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Another head of state to send money to Ireland was the Sultan of Turkey. He had an Irish doctor but he was also trying to create an alliance with British government. He initially offered £10,000 but the British Consul in Istanbul told him that it would offend royal protocol to send more money than the British Queen. As a result of this diplomatic intervention, Abdulmecid reduced his donation to £1,000. Nonetheless, his generous contribution was gratefully received by people in Ireland, with a formal letter of thanks being sent by "noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of Ireland." According to local legend, Abdulmecid tried to compensate for his reduced monetary donation by sending two ships to Ireland, laden with food. Allegedly, but there is no documentary proof of this, the British government refused to allow the ships to dock in either Cork or Dublin so, surreptitiously, they docked in Drogheda. This story is accepted in Drogheda today. On May 2, 2007, the Turkish ambassador to Ireland was invited by the city's mayor, Frank Goofrey, to a ceremony to place a memorial plaque on the walls of the West Court Hotel, which, according to legend, used to be the old Government Building where the Turkish sailors and captains had stayed. During the unveiling, the Mayor drew attention to the city's logo, which consists of a crescent and star just like the Ottoman crescent and star. He added that the plaque would serve as the symbol of friendship between Ireland and Turkey. So an act of kindness that took place over 160 years ago continues to have repercussions today.
Support for the Irish poor also came from the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Pope Pius IX. The involvement of a Pope in the secular affairs of another country was unusual. Nonetheless, at the beginning of 1847 Pope Pius donated 1,000 Roman crowns from his own pocket to Famine relief. In March 1847, he took the unprecedented step of issuing a papal encyclical to the international Catholic community, appealing for support for the victims of the Famine, both through prayer and financial contributions. As a result, large sums of money were raised by Catholic congregations throughout the world. Most of this aid was put in the hands of Archbishop Murray in Dublin.
Other high profile donors to Famine relief in 1847 included the Tsar of Russia (Alexander II) and the President of the United States, James Polk. The latter, who donated $50, was criticized for the smallness of his donation. Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewing magnate, also made a number of modest contributions.
Help from America
Inevitably, a large portion of relief came from the United States, not only from the Irish Catholic community, but from a wide variety of groups, including Jews, Baptists, Methodists and Shakers. At the beginning of 1847, the American Vice President, George Dallas, convened a mass meeting in Washington to raise money for Ireland. He urged that every American state should follow suit. The Washington meeting was attended by many senators, notably the young Abraham Lincoln.
During the meeting, letters were read from Ireland, including one from the women of Dunmanway in County Cork. It was addressed to the Ladies of America. It said: "Oh that our American sisters could see the laborers on our roads, able-bodied men, scarcely clad, famishing with hunger, with despair in their once cheerful faces, staggering at their work . . . Oh that they could see the dead father, mother or child, lying coffinless, and hear the screams of the survivors around them, caused not by sorrow, but by the agony of hunger."
Remarkably, even though America was at war with Mexico, Congress gave permission for two navy vessels to be used to take supplies on behalf of the Boston Relief Committee to Ireland and Scotland, where the potato crop had also failed. The resolution authorizing the use of the ships by private individuals, even to this day, "remains unique in the history of Congress."
On 17 March 1847, foodstuffs were loaded onto The Jamestown. It left Boston for Cork a week later, taking only 15 days and three hours to complete the transatlantic journey. All of the crew were volunteers. The captain, Robert Forbes, caustically commented that as the food supplies had taken only 15 days to cross the Atlantic, they should not take a further 15 days to reach the Irish poor. His comment was apt. The labyrinth of bureaucracy attached to the public works had meant that it had taken between 6 and 8 weeks for them to be operative – far too long for a people who were starving.
Forbes declared himself to be impressed with the women of Cork – because 'they shake hands like a man.' Although he was feted, he shied away from publicity and, significantly, refused an invitation from the authorities to travel to Dublin to receive an honor from the British government. This fantastic endeavor on behalf of the Irish poor was diminished only by the fact that on the return journey, a man was lost overboard – and he was the only Irish-born member of the crew.


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Green Ink: Gas Pains and Peak Coal
Crude oil futures hovered around $48 amid signs of tightening oil supplies and continued weak demand, Bloomberg reports. While many analysts are still skeptical that OPEC will deliver its promised output cuts, OPEC countries do seem to be closing the spigot, in the FT. Meanwhile, the NYT takes a look at the compromises of Candian tar sands—plentiful crude, but bad for the environment.
The week-long natural gas dispute in Russia is getting hotter, as Russia has shut off all natural-gas supplies to Ukraine, in the NYT. That is affecting European countries as far west as Austria, and is much worse than when it happened in 2006, in the WSJ (sub reqd.).
Forget all the political talk—this is about Gazprom trying to avoid a cash-flow shortfall this year that would imperil investment, says the WSJ (sub reqd.). Forget all the economic talk—this is about the Kremlin trying to strong-arm Europe, says the WSJ edit page: "The strategic stakes are as great as in Georgia last summer."
House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has the votes to shepherd climate-change legislation through the House this year, but that doesn't mean the "controversial" legislation will happen, at Grist. Also on tap for Congress are big infrastructure plans—so it had better make sure century-long investments in roads and bridges are ready to adapt to rising sea levels and other effects of climate change, at Columbia's Climate Matters. Speaking of roads, you'll love paying more to use less-congested taxpayer-funded highways, at Freakonomics.
T. Boone Pickens isn't letting the credit crunch or cheaper oil derail his "Pickens Plan" to tap wind power and natural gas, and cheers the election of Barack Obama, in the Houston Chronicle: "The free market is fine, but waiting on the free market sometimes can be disastrous," he said.
Meanwhile, Japan jumps on the green jobs bandwagon, accelerating plans to use preferential interest rates to jumpstart clean tech and create a million jobs, in Reuters.
Clean tech could use a boost after investment plunged in the fourth quarter, a casualty of the wider economic downturn, in the WSJ (sub reqd.). But it was still a record year, notes Earth2Tech, and thin film solar was the big winner, though biofuels also raked in plenty of cash.
Biofuels are soaring this month, on airliners at least, with more jatropha-fueled test flights. The problem facing aviation is how to grow enough of the stuff, in the NYT. Biotech pioneers like Craig Venter are trying to tackle precisely that–using engineered microbes to make biofuels that don't need crops, at Yale's Environment 360.
Finally, get ready for peak coal. Government surveys suggest there may be a lot fewer recoverable reserves of coal than widely assumed, and nowhere near the oft-cited 250-year supply for the U.S., at Climate Progress.

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An ice-cold bath on waking, followed by two cups of black coffee without sugar and half-an-hour of exercise and then nothing more to eat until midday. It sounds like the beginning of a horror story from the Gulag, but no, this is the advice doled out by Venice A Fulton (real name Paul Khanna, a personal trainer from London) in his runaway bestselling diet book Six Weeks To OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends
It started out as an e-book on Apple's iTunes earlier this year and in just weeks it had sold more than 120,000 copies, five times more than the Dukan Diet
And now the book rights have been sold to US and publishers world-wide for 'seven figure sums'
The book has cause a furore with critics saying that the word-of-mouth hit, said to be inspired by reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex, cynically targets impressionable teenage girls
But, quite apart from that, does it work?
OMG! The basics
The main rules of the OMG! Diet are as follows:
– Sleep longer
– Skip Breakfast
– Drink black coffee before exercise
– Take cold baths
– Eat less fruit and fruit smoothies
– Eat 3 meals – Don't snack
– Broccoli can be as bad as coca-cola
As rules go, they don't seem very complicated. But how are they meant to help fat loss?
