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The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
Chapter 7
|Child Abuse, Homicide and Raids in Tribes
Each generation of parents commits atrocities
against their children which by God's
decree remain invisible to the rest to the world.
– John Updike
The next four chapters will describe the slow, uneven evolution of childrearing from the fearful insecure attachments of tribes to the more loving secure attachments of modern fully democratic nations. These historical improvements in childrearing will be shown to decrease the implantation in children of delusional violent alters and increase the achievement of the real self and thereby reduce the amount of homicide, raids and wars.
Because of the constant brutal abuse, all schizoid tribal personalities are so insecurely attached they are extremely uncertain about their genders, and most of their adult lives replay the early gender anxieties produced by their parental incest/rejection experiences. New Guinea boys begin this replaying of embedded alters at seven, when men conduct fellatio on them, forcing their penises into the boys' mouths and anuses the same way their mothers earlier used them both in incest and forced feeding. This oral rape begins by blaming mothers as "evil defilers" of the boys who have "polluted and weakened their sons" with their poisonous menstrual blood. This supposed pollution is countered by forcing the boys to suck the semen of men daily for years, saying, "It's the same as your mother's breast milk" but it will "make you a STRONG man" and will prevent them from growing into females.46 That raping boys orally can "make them hard" and "prevent them from being soft" may seem bizarre, but believed in wholeheartedly nonetheless.
Anthropologists sometimes state without evidence that the continuous oral rape by men of boys in New Guinea is "enthusiastically enjoyed" by the boys, who are "eager to suck" men's penises, and that it has "a positive effect on the boy's development."47 The boys are also bled profusely by men by thrusting sharp leaves back and forth in their nostrils to remove the polluted mother-blood inside them, sometimes even subincising the penis, cutting it until it splits open, calling the cut a "boy's vagina," and having intercourse in it.48 Anthropologists describing this endless fellatio and genital mutilation of boys do not call it rape, stating instead that "the great majority of Sambia boys regularly engage in fellatio for years [because thereby they] learn how to be men, how to protect themselves from dangers of pollution."49 Both men and women regularly fondle and mouth little boys' penises.50 Girls, too, are routinely raped and often have their vaginas mutilated in tribal cultures—again because of extreme gender uncertainties, saying their clitoris must be removed because otherwise it would grow to be a foot long and they could then dominate men—plus it helps prevent girls from being "too sexual."51 Older children routinely gang rape younger boys and girls, a practice reported by anthropologists with some neutral phrase like "they are typically initiated into intercourse by older and more experienced child," a practice termed by one anthropologist as "healthy" because it gives the child "multiple experiences of sexual pleasure."52
The inner alters embedded by all these extremely traumatic childrearing practices are called spirits or demons, and are the central focus of tribal cultural life. Children's alters are usually called finiik, and they are said to "temporarily depart from the body to wander abroad…during trances, and children regularly tell how their witch alters possess their bodies and make them do things."53 New Guinea natives can be warm and friendly and then suddenly switch into their alters and kill you because they think you are bewitching them.54 Trance possessions by alter spirits are found in all tribal cultures, in shamans, in witches and in others in the group during possession rituals as groups feel "power surges" and go out to conduct their killing raids.55 Drawings of alter-possessed shamans have been found on the walls of Ice Age "maternal caves."56
The neurophysiology of possession trances have been well studied as "altered states of consciousness" that are entered into by various "driving" techniques that produce the hyperactivity, convulsive tremors and grandiose states that dominate those who are in a slow-wave electroencephalogram trance, insensible to pain, united with their spirit alters.57 Shamans are full-blown multiple personalities, becoming their alters, not just hearing them as internal voices. Their violent alters are those of the Killer Mother. Before raids, New Guinea shamans hallucinate that they are embedded with maternal spirits, and they call their war drums "the voice of their ancestor mother."58
Boys in New Guinea are taught to always dominate rather than submit, and to beat up girls—adults urging them to take a branch and "stick it up her vagina." To restore their masculinities, boys are encouraged to "sit facing each other, exchange endless sexual or personal insults" and then fight each other.59 Homicide rates are from sixty to a hundred times higher in tribal cultures than the current U.S. rate; one careful study of the Gebusi found 60 percent of all males admitted to having committed one or more homicides, almost all because they became sorcerers.60 All women are believed to be capable of becoming witches who can kill you by staring at you—delusional Killer Mother she-demons—so wife beating is nearly universal, female suicide rates are enormous (up to 25 percent of women's deaths), gang rape of girls is practiced daily, and the torture and execution of women suspected of being witches who poison men is common. All this extreme misogyny is hardly an atmosphere that encourages maternal love and investment in the care of the next generation, so little improvement in childrearing and little evolution of personalities has been seen for thousands of years. Cultural evolution is ultimately psychogenic, not genetic—occurring as an increase in parent-child attachment, not as "the survival of the fittest."
