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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Review
publisher: Ubisoft
developer: Ubisoft Montreal
genre: Action Adventure
|ESRB rating: RP
release date: Oct 29, 13
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Uros "Vader" Pavlovic
Stealth kills, air assassinations, a lot of headfirst diving into water or carts of hay. Those are all instantly recognizable facets of Ubisoft's compelling assassin-themed franchise. Addictive combat and a lot of exciting free-running across rooftops, is but a mere taste of what players get. Ubisoft Montreal always stuck with pretty decent story-telling. Well, fair enough, allowing for the occasional blunder, like some weird plot decisions and a rather unexpected and equally weird fist fight with the Pope himself, the series is still as appealing as ever. When the chapter about Desmond Miles ended in Assassin's Creed 3, I started to have my doubts about how they will manage to tie off a story in a completely new installment. Killing off the protagonist was a questionable decision, albeit many would argue that wrapping up the Desmond story was necessary. My own skepticism was fueled by the fact that it's all about pirates now. Yes, well, pirate clichés are unavoidable if you're going to make a game where the central character is a fucking pirate, although I was surprised how well this was woven into the centuries-long conflict between the Templars and the Assassins.
You are Captain Edward Kenway, a privateer from Britain who eventually becomes a pirate in a quest for fame and fortune. While the tale of Kenway ties into the previous game only at the very end (actually when the credits start to roll), it leaves a lot of things that went on in-between AC 3 and AC 4 remain unexplained. Assassin's Creed 4 reduces the number of missions and segments that take place outside the Animus, unlike the previous game. You take on the role of an anonymous Abstergo Entertainment employee who is contacted by a no-name hacker who encourages him to snoop around and dig up important data from Abstergo's servers.
The life of pirate for meeeeee....
Where's this black flag then?
Stuff that happens out of the Animus in AC 4 somehow doesn't measure up to what we've seen in the story of Desmond Miles. So, all you get to do is stroll around in first-person and check out a few rooms and the occasional corridor. You hack a few terminals via a number of different mini-games until you unlock additional data and history regarding AC characters or indeed relevant historical figures and specific events. Essentially, it's a kind of an intermission that offers little besides the mini-games we mentioned and an encounter with a few new characters (all of which reveal very little about the main plot). Mini-games are fun for a while. Still, I pretty much guarantee you'll be back inside the Animus before you know it. Inside the Animus, it's an entirely different story. The leading male protagonist, Edward Kenway is no Ezio Auditore, although we can certainly claim he's a lot more compelling than Connor, the half-Mohawk hero from Assassin's Creed 3. It may be a bit difficult to be inspired by Kenway's deeds at first, since he is governed by greed and the lust for fortune a not much beyond that. However, the writers have cunningly incorporated some moral traits into Kenway's character, which all builds up to a rather powerful leading male role. Now, there's no need for spoilers, so we'll stop right there.
Assassin's Creed 4 is a proper action adventure imbued with satisfying and yet somewhat flawed stealth mechanics. Sneaking up on guards is challenging, because they have very sharp eyes and will notice you immediately if you're not careful – and being careful means you stay out of sight. To do this, you have to creep around behind walls or trees or just use foliage like bushes and crops as cover. The problem comes when Kenway is not behind cover. There's no way to avoid being detected other than staying in groups of pedestrians (but that's cover, again). More importantly, there's no crouch option. Kenway's inability to walk slowly while crouching seems like a weird choice made by the developers. The need to crouch is something that comes up often in the game.
My sense of pure enjoyment in Assassin's Creed 4 comes from the game's amazing scope that involves so many different locations to visit and numerous activities for Kenway to perform while exploring the exotic islands of the Caribbean. If you're not taking part in assassination missions, you can look for treasures or set out to sea in search of the toughest ships in the ocean and try to overpower them (not an easy task). In addition, there are sections where players can dive into the blue depths and try to find riches among old ship wreckages. While you're diving and looking for treasure chests and whatnot, you'll have to avoid stinging jelly fish and menacing sharks. Such moments keep monotony at bay and will most surely make you stick with the game.
Hunting is an additional activity. You can hunt jaguars, monkeys, ocelots and other land animals, in addition to pursuing wild life at sea such as deadly white sharks, killer whales and so on. Hunting whales and sharks denotes a nice segment where Kenway gets in a little boat and hurls harpoons towards the pray. It's a great addition to whole naval aspect of the game.
Naval battles are, by far, the biggest attraction here. Once you hop aboard the Jackdaw (Kenway's ship) you'll find it hard to touch dry land again. Ah yes, the life of the sea – the lads and ladies at Ubisoft Montreal appear to have captured the essence of pirate existence. Thrilling naval engagements await and each encounter with an enemy ship involves intense sea battles, followed by boarding and hand-to-hand battles, until the ship is taken. The excitement during conflicts at sea are heightened thanks to a brilliantly implemented dynamic weather system that generates everything from dense fog, monsoons and heavy storms, to perfect sunshine and calm seas.
The trouble with AC 4: Black Flag is that it sometimes suffers from the same symptom we noticed in other Assassin's Creed games. As soon as you drift away from the main story, repetition kicks in, even when there's a generally solid variety of side-missions and activities in the game. Even the story-driven missions have a tendency to force players into the same routines, like following targets, eavesdropping and so on. As for the side-missions, there is a lot to do. However, the general idea in this game is to accumulate resources like wood, metal, cloth and other material needed to upgrade your ship. Your best bet is to take to the seas and hunt down and board as many ships with relevant cargo as you can. Warehouses on land are just waiting to be plundered too. You'll be boarding a lot of ships and robbing a lot of warehouses, which gives you plenty of lovely loot. This, in turn, may be used to improve the ship's armor, cannons, sails or whatever the hell you need.
8.8 Very Good
Never has the life of a pirate been so vividly depicted in a video game, a huge world full of adventure and hidden riches awaits, Kenway is a great character, the narrative keeps you going, incredibly convincing weather effects, mesmerizing naval battles, swordfights and hand-to-hand combat is still great fun;
Occasionally weird camera during combat, behavior Kenway the deadly assassin cannot crouch for some reason.


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The Pacific Northwest Logging Community, 1920 - 1998
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Oral History narrator: Myrna Ihrig
Date of interview: November 22, 1998
Indexed/partial transcription by D. Sutphen, 12-3-98
Notes: Interviewer Debra Sutphen. Interviewer's questions are bolded. Indicated quotes are not always precisely quoted here.
003--How are you connected to logging industry? Husband worked for logging industry; as a child she grew up in a little town that logging "kept going"; husband was a choker setter mostly for gyppo logging outfits; son-in-law also a logger. Lived in Mitchell, OR and Prineville with husband; son-in-law (Ken Cook) lived in Tenino, WA.
013--Note from interviewer: I interviewed Gaye Lynn Cook about two weeks before this interview. Gaye Lynn was married to Ken, thus Myrna is Gaye Lynn's mother.
016--When asked if she wanted to talk about logging from perspective of wife of or mother-in-law of a logger she replied, "logging has just kinda been part of my life. I think one of the first sounds that I ever remember hearing was the sound of the crummy when it would come to pick up the guys in the morning." Her mom's house near a large family group in Mitchell --9 or 10 brothers--all of their dad's worked in the woods--crummy would stop on the corner near Myrna's house and pick those guys up for work. She'd hear that curmmy in the morning, and remembered that at night they couldn't play around that house because those guys had to go to bed early in order to get up and go to work. Up there you could log all way through the winter because the ground froze--they'd be laid off in spring.