Sleep Longer
Sounds good, doesn't it? A big problem for a lot of people is that their busy lives prevent them from getting adequate sleep. Without the right amount of sleep, your body releases stress hormones, which are detrimental to fat loss. So sleeping longer is a good start. So far, so good
Skip breakfast
Thee full recommendation here is to skip breakfast, and to exercise instead. While additional exercise may be beneficial, skipping breakfast may cause you to overeat at lunchtime. Breakfast has also been previously highlighted as the most important meal of the day, as eating it helps regulate your hormones when first waking up. However, several new diet plans have recently indicated a weight loss benefit when not eating for several hours after waking – it's not scientifically proven, and your mileage may vary
Studies into intermittent fasting show it can help you lose weight, burn fat, stabilise blood sugar, and reduce blood-pressure and cholesterol. Skipping breakfast is one way. Other approaches include fasting on alternate days, or very low-calorie diets two days a week. But other research connects skipping breakfast with obesity and low concentration and anyone with diabetes or low blood-sugar should ask a doctor first
Drink black coffee before exercise
The theory is that caffeine gives you a boost, and enables you to work out more effectively. The downside is that too much caffeine has previously been shown to inhibit weight loss – it's a fine balance
There is science behind this as coffee has been shown to boost your stamina during exercise. It also contains antioxidants, which are good for your overall health. If you're sensible about your intake and stick to two or three cups a day – no more than four – this could help your metabolism
Take cold baths
The theory is that taking a cool bath between 15C and 20C every morning encourages your body to burn stored fat as it tries to keep warm. It will boost metabolism for up to 15 hours, says Fulton, as cold activates 'good' brown fat, burning calories to keep warm
In practice, ice baths have been shown to help with weight loss – in fact, just exposure to the cold generally can help. However, the OMG! Diet recommends baths at a temperature below 20C – which is clearly nowhere near an ice bath! Whilst the basis of immersion in a cold bath is scientifically sound, the temperature recommendations are not
Eat less fruit
Some diets recommend eating lots of fruit, while some recommend none. OMG! recommends 'less', making the claim that fruit increases your appetite
Fruit contains a naturally-occurring sugar called fructose, which, Fulton believes, stops leptin from switching off our appetite. He also says that 'fruit calories slip under your radar' and that smoothies in particular can be fattening because you drink more fructose than you realise, meaning you forget about all those liquid calories
It's actually true that liquid calories aren't as filling, so what our body considers a drink, our waistline considers a meal, so Fulton has a point. However, whole fruit is full of fibre to fill you and nutrients to keep you healthy, so it's easy to disagree with the premise that whole fruit makes you hungry
Eat 3 meals – don't snack
Rather than 'grazing', Fulton says eating three meals a day – lunch, mid-afternoon and early evening – controls your appetite as it releases leptin (a chemical that tells our brain we're full). Having longer gaps between meals encourages the body to burn fat
'The 'old fashioned' view that three quality, home-cooked meals a day is the best way to eat, is coming back into fashion. 'Grazing' (eating small amounts of food 6-8 times a day) is fine in theory as it keeps your metabolism going all day, but most of us don't have the discipline to eat smaller amounts and healthy food. We tend to end up eating 'bad' foods such as crisps, biscuits and sugary snacks
Broccoli can be as bad as coke
'No carbs before Marbs,' as they say in TOWIE. Fulton claims that if you want to be slim, you must aim for no more than 120 grams of carbohydrate a day. It makes no difference if you get all of your carbs from cans of coke or plates of broccoli, says the book
Despite the sensational comparison of broccoli to Coke, Fulton is not saying broccoli is bad – just that we need to limit our carbohydrate intake and make every meal half-protein if we want to stay slim. A 2008 study involving more than 1,000 overweight adults found those on high protein and low glycaemic index (slow-burning carbs) diets had more successful maintenance of weight loss than those on low-fat, low-calorie diets. Another study in Seattle showed an increase in protein resulted in rapid loss of weight and body fat
While there are clearly aspects of OMG! that make sense, there's an equal amount to worry about. Take the title 'Six Weeks To OMG : Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends'. It's a catchy slogan that attracts the Facebook generation, the quirky advice has a novelty factor and the six weeks angle appeals to our love of a quick fix. The competition of 'Get Skinnier than all your friends' can be motivating but is it a book that's encouraging you to focus on being skinny rather than healthy?
Then there's the claim that you can lose up to 20lb in six weeks
Most dietitians and nutritionists say that a healthy weight loss is one to two pounds a week once you start a diet, eventually slowing down to one pound a week, and that a 20lb weight loss in six weeks isn't healthy. Not only will you struggle to keep it off if you lose it that quickly, but when you put it back on as you 'yo-yo', you'll end up with more weight, and more fat, than when you started
In summary some experts support the science behind the diet, others regard it nutritional blasphemy: Understand this before you get the book and adhere to its principles, and make sure to consult your GP before you start
And, like, good luck or whatever!
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メップル Meppuru
|Futari wa Pretty Cure
Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart
|Eye Color
|Dark blue
|Hair Color
|Home Place
|Garden of Light
|First Appearance
|Theme Color
|Yellow (Main)
Blue (sub)
|Japanese Voice Actor
|Seki Tomokazu
|English Voice Actor
|Roger Rhodes
Mepple (メップル Meppuru?) is the chosen protector of the Princess of Hope, Mipple. Because of this, he and Mipple have a "lovey-dovey" relationship. Both Mipple and Mepple can only stay in their Garden of Light forms for a short time before they grow tired, so they take energy-saving forms resembling cellphones, also called Card Communes in the English dub. He ends his sentences with "-mepo" in the original version, which is omitted from the dub.
Mepple appears to be a small fairy with a lemon-yellow color scheme on his fur. He have navy-blue eyes and has light blue highlights between his eyes. On his head is an incorrectly male gender symbol with a heart thematic. Mepple has bearlike ears on his head and a star shape at the end of his tail.
Mepple is very arrogant because of his status as a chosen warrior. Because of this, he always expects the best of everything and to be respected by others. Due to how he often criticizes or taunts Nagisa, the two of them argue a lot while he feels no regret. Due to both having a temper and stubborn personalities, they instantly deny any accusations that they are like each other.
Despite this, when he is with Mipple, he is a much gentler person and loves her very much. He never demands things from her, and always hugs/cuddles her when they can see each other. This makes him mildly jealous of Pollun due to their close past, and often wishes that he'd be less selfish. Though he is just as selfish, usually whining about being hungry, or just acting too lazy to do anything. He even has said Nagisa is very easy to manipulate.
Futari wa Pretty Cure
Off-screen, Mepple's story starts in the Garden of Light, his home garden. He has been appointed as the chosen warrior to protect the Princess of Hope, Mipple. It is unknown when they fell in love with each other, but it is assumed that they have always been. However, one day the Garden of Light is being attacked by the Dark Zone. Although the Queen manages to stop the darkness from devouring her castle, it is decided that Mepple and Mipple are to go to the Garden of Rainbows in order to look for the legendary warriors Pretty Cure FwPC02. Mipple is sent first, and Mepple follows the day afterward, not knowing that in the Garden of Rainbows, the timezone is different, which have made Mipple wait for him for one hundred years.