Since most infants were killed at birth and over half of male adults committed homicide, it is not surprising that deaths in raids, their version of wars, have been said to be minimal. Until recently, anthropologists promulgated the myth of the "peaceful savage," until Keeley, LeBlanc and others actually demonstrated by voluminous evidence that both tribal societies today and early historical societies killed 10 to 30 times the proportion of people as even the most violent states in recent times. The archeological record is rich with evidence like the studies of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer burials that found over 40 percent of the men, women and children died violently.61 Plus Keeley found over 25 percent of adult males of unwesternized tribal societies died from raids, reaching over 60 percent for Amazonian tribes.62 Knauft estimated that murder accounted for the deaths of at least 35 percent of all New Guinea men and 29 percent of women. Despite anthropologists' assertions that tribal violence is "adaptive" and that raids were fought for "scarce resources,"63 none of these deaths were over resources at all, all were solely emotional in origin, most of them being blamed on "sorcery" after imagining being insulted or humiliated.64 In fact, as we have previously noted, death inflicted by violence from others is always caused by the previous implantation of murderous "time bombs" in child abuse, and has declined from over 80 percent to under 2 percent even in the most bellicose nations in recent centuries as childrearing has slowly evolved.65 Homicide rates in New Guinea actually run sixty times the current U.S. rate.66 They are caused by the same "collapse of self-esteem" that Gilligan says U.S. murderers experience, where they "imagine themselves to be humiliated and shamed" as they routinely were as children.67
Tribal cultures are, as we have earlier said, also often mislabled as "egalitarian." What is being referred to is their deep lack of trust in each other, coming from terribly insecure childhood attachments, which produces such overwhelming fear of the group and of authorities that true chiefs cannot be found, only "Big Men" who may be more violent than others but who cannot be trusted and therefore are only mediators, not real leaders.68 Even large tribes often find they cannot trust leaders or designate internal peacekeepers. Since in tribes "the mother is an eternal threat to self-individuation," men do not securely attach to them and so also cannot bond to other men as their delegates, except in useless symbolic rituals where they cut their veins and smear their [maternal menstrual] blood on each other to form "blood brotherhoods." In New Guinea, "they execute prominent individuals who overstep their prerogatives [and] Australian aborigines traditionally eliminated aggressive men who tried to dominate them."69 Even ownership was looked upon by tribes with disfavor: "Those who acquired too much were expected to either engage in gift-exchange or destroy their surplus in cleansing sacrificial ceremonies,"70 so investment in new economic enterprises was missing.