031--Ken a choker setter and knot bumper--did lot of different things--when he was killed he was falling, but he was just learning to fall and didn't know how to do it that good.
034--When you married your husband what did he do? He worked for the USFS, and then he got on with a couple of gyppo outfits. Did he like it? Not really--it was so cold. Person had to wear everything they owned to work in the woods. Not a very glamorous life.
040--Myrna said that what she disliked most about the gyppo workers is that they all drank. "Every Friday night all the men would get drunk and then their wives would have to hunt 'em down and drag 'em home." She occasionally had to drag her husband home. Told a story about a bunch of them getting drunk on a Friday night and driving up on a slick road way up a mountain and had an accident, drove off the road. Said she went up there with a woman named Alice, whose husband was with the bunch. Myrna said "I wouldn't have gone after David--I'd have let him set there on that mountain all night, but nooo--she had to go, so we went and got 'em." They went out every Friday night pretty much, either meet at each other's homes or go out-sometimes drove 90 miles to Bend. And they were hard drinkers--didn't just mess around."
056--"I used to have to get up and get David off to work in the morning--4 or 5 o'clock in the morning--it's a hard life, logging is." She'd get up and make breakfast, but then he wouldn't get up and eat it, so she quit making it. She he'd get up and eat pie because she quit making breakfast.
065--What did she do during the day while David at work? She had two kids, and there wasn't any work up there for women. So she stayed home and took care of kids--the two were only 18 months apart. "He didn't make very much money when you logged--made fairly good wages but they were laid-off a lot too. So it all had to be split out--you drew unemployment and tried to hold onto some of your pay, and if you all went out drinking on Friday night you didn't have much left of your paycheck. (laughed)" How was that living with that kind of insecurity? "It was most always frightening . . . I think that's one of the reasons those women would chase those guys down when they went out drinking because if they got arrested and went to jail then there went the paycheck and if they took off with the paycheck, which they usually did, when they got back there wouldn't be hardly anything left of it . . . them guys could drink up a lot of money in a hurry, and windup in jail, or hurt . . . since it was an economy where the women didn't work, it depended entirely on the man's paycheck, so he had to be kept in good condition."
081--Did he do anything else besides logging (take care of house, etc)? "Oh, no, no, no . . ." she took care of all of that, "I even painted the house, and then David had the nerve to say, 'would you not do that when the guys are going by --it embarrasses me--" (laughs). David not a repairman, he was no better at that than me." Myrna says David's a lot better at that sort of thing now, but they were only kids when they were married--19 when they got married.
091--"Gaye Lynn's husband LOVED to be a logger--he was totally different from David--David wanted to get home and get a bath and get cleaned up and forget that place, but Ken would wear them old cork boots," and the stagged pants-he never take it off. He was clean, but he loved wearing those clothes. Ken was very proud of being a logger. "I think they're a special breed of men--like Gaye Lynn said they're a man's man--they're tough, loggers have a reputation . . .it's a dangerous job . . . I remember lots of time when I was a kid men would get killed in the woods--logs would fall on them or a tree would fall." "I remember once one of my girlfriend's dad got his leg cut on his chainsaw, he was a faller--got his leg cut really bad--but he didn't lose the leg and went right back to falling, and when he retired . . .he was a big man . . .he walked around all bent over, almost bent double from arthritis, from packing that chainsaw--it was a BIG chainsaw--big blade--he could fall a lot of timber ina day, made a lot of money."
114--When your husband was logging did you have friends, other women friends in the community that you hung out with? Yes, because they all worked for the same gyppo outfit they all hung out together, took care of each others kids--they were all strangers in town. When they were doing this they're kids were all under school age--so if one of the women had to go to Prineville to the doctor or something someone would take of their kids for them. How about when people got hurt? Did they kind of take care of each other? "Being hurt in the woods at that time was a strange thing, because it was kind of like nobody wanted to be jinxed by appearing with the one who got hurt, so they tended to just kind of stay away, instead of going to help them."
129--Did you ever go out in the woods to help your husband? No, never went with him, not to do that. Went out in the woods at different times in her life, but didn't hang out in the woods because it was a dangerous place, and they didn't want us out there. But loves it in the woods--"it's clean, and smells good . . . " She said they used to go now and then to the landings and watch them--said it's safer now than it used to be (eg now they have the forks on the log trucks to hold logs in--used to just chain them . . . "
141--Tell me about Ken--how was your relationship with Ken? "I loved Ken." How long did you know him? Since Mayme (Gaye Lynn's biological daughter, Ken's stepdaughter) was about 5 (she's now 17--he died 3 1/2 years ago--he was 31 when he died. She knew him about 6 years). "He loved the children --Gaye Lynn had Mayme when they met--never heard him call Mayme his stepdaughter--he was always her father . . . she started going by his name . . . . then they got Casey, and he'd carry her everywhere they went--she was always in his arms. After Gaye Lynn and Ken split he'd take the kids down to Zoe's (his mother's) for the day at 3 or 4 in the am--kids would sleep down there--but he always insisted that they go home at night with him."
162--Ken drank some, but Ken worked all the time. David was not real ambitious--he didn't want to do things. But Ken did work around their place (a good sized farm) so he worked about all the time. Then he'd go there to Myrna's and work on her trees or rake leaves, etc. He was a really big guy--trimmed her big maple in back, shipped everything. Fell in love with the chipper--"he was beginning to eyeball the back porch . . . laughs" He was a big strapping young man and was a hard worker. Myrna told the story about Ken being afraid of heights but always wanted to be a topper, so Ken got this friend to dig a hole under a big tree, lay down in the hole and Ken got up above him, barely off the groun--looks like he's ten miles in the air but he wasn't, he was just barely off the ground (laughs)." When Ken was afraid of something he was really afraid of it--he also could cry at the drop of a hat. He did that every time they watched a movie that had any sad scenes in it--he was just very sensitive for a logger. She told a story about going to Tenino days parade--Mayme had gone downtown and entered a contest and was "Little Miss Tenino"--rode in the back of a convertible, wore a crown from Burger King--and some guy came up and Ken introduced Casey and said, "and my other daughter is in the parade." "he was a wonderful man."
210--At this point I asked if Myrna wanted to turn off the tape recorder because Ken's youngest daughter, Casey, now age 8, was sitting there at the table coloring as we talked, and I wanted to ask Myrna about ken's death. Myrna told Casey that she was going to talk about Ken's death now, and did she want to go into her bedroom and play? Casey said no, she wanted to stay out there with us. So I turned the tape recorder back on. Casey's voice is not heard in this interview.
212--Ken not fond of horses, but Casey loved horses so Ken had horses and rabbits for Casey and Mayme.
