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La Martiniere Calcutta
|La Martinière Calcutta
La Martiniere Calcutta in 1800 by Francis Frith
Labore et Constantia
By Labour and Constancy
|11, Loudon Street (Boys)
14, Rawdon Street (Girls)
Kolkata, West Bengal 700 017
|Religious affiliation(s)
|Christian (Protestant)
|Church of North India
|1 March 1836
|Major General Claude Martin
|Sister school
|La Martiniere Lucknow
La Martiniere Lyon
|School board
|ICSE (year 10)
ISC (year 12)
|April to March
|The Rt. Rev. Ashoke Biswas (Bishop of Calcutta)
|John F. Rafi (Boys)
Rupkatha Sarkar (Girls)
|Rev. Nigel Pope
|2+ to 18+
|Campus type
|Hastings (Red), Charnock (Green), Martin (Blue), Macaulay (Yellow)
|School colour(s)
|Black and Amber (Boys)
Dark and Light Blue (Girls)
|"Hail! Hail! The name we own" by Frederick James Rowe
|National ranking
|4 (Boys)
1 (Girls)
|The Chronicle (Boys)
|Church of North India
|Paul Chater
La Martinière Calcutta (informally known as LMC) comprises two single-sex private schools in Calcutta, India. The school is one of the oldest in India, having been established in 1836 in accordance with the will of the French soldier of fortune and philanthropist, Major General Claude Martin. They are both Christian schools, controlled by the Protestant Church of North India and independent from the Government. While classified as day schools, both have a small number of boarders as well. Historically, the schools were exclusively for the Europeans and prominent Bengali Christians of the city. However, following a Calcutta High Court order, they started to admit students from all backgrounds in 1936. The schools offer an English-medium education from nursery up to the higher secondary level. They are affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination which conducts the ICSE and ISC examinations at the close of Classes X and XII respectively.
As per Forbes , La Martiniere for Boys is one of India's 5 toughest schools to get into.[1]
La Martiniere Calcutta is consistently ranked as one of the best schools in India, with La Martiniere for Girls being ranked 1st, and La Martiniere for Boys being ranked 4th in the country by India Today's Education World magazine as of 2015.[2][3]
- 1 History
- 2 The School
- 3 Alumni
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Claude Martin was born on 4 January 1735 in Lyon, France. He came to India when he was 17 to serve in the French East India Company. After French influence declined in India and, following a spell in British custody after a military defeat, he accepted a commission in the British East India Company's army and rose to the rank of Major-General. After taking up residence in Lucknow, India, he again switched allegiance and occupied an important position in the court of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula and later his son, Asaf-ud-Daula.
During this period he is estimated to have accumulated a fortune of about 400,000 rupees. He built the palace of 'Constantia' and his house named Farhat Baksh, both of which he equipped with luxuries that included a library of some 4,000 volumes written in many languages and a picture gallery.
He died in Lucknow on 13 September 1800. According to his will, he was buried in the vault prepared for his remains in the basement of Constantia. The major portion of his monies and estate were left for founding three institutions, one each in Lucknow, which now occupies Constantia, and Calcutta and his birthplace Lyon.
It took 30 years to dispose of the litigation arising out of Claude Martin's will. Finally, as the result of a court decision, the La Martinière Schools opened in Calcutta on 1 March 1836.
The Benefactor[edit]
Sir Catchick Paul Chater (8 September 1846 – 27 May 1926), was a prominent businessman of Armenian descent. Sir Paul was born Khachik Pogose Astwachatoor in Calcutta, one of thirteen children of Armenian parents Miriam and Chater Paul Chater. His father was a member of the Indian Civil Service. Sir Paul was orphaned at the age of seven, and he gained entry into the La Martiniere College in Calcutta on a scholarship as a Foundationer. He later became a benefactor of the school when, in the early 1910s, he donated eleven lakhs Rupees to the desperately struggling school, thus allowing it to avoid certain closure. To honour his contribution to the school, Sir Paul Chater's name was included in the school prayer. (Scroll down to see the prayer)
The School[edit]
Student body[edit]
It took 30+ years to execute the Founder's will. In contrast to the Founder's intentions, British colonial administrators ensured that La Martinière catered to the education of European and Anglo-Indian students. The curriculum reflected the student composition with boys expected to master Latin and Greek, and the school was an early example of "Macaulay"-ite education in India. Most students were self-identified as 'British' or 'European', and did not remain in India after leaving school. Early Principals were generally from British public schools and tried to replicate the prevailing Rugby/ Arnold model of education with an emphasis on sports, espirit de corps and Christian morality.
Following a Calcutta High Court order (dated 18 February 1935) religious and ethnic restrictions on the admission of non-European, non-Christian, fee-paying students were removed and the school was allowed to admit such students up to a maximum of 25% of the strength of the school.
In the years after Independence, the school started attracting members of the social and business elite of Calcutta.
The student body has grown exponentially in size through the years, with approximately 3,000 students on the rolls in 2011 (compared with 750 in 1960 and 1,200 in 1980) with each class now comprising five sections (named A, A1, Alpha, Alpha1 and Alpha2) of approximately 50 boys each. The school also takes in new students at the "+2" level. Although parents and Old Boys question the quality of the LMB experience with the increased class sizes, the schools continue to be a popular choice for parents to which to admit their children.
Although admissions are competitive, preference is given to children of Old Martinians. Under the terms of the Founder's will, a certain number of Foundation scholarships (covering the costs of school fees and full board) are awarded to Anglo-Indian boarders.
The girls' school has 3 sections per class (A, B and C). Each section comprises 35–40 girls. In 11 and 12 there are four sections each- 1 for humanities, 2 for commerce and 1 for science. Each of these sections comprise 25–40 girls (ranging in class size based on the subject)
The schools are located in south Calcutta, with the Boys' School having its main gate in Loudon Street and the Girls' School having its main gate in Rawdon Street. They face each other across Rawdon Street.
The main Boys' School building is in the centre of the campus, and was completed in 1836 and is notable for its European Classical architecture, with the Round Chapel, ringed by imposing Corinthian pillars, at the heart of it. The Round Chapel has the Honours Boards listing Founders Day medalists on its walls. Above the Round Chapel is the beautiful library. The boarders dormitories are on the top floor. Classrooms are spread through the main building. The building was ruined by a cyclonic storm in June 1897 which destroyed a "stately Gothic porch" on the south side of the building and a blue dome "that rivalled the dome of the Calcutta General Post Office". The school chapel was in the dome. Lack of funds made it impossible to rebuild both these features. The building was modified in 1915 with the addition of a western wing (which now houses the Principal's office on the first floor).
The new junior school buildings are on the North Side of the campus. A basketball court and a memorial bust of the founder, Major General Claude Martin, are also located in the north side. The old junior school building, previously known as the technical block, and swimming pool are located to the west alongside Loudon Street, Atmodya Bhavan (built in 1979 and comprising the main auditorium and middle school classrooms) to the South and the Constantia building (not owned by the school, but controversially built on school property on the "dhobi ghat") to the East.