Bloody raids are conducted in tribes by small groups when men fuse with their inner Killer Mother alters, who becomes the death-dealing witch-goddess of the raids, the warriors saying they are "charged with the powerful destructive energy of menstruating women."71 They fuse with their warrior alters by "leaving their former self behind and becoming something entirely different…The change usually accomplished through ritual drumming, dancing, fasting and sexual abstinence…into a new warriorlike mode of being, denoted by special body paint, masks and headdresses."72 Borguignon found nearly all tribes had trance induction rituals that reproduced early trauma and gave them the "high" of dopamine infusion that led to violence.73 New Guinea war myths are often based on maternal infanticide themes, as when the Sambia myth says: "Numboolyu's wife, Chenchi, killed her first male child [so] we now fight—war."74 Raids are rituals that establish masculinity for a time while being fused with the Killer Mother, as men go into their cult houses "like underneath the skirts of their mother," replicate childbirth in rituals by male initiators called "mothers," and go out to kill others in order to re-enact the killings and tortures of their childhoods.75
Most tribes engage in extensive raids at least once every two years. New Guinea tribes sometimes have dozens of raids a year.76 Raids since the Paleolithic have been seen as being conducted when possessed by "a mother-animal, the mistress of the dead, an old woman," a Killer Mother alter.77 When warriors went out on their purifying headhunting raids, they switched into their killing alters by a "special magic, which placed the fighters in a trance-like state of dissociation in which they became capable of extreme, indiscriminate violence [which] made them capable of killing even their own wives and children."78 Among the Hua, "it is feared that if a person fails to eat the corpse of his or her same-sex parent, that person will become stunted and weak."79 New Guinea men often conduct all-night rituals where they are possessed by "spirit women" who tell them which of the many witches that surround them they should now kill.80 Warriors become fused with the powerful mother that masturbated them during menstruation; they then decorate themselves with menstrual blood-red paint so they can appropriate the fearful power of their Killer Mothers.81
Alters are often projected into the heads of the enemy, so head-hunting was endemic in New Guinea, "leading to endless intertribal feuds, and the slightest pretext is seized upon to begin a war to obtain the coveted trophies."82 Chop off a head and you can capture the power of the Killer Mother. They believe they can restore their masculinity by eating the head or penis of an enemy "to absorb his strength."83 New Guinea sorcerers continuously call upon their tribes to slaughter others. Knauft found two-thirds of a sample of Gebusi men had committed homicide.84 As Kelly puts it: "It is clear that homicide rates are considerably higher in simple foraging societies than in some sedentary agricultural societies with more developed forms of sociopolitical organization.85 In New Guinea, imaginary humiliations and magical sorcery attacks make immediate retribution necessary: "The assailants spring on their victim from ambush, brutally overpower him, jab poisons directly into his body, and sometimes twist or rip out organs."86 Fathers help their small boys headhunt by holding his spear hand so he can kill and decapitate some acquaintance or relative.87 Little attempt is made to rationalize the homicides. "An angry man may attack or even kill another who is in no way related to the object or cause of his rage. This is true not only of violence against outsiders, but of violence within the village."88
Murderous raids are fought when "growth panic" becomes excessive, when new tasks such as building houses or expanding gardens threatens too much personal growth and after initiations when adolescents "grow up" and leave their mothers. As the Mae Enga tribe says: "When times are good, the men of the clan spoil for a fight."89 The men designate Big Men who find a rationalization for fighting (Faked Provocation Phase), and the warriors go out to meet their opponents with massed chanting, insults and challenges. When no other clan can be found to raid, they raid their own clansmen. That those killed are Bad Selves is everywhere apparent. When tribal raiding parties meet women with babies, they usually kill only the male infants, that is, themselves.90 Prisoners are rarely taken. The easiest raids are burning random houses and axing the families as they try to escape.91 Victims' heads and penises are taken as trophies, reincorporating their own "strong" body parts. Evidence of the defleshing and cannibalization of "enemies" goes back 750,000 years to the earliest tribes, and most tribes say they collect the skulls so they can absorb the fighting strength of their enemies.92 Indeed, "It is good to have enemies, because they are good to kill and eat."93 Many warriors even take the name of the victim they eat.94 Both sides often give gifts to the other side after the raids are over. When all the killing and victim-eating is finished, "the Big Men of each side make speeches…listing the dead [and] set the scene for future exchanges…The victors may profit only in terms of glory…they have no right to invade and occupy the losers' territory…everyone hurries home, satisfied that he has vindicated his honor."95
The early infanticidal childrearing mode of Austrian Aboriginals has been arguably the most abusive and neglectful of all tribal cultures. It is possible that the poor environment of the Australian desert is partially responsible for their lack of progress in childrearing, though New Guinea was nearly as stuck as they are in early infanticidal mode childrearing and they have had a far better environment than Australia. The origins of the very violent personalities of Aboriginals are, of course, in no way caused by genetic differences, only developmental. Thousands of Aboriginals have been removed from their parents and brought up by modern city parents and they turn out to have personalities indistinguishable from others in their adoptive families.
