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Recent Articles about Indonesia / Philippines / Australia Anarchist movement
Celebration of Jack Grancharoff's life Jun 20 16 by Dmitri (republishing)
MAY DAY 2016 May 01 16 by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
Anarchism in Indonesia Jan 29 15 by Sean Matthews
Formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin
indonesia / philippines / australia | anarchist movement | press release Wednesday January 06, 2021 19:10 by Anarchist Communists Meanjin
In Brisbane, Australia
The struggle for a new world has been a long one and has been contributed to by countless individuals and organisations in that time. While the path often seems long and sometimes hopeless we believe that a new world is not just possible, but necessary for our survival. We hope that with this new organisation we like so many before us can play a part in making this vision become reality.
We are excited to officially announce the formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin!
We are an organisation of revolutionaries who share a common vision of a new world – an anarchist communist world - where people collectively control their workplaces, communities and land, where all needs are met and all people are able to flourish. A world where power and decision making flow from the bottom up and society is organised for peoples’ aspirations, passions, and needs rather than profit, where we can live sustainability with the planet and where oppressive social structures based on racism, imperialism, patriarchy and heteronormativity are a thing of the past.
We believe that this vision can only be brought about through the revolutionary power of the working class organised in the workplaces, communities, schools, and streets in order to overthrow the state and capitalism, thereby enacting a social revolution and building a new world from below.
As those actively seeking to construct this vision we are inspired by the traditions of anarchist-communism, Marxism, especifismo, platformism, women’s liberation, queer liberation, decolonisation, abolitionism, anti-racism and the history of global struggle for liberation. We are inspired by a long tradition of struggle and by all the revolutionaries before us, whose tireless work and commitment have laid the path we follow today. Most importantly we acknowledge that First Nations Peoples fight against invasion and colonisation is the longest ongoing struggle within So-Called Australia and is central to any possibility of social change on this continent today.
We believe in the need for a political home from which to organise ourselves and put forward our vision. We believe in the need to create spaces for the development of new revolutionaries that allow the grouping together of similarly minded militants in order to facilitate the development of all.
We see the need to build a specifically anarchist communist organisation united around a common set of ideas, strategy, and practice. We believe that political organisations should speak to the needs of our time, and act as a catalyst in struggles to expand their revolutionary potential. Revolutionary organisation should be a vehicle to build, contribute to, and learn from social struggles and eventually act as a motor for social revolution.
While we have formed out of Unite, Anarchist Communists Meanjin is a new and completely separate organisation based upon a greater unity of theory and action. Unite will continue on in its amazing work, particularly the running of Common House, one of the most vibrant centres of radical organising in Meanjin, and one they hope to open up even more like minded groups in the future. You can follow their amazing work and get in touch here - https://www.facebook.com/UniteCommonHouseBNE
We would like to make clear that the formation of Anarchist Communists Meanjin is not a split from Unite but rather the result of a group of comrades developing and expanding their politics in new ways, which eventually required the formation of an entirely new organisation.
For those interested in getting involved with Anarchist Communists Meanjin we can be reached either through our facebook or our website https://acmeanjin.org
You can also find out more information about our politics & strategy on our website, as well as ongoing streams of propaganda and education.
Watch this space for events in the future, we plan to hold regular public reading groups & discussion nights starting on the 19th where we will be reading and discussing a range of articles on ‘Especifismo’, a variant of anarchist communist organising birthed in Latin America, from which we are heavily influenced.
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Report from the Academy: Q&A about Curatorial Power with Lisa Myers
by Sally McKay on June 8, 2011 · 1 comment Interview
KC Adams, The Gift That Keeps on Giving (2011). Clay pots, river rocks, white flour, white sugar, salt, milk and lard. Photo: KC Adams.
Artists and theorists often formulate opinions of art world hierarchies according to Jenny Holzer's common sense maxim, THE ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. Every curator, even the most community-minded, has to figure out how to manage power dynamics in relationship to artists and artworks. Specifically, I am thinking about the common complaint artists have that curators manipulate and re-contextualize their work in order to illustrate a curatorial agenda. In the worst case scenarios, artists are positioned as inarticulate makers and curators as the ones who illuminate the meanings of the works in cultural context. But there are many curators for whom the politics of representation are deeply embedded in their practice. In order to take a closer look at the processes of curation, I will present discussions with two curators who have inspired me with their approach to power. Next month I will talk with Patrick Macaulay, Head of Visual Art at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. This month, I talk with the Toronto based emerging curator Lisa Myers.
Having just finished her Masters of Fine Art in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCADU, Lisa Myers is already garnering quite a bit of attention in the Canadian art world. In 2010 she collaborated with fellow student and curator Suzanne Morrissette on the exhibition past now, a show with two emerging Aboriginal artists—Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell. Each artist embodies past historical motifs in living contemporary forms. The exhibition was first mounted at the OCADU Graduate Gallery in March of 2010, and then expanded into a large-scale installation at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie that ran from November 2010 into February 2011.
Best Before at Graduate Gallery, OCAD University (2011). View of entrance. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
Lisa's very recent thesis exhibition, Best Before, was an ambitious project featuring funny and poignant installations about the encoding of food from Aboriginal perspectives. The artists — KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Peter Morin and Suzanne Morrissette — have diverse practices, and come from very different points in their careers, some just now emerging and some with international profiles already established. The works resonated very well in dialogue with one another, creating a reflective aesthetic space with a strong emotional charge.
Sally: You've mentioned that collaboration is a big part of your process. Can you talk about some of the specific ways that collaboration has manifested in your practice?
Lisa: I can relate collaboration to my experience as a chef running kitchens where everyone has something to contribute and even though I was running the show I couldn't do it without the team. Similarly, to me curators and artists have an interdependent relationship that calls for careful consideration.
I use the term collaborate to describe my approach to my thesis exhibition Best Before mostly to explain that the artists and I examined the curatorial thesis together. Especially with this project, collaboration made sense since I invited the artists to make work that responded to a recipe of their choice (in some cases the recipe emerged after the work). The responsibility of representing artists through curatorial writing and exhibitions is daunting and I negotiate it carefully and with respect. I check in with the artists and consider their input integral. My collaborative practice includes talking through ideas with the artists, whether they concern the developing of artworks or the exhibition design and use of space. I also share my writing with the artists during the early stages of developing the exhibition which gives us a chance to respond to one another, and builds trust.
Keesic Douglas, 4 Reservation Food Groups (2010). Four chromagenic prints, Cheez Whiz, Kam, Wonderbread, Kool-Aid, water, audio file of Mark Douglas telling his Kam story. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: I want to ask about how you deal with power. Issues of representation are particularly charged when working with Aboriginal artists. As a curator, how do you come to terms with your own role as a gatekeeper?
L: I don't think of what I do as gate keeping but yes I have the power to choose artists for the exhibitions that I curate. At the same time I'm also cognizant of the fact that the aritsts have power too, without artists and artworks there's no show.
Gate keeping makes me think of the way historically Indigenous people were represented in museums as “primitive,” extinct and “people of the past”. In my opinion, works like James Luna's Artifact Piece marked an important flash point in 1987, as he laid in a vitrine at the Museum of Man in San Diego. As a living and breathing person, Luna took up the position of the artifact and in doing so, his performance raised questions about power. Specifically, I think Luna's work prodded at the power of museums to display and portray indigenous cultures as static and only existing in the past. This performance underlined the power of the art world. Work by Indigenous artists pushed boundaries between what was deemed suitable to be displayed in museums as cultural artifacts and what was to be exhibited in museums or galleries as Art. I also consider the curatorial projects by Lee Ann Martin, Gerald McMaster and Richard William Hill, just to name a few of the significant number of Indigenous curators who have worked for decades to tease out artworld hierarchies.
Despite my internal conflict about power and the responsibility of representation, I still have to own some authority and part of the responsibility of representing involves acknowledging and owning the authority or power.
S: I'm wondering if you feel like you have been taking curatorial risks. In my interpretation, past now was a very edgy show. Both Luke Parnell and Meryl McMaster put very finely nuanced spins on imagery that could be described as “traditional” in the historical context of Aboriginal art and craft. Some really high profile Aboriginal artists — I'm thinking specifically of Kent Monkman, Brian Jungen and Terrance Houle — make overt, ironic use of traditional tropes in order to subvert them through inversion. Parnell and McMaster are critically astute artists, but they both go for a high impact, visual aesthetic that seems to fall on the side of embracing traditional practices rather than poking fun at them. I'm wondering if you agree with this interpretation, and whether or not putting these works together felt at all risky for you and Suzanne in the context of contemporary Aboriginal art practice?
L: Monkman, Jungen and Houle in some cases use parody and I think that their work also investigates sophisticated visual languages that haven't been included in the critical art discourse. For example, in one of Jungen's works where he creates customary beading designs by drilling holes into jerry gas cans, the result is often seen as a post modern mash up of sorts. But I'm also interested in the potential for critical art writing from an Indigenous perspective to address the specific symbolism encoded in such beading designs. In a lot of cases, the best writing about Aboriginal or Indigenous art is happening now in our exhibition catalogues. This speaks to the importance of contemporary art and curatorial practice as informing written art history.
As for past now the biggest risk was that people wouldn't get it and they'd see it as fulfilling preconceived notions of what Native art looks like. But I think that the work successfully disrupted that and it's interesting to think about how, for example, Luke Parnell's carving evokes certain romantic ideas and iconography of the past and then slaps down some issues with big stakes. His installation 48 — comprised of 48 basswood carvings individually encased in acrylic boxes — responds to the repatriation by the Haida of human remains of their ancestors.
When I first saw Luke and Meryl's artwork I knew they would work in dialogue together and something really great would happen. Putting together past now was an intuitive moment. Luke's work takes customary design and images into a realm of examination of history and at the same time responds to pop culture and serious issues like repatriation of human remains. Meryl appropriates old Edward S. Curtis and Will Soule photographs to reflect on her own identity and ancestral connections. She expressed that it was important to her that everyone could relate to her photos and consider their own ancestors. The artwork really led the exhibition premise.
Cheryl L'Hirondelle, NDNSPAM Cookbook (2011). Detail of NDNSPAM iMac cozy. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: Following on from the last question, I know from previous discussions that you received some strong emotional feedback from audiences at your thesis exhibition Best Before. On one hand, many of the works could be interpreted as light and playful, but it seems as if, for some people, a quite tragic and painful subtext was also emerging through the humour. Do you embrace the dark side, or are some issues just too sensitive to take on directly?
L: The artists were responding to recipes of their choice and the emotional response was a result of the exhibition's premise. Colonization involved displacement from land and shifts in food sources, commodity foods were introduced in manners that some would consider acts of violence, so it wasn't unexpected that the work would deal with difficult subject matter. One of the long-term effects of this colonial history involves the rates of type two diabetes being three to five times higher in Aboriginal communities than those of the rest of the population across Canada. I wasn't doing the show to be merely provocative, it was inspired by performance work by James Luna and Lori Blondeau, which I linked to my experience as a cook and the health issues in my own community and family around diabetes and cancer. These difficult topics are as important as the humour that some of the work evokes. I think the playfulness comes hand in hand with what you call the dark side. For some the show was about the deleterious effect of processed food, for others it was the potential of any food to be incorporated as a family food tradition and many other ideas were all at play.
Peter Morin, Salmon and Bannock (2005/2010). Letter envelopes, hand-printed lino prints and video documentation of Team Diversity: World's Largest Bannock Attempt (2005) Photo: Keesic Douglas
S: I really appreciate the fact that all of the artists in Best Before are given equal weight in the exhibition, despite the fact that some have a really high profile while others do not. Was this an accident of how this particular show came together, or is it indicative of a curatorial agenda to work against the grain of hierarchical artworld structures?
L: Giving each artist equal weight in the exhibition seemed the most respectful way to work with the artists, and visually it gave the exhibition a certain balance in the space. It wasn't entirely conscious but in the end I learned a lot and I would attribute it to working with artists at different stages in their career. This was the range of artists I found that incorporated food in their practice.
I think this relates to the audience too, this show was successful in engaging a non-art audience just because the ubiquitous nature of food engages people without being intimidating. I think the subject of food as an art medium, or a researchable topic with the discourse of art history, itself challenges the hierarchical structures of the art world.
Suzanne Morrissette, solve for spur to bum area, for some (2011). Paper, pencil, pen, ink, metal screen, electric stove elements, camping stove, stock pot, and Labrador Tea. Photo: Keesic Douglas.
S: You are an artist as well as a curator. I'm wondering if you feel like having an art practice impacts your curatorial process in negative and/or positive ways. It is important to listen to the artworks first and foremost and respect the artists, as it is sometimes difficult not to get carried away and deploy artworks as points of argument toward a curatorial proposition. How do you negotiate these kinds of tensions in your practice?