When he is in the Garden of Light, he is being shot down with the help of the shooting stars, and eventually manages to find one of the Pretty Cure, Misumi Nagisa. They have a bad start, however, as Nagisa is frightened by a talking cellphone and refuses to listen to him. He asks her however to take her to Mipple, who he has to find. Although in doubt, Nagisa does what he says with the help of his puppy eyes. When they eventually get into the closing amusement park, they are met by Pisard, one of the denizens from the Dusk Zone. He manages to capture Mepple for a short time, but then Yukishiro Honoka and Mipple arrive, and Nagisa manages to grab the talking cellphone back. When Pisard begins his attack, Mepple and Mipple make the girls use the Card Communes in order to transform and fight him. Although in doubt, they do what they say, and they transform into Cure Black and Cure White. They manage to defeat Pisard and the monster Zakenna, and the mascots hug each other in happiness. They then explain the duty of the Pretty Cure for the girls although Nagisa cannot believe anything FwPC01.
The following weeks, Mepple stays with Nagisa and helps her to comprehend with everything that is happening, though he acts extremely spoiled, always expecting Nagisa to feed him, and tells her that she is way too easy to manipulate. However, in truth, he is hiding the fact that the stress of being in the Garden of Rainbows is tearing on him, and eventually becomes extremely sick. When Nagisa scolds him at school for acting selfishly and interrupting her at class, the principal sees her using the phone and takes it from her, as he thinks it will take away her attention. While in the man's scuffle, Mepple gets worse and worse, but is eventually saved when the girls manages to sneak into the office at night and save the principal from a Zakenna. He thanks Nagisa, though he still keeps his spoiled personality, making them continue arguing over everything.
As the time goes by, and Pretty Cure gets one Prism Stone back after another, Mepple and Mipple eventually have a real fight, in which they refuse to apologize to another. However, when the last servant of the Dark King, Ilkubo, appears and takes all the life energy in the girls' town, Mepple decides to try to take him down in order to protect Mipple, telling her not to lose hope since she is the Princess of Hope. Eventually, the team is able to restore all the life energy, and Ilkubo leaves.
After defeating Ilkubo and the Dark King with the help of the Queen, the girls and mascots go back to an everyday life, until they are ordered by the Queen to take the Prince of Light, Pollun, to the Garden of Rainbows and aid Pretty Cure once again in a new fight against the Seeds of Darkness, whose main goal is to resurrect the Dark King. Once again, the mascots live with their respective caretakers, though Pollun lives with Mepple and Nagisa, a factor that annoys them both to no end.
Eventually, they manage to defeat the Seeds of Darkness and the Dark King once again, and the whole Garden of Light is restored. Now that there is no need for Mepple and Mipple to be in the Garden of Rainbows anymore, they must get back to the Garden of Light before they fall into eternal sleep in the Garden of Rainbows. However, because they have become too close to Pretty Cure to want to leave them, Mepple and Mipple decide to stay with them in their eternal sleep, so that they will always be together. Saying goodbye, Mepple's cellphone closes, and is unable to open again. The mascots leave the girls in tears.
Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart
When the Queen's life is set in danger, and a new evil has appeared, Mepple and Mipple are woken up from their sleep from the end of the last series to help Pretty Cure in their new task once again. They wake up just in the nick of time, and hurry to transform into their new cellphones, the Heartful Communes, to make the girls become Pretty Cure again.
Through the rest of the season, they eventually meet Kujou Hikari, who can transform into Shiny Luminous, and it is revealed that she is the disappeared Queen's life. Halfway through the season, Lulun, the Princess of Light, makes an appearance as well. They continue fighting the evil who wish to resurrect the Dark King.
At the end of the season, when the Dark King has destroyed the Garden of Rainbows, Pretty Cure has lost their hope. Mepple, however, say that he has no regrets, because he is glad he had the chance to meet Nagisa and the others. The girls try to defeat the evil once again, but fail. When Mepple hears them begin talking about things their human selves had forgotten to do before the fight, he tells them to get a hold on themselves and not talk about stupid things like that in such a situation. This, together with Black's scolding, makes White realize that all life has the right to live. They eventually try to fight once again, and, with the help of Shiny Luminous and the resurrected Queen, manage to defeat the Dark King once and for all.
When the Dark King is defeated, the mascots separate with the girls without any kind of goodbyes, which once again leaves them in tears. However, the mascots return to them the day afterward, telling them that they are now able to live in the Garden of Rainbows without any kinds of consequences. Telling Nagisa that they will always be together, they hug and cry, though Mepple mentions that he still is hungry.
- Misumi Nagisa: Mepple used to live with Nagisa, and although they argued all the time, they are actually very close, and Mepple easily understands Nagisa's feelings.
- Yukishiro Honoka: Mostly because Mipple was in Honoka's care, and because she was a Pretty Cure, Mepple worries about Honoka and wants Nagisa to care more for her.
- Mipple: He has a lovey-dovey relationship with Mipple, and he always nags Nagisa to go and visit Honoka so that he can see her more often. They fight when Mepple eats too much food and Mipple says he's being selfish, or Mipple spends time with Pollun and Mepple begins to says mean things about Pollun.
- Pollun: When Pollun comes into the story, Mepple is usually annoyed at him because he destroys the romance he had with Mipple, due to them arguing over him. Though still in a relationship with Mipple, he gets very jealous when Mipple spends more time with Pollun than himself. However, as Pollun slowly begins to mature, Mepple helps him to understand small things about the Garden of Rainbows, like Santa Claus and Christmas.
- Mepple is the only fairy mascot who has a girlfriend. However, Tarte has a fianceé.
- Mepple has a habit of arguing with Nagisa, much like Flappy with Hyuuga Saki.
- Mepple and Mipple are the first pair of mascots who have a shape at the end of their tails. For Mepple being a star, which he said is one of the Prism Stones. The pair are followed by Flappy and Choppy.
- In the German dubbed version of Futari wa Pretty Cure, he and Mipple share the same voice actress, but they sound distinctive different.
Official Profiles
|Futari wa Pretty Cure (Max Heart)
|Mepple • Mipple • Pollun • (Lulun)
|Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
|Flappy • Choppy • Moop • Foop
|Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (GoGo!)
|Coco • Natts • Milk • Pinkies • (Syrup) • (Mailpo)
|Fresh Pretty Cure!
|Tarte • Chiffon • Azukina • Pickruns
|Heartcatch Pretty Cure!
|Chypre • Coffret • Coupe • Potpourri • Cologne
|Suite Pretty Cure♪
|Hummy • Siren • Fairy Tones
|Smile Pretty Cure!
|Candy • Pop
|Doki Doki! Pretty Cure
|Sharuru • Raquel • Lance • Dabyi • Ai
|Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!
|Ribbon • Glasan • Aloalo • PhanPhan
|Go! Princess Pretty Cure
|Pafu • Aroma • Miss Shamour • Kuroro
|Mahou Tsukai Pretty Cure!
|Mofurun • Ha-chan
|Pretty Cure All Stars (movie series)
|EnEn • Gureru • Yumeta • Maamu
|Misumi Ryouta | Misumi Rie | Misumi Takeshi | Yukishiro Sanae | Yukishiro Taro | Yukishiro Aya | Chuutaro | Takashimizu Rina | Kubota Shiho | Takenouchi Yoshimi | Fujimura Shougo | Kimata | Fujita Akane | Nakagawa Yumiko | Odajima Yuka | Principal | Kometsuki Kyouto | Mori Kyoko | Koshino Natsuko | Hasekura Kazuki | Wisdom | Queen | (Heartiels) | Yuriko | Kashiwada Mayu | (Tabata Nao) | (Kagayama Miu)
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Winter 2009
Hello and Happy Holidays,
all of us at the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, The University of
Seyler and the Blackfeet
Provided by William Farr
more than a decade of research and writing,
William E. Farr, Associate Director of the
O'Connor Center published his book this October
with the University of Oklahoma Press. Titled Julius
Seyler and the Blackfeet. An Impressionist
at Glacier National Park, this effort
provides the first biographical portrait of
Seyler, documents his special relationship
to the "Glacier Park Indians," and, with over
100 images, many in color, illustrates
Seyler's magnificent impressionistic art of
the Glacier
National Park area and the Blackfeet.