The custom of raping Aboriginal children, eating "every second child" and making the older children also eat them is termed "a quite favorable picture" by Roheim.96 Mothers regularly forced their children to eat their newborn siblings "in the belief that the strength of the first child would be doubled by such a procedure."97 Sometimes the fetus would be "pulled out by the head, roasted and eaten by the mother and the children" and sometimes "a big boy would be killed by the father by being beaten on the head" and given to the mother to eat.98 Since most newborns in the Pacific area, from Hawaii to Tahiti, were murdered by their mothers,99 and since their siblings were forced to participate in the killings, all adults had Killer Mother alters implanted in their amygdalan fear networks which they were compelled to reenact. Hippler says Australian children "attacked infants unceasingly" while "the mother rarely intervenes…Children's attacks become so common that one often hears adults saying 'Don't kill the baby.' But no one interferes and the child is increasingly made subject to violence and stress."100 He also says "children are abused by their mother and others…routinely brutally…jerked roughly, slapped or shaken…verbally abusive using epithets such as 'you shit' [frightened by] a dangerous world full of demons, though in reality the real dangers are from his caretakers…children are terrified to leave the presence of their mothers."101 Fusion with the Killer Mother is guaranteed by all these practices, plus the mother's choking the infant with her milk during nursing, the constant masturbation by mother of her children's penis and vagina while she lies on top of them, twisting and pinching them as we saw was the practice in New Guinea.102
The mutilation of young girls' vaginas is also practiced by the Aboriginals, "in which old men roll emu feathers with a loop of hair. This device is put into the vagina and then removed, pulling away a large part of the womb. The rest of the womb is then cut horizontally and vertically with a stone knife. When this wound is healed, the girl is then circumcised and made to have intercourse with many young men. The mix of blood and semen is collected and given to frail tribesmen as a fortifying elixir."103 Again, the fusion with the Killer Mother's blood is imagined to increase the strength of the male who is uncertain of his masculinity. Males marry many wives and even rape their own daughters104 in order to fortify their masculinity, and fathers often have "boy-wives" to absorb some of their maleness.105 It is not surprising that with both boys and girls "almost their only, and certainly their supreme, game was coitus," particularly "licking the vagina of girls" to increase their strength.106 Gang raping is constant among Aboriginals, as it is in all tribal cultures.107 Roheim calls the constant rape of Aboriginal children "far more 'normal' than the sexuality of the European male" since "their repression of sexuality need not be as deep as it is among Europeans."108
The initial ritual of Aboriginal boys is accomplished by throwing them into a trench called "The Old Woman" with a bull-roarer called "The Mother" (her womb), repeating their birth by going through a birth tunnel with an umbilical rope attached, being covered by "the menstrual blood that can cause you to die," and then sub-incising them with "a slit made on the underside of his penis" that is said to create a powerful vagina.109 The men then have intercourse in the split on the underside of the penis, "like a split-open frankfurter."110 Equipped with a vagina and with the powerful blood of the "Old Serpent Woman" who roams the desert in search of people to eat, warriors go out to kill anyone they can find, living "in dread of enemies" who are Killer Mother serpents, creating Faked Provocations of some fancied wrongs that might justify the killing, either individually or in small groups. Many Australian tribes ate their dead enemies, including their neighbors, though "not for the sake of food."111 Australian Aborigines also "never neglect to massacre all strangers who fall into their power."112 "Men, women and children are massacred indiscriminately."113 A majority of adult men are killed by homicide and over a quarter are killed in warfare.114 These patterns have not changed in millennia: "fighting scenes are extensively depicted in Aboriginal rock art dating back at least 10,000 years."115 When childrearing doesn't change, economies and cultures do not change.