L: You raise some important points here. As an artist I know how art drives ideas, in terms of curatorial work I see it as another creative process that puts works into conversation together — in this conversation something new happens and it's the art together that makes it happen. I don't want to force that, and I like how sometimes unexpected things happen once the show is installed. I'm sure that work gets recontextualized all the time. I may do that too, but not because I think it lacks some articulation on the artist's part. I think that a perceived manipulation takes place because there's a lack of communication and dialogue between the artist and curator. I also think that it's nearly impossible to represent an artwork like the artist would. I appreciate when artists and artists' collectives put together shows without curators.
Lisa Myers is a curator, artist and musician. Her MFA research in Criticism and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University investigated cultural agency and the encoding of food from diverse Indigenous perspectives, and resulted in the exhibition titled Best Before. This summer Myers will be working on numerous projects including artwork for a forthcoming exhibition, a series of performances with the band Adaptor 45, and planning a curatorial collaboration with artist Rebecca Diederichs. This August, Myers will present at the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography in Frankfurt, Germany. Lisa Myers lives and works between Toronto and Port Severn, Ontario.
Tagged as: Adaptor 45, Best Before, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Gerald McMaster, James Luna, KC Adams, Keesic Douglas, Lee Ann Martin, Lisa Myers, MacLaren Art Centre, OCADU Graduate Gallery, Peter Morin, Richard William Hill, Suzanne Morrissette
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David L. Lawrence Convention Center
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The suspension roof of this 1.45 million-square-foot convention center integrates into a single sweeping gesture the contextual, environmental, structural, and programmatic requirements of the project. Its iconic design takes inspiration from the historic suspension bridges that span the Allegheny River adjacent to the riverfront site and provides the latest chapter in Pittsburgh’s long history of engineering and technological innovations. This unique steel cable structure made possible a naturally-lit and column-free, 250,000-square-foot exhibition hall.
Extending downtown Pittsburgh’s civic realm above and through the building, the new center provides both a public roof terrace with panoramic views of downtown and the Allegheny River as well as a ground level pedestrian connection under the building and through a 500-foot water feature that leads to the riverfront park.
This competition-won design was executed largely from a site office in Pittsburgh, which in collaboration with the owner, consultant engineers, non-profit environmental agencies provided an extensive team effort to maximize integration of viable sustainable features into the design of the facility, including natural day-lighting, low-temperature air distribution, natural ventilation, and gray water reclamation. The first and largest certified sustainable convention center in the world, the center is also the only meeting venue to be awarded the Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Selection:
Cinéma en développement 9 / 2014
Natalia Smirnoff
More informations about director
Director's main filmography:
Lock Charmer, 2014,
Viviendo Positivamente, 2012,
Puzzle, 2010.
Director’s statement:
When we arrive to all what we had dreamt about, Where we arrive? Hardly anything that what we have dreamt about in the past, will look alike now. Along the way of life certain parts become lost. There are unavoidable resignations, changes in the sense of way, unexpected discoveries, developments that transform us. And maybe something essential has been left behind during the voyage. To meet someone else, somebody who has been close to us, may move us to look back. Watching at all that someone isn’t, the mirror-like vision becomes evident. The shock forces us, at least, to rethink the situation. And maybe it gives us a chance to incorporate that very important thing we had forgotten about.
Clara (39) is a well-known illustrator that less than a year ago won a very important prize that changed her economic status and found herself on the public eye, so she moved with her family to a suburb to be more focused on her work. Her husband, Francisco, is her pleader and defender, sometimes over-protective. Also Sammie, her agent. Between both of them, kind of handle Clara´s life. Among this adaptation and discovery, she goes to the town to buy something, and finds Ariel, the butcher, her old boyfriend, with whom 20 years ago, dreamed of living in that place. The impact is mutual. Ariel doesn’t know anything about the public life of Clara and she enjoys this on top of everything. They start a series of random encounters, continued by some programmed ones, doing things that they used to do and are no longer part of her current life. Ariel lives one day at a time, without thinking or expecting too much. Something that contrasts a lot with Clara’s family and working life, full of important and exposed events, as well as tidy up and tight orders. Clara goes into crisis with what she has to draw next, finding herself in an unknown place, where she finds out from Ariel who she was and who is she now. What changed, what is her essence, what she lost? Who she wants to be from now?
Visual concept:
Starting the play about a leading female character, an illustrator, I’m interested in exploring the gaze of somebody who draws, who imagines, and the interplay between the movie image’s internal reality and its possible proximity to her imagination. Since everything happens against a placid suburb resembling a village, there is a chance for beauty, a green landscape with fruit tress as contrast, of natural color spots that may be close to or a counterpoint to the drawings. The village where she meets her former boyfriend has to be something stopped in time; this can make more sense with the feelings she is reliving and a contrast to her house, more refined in terms of aesthetic beauty.
Goals at Cinéma en Développement:
Looking for producters for the film.
Shooting Date:
Preview locations of shooting:
Ingeniero Maschwitz, Provincia of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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Hubert Bals Fund,
Cinema du Monde,
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Ibermedia,
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In development.
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Up Front: Why a Woman is Like a Bicycle
Grant McDougall, in reply to Moz, 14:14 Feb 1, 2018
Some time ago I suggested to Andrew Geddis on PA that he might like to try cycling for this exact reason and his response was "no, not convenient".
Given that he lives way the hell out at Purakanui, from a purely practical view, it actually isn't for him.
I expect he sympathises a) with the gist of this column and, b) cycling in general, but it's "not convenient" for him because Purakanui is a good 30min drive to his work along very narrow, twisting countries roads for the first half, then a road with heavy trucks zipping along continuously on it for the second.
Also, he's an academic - bit hard to carry a couple of hundred assignments on a bike, eh ?
Dunedin • Since Dec 2006 • 760 posts Report Reply
Paul Campbell, 14:42 Feb 1, 2018
I lived at Purakanui for a year - ever since they got rid of the morning rail-car to Osbourne, and then later the bus, it stopped being practical without a car.
It would be a horrible slog up that hill either way
Riding across the top of the hill on a motor-bike in the winter fog (I still have the scars it's why I have a beard) in the dark (after 5pm, maybe 30% of the year), with no white lines at the edges of road, and barely able to see the faint fading dashed line in the middle ... you have to drive slowly down the middle ... is not for the faint of heart - I can't possibly imagine doing it on a bike, even an electric one, and even with the nice white lines they have now
Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2622 posts Report Reply
SHG, 09:06 Feb 2, 2018
I delete all my social media channels over xmas and haven't regretted it once. every day is better without socmed in my life.
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Aotearoan, 15:01 Feb 3, 2018
This debate takes me back to 1981 & the Springbok tour. I, female, was active on the front line as were other men & women. I was surprised and gratified to hear one burly hard-man, scars on scars, say he'd never faced such fear, violence & hatred in his life...and this was the closest he'd ever got to realising what women faced, often on a daily basis.
Northland • Since Jan 2011 • 14 posts Report Reply
steven crawford, 13:28 Feb 9, 2018
So I went and hung out in Twitter, trying to figure out why it’s now more popular than the traditional comment threads at blog community’s such as public address system.
Its obviously a big research job, that’s going to require plenty of coffee. It’s hard to work out what’s going on. Twitter thru my eyes, looks a bit like crowds of people wondering around in something like a shopping mall, all muttering random sentences to them selves.
Or it’s a bit like listening to a marine radio conversation when one half of the conversation is just static noise.
The traditional blog looks more conversational. It’s more like going to an independent locally operated cafe to sit down for a coffee and hang out, than getting a takeaway from BP. Something I’ve sunk to as a habit!
I’m addicted to paying five dollars something for a cup of coffee in a paper cup, handing over my loyalty card and feeling like a lab rat when the beep beep machine rings the free coffee bell. Something deep down inside me actually believes the big petroleum chain likes me, and wants to buy me a coffee on the house.
This Tweet, seems to be trending on intelligent people’s what-it’s. But I haven’t found any counter argument on twitter. But it’s most likely there, who knows where?
The people might not have sailed to South America (I think they probably did) the potatoes could have made there own way to Polynesia. It’s possible!
James Wong
@Botanygeek
Studying the genes of sweet potatoes shows Pacific Islanders visited The Americas at least 500 years before Columbus.
What is even cooler? You can also show this voyage across the Pacific just by plotting local names of the crop on a map.
Sacha, in reply to steven crawford, 19:12 Feb 9, 2018
That's a great example of what Twitter does well.
steven crawford, in reply to Sacha, 19:14 Feb 9, 2018
Does what well?
Jameswong, aka botanygeek from twitter. He's a TV celebrity ethnobotanist. So when he tweets about the great migration, it's going to trend. Even if it's garbage. ( which it might not be ).
What I think twitter is really good at, is generating massive amounts of trivia. Which isn't a bad thing per say. But there's just so bloody much of it.
Steven crawford
@whythefuckdrinkoutofpapercups
Polynesian travellers reached South America hundreds of years before Europeans explorers arrived, new genetic analysis has proven once and for all.
News hub 2014.
And bingo, after a lot of cups of coffee (in real pottery cups) I cracked it. The tweet about the potatoes, is something interesting from a research document that the TV personality scientist has happened upon. That’s cool. And now it’s on here.
It’s like twitter is a potato planted on a small Island.
steven crawford, 07:26 Feb 10, 2018
Pdf formatted easy reading that’s aimed at a broad social media useing demographic. Can to much society make you sick?
Anyone using twitter will probably know, but just in case, I can conclude my monologue with one word.
Algorithm.
Twitter is an artificial intelligence community. Conventional blog community's such as public address system are not.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter is still too hard to figure out for users and advertisers.
Thats true, it’s hard to know which button to press.
In other news,
Twitter shares are up 24 percent since last Thursday, when Twitter reported its first quarterly profit as part of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.
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Addiction is now defined as a brain disorder, not a behavior issue, by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
Addiction now defined as brain disorder, not behavior issue
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8:51 AM · Jun 8, 2017
This cut and paste is like drinking out of a brown paper bag.
A little bit off topic, but Gerry Fialka appears to have a Facebook page!
For those who don’t know about Gerry Fialka, he was an archivist for Frank Zapper. Then he went on to do really interesting technology awareness things. I can’t see his Facebook page due to my philosophical abhorrence to playing with addictive fire. But I’m pretty sure it’s disruptive. If it isn’t, then civilisation is well and truly fucked up beyond repair. And that’s before we lose any intellectual capital to flue.
Center for Humane Technology
You can read about it in this You York times artical. It’s a coalition of former Google and Facebook employees who have a few clues about digital technology.
PS: They are on twitter for your convenience:-)
GIOVANNI TISO has just posted a good essay on what if the internet blows a fuse.
linger, in reply to steven crawford, 17:25 Feb 28, 2018
… ending with a plea for
recovery of that too-quickly-forgotten past of daily practices and long-term thinking: how we used to communicate, research, write and work. It wasn’t that long ago.
Even so, it may already be too late for intergenerational propagation of pre-internet information-processing systems. My current students have never known anything else, and seem genuinely puzzled by tasks requiring them to remember or combine information using wetware, or to skim text (or look through an index or catalogue) in order to find something out. And increasingly, information is only made available online.
(BTW, Hal Draper came very close to predicting this type of knowledge failure in his 1961 short story “MS Fnd in a Lbry”, though couched in pre-internet terms as a reference library in which indices of indices led back eventually to the information content … until the actual information records got lost in the mass of index files, rendering the entire system useless. Here it is.)
Tokyo • Since Apr 2007 • 1931 posts Report Reply
linger, 17:51 Feb 28, 2018
Draper's story was intended as satire, but it's more than a little chilling to read:
The process of education consisted solely in learning how to tap the Rx for knowledge when needed. The position was well put indeed in a famous speech by Jzbl to the graduates of the Central Saturnian University, when he said that it was a source of great pride to him that although hardly anybody knew anything any longer, everybody knew how to find out everything.
... necessitating ...
a whole new branch of knowledge known as Ariadnology
(literally, web-study!)
steven crawford, in reply to linger, 06:44 Mar 1, 2018
CERN is where the World Wide Web was born. But the United States military often gets the credit.
This Ariadnology nerd friendly news, is interesting to me and's reminiscent of when I was enrolled in correspondence school.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to steven crawford, 11:21 Mar 1, 2018
I guess it is the confusion between the networking structure which arguably ARPANET set up, but it was Berners-Lee who opened it up with the protocols and interface free to all...
(I know that is a skimpy overview, leaving a lot of other stuff aside)
steven crawford, in reply to Ian Dalziel, 12:39 Mar 1, 2018
Yes the Americans did invent some of it. But look! The Americans got very excited when they learned about the word wide web. So they installed the first server - outside of Europe - at one of there universities. The American military did have lots of communication infrastructure, but it wasn’t really the backbone of the internet.
I think it’s the big American telcos that give us the impression that it was all American military. My idea of the world wide webs backbone isn’t military hardware it’s the massive server farms that started in California.
