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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
CB&Q system map
|Reporting mark
New Mexico
South Dakota
|Dates of operation
|Burlington Northern Railroad (later Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway)
|Track gauge
|4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
|9,367 miles (15,075 kilometres)
|Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a Class I railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or Q, the Burlington Route served a large area, including the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Wyoming, and New Mexico and Texas via subsidiary railroads. Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. Because of this extensive trackage in the midwestern and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West". It merged with three other railroads to become the Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970.
The earliest predecessor of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy was the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered on February 12, 1849 to build a line from Aurora, Illinois, to a connection with the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) (forerunner of the Chicago & North Western Railroad) at Turner Junction (West Chicago).[1] Service began with the G&CU's first locomotive, the Pioneer. In 1852, the railroad was renamed the Chicago & Aurora Railroad and received authority to build to Mendota, Illinois, where it would connect with the Illinois Central Railroad.[2] On February 14, 1855, it was again renamed, becoming the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q).[1]
That same year, a railroad was opened between Galesburg and the east bank of the Mississippi River, opposite Burlington, Iowa; a year later, a string of railroads, including the CB&Q, linked Chicago with Quincy, Illinois, via Galesburg. A Galesburg-Peoria line was opened in 1857. By 1865, the CB&Q had acquired all these lines, built its own line from Aurora to Chicago, and had undergone several consolidations to become the corporation that would endure until the Burlington Northern Railroad merger in 1970.[1]
West of the Mississippi, expansion proceeded on two fronts. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad (H&StJ), chartered in 1857, began operation between its namesake cities in 1859. A short spur to a point opposite Quincy and a steamboat across the Mississippi created the first railroad from Chicago to the Missouri River. The Burlington & Missouri River Railroad (B&MR) began construction in 1855 at Burlington, Iowa, and followed an old Indian trail (later U.S. Route 34) straight across Iowa — very slowly. Not until November 26, 1869, did it reach the east bank of the Missouri River opposite Plattsmouth, Nebraska (Chicago & North Western reached Council Bluffs in 1867 and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific got there on May 11, 1869). By then, CB&Q had bridged the Mississippi at Burlington and Quincy, both in 1868, and the Missouri in 1869 at Kansas City, Missouri, as part of a line from Cameron, on the H&StJ, to Kansas City.[1]
The Burlington, in the form of the Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road In Nebraska (B&MRinN), pushed beyond the Missouri River to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. It acquired the Omaha & South Western Railroad for access to Omaha and built west from Lincoln to a junction with the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at Kearney. The railroad began a colonization program to increase the population along its lines and to sell off the lands it had been granted. CB&Q provided financial backing for the two B&MR (Iowa and Nebraska) companies and directors for the boards. Meanwhile, the CB&Q was acquiring branch lines in Illinois and upgrading its plant: double track, steel rail to replace iron, and iron bridges to replace wood.[1]
Jay Gould acquired control of the H&StJ in 1871, and friction began to develop among the railroads in the CB&Q family over such matters as routing of connecting traffic to and from the UP. To begin unifying the system, CB&Q leased the B&MR in 1872 and merged it in 1875. Gould gained control of UP in 1875 and then in quick succession got the Kansas Pacific Railway (Kansas City-Denver), the Wabash (and extended it to Council Bluffs), and the Missouri Pacific. CB&Q's Nebraska's lines were surrounded by Gould lines, and the Wabash would be likely to get the largest share of eastbound traffic from the UP. In the summer of 1880, the CB&Q consolidated with B&MRinN, acquired the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, opened a bridge over the Missouri at Plattsmouth, and began an extension west to Denver, completed in 1882.[1]
In 1882, the growth of the Pacific Northwest and the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) and the Great Northern Railway (GN) prompted the CB&Q to consider building a line up the east bank of the Mississippi River to Saint Paul, Minnesota. It would be 25 miles (40 kilometres) longer than the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western (C&NW) lines between Chicago and the St. Paul, but the grades would be easier. The CB&Q extended its Chicago & Iowa line west to Savanna; the Chicago, Burlington & Northern [CB&N] (the CB&Q owned one-third of its stock) built the line along the river. It was opened in 1886. Considerable friction ensued between parent and child: the CB&N knew that retaliation by the Milwaukee Road and C&NW would be directed at CB&Q systemwide, not just at the CB&N. The matter was eventually settled when CB&Q increased its CB&N holdings in 1890 and absorbed the railroad in 1899.[1]
In May 1883, the CB&Q regained control of the H&StJ and soon found itself with increased competition in the Chicago-Kansas City market: Milwaukee Road in 1887 and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) in 1888.[1]
Over the years, the CB&Q considered extension to the Pacific coast and merger with nearly every other railroad. Between 1883 and 1886, it made surveys west of Denver but did no construction. The arrival at Pueblo, Colorado of the Missouri Pacific in 1887 and the Rock Island in 1888 (on trackage rights from Colorado Springs) put the CB&Q at a competitive disadvantage. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) received the same amount for moving freight from Salt Lake City to Pueblo as it did from Salt Lake City through Pueblo to Denver (the Dotsero Cutoff was still nearly five decades in the future). Naturally, the D&RGW preferred to interchange at Pueblo — it received nothing additional for the 119-mile (192 km) haul from Pueblo to Denver. There was thought of the CB&Q's acquiring James J. Hill's St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway and vice versa. CB&Q considered merger with the Pennsylvania Railroad; the two railroads purchased interests in the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. In 1896, the CB&Q looked eagerly at the Oregon Short Line Railroad and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company when their parent, UP, was in receivership. Other merger partners considered were the following:
- Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
- Northern Pacific Railway
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
- Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad
- Chicago Great Western Railway
- Kansas City Southern Railway
- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
- St. Louis–San Francisco Railway[1]
With one exception, the CB&Q was content for a while to stay within its boundaries, marked by corner stakes at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Omaha, Galesburg, and St. Paul. That exception was a line opened in 1894 from Alliance, Nebraska, northwest through the coalfields of eastern Wyoming to Billings, Montana.[1]