When one turns on television news and hears that a quarter million people have died in Darfur, Africa as Muslim military gangs attacked the south, the motivation for this carnage is usually attributed to their Communist ideologies . . . until one learns that what they actually did was chop off the penises of little boys and rape little girls, hardly the stated goal of materialist Communism.116 But if one knows that Darfur boys are routinely genitally mutilated and little girls both genitally mutilated and raped, as most Africans were,117 the motivation for the violence becomes more obviously a re-infliction of childhood traumas upon others. The mutilation of boys is "a practice that serves as a core rite of passage for young men," sometimes removing all the skin from the penis, the chopping off of girls' genitals is practiced upon "ninety percent of all women in Darfur," and the rape of girls is common in Africa.118
The core of these abuses lies in the widespread African practice of mutilating the genitals of African girls, a sadistic sexual assault that is said to be sexually arousing to those who attend the ceremony.119 Mothers, not men, insist on chopping off their daughters' genitals, producing "horrendous pain, massive bleeding and raging infection."120 It currently is found in 28 African countries, affecting about 130 million women—in 89 percent of Sudanese women and in 97 percent of uneducated Egyptian families and 66 percent of Egyptian educated families.121 It began historically thousands of years ago before the nations became Muslim, so it is not caused by Islamic beliefs. "Girls tremble as they hear about the experiences of other girls…first there is fear, and then the appalling memory of the experience. Sme girls live with a phobia that one or the other parent will kill them."122 Also, most African tribal mothers still kill at least one of their children, sometimes as a child sacrifice to the gods.123
Most African tribes practice all the abusive and neglectful childrearing practices described above for New Guinea and Australian families. Infanticide of course is a routine practice in African tribes, as in tribal cultures around the world, with more girls than boys killed at birth.124 Even when food is easily available, African mothers are often described as giving them "a large share of cuffs and kicks, and not over-much food."125 Overworked mothers rarely talk to or look at or praise or play with their children, hanging them as infants on trees. Girls are married off in their early teens to older men chosen by their parents, most mothers beat and cane their children from infancy, frighten them with dangerous spirits, abandon them because they believe them to be witches, and so on.126 Boys, too, are commonly raped by older men in much of Africa, both orally and anally—even boy wives are known—and fathers sell their boys to men for sex or to boy brothels.127 Boys are taught to hate their enemies, and because they are ambivalent about their masculinity to prepare for a life of fighting (anthropologists who report "peaceful" tribes like the San Bushmen have been disproven).128 In fact, many African tribes have been measured to have fifty times the homicide rate as modern nations, with the majority of males admitting to committing at least one homicide.129 As the !Kung explain it, they often go into alternate states (alters) when "the n/um lifts you in your belly and makes you tremble…you experience death, you give up who you are…you are reborn...the boy becomes a man, the man a hero." and they go out and find someone to kill.130 Before violent outbursts, Africans are often possessed by their inner spirit selves, "indulging in filthy language and seized by a fit of rage punctuated by convulsions."131 They feel they have lost their soul [arutam], and go out to kill others in raids to recover their soul—believing "if they fail to kill someone they would not be entitled to obtain new arutam souls and would die within weeks." 132 Their leader, often a full Chief, is seen as a super-powerful Killing Mother with whom to fuse.133 Raids are for the purpose of killing and "securing as many human heads as possible" (among headhunters like the Jivaro), but "no case could be found of war being pursued to seize territory."134 Throughout African history, slavery was rife, and "three men could not be sent on a journey together for fear two of them may combine and sell the third…[in some tribes] any man falling into their hands is killed and eaten."135 With the development of slavery, kingship and the early state, we move to the next chapter on "Child Abuse and War in Early States."
1 Lloyd deMause, The History of Childhood. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974.


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The Alabama 3 are an amorphous band of British musicians, formed in Brixton in the 1990s, whose number fluctuates with each album and performance - with members Rob Spragg (vocals), Jake Black and Piers Marsh forming the core. They are probably the best live band I have ever seen.
'La Peste' was Alabama 3s second album released in 2000 following 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane'. The album is now obviously getting a little long in the tooth. However I think it is still one of the most enjoyable, musically adept rip roaring albums of (relatively, depending on your age) recent times, and well worth a listen.
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and 'You Don't Danse 2 Tekno Anymore' ). I personally can't pick one stand out track from this album as I love them all. Their treatment of Hotel California (seen as an alternative national anthem by some Americans) proved controversial and is a cracker - many people believe it to be a truer interpretation of the lyrics than the original. It seems to capture more completely a sense of the darker zeitgeist of nineties America.
Despite all this talk of darkness and melancholia the band themselves are equisitely humourous and subversive, and succeeded in creating a quintissentialy American sound, and have been able to 'sell this back' to the Americans as essentially 'genuine'. Take for example the opening titles to the Sopranos TV series, 'Woke up This Morning', probably their best known track (from Exile on Coldharbour Lane). The Sopranos also used a snippet of 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife' from La Peste.
The bands sound is hard to define, Larry Loves' (Rob Spragg) vocals are kinda like Jack Daniels, rough deep with a mellow afterglow, Devlin Loves'(Zoe Devlin) vocals are soaring, searing, strong and a real bonus, The Rev D. Wayne (Jake Black) gives them their gospel deranged preacher man, and the music is rich, full, heady, melodic without being pretentiously overblown in any way. The sound appears to be a mix of hard rock, acid house, country (a big smidge of country depending on which album you are listening to), gospel... blended seamlessly to give them their own characteristic sound which doesn't steer too close to any of the component genres too often.
