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2016 – what the actual??
Posted by cathannabel in Africa, Events, Politics, Refugees on December 15, 2016
It's been a funny old year. Not so much of the ha ha, either. Is there anything to be said that hasn't already been said, better probably? I doubt it, but I can't write about the books, films and other cultural pleasures of the year without acknowledging the seismic changes and alarming portents that it has presented.
Reasons to be Miserable:
Daesh initiated or inspired terrorist attacks clocked up more deaths and more terrible injuries than the mind can encompass. As always, most of these were Muslims, in Muslim countries, although our news media inevitably foregrounds the attacks in France, Belgium and the USA. As appalling as those murders were, on my very rough calculations, Iraq was the worst hit, with over 450 deaths, followed by Pakistan. I tweeted the names of the dead from Brussels, Nice and Orlando, but will never know the names of most of those murdered in Kabul, Istanbul, Jakarta, Baghdad, Ouagadougou, Quetta, Grand Bassam or Aden.
According to the UNHCR, the number of migrants dying whilst crossing the Mediterranean reached 3800, a record. Fewer are making that journey, but they are making it via the more perilous routes and in flimsier boats. Worldwide, over 65 million people are forcibly displaced, over 21 million are refugees, and 10 million stateless. The vast majority of those displaced are hosted in neighbouring countries in Africa or the Middle East. Six per cent are in Europe. Over half of the world's refugees came from just three countries – Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia.
With regard to Syria, anything I say here may be outdated before I press Publish, but there can be no doubt that we are seeing one of the greatest tragedies of our times unfold, and that war crimes are happening there which will be remembered with shame and horror.
I've been told to shut up about Brexit, that the people have spoken and they've said we must leave Europe and that's that. As if democracy means that once the votes are counted, those whose views did not prevail must be silent or be regarded as traitors, as if, had the vote gone the way everyone (including Farage and Johnson) expected it to, they would have shut up and let 'the will of the people' prevail. Firstly, whilst a majority of those who voted said we should leave Europe, that is all they said. They were not asked and so they did not vote on whether we should leave the single market, what should happen about immigration controls, what trade agreements should be in place outside the EU, what would happen to EU citizens based in the UK or vice versa, what would happen to those employment and wider human rights and other legal provisions currently under the EU umbrella. And so on. All of that has now to be negotiated and worked out, and that's a job for Parliament. How else could it possibly happen? If anyone thinks they understand how the EU works and thus what are the implications of hard or soft Brexit, they need to read Ian Dunt's book – Brexit- What the Hell Happens Now? Dunt isn't talking about the arguments pro or con Brexit, but about what could happen now, what the options are, what the most likely consequences of each option are, and so on.
The US election outcome was described to me by an American colleague recently as 'somewhere between a mess and a catastrophe'. I am (for once) holding back from comment – I know how deeply this is felt by US friends, some of whom are now seeing fault lines in their families and friendships as some support what others find inexplicable and irrational. We've seen a bit of that here since June. A left-wing Brexiter said to me recently that his view was that the EU was so compromised and corrupted that we had to break it in order to fix it. My fear is that some things that get broken simply can't be mended. Something of the same feeling seems to have prevailed in the US – and that's one of the reasons why the arguments against Trump failed to stop him winning.
This is the year when I've felt closest to despair, for all the above reasons, and because the Labour Party, which I'd thought was my natural home politically, has been so ineffectual in opposition. I took the hard decision to resign my membership – I doubt that I will join another party, perhaps I have to accept that there is not, and never will be, a political party to which I could sign up without caveats and qualms. In that case I have to be led by my principles and values and be willing to back, vote for, work with those politicians and activists who seem closest to them, whether they be Labour, Green, Lib Dem, Women's Equality or any combination of the above.
On the other hand…
The Hillsborough inquests returned their verdict, and concluded that planning errors, failures of senior managers, commanding officers and club officials, and the design of the stadium, all contributed to the disaster. The behaviour of fans did not. Thus the tireless, dignified campaign fought by the families, survivors and their supporters, was finally vindicated, fully and unequivocally. Read Phil Scraton's Hillsborough – The Truth, updated in light of the inquest verdict, and Adrian Tempany's account of that day and what followed, and his excellent book exploring the broader picture in contemporary football, And the Sun Shines Now.
Too early to say whether Standing Rock will turn out to be a victory for the Native American and other environmental protestors – but it was truly remarkable to see the army veterans who had joined them on the site asking for and receiving forgiveness for the long history of oppression and genocide against the indigenous peoples.
Too early to say, too, whether Gambia has taken a historic step towards democracy, or wheher the defeated dictator will be successful in his attempts to overthrown the result of the election. (Meantime in Ghana another peaceful general election brings about a change of government ).
Too early to say whether hard right parties in Europe will prevail, or whether the tide will turn against them before people go to the ballot, but at least the Austrian electorate rejected the Freedom Party's presidential candidate in favour of a former leader of the Greens.
If 2016 leads us to expect the worst (after two nights spent sitting up waiting for election results which delivered the outcome we feared most, against the predictions of the pundits), then we have to remember that this does not mean that the die is irrevocably cast.
So, reasons to be anxious, reasons to be angry, reasons to be sad – but not reasons to lose all hope.
I've tried, throughout this hard year, to hold on to my own brand of faith. It's not been easy, and it won't be easy.
In all of this, though, I have found joy in family and friends, in working for Inspiration for Life and in our extraordinary 24 Hour Inspire, in books and film and music and theatre and opera and TV, in my PhD research, in walking in the lovely countryside on our doorstep. I'm bloody lucky, and I do know it.
If I'm going to sum up, somehow, what I want to say about 2016, I think I will leave it to Patti Smith, singing Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain, at the Nobel Prize ceremony. She stumbled, apologised, and began again. In her performance, and in Dylan's song, there is humanity and hope.
Citizen of the World
Posted by cathannabel in Patriotism, Politics, Refugees on October 7, 2016
According to our Prime Minister,
if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere. You don't understand what the very word 'citizenship' means.
The examples she gives are of people who regard themselves as above the obligations and responsibilities to the communities in which they live and work, who identify themselves with 'international elites' rather than with 'the people down the road, the people they employ, the people they pass in the street.' She talks of 'the spirit of citizenship'.
Prime Minister : You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Those of us who identify ourselves as citizens of the world do, indeed, 'respect the bonds and obligations that make our society work'. But we see those bonds and obligations as extending beyond the people who live around us, work for us, buy the goods and services we sell.
As a citizen of the UK, I honour my commitments and responsibilities to the country of my birth, the country where I have spent most of my life, where I have worked, paid taxes, and raised a family. But I also believe that:
In an increasingly connected world, local needs are intertwined with global needs. We are in the midst of serious challenges that threaten the whole world, and which require collective responsibility: climate change, extreme poverty, and the refugee crisis. Being a citizen of the world means acknowledging that we each have a part to play in solving these urgent global problems.
