers Foundation in 2004; and the Tides Network in 2006. [5]
By 2010, the combined cash flow of Tides regularly exceeded $200 million per year. Pike served as Chief Executive Officer of all Tides organizations until November 2010. [Source] Pike received an annual base compensation of $240,000 (2010) according to the 2010 Tides Foundation 990.
More recently, Pike was named a Principal with Equilibrium Capital (a private equity impact investing firm based in Portland – the very kind promoted by 350.org’s divestment campaign. (“Distribution and Sales: We raise and scale institutional-quality capital”) According to Tides, Pike is also volunteering time with Paladin Partners, LLC. Paladin Partners provides financial plans, consulting services, and investment services.
Pike currently serves on the Board of Directors of Working Assets, which he co-founded with Michael Kieschnick and Laura Scher. CREDO Mobile is a division of Working Assets. Prior to co-founding Credo Mobile (formerly known as Working Assets Wireless), Kieschnick served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Kieschnick also served as an economic advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown of California (1980–1982), and helped create several “socially responsible” investment (SRI) funds [Wikipedia], again, the same SRI funds promoted by the 350.org divestment campaign.
Photo: REVEL 2011 Awardee Naomi Klein with Michael Kieschnick. Michael Kieschnick is a co-founder (with Drummond Pike of Tides) and president of Credo Mobile. Image: Rainforest Action Network via Flickr. Rainforest Action Network’s ultra white and ultra elite annual benefit REVEL event. [6]
The Tides Foundation could be described as a priceless, magical, money-funneling machine of epic proportion for the oligarchs. It receives money from donors and then distributes these funds to the recipients of their choice. In this way, donors can strategically fund specific campaigns or specific organizations without ever disclosing their identities. These transactions are called “Anonymous Donor Advised Funds” or simply “Donor Advised Funds.” (Many such transactions are documented in the information that follows. The NoVo Foundation grants to Tides – both Tides Foundation and the Tides Center).
The Tides Foundation focuses on fundraising and grant-making, while the Tides Center operates as a fiscal sponsor (“to promote and support emerging social change and educational programs”), enticing novice NGOs with the shelter of Tides’ own charitable tax-exempt status, and other desirable/coveted benefits.
The far-right website, Activist Cash, is perceptive in their following observation:
“Tides does two things better than any other foundation or charity in the U.S. today: it routinely obscures the sources of its tax-exempt millions, and makes it difficult (if not impossible) to discern how the funds are actually being used…. In practice, ‘Tides’ behaves less like a philanthropy than a money-laundering enterprise… taking money from other foundations and spending it as the donor requires. Called donor-advised giving, this pass-through funding vehicle provides public-relations insulation for the money’s original donors. By using Tides to funnel its capital, a large public charity can indirectly fund a project with which it would prefer not to be directly identified in public…. In many cases, even the eventual recipient of the funding has no idea how Tides got it in the first place.
This fits the Buffett to NoVo to Tides to 350.org et al transactions – to a T.
As the following information will demonstrate, money (in the form of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway stock) was funnelled from Warren Buffett, to the Buffett family’s NoVo Foundation, to Tides, and finally to selected NGOs who led the Stop the Keystone XL campaign, which played a key role in Warren Buffett achieving his 21st century rail empire, thus brilliantly demonstrating the need for covert funding of highly financed “movements.”
Of course, these are not real movements but merely highly financed campaigns presented as “grassroots” movements. The sources of the funding (the wealthy elite, corporations, unions, other foundations, etc.) are “giving” the funds for specific reasons, campaigns and purposes – as the Buffett-NoVo-Tides transaction so clearly demonstrates. Thus, philanthropy should not be considered unbridled generosity, rather it should be considered strategic, long-term investment and tax evasion under the cloak of good will. Further, without an insider and/or documents, it’s almost impossible to follow the money, which is exactly why foundations are so imperative to the oligarchs that finance them to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
In 2010, the Keystone XL pipeline was pushed to the forefront by the non-profit industrial complex, in tandem with both mainstream and so-called progressive media, to become the main focus of the anti-tar sands campaign and indeed, the climate movement as a whole. While it deliberately and strategically captured the full attention of the populace, billionaire Warren Buffett, financial advisor to Barrack Obama, quietly built his 21st century rail dynasty and started shipping tar sands oil by rail with absolutely no dissent or interference. All eyes were on one single pipeline, which was, for the most part, already built.
In keeping with reality, perhaps it is necessary to outline the fact that Tides, recipient of millions of dollars (approximately $26 million since 2004) via the Buffett family’s NoVo Foundation, in turn, also channels hundreds of thousands of dollars into Ceres, with grants spiking up to and during the peak years of the Keystone XL campaign (years 2009, 1010 and 2011). (As disclosed previously, in 2010, Tides granted $150,000 to Ceres, with $100,000 of these funds specifically earmarked for a “tar sands campaign.” [Tides 990, 2010] As well, in 2008 Ceres received $50,000 from Wallace Global, also designated for a tar sands campaign.) [TIDES FUNDS TO CERES (LIST OF GRANTEES): 2011, $120,000 | 2010, $150,000 | 2009, $100,000 | 2006, $17,500 | 2004, $25,000.00]
It is of interest to note that Suzanne Nossel, former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA and trusted instrument of American hegemony, serves on Tides Board of Directors. On October 1, 2012, in the article “Amnesty Coup,” author Jay Taber writes: “As an experienced advocate for neoliberal coercion to achieve American hegemony, she has taken an aggressive pro-war stance over the last decade, including the US invasion of Iraq and the NATO bombing of Libya.”
All while:
“Gary D. Schwartz joins NoVo after fifteen years of service at Tides. He was the founder of the Tides’ New York office and served in many different capacities during his tenure there including Interim CEO before departing in 2014.” [Source]
The interlocking directorate contagion continues to thrive in the non-profit industrial complex.
Next: Part VIII
[Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green, The Art of Annihilation, Counterpunch, Political Context, Canadians for Action on Climate Change and Countercurrents. Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. You can follow her on twitter @elleprovocateur]
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AP exams to look different this year with students taking tests at home, online
Alta High students Madi Ison, Carson Elison, Caitlyn Larsen and Natalie Hood practice writing essays before schools were put on soft closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Alta High yearbook staff)
Corner Canyon High School freshman Cambria Davies feels like she will be prepared for her Advanced Placement human geography exam this May, even though the setting may be out of the ordinary.
On March 30, the College Board announced, “because students overwhelmingly told us they want to take their AP exams, we’re providing online learning and AP exams available at home for all students this spring.”
The College Board, who administers Advanced Placement exams as well as college entrance examinations, also is taking steps to provide the SAT and ACT college exams online in the fall.
Cambria, who will take her first AP test on May 12, said her teacher has been preparing them for the online test, which is now shortened to 45 minutes at home, open book.
“It’s all free response, which I don’t like as much, but I understand they’re doing what they can to make it as fair in this very different setting,” she said.
Brighton Principal Tom Sherwood, who also has a freshman son who will take the same test, said that AP modified tests, eliminating the multiple choice sections, which easily could be looked up.
“They looked into academic integrity with the exam and know it could be hard for students not to look up answers or to have parents help craft essays when college credit is on the line,” he said. “They have posed the essays, so students have to critically think.”
Brighton AP English Literature and Composition teacher Jennifer Mattson also said there is a check on the essays as they are reviewed by teachers to make sure there is consistency in the students’ writing – and teachers are required to tell the College Board if they suspect plagiarism.
“For the past several years, the College Board has considered online testing so this will be a trial run for them to get an idea what it’s like online,” she said. “A lot of my students are self-sufficient, already in study groups and reviewing.”
Bingham High AP Language and Composition teacher Susan McCandless believes her 60 juniors who are testing will do well on their rhetorical analysis essay they learned in the fall.
“This simplifies the preparation and it’s something we’ve reviewed ever since,” she said. “We have a month to practice that skill and make sure they write the task out so they won’t get off task.”
Hillcrest High sophomore Amanda Desjardins, who took AP human geography and AP Spanish last year, is preparing for her AP psychology exam this year. She plans to take her exam in the basement of her home where it’s quieter.
“I feel as if kids are going to get distracted taking the test at home,” she said.
Amanda, who is using flash cards and a study book to review, said her exam only covers eight of the 14 chapters. The test can be taken online or be handwritten, then scanned and sent in.
“I’m studying every day, but I’m stressed,” she said. “For most kids, the writing is the hardest part since it’s free response and the multiple choice is where they count on doing well.”
Alta AP Language and Composition and Literature and Composition teacher Denise Ferguson agreed: “A lot of kids rely on that multiple choice section to do well and my concern is that the prompt will be difficult for a 17-year-old.”
However, Ferguson said even with the challenge of difficult Zoom meetings – where 40 students make it “chaotic” - she is finding other ways to review with her students.
“It’s a huge challenge,” she said. “The soft closure caught teachers off guard and it’s making teachers gasp and figure out how they can prepare students online. We’re using online sessions to guide instruction and asking them to practice for every subject they’re testing. We’re all doing the best we can do. They’ve worked too long and hard to just cancel the tests.”
Bingham’s McCandless agrees the test isn’t the same as in previous years. For example, her students’ test will be reduced from several components to one or two essays now, so students will have “all their eggs in one basket. It’s like a pass-fail exam now.”
“I don’t think it’s comparable,” she continued. “Before we had three essays and multiple choice and each tested different things; now it’s a very different skill. The College Board wants to give kids a chance to test, to earn college credit. It’s not ideal nor comprehensive, but it’s the best under the circumstances.”
Brighton senior Jacob Simmons has earned perfect scores on his previous 12 AP exams and was planning to take eight more this spring as well as defend his AP Capstone research paper with oral argument.
“Initially I thought it would be best to cancel the AP tests and have grades determine the test scores and then I looked at pass-fail, but that would be even harder to draw an arbitrary line to determine a student’s proficiency on a subject,” he said. “I feel as if they should give us two essays (with a longer time) because it will be difficult to cram one essay into a 45-minute period to adequately determine the student’s knowledge of the subject.”
While Simmons knows the access to technology and strength of the server may factor into the time-period decision, he is grateful that he can still complete his AP Capstone research paper this year — even though the Capstone program also is modified this year.
AP Capstone seniors have already taken their seminar course and passed four AP classes. Now, they are in the final stages of their project – one that was to be presented orally as well as written. The oral portion in front of a panel has been canceled and the written portion due date was pushed back to late May — and if the research can’t be completed, students can report why they can’t within the essay.
“I feel the ability to defend a research paper equal to a master’s thesis is a value opportunity to determine what we’ve learned and express our passion on the subject. It’s disappointing, but at least we have the research paper,” Simmons said.
Mattson, his AP research teacher, agrees: “Many of them are fantastically articulate and would have done well to orally present it.”
While it’s Brighton’s first graduating class in the program, Juan Diego Catholic High School has offered AP Capstone for several years and already completed oral presentations when the College Board cut that portion of the program this year, said Vanessa Jacobs who oversees the program at the school.
“The students had nailed it and did an amazing job, but it won’t count as part of their score now,” she said. “The College Board is making it equitable the best they can. It’s a scramble for everyone as it’s a whole new environment.”
The 5,000-word research report is underway for five Juan Diego candidates, with 13 who already completed everything before this year and will earn the Capstone program diploma, Jacobs said.
Jordan High teacher Heather Gooch said the new AP testing is “a game changer.”
“The test is truncated so for those teachers who didn’t teach the course in the order of the book, they will have a lot of material to cover,” she said. “For us, we’ve covered the material and it will be business as usual. But it is more stressful and there are additional factors for students, such as watching siblings at home now so parents can work or if the parents aren’t working, students are contributing to supporting the family or other circumstances. Everyone is trying to adjust and if you’re already getting food out of the pantry, this could just heighten the stress level since you want to save money and time in college.”
For Gooch’s 27 AP biology and 40 AP environmental science students, as well as other students who are taking AP exams, she said reviewing and pacing themselves during the test will be critical.
“These kids are wanting to be in the game so I’m doing everything I can – live chat, recording review sessions, holding practice sessions, videoing, emailing – to connect and support them. I can’t drop the ball.”
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Below is the text of the speech made by Angus Robertson to the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin, Ireland, on 20th January 2014.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to address the Institute for International and European Affairs on the subject of “Independent Scotland: A positive, proactive international partner”.
2014 is a historic and exciting year for Scotland and the international community is watching.
On 18th September 2014 voters will be able to freely and democratically answer the referendum question: “Should Scotland be an independent country”.
The consequences of the vote are profound and will bring tremendous benefits to people in Scotland and will improve our relationships with neighbours, friends and allies in the international community.We shouldn’t lose sight of how we have got to this historic point and why the way in which it is happening is of global relevance.
Scotland’s constitutional journey is a long one, which has accelerated in recent decades with the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, culminating in the independence referendum.
Home rule efforts go back into the nineteenth century, following the First World War the Scottish Trades Union Congress pressed for Scottish representation at the Versailles Conference, just like the then British dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The formation of the Scottish National Party in 1934 marked the beginning of serious political efforts to re-establish direct democracy in Scotland and has had permanent parliamentary representation since 1967.
At the historic 1967 Hamilton by-election Winnie Ewing declared: ‘Stop the world Scotland wants to get on’.
At the heart of Scottish nationalism is an internationalism which has long pursued a desire to play a positive, proactive direct role in the international community of nations.
Even with the limited powers of devolution since 1999 Scotland has sought to reach out to the world, in particular to neighbours on these islands, our European partners, nations with a strong diaspora connections such as the United States and countries with strong ties of history like Malawi.
However, the powers of devolution are limited. They don’t offer the full advantages of bilateral and multilateral relations in a world where normality is independence and growing interdependence.
In 1945, the United Nations had 51 member states. Now there are 193.
Over the same period there has been a proliferation of international organisations which seek to improve national and international conditions, whose members are sovereign states.
From the European Union and the biggest single-market in the world, the Council of Europe and its human rights safeguards, the World Trade Organisation supporting economic growth, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation with defence cooperation guarantees and the list goes on and on.
In this age of cooperation it is states of all sizes that determine progress, and Scotland is not represented in its own right.
This can and will change with a ‘Yes’ vote on the 18th September 2014.
In unique international circumstance, the Scottish and United Kingdom governments have signed an agreement which charts the democratic referendum process. The Edinburgh Agreement, was signed in the Scottish capital by Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond following the election of a clear majority in the Scottish Parliament in favour of an independence referendum, and supported by parliamentarians from the Scottish National Party, Scottish Green Party and independents. In fact referendum legislation is also being supported by the Labour Party, Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats.
The Edinburgh Agreement crucially commits both the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government in Article 30: “to continue to work together constructively in the light of the outcome, whatever it is, in the best interests of the people of Scotland and of the rest of the United Kingdom”.
Following a ‘Yes’ vote in September 2014 both governments would begin discussions and negotiations about transition to Scottish sovereignty. There is an eighteen month period for this co-operation while Scotland is still part of the United Kingdom. It is during this time that arrangements will be made for Scotland to take its place in the international community including multilateral organisations such as the European Union, NATO, United Nations, WTO and so on. While the anti-independence campaign seem to spend most of their time suggesting this will be extremely difficult, even the UK Government’s legal adviser, says the timescale is ‘reasonable’, and the ‘No’ campaign’s own constitutional adviser believes it would occur with an ‘accelerated’ procedure.
How this will happen and details of the international priorities of the Scottish Government are laid out in unprecedented detail in ‘Scotland’s Future – The White Paper on Scottish Independence’
There is no international precedent for such a detailed prospectus.
In over 10 chapters, 650 pages and 170,000 words, it details the proposal to move from devolution to sovereignty. It has an extensive Question and Answer section with clarification on hundreds of common queries.
Within weeks of the White Paper launch last November:
40,000 copies printed, following third reprint of 10,000.
Around one million online page views.
More than 90,000 hits on the PDF download page.
It is free for all to download the White Paper at: www.scotreferendum.com where there is also extensive further documentation.
At the heart of the independence prospectus is the proposition that decisions about Scotland will be taken by the people who care most about Scotland – that is the people who live and work in Scotland.
Our national democratic life will be determined in an independent Scottish Parliament elected entirely by people in Scotland which will replace the current Westminster system. Under that current antiquated and inadequate system, elected representatives from Scotland make up just 9 per cent of the 650 members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords is wholly unelected.
Governments in an independent Scotland will always be formed by parties that win elections in Scotland. It will no longer be possible for key decisions to be made by governments that do not command the support of the Scottish electorate
This will end the sorry unacceptable situation that we are regularly governed by parties we have not entrusted to make decisions on our behalf. For 34 of the 68 years since 1945, Scotland has been ruled by Westminster governments with no majority in Scotland. Policies are imposed on Scotland even when they have been opposed by our elected Westminster MPs, including foreign, defence and security policy.
With a ‘Yes’ vote in the independence referendum we will put an end to governments, policies and priorities which do not have democratic support.
With a ‘Yes’ vote Scotland will rejoin the international community as a sovereign state and enjoy the benefits and advantages of a normal country.
In the White Paper, Chapter 6 deals with International Relations and Defence.
It explains:
Why we need a new approach,
The opportunities open to Scotland, and The Scotland we can create, in an international, defence and security context.
The main summary is as follows:
Scotland’s national interests will be directly represented on the international stage
Scotland’s foreign, security and defence policies will be grounded in a clear framework of participating in rules-based international co-operation to secure shared interests, protecting Scotland’s people and resources and promoting sustainable economic growth
We will continue to be a member of the EU and will have a seat at the top table to represent Scotland’s interests more effectively; we will not be at risk of leaving the EU against the wishes of the Scottish people
An overseas network of 70 to 90 international offices is planned, built on Scotland’s existing capacity and our share of the UK’s international assets
Scotland will recognise and act on its responsibilities, as one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, to international development
Our defence plans focus on a strong conventional defence footprint in and around Scotland and the removal of nuclear weapons, delivering a £500 million defence and security dividend in 2016/17
Scotland’s security will be guaranteed as a non-nuclear member of NATO, with Scotland contributing excellent conventional capabilities to the alliance
The foreign policy and international relations of the Scottish Government will take place within three overlapping and interacting spheres that will be the cornerstones of Scotland’s foreign policy:
our partnership with the other nations of these islands
our regional role as an active member of the EU with strong links to the Nordic countries and the Arctic
the global context: our independent role in international and multilateral organisations, including the UN and NATO
I would like to take these priorities in turn to underline why an independent Scotland will be a positive and proactive international partner.
Island Neighbours – Closest Partners
On these islands, we are bound by historic, economic and social ties of great value. This importance is not of itself, determined by where political decision-making lies but we have the opportunity to do so on the basis of equality.
