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Malay Emigration: Yah, Xin-gapore Tak Bagus
The following is ed’s thoughts on an article by an Sg chinese who, quite typically, blames the victim when it comes to discrimination. The funny thing about such people is that they actually think themselves as non-racist whilst not realising that their views are typical of those who view much of that which is racist as not racist because of their being accustomed to it, or/and benefiting from it.
But one can be sure that such nonsense as this bloke writes will be received warmly by other chinese as it enables them to walk away pretending that they have achieved what they did because of their intelligence rather than discrimination by both the government and the people.
This bloke’s article is actually a consideration, or rather, a failed attempt to intelligently consider a2ed’s earlier article, ‘on Malay emigration and evolution.’
Limpehft:
“I have a simple solution: I think all Singaporean students should learn Mandarin and Malay regardless of their ethnicity. Both languages are dominant regional languages in the region and knowledge of both would prove very useful. Having such a rule would end all bitching like, "Why should Malay people learn Mandarin?" as the respond to that would be, "Well Chinese people learn Malay too, so why not vice versa?...
Indeed, in Singapore, any kind of discrimination in the work place is skill-based and not race-based. Let me give you an example, some roles in customer services would require you to speak Mandarin if the company is actively targeting Mandarin-speaking customers. Now if a Chinese-Singaporean who doesn't speak any Mandarin (or speaks Mandarin very poorly) applies for the job, this Chinese-Singaporean in question would be rejected for the position on the basis of not fulfilling that particular skill required, rather than on the basis of his ethnicity or race. After all, not all Chinese Singaporeans are fluent in Mandarin - some actually struggle to even have a basic conversation in Mandarin!....
We need to be sensible and not emotional about the issue. There will probably be some jobs in the service industry in Singapore where a working knowledge of Mandarin is probably going to be very useful because of the clientele (PRCs and older Chinese Singaporeans who don't speak English). This is simply a reflection of the market's demands for a certain kind of service - it has nothing to do with discrimination. .....
I'd like to say this especially for my Malay and Indian readers in Singapore - I know exactly what it feels like to be an ethnic minority. I have lived in the UK (on and off) since 1997, I hold a British passport today and live in the UK where Chinese people number just 0.4%. However, I don't see my life here as a Chinese vs white, majority vs minority daily battle.... - source"
To state that job discrimination in singapore is ‘skill-based’ and not race-based detracts from the fact that given the mother tongue policy, the ‘right skill’ is given to the chinese and not others. This is further reinforced by the age-old SAP school system structured to chinesify and give a leg up to the local chinese over other races, and hence, enabled the chinese to take over the economy from the truly singaporean english-speaking, westernised and highly multicultural Malay, Indian and Chinese of the 70s and early 80s.
(the chinese amongst this group would themselves refer to the chinese of Sg-today as 'ching chong chinamen'. The last 'chinese' i heard saying that was a women by the name of Ursula in her late 60s - 2 months ago - who didn't like her grandchildren being brought up speaking mandarin. It's not that she's a racist. Rather, from the other things she was saying, and in fluent english without a chinese accent, i could see that she preferred multiculturalism as opposed to being 'just chinese'. She is a true singaporean, and one of the last of a dying breed.)
Only English should be made compulsory, as it is the tongue that mothers cross-cultural/racial integration without favouring or elevating any one local race in singapore.Skill-based discrimination, not race-based? Let's not forget that chinese culture has been lauded over all others. Let's not forget that the government officially stated that the chinese should always be a majority in the country. Let's not forget that before the 'mandarin-speakers preferred' job ads, there were the 'chinese preferred' job ads. Let's not forget that the chinese in general stick to their own and only welcome others if they conform to their standards in thought. Let's not forget that the chinese are fond of saying, 'we majority what!' to justify chinese racism. Within such an environment, given such tendencies, and consequences of being reared within such a scheme of things, can we truly say that discrimination in the work place is skill-based only?
I've heard accounts, even from civil servants whose chinese bosses have said that malays are lazy and indians ask too many questions as a reason for not hiring them. And this account, by the way, was from a chinese working there. I've heard many other stories as well, whilst experiencing first hand how non-chinese applicants are treated by the chinese myself. I wouldn't just put it down to a lack of the right skills. That would simply enable the chinese to say that they occupy their positions because of intelligence and hard work, instead of racism. The latter must be proven to be untrue for the former to stand. Or else, we are going to hear more chinese saying, like a former chinese friend of mine living in Hougang, who said that Channel 5 english programmes don't have much indians in them because indians can't act. And this bloke has an honours degree as well.
But this Lim Peh obviously would rather put discrimination down to the non-chinese not being skilled, and their complaints about it as 'emotional' and 'insensible'. That was an approach taken toward women at one stage when they were complaining about their condition as well. Seems like self-absorbed idiots like Lim, despite their being able to speak many languages, only manage to say the same nonsense, but in different languages.
ed’s comment at the aforementioned site,
“Making Mandarin compulsory simply reinforces the post-racism created fact. In other words, via racism, Mandarin becomes the unofficial lingua franca just as the Chinese become the majority.
And then, via making it compulsory, it whitewashes the means that make it such, further reinforces chinese dominance, and basically makes it all alright. Malay shouldn't be compulsory either. Only English should be made compulsory, as it is the tongue that mothers cross-cultural/racial integration without favouring or elevating any one local race in singapore. Finally, chinese/mandarin speakers preferred ads should cease as that further imposes the 'need to study mandarin' or make it compulsory. The mother tongue policy should also be ended for reasons that are obvious to the non-self absorbed.(as it works in tandem with the ‘mandarin-speakers preferred’ ads to further disadvantage and underdevelop the non-chinese.)
As for knowing what it feels to be a minority because of your being a minority in the UK, that is nonsense. Being a minority in the UK and being a minority in a chinese supremacist/racist/fascist state is very very different. I've stayed a total of 8 years in the country, and am currently in Essex, Harlow, and have a vastly different experience here from my 'friendship' with the chinese in singapore. Opportunities abound, and i am judged purely by my merits as opposed to the beautiful brown colour of my skin. You don't need to think about your race on a daily basis as they don't whitewash racism with 'everywhere also like that one lorr' and 'we majority what!'. Rather, what you excuse in singapore would cause a public furore in the UK. And because of that, you don't need to think along racial lines on a daily basis. Basically, the 'whites' in the UK do not treat you as do the chinese others in Xingapore mate. If they did, you'd be rushing back to Sg on the next junk or jet available.
I'm surprised that your stay in the UK hasn't taught you much about egalitarianism and multiculturalism. Perhaps you have the wrong channel on.
What you are proposing at the end - considering what you said and failed to say throughout - is not 'getting along' whatever our race, etc, but 'getting along' despite racism. That doesn't make you idealistic. It makes you one who, having benefited from racism, haven't much of a problem with it. It doesn't matter if Limpeh speaks both mandarin and malay. LKY spoke it too. That didn't stop him from turning Sg into a chinese state did it. I talk about hard facts about what is happening and what isn't. What you're doing is glossing over it with short-sighted rhetoric.”
Richard Wednesday, March 28, 2012
I cant believe this bloke actually lives in the UK and hasn’t learned a tad from his experiences. What he says about ‘in Singapore, any kind of discrimination in the work place is skill-based and not race-based’ is so hypocritical. This is the results of decades of racism and discrimination against the non-chinese. How would you expect the non-chinese to be when the escalation of chinese cultures over the others is so blatant, the SAP schools, the speak mandarin campaign, the chinese preferred and eventually the mandarin speakers preferred requirements in job ads. I have personally witnessed the discrimination at my workplace where chinese candidates were preferred over the Malays and Indians and the reasons cited were just as you have stated ‘malays are lazy and indians ask too many questions’. What we see in singapore today is the effect of post-racism. I have lived in the UK for a few years. Being a minority in the UK and being a minority in Singapore is vastly different. In the UK, you are being treated as an individual, judged purely by your merits, and not by your skin colours. I am fully aware that I have benefitted from the racism in singapore not by choice but by simply being chinese.
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A Common Sense Reading Series
A Kansas City Reading Series
Anaïs Duplan & Tim Earley
Sep 12, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Please click on the following link to register for this reading.
Anaïs DUPLAN is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, and will teach at Sarah Lawrence College and St. Joseph’s College. His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2021.
As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He works as Program Manager at Recess.
Tim EARLEY is the author of five collections of poems, including Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Horse Less Press, 2014), winner of the 2015 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award, and Linthead Stomp (Horse Less Press, 2016). He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, jubilat, the Ecopoetry Anthology, and the Hick Poetics Anthology (edited by Abraham Smith and Shelly Taylor). He is the lead designer of the forthcoming tabletop role-playing game, Holler, an Appalachian dark fantasy that focuses on regional folklore, labor conflict, ecological collapse, and demonic infestation.
This event was made possible by generous contributions from the KCAI Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.
CONTACT: jordanstempleman@gmail.com
SPACES THAT GRACIOUSLY GIVE SPACE
Kansas City Art Institute (Epperson Auditorium)
KCAI Crossroads Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice
Velo Garage & Tap House
Cara and Cabezas Contemporary
Spray Booth Gallery
The Writers Place
Walnut Place Laundromat
Rag & Bone Gallery
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22 Feet 1948 Chris Craft Sportsman U-22
$3,500 (USD)
The Chris Craft 22 Foot Sportsman is a very popular model from Chris Craft and hit it's stride after the war. More than 3000 units of this model were built and it's popularity continues to this day. This boat has not been in the water since the 1980's and was scheduled for a full restoration but life got in the way and the boat stayed in storage. The boat has it's original Chris Craft engine and hardware. One of the side windows was damaged but could be easily replaced. This is a perfect boat for someone wishing to restore a fine vessel back to it's original lustre.
Chris Craft Sportsman U-22
Chris Craft "M" 130 HP
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What is SLEP?
The Service Leadership Endorsement Program was a student organization at Southern Polytechnic State University (now KSU-Marietta) that gave students the opportunity to find themselves in leadership through understanding their capability and the strength they have, not only in numbers, but as an individual. I really enjoyed being a part of this organization during my freshman year of college. It was originally run by Nancy Reichert who was also the coordinator for honor students. She was extremely motivated and was an aspiration to other women on campus. She always told her students to do their best and strive for greatness.
Would you allow a disability to hinder you from being a leader?
In March 2013, I partnered with two other members (also my best friends on campus), Danica Roberts and Yunji Kim, as part of SLEP to create a presentation for a leadership conference on campus. We presented as a panel of students who believed that if you put your mind to it, you could do it. We used Temple Grandin as a platform for discussing the sensitive topics between disabilities and leadership. We felt that Temple Grandin was an unstoppable woman in engineering and did so many great things that people didn’t even know about so we brought her inspirational story to the forefront of this presentation.
Temple Grandin lives with autism, yet is a leader in her own right. At a young age, she discovered her talent in science field, and dedicates her time and effort into it. However, due to her autism, she was not able to have a good relationship with other people. Then, she discovered that animals could replace social interactions with humans—specifically horses and cattle. As a graduate student at Arizona State University, she conducted research about cattle behavior. Even though the time period she lived in was not accepting towards women in the cattle industry, she was not discouraged. She identified her strengths, and acquired a leadership position.
The first presenter, Yunji Kim, presented how passion has enhanced Grandin as a leader. The second presenter, Brittany J. Rosario (me), talked about Grandin’s persistence against the oppression and obstacles she faced in her life. The third presenter, Danica Roberts, concluded the presentation by talking about how Grandin capitalized on her strengths and weaknesses to produce the most accurate results in research and projects for the cattle farm.
*Please note that the attached file is a PowerPoint show and will automatically open up for presentation along with it’s own timer for the slideshows.
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The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Book Name: The Mirror Empire
Author: Kameron Hurley
Publisher(s): Angry Robot
Formatt: Paperback / eBook
Genre(s): Fantasy / Science Fantasy
The Mirror Empire is not an easy read. It’s not a fluffy piece of forgettable fiction you casually pick up in the airport before a long flight. It’s a challenging book—not only challenging to fantasy readers, but also a challenge to the genre. Nevertheless, it is a fun, bold, and exciting read. Ultimately, I think The Mirror Empire will be one of the most talked about fantasy novels of 2014, despite these complications and because of them.
In the world(s) of The Mirror Empire, magic is related to orbiting satellites. As they rise, magicians linked to that specific satellite grow in power, and that power wanes as the satellite descends. Now Oma is rising: a dark star that rises once every 2,000 years and marks times of earth-shattering change and powerful dark magic. Lilia, the daughter of a blood witch, is sent through a portal to avoid becoming a slave to invaders. While looking for a way to reunite with her mother, she ends up serving the Kai, the leader of the Dhai people—a pacifist culture of vegetarian cannibals live among semi-sentient, man-eating plants. Things are so bad that the Saiduan nation, the former enslavers of the Dhai, are asking for help against unstoppable invaders. And then there’s Zizili, a half-Dhai general, who must discover why the Empress (the leader of a violent matriarchy) has ordered her to commit genocide against Doinhah’s slave Dhai population.
If it sounds like a lot of threads, it’s because it is. And I haven’t even mentioned the issues of consent, gender roles and gender fluidity, polyamory, energy swords blooming from users’ wrists, or the dynamics of the mirror worlds and travel between them. I know it seems like The Mirror Empire might be a bit overwhelming, and I’m afraid that might scare off a lot of readers. In fact, I had to read the prologue and the first few chapters twice because I wasn’t prepared for this book. It also didn’t help that my ARC lacked the map and glossary that the regular versions of The Mirror Empire will contain, so I had to retain a lot of history, cultures, and similar sounding names all in my head. It’s a lot of plates to keep spinning, but I think, for the most part, Hurley is able to keep most of the chaos under control and in service to the story.