The Lower Circular Road end of the playing field was planted with seven Ashoka trees, known informally as the "seven sisters". These were uprooted to make way for Atmodya Bhavan. The sale of the "dhobi ghat", in 1982, was the subject of a long-drawn lawsuit, which went all the way to the Supreme Court in New Delhi, with the Old Martinians Association suing the Trustees of the school for illegally selling school property. While the school benefitted financially from this transaction, the sale of the property and construction of the ugly Constantia building defaced the campus, and lead to the complete loss of grass on the playground. The court case soured relations between the Old Boys and the school Governors for a number of years.
The boys' school used to have a very strong campus feel, with the Principal, House Masters and senior teachers living on campus. This added to the ethos of the school as the masters in residence supervised after-school, extra-curricular activity. However, in a controversial decision, the Governors of the school decided to no longer accommodate the senior teachers on campus, and now only the Principal has his quarters on campus.
There were five identical houses (known as "Panchkothi") along the north side of the campus. These were used as residences for the Principal, Vice Principal, House Masters and other teachers. Controversially, some of these old buildings have now been demolished in order to make way for new buildings. However, the Principal's residence still stands as originally constructed.
School life[edit]
The schools follow the ICSE Board of education rather than the West Bengal State board. The medium of instruction is English, with Hindi and Bengali offered as second languages. There are two external examinations – at Class X level (ICSE) and Class XII (ISC). In all other years, students take internal examinations only.
Extra-curricular activities include debating, elocution and quizzing, and sports like football, swimming, cricket, hockey, athletics, basketball, boxing, rugby,and table tennis. There is also a Western-music orchestra and a pipes-and-drums band.
Teams representing the school compete with La Martinière Lucknow in the annual Inter-Martinière meet (held alternately in Calcutta and Lucknow) in football, swimming and debating for the boys and basketball, swimming and debating for the girls. The football and basketball matches are highly anticipated events, and are well-attended by Old Martinians, students and parents.
The La Martinière for Boys' sports teams participate in the local Calcutta school leagues. The senior football team has won the Keventer Cup, having defeated most of the other football playing schools in the city, and are champions for 2 of the past 3 years (2012, 2014). The school basketball team is one of the best in the country being the East Zone Champions. Athletics and boxing are primarily inter-house activities. The inter-house athletics and boxing finals receive a lot of attention, with the athletics events preceded by a military-style marchpast and Olympic-style oath-taking ceremony. T
Clubs include the Hindi Club, known as 'Jyotsna' in the Boys' school and 'Drishti' in the Girls' school; the Interact Club; the Quiz Club; the Expressions club; the Computer Club; the Nature Club; the Dramatics Club; and the Heritage Club. Other organizations are the Library Squad, the School Beautification Squad, DEAS and the NCC (Air and Army Wing). The Quiz Club, Debate Circle and Science Club in the girls school are also very active and members of said clubs periodically represent the school in inter-school events and competitions.
An annual yearbook, titled "The Chronicle", is published by the boys school. The annual yearbook or "school magazine" for the girls school is put together by an editorial board composed of students from class XI supervised by teachers. The name for the magazine changes annually as it is chosen by the editorial board of the given year.
School houses[edit]
Even though most of them are day scholars, all students are allocated to one of four houses when they join the school (or reach class three in the girls school). The houses are still named after British imperial heroes, reflecting the fact that, at its founding, the school was a British school for the British in India. Similarly, teachers are also allocated to houses, with senior teachers being designated as House Masters and House Mistresses. Inter-house competitions, particularly in debating, athletics, boxing (for the boys), swimming, quizzing and elocution are fiercely contested, with the winning house in each year being designated the Cock House.
|Founder of Calcutta
|Governor General
|British Politician
|School founder
School calendar[edit]
The school calendar contains certain key dates: Founders Day in September, Prize Day at the start of the academic year in June (prizes awarded for excellence in the previous academic year), and the Inter-Martinière Meet in August. Founders Day is a significant event which many alumni attend. The Chief Guest is usually an Old Martinian. Originally, and in line with the Founder's will, two medals were awarded on Founder's Day — the Gold Medal for academic excellence and the Silver Medal for Good Conduct. In 1960, the decision was taken to add two more medals: Principal's Medals for Best Sportsman and Best All-Rounder in Studies, Games and Conduct. The Good Conduct Medal (GCM) is generally considered the most prestigious award in the school, with an unbroken history dating back to the school's founding in 1836. The medalists have their names recorded on the Honours Boards in the Round Chapel. The girls receive the same medals, with two medals being awarded for excellence in ICSE and ISC. The medalists have their names recorded on the walls of the library.
La Martinière coat of arms[edit]
The La Martinière coat of arms was designed by the founder Claude Martin.[4] It is supported by seven flags, each bearing the design of a fish, the emblem of Oudh.[5] The devices on the escutcheon appear to epitomise Claude Martin's life. The ship recalls his voyage to India where he established his fortune. The lion with the pennant represents his career as an officer in the East India Company and with the Nawab of Oudh The setting sun behind the castellated building to the right of the shield has been said[4] to point to the sunset of his days and the large part which the building of "Constantia" played in his later years. The coat of arms and the accompanying motto Labore et Constantia are now shared by all the schools founded by Martin.
The La Martinière College flag consists of the coat of arms on a blue and gold background. The flag is generally flown above the buildings, and used for formal events and celebrations, such as the annual Founder's Day. This was designed by Major General Claude Martin himself.
School song[edit]
The school song, "Hail, hail, the name we own" was composed by Frederick James Rowe, who was an Assistant Master in LMC from 1868–1870. It is sung at special events such as Founder's Day, Prize Day and at inter-house events and the beginning and end of term.
Hail! Hail! the name we own, Hail! to the giver; Blessing and bright renown, Be his forever!
Verse 1:
All his martial deeds may die, Lasting still his charity; This his laurel blooms for aye Dead he lives in us to-day.
This then our song shall be, As we chant his eulogy – "May our Founder's name endure Ever spotless, ever pure"
Verse 2:
Faithful may we ever be, Followers of his constancy; Firm of hand against the foe, Soft of heart to succour woe.
This then our song shall be, As we chant his eulogy – "May our Founder's name endure Ever spotless ever pure!"
Although La Martinière is not an explicitly Christian school (unlike convent/missionary schools) and has not had a church or chapel on campus since the destruction of the chapel in the 19th Century, there is an official school prayer as well.