When Julius Seyler stepped
down from the Great Northern train onto the
depot platform at Glacier Park Station,
Montana, in the summer of 1913, he was a
successful and accomplished artist still
struggling to break free from the grip of
the late impressionist painters like
Cezanne, Manet, and Vincent Van Gogh.
Born in Munich in 1873,
Seyler began his art studies at the
prestigious Munich Academy of Fine Arts in
Seyler apprenticed himself to
a variety of teachers and styles before
striking out in 1906 to follow his own, more
independent impulses that emphasized animals and people in
local landscapes. By 1909,
Seyler was in Paris, painting,
studying, measuring his rural impressionist
leanings against the work of the then
popular French realist landscape painters. Restless and loving to travel, he
moved on, looking for new inspiration, first
on the coasts of Flanders and Brittany, then
in Norway, fixing in paint and turpentine,
seascapes, panoramas, and horizontal
landscapes full of wind and
turbulence—powerful places where the
elements overwhelmed the few people and
animals they contained. It was as if Seyler had already
anticipated what he would later encounter in
Northern Montana.
Perhaps providence was in
play. As
early as September 1904, Seyler, then
31, was writing to a
young Norwegian-American art student, Helga
Boeckmann, in St. Paul, Minn., whom he had met while she was
studying in Munich. Six years later, in July 1910, they
married in St. Paul before returning to
Europe and Munich where they were to reside
as they pursued their painting careers.
In 1913, after a year of creative activity in Norway and the Lofoten
Islands, Seyler and Helga returned to St.
Paul for the wedding of Helga's brother to
Rachel Hill, daughter of James J. Hill, the
railroad magnate who built the Great
Northern Railway. The "Empire Builder" had been
succeeded by his son—Rachel's
brother—Louis W. Hill. Hill, himself a landscape painter,
quickly appreciated the art of his new
shirt-tail relative and his successful
European career and hoped to harness this
unusual find to his latest project, the
promotion of Montana's newly created
Glacier National Park. To that end, Hill enticed the
adventuresome Seyler to visit this majestic
and powerful landscape and to see at the
same time the Blackfeet Indians whose
reservation lay just outside the Park
Touted by the younger Hill
and the Great Northern as the "Switzerland
of America," Glacier Park became the focus
of an ingenious railroad promotional
campaign called "See America First." Hill hoped to entice wealthy
eastern tourists, who had previously
traveled to Europe, to travel to Glacier
Park, adjacent to the tracks of his
railroad. There Americans were to be given a
close-up look at "America's Alps" and an opportunity to
meet with some of the "Vanishing
Americans," the Blackfeet Indians, in the
unspoiled wilderness of the new Park.
Hill understood the
persuasiveness of visual images, whether
photography or fine art, even late
impressionism, and hoped to add Julius
Seyler to his stable of "Sagebrush
Rembrandts," painters who had already been
employed to create a sort of advertising
art. Art,
as Hill so accurately put it, would "sell
the West to prospective travelers."
Seyler, however,
was different. While other artists of the West
depicted the scenic grandeur in decidedly
realistic terms, Seyler's approach, while still readable,
was not as literal or visually accurate. Instead he painted in the
late-impressionistic manner, fragmenting and
dissolving what he saw into a kaleidoscope
of brush strokes, planes, splotches, smears,
dabbles, and spots. Often he came close to sacrificing
reality to impression. This was not advertising art and it
did not resonate with those who expected the
realism of a Frederic Remington or Charles
M. Russell.
On the other hand, Seyler
had to abandon the rich, if clichéd,
conventions of European impressionism, adjusting his color and palette to the clear
light of the Northern Plains. Likewise, his interest in depicting
the Blackfeet and their
buffalo-hunting past required a more
narrative approach than the European code
recognized. It was not an easy transition, for
while his artistic instincts led in the
direction of a more abstract approach, his need to explain to a European
audience led in the opposite direction. From this tension emerged an
eloquent, distinctive style that is
refreshingly innovative and one that sparked
a welter of new "impressions."
Julius Seyler spent two
idyllic summers in Glacier Park and on the
Blackfeet Reservation. Experiences abounded, including
into the tribe, the gift of a name—"Boss
Ribs"—by Jack Big Moon, and his
participation in the Sun Dance encampment in
July of 1914. Determined to be accurate,
Seyler relied again and again on Blackfeet
informants. They, in turn, used him to tell
their stories in paint as to who they were
and what they had done; what was the signature shape of the
tail of fast-running buffalo, how was a
coup-stick held, a tepee pitched or painted?
When World War I broke out
in September of 1914, the idyll was over. It was time to go home. The magic of the mountains no longer
worked. Although Seyler left Montana, he was
unable to return to Germany because of the
British blockage of the Atlantic. Instead he and Helga withdrew to his
father's-in-law farm at Balsam Lake,
Wisconsin, to endure a long seven-year exile
as an apprentice farmer. There was no time nor inclination
to paint.
Eventually, in 1921,
Seyler returned to Europe where he renewed
his career in the difficult post-war years
with great critical success. He continued to work over his
American portfolio of sketches and drawings
of Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet,
yet these remained essentially unknown in
the United States and the American West. Seyler never returned to the American
West or visited the Blackfeet again. Some
of what he had painted of
Glacier Park and the Blackfeet was lost or
destroyed during the Allied bombing of
Munich during World War II. Particularly in America, Seyler's
impressionistic art fell into obscurity. This is unfortunate, for much of his
work survived in Europe and now this book
provides us with a legacy of Montana images
like no other. The
Blackfeet, both then and now,
have in Julius Seyler an impressionist
painter who captures them moving with grace
through their romantic past under the
spacious arc of grass and sky.
Jan. 22 in Helena, Mont., Center Director
Larry Swanson will give the keynote luncheon
address at the 2010 Economic Growth and
Social Justice Conference organized and
hosted by the Helena
Education Foundation. Swanson will discuss the importance
of education in the emerging economy and the
need for greater "intentionality" by
local leaders in both visualizing future
economic potential and pursuing it through
better education programming.
Feb. 1 and 3 in northern Illinois, Swanson
will participate as a member of an
international evaluation team reviewing
progress by Northern Illinois University and
nearby community colleges in planning new
programs aimed at area workforce education
and training.
Northern Illinois colleges and universities
are participating in the PURE
program of the International PASCAL
Observatory based in Glasgow,
Scotland. PURE,
which stands for PASCAL University Regional
Engagement, is a program involving work by
PASCAL in 20 regions around the world. Other
members of PASCAL's Northern Illinois
evaluation team include Dr. Hans Schuetze,
fellow and former director of the Centre for
Policy Studies in Higher Education at the
University of British Columbia and Dr. Jose
Gines Mora Ruiz of the Institute for
Education at the University of London who is
former director of the Centre for the Study
of Higher Education Management at Valencia
University of Technology in Spain.
Feb. 18, in Missoula, Mont., Prof.
Joseph P. Gone of the Dept. of Psychology
and American Culture at the University of
Michigan will present the Center's 13th
Annual Native American Lecture celebrating
Charter Day. His presentation examines and
evaluates received notions of historical
trauma and concludes that this discourse
reproduces the very problems that its
proponents intended it to overcome.