We now have a British-Irish Council which brings together governments from across Britain and Ireland. With a sovereign Scotland, there will be three independent governments in the Council together with Scotland, the Irish Republic and the rest of the United Kingdom working with the devolved and island authorities. The secretariat of the Council is already headquartered in Edinburgh, and there is active cooperation between governments across the widest range of subjects from health to the environment.
Scotland is a bigger trading partners with the rest of the United Kingdom, than China, India, Russia and Brazil combined. This is also true for Ireland.
Our Common Travel Area, citizenship and voting rights and other cooperation arrangements, including the importance of our shared common market through the European Union are crucial.
It is in all of our interest that these closest of relationships flourishes. It is in the interests of all of the peoples of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and our immediate island neighbours that our cooperation goes from strength to strength.
European Union – Crucial Cooperation
It is also crucial that we continue to safeguard and build on the advantages delivered through the European Union. Decades of peace, economic growth social rights, free movement of people, goods, services, capital and cooperation in an ever widening European Union are a massive achievement.
28 member states make up the European Union, and more seek to join. We look forward to Scotland taking its seat at the EU top table shortly.
While there is no doubt there is a need for democratic, political and economic reform to how the European Union works, we need to face up to the threats posed by strong Europhobic extremes, especially in UK politics outside Scotland.
Even the UK government is planning an in-out EU referendum, and are being politically driven by anti-Europeans in UKIP and the Tory Party.
This is dangerous to Scottish and Irish interests, and also incidentally to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
This weekend prominent Scottish businesspeople wrote the following letter to the media:
“It looks as though the UK may leave the EU following an in-out EU referendum promised by the Prime Minister David Cameron in 2017.
“Access to the common market is vitally important to both Scottish and wider UK companies. We can see from the poor performance of UKIP in elections and successive opinion polls here that the people of Scotland are generally more outward looking and pro-European than the electorate in other parts of the UK.
“Scottish businesspeople are worried that despite an overwhelming desire to stay connected with our European partners, voters beyond our borders will remove Scotland from the EU against the democratic expression of Scotland’s business community and wider public. This threat may persist no matter what the result of Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague’s ongoing negotiation on the terms of membership with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“On this issue, as with many others, Westminster opinion does not represent the democratic will of all the constituent parts of the UK. It seems likely that all major political parties with a chance of being in government after the 2015 Westminster election will commit to holding an EU referendum. This prospect of a dangerous, metropolitan media driven referendum on EU membership creates great uncertainty.
“Scotland may no longer be part of the UK at the time of the EU poll and an independent Scotland’s approach to negotiating continued EU membership (which experts have said there will be an obligation to have after a Yes vote) will ensure continuity of membership and effect. We note in particular the recent positive comments of No Campaign policy adviser Professor Jim Gallagher regarding an independent Scotland staying in Europe and its ability to successfully negotiate key opt outs.
“Indeed, the Scottish people must now see that there is far more uncertainty over Scotland’s continued access to the common market if we vote to No in the independence referendum on September 18th this year. A Yes vote is the only way to guarantee that Scottish based companies can continue to trade in a UK and European common market for the free movement of capital, goods, services, trade and people.”
Scottish independence in a European Union context means that the Scottish Government, elected by the people will be present at all Council of Ministers meetings where the big decisions are taken. Scotland will have a nominated commissioner in the powerful European Commission, and there will be fairer Scottish representation in the European Parliament.
Scotland will play a positive and proactive role in the EU.
Key Regional Priorities – Northern Dimension
A key regional regional priority is the northern dimension. Scotland is a northern European nation with significant priorities shared with our Nordic regional neighbours including: Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
There are huge environmental challenges posed to the High North and Arctic as well as potential opportunities especially in the energy sector.
Our neighbours are cooperating through a host of bilateral and multilateral organisations and initiatives.
Scotland can and must take its responsibilities seriously and work with our regional neighbours.
This will be a key Scottish priority.
Scotland’s geo-strategic position with the Atlantic to our west, Iceland gap to the north and North Sea to our east also has an important security dimension. It is in the interests of all allies, neighbours and friends that there is stability.
That is why the Scottish Government White Paper outlines in great details the plans for defence and security arrangements. Scotland will prioritise maritime capabilities, including maritime patrol aircraft (something that Ireland has but the UK does not).
We will work with our NATO allies just like the overwhelming number of other members as a non-nuclear state to fulfil the objectives of mutual defence, appropriate capabilities, stability and peace.
Global Context – Something to Offer
In a global context an independent Scotland has something particular to offer.
On international development a strong commitment has been made by the Scottish Government with an an aspiration to be a global leader, championing best practice and innovation.
The White Paper explains that being a global leader in international development is not necessarily just about the size of aid given in absolute monetary terms, but the impact that can be made across government policy.
Aid is however an extremely important dimension and an independent Scotland would enshrine a legislative commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on Official Development Assistance, and an aspiration to reach 1% of GNI in time.
Success and global impact will be pursued by delivering a coherent approach to international development across all Scottish Government policies – crucially trade, environment, defence and finance.
On peace and reconciliation there is a long standing commitment to make Scotland the ideal place to support international initiatives. Scotland has already hosted the St Andrews northern Ireland discussions, also meetings from the South Caucausus and there is significant Scottish NGO peace and reconciliation experience such as Beyond Borders Scotland. A sovereign Scottish government can do so much with our particular experience of civic, non-ethnic, democratic and peaceful constitutional change. Scotland is known and liked around the world. This is an ideal way of being able to contribute to a better world.
On helping the vulnerable we look to a new model with of asylum services separate from immigration. The White Paper Contains proposals for a Scottish Asylum Agency to oversee asylum applications:
‘The process will be both robust and humane, and we will continue Scotland’s present approach of promoting the integration of refugees and asylum seekers from the day they arrive, not just once leave to remain has been granted (as is the case in the rest of the UK). In an independent Scotland, we will close UK Home Office detention centre at Dungavel, end the practice of dawn raids and inhumane treatment of those who have exercised their legitimate right to seek asylum”
While these initiatives will bring international benefits to those from outside Scotland, there will also be tangible advantages to Scotland in Scotland when pursuing its own international agenda.
For all of those talented and committed people wanting to work in the diplomatic service, on international development and in defence and security, there will be a full Scottish headquartered career path. Home postings will be in Scotland and the relevant government departments will be based in Scotland. International partners will be directly represented in Scotland with embassies and diplomatic staff and international organisations will also seek enhanced representation in Scotland.
For all of those involved in the voluntary, charitable and academic sectors in Scotland which deal with international affairs, it will be possible to work with government departments, agencies and decision makers at all levels in Scotland.
Independence will mean Scotland taking its place in the international community and playing a positive proactive international role.
We will be able to promote a bigger role for the British-Irish Council that brings together the home nations, work constructively within the European Union and join our Northern European neighbours to fully address the challenges and opportunity of our region.
Scotland will be a trusted security partner for our allies, play a full role in the Commonwealth, properly carry our burden towards international development and have an ambition to support peace and reconciliation efforts around the world.
This contrasts with an ever growing parochial anti-European agenda at Westminster. Sadly politics at a UK level is massively influenced by the anti-immigration, Europhobic agenda of UKIP and large swathes of the Tory Party. Their priorities are leaving the EU, walking away from European Human Rights commitments and ignoring the opening gulf in political priorities with Scotland.
The time has come for people in Scotland to embrace a better international future and grasp the huge exciting opportunity offered by the independence referendum with a ‘Yes’ vote.
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Keller Crafted & Big Picture Beef: The Grass is Greener on the Carbon Side
(March 13, 2019 – Interview by Cirina Catania, Senior Editor, USTimes.biz) Wander through the grocery store, head to the meat counter and you’ll see numerous packages that herald “Grass Fed Beef.” Is all this beef really grass fed? Probably, as most beef is grass fed for part of their lives, but the question to ask is, “Is this beef grass fed and grass finished.” In that case, most of the meat you see on those shelves has lived the last months of their lives crammed in a stockyard being fed grain and injected with hormones and antibiotics.
Not only does that bother us as we love animals, it bothers is because we know that meat from that unhealthy environment just can’t be healthy. So, why would we want to eat it?
Additionally, wouldn’t we want to support our local farmers who work tirelessly to raise food for us? Much of that meat is not accurately labeled with its origin. In fact, much of our meat comes from South America or Australia, countries where organic farming is not as closely regulated as it is in the United States.
In our quest for truth and a desire to become healthier all while enjoying great tasting food, we decided to interview two experts on the subject, Mark Keller, of Keller Crafted Meats http://KellerCrafted.com and Ridge Shinn of Big Picture Beef http://BigPictureBeef.com
Yes, happy cows can graze and help restore carbon in the soil on pastures that utilize “Regenerative AG.” Learn more in this interview with Ridge Shinn and Mark Keller with host, Cirina Catania.
For those who prefer reading, here is the entire transcript of my interview with Mark Keller and Ridge Shinn:
Cirina Catania: (00:00) This is Cirina Catania with US Times. I am very fortunate today. I have two amazing experts on the line with me. I have Ridge Shinn who is the Founder and CEO of Big Picture Beef (BigPictureBeef.com) and he’s a leader in this thankful shift away from feedlot beef to 100% grass fed and grass finished beef. In other words, no corn ever. And I’m going to be asking him during this interview, why on Earth did Time Magazine call him a carbon cowboy. That’s fascinating to me.
Ridge Shinn of Big Picture Beef doing what he loves best, visiting the cows in his fields, secure in the knowledge that his methods of farming sustain the land and put carbon back into the soil.
Mark Keller of Keller Crafted Meats, supports local farmers and creates fair pricing for non-GMO meats, all while honoring the animals, respecting the land and providing nutritious food for his customers.
Cirina Catania: (00:31) And Mark Keller, you’re here as well. The Founder and CEO of Keller Crafted Meats at KellerCrafted.com. Mark works everyday with his business to support farmers and help create fair pricing for them. And if you ask him about his vision, he’ll tell you, number one, honor the animal, number two, respect the land, and number three, nourish our people.
Cirina Catania: (00:55) So I don’t even know where to start with the two of you, but why don’t I just ask you how did you meet each other and what’s the history there? Can you tell us?
Mark Keller: (01:03) This is Mark and I’ll jump in first. So I think it was in ’99 I started reading the Stockman Grass Farmer, my favorite periodical to this day, which focuses on grassland farming and regenerative agriculture. And I was introduced to Ridge just through reading and then through going to the annual seminars. In 2006, maybe 2005, I was in pursuit of getting some heritage hogs and he helped me talk it through, before I made my genetic selections. And in 2007 Ridge and I got a chance to work on a really cool assignment together, putting together a business plan based on regenerative agriculture. Ridge has always been somebody that’s up on the front end of the thought. Always had the complex that he can distill into something that is a great sound byte. And when I really started thinking that we needed to talk about grass-fed and finished beef and what the purpose and there’s a lot of rhetoric around grass-fed and about global warming, we needed to have Ridge come and talk.
Mark Keller: (02:25) Every time I talk to Ridge, it turns into this two hour long conversation that just ignites me, you know. I just leave so hopeful. I do not feel alone in the world. And a lot of the things that he’s been doing on the East Coast are the things that I’ve been striving for on the West Coast. There’s a lot of parallels. I’m just really grateful to have Ridge in my life. Always the voice of reason. Someone that I can bounce ideas off of. Anyway, he’s up to excellent work, and I’ve always just respected the man.
Cirina Catania: (03:00) Ridge, what do you have to say about what Mark just said?
Ridge Shinn: (03:03) I remember some of the things a little bit differently ’cause I think that actually the fabulous editor of the Stockman Grass Farmer who’s now deceased, Al Nation, was as great guy, and he actually called me once. He said, “Hey, what’s happening in New England?” I said, “Well, this and this and this.” He said, “Can I come up for two weeks and we’ll travel together?” So we did that kind of road trip and I introduced him to all these people. And then at one point he said, “You know, you really gotta connect with Mark. He’s really doing some cool things.” So that’s what I remember, but it was kind of from that [inaudible 00:03:38] that we did connect. And then as Mark said, when we worked together on a project, building a big ranch that’s now a pretty famous ranch with a slaughter house and butcher shops and stores and everything, and we kind of came to that. The guy that was hired to do that research was talking with the person with the money, and the guy with the money said, “Can you contact these people? Can you get these people to come and work for us?”
Ridge Shinn: (04:05) And so he called Mark and me and a number of others, and we developed that white paper which was the genesis of that project. They didn’t follow all of our advice of course, but they took a bunch of it. It was a very interesting project. So we worked quite closely on that. And you know, I was excited to hear what Mark’s got going out there. I think this business is exciting because the market is so vast that the competition is insignificant. If you think about it, you know, the market for regular beef is about 100 billion dollars, and grass fed beef’s about four or five billion and is slated to grow to 30 billion. So who of us can be competitive in that race? There’s plenty of room for all of us to play. And what’s exciting is the people in this field that I know, we’re all on a very steep learning curve, which is exciting, which is one of the reasons that we love doing it. But the more we can share and collaborate, the faster we go.
Ridge Shinn: (05:13) I mean, there’s nobody that’s going to take this business. One of the big four meat companies tries to do it, which they are trying, but they just don’t get it, and they’ll never get it right. They’re not really competition. But the more we can collaborate, the better.
This nutrient-rich pasture is literally a “salad bar” for cows. Make sure to check the label for “grass fed & finished” to stay healthy.
Cirina Catania: (05:29) There’s a big difference between being in the business to make lots of money and being in the business because you want to honor the animals and feed people nutrient dense food, right?
Ridge Shinn: (05:39 ) Precisely, precisely.
Cirina Catania: (05:40) Ridge, you’re in Massachusetts on the East Coast and Mark, you’re in Northern California on the West Coast. And it’s interesting to me that there’s this really energetic movement that is happening now and you are in the process of helping farmers learn how to do this new way of raising grass finished beef. And we’ll get into that in detail. But can I just ask you, and this was one of the main reasons I wanted to do this, you walk in the store as a consumer and you see grass fed, grass fed, grass fed everywhere on the labels. And I think a lot of people don’t understand that there’s a big difference between grass fed and grass finished. There’s starting to be a bit more education out there, but can I ask the two of you to explain to our listeners the difference.
Ridge Shinn: (06:28) Sure.
Mark Keller: (06:29) Sure. I appreciate the question. Grass fed and grass finished beef has gotten a lot of interest, and rightfully so. Grass fed in this country right now, according to a couple of studies that I’ve looked at is, at least 75-80% of the total tonnage that’s being consumed is imported from anywhere from outside, usually South America, and then Australia and New Zealand. So there isn’t a lot of domestic product being consumed of the grass fed.
Mark Keller: (07:03) And then there’s the grass finished which is the quality part, which actually means grass fattened which really displays the art as a combination of genetics of the farming practices that the farmers deploy, the grass finishers deploy, and the stewardship of those animals all the way from when they’re next to their mother’s side through weaning, all the way through to a perfect animal that is going to be nutrient dense and full of fat. There’s probably a few listeners out there that are looking for grass fed beef because it’s leaner, and I would like to try to urge the listeners to think about where does all of the good stuff come from, because it’s my understanding that the more fat, the more goodness, the more taste, the more flavor. So it’s like eating that ripe tomato on Forth of July or during summer time in your garden and you just go, “Oh my gosh, it tastes amazing.” Well, there’s also more stuff in it, more total dissolved solids in that tomato, and that’s all of our indicators that we’re eating nutrient dense foods.
Mark Keller: (08:11) And so goes with grass finished beef. Grass finished beef is not easy to achieve on a year round basis and it really takes a lot of management, expertise, and no one better than Ridge to talk about that.
Cirina Catania: (08:23) I’d like to paint a picture for people and talk about the difference between the cattle that you both work with and what we’re going to call conventional beef, like their living conditions, their diet, what drugs have they been given, and then we can also talk about disease if you want. But can we start with the living conditions, and be very specific about that if you would.
This chart from BigPictureBeef.com reveals the stark difference between “convential” (ie., corn-finished, stockyard beef) and “grass finished” beef that has been pastured for their entire lives. Eat healthy! Make sure your beef is grass fed and finished.
Ridge Shinn: (08:44) Sure, yes. And back to the definition of grass fed and grass finished, all cattle are grass fed. So all cattle, at least in the US, are raised on grass because it’s the cheapest way to raise cattle. So when a cow as a calf, she’s typically eating grass. She’s not being fed grain, she’s eating grass. And she raises that calf for a good part of its life. And then maybe the calf is weaned and then it’s backgrounded again on grass because it’s the cheap form of production.
Ridge Shinn: (09:15) Where the whole thing changes is when that animal goes to the feedlot, which is about for the last 120-140 days of its life. And then it gets crammed with corn and things really go off the rails. So everybody wants to claim “grass fed” because it’s popular, but the grass finishing really replaces the feed, that finishing or fattening. And it’s done with corn on the feed lot. And everybody knows the story. The feedlot cattle are close together. They stand in their own manure and urine for 120 days. You can imagine they get health issues so you’ve got to use antibiotics. And then you want this to go faster so you put in a little hormones to make them grow faster.
Ridge Shinn: (10:02) Yeah, so you have all these conditions that are magnified by putting them into the feedlot. It changes the fats in the meat from a perfect balance for human health to one that’s kind of out of whack for human health. E. Coli’s an issue in the feedlot situation as well. And we can dig into all those things. But grass finishing is when the animal then, instead of going to a feed lot, goes to a grass finishing plant which is a large farm with larger grass. And the big difference in the finishing is … The challenge of putting fat on a bovine is to provide it with energy. That’s why the corn is used, because it’s got lots of energy. It’s cheap and fast. But harvesting the energy in the grass is the real art to finishing. Everybody thinks that grass is grass and they think a cow is a mowing machine walking around going moo, mowing machine. But the cows are very selective. And when the cow is growing the calf, she doesn’t need much because she’s just maintaining her body weight, and her body takes the grass and converts it to milk, this magic that makes the calf grow. And then the calf has to grow its long bones, so it can do that on a lot of protein, which is in the grass.
Ridge Shinn: (11:13) But when we get to making them fat, the bovine needs energy. Statistically you can see the grass plant, the top third of it is energy. And then you have lignin (Note from the editor via Miriam Webster: Lignin is found in the cells, cell walls, and between the cells of all vascular plants. Lignin is responsible for what we call fiber in our food, and it gives veggies that satisfying crunch and trees that woody feature.) and you have protein. So if you manage the cattle like a big herd of buffalo, the cattle know what to do. They eat the tops of the plant. They eat the energy. And if they’re put together in a big group, again, like a heard of buffalo, they will trample all the rest of the grass and their urine and manure will smoosh it, and there really won’t be anything to eat after they move through.