The School Prayer[edit]
O Almighty God and most merciful Father who has taught us to praise Thee, as well for the dead as the living. We thank thee for Claude Martin, Our Founder, for Catchick Paul Chater, our benefactor, and for the lives and examples of all those who have served Thee in this School. Pour down Thy blessings, we pray Thee, upon those who are now here. Prosper our labours, as Thou in Thy wisdom seest to be best for us. Protect us, we beseech Thee, from all things hurtful both to soul and body. Preserve us by Thy Holy Spirit from sin and selfishness, and make us generous and brave, pure and true, in all our work and in all our play that our task being sanctified by Thy love, our days here may be attended by Thy blessing; and that when our day's work on earth is over, Thou mayest send us rest from our labours, under the shadow of Thy wings; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prefects and school colours[edit]
La Martinière for Boys: The Principal and staff select five boys from each house in Class XII as school prefects, and another boy from any house as the school captain, making 21 prefects in each year. One of these five boys is selected as the House Captain, making four House Captains. Prefects wear a "double bar" tie, with two stripes instead of the standard one.
"Colours" are awarded to students who have distinguished themselves and brought credit to the school in extra-curricular activities — a concept roughly corresponding to the "blue" of Oxford or Cambridge universities. Recipients of boys school colours wear a "triple bar" tie in Class XII and in girls school the blazer crest is silver. Colours are awarded at the discretion of the master-in-charge of a particular activity. The school has introduced the Major and Minor colour system, which recognizes different levels of contribution towards a sport. Colours are limited to 3 or 4 a batch.
La Martinière for Girls: There are two sets of prefects in girls school, the junior prefects ( who are students of class 10 ) and senior prefects ( who are students of class 12 ). The prefects are elected by the students of their own batch. A school captain and a sports captain are assigned by the senior teachers with help from students of the previous batch. The captain for the four houses are decided mainly by the teacher in charge of the house and the previous captains and vice captains. However to be captain the student must be an elected senior prefect for that year. The decision is based on other factors as well such as discipline, responsibility and contribution to the house. The five vice captains are selected by the same process however they may or may not be senior prefects.
The schools are governed by a six-member Board of Acting Governors, which is controlled by the Church of North India. The chairman is the Bishop of Calcutta, The Rt. Rev. Ashoke Biswas, the advisory board consisting of select Presbyters of the Diocese of Calcutta, such as Rev. Nigel Pope, Rev. Andrew Simick, Rev. Abir Adhikary, Rev. Vishwa Vijay Gain, and Rev. Paritosh Canning. The Board of Governors also includes figures such as John Mukherjee ('60 batch), former Chief of Staff, Eastern Command, Indian Army.
The school has a legacy of producing a long list of distinguished personalities in the fields of academics, entertainment, sports, business, and the media.
The alumni association is called the ALMA (Association of La Martiniere Alumni), an influential organisation with chapters all across the globe. An alumnus of the school is referred to as a Old Martinian.
- P. Sen ('43 batch), cricket: Better known as Khokhon Sen, won 14 test caps for India between '48 and '52 as wicketkeeper.
- Oscar Ward, boxing: represented India in the 1952 Olympics as a lightheavyweight
- Ann Lumsden, hockey: first woman to win Arjuna Award
- Jaidip Mukerjea ('59 batch), tennis
- Chhanda Gain, first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
- Rishi Narayan, golf: member of the Indian golf squad in the IX Asiad
- Brandon DeSouza ('79 batch, School Vice Captain), pro golfer and golfing events promoter
- Enrico Piperno ('80 batch), tennis: Silver Medalist at '82 Delhi Asian Games; Davis Cup team member and current Indian Fed Cup coach.
- Leander Paes ('92 batch), tennis: till Class VII only; he transferred thereafter to the Brittania Academy, Madras)
Media and journalism[edit]
- Sunanda K. Datta-Ray ('54 batch), author, journalist and former editor of The Statesman
- Rajiv Mehrotra ('69 batch), award winning documentary film maker. iconic 'voice' and television anchor. Managing Trustee, Public Service Broadcasting Trust.
- Jug Suraiya ('62 batch), humourist and journalist
- Pritish Nandy ('69 batch), poet, journalist and film producer.
- Swapan Dasgupta ('72 batch), journalist and political commentator.
- Chandan Mitra (Gold Medallist, '72 batch), Member of Parliament and journalist; author of "Constant Glory", an authorized history of La Martinière.
- Paranjoy Guha Thakurta ('72 batch), journalist
- Prannoy Roy, television broadcaster. (till Class V; he transferred thereafter to Doon School, Dehra Dun)
- Indrajit Gupta ('86 batch), editor, Forbes India
- D.N. ("Bonny") Mukherjea ('86 batch), editor, Fortune India
- Jayadiya Gupta ('86 batch), Executive editor of ESPNcricinfo, India
- Suhel Seth ('82 batch), advertising and TV
- Ashok Malik ('88 batch), columnist, The Pioneer
- Avirook Sen, ('87 batch), author, journalist
Business and finance[edit]
- Catchick Paul Chater (1864 batch), Father of modern Hong Kong, benefactor to the College (Rupees 1.1 million in the 1910s). Chater was a Foundation Scholar.
- Vijay Mallya ('72 batch, Hastings House Captain), Chairman of the United Breweries (UB) Group and Rajya Sabha member
- C K Birla, CEO of Hinduatan Motors
- Harsh Neotia, Chairman and CEO, Bengal Ambuja Group
- Ronju Dutt ('57 batch), former chairman and CEO of Bata India
- Pramod Bhasin ('75 batch), founder and first CEO of Genpact.
- Hemant Kanoria ('80 batch), founder and Chairman of SREI Infrastructure Finance
- Priya Paul ('83 batch), director, Apeejay Surrendra Group; Class XI and XII
- Karan Paul ('88 batch), Chairman, Apeejay Surrendra Group; till Class VI, transferred to Lawrence School, Sanawar.
Academia and education[edit]
- A. W. Wilson Steel (1855 batch), second Wrangler at Cambridge University, 1859; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- John Mason (Good Conduct Medal, '62 batch), educationist. Mason was a Foundation Scholar.
- Nirmalya Kumar ('77 batch), business writer, Professor and Director for Aditya V. Birla India Centre at London Business School.
- Dr. Rajit Gadh, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- Samantak Das ('84 batch), Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
- Santosh Kumar Misra ('67 batch) Professor of Architecture and Principal CET. Bhubaneswar, Educationist and Academic Administrator.
- Ashwin Lall ('99 batch), Professor of Computer Science, Denison University
- Akshaye Dhawan ('99 batch), Professor of Computer Science, Ursinus College
Arts, culture and entertainment[edit]
- John Campbell Oman, (1859 batch), one of the first English-language writers on Indian religion and spirituality, author of "The Mystics, Ascetics and Saints of India".
- Nafisa Ali, actress/ model, Miss India in 1975, also a National Swimming champion
- Barry O'Brien (Best All-rounder, '82 batch), quizmaster and MLA for the Anglo-Indian community in West Bengal
- Bickram Ghosh ('84 batch), tabla pandit
- Merle Oberon, (1929 batch), Hollywood actress
- Kiran Rao ('85 batch, plus 2 only), film producer ("Dhobi Ghat")
- Anuvab Pal ('95 batch, House Captain), comedian and playwright
- Kumar Mukherjee ('90 batch),Hindustani Classical singer
- Gregory Charles Paul, (Gold Medallist 1845), Advocate-General, Bengal Presidency.