220--Can you talk about Ken's death in the woods? "I was always afraid for him . . . he took toomany chances and he was too brave or foolharddy or something. He brought Mayme down ont he weekend to go up to Ellensburg volleyball camp at the college, and then he went home and I was going to take her home and did take her home on the 5th of July. We spent the 4th out running around--the next day we shopped and run around, and then I had to go to work. She went over to my friend Linda's, and then she came home here. And about 8pm the phone rang at work (she was giving medications at work--she's a social worker, now works for CPS in Kelso, "WA)--it was Gaye Lynn--"where've you been all day, we've been trying to call you all day?"--Myrna replied that she'd been just running around. And she said, "Mom, my Kenny's dead," and I just refused to believe that, I just kept saying 'no, it can't be, he can't be dead,' and she was crying and of course my clients, who were all mentally ill, were getting all upset, so she had to make them leave the room, and they sent one of her co-workers in and brought her home. She called Linda, her friend, and had Linda come stay with Mayme until she could get home. Myrna didn't know if anyone had told Mayme or not. And she didn't want to talk to her on the phone. When Myrna got home Linda and Mayme were standing in the door, and knew something was wrong. "As soon as I got out of the car Mayme said, 'what's the matter,' and I didn't say anything, and she said, 'is it my mom?' and I said 'no, honey,' and she said, 'it can't be Ken,' and I said, 'yes it can,' and she said, 'I'm going to throw up,' so we went in the bathroom and she sat on the floor, she didn't throw up, but she sat there and cried for a long time, and i just sat in there and held her, and then she said, 'I got to go home,' so we got ready that night and I took her home to Zoe's house,' and Zoe and I sat there for a,ong time and cried together. Then like all small communities a lot of people came."
Mayme wrote a paper about it--the teacher wanted one of those, "what I did for summer vacation" stories. Mayme's paper read: "I could tell you about going to Maui or Cancun, but I'm going to tell you about what happened to me that changed my life forever, tell you about when my dad died. My grandma came home, and I never, ever want to see that look on her face again." People brought them food, and she wondered why--food wasn't going to help--Myrna had to explain to her how people wanted to help, and thought food was one way that they could. He was dead almost a week by the time they had the funeral--just a graveside service--lots of people there. The loggers all came in their logging clothes, straight from work, and they buried him in his bluejeans and a teeshirt with a smiley face on it that Mayme had made him in school. She couldn't find it in the house and worried that he might have been wearing it that day, but they finally found it. "They would not let us see him . . . I will always regret that I didn't get to see him and tell him goodbye." "The day he left he brought Mayme down and had Casey in his arms--getting ready to go and I said, 'I love you Ken,' and he said, 'I love you too Mom.'" Even thought he and Gaye Lynn were divorced he was still my son, he was the father of my babies and I loved him. He loved the woods but he was scared of trees . . . he knew what they could do to you, and rightfully so, they killed him." (Mayme is a very bright, articulate, and fiercely independent teenager. She attends Tenino High School--chose to stay there to gradute with her class. She earns excellent grades, is a cheerleader, acts in school plays. She went to a therapist, reluctantly, after Ken's and Zoe's deaths. She is a very mature young woman with a wonderful and infectious sense of humor. Has an excellent relationship with Myrna.)
296--Ken was killed by a branch that really wasn't that big, was it? "He fell a tree that fell into another tree and created what we call a widowmaker. He got the first tree on down . . he was just learning to fall, and they should never have let him alone, but he was working one place and the other guy was working around the hill, so he got it down, and had used all his gas, and stopped and sat down under the tree to put gas in his saw and wind came up, something happened--but a litle branch fell out, wasn't very big, fell out of that tree that was left, hit him in the head. To this day Gaye Lynn will not wash his quilt--she made a little quilt for him for Christmas--she still thinks it smells like him. There was a man came to her house (her and her new husband's) and Gaye Lynn said that he worked in the woods and she just wanted to grab him and hug him and smell that smell of the woods--they always smell, David and him and all of them--always smell like wood and grease and gasoline--they always had that smell about them. And you could always smell them in the evenings--they always smelled like wood chips and fresh cut wood. But he (Ken) was always so proud when he became a faller."
314--Myrna talked about how the loggers worked their way up from choker setter to cat skinner, to fallers. Status of the different jobs. She talked about how fallers always worked alone--also talked about timber cruisers marking trees to be falled, then the fallers would come in and then they'd set up a landing, etc. She also talked about how along time ago they could set up a landing and have it for a long time, but not now, because there aren't a lot of trees. She said that now the helicopters are doing a lot of that moving the logs out of the woods, and said "I'm kind of glad to see that because it doesn't tear up the land nearly as bad as those cats and the trees being pulled out of the ground and torn up."
332--"I'm glad that none of my grandkids will end up in the woods. Casey wants to go to college to do with animals--maybe veterinarian or something--and she will probably meet somebody in school to marry . . . I don't want 'em to ever . . . (trails off her by talking about another family member who works in the woods still, but how most of them don't. She clearly meant to say that she didn't ever want her granddaughters to marry loggers).
339--"I hate it because these two little girls will never have their dad--I hate it because she asks me why her daddy had to die and I don't have any answer --he was only 31 years old--and I see people out here, especially at my job, and they're not worth anything and they're just still going around, and the guy who took care of his home, took care of his children, took care of his business, is no longer here." (Casey, who listened to all of this, had begun to cry and crawled up in her grandmother's lap. Myrna was comforting her, rubbing her back).
I said to Myrna at this point that Gaye Lynn had told me in her interview that the thing she will regret more than anything else is not being table to tell her daughters about Ken, that she had to leave that to you, and that was just terrible, and she'll just hate herself for that. Myrna's response was, "seems like I've always had to be the bearer of the bad news. I would have done anything not to tell Mayme about that. I think it's the hhhardest (Myrna actually stuttered here) thing I ever did to walk from that car out there to the front porch, cause I knew she knew something terrible was wrong, because I think that Jeannie had called her and Gaye Lynn had called here but they wouldn't either one tell her what was going on because they knew that she was here alone. To see the look on Zoe's face (Zoe was Ken's mom--now deceased)--Ken was her favorite child, I think--he was the one who was always around, helped her take care of her property . . . " (I had to turn the tape off at this point because Casey at this point began crying hard, and Myrna needed to comfort her.) "I get angry with God because this little kid can't watch anything on tv that has to do with death of dying--you know, she lost her daddy and then we put her where we thought she'd be safe, with her Grandma, and then she died. And she says to me, 'my Grandma was old and should have died when she was sick, but not my Daddy.'" "And she's not the only little kid out here whose dad's died in the woods--she's not the first and she won't be the last. Woods workers are big, strapping tough guys and trees are even bigger and tougher. I've know four or five men who've spent the rest of their lives in wheelchairs when they were hit with trees--I knew two brothers, one of them spent his remaining years in a wheelchair and the other one had a leg cut off from trees--it's just a hard life. They never go out in the daytime that you don't worry that they won't come back."
387--Did you worry about that (about her husband not coming back?) "Yes, I always did. I always thought will he come back today--he always did, and I guess that we relaxed too much, and then Ken didn't come back. Maybe if we'd have been more vigilant and more watchful, our thoughts and prayers or whatever could've kept him going. (By this time Myrna is crying too.)
395--Gaye Lynn's had lots of problems since Ken died--do you think that his death was part of why she has had those problems? "I think so--I think part of her problems were already there, and then bad things happened between her and Ken and then he was killed and she always felt an enormous amount of guilt because of the bad things she did that made him so unhappy, and then she never had a chance to make it any better or say I'm sorry before he died.
407--"When I was a kid growing up everybody in town was connected to woods or sawmills." She talks about Hudspeth's coming in in the 30's and logging, owning great big mills in Prineville, and John Day--how they had their own logging trucks and fallers, etc. Then talks about how they went into ranching, talked more about the Hudspeth's. Comments about how big companies have driven out the small, private, family-owned businesses.