And in a world where 24 people are forced to flee their home each minute, the idea of a fixed national identity is sadly a privilege not all humans can claim. Where do you belong when your country is no longer your own? The tragedy of the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War is a moving reminder of the need to look beyond borders. We need an inclusive identity for all the world's displaced people – one that encompasses our responsibility for each other, wherever we call home. Whether you're a founder of a multimillion-dollar business, a Prime Minister, or a refugee with nothing but a mobile phone and the clothes on your back, you can be a Global Citizen.
I spent some of my childhood years in a newly independent West African nation. My parents flew out to Ghana in 1960, with three children under four years old. My father taught Physics and Mathematics to undergraduates at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in Kumasi. He wrote a textbook for use in schools, recognising that those imported from the UK not only assumed resources far beyond the means of Ghanaian schools, but also assumed cultural references which would make no sense to Ghanaian children. He went on to train teachers in the north of Nigeria. And in his retirement, after years doing the same at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University), he set up an organisation to link retired educators with projects in developing countries, sending them out to work with local teachers to use their lifetimes of expertise where it was most needed, in countries such as Paraguay, Kosovo, Iraq, Liberia, India and Chad.
The country of my parents who instilled in me a sense of public service and of public servants everywhere who want to give something back.
So what was instilled in me by my parents was not only a sense of public service, but the belief that that does not stop at our coastline, that it's not just 'the people down the road', but the people across the oceans who matter.
It's not about 'international elites', it's about refugees, about people who are persecuted because of their politics, their religion or their sexuality, about people who starve because the world's resources are so unevenly distributed and because their own and other governments do not have the will to act, about people… About people.
Global citizenship does not mean what Teresa May thinks (or at least says) it means.
But there's another troubling undertone here.
'the people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere … the only ones who can be addressed as international, because they conduct their business everywhere'
'International elites', 'rootless cosmopolitans' who owe no loyalty to the countries in which they may live and work. I am not suggesting for a moment that Teresa May is deliberately echoing Adolf Hitler's 1933 speech, any more than Amber Rudd's proposal to require firms to list all of their foreign workers is consciously preparing the ground for yellow stars or their equivalent.
But the echoes are worrying. With the Brexit vote having been interpreted by the government primarily as a vote about immigration, and by racist bigots as a vote against foreigners of all kinds, with the plans to tighten even further the tests which would allow British businesses to employ people from overseas, and those which allow students to come from overseas to study here…
It seems that we are prepared to put into jeopardy our health services and the many other businesses and services which rely on overseas expertise, to put into jeopardy our economy, which gains so much from international students paying £20k a year in fees alone to study here, to put into jeopardy our research culture which thrives on the free movement of academics, all to reduce the net migration total.
Teresa May referred to the UK's remarkable number of Nobel Laureates. But one of this year's prize winners, Sir Fraser Stoddart, has reminded us that 'recruiting from a wider pool and bringing in talent from abroad raises everyone's standard'.
"When you get people from Messina or Madrid moving to a cold place like Sheffield, they're serious about science," he said. "It's better for everyone."
Sir Martin Rees, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, and the Astronomer Royal, warns:
"The UK scientific scene is now much stronger than it was [in the 1980s] – thanks in part of the strengthening of science on mainland Europe. But there is a serious risk, aggravated by the tone of Amber Rudd's deplorable speech on Tuesday, that there will be a renewed surge of defections, weakening UK science and causing us to fail to recoup our investments over the last 20 years."
Amber Rudd spoke of the resident labour market test, which determines whether an organisation can recruit outside the UK (and, at present, EU).
The test should ensure people coming here are filling gaps in the labour market, not taking jobs British people could do.
But it's become a tick box exercise, allowing some firms to get away with not training local people. We won't win in the world if we don't do more to upskill our own workforce.
It's not fair on companies doing the right thing. So I want us to look again at whether our immigration system provides the right incentives for businesses to invest in British workers.
Most people hearing this will not know how onerous it already is to appoint someone from outside the UK/EU, how many hoops the employer will have to jump through to satisfy the requirements for a Tier 2 visa to be issued, and how many hoops the applicant will have to jump through. Amber Rudd knows this perfectly well, as do many in her audience. But none of that really matters – what it's about is meeting this arbritrary net migration target, by whatever means.
She also tackled the issue of international students:
The current system allows all students, irrespective of their talents and the university's quality, favourable employment prospects when they stop studying. … And foreign students, even those studying English Language degrees, don't even have to be proficient in speaking English. We need to look at whether this one size fits all approach really is right for the hundreds of different universities, providing thousands of different courses across the country.
Her first point is moot. An international student can apply to stay on after their studies are complete under a Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa – if they have access to at least £50k investment funds to set up or run a UK business. Or, they may apply for a Tier 2 visa, if they have been offered a job by a licensed UK employer, and if they can rack up 70 points under the points based system (yes, we do have a points based system!), which requires them, amongst other things, to have English language qualifications at a suitable level, and sufficient funds in their personal bank account. And all overseas students have to meet English language proficiency requirements at a level set by their institution.
But important as it is to call her out on the inaccuracies in her statement, the really important thing is what underlies it. The assumption that students are flooding here, unable to speak the language, getting favourable treatment post-study, bringing their entire extended families with them – that they are a burden and a problem.
To quote Rudd:
try and stand up for a multiracial Britain and you are labelled part of the liberal elite; point out the £20 billion net contribution from immigrants over a decade and you are told you are not listening to the people; oppose hate crime and you are mocked for political correctness. It is easier to vilify foreigners in the new Britain than it is to espouse European values.
OK, not that Rudd. Her brother, in fact, who has founded an organisation called Open Britain, a place for those who find the denigration of non-British workers appalling and campaigning for Britain to be open and inclusive, open for business, open to trade and investment, open to talent and hard work, open to Europe and to the world.
For Teresa May and Amber Rudd and so many in the Tory Party (and elsewhere) EU migrants are a problem. Overseas workers and students are a problem. Refugees are a problem. Foreigners are a problem.
And the problem can be solved by ending free movement of EU citizens, if need be losing out on beneficial trade deals as a quid pro quo, by tightening up still further on the freedom of employers to bring in the skills and expertise they need to contribute to our economy and to our academic research, by reducing the numbers of students paying substantial fees and contributing to the local economy whilst acquiring skills and qualifications which might be useful both here and in their home country.
The problem can be solved by stating repeatedly that we are doing 'everything we can' (whilst doing nothing at all) to bring unaccompanied child refugees who have the right to come to Britain, out of the camp at Calais – due to be demolished shortly – and to safety with family here.
Meanwhile the children remain in the squalor and misery of the camps, prey to traffickers and abusers, desperate enough to risk and lose their lives in attempts to board lorries crossing the Channel. Every day they remain puts them at greater risk of harm, and increases their trauma. But refugees – even these children – are a problem, and therefore we stall and hedge and do nothing.