Big Picture Beef and the beef from Keller Crafted are all raised and fattened on finishing pastures, never in the stockyard. This results in healthy, nutrient-rich beef and fat that nourishes us.
Ridge Shinn: (11:44) But the [inaudible 00:11:45] in grass finishing is to optimize that available energy in the grass for that finishing out. And that’s the art, and that’s what makes them finish in a reasonable amount of time efficiently. It still takes longer than finishing on grain, because the grain is very concentrated in energy. And in reality, they do it to an extreme on the feed lot.
Cirina Catania: (12:07) So Mark, at what point do we leave the initial stage and move into what I’m calling the fattening stage and how far do they get there?
Mark Keller, Owner of Keller Crafted Meats, stands proudly on the free range of one of the farmers working to produce meats humanely, cleanly and sustainably.
Mark Keller: (12:18) In our program, our Lost Coast program, the calves, whether they be steers or heifers, they are going to be finishing starting at around 1,000 pounds, going up to our ideal harvest weight is about 1,250 pounds on a live weight basis. That makes, for our genetics, which are mainly Angus, Hereford, and shorthorn, that makes a really nice package, a really nice carcass. And we are looking for a highly-marbled beef carcass. That’s what we’re looking for. So that finishing is almost guaranteed with our genetics at that weight.
Cirina Catania: (12:54) Talk to me about the salad bar. You used the term “salad bar” when I was talking to you recently. What do you mean by that for the animals?
Mark Keller: (13:00) I talk about the salad bar as being a diversity of different feeds and stuff that might be found in a pasture. The animals will select, you know, whether a plant might be high in protein or might be high in energy as Ridge was eluding to, based on their needs. And some of these grasses that are very sweet are very high in energy, and that’s what we’re looking for for finishing. We do some leader follower finishing techniques where we allow the animals that are closest to harvest to go into the new break of grass first to kind of cream off what they would like. And typically, it’s the ice cream. They want to eat the ice cream just like we want to eat the ice cream before we eat dinner.
Mark Keller: (13:43) But there’s a diversity of plants out in the pasture and they all deliver a different cocktail of nutrition, basically.
Ridge Shinn: (13:51) Right. I just want to concur with Mark’s comment that the cattle are extremely selective. And really, they don’t have a tough set of teeth. So like a horse will go in and he can eat the grass, bite it off, what the cows do is swing its tongue out and kind of grab it and bring it in and break it off. And what is remarkable when you stand back and you watch cattle graze, they are incredibly selective. They want this and this and this. And actually, there’s some research that’s been done at Utah State that was fascinating because what they did is, these were cattle they were feeding in the barn and they would feed them more protein and less protein. And then they had three swaths of grass. One was all clover, one was all grass, and one was clover and grass. And then they allowed the cattle to come in and eat across all three different choices. And depending on what they fed them in the barn, they would balance their ration by going to the row of what they needed. I mean, it’s fascinating research. But the cows are very good at that, and it’s incumbent upon us as the grazer managing to allow them access to what they basically know what they want.
Ridge Shinn: (14:59) But the more diverse, the more choices there are, and there’s a lot of things that they will eat with relish like a plant like chicory or you know, certainly the clovers. But there’s all different forms that they will love and they’ll eat. So diversity is better than a monoculture every day of the week. And then looking to nature, choice is better than no choice.
Cirina Catania: (15:21) Are the grasses very different on your different sides of the country?
Ridge Shinn: (15:26) I would say from my experience in California, which was up north up in Santa Margarita near San Luis Obispo, very different and very different management. See, there, at least on those ranches, it rained once a year basically, and it didn’t rain all summer long. So basically you had one shot at that grass. And the grass looked dry and peaked, but it was incredibly high in breadth and great at fattening cattle. Now back here with our tremendous amount of rain, we get different species, you know, lusher species that we can graze and come back to it in 40, 50 days, very quickly. And that’s where we’re very different on the two coasts. They’re quite different. And probably species. Our native species tend to be orchard grass and red clover. That’s what comes in eventually, with some forbs. But the rain is the big, big difference.
Cirina Catania: (16:23) Right. I was just going to ask Mark. The climate in the area you call the Lost Coast is near the ocean. What kind of grasses are grown there and how does that climate affect what the animals eat?
Mark Keller: (16:35) Yes. Ridge was absolutely right with the assessment of central coast and a lot of California. The Lost Coast program, I really honed in on this area that’s close to the ocean, very moderate in temperature. There’s not a lot of swings in terms of temperature. It’s very moderate all the time because it is close to the ocean with the big thermal mass there of the ocean being more or less about 52 degrees or so. They don’t have very warm days and don’t have very cool nights. Makes for great growing conditions.
Mark Keller: (17:07) Also, there is a lot of precipitation just coming off the coast in the form of fog and then also nice rainfall up in that part of the country. So this is on the northwestern part of, tippy top part of California. It’s paradise for cows, it is cow country, and for growing high octane feed. Our feed here, our annual and perineal rye grass is our source of energy, and then white clover is the main source of protein here.
Mark Keller: (17:47) The whole purpose of setting up this grass fed beef and finishing program is that it has the widest window for finishing, for having excellent vegetative growth. It’s like 42 weeks a year. And then finishing farmers have been able to be able to figure it out to be able to create a year round supply over the 52 week harvest catalog, you know, our offering. So 42 weeks of vegetative growth is pretty much unheard of, and it’s our kind of distinct advantage up there.
Cirina Catania: (18:19) I want to ask you guys about the term “sustainable” and about the term “regenerative ag” and how does that apply to the way you live your lives and the way you work with your farmers? Because those are subjects that are very, very important to all of us out here in the world right now. Who wants to start?
Ridge Shinn: (18:37) Well I can start. The terms “sustainable” and “regenerative,” sustainable is kind of like good. It’s better than destruction. It’s just kind of like a maintenance term, vs. regenerative really embraces actually building in the process. And in terms of what we’re doing with the grass fed beef, if you think about it, all wealth, both in terms of the farmer’s wealth as well as everybody else’s wealth comes from carbon, and carbon that was probably captured by photosynthesis. So if you think of fossil fuels, those were plants that grew with the sun and photosynthesis. Logging and trees and lumber and food all come from carbon. What we have done historically is harvested that carbon. So the great prairies, the great states that were in tall grass, deep, deep soils, we have plowed it up and harvested the carbon to grow food. But it’s a downward spiral. It’s like a negative. And what we’ve found with this grass finish to beef is that we can actually build the carbon back into the soil while we’re producing protein.
Ridge Shinn: (19:48) I mean, it’s like one of those impossible things to really consider that you actually can build soil and wealth and carbon while you’re harvesting protein. It all goes back eventually to photosynthesis and how you manage the grass as the solo collector, which just by its nature will take that carbon, that CO2 out of the air and transform it and put it down below the soil in a stable form. So you’re building wealth while you’re producing phenomenal meat. I mean, it’s like a win-win. And that’s really what we mean by “regenerative.” It’s much more than sustainable. It’s like a whole step up.
Cirina Catania: (20:28) So would you say then that the people that are critical of the meat industry and the cattle industry, when they say that the cows are ruining the land, are wrong?
Ridge Shinn: (20:38) No, they’re right for the vast majority of the way cattle are raised. So you know, if you turn cattle out in a big area and just let them graze and don’t move them like the buffalo, every time a new plant grows up, they’ll go over and nip it off. And eventually that kills the roots and eventually you turn that land into a weed patch or a desert, depending on the environment that you’re in. That’s what happened. That’s how most cattle are raised. So they’re not wrong. And that form or production is very destructive to the environment, to the water systems, to the whole thing. And what we’re doing instead with the capturing carbon, we capture water, and it’s a very different system.
Ridge Shinn: (21:20) But at the same time, red meat is vilified as the cause of climate change, but what we’re finding is that the cows are in their natural environment in grass. Yet a lot of the issues that are put at the feet at cattle are different. In other words, cattle on a feed lot are getting fed corn that’s grown with petrochemicals and fossil fuels is a very different system than a cow that’s going out and eating grass for its whole life. It’s very different systems. And one is actually regenerative, the other one is destructive. You know, most everybody doesn’t measure the externalities of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and the floods in Mississippi and on and on, which are caused by that system. And in our system, we can actually heal land and we can hold water, stop flooding. We can actually change climate, I’m fully convinced, with this method if we could scale it. If people could understand and embrace this product over a product that is from somewhere else really.
Mark Keller: (22:31) I’d like to jump in on this because really why I really wanted to have this dialogue because this is incredibly nuanced. And the conversations that are being had on a generalized level is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. And in fact, in this case, for the sake of our planet, I’ll just throw it out there, it’s really important that we don’t vilify the thing that probably has the greatest potential to help our climate. And I know being able to pull carbon out of the air and put it deep underground as Ridge has explained it is probably the biggest think we have for carbon. And the CO2 in the air that is produced stays in the air for 1,000 years. And the methane in the air that is produced stays in the air for 13 years. So it’s a totally different conversation. And ruminants, and I’ll throw sheep and cattle into the same group because they can both do the same thing, managed properly, have tremendous potential to rehabilitate our soils and to create very good living for many people living in rural America while delivering unmatched nutrition for our bodies, very nutrient dense foods.
Mark Keller: (23:44) So there’s a conversation, and what I just don’t want people to miss, what Ridge just said, that they’re mainly right. But you can’t just throw the baby out with the bath water like I just said. There is a way. There is a path forward. It’s not common, but it’s time to embrace kind of new technology, a new way of asking for the right type of products. ‘Cause when you ask for it, it’s uncanny how human beings learn how to produce it. You know, when there’s a market, don’t worry, they’ll figure it out. But when people are confused about what they want, and they don’t understand the difference, they won’t ask for the right question.
Ridge Shinn: (24:18) Yeah, I couldn’t agree with Mark more. You have to figure out the right kind of beef. What Mark is saying is it’s very nuanced. So you can get 100% grass-fed beef that was raised in Australia on the range in the worst possible management conditions. It never ate any corn so it can be certified 100%, but it was destructive to the land that it grazed on. Very different than cattle that are actually finished and rotated and in a system where the system is actually sequestering carbon while the beef is being raised. And that right now is a very small percentage of the beef being raised. But if the customers could understand it and embrace it and pull on the rope and demand it, I mean, we would literally, we could put all those prairie lands that are in harms way back into grass, because the money would be there. And that would definitely, it would change flooding in the Mississippi, it would change the weather in the west, and like Mark said, it would provide good, healthy, clean jobs for farmers other than saying you’ve got to use this GMO seed and you’ve got to spray this pesticide and blah, blah, blah. That’s the only way you can survive, which is kind of what they’ve come down to at this point.
Ridge Shinn: (25:30) So it’s a very possibly optimistic outcome. But cattle are critical. The cattle are critical to the paradigm. They are what makes it happen fast so we can make these changes to a dead piece of land and in three to five years, we can bring it back into verdant prairie. We’ve done this all over the country so we know it works. And that’s what’s very optimistic and exciting about this, is that this change could happen very quickly.
Cirina Catania: (25:57) Here’s what excites me about this, is I’m all for, and I believe everybody is all for creating healthy soil ecosystems, correct? And also we’re all for this slow food movement that’s been happening in the last, I don’t know 10, 15 years, slowly gaining momentum and creating some prosperity for our rural economies. I think both of you work with rural farmers, am I right?
Ridge Shinn: (26:22) Oh yeah.
Mark Keller: (26:23) Absolutely. Those are the only people I work with.
Ridge Shinn: (26:26) What it is is farmers as much as a lot of people think that oh, the dumb farmer, the farmer’s incredibly smart and they are very good at trying to figure out what to do. And what I think is remarkable is that the ones I’ve worked with, farmers and ranchers, are so closely aligned to the customers in the city who are interested in the environment, interested in their family, interested in rural economy. I mean, the alignment is remarkable. Now they may not agree on politics. They might disagree on politics, but on those basic issues, I think there’s an incredible alignment, but the communication’s not there. The communication is broken. But that’s what I find, is that the farmers are trying to find a way out.
Ridge Shinn: (27:12) You know, a lot of people vilify now the farmer, but I mean, the farmers are desperate. Corn and soy farmers are committing suicide. Dairy farmers are committing suicide at almost twice the rate of vets returning from combat. I mean, it’s a very sad situation, and they’ve been put out of business by our food system, and they’re desperate. They’re looking for a way out, and to throw them a lifeline with this new methodology. I mean, they’re going to be all over it. They really are. That’s what excites me is it’s like a way out of this spot that monoculture industrial agriculture has created. And it’s something that can happen quickly in terms of it’s not going to take eons to put that carbon back in the soil again. It can happen in 10 years. You know, we can put down a tremendous amount of carbon in a very stable form if we could get this paradigm shift going on both side, both the customer and the farmer. But it’s just there to be done.
Cirina Catania: (28:13) The consumer always wants to know about pricing and there’s a lot of beef out there that people can buy for a lot less than what it costs to raise really nutrient dense, health beef. I think one of you mentioned the Snickers bars and the pricing of a Snickers bar. Can you talk about that? I just thought that was fascinating.
The candy bar might solve your sugar craving, but it is not as healthy and costs twice as much as the grass-fed beef on the right.
Ridge Shinn: (28:33) Yeah. So when I give my talk, I talk about all the benefits, the fats and the vitamins and the health and putting carbon down. And then I always say to the crowd, so the problem is price. And there’s always like, “Yeah, price, price.” So then I flash a split slide on the screen and the slide has a picture of a Snickers bar and a pound of ground beef. And I say, “Okay,” and everybody laughs. And I say, “Wait a second. Now do the math. If you do the math on this Snicker bar, it costs you $1.27 for 1.2 ounces, so it’s actually costing 92 cents an ounce. Now look over here at my grass fed beef that’s whatever, it’s $7.99, it’s 44 cents an ounce.” I said, “You have this incredible disparity but you go and buy that Snickers bar everyday and think twice about buying my ground beef that’s half the price.” And that’s before even talking about the health benefits. But the way the industry has packaged, everything, you can look at it in cereal. It’s all kind of products where you think nothing and throw that in your shopping basket, but if you were to sit down and calculate, the beef really isn’t that expensive.
Ridge Shinn: (29:37) But it’s a big paradigm shift because the beef that’s in the meat case is less expensive and people always tell me that. “Well, if modern beef is half the price.” I said, “Yeah, but you paid the price. You paid the taxes to the IRS. They gave the money to the USDA. USDA gave a subsidy to the corn guy and soy guy. That’s the only reason they grow it is for that subsidy. Now they have so much cheap corn and soy that we feed it to animals, which actually makes them sick and creates nutrient loading of all the nutrients and pollution, and on and on. But that’s why we do it, so you actually paid for that meat. You paid the extra amount of money, but you paid it in the form of subsidies to the corn and soy guys, and nobody in that system paid for any of the externalities of the flooding and the dead soil, and other changes, and on and on.” But it’s a hard sell. But it’s a true story that that meat really isn’t cheaper.
Cirina Catania: (30:34) Also, it’s so much healthier. Mark, you talk about the benefits of bone broth. Talk about that for a minute. Even something as simple as bone broth.
Keller Crafted’s “Butcher’s Box” is shipped frozen to your door.
Mark Keller: (30:43) Oh absolutely. It’s a staple. It’s what I fuel my own system with regularly. It’s medicine. I mean, food is medicine and we make a bone broth that’s very high in the knuckle bones and they’ve got some marrow in it as well. And I work really hard and it seems to do me really well. It just tops off my immune system. Nutrient dense, it’s really a miracle food. You know, but we’ve had plenty of customers that have these autoimmune diseases and they’ll buy grass fed beef from us. In the box, we always throw in some bone broth as well. And we just get tremendous calls, results. People that their western medicine is failing them and that eating good, real food that’s actually produced by artists, by experts. These are not just the average Joe out there. These are highly skilled technicians, these farmers, and they’re creating medicinal grade food in the form of grass fed beef. And then really my job at Keller Crafted is not to screw it up. Just do a great job with it, you know. Just take it the next mile until we pass the baton off either to the retailer or to the restaurant or wherever the … the direct to the consumer through our meat box. But anyway-
Cirina Catania: (32:05) Okay. I have a confession. We’re talking about nutrient density, right? When I eat meat, I go right to the fat. I love the fat. Can you tell us what the difference is between good an bad fat and how do we know?
Ridge Shinn: (32:20) Well, I can speak to that. You know, a lot of people vilify some of the fats and some people vilify all fat. Those people are wrong. But in terms of the fats found in beef, there are the fats that are talked about the most are omega-6 and omega-3. So omega-6 fatty acids a lot of people say omega-6 is the bad fatty acid because it’s inflammatory and this and that, and that’s a true story. In grain fed beef, you’ll have 10 omega-6 for every one omega-3. But what we find when the diet is forage only that actually the researcher at Hunts University, Susan Duckett, said it’s like a fingerprint. She can tell whether the bovine or not by looking at the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. And in a forage finished animal, it will be 1.2 omega-6 to one omega-3. And what it turns out is both omega-6 and omega-3 are EFAs or essential fatty acids. Humans need both of them for brain function. You just need them in the right ratio for human health. And whether you have 10 omega-6s to one omega-3, then that ratio is out of whack and that causes all the things that are attributed to red meat, all the health issues that are attributed to red meat are really the grain feeding of the red meat, not the red meat itself.
Ridge Shinn: (33:46) But the fact is, and once you get that ratio right, then more fat is better and guess what, that’s where the taste is. So, you’re quite right to go to that fat if it’s 100% grass fed. Stay away from it if it’s not.
Cirina Catania: (34:01) Yeah, it’s true. Mark?
Mark Keller: (34:03) Yeah. Well, I would say my understanding of fat, and I’m with you Cirina, my wife and I, we go after the fat big time, but we are, you know, we’re pretty lean and mean. And I know Ridge is too. We eat heavy on fat. We eat, you know, full butter and everything full fat. We don’t get fat. It’s also very essential for us to avoid fats that are produced in the toxic approach because all of those toxins are going to be bound up in the fat, a lot of them, and Ridge, you can tell me if I’m wrong on this one. It’s exactly the thing you don’t want to eat if it’s being raised with all the chemicals and all the pesticides and you know, all the antibiotics and so forth. Please avoid it because that’s where it’s going to be hung up.
Ridge Shinn: (34:47) Exactly. One of the fats to highlight is the conjugated linoleic acid. So now that is a fat and it is grown in rumin of a bovine. It’s one of the few places it’s created. And in this beef, what they find, it’s actually sold as a supplement. People who are bodybuilders and people like that who want to create lean muscle mass take this an amendment, conjugated linoleic acid. So there it is. The fat creates lean. It seems like it creates the proposition, but it’s a true event, it’s one of those true stories that the right kind of fat creates lean.
Cirina Catania: (35:24) I’m liking that.
