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When a group of small farmers in the southeastern U.S. banded together to sue a powerful dairy cooperative a few years ago, many hoped that the case would bring big changes to the milk industry.
But the recent settlement of the case involving Kansas City-based Dairy Farmers of America Inc., resulted in little long-term reform, even as the farmers received some monetary damages.
People have been cross-breeding plants for thousands of years, manipulating traits in agricultural crops from generation to generation. When scientists discovered that they could actually modify the genes of these plants in a laboratory, the landscape of agriculture changed dramatically -- and fast.
At an open house at DuPont Pioneer's Dallas Center Corn Research Center near Des Moines, Iowa, retired corn breeder Bill Ambrose marveled at the tools available today to do the job he did for nearly 40 years.
"We could do a few hundred things and they do mega thousands of things," Ambrose said.
In his day, he said, much more was done by hand—a team of five might harvest 250 plots in a day, while now "these guys that work in this place here have got huge combines that they can harvest 250 plots an hour," he said.
The patent rights on the first genetically modified seeds expire next year, but it's not clear how the introduction of "generic" seeds fits into the science and business of GM crops.
The vast majority of the corn and soybeans in United States grow from seeds that have been genetically modified. The technology is barely 30 years old and the controversy surrounding it somewhat younger. But how did it even become possible?


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5/2/09-Today the Wall Street Journal referred Americans to the no funeral preneed people, the Funeral Consumers Alliance. This is a good thing. IF YOU WANT TO COME IN UNDER THE AVERAGE COST OF A FUNERAL- It is best not to do funeral preneed or prepay a funeral.
In the article today "Planning for your Funeral here is a guide to smart shopping" the WSJ quoted Joshua Slocum.
"Go to funerals.org and click on the tab that says "find a local FCA." Clicking on "funeral self-help — answers to frequent questions" under the main menu, then scrolling down and clicking on "funeral arrangements," will pull up a list of publications including "Four-Step Funeral Planning: Where to Start When You Don't Know How to Start!"
One of the biggest decisions you will face is whether to pay in advance for arrangements you make. Joshua Slocum, the alliance's executive director, cautions against advance payments. He says many people don't understand the fine print in their contracts, consumers could lose earnings on money being held in trust by a funeral home, and contracts can get lost."
What has attracted people to preneed or prepaying a funeral for a generation has been the promise that one can lock in today's prices for funeral and not have to pay more later.
In this economy this is simply not the case. It is my opinion that "any honest Funeral Director will not sell you Guaranteed Preneed" now. In this fragile economy investments can not be guaranteed now or in the near future.
They certainly cannot guarantee any investment or bank account 5-20 years out.
As i have said before it is best for the funeral consumer to not do funeral preneed or prepay a funeral.
The two scandals mentioned at this blog the IFDA Preneed Trust mess (Illinois Funeral Directors Association) and the National Prearranged Services(NPS) scandal alone are reason enough not to prepay a funeral.
In the article the Wall Street Journal said a quiet "No" to funeral preneed.
Funeral industry|funeral blog by your funeral guy.
UPDATE: MAY 3rd 2009 This blog post encourages you to avoid guaranteed preneed, other non guaranteed approaches may be viable. Certainly reputable life insurance is an option.
Your Funeral guy is not affiliated with Joshua Slocum, and is simply pointing out here that the Wall Street Journal has quietly steered the folks away from preneed.
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This past Tuesday we were finally able to witness the men and women elected to represent Ontarians return to Queen's Park to do the work they were sent there to do.
Whether or not they do that work remains to be seen. The cynics out there could probably make a good case that actual work progresses at a snail's pace.
But in the spirit of optimism, we give the benefit of the doubt that the provincial legislature will be able to tackle the many challenges the province faces.
Among them is ending the fight the government picked with the teachers' unions of Ontario, and convincing those teachers to step back into their roles as coaches, theatre directors and supervisors for the wealth of extracurricular activities our youth have learned to expect as part of their education experience.
The current boycott of extracurricular activities looks poised to last for the full two years of the imposed teachers' contracts, and we have to acknowledge that throughout the action, everyone is poorer for it, including our educational institutions, the teachers' esteem, and the futures of the students.
Both sides – the government and the unions – need to acknowledge a lot of water has run under the bridge since the early recall of the legislature in August of last year. The bitter history of those failed negotiations and political machinations needs to be left well behind. If the teachers want to go after the Liberal Party of Ontario for the shabby treatment of the past year, that is their prerogative. But at this point, for the sake of the goodwill of Ontarians, they should plan to have their say along with every other citizen who has a beef with government – at the ballot boxes. That's what they are there for.
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Take environmental warnings seriously
Taxing ganja
Police from five different units of the OPP busted a couple of middle-aged people with possession of 24 grams of weed and a pipe in Foots Bay last week. The street value of the pot was estimated to be about $240. We're guessing that it cost a lot more than a couple of hundred bucks for officers from the Bracebridge detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, the OPP West Parry Sound Crime Unit, the OPP Community Drug Action Team, the OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau Drug Enforcement Unit and the OPP K-9 to execute the search warrant. It's likely the search warrant alone cost more to apply for and obtain. There are levels of bureaucracy to go through, and we all know that bureaucracy is costly at every level. We don't blame the police for wasting our money, it's not their fault. They don't choose which laws they're going to enforce – that's a job for the people making the laws. And it's time for them to give their heads a shake. Prohibition doesn't work; never has, never will. Sixty-five per cent of Canadians want marijuana laws changed. The earliest remains of human settlement show evidence of recreational drugs. Gorillas and apes have a taste for hallucinogens and stimulants. Primates want to get high and no government is going to stop them. Certainly there are social problems that go along with the abuse of any drug, whether it's vodka or marijuana. Criminalizing the huge numbers of Canadians who want to smoke some herb doesn't help solve those problems. Making headway with drug abuse will only happen when it's treated as a health issue, rather than a legal one. We recognize that not everyone will agree with us; we expect some people to disagree vehemently. But social policy aside, this is a financial issue. It's not just a moral issue, it's a matter of dollars and cents. Or is that common sense? As Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare tells us, it's a fairy tale to imagine that we will have the same level of health care services at our hospitals with an aging population; as the numbers of people requiring help from our food banks rapidly increase; as our municipality struggles to make due with significantly less funds from the province; and as our police services are straining at the seams, in part because they are dealing with more and more people with mental health issues. Something's got to give.