441--"So now I have to be momma and daddie and grandma all three for her (Casey)." Myrna's getting custody of Casey. "After Casey's daddy died she moved in with her Grandma--Ken's mother--who'd always been a really healthy woman (Myrna described how healthy she was, and how she raised 6 children, how she was an outdoor woman not an indoor husband, made an excellent helpmate to her husband, etc). Then Zoe, in her 70s, was diagnosed in December with cancer and died in March. So Casey went to live with an uncle, but wasn't happy there (doesn't know why) so came to live with Myrna, "and that's fine with me . . . she and I are doing okay." You've had her about three weeks now? "Yeah, and I'm tired already. It's not that she's hard work it's just that it's a change in my routine."
493--Myrna is 57 and a social worker for State of WA Child Protective Service--investigates reports of neglect and abuse--physical and sexual abuse. She works in an office but deals a lot with people who work in woods in Kelso-Longview area. Drives 40 miles each way to work every day--works full time--takes care of Casey and her house. "I've got to get a maid."
508--When you look back on your life and years of your life, how much has being connected to logging industry affected your life? "Logging was always there, when I was a little kid growing up in Mitchell that's how people made their living. It affected my life when I was a kid because it affected who I went to school and how many kids there were in my class-the year I graduated from high school was the last year of the mills-the school was much smaller after that--almost all of the kids that I went to school with the parents worked in the mills or the woods. David's father not woods workers but were ranchers--but they sold the ranch the year she and Myrna got married, so they bought acreage at Redmond that they could do alone so there was no work for David on the ranch so he went USFS and then the woods. Eventually they moved to Redmond where he went to work in a sawmill in Redmond, which to them was a big step up because he kept regular hours, didn't have to be at work until 7am, came home for lunch and also had the evenings. "You asked me earlier if men didn't do anything around the house--they were too tired, they got up at 3am , got onto that crummy, ride two hours to the work site, ride two hours home, and it would be like 6pm when they got home--that was a fourteen hour day, and they'd eat their dinner and fall into be. They had no lives until the weekend came. So to us that was a big step up to have regular hours in our lives."
Myrna told a story about a guy that her husband David worked with in the woods, and the fights that this guy and his wife had (laughing).
Talked about how much he ate, how he loved Gaye Lynn's cooking.
594--"I would say that it (logging) has always been a part of my life--not always a primary part " She talked about how Gaye Lynn and Ken lived in Tenino, so they weren't primary parts of her life but she always worried about him. Talked about how one year she bought Ken a pair of L.L. Bean suspenders and he was so proud of them--wore them--the guys all called him the yuppie logger--he wore them until the cloth part wore out, and then saved the leather part that buckled to his pants. When he died Gaye Lynn gave Myrna the leather parts and Myrna took those and put them together with some hawk feathers from her son and a friend made a wall hanging from it all--Myrna has it on her kitchen wall. Myrna also gave him a couple of L.L. Bean shirts, and the guys just thought he'd gone "high society" because he wore yuppie logging clothes. "He was so proud of those suspenders." So logging wasn't a primary focus of her life after she and her husband split up, but then she went to work in a paper mill for years so depended on logging--.
625--Would you feel a special connection to logging women you didn't know? "I would feel a connection because of my loss. Because no matter what my life is and no matter what I do logging is what brought me to this fork of my life with this child. Had Ken lived she would have stayed up there with him, Mayme and her both. And now, I have to take care of her because he's dead and my daughter can't. So now it's back to primary again. For all those years it was primary, and then it went to secondary, and now it's back to primary because his death has changed my life completely. We don't live in a vacuum and we don't die in a vacuum. Death affects everybody around us. After Ken died his mother was never the same." She thinks that Zoe's cancer was partly brought on by the stress of Ken's death, and not having him around any more. He was the most important thing in her life, and when she lost him . . . .I thought that this baby (Casey) might keep her going, but it wasn't. "His death has been very hard on all of us--trying to explain it to the children, missing him, we all miss him--and I think of him--a young strapping man, good looking young guy, always smiling, always laughing, and I cannot even think of one logical reason for his death, not even one."
She said that if she were put into a room of logging women that she didn't know, and told them that she was there because her son worked in the woods and died in the woods, they would welcome her with open arms--she said she feels like she would be immediately part of a family because of the connection through Ken's death.
668--Myrna commented on the specifically female connection to the occupation of logging. "The women had to do everything at home--all the child rearing, all the work around the house, all the repairs, everything because the men weren't there, and when they were there they were too tired to do anything. Once they come in they just staggered in and sat down in a chair, ate their dinner, took a bath, and went to bed. I could remember when I was a kid--they'd leave really early, and they wouldn't come home until it'd be getting almost dark again." The kids would be run outside because the men would have to go to bed. On the weekend the men drank, and they'd have dances up at Mitchell and everyone went to the dance, kids and adults. But there was real separation between kids and adults. Kids were to be quiet and kept out of the way so their dads could sleep. When they got bigger they became kind of a help to their mothers, but when they were little they were the woman's job, period. There was a BIG separation between men's roles and women's role, and the man would have just died if the woman said take care of these kids, do this for these kids."
"About the most David ever did was carry them from the house to the car, that was about it. I did all the grocery shopping, take the kids to the doctor, did the washing and ironing." She also took care of the money in their house--David didn't know how to. He didn't worry about it because he knew that she could. When he was out of a job it was also her responsibility to see how they got money. "When we were out of work he'd go out in the woods and hunt for deer and go fishing--men just didn't do what women do--if he was out of work for two weeks he didn't stay around the house and repair he went down on the river with my cousin and fished, or went hunting with his brother or something. And the roof could just fall in, he didn't care. And it was not expected that he would care--if I couldn't fix it myself I had to find somebody who could--I certainly wasn't going to depend on him, and he would have been mad if he had to."
703--Do you feel like being married to a logger that you were unusual among other women your age? No, not where she lived, because the whole economy revolved around some phase of logging, so they certainly didn't stand out.
719--She says that she would have called herself a traditional wife then. He went out in the woods and that was it. He would have been highly insulted and razzed by his buddies if he'd had to change a diaper, etc. But ken did things for his kids that David never did, never. If David had been stuck with the kids he wouldn't have raised the kids, his mother would have. David would have let his mother make all the money decisions, medical, school decisions. Ken made those for his kids--he depended upon his mother as a babysitter, but that was all.
738--The best and worst things about being related to logger? "Best thing was that they were men's men--they were a different breed of men and were looked upon even by the mill workers as the elites--the cream of the crop--they were number one--so by osmosis so were their wives--the women then became the elite." "The worst thing about it was the horribly long hours, always being alone, always having all the decisions to be made, about the kid's doctors, do we have enough money for them to go, because nobody had anything called health insurance in those days. When they came home at night out of the woods those things were to have been taken care of --if the kid was sick you did that during the day--you certainly didn't wait until your husband came home and ask him if he thought this kid was sick enough to go to the doctor. Most of them hardly even realized that them kids were there. And of course the danger of it made it a
horribly . . . but the mills were dangerous too . . . " (then she told stories about girlfriends she had whose dad's were killed in horrible accidents in the mills--esp. by "the hog." "So it wasn't like the woods were the only dangerous place, but if a tree hit you you died--you just didn't get a second chance." Told other stories about logging accidents, and how they were more dangerous because they were more apt to be fatal accidents and happened so far away that people had less chance.
788--"When those kinds of things happened . . rumor . . . long before we knew who it was everybody would know that somebody was hurt in the woods, and then you had to sit and wait until you found out who it was, and . . . .this may sound horrible . . . but everyone secretly relieved to find out that it wasn't their husband, their support, their children's father, whatever. Whether they'd admit it or not--that was probably one of the reasons why they stayed away from the worker's family for awhile because kind of deep down inside of you you were always thinking thank god it wasn't us, thank god it wasn't my husband, my children's father." "But I can remember lots of times when I was a kid, rumor had it that someone had been killed in the woods and all the women in town would just be wrecks until the ambulance came in and said it was so and so from Prineville, no one we worked with--and then life could go on, but everything just kind of went into a suspended animation while you were waiting. But the women in Mitchell did everything--we even fought fires, when the men were in the woods we'd fight fires."
