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The Great October Blow of Ought-Ten!
By Dave Coulter
I am writing this article from the FEMA shelter near a highway underpass on I-94 somewhere in the vicinity of Jackson, Michigan. It could be Ann Arbor though - I can't be certain. The only thing I can be certain of is that this is indeed the Greatest Storm of the Century!
These cyclonic winds are so very fierce. The last meal I had was at the Red Cross shelter over in Paw Paw where thousands of us wind-swept displaced refugees had lined up for soup (Chicken Noodle!). I had no sooner gotten a couple of spoonfuls in before one of the 300 or so tornadoes lifted me to my current position.
It's rugged, I'll tell you. The others have stories as well. One fellow from Fort Wayne claimed the low barometric pressure was such that it sucked his brains out through his nose. (Did you know this barometric pressure was very near to a record low? It's true, the Greatest Storm of the Century! is aptly named).
There are about two-dozen of us here at the underpass. The wind and rains (oh, this deluge) are unrelenting - but such are the ways of the Greatest Storm of the Century! Huddled together we agreed that this will surely be a storm that we recall to generations to follow. How could we not? This is a life-changing experience.
Still, I count my blessings. Others have it far, far worse.
Why, just last night E and I encountered a battered fake plastic swan stranded on the rocky shore of a suburban retention pond. The poor creature had been cruelly ripped from it's watery tether - where it had stood as a decoy guard against marauding Canada geese. Dashed against the rip-rap it's painted black eyes pleaded for mercy. Damn the winds, I staggered towards the swan, reached a full two feet and lifted it to freedom. The swan was brave, and not much worse for wear when you consider the horrors it endured during the Greatest Storm of the Century!
We placed the swan on a wooden pier where we left it looking forlornly across the pond - in search of the other three plastic swans bobbing out there. He's in God's hands now, I said. And then the winds came, and well…..here I am, out here on I-94.
Anyway, I must close now. The Chinese government has airlifted food and supplies and I don't want to miss out on my fortune cookie. Our luck has to turn. I mean, after all, what are the odds that after the Greatest Storm of the Century! we'll see another one?
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I'm teaching Kierkegaard next semester, so I'm rereading The Concept of Anxiety – which, to be honest, has never really done it for me. As major Kierkegaard texts go. (But I have been known to quote from it, at need.) Anyway, two quotes today for my uncommon book. File under 'ought implies can: pro and con': [click to continue…]
Now that the NLRB is considering the question of graduate student unionization again, we're beginning to see people write pieces suggesting that academic life would collapse if graduate students had bargaining rights. If there's any use to this particular one (by Jonathan Gartner, who is, as best as I can tell from Google, a law student at Harvard), it's that it conveniently bundles a few of the bad arguments together. [click to continue…]
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Peter Singer, consequentialist philosopher and patron saint of "effective altruism" has expressed himself on the question of rights to asylum and refugee status:
Singer has urged a rethink of global asylum policy. He wants to stop refugees able to travel to the country of their choice from being able to claim asylum at the expense of those unable to make the journey. He worries that the current system enables people to "somehow jump the queue" – adding that although Britain has a "moral obligation" to accept refugees, this does not include everyone who makes it to the UK.
"I don't think Britain has a particular obligation to accept those who manage to set foot on British shores," he tells i. "I think something needs to be rethought about this idea of the right of asylum as it's now being applied."
The same goes for his homeland, Australia, he adds, where the government is often criticised for not taking in more Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Burma. "Taking those who manage to get on boats to Australia provides an incentive to make these dangerous journeys during which some get drowned. [The refugees] in the UNHCR camps in Lebanon or wherever are in just as much need of a place to go as the people who are landing in Australia or Greece."
Here, the perfectly valid point that the those in refugee camps in poor countries are just was worthy of help as those who arrive in rich ones is placed in service of the demonization of those who arrive in boats as "queue jumpers" and the endorsement of the ridiculous argument of right-wing politicians about "incentives" to make dangerous journeys. The reason people make those dangerous journeys is because the governments of wealthy countries, using mechanisms such as carrier sanctions and visa restrictions, have blocked safe and inexpensive routes of escape from dangerous places. They do this not in the service of a fair conception of the distribution of humanitarian burdens but because they don't want to deal with the numbers and would prefer to maintain the existing unfair distribution where most refugees are in poor countries. Singer is correct that we can distinguish between the right to asylum and the right to settle in a particular place. Perhaps when the governments of wealthy states are willing to have a proper discussion about what a fair pattern of settlement would look like, we can also reassess other elements of the system. Pending that commitment to justice on the part of the wealthy, stigmatizing those who make it across from Libya, Turkey or Haiti as "queue jumpers" is the mark of someone who has lost his moral compass.
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At the moment, I'm reading my way through David Miller's new Strangers in our Midst and also getting very exercised about the UK's Brexit referendum (to the point where I'm waking at night and worrying about it). My siblings and I have all benefited from the EU's free movement rights, my children both have non-British EU partners, we think of ourselves as Europeans. So for me, the threat of Brexit is a threat of lost identity, of something that has been there all my adult life just disappearing overnight. And so I'm feeling pretty resentful towards my fellow citizens who might vote to cut that tie and thereby endanger the security and family life of millions of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens elsewhere in the EU.
One of Miller's arguments is a familiar one about social trust, about how welfare states depend for their stability on such trust and that the increasing diversity that immigration brings tends to undermine support for redistributive programmes. This lack of trust gets expressed in anger about stories that immigrants are ahead in the queue for social housing, that they are a drain on health and education services, that they are getting "something for nothing", and so forth. Needless to say, most of such stories are false. Nevertheless, there may be elements in the design of the UK's welfare state and its relatively non-contributory character that fuel such anxieties.
Here's the thing. Those voting for Brexit out of resentment against immigration are disproportionately the elderly poor whites who don't pay much in but who benefit from those public services. A predictable consequence of them getting what they want is that the fiscal base for those services will be eroded and that either they will have to be cut or taxes will have to be increased. This is because those EU immigrants are, in fact, paying more in taxes than they are taking in services. (Actually, the UK is free-riding in a big way, as it never paid for the cost of educating and training those workers.)
When I take those political affiliation surveys, I always say I'm willing to pay higher taxes. But now the devil on my shoulder is saying "why should you pay higher taxes to replace the taxes that were paid by EU migrants? Those idiots have brought it on themselves, let them now suffer the consequences". An ugly thought, but I'm guessing that if I'm having it then I'm not alone. The UK's EU referendum has eroded social trust more than immigration per se ever did. It poses the question of what citizens owe to one another in pretty stark terms. If people could mitigate the need for higher taxes by accepting immigrants and they choose not to do so, why should their wealthier fellow citizens bear the cost of their choices?