Alternative possibilities for representing
the relationship between colonization
history and contemporary distress within
Native American communities will be
Gone is an enrolled Gros Ventre who grew up
in Kalispell and was educated at Harvard
College (1992) and the University of
Illinois (Ph.D. 2001). He has dealt
extensively with mental health, culture and
Indian communication across North America.
event will be held in Liberal Arts Bldg.,
Room 11 at 7:00 p.m. and is free and
open to the public.
early March in Colorado, Swanson will lead a
PASCAL evaluation team examining workforce
education and training programs in Colorado. The State of Colorado and the
University of Colorado in Boulder are
hosting the team which will include Swanson,
Hans Schuetze, and Dr. Pat Davies of the
School of Education at the University of
Sheffield in England.
April 23-24 in Kalispell, Mont. the
Center, along with Flathead Valley Community
College, utilizing a grant from Glacier
National Park, will host an historical
conference celebrating Glacier National
Park's first 100 years. The 2-day conference will
feature a variety of historical topics from
how Glacier Park has been represented in
artistic imagination to one of the Park's
most important past ambassadors, the
Blackfeet leader John Two Guns White. The conference is but one of many efforts
commemorating the creation of America's 10th
National Park and its cultural legacy.
quotes from the region
as provided by Headwaters News
John Gardner, professor of
mechanical engineering at
Boise State, about the pace
of development of
renewable energy in Idaho.
- Boise Weekly
Kayner, one of a dozen or so
Coloradans seeking
a permit
under a new law in that state that now
allows the
capture of rainwater.
- Denver Post
Old Coyote, vice secretary of the
Crow Tribe, at a
ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the beginning
of natural-gas
production on the tribe's Montana
- Billings Gazette
Secretary Ken Salazar,
during his visit Tuesday to the
national park, where he urged Montana
and Canada to work
together to protect the pristine Flathead
- Missoulian
Potter, chief of science and
natural resources at
Glacier National
Park about a decision
to remove a 17-year-old
grizzly bear from
Montana park because she's
become too
habituated to humans.
- Missoulian
Holtkamp, manager of Holland &
Hart's global climate
change practice, about a report that urges Western
to be proactive in getting transmission
lines built.
- Casper Star-Tribune
Konen, a Dillon-area rancher,
discussing the 120
killed by wolves last week on her Montana
- Montana Standard
Windhorst, the Stevensville Ranger
Fire Management Officer, about the Kootenai
Creek wildfire
in Montana that roared to
life on Saturday.
- Ravalli Republic
Kenworthy, conservation director
for the Greater
Coalition, about a federal judge's decision
to return grizzly
in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to the
endangered species list.
- Jackson Hole Daily
Sherman, at a Senate committee
hearing on his nomination
to be undersecretary
for natural resources and environment
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
a post that oversees the
Forest Service and Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
- Durango Herald
Sen. Bob Bennett, testifying
Thursday against the
Red Rock Wilderness bill, which would
designate 9.4 million
acres in Utah
as wilderness.
- Salt Lake Tribune
Sime, wolf program coordinator for Montana
Wildlife and Parks, about the success rate
of wolf hunters in the Absaroka-Beartooth
Wilderness along the northern border
of Yellowstone National Park.
- Billings Gazette
Naugle, a wildlife landscape
ecologist at the University
of Montana, and co-author of a three-year
study that
recommends energy
development away from areas of
sensitive habitat for sage grouse.
- New York Times (Greenwire)
Roberts, a young Colorado farmer,
who is pinning his
hopes on getting farmland through Chaffee
County's Land
Link program, which matches up young farmers
with farms.
- Denver Post
Shervais, professor and head of
Utah State's Department of Geology, about a geothermal
research project under way in Idaho.
- Twin Falls Times-News
Ealey, spokesman for Alberta Sustainable
Development, about the province's
opposition Canada's plan
to reintroduce bison into Banff National
- Toronto National Post
Secretary Ken Salazar, firing back
at oil
and gas
companies' criticism of the Obama
administration's leasing policies.
- NewWest.net
LeResche of the Powder River Basin
Resource Council,
after the first day of a meeting of a new
working group convened
to address Wyoming's
rules on coalbed methane discharge water.
- Casper Star-Tribune
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recent activities
Dec. 17 in Missoula, Mont., Center
Director Larry Swanson made a presentation
at the Winter
Missoula Business Forum entitled
"Where we've been; Where we're going
in 2010". The Forum is an on-going program
organized and hosted by eight major business
associations in Missoula including: Missoula
Chamber of Commerce, Missoula Organization
of Realtors, Missoula Downtown Association,
Missoula Area Economic Development Corp.,
Missoula Mid-Town Association, Missoula
Business Women's Network, Missoula
Building Industry Association, and Missoula
Convention and Visitors Bureau.
A panel of area business people and
others also discussed key conditions and
trends affecting the area economy and
businesses over the last year and into next
Nov. 20 in Missoula, Mont., Swanson
participated in a videoconference hosted by
First Interstate Banks in Missoula,
Billings, and Great Falls focused on
learning more about potential climate change
impacts in Montana and possible national
policy responses including Cap and Trade
Participants included 25 business
leaders from throughout Montana.
Nov. 19 in Kalispell, Mont., Swanson gave
the keynote presentation for a community
forum entitled "Re-Powering
the Flathead for a New Energy Economy."
The meeting was hosted by Flathead
Valley Community College with over 20
sponsoring businesses and organizations
including Citizens for a Better Flathead and
AirWorks Heating and Cooling. Other presenters included Kellie
Danielson of Montana West Economic Development, Margie
Jones of Community Action Partnership, Haley
Beaudry who formerly headed Columbia Falls
Aluminum, and Craig Wilkins of Zinc Air.
Nov. 17 in Missoula, Mont., Swanson
participated in a faculty planning meeting
with representatives of the Society
of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).
The SEJ will be holding its annual
conference at the University of Montana next
fall. Up
to 800 journalists from around the country
will be attending the meeting.
Nov. 12 in Billings, Mont., Swanson gave an
invited presentation to senior executives
and directors of First
Interstate BancSystem, discussing
key trends and emerging sectors in the
economies of Montana and Wyoming.
Oct. 29-30 in Missoula, Mont., KPAX
television aired EconTracker news segments
featuring interviews with Larry Swanson
commenting on the area economy.
On Oct.
24th, Missoula, Mont.,
Associate Director William Farr
spoke at the 2009 Montana Festival
of the Book on his recent publication of
Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet.
Oct. 16th in Whitefish, Mont.,
Swanson spoke to the 2009 Class of Leadership
He described major trends occurring
in Montana's economy and in its population
and highlighted areas that will require
attention by Montana leadership in coming
years related to fundamental restructuring
of the state's economy and population
Oct. 12 and 14 in north-central Mont.,
Swanson and Tyler Sutton of the Grassland
Foundation in Neb. toured the
project area of the American
Prairie Foundation (APF).
The informational tour was led by
Randy Gray of APF.
APF has several large land holdings
in the area north of the Charles Russell
National Wildlife Refuge and is managing
these lands for wildlife, including the
reintroduction of bison.
Swanson and Sutton are currently
developing a plan for a study of the
efficacy of large private nature reserves in
the northern Great Plains.
Oct. 8 in
Helena, Mont., Swanson spoke at a planning
meeting of the Montana
State Fund, describing important
changes occurring in the state's economy
and work force.
Oct. 5 in Missoula, Mont. at the
Hilton Garden Inn, Swanson gave a
presentation entitled
Health Sector: A necessary service and
growing economic asset."
This was part of the Fall
Missoula Business Forum, a regular
quarterly meeting process planned and hosted
by eight business organizations and
association in Missoula.
These include the Missoula Chamber of
Commerce, Missoula Organization of Realtors,
Missoula Area Economic Development, Missoula
Women's Business Network, Missoula
Convention and Visitors Bureau, Missoula
Building Association, Missoula Downtown
Association, and Missoula Mid-Town
Association. The
forum also was co-sponsored by First
Security Bank, the Missoulian newspaper,
and the Hilton Garden Inn.