Perhaps the most important event in the CB&Q's history was the purchase, effective July 1, 1901, of nearly 98 percent of its stock jointly by GN and NP. James J. Hill, builder of the GN, saw in the CB&Q the connection he needed from St. Paul to Chicago — the C&NW was largely held by the New York Central Railroad, and the Milwaukee Road refused to consider the matter. At the same time, E. H. Harriman realized that the CB&Q could bring his UP to Chicago from Omaha. CB&Q realized it would be better off with the northern lines because of their on-line resources of coal and lumber, both lacking on the UP-SP route to San Francisco. The battle for control was brief and intense. Control of the CB&Q essentially moved from Boston to St. Paul. That same year Hill, with the backing of J. P. Morgan, his banker, acquired control of NP. The next logical step was merger of the three railroads — a process that took 69 years of off-and-on petitioning, protesting, and arguing.[1]
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was leased to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway for 99 years on September 30, 1901; that leased lasted until June 30, 1907, when the railroad resumed its own management. The Railroad and Railway companies had a number of officers and directors in common. Of the railway company during those years, Moody's railroad manual simply said "The company has decided not to issue a report."[1]
In January, 1909, the CB&Q,through Edwin Hawley and associates, acquired control of the Colorado & Southern Railway (C&S),[3] gaining a route from Denver to the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, Texas, and a route from Denver north into Wyoming. CB&Q extended a line down from Billings, Montana, to meet the C&S in 1914. Other extensions were to the coalfields of southern Illinois and on across the Ohio River to Paducah, Kentucky, and a line from Ashland, Nebraska, north to a connection with the GN at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1916. It was during this period that the railroad was at its largest, exceeding just over 12,000 miles (19,000 kilometres) in 14 states.[4]
The CB&Q's growth leveled off during the 1920s. In 1929, CB&Q created a subsidiary, the Burlington Transportation Company, to operate intercity buses in tandem with its railway network. In 1936, the company would become one of the founding members of the Trailways Transportation System, and still provides intercity service as Burlington Trailways.[5][6] In the 1930s, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) authorized merger of GN and NP on the condition that they relinquish control of the CB&Q. GN and NP withdrew their merger application in 1931 in favor of retaining joint control of the CB&Q.[1]
The year 1932 saw the beginning of two significant projects: the D&RGW Dotsero Cutoff, which would give Denver a direct rail line west via the Denver & Salt Lake Railway, and the ordering of a stainless-steel streamline train from the Budd Company.[1]
The Zephyr, the country's first diesel-powered streamliner, was delivered in 1934 and was soon followed by a family of Zephyrs. In 1939, the CB&Q teamed up with the DRG&W and Western Pacific Railroad (WP) to operate a through passenger train between Chicago and San Francisco via the Dotsero Cutoff — the Exposition Flyer. In 1945, CB&Q built the first Vista-Dome coach. These elements achieved their ultimate synthesis in 1949 with the inauguration of the Vista-Dome-equipped California Zephyr, operated between Chicago and San Francisco by the CB&Q, DRG&W and WP. The route was longer and slower than that of the competition, but the schedule took advantage of the breathtaking scenery through the Rocky Mountains. The train was an immediate success and remains so under Amtrak.[1]
The Zephyr fleet included:
- Pioneer Zephyr (Lincoln–Omaha–Kansas City)
- Twin Cities Zephyr (Chicago–Minneapolis-St. Paul)
- Mark Twain Zephyr (St. Louis–Burlington)
- Denver Zephyr (Chicago–Denver)
- Nebraska Zephyr (Chicago–Lincoln)
- Sam Houston Zephyr (Houston–Dallas-Ft. Worth)
- Ozark State Zephyr (Kansas City–St. Louis), jointly with the Alton Railroad
- General Pershing Zephyr (Kansas City–St. Louis)
- Silver Streak Zephyr (Kansas City–Omaha–Lincoln)
- Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr (Kansas City–Omaha–Lincoln)
- Zephyr Rocket (St. Louis–Burlington–Minneapolis-St. Paul), jointly with the Rock Island
- Texas Zephyr (Denver–Dallas-Ft. Worth)
- American Royal Zephyr (Chicago–Kansas City)
- Kansas City Zephyr (Chicago–Kansas City)
Although the distinctive, articulated stainless steel trains were well known, and the railroad adopted the "Way of the Zephyrs" advertising slogan, they did not attract passengers back to the rails en masse, and the last one was retired from revenue service with the advent of Amtrak in 1971.
Later years[edit]
The CB&Q was still aware of the shortcomings of its Chicago-Kansas City route across northern Missouri (the 1902 purchase of the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad, a circuitous secondary local line between Quincy and Kansas City, largely abandoned in 1939, appears to have been an act of mercy on the CB&Q's part.) It first proposed a four-way deal that would give AT&SF a route to St. Louis; the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GM&O) a route of its own to Chicago (CB&Q president Ralph Budd had been a member of the board of directors of GM&O predecessor, Gulf, Mobile & Northern); and the foundering Alton Railroad a good home. GM&O would buy the Alton, less its St. Louis-Kansas City line, which did not fit into GM&O's north-south pattern; CB&Q would take that line and swap trackage rights into St. Louis to the AT&SF for a shortcut across Missouri on AT&SF's main line. The other railroads serving St. Louis protested. GM&O merged the Alton, but the rest of the plan did not come to fruition. In the early 1950s, CB&Q built a new line across Missouri and coupled it with Wabash Railroad trackage rights to shorten its Chicago-Kansas City route by 22 miles (35 kilometres). The line was further improved in 1960 with a new bridge at Quincy.[1]
A merger of the GN, NP and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (jointly owned by GN and NP) was proposed once again in 1960 and finally became reality on March 2, 1970, with the creation of the Burlington Northern Railroad, one of the two major predecessors of the future Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.[1]
CB&Q was a leader in innovation; among its firsts were use of the printing telegraph (1910), train radio communications (1915), streamlined passenger diesel power (1934) and vista-dome coaches (1945). In 1927, the railroad was one of the first to use Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) and by the end of 1957, it had equipped 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of its line.
The railroad had one of the first hump classification yards at its Cicero Avenue Yard in Chicago, allowing an operator in a tower to line switches remotely and allowing around-the-clock classification.
As early as 1897, the railroad had been interested in alternatives to steam power, namely, internal-combustion engines. The railroad's shops in Aurora had built an unreliable three-horsepower distillate engine in that year, but it was hugely impractical (requiring a massive 6,000-pound flywheel) and had issues with overheating (even with the best metals of the day, its cylinder heads and liners would warp and melt in a matter of minutes) and was therefore impractical. Diesel engines of that era were oversized, and were best suited for low-speed, continuous operation. None of that would do in a railroad locomotive; however, there was no diesel engine suitable for that purpose then.