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There's a chance the wheels come off the Trump Train in a spectacular, generally-acknowledged way between now and the election. But probably not. And if not, negative partisanship means that, by November, almost all Republicans will be solidly pro-Trump. That means: Republicans (and conservatives, to the extent that there is a distinction) will have talked themselves into this thing making a crazy kind of sense, after all. A lot of this will be pure negative: crooked Hillary, crooked Hillary, crooked Hillary. Or anti-establishment: burn it down! But some of it is going to be negative-spun-as-positive. There's a good chance Trump will make conservatives not-unhappy with Supreme Court picks. Beyond that, the only Trump-is-actually-good line that makes sense – even as confabulatory spin – is that Trump is going to be proudly politically incorrect. Anti-PC is standard conservative rhetoric and has been for decades. But this bubble is going expand, massively, in the vacuum of Trump's lack of any agenda. I don't think anyone really believes in that wall. No one knows where Trump would go, so how can you say you are in favor? Answer: it's not the destination, it's being a jerk on the journey! The three-legged stool – social conservatism, fiscal conservatism, strong military – is going to be whittled down to one leg – anti-PC. Before we can make America great again, Job #1 is smashing the tyranny of PC, the hegemony of the SJW's! Conservatives and Republicans are going to talk themselves into this, because what other leg have they got to stand on? I predict that, by November, we're going to hearing an awful lot more like this. Republicans are going to tend towards somewhat novel alt-right-lite postures under a broad 'stop the PC madness!' banner.
What do you think? Trump won the nomination because a solid plurality of Republican voters liked him best. Now that he has got it, the rest – many of whom recently liked him least – need to think themselves into liking him best, after all. Negative partisanship demands it! What sorts of confabulations do you predict will prove necessary/psychically efficacious, to achieve this realignment, over the next 5 months? What sorts of changes to the Republican Party and the conservative mind will it mean, even if Trump loses? How permanent will they be?
Of course, if Trump flames out, like, next month, all bets are off.
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A friend I saw today is not ready to celebrate, because he doesn't want to jinx it. I, however, am very much in a celebratory mood and wanted to mark the important occasion here.
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Ezra Klein does a nice job reflecting on Hillary Clinton's political savvy. While the following is not a new revelation, it is important to continue pointing out: the gendered nature of elections is stacked against women in so many ways, it is hard to appreciate. It is exhausting just to think about it, never mind come up against it day in and day out, year after year, and still manage to garner so much support. Bravo, Secretary Clinton!
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I recommend William Bowen and Michael McPherson's new book Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education to anyone who wants a better understanding of the problems in higher education in the US, and especially to anyone who is working in higher education and wants to contribute to improving it.
Among its many virtues are that it is short, and an easy read; but, despite that, it contains lots of useful information, well-organized, and although they are sketched rather detailed, its recommendations for change should be part of the debate on your campus, whatever your campus is like. I don't think it is eccentric of them to take the 3 central challenges to higher education in the US as being raising attainment rates, reducing disparities in outcomes relating to socio-economic status, and controlling costs, and they have a good deal of interesting and useful things to say about all three. I'm not going to provide a comprehensive overview of the book (its short enough that you should just read it yourself), but will divide the post into a section on several points they make that seem not to be well understood in the public debate, including by a lot of faculty, and then a section on a couple of their recommendations for improvement in controlling costs.
First, the five points:
1.Administrative bloat does not explain rising tuition, contrary to popular myth. You'll see figures saying that whereas in the 1970s faculty outnumbered administrators 2:1, now there is one administrator for every faculty member; one much quoted NYT article claims that "administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60% between 1993 and 2009". Just seeing that claim should make anyone who works in a university suspicious – where are all these people? The NYT figure leaves out of the equation that enrollments grew by 42% in the same period, so that at worst administrative positions grew 1% a year faster than enrollments. And a very large part of the change in the ratios of 'administrators' to faculty is a result of changes in non-faculty needs of the institutions, and the tendency to classify more jobs as 'administrative' than in the past. More menial jobs (like typist, gardener) that were never classified as administrative have declined because of mechanization, computers, etc. At the same time a need for more professional jobs (most obviously IT people) that are classified as administrative has increased. The ratio of "executive, administrative and management" staff to students actually decreased slightly between 1991 and 2001 from 1.1:100 to 1:100.
2.Nor, in fact, does reduced state appropriations explain increased tuition. The pattern with state appropriations for higher education is pretty predictable: they decline as tax revenues decline (in recessions) and grow as they grow. We are in a long recession right now, so we have seen an 8-year decline, as with funding for other discretionary items in state budgets. The real kicker is not declining appropriations per se, but declining per-full-time-equivalent student appropriations. As larger numbers of students attend college, stable state appropriations mean reduced per-student appropriations. Its fine to say: "oh, well, we should be funding higher education more", but that money has to come from somewhere – either from other parts of the State budget, or from increased tax revenues. Suppose for a moment that we can get the extra money from increased tax revenues or from the department of corrections or of transportation (I just assume nobody will propose taking it from k-12 or from medical assistance, which are typically the biggest parts of State budgets). I will not be popular for saying this, and I should emphasize that Bowen and McPherson do not say this, but it is hard to see why a sensible legislator concerned with improving education, or with improving fairness in education, would prioritize additional funding for higher education. Why? It's not a priority if you care about fairness, because higher education is not a universal program, but one which less than 2/3rds of the cohort participate in, and is not even available to those who have received the worst education up to that point, who are almost exclusively among the less advantaged people in society; and nearly a half of those who DO participate do not get qualifications, and they, too, are disproportionately among the less advantaged of those who do use it. It's not a priority if you just care about getting an educated population because we know that investments in early childhood and k-8—the education levels in which everyone participates, are more cost-efficient up to some saturation point which we are still quite far from.
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Everybody needs to read this. I'm in awe of the author for having written something so powerful, important and eloquent. No skimming or scanning, read every word.
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When Muhammad Ali famously said, "Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong…they never called me nigger," he wasn't just refusing to serve in Vietnam. Nor was he peddling an anodyne "We're all human beings, let's be friends" piece of feel-good agitprop. He was challenging the ability of the state to define for its citizens whom they should fear and who were their enemies. He was usurping that power and claiming it for himself. As Ali said to a group of white college students, who had challenged his position on serving in Vietnam, "You my enemy. My enemy is the white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese."
From the time of Hobbes, one of the leading attributes of sovereignty has been the right of the state to define and determine what threatens a people and how that threat will be responded to. In the state of nature, Hobbes wrote in Elements of the Law, "every man…is judge himself of the necessity of the means, and of the greatness of the danger" he faces. But once we submit to the state, we are forbidden "to be our own judges" of the threats we are facing and how to respond to them. Except in cases of immediate physical threat to ourselves, we must now accede to the sovereign's assessment of and decision about these threats. The sovereign, as Hobbes says in Leviathan of the state's control over matters theological, is he "to whom in all doubtfull cases, wee have submitted our private judgments."