She is successful because The Mirror Empire is rooted in epic fantasy standards such as the chosen one orphan, invading hordes, high-stakes battles, wizards, warriors, and more. There’s also enough grimdark grit and violence to satisfy fans of Abercrombie, Lawrence, and Martin. But for every epic fantasy trope, there is a subversion, a twist, a challenge. I kept turning the page because I wanted to see how those twists would pay off.
Similarly, Hurley’s worldbuilding in The Mirror Empire is unlike the vast majority of fantasy tales—in the best of ways. As you can probably guess from the few details I’ve listed, this isn’t a typical, watered-down, medieval fantasy setting. It’s a huge, varied, beautiful, and deadly world with deep divides and complicated histories. Considering this is only a 550-page book, the level of detail is astounding. Her worldbuilding is really top-notch.
I’m sure some readers would rather walk away than roll up their sleeves and work harder. And that’s fine. This book may not be for everyone. But those who put in the effort will be rewarded. This is one of those books that had me thinking not only about what I want from fantasy novels, but also larger issues of power and gender. The Mirror Empire continues a lot of the conversations about gender and diversity going on in genre right now. But it’s not just a platform for issues. It’s also a wildly inventive, risky, provocative, and exciting novel. The Mirror Empire is different and difficult, but your opinions of fantasy will be changed for the better by this challenge.
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Tags: fantasy, Kameron Hurley, science fantasy, The Mirror Empire, Worldbreaker Saga
Eric Christensen Like many lawyers, Eric Christensen no longer practices. Instead, he works as a writer and editor. Hooked on speculative fiction from an early age thanks to nerdy parents, he writes for fun when not writing for clients. Otherwise, he’s reading, running, or watching movies in Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife, Laura, and his dog, Blue. You can find him on twitter at @erchristensen or online at eric-christensen.com
Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin) says:
Different, difficult, but oh so worth it
This review actually has me wanting to read it. This is going on my list!
Jon_Anon says:
Would fans of Malazan like this book?
Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley | Fantasy-Faction says:
[…] year, in my review of Kameron Hurley’s THE MIRROR EMPIRE, I called that book different, difficult, wildly inventive, […]
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Home/Life Style/NLC gives government, nurses October 28 to resolve impasse
NLC gives government, nurses October 28 to resolve impasse
shawana yussif September 24, 2020
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has given the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) up to October 28, 2020, to renegotiate and develop a document which will favour both parties.
Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye revealed this on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.
We are happy that they called off the strike and are ready to come to the negotiation table. The Labour Commission has given us up to October 28, 2020, about a month from now to make sure that we get a document that will be acceptable for all of us.”
He further added that the Ministry intends to make broader considerations before making any commitments.
“There are conditions of service that have expiry dates. It came to a time we had to do renegotiations on some of them. Some of the allowances are already being taken care of. We are looking at new proposals as well. The government does not want to accept a proposal only to come out and prove difficult. We are considering its sustainability. If you are a prudent manager, you need to quantify what is being requested.”
“It is not as though the government does not want to look at them. We are ready to shoulder these after considering them,” he added.
Nurses, midwives, Physician Assistants (PAs) and Anaesthetists (CRAs) in the public sector withdrew their services on Monday, September 21 to demand improved conditions of service.
The strike left many patients stranded nationwide because of the absence of health personnel.
The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations asked the striking nurses and midwives to immediately call off the industrial action and avail themselves for negotiations to continue.
The leadership of GRNMA called off the three-day-old strike on September 23, 2020.
The strike was suspended because the leadership of the association said they had officially received a court injunction restraining them from embarking on the industrial action.
The restraining order was secured by the National Labour Commission last Friday but the association still went ahead with the strike claiming it had not been properly served with the court document.
Source:Fiilafmonline/CitiNews
shawana yussif
No bed syndrome: Government begins distribution of 10,000 beds to public health facilities
Committee tasked to make recommendations on school reopening submits report
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Home/Life Style/Work on 1, 000 metric tonnes grains warehouse completed – Bawumia
Work on 1, 000 metric tonnes grains warehouse completed – Bawumia
Akosua Boakye October 13, 2020
The Vice-President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated a completed 1, 000 metric tonnes grains warehouse at Asaam near Asante-Mampong in the Ashanti Region.
The project executed under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), was supervised by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives (MSDI).
It is in line with the Government of Ghana’s agenda to boost food storage and production, thereby ensuring food security in the country.
Alhaji Dr Bawumia described the project as timely given the high cost of food losses in the country.
The Nana Akufo-Addo-led Administration, he said, was committed to alleviating the plight of farmers for increased productivity.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s (MoFA) statistics had shown that at least 30 per cent of farm produce in the country is lost annually through post-harvest losses, a situation which reduces the incomes of farmers.
This tends to make farming unattractive, and also inhibits efforts at ensuring food security while perpetuating poverty amongst a significant number of Ghanaian farmers.
According to the Vice-President, significant progress had been made by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in delivering on its campaign promises to make life better for farmers.
He said the country’s economy which was agro-based was being expanded through the requisite investment in agriculture, to create more job opportunities for the people.
Nana Nyamaa Sarfo Sipong Panin II, the Chief of Asaam, said Asante-Mampong and its environs were noted for their high production of grains and other staple crops.
Therefore, the project had come at the appropriate time when many farmers were grappling with food losses due to the unavailability of storage facilities, he added.
Ghana 5-1 Qatar: Player ratings
200 police officers deployed to guard MPs
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milimeters
barleycorns
fathoms
leas
microns
parsecs
shaftments
smoots
spans
furlongs
How long is 41.20 centimeters?
It's about one-and-one-tenth times as tall as a Bowling Pin
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 1.08 times the height of a Bowling Pin, and the height of a Bowling Pin is 0.9260 times that amount.
(USBC specifications; tenpin)
According to the United States Bowling Congress specifications, a tenpin bowling pin should be within 0.079375 cm of 38.1 cm in height. The USBC further mandates that certified pins be made of sugar maple wood, unless otherwise approved by the organization.
It's about three-fifths as long as a Woman's Footstep
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 0.620 times the length of a Woman's Footstep, and the length of a Woman's Footstep is 1.60 times that amount.
(for healthy, middle-aged woman of average height; single step length)
According to studies by The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center, the average length of a woman's step is 66 centimeters, for an average stride (two-step's length) of 130 centimeters. The average person walks at a speed of about 1.3 m/s
It's about half as long as a Man's Footstep
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 0.520 times the length of a Man's Footstep, and the length of a Man's Footstep is 1.90 times that amount.
(for healthy, middle-aged man of average height; single step length)
According to studies by The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center, the average length of a man's step is 79 centimeters, for an average stride (two-step's length) of 160 centimeters. The average person walks at a speed of about 1.3 m/s
It's about half as tall as Verne Troyer
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 0.510 times the height of Verne Troyer, and the height of Verne Troyer is 2 times that amount.
(1969-2018) (actor)
Verne Troyer, most famous for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series, was an LP with a height of 81 centimeters. Troyer's first role was as a stunt double for a baby in the 1994 film Baby's Day Out.
It's about half as tall as General Tom Thumb
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 0.450 times the height of General Tom Thumb, and the height of General Tom Thumb is 2.20 times that amount.
(a.k.a. Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) (circus performer; height at death)
General Tom Thumb was an LP with a height (at his death) of 91 centimeters. Thumb stopped growing at 64 centimeters when he was five years old, but resumed growth in his teens which continued through the remainder of his life.
It's about two-fifths as tall as Kenny Baker
In other words, 41.20 centimeters is 0.370 times the height of Kenny Baker, and the height of Kenny Baker is 2.70 times that amount.
(a.k.a. Kenneth George Baker) (1934-) (actor)
Kenny Baker, most famous for his role as R2-D2 in the Star Wars film franchise, is an LP with a height of 110 centimeters. Baker and his wife, Eileen, both made brief appearances as the small, woodland creatures known as Ewoks in the 1984 Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (a.k.a. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi).
It's about one-third as tall as Hervé Villechaize
In other words, the height of Hervé Villechaize is 2.90 times 41.20 centimeters.
(a.k.a. Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize) (1943-1993) (actor)
Hervé Villechaize, most famous for his role as Tattoo on the 1978-84 television series Fantasy Island, was an LP with a height of 120 centimeters. Villechaize's form of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia-brachydactyly and distinctive speech (SED-BDS), is also known as "Tattoo dysplasia" or "Fantasy Island syndrome."
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square inches
square centimeters
square kilometers
square millimeters
city blocks
circular inches
circular mils
thousands of circular mills
dunams
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virgates
feddans
arpents
nanoacres
How big is 3,922 hectares?
It's about as big as Rock Island
In other words, the size of Rock Island is 1.0001 times 3,922 hectares.
(a.k.a. Arsenal Island, a.k.a. Rock Island Arsenal) (Illinois, on the Iowa border) (land area only)
Rock Island measures 3,922 hectares in total area. It is known as the largest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the United States and the US Army's only active foundry, as well as a former Union prison camp during the American Civil War.
It's about four-fifths as big as The Pitcairn Islands
In other words, 3,922 hectares is 0.830 times the size of The Pitcairn Islands, and the size of The Pitcairn Islands is 1.20 times that amount.
(a.k.a. Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, a.k.a. Pitkern Ailen) (British overseas territory) (total land area)
The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands which have a combined area of 4,700 hectares. A British overseas territory since 1838, the island is populated by the descendents of mutineers and others who traveled on the British Royal Naval Ship, HMS Bounty during her 1789-1790 voyage.
It's about one-and-three-tenths times as big as Inis Mór
In other words, the size of Inis Mór is 0.770 times 3,922 hectares.
(a.k.a. Inishmore, a.k.a. Árainn Mhór, a.k.a. Inis Bant, a.k.a. Árainn na Naomh) (Connacht, Ireland)
The largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mór measures 3,100 hectares. The west side of the island is home to the Poll na bPéist, a.k.a. the wormhole, a naturally-formed, 0.029 hectares, rectangular pool on the island's cliffside.
It's about one-and-a-half times as big as Tuvalu
In other words, the size of Tuvalu is 0.670 times 3,922 hectares.
(a.k.a. Ellice Islands)
Tuvalu is a chain of islands totaling 2,600 hectares in area and located midway between Hawaii and Australia, near Samoa and Fiji. It is the third-least populated nation in the world, with just 11,992 citizens and residents.
It's about two-thirds as big as San Marino
In other words, the size of San Marino is 1.60 times 3,922 hectares.
(a.k.a. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino, a.k.a. Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino)
an Marino is an enclave country located within the Apennine Mountains in Italy, with a total area of 6,100 hectares. Established in 301 CE, San Marino is the oldest sovereign state in the world.
It's about half as big as Coron Island
In other words, 3,922 hectares is 0.550 times the size of Coron Island, and the size of Coron Island is 1.80 times that amount.
(Calamian Islands, Palawan, Philippines)
A popular tourist destination, Coron Island, measures about 7,100 hectares in total area. The rocky offshore area of the island makes it popular for shipwreck diving, with some wrecks as shallow as 10 ft. under the water.
It's about one-and-nine-tenths times as big as Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)
In other words, 3,922 hectares is 1.8980 times the size of Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL), and the size of Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) is 0.52690 times that amount.
(Palam, Delhi, India) (total site area)
Indira Gandhi International Airport covers a total area of about 2,066 hectares, including three main terminals and three main runways. The airport offers a total runway length of 11,053 m.
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American actor, singer, and dancer, Grant Gustin is best known for his role on The CW's Arrow and The Flash. He has also portrayed the character of Sebastian Smythe on the Fox series Glee.
He was raised in Norfolk, Virginia along with his siblings, Tyler Gustin, and Gracie Gustin. He went to Granby High School and later attended BFA Music Theater Program from Elon University.
To date, he appeared in more than dozens of films and television series. He has a lavishing lifestyle through his career earnings. According to Celebrity Net Worth, he has a staggering net worth of $2 million.
He is yet to be married but is already in a relationship. She engaged her long-term girlfriend, Andrea LA Thoma. After being in an affair for a year, he proposed her with large cut round diamond ring and they announced their engagement on April 29, 2017. The couple has strong love and bond which can be seen on their social media account. Previously, he dated a backup dancer, Glee, Hannah Douglass, for a couple of years.
He earned several awards and nominations, Kid's Choice Awards, Teen Awards, Saturn Awards, and MTV Movie & TV Awards.
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Jiří Třanovský
Jiří Třanovský (Polish: Jerzy Trzanowski, Slovak: Juraj Tranovský, Latin: Georgius Tranoscius; 9 April 1592 – 29 May 1637), was a Lutheran priest and hymnwriter from the Cieszyn Silesia. Sometimes called the father of Slovak hymnody and the "Luther of the Slavs," Třanovský's name is sometimes anglicized to George Tranoscius. Both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada remember his life and work annually, on the anniversary of his death.
9 April, c. 1592
Teschen, Silesia, Crown of Bohemia
(now Poland)
29 May 1637 (aged approx. 46)
Liptószentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary
(now Slovakia)
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LifeEdit
Třanovský was born in Teschen, and studied at Guben and Kolberg. In 1607, he was admitted to the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther had taught less than a century earlier. Upon graduation, he traveled in Bohemia proper and Silesia and in 1612 and became a teacher at St. Nicholas Gymnasium in Prague. Later, he became rector of a school in Holešov, Moravia.