Always innovating, the railroad both purchased "doodlebug" gas-electric combine cars from Electro-Motive Corporation and built their own, sending them out to do the jobs of a steam locomotive and a single car. With good success in that field, and after having purchased and tried a pair of General Electric steeple-cab switchers powered by distillate engines, Burlington president Ralph Budd requested of the Winton Engine Company a light, powerful diesel engine that could stand the rigors of continuous, unattended daily service.
The experiences of developing these engines can be summed up shortly by General Motors Research vice-president Charles Kettering: "I do not recall any trouble with the dip stick." Ralph Budd, accused of gambling on diesel power, chirped that "I knew that the GM people were going to see the program through to the very end. Actually, I wasn't taking a gamble at all." The manifestation of this gamble was the eight-cylinder Winton 8-201A diesel, a creature no larger than a small Dumpster, that powered the Burlington Zephyr (built 1934) on its record run and opened the door for developing the long line of diesel engines that has powered Electro-Motive locomotives for the past seventy years.[7]
Named trains[edit]
Named passenger trains operated by the CB&Q included:[8]
- Aristocrat (Chicago–Denver): replaced the Colorado Limited.[9][10]
- Ak-Sar-Ben (Chicago–Lincoln): replaced Nebraska Limited and replaced by Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr.
- American Royal (Chicago–Kansas City): replaced by the American Royal Zephyr.
- Atlantic Express (Seattle-Tacoma-Chicago): jointly with Northern Pacific Railway.
- Black Hawk (Chicago–Twin Cities overnight).
- Chicago Limited (Chicago-Denver).
- Coloradoan (Chicago–Denver): replaced by the Aristocrat.
- Denver Limited (Denver-Chicago).
- Exposition Flyer (Chicago–Oakland) in conjunction with D&RGW and WP prior to the launching of the California Zephyr.[11]
- Empire Builder: handled Great Northern Railway's flagship between Chicago and Minneapolis.
- Fast Mail (Chicago–Lincoln).
- Mainstreeter: handled the Northern Pacific Railway's secondary transcontinental between Chicago and Minneapolis.
- Nebraska Limited (Chicago–Lincoln): replaced by the Ak-Sar-Ben.
- North Coast Limited: handled Northern Pacific Railway's flagship between Chicago and Minneapolis.
- North Pacific Express (Chicago-Seattle-Tacoma): jointly with Northern Pacific Railway.
- Overland Express (Chicago-Denver). This train, along with The Aristocrat and the Colorado Limited, were promoted as companion trains to the streamlined Denver Zephyr.[9]
- Western Star: handled by Great Northern's secondary transcontinental between Chicago-Minneapolis.
- Zephyr Connection: (Denver-Cheyenne) offered daytime service along Colorado's Front Range between Denver and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The California Zephyr is still operated daily by Amtrak as trains 5 (westbound) and 6 (eastbound). Another Amtrak train, the Illinois Zephyr, is a modern descendant of the Kansas City Zephyr and the American Royal Zephyr services.
Cities platted by CB&Q[edit]
The Alton-Burlington Ozark State Zephyr, circa 1936
CB&Q steam locomotive built 1940 on display in Douglas, Wyoming
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Drury, George H. (1994). The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 71–74. ISBN 0-89024-072-8.
- ^ Dorin, Patrick C. (1976). p. 9
- ^ http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015091131600, 1905-1914
- ^ Dorin, Patrick C. (1976). p. 10
- ^ Schwantes (2003), p. 187.
- ^ Yago (1984), p. 172.
- ^ http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_111311/article.html?popularArticle
- ^ Dorin, Patrick C. (1976). Chapters 2, 4, 5. pp. 14–29, 36–77, 78–90.
- ^ a b A Marvelous Vacation in Cool Colorado (ad for the Denver Zephyr). Life Magazine. 19 April 1937. p. 79. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^ Mann, Charles F.A. (17 September 1935). "Most Powerful Diesel Ready for Rail Service". The Meriden Daily Journal. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
- ^ The Scenic Way to California. LIFE. 21 April 1941. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Bryant, Keith L., Jr., Editor. Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, Railroads in the Twentieth Century. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
- Frey, Robert L., Editor. Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, Railroads in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
- Hidy, Ralph W., et al. The Great Northern Railway, A History. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.
- Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of E.H. Harriman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Larson, John L. Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age, expanded edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001
- Martin, Albro. James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Overton, Richard C. Burlington Route, a History of the Burlington Lines. New York: Knopf, 1965
- Dorin, Patrick C. (1976). Everywhere West. Seattle, Wash.: Superior Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87564-523-2. LCCN 76017317.
- Schwantes, Carlos A. (2003). Going Places: transportation Redefines the Twentieth-century West. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34202-3.
- Yago, Glenn (1984). The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900–1970. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-25633-X.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
- Burlington Route Historical Society
- North American Railroad Slogans
- Pioneer Zephyr Exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
- California Zephyr Virtual Museum
- The CB&Q Mark Twain Zephyr
- Streamliners: America's Lost Trains – The American Experience
- The Northern Securities Decision Northern Securities Co. v. United States at Cornell Law School's Supreme Court Collection.
- Illinois Railroads as of 1850
- List and Family Trees of North American Railroads
- CB&Q: Building an Empire
- Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
- Defunct Colorado railroads
- Defunct companies based in Chicago, Illinois
- Defunct Illinois railroads
- Defunct Iowa railroads
- Defunct Kansas railroads
- Defunct Kentucky railroads
- Defunct Minnesota railroads
- Defunct Missouri railroads
- Defunct Montana railroads
- Defunct Nebraska railroads
- Defunct South Dakota railroads
- Defunct Wisconsin railroads
- Defunct Wyoming railroads
- Former Class I railroads in the United States
- Predecessors of the Burlington Northern Railroad
- Railroads in the Chicago Switching District
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Colby was conceived by artificial insemination with sperm that was supposed to have been donated by Jake Martin. Wealthy, Adam Chandler, bought the sperm bank and substituted his own little swimmers, making Colby a Chandler. A tumultuous relationship between Adam and Liza caused her to take Colby and leave Pine Valley, against Adam's wishes. Despite hiring an army of private investigators, he was unable to find the duo.