This is why Ali's challenge to the Vietnam War was so formidable. He wasn't merely claiming conscientious objector status, though he was. He wasn't simply claiming the authority of a higher being, though he was. He was asserting the right of the citizen to be the final judge of what threatens or endangers him. In asserting that right, Ali was posing the deepest, most fundamental challenge to the power and authority of the state.
That he also claimed to be more threatened by his own fellow citizens and government than by an officially declared enemy of the state only added to the subversiveness of his challenge. Against the state's axis of fear, which claims that one's enemies invariably belong to another country and thus are part and parcel of the international state system, Ali sought to rotate that axis along a different dimension: away from the international state system to the domestic system of social domination and civil subjection.
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With Euro 2016 about to start, thoughts naturally turn to Euro 96, when England hosted the tournament. 1996 was a great year for me, I awoke from what may, in retrospect, have been a period of undiagnosed depression (certainly hypochondria), and it felt like coming out into the sunlight. My two boys were 8 and 11 respectively, it was the year of Britpop, the phoney battle between Oasis and Blur and the wonder that was Pulp's Different Class. It was also the the year of Liverpool 4, Newcastle 3 (the greatest game in the history of the Premier League), and the year when I started a journal, Imprints, with a conference at Senate House in London which commenced with a debate between Jerry Cohen and Tony Skillen. As the conference finished, we all crowded around a radio to hear the England-Spain penalty shoot-out (the last time England prevailed in one). Though England didn't win the tournament, losing to Germany — who else? — in the semis, we got to see the thrashing of the Scots with McAllister's miss and Gazza's genius and then then destruction of the Dutch, all to the soundtrack of Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds. We were on the verge of the first Labour government since 1979, and with the Tories looking tired and split the country felt together and optimistic. The St George's flag, which fluttered everywhere that summer, seemed to stand for this mood, somehow magically recovered from a narrow and exclusive nationalism.
(Much of this was undoubtedly fluff and illusion, and probably massively irritating to the other local nationalities. Still, the optimism was real, the sense that a better future was coming after the night of Thatcherism.)
"Today, alas, that happy crowded floor looks very different." Thirty year of hurt have turned into fifty, and nobody has any expectations of this England team. But more pertinently, we live in a deeply divided country, squeezed by austerity and xenophobia, where each camp in the Brexit referendum views the other with loathing and contempt (I'm no exception). The Labour government that came to power in '97 squandered its chances in the sand of Iraq. England is now a dark fractured place: nasty, British and short-tempered, beset by cuts, food banks, benefit sanctions and performance targets. The St George's flag has become the property of racists, Islamophobes and "white-van man", a symbol to be deployed against unpatriotic middle-class lefties. I hope we get through this, and stay in Europe, but the wounds will be deep and the resentments strong either way. What a difference twenty years makes.
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Some day I want to write an essay about history's lowlifes. Harvey Matusow would be one. John Doggett would be another.
These are men, sometimes women, who crave escape from their anonymity, who want to be noticed, and will do anything, destroy anyone, to get that notice.
What fascinates me about these people is how parasitic they are on one of the nobler aspects of democracy.
Democratic movements and moments have a way of churning up anonymous men and women from the lower ranks, giving them a much longed-for opportunity to demonstrate their heroism and greatness. That's the conceit of the musical Hamilton, and it's not entirely untrue.
But even if you don't go to Broadway to get your history, just read a good history of the labor movement or the civil rights movement or the women's movement. You can't help being awestruck by the individual talent and personal courage that breach the sometimes impersonal narratives of these storied struggles.
History's lowlifes prey on a similar dynamic but for ends that are far more nefarious and through means that are far more insidious. Their preferred venue is not the open contest for democratic rights but the staged assault on justice and dissent. Where the genuine democrat displays her mettle and achieves her greatness in a revolution or social movement, history's lowlife finds his level in a more populist and poisonous setting: the inquisition.
Like other, more genuine democratic moments, inquisitions summon men and women from below. Unlike other, more genuine democratic moments, they summon men and women who are willing to play their toxic roles in a drama of degradation. Out of McCarthyism you get Matusow; out of the Anita Hill hearings, you get John Doggett.
We need a better literature—actually, a literature—on these bottom-feeders of history.
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This is fantastic. Glastonbury 1971:
And (not great quality, but I had a hard time finding a version of this with Swarbrick playing) obviously:
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Go to the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) at images.maps.nsw.gov.au. You will have to accept the terms and conditions before you will be allowed in.
Click on Search by Attribute. The drop-down list 'Search By' will become available:
Select Surname Initial and type in a search criteria:
The list of results will open at the bottom of the screen. This example has used the surname initials 'EA' for Eason:
The Purchasers Indexes are first, followed by the Vendors Indexes. They are not necessarily in date order.
Find the date range you want and click on it. You will be shown the first page. You can page through one at a time to find the name you are looking for, or you can use the drop-down to ump pages. There may only be a few pages, as in this example, or there may be hundreds of pages.
There is no way to jump straight to a name, you have to scroll through the pages, as you would with the pages of the original volume. The names may not be in strict alphabetical order, particularly in the early years, so you must check every page.
The Reference Book and No refer to the original deed. The deeds are being slowly digitised, and the books are gradually being removed from the shelves at the Lands Office in Queens Square. If you want a copy of the deed you will have to purchase it.
Here is an example from the Torrens Title Purchasers Index:
The Volume and Folio in the last two columns refer to the title.
You can also see the Old Form Torrens Titles in the HLRV. Later volumes are not available, so just try the one you want and see if it comes up. Use the attribute Vol-Fol (Volume and Folio, separated by a dash).
Use the same page control to see the other side of the title with the transactions.
Very early titles may have four pages – the black and white microfilm images, and the recent colour images.
I have recently spent a week in Fiji researching my father's family. My father is a part-European Fijian whose European ancestors arrived in Fiji in the early to mid-1800's. Since civil registration began only in the 1870s with the Cession of Fiji to Great Britain there are very few records from before this time to show when people were born, married or died. There is very little available online for Fijian research – it's all microfilm and paper documents. The Fiji Genweb is a good place to start.
My trip to Fiji was unexpected and so I was not as prepared as I would otherwise have been for some serious research. I had not looked into addresses, opening hours, holdings and catalogues. I had seen a few references to original records in literature so I knew to go to the National Archives of Fiji, for example, but I didn't know where it was, how accessible the records were, or how long a search would take.
The websites of these institutions are not as informative as we have come to expect in Western countries. There are no online catalogues or contact details.
National Archives of Fiji
The National Archives has a reading room at their main facility in Suva. Their websitegives minimal information on what they hold but I found the staff to be helpful and informative, guiding me in the direction of useful records. The reading room is hot, with overhead fans and open windows providing the only cooling. If you can avoid the summer months – November-February – then I would advise it. Digital cameras can be used. They close for lunch most days from 1pm to 2pm.
Among the many records they hold are the Land Claims Commission Reports from the 1870s and 1880s. When Fiji was ceded to Britain in 1874 one of the first tasks undertaken by the new government was to require all non-indigenous landholders to apply to have their holdings confirmed. The majority of claims were allowed and titles issued, but a great many were not.