Ps: The American military and MIT could rightfully take a lot of credit for the internet. The internet wouldn’t be very awesome if we didn’t all use it but. So the World Wide Web (build built Europe) is why we not have a dickhead for an American president.
Ps,ps disregard that last part:-)
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Putting the ACT amongst the pig ions…
Little Davey Seymour (using his Trumpian nom de politics) really takes the cake with the risible ‘defence’ of his, ‘#meattoo’ stance on the radio recently – and his tweet calling Susie Ferguson an ‘amateur’ shows how little he understands the nuances of civil behaviour.
His ham-fisted conflation of ‘the right to like meat’ with ‘a right to objectify human bodies’ – and in his case modelling a bull-headed female. (and not just any female but the classic redneck truck flap ‘seated nude silhouette’.)
The Meat Society has apologised but Seymour is bullishly holding his own. Apparently they were modelling their slogan on the ‘Got Milk’ campaign – which ultimately did nothing to improve the sale of milk in America, not sure how the silhouetted ‘minotaur’ and ‘womanotaur’ entered the equation.
He really is a self absorbed and odious oik.
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[[File:Indians Attacking a Stage-Coach BAH-p243.png|thumb|right|200px|Riding shotgun. The driver is holding the whip with the shotgun messenger on his left.]]▼
▲[[File:Indians Attacking a Stage-Coach BAH-p243.png|thumb|right|200px|Riding shotgun. The driver is holding the whip with the shotgun messenger on his left.]]
'''Riding shotgun''' was used to describe the guard who rode alongside a [[stagecoach]] driver, ready to use his [[shotgun]] to ward off bandits or hostile [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the [[driver (person)|driver]] in a moving [[vehicle]]. The phrase has been used to mean giving actual or figurative support or aid to someone in a situation.<ref>{{cite web|work=dictionary.reference.com|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shotgun|title= Define Shotgun at Dictionary.com|publisher =Dictionary.com|accessdate=February 11, 2013}}</ref> The coining of this phrase dates to 1905 at latest.<ref name=phrases/>
== Etymology ==
The expression "riding shotgun" is derived from "[[shotgun messenger]]", a colloquial term for "express messenger", when [[stagecoach]] travel was popular during the American [[American frontier|Wild West]] and the [[Colonialism|Colonial]] period in [[Australia]]. The person rode alongside the driver. The first known use of the phrase "riding shotgun" was in the 1905 novel ''The Sunset Trail'' by Alfred Henry Lewis.
It was later used in print and especially film depiction of stagecoaches and wagons in the [[Old West]] in danger of being robbed or attacked by [[bandit]]s. A special armed employee of the express service using the stage for transportation of bullion or cash would sit beside the driver, carrying a short [[shotgun]] (or alternatively a [[rifle]]),[https://books.google.com/books?id=QILdMe7lYXgC&lpg=PP1&dq=.gov%3Ariding%20shotgun%20wild%20west%20stagecoach&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q=shotgun&f=false] to provide an armed response in case of threat to the cargo, which was usually a strongbox.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Old West in Fact and Film: History Versus Hollywood|last=Agnew|first=Jeremy|publisher=McFarland|year=2012|isbn=0786468882|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|pages=17}}</ref> Absence of an armed person in that position often signaled that the stage was not carrying a strongbox, but only passengers.<ref name=phrases>{{cite web|url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/riding-shotgun.html|title=Riding shotgun|work=phrases.org.uk|accessdate=May 1, 2010}}</ref>
== Historical examples ==
=== Tombstone, Arizona Territory ===
On the evening of March 15, 1881, a Kinnear & Company [[stagecoach]] carrying US$26,000 in [[silver bullion]] ({{inflation|US|26000|1881|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) was en route from the boom town of [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]], [[Arizona Territory]] to [[Benson, Arizona]], the nearest freight terminal.<ref>{{Cite book | last1=O'Neal | first1=Bill | title=Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters | year=1979 | publisher=University of Oklahoma Press | location=Norman, OK | isbn=978-0-8061-2335-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KLrfdOrI78C&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180 |accessdate=April 14, 2011}}</ref>{{rp|180|date=November 2012}} [[Robert H. Paul|Bob Paul]], who had run for [[Pima County, Arizona|Pima County]] Sheriff and was contesting the election he lost due to [[ballot-stuffing]], was temporarily working once again as the Wells Fargo shotgun messenger. He had taken the reins and driver's seat in Contention City because the usual driver, a well-known and popular man named Eli "Budd" Philpot, was ill. Philpot was riding shotgun.
Near [[Edward Landers Drew#Biography|Drew's Station]], just outside [[Contention City, Arizona|Contention City]], a man stepped into the road and commanded them to "Hold!" Three Cowboys attempted to rob the stage. Paul, in the driver's seat, fired his [[shotgun]] and emptied his [[revolver]] at the robbers, wounding a Cowboy later identified as Bill Leonard in the groin. Philpot, riding shotgun, and passenger Peter Roerig, riding in the rear [[rumble seat|dickey seat]], were both shot and killed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tombstone, AZ|url=http://silverstateghosttowns.com/tombstone-az.html|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> The horses spooked and Paul wasn't able to bring the stage under control for almost a mile, leaving the robbers with nothing. Paul, who normally rode shotgun, later said he thought the first shot killing Philpot had been meant for him.<ref name="robbery">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/2653/Wyatt-Earp-Trial-1881-Mysterious-Stage-Coach-Robbery.html|title= Wyatt Earp Trial: 1881—A Mysterious Stage Coach Robbery—Clanton, Holliday, Told, Leonard, Doc, and Ike| accessdate=February 8, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://historyraider.com/ |title=History Raiders |accessdate=February 11, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208143417/http://historyraider.com/ |archivedate=February 8, 2011 }}</ref>
When [[Wyatt Earp]] first arrived in Tombstone in December 1879, he initially took a job as a stagecoach [[shotgun messenger]] for [[Wells Fargo]], guarding shipments of silver bullion. When Wyatt Earp was appointed Pima County Deputy Sheriff on July 27, 1881, his brother [[Morgan Earp]] took over his job.<ref name=wgbh>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/wyatt-transcript/ |title=WGBH American Experience: Wyatt Earp, Complete Program Transcript |date = January 25, 2010 |season=22 |number=2}}</ref>
=== Historical weapon ===
When [[Wells, Fargo & Co.]] began regular stagecoach service from [[Tipton, Missouri]] to [[San Francisco]], [[California]] in 1858, they issued shotguns to its drivers and guards for defense along the perilous 2,800 mile route.<ref name="pmo">{{cite magazine | last = Jones | first = Spencer | title = Revival Of The Coach Gun | magazine = Popular Mechanics | date = June 1, 2004 | url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | accessdate = March 18, 2007 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024328/http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | archivedate = September 30, 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The guard was called a [[shotgun messenger]] and they were issued a [[Coach gun]], typically a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun.<ref name="Peacemakers">{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=RL | title=The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventure in the American West |year= 1992|publisher= NAL|location=New York |isbn=978-0-7858-1892-2 |pages=121, 197, 244}}</ref>▼
▲When [[Wells, Fargo & Co.]] began regular stagecoach service from [[Tipton, Missouri]] to [[San Francisco]], [[California]] in 1858, they issued shotguns to its drivers and guards for defense along the perilous 2,800 mile route.<ref name="pmo">{{cite magazine | last = Jones | first = Spencer | title = Revival Of The Coach Gun | magazine = Popular Mechanics | date = June 1, 2004 | url = http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | accessdate = March 18, 2007 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024328/http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/1277346.html?page=1 | archivedate = September 30, 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The guard was called a [[shotgun messenger]] and they were issued a [[Coach gun]], typically a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun.<ref name="Peacemakers">{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=RL | title=The Peacemakers: Arms and Adventure in the American West |year= 1992|publisher= NAL|location=New York |isbn=978-0-7858-1892-2 |pages=121, 197, 244}}</ref>
== Modern usage ==▼
▲== Modern usage ==
More recently, the term has been applied to a [[game]], usually played by groups of friends to determine who rides beside the driver in a car. Typically, this involves claiming the right to ride shotgun by being the first person to call out "shotgun". The [[game]] creates an environment that is fair by forgetting and leaving out most [[seniority]] except for that moms and significant others automatically get shotgun, and this meanwhile leaves out any conflicts that may have previously occurred when deciding who gets to ride shotgun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shotgunrules.com/|title=Official Rules for Calling Shotgun {{!}} Riding Shotgun {{!}} Shotgun Rules|website=www.shotgunrules.com|language=en-US|access-date=October 25, 2017}}</ref> Therefore, it is best played and seen mainly within friend groups because of the lack of seniority, and it is when most people enjoy participating in games. Also, the front passenger seat is typically most wanted because of the small perks it contains like more leg room and easier access to the radio and air controls of the car. Calling shotgun does not apply to bi-directional trips; shotgun must be called before each journey when within sight of the vehicle.
*[[Coach gun]]
*[[Shotgun messenger]]
== References ==
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== Further reading ==▼
{{Wiktionary|ride shotgun}}
▲== Further reading ==
*[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2158/whats-the-origin-of-riding-shotgun What's the origin of "riding shotgun"?]
*[http://www.shotgunrules.com/ Rules of shotgun], Shotgunrules.com, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
*[http://www.aewa.org/Library/shotgun.html The Shotgun Rules, version 1.1] by the Airborne Early Warning Association, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
*[http://www.thebestschools.org/features/rules-of-shotgun/ Rules of shotgun]'': The 25 Universal Rules of Order for Riding Shotgun'' By David A. Tomar, Retrieved March 27, 2015.
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Commander Charles Gordon Norrie Graham (6 September, 1893 – ) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
1 Life & Career
3 World War II
Life & Career
The son of Major C. L. Graham, IV Hussars.
Graham was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 May, 1916.
On 14 October, 1919, Graham was placed in charge of a C. & M. Party overseeing interned German submarines at Harwich. He quit this work when he was appointed in command of the submarine H 52 on 8 September, 1920.[1]
Graham was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 May, 1924.
Placed on the Retired List due to age on 6 September 1938.
Graham was promoted to the rank of Commander (retired) on 1 September, 1939.
Graham was appointed in command of the sloop Mallard on 2 October, 1939. vice Clift, who had been appointed on 20 May, 1938. He remained there until 13 March, 1940.
Reverted to the Retired List on 19 September 1945.
Naval Appointments
Arthur W. Forbes Captain of H.M.S. C 7
27 Jun, 1917 – 3 Aug, 1918 Succeeded by
Kenneth Michell Captain of H.M.S. C 28
3 Aug, 1918 – 25 Sep, 1918 Succeeded by
Edward M. C. Barraclough
Charles M. S. Chapman Captain of H.M.S. G 11
25 Sep, 1918 – 16 Oct, 1918 Succeeded by
Richard D. Sandford
? Captain of S.M.S. UB 132
15 Dec, 1918 – 4 Jan, 1919 Succeeded by
Paul L. Eddis Captain of H.M.S. E 38
4 Jan, 1919 – 14 Oct, 1919 Succeeded by
Victor C. Dorman-Smith
John G. Sutton Captain of H.M.S. H 52
8 Sep, 1920[2] – 15 Jul, 1921 Succeeded by
Morice Blood
John G. Aitchison Captain of H.M.S. PC 73
28 Apr, 1923 – 1 Sep, 1923 Succeeded by
Patrick F. Cooper
Maurice A. Brind Captain of H.M.S. P40
1 Sep, 1923[3] – 1924 Succeeded by
Richard E. Hyde-Smith
Patrick B. Crohan Captain of H.M.S. Raider
c. Sep, 1924 – 12 Aug, 1925 Succeeded by
Roland F. B. Swinley
William S. Moor Captain of H.M.S. Sirdar
14 Aug, 1925[4] – May, 1929 Succeeded by
Richard C. V. Ross
New Command Captain of H.M.S. Anthony
18 Nov, 1929 – 5 Feb, 1930 Succeeded by
Thomas A. Hussey
New Command Captain of H.M.S. Blanche
18 Nov, 1930 – 30 Apr, 1931 Succeeded by
Ion B. B. Tower
Reginald V. Barton Captain of H.M.S. Colombo
13 Jan, 1936 – 29 Apr, 1936 Succeeded by
William S. Bardwell
Charles A. de W. Kitcat Captain of H.M.S. Torrid
27 May, 1936 – c. 11 Jun, 1936 Succeeded by
Vessel Retired
Alfred C. Behague Captain of H.M.S. Wolfhound
31 Jul, 1939 – 4 Sep, 1939 Succeeded by
John W. McCoy
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782a.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 257.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 269.
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Have you tried the three dimensional thesaurus? You probably have been using it for years, but I just recently discovered it. To find a synonym, you type in the word you need some others for, press “enter” and faster than even Google can congratulate itself, a very space age, beautiful floating word map appears like an answer in an upended eight ball.