At fifteen, Colby ran away from Liza and returned to Pine Valley in a stolen car. Of course, papa Chandler's money got her off with only a slap on the wrist. It was the night of her return to Pine Valley that Colby stumbled upon Dr. Greg Madden's dead body... Quite a welcome home.
Colby seems to have inherited her father's genes for deception and manipulation, as evidence at her sweet sixteen birthday party. Colby used her feminine charms to attract young Sean Montgomery into having sex to keep him from being interested in Sydney Harris, the niece of the Chandler's housemaid. After drinking way too much, Colby crashed the Montgomery yacht, injuring most of the young people aboard. She, then hid in the secret passageway of the Chandler Mansion, letting everyone believe she had been killed. Of course, her father was so relieved to see her alive, there were no repercussions. Luckily, the pregnancy scare from her brief sexual encounter turned out to be false.
Colby is determined to rid the Chandler household of Babe and her mother, Krystal. Although things she overheard through the walls have failed to convince her father and JR of the loose morals of the two women, she has now planted a video cam in Josh Madden's room, hoping to get evidence that Babe is still cheating with him. She wants to have her father and her brother all to herself, and she's willing to do whatever it takes.
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Cassandra can't find her MP3 player and begins to search for it, narrowly missing Robert. She calls Angie, but Angie doesn't know where it is. Giving up, she and Colby leave for the manse. With the girls gone, Rob searches Cass's room and finds her diary. Inside is a sketch of an elephant.
Adam sees Dixie's reflection in the mirror and spins around - but no one is there! He yells at Father Clarence, asking what he wants and pretending that the visions aren't bothering him a bit. Adam thinks back and realizes the visions began when he was prescribed the anti-anxiety meds; he throws them away. In his briefcase, he finds another adoption certificate! Dixie starts laughing! She appears and when Adam isn't frightened, she snaps her fingers to make the lights flash and causes the fire in the fireplace to flare up. Adam asks what he's done to deserve a haunting and Dixie laughs again. She grabs Kate's adoption paper and says, "I'm here to help you do the right thing." Adam tells her to just give Tad the papers but soon realizes she can't. He goes upstairs but she chases him back down, saying he has to do it - and she's going to make sure he does! Colby and Cassandra walk in and ask who he is talking to; Adam says he's practicing a speech and sends the girls upstairs. When the girls are gone, Dixie reappears and begins humming. Adam says she is a lousy ghost but she was a great mother. Dix says he better start playing by her rules - or else! Then, she disappears.
Cassandra and Frankie go to Colby and Dre's table. Colby invites them to sit down and Cassandra begs Frankie to stay with the two other kids. Finally, Frankie and Dre go to get drinks. Colby lets Cassandra know she is just Dre's friend. Cass says it doesn't matter because she isn't interested in dating. The four of them go to the patio. Dre and Cassandra are instantly attracted; Colby invites Cassandra to come hear Dre play sometime. Frankie tells them about Cass's poetry; Colby suggests they get together to make music. Frankie and Dre have to go so Colby takes Cassandra with her. Frankie warns Dre away from Cassandra.
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Norwegian wood (1987)
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)
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Is a pretty good book. You read it with pleasure and [a:Haruki Murakami|3354|Haruki Murakami|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1350230608p2/3354.jpg]knows how to put you inside the book in no time. Sometimes I struggle to get into the book but here I had no problem. I was reading almost 100 pages in one sit without even notice. The book in other languages is call "Norwegian Wood" in spanish is Tokio Blues, but once that you start to read it you realice is a great translation. Watanabe (the main character of the story) is narrating his time as a student in Tokyo and is a sad story so all his memories produce the perfect atmosphere of a blues. I like many of the characters and by the end Murakami manage to create a great story surrender by nostalgia and sadness. Is a great reading that take us to the late 60's in Tokyo and allow us to understand more about the culture. The only problem that I had is that despite the great efforts of the translator to explain several words and word games in Japanese I felt that there are some things missing in the translation, but I will not blame the translator, there are many books in different languages that are hard to translate and something will be lost in translation.
Somehow, I find it troubling to find a word that accurately describe this book. Peaceful? No. Exciting? No. It's nearly impossible to do so. But, this book has absolutely left a big impression on me.
Having just arrived in Hamburg, Germany, 37 year old Toru Watanabe hears an orchestral cover of The Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood" which reminds him of his college years. In high school his best friend, Kizuki completed suicide and Watanabe moved to Tokyo for college in the hopes to escape the pain. One day he was reunited with Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko and they sought solitude in each other's company. However this relationship wasn't the right solution for Naoko and she left for a secluded mountain sanatorium near Kyoto.
Norwegian Wood is often referred to as the best starting point when diving into the works of Haruki Murakami, mainly because this is one of the few books that don't have a magical realism thread to it. This is a good place to start but what I find fascinating is the way Murakami uses magical realism to explore ideas of the mind. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and Norwegian Wood don't have that same fantastical style but they still follow similar themes. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki looks at the psychological impacts of losing friendships, while this novel looks at ideas of memory. From what I have read so far, Murakami's other books do similar things but the use of magical realism allows him to dive into the mind and explore it as a fantastical world.
I have heard Norwegian Wood described as a coming of age story so many times, but I find it difficult to classify this book as such; for the simple fact that Toru Watanabe is 37 years on at the start of the novel, even though the majority of the novel is set during his college years. I think this is more a reflection on life and love, a novel that explores ideas of memory and nostalgia through themes like loss, depression and sexuality. This leads me to wonder just how reliable Watanabe really is and if there is a 'rose coloured glasses' perception happening in the novel. However the way this novel comes together and deals with memory (especially at the end) works so well and I can understand why Norwegian Wood is a Haruki Murakami favourite for many people.
One thing that really stuck with me with Norwegian Wood is the way Murakami developed characters. I found most characters to be complex and well rounded, they all had a unique personality and it was such a joy to read something with such great character development. A favourite of mine was Midori, who reminds me a lot of my wife; a confident and sure character who is at times insecure but has a great interest in talking about sex with others. She was the highlight of the whole novel and I always looked forward to her turning up within the story.