The files contain the resulting report by the Commissioner and quite often the original application form, evidence taken, interim reports and occasionally maps of the relevant land. As the land was often acquired by the claimant's father or grandfather the report may be the only evidence of prior generations, as civil registration of births, deaths and marriages was only introduced by the British at the same time.
There is an index in the reading room that points you to the file number, which can then be ordered. What is provided is a photocopy of the pages in the original file, which can be digitally photographed.
The birth, death and marriage indexes and registrations filmed by the LDS Church up to the 1960s are also held. These films can be ordered from Australia, and I do order them, but the convenience of having all the films on-site allows a lot of research to be performed in a much shorter time.
Catholic Church
The first Riley to enter Fiji was said (by my father) to be a Catholic lay preacher who settled in Verata on the east coast of Viti Levu and donated land given to him by the local chief to the Church to build a mission. I spent a day looking for evidence of this in the Catholic Church archives in Suva, next to the cathedral in Pratt Street. The first missionaries were French, and much of their correspondence, diaries and reports are available to study. They are in French so I took lots of digital photographs and now have to sort through them for names of people and places I recognise, as I don't speak or read French.There is also correspondence with the Colonial Secretary and other government officials.
Parish registers are kept within the parishes, so the very helpful sisters were unable to help me find records of baptisms or marriages from before civil registration began. I will have to visit the parish church, in Natovi, next time.
Suva City Library
The library holds many books on history and culture that may be useful to the family historian. I spent a very pleasant afternoon in the air-conditioned Reference Library upstairs. Photocopies are 20 cents (Fijian) per page and must be paid for at the main desk downstairs. The receipt is then given to the librarian in the Reference Library along with the book to be copied.
Wesleyan Methodist Church
The Wesleyan Methodist Church is the oldest established church in Fiji, with the first missionaries arriving in 1835, and has the largest membership today. I reasoned that if the only religious presence is Wesleyan and you want your baby baptised then you will have him baptised by a Wesleyan. A phone call to the Church told me that the archives have all been transferred to the National Archives of Fiji. A catalogue of holdings for the Methodist Church in the National Archives told me that permission from the Church is required to look at most of the records. So that will be a job for next time.
There is, however, a bound photocopy of the first Wesleyan registers of baptisms and marriages in the Reading Room of the National Archives of Fiji. I spent a very enjoyable half hour browsing through this and I found some relevant names. The original whites followed some local customs, one of which was multiple wives. I do not know if the wives were consecutive or simultaneous but the missionaries persuaded many of them to formally marry one wife, and some of these marriages appear in the pages of the register.
What next?
Research in Fiji takes longer than in Sydney, and I didn't get done as much as I would have liked. It was hot, the person I needed wasn't available, and it took longer than I expected for things to happen. Next time I will be better prepared. I will revisit the National Archives to look at Wesleyan records, Colonial Secretary's correspondence, and other records that I will uncover from my advance preparation, and I will try some other repositories:
LDS Family History Centre
The LDS Church is quite active in Fiji, as elsewhere. My information (admittedly hearsay) is that they are only open one day per week and the day that I visited (Thursday) the building was locked up. If I had looked at their website (and if the website is accurate) I would have known that the Centre I visited closed at 3pm that day. I was also told that they have records not available elsewhere in Fiji, although I don't know what those records might be. I will try again next trip.
University of the South Pacific
The University of the South Pacific covers all countries of the South Pacific region. The main campus library has an online catalogue which would be worth checking before a visit, as would the Pacific Collection. The library contains many books, theses and papers that would be useful for historical research.
They also have an online bookshop (in US dollars) with a good range of books on Fijian history and culture and quite high delivery costs by courier. Get to the bookshop in person if you can.
The Fijian Museum
The museum of any country is always worth a visit to get an idea of life in a previous era. The Museum has published reprints of books of historical interest, including accounts by the first Wesleyan missionaries, and sells them in their shop. I'd been to the Fijian Museum on a previous trip and didn't get the chance to check their bookshop again. They also have an excellent journal. You can join the Friends of the Fiji Museum through their website.
Department of Lands and Surveys
The Department of Lands and Surveys has maps and plans and records of ownership of land in Fiji. Only 10% of Fiji is freehold, with 90% being Crown or Native Title. Land title searching can be difficult at the best of times so I'm holding this one off until I'm better prepared. I want to find out what happened to the land after the formal Claims in the 1870s were approved.
Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages Department
I did not have any reason to go to the Registrar, as the indexes and registrations I need are on LDS microfilm. I had already built a spreadsheet of index entries for the births, marriages and deaths of non-indigenous nationals with some film numbers and so I could request the films immediately at the National Archives. I would have done more of this than I did but it was just so hot, and the microfilm reader does not focus well on the whole frame at once, requiring two photos for each registration. Still, I was pleased with the birth registrations that I got.
NOTE – I have not been back to Fiji for research since 2008 and things may have changed since then. I really hope the National Archives of Fiji has a new microfilm reader in the Reading Room!
For websites follow the links above.
Calvert, James. Fiji and the Fijians, Vol. II, Mission History, Edited by George Stringer Rowe. Suva, Fiji: Fiji Museum, 2003; first published in London in 1858.
Walsh, Crosbie. Fiji: An Encyclopaedic Atlas. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 2006.
Young, John. Adventurous Spirits, Australian Migrant Society in Pre-Cession Fiji. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.
This knowledge would have helped me enormously when I was first researching my Stewart family.
My grandmother was very proud of her father, William Stewart, an architect and inventor who lived in Albury, New South Wales, for most of his life. He married Sarah Louisa Craig Lowe of Auckland, New Zealand, and they had seven children, all born in Albury.
Peter's farm in Victoria
William's father was Peter Hannah Stewart, a Scottish immigrant from Oban, Argyllshire, who arrived in Victoria in 1855. He married another Scottish immigrant, Grace Simpson, in Albury in 1863.
At the time I didn't question why he would have come in to the colony through Melbourne rather than Sydney. I just figured that Albury is closer to Melbourne than it is to Sydney. As I said, I was new to family history research. I found that the Stewarts were the only branch of my family tree that paid their own way to Australia; all the others were assisted immigrants. This fit in with my grandmother's attitude that she had married beneath her, and I thought no more about it for years.
The eldest child was born in Albury in 1865 but I couldn't find William until I looked in Victoria. Peter was a farmer in Barnawartha, between Chiltern and the Murray River. There were no farmers in his background: his father was a cooper; his maternal grandfather was a tailor and cloth merchant; and his father-in-law had been a flax dresser. William's younger siblings were also born in Barnawartha.