The 3-D thesaurus looks like a word tinker toy with the key word on the center sprocket with spokes to other words. But I think there might be lead paint on it. I already had to ditch my Lead Barbie by Mattel. That kind of word-centric architectural construct is what it would take to diagram the recent events of the summer. I’ve tried a linear description to make sense of it, but it looks like one of my grade school sentence diagrams with adverbs dangling off adverbs like some mutant creeping vine.
The word at the center of the construct you’d need to Venn this late August is “dog”. As in dog days of summer. Off that would be the Michael Vick dogfighting/gambling spoke. Barry Bonds must be relieved to have the spotlight off him. Vick admitted running dogfights and inhumane treatment of dogs in his care. In a dyslexic moment of atonement, he said he’d found god. He could go to jail and his days of dogleg right quarterbacking for the Atlanta Falcons seem to be numbered. He would have received no time if he had just modeled himself after another football player and killed his ex-wife. He might even have gotten a book deal.
The understandable revulsion over the canine mistreatment suggests that news coverage of the war, floods, scandals should focus on dogs to get people riled up. Dogs are dying in Darfur! Dogs don’t have basic healthcare! Dogs were disenfranchised in Florida! The dogs of war are fighting a losing cause in Iraq! It seems to get people’s attention. Mitt Romney’s family vacation saga and mistreatment of the family’s beloved Irish setter would be a way into the story of his former Idaho campaign manager, the foot-tapping, non-gay Republican senator, Larry Craig.
Just as the Dick Cheney Buckshot Lunch incident had lost its absolute last shred of funny, along came Craig’s list of hilarious hypocrisy. During June, AKA Gay Pride Month, Senator Craig was picked up for lewd behavior in a bathroom at the airport in Minneapolis, the site of next year’s Republican Convention, if they have one. In our house, we think Dick Cheney is just going to declare himself the candidate. Larry Craig’s version of Dick’s Cheney’s famous line, “I just had a beer at lunch,” is “I’ve got a wide stance in a bathroom and my foot might have grazed the officer in the stall next to mine.” Ooftah! P.S. Larry’s drag name is “Miss Construe”.
Another spoke off “dog” would be the Alberto Gonzalez resignation. Although he submitted his resignation on a Friday, the story was released during Vick’s Monday press conference. Gonzalez, described as “the dogged defender of Bush”, wrote the rules of torture, some involving dogs on leashes, and was Bush’s lapdog at the Justice Department. Gonzalez’s hangdog announcement was in contrast to Karl Rove’s. With his master smiling his unconditional love behind him Rove, top dog, announced he was leaving to spend more time with his family. Which was last seen running from the house. Chinese Dog Food inspectors at least have the decency to kill themselves when things go wrong. Rove took a victory lap on the Sunday morning Kennel Club shows. He said he was like Moby Dick. The Moby is silent.
Your president George Bush once said that his is a lonely job, that at the end of the day, all that’s left is him and his little black dog Barney. Where is Laura? Has she left the family to spend more time in politics?
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Just saw your show in P-Town and thought it was great as usual. I’m confused about your take on the Logo debate cause in the debate I saw 2 of the candidates that are 100% for all gay issues including gay marriage. Also I was stunned not to hear one clap for Obama and one person other than you for Clinton. You should read other blogs and forums on line and find that many gays aren’t voting (at least in the primary) for either of them. We want all our due gay rights. Also no one applauded Nancy Pelosi who has failed all the gay voters of San Francisco that helped get her where she is today.
I did remember going with my mom to the fabric store to get the latest McCall patterns that she used to make my sister her back to school outfits. I also tell my friends that as a Native American we had the worst immigration policy.
Loved ya!
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Ariel Lin Accepted C-drama King of Lan Ling Because of Star Crush on Daniel Chan
Posted on April 11, 2012 by ockoala
This story gets cuter every time Ariel is asked about it, and the TW-media is all over it right now. Ariel Lin has been even more of a media darling since her hit drama In Time With You really connected with viewers and critics alike. Folks were sad when she announced she would not do any more dramas due to the hectic shooting schedule and personal health reasons, so it was a happy surprise when she suddenly announced that she was accepting the lead in the C-period drama King of Lan Ling.
Despite her leading man being Feng Shao Feng, Ariel has confessed that she accepted the project solely because of the other lead Daniel Chan. Apparently Daniel was her first ever star crush, and when she was in 9th grade, she owned many laminated pictures of him (over 200 so she admits) and he was plastered all over her bedroom wall. Tee hee, the chemistry in this drama is going to be so fascinating since in the drama, it’s Daniel’s character that is rabidly in love with Ariel, while she falls for Feng Shao Feng’s character.
It’s okay, Ariel, don’t be embarrassed. Go ahead and fulfill your star struck fantasy and oogle Daniel all you want for the next few months on the set of King of Lan Ling. We totally understand why. It’s not every day a girl gets to act opposite her idol. Every time Ariel is asked about Daniel, she starts giggling and blushing in interviews, it is so darn cute. King of Lan Ling starts filming shortly, and I’ll bring the stills from the set when its unveiled. Ariel has also revealed that her elder family members love seeing her in period dramas, so here’s to hoping she’ll do more period roles after this. I also love seeing her in period pieces. But as a period project, Ariel probably won’t see her crush Daniel in his more natural state. Boo for her (and us). Let’s let this picture tide Ariel over.
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Ariel Lin Accepted C-drama King of Lan Ling Because of Star Crush on Daniel Chan — 18 Comments
Laica on April 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM said:
That is so cute! Ariel is still my favourite TW actress. I don’t usually watch Cdramas, but I might watch this just for her.
Wow, I don’t blame her for having a crush. *fans self*
chancy426 on April 11, 2012 at 7:39 PM said:
Ariel’s so cute. I miss seeing her in period too.
Lovedramas on April 11, 2012 at 7:51 PM said:
I wonder if she loved his duet with Gigi as much as I did back then. Lol the man has aged well… He feel off my radar back in 2001 or something. But I remember seeing him on 100 entertainment singing his old songs and I swooned. Hehe. Brings back good memories.
Excited to see them act together
D on April 11, 2012 at 8:49 PM said:
That is adorable!!!!….we all have our crazy star crushes when we are young but she is actually getting to play a love interest to her’s!!!…200 laminated pics??…LOL…I love her…reminds me of a friend of mine who had a similar obsession with Leo DiCaprio when we were teens..good times
estel on April 11, 2012 at 8:57 PM said:
I’ve been rewatching They Kiss Again recently, and it’s only confirming my girl-crush on Ariel. It doesn’t hurt that she majored in Korean in college. I would be so epicly happy if she ever agreed to star in a Korean drama.
Laica on April 11, 2012 at 11:35 PM said:
I LOVED her in TKA. XQ is honestly not such a likeable character, but she played her with such charisma and vulnerability, I was totally on her side even while rolling my eyes at her idiocy.
And she speaks Korean?! I would love to see her in a kdrama too! That would be so awesome.
sakura kiss on April 11, 2012 at 9:07 PM said:
yeahhhhh(drools) he;s my first crush too….heheheheh:)
MJP on April 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM said:
I’m glad she decided to keep acting. I have seen too many times peoples health deteriorate more when they quit working. I sure hope she has an alternative to acting before she does stop altogether.
mary on April 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM said:
*looks at last pic*
What was the news again? Something… about periods. And a girl called April… Avril. Something. Yeah, and a cdrama… I think.
Denali on April 12, 2012 at 2:30 AM said:
You cracked me up. And I concur. ^^
Angskeet on April 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM said:
leonardswench on April 11, 2012 at 10:19 PM said:
Hmm … she got sucked back in by an old teen crush, and wouldn’t we all??? (Okay, NOT, for me, my Tom Cruise crush days are LONG over, thank you, Jesus.)
rubics on April 12, 2012 at 12:07 AM said:
I’m happy that ariel is starring in this drama for many reasons: the unique cast of Daniel Chen and Feng Shao Feng, a period drama after the condor heroes almost 5 yrs ago, this drama will tide us over during ariel’s year long stint studying in London, her second more matured image away from youngish roles.. I simply cannot wait!
Ockoala, can u post link to the video where ariel blushes when asked about Daniel? Thanks. Much appreciated.
lalalychee on April 12, 2012 at 10:27 AM said:
That is totally adorable. 🙂
luraaa on April 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM said:
Aww, Ariel. That’s alright. I don’t blame you having a crush on him. I’ve only seen her in “In Time With You” and the more I read news reports about her, the more I like her. I have to watch that film of hers with Bolin Chen.
cv on April 12, 2012 at 1:34 PM said:
Nice! Can’t wait. Ariel is a good actress. How old is Daniel Chen? Can’t be too much older than her right?
violet on April 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM said:
Aww, I remember reading about Ariel’s crush on Daniel. It’s awesome that they finally get to do a drama together, although I hope Ariel picked the drama for the script, too, haha ;D
lynndelas on June 2, 2012 at 11:56 PM said:
so please..
i hope this will be seen also in the philippine tv..
i love ariel lin so much…:)
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15% OF DUT POPULATION USES DRUGS
By: Zinhle Mngadi
Fifteen percent of the Durban University of Technology’s campus population use drugs and two percent of that population are students that live as sex workers for the means of survival. These are the statistics released at the 45th AnnualReport of the United Nations (UN) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) was held at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) on Wednesday.
The university’s Senior Director of the Corporate Affairs, Alan Khan, released these statistics when he welcomed the launch of the INCB repot as it was the first time it was launched in eThekwini.
Khan’s opening remarks expressed the university’s pride to be associated with the UN and that DUT does not undermine the impact drug abuse has on its students and staff.
“15 % of our campus population uses drugs and 2 % of that population are students who work as sex workers who rely on these means to put bread on the table. Female students use drugs more than the male students,” said Khan.
He further said that the university wants to educate students on drug and alcohol abuse.
Senior Director of Corporate Affairs at DUT Alan Khan and International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Vice President Dr Naidoo at the launch of the 45th Annual Report in eThekwini. Pictures by: Zinlhe Mngadi
The report was delivered by the first vice president of the INCB, Dr Lochan Naidoo, at the Ritson Campus. He told delegates that drugs need to be used for medication and treatment in the world and it is their duty as the INCB to make sure that there are drugs provided to government facilities for treatment purposes only.
He further said that the board believes that government should re-structure punishment of criminals found in possession of any drug to rehabilitation and treatment rather than jail convictions because this route does not eradicate the drug abuse in the country.
“Our focal point is prevention, treatment and rehabilitation programmes which are most costly. We believe that the government should re-structure punishment of criminals found in possession of any drug to rehabilitation and treatment rather than jail sentencing,” said Naidoo.
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IJSF 15:3
Abstract:International Journal of Sport Finance, Volume 15, No.3, August 2020.
Transfer Policy and Football Club Performance: Evidence from Network Analysis
Authors: Dennis Coates
Abstract:This study considers the football transfer market as a network and analyzes how characteristics of a football club’s player transfer network activities influence club performance. We use data on 23,220 unique football clubs from 189countries from 1996 through 2016. Our results show that for sport performance the best strategy is to have well-established relations with a limited number of partner clubs, especially in the domestic league. However, transfer policy focused on international deals improves financial performance of football clubs. These findings provide club management with insights on optimal transfer policy with regard to the balance between sport and financial performance.
FIFA World Cup: A Case of (In)efficiency of the Betting Market
Authors: Ricardo Manuel Santos
Abstract:Using data from all FIFA World Cup competitions that took place between 1994 and 2014, a step logit model is estimated to forecast the likelihood of success of each team in each tournament. The model correctly identifies the winner in five out of the six tournaments, and among many variables considered, key contributors to the model’s forecasting performance are identified. Using only the information available by the date preceding each of the last two in-sample World Cups, we can perform a more ambitious test of the model’s ability to forecast the winner at future tournaments. Our results indicated that Spain would win in 2010 and Germany in 2014, as they did. Our results have strong implications about which information a sophisticated bettor should process when participating in the betting market. We show that, using bookmaker odds and model probabilities, a bettor could (consistently) make a profit. Therefore, our results hint at the possibility of deviations from efficiency in the large World Cup betting market.
Las Vegas Point Spread Values and Quantifying the Value of an NBA Player
Authors: Adam Hoffer and Jared A. Pincin
Abstract:This paper uses Las Vegas Sportsbooks individual point spread values (PSVs) to estimate the first marginal product estimates of NBA players. Starting with the individual PSVs, we predict PSVs from performance statistics and use the predicted values to estimate a player’s marginal product. We then compare the NBA estimations with existing, better-established measures of player performance, including player efficiency rating, win shares, and value over replacement player. The results show that the estimates using statistical performance to predict PSVs are in-line with other estimates of player performance. We conclude that PSVs are a comparable measure of marginal product to existing NBA performance composites.
Strongest Team Favoritism in European National Football: Myth or Reality?