Before I knew who Haruki Murakami was, I saw the 2010 Japanese movie adaptation and thankfully I forgot most of the story. While images and plot points did come back to me as I read the novel, I was glad I didn't have that outside influence but now I do need to re-watch the movie. Norwegian Wood is a great starting place if you have never read Haruki Murakami before. Apparently Murakami isn't too happy that this is the novel that people will read or recognise him by, but it really is one of his stand out books. I have so many more Murakami books to read and I am really looking forward to diving into them all.
This review originally appeared on my blog; http://literary-exploration.com/2015/03/08/norwegian-wood-by-haruki-murakami/
While this isn't the quirky trip that many Murakami books are, it's a pretty good book about a guy growing into his own, dealing with loss in his formative years, and having a lot of sex.
Suppose I told you that I had just finished reading a book about a 19 year-old college student who passes his days going to class and studying disinterestedly while spending his nights in bars getting drunk and looking for one-night relationships. Although in no way an intellectual, this young man does read a lot, with books by J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann, and Hermann Hesse being among his favorites. Also, to help pay the bills, he works part time in a record store and really likes to listen to music, especially classical recordings and songs by the Beatles. Finally, he finds himself torn between loving two different women, one who is emotionally fragile but to whom he has deep, tragic ties and another who seems bright and lively, but has dark issues of her own.
So, have I just described virtually every coming-of-age novel written about college kids growing up in the United States during the last 40 years? Maybe, but in Norwegian Wood, we are actually introduced to Toru Watanabe, a young man living in Tokyo in the late 1960s. Indeed, it is an indication of the author's deft touch that he has been able to craft his protagonist into something of a universal "Everyman" while still making him very much a product of a Japanese upbringing and cultural heritage. We feel Toru's angst, conflicts, loneliness, and occasional joys from half a world (and half a century) away, which is a great credit to Murakami's skill at telling a compelling and relatable story.
This novel has been described elsewhere as "elegiac" and that is a perfect word for it. To be sure, Toru has his share of good times and sex—a lot of sex, in fact—but at its heart Norwegian Wood is a melancholy and somberly tinged look at how he reconciles his life-long devotion to the troubled Naoko with the love and deepening connection he feels for the vivacious Midori. Without giving away too many details of the plot, it is also a tale that forces the reader to consider the effects that mental illness and suicide have on the close friends and family of those so afflicted. Certainly, the matter-of-fact way in which the details of those issues are presented forces us to focus more on the consequences than on the events themselves.
I was quite moved by this novel, which was the first of Murakami's works that I have read. While it was written in a more naturalist manner than the post-modern style the author is best known for, this is a powerful story that is delivered in a subtle and heartfelt way. The narrative is not perfect—the initial framing device of having a 37 year-old Toru reflect back on his school days was quickly abandoned and there is little development of Toru's or Naoko's family life—but it is very effective at capturing the mood and spirit of the times. It is also one that shows us in a most poignant way that growing up is hard, no matter where in the world you live.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375704027, Paperback)In 1987, when Norwegian Wood was first published in Japan, it promptly sold more than 4 million copies and transformed Haruki Murakami into a pop-culture icon. The horrified author fled his native land for Europe and the United States, returning only in 1995, by which time the celebrity spotlight had found some fresher targets. And now he's finally authorized a translation for the English-speaking audience, turning to the estimable Jay Rubin, who did a fine job with his big-canvas production The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Readers of Murakami's later work will discover an affecting if atypical novel, and while the author himself has denied the book's autobiographical import--"If I had simply written the literal truth of my own life, the novel would have been no more than fifteen pages long"--it's hard not to read as at least a partial portrait of the artist as a young man.
Norwegian Wood is a simple coming-of-age tale, primarily set in 1969-70, when the author was attending university. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the novel's backdrop. But the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs, and the pain and pleasure and attendant losses of growing up. The collapse of a romance (and this is one among many!) leaves him in a metaphysical shambles:
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.This account of a young man's sentimental education sometimes reads like a cross between Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women. It is less complex and perhaps ultimately less satisfying than Murakami's other, more allegorical work. Still, Norwegian Wood captures the huge expectation of youth--and of this particular time in history--for the future and for the place of love in it. It is also a work saturated with sadness, an emotion that can sometimes cripple a novel but which here merely underscores its youthful poignancy. --Mark Thwaite
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This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman."-- Cover.… (more)
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And St. Louis Cardinals organist Ernie Hays, his notorious potty mouth.
"What's better than a rose on your piano?" he asks. "Tulips on your organ!"
Then: "You know why I prefer the piano to the organ? All the damn foot pedals get in the way of the blowjob!"
No doubt about it, Ernie Hays has a great gig going. After all, asks Hays, "How many people get paid to play with their organ?"
These days, very few. Just half of the 30 American major-league ballparks continue to employ a full-time organist, making Hays an endangered species.
"We're going the way of the dodo," confirms long-time Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust, who says all but two major-league ballparks had organ players when she won the job as the Sox's keyboardist in 1970. "Now, ball clubs have literally thousands of songs available at the push of a button. Besides, no one expresses an interest in the organ anymore."
In recent years two of the game's most renowned organists have departed to baseball's Elysian Fields. Wilbur Snapp, made famous for being ejected from a minor-league game when he heckled the umpires with "Three Blind Mice," died two years ago at the age of 83.
Long-time Yankees organist Eddie Layton passed away last December. Credited with scoring the ubiquitous, fan-favorite "Charge," Layton won the hearts of fans not just for his music, but for his eccentric personality -- arriving at work outfitted in oversize glasses and a captain's hat, spending his free time piloting a maroon-and-green tugboat on the Hudson River.
Still carrying the torch is the indomitable Hays, who may be the most-heard maestro of sports, having played at Cardinals games for 34 years and performed for nearly every other professional and amateur sports club to make its home in St. Louis.
"He's the answer to the trivia question: 'Who's the only person ever to play for the Cardinals, Blues, Steamers and Big Red?'" says Marty Hendin, vice president of Cardinals community relations and Hays' one-time boss at Busch Stadium.
Without question, Hays is an unapologetic throwback to baseball's politically incorrect glory days. It takes little coaxing to get him boasting of his sexual magnetism: "You can look like King Kong in this business and still get hit on."
He acknowledges God but renounces religion: "Organized religion is all about guilt and making you feel bad about yourself. Who needs it?"
He offends old ladies while playing ribald recitals at senior centers: "They don't like my sex jokes. But don't they know God invented sex?"