Margaret marries a miner
It was when I started looking at Peter's siblings that the truth started to emerge, if only I'd been able to see it. Peter's younger sister Margaret Stewart married John Carlyle Irving in 1859 in Beechworth, Victoria. Peter, still unmarried at this time, was one of the witnesses. My knowledge of Victorian towns was not what it is now, and at the time the name 'Beechworth' didn't mean anything to me. I then made the mistake that many new researchers make, and I didn't look into Margaret any further, as I was only interested in Peter.
John and Margaret had two sons in Ballarat before migrating to Invercargill, New Zealand, in the early 1860s, where six more children were born. Why Invercargill, at the bottom end of New Zealand? I didn't know.
Big brother Hugh
Peter had an older brother, Hugh, a cooper like his father. Hugh arrived in Victoria from Scotland in February 1855 aboard the James Baines with his new wife, Elizabeth, months before his younger brother Peter. Hugh and Elizabeth also settled in Albury, New South Wales, becoming a well-respected member of the community. His obituary in the local paper mentions some time in America. America?
Hugh, as I discovered, was the first to arrive in Victoria, I found more information in a book in the local history collection of the Albury Library. Hugh went to New York and was working there as a cooper when the Californian gold rush started. He went to California, and then to Victoria when the gold rush started in 1851. This was news to me! Apparently he went back to Scotland for a year, got married, and brought his wife back to Victoria, although whether he worked as a cooper or as a miner, I'll never know.
The waves of gold seekers moved around the continent; into New South Wales and Victoria in the 1850s; across to New Zealand in the 1860s; to Queensland in the 1870s and Far North Queensland in the 1880s; across the Top End into the Northern Territory and the Kimberley in Western Australia in the late 1880s, and down to Kalgoorlie in the 1890s.
The chain of gold discoveries was self-perpetuating. The best chance for individual miners to strike it rich was to get there early and harvest the easy pickings off the ground. As the alluvial gold ran out in one place these miners moved on, and now they knew what to look for. As gold was found elsewhere the miners were lured to the next gold field, and the next, and the next. Others stayed behind to dig the gold out of the ground, and formed partnerships or became employees of newly-formed mining companies.
The largest and richest gold fields were the most attractive, particularly Victoria in the 1850s and Western Australia in the 1890s. The longer the rush continued the more tempting it was to pack up and go. People who had never worked as miners before travelled hundreds of miles to strike it rich. Many had never even worked outdoors before. Others saw opportunities in catering to the miners – stores, equipment, alcohol, entertainment, transport.
Most didn't stay. They left the mines and became farmers or shopkeepers, settling down with wives and children, on properties of their own.
Gold rush timeline
1840s California
1850s New South Wales
1850s Victoria
1860s New Zealand
1870s Queensland
1880s Far North Queensland
1880s Northern Territory and the Kimberley
1890s Western Australia
I can now see my Stewart family with new eyes. I know about places like Beechworth and Chiltern, and I can guess why Peter Hannah Stewart came to Victoria when he did. Peter was said to have been a carpenter when he was a young man, and he went back to carpentry in Albury when the farming didn't work out in Victoria. I imagine there was plenty of work for a carpenter in the new gold field settlements, as shops and houses were being built.
If your ancestor went missing, or seemed to move around a bit, or if any of the gold rush placenames ring any bells, then perhaps they were chasing the California Dream of striking it rich on the goldfields, as Hugh Stewart, the cooper from Argyll, Scotland, did.
Also look for local histories of goldmining districts and contemporary accounts of individual golddiggers.]]>
Here is an example from Trove in the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday 27 November 1900, on page 10:
I had been searching for the death of one Mary Nugent. What I can learn about this family from these three notices is that this Mary Nugent was the wife of Mr P. Nugent (perhaps Patrick?). They lived at 57 Balmain Road, Leichhardt, and their (surviving) children were James, Francis, Alfred, William and George. They also had a daughter, Mary, who married William Beardmore.
This is a lot of information about one family, and is especially useful where the surname is relatively common, such that a search in the NSW BDM indexes is inconclusive. It is even more useful if the children had been born after the 100 year cutoff for the NSW Birth Index (currently 1911), where I might otherwise have had to order a copy of the death registration to see who her children were.
Unfortunately this isn't the Mary Nugent I was looking for, as she was a widow. If she had remarried, and she may have, her surname would be different. At least there is enough evidence in these funeral notices for me to discount this Mary without any further searching. And what a bonus it would have been if she was the Mary I was searching for!]]>
The very first result in this list is a blog post:
Compare that page with this one:
Which one looks more interesting? Which one would be more likely to get the attention of someone who wasn't all that interested in genealogy?
If I'd put a picture or two in the blog post it would be even more interesting.
So that's two good reasons:
A third reason is this: I have my full family tree as a separate website as produced by Second Site, a program to turn my The Master Genealogist project into a website. Most of the enquiries I get from it are for people on the edges of my tree, people who have married cousins of my ancestors. I have no more information about these people than what is on the tree, but the researchers who find them get excited when they find the name and email me for more. Really it's a waste of my time and theirs.
Anyone who finds the names in my blog posts is really looking for my family, and we are usually related. Over the years I would say that as many real relatives have found me through my blog posts as through my tree, although of course I can't count the people who find my tree, grab the information, and leave without contacting me.
Blogs make it easier for them to contact me, as there's a form for comments at the bottom of the page. When someone leaves a comment I get an email, and I can reply the same day.
So there it is. Write stories about your ancestors in a blog. Don't just put your tree up and wait for people to find you.
Note: in case you're wondering about the Google logo in the first image – it was the 46th anniversary of the first Star Trek episode, and Google was celebrating. And why not?
This post was first published in my blog Social Media and Genealogy in March 2013. I'm re-publishing it here because I think sharing your research is just as important as doing it in the first place.]]>
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This is a book review of one such book from last year that was previously published in my personal blog. I think it is an important part of our research to read everything we can, and that can include well-research and written fiction.
I've just finished the most marvellous book, Not the Same Sky, about some of the Irish Famine Orphan girls shipped out to Sydney in 1849. I bought it from the author, Evelyn Conlon, at the Irish Famine Memorial Anniversary at Hyde Park Barracks a few months ago and was saving it until I had time to read it properly.
The book tells the story of around two hundred girls selected and shipped out on the Thomas Arbuthnot, and the unusually caring Surgeon-Superintendent, Charles Strutt, who looked after their welfare onboard ship and after landing in their new home. He took 120 of them on an overland journey to Yass and Gundagai to find employers of suitable character for them.
This story is told in A Decent Set of Girls, by Richard Reid and Cherly Mongan, which reproduces Dr Strutt's journal and gives documents, facts and statistics of the journey and the lives of the girls in Australia.
A novel, though, is a different creature entirely. The facts – 194 orphan girls between 14 and 20 years old were rounded up from work houses around Ireland and sent to Sydney – cannot possibly convey the bewilderment and aching loss of these girls in the way that a novel can. And this one does, superbly.
… Matron's voice sounded muffled until she began to name names.