And whilst we make that arbitrary division between those who live and work here holding a British passport and those who live and work here holding EU or overseas passports, we are about to guarantee for Britons who have settled overseas permanently a "vote for life" in British general elections…
The word 'cosmopolitan' is often used in a way that perhaps feeds into Teresa May's characterisation, of someone who is part of 'a meritocratic order that transforms difference into similarity, by plucking the best and brightest from everywhere and homogenizing them into the peculiar species that we call 'global citizens'".
But that's a distortion of what it means.
Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own. It takes its cue from a Roman playwright's line that "nothing human is alien to me," and goes outward ready to be transformed by what it finds.
A global or world citizen places their shared humanity above nationalistic or local identities. They recognise our interconnectedness, and that the problems and threats we face – climate change, terrorism, the displacement of peoples through war and famine – cannot be solved other than by nations working together and that our response is hindered rather than helped by borders and barriers. Global citizenship only comes into conflict with national and local identities, and with the obligations and responsibilities of national citizenship, if that nation demands of its citizens allegiance to values which are inhumane.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, is about as cosmopolitan as anyone could be. His mother was English (daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps), his father Ghanaian. He was educated in Ghana and the UK, and taught in Germany, Ghana, South Africa and France as well as in the US. His family and that of his husband, Henry Finder, is scattered across four continents.
He defines cosmopolitanism as 'universality plus difference' asserting that the first takes precedence over the latter, that is: different cultures are respected "not because cultures matter in themselves, but because people matter, and culture matters to people."
The foreignness of foreigners, the strangeness of strangers, these things are real enough, but Appiah suggests that intellectuals and leaders, on the left and the right, have wildly exaggerated their significance. He scrutinizes the treacly celebration of "diversity," the hushed invocations of the "Other," and the brow-furrowing talk of "difference." In developing a cosmopolitanism for our times, he defends a vision of art and literature as a common human possession, distinguishes the global claims of cosmopolitanism from those of its fundamentalist enemies, and explores what we do, and do not, owe to strangers. This deeply humane account will make it harder for us to think of the world as divided between the West and the Rest, between locals and moderns, between Us and Them.
That the language around immigration is becoming ever more toxic is recognised across the political spectrum. What might have been unsurprising in a UKIP manifesto is now mainstream Tory policy, and whilst many in Labour have been quick and vigorous in opposition, the Party's Press Office inexplicably seemed to think that pointing out the government's failure to meet its targets in reducing net migration was the best response.
More hopefully, the Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru were unequivocal:
The narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe… and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory.
This is a profoundly moral question which gets to the heart of what sort of country we think we live in. We will not tolerate the contribution of people from overseas to our NHS being called into question, or a new version of the divisive rhetoric of 'British jobs for British workers'. Neither will we allow the people of these islands, no matter how they voted on June 23rd, to be presented as a reactionary, xenophobic mass whose only concern is somehow taking the UK back to a lost imperial age. At a time of increasing violence and tension, we will call out the actions of politicians who threaten to enflame those same things.
It's perilously easy to despair. But if we do, if we let the seemingly endless tide of sickening rhetoric and bad news overwhelm us and reduce us to silence and inaction, those who will suffer will be those who are already vulnerable, those who are already being told to 'go home', facing abuse and discrimination, those who are desperately trying to reach safety and encountering the impermeable indifference of bureaucracy, those who have made their lives and careers here and now feel unwelcome.
'There is no us and them. It's us and us. It's all us.'
No pasaran.
8 Decades of Refugees
Posted by cathannabel in Africa, Genocide, Refugees on June 24, 2016
We may be preoccupied at present with the refugee crisis that has brought so many thousands across the Mediterranean and across Europe, displaced by war in Africa and the Middle East. But looking back over the decades, this is really nothing new.
In 1936, refugees were escaping from flooding in Shantung, in China, and were fed and housed by the provisional government in Tsinan.
In the USA, the Dust Bowl and resulting drought forced tens of thousands of families to abandon their farms. Many migrated to California in the hope of finding better conditions. Meanwhile in Europe, the Spanish Civil War led many to flee, often heading across the border into France, which proved only a temporary haven, and in Germany Jews who had been subjected to anti-semitic legislation were taking whatever opportunities they could to leave before things got worse. CARA (under the name of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning) was working to find posts in British universities for academics thrown out of their posts at institutions in Germany.
1946 saw displacement on a massive scale, across most of Europe. Germans were forcibly expelled from the territories that had been occupied during the war and now fell under the Soviet remit.
Many citizens of Eastern European countries were desperately trying to stay in the West. And the survivors of the concentration camps were making their way to the homes they had once known, or waiting for the possibility of passage to Palestine, or the US.
In 1956 the brutal Soviet suppression of the uprising in Hungary led to around 200,000 people fleeing the country, initially to Austria and West Germany.
In 1966 Vietnamese were fleeing ahead of the Vietcong advance. The New York Times reported that nearly half of the 10,000 inhabitants of the An Lao valley had chosen to leave, pleading desperately with withdrawing US troops for help.
In 1976 in Lebanon the civil war created a wave of refugees, around 900,000, or about one-fifth of the population. On 12 August 1976, supported by Syria, Maronite forces managed to overwhelm the Palestinian and leftist militias defending the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp in East Beirut, and 1,000-1,500 civilians were massacred.
In 1986 the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka generated thousands of internally displaced people as well as refugees, mostly Tamils. Many fled to neighbouring India and western countries such as Canada, France, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
In 1996, the refugee crisis in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide became increasingly unstable. Hutu militants in the camps were now well organised, and led attacks into Rwanda and eastern Zaire. In what became known as the First Congo War, around half a million people were herded by the militants into the border areas, and subsequently fled back into Rwanda, or further into Zaire. Tens of thousands were killed, or died of exposure or starvation.
Ten years ago, refugees came primarily from Sudan, DRC, Somalia and CAR, as they do currently. In addition, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia generated significant numbers of refugees following their civil wars, and the ongoing crisis in the Great Lakes area added Burundi and Rwanda to the list.
2016 – more than 1,200 people have died of starvation and illness at an aid camp in north-east Nigeria that houses people fleeing the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières.
It goes on, and it always will. There will always be wars, and rumours of wars. There will be, increasingly, natural disasters as a result of climate change. There will be persecution and oppression and terrorism. People will leave because they have to, because home is the mouth of a shark. And we will have to find better ways of helping them, we must be braver, more generous, more open. Today of all days that seems a forlorn hope. But we must hang on to it, nonetheless.
Migration Matters Festival
Friday 24th June
To Walk in Your Shoes, by Rachael Munro-Fawcett
The Scar Test, by Untold
"I came to England, scarred for life."
Deaths by Rescue, by SYMAAG with Dr Simon Parker
Film & discussion on the refugee crisis.
Iftar with Open Kitchen
Food and conversation!