Authors: Francesco Audrino
Abstract:Are the financially and institutionally strongest clubs capable of systematically reaching the top positions in the European national football leagues treated differently in terms of awarded sanctions because of the external off-the-pitch pressure they can put on match officials? This study helps shed some light on this controversial question fiercely debated among fans and sports journalists and extends our knowledge of how football match officials may be un-consciously influenced by external (social) forces. Except for France where the evidence is weak, data analysis of the top five European leagues for the seasons from 2011-2012 to 2017-2018 provides empirical evidence supporting the existence of referees’ off-the-pitch strongest team bias. In fact, in England, referees award significantly more yellow cards and total booking points (an aggregate measure of yellow and red cards) to the opponents’ players, and in Italy, Germany, and Spain, significantly fewer yellow cards and total booking points are given to the top teams’ players. The referees’ strongest team bias comes on top of the referees’ home bias, as discussed in the previous literature, and displays a non- eligible size that can reach approximately the same size of the referees’ home bias in some cases.
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B.J. Daniels
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The Lovebirds - B.J. Daniels
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Old rivalries and long-buried passions are reignited by a Valentine's Day murder in this classic mystery by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels.Jack McAllister is pulled right back to his past when he returns to his hometown. As the sheriff of River's Edge, Montana, he is called on to solve the gruesome murder of former classmate Peggy Kane, secretary to the resort community's most prominent citizen—and Jack's high school rival—Oliver Sanders. The case is further complicated by the presence of Jack's former sweetheart, Detective Tempest Bailey. Jack and Tempest will have to reconcile old feelings and untangle a complicated web of deceit to catch the killer and get justice for the past.
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Rugged Defender - B.J. Daniels
The nightmare before Christmas…Justin Calhoun is certain that Chloe Clementine is the one who got away. Now she's home for the holidays, Justin's ready to make his move. But Chloe has a Secret Santa who's been sending scary gifts, and Josh must stop her stalker before Christmas becomes a nightmare.
Mountain Sheriff - B.J. Daniels
Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner–the most eligible bachelor in the county–would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happenings he could handle…but he wasn't prepared for murder. With a killer on the loose, he'd have to keep a tight grip on the investigation and a close eye on the mounting list of suspects. Unfortunately, the person causing the most trouble to his male senses was none other than the town's biggest gossip and the one woman he'd do anything to avoid: Charity Jenkins. Sure enough, she'd whittled away at his confirmed-single status with her annoying questions and all-American-girl good looks and had him thinking about something more permanent. Except a killer had other plans for Charity.
Redemption - B.J. Daniels
The hunt for justice … and love … begins Jack French has had two long years of prison-ranch labor to focus on starting over, cleaning up his act and making things right. When he comes home to close-knit Beartooth, Montana, he’s bent on leveling the score with the men who set him up. The one thing he doesn’t factor into his plans is spitfire beauty Kate LaFord.With treasure-seeking in her blood, Kate’s got big dreams to chase, and a troubled past to put to rest. And even though a red-hot connection to a woman with her own set of secrets isn’t part of Jack’s plans, he just can't resist Kate and the gold cache she’s after…even if it is cursed.But when Kate is accused of murder, he realizes she's not only a suspect, but a target. In the Montana wilds, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe from a killer on a quest to rob them of their chance of a new, passionate life with each other.
Steel Resolve - B.J. Daniels
Sometimes you can go home again It's just not always safe…Mary Cardwell Savage’s ex, Chase Steele is back in Big Sky, Montana—with an unstable and dangerous stalker following close behind! Now Chase wants to prove that their love deserves a second chance. And this time, nothing will keep him from his heart's desire… not even a killer.
Cowboy's Reckoning - B.J. Daniels
The Montana Cahills
Nothing will stop a Cahill cowboy from protecting what's hisAfter a rocky marriage and even rockier divorce, Sheriff Flint Cahill finally has something good in his life again. Maggie Thompson's down-to-earth charm and beautiful smile hooked him from the start. When she disappears on the day they plan to start their lives together, all signs point to abduction—and his ex-wife.Functioning on adrenaline and instinct, Flint must call on his every resource to bring Maggie home before it's too late. His past and future are blurred. Maggie's only chance at surviving her abductor and a raging winter storm depends on an old vendetta that could destroy it all. But the Cahills don't give up easily, and Flint's love will have to be strong enough to conquer anything, including the unimaginable.
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Rough Rider - B.J. Daniels
He was sure he could handle one petite PI with an attitude – but he'll need her help to solve the secret of his missing sister and outwit a ruthless killer! Boone McGraw is in Butte on the hunt for his kidnapped baby sister. What he wasn't expecting to find was feisty private investigator CJ Knight. Desperate to solve her partner's murder, CJ doesn't believe her case could possibly be connected to the sexy horse breeder's investigation…until they find themselves running for their lives – together!
Dead Ringer - B.J. Daniels
Can a stubborn cowboy recapture the one who got away?Ledger McGraw may know all about horses, but he doesn’t know anything about the lie that broke up his first romance with waitress Abby Pierce. Abby, tricked into marrying the wrong man, is at the end of her tether in her abusive relationship. When she learns the truth about her terrible marriage, she becomes desperate to escape it—before her jealous husband kills her.Though Ledger's heart was wounded by Abby, he'll still do anything to protect her and free her from her violent spouse. He's determined to win her back and reignite their passion…
Fallen - B.J. Daniels
USA TODAY bestselling author B.J. Daniels welcomes you to the town of Beartooth, Montana, for a new series set under Montana's big sky. Since teenager Bethany Gates was a girl, Clete Reynolds had been hers–in her heart, at least. She was devastated when he left their small ranching town of Beartooth, Montana, on a football scholarship, but then an injury brought him back. Now she's determined to get him to notice her–if her rival Ginny West doesn't get in the way.But Bethany doesn't know Ginny has a secret of her own–one that could turn out to be deadlyReturn to Beartooth in UNFORGIVEN by B.J. Daniels, available from Mills & Boon.
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Keeping Christmas - B.J. Daniels
CHRISTMAS NEVER MEANT MUCH AT THE BONNER ESTATE…BUT COULD IT BECOME A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER AT CHANCE WALKER'S MONTANA CABIN?Ten years ago Dixie Bonner was the favorite wild child of a powerful Texas oilman. But after uncovering a dark family secret that cast suspicion on everyone close to her, she took off for a new life and never looked back.Chance Walker was the cool-eyed cowboy hired to bring her home by Christmas. But after catching her, he couldn't decide if she was a blackmailer or a victim. Was he tempted to protect her because she told the truth–or was he falling for her? Holed up in a remote Montana cabin with the bad guys closing in, two stubborn souls needed to trust each other if they hoped to survive the season.
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Little Sisters of the Poor Dedicated to Care and Protection of the Elderly Following Death of First Resident from Coronavirus
Washington, D.C. (March 27, 2020) – As reported by the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) on March 26, 2020, one Resident has died and six others have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark, Delaware.
The Little Sisters of the Poor have been caring for needy elderly persons in the United States for 150 years. We currently own and operate 25 homes for the elderly across the country and 167 worldwide.
The following is attributable to Mother Margaret Regina Halloran, superior for the Residence in Newark:
“We are devastated at the loss of our dear Resident and the positive test results of six others. In all our Homes the Residents truly become our family. We Little Sisters will continue to do all in our strength to meet this challenge, keep our beloved Residents safe and comfortable and provide them with spiritual accompaniment, while also assuring the safety of our staff.”
A DHSS team was onsite at the Jeanne Jugan Residence March 26. Our Residence is following all DHSS directives relative to this urgent situation. The Residents who tested positive for the coronavirus are being quarantined in the facility with dedicated caregivers.
Jeanne Jugan Residence serves 66 low-income elderly residents in three levels of care, including intermediate care/skilled, residential rest and independent apartments. There are 11 Little Sisters of the Poor and 123 staff members at the Residence.
We appreciate your prayers and support during this difficult time for our Residents, our Homes and our Nation.
For more information contact Sister Constance Veit, l.s.p., Communications Director, serenity@LittleSistersofthePoor.org
The following statement was offered by the DHSS: “The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) took immediate action to assess the situation around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at Little Sisters of the Poor at the Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark. DHSS is actively working with the facility to ensure resident and staff safety.”
For more information on the DHSS response contact Jill Fredel with the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services by email at Jill.Fredel@delaware.gov or by cell at (302) 357-7498.
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CREATION OF A COPING, SUPPORTIVE AND CARING ETHOS
This can be done in the following ways, and to a great extent already exists within our school;
Creating a physically and psychologically safe school through the development of areas such as an anti-bullying policy, peer support programmes, suicide awareness programmes, fire drills, and equipment and building checks. (Principal and Kim are responsible for fire drills within the school, and one will be held per term.)
Inclusion of SPHE and Learn Together programmes in the curriculum, covering such areas as communication skills, self-esteem, decision making, bereavement, stress management, and coping skills
Creating pastoral care structures and reviewing their effectiveness
Accessing training, if available, for staff to deal with critical incidents
Developing links with outside agencies and procedures for referral.
Supporting Staff: e.g. through the Employee Assistance Scheme.
WHAT IS A CRITICAL INCIDENT
“A critical incident is any incident or sequence of events which overwhelms the normal coping mechanism of the school and disrupts the running of the school”.
Death of a member of the school community through sudden death, accident, terminal illness or suicide
Criminal incidents (e.g. Dunblane shooting, Shooting at first communion in Ballymun)
A physical attack on staff member(s) or student(s) or intrusion into the school
Major accidents or serious injury involving pupils or staff on or off the school premises (e.g. ‘Navan bus crash’)
Civil unrest, war (refugees may be traumatised by events that happened elsewhere)
Fire, natural and technological disaster (e.g. school ceiling collapsing in Cork)
Disappearance of student from home or school (e.g. Midleton incident in Cork)
Unauthorised removal of student from school or home, or the disappearance of a member of the school community.
In the event of an incident on a school tour, the teacher on tour will contact the Principal. The Principal and Deputy Principal will then decide if it is a critical incident, and whether or not to contact CIT members.
Should a critical incident occur during school holidays, efforts will be made to contact all CIT members. A judgement will then be made if all staff are to be informed, and a meeting will be called if necessary. A judgement will then be made as to how to proceed.
WHAT IS A CRITICAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM
“It is a group of individuals from the school community who know the community, the students and each other well enough to make the necessary decisions called for when an incident occurs.”
The team has been created from the staff, and includes members of the Board of Management and Parent-Teacher Association.
Critical Incident Management Team
Chairperson BOM: Paul Corry
Team Leader: Fiona Rock / Rosemary Mc Gonagle
Staff Liaison: Monica Mc Keever, Anne Killeen, David Brennan
Student Liaison / Counsellor: Class Teacher
Parent / Community Liaison: Cara Driscoll, Vincent Moore
NEPS representative: Siobhan Gahan
The first named person has the responsibility as defined. The second named person assists and only assumes responsibility on the absence of the first named.
Wallet sized emergency contact cards are issued to all members, and should be kept with the member at all times.
Alerts team members of a crisis
Convenes meeting
Coordinates tasks for team
Keeps in touch with all members
Communicates with BoM, DES, NEPS, Gardaí, Emergency Services and Hospitals etc.
Liaises with bereaved family
STAFF LIAISON
Information meeting for staff – facts, vulnerable students, expression of feelings, routine for day
Is alert to vulnerable staff members and circulates building
Distributes “Ready to Go” information packs
Induction for new staff on Critical Incident Policy.
STUDENT LIAISON / COUNSELLOR
Identification and monitoring of vulnerable students
Alerts staff to vulnerable students
“Ready to Go” – support pack for teachers
Questions and Answers meeting (with outside assistance if needed)
Meet individual parents
Liaise with parent of the deceased
“Ready to Go” pack
Network with community agencies (NEPS/ HSE/religious/voluntary groups/library/Gardaí)
Coordinate community involvement in school
Keep records of involvement
Update team members
Keep up-to-date lists of contact details.
The Principal and Deputy Principal (or Senior Post-Holder) in conjunction with the BoM are responsible for any Press Release which is to be prepared in advance of any interview.
It is advisable not to rush any such statement, and it must be declined if the statement is not ready.
Staff are not to give information to the media
Staff will be directed by the Critical Incident Team
Children will not be interviewed on the way home from school etc.
Camera / Media exclusion from school grounds.
Board members are to be directed not to make their own statement to the press. Likewise, PTA members are to be directed not to make a statement unless it is a prepared statement from the CIT chairperson
An official written record will be kept of any press release and all press contacts
“READY TO GO” PACKS
Sample letter to school community in the event of a tragedy
Sample letter requesting opt-out of involvement of outside professional(s)
Helping Children Understand – Barnardos booklet
Critical Incident Resource Pack – available from N.E.P.S.