Třanovský's exlibris
In 1616 Třanovský was ordained a priest in Meziříčí and served as a pastor for four years. Persecution of Lutherans in Bohemia (after the Battle of White Mountain) under Ferdinand II forced him into exile. After imprisonment in 1623 and the deaths of two of his children from plague the following year, Třanovský accepted a call to be pastor to a church in Bielitz, Teschen Silesia. In 1627, he also became personal chaplain to Count Gáspár Illésházy.[1] From 1631 until 1637, Třanovský served as pastor at a church in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (Liptószentmiklós), Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia).
Cithara Sanctorum, 1828 edition
Třanovský appreciated poetry and hymns, and wrote as well as compiled both. In 1629, he published his first hymnal, oddly named in Latin Odarum Sacrarum sive Hymnorum Libri III ("Three Books of Sacred Odes or Hymns"). His most important and most famous work was Cithara Sanctorum ("Lyre of the Saints"), written in Czech, which appeared in 1636 in Levoča (Lőcse). This latter volume has formed the basis of Czech and Slovak Lutheran hymnody to the present day. Třanovský's hymnbook together with the Bible of Kralice (also in Czech) became the cornerstones of the Slovak Reformation. In 1620 Rev. Třanovský also translated the Augsburg Confession into Czech.
Třanovský died, aged forty-six, on 29 May 1637 and was buried in an unmarked grave at his church in Liptovský Mikuláš.
VariaEdit
Uncle of Třanovský's wife Anne was theologian Amandus Polanus.
HymnsEdit
Several of his hymns included
"Věříme v všemohoucího" — a credal hymn which was a source for a composite English translation as "In One True God We All Believe"[2]
"Cas radosti, veselosti" — a translation of the Latin Christmas hymn "Omnis mundus iucundetur nato Salvatore" — and has been the source for a composite translation into English as "Come Rejoicing, Praises Voicing"[3]
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NotesEdit
^ He was from the Hohenem dynasty which sought to establish a buffer state between Austrian lands and Old Swiss Confederacy, although citizens resented paying taxes to both the Holy Roman Empire and the Swabian League and the area which became Lichtenstein became embroiled in Thirty Years War beginning in 1618
^ "In One True God We All Believe" (text), which is pared with ":Resurgenti Nazareno" (mp3 of the tune with ten verses of organ music) Polack, W.G. (1941). Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal. St. Louis: Concordia. p. 186.
^ "Come Rejoicing, Praises Voicing" (text), which is pared with ":Gladness" (mp3 of the tune with three verses of organ music) Polack, W.G. (1941). Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal. St. Louis: Concordia. p. 67.
Daniel, David Paul, "Juraj Tranovsky: Slavic Hymnodist," Lutheran Witness, Vol. XCIX (1980), pp. 378–379
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Tetralingual edition of the Odes of Tanoscius, Tercentenary of Jesus Church in Teschen, 2009-05-18
Cithara Sanctorum. Budapešť: Nákl. Kolomana Liptseyho, 1923. 846 p. - available at ULB's Digital Library
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Alberta Candidate Nomination Update: Pitt bests Millions in Airdrie-East, Michael Connolly moves to Calgary-Varsity, and more.
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Photo: Calgary-West MLA Mike Ellis and Airdrie MLA Angela Pitt were greeting party members outside the nomination voting station in the Town and Country Centre in Airdrie on July 20, 2018. (Source: Dave Cournoyer)
Despite indications of a dogfight in Airdrie-East, United Conservative Party members voted overwhelmingly to choose incumbent MLA Angela Pitt over Sportsnet Calgary Flames Commentator Roger Millions. Millions announced his retirement from broadcasting and entry into politics only 9 days ago.
Pitt won the nomination with 71 percent of the vote.
Calgary-Hawkwood MLA Michael Connolly has announced he will run for the New Democratic Party nomination in the newly redrawn Calgary-Varsity district. Connolly’s current district is will not exist when the next election is called as it is being redistributed into three other districts.
Current Calgary-Varsity NDP Stephanie McLean is not running for re-election.
Banff-Kananaskis – It is a candidacy that might be short-lived, but conservative activist and provocateur Cory Morgan has filed his intentions to seek the NDP nomination with Elections Alberta. Also seeking the NDP nomination is the current MLA for Banff-Cochrane, Cameron Westhead. Reached by email, Morgan said he would release platform in the next few days.
Morgan was an Alberta Independence Party candidate in Banff-Cochrane in the 2001 election, the Separation Party of Alberta candidate in Highwood in the 2004 election, and Wildrose Party candidate in Calgary-Mountain View in the 2008 election.
Brooks-Medicine Hat – Dinah Hiebert is the third candidate to enter the UCP nomination contest in this newly redrawn district. She is an account executive with Newcap radio and former president of Brooks Women in Business. Bob Wanner, the current NDP MLA for Medicine Hat, told CHAT News that he not yet decided whether he will seek re-election in 2019. Wanner currently serves as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Calgary-Buffalo – Finance Minister Joe Ceci was nominated as the NDP candidate in this downtown Calgary district. Ceci currently represents the Calgary-Fort district, which will not exist when the next election is called.
Calgary-Klein – Kathy Macdonald is seeking the UCP nomination. She was the Wildrose Party candidate in the 2014 by-election in Calgary-Foothills and 2015 Wildrose candidate in Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill. She also ran for the Wildrose Party nomination ahead of the 2015 by-election in Calgary-Foothills.
Calgary-North East – Calgary-Greenway MLA Prab Gill is seeking the UCP nomination in the new Calgary-North East district, which does not include any of the areas currently included in Calgary-Greenway. Gill was first elected as a PC MLA in a 2016 by-election following the death of MLA Manmeet Bhullar.
Calgary-Shaw – Jack Redekop is seeking the UCP nomination. Redekop ran for the federal Conservative Party nomination ahead of the 2017 Calgary-Midnapore by-election. He briefly ran as a candidate in the 2012 Senator Nominee election but appeared to have dropped out of the race before the filing deadline.
Calgary-Varsity – John Huang is seeking the UCP nomination. Huang ran for the Wildrose Party nomination ahead of the 2015 Calgary-Foothills by-election.
Chestermere-Strathmore – Mark Giesbrecht is seeking the UCP nomination. He ran for Strathmore town council in 2013.
Edmonton-Castle Downs/Decore – Gordon Reekie has withdrawn from the UCP nomination contest in Edmonton-Castle Downs and will now contest the UCP nomination in the neighbouring Edmonton-Decore.
Edmonton-Gold Bar – David Dorward has been nominated as the UCP candidate. Dorward served as the Progressive Conservative MLA for this district from 2012 and 2015. He was the PC candidate in this district in the 2008 election and placed second in Edmonton’s mayoral campaign in 2010.
Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood – Del Shupenia is seeking the UCP nomination.
Edmonton-South – Dan “Can Man” Johnstone is no longer seeking the Alberta Party nomination and he is quitting the party. I am told that Johnstone’s decision was made following a discussion by the party to extend the nomination period in this district, and a source with knowledge of the process said that he had not paid the $500 entry fee to join the nomination contest. He posted a long message on Facebook yesterday announcing his departure from the party.
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Edmonton-West Henday – Leila Houle is seeking the UCP nomination.
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville – Conservative activist Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk has been acclaimed as the UCP candidate. She previously served as the PC Party’s regional director for Central Northeast Alberta. Darryl Kropielnicki’s nomination was rejected by the UCP.
Grande Prairie – John Lehners is seeking the UCP nomination in this new urban Grande Prairie district. Lehners serves as trustee and chair of the Grande Prairie Public School District.
Red Deer-South – Tax lawyer Jason Stephan is seeking the UCP nomination. He is the president of the Red Deer Taxpayers’ Association. In 2017, he publicly raised concerns about the establishment of a safe consumption site in Red Deer.
St. Albert – Laine Matoga is seeking the UCP nomination.
Sherwood Park – Sue Timanson is seeking the Alberta Party nomination. Timanson ran for the PC nomination in Sherwood Park in 2012 and 2015, and she is a former regional director of the PC Party. She endorsed Richard Starke in the 2017 PC Party leadership contest.
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...And I Can Take Or Leave It If I Please
Today I'm writing about one of those areas where my Libertarian politics are at odds with those of my conservative friends, and even with my personal religious beliefs, so it's not a position I hold lightly. You may, in fact, be completely adamant in your personal convictions on the matter. I'm stating in advance that this isn't about your personal convictions, or mine. It's about our duty to respect that other people have solid convictions of their own.
I've shared a fair number of Matt Walsh's blogs because I agree with them. Today I'm sharing one because I don't. It appears at his new home on TheBlaze.com, and it's entitled...
There Is Nothing Brave About Suicide
In it, Matt argues against suicide and assisted suicide because... well... because you shouldn't. That's really the entire depth of the argument.
Brittany Maynard
(AP Photo/Maynard Family)
Now, let's put this in context: Brittany Maynard has a terminal brain tumor, and has chosen to end her own life on November 1st, peacefully, quietly, at home, surrounded by family and friends, while still in possession of her faculties. Brittany is 29 years old. Now, if you don't think that decision takes some honest-to-God serious guts, try it. Seriously. Don't actually commit suicide, of course, but try honestly contemplating that action right now as you read this. Not as someone who is down-and-out and depressed and lost everything, but when you're still outwardly in the fullness of life, as a conscientious decision. How much willpower and determination would it take for you to swallow the pill? Not as an act of desperation, but as a willful, logical choice. When people do it to save others we call it "sacrifice" and celebrate their heroism. Suicide is not about cowardice.
Now I've read enough of Matt to have a very good idea of what he's desperately trying not to say here and why he's dancing around it; instead going with the weak argument that he did. I strongly suspect that Matt's position is purely religious, and he believes that a person making the decision to commit suicide isn't heaven-bound. Given closer proximity to death they may still have time for an awakening. And he has the romantic notion about the bravery and dignity of "a woman who fights to the end, survives for as long as she can, and withers away slowly, in agony, until her very last breath escapes her lungs?"
Matt says he hasn't witnessed this kind of choice personally, but I have. My mother died of lymphoma, inoperable and terminal. Now, it is a fact that there was no cure for her. It is a fact that the treatment she took had no chance of saving her... she took it only for the slim possibility that the doctors would learn something from her that could be save someone else in the future. It is a fact that even this eventually had to give way to the reality that further "treatment" was useless. And it is a fact that no amount of pitiful, pathetic, impotent, useless "fighting" would prolong her life even a second.
Now, my mother did not commit suicide, though she certainly had enough drugs on hand to finish the job. NOR did she fight tooth and claw to the end. What she chose to do was wait patiently for the end, submitting to God's will on the matter. And she died peacefully, quietly, at home, surrounded by family and friends, mentally alert, though no longer in possession of her physical faculties.
Just so you understand the difference between my mother and the "woman who fights", when her caregiver Peggy saw Mom wince in pain near the end (and her lymphoma was systemic... quite literally everything hurt), she asked "Are you scared?" My mother replied, "No darling, I'm impatient, and God is dragging His feet."
To steal Matt's words, "Is that person not brave? Is that person not dignified? I thought we applaud that kind of person." And I do, every day. Sadly, Matt didn't apply these words to someone like my Mother, who represents a third choice that doesn't fit into the false dichotomy he advances. Futility is not bravery, nor is it dignified, though Matt argues that it is. What my mother chose... acceptance of God's will... takes far more guts, and far more grace.
Now please note that from our perspective the end result for my mother and the fighter are the same... both are dead. But there is a vast difference in how they died. One saw the inevitability and gave herself to God; and the other just eventually dies, kicking and screaming, not wanting to go, but dying anyway. One is looking ahead to what she will gain; the other behind at what she will lose. Sorry to phrase it so harshly, but the point needs to be made: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. So am I. So is Matt. Nothing will prevent that. Absolutely nothing whatsoever. Nothing.
But we do have the choice in how we face death.
Unless it's taken away.
Now, we live in a society designed by founders who would today be called Libertarian. Individual freedom is the highest goal of such a society. It trumps religion, as it guarantees that everyone is free to worship or not as he or she pleases. It trumps our secular differences, as we are guaranteed equal treatment under the law. It trumps the interests of the government itself, as we are guaranteed the right to protest and means to take arms against that government should it turn hostile. Our Constitution guarantees even those natural rights that are not explicitly listed.
So where is Brittany Maynard's individual freedom in Matt's argument? Why is it completely absent?
If we truly own a thing, we control that thing. We can buy possessions just to destroy them if we choose, because they are ours. If you own nothing else in this world, you own your skin and the flesh it contains. You own your own mind, and by every natural right in the Universe, you should have the power to do with it as you please, to include destroying it, so long as you don't harm another in the process. And since we all die eventually, we can exclude mere grief as a "harm"... we will all experience grief and must learn to deal with it.
The only even briefly viable argument against this is that we do not own our lives... they are "on loan from God"; but a quick refresher on the First Amendment washes even that away. You may believe that, and you may even be right, but it does not change the fact that others may not believe the same thing, and they still have the right to control their own existence. You can try your damndest to argue against this, but you will fail every time. It will always come down to an inconsistency between your stated support for individual liberties and your actual desire to force others to act as you yourself prefer. Denying the choice is base hypocrisy to those who claim they believe in the rights of the individual.
Personally, I see great similarity between Brittany's attitude toward death and my mother's; there being two distinct differences; one religious, the other physical. Both women accept its inevitability with courage and dignity. My mother was content to let God act as He will, but Brittany may not share those beliefs, and that's her right. But my mother's ailment was purely physical, while Brittany's is of the brain, and will eventually affect her mind. If she is to make a decision at all, it needs to be while she is still in the possession of that ability. I cannot deny her right to do so, nor begrudge her exercise of that right.