Oct. 2 in Missoula, Mont., Swanson
participated in a meeting of UM scientists
and Montana business people exploring how
climate change and global warming may impact
Montana and elements of Montana business and
Sept. 30 in Missoula, Mont., Swanson spoke
at the annual meeting of the Montana Nonprofit Association entitled
He identified important changes
occurring in the Montana economy and
discussed the role of nonprofits in
positioning Montana communities for greater
Sept. 23 in Missoula, Mont., Swanson gave a
presentation at an informational meeting of
the Missoula Public School Board on
population and enrollment trends and
projections for Missoula County.
MPS contracted with Swanson and the
O'Connor Center to study the changing
population demographics of the area and to
provide to them for planning purposes
enrollment projections for elementary,
middle, and high schools within the public
school district.
He gave a similar presentation to a
smaller gathering of MPS board members on
August 26.
Sept. 5, in Great Falls, Mont., at the
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Farr presented
"The Blackfeet Adoption of Walter
McClintock" as part of the 2009 Indian
Voices Program.
in the news
Frenchtown pulp mill
victim of global
supply and demand - Missoulian,
Dec. 20, 2009
Slow economic
growth forecast for 2010; Missoula will
soon be largest city in Montana - Missoulian,
Dec. 18, 2009
For the
past 20 years, the economy
of western Montana, in particular
Missoula, has steadily pulled away from its
blue-collar manufacturing roots to become a
regional economic hub with diverse and
vibrant sectors in the areas of health care,
education, business and professional
services, and retail - Missoulian,
Dec. 16, 2009
regional economists, the announcement that Smurfit-Stone
will permanently close their Frenchtown mill
was unwelcome, but expected - Missoulian,
Dec. 15, 2009
"Energy, the Economy,
and Jobs...Planning for the Future" Seminar
to be held in Kalispell - Daily InterLake,
Nov. 19, 2009
business prepares for slower
holiday shopping season - KPAX.com, Nov.
6, 2009
Montana Realtors eager to
dust off welcome
mats - KPAX.com, Oct. 28, 2009
on the way back, however, Montana likely
won't rebound to the full level of economic
activity it enjoyed before the recession hit
according to economists - Helena
Independent Republic, Oct. 24,
water Montana's economy will be stable
for the winter and should start to recover
by next spring - Billings Gazette, Oct.
24, 2009
competition: St. Patrick, Community walk
fine line on collaboration - Missoulian,
Oct. 10, 2009
economy begins slow recovery, but
jobless rate stays flat - Missoulian,
Oct. 5, 2009
Business Forum recognizes impact
of health care - Missoulian, Oct.
2, 2009
in crisis: Nonprofits
hit hard by dwindling sources of money -
Missoulian, Sept. 30, 2009
County Public Schools should see a steady
increase in enrollment over the next 15
to 20 years - Missoulian, Sept. 27,
Montana slowly emerges from recession,
but with a changed economy - Missoulian,
Sept. 6, 2009
Voices Program: "A Point of Entry:
The Blackfeet Adoption of William
McClintock" - Great Falls Tribune,
Sept. 5, 2009
pave the way for economic
vitality - Billings Buiness.com,
Aug. 26, 2009
Provided by Shellie Nelson,
Editor, Headwaters
There's a lot happening in the Rocky
Mountain West with regard to energy — old
and new. And to help Headwaters News'
readers keep track of it,
Headwaters launched its Energy Review in
early October.
monthly posting on the first weekend of each
month will take a look back at the previous
month's articles on wind, solar and
geothermal energy; coal, natural gas and
uranium; as well as news about transmission
and generation projects, and energy-related legislation.
The first Energy
Review posted Oct. 3 and offered readers
an update on wind
energy projects in Wyoming and elsewhere
in the West; with PacifiCorp and Rocky
Mountain Power both buying into projects in
the Cowboy State, but Colorado-based Xcel
Energy declining to add any wind power from
Wyoming to its renewable energy portfolio.
Wind developers criticized Montana's
project-by-project regulatory structure for
the Big Sky State's lag in wind power
projects, with Idaho's set
"wind-integration fee," touted as
a better option.
power dimmed a bit in California, after
BrightSource Energy Inc. withdrew its plans
for a 5,130-acre solar power plant in the
Mohave Desert. Two projects in Nevada's
northern Amargosa Valley have met
considerable resistance, because the
technology proposed for those projects would
need 1.3 million gallons of water annually — about 20 percent of the valley's
available water — for cooling purposes.
The University of Utah will use $7 million
in federal stimulus money for research at
U.S. Geothermal Inc.'s Raft River power plant in
southeast Idaho to test new technology using
high-pressure water to crack open
heat-bearing rocks. Meanwhile seismic activity
forced the shut down of another geothermal
plant in August in Germany.
On the biofuel front, the U.S. Navy signed a contract
with Bozeman-based Sustainable Oils for the
Montana company to supply 40,000 gallons of
camelina-based fuel for its jet fighters. In Utah, researchers planted safflower
and other oilseeds on roadsides and vacant
lands in the state as part of that state's
Freeways to Fuel program, and began
harvesting the safflower plants in
A lot of activity on transmission
projects occurred last month as well,
with the federal Energy Department giving
the Montana-Alberta Tie Line project, which
will stretch from Great Falls to Lethbridge
the green light.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission
Association proposed a new 80-mile
transmission line between its substations in
New Mexico near Shiprock and Ignacio, Colo.;
Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power
proposed new possible pathways for the $2
billion, 1,150-mile line Gateway West
project between Glenrock, Wyo., and a
substation near Murphy, Idaho; and
TransCanada announced it would be auctioning
off capacity on two projects the Canadian
company is proposing to build--one from
southeast Wyoming to Nevada's Eldorado
Valley near Las Vegas, and the other from
southeast Montana to the Eldorado Valley.
The November
Energy Review posted in early December,
with natural
gas getting a lot of attention in
November, including the endorsement of oil
billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who is
promoting natural gas as the fuel of the
future for vehicles.
In Wyoming, lawmakers were busy preparing
proposed legislation on regulation, and
perhaps, taxation of the wind industry.
resources were of great interest in
November, with federal stimulus funds
pouring into a project in Idaho's Magic
Valley, with the research being done via a
partnership between universities in Idaho,
Utah and Alberta. The Arizona Geological
Survey also received a chunk of federal
stimulus funds — $17.4 million — to
collect information on geothermal projects
in the nation and to put together a database
on that work.
If you're interested in receiving the Energy
Update each month, please email
the editor at Headwaters News and
request that you be put on the mailing list.
staff activities
continues to serve on the editorial advisory
committee of the Missoulian newspaper
and as a member of the strategic planning
committee of Missoula Community Medical
Center recently completed a study of
population demographics and future
enrollment trends for the Missoula Public
School District and the MPS
Superintendent's Office.
The study report includes enrollment
projections for the school district through
and the Center also continue work with the
International Pascal
Observatory serving as a member
of two committees evaluating and reviewing
university regional engagement projects in
the U.S. One
of these involves an expansion of working
relationships between Northern Illinois
University and surrounding community
colleges in the Northern Illinois region in
addressing area workforce education needs
and opportunities.
The other will involve statewide work
by the University of Colorado in areas of
workforce development and education.
Milwaukee Station, home of the
O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West
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It seems to be a bit of a running theme amongst right-wing commentators of a certain inclination that the left is 'nasty'. Not so long ago I was writing about (and apparently winding up) Daniel Hannan, who was apoplectic at my withering dismissal of his political career and seemed to think that the left's hatred of the right was in some way analogous to racism and sexism. A self-evidently absurd proposition.