808--Do you think that women who were connected to loggers, like you, deserve recognition? "Oh yes--I think they're kind of unsung heroes of the west--without the women the men couldn't have done what they did." She said that "the women kept these men going--they washed their clothes, they fed them, they raised their children, they balanced the checkbook--they did everything so that the man could get up in the morning and work all day without any worries--he knew when he got home dinner would be on the table and a bath would be waiting and he could go to bed in peace and quiet--wouldn't be any problems with the kid--those women took care of everything--other than the actual logging itself they did much more work than the men did. And those women that were married to loggers from the time they were 19 until the men retired or died were really heroic--they did a lot of hard work raising children and stuff alone."
831--What do you want people to know about logging? "I just think that they should know that there were a lot of young me who died out there in the woods, a lot of things have been learned about their deaths--how to make it safer--a lot of children raised without these men." My son-in-law did a lot of things in his death that saved them--he was killed on the job so they got L&I (industrial) and social security so they'll have money to go to college on, they have a home--"but I'm quite sure that if we could we would give up every penny that these children have on this earth to see him one more time, and kiss him, and tell him we love him." (She's holding Casey still).
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There's going to be an elephant in the room when they give out the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
His name, of course, is Kanye West.
Not that it's necessarily likely that when album of the year honors are awarded, West will storm the stage and say, "I'm-a let you finish but . . . " to the winner, whether it's Daft Punk, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kendrick Lamar, Sara Bareilles, or, heaven forbid, Taylor Swift.
The issue, though, is that if he does indeed act out during the telecast, which begins at 8 p.m. on CBS3, and say that no album deserves the trophy more than Yeezus, everybody will know he's right.


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Following the meeting, Platko said she was taught at a young age that there was nothing wrong with the use of the N-word and she believes people took her use of it the wrong way.
"Every race of people have (N-words), every culture has (N-words)," 69-year-old Platko said. "Look up the definition. I learned that way back in grade school. I learned that at St. Joe's and Holy Rosary.
"They're blowing this up and trying to make it a racial thing and it's not. I will defend any black person in this township except Dwayne Parker — he's a lowlife."
April 23, 2013
To the Citizens of Buena Vista Charter Township
To all of you, please know that I am sorry for using a derogatory word during my telephone conversation with Dexter Mitchell in January (2013) of this year. I am a public official and should have used better judgment. I have nothing but respect for the Buena Vista Charter Township Community and I offer everyone my sincerest apology.
To those of you who know me, you know that I don't have a discriminatory bone in my body. I spoke out of frustration following a long history of difficulties with the Supervisor. That is not an excuse for my language but I hope it relieves any hurt feelings my remark may have caused anyone.
Although I had a lapse in judgment, I want to reassure the residents of Buena Vista that I am still capable and committed to serving everyone in this community.
Gloria A. Platko, Clark
Buena Vista Charter Twp.


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UWM Opera
Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra collaborated with the Milwaukee
Children's Choir on a unique double bill featuring Act I from Mozart's The Magic Flute and Puccini's Sister Angelica on February 27 and 28,
2015 in UWM's Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts.
The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) was Mozart's last opera, and has delighted audiences since its premiere in 1791. Act I introduces the two male protagonists, the handsome Prince Tamino (Jacob Baker) and the feathered Papageno (Daniel Ellis) who journey together to rescue the Queen of the Night's daughter, Pamina (Kaytlyn Johnson), with the help of the Three Ladies of the Queen (Jennifer Hansen, Marissa Waraksa and Jackie Willis). The beloved "Queen of the Night" aria was sung by Shallece Peters Stewart; Papagena by Tiana Sorenson; Monostatos by Jorge Quintero.
Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica) is the tragic tale of an aristocrat who is sent to a convent as penance for her teenage pregnancy. This one-act opera, which premiered in 1918, is set in an Italian convent and has a cast of, naturally, all women. The title role of Sister Angelica was double cast by sopranos Kelly Behling (Friday, Feb. 27) and Kathryn Henry (Saturday Feb. 28). Kathryn Henry was one of five winners of the 2014 WI District Met Opera Auditions and the First Place National Winner of the 2014 NATS Upper College Women's Division.
The role of The Princess (Angelica's aunt) was performed by UWM Alumna, Lauren Decker, also a 2014 WI District Met Opera Audition winner. Members of the Milwaukee Children's Choir, directed by Marco Melendez, joined the University cast in both operas. This year's production follows 2014's successful partnership with the Milwaukee Opera Theatre and UWM's Dance Department of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.
Photography by Daniel Koplitz


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Today's look around the NFC South focuses on the Caddie trying to get his tires right, a loss of a promising youngster in Atlanta and more fallout from the Steve Smith fight in Carolina.
Courtesy: Fred Goodall
The Associated Press
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- There were days when Carnell "Cadillac" Williams wondered if he'd ever walk normally again, let alone resume his football career.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' running back began training camp on the physically unable to perform list, however he's confident his return from a career-threatening knee injury is not far away.
"Nothing is guaranteed in life, but I don't see it any other way but I'm playing this season," the fourth-year pro said, his fingers tracing a long, nasty scar that runs down his right leg and across his surgically repaired knee.
"I'm feeling good about where I am in my rehab. I'm on track. Things are going well. I'm steady making progress."
Williams tore the patellar tendon in his right knee when his leg was caught awkwardly beneath his body when he was tackled at the end of an 18-yard run against the Carolina Panthers on Sept. 30.
The 2005 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year underwent surgery two days later. He missed the final three months of the season, spending much of that time back home in Alabama with his mother, Sherry.
He broke his left leg as a sophomore at Auburn in 2002 and was hindered by injuries for stretches of his first two pro seasons. But none of that prepared him for the helpless feeling that accompanied rehabbing his knee.
"Can you imagine going five or six weeks not having the power to lift your own leg? You've got to depend on people 24-7," he said.
"My mind was gone. Here I go from walking and running - just doing the normal - to now I can't even move my leg. It was tough to deal with. ... There was a time coming off surgery in December, January and February where I just didn't see any light. It was just black at the end of the tunnel."
The Bucs are not counting on his return any time soon.
Former special teams contributor Earnest Graham took advantage of an opportunity afforded by injuries to Williams and Michael Pittman and performed well enough as the lead running back that he received a contract extension worth more than $10 million this summer.
Five-time 1,000-yard rusher Warrick Dunn was brought in this offseason and another former Pro Bowl selection, Michael Bennett, is on the roster - making tailback one of the deepest positions on the roster.
Especially if Williams returns and is anywhere near the player he was in 2005, when he was the fifth player selected in the draft and became the first running back in NFL history to begin his career with three consecutive 100-yard games.
He finished his rookie season with 1,178 yards and six touchdowns, then fell off to 798 yards and one TD in 2006.
He started slowly again last season, but was on the way to his most productive game of the year when he tried to cut back to elude safety Chris Harris at the Carolina 30 and turn his best run of the day into a long touchdown jaunt.
"As soon as it happened, I knew it was bad. I mean severe, severe pain," Williams said. "I heard something pop. I said, `This is not good.'"