One in 113
Posted by cathannabel in Africa, Genocide, Refugees on June 23, 2016
One person in 113 worldwide is displaced from home due to conflict or persecution. That's the highest it's ever been. We're talking about forced displacement, not people choosing to leave home because they fancy a better life somewhere else. Warsan Shire's poem expresses this with immense power:
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
The UNHCR says that Syria at 4.9 million, Afghanistan at 2.7 million and Somalia at 1.1 million together accounted for more than half the refugees under its mandate worldwide. Colombia at 6.9 million, Syria at 6.6 million and Iraq at 4.4 million had the largest numbers of internally displaced people.
Commentators have often shown an uncanny ability to scan the faces of the people in the boats or waiting at border posts and determine where they have come from, and then to use these conclusions to argue that they are not 'genuine' refugees but economic migrants. Better to turn to the data gathered by UNHCR.
These tell us that the countries producing the highest number of refugees are, in order,
One does not have to be an expert on world affairs to be aware that the majority of these countries are, and in some cases have been for many years, riven by vicious civil wars, often spilling over into neighbouring countries. The accusation that the young males amongst the refugees should be fighting for their country is nonsensical in these chaotic and volatile situations – who should they be fighting with, or against? An oppressive government or an extremist rebel force? Often both official and unofficial forces bolster their fighting strength by forcing boys and young men to join them. In Sudan and CAR there has been at least the threat of genocide, in DRC disease and famine as well horrific violence and rape on an unthinkable scale. In addition, IS and its affiliates are active in many of these areas.
Given all that, why do we even wonder about the motivations of those who flee?
The other accusation that is often made is that 'they' should have sought refuge in neighbouring countries – the nearest safe place – rather than heading to Europe. Most do. In all, 86 per cent of the refugees under UNHCR's mandate in 2015 were in low- and middle-income countries close to situations of conflict. Worldwide, Turkey was the biggest host country, with 2.5 million refugees. With nearly one refugee for every five citizens, Lebanon hosted more refugees compared to its population than any other country.
But in these countries, those who have fled genocide, famine, war and persecution find themselves in refugee camps. These are, by definition if not in practice, temporary holding spaces, transitory, a stop along the road to a place to call home. They are likely to be desperately short of food and medical supplies, sanitation is often rudimentary at best, and there is little prospect of education for the children. Many of the countries that host most of the world's refugees are barely able to support their own citizens. When we say we are full or that we do not have the resources to support a pitifully tiny percentage of the desperate displaced people who need our help, we are demonstrating our own complacency and ignorance.
Here in Europe we can afford to feed, clothe, house and heal our own AND more. The statistics tell us that we are not doing our bit, nowhere near.
Migration Matters Festival – Thursday 23 June
Verse Matters – a Feminist Arts Event (19.30 pm) An inclusive, supportive space for poetry, spoken word, storytelling, music and comedy. Performers include Khadijah Ibrahim, Rae Burgess and Chijioke Ojukwu.
Safe Haven
Posted by cathannabel in Refugees on June 22, 2016
Magnus Wennman's heartwrenching series of photos, "Where The Children Sleep," , shows what happens to the children fleeing the conflict in Syria. He says that whilst the conflict and the crisis can be difficult for people to understand, "there is nothing hard to understand about how children need a safe place to sleep … They have lost some hope. It takes very much for a child to stop being a child and to stop having fun, even in really bad places."
The recent debate about offering sanctuary to unaccompanied child refugees was constantly and powerfully connected to the story of the Kindertransport. As the Nazi threat to the Jews of Europe became clear, a number of individuals, including Sir Nicholas Winton, negotiated and organised transport for children to places of safety. Their parents sent them onwards, with small suitcases or rucksacks packed with care and love, with the things they thought they'd need and the things that would remind them of home. Some parents managed to get away separately, and were subsequently reunited with their children. Most were too late, and perished.
The children who arrived in the UK were welcomed by a variety of organisations, Jewish and Quaker amongst others, and provided with foster homes. There was a brief window of opportunity – once war was declared, borders closed, and no more trains could leave Germany, Austria or Czechoslovakia. Other trains would take many of the children left behind to other, terrible destinations. Some children got no further than France or the Netherlands, and many of those were deported from the homes they'd found there after those countries were occupied. Gerda-Sophie Klein was born in Vienna in 1935, and came to the Netherlands early in 1939. She survived until 1944, when she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered, on her 9th birthday.
In the House of Commons, on 21 November 1938, Sir Samuel Hoare (then Home Secretary) told Members of Parliament:
I could not help thinking what a terrible dilemma it was to the Jewish parents in Germany to have to choose between sending their children to a foreign country, into the unknown, and continuing to live in the terrible conditions to which they are now reduced in Germany. I saw this morning one of the representatives of the Quaker organisations, who told me that he had only arrived in England this morning from a visit to Germany and a visit to Holland. He inquired of the Jewish organisations in Germany what would be the attitude of the Jewish parents to a proposal of this kind, and he told me that the Jewish parents were almost unanimously in favour of facing this parting with their children and taking the risks of their children going to a foreign country, rather than keeping them with them to face the unknown dangers with which they are faced in Germany.
No one claims an exact equivalence between the circumstances in Nazi Europe and those we face now. But equally no one would doubt that in desperate circumstances children are the most vulnerable, least able to defend themselves, most open to abuse.
It is often asked, below the line, what kind of parents would abandon their children to such a fate. Firstly, it is a huge assumption that these children have been abandoned. Many will be orphaned. Many will have become separated from their parents in the chaos of flight. And some parents, faced with the desperate choice to save some but not all of the family will have chosen to send their children on to at least the chance of safety, as those parents did 80 years ago.
It's also often claimed that the children are a sort of Trojan horse – if we allow our hearts to soften and give them sanctuary here, their parents and older siblings will then emerge from the shadows and demand to join them. Or that they are not in fact minors, just young-looking adults. It takes a particularly determined brand of cynicism to look at these children in such need and see only threat and deceit.
Most of us will see instead both vulnerability and potential. If we take them in we can both protect them from the dangers they currently face, and allow them to fulfil the potential they have, to contribute to the country and the community that gives them sanctuary.
The children of the Kindertransport gave back, richly. Four are Nobel prize laureates, others have built distinguished careers in all branches of the sciences and arts, in politics and business.
One of the Kinder, Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, explicitly linked her philanthropic work to her history: 'I need to justify the fact that my life was saved.'
We can't know who amongst the children currently stranded in war zones or in refugee camps might prove to be an outstanding scientist, writer, composer, or entrepreneur. We can only know that whilst they live the half-life of the refugee camp, deprived of stability, education and adequate healthcare, they cannot be the people they have the potential to be.
The last words on this are those of the late Jo Cox. who would have been 42 years old today.
We all know that the vast majority of the terrified, friendless and profoundly vulnerable child refugees scattered across Europe tonight came from Syria.
We also know that as that conflict enters its sixth barbaric year that desperate Syrian families are being forced to make an impossible decision: stay and face starvation, rape, persecution and death or make a perilous journey to find sanctuary elsewhere.