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"Soda bread farls are ideal for frying after they have been made a day or so. These taste great with a poached egg on top. Fried soda is also one of the essential ingredients in an Ulster fry." - by Ita
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- Heat oil in skillet over medium high heat. Gently fry soda bread for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until crisp and golden brown. Serve hot, seasoned lightly with salt.
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The question may has been asked already but i can't find it in the forums so ...
I'd like to use the Modify-Increment to generate unique identifier in LDAP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4525
For this, i need to be able to use the "increment" order and be able to do a pre read or post read in order to get an atomic modify/read.
I've seen it's possible with UnboundId (like in this example : https://code.google.com/p/ldap-sampl...ementDemo.java)
I was wondering if it's possible with Spring-LDAP.
At first sight, it seems that it's not possible. At least with an "out-of-the-box" Spring-LDAP.
Does anyone has already been alble to use the modify/increment with Spring-LDAP ? Maybe with some code modification in Spring-LDAP ?


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Poverty and compassion
di Courtney Clinton
A new American psychological study finds that people with low incomes are the most generous
Uncompassionate and stingy, Ebenezer Scrooge of Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol, may just be the perfect archetype for the rich. Despite the generosity displayed earlier this month by American billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet a new study by Paul K. Piff, Psychology Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, found that the well off were in fact significantly less generous than their poorer counterparts.
According to the American newspaper the New York Times, the study reports that lower-income people are more generous, charitable, trusting and helpful to others than those who enjoy a higher income.
Why? According to Piff people with lower incomes are richer in "compassion and empathy." He continues to say "wealth seems to buffer people from attending to the needs of others."
His findings challenge a commonly held belief that people with lower incomes who face harsher conditions are more likely to act out of self interest.
But what about those who grew up poor and made their fortune later on in life? Piff also ran an experiment that sorted people by their families income, revealing that whether high status was inherited or earned made no difference.
115 participants were controlled for their ethnic background, sex, age, frequency of attendance to religious services and socioeconomic status. They were then asked to rank their educational, income and occupational status.
Each subject was given ten tokens, each represented a real nominal sum that they would be paid at the end of the experiment. They were next told that they had been matched with an unknown partner in another room, a stranger who they would never meet. They were asked how many if any of their tokens they would like to give to this stranger.
Two follow up activities were performed that confirmed first round findings that those with lower incomes were more generous.


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A year or so back I made brief mention of an historic local individual who, I firmly believe, warrants and deserves a far higher degree of attention from local Socialists than is presently the case.
I refer to George Markham Tweddell - a man who spanned the decades of the 19th century that saw the birth of local radicalism, the growth of Trades Unionism and the development of the early socialist movement - and who only died in 1903, by which time what we know as today's Labour Party had been founded. Indeed, it can be said that Tweddell was unique in that he provided a local life-long link between Chartism, working class radicalism, involvement with the nascent workers movement and the beginnings of what we know as the modern Labour movement.
His story remains to be fully written up, but the Tweddell society, backed by the lineal descendents of his family, in particular the late Paul MarkhamTweddell, George's, great, great grandson and his widow, Sandra, exists to give the facts about his life as they are known, as well as Great Ayton writer and musician, Trev Teasdel, who has also been extremely diligent in researching and re-publishing on-line Tweddell's life and written essays, compositions and poetry. It is overwhelmingly largely from the written up work of both the society and Trevor that I append - with thanks and acknowledgement - the brief synopsis below.
Paul Markham Tweddell R.I.P.
George was a native of Stokesley, born on a farm there in 1823. He was the son of Elizabeth Tweddell, whose extended family lived at Garden House, a 15-acre farm one mile along the Great Ayton road from Stokesley . George was born illegitimate although his fathers identity was never hidden - he was a Royal Navy Lieutenant, George Markham, who had been born in 1797 in the Rectory, Stokesley. Lt Markham had lived an adventurous life in the Royal Navy, had been mentioned in dispatches during the late Napoleonic campaign on the Mediterranean coast of France and was wounded in the Siege of Algiers in 1816.
However Elizabeth and her new born son were nurtured and cared for in the family, something not all that common in those days for children born outside marriage, It was also helpful that the family were part of the local middle class shopocracy, owning two businesses in Stokesley, a grocery shop in West Green and a drapers business run by his uncle.
Elizabeth's mother worked in her father's grocery shop and from an early age took George for walks around the district when time allowed during which she taught him all she knew of country lore. He was schooled at the local Stokesley National School, where he came into contact with an inspirational teacher, William Sanderson, who took him under his wing expanding the school's teaching with an informal education given around the countryside during fine evenings. These discussions built up the boy's knowledge of science, philosophy and history and he acquired a life-long love of literature, particularly for poetry.
It is probably also that at this time he developed his life long radicalism. Stokesley at this time was one of the biggest town in what was then the 'old' Cleveland. Middlesbrough had yet to be built, and the local economy was based on agriculture, agriculture which was largely based on the growing of flax, which was then spun and woven locally into linen - a key material in clothing, and, locally, sailcloth making for the large sail making enterprises in Stockton and Yarm.