If you haven't already discovered the Alabama 3 you may be better off buying one of their compilation cds for example 'Hits and Exit Wounds'. to get an overview of their eclectic styles and approaches. For me their earlier works surpass their latest offerings. If you try them and like them I would say that this is one of their must have albums, along with 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane', and 'Power in the Blood' .
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"Too Sick To Pray" - 4:44
"Mansion On The Hill" - 3:00
"Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlife" - 4:43
"Walking In My Sleep" - 6:09
"Wade Into The Water" - 5:15
"Hotel California" - 5:34 (Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey)
"Cocaine (Killed My Community)" - 4:44
"The Thrills Have Gone" - 4:30
"2129" - 4:24
"Strange" - 5:27
"Sinking..." - 5:29
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Rob Spragg AKA Larry Love: vocals
Zoe Devlin AKA Devlin Love: vocals
Piers Marsh AKA The Mountain of Love: programming, keyboards, vocals and harmonica
Simon (The Dude) Edwards AKA Sir Eddie Real: percussion
Orlando Harrison AKA The Spirit: keyboards, keyboard bass
Mark Sams AKA Rock Freebase: guitar, bass guitar
Jonny Delafons AKA L. B. Dope: drums, percussion
Steve Finnerty AKA LOVEPIPE: production, additional guitar and additional vocals
Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 Too sick to pray
2 Mansion on the hill
3 Sad eyed lady of the lowlife
4 Walking in my sleep
5 Wade into the water
6 Hotel California
7 Cocaine
8 Thrills have gone
9 2129
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QC a headline act right to the end
Peter Hayes, QC: A passion for football as well as the law. A
coronial investigation has been launched into his death.
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A courtroom performer's final role was played out in a hotel room, write Karen Kissane, Kenneth Nguyen and Daniella Miletic.
PETER Hayes was loved by journalists hungry for the quick grab. He often defended the driest of cases commercial frauds with labyrinthine paper trails, where proceedings could drone on, and on, right up to the point where Hayes would lob one of his famous verbal grenades.
Defending Steve Vizard's former bookkeeper, Roy Hilliard, he said: "It is a case of flogging the servant for the sins of his master." Of another case, he roared: "This is the greatest beat-up since the pavlova!"
With his death on Monday night, Peter Hayes, QC, has made the headlines again.
Adelaide police said yesterday that Mr Hayes, aged in his 50s, had died in the Royal Adelaide Hospital, 11 days after being found naked and unconscious in an Adelaide hotel room.
A woman, 28, will be charged on summons with administering a drug of dependence to Mr Hayes, and a coronial investigation has been launched.
Police refused to comment on reports that Mr Hayes had died after his life-support system was turned off. He will have a private funeral. Police also declined to comment on whether the charges against the woman would be upgraded. Under common law, a person who administers an illicit drug to another person can be convicted of manslaughter if the drugged person dies, even if the person had consented.
It is believed a second woman has been questioned about the events of the night before Mr Hayes was found, when he was visited by two women in his luxury hotel room. One woman is reported to be a prostitute.
Police refused to confirm reports that detectives had seized financial records from an Adelaide escort agency.
Mr Hayes leaves his former wife, Mary, who is a daughter of former governor-general Sir Ninian Stephen, and a son and two daughters.
Yesterday, friends and colleagues focused on his achievements. Simon Wilson, QC, said: "In his day, he was the most capable adversarial advocate at the commercial bar. In terms of a hard, knock'em-down case, he was the best. You had to be on your toes every minute (if you were opposing him)."
Another QC, Peter Faris, said the death was a tragedy "for him, his family and his friends".
"In relation to the drug (allegations), it shows you how vulnerable wealthy and powerful people are in this 'party mode'."
Mr Faris said the coroner should look at the 2005 complaint revealed by The Age on Saturday by a solicitor who told the ethics committee of the Victorian Bar Council that Mr Hayes was "an inveterate cocaine user".
Mr Faris said that if the complaint had been pursued rather than dismissed, Mr Hayes might have received help.
The coroner should also look at the wider implications, "which are, how do professional associations and corporations deal with this problem of high-flying, wealthy, powerful people over-using drugs? They are difficult people to control or discipline or counsel."