The Bucs placed the 26-year-old on PUP on the first day of training camp. If he remains on the list when the regular season begins, he'll miss a minimum of six games.
He spends his mornings during camp working out in the shadows of teammates, running on an adjacent practice field, sometimes with a small parachute attached to his waist, and taking part in light agility drills.
He feels himself getting stronger every day.
"Right now, I know it doesn't look good. There's a lot of things being said. Me, I just zone all that stuff out and show up to work and keep grinding. I've always been the type, I'm going to push as hard I can and let's see what happens," Williams said.
"If things don't turn out, I can always look myself in the eye and say I gave it everything I had."
During minicamp in June, coach Jon Gruden called Williams' bid to get back on the field ahead of schedule "one of the most amazing comebacks that I've seen."
"He hasn't come back yet, but he's banging on the door," Gruden said. "He's putting himself through an unbelievable workout routine. I've never seen anything like it. It rivals some of the great Rocky Balboa movies you see on TV."
Still, Williams can't escape reminders of the injury.
In addition to the nearly foot-long scar on his leg and being unable to join teammates on the practice field, there are the people he meets away from football.
"I watch TV. I read stuff. ... Then every time I was out in public back home, it was like: `I'm so sorry to hear about your career-ending injury.' I'm like wow," he said. "With media throwing it at you, people throwing it at you, it's a time - no matter how strong you are - those thoughts are going to sink in and you're going to start doubting yourself."
Williams actually smiled when asked about the play itself. He's watched it on tape three or four times and still thinks he would have scored if he been able to cut back from the sideline.
He's not at all squeamish.
"To me, that's all behind me. I'm not the type of guy who's going to go back and watch the play over and over or have regrets," he said. "A lot of people say you should have just run out of the bounds, man. All that's good and well. I'm not going to relive the past. I was doing what I do. It's something that happens. It's part of the game."
NFC South Notebook:
* Falcons rookie LB James to miss season with concussion
* Ex-Panther feels Fox made right move with Smith
* Lucas: Smith punch was "blessing in disguise"


text: At the mountain station, a staircase leads to the Panorama Tower, built in 1912. Upon reaching the 60-meter-high observation platform, you can enjoy a breathtaking view of the three Jura lakes. The Neuenburg Lake is directly in front of you, Lake Murten is in the south and Lake Biel in the north. On a clear day you can see as far as the High Alps (Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau and Mont Blanc). The Panorama Tower is accessible all year for 1 Swiss Frank.


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And just like that, Serena Williams' sex(y) new Twitter avatar is gone. Gone after maybe half a day, with the old picture of her in a tennis outfit back up. Someone must have gotten to her and suggested something about common sense and hypocrisy.
Last week, a man was arrested for allegedly stalking Williams, having gotten too close to her, too many times all over the country, even in her dressing room at Home Shopping Network. On Thursday, she posted a new avatar on her Twitter page, a photo suggestive of us peeping at her through a lace curtain while she unknowingly looks the other way in white bra and panties.
It's a sexy photo, she looks great and it's not pornographic. To be honest, I would actually find it to be somewhat artistic if it weren't for the serious business of stalking women. What was her message anyway? What was she trying to say? Just this: Look at me.
Instead, what she was saying was this: Peep at me, but don't stalk me.
Williams has masterfully branded herself, now as a celebrity tennis player and not a tennis playing celebrity. The brand is to sell sex now, with tennis as an afterthought, if that. And the way she does it is to walk right up to the line and push it a little, take half a step over it. Give her credit: No tennis player can get people talking the way she can.
(If she's still a tennis player).
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Women's tennis has been selling sex for decades. And this avatar — even just the talk of it –and all of Williams' other sex(y) photos and videos lately will draw more TV viewers to women's tennis than Francesca Schiavone emotionally kissing the red clay at Roland Garros. With women's tennis a little boring now, sex is selling the sport more than the game is selling itself.
Still, Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic photos are never quite as gritty as Serena's. First, she did the video game commercial in thigh highs and black leotard. Next, the bright pink body suit on the practice court. And now this.
I'm guessing Erin Andrews might be uncomfortable with the Twitter avatar, having had a stalker peep at her in her hotel room. This view of Serena might not be too far off of what he saw of Andrews.
Whatever, Williams is so much bigger than women's tennis now that she can hijack the game just by producing occasional photos of herself like this. By the way, in secondary Serena news, she also pulled out of the French Open Thursday, as she continues to recover from blood clots found on her lung. So the focus will go to the other players, such as No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Hah! The focus will be wherever Serena says. With that power, and over two million Twitter followers, does come some responsibility. Fortunately, someone figured that out, even if it was a little too late.


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The ZIMBABWE Situation
Our thoughts and prayers are with Zimbabwe
- may peace, truth and justice prevail.
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Harare presses on with demolitions
Zimbabwe, SA bank governors discuss rescue package
Two SA firms snatch Zimbabwe gold mine
South African Loan to Zimbabwe Raises Many Questions
Loan request gives SA leverage to press for change
Secretary-General expresses increasing concern about housing demolitions in Zimbabwe
Photojournalist Arrested And Detained for More Than Four Hours
Zimbabwe gold goes down
Zimbabwe Rugby Union Bankrupt
No decision on Zimbabwe loan
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Zim Online
Harare presses on with demolitions
Tue 19 July 2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe police yesterday destroyed an industrial and office
block in Harare's red-light Kopje district barely three days after the
government announced it was temporarily halting its controversial urban
clean-up exercise.
The office complex at the corner of Speke Avenue and Luck Street in
Kopje, housed general dealers in spare parts, coffins and wooden furniture.
Harare announced last Friday that it was stopping its controversial
urban clean-up drive under which it has demolished houses, informal trading
stalls and offices, casting close to a million people onto the streets
without shelter, food or a means of livelihood.
According to weekend media reports, President Robert Mugabe and his
government had called off the clean-up drive to fulfill conditions set by
South Africa before it could loan Zimbabwe about US$1 billion to buy
urgently needed food and fuel.
Pretoria is said to have told Mugabe and his government they would
have to call off the clean-up drive that has drawn harsh criticism from
Western governments and international human rights groups before the money
could be made available.
Police spokesman Wayne Bjudzijena could not be reached to establish
whether the law enforcement agency was under fresh orders to resume
demolitions of houses and office buildings deemed illegal.
Police details interviewed by ZimOnline at the Kopje office building
said they were "under strict instructions" to demolish the building, adding
that they did not take orders from newspapers, in apparent reference to
reports carried by the official Herald newspaper last Friday saying the
government had temporarily halted the clean-up campaign.
"We don't take our orders from newspapers. We are under strict
instructions to destroy this place. It is full of foreigners that are
involved in shoddy deals," said one police officer.
Tenants, most of them believed to be Nigerian businessmen who have
flocked to Zimbabwe since the country's economic crisis began to worsen five
years ago, watched in shock and horror as armed police and bulldozers razed
the property to the ground yesterday morning.
A few lucky ones were able to grab one or two pieces of furniture or
some stationery before the rest went down with the building into one huge
heap of rubble.
The demolition of the Harare building happened as a South African
Council of Churches (SACC) delegation arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday on a
follow-up mission to work out how the SACC could mobilise international
relief for people displaced by the clean-up exercise.