Stokesley was also a town with a history of political radicalism in the period following the French Revolution and there was a flourishing Paineite movement active in the town, and which corresponded widely with similarly minded associate groups in Stockton and the wider North East. Many of the people from that period would have still been alive and active in Stokesley's town life, and I suspect George lapped up their anecdotes and observations. He could also not, as a boy, have been unaware of the unrest in the area following the economic downturn of the late 1820's and early 1830's and the subsequent agricultural depopulation caused by both that recession and the impact of the enforced enclosure of land by the local gentry. Indeed, it was nearby Yarm that marked the northernmost extent of the England wide 'Swing' riots of the 1830's and in which many agricultural labourers took part in - at the risk of their lives.
George in mid life
After leaving school, George worked briefly with his grandfather, John, and then became an apprentice to William Braithwaite who ran one of the two large printing and publishing companies in the town. Braithwaite had the reputation of supporting promising young employees and introduced George to John Walker Ord (1811-1854), the admired author of The History and Antiquities of Cleveland (1838). The two men became friends, despite their differing politics, and continued corresponding until Ord's death.
In 1841, at the extremely young age of 18, George sought approval from his master to set up a newspaper and his master agreed, in spite of the obviously radical tone George proposed ('to give the ordinary people of Cleveland a newspaper that would reflect their more liberal opinions rather than those of the landowning classes'). The first copy of the Cleveland News and Stokesley Reporter duly appeared on the 1st of November 1842,
A free press makes us free
The paper took a radical stance from the very first edition, and after two further editions had hit the streets and were beginning to be avidly read and passed around by local artisans and farmhands, it appeared that a determined attempt by local Tories to silence this new - and possibly dangerous - voice was mounted. It seems that representatives of the local propertied class visited Braithwaite to persuade him to stop publishing George's criticism of the Tory government, of which they were firm supporters. They demanded of Braithwaite that he was to withdraw from George the use of his printing press and the licence he needed to publish from the premises.
As a result the printer dismissed George (probably on the legal grounds of "bringing his master into disrepute"). Within a month, remarkably, George had managed to acquire a new license and access to a new press (although from whom is not known) to produce the third edition on time. For George, the contents for the editorial for this edition were obvious and he castigated his former employer, claiming Braithwaite was trying to 'crush our little periodical', and that 'our printer is a good easy man, afraid that our generous principles of peace on earth and goodwill toward men should be mistaken for his own'.
When it became obvious to his political opponents that George's newspaper was going to continue as an organ of anti-government opinion in the area, the opposition quickly put together a rival the Cleveland Repertory and Stokesley Advertiser, appearing on the same day as George's third edition, 1st January 1843.
Probably to George's bitterness this was also published by William Braithwaite using the capacity of his press left vacant by the departure of the Reporter. The rival's explicit policy was: 'to put right the failure of other sources of news and opinion in the area'; 'to uphold great national institutions, especially the Church of England' and '- amazingly - to be more 'uncongenial" to an agricultural population'. "We are," they concluded, "conservatives". The message was clear and stark. No workers need read it. No cottagers need buy it. It was for the local wealthy class and the continuance of the old order.
But George's bull-like tenacity ensured that his paper - a paper for everyman and women, not the estate owners - continued to hit the streets. His view of his new competitor was contemptuous.
"When the Stokesley News and Cleveland Reporter first made its appearance in the political and literary world, it was with a firm determination to lash every species of vice with an unsparing hand, and to be the unflinching advocate of civil and religious liberty - fearlessly to tear the mask from the sinister deeds of unprincipled legislators and trafficking politicians of every party."
From George's editorials in the Cleveland News and Stokesley Reporter it is possible to construct his political 'wish-list', wishes of which many came true. Of these some came quickly; the Corn Laws were repealed in 1846, the fall of Napoleon III in France two years later. Others took more time, arriving piecemeal like the abolition (in peacetime) of the cat-o'-nine-tails as a Royal Navy punishment in 1871, the 1870 Married Woman's Property Act and the beginnings of universal franchise (from 1884). Others were still issues alive in our time - Irish independence, the equal rights of women and the (still unresolved) abolition of the House of Lords.
The progress of the Anti-Corn Law league is reported and discussed throughout the collection of Stokesley News for 1843 / 44. These contemporary accounts of the action which eventually led to the repeal of the corn laws by Sir Robert Peel in 1846, although it brought his Government down, reflect the turbulent feelings of the times with their undercurrents of revolution. He also railed at the highly public "hiring fairs" for farm workers and domestic servants which were held in market towns like Stokesley and Guisborough with all the trappings of servility that they gave. Another topic featured was 'Ireland and its Rulers', with Daniel O'Connor advocating Ireland for the Irish. Politics were, however, overshadowed when the potato crop failed in 1845, to be followed by the disastrous famine. The New poor Law and its workhouse system was discussed at length: The People's Charter, What are the People to do? Is it a bloody revolution, or will bold writings true speaking and open acting prove the way?
In parallel with his newspaper activities George acted as secretary to the Stokesley branch of the Chartist Association and, when he was aged 23, shared the fate of many Chartist supporters by being imprisoned for contempt of court. Whilst inside, he wrote essays and poems later published in Chartist supporting periodicals These were a series on political themes, particularly about tyrants, oppression and people's rights. He also, on release, began to play an active role in the local Freemasons which he had joined as a teenager .This may look odd now, but in the period we are speaking of, Freemasonry had a tradition of both encouraging free thinking philosophical thought and debate and allowing the space to develop these ideas untrammelled by conventional social restriction.
Edition 15 of George's newspaper, a year after his difficulties with Braithwaite, appeared on 1st January 1844 and in it he entered the announcement of his marriage to Elizabeth Cole on the previous day, 31st December 1843. Clearly the event had not been allowed to hold up publication, but what it had achieved was the bringing together of the families of three Cleveland personalities; George's grandfather, John Tweddell; his grandmother's brother, Christopher Rowntree ("Gentleman Kitty"); and Elizabeth's grandfather, Thomas ('Tommy') Cole, the stable master to Robert Chaloner, the chief landowner in Guisborough and whose descendent was to become the present Lord Gisborough (sic).