- Alfred Lethbridge, (1862 batch, est), British colonial administrator.
- Jiten Chaudhary ('48 batch), Judge of Calcutta High Court
- Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo ('61 batch), Union Cabinet minister (Information and Broadcasting) in the 1980s
- Mausam Benazir Noor, MP, Lok Sabha, representing Malda North constituency
- Andy Varma ('75 batch), chef/owner, Chakra Restaurant, London; formerly the chef/ owner of Vama restaurant, which was one of the pioneering high-end Indian restaurants in London.
- John Mukherjee ('60 batch), former Chief of Staff, Eastern Command, Indian Army.
- ^ http://forbesindia.com/article/special/5-tough-schools-to-get-your-kids-into/34377/1
- ^ "India's Best Schools". Rediff.
|last1=in Authors list (help)
- ^ "India's Best Schools 2015". India Today.
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- ^ a b La Martiniere history at Tripod accessed 10 August 2007
- ^ Oudh fish coins at the British Museum accessed 10 August 2007
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Martiniere Calcutta.
- Official website of La Martinière Calcutta
- Official Alumni website
- Stamp On La Martiniere Released By India Post

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When the Open Public Records Act was passed, client files of certain legal service providers that receive public funding were effectively exempted from the law's presumption of access. Even though the act already exempted materials that were attorney-client privileged, the decision to place certain private, nonprofit legal service providers outside the reach of OPRA, and to exempt the client files of public legal service providers like the Public Defender's office, was unassailable.
The attorney-client and other privileges, while broad, are not all-encompassing. Subjecting potentially nonprivileged information in client files to a presumption of access — such as, depending on context, certain witness statements, medical information, information regarding sexual preference or financial information regarding nonclients — would have created an avenue for unwarranted discovery and abusive litigation.
No one seriously questioned the proposition that the client files of public agencies representing private clients should be exempt from the presumption of disclosure. Nor did anyone suggest that the client files of entities like Legal Services of New Jersey or the Seton Hall University Law Clinics be subject to OPRA, notwithstanding their receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars of state funds every year. Similarly, no one suggested that the client files of the Rutgers School of Law's clinics should be subject to the presumption of access.
In the case of Rutgers Law Clinics, there was little reason to consider subjecting them to OPRA, for the New Jersey Supreme Court had held, in 1989, that Rutgers Law School clinicians are not state employees for purposes of the state conflict-of-interest laws, precisely because they represent private clients. The court had stated that the school's status as the state university "should never be a disadvantage." Even though Rutgers clinicians were not explicitly exempted from the state conflicts-of-interest law, to treat them as state employees, the court reasoned, would violate the principle that legislative intent should never be construed "to reach an absurd result."
Because of that decision, inclusion of the Rutgers clinics within OPRA was never seriously considered. If it had been, given the court's decision, there is no doubt that the clinics would have been treated precisely like the public defender: as a public entity that represents private clients.
Fast forward a few years. Interests involved in litigation with one of the Rutgers clinics, stymied by the normal rules of civil discovery in obtaining certain information, file a separate lawsuit, seeking to obtain information through OPRA that they cannot obtain through civil court rules. They lose, appropriately, in the trial court, which recognizes that subjecting the Rutgers Clinics to OPRA would violate the 1989 state Supreme Court decision's guiding principles.
In an opinion that — mistakenly, in our view — barely mentions the 1989 decision, these interests have prevailed on appeal. Although Rutgers has every intention of taking this issue to the state Supreme Court, The Star-Ledger editorial board has concluded that in seeking to be treated no differently from any other legal service provider, the Rutgers Law Clinics seek to be placed "above the law."
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Rutgers clinics do not seek to be "above the law," treated differently from other legal service providers that receive public funds. Our clinics seek only to be treated exactly the same as every other legal service provider that receives public funds, but represents private clients. Our clinics do not seek to shield from public view their use of public funds; indeed, that information was disclosed in the case that is on appeal. Nor do our clinics seek a "blanket exemption" from the Open Public Records Act; we seek only to protect information in our client files that is not subject to discovery under the normal court rules.
Our clinics seek only, in short, to be placed in the position of every other legal service provider in the state. Our clinics seek only what our state Supreme Court guaranteed more than 20 years ago: that the Rutgers law clinics not be disadvantaged in their representation of private clients by virtue of Rutgers' relationship with the state.
Our clinics seek only to protect our clients.
John Farmer Jr. is the dean of Rutgers School of Law-Newark.


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The Fourth International Conference on Hmong Studies is seeking proposals for individual papers and organized panels. The deadline for submission of proposals is October 31, 2011. Complete papers are due on February 26, 2012. Selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume by the Center for Hmong Studies.
For individual papers, please provide the title, a 250-word abstract, name and affiliation, contact information and a one-page curriculum vitae or brief biography. Individual presentations should run no longer than 20 minutes, excluding time for questions.
Organized panels should consist of three to four panelists and one moderator. Please provide a title, brief description of the panel, 250-word abstracts for each paper, and the names and institutional affiliations of all participants. Each panel is allotted 1 hour, inclusive of open forum. Please submit panel proposal to email@example.com.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Language development and changes
Teaching of Hmong language
Culture and society
War experiences in Laos
Political participation
Business endeavors (or maybe development)
Hmong in the media
Religious beliefs and practices
Impact of changing demographics on collective outlook and identity
Higher education
Health and wellness
Acculturation and integration in various societies?
Changing gender roles within the Hmong community
Intergenerational issues
Being Hmong and American
Impact of tourism on Hmong culture and village life in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China
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When minor league hitting coordinator Todd Steverson landed the position as major league hitting coach for the Chicago White Sox this off-season, the Oakland A's turned to a familiar face to fill Steverson's considerable shoes. Marcus Jensen, a former major league catcher and longtime member of the A's minor league coaching staff, is the A's new minor league hitting coordinator.
A native of Oakland, Jensen starred for Skyline High School in the late 1980s and was the San Francisco Giants' supplemental first-round pick (number 33 overall) in 1990. Jensen worked his way through the Giants' farm system and made his major league debut with San Francisco in 1996 at the age of 23. He would spend the next seven seasons going between the minor leagues and the major leagues. Jensen suited up for seven teams at the big league level (San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minnesota, Boston and Texas). All told, he played 145 games at the major league level and more than 1,000 in 15 minor league seasons.
In 2000, Jensen was part of the Team USA squad managed by Tommy Lasorda that won gold in the Olympics. A switch-hitter, Jensen hit .250/.357/.384 in the minor leagues and had a reputation for being an excellent defensive catcher.
After two years in independent ball, Jensen joined the A's as a minor league hitting coach in 2007. In 2009, he became the A's manager for their Arizona Rookie League affiliate, a position he held from 2009-2013. In 2012, Jensen led the AZL A's to the league championship game. The team had a 37-17 record that year and Jensen was named the league's Manager of the Year. Jensen has also served as the A's roving catching instructor for the past few years, working with catchers throughout the organization on their defense.