'Mary Traynor, Anne Sherry, it's Australia for you. Honora Raftery, you too I think. And Julia Cuffe, maybe.'
'What do you mean Australia?' a small pale girl asked.
'Not you. It doesn't apply to you,' Matron said. 'No it wouldn't apply to you. You're too young.'
'I'm old enough, ' the girl said, but Matron said, 'No,' again.
'And you, Bridget Joyce, it's Australia now for you.'
'When?' a voice dared.
'Next month, yes, the sooner now the better,' Matron added.
'Can I go too?' another voice asked tentatively.
'No, Betsy Shannon, you're too old.'
'I'm young enough,' she said. 'Twenty-four.'
'Duffy, you're young enough, you'll do. What's your first name again?'
… Matron left the room, the girls looking after her. Honora Raftery sneaked a look at Anne Sherry and Julia Cuffe. Others looked at the ground. It was a lot to take in. Staying alive was the job they were all involved in now.
Matron rubbed her hands down her front, as if wiping off the part she had just played in this scheme. She didn't know what she thought of it.
The girls knew it must be far because they needed several changes of clothes for the voyage, but they refused to believe the rumours that it was going to take 3 months to get there. That's just too impossible. 3 months!
Later, on the ship, the doctor has been showing them a map to show them where they are and where they are going, although concerned at how the news of how far away this is will affect them. He is not sure whether they will all understand, but he sees that at least a few of them do when they recognise that the ship has turned east to sail past Africa and on to Australia:
Charles was leaving the deck to go to his quarters when he heard one of the older girls shouting out to the sea. She was hollering so loudly the words could be heard perfectly by all who stood ready to dance. Her voice even carried above the sound of sail and water and wind.
'The ship has well rounded the corner now. There's no going back.'
She followed with another wail of a sentence – she seemed to start high and go low. It was hard to know what effect, if any, that she intended to have by making this noise. But hot on its heels followed the slowest, lowest moan, which moved up first one pitch, then swelled into a second, gathering a scream under its echo, and rising further, if that were possible, into the most ferocious howling. Everyone was now involved in these gutturals, weeping for their lost land and their families, immersed in their threnody. Charles stood rooted to the spot, helpless in the face of this terrible sound, the hairs standing up on his neck. It would have to stop. It seemed to him to be the erasure of hope.
The girls found it necessary to forget where they came from, who they were, and the family they had lost, in order to survive in this strange new land where the birds made such an enormous noise and the trees were white and the grass was yellow and the sun was so hot. They didn't pass their memories on to their children – those memories were too painful, too dangerous to carry lest they overwhelm.
The names of the girls used in the book are fictional. It is impossible to tell the story of 194 women in one book so the author has selected four and followed them through the voyage and in their new lives, showing what they had to do to survive.
To survive. We do not have any idea, really, about what the bare struggle for survival does to a person, where parents and brothers and sisters die in front of you and the routine of living falls away until there is nothing but the roaring in the stomach. The only people who understand this today are refugees, because famines still occur and people are driven from their homes and farms by war and drought and other catastrophes, and they try to find safety in a new home, anywhere that will take them.]]>
I have used Paintshop Pro for years. I know it's not the industry standard; when I was deciding between it and the similarly priced Photoshop Elements (the cut-price version of Adobe Photoshop, which is very expensive) I decided that Photoshop Elements was going to take too long to learn and I just didn't have time.
That was years ago, and Photoshop Elements has come a long way. I have continued to upgrade Paintshop Pro until this last one, and I still like it for some things like lightening up the photos I've taken of archival documents. Last year I was persuaded to buy Photoshop Elements for fixing scratches in photos because it does it so well and so easily. They have really tried to make Elements easier for novices to use since my first trial all those years ago.
This is one I worked on the other night for a client using Photoshop Elements.
Here is the photo after I had a go at it. The brickwork was particularly tricky!
I spent about an hour on this on my laptop while watching TV. When I got to the bottom left corner I just decided that there was too much woodwork anyway and cropped the bottom off. There's still more I could do. I was a bit nervous about his eye but I think it works.
Photoshop Elements and Paintshop Pro are about $130, depending on where you live; less for an upgrade. Paintshop Pro has most of the same tools as Photoshop Elements but Elements has a very cool brush that lets you paint along a scratch and it takes the image on either side and fills it in for you. It's like magic!
Online software
I attended a Dear Myrtle webinar two years ago on free online photo editing software, and was introduced to PicMonkey. It is fully-featured photo editing software that runs online. You can start editing without even signing up, upload (or drag) the photo you want to edit, and the resulting photo is stored on your computer, not on the website. And it's free! I was very impressed.
Have a look at PicMonkey. Save a copy of your photo, upload the copy, and see what you can do. You can always undo what you've done, or rub it out with the eraser, so don't be afraid to experiment. And you have your original stored safely because you made a copy to edit. Always make a copy before editing.
I highly recommend Myrtle's webinar for a demonstration of how easy it is if you've never played with photo editing before. She recorded it so it should still be available.
This post was originally published on my old blog Genealogy in NSW in September 2012. To update – I no longer use Paintshop Pro, and even though I now have access to the full Photoshop program I still use my old copy of Photoshop Elements 10.]]>
Land and Property Information – http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/
Find place names
Historical Land Records Viewer (PIXEL) – http://images.maps.nsw.gov.au
Current mapping and aerial (SIX) – http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au
Online searches and orders – https://shop.lpi.nsw.gov.au
Searching Guides – http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/publications/search_guides
Revised 15 September 2014]]>
I wonder how many of us lived in the same house all through childhood? I didn't. I lived in four different houses from when I was born until I finished school and left home. I don't remember the first one; I was too young and we weren't there long.
The first house that I remember was in Carss Park, in southern Sydney. It was underneath the flight path and I remember planes flying over and scaring my younger sister. It was close enough to the local school that we could walk, even at that age, and we had to climb up a rocky lane through to the street behind to get there. It had a great backyard for kids to play in, and a patio with crazy paving that we used to roll marbles on.
Looking at it now on Google Maps I can see it has a swimming pool and most of the yard is gone. It seems much bigger, taking up the full width of the block, although I can see the flat roof of the garage so that must still be there in some form. I can also see the lane seems to be a smooth, grassy strip, not at all how I remember it.
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The 1943 aerial photograph shows that the house was there even then. The houses I remember behind and above ours had not yet been built, nor had the house of the old lady next door. It's hard to tell but it doesn't look like the garage was there either, although the back garden looks to have been laid out in a circle.
I also found a real estate advertisement for the property, showing a picture of the front of the house and the backyard, which I'm not going to show you for copyright reasons. The house looks totally different, without that rounded front you can see in the family photo at the top. The back yard looks totally different, too; it looks as though they've levelled the terracing to put the pool in. Nowhere for kids to play – it looks like somewhere for adults to 'entertain' now.
I've recently traced some of the history of the property and now I know that the name Carss Park came from the original owner of the property.
It was subdivided in the 1920s into the blocks and streets that I knew.