George and Elizabeth
After 23 editions of the paper the Reporter folded, (a demise probably brought about by the retreat of the Chartist tide) and, following this, George started putting his energies into writing and publishing more mainstream books and magazines. Amongst the latter (published by George's older half-brother, Thomas, also a former apprentice of Braithwaite) was Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany and Englishman's Magazine (1844-46) which John Ord encouraged by offering articles of his own for inclusion, proof-reading it and defending George from a similar, rival magazine being planned in Stockton on Tees.
It seems that this magazine had mixed fortunes and in the late 1840's both George and Elizabeth began to look to a new life departure. This was to bring them from the market town of Stokesley and the small (but burgeoning) industrial townships of Stockton and Middlesbrough to the very heart of the new industrial country that was developing new technologies and new class structures.
During the 1840's British industrial towns were experiencing the worst effects of the industrial revolution. Large families lived in destitution, with inadequate housing and frequent periods of unemployment. In 1850, the British government was alerted to these conditions through a report that recognised a correlation between those being convicted of crimes and their lack of education. By introducing children to reading and writing and by giving them the habits of working regularly, members of the council hoped children: "who had fallen into a life of crime could be persuaded to amend their ways" through 'Industrial Schools' set up by local initiatives.
If anywhere in Britain needed such institutions, it was the new town of Middlesbrough where, according to the historian, R.I.P. Hastings, social facilities were slow in developing due to the town's lack of leadership (except for the efforts of a handful of non-conformist churches). Inevitably, despite a willingness to be involved in the new Industrial School movement, Elizabeth and George had no convenient place in which to assist in Middlesbrough, which had to wait until 1875 for such a school of its own.
The 'Infant Hercules' - but no place for infants
In contrast the Lancashire industrial town of Bury, where crime was common despite the flourishing state of its cotton and iron industry, had swiftly heeded their town's need. By March 1855 prominent Bury people had pledged their support alongside the local police and were ready to set up and fund an Industrial School. So it was there that George, as headmaster, and Elizabeth, as matron, responded to a call made probably by Rev. Sidney Turner, the government inspector of reformatories, and Thomas Wright, the prison philanthropist with both of whom George had corresponded.
Being based in Bury meant that they were close to the new industrial giant 'shock city' of the nineteenth century, Manchester, a city that had recently been analysed by Engels for his book 'The Condition of the Working Class in England', and especially for George regular attendance at meetings of the Manchester Philosophical Society, a forum for debate on progressive and radical ideas of the age. This body, established in 1781 as the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, by Thomas Barnes and Thomas Henry, had many prominent members including Robert Owen, John Dalton and, later scientists such as Ernest Rutherford and engineers like Robert Whitworth.
Of interest is the thought that there George could have met Friedrich Engels, who, after a period out of Britain, had returned to Manchester to again take up a position in the family firm, Ermen and Engels, after an exciting time observing and taking part, with Marx, in the revolutionary upheaval in the Europe wide unrest of 1848-9. True, Manchester was by then a big city, but the middle class literary and philosophical milieu there was still very small, and it is certain that this was a pool in which both George and Engels would have swum. Whether they met will always be unknown, but to me, the fancy that they did, remains.
Despite the wide support given to the school, notice was given in July 1860 that Bury Industrial School would close on 20th August without any apparent reason. The event that set the crisis underway appeared to be the departure of a Unitarian minister, Benjamin Glover, who had taken responsibility for the administration work of the school and raised funds. George was deeply disappointed by the decision and tried to set up another school on his own. In an open letter to the local newspaper he appealed for subscribers and offered to open a new school on the 1st September, accepting a lower salary than before and defraying any extra costs from his own income. Disappointingly, money did not materialise and the author of an article in the Bury newspaper in 1919 suggests Bury's leading citizens did not approve the private nature of this venture, as the school would no longer be in the control of the town authorities.
Reflecting thirty years later on this time, George wrote that he "enjoyed collecting abandoned children" in Bury, although Elizabeth had found the combined duties as matron to the school and mother to the growing family too onerous. The Tweddell family left almost at once even postponing the baptism of their latest child until they had found a new home back in Stokesley.
The next year saw another move when they upped sticks to live at the now demolished street, 11 Commercial Road, in Middlesbrough's St Hilda's area. At this time almost all the inhabitants of this town were labourers, which made George one of the very few people in the town to have status high enough to be worthy of note in Slater's 1864 Yorkshire Directory, George being one of the only two 'gentry' entered in it.
A family bequest (of £100 per year) helped George to look to new enterprise, and this took the form of a new business 'Tweddell and Sons', a newsagent and printing business based at 87 Linthorpe Road (now a new building occupied by Superdrug), One product of this new business was a Middlesbrough Directory, and a assorted booklets with a local flavour. As the printing and publishing business proceeded, George seems to have learnt from his earlier period and adopted a more cautious business strategy. This time a list of subscribers was set up before the heavier expense of printing was started. With a major book, a list of 300 subscribers seems to be the number sought before starting a print run, although a small book could make a profit with 100 subscribers. Only the preparation and editing remained a speculative cost to be borne by the business if the project failed.
In was in this period that George did most of his writing. These were, in the main, collections of poetry, sonnets and compositions (often in local dialect) by other local writers, local histories and a pioneering tourist guide to Redcar and East Cleveland, at the time being opened up to visitors by the new connections pioneered by the Stockton and Darlington Railway. This, whilst concentrating on the beauties of the area and local buildings of interest, also added social content and ideas for the development of Teesside - including the idea of making Redcar 'a harbour of refuge' linked to Middlesbrough and the new Middlesbrough Docks by a canal capable of allowing passage to sea going vessels and thus allowing them to avoid the then undredged sandbanks and shallows of the Tees estuary. His output in this period also allowed for Elizabeth to have published a collection of poems she had penned, and which appeared under the author's pseudonym of 'Florence Cleveland'.