A practicing hypnotherapist, Hays uses his mind, voice and music to assist people in exorcising the demons of smoking and obesity. A believer in past-life regression, he fully expects to be reincarnated as a human being or an extraterrestrial. "I'm a creative spirit having a human experience," he says.
But his most defining characteristic is his innate ability to survive. A 70-year-old grandpa, Hays has battled heart disease, diabetes and, one could argue, Darwin's theory of evolution in order to rule over a profession that shares its future with that of typewriter repairmen, travel agents and door-to-door salesmen.
Largely because of Hays' popularity, the Cardinals will buck a modern-day trend in baseball and take the organ -- and Ernie -- with them when they move into their new ballpark next season.
"I'll hang around 'til one of three things happens," the organist predicts. "My health diminishes, I lose interest, or assholes come along in the administration. I've gotten to the age where [if you] piss me off, I'll pick up a bat and break your face. That's why I left the Blues. The former general manager was a registered asshole. Why, he'd fuck his own mother for a quarter!"
It's not as if Hays hasn't suffered his share of indignities during his three-plus decades as the Cardinals' organist. Last spring, stadium construction cost Hays his reserved parking space at the ballpark, forcing him to travel to work from his Maryland Heights home with the lunch-pail crew on MetroLink.
In the 1980s, he sat by helplessly as pre-recorded pop music replaced half of his improvisational repertoire. In the '90s, video theatrics reduced his role even further, with corporate-sponsored contests and gimmicks broadcast over the stadium's big-screens between innings.
His latest disgrace came just last month, when the Cardinals organization crammed part-time Internet DJ Damon "Fatback" Oliver into the phone-booth-size studio Hays shares with stadium announcer John Ulett. As the "in-game entertainment specialist," Oliver sits in front of a computer and, with the click of a mouse, blasts pre-recorded pop tunes through the hundreds of speakers lining the ballpark. The addition of Fatback's fat ass has Hays backed into a corner -- literally.
"Ahh, horseshit!" shouts Hays as he struggles to cram his six-foot frame into the narrow crevice now afforded in the booth.
It's a weeknight game against the New York Mets, and Hays -- at last settled in behind his Yamaha AR80 electronic organ -- greets the arriving fans with a jazz-inspired version of the Little Anthony & the Imperials classic "Goin' Out of My Head." As his withered yet lithe hands dance across the double-decker keyboards, Hays scats along to the music: "Bop-bee-dop. Doo-bee-bah."
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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2002 Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke today gave a brief snapshot preview of the president's 2003 defense budget.
The president is slated to outline the budget request Jan. 29 during his State of the Union request to Congress. Clarke said the new defense budget focuses on three things important to building the 21st century military.
First, the nation's defense leaders intend to do everything possible to recruit and retain the best people possible, she said. This means providing the best pay and benefits and the right kind of training and equipment.
"Secondly," she said, "you're going to see a focus on transforming the military -- an overworked and misunderstood phrase, but it's about figuring out how to organize ourselves, how to equip ourselves, how to prepare ourselves for the variety of asymmetrical threats we'll face."
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**Sorry--I don't know if this is "pool related" enough, but I'm posting it here anyway. . . .**
I first "learned" 8-ball from my dad when I was about 10 years old, when he would take my brother and I to the Rec Center, on the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
I was big enough to get the cue on the table, and understood the basic idea of hitting solids or stripes, but certainly never devoted that much time to it. Once in awhile, I might go there and pick up a rack to knock around. I assure you, I wasn't really conscious of trying to get better, but I did have some idea of how to aim/hit. (My method was/is to "make the "outside" (equator) of the CB hit the OB where I want it.) There was never any true "theory-and-practice" going on, and I probably had less than 10 actual sessions like that.
About five years later, I found myself shooting on the 7-foot Valley table at the local bowling alley--relocated to northern GA (Dad had retired after 20 years of service). I still pretty much just worked on aiming and pocketing--never any strategy or position play, although I think I must have started learning some draw and follow. . . .
Fast-forward to age 21. Having moved to SoCal in 1987, I spent a bit of time in bars, playing pool instead of drinking (didn't start that until about a year later). Started learning more english for position, but still hit most things much harder than necessary--I had aim and pocketing pretty much figured out by then.
As I've mentioned, I began my drinking "career" around age 22, and went to a few pubs with my roommate Dave, about 2-7 times a week. Actually, there was some cross-training going on: Dave taught me to drink, and I taught him to play pool! Anyway, I was still a 'bar-banger', but I could fend off the bulk of challengers. (I guess this was the early, "shotmaker" phase.)
Well, about three years, a few hundred drinks, and a few thousand balls later, I wound up in Santa Barbara, California, working on "durable medical equipment"'--which is industry-speak for "wheelchair mechanic". (During the summer of '95 I had become unemployed, Dave died from a motorcycle accident in Canada, and I found the job in SB.)
Santa Barbara--that is, State Street in particular--is blocks of bars and restaurants, with most of the bars providing a home for at least on 7-foot coinop. Playing pool every night gave me a reason to be out, and drinking, every night--among others, I found a family in the barscene, and my (night)life was anchored in pool. It was during my three years in SB that I was invited to play in the BCA league, learned about ball-in-hand rules, and played, and played, and played. Of course, by now, I was able to position fairly well (on a 7-footer), and I was calling the Wildcat the "bar I'm from". I met and befriended many 'regulars'--and the subset of pool-table-regulars in particular. My closest friends and I ruled the table, whenever we were there ("often" would be a gross understatement). We took on each other and all-comers, usually getting well liquored at the same time. This was like living in a bubble, that finally burst, close on the heels of a career change, which brought me to. . .
. . .here, Atlanta, where I found another league, where I now frustrate myself, because I can no longer play at the level I felt I was in Cali--falling-down drunk, or sober. However, my job situation had taken a turn for the better, and I was making more money than I ever had, and have managed to swing a house, with a 9-ft AMF Playmaster in the basement. And, while I don't play as much, or, honestly, have as much fun as I used to, I am glad to have it--for the following reason, which is actually closer to the point of this post!