What to expect after Trauma : Possible Reactions in Primary School Students
Pastoral contacts
KEY ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS
Maintaining an up to date list of contact numbers. Numbers should be available for
Pupils, parents, guardians
Emergency Support Services (see list attached, to be displayed in the Principal’s office, the Secretary’s office and the Staff Room)
Compiling emergency information for school trips to include
List of all pupils/staff involved and the teacher in charge
Parental permission slips must be signed with contact numbers.
List of mobile phone numbers for accompanying teacher(s)
Up to date medical information on pupils with allergies, epilepsy etc (the school policy on treating anaphylaxis should be distributed on each trip)
Identifying roles to be fulfilled at the time of a critical incident
External liaison with
Outside support agencies i.e. emergency service, DES,NEPS, HSE etc
Distressed visitors
Internal care and communication with
Students in general
Students more immediately involved or affected
Maintaining administration and services such as
Telephone (e.g. keeping a line free for outgoing and important incoming calls)
Rooms for debriefing, parents, quiet room, counselling etc
Log of events, letters to parents, telephone calls made and received
Dealing with normal school business
AIM OF PLAN
The aim of the Critical Incident Plan is that in the event of such an incident as outlined above, the plan will help staff and management to react quickly and effectively and to maintain control of the situation. The plan will also help the school to return to normality as soon as possible and limit the effects of the incident on staff and students.
The plan is an extension to the existing Health and Safety policy, and is linked to the Stay Safe policy, the RSE and SPHE programs. It is also being developed in recognition of the school’s duty of child protection in all its forms.
SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (DAY ONE)
Contact Appropriate Agencies
S.E. Psychology Departments/Community Care Services
NEPS
DES/Schools Inspector.
Gather accurate information
What happened, where and when?
What is the extent of the injuries?
How many are involved and what are their names?
Is there a risk of further injury?
What agencies have been contacted already
Having determined that a Critical Incident has occurred (defined by Principal / Chairperson), the Chairperson/Principal will call a CIT meeting of all members and a staff meeting if appropriate.
CIT Meeting
Agree a statement of facts
Delegate responsibilities
Keep phone line open
Organise the timetable/routine for the day
Decide on involvement of outside professionals
Give an account of the facts as known
Opportunity for staff to express their views and feelings
Discussion with staff regarding the sharing of facts with students with a view to agreed approach
Outline daily routine
Information regarding the supports to be put in place for students and staff
A procedure for identifying vulnerable students
Distribute supporting materials (Section 4 – NEPS pack)
Class teachers to take note of any absentees who might need to be contacted, list of friends etc, or any other relevant information and give to the Staff Liaison person
End of school day meeting.
Inform parents & guardians
Parents of children directly involved
Contact parents systematically
Give relevant and factual information
Make a room available for parents / students
Support parents as they arrive at the school
Parents of children not directly involved
Inform parents of the incident and outline that their child may be upset
A letter to parents stating the facts and brief details of the incident is a good way
Inform students
Careful preparation is recommended
Consider age of pupils / optimum group sizes
Suitability of messenger is important
Give facts and avoid speculation. This helps to dispel rumours.
Allow pupils to ask questions, tell their story and express feelings
Help students realize that overwhelming emotions are natural and normal
Recognize that students will react in a variety of ways
Make contact with the bereaved family
Deal with the Media
The Principal is designated as spokesperson (see notes above)
The Team will prepare a brief statement.
Protect the family’s privacy.
Organise the reunion of students with their parents if necessary.
MEDIUM-TERM ACTIONS (24-72 HOURS)
Reconvene CIT members
Check how well members are coping
Update all staff on factual developments
Be sensitive to how staff are coping personally and professionally
Update staff on arrangements for supporting students / parents / staff
Consider need for media update
Arrange support for individual students, groups of students, and parents, if necessary.
Provide a suitable room
Hold support/information meeting for parents/students, if necessary, in order to clarify what has happened.
Give any teacher who feels uncomfortable with involvement in support meetings the choice of opting out.
Arrange, in consultation, with outside agencies, individual or group debriefings or support meetings with parental permission
Plan for the re-integration of students and staff e.g. absentees, injured, siblings, close relative etc. Student Liaison person to liaise with above on their return to school.
Plan visits to injured
Attendance and participation at funeral/memorial service. Decide this in accordance with parents’ wishes and school management decisions and in consultation with close school friends.
School closure – request a decision on this from school management and inspector.
LONGER TERM ACTIONS
Monitor students for signs of continuing distress. If, over a prolonged period of time, a student continues to display the following, he/she may need assistance from the H.S.E.
Uncharacteristic behaviour
Deterioration in academic performance
Physical symptoms — e.g. weight loss/gain, lack of attention to appearance, tiredness, restlessness
Inappropriate emotional reactions
Increased absenteeism.
Evaluate response to incident and amend Critical lncident Management Plan appropriately.
What went well?
Where were the gaps?
What was most/least helpful?
Have all necessary onward referrals to support services been made?
Is there any unfinished business?
Amend the Critical Incident Plan for the future if necessary.
Consult with NEPS Psychologist
Inform new staff/new school pupils affected by Critical Incidents where appropriate
Ensure that new staff is aware of the school policy and procedures in this area.
Ensure they are aware of which pupils were affected in any recent incident and in what way.
When individual pupils or a class of pupils affected by an incident are transferring to a new school, it would be useful to brief the Principal of the new school.
Decide on appropriate ways to deal with anniversaries (Be sensitive to special days and events)
Anniversaries may trigger emotional responses in students/staff and they may need additional support at this time.
Acknowledge the anniversary with the family
Be sensitive to significant days like Birthdays, Christmas, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
Plan a school memorial service.
Care of deceased person’s possessions. What are the parent’s wishes?
Update and amend school records.
DEALING WITH THE AFTERMATH OF A SUSPECTED SUICIDE
When a person dies through suicide, those who know the person experience a deep sense of shock. The unexpectedness of the death and the taboo associated with suicide can leave a school community feeling unsure of how to proceed.
The term ‘suicide’ should not be used if at all possible, even if it has been established categorically that the student’s or teacher’s death was as a result of suicide. The phrase ‘sudden death’ should be used instead.
A staff member should contact the family to establish the exact facts and the family’s wishes about how the death should be described
Acknowledge their grief and loss
Organise a home visit by two staff members
Consult with the family regarding the appropriate support from the school e.g. at the funeral service.
Convene a staff meeting to brief staff on the above details. It may be necessary to do this in shifts therefore ensuring staff are available for support to students and for cover at all times. Remember to include auxiliary staff.
Students need to be with people they know and trust. If possible, it is better if the teachers provide support for the students. The external “expert” visitor should therefore be primarily used to brief the teachers.
Help teachers to prepare for breaking the news to students. Close friends and relatives of the deceased in the school need to be told first. This needs to be done in a private location.
Outline the possible reactions.
Give them information from the schools pack on dealing with the students in the classroom and on reactions to grief
Identify high-risk students and what supports are available
Remind them of the school’s critical incident plan
Decide on the strategy to deal with queries from parents & guardians. Prepare a letter setting out the facts, how the school is dealing with the events, and how parents or guardians can support their child
Ensure that a quiet place can be made available for students & staff
Hold further staff briefings during the day to update information, to offer support and to further identify high-risk students.
EMERGENCY CONTACT LIST
Gardaí (Drogheda) +353 (0)41 987 4211
Hospital (Our Lady of Lourdes) +353 (0)41 983 7601
Poisons Unit – Beaumont Hospital +353 (0)1 8092566
Children’s Services, Navan +353 (0)46 909 7802
HSE Info line 1850 241850
HSE Head Office +353 (0)1 45880400
HSE Health Centre, Ballsgrove +353 (0)41 9838574
Community Care Services (Louth-Dundalk) +353 (0)42 9332287
Dept. of Social & Family Affairs (Drogheda) +353 (0)41 9871130
Duty Social Worker Drogheda – Ballsgrove +353 (0)41 9838574
Duty Social Worker Navan +353 (0)46 9874200
NEPS (Pól Bond) +353 (0)41 9876940
NEPS – Frederick Court (all hours) +353 (0)1 8892700
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A commentary on Livy : books 31 - 33, John Briscoe
A history of modern Greek literature
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An introduction to Roman legal and constitutional history., Translated by J.M. Kelly
Biometrical interpretation, Neil Gilbert, Institute of Animal Ecology, University of British Columbia
Browning's major poetry,, by Ian Jack
Capital and time : a neo-Austrian theory, by John Hicks, (electronic resource)
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Democracy and disobedience
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Duricrusts in tropical and subtropical landscapes
Earldom of Gloucester charters; : the charters and scribes of the Earls and Countesses of Gloucester to A.D. 1217
Ecclesiazusae;, edited with introduction and commentary by R.G. Ussher
Electromagnetism, [by] F.N.H. Robinson
English poetry and the English language,, by F.W. Bateson
English tin production and trade before 1550
Enthusiasm; : a chapter in the history of religion, with special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries
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Khirret (cattail/Typha pollen) خرّيط:
Gift of the Marshes in Southern Iraq,
and the Joyous Festival of Baghdadi Jews
The Iraqi scholar Abbas Baghdadi wrote a very interesting book, titled بغداد في العشرينات (Baghdad in the 1920's, published 1999). It is a rare memoir packed with vivid vignettes of Baghdad during that period. One thing caught my attention in particular: In his description of street foods, he mentions in passing that among the foods that Baghdadi Jewish vendors used to sell was khirret (خرّيط). He describes it as dried yellow clay with no distinctive taste or smell. He says it is extracted from roots of reeds, and it is an exclusively Jewish food. In his chapter on feasts, he further mentions that one of the sweets Baghdadi Jews used to eat on the joyous festival of Purim in March was khirret. He says they called this festival عيد المجلي ('Id il-Mjalli 'Megillah'), which they rhymed with طاب القعود بالمحلّي (tab il-qu'ud bilimhalli), that is, it is so pleasant to sit outside the house -- now that winter has ended.
Now, I come from a Muslim family, originally from Basra, and I remember having crunched on chalky clumps of khirret several times as a snack food. It was light-mustard in color and faintly sweet, but addictive. None of my school friends in Baghdad knew of it, and when I told them about it, they got a kick out of its name. They though it was funny. Besides, I was never aware of this Jewish connection. In fact, until I came across this mention of khirret in Abbas al-Baghdadi's book, I used to think it was another name for carob (kharnoub خرنوب/ kharroub خرّوب).
Khirret vendor in Basra, southern Iraq
Intrigued, I launched a search, which led me to Dr. Suzie Alwash, director of 'Eden Again Project', who helped me identify this mystery food. It turns out that khirret is none other than the yellow pollen of the famous wild aquatic plant bardi بردي (Typha spp), which has been growing in the southern marshes of Iraq (al-Ahwar) ever since time immemorial. It is said that in ancient Sumerian it was known as ariptu (اربتو) [I have not been able to verify this].
Marshland in southern Iraq
Bardi (Typha, also known as cattail, and reedmace) is a tall erect plant with lance-shaped leaves. The male and female flowers grow on the same stalk. The tiny fluffy male flowers are clustered in narrow cylindrical-shaped spike. They develop right above the female densely clustered spike, which looks like a hot dog.
During the pollinating season in early summer, the male spikes look golden yellow and are loaded with pollen. After they have given off their pollen, the flowers fall off, leaving behind a bare spike.
Typha/cattail male flowers with pollen
When the female spike ripens, it breaks apart and bursts releasing a fuzzy whitish substance, which marsh people of Iraq call niffash نفّاش (fluffy).
Cattail/ typha
To the marsh people of Iraq, this plant is God-sent. The rhizomes make a source of nutritious starch; the bases of the leaves are eaten raw or cooked, the young flower spikes are cut off and eaten, and in springtime (April/May), the yellow pollen is collected and made into khirret. And it is the way this pollen is harvested that initially gave it the name khirret (the stripped): The male spike is grasped firmly between the thumb and the forefinger, and it is firmly stripped into collecting sacks.
Harvesting khirret
In the southern marshes, this job of collecting pollen is usually allotted to women and kids. The harvested stuff is spread on a mat in a sunny place to allow it to dry out. After that, they sift it to get rid of all non-pollen material. The resulting yellow powder is mixed with sugar and then steam-cooked: A big pot is half-filled with water, and when it boils, a large piece of cloth is spread on the top of the pot, the pollen with the sugar is spread on this cloth. To prevent steam from escaping, the entire rim of the pot is sealed with mud. The pollen is covered with another piece of cloth, and left to steam-cook until it clumps into a cake-like mass. This mass is usually broken into pieces, and stored or sold in the market places of the neighboring towns and cities.
Here is a You Tube link, in which a marsh kid demonstrates how to steam khirret.
Sometimes, date syrup is added to replace sugar, which gives it a darker hue, and this must have been the sweetener originally used ever since ancient times before the advent of sugar.