My mother has told me some of our history in the house. We moved in after a year in Melbourne that didn't work out. My little brother was born while we lived there, and then my parents split up and Mum sold the house and we moved to Dubbo.
When I ordered copy of the title I found out some more.
My mother bought the house in her own name in 1960, before we moved to Melbourne. She immediately took out a mortgage, which most of us do. So the house must have been rented out while we were in Melbourne, and they would have had to get the tenants out when we decided to come back. She sold it after we had moved to Dubbo, which makes sense – she bought a house in Dubbo after we had lived at Gran and Pop's place for a while.
Unfortunately, titles don't have sale prices on them. For that I have to look at the individual dealings. One day I will; I would love to know what Mum paid for the house and what she got back when she sold it.
Have a look for the house or houses you grew up in. Not only will you learn something about your family, but it will bring back memories of the houses and your family living in them.
This post was originally published on my old blog Genealogy in NSW in April 2013. I still haven't purchased copies of the dealings to see how much Mum paid for the house!]]>


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Sources are claiming that Jon Snow actor Kit Harington is definitely in Belfast filming episodes for the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
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Oh dear, I am going to write something about the EU Referendum.
Well, to be honest I'm actually not. By the way, I didn't vote yesterday. Not because I didn't want to, but because I was not allowed to. So don't ask me what did I vote.
What would I have voted if I would have been given the opportunity? That's another matter.
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Last Sunday was my birthday.
That means I´m 35 years old now. Thirty-five! It does look like it was yesterday when I laughed about these really really really old 35 year old´s.... and now look at me, blowing a number 3 and 5 shaped candles!
I am in that age when people cannot really guess your age. When I´m asked, how old are you? I respond with the evil question, how old do you think I am?
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Friday, 10 June 2016
Yes, we have succumbed. I must admit that it is my husband's pretty much entire fault. But hey, we are a team and we both agreed. To be truthful, it was me who arranged the whole thing this time.
I have always been quite critical with Disney: all this consumerism, manufactured fun, and the fact that I'm not Mr. Walter Disney's greatest fan. And when my parents took when I was around 13 years old I must admit the park itself didn't impress me much.
But I presume that when you are a parent, you do Disney for your children. In fact, when you are a parent, you do all sorts of things for your children. Like taking them to horrid birthday parties, or eating their left overs, or coming back home from that epic barbecue because they are tired, or forgetting what a relaxed weekend away means.
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I suspect today's recipe is going to be a hard sell.
Avocado and dark chocolate pudding. Avocado. And. Chocolate. In a pudding. These two ingredients shouldn't work but they really do!
Before you click away, please wait just a minute. As unpromising as this sounds, this unusual combo makes probably the most delicious dessert I've eaten in months. And trust me, I've eaten lots.
Avocados are super versatile and can be used to create creamy smoothies, or can be substituted for butter or oil in baking. They also make great additions to sandwiches or burgers, and they can even be used to make brownies and more indulging desserts.
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Friday, 27 May 2016
I absolutely loved driving.
I wanted to be a race car driver for some time. I used to take longer routes in purpose. I dreamed with a 4x4.
It's been 5 months since I gave up driving.
When you have a car, all car-ish things seem pretty normal and mundane: expending a fortune in fuel; wasting time trying to find a parking space; stopping in the double yellow like "just for a minute"; yelling at people unable to learn how to drive in a roundabout; being trapped in traffic jams; wasting your Sundays at the garage or getting upset because "someone" touched the upholstery with chocolate hands.
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Friday, 20 May 2016
Last weekend we went to a barbecue at a friend's house. We had so much fun, and you know, as the time goes by, conversations tend to turn unexpected and amazingly interesting and funny.
So after a couple of wine glasses and feeling slightly overfed, we started talking about where are we from and where do we think we belong to.
One of my friends is English, with Ukrainian ancestors, and she said she was convinced she should have been born Mongolian.
The other one, blond and blue eyes prototypical British lady, assured she should have been born in Japan.
Both discussed how out of context they feel in the UK, and how happy and fully integrated within the society they felt when they visited Japan and Mongolia. They talked about their experiences and anecdotes, and the reasons why they were utterly convinced to have been born and raised in the wrong place.
Friday, 13 May 2016
As you know, a while ago I decided to stop my battle against beetroot and I felt completely in love with this amazing root.Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit that I find them delicious. Beets taste like sweet dirt. Like licking sugar spilled on the ground on a rainy day. And I love them.
Since then, I've tried to convert a few people. Just because I'm convinced that what's most likely is that people who think they hate beets just haven't tried them in the right form.
You may won't believe it, but there are still plenty of beetroot haters around. And I can proudly say I've done it. Or almost.
First step: ditch the vinegar. Honestly. Cheap vinegar cannot make any good to any food. At all. Not even gherkins. Nor pickled eggs. Yuk.
Second step: assume your wee will be red for a couple of days. Jokes apart, we have a friend that literally freaked out But you don't have my permission to continue hating them.the first time he ate beets as an adult. Thought he had internal hemorrhage. Beetroot are pooptastically colorful. Let's move on.
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Connor Wickham strikes twice! The once forgotten Sunderland starlet may have decided the Premier League title race
Connor Wickham was billed as the next Alan Shearer. He was touted as a wildcard pick for the World Cup in 2010. He was signed by Sunderland from Ipswich Town for £8million.
He was then, though, cast off as a failure and farmed out on loan, only to be recalled in desperation last month and thrust into the heart of a relegation battle.
He is, don't forget, barely 21 years old.
And, on Wednesday night, the forgotten boy of English football served up a major reminder of the teenage talent that triggered all that original hype.
Double Salvo: New Sunderland hero Connor Wickham celebrating his brace against Manchester City
Indeed, he may yet have delivered the decisive moment in one of the greatest Premier League title races in history.
But Wickham's concern, of course, is 19 positions south of the summit, and the plight of a Sunderland side dicing dangerously with a return to the Championship.
To that end, his two goals against Manchester City – and the point they earned – might yet prove life-saving.
Survival: The battle to beat the drop
It almost certainly sounded the death knell on City's title hopes, where the 2-2 draw at the Etihad left them six points adrift of leaders Liverpool with just one more game in hand on the favourites.
Wickham had not scored a Premier League goal in two-and-a-half years - his subsequent 13 strikes have come either on loan at Sheffield Wednesday or in the cup competitions.
But, in a dramatic night at the Etihad, he trebled his top-flight tally. The first, with his side trailing 1-0, was a cool finish from close range, a classy cushion into the back of the net from a position where others may have skied or lashed at the opening.
Then, having peeled away on the shoulder of Vincent Kompany, he fashioned a yard for a shot before dispatching with authority just inside Joe Hart's near post.
The headlines, unfortunately, belonged to his goalkeeper, as Vito Mannone's late error gifted City a point and denied Wickham the match-winning contribution he so badly deserved.