He also engaged in extensive correspondence with other writers and radicals across the North East. This was a wide circle, including such people as Joseph Cowen, the Newcastle based editor of the Newcastle Chronicle, a one time MP and friend of, amongst others, Garibaldi and Bakunin. In one letter George declared "I could name a local writer for every tick of my watch."
This diligent and onerous work was his public legacy. His "People's History of Cleveland" was preceded by a history of the new town of Middlesbrough, and nearly a century on, this became the key primary source for Asa Briggs when he came to write the chapter on Middlesbrough in his pioneering work on urbanism "Victorian Cities". Much of his work of this time has been seen, perhaps inaccurately, as simply backward looking, ruralist and 'arcadian'. In this he was not alone as a radical. Much progressive thinking of this time also shared this nostalgia for a supposed golden age of rural harmony, untouched by the blight of industrialism - good examples being William Morris's 'Dream of John Ball' and the works of Ruskin. Indeed, we perhaps saw an echo of this in the dramatic speech of Winston Churchill (once an advanced Liberal) who saw a defeated Britain in 1940 as ushering in a new global dark age "made more protracted by the lights of a perverted science"
None the less, George also shared the seeming contradiction of many Victorian writers and radicals who both pined for that lost golden age, yet still saw the need to promote and advance the technological spirit of the age. In a passage in his history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, George regretted the pollution of industry, with "clear rivulets running with the stinking refuse of dyehouses and factories and the wastes of towns" (a visual image he surely took from his time in Manchester and Bury) but, at the same time said that the railways, in their work of bringing people and communities closer together, were living proof of an adage of one of his heroes, Thomas Paine, in that they acted to "lose by degrees the awkwardness of strangers and the moroseness of suspicion, they learn to know and understand each other". In this he was at one with Marx and Engels who, writing at the same time, were able to both laud the technical advances that capitalism could give birth to, but at the same time seeing these advances as ones that could help liberate an urban working class to take what they, by their skills and labour, had produced,
George also found a substitute for writing editorials in his earlier newspaper, by adding political and social commentaries in the linking sections between articles by contributors. These showed clearly that his earlier Chartist spirit had not left him. For example, in an essay about the history of Liverpool, alongside a woodcut of its coat of arms, George takes the opportunity to comment on the evils of the city's involvement in the slave trade, using the nom-de-plume he reserved for such social ideas - Peter Proletarius (Peter of the Ordinary People), and by this strategy he aimed to not pull his punches - on Liverpool saying "When the offended player, George Frederick Cooke advanced to the footlights and told the burgesses of Liverpool, that 'the very bricks of their houses were cemented by the blood of the slave!' he acted no fictitious part, but boldly uttered a great truth, which must for ever leave an indelible stain of blood in the annals of Liverpool, which, like that on the hands of Macbeth, 'all great Neptune's ocean' cannot wash away, and 'all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten'".
This strain of radicalism continued in later pamphlets where he looked back at his earlier life against the backcloth of struggles against reaction and George's involvement in political meetings and agitation (with threats from Tory opponents) and comments arising from contemporary meetings with workers attending his lectures at Mechanics Institutes.
Clearly George was a central character on the radical political scene in those times, This comes not only as a result of the obvious influence of his newspaper in the 1840s, but also from the political support he gave to the development of trades unions among local ironstone miners toward the later years of his life.
George knew from personal experience that Stokesley and the villages surrounding Middlesbrough during the second half of the nineteenth century, were unlike now, not rural boltholes for a wealthier class, but places where many lived in slum dwellings and squalid yards and tofts running up from the main street (Guisborough was notorious for such squalid accommodation) and where financial decline and depopulation was endemic as a result of the national deterioration in agriculture and a shift in local trade from rural to urban locations. As for the countryside surrounding these villages, this was fast becoming an anthill for the extraction of ironstone, iron ore, jet and alum along a long swathe of land from the flanks of Roseberry Topping along to the high cliffs of Boulby and Saltburn.
The Tweddells were well aware of this new world on a highly personal basis, as two of their daughters married men who became ironstone miners shortly after marriage. One, son-in-law, Robert Watson, was originally a butcher and from a family of yeoman stock who had farmed in Rosedale but who was forced away from his home to work at a mine near Skelton Green, and the other, Thomas Turner, ended up labouring at another mine at nearby Brotton. Robert Watson's older brother (an agricultural worker) also moved from Rosedale with his family and settled in New Skelton. Son Tom Cole Tweddell, too, had two brothers-in-law in the mining industry. Both had been agricultural workers but moved away to the mines, one to an ironstone mine above Ingleby Arnside, the other to a pit in the southern area of the Durham coalfield.
There were also mining links from grandchildren. Three of Robert Watson's daughters (i.e. George and Elizabeth's granddaughters) married the sons of miners after their grandparents' deaths to men they had met as children in Skelton Green in the 1880s. These men's fathers had originated from a variety of places; one enticed from North Norfolk (a shepherd), another from West Cornwall (a tin miner), and the third was a local agricultural labourer. Thus George had every reason to visit the East Cleveland area on a regular basis, and in doing to see the reality of daily life for the miners and their families for himself, and, from that, to involve himself in their struggles.