POINT-BY-POINT
There's just so much wrong with Matt's piece I have to take the points one at a time.
Matt writes, "we do not own our lives". If so, we own nothing. Slavery was abolished on the exact principle that we do own our lives. Cogito ergo sum is the beginning of philosophy. Our sovereign ownership of ourselves is the foundation for all property rights.
Matt continues to use the term "suicide". It means "to kill one's self", and while technically accurate it is not descriptive of what Brittany's doing. Hers is not an act of despair, but the choice of a good death. "Good Death" is the literal meaning of "Euthanasia". If you have a beloved pet that is suffering, you grant it a good death via euthanasia, and this is out of compassion; not malice or despair. Surely we can grant that a fellow human being might desire at the very least the amount of compassion that you would expend on a dog.
Matt tries to make Brittany's religious argument for her. That assumes she's both ignorant of it and didn't take it into account. Bah. One doesn't make such a decision lightly.
Matt uses the phrase "celebrate suicide". Again this is inaccurate. Supporting someone's decision is neither a celebration nor an endorsement of suicide-for-all. Nobody is suggesting that 27-year-olds start downing curare and hemlock en masse. It's simply support for Brittany's decision and acknowledgement of the fact that it was difficult. We can provide equal support for the woman who is a fighter and the woman who submits to God's will. We will all die.
Matt repeats "LIFE HAS VALUE" over and over again, as if it negates everything else. Yes, Life has value. So does Free Will. So does our choice of what we leave to those behind. Even the least consideration... economic... has value. The value of Life is but one factor in a complex decision. When one knows that one will die a horrible, prolonged, agonizing death, and nothing will come of it but death itself and financial ruin for one's heirs, then it is surely reasonable to factor that in, and decide whether the value of living that agonizing, prolonged death outweighs the burdens you place on your family. Not just the economic burden, but the emotional turmoil and the horror of watching you descend into hellish agony as well. Especially when the alternative is a party, reminiscence, fond farewells, hugs and kisses with the inevitable tears, loving "goodbyes" and a peaceful exit.
Matt writes, "Life is valuable because it is life. If you deny this, then you deny everything." This is irrelevant. One can accept that Life is valuable without concluding that it is more valuable than every and all other factors combined. For instance, we celebrate the heroes who selflessly give up their lives to save others, be they firemen, police or other first responders. We celebrate the military men and women who bravely sacrifice themselves for the purely abstract concept of "freedom". That sacrifice is made, by the way, for the very same freedom that Brittany is exercising. Denial of this simply stems from the fact that you don't like how she's exercising it. That doesn't make it your call.
Matt writes, "After all, euthanasia happens not when the individual decides that her life has no value, but when the medical and governmental authorities decide it." This is pure hogwash. It completely ignores the case at hand. Here, Brittany herself is choosing euthanasia, not some distant authority.
Matt writes, "How can we allow doctors to prescribe death?" More hogwash. This isn't about a doctor "prescribing" death; it's about a person choosing a good death over a bad one; with "good" and "bad" defined by their own criteria, not someone else's.
Matt writes, "If euthanasia is legal, and if it is only legal under certain strict circumstances, then we are saying that life, under those circumstances, is objectively undesirable." Again, hogwash. What we are saying is that under those circumstances the individual is empowered to determine for his or her self whether Life is subjectively undesirable.
Matt writes, "We are already cheering on Brittany Maynard’s suicide because we apparently think it foolish or even cowardly to live when suffering is certain and death is on the horizon." Once more, hogwash. We are supporting her decision because it is her decision to make. There are no easy decisions here... we'd support whatever choice she made, merely because it's hers and in the end it will make no difference. She will die, and she deserves at least that bit of validation of her final act of free will, whatever that may be.
Matt writes, "Death is not a solution." Prolonging agony is not a solution either. Death will happen anyway. Your religion may offer a solution, but again I refer you to the First Amendment.
Matt writes, "Suicide is not dignified." Yes, it can be, and far more so that futile denial of the inevitable.
Matt writes, "If suicide is heroic, then everything we’ve previously called heroic isn’t." Pure unadulterated hogwash. Much of what we've previously called heroic is exactly suicide. When a soldier sacrifices himself, it's suicide. He deliberately puts himself in the path of a bullet or bomb. We give out medals for that kind of suicide. We celebrate it. We make movies about it.
Also, Matt is decrying Brittany's support for a group called "Compassion and Choices". I've linked you to them, although Matt links instead to a page that talks about them. They say nothing more than I have here... that it is your life and your choice.
Now, I want to make this very, very, clear. When I say that I have the right to dispose of my life whenever and however I see fit, that does NOT under mean that I intend to do so now, or tomorrow, or ever. Rather, it acknowledges that I do, in fact, have that right. Frankly, I don't think it's successfully arguable that I do not. Nor is it successfully arguable that if I were determined to do it, you could even prevent it. I don't have to share my intent. You need not know about it until it's done. Matt Walsh himself has argued in favor of keeping lethal weapons on my person for the express purpose of taking other people's lives should the need arise to defend my own. I agree with that as well as to defend the more abstract right of "freedom" with lethal force if need be. but if I have the right to take their lives, what denies me the right to take my own?
There is nothing whatsoever that can be done to deny someone a suicide. What can be denied, though, is a "good death": peaceful, painless, surrounded by loving family and friends.
Also, acknowledging someone's right to make a decision does not mean that I encourage or "celebrate" the choice of death. It means that I acknowledge that it is their choice. I will certainly offer alternatives if they exist; and certainly prefer my mother's attitude to that of Matt's "fighter". But when a person's choice is made about their life I will respect it and not call them cowardly and undignified for choosing differently than I might have chosen under the same circumstances. That behavior, Matt Walsh, is very, very sad indeed.
...IT BRINGS ON MANY CHANGES...
The title of this piece is taken from the lyrics to the theme song of the movie and TV show M*A*S*H, Johnny Mandel's "Suicide Is Painless". The final chorus reads
...suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
And you can do the same thing if you please
Charity, Meals, and Feeding the Bears
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Things I Don't Like To Do...
There's A Parable In Here
I'm an Anti-Genocidal Bigot.
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Michael Monroe at the 2011 Ilosaarirock festival
Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm
Flashing Psychedelic Kid
(1962-06-17) 17 June 1962 (age 50),
Glam punk, rock, hard rock, glam rock, glam metal, punk rock
Musician, vocalist, songwriter
Vocals, keyboards, piano, guitar, saxophone, harmonica, harp, drums, percussion
Johanna Kustannus, Lick Records, Nippon Phonogram, CBS, Major Leiden Productions, Backstage Alliance, Mercury Records, Yahoo! Records
Hanoi Rocks, Demolition 23, Jerusalem Slim
Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks performing at the Ilosaarirock festival on the 2008 in Joensuu, Finland
Michael Monroe performing with his band in 2010
Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks performing at the Stockmann building, Helsinki 2005
Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks, playing the saxophone on stage at the Scarborough Rock in the Castle festival
Matti Antero Kristian Fagerholm (born on 17 June 1962 in Helsinki), best known by his stage name, Michael Monroe, is a Finnish rock musician, and multi-instrumentalist who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, and has served as the frontman for all-star side projects, such as Demolition 23. and Jerusalem Slim (with Steve Stevens).
1.1 Early life
1.2 Hanoi Rocks (1979–1985)
1.3 Solo years and other projects (1985–2001)
1.4 Reformation of Hanoi Rocks (2002–2009)
1.5 New band (2010–present)
3 Discography
3.1 Solo albums
3.2 Hanoi Rocks albums
3.3 Jerusalem Slim albums
3.4 Demolition 23. albums
3.5 Guest appearances
3.6 Literature - books about Michael Monroe
Michael Monroe was born Matti "Makke" Fagerholm on 17 June 1962. His father, Pentti Fagerholm, is a very well known retired Finnish radio personality and reporter. Monroe states in the Hanoi Rocks autobiography All Those Wasted Years that one of the first times he was exposed to rock n' roll was when he saw Black Sabbath's 1970 Paris performance on television. Some other favourite bands of Monroe's at the time included: Alice Cooper, The New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Little Richard. From 1976 to 1979, Monroe played in a band called Madness. During this time, while rehearsing in a basement of a church in Töölö, Monroe met guitarist Andy McCoy (then known as Antti Hulkko); McCoy's band, Briard, was also rehearsing there at the time.
Later, Monroe and McCoy played together for a short time in a band called Bolin. Monroe then went on to play saxophone in Maukka Perusjätkä's band, where he also met guitarist Nasty Suicide. Monroe auditioned as a bassist for Pelle Miljoona Oy but, even though the audition went well, they chose bassist Sami Yaffa.
Hanoi Rocks (1979–1985)
Hanoi Rocks was a band that Monroe and his friend, guitarist Andy McCoy had thought of, but because McCoy was in the Finnish punk band Pelle Miljoona Oy, he told Monroe to start the band without him. From the very first Hanoi line-up only one member (besides Monroe) remained, rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide, who would stay in the band until 1985. Andy McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy and joined Hanoi Rocks in 1980. McCoy also brought bassist Sam Yaffa with him. The band later recruited drummer Gyp Casino.
The band released their first album in 1981 titled Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, with most of the songs written by McCoy. The album was produced by Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe, who were known as "The Muddy Twins". In 1982 Hanoi Rocks moved to London and released their second studio album Oriental Beat, which the band later dismissed as a failure, stating that the album was mixed badly by the producer Pete Woolcroft.
After the album's release, the band fired drummer Gyp Casino and hired Nicholas Dingley, better known as Razzle. This line-up, consisting of Michael Monroe, Andy McCoy, Nasty Suicide, Sam Yaffa and Razzle, has often been cited as the classic and definitive line-up. The band has said that Razzle revitalised them. Later that year, the band released Self Destruction Blues, which had Razzle on the cover, but he didn't play on the album because it was actually a compilation of old singles. The tour for the album took the band to Asia for the first time.
The next year, 1983, the band released Back to Mystery City. In 1984, the band got together with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and started work on their fifth studio album Two Steps from the Move which was their first recording deal to US markets. The original title of the album was "Silver Missiles and Nightingales", but this was changed before release. The album has been cited as one of the best glam rock albums, and Monroe has said that he "is very proud of it."
In 1984, Michael Monroe and Hanoi Rocks were among the most popular performers in the UK. The readers of the Sounds magazine voted Hanoi Rocks as the second best band in the world just after Marillion. The Hanoi Rocks single release "Underwater World" and the album "Two Steps from the Move" were voted as the fifth best single and album of the year. The televised concert which Hanoi Rocks recorded in England was voted as the second best concert video, and as stage performers, the group was voted #3. Michael Monroe was voted as "The Sex Symbol of the Year". Kerrang! magazine readers voted Hanoi Rocks as the ninth most important newcomer, and their album was chosen as the tenth best album of the year. The readers of Kerrang! also voted Michael Monroe the seventh sexiest performer in the music business.
While on their first large tour in the US, Monroe fractured his ankle, and some dates had to be pushed back. The band traveled to Los Angeles to spend some free time and to prepare for their two upcoming sold-out gigs. Some of the band members joined in with the members of Mötley Crue to have a party at the home of Mötley Crue singer Vince Neil while Monroe decided to stay in his hotel room and rest. During the party Razzle and Neil got into a car crash that resulted in Razzle losing his life.
After Razzle's death, the band performed in Helsinki, Finland, in a concert which was partly televised all over Europe as part of the 'Europa Go Go' project. The show had over 500 million viewers across Europe and it was the first public concert with their new drummer, Terry Chimes. It was also the last performance of Hanoi Rocks with Sam Yaffa who left the band due to personal differences with McCoy. The band tried to record some demos with the new members, Rene Berg and Terry Chimes, but according to Michael Monroe, things "didn't feel the same anymore", and the band disbanded after a short tour of Poland. One of the shows in Poland was recorded and later became the "Rock and Roll Divorce" album, released after the band had already split up.
Solo years and other projects (1985–2001)
After Hanoi Rocks broke up in 1985, Monroe decided to start his solo career, but first he got to work with his good friend Stiv Bators. In the Fall of 1985, Bators and Monroe were asked by Steven Van Zandt to record backing vocals in London and then fly to New York to appear on his song "Sun City" and its music video. Both agreed and recorded backing vocals for the song, and both can be seen in the music video.[1]
In December, 1985, Monroe announced that he would move to New York, and in 1986, Monroe founded his first solo band. In 1987, he released his first solo album, Nights Are So Long. The album was a moderate hit, but it attracted big record labels: In 1988, Monroe signed to Mercury Records. In 1989, Monroe's second solo album was released, titled Not Fakin' It. The album featured guest appearances by Monroe's friends and fellow musicians, including Steven Van Zandt, Ian Hunter and Nasty Suicide. The album reached number 161 on the US Billboard Charts,[2] and was Monroe's first album to be distributed internationally. The album also got good reviews from critics, fans and fellow musicians alike. Music videos were shot for the singles "Dead, Jail or Rock 'N' Roll" and "Man With No Eyes".[3][4] Axl Rose appeared in the music video for "Dead, Jail or Rock 'N' Roll". At that time, Michael Monroe hosted MTV's Headbangers Ball where he introduced the new music video to the world.