The SACC visited Harare last week and issued a damning report
condemning Mugabe and his government for inflicting untold misery and
suffering on poor urban families through their home demolition programme.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has promised to back the SACC's
attempts to raise relief for the evicted Zimbabwean families. - ZimOnline
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Zim Online
Zimbabwe, SA bank governors discuss rescue package
Mon 18 July 2005
HARARE - Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono last Friday met
his South African Reserve Bank counterpart, Tito Mboweni, in Pretoria to
hammer out details of a possible US$1 billion rescue package for Zimbabwe.
The visit by Gono was a follow-up to talks between South African
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and President Robert Mugabe in
Harare last week.
Mlambo-Ngcuka, who was accompanied by her country's deputy finance
minister Jabulani Moleketi, is said to have told Mugabe to halt his
controversial urban clean-up drive before funds could be made available.
Both Gono and Mboweni could not be reached for comment on the matter
last night. But Pretoria's communications chief, Joel Netshitenzhe,
yesterday would not confirm or deny during an interview with South Africa's
SAfm radio whether there had been meetings to discuss a possible US$1
billion loan to Harare.
Zimbabwe foreign minister expected in Pretoria in bid to avert
Mugabe and his government urgently need hard cash to import food, fuel
and electricity and avert a total collapse of Zimbabwe that has in the past
six years, miraculously survived crisis after crisis.
A meeting between South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma and her Zimbabwean counterpart, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, that
had been scheduled for yesterday as a follow up on Gono and Mboweni's talks
was postponed because Dlamini-Zuma is away.
According to sources, Gono assured Mboweni that Harare would among
other things reconsider its clean-up exercise as well as repressive media
laws, all issues that have drawn criticism from major Western governments
and rights groups.
"The Zimbabwean delegation sought to assure their South African
colleagues that Harare was willing to reconsider its crackdown on
shantytowns as well as its repressive media legislation, to smoothen the way
for financial help from Pretoria," said a source privy to the discussions
between Gono and Mboweni.
The meeting between South Africa and Zimbabwe central bank chiefs was
followed by an announcement by Harare later on Friday that it was
temporarily halting its clean-up exercise.
It could not be immediately ascertained whether South Africa will give
Zimbabwe the US$1 billion it has asked for or it will only provide part of
the money.
Zimbabwe, grappling a severe hard cash crisis since the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) suspended balance-of-payments support six years ago,
requires at least US$250 million to import 1.2 million tonnes of food or a
quarter of its 12 million people could starve.
The southern African nation also requires at least US$40 million a
month to import fuel, currently in critical short supply in the country.
The IMF board is tomorrow expected to decide whether to expel Zimbabwe
for failure to repay debt, in what analysts say would be the last signal to
other multilateral institutions, development agencies and donor groups to
cut whatever little aid and financial support still trickling to Harare. -
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Zim Online
Two SA firms snatch Zimbabwe gold mine
Tue 19 July 2005
HARARE - Two South African companies have joined forces to buy
Zimbabwe's Eureka gold mine for up to US$4.35 million at a time
international mining conglomerates are fleeing the crisis-torn southern
African country.
South Africa's black-owned Mmakau Mining Ltd and its partner Shaft
Sinkers, said yesterday that the two companies had bought Eureka from
Canada's Placer Dome, which joins many other international mining firms that
have disinvested from Zimbabwe fearing the country's economic crisis.
Placer sold the mine, which was closed in 2000 due to poor economic
conditions, said the final price will depend on whether it is successfully
revived. Placer acquired Eureka, located 150 km north of Harare, when it
bought Australia's AurionGold in 2002 but now regards it as a non-core
The mine was originally expected to produce as much as 60 000 ounces
per year from open pit and heap leach operations, but the new owners plan to
build an underground operation, a statement said.
It did not say how much gold per year the mine produced before it was
shut, but Mmakau and Shaft Sinkers expect to produce at least 22 000 ounces
of gold per year within three years, a spokeswoman for Mmakau said in a
She said if the new owners manage to attain the minimum 22 000 ounces
of gold production, the purchase price will be $4.35 million. But if that
target is not met, then only $1.65 will have to be paid to Placer Dome.
Placer joins other international companies like Anglo American, Rio
Tinto, BHP Billiton, AurionGold and several others who have in recent years
quit the country or drastically downsized operations due to economic and
political instability in the country.
But the new investors, who said they had nine years of experience
operating in Zimbabwe, also plan to bring on board a black-owned Zimbabwean
partner for Eureka although most locals have failed to raise money to
acquire stakes in concerns such as platinum firm, Zimplats Holdings. -
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South African Loan to Zimbabwe Raises Many Questions
Johannesburg & Washington
18 July 2005
Confirmation that the South African government might lend Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe's administration hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars quickly
prompted South Africa's leading opposition party to say it will demand
answers in parliament.
The Democratic Alliance said it will table a motion in parliament to demand
details of the loan discussions from President Thabo Mbeki and his cabinet.
Correspondent Bernard Mandizvidza of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe filed this
report from Johannesburg about the domestic political implications of the
Given South Africa's uneven record of success in tempering the policies of
President Mugabe, the prospect of such a massive loan to Harare raises many
Reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe asks with political
analyst Obri Mashiq of Johannesburg whether such a credit facility once put
in place would be likely to give President Mbeki greater leverage in dealing
with Mr. Mugabe.
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Loan request gives SA leverage to press for change
[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
JOHANNESBURG, 18 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Amid news reports that Zimbabwe is
seeking a massive loan from South Africa to offset chronic food and fuel
shortages, political analysts say it's an opportune time for President Thabo
Mbeki to push for political dialogue in the troubled country.
Although South African treasury officials confirmed meeting with their
Zimbabwean counterparts in Johannesburg on Friday, both parties were
tight-lipped about the possible loan.
Harare is reportedly requesting around US $1 billion to buy electricity,
fuel and food, but banking experts say the loan, if granted, is likely to
run into millions rather than billions of rands.
Joel Netshitenzhe, the head of the Government Communication and Information
Services on Monday said the principles and considerations guiding the
possibility of a loan would be Zimbabwe's "economic recovery" and "political
President Robert Mugabe's government again finds itself in a precarious
situation: up to four million Zimbabweans need food aid and petrol shortages
are a perennial problem. With most of its conventional international credit
lines cut, forex has been in short supply. To make matters worse, Zimbabwe
now faces expulsion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A brief flirtation with Libya as a possible source of fuel soured over terms
of repayment; more recently Mugabe has turned to a number of Southeast Asian
countries in an effort to secure hard currency.
Even though cordial relations with China, Malaysia and India have yielded
some positive results, analysts point out that regional engagement,
especially with South Africa, is key to economic recovery.
South Africa continues to face a barrage of criticism from local and
international critics, who argue that Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" has largely
failed. They point to deepening poverty, rapidly deteriorating health care
and a slew of human rights violations. South Africa's tacit support of the
Harare government, they say, has only served to strengthen Mugabe's resolve
not to engage the opposition and push ahead with policies that critics argue
have worsened living conditions.
On the other hand, Mbeki has long maintained that Zimbabwe is a sovereign
state and active interference in its domestic affairs would be misguided.
Observers point out that the Zimbabwe loan request puts South Africa in the
position to attach a number conditions to granting the funds.
"South Africa can now make full use of the carrot-and-stick approach. If the
loan is granted, it must be accompanied by a set of conditions, which
include restarting talks with the opposition MDC [Movement for Democratic
Change]. These talks are essential, as they will set the stage for
constructive dialogue towards economic recovery," a Harare-based economist,
Denis Nikisi, told IRIN.
"It is ironic that even though South Africa has constantly expressed support
for Zimbabwe, the support has not improved the lives of ordinary
Zimbabweans," Nikisi commented.