And who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing. The reality in which children are being killed on their way to school, where children as young as seven are being forcibly recruited to the front line and where one in three Syrian children have grown up knowing nothing but fear and war.
These children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness and I know I personally would risk life and limb to get my two precious babies out of that hell-hole.
Migration Matters Festival – Wednesday 22 June
Howl Yuan – The Invisible Guest (6.00 pm and 7.00 pm): A drop-in, one on one performance followed by a full audience show, exploring how we are changed by our names, the places we live, the languages we use
Eclipse Theatre Company & Amaal Sharif – Rather: A Work in Progress (7.30 pm): One man's journey to understanding humanity and the bonds that tie us together more than land, blood, language or creed
Rachel Munro-Fawcett – To Walk in Your Shoes: a documentary exploration of asylum, giving a voice to the voiceless
Welcome – Refugee Week 2016
Posted by cathannabel in Refugees on June 21, 2016
What is it they want, all these people?
What do we want? What do we hope for, for ourselves and for our children? We may hope for prosperity, for a nicer house in a nicer part of town, a better job, for our kids to be successful as well as happy. But if what we have was taken from us, what then?
We'd want to be safe. If our home, our street, our place of work, the school our children go to, the hospital they were born in and where we go if we're sick, are bombsites and warzones, we'll take our chances to go somewhere that perhaps just might be safe.
We'd want to be safe from violence and the constant threat of violence, because we believe in the wrong god or in no god, because we love the wrong people, because we support the wrong political movement, because we are the wrong race. We'd want to be safe from rape and the constant threat of rape, from abuse, from mutilation in the name of tradition. We'd want to be safe from the constant threat of starvation and disease, the desperate quest for enough food to just stay alive, the desperate quest for help when we or our children are sick.
But we'd want more than that.
We'd want to have a place where we can shut our door and hang up our hats, and sleep without fear, and be with the people we love. We'd want the chance to work, to use our skills to earn enough to provide for ourselves and the people we love, to prepare healthy meals, to buy new shoes for the children as they grow, to be warm enough in winter. We'd want the chance to learn, new languages and new skills, and we'd want our children to go to school and learn all that they need to make their way in the world, and to make friends and play.
We'd want to become part of a community. Paying our way, making a contribution, chatting to our neighbours, free of the threat that there will be a knock on the door early one morning and we'll be sent away, back where we came from, or just away, to anywhere that's not here.
And with all of that we'd want not to be told in the headlines of the newspapers that we're a threat, that we're terrorists, that we're spongers, that we're liars, that we're cowards. We'd want not to see in the eyes of the people we meet that they wonder whether that's true.
We'd want to be welcome.
Tuesday 21 June – Migration Matters Festival
British Red Cross Refugee Awareness Workshop (2.00 pm): find out about their work, and how you can get involved
Displace Yourself Theatre – Free to Stay (7.30 pm): An exploration of life without nationality, through physical theatre and projection, telling the stories of individuals with first-hand experience of statelessness
Refugee Week 2016
Posted by cathannabel in Refugees on June 19, 2016
This year things feel different, in the run-up to Refugee Week. When I started blogging about refugees it felt like a neglected topic – even though organisations like Refugee Action and CARA and many others were working incredibly hard to support refugees and asylum seekers, and to raise awareness of the issues, they weren't making headlines.
Since the photograph last September of that small boy, who came to stand for so many other children washed ashore as their flimsy, overcrowded boats sink in the Mediterranean, refugees have hardly been out of the headlines.
That's a double edged sword, of course. Whilst many, many people have been stirred to do something, moved by looking into the eyes of grieving parents, frightened children and traumatised young men and recognising that they are like us, that they could be us, others have used the same images to stoke up hatred and suspicion.
The theme this year is 'Welcome'. The heady days when refugees were greeted with smiling crowds and flowers faded pretty quickly but the people themselves are still with us, and more are coming, because they have no choice. Those who are here already can't go home because home isn't there any more for them, just as those others who are leaving now, grabbing what they can carry, handing their money over for a hazardous passage to an uncertain future, can't just say, well, you know what, perhaps we'll stay put after all.
We have to keep pressing our governments to make them welcome. We have to keep challenging the miserable, hateful lies that are told daily about them. We have to keep telling their stories so that more people make that leap into understanding and empathy.
Over the next week I'll be trying to do some of that. As in previous years, I'll post at least one piece each day. If you like what you read, feel free to reblog/share.
Tonight at the Migration Matters festival in Sheffield, Ice and Fire Theatre present their Asylum Monologues, based on ten years of gathering and disseminating testimonies of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK. And they've a packed and varied programme throughout Refugee Week as well, including Ardi Mejzini's one-man show based on his own experience as a refugee from Kosovo (Monday, 20.00). All events will take place at Theatre Delicatessen, 17 The Moor and are Pay What You Decide.


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The Paris Wife
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Hated this audio book. Not sure if out was the sugar-sweet voice of the reader or the Pollyanna-like personality of the subject. Not being a Hemingway fan, there wasn't much to hold my interest other than occasional cameos by other artists.
Historical fiction about hemmingway's first wife
[The Paris Wife], [[Paula McLain]]
The bare facts of this fictionalized biography are Hadley Richardson met Earnest Hemmingway in Chicago in 1920, they married in 1921, lived in Paris for most of their marriage and divorced in 1927. At the same time she provides a good view of the 1920's Paris literary scene with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford amd other American authors.
Paula McLain, while keeping to the facts builds on this and presents a well rounded account of the marriage. Hadley grows into a strong woman, true to herself and her ongoing love for Ernest. In Hemingway you find a man, although broken and afraid from events in WW I and in need of friends and support, willing to step on his friends and make fun of them and their talents in his writing. Easily led by Pauline he turns his back on the best person and support in his life. He doesn't come out of this book looking well.
While I've never read a Hemingway book, I've always heard that he drank a lot and could be a hard man to get along with. I have seen his house in Key West and saw some of the bars he supposedly hung out in. I was rather taken back in the size of his house there. However, after reading this book, it was at a time when he wasn't as well known. So that explains that.
I did learn a lot about Hemingway that I did not know and also his friends. From this book, I went back and forth on liking him. I atrociously detest what he and Pauline did to Hadley. I was also appalled at the behavior of some of their friends, especially the Fitzgeralds.
I did enjoy going back in history and learning more about Hadley and her relationship with Hemingway. As I said, I didn't know much about him and I found it fascinating to learn about them. This was a very entertaining and interesting book. I'm going to have to find a copy of "The Sun Also Rises" and see if it's true that he did write it for Bumby and Hadley.
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Wonderful book. This story about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife is rich in time, place, detail, and dialog. It's emotional, beautiful, tragic and interesting. I won't attempt to give a synopsis as you can read those just about everywhere, for what it's worth. Reading this book ignited a new interest in Hemingway's work and also the author's work. This from someone who is almost never interested in famous people unless they are truly interesting individuals. Status and fame alone aren't enough to make a person interesting to me.
Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived mostly in Paris and traveled in Europe. Their evolving circle of friends included other writers and artists of the time: Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Zelda Fitzgerald and others. For all the historic details provided about people and places, the book was fascinating. Customs among this crowd ranged from charming to bizarre.
The author brings these people and this period to life profoundly. A thoroughly lovely read as well as a learning experience. I have only praise for the author.
Paula McLain has built "The Paris Wife" around Hadley. Or at least she has planted Hadley in the midst of a lot of famous, ambitious people. The advantage to this technique is that it allows the reader to rub shoulders and bend elbows with celebrated literary types: the stay-at-home way of feeling like the soigné figure on the book cover. The drawback is that Ms. McLain's Hadley, when not in big-league company that overshadows her, isn't a subtly drawn character. She's thick, and not just in physique. She's slow on the uptake, and she can be a stodgy bore.
Indeed, this book is a more risky affair than its sometimes sugary surface betrays. Taking up the Hemingway story inevitably means comparisons with Papa himself, and McLain courageously draws fire by including interludes written from his perspective: hard-bitten monologues with such lines as "You might as well bring yourself down and make yourself stinking sick with all you do because this is the only world there is." It's not exactly up there with John Cheever's classic parody, but it certainly does the job.
An appealing companion volume to A Moveable Feast, then, but once it's finished, turn back to the original, with its cool, impressionistic prose. It can hardly be said that the least interesting thing about Hemingway is the way he lived his life, but let's not forget that it's his writing that endures.
An imaginative, elegantly written look inside the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson.
Colorful details of the expat life in Jazz Age Paris, combined with the evocative story of the Hemingways' romance, result in a compelling story that will undoubtedly establish McLain as a writer of substance. Highly recommended for all readers of popular fiction.
The Paris Wife, McLain has taken their love story, partially told by Hemingway himself in A Moveable Feast, and fashioned a novel that's impossible to resist. It's all here, and it all feels real...
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Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one we've never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingway's first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.
The idea to write in Hadley's voice came to me as I was reading Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast, about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, "I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her." That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!
I couldn't help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.
I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20's, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.
A Look Inside The Paris Wife
Helen Simonson is the New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. She was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the past two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C., area.
Paula McLain has taken on the task of writing a story most of us probably think we already know--that of a doomed starter wife. To make life more difficult, McLain proposes to tell us about Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, who is a twenty-eight-year-old Midwestern spinster when she marries the twenty-one-year-old unpublished, (but already cocksure) writer and runs off to Paris with him. The talent and joy of this novel is that McLain does a startling job of making us understand this as a great love story and seducing us into caring deeply, about both Ernest and Hadley, as their marriage eventually comes apart.
This novel moves beyond the dry bones of biography or skewed personal vision of memoir, and takes a leap into the emotional lives of these characters. It is a leap of faith for those readers who think they know Hemingway, but McLain's voice sticks close enough to historical material, and to the words and tone of Hemingway's own writing, to be convincing. She had me at the description of young Hadley's father committing suicide.
"The carpets had been cleaned but not changed out for new, the revolver had been emptied and polished and placed back in his desk."
Hadley is also crippled by a childhood fall and trapped into spinsterhood by her mother's declining health and eventual death. By the time she meets Hemingway, we are rooting for her to make a break for foreign shores--even as we understand the danger of marrying a tempestuous man. Hemingway is all nervous purpose, ambition and charisma as he meets Hadley and is drawn to her quiet strength and ordinary American sweetness. In his youth and uncertainty, she is his rock and yet we already suspect that as he grows in artistic power, she will become an unwanted anchor. Through Hadley's eyes and plain-speaking voice, we see all of twenties Paris and the larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. We drink tea with Gertrude Stein and champagne with Fitzgerald and Zelda. We run with the bulls in Pamplona and spend winters in alpine chalets. And we see, through her love for him, the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. Perhaps it is the nature of all great artists to be completely selfish and obnoxious, but Hadley's voice is always one of compassion. Even as Hemingway leaves her completely out of The Sun also Rises, even as Hemingway publicly flirts with other women, she continues to explain and defend him. It is a testament to Paula McLain that the reader is slow to dislike Hemingway, even as he slowly and inexorably betrays Hadley's trust.
I loved this novel for its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds--poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships--to cling on to each other. I raise a toast to Paula McLain's sure talent.
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Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.… (more)
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I am such a happy kitty angel today. I got gifts for Valentine's Day. I didn't have a furever home and died a violent death, but the friends I've made though Catster really make the lady who did my page happy. So, thank you to everyone who included me in this special holiday.
Wednesday night was my memorial service, if you can call it that. The catster lady and man, along with Hilde (my boat mom) and a woman they called Karen (or Crayon something) all came down to the dock and dropped flowers into the water by where they found my body. They took a moment of silence and hugged a lot too. I hated seeing all of them cry and be so sad. In my short life they were the best humans I think I ever met, especially Hilde. She really watched out after me and gave me food, water and a safe place to sleep. Karen printed out my catster page and gave it Hilde to remember me by. That was so nice. And catster lady found the person who makes our wings, so I'll be getting them on my page soon. It's a pretty day, so I think I'll send Hilde a sunbeam to try to cheer her up.
Today, the woman who lived on the boat, along with my Catster mom and dad found my body in the river. Two days ago I didn't go back on the boat after my potty trip. They have been worried about me and were unable to find me last night. Of course, it was dark and where I was found, I was very hard to see even in the daylight.
My catster dad was the one who saw me and he almost didn't let catster mom lady come down, but he'd only met me one time and she and the boat woman were needed to identify my body.
I had been in the shallow water for two days, but it was me. I was just about to go to a furever home too. The catster lady had two folks who wanted me and she was checking them out. I was a black kitty afterall and catster lady said she had to be very careful finding me a home.
I'm so sad because I loved the boat lady and was excited about going to a furever home. Now the catster woman says I've got my wings. I would have rather had a home since I was only two and a half, but I guess it was my time to go the the Bridge.
My page is going to stay as a tribute to me though. That makes me happy. I just wish catster mom lady could quit crying. She has all these guilt feelings about not finding me a home quick enough and also thinks someone who was mad at her may be responsible for hurting me. Please purr for her if you read this because she can't sleep without seeing images of me floating in that muddy water. I am trying to tell her I'm at peace, but I must not be getting through.
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2013-04-19 / Sports
Rockaway Rugby Retakes The Pitch
Rockaway Rugby U13 scored with an impressive victory at Pelham on Sunday, April 14th. Rockaway U13 and Rockaway U15 will play this Sunday, April 21st, at Aviator Sports and Events Center, at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field.
The Rockaway Fisheads Men's team will play at Aviator on Saturday, April 20th, at 4:30 p.m. against the Montclair NJ Rugby Club.