When Not Fakin' It was released, the Guns N' Roses record label, UZI Suicide, was re-releasing Hanoi Rocks albums in America. Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash also made a guest appearance on Monroe's Los Angeles shows in December, 1989, performing the song "Looking at You".[5] Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler had also taken notice of Monroe and asked him to perform with Aerosmith at Les Paul's 75th birthday at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.[6] Monroe played saxophone on the song "Big Ten Inch Record." He mostly spent the rest of 1989 and 1990 touring.
Monroe's solo career didn't prove to be as successful as he'd hoped, so in 1990 he decided to put together a new band. The band was called Jerusalem Slim, and was completed by former Billy Idol-guitarist Steve Stevens, Sami Yaffa, Greg Ellis and Ian McLagan.
In 1991, Monroe was asked by Guns N' Roses to appear on their Use Your Illusion I album, where he plays the harmonica and saxophone on the song "Bad Obsession". Monroe also later appeared on GNR's 1993 album, "The Spaghetti Incident?", where he sang on the cover of The Dead Boys' "Ain't It Fun". At the time, Monroe also joined Guns N' Roses on stage performing Honky Tonk Women together with the band members and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.
Jerusalem Slim released an album titled Jerusalem Slim but broke up in 1992, due to Monroe and Stevens' musical disagreements. Next, Monroe tried to form another band called Demolition 23. with Yaffa, Jimmy Clark and ex Star Star Guitarist Jay Hening, who was eventually replaced by Nasty Suicide. Demolition 23. did release an album, titled Demolition 23. and they toured successfully, for example, in Japan and Europe, but the band broke up after Suicide announced that he would be retiring from the music business.
During the rest of the 1990s and the early 2000s, Monroe released four more solo albums before re-forming Hanoi Rocks with Andy McCoy.
Reformation of Hanoi Rocks (2002–2009)
In 2002, McCoy and Monroe started working together again and decided to reform Hanoi Rocks with two new members on guitar and bass, and with Michael Monroe's solo career drummer, Lacu. Hanoi Rocks released Twelve Shots on the Rocks in 2003. In 2005 Hanoi Rocks released Another Hostile Takeover replacing the two former members with Andy Christell on bass and Conny Bloom on guitar (both formerly of the Electric Boys). In 2007 the band released the album Street Poetry. In 2008 Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe stated that they had taken the band as far as they could, and so they decided to end the band. In April 2009, Hanoi Rocks played 8 sold out farewell gigs in 6 days at the Tavastia Club, in Helsinki. The band's original guitarist Nasty Suicide appeared as a special guest on 3 of the last gigs.
Michael Monroe's and Andy McCoys's book All Those Wasted Years was published later in 2009 in Finland, telling the story of Hanoi Rocks from the beginning to the end.
In June 2009, Monroe performed in Helsinki and in Tampere, on Sauna Open Air -festival with Duff McKagans Loaded band. On 3 July 2009, Monroe also performed in Finland, at the Ruisrock -festival with Ginger's band, The Wildhearts. At the end of July, Monroe also shared the stage for the first time in many years with Sam Yaffa when his band, the New York Dolls, were performing in Helsinki. After these performances with Yaffa and Ginger, Monroe and Yaffa started discussing the possibility of working together again. In December 2009, Monroe met Ginger again while he was playing in Alice Cooper's band. Monroe joined Alice Cooper on stage at Cooper's concert in Espoo, Finland, to play "School's Out". After the show, Ginger and Monroe discussed the possibilities of working together, and soon afterwards, Monroe, Ginger and Yaffa decided to line up a band together.
New band (2010–present)
On 25 January 2010 Michael Monroe held a press conference in Los Angeles, where he unveiled his new band featuring Sam Yaffa in bass,guitarist Ginger from The Wildhearts, Todd Youth from Danzig and Samhain on a second guitar and Jimmy Clarke on drums. The press conference was hosted by Bam Margera of Jackass. The Michael Monroe band started touring on 11 March at San Francisco’s Paradise Lounge and toured the US until the 21st of March. After some of the first shows Todd Youth and Jimmy Clark were replaced by guitarist Steve Conte of New York Dolls and drummer Karl Rosqvist.[7]
During the summer of 2010 Michael Monroe band played a number of festival gigs all over the world, including Helsinki Live in Finland together with Guns N' Roses, the Sweden Rock Festival and the Download Festival in England. The band also performed at Ruisrock festival in Turku, Finland, where Slash was also performing. Monroe joined Slash on stage for a performance of "We're All Gonna Die" (from Slash's solo album) and "Up Around the Bend." [8] At the Ankkarock festival in Finland, Steve Conte couldn't perform and he was replaced for this one show with the ex-Hanoi Rocks guitarist, Nasty Suicide. Since the early 1990s and the Demolition 23 tour this was the first time of these three members of the original Hanoi Rocks to perform on the stage together. Michael Monroe also performed on Summer Sonic festivals in Tokyo and Osaka, where Slash was also performing. The two got together again sharing a stage for a couple of songs. During the performance of the song "We're All Gonna Die" Monroe broke two of his ribs while hitting a metal barrel in front of the stage.
On 28 June 2010 it was announced that the Michael Monroe band would be supporting Motörhead on their 35th anniversary UK tour.[9]
The first album of Michael Monroe's new band, the live album Another Night in the Sun was released in September 2010. The album was recorded at the Tavastia Club in Helsinki, Finland and mixed in Los Angeles by Niko Bolas whose credits include Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Keith Richards, Kiss, Spinal Tap and more. The album was mastered by Grammy winner Richard Dodd, the man behind Tom Petty & Dixie Chicks.[10]
In September, 2010 the band went into a studio to record their first studio album, Sensory Overdrive. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and it was produced by legendary producer Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, John Lennon). The first single, "78", was released in January and the album is set for release on 14 March 2011. The band has also booked an extensive UK tour for April 2010, taking in venues in London, Brighton, Birmingham, Leeds and Exeter among others. In September 2010, Monroe also signed a recording deal with Spinefarm Records / Universal Music, which will distribute Monroe's upcoming albums.[11]
On 9 November 2011, Sensory Overdrive won the "Album of the Year" award at the 2011 Classic Rock magazine awards.[12]
Unlike other members of Hanoi Rocks' in the 1980s, Monroe was never a big drug user or a big drinker although in their book "All Those Wasted Years" Monroe tells about being addicted for a short while to crack and heroin in the 1980s while living in London and to Amphetamine between 2000 and 2002 after his first wife, Jude Wilder died suddenly at their home in the city of Turku, Finland.
During his years in music business Michael Monroe has established a close friendship with many music business icons including late Stiv Bators and Johnny Thunders - both Idols of Monroe -, Steven Van Zandt who produced Monroe's album with Demolition 23, Deborah Harry, Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan and Alice Cooper just to name a few.
Michael Monroe and Hanoi Rocks have influenced many rock'n'roll artists and bands: Slash had bought tickets to the soldout gigs of Los Angeles, which were canceled because of the death of Razzle. Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue and bands like Guns N' Roses have said in public that they were all inspired by Hanoi Rocks. In the Hanoi Rocks autobiography "All Those Wasted Years" Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett says "The Hollywood scene changed in just one night after people saw the pictures of Hanoi Rocks. After that everyone was wearing the same kind of hair, clothes and make up as Monroe". Michael Monroe and Hanoi Rocks have often been mentioned as the starters of the Hollywood's glam-rock scene, which was then adopted and developed by many 1980s glam-, punk-, and hard rock bands like Motley Crue, Jetboy, LA Guns and Poison.
Monroe met his first wife Jude Wilder in 1985 while she was working at CBS for Hanoi Rocks' Two Steps From The Move project. After they married the couple moved to Los Angeles and then to New York. Later on the couple moved to Turku, city in Finland, where Monroe relocated after many years in the United States. Wilder died of intracranial hemorrhage on 19 June 2001. Michael Monroe married his current wife, Johanna, on 3 July 2003.
Nights Are So Long (1987)
Not Fakin' It (1989)
Peace of Mind (1996)
Life Gets You Dirty (1999)
Live - Abandin My Own Mind (2000)
Take Them and Break Them (2002)
Whatcha Want (2003)
Another Night In the Sun: Live in Helsinki (live album) (2010)
Sensory Overdrive (2011)
Hanoi Rocks albums
Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks (1981)
Oriental Beat (1982)
Self Destruction Blues (1982)
Back to Mystery City (1983)
All Those Wasted Years (Live) (1983)
Two Steps from the Move (1984)
Rock & Roll Divorce (Live) (1985)
Twelve Shots on the Rocks (2002)
Another Hostile Takeover (2005)
Street Poetry (2007)
Jerusalem Slim albums
Jerusalem Slim (1992)
Demolition 23. albums
Demolition 23. (1994)
Artists United Against Apartheid: Sun City (1985)
Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (1991)
Guns N' Roses: "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993)
Various artists: Coneheads: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993)
White Flames: Swimsuit Issue Centerfold (single) (2007)
Literature - books about Michael Monroe
Michael Monroe [Hardcover], Ari Väntänen and Michael Monroe (2011)
All Those Wasted Years [Hardcover], Ari Väntänen, Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe (2010)
Sheriff McCoy: Outlaw Legend of Hanoi Rocks [Hardcover], Andy McCoy (English edition 2010)
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Quintet Publishing Limited. Macdonald, Bruno; Harrington, Jim, Dimery, Robert. ed. (2006)
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. HarperCollins. Christe, Ian (2003)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams [Hardcover], 1987
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjuEmWZPds
^ http://www.billboard.com/artist/michael-monroe/5233#/artist/michael-monroe/5233
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFYz0QP5xBQ
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5fshIkZc4U&a=GxdCwVVULXewrF1CWDs_np48etz-Mipb&list=ML&playnext=1
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puHXXwoAa3Y
^ http://www.metalfromfinland.com/Michael+Monroe
^ "Soundi's report of the Michael Monroe band's changed line-up.". 2010-03-16. http://www.soundi.fi/node/10544.
^ http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=142924
^ "Michael Monroe to support Motörhead on their 35th anniversary UK tour". 2010-06-26. http://www.michaelmonroe.com/site/2010/06/michael-monroe-to-support-motorhead-on-their-35th-anniversary-uk-tour/. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
^ http://www.michaelmonroe.com/site/2010/07/michael-monroe-to-release-a-live-album-this-fall/
^ http://www.michaelmonroe.com/site/2010/09/rock-legend-michael-monroe-signs-international-recording-deal-with-universal-music/
^ http://ylex.yle.fi/uutiset/popuutiset/michael-monroe-nostettiin-foo-fightersin-ohi-briteissa
Official website (in English)
IMDB Biography (official marital status)
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Steve Conte
Karl Rosqvist
Todd Youth
Jimmy Clark
Nights Are So Long
Not Fakin' It
Life Gets You Dirty
Whatcha Want
Sensory Overdrive
Another Night In the Sun: Live in Helsinki
Extended plays
Take Them and Break Them
"Dead, Jail or Rock 'N' Roll"
"Man with No Eyes"
"'78"
Conny Bloom
Andy Christell
George Atlagic
Nasty Suicide
Stefan Piesnack
Gyp Casino
Terry Chimes
Timo Kaltio
Jesu Hämäläinen
René Berg
Peki Sirola
Stevie Klasson
Lacu
Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks
Oriental Beat
Self Destruction Blues
Back to Mystery City
Two Steps from the Move
Twelve Shots on the Rocks
Another Hostile Takeover
All Those Wasted Years
Rock & Roll Divorce
The Best of Hanoi Rocks
Dead By Christmas
Tracks From A Broken Dream
Decadent, Dangerous, Delicious
Up Around The Bend...The Definitive Collection
This One's for Rock'n'roll – The Best of Hanoi Rocks 1980–2008
Singles and EP's
"I Want You"
"Desperados"
"Dead By X-Mas"
"Love's An Injection"
"Malibu Beach Nightmare"
"Until I Get You"
"Up Around the Bend"
"Underwater World"
"Don't You Ever Leave Me"
"People Like Me"
"A Day Late, A Dollar Short"
"Keep Our Fire Burning"
"Back In Yer Face"
"Fashion"
"This One's For Rock'n'Roll"
"Teenage Revolution"
"Oriental Beat"
"Million Miles Away"
Videos and DVD's
The Nottingham Tapes
Name Monroe, Michael
Date of birth 17 June 1962
Place of birth Helsinki, Finland
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Monroe&oldid=501333844"
Finnish heavy metal singers
Finnish saxophonists
People from Helsinki
Hanoi Rocks members
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Gossett v. Gossett
Gossett v. Gossett , 182 So.3d 694 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015) In this decision on the equitable doctrine of "renunciation," the Court held that a trust beneficiary who challenged a trust document did not have to repay distributions made to him from the trust in order to challenge the trust document. Prior to the initiation of the litigation, the decedent's wife and trustee of his trust sent the decedent's son distributions under the last version of the trust, and intended that he accept the distributions to prohibit him from challenging the validity of the last version of the trust. In his lawsuit to set aside the last versions of the trust, he renounced any interest he may have had in those trusts, but alleged that Florida law did not require him to return the money he had already received because he was entitled to an equal or greater amount under the prior versions of the trust. The trial court held that the son was required to return all prior distributio
Keul v. Hodges Blvd. Presbyterian Church
Keul v. Hodges Blvd. Presbyterian Church , 180 So.3d 1074 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015) This decision deals with whether a POD designation can be invalidated for undue influence , as well as the right of a probate court to require a party to return POD funds to an estate instead of entering a money judgment against the party for the amount of the funds. The decedent's 2009 will provided that at her death, her entire estate would go to Hodges Boulevard Presbyterian Church. A few days before she died, the decedent's neighbor/friend/caregiver/attorney in fact/health care surrogate claimed the decedent asked her to help her get a POD form to change her beneficiary designation to leave all of her assets to the neighbor and her family. Following the decedent's death, the church objected to the inventory and sought to remove the neighbor as personal representative, arguing that the neighbor had failed to include the POD account in the inventory. The trial court ultimately
Gordin v. Estate of Maisel
Gordin v. Estate of Maisel , 179 So.3d 518 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015), 2015 WL 7566353 This decision centers around whether a probate court can appoint a curator without revoking the prior appointment of personal representatives. The Court held that it was improper for the probate court to do so. The probate court admitted the decedent's will to probate, appointing his daughter and grandson as co-personal representatives of the estate. The decedent's son filed a petition for revocation of the will, claiming that he was entitled to a forced share of the estate because the decedent lived in Puerto Rico when he died, that the decedent lacked testamentary capacity and was subject to undue influence when he executed the will, and that he had three previous wills. The son also filed a petition for administration seeking to admit one of those previous wills to probate, and a petition to remove the personal representatives and appoint a curator. Without hearing evidence, the
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Let there be music… again!