Zimbabwe's economic crisis deepened after 2000 as a result of the
government's violent and haphazard land reform programme, and the drying up
of aid. Parliamentary and presidential elections were condemned by many
international observers as flawed.
Some political pundits have argued that the lifeline from South Africa might
stave off food shortages, but was unlikely to remedy the country's
underlying impoverishment.
Albert Musarurwa, Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum,
commented, "If South Africa does indeed have the capacity to help Zimbabwe,
it will only be a short-term solution. We, as civil society, would like to
be part of any agreement between the two countries, in order to monitor just
how the money is spent." He cited alleged rampant government corruption as
the main reason for concern.
Musarurwa stressed that South Africa should turn up the pressure on the
government to end a controversial 'cleanup' campaign, that has displaced an
estimated 375,000 people.
It was reported that South Africa's deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,
who visited Harare, last Tuesday, refused to bail out Zimbabwe unless Mugabe
stopped the demolition of illegal settlements - home to the country's urban
Chris Maroleng of the Pretoria-based Institute of Security Studies
underscored the importance of "strict benchmarks and exact timelines" in the
agreement, which he said should include easing up on the opposition, the
press and the NGO community.
"If South Africa misses this opportunity we are unlikely to see any concrete
changes until 2008 [when Zimbabwe's next presidential poll is due]. Mbeki
can contribute to change, but his government has to be firmer," John
Makumbe, a senior political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe,
told IRIN.
IRIN was unable to get comment from the Zimababwean government.
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UN News Centre
Secretary-General expresses increasing concern about housing demolitions in
18 July 2005 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced
increasing concern about the human rights and humanitarian aspects of the
housing demolitions in Zimbabwe.
Mr. Annan's Special Envoy, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka, wound up her two-week fact-finding
mission to Zimbabwe earlier this month.
"The Secretary-General is increasingly concerned by the human rights and
humanitarian impact of the recent demolitions of what the Government of
Zimbabwe has called illegal settlements," a UN spokeswoman, Marie Okabe,
said at the daily briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.
Ms. Tibaijuka conducted an exhaustive examination, with the cooperation of
the Government of Zimbabwe, Ms. Okabe said. The Secretary-General would
receive Ms. Tibaijuka's report in the coming days, would study it to
determine the UN's next steps and would make it public after Zimbabwe's
Government had received its copy, she said.
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Photojournalist Arrested And Detained for More Than Four Hours
Media Institute of Southern Africa (Windhoek)
July 18, 2005
Posted to the web July 18, 2005
On 8 July 2005, award-winning veteran photojournalist Fidelis Zvomuya was
detained by police for more than four hours while covering the ongoing home
demolition campaign dubbed Operation Restore Order.
Zvomuya was arrested at Travos House, a building on Harare's Jason Moyo
Avenue, for taking photographs of a man who had been tied to a staircase in
the building using his necktie.
The photojournalist, who freelances for the privately-owned weekly "The
Standard", was handcuffed and detained in the building for more than two
hours before being taken to Harare Central Police Station. He was only
released after paying a Z$250,000 (approx. US$24) "admission of guilt" fine
for "misconduct".
A former chief photographer with the government-controlled national daily
"The Herald", Zvomuya said he paid the fine in order to secure his freedom.
He said his arrest was an indication of the repressive nature of Zimbabwe's
media environment.
Davison Maruziva, editor of "The Standard", described the arrest as the
actions of overzealous policemen. "Zvomuya was taking pictures in a public
place. If the police interpretation of the law is correct, it means all the
tourists that the country is expecting to visit and spend their foreign
currency will be at risk of arrest for merely taking pictures in public
places. I believe that is an unfortunate signal to send to the outside
world. Unless the police had something to hide, the arrest was both
unfortunate and totally unnecessary."
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Resource Investor
Zimbabwe gold goes down
By Jon Nones
18 Jul 2005 at 04:55 PM
Zimbabwe gold production had fallen in the first half of the year to 6,612 kilograms from 8,667 kilograms in the same period last year.
The Chamber of Mines cited viability problems, among the formal producers, as the main reason for the decline in output.
It said high inflation, currently standing at 164%, and shortages of fuel and foreign currency, were among the reasons that affected gold production in the period.
Gold is Zimbabwe`s second biggest export after tobacco, but output has been declining for years now.
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Zimbabwe Rugby Union Bankrupt
Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
July 17, 2005
Posted to the web July 18, 2005
THE CASH-STRAPPED Zimbabwe senior rugby team, reeling from lack of player incentives, is battling to raise US$30 000 for the team's travel for the decisive World Cup qualifier against Ivory Coast on Saturday. They failed to pay bonuses for the Senegal match last month.
In a bid to raise the scarce foreign currency, Titus Zvomuya, Zimbabwe Rugby Union Chief Executive Officer, said they had been left with no choice but to send a distress call to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Sports and Recreation Commission.
"If all goes well, we should be leaving the country on Wednesday. We intend to travel with a squad of 20 players and six officials. We are going to fly to Nairobi before connecting a flight to Abidjan," Zvomuya said.
The Union has been battling to raise funds for the upkeep of the Sables and their bonuses. The senior rugby team laboured to a 21-15 win over Senegal last month, despite the lack of player incentives.
Zvomuya revealed the Union has not paid the players "anything" for the hard-fought victory, due to a cash crisis.
"We are in a difficult position because we can not afford to pay the players' incentives. Right now, we are running around to raise the funds to pay the players for the Ivory Coast game, but we are not promising them anything," said Zvomuya.
The ZRU is suffering from a dwindling financial base and depends solely on grants from the International Rugby Union and waning sponsorship.
"We have a situation where players are just playing for the passion of the game and their country," Zvomuya said.
The Union hopes to start making money from television rights when they meet the Ivorians on 23 July. Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings screened the match against Senegal live on television, but the ZRU got nothing for it.
"We are only going to get money from television rights, from the next stage of the qualifiers against the Ivory Coast," Zvomuya added.
Despite security fears, Zvomuya said the Ivory Coast Rugby Board had assured Zimbabwe that their venue in Abidjan was safe.
"We have received communication from Ivory Coast that the team will be safe in Abidjan," Zvomuya said.
According to reports, tension is still gripping Cote d'Ivoire despite a peace deal signed in April this year between President Laurent Gbagbo's government and the New Front rebel group, the two warring parties that have been fighting a civil war since 2002.
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Ireland Online
No decision on Zimbabwe loan
18/07/2005 - 15:27:11
South Africas government today said no decision had been made on a possible loan to Zimbabwe to help that country purchase electricity, food and fuel.
Government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe declined to confirm reports that a delegation from Zimbabwe met over the weekend with Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni and finance minister Trevor Manuel to discuss a loan.
The spokesman would say only that recent talks between the two governments quite possibly covered the issuing of a loan, but that no decision had been made.
A spokeswoman for the South African Reserve Bank said Mboweni met with the Zimbabwe delegation on Friday, but declined to discuss the topic of the discussions.
Nethitenzhe said considerations guiding the possibility of a loan would be Zimbabwes economic recovery and political normalisation.
Any decision to make a loan to Zimbabwe would have to go before the Cabinet and Parliament, he said.
The Zimbabwe government, which earlier claimed its economic recovery was on track, announced that inflation last month jumped from 144.2% to 164.3%.
Zimbabwe housing minister Ignatius Chombo has also ordered a temporary halt to mass demolitions and evictions in its controversial clean-up campaign that has left hundreds of thousands, mostly urban poor, homeless.
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