We caught-up with Jensen this week to discuss his new position and some of the players he worked with in Arizona the past few years…
OaklandClubhouse: Congratulations on your new position. How has your day-to-day changed from when you were managing the Arizona Rookie League team? How are your interactions with the players different now?
Marcus Jensen: It has changed quite a bit now that I have more responsibilities, certainly as far as handling or overseeing the hitting program, as opposed to as a manager being only concerned with my group of guys transferring from amateur ball to professional ball. Now I've got anywhere from 12-15 hitters at every level from Triple-A on down, and I've got to oversee all of those hitters and formulate a game plan.
OC: Is there an off-season program that you work with hitters on while they are back home, or is it really when they get to Phoenix that you start to work with them on the 2014 season?
MJ: I live in the Scottsdale area and the complex is right here. There are actually a number of guys who live out here, as well. They make it a point to come in during the off-season and get their work it. That gives me a chance to work with them. Having been in the system for a while now, I'm familiar with most guys.
But even with new guys that are coming in or guys that have been in the system for a while, I am building a different kind of rapport than when they might have known from me before – whether it was as the catching instructor or as a manager here in Arizona. Now it kind of takes on a new role.
OC: Will you be traveling to the different affiliates during the season?
MJ: Yes. I did a little bit of that last year from the catching standpoint as the catching instructor. Now it is just me wearing a new hat.
OC: Will you still be doing some of the catching instruction, as well?
MJ: I will still have my hand in that some. I won't necessarily need to take as much responsibility. That was solely my gig along with managing in Arizona last year. With the time I have spent with the catching program, I believe I will still have my hands involved in that when I go out, but my primary focus will be the hitting.
OC: You have been in the organization a long time and you had a long playing career. Has your hitting philosophy changed since you became a coach, or is it pretty much the same as it was when you were an active player?
MJ: It's interesting because my philosophy or approach now is a combination of the things that I learned throughout my playing career as well as once I came to the coaching side of it, learning and adjusting to things I wasn't familiar with or didn't focus on as a player. The coaching-side of it has allowed me to learn and grow in terms of my understanding of the nuances of hitting. It's prepared me for this moment here.
OC: You have obviously had the opportunity to work with a lot of talented hitters in Arizona the past few seasons. This past year you worked with [A's first-round pick] Billy McKinney. What kind of player is he and what do you project for him moving forward into this season?
MJ: He is a mature young hitter, especially coming out of high school. He has a great swing. There were very few adjustments – in terms of mechanics – that we had to make with him initially. Over the course of how he develops, we hope he will develop more power, but that is never a point of emphasis right away. The ability to barrel the ball; the ability to have a good, solid approach; the ability to have an understanding of the strike-zone [those are the points of emphasis].
He came to us with a number of those. It's always an adjustment for the younger guys, especially the ones coming out of high school, to make the adjustment to pro ball. That, in itself, in terms of timing was a little bit of an adjustment for him. As the season progressed, he made that adjustment and he did really well for us.
OC: You have worked closely with Bruce Maxwell on his catching. What kind of improvements has Maxwell made behind the plate?
MJ: Behind the plate, he's made significant strides. I believe it has helped his confidence. Initially, that was an area of concern for him. After he was drafted, there were a lot of things for him to learn and so there was a big learning curve for him initially. That meant at that stage, unfortunately, his offense had to take a back-seat to what he needed to learn from a catching standpoint.
There is still room to grow. The catching is always evolving, but we've got through some of the meat-and-potatoes of making some of those [defensive] adjustments. Now it's just reassurance that he's made the transition, he's made improvements and that allows him to build confidence. Now he can relax a little bit more.
OC: I have heard great things about 2013 draft pick Iolana Akau's defensive abilities behind the plate. What did you see from him during his time on your AZL roster last year?
MJ: Another young kid who is coming from high school and is again making that transition into pro ball. The game, even at the Rookie-ball level, tends to be a lot faster than what the kids are accustomed to coming out of high school, whether it is from the offensive standpoint or the defensive-side. At that stage, we are just looking for different skill-sets and how he is able to handle them.
Right away, one of the things we detected from him was his leadership skills and the presence that he had, even as a young kid coming out of high school and dealing with some guys who were older and coming out of college. It didn't appear to phase him, which is great in terms of leadership skills, which you need behind the plate.
He's got a good, quick release. He's got a good, strong arm. He has awareness behind the plate. For a young kid coming out of high school, he had some idea of how to call a game. It wasn't foreign to him. That is always a learning curve, but at least he had some sense of putting certain fingers down in the right situations.
OC: Your 2012 AZL team made the league championship game. A number of those guys moved up to Low-A Beloit in 2013 and really played well together. It seems like that 2012 draft class has gelled together and plays really well together. Was that your sense of that group?
MJ: Yeah. That was a fun year. I enjoyed that year. We had a talented group and it was fun to see some of those guys move on, even in that year. We had enough depth that even with the loss of certain players [to promotions] it gave other players opportunities to move in and get their chance. They stepped in and played well. The nucleus of guys that we had from that class was fun to watch. They performed well and it's good to see those guys continue to have success.
It's a big jump [to full-season ball]. We pushed some of our younger prospects that were on that team and they jumped a level to the Low-A season squad and still performed well, especially with how young they were. That hasn't always happened, especially with our organization in the past. When those guys have made that jump, it has been difficult, but those 2012 guys seemed to be able to do really well.
OC: One of your 2012 players, B.J. Boyd, went to short-season A in 2013, but he had a great year at the plate for Vermont. He added a lot of power to his game in 2013. Was that something that you saw him developing naturally when you had him in Arizona in 2012, or did he make specific adjustments going into 2013?
MJ: B.J., another young high school player, is really athletic. His athleticism will play high for him. It's just a matter of him learning the game and learning how to use his skillsets to help him at the higher levels, but not necessarily rely on those skillsets to have success at the lower levels. There is a development process with him in terms of just playing the game and learning game awareness and what he is capable of doing and what kind of player he is capable of being. He needs reps and he needs plenty of game experience to gain that.
OC: I know you have been in the organization a long time and know most of the players, but was there much transition with [former A's minor league hitting coordinator] Todd Steverson in terms of getting information on some of the hitters at the higher levels that maybe you hadn't seen in a few years?
MJ: Todd and I go way back. We have had a relationship even prior to having both been in the A's organization. He was a big help in making the transition and I am happy for him as far as getting that opportunity in Chicago to coach in the big leagues. But he was a big help with transitioning me into the position when we had a chance to discuss the organization and discuss hitters. It made the transition that much easier for me.
OC: Will you be working at big league camp this spring before minor league camp opens, or will you be working more at the A's mini-camp?
MJ: I'll be involved in both.