Even some of his friends acknowledge that Mr Hayes fell into the "difficult" category. He is described as having had strong mood swings and having been prone to blow up both juniors and clients. On a good day in court, he was brilliant, but several lawyers have told The Age there were times when Mr Hayes failed to turn up to hearings for which he was retained, or failed to prepare adequately for big cases he had taken on.
A lawyer since 1973 and a QC for 18 years, Mr Hayes specialised in banking and finance, bankruptcy, commercial law and corporations. His talent lay in his ability to transform a lengthy case riddled with economic jargon into a human story jurors could understand.
He defended NAB rogue trader Vincent Ficarra. He represented Rose Porteous, widow of mining magnate Lang Hancock, in the ongoing battle over his estate with his daughter Gina Reinhart and acted for a person of interest in the inquest on cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble.
Bar Council chairman Michael Shand, QC, yesterday called Mr Hayes a determined advocate who would be missed by many. Mr Shand refused to say whether the Bar Council had received the complaint about Mr Hayes' alleged drug use. He said there was "no widespread problem (with drug use) in the senior legal profession".
Melbourne Football Club players will don black armbands in Mr Hayes' honour at the MCG on Sunday.
A lifetime supporter and former board member, Mr Hayes saw the Demons through tumultuous times, digging into his own cash reserves to keep the club afloat. He joined the board in 1997 at the request of mining magnate Joseph Gutnick after they were a part of the campaign to stop a merger with Hawthorn.
He reportedly made a $100,000 donation to the club, and interest-free loans of at least $250,000. Mr Hayes quit the board suddenly in 2004 after a failed bid to become vice-president.
Current club chairman Paul Gardner, alongside whom Mr Hayes was a board member, said: "He was certainly a passionate supporter and, at times, quite volatile about his support, especially if there was a 50-50 umpiring decision that didn't necessarily go Melbourne's way. "He'd certainly let all and sundry know about it."
But it may be that Peter Hayes will be remembered more for how he died than how he lived.
As QC David Galbally said yesterday: "I think the tragedy of this is that somebody as eminent as Peter Hayes, with the mind that he's got, succumbed to this sort of end."
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A carnival, organised recently by BG Block Residents' Association, had something for everyone. Since the block does not have its own park they held the event at neighbouring BH Park.
For kids there was a bouncy castle, floor ludo with giant dice, stalls making pop corn and candy floss.... A man wore a big dinosaur outfit and little girls walked around holding the dino's hand. A big gorilla impressed the boys by playing cricket with them and scared the grandmas by popping out of nowhere to shake their hands.
There were also chaat, phuchka and juice counters besides nail art, body art and mehendi artistes. "I've got beautiful red and green nail art done with beads on it," smiled Nilasree Bhattacharya, also showing off her mehendi and skull-shaped body art. There was a parrot at the venue too, predicting everyone's future.
The senior citizens had an informal adda session and the organisers had arranged for all senior couples to be photographed together. The pictures were later sent to them as a souvenirs. A magic show was put up by Krishna Pada Adhikary, a resident of AG Block. He impressed by turning a cola bottle into flowers and making a picture of Ganesha appear in an empty photo frame. "I am a retired railway officer but I enjoy doing magic. I perform free of cost wherever I am invited," smiled Adhikary.
The star attraction was a body piercing artist — Mrityunjoy Dutta. After the customary announcement of "Do not try this at home", Dutta's assistants started piercing his arms with pins. Bewildered kids asked: "Isn't he getting hurt?" and their parents tried their best to drag them away, declaring "this show is not for kids". Dutta was requested to cut short his final act, where he pulled a van with a rope that was hooked to a thick needle piercing his chest.
The carnival was put up by an all-women's committee, comprising Chhaya Adak Ghosh, Gouri Ghosh, Lina Dutta and Suparna Mukherjee.
Blocks unite
In a township where intra-block events mark the social calendar, residents of three neighbouring blocks joined hands to welcome the Bengali New Year. Blocks AB, AC and AD took part in the function held just outside AC Block community hall.
A common theme — folk — was chosen and the three blocks put up individual programmes in their allotted time slots.
From AB Block had come little dancers in yellow saris and teenagers who sang. "I'm loving it," said Rittika Dey of Class IX, who sang songs like Sujan majhi re. "This is the first time we've been invited to sing in another bock. We've practised extra to keep the AB Block banner flying high."