Khirret, candy of the marshes
Khirret sold in the marketplaces looks like irregular pieces of yellow brick or rocks, but brittle to the bite. The marsh people like to call it chuklet il-ahwar جكليت الاهوار (marsh taffy).
Khirret candy, brick-like, but sweet and brittle
Khirret is a nutritious food high in protein, and its medicinal benefits are believed to be many. People eat it to relieve indigestion. It is said to be good for the colon and respiratory tract. It is used to cleanse the urinary system and stop diarrhea. The raw pollen is put on wounds to heal them. It is also popular among women during the early stages of pregnancy. Moreover, it come in very handy for bee-keepers, who use it to feed their bees.
To be sure, typha grows in other wetlands and marshes of the world, such as in China, where it is medicinally used more or less the same way the Iraqi marsh people use it, or in the United States, where eating Typha was part of the native American culture. However, I believe that the sweetened khirret candy, as described above, is the specialty of the marsh people of southern Iraq.
Now as to why this khirret candy was especially valued by Jewish Iraqis, as noted by Abbas al-Baghdadi above, here is what I think happened:
Pharaoh's daughter looking at baby Moses © Darrel Tank/Licensed from GoodSalt.com
Interestingly, the image shows cattail/Typha, indigenous to the southern marshes of Iraq
instead of the more typically Egyptian Papyrus plant
Baby Moses was found in a basket among the Egyptian Papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus), and like the Typha in southern Iraq, they were called bardi in Arabic. The bardi in a sense was Moses’ savior. When the captive Jews settled in ancient Babylon, they eyed the region’s bardi with the same reverence, and the pollen candy khirret must have developed a religious significance in Judaism in Iraq ever since ancient times, especially during the happy spring festivals of life and salvation; that is up until the mid-20th century when there still was a thriving community in Iraq. Yellow in Judaism was a symbol of ripeness, freshness, happiness, gold and royalty, and the yellow khirret surely matched the fun spirit of the Purim holiday.
Through correspondence with the Israeli scholar Dr. Susan Weingarten, I learnt that Jewish Iraqis never took the khirret tradition with them to Israel. The new generation growing up there never had the chance to experience it first hand. To them it is just a faint memory. They told her that their parents talk about it, and they describe it as looking like a stone when held in hand, and that they used to eat it around springtime. She speculates that it is quite likely that the yellow coconut sweets they make for Purim in Israel must have been a substitute for the hard-to-find original yellow khirret.
Sifted raw Khirret
Here is a link for an interesting article on Typha pollen:
Plants Portraits: Pollen Cakes of Typha spp. [Typhaceae]-- 'Lost' and Living Food. Al Prendergast. Economic Botany 54(3), 2000 (254-255). Online PDF available here.
Indian khirret experience: very interesting post "Bhuri - Bhurrani Mitti" by blogger Alka Keswani.
See also this Khirret article on Gastro Obscura.
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Background Eyesight infections can be vision-threatening and must be treated effectively by appropriate and safe use of topical ophthalmic anti-infectives. infections. A comprehensive search of the recent published literature including topical ophthalmic anti-infectives effective in bacterial ocular infections was performed. Clinical studies provide relevant data concerning the characteristics and clinical efficacy of antibacterial vision drops in ocular anterior segment infections or for perioperative prophylaxis. Publications were included to protect the current options of antibacterial vision drops available in Europe. Results Several recent publications recognized effective topical ocular antibacterials requiring a reduced dose regimen and a short treatment course. Additional literature examined included data on novel perioperative prophylaxis indications for topical fortified antibiotics and innovative research including the risk of resistance. Conclusions Safe and effective topical antibiotic BMS-265246 vision drops for the treatment and prevention of ocular infections must be adapted to the type of bacteria suspected. Usual topical antimicrobials should be replaced by more recent and more effective treatments. The use of highly effective fluoroquinolones should be reserved for the most severe cases to avoid resistance. Short treatment courses such as azithromycin can be very easily used in children therefore improving quality of life. (39% BMS-265246 of instances) (22% of instances) and (6% of instances).4 The BMS-265246 most common Gram-negative microorganism found in acute conjunctivitis is (9% of instances).4 In contact lens wearers the pattern is definitely reversed and more Gram-negative strains are found. However additional bacterial strains can less IL9 antibody regularly cause bacterial purulent conjunctivitis. Although bacterial conjunctivitis can occur at any age it regularly happens in preschool- and school-age children. In these age groups pathogens are frequently associated with epidemic occurrences of bacterial conjunctivitis. In newborns teens and kids the most frequent ocular pathogens are types.5-7 Most cases of severe bacterial conjunctivitis resolve spontaneously within 7-10 times but a broad-spectrum antibiotic can decrease disease severity transmission and in BMS-265246 addition minimize the complication and reinfection rates.8 Practice patterns for prescribing topical antibiotics vary. Many practitioners recommend a broad-spectrum agent with an empirical basis without lifestyle for a regular mild-to-moderate case of bacterial conjunctivitis and instruct sufferers to get follow-up care and attention if the expected improvement does not happen or if vision becomes affected. Sodium sulfacetamide chloramphenicol gentamicin tobramycin azithromycin neomycin trimethoprim and polymyxin B combination ciprofloxacin ofloxacin gatifloxacin and erythromycin are associates of popular first-line agents. The respective advantages of attention drops and ointments include maintained visual acuity and long term contact and a calming effect. Blepharitis is definitely a chronic disorder generating inflammation of the eyelid margin. Blepharitis can be classified relating to anatomic location: anterior blepharitis affects the base of the eyelashes and the eyelash follicles and posterior blepharitis affects the Meibomian glands and gland orifices. Blepharitis offers traditionally been clinically subcategorized as staphylococcal seborrheic Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) or a combination thereof.9 10 Staphylococcal and seborrheic blepharitis mainly involve the anterior eyelid and both can be described as anterior blepharitis.10 Meibomian gland dysfunction involves the posterior eyelid margin. The organisms most commonly isolated in chronic blepharitis include: spp. spp. and and may produce lipolytic exoenzymes and endotoxins.12 16 Lipolytic enzymes hydrolyze wax and sterol esters in Meibomian gland secretions with the launch of highly irritating fatty acids and BMS-265246 additional products resulting in disruption of tear film integrity.17 18 These endotoxins can induce the production of proinflammatory cytokines thus initiating inflammatory series.19 Reducing the bacterial fill is therefore part of the treatment of blepharitis. Furthermore in addition to their antibacterial activities macrolides such as azithromycin exhibit potent anti-inflammatory activities.20 They decrease the production of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages and epithelial cells and inhibit the activation and migration of neutrophils in vitro and in vivo.21-23 At a gene manifestation level macrolides have.
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The inflammatory mediator high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). investigate whether SIRT1-mediated HMGB1 deacetylation can modulate the discharge of HMGB1 through the development of NAFLD also to explore whether SalB can drive back NAFLD via the SIRT1/HMGB1 pathway. Outcomes SalB diminishes HFD-induced liver organ injury and liver organ steatosis We initial motivated whether SalB has a protective function in HFD-induced NAFLD. As proven in Fig. 1A serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) amounts in the HFD group had been clearly increased weighed against those BMS-265246 in the control group as well as the SalB control group. SalB treatment extremely inhibited ALT and AST actions within a dose-dependent way (and data the translocation of HMGB1 in the nucleus towards the cytoplasm in HepG2 cells as well as the discharge of HMGB1 in to the supernatants of HepG2 cells had been dramatically raised after 24?h of PA treatment. SalB considerably inhibited this translocation and discharge of HMGB1 while SalB-mediated inhibition was considerably obstructed by Former mate527 (Fig. 6C D). Used jointly our results indicate that SalB inhibits the nuclear discharge and translocation of HMGB1 via up-regulation of SIRT1. Body 6 SalB inhibits HMGB1 nuclear discharge and translocation through up-regulation of SIRT1. SalB-mediated protection depends upon SIRT1 concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation Prior findings demonstrated the fact that hyperacetylation of HMGB1 impacts its translocation and extracellular secretion19 20 We hence examined if the procedure for HMGB1 translocation and discharge is controlled by SIRT1-mediated deacetylation. Specifically to assess whether SalB-induced security is certainly mediated by SIRT1 through concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation we analyzed the result of SalB in the position of HMGB1 acetylation pursuing SIRT1 siRNA treatment of HepG2 cells. As proven in Fig. 7A the knockdown of SIRT1 elevated the acetylation of HMGB1 in comparison to that of control siRNA while SalB decreased the degrees of acetylated HMGB1 in the cells and SalB-mediated down-regulation of acetylated HMGB1 was abolished by SIRT1 siRNA. As opposed to the control siRNA treatment SIRT1 knockdown markedly raised the discharge of HMGB1 and acetylated HMGB1 in to the lifestyle medium and there is an obvious modification in the percentage of acetylated HMGB1. Nevertheless SalB counteracted the discharge of HMGB1 and considerably decreased the percentage of acetylated HMGB1 in the lifestyle medium as well as the SalB-mediated down-regulation of acetylated HMGB1 was obstructed by SIRT1 siRNA (Fig. 7B). These data demonstrate the fact that SalB-mediated inhibition of HMGB1 release and acetylation is partly achieved through up-regulation of SIRT1. Body 7 SalB-mediated security would depend on SIRT1 concentrating on HMGB1 for deacetylation. SalB suppresses hepatic irritation through the SIRT1/HMGB1 pathway It’s been recommended that inflammation-related elements such as for example Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) nuclear aspect-κB (NF-κB) and IL-1β Rabbit Polyclonal to QSK. play essential jobs in the development of HFD-induced NAFLD9 36 37 As a result we investigated adjustments in these protein to determine whether SalB treatment alleviated the irritation in the HFD-fed rats. As proven in Fig. BMS-265246 8A the HFD-induced increase of liver TLR4 NF-κB IL-1β and pro-IL-1β proteins was inhibited by SalB treatment. We further looked into the molecular system where SalB defends hepatocytes BMS-265246 from PA-induced hepatic irritation and uncovered that markedly decreased nuclear HDAC1 and HDAC4 actions in hepatocytes pursuing liver organ I/R promote BMS-265246 the hyperacetylation and following discharge of HMGB122. Furthermore PARP-1 regulates the translocation of HMGB1 towards the cytoplasm by up-regulating the acetylation of HMGB1 in macrophages52. Recently we observed the fact that resveratrol-mediated inhibition of HMGB1 nucleo-cytoplasmic translation in sepsis-induced liver organ injury depends upon SIRT1-mediated deacetylation27. Equivalent to our results tests by Rabadi possess demonstrated the fact that inflammation-induced repression of SIRT1 disables the deacetylation of HMGB1 and facilitates its nuclear-to-cytoplasmic translocation and systemic discharge thus maintaining irritation53. In keeping with these observations we.
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When the Europeans came into contact with the Pocomoke Nation, its people included today’s Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester Counties, in Maryland, southern Sussex County, Delaware and northern Accomac County, Virginia. The Pocomoke Paramountcy included those villages along the Annemessex, Manoakin and Pocomoke Rivers and the bays of Pocomoke and Chincoteague. Today the Pocomoke Indian Nation publicly interprets the history, culture and life ways of the Pocomoke Paramountcy through oral presentations, live demonstrations and educational classes on native skills, arts and customs. To the right, Pocomoke ladies are greeting boaters and tourists on the Pocomoke River at Shelltown.
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As a kid and a teenager I was an incorrigible Doctor Who fan. I enjoyed watching John Pertwee and Tom Baker rescue pretty young assistants from the clutches of cheap monsters, and I was fascinated when they repaired spaceships with their sonic screwdrivers, but what I liked most about the show was the Tardis, the old British phonebox in which the Doctor hurtled through space and time. As every Doctor Who fan knows, the Tardis is a magical and mysterious object: it looks small and rather dull from the outside, but actually consists of numerous large rooms full of strange gadgets and exotic furniture.
I think that my early fascination with the Tardis has left me with a taste for modestly sized, functional buildings over architectural extravaganzas. I can't stand showy architects like Gaudi and Carey Davies' hero Hundertwasser, and I find the simple but comfortable state houses which John A Lee and his successors gave to suburbs like Point Chevalier and Te Atatu and hydro towns like Mangakino in the '40s and '50s more exciting than the frilly art deco buildings that have made Napier famous, or the pretentious Georgian mansions of Auckland's leafier suburbs. I always have the sense that a relatively simple building might disguise something elaborate and mysterious.