The Rockaway club hopes their fans to will turn out in numbers to cheer them on.
This Spring 2013 season marks the 40th year for Rockaway Rugby Football Club. The club was founded in 1974.


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Posted by Dr. Blagoev on Jul 10, 2013 in Community | 8 comments
To Help the Community in This Difficult Economy Dr. Mariana Blagoev is Sponsoring
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Anyone with a dental emergency or in need of pain relief,
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On August 6th Parlin dentist Dr. Blagoev will open her office in effort to help her local community.
If you have any dental conditions which would like to ask us for advice, we
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Do you have to be a resident of parlin? I have been trying to seek help for my husband who has a medical condition but we do mot have insurance and his mouth is pretty bad… Or is there any kind of payment plans that we could go on?
I just want you to know that this free dental day is a great thing, I know it probably brings in all type of cheapskates , but as someone who is and has no health insurance or savings, I have a mouth full of Rotten teeth im 36 yrs old I didn't have one cavity till I was twenty, I have bin to any n every place u can think of for help, my story almost seems impossible, and if you saw in my mouth you would probably be shocked, its probably something you have only seen in books or the homeless, I have had 8 teeth pulled , however all the rest are rotting n broken down to the gum line , no one will touch them one or three at a time ,they say its cause ill get an infection , I have had so many infections over the last phew years I cant even count at least ten. Please if you could help find a program I can get on or any suggestions, I have already bin to the UDNJ the dental school, I have tried several programs local near me in toms river nj, they all say they cant do anything for me and I need a surgeon but I can not find one to take on so much work for what I can afford, I am only working a couple days a week , its all my teeth its even affecting my getting back too work , my company had gone out of business 3 yrs ago due to economic nonsense n I had worked for them for 15yrs, as a automotive mechanic n management, and no one wants to let me talk to customers, I am also disabled I have a problem with my hands n all of my joints but its in my hands n knees the worst causing visible deformation in my hands and i also walk with a bit of a limp,,,,, I am only asking if you know of any programs that can get me in to see a surgeon, I am totally serious when I say I have bin all over n due to the amount of teeth in need of pulling in my mouth no one wants the task, n i cant blame them , I saw your add in Craig's list and even if you cant help me ,,,,, I just wanted to say the people you are helping don't know how truly blessed they are for your donated time,,, thanks for your time,
I saw on craigslist there is a free dental emergency treatment day in August. I was just curious if there was anything special I needed to do/bring in order to attend. I'm having trouble with my wisdom teeth but don't have any dental insurance. I look forward to speaking to you soon!
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Thanks av8r for reporting back your real life stove findings.
It helps others who find this thread and then see the resulting solution. It validates what other replies may of been saying all along and would/could be dismissed as not likely the case...but surprise, it just might be.
I'll also add this about this stove air issue...Anytime when reaching the near to bottom of a coal tote/bin you will then find your higher precentage of coal fines there due to the scooping and settling during use. Best to avoid the urge of frugality and set this aside and screen out the fines rather than having the stove grate do the screening for you.


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Jesse Hamlin, 26 Oct 2016
A dog with millions of fans. And a blind jazz pianist teaching students to do more than they imagined possible.
Can't Thread a Moving Needle
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To tackle the issue of sexual assault on college campuses, a playwriting project comes to the big screen and reaches schools across the country.
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Ed Cohen, 15 Aug 2016
The Bay Area would be different without Broncos. And the numbers show it.
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A team of environmental science seniors examines the harsh realities of hunger—right here in Silicon Valley.
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Mothers put pen to paper with the Thriving Neighbors Initiative.
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When valedictorian Gus Hardy '16 was in high school, he was't expected to go to college. So what changed?
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This year's commencement speaker teaches a new version of the ABCs.
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Halo Communications is a boutique marketing consultancy agency in Perth, specialising in strategic marketing, business development and media communications.
To create the best strategy to complement your business, we want to get to know you and what you stand for. At Halo, we value integrity, creativity and enthusiasm. We want to work with you to take your business to the next level, whatever your direction, budget and objectives.
Our dedicated Marketing Specialists will work with you – either as an integrated part of your business or as external contractors – to give you the benefit of an outsourced marketing resource, without the ongoing overhead of a full time in-house marketing team. Halo Communications has worked with clients across many industries in WA and internationally, gaining the valuable experience that is necessary to effectively promote your business and achieve your unique objectives.
IntegrationOur focus is on forming a partnership with your existing team. We want to become a part of your business, creating a cohesive, effective working relationship effecting real results.
This initial step in our process is the most important one, as we value our relationship with each extremely highly, and want you to do the same.
StrategyThis is where we get intimate. We want to uncover your brand and get to know you, to understand what makes you tick, and what excites you about your brand, your products and services, and your customers. From there, we can start to understand your business and your customers, so we can create a plan of attack that will give you the best return on your investment with us.
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This document forms the basis of everything we do, and is updated daily to reflect your marketing activities.
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Our team are continually analysing and tweaking the strategy as required, and all clients receive a monthly report covering all aspects of your marketing activities.
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BeschreibungExotic Pests and Diseases: Biology and Economics for Biosecurity grew out of a large interdisciplinary project at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. It includes ten interdisciplinary case studies that represent a range of pest and disease threats to U.S. agriculture, wildlands, and the urban landscape. Possible government responses to these threats are described. Each chapter combines biological foundations and implications for the public good, providing powerful insights on a series of public policy issues of national and international importance."Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology and Economics for Biosecurity" will educate students, practitioners, and academics in the field of economics, verterinary medicine, plant pathology, entomology, and agriculture, as well as policy makers, state and federal regulators, government officials, and others with an interest in pest and disease management.
InhaltsverzeichnisPreface Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction and OverviewChapter 2 Economics of Exotic Pests PolicyChapter 3 An Overview of Regulatory and Institutional Aspect of Exotic Pests and Disease ControlChapter 4 International Trade Law and the Control of Exotic PestsChapter 5 Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California Agriculture Case StudiesChapter 6 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Lessons from the United KingdomChapter 7 Potential Impact of a Foot and Mouth Disease OutbreakChapter 8 Risk Assessment of Plant Parasitic NematodesChapter 9 Ex-Ante Economics of Exotic Disease Policy: Citrus Canker in CaliforniaChapter 10 An Insect Pest for Agricultural, Urban, and Wildlife Areas: The Red Imported Fire AntChapter 11 A Rational Risk Policy for Regulating Plant Diseases and Pests: The Case of Karnal BuntChapter 12 Introduction and Establishment of Exotic Insect and Mite Pests of Avocados: Evaluating Changes in PolicyChapter 13 Ash Whitefly and Biological Control in the Urban EnvironmentChapter 14 Economic Consequences of a New Exotic Pest: The Introduction of Rice Blast DiseaseChapter 15 Biological Control of Yellow Starthistle: A Cost Benefit Analysis Glossary of Terms and Acronyms Index
Portrait"Daniel A. Sumner is Director, University of California's Agricultural Issues Center and Frank H. Buck, Jr. Professor, the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California--Davis."