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Object-Oriented Programming and Java presents two important topics in contemporary software development: object-oriented programming and Java. This book takes a different teaching approach from most available literature, it begins with the description of real-world object interaction scenarios and explains how they can be translated, represented and executed using object-oriented programming paradigm. Principally, Java is an object-oriented programming language. By establishing a solid foundation in the understanding of object-oriented programming concepts and their applications, the book provides readers with the pre-requisites for writing proper object-oriented programs using Java. Object-Oriented Programming and Java covers the latest in Java technologies and is suitable for undergraduate or postgraduate courses on object-oriented technology, and in particular, using Java as a programming language for creating object-oriented programs.
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- Introduction.
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- Inheritance.
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This conference invites a wide-ranging interrogation of the idea of the voice of the people by scholars from a range of fields. Building from a millennia-old maxim--the voice of the people is the voice of God--the desire to locate, fabricate, and appropriate the vox populi has been especially pervasive for at least the last two centuries. What defines this voice of the people? Is it a voice charged with lore from the ancient past or one as new as today's poll numbers? How is it mediated: who speaks on behalf of the "grass roots," "the American people," the "Arab street"? The concept can challenge authority, promoting populist subversions of hierarchy (carnival, protest, revolution), yet it also feeds an age-old temptation to construct a monologic Voice of a monolithic People, silencing heterogeneous, dialogic voices. Whether sought in man-on-the-street interviews, the "voices of the People in song" (for Herder these included everyone from Homer, to Shakespeare, to Ossian), or contemporary advertising trends, the consensus of popular sentiment remains as elusive (and deceptive) an ideal as ever.
The VOX POP conference will consider the multitudes of peoples and voices that have come under the heading of vox populi, from the ancient populus or hoi polloi to the various "Peoples" of modern nationalism (das Volk, le peuple, narod), and from folksong to political discourse to "the writing on the wall."
A few possible points of orientation and approaches:
Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Berman is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University (German Studies and Comparative Literature). He specializes in the study of German literary history and cultural politics and is the author of numerous articles and award-winning books, including Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture, The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma, and Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation and Nationhood.
Plenary Speaker: Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural History in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on theoretical approaches and research methodologies from literary studies, cultural studies, history, and political theory. Her publications include Modern Labour: Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930; Hélčne Cixous: A Politics of Writing; Discourse on Popular Culture: Class, Gender and History in Cultural Analysis 1730 to the Present; several edited volumes; and numerous articles.
Affiliated Round-Table: "The Voice of the People in the 2004 Primaries," moderated by Charles Bierbauer, Dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina. A distinguished broadcast journalist, Bierbauer was for twenty years a correspondent for CNN in Washington, where he covered the Supreme Court, the Bush and Reagan administrations and the presidential campaigns from 1984-96. From 1977-81, he was an overseas correspondent for ABC News, first as Moscow Bureau Chief and later as the Bonn Bureau chief.
Abstracts: Please send one-page abstracts for twenty-minute papers to the conference organizers, via mail, or e-mail them. Broadly interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. We plan to publish a volume of selected papers from the conference. Updated conference information will be available on the web at our website.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2003


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Police say the duo has a similar MO in all of the robberies. They enter a store and look around, one distracts the employees, and the other either steals cash from the register, merchandise from the store, or personal items like cell phones and iPads from store clerks, police said.
They usually do not have weapons, but do use pepper spray during robberies, police said.
"We think they are juveniles, but we are not sure," Henderson said.
Police tweeted a surveillance image of the two asking for the public's help in identifying them.
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Last line, love it
I've been meaning to buy the game of thrones books so this comic seems as good a time as any to use your amazon link and go order the set for my kindle.
Well, actually there are a few 100% bad characters- Joffrey Baratheon, Ramsay Bolton and Gregor Clegane pretty much have zero redeeming or sympathetic qualities. But all in all, most characters have at least one flaw and/or redeeming feature to make them three-dimesional.
However, I do love how even the bad guys often have pretty nasty things happen to them. It's not just "bad guys win", everyone is pretty much screwed.
The official summary I heard back when I was reading the books (years before HBO got interested) was:
"Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to bad things."
"...[D]oomed in complex ways." -- Mother of God! You just described the human male husband condition..
Favorite characters unexpectedly dying?
What is this, Homestuck?
After three intense seasons [edited out for spoilers]. I'm afraid that my head will explode.
I love you, man. That first panel. "It'd just be me shaking you and screaming in your face." I'm glad that I now know what to say, next time someone asks me about Game of Thrones. I'm reading the books, and getting people telling me about the show. It's gone so far afield, according to my friends, that they might as well have it retitled. Who's for watching some "The show formerly named Game of Thrones"?
You forgot about Arya, she is 100% gold. But yeah, most characters are very interesting, with their conflicting morals and motivations.
You forgot the most important fact about game of thrones: it will not be finished. Ever.
It's also quite interesting how good characters turn out to be bad in some ways and bad characters turn out to almost be heroes, it's definitely something that twists away from what you think will happen.
It's exactly like "The Wire," but completely different!
I've never seen an episode, but this comic sums up the conversations I've had/overheard about it.
This calls for a lively helping of boiled neeps, and shivering stew, washed down with a flagon of Dornish ale.
I'm halfway through the second book and, having seen none of the show, I appreciate everyone's spoiler avoidance. That said, I started reading right after the Red Wedding episode, and people were like, "Shoot, how are you going to avoid TV spoilers when everyone's flipping out on Facebook and Twitter?" People who don't know GRRM don't understand that "a lot of people die" isn't a spoiler. It's practically the tagline of the series.
That said... OMG SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!
You are on a roll. The last several comics have been spectacular.
I love that the drawing of Rick overlapping between the 1st and 2nd panels. Maybe this has been a regular artistic aspect of the comic, but I just noticed it. Very cool Scott!
In some ways, GoT reminds me of the middle seasons of Babylon 5. Who'd have thought in season 1 that they'd ever be afraid of Londo Mollari? Who'd have thought they'd feel sorry for G'kar? Who'd have thought by the end that they'd feel sorry for Londo again? Kind of like that, only with more blood, whores, and eating.
Imagine dozens of people wandering around unseeing in a dark room. This is Game of Thrones. Lots of these people want to find something in the room, so they run around touching things and trying to find what they want.
The floor in the room is made of knives, as are the walls and most of the furniture. Every now and then a grizzly bear is released into the room. The bear is made of knives.
Meanwhile the roof is grinding slowly downwards, waiting to crush all the people. Together they could all stop it but they're too busy trying to murder each other to get stuff.
The stuff they're trying to get is knives.
"No, they're all totally doomed," -- Hey, that is like real life.
Arya is awesome, but she's not 100% good.
Every panel; vast and mighty punchline.
Panel three's: that's my policy.
Panel two's: almost peed myself laughing.
Scott, there's a carreer for you as a reviewer if you ever want to moonlight!
You sir, have managed to successfully sum up all of the books very nicely. I am impressed!
I almost didn't make it to panel 2 because I laughed at 1 for too long.