And now another Telegraph columnist, Nigel Farndale, has regaled us with his views on the subject.
His specific beef is that the pinko author Zadie Smith recently said (although I can't find any other evidence online aside from his article):
"I would love to meet a nice, reasonable, intelligent Conservative who's a lovely person, but where are they?"
It's a fair question actually. One doesn't normally associate Conservatism with loveliness, for very good reasons. Most of them are bigots, reactionaries and the ones who aren't (and there are a few, to be fair) appear content for large swathes of the population to live in poverty and economic insecurity, apparently the necessary victims of the free market and its institutionalised inequalities. They may claim otherwise but when the consequences of their policies are clear for all to see, it's difficult to know how they able to do so without quite breath-taking feats of cognitive dissonance.
But yet a constant theme of a lot of Tory journalism discussing their opponents is how the left are very nasty too or often the only nasty ones. It's the right who love the human race. We on the left are the ones full of hate, jealousy, envy.
Farndale uses a few examples to back up the argument, specifically the now routinely cited Thatcher T-shirts, Gordon Brown, Aneurin Bevan and most incongruously the booing of George Osborne at the Paralympics.
I think these particular choices raise a couple of points.
Firstly, it is entirely fair to say that Aneurin Bevan despised and Gordon Brown despises the Conservative Party.
But the contempt was and is perfectly rational, and not based on 'nastiness'.
Visit one of the communities which was devastated by Thatcher's economic 'reforms' in the 1980s and still hasn't fully recovered.
Or in Bevan's case he probably noted that the Tories opposed his plans to create the NHS tooth and nail, amongst other things. Tories thought (and most of them continue to think) that people should be left to fend for themselves.
When the consequences of such selfish thinking are so obvious and predictable, is it any wonder that so many of us react with such fury at the proponents of those ideas?
Gordon Brown is an interesting example actually. He remains a hate figure on the Tory right for a couple of reasons: he was a lot smarter than they are and he loathed them back. They labelled him "tribal", which is usually a code for "uncompromising".
He wasn't as cuddly, smug or overtly sympathetic to Toryism as Tony Blair obviously was. He was in politics for specific reasons (however much I might have disagreed with his approach and philosophy). Something similar applies to Ed Balls. Again, I think his approach is hopelessly flawed. But he possesses a deep and unrelenting hatred of the Conservative Party that is perfectly healthy and well-founded. It is based on the actions of the Conservatives in office and the interests that they so obviously represent.
Which leads me onto my second point. There is a distinction to be drawn between hatred and nastiness. They aren't the same thing. It's a shame that I even have to explain this to be honest, but one can hate injustice without being nasty.
I hate sandwiches when the bread isn't buttered. That doesn't make me a nasty person. Just a passionate believer in the virtues of butter and margarine and a lover of correct sandwich etiquette. Hatred can be positive and used for positive ends. As Zack De La Rocha once pithily observed:
"anger is a gift"
Right-on brother.
And this is the point. Serious left-wingers scare the right silly. It's why they had to slaughter Tony Benn in the media in the 80s. It's why there was day after day of Gordon Brown's sanity being questioned before when he became PM. It's why Salvador Allende was violently overthrown in 1973. They get nervous at the thought of people who mean business standing up to right-wingers, the sensible ones, know that the social and intellectual edifice they defend could collapse very quickly.
An illustrative example to finish with.
I would like Kelvin MacKenzie to be held down and choked to death on an edition of the Sun that lied about Hillsborough.
That is nastiness.
Loathing MacKenzie for the lies he quite deliberately told as a loyal footsoldier of the status quo is not nastiness.
People on the right who complain about people on the left being "nasty" to them don't understand what it is they are dealing with. And the fact that they don't understand it is normally why they are on the right in the first place.


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The question of "The role of God in my life" requires definitions – of "God" and of "my life."
The challenge the title poses reminds me of an invitation I received in 1988 to deliver the Georgetown Bicentennial Address. Since it was at the university – not just the medical school – and since I had never been at Georgetown before, the President made what he thought was a helpful suggestion for a theme: "build your talk around the single book that, in your entire lifetime, you went back to most often for inspiration or stimulation."
I chose the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, for that was a book I had read, over and over again, while courting my wife, celebrating the birth of my children, or seeking solace or perspective from the hurts of the world.
The problem was that, while I loved Yeats's poetry, I was not a Yeats expert, and the setting for the address was to be at a university with plenty of poets and scholars. This evening I find myself, once again, in a similar situation – giving an address in a church, talking about "God," and I am certainly not a theologian.
I will therefore approach the task with an emphasis on something about which I do know – "my life" – and will try to define a concept of "God" that began in a first generation Irish household in the Bronx. The immigrant relatives I can recall, had a deep faith in the Roman Catholic Church, and much of the cycle of our lives was defined by weekly Confessions, Lenten fasts, First Friday Masses, Baptisms, Confirmations, and the celebrations of the joy of life at the birth of the baby Jesus at Christmas or the Resurrection from the dead on Easter morning.
Nevertheless, this immigrant clan was not afraid, at least in the privacy of the home, to question both the pronouncements of religion and the logic of clergy, especially the official hierarchy.
There was a fundamental respect and loyalty to the Church but, again, this was tempered by a deep suspicion of pomposity and assumptions of unquestioned authority. We were told to beware of those "who genuflect too much", who deferred too easily to "the cloth," when they should be seeking justice and equity and truth, whatever that was. Also, as was typically Irish, dinner conversations were filled with probing questions regarding the mysteries of life.
My father was the first physician in a generation of police officers, and seemed to have inherited the mantle of family chieftain – at least for that part of the clan that multiplied in cold water flats from Fordham Road to Hells Kitchen, and later out to Breezy Point and Belle Harbor. He had been well trained in Jesuit logic – some people claim that is an oxymoron – and he encouraged his children to parse and analyze diverse intellectual positions. At the end of the day he would probably accept an ex cathedra declaration by the Pope, but he sure didn't like it. He didn't want to miss the chance to argue every facet, to see and appreciate every nuance of every issue.
I can recall him, many times, at our diner table dissecting some arcane theological argument with the local priest. It was an unfair intellectual battle, for the priest, who undoubtedly possessed profound faith had, nonetheless, little capacity to explain the basis for his devout beliefs, and my father would pursue the poor man till he surrendered with a defensive mutter: "Ah, but it's God's will."
My father was a wise physician, and he knew life was rarely that simple. He would be the devil's advocate, one night defending monotheism, and the next arguing passionately for the rights of atheists or agnostics. We were expected to stand our ground, and defend our assigned positions.
Looking back on those wonder-filled years I am reminded of the dilemma faced by the Irish sisters in Brian Friel's play, Dancing at Lunghasa, when their beloved brother, a missionary priest in Africa, having gone "slightly native," comes home and tries to explain the universality of religious beliefs, and the indigenous celebrations he would lead for his parishioners in appeasing a reluctant "rain God." The traditional Irish villagers didn't want to hear this heresy – they had their faith and their "God" - a complex Father, Son, and Holy Ghost arrangement – and that should be enough for anyone, especially a priest.
But is it? My early kitchen table education was broad and good enough to incorporate other views and, as I began my own life's journeys, I was very grateful for the stimulating, sometimes perverse, and peculiar philosophical foundation of youth. When I first went to India – more than 50 years ago – I worked in Calcutta, where the Hindu majority believe cows are sacred, and even flies and mosquitoes might possess, in their tiny bodies, a previous being. By the time I left Calcutta, after 4 months, I really wasn't certain that I might not be a cow in the next life, and I wasn't really certain it mattered much.