In this connection it is interesting that the Brotton and Skelton Miners were amongst the first to embrace Trade Unionism (and with their comrades in Eston) to take explicit socialist and republican stances which were reflected in the setting up of republican clubs and the use of Union funds to underwrite wider political activity in the district. It is, I believe, not at all fanciful to surmise that George's influence and knowledge had struck root here - he was, after all an accomplished lecturer and orator, and he never lost those skills
George's later years were spent back at the family home in Stokesley, Rose Cottage. There was poor health in the family, and in 1899 Elizabeth died aged 75 whilst being cared for in the Stokesley Workhouse (now Springfield House), under what what now would be called 'respite nursing'. The reports of her funeral conducted in the chapel in the New Cemetery appeared in the newspaper and mentioned the severe snowstorm that prevented many of her admirers from attending. George died on 31st November 1903 aged 80 and was buried beside his well-loved wife in the South Eastern corner of the New Cemetery. In the cortege his body was carried from Rose Cottage towards his birthplace, Garden House; along the same route his mother had carried him back from his baptism 80 years before. Unfortunately, no account of his funeral has yet been found, but family tradition has it that many prestigious local and regional dignitaries as well as many relatives, joined in the funeral procession, while another tradition says the Odd Fellows present undertook a Masonic style service by the grave in George's honour. There was little evidence of a religious element in the service, judging by the reports, although one obituary suggested that towards the end of his life he leant towards Unitarianism, whose creed which rejected doctrines such as original sin and predestination, would have certainly have appealed to him and to his belief of the abilities of ordinary people to build a better world for all.
Rose Cottage, Stokesley
George did leave much written material and this would have been invaluable in decoding and chronicling his life and times. From this websites perspective, they would have been crucial in seeing exactly how his Zelig like existence, with the unique knack of always being on the scene at important times, meshed with his relationship with emerging socialist and radical thought - from Chartist times right through to a period when the Labour Party had become established and the local Cleveland Miners Association had embedded itself as a political power in this area. Alas, this was not to be, as a disastrous flood following the bursting of the banks of the Rover Leven engulfed Rose Cottage, with his papers lost beyond retrieval.
George and Elizabeth's grave
However, it is clear that George was someone whose DNA still runs in our genes and for his dedication, work, argument and activity for a better, more equal and democratic Teesside, we all owe him an ancestral debt.
David Walsh
Authors notes. If readers want to know more about Tweddell's life and career, there are two extensive website hubs. One, the Tweddell hub, gives links to on-line editions of much of Tweddell's published work. See http:// georgemarkhamtweddell. blogspot.co.uk/p/archives.html The other, The Tweddell history site, set up by members of the Tweddell family, hosts a detailed biography and also links to much of Tweddell's poetry. See http://www. tweddellhistory.co.uk/


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At the time I wrote the columns, the book had not been issued in Australia. Only a few actual aborigines had read it, but they were appalled. The book was a bizarre misrepresentation of their practices and beliefs, a libel on their religion, and a cynical attempt to use their ancient culture for some kind of New Age feel-good claptrap -- and, not so incidentally, to turn a tidy profit by dipping into the pocketbooks of credulous Americans.
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EIGHTEEN MONTHS have passed since the book hit the best-seller lists in this country. Translations continue to appear in different countries -- Japan is the latest. The Australian edition did not do well, but the book has sold like hotcakes elsewhere. Meanwhile, a savvy aboriginal leader named Robert Eggington has been mounting a counter-protest.
It took a long time. He thought it important to contact each of the aboriginal groups along a north- south band in the middle of Australia, to ask the elders of each group if they had ever seen or talked to Marlo Morgan. They all had not.
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And the names ("Storyteller"; "Toolmaker") of her characters, while similar to ritual names in American Indian culture, have nothing to do with aboriginal names. Eggington says the descriptions of the specific ceremonies are an unrecognizable hodgepodge mostly drawn from a few texts of popular anthropology.
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Buerkle was one of four members of the U.S. House of Representatives who gathered at Georgetown University June 28 to discuss religious freedom in front of an audience concerned about the health care reform law and the federal contraceptive mandate issued by Department of Health and Human Services.
Thomas Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown, gave the introduction and welcome.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., led off the morning discussion, saying he believes the HHS mandate "would force everyone to choose between their government and their beliefs."
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Audi reliability is strong, and these engines are also shared with the rest of the A6 range. This means there's been serious investment and ongoing development for what's a volume range, so there should be few problems. The fit and finish and Space Shuttle-like build quality should mean years of trouble free motoring. Warranty is three years/60,000 miles, with four- and five-year warranty options for £560 and £1335 respectively.
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Feeling very unsettled tonight and yet right at home, if that makes any sense. I went to the last regular season hockey game tonight and it was senior night. We honored all 9 seniors plus the manager and they saluted the crowd and then we all sang the alma mater. I teared up through the whole thing. I can not express how much I love my school and how much I do not want to graduate in May. This place is my home. These people are my family. I have learned so much in the short 4 years I have spent here and the future ahead is hard to picture without this place.
Moving on is inevitable. But for now, I am going to take in as much of this place as I can.
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Ray SOP
The Ray SOP is used to project one surface onto another. Rays are projected from each point of the input geometry in the direction of its normal. This can be used to drape clothes over surfaces, shrink-wrap one object with another, and other similar effects.
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Group /group
- If there are input groups, specifying a group name in this field will cause this SOP to act only upon the group specified. Accepts patterns, as described in Pattern Matching.
Method /method
- Project Rays - Points are projected along their normals until intersecting with collision geometry.
- Minimum Distance - Points are placed on the closest point on the collision geometry. This method does not use point normals. Use it to shrinkwrap or project one primitve onto another.
Transform Points /dotrans
- If selected, it will transform the input points as defined below. Leave this off when only interested in updating the source point attributes.
Intersect Farthest Surface /lookfar
- If selected, this option allows the user to choose between intersecting with the closest intersecting object or the furthest. See example, below.