Ridge Shinn: (35:27) All of the other places that that fat is found is in the rumen of a bovine. That’s where it’s created. So it’s fascinating when you begin to really dig in. You know, it’s one of the fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acid.
Cirina Catania: (35:41) What I’m hearing is that the consumer really needs to ask where does this beef come from, because I get inundated with emails from companies that sell meat and they’re all telling me that they’re 100% grass fed. Some of them are saying they’re grass finished. But I don’t know the origin of that meat. A lot of it’s imported, but they’re not telling me that. So how can I find out where the meat comes from? Get to know my supplier, I guess.
Ridge Shinn: (36:09) Well, to some extent that’s true. You know, in our business we feel that that’s the primary question the consumer should ask is where does it come from, because once you know that, then you have the trail that you can go and reconstruct. You might not do it, but you could do that. And so what we’re doing in our company is actually just on the cusp of buying a traceability system where we’ll have an electronic ear tag on every animal from when it’s born right until it becomes meat, and we’ll be able to communicate that information to the customer.
Ridge Shinn: (36:46) So in our case, it’s fairly complicated. So there’s a cow calf farm. And then the calf becomes a year old and it moves to a finishing farm. It might move to a background before it moves to a finishing farm that goes to harvest. But we can very easily with technology, communicate that back to the customer. And that’s where we’re headed because we think it’s a very important question. Then somebody could call up the cow calf farmer and say, “Hey, did animal such tag number such and so, was that born on their farm?” They could say, “Yes, and come visit my farm if you’d like.”
Cirina Catania: (37:19) That’s wonderful.
Ridge Shinn: (37:20) But see, our challenge is we’re dealing with a whole bunch of different people and that’s the only way this is going to succeed at a scale is to aggregate from a whole bunch of different people. But we are very interested in communicating to the customer, the farms where it originated. We really want to co-brand all our farms and farmers and you can get some real opportunity, whereas most beef has no trail, no trail at all. Either it came from ConAgra or it came from [inaudible 00:37:51] or it came from JBS. That’s all you know. You don’t have any clue. And that’s all they want. They’d rather you don’t know.
Mark Keller: (37:59) Ridge, you know, to that point, at Keller Crafted, on every package that we produce, the farm name is on every package. And we found that focus is really the primary thing in terms of getting with and sticking with the best farmers that we can and helping them grow and scale. It just allows for that consistency of quality and deliciousness and overall results that we’re looking for in terms of the environmental and the supply change. And then also getting the product to and through the market where there is very little infrastructure. And that’s kind of the core of my business. I just wanted to farm and I realized there was no infrastructure to really farm the way I wanted to farm. And I ended up having a meat business because there was no one else to do the work, you know, and I trusted me. So I was able to start that.
Mark Keller: (38:51) But it’s so important to do what Ridge just said, to get behind these great farmers that really know what they’re doing and really you can scale. We really can. There is a big challenge ahead of us to feed a lot of people. I’m never going to come across and say that I had all the answerers, because it’s very, very complicated, but I do believe that there are some very big, bright, shining, yellow flashing lights that are saying, “warning, do not go down this path.” And then there’s green lights say, “It’s a good idea to head down this path,” you know. And I think that what Big Picture is doing and what we’ve got cooking up there with Lost Coast is the beginnings of that. I know that to be right. The question is how do we make that scale and get it to more people and have them have great opportunities.
Mark Keller: (39:39) There’s a lot of stigma around people that tried grass fed beef in the last five years and they’ll just say, “Oh, it’s gamey and horrible tasting, and super tough, not worth the premium,” and so forth. And they just walk away and go back to the feed lot product, but they haven’t had really good quality grass fed beef. And when you have that … We’ve done cuttings with all kinds of people stacked up against grain fed in a complete blind tasting. It was hilarious. We had these people and they said, “I like this steak one, and you know, we really feel badly. We could tell it was grain finished.” Bull. It was not. It was tremendous and it was tender and it was simply amazing from a culinary perspective. It was 100% grass fed and finished, high choice, done the way nature intended it to be done with great stewardship, great grazing skills. And you can only get it through that. And you’re looking for that animal that’s finished, it’s got its full brisket, flat back, tail head all filled out. It’s got that glimmer and that sheen to the coat. And you just know it’s going to be a winner.
Mark Keller: (40:48) A lot of times during the very rapid growing season, these animals are being moved every couple hours, not days, hours. New breaks. And they’re very docile. You barely have to move them. You just have to show them a new break and they walk across and there’s no hollering, there’s no dogs chasing them. There’s none of that. So when they’re being moved around or loaded into a trailer to go to the packing plant, the amount of stress, ’cause they’re used to having a good relationship with human beings, not being frightened of them all the time, they associate them with ice cream, you know. Going to the next ice cream parlor, you know. And so it makes for just a tremendous eating experience.
Ridge Shinn: (41:26) I concur.
Cirina Catania: (41:27) What do you want to leave people with today? And I’m going to ask you the same question, Ridge. What advice do you want to give people listening today about how to find healthier beef?
Mark Keller: (41:37) Cirina, that’s a really amazing question. There’s a couple of things. First one is, I want people to feel that they’re in control of some pretty powerful options with their decisions. I want people to feel hope. There’s some scary things happening out there right now with our climate change, with the way that for the second year in a row, the average life expectancy in America has gone down give all of our technology and better health care. That’s very sad and very scary, but there is hope. And what I’d like to offer is that through good nutrition and being stedfast and asking the right questions, being curious, and being skeptical, those are all good things. Those are all good things and there are people like Ridge on the east coast that are working. He’s been working tirelessly. I mean, I’ve known this guy for 20 years and he has never dropped the flag. He’s not chasing money to get this thing done. This is not a fad. This is a way that we can treat animals with extreme dignity. We can help our environment regenerate, which means we’re putting back more than we take.
Mark Keller: (42:56) So the definition of sustainable, it is that we can do something in perpetuity, which is very different from regeneration, right. So through this action, we can actually give back more than we take. That’s kind of like the opposite of business rules. No, we take more than we get. We can heal the landscape, heal rural America, we can treat animals with dignity, and we can nourish people. And to me, I see this really bright light, what Ridge has got going. He’s a huge inspiration to me. We only seek to produce the best quality food that tastes amazing. I believe it has to taste amazing or people won’t buy it. You know, that’s part of my whole culling process is farmers that can produce great tasting food. But if I had to tell people to take one thing away is, there is hope. And in this whole process, there is a lot of goodness. There’s a lot of great meals to be had with the people that you love the most. There’s a way that we can begin to look into our not so distant future. So you know, we’re looking at 30 years down the tracks here, we’re going to have a very different world with the population growth the way that it’s stacked up to come.
Mark Keller: (44:15) We need to act now. Time to act is now. It’s not later. We can’t kick the can five years down the road. We need to get educated. We need to get mobile and we need to say yes to the right things and no to the wrong things, and maybe eat a little bit less but eat better food. So that’s my long-winded answer to a short question.
Cirina Catania: (44:36) How about you Ridge? What would you like to leave people with today?
Ridge Shinn: (44:39) I’ll try to boil it into sound bytes. Save the planet, eat more grass finished beef. That was the title of that farm magazine article. And then here’s another sound byte. Beef with no regrets. A lot of people think red meat’s bad. But if you eat the right kind, it’s good and good for you.
Ridge Shinn: (44:57) And then the final one is that what we’re trying to do in our business, and this is what I really want customers to understand, we have a little motto that everybody in the food chain has to eat. So the microbes have to eat in the soil, and the grass, and the cow, and the farmer, and me as the aggregator, and the distributor, and you as a customer. Everybody has to eat. And if everybody eats, then nobody’s getting screwed. If nobody in the system’s getting screwed, if the microbes aren’t getting screwed and killed then the soil’s not getting screwed and killed, then the farmer’s not, then all of a sudden you have this righteous system which, as Mark says, is a very optimistic outlook for the future if people could understand it. It’s very complicated. It’s very complex. It’s a lot of nuance. And it’s pretty hard to sort out, especially if you have no background with a farm or a cow or any of it. And it’s very hopeful. It is extremely hopeful that we can pull that carbon out of the air quickly and have great food to feed a whole lot of people. And we actually can magnify the output of the land. This is a whole nother topic, but we can increase the biomass grass on a piece of land three fold by these methodologies. So there’s [inaudible 00:46:16] upsides in this system once we get up and running.
Cirina Catania: (46:19) Well, this is fascinating. I love the idea of in a way, going back to basics. You know, I believe that farmers are the true stewards of the land, that they can be helped to understand how to create these new ecosystems that you’re talking about, put carbon back into the soil, feed us nutrient dense food that also is absolutely delicious. So I thank both of you so much for doing this today. I am going to have you back again. In the meantime, I invite our listeners to go to BigPictureBeef.com and check out what Ridge and his team is working on there, and also check out KellerCrafted.com and Mark and his team and what they’re doing there.
Cirina Catania: I’m Cirina Catania with US Times, and thank you for listening. And remember what I always say, get up off your chair and do something wonderful today. Until we meet again, have a great night.
Mark Keller: (47:16) Thank you.
Ridge Shinn: (47:16) Thank you.
Cirina Catania: (47:16) Thank you both.
Tags: Big Picture Beef, Carbon Sequestration, Cirina Catania interviews, Fat is Good for You, Grass Fed, Grass Finished, Healthy Meat, Keller Crafted, Mark Keller, Omega 3 and Omega 6, Ridge Shinn, USTimes Interviews
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Arsenal’s First Game In Europe
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Arsenal: McKechnie, Magill, McCullough, Brown, Ure, Groves, MacLeod, Strong, Baker, Eastham, Armstrong.
53 years ago today Arsenal made their first foray in European competition when they played Staevnet, a combined Copenhagen XI, in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup. The Gunners had qualified for the competition, despite having finished seventh in the First Division, by virtue of the fact that teams above them were not eligible as the cities in which they were based did not host an annual trade fair. Possibly the most obscure qualifying criterion for a football competition. Read More →
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STATEMENTS – Sport – Thursday, 22 October 2020
Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Leader of the Opposition) (15:22): on indulgence—I join with the Prime Minister in congratulating the Melbourne Vixens on their victory last weekend and I look forward to watching on telly the Geelong-Richmond grand final. I think that both of those teams, as Victorian teams, have had it particularly tough during this season, and they deserve absolute credit—the players and all of the clubs associated with them—for what is a remarkable achievement.
Similarly, the Melbourne Storm, who are playing on Saturday night, have based themselves on the Sunshine Coast there in Queensland, away from family, friends and their homes. That is particularly tough, and it’s a great achievement for them to get through to the grand final. My head says they’ll be successful. My heart says Penrith! But I do think that Melbourne Storm have been the most successful team over the last decade. But I hope it is a good game and I hope it’s not decided by one foot being on the wrong side of the line in a 40-20 kick, which is what happened with Adam Reynolds last week—and no, Mr Speaker, I’m not over it yet! Three preliminary finals in a row we’ve lost, South Sydney, but I wish them all well.
Indeed, on the Rugby League Women’s grand final between the Roosters and the Broncos: it’s been a great initiative that women are playing in big numbers. There’s been big growth in women and young girls playing rugby league and AFL. So, to everyone associated with those sports: it has been good, during what has been a difficult year, for people to be able to watch the footy on the weekend, and I congratulate all associated with the codes.
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Battlefield America: The War on the American People
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To France from a Post-9/11 America: Lessons We Learned Too Late by John W. Whitehead
Posted: November 16, 2015 in Uncategorized
Tags: 9/11, martial law, Paris attacks, rule of law, surveillance, terrorism, torture, USA Patriot Act, war on terror
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”—Hermann Goering, German military commander and Hitler’s designated successor
For those who remember when the first towers fell on 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Paris attacks.
Once again, there is that same sense of shock. The same shocking images of carnage and grief dominating the news. The same disbelief that anyone could be so hateful, so monstrous, so evil as to do this to another human being. The same outpourings of support and unity from around the world. The same shared fear that this could easily have happened to us or our loved ones.
Now the drums of war are sounding. French fighter jets have carried out a series of “symbolic” air strikes on Syrian targets. France’s borders have been closed, Paris has been locked down and military personnel are patrolling its streets.
What remains to be seen is whether France, standing where the United States did 14 years ago, will follow in America’s footsteps as she grapples with the best way to shore up her defenses, where to draw the delicate line in balancing security with liberty, and what it means to secure justice for those whose lives were taken.
Here are some of the lessons we in the United States learned too late about allowing our freedoms to be eviscerated in exchange for the phantom promise of security.
Beware of mammoth legislation that expands the government’s powers at the citizenry’s expense. Rushed through Congress a mere 45 days after the 9/11 attacks, the USA Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, undermined civil liberties, expanded the government’s powers and opened the door to far-reaching surveillance by the government on American citizens.
Pre-emptive strikes will only lead to further blowback. Not content to wage war against Afghanistan, which served as the base for Osama bin Laden, the U.S. embarked on a pre-emptive war against Iraq in order to “stop any adversary challenging America’s military superiority and adopt a strike-first policy against terrorist threats ‘before they’re fully formed.’” We are still suffering the consequences of this failed policy, which has resulted in lives lost, taxpayer dollars wasted, the fomenting of hatred against the U.S. and the further radicalization of terrorist cells.
War is costly. There are many reasons to go to war, but those who have advocated that the U.S. remain at war, year after year, are the very entities that have profited most from these endless military occupations and exercises. Thus far, the U.S. taxpayer has been made to shell out more than $1.6 trillion on “military operations, the training of security forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, weapons maintenance, base support, reconstruction, embassy maintenance, foreign aid, and veterans’ medical care, as well as war-related intelligence operations not tracked by the Pentagon” since 2001. Other estimates that account for war-related spending, veterans’ benefits and various promissory notes place that figure closer to $4.4 trillion. That also does not include the more than 210,000 civilians killed so far, or the 7.6 million refugees displaced from their homes as a result of the endless drone strikes and violence.
Advocating torture makes you no better than terrorists. The horrors that took place at Abu Ghraib, the American-run prison in Iraq, continue to shock those with any decency. Photographs leaked to the media depicted “US military personnel humiliating, hurting and abusing Iraqi prisoners in a myriad of perverse ways. While American servicemen and women smiled and gave thumbs up, naked men were threatened by dogs, or were hooded, forced into sexual positions, placed standing with wires attached to their bodies, or left bleeding on prison floors.” Adding to the descent into moral depravity, the United States government legalized the use of torture, including waterboarding, in violation of international law and continues to sanction human rights violations in the pursuit of national security. The ramifications have been far-reaching, with local police now employing similar torture tactics at secret locations such as Homan Square in Chicago.
Allowing the government to spy on the citizenry will not reduce acts of terrorism, but it will result in a watched, submissive, surveillance society. A byproduct of this post 9/11-age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers such as Google that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere. We are all becoming data collected in government files. The chilling effect of this endless surveillance is a more anxious and submissive citizenry.
Don’t become so distracted by the news cycle that you lose sight of what the government is doing. The average American has a hard time keeping up with and remembering all of the “events,” manufactured or otherwise, which occur like clockwork and keep us distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from the reality of the American police state. Whether these events are critical or unimportant, when we’re being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days, it’s difficult to stay focused on one thing—namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law—and the powers-that-be understand this. In this way, regularly scheduled trivia and/or distractions that keep the citizenry tuned into the various breaking news headlines and entertainment spectacles also keep them tuned out to the government’s steady encroachments on their freedoms.
If you stop holding the government accountable to the rule of law, the only laws it abides by will be the ones used to clamp down on the citizenry. Having failed to hold government officials accountable to abiding by the rule of law, the American people have found themselves saddled with a government that skirts, flouts and violates the Constitution with little consequence. Overcriminalization, asset forfeiture schemes, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, warrantless surveillance, SWAT team raids, indefinite detentions, covert agencies, and secret courts are just a few of the egregious practices carried out by a government that operates beyond the reach of the law.
Do not turn your country into a battlefield, your citizens into enemy combatants, and your law enforcement officers into extensions of the military. A standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into revolution—strips the citizenry of any vestige of freedom. How can there be any semblance of freedom when there are tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, Blackhawk helicopters and armed drones patrolling overhead? It was for this reason that those who established America vested control of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian commander-in-chief. They did not want a military government, ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, we in America now find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military and have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.
As long as you remain fearful and distrustful of each other, you will be incapable of standing united against any threats posed by a power-hungry government. Early on, U.S. officials solved the problem of how to implement their authoritarian policies without incurring a citizen uprising: fear. The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, shooters, bombers). They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being. Most of all, they want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other’s throats.
If you trade your freedom for security, the terrorists win. We’ve walked a strange and harrowing road since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state. And in so doing, we have proven Osama Bin Laden right. He warned that “freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”
To sum things up, the destruction that began with the 9/11 terror attacks has expanded into an all-out campaign of terror, trauma, acclimation and indoctrination aimed at getting Americans used to life in the American Police State. The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, but the end result remains the same: our unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has transitioned us to life in a society where government agents routinely practice violence on the citizens while, in conjunction with the Corporate State, spying on the most intimate details of our personal lives.
The lesson learned, as I document in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, is simply this: once you start down the road towards a police state, it will be very difficult to turn back.
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Jack Osbourne Thinks Family Should Live Together if ‘The Osbournes’ Is Rebooted
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One of the biggest teases of 2020 was hearing from Kelly Osbourne that The Osbournes could have potentially made its return if it weren't for the coronavirus. Jack Osbourne has even considered the possibility of the family moving back in together for two months in order to film it.
Though Covid-19 has just about crippled everyones' plans for the time being, that doesn't mean the rocker series won't still make a return when all is said and done. "I would be lying to say the conversations haven't been coming up recently," Jack told Variety in a recent interview. "I think nostalgia is such a huge, hot-button word right now. You look at all these shows coming back from 20 years ago."
As for the fact that the family don't live together the way they did in the early 2000s when it aired, there are potential solutions. "One thought I’ve had is, why don’t we all just move in together for two months?" Osbourne suggested. "It’s 20 years later; we’re all moving back into the house together."
Obviously, there is no timeline for when creating a new series could take place, as there is no timeline for pretty much anything right now. But once the pandemic ceases, Osbourne joked that there would need to be a pretty hefty offer on the table in order for him to actually entertain the notion of doing the show again.
"I guess when someone pays me a hell of a lot," he said. "Because the amount of therapy I’m going to have to buy into after that is going to be monstrous."
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By American Profile on September 29, 2002
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I'd like to know more about the young man called Steven on the Dell computer commercials. He's informative and hilarious.