Untertitel: Little Simon. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
Erscheinungsdatum: Mai 2003
Seitenanzahl: 265 Seiten
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Offering accommodation with air conditioning, Taleen Granada hotel apartments is situated in Riyadh, 6.2 miles from King Fahd Stadium. Riyadh Gallery Mall is 6.2 miles away. Free private parking is available on site. The accommodation is equipped with a satellite TV. A minibar and kettle are also available. There is also a kitchenette in some of the units, fitted with a stovetop. Taleen Granada hotel apartments features free WiFi throughout the property. Bed linen is provided. Taleen Granada hotel apartments also offers massage treatments and includes a spa centre and sauna. The property also offers grocery delivery. Kingdom Center is 7.5 miles from Taleen Granada hotel apartments, while Al Faisaliah Tower is 8.1 miles from the property. The nearest airport is King Khalid Airport, 11.8 miles from Taleen Granada hotel apartments.


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|Lemay, Danielle
|Lynn, David
|Martin, William
|Neville, Margaret
|Casey, Theresa
|Rincon, Gonzalo
|Kriventseva, Evgenia
|Barris, Wesley
|Hinrichs, Angie
|Molenaar, Adrian
|Pollard, Katherine
|Maqbool, Nauman
|Singh, Kuljeet
|Murney, Regan
|Zdobnov, Evgeny
|Tellam, Ross
|Medrano, Juan
|German, J
|Rijnkels, Monique
Submitted to: Genome Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/24/2009
Publication Date: 4/29/2009
Citation: Lemay, D.G., Lynn, D.J., Martin, W.F., Neville, M.C., Casey, T.M., Rincon, G., Kriventseva, E.V., Barris, W.C., Hinrichs, A.S., Molenaar, A.J., Pollard, K.S., Maqbool, N.J., Singh, K., Murney, R., Zdobnov, E.M., Tellam, R.L., Medrano, J.F., German, J.B., Rijnkels, M. 2009. The bovine lactation genome: Insights into the evolution of mammalian milk. Genome Biology. 10(4):R43.1-R43.18. Interpretive Summary: Milk from different species has different nutrient content, but how these differences came about is a question yet to be answered. The recently published cow genome sequence can help to answer this question. We investigated the genes for cow proteins present in milk and proteins present in the cow mammary gland during lactation in relationship with genes from other mammals. We found that: 1) Milk and lactation genes are more similar between species than most other genes in the genome of the cow, which indicates the importance of lactation for the survival of mammalian neonates; 2) Proteins associated with nutritional and immunological components of milk differ most between mammals. This indicates that milk is tailored to the needs of the individual offspring. This will inform us about components of milk that are important for healthy growth and development of newborns. We show that differences in the composition of milk of different species are in part due to changes in sequences of the milk and lactation-related genes or the organization of the genome. However, changes in regulation of these genes are likely to play a larger role. Identification of those changes in gene regulation will be important for improvement of milk production and nutritional content of milk.
Technical Abstract: The newly assembled Bos Taurus genome sequence enables the linkage of bovine milk and lactation data with other mammalian genomes. Using publicly available milk proteome data and mammary expressed sequence tags, 197 milk protein genes and over 6,000 mammary genes were identified in the bovine genome. Intersection of these genes with 238 milk production quantitative trait loci curated from the literature decreased the search space for milk trait effectors by more than an order of magnitude. Genome location analysis revealed a tendency for milk protein genes to be clustered with other mammary genes. Using the genomes of a monotreme (platypus), a marsupial (opossum), and five placental mammals (bovine, human, dog, mice, rat), gene loss and duplication, phylogeny, sequence conservation, and evolution were examined. Compared with other genes in the bovine genome, milk and mammary genes are: more likely to be present in all mammals; more likely to be duplicated in therians; more highly conserved across Mammalia; and evolving more slowly along the bovine lineage. The most divergent proteins in milk were associated with nutritional and immunological components of milk, whereas highly conserved proteins were associated with secretory processes. Although both copy number and sequence variation contribute to the diversity of milk protein composition across species, our results suggest that this diversity is primarily due to other mechanisms. Our findings support the essentiality of milk to the survival of mammalian neonates and the establishment of milk secretory mechanisms more than 160 million years ago.


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/// Microsoft: That Windows 8 "New Coke" Analogy is Silly
Will the launch of Microsoft's forthcoming update to Windows 8 next month be the company's "New Coke" moment ? Is its rumored plan to revive the traditional "Start" button it killed when it debuted Windows 8 a massive and humiliating reversal of course following an ill-concieved reimagining of the company's flagship product? Not according to Microsoft. According to Microsoft, Windows 8 is a good product that's steadily improving, and recent suggestions in by the media that it is turning into a "New Coke"-style disaster are pure sensationalism. And in an unusual company blog bost, Frank Shaw, Microsoft's VP of corporate communications, dismissed them as exactly that, suggesting they favored "hyperbole" over "nuanced analysis." "Windows 8 is a good product, and it's getting better every day," Shaw wrote . "Unlike a can of soda, a computer operating system offers different experiences to different customers to meet different needs, while still moving the entire industry toward an exciting future of touch, mobility, and seamless, cross-device experiences." Shaw insists Windows 8 is doing exactly that, and that its licenses sold to date — 100 million copies — is good evidence of it.
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A couple of high-profile bills were on the Louisiana legislature's docket in the past week, both were dashed. A proposal to allow for medical marijuana was rejected and the possibility for the return of the electric chair was commuted to a more palatable proposal for shielding suppliers of lethal injection drugs.
Insight: What Goes Up (for Debate) Often Comes Down
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Tami has shown an avid interest in contributing to the 10,000+ students in the Wayzata schools. She and Joel Martin have been asked to speak at District School Board Meetings, District Team Level Meetings, and School Staff Meetings about their successes in integrating technology into the classroom. Joel and Tami created and co-taught an Academy course to teachers from seven Wayzata schools and across seven grades relating writing to building community within a classroom. The Director of Technology, media specialists and teachers at Universities have shared her experiences in technology with others. Among the many committees Tami has served on, she was also appointed as the only elementary school teacher to be on the Sabbatical Decision Making Committee and was selected to be on the District Language Arts Committee to pilot and contribute to the new Language Arts program.
Because of the deep connections Tami makes with students and their families, they continue to be an important part of her life even after they leave fifth grade. She has been honored repeatedly at the Wayzata Trojan Football Faculty Appreciation Night, had former students frequently return as part of the Youth Extended Services program at the high school, and continued working with students on academics throughout high school.
Tami integrates her personal passions and interests into her teaching. She uses her love of language and travel to communicate with Spanish speaking parents, to teach deeper concepts of vocabulary using American Sign Language, to share the excitement of writing through technology, and to encourage children in the dramatic arts through plays performed for the entire school, parents and grandparents.