Well played Scott, well played. "shaking you, and screaming in your face" is what it feels like to read GoT sometimes..
So it's like if you took The Wire, and forged it into chainmail?
"You forgot about Arya, she is 100% gold. "
Yes, and not on a remotely worrying arc of character development. Stab away, little girl!
Rick's observation in panel 3 is pretty much on the money.
Maybe I would like "Game of Thrones" if I gave it a chance, but I rather suspect that I wouldn't. It's more what I know about the tastes of the people who do like it than anything else. Unfair to the author, I know. He can't pick his fans.
Love this one.
And here's a little something for everyone that's read the books [especially those of us who have been into the series since before the HBO series]:
Ya, panel three pretty much covers life...
"Yeah, I don't watch fantasy shows because I like real life." that's how I feel too! I need happy endings :)
Look, just as long as we get to 'ship Arya and Gendry, we'll be fine... really, we'll be fi... Martin, why are you aiming a rusty chainsaw at Gendry?! NO MARTIN! NOOOOOOOOooooo
I've been watching the series from the beginning and was going to start reading the books, but after the end of season 1 when the first of the good guys "lost is head" so to speak I said screw-it.
But I kept watching, hoping Ned's kids get their revenge, and wanting that Joffrey punk kid to get his head chopped off, and was thinking of reading the books again. But after the last episode of this season where, as everyone knows, everyone dies, I've given up. No more GoT for me, either in print or on the tube. I'm not going to invest any more time or emotion on this. If I want drama, aggravation and back-stabbing, all I have to do is go to work. I don't need it at home just before I go to bed.
Rick is spilling out of the second frame. Is this a new stylistic element, or am I just unobservant?
I gave up reading the books on volume 2 or 3, after the Nth time he waved the "the only remaining character with any redeeming values whatsoever just got killed horribly".
Yeh, bad things happen to bad people, sometimes, but mostly they seem to happen to good people, or else he was killing off all the good people in books 1 and 2 to get them out of the way, and hadn't really started killing off the total bastards yet.
I think that Rick's comment should be "Yeah, I don't watch fantasy shows because I don't like real life", then it would make sense in the context of the previous statement by Scott. Particularly because the "yeah" implies agreeing with the previous statement. Was a "don't" accidentally dropped from his response?
Dale, you're misreading it. He's not saying "I don't watch fantasy shows, and the reason for that is that I like real life", he's saying "I watch fantasy shows, but the reason for that is not that I like real life".
My Wife and I have started watching Thame of Groans; and we are having trouble keeping all the characters straight.
Let's see, there's King Robbie-Me-Boy Barely-Barrable and his wife Cherish; her twin brother Twinion and the dwarf called Zippy; Daenerys Benadryl, only daughter of Advil Tarragon; and Caetelyn Tylenol, married to Eddie Izzard;. Right?
Trying to remember them all is giving me a headache.
Think Geek has shared this one on Facebook. Scott, you're famous!
I'm afraid that GoT ultimately is just a story you'd expect to see on SyFy. Like, "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" was never about Debbie Gibson and Tiffany; it was about a giant snake fighting a giant alligator. Similarly, the characters in GoT are filler to occupy us up to the real "plot," which is a damn fight between dragons and zombies.


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I am in my mid 40s and still very active. Physically I keep myself in very good shape and have not changed much since my 20s.
Since the birth of our 2nd child (more than 12 yrs ago) our sex life has stopped (once every couple of months or less). My wife comes from a conservative family in which she was taught sex was dirty and was necessary for children ONLY.
She has let herself go and has no interest in making herself look better. She constantly complains that she is fat but eats a bag of chips while she is complaining. I travel a lot and although the opportunity presented itself a number of times, I never strayed until recently. I met a nice girl who made me feel attractive and competent again. My wife makes me feel ugly and stupid.
Anyway, one thing led to another and... it was fun for a while but then turned into a nightmare. Rather than have a Tiger wood incident, I did fess-up and took the heat. I thought we had moved on but, that too, was short lived.
I have always been one who took on a challenge head on but in this case I just want to leave. In a few years our kids will leave the nest and then I fear so will I, thus ending up like so many other couples who stay together just for the kids.
My wife is a great friend and we still like to do stuff together but I didn't get married to have "just a friend". I could understand if I was a fat slob who was constantly groping after her but that is not the case. I try everything to keep my appearance up, I compliment her, help her around the house and try to take as much house work on so that she isn't SO TIRED.
I'm at the point where I feel I can't do anymore and that she is just taking advantage of me. I've even tried to get us into counseling but she refuses that as well. Any suggestions?
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Sounds like a tough situation. I am not sure what to suggest except to follow what you think is best. If your wife won't go to marriage counseling you might find that getting some counseling for yourself will be useful in figuring out what the right action is for you.
It is difficult when one person wants to move forward, and the other one won't.
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The civil parish names can be read with a magnifying glass, if needs be. The lightly coloured areas were parts of parishes transferred from one district council to another during the period 1894-1974.
Hull, officially Kingston upon Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea.[1] Hull has a resident population of.
The town of Hull was founded late in the 12th century. The monks of Meaux Abbey needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported. They chose a place at the junction of the rivers Hull and Humber to build a quay.
The exact year the town was founded is not known but it was first mentioned in 1193, as Wyke on Hull. Renamed Kings-town upon Hull by King Edward I in 1299, the town and city of Hull has served as market town, military supply port, a trading hub,[2] fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis.[3]
Hull was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars.[2] Its 18th-century Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.
The city is unique in the UK in having had a municipally owned telephone system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, telephone boxes.
After suffering heavy damage during the Second World War (the 'Hull Blitz'),[2] Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, during which the city gained unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation, education and policing. During the early 21st-century spending boom (before the late 2000s recession) the city saw large amounts of new retail, commercial, housing and public service construction spending.
Established tourist attractions include the historic Old Town and Museum Quarter, Hull Marina and The Deep, a city landmark. The redevelopment of one of Hull's main thoroughfares, Ferensway, included the opening of St. Stephen's Hull and the new Hull Truck Theatre. Spectator sporting activities include Premier League football and Super League Rugby. The KC Stadium houses the Hull City football club and Hull FC rugby club and Craven Park is home to rugby club Hull Kingston Rovers. Hull is also home to the Elite Ice Hockey League Hull Stingrays.
In November 2013, it was announced that Hull would be the 2017 UK City of Culture.[4]
Following the Local Government Act 1888, Hull became a county borough, a local government district independent of the East Riding of Yorkshire. This district was dissolved under the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 when it became a non-metropolitan district of the newly created shire county of Humberside. Humberside (and its county council) was abolished on 1 April 1996 and Hull was made a unitary authority area, geographically within the modern county named the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The single-tier local authority of the city is now Hull City Council (officially Kingston upon Hull City Council), with its headquarters in the Guildhall in the city centre.