—Patricia P., New York
Chattanooga, Tenn., native Ben Curtis plays "Steven" in Dell's national advertising campaign. The 21-year-old lives in New York, where he's a third-year student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He recently portrayed the lead character, Vince, in an NYU production of Sam Shepherd's Buried Child and spent the summer in a theater program in Amsterdam. Curtis hopes to parlay his commercial success into bigger things. He screen-tested for a number of upcoming projects in Los Angeles this spring. The ads seem to be getting the attention of the public. Dell's shipments of computers to U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2002 were 153 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2001, according to the company.
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Airbox Systems to take over ResilienceDirect™ Contract
March 7, 2018 /in News, Press Release /by Laura Boundy
We are very proud to announce that the Civil Contingencies Secretariat within the Cabinet Office have today awarded Airbox the contract to maintain and develop the ResilienceDirect™ emergency planning and response platform.
ResilienceDirect™ is the UK’s secure web-based platform for all Category 1 and 2 responders, government departments and other key organisations in the UK resilience community. The service is free-to-use and allows users to share information during emergency responses, planning and exercises. Airbox’s portfolio of applications allows field operatives on land, sea and air to collaborate visually, sharing information through a simple, map-based interface.
The synergy between the two organisations was a key factor for the Cabinet Office when awarding the contract to Airbox. We both use dedicated software to enhance the sharing of information, allowing responders to be better informed, safer and more effective.
William Moore, CEO of Airbox Systems said: “We are excited about the possibilities brought by this new partnership with ResilienceDirect™. The team at the Cabinet Office and Ordnance Survey have created a fantastic platform used widely in the community. In the next phase we plan to engage with the end users to understand their wants and needs as we aim to increase platform usage, making it as relevant and useful to the community as we can.“
Luana Avagliano, Head of ResilienceDirect™ added “We were very impressed with Airbox’s tender submission and their dedication to our community. The synergy between our two organisations will prove paramount as we strive to take the platform forward to deliver an enhanced service. Over the coming weeks and months we will be working with our existing partners and Airbox to ensure a smooth transition of the service.”
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Doctoral Dissertations in The Wilma L. West Library
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American Journal of Occupational Therapy, May 1997, Vol. 51, 393-395. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.51.5.393
Doctoral Dissertations in The Wilma L. West Library. Am J Occup Ther 1997;51(5):393–395. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.51.5.393
The Impact of an Online Video Library and Case-Based Learning in the Development of Student Clinical Reasoning
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, July 2017, Vol. 71, 7111505130. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2017.71S1-PO4155
Building an Occupational Therapy Library Collection
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, January/February 2001, Vol. 55, 97-101. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.55.1.97
The Wilma L. West Library Goes On-Line
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, April 1989, Vol. 43, 269-270. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.43.4.269
The Occupational Therapy Library: Past, Present, and Future
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, March 1987, Vol. 41, 195-196. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.41.3.195
A Library Skills Program Serving Adults with Mental Retardation: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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An On-Demand Workshop Reading
By L. Frank Baum
Dramatized by Andrew Scanlon
Available on-demand until December 31
Miss out on the livestream versions? Alberta Theatre Projects is thrilled to offer an on-demand version of the special workshop reading presentation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, a new play commission dramatized by playwright Andrew Scanlon and directed by Haysam Kadri.
A prairie tornado sees young Dorothy and her little dog Toto transported from the fields of Kansas to the wonderfully strange and vibrant world of Oz. An iconic cast of loveable characters help Dorothy on her journey to find the all-powerful Wizard of Oz, and hopefully, a way back home. That’s if they can avoid falling into the clutches of the Wicked Witch of the West. A classic adventure about the power of friendship, The Wizard of Oz reminds us of the simple beauty and magic of home.
Watch from the comfort of your own home as the actors read this new script-in-development from the Martha Cohen Theatre stage! Share in this fun and lively presentation of a classic tale with the whole family!
Starring: Kevin Corey, Daniel Fong, Elinor Holt, Tara Jackson, Kevin Rothery, Tenaj Williams and Kiana Wu
Top photo credit: Kiana Wu, Tenaj Williams & Kevin Corey reading The Wizard of Oz. Photo by Jeff Yee.
Now Available: Alberta Theatre Projects Masks
Kevin Corey, Kiana Wu & Tenaj Williams. Photo by Jeff Yee.
Be safe AND stylish! These black cloth face masks have comfy elastic ear loops, adjustable nose wire and a sharp-looking Alberta Theatre Projects logo. Add a special edition Alberta Theatre Projects mask to your Wizard of Oz ticket order for only $10 each!
Kevin Corey - The Cowardly Lion/Zeke
Kevin was last seen at Alberta Theatre Projects in ZORRO: Family Code. Other past productions include: The Hollow, Dial M for Murder, The Heat of the Night, The Ends of the Earth and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Deathtrap and Strangers on a Train with Vertigo Theatre, The Louder We Get, Billy Elliot: The Musical, The Crucible, One Man Two Guvnors, Much Ado About Nothing, 25TH Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Theatre Calgary); GLORY, Charlotte's Web, The Wizard of Oz (2011), Seussical the Musical, Tyland (Alberta Theatre Projects); A Few Good Men, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); Old Nick, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Caravan Farm Theatre); Twisted (FORTE Musical Theatre Guild). Kevin is the recipient several Betty Mitchell awards here in Calgary as well as an award nominee in Edmonton, Vancouver and Edinburgh Scotland.
Daniel Fong - The Tin Man/Hickory
For Alberta Theatre Projects: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (A Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth Production), Fortune Falls (Catalyst Theatre), The Circle. ELSEWHERE: A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary), Gutenberg The Musical! (Lunchbox), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat, The Skin of Our Teeth (Rosebud); US (Globe Theatre), [Title of Show] (Birnton Theatricals), Journey of a Lifetime (Quest Theatre/Heritage Park), The Tempest, Twelfth Night, DiVerseCity (The Shakespeare Company); A Christmas Carol (Belfry Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare by the Bow), Spring Awakening (ACT). FILM/TV: Fargo, Wynonna Earp, Mutant World, The Dorm, Forsaken, Klondike. @thedfong
Elinor Holt - Wicked Witch/Miss Gultch
For Alberta Theatre Projects: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, To the Light, Charlotte’s Web, Slipper, The Wizard of Oz (2011). Select credits elsewhere: Pig Girl (Theatre Network), The Soul Collector (Catalyst Theatre), The Ecstatics (Northern Light Theatre), Fly Me to the Moon (Shadow Theatre), Matara (Workshop West Theatre), Our Town (Caravan Farm Theatre), Lilia! (Rosebud Theatre), Bingo Ladies (Hudson Village Theatre), Becky’s New Car (Theatre North West), Romeo & Juliet (The Globe Theatre), Richard III (The Shakespeare Company/Hit&Myth), Sweeney Todd (Vertigo Theatre), The Humans (Theatre Calgary), Drinking Habits (Stage West Theatre), Shakespeare’s Will (Sage Theatre), The Pink Unicorn (Lunchbox Theatre).
Tara Jackson - Auntie Em/Glinda the Good/Chancellor
Tara was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta and is of Jamaican/Haitian heritage. She began singing at the age of 3 and has had a passion for it ever since. As a child, Tara was immersed into music through singing and piano lessons and studied dance as well as various sports. With such strong taking to music and after competing in local events and attending and graduating from Berklee College Of Music with honours, she knew she was meant to pursue a career in creating music and storytelling. Select credits include: The Color Purple (Neptune, Citadel/RMTC), Hadestown (Citadel), Jesus Christ Superstar, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival), Brave Girl (Lunchbox). “So grateful to be storytelling and making art in any capacity in these challenging times. I hope you at home can feel the love and enjoy the virtual show!” @taraatee www.musicaltokens.com
Kevin Rothery - Uncle Henry/The Wizard/Guardian/Winkie General
For Alberta Theatre Projects: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Becky's New Car, The Wizard of Oz (2011). A native Calgarian, Kevin has appeared in The Audience; One Man, Two Guvnors and several seasons as Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Young Frankenstein, The Wedding Singer (Stage West Calgary); It’s a Wonderful Life, In Flanders Fields (Lunchbox Theatre) - Betty Mitchell Nomination; Fool for Love (Sage Theatre / Shadow Theatre) - Betty Mitchell Nomination and Winner of the Calgary Critics Award for “Featured Actor in a Play or Musical, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Sage Theatre) - Betty Mitchell Nomination; The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe Theatre - Regina). Kevin’s TV and Movie credits include The Reckoning (Hallmark), Hell On Wheels (AMC); I Dream of Murder (Nomadic Pictures); Snow Globe (ABC Family).
Tenaj Williams - The Scarecrow/Hoke
Selected Theatre Credits: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel), Sweat (Theatre Aquarius), The Color Purple (Citadel/MTC, Neptune Theatre), Charlotte’s Web (Alberta Theatre Projects), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Shakespeare Company/Alberta Theatre Projects) , A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary) Touch Me: Songs for a (Dis)Connected Age (Theatre Calgary/Forte Musical Theatre) , Naughty But Nice (Forte Musical Theatre), King Lear, Alls Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare Company), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rosebud). @tenajwilliams
Kiana Wu - Dorothy
Kiana is a Taiwanese-Canadian actor born and raised in Mohkinstsis on Treaty 7 Territory. Most recent performing credits include The Essentials
(Field Work Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (Theatre Calgary, Shakespeare by the Bow), Lighting The Way (Downstage Theatre), A Dinner Party (Bad Knaps Theatre Collective) and more. She is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio in New York, where she produced her first short play, Half Empty; Half Full at two different theatre festivals. Her playwright/producer pursuits continue with her new one act play, The Strid, premiering in spring of 2021 with Downstage Theatre at the inaugural Shake Up Festival. Kiana currently works for Inside Out Theatre, sits as a Board Member for Swallow-A-Bicycle theatre, is a member of the Calgary chapter for The 3.7 Initiative, and is a co-contributor for The 35//50 Initiative. She is grateful to be stepping onto the Martha Cohen stage for the first time, and her sincerest hope is that in a time where we cannot gather, that all audience members may imagine their own Oz; where we are reminded of our homes and roots, where we can dream of better worlds, and where good people find each other. More at kianawu.com.
Andrew Scanlon - Playwright
Andrew has worked in Canadian theatre for 20 years. His first work as a playwright, Come Fly With Me, was seen at theatres across the country, including a production at Calgary’s Lunchbox Theatre. He appeared onstage in the Original Canadian Company of Kinky Boots at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre, and later joined the Tony-winning show’s First National Tour, crisscrossing America and Japan. His work closer to home includes credits at Luminato, Neptune Theatre, The Globe, The Grand, Aquarius, Musical Stage, Stage West and Drayton. He has also participated variously in the development and recording of new work by Britta and Anika Johnson, Sara Farb, Erin Shields, Bryce Kulak, Joey Miller and Norm Foster.
Haysam Kadri - Director
Haysam is an Actor, Director, and Theatre Instructor. As the Artistic Producer of The Shakespeare Company and Program Director for Shakespeare by the Bow in Calgary, Haysam has made it a priority to establish a solid foundation for classical work in Alberta by entertaining audiences through producing and performing of classics, developing and cultivating the talents of emerging artists, and finally, focusing on student education via performances, workshops, and classes.
Ruby Dawn Eustaquio - Stage Manager
For Alberta Theatre Projects: Becky’s New Car, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Wizard of Oz (2011), Seussical The Musical, Shakespeare’s Dog, Highest Step In The World, 08/09 Enbridge playRites Festival. Selected credits elsewhere: Christmas Carol 2015-2019, Honour Beat, The Humans (Theatre Calgary), Sherlock Holmes and The American Problem, Nine Dragons, The Big Sleep, Wait Until Dark, Shear Madness, Gaslight, Sweeney Todd, Twelve Angry Men (Vertigo Theatre). She was a part of the cast and crew of Dirty Laundry, Calgary Improvised Soap Opera for 13 years. Ruby Dawn is thrilled to be sharing and being creative with fellow friends here at ATP.
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Action/Adventure Drama Mystery/Noir
D.O.A.
I have recommended The Turning Point, starring Edmond O’Brien and featuring Neville Brand in a small part as a vicious killer. For a change of pace, let me also recommend a film starring Edmond O’Brien, featuring Neville Brand in a somewhat larger part as a vicious killer: 1950’s D.O.A.
D.O.A. has one of best opening premises in the history of film noir. A man stumbles down an impossibly long, shadowy hallway at the police station, followed by a tracking camera. Upon meeting the officer in charge of homicide investigation, he announces that he wants to report a murder: His own. What follows is partly a mystery/action story and partly an existential meditation.
The central character, Frank Bigelow (O’Brien) has a life that screams conventionality. He’s an accountant in a small town with a small town girlfriend (Pamela Brittan) who is nagging him to do the decent thing by marrying her, settling down, and having a conventional family. This is a noir film, so naturally Bigelow wants nothing more than to flee. He goes for a wild weekend in San Francisco, where he ogles sophisticated urban beauties and swills liquor until for an inexplicable reason, someone covertly poisons him with a lethal, slow-acting toxin. After the terminal diagnosis is confirmed, a justly famous film noir sequence commences as Bigelow races madly through the crowded streets until, exhausted, he looks up to heaven and then down to see a little girl’s ball at his feet. He returns the ball to the girl and then sadly stands up, knowing that he will never be carefree as a child again for he is doomed to die, and very soon at that (Nice touch: Look at the particular magazine arrayed next to him in the shot above).
Although Bigelow cannot save his life, he is driven to understand why he will die, and thus spends his final precious days not enjoying what remains, but ruthlessly pursuing his killer. With his death in no doubt, he transforms from a mild-mannered accountant into a fearless, even brutal, angel of vengeance. He doesn’t fear death from the assorted villains he encounters, just the prospect of dying before he can find out why a nobody accountant from a nothing small town was worthy of cold-blooded, calculated murder.
As you would guess, D.O.A. offers much to chew on thematically. It can be enjoyed at one level as an exciting (if overly complicated) crime mystery, but at another level it’s a philosophically engaging take on venerable film noir themes of isolation, futility and the cruelty of fate.
Director Rudolph Maté earned his place in movie heaven as a cinematographer, including in my recommendations Vampyr and Gilda. He directed much less often, and that’s a good thing because he didn’t attain the same level of excellence in that role. Here, he allows some of the actors to go over the top too often, and there is also an embarrassingly puerile use of a “Va Va Voom” sound effect when O’Brien sees attractive women that is completely inconsistent with the noir mood.
I would say I wish Maté had been director of photography instead, but that wouldn’t be fair to Ernest Laszlo, who gives the film a stunning look, especially in the street scenes in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The crowded street shots must have been particularly challenging from a technical viewpoint.
Neville Brand, in a role that helped make his fairly successful if completely typecast career, is admirably scary here as a psychopath, and Luther Adler makes a smooth, cultured, but ultimately nasty villain. As mentioned, some of the other performances — including O’Brien’s — are uneven, but all the main actors have their moments.
The basic existential conceit of D.O.A. is not about a man trying to prevent his death; he doesn’t have that power. Rather, it’s all about the desire to know why — why me and why this fate? The best noirs never answer this question, but bathe the audience in the agony of being unable not to ask it nonetheless. D.O.A. is a noble example of this tradition.
D.O.A. is in the public domain, so you can watch it for free on Internet Archive. However, that print looks nowhere near as good as the digitally remastered version, which you can probably find on a paid streaming service.
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The United States is split into six standard time zones – Hawaii, Alaska, Pacific, Mountain, Central and Eastern. The UK is five hours ahead of New York, six hours ahead of Chicago, seven hours ahead of Denver, and eight hours ahead of California.
Each day on Earth begins at midnight in Greenwich, England, where the prime meridian is located. Originally, the prime meridian’s purpose was to help ships at sea find their longitude and determine accurately their position on the globe.
Though, sadly for the Americans, it left American Samoa marooned, only 70km away but 24 hours apart (25 in summer). And then there’s the Republic of Kiribati, which became independent in 1979 by combining three colonies – the UK’s Gilbert Islands, and the Phoenix and Line Islands from the US.
France has more time zones than any other country, at 12 worldwide. … This is due to France’s far-flung overseas areas, since the mainland European part of France uses just one time zone. 3. French Polynesia, the furthest west, is mostly in the same time zone as the U.S. state of Hawaii.
The GMT/UTC+7 hours offset is shared by several countries countries in Asia. None of them uses Dayligt Saving Time. The time zone offset called for Cambodia, Lao, Thailand and Vietnam is also known as Indochina Time or ICT.
KiribatiWhich country is the furthest behind on time. Kiribati is in the Pacific Ocean and part of it (The Line Isles) is in time zone +14. That’s the most advanced time on Earth.
California is in the Pacific Time Zone in the United States of America (USA). US Pacific Standard Time (PST) is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT-8 ).
The United States is divided into six time zones: Hawaii-Aleutian time, Alaska time, Pacific time, Mountain time, Central time and Eastern time.
With this information, then the biggest time difference between two places on earth is a whole 26 hours. The Howland islands, an unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States, use a time zone of -12 hours UTC on the far west of the earth.
On December 31, the world welcomes the New Year when the clock strikes 12 in the night. But the country in which New Year is celebrated first is Oceania. New Year is first celebrated on the small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa, and Kiribati.
The Line Islands that are part of Kiribati are in the world’s farthest forward time zone, UTC+14:00. The time of day is the same as in the U.S. state of Hawaii (UTC-10.00), but the date is one day ahead.
The states that observe more than one time-zone are Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Florida, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alaska.
It is also referred to as the “latest time zone” on Earth, as clocks in it always show the ‘latest’ (i.e., most advanced) time of all time zones. UTC+14:00 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line around the Pacific nation of Kiribati.
UTC-6 timing It is observed in the CST, EAST, GALT during standard time, and in the MDT during the other months (Daylight saving time). Some locations use it year-round.
California (CA) is 3 hours behind the center of the Florida (FL). PLEASE NOTE: Florida may span multiple time zones. We are using the US/Eastern time zone.
Eastern Time ZoneThe Eastern Time Zone is the eastern-most of the time zones while the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone represents the western-most time zone. In between the two extremes are, arranged from west to east, are the Alaska, the Pacific, the Mountain, and the Central Time Zones.
UTC/GMT-10 is 10 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France.
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#262 The Case of the Pope by Geoffrey Robertson QC
March 9, 2011 in Book, Criticism, History, Non-Fiction, Political, Religion, Review | Tags: anti-semitism, Benito Mussolini, Bocktherobber, canon law, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyas, Christian Sailer, Geoffrey Robertson, Gert-Joachim Hetzel, HIV, International Criminal Court, Irish Times, Lateran Treaty, Pope Benedict XVI, The Case of the Pope, The Murphy Report, The Ryan Report, The Vatican, tort, United Nations | 1 comment
‘Catholics are indoctrinated from their childhood that priests take the place of Jesus Christ and are to be obeyed at all costs, and never questioned or criticized.’ A church that puts its children from this early age under the spiritual control of its priests, representatives of God to whom they are unflinchingly obedient, has the most stringent of duties to guard against the exploitation of that obedience to do them harm. That duty includes the duty of handing over those reasonably suspected of child sex abuse to the secular authorities for trial and, if convicted, for punishment. It is this duty that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, a.k.a. Benedict XVI, has for the past thirty years adamantly refused to accept.