Point Intersection Normal /putnml
- If selected, updates each point in the source geometry with the normal at the collision surface it intersects with. If the point doesn't intersect at the collision surface, a normal of (0,0,0) is used.
Point Intersection Distance /putdist
- If selected, updates each point intersected with the distance to the collision surface. If the point doesn't intersect at the collision surface a distance of 0 is used. This value is placed in the $DIST
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Scale /scale
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Lift /lift
- This value further offsets the surface input by offsetting it in the direction of its normal.
Sample /sample
- This value determines the number of rays sent per point. If greater than one, the remaining rays are perturbed randomly, and averaged.
Jitter Scale /jitter
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- If selected, it will create a point group containing all the points which were intersected successfully.
Ray Hit Group /hitgrp
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Local Variables
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- Place a Grid SOP and translate it in TZ by 2.5. Turn it's template flag on.
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- Place a NURBS Sphere with a Radius of 2,2,2 and translate it in Z by -2.5 .
- Display point normals by enabling the option in the Viewport > Display Options.
- Append a Ray SOP to the Point SOP and connect the Sphere to the right input. Make it the display SOP.
- Toggle the Intersect Farthest Surface button on and off.
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Empathic Ability:
Part 2 – turning off
So you're empathic – been called a cry baby, told – don't wear your heart on your sleeve and stop worrying all the time, geez!
For the most part, empathic people tend to express themselves energetically towards other people, hence not protecting their own energy. They give away their power, usually without realizing it!
What if you could turn it off and on? That would mean freedom!!
Step 1 – There is no secret switch, no magic powder that can be swallowed or touched. In order to change something we need to first acknowledge it. This means that if you all of a sudden feel a certain way, you must explore it. Stop the 'chatter' in your head, (the chatter of – why, what's wrong, omg)….to sit back and take a much needed deep, lingering breath and ask yourself, "what am I feeling right now?" It could be anger, sadness, fear, etc. It's important to identify the feeling instead of trying to ignore it.
Stop analyzing, stop trying to figure out where it's coming from…you're skipping too many steps! For now, just feel – do not identify!
Step 2 - Once the 'feeling' is identified (sadness, anger, fear, resentment, etc) then sit with it, let the emotions flow. You may start to see that one emotion turns into another, you may even be able to see in your minds eye who this emotion is actually attached to. Once you do this say something to the effect, "all that is not mine, leave immediately!" You have free will, that is your controlled power.
Remember, just because you get an intuitive 'hit' doesn't mean you are suppose to do something with it. It's not selfish to think and do for yourself.
Being empathic doesn't have to mean crippled with emotion. Look at it as an inside look at a wrapped book. You can profile anyone, meaning you can get into the head/feelings of anyone if you wish. Don't take things personally, when you get your emotions twisted and combined with what the outside 'feelings' are, it gets complicated and you will run in circles and receive nothing but a headache. Don't take it personally, don't analyze, or make excuses. Trust, know and filter.
For Example – try this with a friend; sit across from someone to practise your empathic skills with them. You can hold their hands if you wish, but remain relaxed. Then just FEEL! Wrap yourself like a blanket with their energy, like you become them. Say to yourself, I am (_insert name_), what do I feel? Do I 'feel' heavy, sad, depressed, sick, fear, rejection, etc…remember your feeling words! Be sure to say exactly how you are feeling, include any images you may see. Do NOT say things like, well this probably isn't right but, blah, blah!! That's being negative and dismissing the information you receive.
You will be amazed at what you can actually do with the skill you already possess!
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Emerald ash borer larvae ate at the wood beneath this ash tree's bark in Petoskey, killing it. The City of Petoskey has marked the tree as dead, said Al Hansen, director of Petoskey's parks and recreation department. (Morgan Sherburne/News-Review / October 12, 2012) |
The trees are dead, or otherwise soon to be dead. Their bark is peeling away from their trunks, thanks to woodpeckers rooting for the invasive bug noodling beneath the bark, in the tree's cambium.
The cambium is the layer of wood that creates a tree's annual rings, and the insect eats into this layer, "effectively girdling the tree," said Petoskey parks and recreation director Al Hansen.
The trees, of course, are ash trees, and the invasive insect is the emerald ash borer. The insect is now considered to be spread entirely throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, said Roger Mech. He's the forest health monitoring program lead for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
"It's probably safe to say within five to 10 years, it will be very difficult to find an ash tree south of the (Mackinac) bridge not showing at least some indication of infestation of emerald ash borer," he said.
Because the Lower Peninsula is considered to be infested, the DNR and Department of Agriculture and Rural Development have started to concentrate on the Upper Peninsula, said Mech. The state does not have data on specific areas of Northern Michigan. But both Charlevoix and Petoskey have been culling ash trees in recent years.
"This is not something brand new. This emerald ash borer has been a problem for a while now," said Charlevoix's public works superintendent Pat Elliott.
He said the city has been removing ash trees for the past few years, but has its eye next on a stand along May Street. The city plans to cut the trees down toward the end of October.
"May Street is going to be hit particularly hard because of the amount growing there," he said.
Harbor Springs has had to deal with relatively few dead ash trees, said Department of Public Works superintendent Joel Clark.
"We haven't planted a lot of them in the past years, thank God, I guess," said Clark. "We've probably had to take down a half dozen trees this year, but I'm seeing them dying, as everybody else has. It's a sad deal. They're a pretty tree."
Emerald ash borer entered in the southeastern corner of Michigan in 2002, according to the website emeraldashborer.info. Over the past decade, the bug has been moving north, spread by humans through moving firewood and nursery plants.
Petoskey has removed nearly 400 ash trees since giving up the effort of protecting them last year.
"It's got a major foothold here," said Al Hansen, director of the Petoskey Parks and Recreation Department. "When it was first announced, we immediately started treating the trees. We had test zones and control zones, and the treatment didn't seem to have much different in the life expectancy of the tree."