— joe @ 12:25 pm
Hey everybody, I just wanted to get the word out about a couple of CD’s that some friends of mine have released. I highly recommend each and everyone and suggest that you run (not walk) to a store (or website) to buy them.
Derek Webb I See Things Upside Down– This is such a fantastic CD and a very convicting one at that. Lyrically, it kicked me in my gut more than a few times and musically it’s one of the best album’s out there. If you’re a fan of Wilco or Radiohead, you must go and get this record.
Caedmon’s Call Share the Well– I had the privelage of hearing some first person accounts on the making of this album and can attest to the passion that went into this CD. It’s a call for us as believers to stand up and take notice of some of the things happening in our world. Musically it reflects the places that the album was recorded (India, Brazil and Ecquador) with a cool folk bend and lyrically it tells the stories of people they encountered along the way. I will gladly admit to tearing up a few times during this album and I think it’s some of the best writing from this band since Long Line of Leavers. Just a great CD which also features Promised Landproducer Andrew Osenga (now a full time member of Caedmon’s).
Jeremy Casella 10,000 Angels– I’ve played a few shows with Jeremy and he’s a very good friend… but even if that wasn’t the case, I’d still tell you to go buy his new EP. Featuring some songs from his last album The Innocence Fires (which never really saw the light of day, but you can find it online if you look… and I suggest you do) but in a much different way. The album is sparse and ambient (in a good way) and includes a beautiful acoustic version of his song Dust to Glory.
Matthew Smith Even When My Heart is Breaking– Matthew is the lead singer of Indelible Grace’s touring band and is featured on all 3 CD’s (plus the Christmas CD). This is his first solo EP and it’s a nice little collection of traditional hymns (Jesus, what a friend for sinners/Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus) and some retuned hymns of his own. Produced by my buddy Cason Cooley (who is also very prominent on Derek Webb’s new CD), it’s got some great production work and some killer background vocals (featuring Derek Webb, Sandra McCracken, Jeremy Casella and Andrew Osenga to name a few). You can get it on Matthew’s website.
Andrew Peterson Behold the Lamb of God– Andrew is an unbelievable songwriter and this is a collection of songs that he performs every year at his Christmas show (which is amazingly good in it’s own right) and features most of the people at those shows. Produced by Andrew Osenga (he’s everywhere!), it tells the story of Christ’s birth but in a way that we’ve never heard before. It showcases all original songs by Andy P and it’s some of his best writing ever. This is definitely the CD to give to folks for Christmas. I’ll have mine playing till the end of the year (and most likely long after!)
So there you go, some great CD’s that would make for great Christmas presents. All of these guys are making music that people like me have been craving from the Christian music world for a long time. You can buy most of the CD’s at Eb+Flo or at the artists website (just click on their name). Support indie artists!!!
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When Does Something Become Medical Malpractice?
The feeling that you were a victim of medical malpractice can be terrible to deal with. You may be wondering whether it's time to take your case to a medical malpractice law firm. At the same time, you might also wonder whether what happened was bad enough to qualify as malpractice and what point it may become a form of wrongdoing. First, you should examine these issues from a legal perspective.
Was There Negligence, Recklessness, or Malice?
One of the first things a medical malpractice lawyer will want to examine is whether the practitioner's conduct meets the legal standard of being negligent, reckless, or malicious. Negligence can occur in medical settings whenever an expected level of care in the profession isn't met. For example, nurses failing to redo dressing regularly would be negligent.
Reckless in the medical world usually arises from either doing things too quickly or using techniques that are considered badly outdated. The standard here is whether another professional in the field would consider an action shocking. Suppose a doctor used a procedure that had been banned by the FDA more than a decade ago. That would likely be deemed reckless because they must keep up with government warnings about procedures.
Malice through deliberate actions may seem like an unlikely thing to occur in the medical world, but it has been known to happen. There was even an extreme case involving a doctor who branded his initials into the organs of patients.
Was There a Legally Binding Relationship?
A patient has to enter into a professional's care for the practitioner's actions to constitute malpractice. If someone casually asks their neighbor who happens to be a nurse about recommendations for cold pills, they can't pursue a claim against the nurse if the pills cause an adverse reaction.
To establish a legally binding relationship, one of two things has to happen. First, there's the everyday scenario where someone goes to a doctor and actively seeks care. The doctor openly accepts the case and then proceeds to assist the patient. Second, there are emergency scenarios where a doctor takes on a patient who has come into a hospital where they were currently on call.
In both instances, the doctor has to take on the patient. The doctor also has to be compensated for their work, usually through their practice or through a health organization like a hospital, even if the patient wasn't paying for it.
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Humitz, Boudon named to WCHA All-League teams
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) today announced the members of the All League teams for the truncated 2019-20 season. Two Lakers were among the 24 honourees: Max Humitz and Louis Boudon.
Humitz, who served as co-captain with Collin Saccoman this season, had a career year, posting 22 goals and 13 assists for 35 points. He became the second Laker in as many years to eclipse the 100 point mark, doing so with a goal against Alaska Anchorage. Humitz finishes his career in Sault Ste. Marie with 111 points, the most for any Laker since joining the WCHA.
The native of Livonia was a third team selection last season and a rookie team pick in 2017.
Boudon, who played on a line with Humitz for most of the season, racked up 6 goals and 21 assists for 27 points. He finished in the top 10 nationally among rookies in scoring. Boudon, who hails from Grenoble, France, finished 4 points behind Minnesota State’s Lucas Sowder for the league lead and was third on the Lakers in total points, after Humitz and Ashton Calder.
In addition, Boudon was named the February Rookie of the Month and also garnered two Rookie of the Week accolades from the league.
Minnesota State and Bemidji State dominated the teams, with 7 players from the Mavericks and 6 from the Beavers.
Playoff Series Preview: Lake Superior State at #10 Bemidji State
LSSU: 13-21-4
Bemidji: 20-9-5
Beavers Bite Back
Prior to Saturday night, the Beavers had won eight in a row (counting a technical tie, but winning on 3v3 OT), outscoring opponents 31 to 10, including a 5-0 shutout against then #19 Northern Michigan. They’re being led in scoring by senior Adam Brady, who posted 17 goals, 14 assists for 31 points during the regular season. He is followed closely by sophomore forward Owen Sillinger, who tallied a 12-18—30 point season and junior Aaron Miller with 12-16—28.
Sophomore Zach Driscoll owns the net for Bemidji State, having played in all but 4 games this season, and posting 19 wins, 7 losses and 4 ties. He has only a 1.6 GAA and a .937 save %.
This team will be a tough nut to crack for the boys in blue, since during the regular season the Lakers only took one game from the Beavers, a 3v3 OT win at Abel Arena. Otherwise Bemidji outscored the Lakers 18-5.
The Lakers and Playoff Woes
The Lakers have been locked in to the seventh seed for the tail end of the season, but managed to finish the season fairly strong, winning six of their last eight (including a SO win), and had a strong performance against a bad Ferris State team to end the season, outscoring the Bulldogs 9-2 on the weekend.
Even though the Lakers have some big time scorers in Max Humitz (19-13—32), Ashton Calder (12-14—26), Louis Boudon (6-20—26) and Pierre-Luc Veillette (12-12—24), they’ll need to get some help on the backend in order to make this weekend work. Our boys in blue will also need to be solid on the blueline if they really want a shot at an upset.
As always, Mareks Mitens holds the keys for the net, though Roman Bengert did tally a win in the final game of the season against the Bulldogs, so if the series goes to three games, I wouldn’t be too shocked to see him out there in relief.
If history counts for anything, these are going to be some rough games. Save for last season, the Lakers have had a recent history of either blowouts or shutouts. If they lose but keep the score close & low, I’ll see it as a win, personally.
Puck Drops at 8:07 ET in Bemidji, Minnesota. The game can be heard locally at 99.5 YESFM, or through TuneIn. Flohockey will have the video broadcast, and if you are local to the Soo, Buffalo Wild Wings will be having watch parties for the games this weekend.
Boudon, Riedell cop Player of the Month accolades
In its final month of regular season play, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) today presented the honourees of the Player of the Month awards for February. In a testament to the strong finish to the season, two Lakers are among the recipients: Will Riedell and Louis Boudon.
Riedell, a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, posted the best month, scoring-wise, of his collegiate career. The junior blueliner had 3 goals and 6 assists for 9 points. The 9 points were tied with Michigan Tech’s Colin Swoyer for the league lead in points among defencemen. In addition, Riedell captured his first Player of the Week award in early February, following a series against the Huskies in Houghton. The junior has 16 points on the season, a career best and most among Laker defenceman. Riedell finished ahead of Bowling Green senior Alec Rauhauser and Michigan Tech’s Swoyer for the award
A day after receiving his second Rookie of the Week award, Boudon was honoured as Rookie of the Month. The forward from Grenoble, France, had 8 points this past month (2 goals, 6 assists), including 1 goal and 3 assists this past weekend in Big Rapids against Ferris State. Coincidentally, Boudon’s earlier Rookie of the Week award came against the Bulldogs following their trip to Sault Ste. Marie. Boudon’s 26 points (6G, 20A) are 2nd best for Lake Superior, trailing senior Max Humitz. In claiming the award, he beat out Bemidji State defenceman Elias Rosén, and Zack Rose, goaltender for Bowling Green.
In addition, Lake Superior’s Ashton Calder was nominated for Forward of the Month, but the award was claimed by Alaska’s Steven Jandric. Minnesota State netminder Dryden McKay took home Goaltender of the Month.
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Lehigh Valley Marketplace | Boy Scout of America Turns 100 - Lehigh Valley Marketplace
Boy Scout of America Turns 100
Written by Marketplace
By Melanie Gold
If you thought you knew a lot about the Boy Scouts of America, you still might be surprised to read that 7 of our last 10 presidents were Scouts,* that British TV personality Bear Grylls is the current worldwide Chief Scout, and that there are girls in Boy Scouts. They’re all reasons the Boy Scouts is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2010.
“Hitting the hundred-year mark is a great achievement for any organization. . . . It shows that you’re doing something right,” says Craig Poland, Scout Executive and CEO for the Minsi Trails Council, based in Bethlehem, covering the Greater Lehigh Valley (including Warren County in New Jersey) and the Poconos.
The Boy Scouts came to America from England in 1910 after an American businessman, hopelessly lost in London fog, was rescued by a boy. Robert Baden-Powell, a British Army general, founded Scouting the previous year. He had written and illustrated Scouting for Boys, to honor the cadets who were too young to fight but showed courage as guards and field hospital assistants in Britain’s African wars. The book, widely used by teachers and youth groups as a manual for good citizenship, is considered one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century. After returning from the Boer War in southern Africa, in 1909 Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes issued the first call for Scouts in London’s Hyde Park. Almost immediately, Scouting crossed the pond through lost businessman William Boyce (who was born in Pennsylvania) and Juliette Low, a Baden-Powell family friend.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and its official mission is, according to their website, “to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices” throughout their lives. There are 300 BSA councils throughout the country serving nearly 3 million youth. Locally there are approximately 18,000 children enrolled in the Minsi Trails Council’s seven districts. Individual group sizes range from 5 to 125 members.
Hitting the hundred-year mark is a great achievement for any organization…It shows that you’re doing something right.
The goal seems simple enough: “to work with families to make better adults,” says Poland. Boy Scouts offers programs to children ages 6 to 18, with continuing co-educational opportunities through age 21. Here’s how it works:
Children can join at any age. Between ages 6 and 11, children can enroll in Cub Scouts, where individual groups are organized as “packs,” then graduating to Boy Scout “troops” through age 18. Packs and troops meet regularly at a sponsoring facility, such as a church, corporation, or service club. In an age of pricey extra-curricular activities with compulsory parental commitments, Boy Scouts seems refreshingly inexpensive and flexible.
“It costs $15 to join,” Poland says, with no mandatory parental commitment. Other optional fees could include the cost of a uniform shirt or full uniform, plus any special programs, such as camp. Poland says there is a concerted effort for troops to subsidize program costs through fund-raisers.
In addition, young adults ages 14 to 21 can participate in optional co-ed programs. “Venturing” groups, which are organized as “crews,” engage in different “high-adventure” activities based on specific interests and hobbies. “Exploring” members are organized by “post” and participate in career-based learning opportunities, particularly valuable for the young adult whose family did not attend college or isn’t connected to a good career guidance program.
“Scouting gave me an excellent set of ideals,” says businessman John Gebhardt, 60, of Gebhardt’s billiards and trophies in Allentown. “I found that [Scouting] meant a lot more to me later in life,” when he could reflect on the positive friendships he’d formed and his cultivation of “better self-value.” Gebhardt has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to Scouting and is active with Troop 29 in Cetronia.