Shock equaliser: Connor Wickham levelling the scores at the Etihad
Action shot: Wickham beats Kompany before equalising for Sunderland
Decisive: Wickham's starring role could have cost Manchester City dearly in the title race
Anguish: Sunderland keeper Vito Mannone lies helpless as his late error costs his side the win against City
For this was the first time since those early days at Portman Road that a wider audience had sat up and taken notice of the striker.
Wickham became Ipswich's youngest-ever player at 16 years and 11 days when he made his debut in April, 2009, where his height – now 6ft 3ins – and burly frame belied his tender years.
It meant he began the following campaign as a permanent fixture in the first-team set-up. His first start produced two goals in a Carling Cup draw at Shrewsbury Town before keeping his nerve in the subsequent penalty-shootout victory; and with it, a terrace favourite was born.
He finished the season with a four-goal flurry amid talk of a £10m approach from Spurs and, having been capped at Under-21 level, there were even whispers of a place in Fabio Capello's squad for South Africa.
Still just 17, his hat-trick in a 6-0 rout at Doncaster Rovers the following season was the moment where his transfer-column price tag significantly increased.
The Football League Young Player of the Year was the country's hottest property.
Prolific: The striker in his Ipswich days (left) and during his loan at Wednesday earlier this season
National ambition: Wickham was hotly tipped as a future England star, but is yet to be capped at full international level
Unimpressed: Neither Martin O'Neill or Paolo di Canio were ever fully convinced by Wickham
It was Sunderland, then managed by Steve Bruce who won the race for his signature. His fee - £8m rising to £12m – did him little favours, amplifying expectation among Black Cats followers who thought they'd captured the cream.
But Wickham managed just a single goal during a stop-start debut season. He did, though, find the time to ink a 'sleeve tattoo' down the entirety of his left arm, complimenting the design on the opposite arm from his early days at Ipswich.
- Ipswich Town - 72 apps; 15 goals
- Sunderland - 45 apps; 6 goals
- Sheffield Wed - 17 apps; 9 goals
- Leeds Utd - 5 apps; 0 goals
Martin O'Neill – Bruce's successor at the helm – clearly wasn't a fan and, suspecting the boy wonder had lost his way, offered him to Swansea in a bid to bring Danny Graham to Wearside.
And his performances on the field were doing
little to convince anyone that his star had not faded; where he was a
sluggish and pale imitation of the teen terror first spotted in East
This season, though, he rediscovered his form back in the Championship for Wednesday, where a scoring streak of eight in 11 put him back on the radar of Sunderland's current managerial incumbent, Gus Poyet.
That stint came to an end in January and a brief stay at Leeds United followed before Poyet, mindful of Jozy Altidore's shortcomings and Steven Fletcher's frailties, recalled his forward.
Struggling: Jozy Altidore (left) can't make an impact in front of goal and Steven Fletcher is always sidelined
Belief: Current manager Gus Poyet has put his Sunderland's fate in the youngster's hands
And the Uruguayan's ploy could yet prove an extremely prudent one.
Next up is a trip to Chelsea on Saturday, where Wickham's popularity on Merseyside could soar yet further.
It is the folk on Wearside, though, who are his chief concern. The once forgotten boy has now become the man upon whom their hopes rest.
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Two families are mourning a Hamilton 17-year-old who was killed when he crashed a stolen car in the early hours of Waitangi Day after a short police chase.
A small group gathered yesterday morning at the crash scene, on the intersection of Baverstock Rd and Wexford Rise in the rural suburb of Rotokauri.
It was just hours after the Nawton youth, known as "Rock", had been thrown from the vehicle he had stolen from a Dinsdale address.
Also in the 1991 Nissan Maxima was a 14-year-old boy, travelling in the front seat, who was last night in a critical condition in Hamilton Hospital with serious leg and abdominal injuries. A 15-year-old girl, who had been wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured.
One woman, who asked not to be named, visited the crash scene before going to support the driver's mother yesterday. She said her son had died in similar circumstances six years and one day earlier.
As she looked at the skid marks left by yesterday's crash she said "it feels like it happened with my son yesterday and I am going to see his mother today".
Waikato police district commander Superintendent Win van der Velde said the driver was on a learner licence which did not allow him to carry passengers or drive after 11pm.
He said the police pursuit had started at 1.38am after the driver of a police patrol car saw the Nissan being driven along Rotokauri Rd without its lights on. Police turned on their patrol car's lights and sirens and the Nissan slowed before pulling away at high speed.
Mr van der Velde said the officer abandoned the pursuit after about 15 seconds "because of the speed of the other vehicle and the erratic nature of the driver".
The officer watched from the brow of a hill as the Nissan, more than km in front of him, hit a road sign and then a retaining wall in front of a home. He found the youth lying a short distance from the vehicle on the footpath. The officer tried to administer first aid but the youth died at the scene.
"The entire incident lasted a little over 30 seconds and lasted approximately 1.5km," Mr van der Velde said. He could not say how fast the fleeing vehicle was going. "From the skid marks, the fleeing vehicle was travelling at speed.
"It's tragic, this is all about young people making poor decisions.
"Tragically this young man, because of a combination of what in isolation could be accepted as minor poor judgments, has paid with his life and left a number of people having to come to terms with his loss."
Yesterday the family whose Nissan was stolen were attending a wake for a family friend - just three doors down from the crash scene.
Three investigations are now under way including the Waikato Police Serious Crash Unit which left the scene mid-morning yesterday. The Independent Police Complaints Authority and the coroner would also conduct investigations into the incident.
The authority recommended on Monday that police review and change their policies after a motorcyclist suffered serious bodily harm, including a severe brain injury, when he crashed during a police pursuit in 2010.
Mr van der Velde said it appeared the appropriate procedures in managing the fleeing driver incident were followed.
He described the pursuing officer as another victim who saw a car travelling with no headlights on and then less than a minute later was fighting to save the youth's life.
Jeanette Schick, whose wall the stolen car hit, said she slept through the crash and learned about it from a neighbour after dawn.
"What an awful thing to happen," she said. "I feel sorry for his parents and his friends."
Police are expected to formally name the 17-year-old driver this morning.
- Waikato Times
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Firenado Caught on Camera in California
A wildfire in southern California, known as the "Sherpa Fire", started Wednesday of last week and has been burning ever since. It has burn thousands of acres after high winds, hot temperatures and dry conditions caused it to spread rapidly. Amidst the flames this phenomena occurred and was caught on camera. Check it out.
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A "firenado"!
Unlike tornadoes, a firenado can occur due to the lack of moisture, as hot and dry air rises quickly, similar to a dustnado. This video shows how extreme the conditions are right now out west. The National Weather Service has issued more Red Flag Warnings, as well as Excessive Heat Warnings, through Tuesday morning and afternoon respectively. There will finally be some relief from the heat, by Wednesday, when temps drop to the low 90s. Hopefully, fire crews will be able to contain more of the fire by then.