Last month the Irish Times reported that two German lawyers, Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, had submitted charges of crimes against humanity naming Pope Benedict XVI to the International Criminal Court. The document accuses the pontiff of preventing members of the Catholic church from using contraceptives, and hence stopping the spread of HIV, as well as the systematic cover-up of the abuse of children.
I wonder if the lawyers read this book by Geoffrey Robertson, which given its subtitle ‘Vatican Accountabilty for Human Rights Abuse‘, sets out to explain the legal protections and privileges enjoyed by the Catholic Church and the Holy See. ‘Privilege’, is quite an appropriate word, given its etymology in old French: ‘private law’. As it happens, news of the book’s publication was greeted with vociferous defence of the head of the Church by sites such as Protect The Pope, which states that a commentator for the site had refuted many of Geoffrey Robertson’s misguided accusations and erroneous legal conclusions in his legal analysis, ‘A Worldwide Conspiracy? (sic).
Not only does Robertson’s account identify the extent of the horrific crimes against children in the care of Catholic priests across the world, it also seeks to define what is meant by canon law, as well as the Vatican’s status as a nation state and non-member of the U.N., which grants various protections. As a QC, Robertson concentrates on identifying what liability for the crimes committed by priests the Church is responsible for. He argues that the abuse of children is both a crime and a violation of tort law. Given the global occurence of these offences, it falls to the Church to defend itself in a court of international law for crimes against humanity. As Robertson points out, Vatican representatives at the U.N. have repeatedly used their position to lobby against the spread of equal rights for men and women, as well as efforts to combat the HIV virus in third world countries. That it enjoys such a privileged position – one denied to any other religion, charity, or human rights organisation – is due to a treaty signed with Mussolini for their mutual benefit in 1929 is just another piece of uncomfortable history for the Church to ignore. It is also, Robertson claims, a very tenuous basis for the Vatican’s statehood.
The contempt of the Catholic Church for accounts of child-sex abuses in the media, described variously as ‘an American problem’, or a conspiracy mounted by homosexuals, or Jewish newspapers, or even as Pope Benedict memorably phrased it ‘petty gossip’, shows just how much the institution itself is an enclave that sets itself apart from the rest of the world. Hence the importance placed on canon law and the secrecy with which the Vatican protects its findings on the rates of child molestation occurences. Pope Benedict even went so far as to congratulate Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyas for hiding an abuser from the police. The testimonies of bishops responsible for the conduct of priests in their diocese through inquiries in the States, or from the Murphy Report in Ireland, reveal a disastrous combination of gross ignorance in some instances and the willingness to ‘smuggle’, paedophile priests across state lines, or even internationally, in others.
It was actually through commentary on the Murphy Report featured on Irish satirical site Bock the Robber that I discovered that my own parish priest in Rathcoole, Fr. Noel Reynolds, had been identified as a paedophile long before being appointed to the village I grew up in. Proof of the efficacy of canon law.
Geoffrey Robertson has written a powerful indictment of the Church’s policy of obfuscation, outlining a series of legal arguments that define the case against the institution and the flimsy pretexts of its defence.
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BUHARI HAS LETTERS IMPLICATING JONATHAN IN CORRUPTION, ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT’S BIOGRAPHER
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari is in possession of some letters, written by former President Goodluck Jonathan, to request “off-budget funds.”
This was contained in Buhari’s authorised biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, written by Prof. John Paden and presented to the public on Monday.
An online dictionary defines “off-budget funds” as funds not provided for or included in the regular Federal Government budget; funded by sources other than the federal budget.
In the ongoing anti-corruption war of the present administration, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had arrested and quizzed many of Jonathan’s former ministers and aides for alleged diversion of funds.
Most of them, including the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), are being prosecuted for allegedly diverting funds meant for arms procurement and using the funds for the prosecution of the 2015 presidential election in favour of Jonathan who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
It is generally believed that the former government officials could not have spent the funds in question without Jonathan’s instructions.
The author captured the travails of the former office holders in Chapter 20 of the book, which is titled ‘Corruption and law in military procurement’.
Under the subheading, ‘The role of PDP leaders in the diversion of funds’, Paden said although the letters, written by the former President, were in Buhari’s possession, the President’s purpose of waging the corruption war was not to jail former top government officials but to retrieve the stolen funds.
He said the stability of the nation’s political system seemed to be at stake if the EFCC should go after Jonathan or any former President or military leader for that matter.
He, however, said such former Nigerian leaders could trade their knowledge for immunity and help the government identify patterns and sources of corruption.
Paden added, “The fact that Buhari was enlisting the help of international community in the probes lent weight to the seriousness of his effort – and also meant that alleged offenders had nowhere to hide.
“Would the trail lead to former President Jonathan himself? As of the early months of 2016, it appeared that the EFCC was not going after Jonathan. Nor was it going after former President Obasanjo.
“The question of the stability of the entire political system seemed at stake.
“In addition, a number of senior military officers, who had served as Heads of State – from Babangida to Abubakar – seemed off-limits.
“Indee d, rumours swirled that if the probes went after senior officers, they might push back because they had extensive networks in the active military services.
“At the same time, the knowledge such heavyweights possessed could well be traded for immunity and would help to illuminate the patterns and sources of corruption.
“Buhari had letters in his possession showing Jonathan’s requests for off-budget funds. But Buhari’s larger purpose was not to put former high-level officials in jail.
“Rather, it was to retrieve stolen funds and to change the political culture of the country.”
Meanwhile, the author also revealed that a total of 184 civil servants were disciplined for their different roles in the padding of the 2016 budget.
Of the 184, Paden said 22 top officials were dismissed from service.
He said the President viewed the padding as an attempt to scuttle his administration’s innovations, hence his decision to wield the big stick against the culprits.
The author wrote, “Buhari himself was frustrated by earlier padding of the budget by bureaucrats in some of the ministries.
“This was interpreted by the Buhari team as an attempt to scuttle the innovations proposed by the President by inflating their costs.
“When Buhari found out, he was reported to be angry and ordered a purge of the ministries involved from the Director-General down.
“Twenty-two top officials were dismissed, including the budget director. In all, 184 civil servants were disciplined.”
He added that even after the budget had been adjusted downward by the National Assembly, the country would still have to borrow $3.5bn, as a result of the drop in oil prices.
In February, Buhari had while addressing the Nigerian community in Saudi Arabia, vowed that all those involved in the padding of the 2016 national budget, which led to the discrepancies in the document, would face severe punishment.
He had said the alterations, which he described as embarrassing and disappointing, made the document, being debated in the National Assembly at that time, completely different from what was prepared by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.
Describing those responsible for the distortion of the budget proposals as entrenched interests, the President had said since he had been holding public offices, he had never heard about budget padding before the incident.
Buhari had added, “The culprits will not go unpunished. I have been a military governor, petroleum minister, military Head of State and headed the Petroleum Trust Fund.
“Never had I heard the words budget padding. Our Minister of Budget and National Planning did a great job with his team.
“The minister became almost half his size during the time, working night and day to get the budget ready, only for some people to pad it.
“What he gave us was not what was finally being debated. It is very embarrassing and disappointing. We will not allow those who did it to go unpunished.”
Reaffirming his government’s zero tolerance for corruption, Buhari said the war against corruption was a monumental task that he was determined to tackle successfully.
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Emphasizing Equality
How Do You Market Fitness?
By Sarah Binns
If you’re a tall person, you’ve probably never had to use a ladder to reach the top of a high cupboard or had to watch a concert around the head and shoulders of the person in front of you (lucky you). Likewise, a short person has never been asked, “How’s the weather up there?” The different physical characteristics of our bodies cause us to experience the world in different ways. In marketing, this concept is called embodied identity. Carly Drake, a PhD student in marketing at the University of Calgary, explains that our embodied identity is who we are as a result of our interactions with the world through our bodies. She researches gender, identity, and the body in consumer culture, which all converge in her dissertation on how female athletes engage with representations of the body in fitness advertising.
“We are in our bodies all the time,” she explains. “Our bodies are so closely linked to the self that exploring how we experience our bodies is a really important social question given the body’s importance in our culture. We say, ‘This is the ideal body that you should have,’ and ‘If you want to be a good athlete this is how you should feed and train your body.’ I think we definitely need to keep doing research that critically explores how our bodies and minds relate to the world.
"Running through the pain" has become a shocking trend in female fitness advertising. Here the consumer is told not only that they should push though the pain, but that this product will help them do it.
Carly looks at how fitness advertisements influence the construction of female athletes’ embodied identity overtime and affect who they are in relation to their bodies. As athletes, men and women face different challenges and pressures. The athletic field requires athletes of both genders be muscular and strong, yet female athletes also have to appeal to a social field that requires them to be slender, delicate, sweet, and passive. Female athletes are caught between these two cultures: the sport culture, which is inherently masculine, and the social culture which values a woman’s femininity. Carly’s research asks what role advertisements play in perpetuating these ideals for female athletes.
To explore this concept, Carly’s dissertation focuses on a collection of 60 to 70 ads aimed at female recreational runners. The ads advertise a variety of products including food, apparel, running products, and even running events themselves. Right now, she’s looking at these ads and trying to figure out what messages they are communicating about the female body. Once she has a good understanding of these ads she will start talking to female recreational runners about their experiences with their bodies and the media, as well as collecting their reactions to the ads in her collection. She will then use her own analysis and the information from the recreational runners to do a content analysis of the ads to determine how fitness advertising affects who women are in relation to their bodies.
This is a good example of how fitness ads allow women into the masculine sport culture, but still dictate that they look and behave like a woman.
The PhD was Carly’s first foray into the marketing field. Her Bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science was followed by a Master’s in international development studies looking at the experience of immigrant women entrepreneurs in Halifax’s food sector. She originally applied to continue this work with a PhD in entrepreneurship, but her now-supervisor explained why she should give marketing a chance. She came to see that through marketing she could still study things like gender and identity which she had been studying before. “Since I came into the discipline not having a marketing background, it’s really interesting to look back at the last three years and see how I’ve acclimatized to this new research environment. I’ve really gained a new perspective and found a new niche with people that I really like working with. My biggest accomplishment at this point is finding an academic home and feeling comfortable and happy in it,” Carly says.
Carly thinks of herself as a storyteller and a communicator, and believes she’d be happy in any context where she can do those things while contributing to the social good and positively affecting people’s lives. Despite this, Carly ultimately knows that being an academic would be the most fulfilling career choice for her. “Not every single moment of everyone’s academic life will be 100% utopia, but I do think it’s really special when I or somebody else can find genuine pleasure in the certain activities that they’re taking up. It’s so nice to look at data and think ‘Wow I’m so happy I get to do this. I’m so happy that I found this project and opportunity.’”
Carly Drake
Carly is a PhD student in in marketing at the University of Calgary studying gender, identity, and the body in consumer culture. Her dissertation explore how female athletes engage with representations of the body in fitness advertising.
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Chapter 92: Colposcopy of High-Grade Lesions
E.J. Mayeaux, Jr.
Mayeaux, Jr. EJ. Mayeaux, Jr. E.J. Mayeaux, Jr., E.J.Colposcopy of High-Grade Lesions. In: Usatine RP, Smith MA, Mayeaux, Jr. EJ, Chumley HS. Usatine R.P., & Smith M.A., & Mayeaux, Jr. E.J., & Chumley H.S.(Eds.),Eds. Richard P. Usatine, et al.eds. The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e. McGraw-Hill; Accessed January 16, 2021. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2547§ionid=206784744
Mayeaux, Jr. EJ. Mayeaux, Jr. E.J. Mayeaux, Jr., E.J. (2019). Colposcopy of high-grade lesions. Usatine RP, Smith MA, Mayeaux, Jr. EJ, Chumley HS. Usatine R.P., & Smith M.A., & Mayeaux, Jr. E.J., & Chumley H.S.(Eds.),Eds. Richard P. Usatine, et al. The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e. McGraw-Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2547§ionid=206784744
Mayeaux, Jr. EJ. Mayeaux, Jr. E.J. Mayeaux, Jr., E.J. "Colposcopy of High-Grade Lesions." The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e Usatine RP, Smith MA, Mayeaux, Jr. EJ, Chumley HS. Usatine R.P., & Smith M.A., & Mayeaux, Jr. E.J., & Chumley H.S.(Eds.),Eds. Richard P. Usatine, et al. McGraw-Hill, 2019, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2547§ionid=206784744.
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A 36-year-old woman presented for follow-up of a persistently abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) test. She is a smoker and has had multiple new sexual partners in the past decade. Although she has had several "abnormal Pap tests" in the past, she states she has never needed treatment. She was found to have a dense acetowhite (AW) lesion on colposcopy that was biopsied (Figure 92-1). The pathology returned high grade consistent with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 (CIN 3), and the patient was treated with loop electrosurgery. She had negative margins on the loop electrosurgical excision procedure specimen and remained recurrence-free at 3 years.
Dense acetowhite (white after application of vinegar) lesions with "rolled" edges in a patient with high-grade disease. Her colposcopically directed biopsies showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3. (Reproduced with permission from E.J. Mayeaux, Jr., MD.)
High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in adult women are considered true cancer precursors because if left untreated, they have a significant chance of developing into invasive cancer.
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 3 and CIN 2) are high-grade lesions.
Overall rates of Pap test abnormalities are usually estimated from local or regional studies. For example, in an observational cohort study of routine cervical tests in the northwestern United States, in women of all ages (n = 150,052), high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion was diagnosed at a rate of 0.8 per 1000 compared to negative routine tests that were diagnosed at a rate of 278.5 per 1000.1
In HPV vaccine age groups, there were significant reductions in the CIN incidence per 100,000 women screened for all grades of CIN. In female individuals 15 to 19 years old, the incidence dropped from 3468.3 to 1590.6 for CIN 1 per 100,000, from 896.4 to 414.9 for CIN 2, and from 240.2 to 0 for CIN 3 per 100,000.2
In high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, the abnormalities are immature parabasilar cell types. They have an increased nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, enlarged hyperchromatic nucleoli, few nucleoli, and a reticular or granular appearance.
On histology, abnormal maturation and nuclear atypia defines CIN. Koilocytosis (perinuclear cytoplasmic vacuolization) is indicative of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and may be found with high-grade CIN. High-grade CIN is diagnosed when immature basaloid cells with nuclear atypia occupy more than the lower one third of the epithelium. With increasing lesion severity there is also increased nuclear crowding, pleomorphism, normal and abnormal mitosis, and loss of polarity.3
Traditionally, high-grade CIN had been thought to arise as a small focus within a larger area of low-grade CIN that expands and eventually replaces much of the low-grade lesion.
It is now thought that high-grade CIN is a ...
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Achieve Life Sciences Announces Appointment of John Bencich to Chief Executive Officer & Dr. Cindy Jacobs to President
SEATTLE, Wash. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 30, 2020 – – Achieve Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACHV), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company committed to the global development and commercialization of cytisinicline for smoking cessation, today announced the promotion of John Bencich to Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Bencich has been serving as Achieve’s Chief Financial and Operating Officer since 2017. Mr. Bencich will join the Board of Directors in his role as Chief Executive Officer. Rick Stewart, Achieve’s current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will remain with Achieve as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Additionally, Dr. Cindy Jacobs will be promoted to the role of President. Dr. Jacobs has been serving as the Chief Medical Officer of Achieve since 2017 and will continue in this role leading the regulatory and clinical development efforts for cytisinicline. Dr. Anthony Clark will step down from the Board of Directors but will remain in his role as Chief Scientific Officer. Mr. Jerry Wan, currently Achieve’s Sr. Director of Accounting Operations, will assume the role of Principal Accounting Officer.
“John, Cindy, and Jerry have demonstrated exemplary leadership driving the clinical development, regulatory, and financial objectives of Achieve in its pursuit of cytisinicline as an aid to smoking cessation,” stated Rick Stewart, Executive Chairman of Achieve. “Given our focus on regulatory approval and commercialization in the U.S. plus international travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we feel this is the appropriate time to recognize their contributions and transition to our new management structure.”
The Company had approximately $26.7 million of cash available on a pro forma basis when including cash on hand at June 30, 2020 and proceeds from equity financings and warrant exercises in the third quarter. The company plans to initiate the Phase 3 ORCA-2 trial in the fourth quarter of 2020.
About Achieve and Cytisinicline
Tobacco use is currently the leading cause of preventable death and is responsible for more than eight million deaths annually worldwide[1]. It is estimated that 28.7% of cancer deaths in the U.S. are attributable to cigarette smoking[2]. Achieve’s focus is to address the global smoking health and nicotine addiction epidemic through the development and commercialization of cytisinicline.
Cytisinicline is a plant-based alkaloid with a high binding affinity to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. It is believed to aid in smoking cessation by interacting with nicotine receptors in the brain by reducing the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and by reducing the reward and satisfaction associated with smoking.
As an approved, branded product in Central and Eastern Europe for more than two decades, it is estimated that over 20 million people have used cytisinicline to help combat nicotine addiction.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, the timing and nature of cytisinicline clinical development activities, the potential market size for cytisinicline, the potential benefits of cytisinicline, the ability to discover and develop new uses for cytisinicline, including but not limited to as an e-cigarette cessation product, and the development and effectiveness of new treatments. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Achieve may not actually achieve its plans or product development goals in a timely manner, if at all, or otherwise carry out its intentions
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Integrating Materials Flow, Production Control and Quality Control: a Proposal and Case Study
Flavio Cesar Faria Fernandes UFSCAR
Moacir Godinho Filho UFSCAR
Maurice Bonney University of Nottingham Business School
This paper presents a proposal for integrating materials flow, production control and quality control. The proposal is based on three principles: that materials flow must be as simple as possible, that a production control system must be compatible with the production system and that the production pace must take account of demand, capacity and quality. The paper examines the dependent relationship between Production Control (PC) and Quality Control (QC) since this relationship provides opportunities for improving manufacturing performance. A case study performed at the world’s largest pencil factory suggests that the proposal contributes effectively to operations management at the shop
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Fernandes, F. C., Filho, M., & Bonney, M. (2010). Integrating Materials Flow, Production Control and Quality Control: a Proposal and Case Study. Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2(1), 81-104. Retrieved from https://bjopm.emnuvens.com.br/bjopm/article/view/BJV2N1_2005_P5
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More contagious COVID-19 variant identified in Washtenaw County woman, first confirmed case in Michigan – WXYZ
Home Health News Should You Worry About This Side Effect to Moderna's and Pfizer's COVID Vaccines? – Motley Fool
Should You Worry About This Side Effect to Moderna's and Pfizer's COVID Vaccines? – Motley Fool
Individuals react to vaccines in different ways. The newly authorized coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) are no exception. The late-stage clinical studies of both vaccines revealed that some participants developed the same medical condition. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on Dec. 16, 2020, Healthcare and Cannabis Bureau Chief Corinne Cardina and Fool.com writer Keith Speights discuss whether Americans should be worried about a similar potential side effect of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines.