Poland says that throughout a youngster’s Scouting career, there is adult supervision and mentoring. Adult volunteer applications are approved both by the sponsoring organization—the church, corporation, or service club that provides the meeting space—then by a Boy Scouts background check through the state police. Adult volunteers with the Minsi Trails Council complete a mandatory leadership training program and are assessed for their personal strengths, then placed in appropriate volunteer positions. Minsi Trails currently oversees 5,500 adult volunteers.
Don Sachs, Minsi Trails’ marketing director, says that independent surveys by Harris Interactive show that Scouting encourages engaged citizenship. “Youngsters who are involved in Scouting for five or more years have higher graduation rates,” says Sachs. “They are more physically fit, more likely to vote, and become involved in civic activities.”
“Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal,” says Poland, borrowing a corporate catchphrase used in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, “is to have 75 percent of kids with five years or more of Scouting. Currently we’re at 33 percent. We can do better.”
Sachs contends that part of the continuing challenge for Scouting is fighting the “nature deficit disorder” that plagues young Americans.
“Studies show that children spend roughly 30 minutes per week in unstructured outdoor activities,” Sachs says. Boy Scouts addresses the deficit by providing opportunities to get kids active, outside, and interacting with their communities. For instance, the Scouting for Food program has participants collecting more than 100 tons of canned food donations that are distributed locally through food pantries. And there are the hallmarks of Scouting: the long-distance bike treks, canoe excursions, parks improvement projects, and camping.
There is plenty to do, Poland says, depending on how vigorously a child wants to participate and earn the service and merit badges based on community service, time commitment, and other factors.
“[The program] still has the same value it did 80 years ago, when we were teaching kids to read navy flags,” says Poland. “Today we teach kids how to use GPS systems. It’s still of interest and relevant to the kids. We’re changing with the times. But the idea isn’t to be better campers, but better leaders.”
In the Lehigh Valley, the Minsi Trails Council is ardent in its pursuit of recruiting African American, Hispanic, and Asian youngsters, and urban children who have been traditionally “underserved” by the organization. The Scoutreach program is aimed at marketing the Scouts to underserved communities, including single-parent families, through safe summer lunch programs and after-school sports opportunities, and by removing the language and economic barriers that may have prevented kids from joining in urban areas.
“Kids don’t join to become leaders,” says Sachs. Instead, he contends, they join for the social camaraderie and the fun.
“Scouting,” he says, “is fun, with a purpose.”
For more information, visit www.scouting.org or www.minsitrails.com.
*(The three presidents who weren’t Boy Scouts: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush)
Lehigh Valley Boy Scouts
• Wilmer Schultz, contractor and founder of the Schultz Organization
• Don Snyder, president of Lehigh Carbon Community College
• Pat Toomey, U.S. representative
• Don Walp, owner of former Walp’s restaurant
• Dick Wilson, president of Buckeye Pipeline
Famous Boy Scouts
• Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon
• Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City
• Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon winner
• Beasley Reece, NFL player
• Steven Spielberg, movie director
Melanie Gold is a freelance writer and book editor in Northampton County who is also a former Brownie Girl Scout and 4-H member.
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Corporal Punishment The Sugar-Coated Child Abuse
Sir Frank Peters
They say God works in many mysterious ways and the gift given by Him to the school children of Bangladesh this month (again) is NO corporal punishment.
Not because the 'teachers' have lifted their game and realized corporal punishment is without benefit, but because the children have not been at school, due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.
In many respects Coronavirus Covid-19 has been their only friend in a long while that has unwittingly protected them from disgraceful torture and abuse. Wednesday, January 13 commemorates the 10th anniversary of when the High Court of Bangladesh outlawed all forms of the despicable practice in schools and madrasahs.
You would think that after a decade some so-called 'teachers'/alleged learned persons would have rid themselves of their ignorance and learned from their folly and foolishness of trying to beat-in education to children. Some 'teachers' behave as if ignorance and stupidities were virtues.
It's been scientifically proved that corporal punishment doesn't work. It has never worked and there are literally thousands of studies from the top universities and experts worldwide that support this.
Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., a Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University, for example, said: "You cannot punish out the behaviors that you do not want. Therefore, there is no need for corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is a horrible thing that does not work."
Our own learned High Court Justices Md. Imman Ali and Md. Sheikh Hasan Arif when outlawing corporal punishment in Bangladesh in 2011, declared corporal punishment to be "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and a clear violation of a child's fundamental right to life, liberty and freedom".
Name one person in the country… in the world… just one… who could contradict and overthrow that valid statement with solid support. Impossible!
Corporal punishment is just a sugar-coated way of describing child abuse.
Last November, Scotland was the first country to call a 'spade a spade' and refer to it for what it is, child abuse.
China's Educators are the latest who are forbidden to use corporal punishment, verbal abuse and other methods that could physically and mentally harm children.
Last week the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Michael Holness, called for assistance from all church leaders to help rid his country of corporal punishment. He said that corporal punishment runs deep in the nation's social consciousness (as in Bangladesh) and it needs to be changed (as it does in Bangladesh).
"No institution of the State should use or promote violence," he said. "The Government has to be instrumental, deliberate and proactive in its message against violence."
Many countries in the world are trailing behind the example made by Sweden. Sweden drew a line under its "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of children in 1979. Finland followed in 1983, but despite the enormous evidence against the horrific practice since, other countries are shamefully slow to follow.
Any President or Prime Minister who says, "children are our greatest asset" or "children are the future of the nation" and have not banned corporal punishment are downright hypocrites.
Bangladesh banned corporal punishment a decade ago, but to the nation's shame, there's overwhelming evidence that says the ban still needs to take affect in schools and madrasahs.
Corporal punishment has no place in modern society. If you disagree, explain to me how kicking, grabbing, shoving, slapping, pushing, pinching or confining children in a small space; taping their mouths shut, pulling their hair, tugging at their ears, belittling, mocking, embarrassing, swearing, cursing and robbing them of dignity, making them look foolish in front of their peers or breaking sticks upon their young tender hands, backs and legs, actually help their development - or the children who are watching - and help them to become upstanding Bengali citizens? I'm listening.
Then there are those poor children who commit suicide when their tears have dried and their agonizing plaintive cries for help land on deaf ears.
When ignorance and madness mix there is no telling what will happen.
Corporal punishment is wrong and defenseless. We all share a portion of blame for the injustice it does, whether we are parents of not. What we allow to happen is what we ourselves become.
Irish statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797) summed it up when he said: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
We must be mindful of the fact, however, there are many, many, many good teachers in Bangladesh, but, unfortunately, there are also many 'teachers' who do more harm than good and these must be weeded out irrespective of who they know or to which political party they belong. Only questionable, incompetent 'teachers' complain about not getting respect from their students. Good teachers are given it automatically in response to the behaviour of the teachers towards them. Respect is never a one-way street. It is earned and reciprocated in equal portions and never freely given.
Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni is facing this and a number of other problems, within the education system. I hope Allah will guide her, for the greater benefit of Bangladesh.
For now at least, Coronavirus Covid-19 is the best school friend and protector from corporal punishment the children of Bangladesh have ever had.
Happy Anniversary wishes to High Court Justices Md. Imman Ali and Md. Sheikh Hasan Arif for attempting in 2011 to rid Bangladesh of the evil scourge and barbaric practice performed by the incompetent and ignorant.
(Sir Frank Peters is a former newspaper and magazine publisher and editor, a royal goodwill ambassador, humanitarian, and a long-time respected foreign friend of Bangladesh)
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Councillors challenge need for bus service cuts
Yet more double standards
A lack of transparency at Cornwall Council
Truro City Council by-election
What about parity for the China Clay Area?
Action on second homes
Unfair elections?
Police Commissioner nonsense
How not to consider an issue
Eric Pickles, confusion and the farce that is plan...
Latest on the incinerator
Rally on Lemon Quay
There has been a lot happening in the last few days. Indian Queens Band Week has just finished with the carnival taking place yesterday. I was at Thursday’s Fete at the Blue Anchor, but missed the carnival as I was opening an exhibition at the Wheal Martyn China Clay Country Park (more about that in a future blog).
But later yesterday, I attended Kneehigh’s performance of “Midnight’s Pumpkin” at The Asylum, near Blackwater. It was a fantastic evening.
The play is a distinctive retelling of Cinderella and the players even invite the audience to take part in parts of the Ball. Most joined in - cue lots of enjoyable but dodgy boogieing and, at the end, playing with balloons.
If you get the chance to go – do take the opportunity and enjoy. You won’t regret it!
The proposal to slash funding of concessionary bus fares in Cornwall was discussed at yesterday’s Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee.
The Cabinet Member for Transportation, Graeme Hicks, told members that cuts of over £2 million needed to be made. We also had representations from bus companies that the cut would lead to the loss of numerous services and less regular buses.
I was amazed that council officers were telling us that they were still “information gathering” but were clearly in talks with the bus companies about the percentage of concessionary fares that would be paid by the Council. It was clear that there seemed to be a lack of understanding of the implications of such cuts.
Members spoke out about the importance of Cornwall’s bus network, some called for the “shortfall” to be met from reserves, while others rightly railed against the lack of detail put in front of them.
I suggested that a proper “Inquiry Day” be held, with the bus operators, passengers and interested parties invited to attend to look at the detail more closely. This was agreed by members present.
Yesterday the Cabinet voted unanimously to push ahead with works “at risk” on the incinerator project – before the necessary revised project was agreed and before the outcome of the Section 288 challenge is known.
But, as promised, I would like to make one more comment on the Waste Panel meeting last week, when I challenged why the leadership of Cornwall Council had refused to work up a Plan B.
I quoted a recent response to members from the previous Full Council meeting which stated that the Council’s “existing waste policy was contained within the Waste Local Plan 2002. This Plan required the development of a single central energy from waste facility. Any movement away from this policy and the formation of a ‘Plan B’ could only take place once the planning appeal had been determined. It was only with the benefit of the specific reasons as to why a single central Energy from Waste facility would not be awarded planning permission that an appropriate Plan B could have been formed.”
At the Waste Panel, the Corporate Director broadly repeated this assertion, in effect stating that it would not have been appropriate to work up what might be termed a “departure” from adopted policy.
This did not go down well with frustrated members, who actually understood that one of the main reasons for the Waste Panel was to work up an alternative proposal. It was also a new excuse for months of stalling.
I also challenged the Director on his statement and pointed out that the leadership of the Council and the Corporate Directors were actively promoting a number of departure schemes for things such as large-scale housing and park and ride schemes around Truro. I asked when the Council would withdraw from such proposals.
I am also getting increasingly angry that the leadership of the Council believes that policy documents such as the 2002 Waste Local Plan stop us from working up alternative schemes. But other documents such as the 2002 Restormel Borough Local Plan and 2004 Cornwall Structure Plan are somehow out-dated and allow the Council to push alternative schemes.
What double standards.
Last week, I was present at a meeting of Cornwall Council’s Waste Panel. It was certainly not a good advert for local government, or openness and transparency. The meeting was convened to update councillors on the “revised project plan” being worked up for the construction of an incinerator at St Dennis.
Some background first. Cornwall Council signed an “Intregrated Waste Management Contract” with SITA in 2006. The decision of the former County Council to refuse permission for the incinerator meant that works could not be commenced by March 2010. This triggered clauses in the Contract which meant that the Council could terminate it, if they wished, or ask for a revised project plan.
Cornwall Council’s Cabinet declined to investigate the option of termination and invited SITA to present a revised project plan. The Secretary of State also granted consent for the plant in June, while a group of people from the St Dennis area recently launched a 288 challenge against the decision. This will go to the High Court.
At the Waste Panel meeting, we were told that the Council had obtained a legal opinion from a QC that stated the challenge was unlikely to be successful. The recommendation was that work be started, “at risk,” on the purchase of land and the construction of roads. It would be “at risk” because it would be before the new plan is agreed or the outcome of the challenge known. The cost of these works was estimated at £3-4 million.
I asked scores of questions and sought to challenge much of what we were being told. First, I asked about the QC’s opinion and, as an elected member, requested to see the full document. I was told that it was confidential and I could not see it. So much for transparency.
When the progress towards the revised project plan was discussed, it was noted that the incinerator proposal was the same as the one agreed by the Secretary of State, but had been recosted and would now be considerably more expensive.
As much of the discussion was about cost, I asked the obvious question: how much would it cost to build the incinerator? I was told that the figures were not yet known.
So I pointed out that the report stated that SITA had identified a new preferred bidder (out of nine original interested companies) to build the plant and that they had been judged on a range of criteria including “value for money” and the “contract price.”
At this point, it was acknowledged that a likely contract price was therefore known but they were not going to tell us what it was anyway. So much for openness and democracy.
In spite of the lack of information, the majority of councillors at the Panel meeting voted to support works being commenced “at risk.” I was one of two councillors who took the opposite view.
The final decision will be taken by the Cabinet this week (Wednesday).
I have some further comments about aspects of the meeting, which I will blog about later. A range of briefing and discussions have also been held in recent weeks about housing numbers for Cornwall over the next 20 years. I have been meaning to blog about it for some time, but promise it will happen this week.
MK candidate Lance Dyer polled 144 votes in yesterday’s by-election for a seat on Truro City Council (Boscawen). Compared to the last contest in this seat – a by-election in September 2009 – MK held its vote share almost exactly.