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Film Archive
Filmography & Awards
Amber Filmography & Awards, 1968 to the present day...
2016 From Us To Me (88 mins, documentary
2010 Today I'm With You (54 mins, documentary)
2008 The Pursuit of Happiness (90min, documentary)
2007 The Bamboozler (47min, documentary)
2006 Making 'Shooting Magpies'(62min, documentary)
2006 Asylum (30min, documentary)
2005 Shooting Magpies (80min, feature film)
Special Mention, Best Feature Film, Britspotting Festival, Berlin, 2006
2005 Making 'In Fading Light' (75min, documentary)
2003 We Did It Together – So Why Do I Feel So Alone? (30min, documentary)
2001 Like Father (95min, feature film)
Golden Sun, Best Feature Film, International Environmental Film Festival, Girona (2002)
1997 The Scar (95/114min, feature film)
Arts Event of the Year, Northern Electric Arts Awards (1997)
Prix Europa Special Prize: TV Fiction (1998)
Silver Nymph, Best Actress, Monte Carlo TV Festival (1998)
Trades Union Award, Emden, Germany (1998)
1995 It's The Pits (32min , documentary)
1995 Eden Valley (95min, feature film)
Jury Prize, Creteil, Paris (1995)
Best British Independent Feature, North West Film Festival, Southport (1995)
1994 Letters to Katja (57min, documentary)
1991 Dream On (115 min, feature film)
Most Original Film Scenario, La Baule (1991)
Public Prize, Creteil, Paris (1992)
Best Network Programme, Royal Television Society (1992)
Television Programme of the Year, Special Commendation: Fiction, Prix Europa (1992)
Prix Futura, Television Fiction, Berlin (1993)
Blue Ribbon, American Film & Video Association (1993)
1991 The Writing in the Sand (45min, documentary)
Authorship, Northern Electric Arts Awards (1991)
Le Prix du Documentaire, Cinema du Reel, Paris (1992)
Grand Prix, City of Melbourne Award (1992)
1989 In Fading Light (103min, feature film)
Silver Medal, New York (1990)
Silver Anchor, Toulon (1991)
1988 From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels(57min, documentary)
1987 Shields Stories (10x10min, drama)
Royal Television Special Award (1987)
Silver Medal Film & TV Festival, New York (1987)
1987 T Dan Smith (85min, feature film)
Royal Television Best Network Programme (1988)
1986 The Privatisation Tapes (6x10min, documentary)
1986 The Box (10min, animation)
1986 Double Vision (60min, documentary/drama)
1985 The Sadler Story (23min, documentary)
1985 Can't Beat It Alone (45min, documentary)
1985 Seacoal (83min, feature film)
Marks & Spencer Award, Tyneside (1985)
European Film Award, Munich (1986)
1984 Beyond the Vote (22 min, documentary)
1984 Behind the Vote (31 min, documentary)
1983 News from Durham (12min, documentary)
1983 Where Are We Going?(35min, documentary)
1983 Byker (53min, documentary/drama)
International Critics Award & Special Town of Leipzig Award (1984)
Grand Prix, Tampere (1985)
Best Documentary, Troia (1985)
1983 Keeping Time (57min, documentary/drama)
1981 The Filleting Machine (45min, drama)
An Outstanding Film of the Year, London (1982)
1980 Tyne Lives (60min, documentary/drama)
1979 Quayside (16min, documentary)
1978 That's Not Me (33min, documentary)
1978 Laurie (25min, documentary)
1977 Glassworks (20min, documentary)
1976 Last Shift (17min, documentary)
1975 Bowes Line (28min, documentary)
1974 Mai (30min, documentary)
1973 High Row (33min, documentary)
1973 Launch (10min, documentary)
1973 Jellyfish (8min, animation)
Silver Hugo, Chicago (1975)
1969 A Film (8min, animation)
1969 Maybe (10min, documentary)
1968 All You Need Is Dynamite (40min, documentary)
1989 Amber
Contribution to Independent Film Making, BFI Awards
Dream On (1991)
Amber Films (Producer)
Magic, fantasy, dreams and social realism in this feature drama exploring the lives of a women's darts team in North Shields.
Amber Styles gives an extraordinary performance as a woman forever willing to give her man a second chance. The Guardian
The Writing In The Sand (1991)
Amber Films (Producer)
A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs. See a video clip
Poetic, uproarious, and thunderously nostalgic, The Writing in the Sand bears the stamp of an instant British classic. The Times
Available as VHS - DVD to be released soon
In Fading Light (1989)
Amber Films (Producer)
A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the actors auditioned and trained by local fishermen and filmed on the 63 foot seine netter bought by Amber. See a video clip
Compared to the Amber Film's briny air, Man of Aran and the like might almost be drawing room comedies... A forceful portrait of an imperilled way of life and a British film to be reckoned with. The Times
Available as DVD and VHS
From Marks & Spencer To Marx & Engels (1988)
One of Amber's few ventures out of North East England, a documentary exploration of the East German shipbuilding and fishing town of Rostock and the partner film to one made by the GDR film organisation DEFA on Tyneside.
Shields Stories (1988)
Amber Films (Producer)
Ten 10 minute video dramas using the soap format to highlight a number of the issues affecting the community of North Shields, where Amber creatively based itself between 1986 and 1991.
T Dan Smith (1987)
Amber Films (Producer)
A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
Among the most interesting and socially relevant of contemporary films. New Statesman
The Privatisation Tapes (1986)
Amber Films (Producer)
The issues facing local authority and hospital workers as the Conservative government took its programme of privatisation forward in the mid-1980s: six video documentaries made by Amber's Current Affairs Unit.
The Box (1986)
An animated film expressing the fear and sense of isolation created by the new urban environment, seen through the eyes of an elderly woman.
Double Vision: Boxing For Hartlepool (1986)
Amber Films (Producer)
Boxing in the North East of England explored in a blend of documentary and drama, centred on the gym run by George Bowes in Hartlepool.
The Sadler Story (1985)
Amber Films (Producer)
The life of Tyneside pacifist Jack Sadler explored in a video documentar, part of Amber's Current Affairs Unit's engagement with the peace movement.


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Patuca River, Spanish Río Patuca, river in northeastern Honduras, formed southeast of Juticalpa by the merger of the Guayape and Guayambre rivers. It flows northeastward for approximately 200 miles (320 km), emerging from the highlands and crossing the Mosquito Coast to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Patuca Point. Near the river's mouth the Tom-Tom Creek branches to empty into Brus Lagoon. The course of the Patuca is interrupted by rapids in several places, most notably Portal del Infierno ("gate of hell"). Its navigable lower course is used to float logs cut from the dense tropical rain forests through which it flows, and it serves as the main transport and communications artery for the isolated regions around its lower course.
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This podcast was recorded just days before Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge founder Mark Hurlburt was to be honored by Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal as a Titans of Technology Award recipient in the Community Hero category.
Whether you're a Web Challenge vet or you know very little about this 24-hour community service initiative, you'll learn something from this podcast about the history and evolution of The Nerdery's pro bono endeavor. Since 2008, Web Challenge volunteers have freely given more than $5 million in professional web development services to 144 nonprofits in the Twin Cities, Chicago and Kansas City.
Not (yet) included in this recording is a voiceover by James Earl Jones saying, "Mark Hurlburt. Technology Titan. Community Hero" (hopefully coming soon, budget permitting). But if I could be serious for a moment I'd say that it's been the greatest among many pleasures of my Nerdery career to work with Mark on the Overnight Website Challenge from the humble beginnings of his idea. Congrats for this well-deserved honor.
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