Kingston upon Hull stands on the north bank of the Humber estuary at the mouth of its tributary, the River Hull. The valley of the River Hull has been inhabited since the early Neolithic period but there is little evidence of a substantial settlement in the area of the present city. The general area was attractive to early developers because it gave access to a prosperous hinterland and navigable rivers, but the actual site was not good, as it was remote and low-lying with no fresh water. It was originally an outlying part of the hamlet of Myton, named Wyke. The name is thought to originate either from a Scandinavian word Vik meaning creek, or from the Saxon Wic meaning dwelling place or refuge.
The River Hull was a good haven for shipping, whose trade included the export of wool from Meaux abbey. In 1293 the town was acquired from the abbey by King Edward I, who on 1 April 1299 granted it a royal charter that renamed the settlement King's town upon Hull, or Kingston upon Hull. The charter is preserved in the archives of the city's Guildhall.
In 1440, a further charter incorporated the town and instituted local government consisting of a mayor, a sheriff, and twelve aldermen.[2]
In his Guide to Hull (1817), J.C. Craggs provides a colourful background to Edward's acquisition and naming of the town. He writes that the King and a hunting party started a hare which "led them along the delightful banks of the River Hull to the hamlet of Wyke … [Edward], charmed with the scene before him, viewed with delight the advantageous situation of this hitherto neglected and obscure corner. He foresaw it might become subservient both to render the kingdom more secure against foreign invasion, and at the same time greatly to enforce its commerce". Pursuant to these thoughts, Craggs continues, Edward purchased the land from the Abbot of Meaux, had a manor hall built for himself, issued proclamations encouraging development within the town, and bestowed upon it the royal appellation, King's Town.
The port served as a base for Edward I during the First War of Scottish Independence and later developed into the foremost port on the east coast of England. It prospered by exporting wool and woollen cloth, and importing wine and timber. Hull also established a flourishing commerce with the Baltic ports as part of the Hanseatic League.
From its medieval beginnings, Hull's main trading links were with Scotland and northern Europe. Scandinavia, the Baltic and the Low Countries were all key trading areas for Hull's merchants. In addition, there was trade with France, Spain and Portugal. As sail power gave way to steam, Hull's trading links extended throughout the world. Docks were opened to serve the frozen meat trade of Australia, New Zealand and South America. Hull was also the centre of a thriving inland and coastal trading network, serving the whole of the United Kingdom.
Sir William de la Pole was the town's first mayor. A prosperous merchant, de la Pole founded a family that became prominent in government.[2] Another successful son of a Hull trading family was bishop John Alcock, who founded Jesus College, Cambridge and was a patron of the grammar school in Hull.[2] The increase in trade after the discovery of the Americas and the town's maritime connections are thought to have played a part in the introduction of a virulent strain of syphilis through Hull and on into Europe from the New World.
During the English Civil War, Hull became strategically important because of the large arsenal located there. Very early in the war, on 11 January 1642, the king named the Earl of Newcastle governor of Hull while Parliament nominated Sir John Hotham and asked his son, Captain John Hotham, to secure the town at once.[2] Sir John Hotham and Hull corporation declared support for Parliament and denied Charles I entry into the town.[2] Charles I responded to these events by besieging the town.[2] This siege helped precipitate open conflict between the forces of Parliament and those of the Royalists.[2]
Throughout the second half of the 19th century and leading up to the First World War, the Port of Hull played a major role in the transmigration of Northern European settlers to the New World, with thousands of emigrants sailing to the city and stopping for administrative purposes before travelling on to Liverpool and then North America.
Parallel to this growth in passenger shipping was the emergence of the Wilson Line of Hull. Founded in the city in 1825 by Thomas Wilson, by the early 20th century the company had grown – largely through its monopolisation of North Sea passenger routes and later mergers and acquisitions – to be the largest privately owned shipping company in the world, with over 100 ships sailing to different parts of the globe. The Wilson Line was sold to the Ellerman Line – which itself was owned by Hull-born magnate (and the richest man in Britain at the time) Sir John Ellerman.
Whaling played a major role in the town's fortunes until the mid-19th century.[2] Hull's prosperity peaked in the decades just before the First World War; it was during this time, in 1897, that city status was granted.[3] After the decline of the whaling industry, emphasis shifted to deep-sea trawling until the Anglo-Icelandic Cod War of 1975–1976. The conditions set at the end of this dispute initiated Hull's economic decline.[2]
Many of the suburban areas on the western side of Hull were built in the 1930s, particularly Willerby Road and Anlaby Park, as well as most of Willerby itself. This was part of the biggest British housing boom of the 20th century (possibly ever).
Hull Blitz
The city's port and industrial facilities, coupled with its proximity to mainland Europe and ease of location being on a major estuary, led to extremely widespread damage by bombing raids during the Second World War; much of the city centre was destroyed.[2] Hull had 95% of its houses damaged or destroyed, making it the most severely bombed British city or town, apart from London, during the Second World War. More than 1,200 people died in air raids on the city and some 3,000 others were injured.
The worst of the bombing occurred in 1941. Little was known about this destruction by the rest of the country at the time, since most of the radio and newspaper reports did not reveal Hull by name but referred to it as "a North-East town" or "a northern coastal town". Most of the city centre was rebuilt in the years following the war. As recently as 2006 researchers found documents in the local archives that suggested an unexploded wartime bomb might be buried beneath a major new redevelopment, The Boom, in Hull.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Kingston upon Hull.
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Ever wonder why producers picked Madonna (center, in Buenos Aires with historian Enrique Oliva, left, and translator Laura Ayersa) to star in Evita, the story of Argentine legend Eva Perón, a woman of uncommon ambition and cunning who rose from obscurity to become one of the most famous and powerful women on the planet, known for her cool clothes and clear-eyed aim at world domination? Hmmm...
All that glitters is not Natalie Cole, but the rest most certainly was as the singer performed at the Friends of Sheba Medical Center's Rabin Awards in Beverly Hills.
As 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley (center) looked on, Cuban leader Fidel Castro got in his jabs at yet another American institution—Muhammad AH, who brought the CBS news show along on a humanitarian trip to Havana to deliver medical supplies.
Riding high on the success of their respective shows, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee's Regis Philbin caught up with Brett Butler, star of ABC's Grace Under Fire, at the National Association of Television Program Executives Conference in Las Vegas.
The Forum in L.A. became Magic's kingdom once again when a sellout crowd celebrated Earvin Johnson's return to the Lakers on Jan. 30 after a four-year absence. "I wanted my son to see his daddy play," said Johnson, 36, whose son Earvin III, 3, wife, Cookie, and daughter Elisa, 1 (below), watched him score 19 points to help beat the Golden State Warriors 128-118. "I'm kicking myself for not coming back sooner," said Johnson (with Warrior Chris Gatling, above), who retired on Nov. 7, 1991, after announcing that he was HIV positive. "But now is the right time. The NBA has educated every team in the league about HIV and AIDS." Johnson adjusted to reentry during a standing ovation. "At first I couldn't really feel the game," he said afterward. "Then I got hit, and I knew I was back."
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