He said the annual pesticide treatment was costing the city between $4,000 and $5,000 per year — an unsustainable cost, especially because the trees were dying anyway.
Of the nearly 400 trees Petoskey has removed, about 60 of those came from Sunset Park and along the waterfront and the Winter Sports Park. Workers replaced those 60 trees with 32. Some of the species the city is using are ruby red chestnuts, red maples and sugar maples as well as a hybrid elm tree that resembles the American elm, another tree largely lost to disease across Michigan.
Hansen said choosing replacement trees is tricky because the city has to consider which trees can stand up to road salt and other trials of living in the city for trees.
Outside of cities, Mech said the state can keep an eye on the progression in some stands of ash trees just by seeing the damage from the road.
"If nothing else, one of our more useful tools has been doing drive-by assessments," he said. "Where the emerald ash borer is in advanced stages, you can pick it up from the road without actually being next to the tree. When you see that, it's a safe bet that the tree or trees are dead or will be dead in the next few years."


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Thursday, July 05, 2007
An Hour With Gyles Brandreth
I know Gyles Brandreth is an acquired taste, but I still reckon his book BREAKING THE CODE is the best political book of the last ten years. Last week I did an hour long interview with him on 18 Doughty Street. The above is a short clip, but if you'd like to see the whole hour, click HERE.
This is what Jilted John thought of it...
"18 Doughty Street with Gyles Brandreth - one of the funniest and brilliant hours of TV I have seen in ages. Absolutely brilliant.
19 comments:
- Tone made me do it - he's a bad influence said...
Watching Sky News tonight and the editing and manipulation of today's events, Murdoch has clearly decided that Broown should be replaced by Milliband.
I stopped subscribing to Sky two years ago - bollocks to him. - July 05, 2007 1:30 am
- Diablo said...
This was great TV. What is http://www.blogger.com/profile/04811519612440901811
doing? Silly boy - July 05, 2007 2:17 am
- Harry Hook said...
"An Hour With Gyles Brandreth"
Hmmmm ...that's long enough for him to knit you a jumper. - July 05, 2007 4:06 am
- tapestry said...
tone made me ...
how do you get sky tv at night when you've stopped subscribing?
Murdoch's been arse-licking Brown so long and hard his mouth's went as dry as a dead dingo's d.....
Blair tried to warn Murdoch and everyone else Brown was a clunking fist with no idea what goes on. Maybe they all thought it was just 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
Brown could look OK on the coat tails of Blair. And Blair had no choice but to support him in public. Without Blair's courage and self-belief, Brown's almost farcical - a pygmy.
Brandreth sounds good. will click on later to watch more. I wonder hoe he would compare Brown to Blair. He obviously hadn't much time for Hague and Major. - July 05, 2007 7:03 am
- Andrew Woodman said...
Just watched the hour and must agree with Jilted John. Shame you ran out of time.
- July 05, 2007 8:46 am
- Newmania said...
Thats great Iain , I was just wondering if I could find it to watch. I shall view later when I have finished keeping the country afloat.
I will probably buy the book on your recommendation as well. It occurred to me doing your survey that advertising books was probably the best interface for you. I would be interested in poltical book reviews and recommendations.
You taste in music is quite another thing ...( Sparks ?) - July 05, 2007 8:56 am
'Breaking the code' is a good book. Brandreth got a lot of stick at the time for revealing some 'secrets' but he probably kept the best ones out.
Incidentally, in the book he refers to Sir Patrick Cormack as a 'Bufton Tufton' figure - spot on Gyles! - July 05, 2007 9:44 am
Yes, he is an acquired taste, but very good in small doses - he is more of a 'late night brandy' than to be consumed by the pint. The little vignettes he did on the Westminster Hour was absolutely fantastic.
- July 05, 2007 9:55 am
The little vignettes he did on the Westminster Hour were absolutely fantastic.
Sorry, Brandreth would never have forgiven the grammatical clanger in my earlier post. - July 05, 2007 9:57 am
- tapestry said...
A diversion from politics - a golfing ghost story - true.
on my blog.
what happened to ian dale's blogger's golfing day?
if all bloggers play golf, sell golfing books etc. or was that just a rumour about 100% bloggers being golfers? - July 05, 2007 10:04 am
Any chance he might stand in Chester again at the next election? (Labour majority 915)
- July 05, 2007 11:52 am
Gyles is a 'good egg'. A real trooper. Would make a good Party chair.....
- July 05, 2007 12:21 pm
Brandreth is a comedy genius he should have his own show.
Boris, Smoris, you tories should give Brandreth a top job. He means his comedy. Boris and Brandreth would be a great comedy double act. Boris and Brandreth could be ranked up there with Abott and Costello, Morcambe and Wise and Laurel and Hardy. - July 05, 2007 1:09 pm
His Frankie Howerd impersonation is still making me laugh!
- July 05, 2007 1:16 pm
- Daily Referendum said...
Can't wait for the second interview.
- July 05, 2007 2:42 pm
votedave - I'm pretty sure Chester wouldn't have him back after some of the things he said in his diaries!!
- July 05, 2007 2:50 pm
Erm tapestry, 'Sky News' is still available on Freeview. Not that I'd recommend it of course.
- July 05, 2007 3:17 pm
Hugely agree re his diaries. Once you get through the luvvie bit at the start the stuff on the decline and fall of the Major Government and the complete lack of discipline from the backbenches is first rate reading.
I've long argued that a copy should be given to every Labour MP who is thinking of rebelling to show them the damage it can do. I believe remaindered copies of the book can be picked up quite cheaply! - July 05, 2007 7:28 pm
Brandreth is the most COMPLETE Arze. Which might explain his attracion to certain bloggers.
- July 05, 2007 8:00 pm