The small, rather plain church which stands a little unsteadily amidst totara trees and cows beside the road that connects the Kaipara hamlets of Matakohe and Ruawai offers an object lesson in how an austere facade can hide a rich and strange interior. From the outside, the building resembles one of the Anglican or Methodist chapels which were distributed over wide areas of the Northland countryside in the nineteenth century, as Protestant missionaries competed with Papists, Maori prophets and each other in their attempts to acquire and retain souls. On the inside, though, the little building is filled with brightly-painted depictions of the cosmos of the Ratana Church, that semi-heretical faith founded in the Whanganui district in the early '20s by a Maori farmer whose coastal property received a series of visits from whales and angels. The flowering suns and curved horizons give the interior of the little building a peculiar spaciousness, and in the right weather the blue and purple brushstrokes of Ratana's devotees seem to flow directly into the pieces of sky which the windows display. Ratana temples are famous for their Romanesque architecture and for the stars cupped in crescent moons which are normally attached to their pillars, but the little building on the road to Ruawai has no such features, and thus gives no clue about what it contains.
I first visited the church on the way to Ruawai after seeing it in the collection of photos the dying Robin Morrison produced during his last road trip through Nortland. Nearly a decade after Morrison's death, Jack Ross published an image of the outside of the building on the cover of an issue of the literary journal brief dedicated to the life and work of a certain Kendrick Smithyman.
Inspired perhaps by the connection to one of his favourite poets, Hamish Dewe produced a laconic and yet mysterious poem about the building. In 'Arepa. Omega', a piece which I discussed here last year, Hamish depicts the rather dilapidated Ratana temple as a portal which can transport him from the backblocks of Northland to the very different environment of a twenty-first century Chinese city. Perhaps Hamish was thinking of Doctor Who's Tardis when he wrote his poem.
After I discussed Hamish's poem and the building which inspired it on this blog, a number of commenters provided information about the mysterious structure on the road to Ruawai, and about the coming of the Ratana faith to the Kaipara. I learned about the long reign of William Gittos, an Anglophile and fervent opponent of Maori nationalism, over the Methodist church in the south Kaipara in the late nineteenth century, and about the role Gittos played in stopping the Uri o Hau people in the area from throwing in their lot with the Maori King Movement during the Waikato War and its smouldering aftermath. Gittos' bigoted brand of religion was eventually cast off by Te Uri o Hau in favour of the Maori nationalist faith which Wiremu Ratana brought with him on a journey to the Kaipara in 1921.
The new converts needed places to worship, and the Methodist chapel near Ruawai was therefore converted to a Ratana temple sometime in the early '20s. That was the view I put forward in my blog post about Gittos, anyway.
It now seems, though, that the history of the building that became a Ratana temple is more complicated than I had reckoned. In a comment he left a few days ago under my post on Gittos, someone named Sebastian offers a quite different version of the history of the structure:
[T]his church...started life as a place of Anglican worship for a group of Te Rarawa, who had migrated to Parirau to find work in the nearby gumfields and forests.
Known as Zion Church, it was the second Anglican church built on this site on Otuhianga Road and its dedication in April 1889 is well documented in the Anglican Church Gazette for May 1889:
'Parirau, Kaipara. – New Maori Church. –It is several years ago that the Maories of Parirauewha, Kaipara, commenced collecting funds wherewith to build a new church, their old one having become dilapidated. They are a colony of the Rarawa tribe from Whangape, Herekino, and Ahipara, and as they had to purchase the land they occupy from the European settlers, they have had a hard struggle to acquire the means for attaining their object. By steady exertion they have succeeded, and are now in possession of a house of prayer of which no English community need be ashamed. The building will accommodate 130 worshippers, and is complete in every detail. The cost, with furniture, was £198, and on the evening of the opening day, not only were all the liabilities defrayed, but there was a small balance to credit...'
The church served the Anglican congregation at Parirau until the 1930s when it was transferred to the Ratana congregation.
It is currently closed for restoration and the local restoration committee is seeking funds for this work. Donations would be gratefully received by:
The Treasurer,
Zion Church Restoration Committee
110 Tana Rd
RD 2 Matakohe 0594
I apologise to the Zion Church Restoration Committee for getting the history of their building wrong. I'm delighted to hear that they are working to restore the little church, which seemed, when I visited it last year, to be in very poor condition. I hope, though, that the committee's workers won't efface the Ratana symbolism in the interior of the building. Can any of this blog's Kaipara readers report on the progress of the restoration work?
posted by maps at 12/03/2010 11:11:00 pm
Nice post.... thanks for that :-)
to clarify, since such flippant references can be deceiving:
hundertwasser is not my 'hero' - thanks - but i like his playfulness. give me that over austere, goebbels-esque monstrosities like park hill flats any day.
maps said...
Ah, sorry for the ovestatement Carey. People can follow your link and take a look at your piece. I have a very poor understanding of architecture, but I think perhaps Louis Kahn is my favorite modern pactitioner of the art.
Hundertwasser is to me an outsider imposing a sentimental European romanticism on the New Zealand landscape, instead of trying to engage with it and respond to it in the way our great modernist artists did (McCahon, Woolaston, etc) It's as though he wants to colonise this country and turn it into some fantasy of a South Seas utopia dreamed up in landlocked Austria.
you've inferred that from a block of toilets?
And his flag! And a book he brought out which Skyler had...
my blog isn't really meant to be taken seriously, it's not rigorous or intellectual so i'm vaguely embarassed by a link from this blog. i never really figured out what it was for and i don't update it often enough for it to be worthwhile anyway. i might scrap it to be honest.
anyway regarding hundertwasser, i know absolutely nothing about architecture and my opinions about it are limited to the odd visceral reaction to something i do or don't like. your criticisms aside for now from what i can tell hundertwasser was essentially anti-rationalist. the best sorts of modernism seek to build on the most positive and progressive aspects of industrial capitalist society but hundertwasser seemed to reject them altogether in favour of a utopian 'return to nature' idea, which i find naive at best and downright reactionary at worst. he also seem think that the enforced misery of industrial society could be overcome with a splash of paint and a bit of nude frolicking. very 1960s.
however i do think cities of the hypothetical liberated future will be much more open, nature-filled spaces. dense urban sprawl can extremely traumatic and anti-human. that's not to say we should all live in hobbit-like fantasy villages powered by turnip juice but it's a fact that we are part of nature and that lifelong seperation from it - as is the case for many people in the world's cities - is an supremely alienating thing. you could argue that's a product of the rampant imbalances of capitalism that will be remedied when the socialist revolution comes around but i'm coming increasingly round to the view that re-connection with nature may form an important part of the struggle against capitalism itself. why not bring some aspect of this into the cities?
so somewhere in there i find myself agreeing with hundertwasser.
Fair enough Carey. Even if you don't update the blog, you ought to use some of the photos you took here in NZ somewhere: some of them are very good (I found a few on the hard drive of this computer).
You said recently you'd written a reply to something that appeared on this blog: if it's not on your blog (I had a look but couldn't find it), where is it? Maybe you put it on facebook?
This is brilliant now it gives me something to follow up and has cleared up a lot of the mystery. I'll keep tabs on how progress is going and I'll also check with Stuart Park of HPT if any funding or support will be forthcoming for this project. I for one would like to see the church fully restored
I am a trustee to the restoration commitee of the Parirau Church, Ruawai, Matakohe. I will keep you posted as to how things are going.
We are process of building our website and more information pertaining to the Church and the Cemetary nearby.
c.thompson(at)live.com
Thanks for that. I'll email you because I'm wondering if the trustees and members of the church would be agreeable to me putting the Parirau Church forward to be listed on the Kaipara District Plan Heritage schedule.
I'll catch up with you on that.
PS Scott thanks for doing the update on the Parirau Church.
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Move Over Spin, Rowing Classes Are Going To Be Huge In 2017
Sunday, 22nd January 2017
Rowing machines work the legs, upper body and core. When was the last time you used the rowing machine at the gym?
When was the last time you used the rowing machine at the gym? You know the one -- there's usually two or three of them next to the ellipticals and they often go untouched, or used briefly to belt out a fast and furious few minutes (or play the Fish Game).
While the use of bikes in group fitness has long been popular, we're seeing the rise of the use of rowers in a similar manner. And there's good reason why.
"I have always had a passion for rowing from my time spent rowing at school," Mike Aldridge, ex rugby player and now Head Coach at Crew, told The Huffington Post Australia. Crew is all about harnessing the power of rowing for all over fitness.
"As a trainer I have always had a large rowing machine influence in my clients programs with some amazing results over the years. Rowing works 86 percent of the body's muscles in every stroke. It really elevates the heart rate and is a low impact exercise that does not place stress on the body like running and other activities."
Aldridge visits the U.S each year to observe what they're doing within the health and fitness industry and takes cue from there.
"On my most recent trip I discovered the new cult following that is rowing studios. In New York alone there are over six boutique rowing studios. I tried all the classes and was immediately hooked. The low impact nature of the rower was perfect for my old Rugby injuries, mixed with the high intensity, the atmosphere and the team environment. I had not had a hard session like it in years. I literally had my notepad out on my way back home to Sydney planning out the first boutique rowing studio for Australia."
Aldridge has set out to change people's perception of the rowing machine.
"For many years the rower has been the old dusty machine in the back corner of the gym, that people may have occasionally used for a minute or two max to warm up. People are now starting to realise just how effective the rower can be when used correctly," Aldridge said.
We know what you're thinking. You row for a good two minutes, maybe five if you're fit, and you're buggered. So what does a rowing class involve, and how are you going to get through it alive?
"The most important thing about rowing is maintaining a good tempo. Generally people will jump on a rower and go like a bat out of hell, but you need to ensure you use the stroke forward, which is the recovery, to take a breath and really drive the legs on the way back on the slide.
"With correct form and technique rowing becomes sustainable for long periods of time. Most people think rowing is an upper body workout, but each stroke is actually broken up into 60 percent legs, 20 percent core and 20 percent arms. So each stroke should feel like a squat and within minutes you will get a deep burn in the legs and butt," Aldridge said.
Classes go for 45 minutes, with express 30-minute classes offered at lunchtime, and you can burn between 300 and 400 calories in a half-hour class.
"We always start with a warm up and stretch, as most of our members have been sitting down at a desk for hours on end, so we like to spend time on movement and flexibility. Adjacent to your rower will be your workstation with mat and sweat towel, and we select the correct weights and equipment for you.
"Classes mix in body weight exercises, dumbbells, resistance bands, movement, flexibility and stability. You are never on the rowing machine for too long -- we keep it fast-paced and interesting with quick transitions from the rower to your mat where you will complete toning and strengthening exercises with various equipment. The lights are dimmed, music is cranking and the trainers will motivate you," Aldridge said.
Expect to see a lot more rowing based classes roll out across the country this year.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/
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Journalist and former teacher Amber C. Walker is leaving her position at The Capital Times to earn her Masters of Arts Degree in Digital Journalism at New York University.
Amber Walker worked for The Capital Times beginning in 2016. Her focus was the education beat and she published several long-form, investigative pieces on local education issues. Walker previously worked at Epic Systems before deciding to pursue journalism full-time.
Walker is a first-generation college student from the south side of Chicago. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio before becoming a K-12 English teacher in Florida. Even though Walker is no longer in the classroom, her ongoing passion for education is prevalent in her work.
Walker is joining the rigorous Studio 20 program at NYU to learn multimedia content creation and emerging media strategies. Eventually, she wants to become her own boss through creating her own publication or through freelance writing.
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Education Sub-Indicator
Education is one of the primary means of social mobility, and ensuring that all children and young-adults have access to a quality education is imperative to sustainability. Education indicators likely have a direct impact upon economic indicators and other equity metrics. Economic indicators also influence education-related metrics because public school systems are funded through state and local tax revenue sources. The following metrics capture information about the state of education and its accessibility. These metrics are based on metrics used in prominent social equity indices from Australia, the United Nations, Sustainable Seattle, the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
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Pre-School Program Enrollment The percentage of children age 3 and age 4 that are enrolled in a public or private pre-school program U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates (2005-2013)
Educational Attainment The percentage of the population age 25 and older that holds a Bachelor’s degree U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey Microdata Sample (2008-2010)
Adult Literacy The percentage of the adult population lacking basic prose skills National Center for Education Statistics’ National Assessment for Adult Literacy (1992, 2003)
Linguistic Isolation The percentage of households that experience linguistic isolation, a household in which no person 14 years old and over speaks only English, and no person 14 years old and over who speaks a language other than English speaks English “very well” U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 1-year estimates (2005-2009)
Metric Findings:
Indiana’s pre-school program enrollment rate has remained flat during the previous decade, hovering around 40 percent which is around 10 percent lower than the national average.
Only 22.8 percent of persons in Indiana hold at least a Bachelor’s Degree, making it the third worst ranking state for this metric among those analyzed.
Eight percent of Indiana’s adult population has low literacy skills.
Levels of linguistic isolation are low (2 percent or lower) for all of the states except Illinois and Washington.
Policy Considerations:
Low scores in the Education metrics may indicate inadequate access to education and programs that defray the cost of pre-school and post-secondary education. States should consider the implications that would arise if certain groups are effectively priced out of postsecondary education.
Lack of access to literacy programs and English-language programs may lead to isolation of certain ethnic or low-income communities. States should allocate or continue to allocate funds to these programs.
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