Corinne Cardina: Turning now to a couple of different headlines that have come out, there seems to be some concern about an adverse effect called Bell’s palsy. Is this a side effect that could actually impact public opinion of this vaccine? What do we need to know about what this is and what it means?
Keith Speights: Yeah. I think Pfizer and everyone is hoping that it doesn’t adversely impact public opinion because basically, what Bell’s palsy is, Corinne, it’s a weakness or paralysis in the muscles on one side of a person’s face and it can be scary at first. Some people might think they’re having a stroke because it’s similar to one of the symptoms associated with a stroke where you have that paralysis on one side.
But it’s actually a fairly benign condition. It can be inconvenient. My wife actually had it several years ago, and it was aggravating but it wasn’t too problematic.
I tried to make things better, Corinne, although I think I was unsuccessful because I told her to look at the silver lining: It made it easier for her to show mixed emotions about things because she could smile with one-half of her face and frown with the other half. And she didn’t think that was a great silver lining. But it’s a bothersome, irritating type of condition but not something to worry about too much, and it usually resolves on its own over few weeks or months.
The reason why this has come up is that Bell’s palsy occurred in participants in both of these studies, with Pfizer’s and Moderna’s study. I think in the Pfizer study there were four people, all of whom received the vaccine, who developed Bell’s palsy. Then in Moderna’s late-stage study, four people also develop Bell’s palsy but three of those were in the vaccine group and one was in the placebo group.
Now, in both of these studies, there was no causal relationship established. There was no just firm, hard reason to think that the vaccines in either study actually caused Bell’s palsy. But they can’t rule that out, just not enough to completely rule it out.
If you had taken the exact same amount of people in these studies just off the street in a major city in the US, there would have actually been more people with Bell’s palsy than we saw in these two studies. So that’s, I think, a little comforting, that the rates that it occurred were actually a little less than what we’ve seen in the general population.
Personally, I think this is something that they are going to watch. I think you’ll see the committee talk about it tomorrow. But I don’t think it’s anything that’s going to prevent Moderna’s vaccine from receiving emergency use authorization, and at this point, I don’t think it’s anything for Americans to worry about. The numbers just aren’t there to make this a serious concern.
Corinne Cardina: Good. That is great insight. Thinking more about side effects, is there a risk of this information being spread as rare, adverse events are reported as the public starts getting vaccinated? I think the Bell’s palsy headlines have been an example of this. Should companies be using their PR power to assure Americans that this is safe?
Keith Speights: Absolutely. I think it’s a human tendency to focus on the negative even when the negative is overwhelmed by the positive. I think you’re going to see that possibly on social media. I think some people are resistant to vaccines in general, and I think they’re going to seize on any negative they can and possibly blow those negatives out of proportion.
So I think it’s very important that companies, the government, state governments, local governments really try to get the word out to educate people on what are the things to truly be concerned about, what are the things that really aren’t serious concern.
There are some things that can happen. There are very common adverse effects with these vaccines. You could develop fever, you could have fatigue, you could have pain or tenderness at the injection site. These are common types of things that people really should be prepared to expect and not be worried if you develop a fever after receiving the vaccine, it’s common.
But it’s not just common with the COVID vaccines, it’s common with nearly any type of vaccine. So I think the public needs to be educated on these things.
You talked with Dr. Leo Nissola recently and that was one of his things. I think one of his biggest worries was that misinformation could be spread. I think it’s really important that the true story get out there because we really want vaccination rates to be as high as possible to stop this thing, to end this pandemic.
Corinne Cardina: Absolutely. We will keep busting those myths as they come up here.
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All in the Detail: Susie Jenkins
'Aurora' (detail of reflected water on a boat hull) colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
Susie Jenkins is an Arundel-based photographer who views the world through a lens from a different perspective. Seeking out tiny details to capture on film, she transforms these into abstracted works of art. Nicholas Toovey tells us more
'Beachscape III' colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
'Starry Night' colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
'Red Sunset' colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
'Beach' colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
'Blue Horizon' colour photograph © Susie Jenkins
At the age of eight, Susie was given a second-hand box Brownie and after a trip to Bruges returned with numerous pictures of water, a subject that has never failed to inspire her. Her desire to go to art school was stymied by her parents, who felt a different path would be more beneficial. This spurred Susie on to attend evening classes in photography, increasing her desire to create beautiful photographs. She was given a Nikon F2 from a friend after a holiday in the South of France when he saw how often she was using her point and click and how much she enjoyed it. Whilst working at Sussex University she fondly remembers the marvellous dean who allowed her to use the quieter summer weeks to take photographs and develop them using the university’s dark rooms. She describes these as important moments in her journey to becoming a photographer.
‘Aurora’ is a typical example of Susie’s work. It asks the viewer to decide what they see emerging from the photograph. Different interpretations are always suggested, for some it is a car driving down a hill-side at night, for others the beam from a lighthouse beneath the northern lights. Most people however, are surprised when they are informed that it is in reality a detail of the bottom of a boat magnified to abstraction. Tiny close-ups become vast open landscapes, planets, lunascapes or nonrepresentational vistas. Boats have been the mainstay of Susie’s artistic output for the last 12 years, but are often interspersed with reflections in water, clouds, flowers and watery landscapes.
With an increasing number of people owning digital SLR cameras, many professional photographers hear ‘I could do that’ from onlookers, whilst many amateur photographers can capture a beautiful image, this is often down to luck rather than judgment, and increasingly with the help of computer image enhancement. As a photographer, Susie started in a pre-digital age with wet film. This background dictates the way she works, adopting a ‘get it right first time’ attitude. The only difference she has found since purchasing a digital camera three years ago is that her studio is now her kitchen table. Susie avoids the lures of computer editing, as she believes that you cannot take a photograph without composing it in the mind first, looking through the lens you have to see the picture, otherwise it becomes a snapshot. Susie says patience is also important; on a trip to Guatemala she recalls standing in front of a beautiful doorway for half an hour waiting for clouds to disperse and the light to catch the door in the right way before finally taking the photograph.
Susie is co-founder of the Art for Life project with her daughter-in-law Beatriz Huezo. The project intends to help small communities in El Salvador after the country was stricken by two devastating earthquakes in 2001. El Salvador has been haunted by natural disasters, war and by the injustice of social inequality. Art for Life’s first success was to build twenty-five new homes in one of the worst hit areas, without the project a small village would have received no aid. Art for Life has continued with securing the land for and the building of a new school. The mission is very much ongoing with attention currently investigating other needs in the country.
Susie Jenkins
Susie has always lived in Sussex. Despite ‘escaping’ the county on a number of occasions, she always returns to the place which she describes as the ‘hidden secret of the world’. Does Sussex inspire her? Of course, the streams, reflections and clouds all influence her work. In fact, Susie admits she started taking photographs because of her stimulating surroundings, working at the Arun Yacht Club, Littlehampton, inspired her to see boats in a totally different light. Having lived in Arundel for the last twenty-six years, Susie has always been involved with the Arundel Gallery Trail, both as an exhibitor and organiser. This year is no exception as Susie will be showing her works at 1 Tower House, London Road, with fellow artist Jan Irvine. The trail runs from the 20th to 29th August and showcases the work of over 150 artists at numerous venues across Arundel. All Susie’s work is produced in a maximum limited edition of 25, although many images are limited to just 10 copies.
With her inimitable vision Susie creates engaging and beautiful worlds from reflections and minutiae, reinforcing photography as a fine art. For more information visit www.susiejenkins.co.uk
Nicholas’ article was originally published in Sussex Life magazine in August 2011.
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As Allen’s character would say in one of Allen’s movies: let’s start from the beginning. And the beginning is that Allen, Woody, was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as Allan Stewart Konigsberg. This sentence resumes the three elements that were to shape his life and career as one of the greatest filmmakers in the 20th (and 21st) Century. New York, the city of his dreams, his nightmares, his loves, his obsessions; the family, a predominant topic at some stage in his cinema; and being Jewish, an unquestionable cultural fact which has conditioned his whole way of thinking, his humour and his film writing.
Allan, already known as Woody by his friends, was 17 when he started writing jokes on an old typewriter. He could never have imagined that shortly afterwards the jokes were going to become his way of life. But that’s enough of prehistory, let’s look at the movies, first of all making a stop in the theatre where his monologues had audiences splitting their sides with laughter, giving us an insight to what was going to be his future: “I think I’ll take a look at some of the most important events of my private life and put them in perspective”. That’s what he’s been doing since he made his first screen appearance in 1965. Four years later he decided to make a change, veering towards noir comedy with Take the Money and Run. In the early 70s, Allen spent his time learning to direct and make folk laugh with his mad stories (Bananas...). His meeting with Diane Keaton directed him towards another kind of more mature cinema, with a more subtle sense of humour. Somewhere between Annie Hall and Manhattan, Allen slotted himself first person into his stories, hence making some of the most memorable titles on his filmography. The appearance in his life of Mia Farrow led him to make a kind of cinema in which the urban, Jewish, neurotic intellectual collided with a more conservative, middle-class world represented by the many families filling their ten years of coexistence, and during which the odd more heterodox movie nevertheless raised its head, like Zelig, Another Woman and Shadows and Fog.
In the last twelve years Allen has redirected his cinema, and with it his character, towards far more varied screenplays, almost always set in New York: Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets Over Broadway or Small Time Crooks, but widening the perspective of which he talked in his monologue towards other cities (Paris or Venice), other realities and other characters. Now, after almost 40 years of career in addition to over thirty movies, having become a reference for various generations of moviegoers, Allen’s character could say in one of Allen’s movies on receiving the well-deserved San Sebastian Festival’s Donostia Award, that: “Writing and directing movies isn’t a job, but a way of enjoying myself”. Him making them, the audience watching them.
Donostia Award Ceremony Woody Allen
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Ten Tidbits on Tasmania
Ten Tidbits on Tasmania – Tasmanian Wine, that is!
#1 – The island of Tasmania is the southernmost state of Australia and lies about 150 miles south of the coast of Victoria, across the Bass Strait. Tasmania lies directly in the path of the fierce trade winds known as the “Roaring Forties” and as such, its west coast has a cold, wet climate.
#2 – Tasmania is Australia’s most mountainous state. The highest point is Mount Ossa in the northwest. Mount Ossa reaches peaks of 5,350 feet (1,620 meters) above sea level. The temperature climate necessary for viticulture in Tasmania is made possible by the multiple mountain ranges that criss-cross the center of the island. Most Tasmanian vineyards are located on lower slopes and valleys of these mountains, or in the rain shadow to the east.
#3 – As is to be expected considering its location, Tasmania has a maritime climate. Mild spring and summer temperatures, warm autumn days, and cool nights allow for the region’s grapes to enjoy a long, slow ripening with minimal loses of natural acidity.
#4 – Cool climate grapes dominate the viticultural landscape and include 44% Pinot Noir, 23% Chardonnay, 12% Sauvignon Blanc, 11% Pinot Gris and 5% Riesling. Other varieties include Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Gewürztraminer. Tasmania’s cool climate makes it a natural for sparkling wines, and many of the sparkling wines produced in Australia are sourced with grapes grown in Tasmania.
#5 – Tasmania’s output is tiny. At last count, the state had just over 3,700 acres (1,500 hectares) of vineyards, and accounted for approximately 0.5% of Australia’s output. They even say that “more wine is spilled on the main land than is produced in Tasmania.” However – Tasmania’s wine production rose by more than 300% over the last decade, and quality is regarded as quite high.
#6 – According to winetasmania.com, 100% of bottled Tasmanian wine retails for $15.00 or more – as compared to only 7% of Australian wines overall.
#7 – Tasmania’s first vineyard, planted in 1788, was a failure. The vines were planted by William Blight at Adventure Bay (on Bruny Island), but when he returned four years later they were gone. Vines were planted again in the early 1800s, and wine was made and sold commercially in Tasmania from 1800 through the 1860s. However, vine disease and the gold rush in Victoria (1851-1870) caused wine production in Tasmania to collapse by the 1870s.
#8 – In the 1830s, wines from Tasmania were brought to Victoria by William Henty. Henty sailed from Launceston in Tasmania to Portland in Victoria on the Schooner Thistle. Among his belongings were “one cask of grape cuttings and one box of plants.” These cuttings became the first vines planted in Victoria. At about the same time, vines from Tasmania were also among the first grapes planted in South Australia; John Hack (in 1837), and John Reynell (in 1837) both planted Tasmanian vines in South Australia. Some say, based on these facts, that vines from Tasmania founded the wine industries of both Victoria and South Australia.
Map via winetasmania.com.au
#9 – The beginnings of the modern era of Tasmanian wines can be traced back to the 1950s, when two Europeans, Jean Miguet and Claudio Alcorso arrived in Tasmania and, without knowing each other or what the other was doing, began planting vines and making wine.
#10 – While Tasmania does not have any officially designated wine regions or sub-regions within it, the following “unofficial” areas are generally used to describe those areas rich with vines:
In Northern Tasmania: The Northwest Coast, Tamar Valley, and Northeast/Pipers River
In Southern Tasmania: Coal River Valley, Derwent Valley, and Huon/Channel Valley
Straddling the Two: The East Coast
The Bubbly Professor is “Miss Jane” Nickles of Austin, Texas: missjane@prodigy.net
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3 Responses to Ten Tidbits on Tasmania
armchairsommelier says:
Very interesting! If Tasmania accounts for only 0.5% of total Australian production, is it safe to assume Tasmanian exports are pretty scarce? Salud!
bubblyprof says:
Very, very scarce!
We just got a Tasmanian wine in my store shortly after reading this and now I must try it out.
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Book Review , Horror
In an English seaside resort, seasonal workers have been disappearing for years. Lately they have been turning up dead and horribly mutilated.
Molly Raynor, a young hotel receptionist, is looking for answers after one of her co-workers goes missing.
Why are the disappearances being kept out of the papers? Why are the police lying to her? And who is the mysterious guest on the third floor?
Working during the Christmas holiday period as a receptionist at the Belvoir and Lodge hotels isn’t exactly a thrill for young student Molly Raynor but it’s an easy enough job, that is until she finds herself involved in things she shouldn’t have. It all started with the arrival of the mysterious Mr Bolland; a severely disfigured, wheelchair-bound individual who requiring a round-the-clock nurse to tend to his every need. When a contractor is found gruesomely murdered and an ex-employee goes missing, Molly begins to wonder if there’s some connection between them all but the truth may be closer than she thinks…
I have a soft spot for horror novels that take place close to home so when I got stuck into the pages of Ian Sheltain’s horror thriller novel, YOUR HEART OUT, I was pleased to find it takes place in an unidentified Northern seaside resort, which I fully imagine is Blackpool or somewhere on the Fylde coast. Being somewhere familiar always helps the story to unsettle me but that needn’t have been the case as this novel does that enough in itself as the opening chapter alarmingly sets the scene for what’s to come with its introduction to Mr Bolland and the spectres that haunt him. Men, women and children, skinless with a gaping hole in their chests; a vision so frightening it would drive a man to suicide, if only death was an option. Gaping chest wounds become a familiar sight in YOUR HEART OUT. Sheltain’s descriptions on how they occur will send a shiver down your spine but the feeling of dread isn’t over when the police seemingly cover up the existence of these injuries in the murders they investigate. Fortunately, the astute young woman of the story, Molly Raynor, has noticed this strange cover-up of evidence and is determined to get to the truth.
Most stories have a focus and even though the view point switches from time to time, it’s the character of Molly who we spend most of our time with. Whilst we don’t get to find out a great deal about her personal life outside of her relationship with her father and her educational studies, we’re provided with a confident overview of the kind of person she is from her work at the Lodge and Belvoir hotels. Molly seems a likeable girl and, like most people her age, likes to spend time on social media and browsing websites whilst sat bored stiff at her job as a receptionist at the two hotels ran by Toby Regis, a local businessman who likes to rule with an iron fist. When Regis is in attendance at the hotel, all the staff are on edge, afraid at his outbursts or the threat of being sacked, but with him out of the way, the job is a doddle and gives her enough money to help pay the rent on the flat she shares with her unemployed father. Molly seems a bright girl, studying history at university whilst working at the hotels during her term break. A series of peculiar and grisly events sets Molly on a path to the truth but her determination doesn’t go unnoticed as she begins to get unwanted attention the closer she gets to finding the answers. Her passion and fire for doing what she believes is right is captivating and draws the reader into her journey from an unremarkable receptionist to someone who can make a difference in a place that doesn’t seem to care. We’re with her every step of the way and feel the pressures she faces as she tries to do the right thing.
Sheltain’s use of the English language throughout the 251 pages is very contemporary and easy to consume, and even gave me a jolly good laugh at one point thanks to his quick-witted and relatable characters. Just the right amount of background information fleshes out these characters into three dimensional personas that you either grow to like, dislike or at least be curious by. Of course, it’s Molly who we feel right at home with and the rollercoaster set of events she encounters will have you turning the next page in eagerness to see where the story will turn to next.
Horror fans will be interested to notes that there’s a grisly element to YOUR HEART OUT, but it’s not all about the gore. The main horror threads in this book are the human and supernatural kind, chilling enough in equal measures to keep you engaged in its tightly-weaved story. Although the supernatural aspect may have fantastical elements to it, as most do, the human kind feels rather near the bone and brings the realism to the story that grounds the supernatural element with a tad more legitimacy. It’s proper dark stuff once you get stuck into it and I found myself eager to find out what happens next. Introductions of new characters to the story never fail to add extra depth and layers to the point where you’ll find yourself as paranoid as Molly and other characters are the closer to death they find themselves.
Author Ian Sheltain seems to have a great feel for pace for the most part, especially in the first and middle sections of the book, however the ending appears somewhat rushed and sudden. I enjoyed the outcome Sheltain chose for the story as it effectively wraps up the tale, even if it leaves many questions unanswered, but I was left wanting more. I felt, rightly or wrongly, that there was more to give; as sudden as the villain of the piece arrives, so did this ending, leaving no prisoners. It’s dark, it’s bleak and unapologetic with it, which is admirable and a sweet change from the norm, but I felt like the conclusion to the story should’ve been drawn out just a little bit longer, even if the conclusion stayed exactly the same. Maybe I feel this way because I was enjoying the world and characters that Sheltain has created too much, but I suppose that is the art of storytelling. He certainly has a knack for making the characters feel genuine, right down to their dialogue which appears true and in line with the nature and persona of the characters.