My dad was in the neighborhood yesterday, and I had the opportunity to play him our first 'real' game--21 years after he introduced me to a pool table! I had never even thought about it, but he, evidently was very good, "back in the day". And, while he has actually played a few times within the last 5-10 years (on my step-brothers 8-footer), he hasn't done it 'seriously' in about aforementioned 21 years! And, his eyeglasses are an issue (they're progressive lenses), and he has the beginnings of Parkinson's to deal with (shaking), I was amazed. Cold, he shot surprisingly well, and even potted a carom-shot, and barely missed a cross-side, combination--something like this:
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I still won the three games we played, but I was/am still highly impressed. More than that, I got a perspective on my pool "life", and another reason to love my dad. (BTW, he's 62.)


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Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Nava Ashraf explains why it makes sense for field researchers to co-produce knowledge with the people they study and serve.
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist Elinor Olstrom to provide some insight.
She realized the problem: Cars negated the ability to interact with people on the streets. As it turned out, cops did a better job fighting crime when they sought input from the public. That had happened organically when they walked their beats. And by sharing their knowledge of the neighborhood, the citizens helped the police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production."
Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early versions of products, in order to get critical feedback before creating the final versions. Some companies even base their business model on co-production; Build-a-Bear stores allow consumers to create personalized teddy bears.
"With the growth of customizable technology, there is an appreciation of this co-generation process in many, many domains," says Nava Ashraf, an associate professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School.
"Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process"
But there's a dearth of co-production in the public health sector, which often depends entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She believes that global health researchers and public health workers should make a point of co-producing knowledge with those who will most benefit from it: the residents of the communities they study.
"The common process of thinking is that from over here in our ivory tower at Harvard, we are supposed to find the knowledge, bestow the knowledge to people on the other side of the world, and get them to apply it and disseminate it," she says. "That seems kind of wrong."
Recognizing the importance of knowledge co-production can lead not only to successful products and services, but also to improved supply chain and delivery strategies. She justifies the importance of co-production in her elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government.
The User's Perspective
The course begins with a case in which UNICEF tries to understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This, despite the existence of an effective treatment called oral rehydration therapy, which essentially involves drinking a solution of water, salt, sugar, and supplemental zinc.
The students soon realize that UNICEF and the World Health Organization have failed to consider the problem from the end-users' perspective. ORT, which provides life-saving rehydration, does not actually eliminate diarrhea, so it's hard for parents to tell whether it's working. The ORT solution tastes awful, like salty metal, so many children refuse to drink it. And pharmacists tend not to suggest ORT to mothers because they don't consider it to be "real medicine," the case explains.
Ashraf believes these oversights could have been prevented if parents and local health care workers had been involved in designing a solution. Indeed, oral rehydration therapy was successful in countries like Bangladesh, where cooperation among field workers, scientists, and mothers led to a very effective program. She cites Atul Gawande, who explained one program's progress in a 2013 New Yorker article:
"The field workers soon realized that having the mothers make the solution themselves was more effective than just showing them. The workers began looking for diarrhea cases when they arrived in a village, and treating them to show how effective and safe the remedy was. The scientists also investigated various questions that came up, such as whether clean water was required. (They found that, although boiled water was preferable, contaminated water was better than nothing.)"
"It's too common to think, we have the technology and we have the systems, and they'd work if only people would use them," Ashraf says. "But in doing that, we're not realizing that they should be part of the process. Asking them to apply something that's been generated somewhere else isn't involving them in the process."
Co-production in field research
Out of the classroom, Ashraf has been walking the talk by incorporating co-production into her own field research.
In 2010 Ashraf was part of a research team that helped the Zambian government with a nascent national program to recruit, train, and employ community health workers throughout the country, which was suffering from a severe lack of health care providers. The goal was to employ 5,000 new community health workers by 2015. The challenge was figuring out how to recruit a talented, dedicated cadre of people who wanted to serve their local communities.
Often, academic field researchers design an experiment among themselves, only going to the field when they're ready to conduct the experiment on members of the community. In this case, though, the academics designed an experiment with the head of policy development for the Zambia Ministry of Health, along with several other local officials. The academics came armed with knowledge of prior research. The local officials had practical knowledge of the community.
Co-production is a tricky endeavor for scholars. It's time-consuming to incorporate everyone's input, especially when working with people who are unfamiliar with standard research rules. It took nearly four years to design the health care worker recruitment experiment, Ashraf notes.
"It's challenging to balance the rigor of science and objectivity with the participation of the people we're studying," she says. "But sometimes it makes sense to have people participate in running the experiment, not only because they're the ones who can benefit most from the results, but because it's better for knowledge. At every step you can say, 'Look at the data. What do you think of this?' And their input is so important. Because in these cases, they're the ones who are the real experts, you know?"
In the eventual field experiment, researchers launched two recruitment campaigns. Each targeted half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country. In 24 districts, potential employees were wooed with posters and brochures emphasizing community service. In the other 24, the material emphasized career advancement.
The campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more technically knowledgeable, both campaigns attracted candidates with equally high levels of pro-social motivation. The researchers followed the health workers' progress for 18 months when they returned to their communities to provide health services.
It turned out career-focused applicants visited 29 percent more households than did community-focused candidates, and conducted over twice as many community mobilization meetings, while seeing approximately the same number of patients at the health posts. Both groups spent the same amount of time at each household, meaning the career group wasn't sacrificing quality time for quantity. And the employee retention rate was similar in both groups.
The researchers detail their findings in the paper, "Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery." The key takeaway in the paper: "Career incentives, far from selecting the 'wrong' types, attract talented workers to the public sector who deliver health services effectively."
But there's another takeaway for Ashraf, whose current research involves co-producing studies with urban planners in sub-Saharan Africa.
"We show academics that you can actually generate good science while also having impact on good policy," she says, "even though it's a little more labor intensive and might take longer."
- Tim Gieseke
- President, Ag Resource Strategies, LLC
Thanks for your perspective. I "discovered" co-production in developing ag-enviro solutions and described it with a governance compass. I think co-governance is a good term as well.
Here is one illustration using the four sectors of governance: https://prezi.com/yn0zj4a4hgls/taming-societys-wicked-problems-with-shared-governance/
- Kapil Kumar Sopory
- Company Secretary, SMEC(India) Private Limited
To be succussful in the areas cited, public domain needs proper attention. Our experience is that the more talented move to private sector which offers better service conditions with better scope to learn and progress. In India, the ' permanent ' tag on government jobs has lead to a lot of inertia but this scenario is slowly changing. Unless competitive spirit is developed and there is proper accountability and penal action (where there is visible inaction) is taken, things cannot considerably improve.