The seat was won by the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrat vote almost halved and Labour gained a large number of votes. The full result was as follows:
Conservative 469 (39.7% – up 8.9% from 2009)
Lib Dem 322 (27.3% – down 21.3% from 2009)
Labour 246 (20.8% – up 12.3% from 2009)
MK 144 (12.2% – up 0.2% from 2009)
Obviously we would have like to picked up more votes, but do feel we may have lost a number of votes because of a Conservative leaflet distributed in the last week.
The leaflet (see below) listed the candidates and had a comment about each. It noted that Lorrie Eathorne-Gibbons (Conservative) “lives in the ward and wants the best for Truro,” while Hanna Toms (Labour) “doesn’t live in the ward” and Kate Tregunna (Liberal Democrat) also “doesn’t live in the ward.”
But for Lance Dyer, the Conservative leaflet stated: “A Mebyon Kernow Councillor just joined Conservatives.” Obviously this refers to former MK councillor Loic Rich but it was written in such a way that many people interpreted it to mean that Lance had joined the Tories. All the other comments were personal to individual candidates and therefore people read the comment about Lance in the same way.
We first found out about the confusion when were even contacted by voters asking if Lance had joined the Tories.
I contacted the Conservatives about this issue yesterday and spoke to their election agent Bob Davidson and got nowhere. He said the leaflet was not misleading and not inaccurate.
For the record; the leaflet was shoddy and it was misleading because voters were mislead by it. And it was also inaccurate because Loic Rich was a former MK councillor when he joined the Conservatives.
We will certainly be looking to take this further and asking for an apology. I am not that hopeful however as we did not receive an apology when MK was misrepresented on a different Conservative leaflet in a Camborne by-election last year (see blog entry for 18 November 2010).
It has been another grim day at County Hall and I “threw my toys out of the pram” a couple of times. In truth, sometimes the frustration of being a member of Cornwall Council is just too much.
I was at the meeting of the Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the first item that got me going was an update on the rationalisation of “face-to-face” services. That is basically libraries and one-stop shops, which provide council services.
Much of the review could be applauded. Linking one-stop shops to libraries in a number of areas will help safeguard what can be provided, while new services from libraries in places such as Perranporth, St Agnes and St Just is to be welcomed.
But there was one glaring oversight which I felt I had to point out – as I have been doing for two years. And that is how Cornwall Council is failing to properly provide such services in the China Clay Area Network.
We have no permanent one-stop shop. Library provision is restricted to six hours a week in St Dennis School. There have been some attempts to have drop-in sessions in local halls, but these have been infrequent and under-resourced.
I accept that the China Clay Area Network does not have an obvious centre, such as a single town, from which to provide services. But there was a promise to convert a minibus into a mobile one-stop shop – which would have been cheaper than what is spent in other areas - but senior management pulled the plug on the project.
So, unlike other Network Areas, the China Clay Area has not had its fair share of spend on “face-to-face” services, staff and buildings, and has lost out – massively.
After a “rant” at the meeting, I moved that there be an investigation into why the Clay Area does not have the same levels of services as other areas in Cornwall. It was seconded by my good friend and fellow China Clay member, Des Curnow, and supported by the Committee.
Corporate Director Gill Steward has agreed to look specifically at what can be done in our area. Watch this space. And let us hope that we will see more progress in the next two years than has been managed over the last two.
My article in today's Cornish Guardian focuse on the topic of second homes. It is as below:
Last week, the members of Cornwall Council unanimously backed a motion to seek the removal of the 10% council tax discount presently enjoyed by second home-owners.
Prior to 2004, the discount was a massive 50% but the last Government legislated to allow councils to reduce that discount to 10% if they wished.
From that time, Cornwall County Council and the six former district councils cut the discount to the minimum and used the additional revenue to fund affordable housing schemes across Cornwall. Sadly, this was an arrangement that did not survive the abolition of the districts and the creation of the unitary authority.
Last week’s motion rightly noted that with the “continuing recession and the demand on the public purse to provide frontline services … it would be unjust to allow second home concessions to continue.” It was resolved that Cornwall Council make representations to central government to both abolish the discount and endorse the use of the £1.6 million, that would be raised in Cornwall, for new affordable homes for local people.
There are over 14,000 second homes in Cornwall and their impact has been very damaging, leaving certain hamlets and coastal areas virtually uninhabited in winter months.
It is important that we put pressure on MPs on this issue, but it is about more than just levels of local taxation.
It is my view that it is simply wrong that wealthy individuals should have two or more homes, while many hardworking families cannot afford a first home in their local communities.
The rise in house prices to ridiculous levels, and by association the heightened cost of renting, has been caused by a host of factors. But that includes the growth of second homes and making a commodity out of that most basic human need to put a roof over one’s head.
We need far-reaching reforms to the planning system and the introduction of controls to reverse both the spread and number of second homes. Planning permission should be needed before homes can be turned into part-time residences, so that councillors have the ability to say no.
Mebyon Kernow believes that if more than 5% of the housing stock in a particular settlement and/or parish are second homes, there should also be an automatic ban on any new ones. And in such areas, properties used as second homes coming onto the market should only be allowed to be sold for use as permanent dwellings.
The big question is: will the multiple-house-owning politicians at the top of the main parties do what is right for the majority?
Further to my earlier blog about the likely 2012 election for a Police Commissioner for “Devon and Cornwall,” I have today discovered that the deposit to stand will be £5,000. No doubt, the arrangements will mirror those of the European elections.
As MK supporters will be aware, in 2009, Mebyon Kernow stood a slate of candidates for the South West seat in the European Parliament. We polled 11,534 votes in Cornwall (7% of those cast).
Parties needed to achieve 2.5% of the vote to save their deposit of £5,000. However the powers-that-be refused to return our deposit even though we, as a Cornish Party, only campaigned in Cornwall achieved that percentage by a factor of three. Other parties such as the BNP standing and campaigning throughout the whole South West but achieving a lower percentage of the overall vote than ours in Cornwall, had theirs returned.
I do not know what share of the vote will be needed to save a candidate’s deposit this time around, but predict that there will be an arrangement that disadvantages MK and potential Cornish candidates.
I have just attended a meeting of the Electoral Review Panel, where we debated a number of issues including the likely forthcoming election for a Police Commissioner for "Devon and Cornwall" in May 2012.
It was an issue that I also covered in my column in this week's Cornish Guardian. It was as follows:
At the present time, the work of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary is overseen by a Police Authority made up of ten appointed councillors and nine independent members.
But this will all change if the Government gets its way. And it will be bad news for Cornwall.
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill is slowly winding its way through Parliament and includes a proposal for a single, elected Police Commissioner to run each police area.
It also proposes that each commissioner would be scrutinised by a Police Board, once again comprising appointed councillors, but weaker than the current authority.
Many people, including representatives of police officers, have spoken out against the politicisation of policing.
I share this view and question how making police matters into an electoral football once every four years will benefit local communities.
I also consider it wrong that so much influence could be vested into the hands of one individual.
It seems to me that the legislation put forward by the Conservative-led Government has clearly not been thought through.
It specifies that the election of commissioners should be via a form of preferential voting. And yet, only weeks ago, the Conservative Party led opposition to the introduction of a similar voting system for elections to the Westminster Parliament. What double standards.
Cornish communities would also be at an electoral disadvantage, as the population of Devon is approximately twice that of Cornwall and our local interests could easily fall below those of our neighbours.
Most ludicrously of all, it is proposed that every principal authority in Cornwall and Devon should nominate one councillor to serve on the board.
This would leave Cornwall massively under-represented. Our 530,000 residents would be expected to make do with just one board member. The Council of the Isles of Scilly would also have one representative, for its 2,000 residents.
Devon (population 1,140,000) would meanwhile have 11 people on the board – one representative for each of Devon County Council, the two unitary authorities (Plymouth and Torbay), as well as the eight district councils (East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torridge and West Devon).
It has to be asked – how did the Government manage to come up with such a ridiculous proposal that can so distort the membership of the panel? Politicians from all parties are continuing to make representations on this issue and last week Cornwall Council formally wrote to the Home Secretary.
It remains to be seen whether central Government is listening and will act.
I know I cannot stop writing about waste issues, but …
This morning, I attended the latest meeting of the Council’s Waste Panel. The Revised Project Plan (which would need to be agreed between the Council and SITA before the incinerator could be built) was on the agenda.
The written report did not materialise. And at 10.00, we were told that there would be a verbal report. We were also told that the report could not be finalised because of legal implications arising from the challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision from the people of St Dennis.
As councillors, we were pretty unimpressed that a topic of such complexity could be presented in this way.
And then, the officer concerned actually took out a draft of the report – that we were not allowed to see – and promptly began to read out certain sections of it verbatim.
We objected to being kept in the dark and treated like children and the meeting was adjourned. We now await sight of the written report.
Eric Pickles, confusion and the farce that is planning
The Western Morning News on Saturday featured an article on Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities.
Written by Graeme Demianyk, it was titled: "Straight-talking Eric is Tory champion of responsible localism." But nothing could have been further from the truth and comments about 'localism' and 'his' decision to sanction an incinerator at St Dennis beggar belief. The relevant extract is as follows:
Some people have questioned his decision to approve an incinerator to be built in St Dennis in the heart of Cornwall, overruling widespread local opposition to the £117 million mass burner. He is clear he does not know the details of St Dennis, as decisions can be taken in his name. But he argues that there is no contradiction with his localism agenda.
“There’s no contradiction in something that has national importance. Localism is not about people being able to say ‘no’ to a piece of national infrastructure, or regional infrastructure, that has value to people outside their neighbourhood. Localism is about local people making decisions and accepting the consequences.”
So there we have it. The incinerator was given the go-ahead by civil servants acting on behalf of Mr Pickles, who clearly knows nothing about the plant. What a farce!
Campaigners against the incinerator proposed for St Dennis have, this week, launched a legal challenge against the decision of Eric Pickles to approve the project.
I have not been involved in the preparation of the case, which is in the names of The Power of Cornwall, the Transition Cornwall Network and the Cornwall Sustainable Waste Network – all Rule 6 Parties at the recent Inquiry.
I understand that the challenge focuses on procedural issues relating to the Inquiry, the impact of emissions on Special Areas of Conservation within the vicinity of St Dennis and that these impacts have not been properly assessed.
But it is also the case that Cornwall Council still has to agree a Revised Project Plan with SITA, before construction of the facility can commence. There is plenty of speculation about the potential increased cost of the incinerator being in excess of £50 million.
At this point, I intend to use my position as a councillor to carefully question and challenge all aspects of the Revised Project Plan (RPP), including the cost.
I will be present at the next meeting of the Council’s Waste Panel on Monday, and the Revised Project Plan (RPP) is on the agenda.
However, the initial paperwork for the meeting was sent out over a week ago, with the RPP report listed as "to follow." As of 5.00 today, the report had not materialised and councillors are still waiting to find out details of the ongoing negotiations between the Council and SITA.
I am certainly not happy about this situation.
I attended the demonstration at Lemon Quay in Truro, which was organised in opposition to cuts to the public sector.
It was very well-attended and it was pleasing to see so many friends and MK members showing their support for workers in the public sector.
It remains important that we continue to fight the draconian cuts of the Con – Dem Government.
And it is important that we fight the Government’s determination to create a more unfair society, punishing public sector workers and less-well-off, while protecting their millionaire and banker friends.
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Born in the Red River Settlement on 17 June 1832, son of James Fraser and Anne Bannerman, he married Annie, daughter of John and Ellen (Helen?) (Matheson) MacBeth. They had no family, but reared a nephew and two nieces, W. R. Sutherland, Jemima Matheson, and Christianna Margaret MacBeth. He was educated at Pritchard School and St. John’s School and Academy.
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The village of Gelemis often referred to as Patara Village enjoyed its heyday in the 1980s before the growth of Kalkan. You can drive through the village and pine forest to the sand dunes, further along the beach than the usual tourist spot.
The ruins are quite amazing and rumoured that on full excavation to be larger than Ephesus. This is the birthplace of St Nicholas and your first sighting will be the city gate just before the entrance to the ruins.
There is a fee to access the area — for 7.5 lira you can buy a card valid for 10 days which will allow you 10 entrances in to the site and beach area. Children under 12 are not charged for. From the entrance gate carry straight on and the ancient city will come in to view immediately. To visit the site, take the right approx 1.25km from the entrance gate to park near to the ruins. To visit the beach continue to the end of the road where you will see a car park area, and take the wooden walk way on to the beach.
Possessing a natural harbour, Patara was said to have been founded by Patarus, a son of Apollo. It was a very wealthy city due to trade and was one of the six principal cities of Lycia.
The town walls surround an area of considerable extent and the theatre has about 30 rows of seats. The building to the side of the theatre is the parliament building and the date of the building’s construction goes back to the Hellenistic Age, however, the form we see today is from the Roman period. It has rows of stone seats arranged in a semi-circle, the same arrangement used in the chambers of the American Congress. Voting pieces made of fired clay may have been used and the number of holes piercing them indicated “yes”, “no” or “abstain”. The Lycia League founded in 168BC an early federation with democratic principles, these later influenced the United States Constitution.
From the theatre you will pass the recently restored Parliamentary building on the left, continue straight on and you will come to the main street with columns of marble and granite either side. If you turn left at the end of the street and follow the path along, signposted as 800m (about 10 mins) you will come to the lighthouse, a 2003 discovery believed to be the oldest lighthouse in the world.
If you are looking around the ruins, it is best to go early or late in the day and as ever take water and sun protection.
Another treat is to be on the beach at sunset, a magical sight as the sun slips behind the horizon between the sea and sky.
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