A chilling, supernatural horror tale with lashings of Northern grit, YOUR HEART OUT isn’t afraid to get under your skin… it might even remove it.
~ 8/10 – Bat, horrorcultfilms.co.uk
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Ian Sheltain lives in the north of England with his wife and dog.
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Hosting: From Advocacy to Adoption, Part 2
Hosting an older child from a foreign country, who has been living in an institution, can seem intimidating and full of unknowns. Read Part 1 of Niki H’s story here, about they came to decide to host a child in order to advocate and find their adoptive family, then come back for Part 2 below, and learn how in searching for the adoptive family for a child, they found the missing piece of their own family- twice!
I admit, committing to adopt AiJun was probably the scariest thing I have ever done, but by faith, I agreed. On the way to the St Louis airport at the end of the hosting stay, we saw one of the most beautiful, full, vibrant rainbows we had ever seen. I felt in my heart that it was God’s promise to me that everything would work out. I was no longer anxious about adopting AiJun, and I felt a peace about our decision.
Niki and family in China finalizing AiJun’s adoption
The next year was full of the necessary paperwork and preparing to go get AiJun. AiJun had been bullied in Kindergarten, and had been permitted to drop out of school for three years after the bullying took place. After the hosting visit, he went back to China and told his caretakers that he wanted to go to school again. We were thrilled to hear that he had a good experience at school during the year we were going through the adoption process. What’s more, our church immediately began raising money for our adoption. We received $6000 from our church, $2500 from a matching grant through Lifesong, $4500 in donations from friends and family, and $5000 from a ShowHope grant. We also received an adoption tax credit. After all my worrying about the money given to adopt AiJun instead of helping our son Peter with college, I felt that we had given Satan a black eye!
We have now had AiJun two full years. He is the same kid now that he was three years ago when we hosted: fun, caring, loving, and always ready for an adventure. He has blessed our family in more ways than I can count, and I feel beyond blessed to be his mom. Adopting an older child turned out to be the perfect fit for our family, as he is only six months older than our last child, Aimee. They are even in the same class at school. It is almost like having twins! As a matter of fact, I find it ironic that both their names begin with “Ai” and both their names are five letters long. The four cousins that came over are now all grown up, but we still see them often. Our first calling was to help out our niece and nephews, but our second calling was to adopt AiJun, and we are so glad that we answered God’s calling.
Our kids are 20, 18, 15, 12, and 11. Peter, our oldest, is attending our local community college this semester for cyber security certification and he also attended a training for four weeks in February in WI to become a sergeant in the National Guard. Emma, who just graduated high school, works at a local nursery and is making plans to take a gap year to volunteer at an orphanage in Haiti this winter. Ashley will be a sophomore in high school, and AiJun and Aimee will be in sixth grade. Our perspective on adoption has definitely changed drastically. Now we see it as God sees it. Adopting AiJun took something painful, hard, and sad and turned into something beautiful, happy, and healing. That doesn’t mean there won’t be days of heartache and sadness for AiJun, but I have learned that adoptions are stories of redemption. There is not a day that goes by that we don’t marvel at what a blessing AiJun has been to our family, and even though we knew he needed us, we now realize that we needed him more.
Meeting Sara, Melany and Bryan at the airport
But our story doesn’t stop there. This past spring, I felt the urge to do more for orphans. I decided to let the social worker who wrote our home study know that if the hosting program needed a family to host, we would be willing to host again. By late May, we were asked to host a sibling group of three: Sara, age 13, Melany, age 11, and Bryan, age 9, from Colombia. When my husband heard we were hosting again, he said, “You know we’ll end up adopting them.” I told him we were just advocating and being helpful and that we couldn’t possibly adopt three more children! But, just like three years before, within days of hosting the three children, the thought of adopting them began to enter our minds.
However, the logistics of providing a home for three more people was daunting. Our house only has three bedrooms, so our sleeping arrangements would be tight to say the least. But, as usual, God was at work to make sure everything was taken care of. Our pastor, who has always wanted a pond and who is also a skilled carpenter, offered to finish our basement in exchange for the pond he always dreamed of having.
Sara is sweet, smart, and very mature for her age as she has had most of the responsibility of her two siblings. Melany is adventurous and fun-loving, and Bryan is a typical boy who loved to fish in our pond. They aren’t perfect, and we won’t be perfect parents, but God’s handiwork is evident, and we rest in Him and His truths. It has been fun to watch AiJun’s face when we ask him if we should adopt, as he is on the other side of the situation now. He just beams and says “Yes! We should adopt them. They don’t have a family!” We are looking forward to spring of 2020 when we will travel to Colombia to get our three new children. We will be parents to eight children, but God will be with us every step of the way, because God is good, and He loves the orphan. Thank you for reading our story.
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Many families are interested in hosting but are scared of the unknowns- what will the child be like? Will the language barrier be too challenging? How on earth will we say goodbye at the end? Read one family’s experience with hosting and how it changed all their lives for the better…
As a teenager dreaming of my future family, I wanted children and I wanted a big family. I also remember thinking how neat it would be to adopt a child someday. But for many of us, myself included, life doesn’t play out exactly as planned. As the years began to pass (eight years to be exact), God blessed us with three children, Peter, Emma, and Ashley, and a thriving business.
In the spring of 2006, we received the devastating news that our sister-in-law had died unexpectedly at age 37, leaving four children ages 11, 9, 7, and 2, whom she had been homeschooling. At the time, our children were 6, 5, and 2 and I had chosen to homeschool as well. Even though our hearts were broken, God had a plan.
I knew when we had found our house that it wasn’t a coincidence that God provided us a home within walking distance of where they lived. So I followed God’s lead and reached out to them by inviting them over to homeschool with us twice a week that fall of 2007. On September 13, 2007 our fourth and final child, Aimee, was born. I was happy to help out my niece and nephews, but as the years passed and my children grew, the prospect of adopting seemed less and less of a possibility. It had always been a dream to adopt a younger child, not a child half grown, and my children were no longer babies or even toddlers. Adopting an older child entailed a set of circumstances that I just wasn’t comfortable with.
However, time has a way of changing things, and it wasn’t too many years before some of my kids were high school age and we decided their current needs would be best met in public school. By this time I had dismissed the prospect of adoption entirely. However, my second child, Emma, had not. By the age of five she had begun to express interest in our family adopting and at a young age had a huge heart for orphans. In the summer of 2015, our church began promoting a hosting program. Emma was 14 at the time. She enthusiastically showed me pictures of the host kids and begged for our family to host an orphan. As we would arrive to church on Sunday mornings that spring and early summer, people would comment and giggle about Emma’s enthusiasm that they had seen on Facebook and ask if we were hosting. I would laugh it off and reply no. At some point during those crazy years of building a business I had given up the dream of adopting a child. But God hadn’t given up.
One morning I received a text message from a close friend named Kea who had adopted a boy named Brody from China two years earlier. She said that she knew we had been somewhat interested in hosting the year before (little did she know that I actually hadn’t had any interest in hosting) and was wondering if we would “co-host” with them this summer? After further discussion, talking it over with John, and praying, we agreed to co-host one child, with her son Brody as our helper and translator. The child would be at her house a week, then our house a week, then vice versa until the host period was over. Emma was beyond excited, and promised she would help out with whatever we needed.
Then I got a phone call from Kea. The hosting coordinator did not like our idea of “sharing” a child. She told us respectfully that these children are orphans, who have never experienced family life before. They were coming all the way from China, and even if they were never in their life to receive the gift of a family, at least they got to experience one for four weeks while in the US. She said that she understood our desire to help each other by babysitting for appointments, etc. but that we each needed to host our own child. Reluctantly, we knew in our hearts that she was right, and agreed to host a child on our own.
On the way to the airport, Kea began to describe what our Chinese child would most likely be like from her experience with her own adopted son. I was surprised to hear that our host child would have only experienced inner city life. Kea informed me that he most likely won’t want to play outside. He probably won’t like our big dogs. He will be afraid of bugs. Since we live in the country and spend a lot of time outside, I braced myself for the longest four weeks of my life.
Upon arriving at the airport in Springfield, we met our host child, AiJun. He was small for his age, nine years old, and very, very tired. He did not smile at us or try to speak. Brody tried speaking to him, but could not understand the few words AiJun said. There were many Chinese translators there, helping families speak to their host children. Several came up and tried to speak to AiJun, but he wouldn’t respond. Then one of them began to play with AiJun, to get him to say something. Soon he giggled and spoke. “He speaks Cantonese,” she told us. My hopes and dreams of Brody translating for us for the next four weeks diminished as Brody only knew Mandarin.
The next morning, AiJun quietly walked down the stairs. He saw our youngest child, Aimee, who was then eight. She began to play cars with him. I was relieved to see him smile at her and enjoy the interaction. I began to make breakfast and I set out a can of sweet milk, a Chinese children’s drink, that we had bought at an Asian grocery store in Springfield the evening before. AiJun’s face lit up when he saw it. After eating a hearty breakfast, he and Aimee played more. I was hesitant to let them play outside, assuming he would be scared of the dogs, but he wasn’t. As a matter of fact, AiJun wasn’t scared of anything we assumed he would be scared of, and we were humbled as we realized how wrong we were to label AiJun as the problem child we assumed he would be. AiJun soon proved to us that he was just like any normal kid, and it wasn’t long before he was having the time of his life going on boat rides, catching fireflies, jumping off the dock into our pond, playing with the dogs, hiking, and simply being a kid and enjoying the summertime.
We were also literally amazed to discover that AiJun was super easy going and had a great sense of humor. The only thing we couldn’t get him to do was speak into our phone to try to communicate, but he made up for that with the hilarious things he would communicate with just body language. After just two weeks of hosting AiJun, John mentioned the prospect of adopting him. And I had to admit the thought had crossed my mind as well. He just seemed to fit so perfectly into our family and he was just such an awesome kid. But I was also reluctant and scared wondering how would I teach him English? Where would he go to school? How would we pay for the adoption? Is the paperwork really as bad as everyone says it is? But I had been wrong already in so many ways, that I wondered: could God possibly be was at work in this situation? Maybe we were the family that was to adopt him all along?
-Story from MAA family Niki H
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NFL 2012-13 AFC Preview and Predictions – Inside The Wheelhouse
By Jeff Peck
It’s that time of the year again where I flip the script from talking wrestling and starting talking about the greatest American sport known as Football. This will be the first in a 3-part series leading us up to the first week of Football action on Wednesday September 5th at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. We kick things off with the AFC Conference Preview & Predictions blog followed up with the NFC next week and who I think will be crowned Super Bowl Champion in the following week.
Let’s take a look at the AFC by starting things off with the AFC East Division, the home of the reigning AFC Champion New England Patriots.
AFC East:
The AFC East is one of the most competitive divisions in all of Football. To me, being a Baseball fan, I would compare it to the AL East in Major League Baseball. All four of these teams are pretty strong and give division matchups the type of “big game” feel they should have. If you are able to fight your way out of this division as the Champion sets up any team for a strong playoff push come January.
New England Patriots (11-5):
This should come to no surprise that I would have the New England Patriots as the AFC East Division Champions. They are the reigning AFC Champions and enter the 2012-2013 season with a heartbreaking Super Bowl loss that will leave them wanting to fight back to the “big game” in February and win another Championship. New England’s heart and fight will be tested by the leadership of Tom Brady should help them once again be successful in the 2012-2013 season.
New York Jets (10-6):
This is a make-or-break season for the New York Jets after a disappointing 2011-2012 campaign. Rex Ryan is the biggest name on the NFL coaching hot seat this season and needs his team to rally behind Mark Sanchez to get them back to the playoff promise land. I honestly don’t believe Tim Tebow starts this season at quarterback (unless Sanchez goes down with injury at any point) but will prove to be a very big red-zone threat for a newly developed offense that could prove to potentially be revolutionary in the NFL.
Buffalo Bills (7-9):
I really enjoyed the Buffalo Bills story in the first part of last season. They were a fun team to watch after starting 5-0 and got an exciting win over the Patriots at home. People even believed that this was the beginning of the Bills return to the playoffs but it just wasn’t meant to be yet. I still think Buffalo is on the cusp of something good right now but this isn’t there season, especially in the tough AFC East. This is a team that can continue building and be poised for a potential playoff return in the 2013-2014 season.
Miami Dolphins (4-12):
This is a franchise that still is lacking an identity. They don’t know who their starting quarterback is, they don’t know who their starting running back is and they are still in that “rebuilding mode” as they play for the future. There is nothing wrong in that logic but it’s not a team that we should be looking at as making a comeback this year. Miami could be on the right pace but it’s going to take some more rough roads before they figure out what direction the Fins’ want to move towards.
AFC North:
Another AFC division that is pretty strong and last season gave us three of the six AFC playoff teams. Not bad for an entire division as it shows how strong they truly are. I don’t see that situation repeating this year and actually see the division start to lay-out back to “normal” where they may have two teams (at best) make the playoffs.
Baltimore Ravens (13-3):
I have been harping on this team being successful for the last couple of seasons and they finally looked like an “AFC Elite” team last season despite the heartbreaking loss in the AFC Championship Game. If you remember correctly, this was a team that was given very little chance to beat New England at home in the AFC Championship Game and nearly pulled it off. If that type of loss isn’t enough motivation for this team to come back with a fire and passion this year then I don’t know what else is.
Cincinnati Bengals (10-6):
Most people are in fear that this team will struggle due to the “sophomore slump” that most rookies go through (and they have two big ones in Andy Dalton & AJ Green) but I believe is a team that will put that folklore to rest. Cincy has something real good going right now with the Dalton/Green combination and could be a force to be reckoned with if they continue to grow at the pace they are destined to be. I like the Bengals chances this season as they continue to build off this youth movement that is currently in place.
Pittsburgh Steelers (8-8):
The Steelers are getting older by the day, literally and their franchise is being affected by it. For year their defense was the foundation of their success and they are looking like the most affected by “age.” Don’t believe me? Re-watch the defense getting burned in that playoff game in Denver. I believe this team continues to slip until they start instilling some youth in their system, like the New England Patriots have done very well.
Cleveland Browns (3-13):
What is there to say about this franchise? They play in Cleveland, they continue to struggle and there is no light at the end of this deep & dark tunnel currently. Things don’t look good in Cleveland now (other then the potential Trent Richardson could display) and they don’t look good in the future. They may have a shocking win here or there but don’t consider them a team to fear on the schedule.
AFC South:
This is one of the weakest divisions in the entire NFL. If you win this division not only do you get granted a playoff spot but you may also be granted a first round bye due to how week it is. Six division matchups could give one team a free pass into the divisional round and an easier route to the Super Bowl 47 this February.
Houston Texans (13-3):
If injuries didn’t plague them throughout the season I believe this Texans team was a “shoe in” for the AFC Championship Game last season. They played in the weakest division in the NFL and were a pretty dominating team because of such. They portrayed the moniker “defense wins championships” and clearly could’ve been an NFL elite team at the end of the season had they not lost Matt Schaub or Andre Johnson. This is a team that very well could be Super Bowl 47 bound this season.
Tennessee Titans (7-9):
I honestly believe that the only way Tennessee becomes successful again is if they: 1.) Let Jake Locker become the starting quarterback and 2.) Have the Chris Johnson “of old” on the field. This is a frustrating team to watch because they very well could be one or two moves away from making the playoffs again. It’s a been a disappointing franchise for quite sometime now due to player moves they gone through and the very talented Kenny Britt not being able to stay out of trouble continues to hurt this squad. If they got it together they could be playing in January but not this season.
Indianapolis Colts (4-12):
Some may have said that the “post-Peyton Manning era” began last season despite him actually being on the roster but it officially begins this season as Andrew Luck will line-up on under center for the Colts this season and beyond. I like the moves the Colts made for the future during the off-season and in the draft so they are thinking ahead rather then right now. They will get there wins and Luck will show signs of being a franchise quarterback but they will still have more bumps in the road then success stories. Look for Indy to make their return to January Football in about two more seasons.
Jacksonville Jaguars (2-14):
Jacksonville only mirrors the Browns when it comes to franchises that have nothing going for them in the right direction. People have been calling for the decline of MJD (me included) the last couple of seasons but he has shown that he can still be dominant. Well I’m calling for the decline yet again and won’t be surprised if he has another typical MJD season either. Blaine Gabbart isn’t the guy for the Jaguars and never really performed very well in his rookie season. This is a franchise that is begging for both a move to Los Angeles and the #1 overall draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.
AFC West:
The AFC West could be the surprise division for this season as the most exciting division in all of football. They clearly have four teams that very well could be representing their division in January Football and that should make for exciting football every Sunday when it comes to the AFC West. Out of all the divisions in the AFC this one was the hardest when coming up with who would win the division this year.
Denver Broncos (11-5)
This was one of the hardest calls to make when it came to pick any AFC division winner but I cannot bet against Peyton Manning. I don’t care about the neck surgeries/procedures he has gone through or being away from the NFL for an entire year. You cannot bet against the former 4-time NFL MVP unless he has given you a reason to do so and he hasn’t on the playing field. Denver is going to be a strong team this season with Peyton behind center and with that very good lockdown defense that is in place at Mile High Stadium.
San Diego Chargers (10-6)
San Diego is poised for a comeback season from last year’s struggling season. They never looked to be in-sync at all as Phillip Rivers played with no heart and it appeared to be a foregone conclusion that Norv Turner would be fired. That didn’t happen this past season but it could be if they have a duplicate season from last year. I don’t see that coming and actually am considering Phillip Rivers as a sleeper pick for the NFL MVP award this season.
Kansas City Chiefs (8-8)
The Chiefs had an encouraging season after Romeo Crennel took over from Todd Haley and looked to actually be inspired by their new interim coach (at the time). Kansas City will be a tough team this season, especially with the combo of Peyton Hillis and a hopefully healthy Jamaal Charles in the backfield. They will be good but not playoff bound just yet, I still think Matt Cassell as their starting quarterback holds them back from breaking through just yet.
Oakland Raiders (7-9)
Somehow the Raiders have had decent back-to-back seasons despite being a franchise that was considered to be left for dead. Oakland will be competitive once again this season but won’t be a playoff contending team when it comes down to crunch time at the end of the year. I like what’s going on in Oakland but like Kansas City I don’t think Carson Palmer is the answer to their needs. Plus they need a healthy Darren McFadden to help them be successful and that is something that has been quite the struggle since he entered the NFL.
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