- Dr Shadreck Saili
- Management Consulatant, Mita Hills
A practical solution indeed . This is a very good management strategy to up scale a service in a situation where the scientific and structured way of developing relevant{health} personnel takes longer at the expense of delivering results {in this case expense of lives}. you make use of the already existing resources that have passion and endowerment of traditional methods of providing health, but provide with them improved methods. The desired results are attainable.
Zambia is my country and i thank Ashraf for sharing this insight
- Mario Lopez
- Teacher, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua UNAN Managua
Thank for the articule and for the experience shared. it is quite instructive. I help me in paying atention to the notion of knowlege co-production, problem based learning and participative research action.
- Alistair McCulloch
- Prof, University of South Australia
I've used the concept of coproduction to argue for a new conceptualisation of the relationship between the student and the university. The link is here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070802562857#.U-xy6lMzO8A
and the full reference is: Alistair McCulloch (2009): The student as co‐producer: learning from public administration about the student-university relationship, Studies in Higher Education, 34:2, 171-183
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Pioneers in Cebu, Philippines
We arrived in Cebu on April 12th after spending a week in Manila. Radhesh prabhu (long time devotee) picked us up from the airport and brought us to Anjali didis house (she was initiated by Gurudeva last year via skype). Anjali is a little fireball. Her home was given to her by her parents and since they have lived here over 40 years, the entire neighbourhood knows her. Lots of people are always coming in and out.
Every time I have come to Cebu it's a new batch of devotees. I have always felt Cebu is sort of nomadic. I was thinking this time, "What is our purpose here." There are a few new young men that attend the programs everyday and very enthusiastic. Syamarani didi suggested we go out on book distribution. They chose a park in the middle of businesses to go to. The four boys, Anjali, two young girls (Manjari and Krsna-priya) and Govinda-priya and I all went to the park. It was all of their first time distributing books.
They were all naturals and despite their being so shy, they immediately approached the people and were able to distribute the books and small posters that we had with us. The Philippines is extremely Catholic and so the people were very much attracted to the painting of Damodara-lila because it is a Mother and Child.
The devotees were so excited and encouraged by their success. They said they felt Gurudeva's blessings with them and wanted to go again. We showed them the movie of Gurudeva's class here in Cebu in 2009. The last thing he told them was:
"I request that you read my books and the books of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja. You should also distribute these books. This will be your service. Syamarani has made so many pictures of Krsna, and others have made some as well. You can sell them as well. This will be your service."
Then something incredible happened. After Radhesh prabhu heard about this successful evening of book distribution he informed us that he had many books of Srila Prabhupada at his house that he would donate to the new sankirtana army. He got them after the Iskcon temple closed. We went to his house to see them and lo and behold, there were hundreds and hundreds of several titles – The King of Knowledge, Life Comes from Life, Higher Taste, Easy Journey to other Planets and a small Teachings of Lord Caitanya. I was overwhelmed by Gurudeva's premonition about Prabhupada's books. We also brought small posters with us which through the GVP sponsorship program we donated to them to get them started and to support their book distribution. Being a third world country, the Philippines is a very poor country.
We went again on Sunday to the market area in the neighbourhood were Anjalis house/center is. The market was so disgusting and smelly – killing chicken and fish on the spot. We started a kirtan and some of us distributed books at the same time. I could feel the whole environment change and the air become purified by the boys chanting. So many people said to us, where have you been for so long (the Isckon temple closed several years ago). Just as Gurudeva ordered and predicted – numerous books of his and Srila Prabhupada's went out to the suffering souls of Cebu.
We all got on the jipney to return home and continued blissful kirtan, and when I closed my eyes and chanted, the tune and mood reminded me of the early Prabhupada movies I have seen and I was thinking, it is a new era here in Cebu and these new devotees are going to do so much for the community and to spread Mahaprabhu's movement here.
Srila Gurudeva ki jaya! Srila Prabhupada ki jaya! Harinama-sankirtana ki jaya! Transcendental Book Distribution ki jaya!
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nandalala das
1526 days ago
harenama sankrtana kyi jai radhe radhe,.,,
Tulsi Krishna Das / Philippines
1526 days ago
Thank you sooooooooooooo much for such a very enthusiatic report Vasanti Didi Thank you so much for bringing Syamarani Didi to Cebu thus giving joy to all
So Happy to see you ,Anjali Didi, Krishna Priya and Manjari Didis. ALso Gokulcahnadra , Charan Pahari and Nandalal Prabhus, and also Bhakta Barry Cebu Gaudiya Math Ki Jai!!!!!!!!!!
Basanti dasi/Brazil
1525 days ago
Nice to hear about this enthusiastic seva in Philippines. Could anyone please send me some address, email or contact of Srila Gurudeva's disciples in Philippines? I was asked to give this information on facebook, but the info at http://www.purebhakti.com is not updated.
hamsa das
1513 days ago
haribol im hamsa of the philippines right now im living in maasin southern leyte .iwould to get some krishna association your useless without any krishna katha im honestly distracted by this whirpool strenght of maya
Tulsi Krishna Das / Philippines
1526 days ago
Pahabol nga pala, pati na si JAgadish Prabhu, I'm Happy to see you in the program. I am sure your Gurudev Madhav Maharaj will be happy for your participation
Gadadhara das
1526 days ago
For your follow-up info, we brought Maharaj up to Baguio and the local devotees assembled for street Hari-nam-san-kirtan everyday. His voice is incredible and his harmonium draws attention from everyone near. He lead every day for his entire stay with us.
He flew to Cebu the same day Syamarani Didi's party were returning.
So today they will bus 6 hrs up to be with us in this University City in the cooling mountains, fulfilling her pre-planned venues here.
I wrote proposals and bid prices to book top exposure sites so as to fully engage the many devotees with the crowds during Easter Holy week. Our neighboring sangas of Novaleches/Bayan, Malabon, Makati, even Cebu AND most exciting, our beloved Ganga Matas will participate. They're prospecting the possibilities of an extension of their Philippine Seva Team.
All these miraculous activities are simply the loving affection of Srila Gurudev sprinkling upon us his "heartly Blessing".
Begging to be receptive I aspire for service.
Gadadhara das
Gadadhara das
1526 days ago
I only omitted the Name of the Maharaj to protect him from pride… he he !!!
Right BV Giri Maharaj…..
Gadadhara das


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