The AD Block delegates were all under-18 too. They danced to popular numbers like Sohag chand bodoni dhoni and sang in chorus to Lal paharer deshey ja and Dhitang dhitang boley. "Folk songs are rhythmic. I like dancing to them," said eight-year-old dancer Anushka Basu. Priyadarshini Chatterjee of Class VII said that most of her fellow singers learnt Rabindrasangeet but that folk was fun too.
Finally, a group of 16 put up eight songs on behalf of host AC Block. The group was led by Goutam Baran Adhikary, a Rabindrasangeet teacher of the block, who confessed that folk was his passion. "Folk music was once as popular as Rabindrasangeet is today. We have tried to present authentic renditions of the songs, using an accordion instead of a synthesiser," said Adhikary.
The organisers were pleased with the result. "We thought it would be thrice the fun to invite our neighbouring blocks on either side," said secretary of the AC Block committee Samit Ray. "So many more people have come to attend the event."
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A newly-formed craft club recently held a workshop for underprivileged children. Conducting the workshop were not adults but children from Salt Lake homes who shared what they learn in school.
There were around 15 children teaching 25 underprivileged ones of their age group. The event, held at AA Block community hall, was conducted by CraftCombine. The parents of the Salt Lake children were supervising everything but the focus was on the interaction of the kids.
So Advik Acharya, a Class II student of Don Bosco Park Circus, did his best to show Akash Bairagi, a Class I student of a Sealdah school, how to make a bookmark. "I've learnt this in school but today seems like more fun," said Advik.
As for the little learners, it was an afternoon well spent. "I will keep my bookmark in my Bengali book," smiled Sampa Das, a Class III student. Sampa had come to the workshop with a bandaged head. Owing to lack of parks in her Duttabad neighbourhood she had been playing on the road when she fell and broke her crown. She had never made any craft items before.
The children also embellished paper bags, were taught origami and kirigami (paper cutting) and were all ears at a story-telling session. Paper, colour pencils, ribbons and other material were provided by the Salt
Lake-based club and students of NIFT helped out too.
"I got the idea of this workshop when I saw my eight-year-old daughter teaching our domestic help's daughter to make the craft items she learns in her school," says social worker Urmy Palchaudhuri, whose brainchild this is. "We also wanted our kids to inculcate good values."
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Keep things in perspective
In one of his missives to the Romans, St Paul wrote thus: "For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment (…) For as in one body we have many members and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one (…) Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them."
These are wise words indeed and it is with a sense of humility that I will translate this wisdom into the political circumstances we are living today in an attempt to keep everything in its proper perspective.
For months now, Joseph Muscat's Labour has been talking about instability and the need for the country to be stable. It is easy to see here that, on the one hand, Muscat is encouraging the rocking of the boat while, on the other, he points at the Government and screams "unstable".
He fields and supports motions of no confidence, trying to cash in on the attention-seeking behaviour of one government MP who does not exactly see himself in the light of St Paul's advice. Just look at the hysteria and puerility on certain issues (including with people outside the political arena) and try to find rationality in the actions that Labour has been actively fanning, trying to accelerate the process which Muscat believes will give him the power he craves ASAP.
Repetition tends to make even the biggest lie sound credible, hence, changing perspectives and strategically planting misperceptions for political mileage and convenience. One such misperception is the 'tag' that has been pasted on the Gonzi government as being a conservative one, not attractive to 'modern' or to 'young' people. The divorce debate is often manipulated to support this idea and it is very common to hear this viewpoint being declared with a certain conviction.
I beg to differ and invite readers to take a step back and assess the situation with a philosophical detachment based on the facts.
In Parliament, there was a private member motion to introduce divorce legislation. The PN, although aware of the need for a solution to be found for the many people who had encountered problems in their marriage, was not in agreement with the way the Bill was proposed and wanted the referendum question to be about the principle of accepting divorce and to subsequently have a rational parliamentary debate on the modus of how divorce could be incorporated into our legislation, having got the thorny part of the issue out of the way. This position was twisted beyond recognition, totally ignoring the fact that the Labour Party avoided taking an official stand while censuring voices with an opinion different to that of their great leader.
It is not at all surprising that so much effort is being made to promote these misconceptions of instability, internal strife and of conservatism. It is only through such underhand tactics that attention can be deviated from the success of a government that has seen our economy survive, and thrive, in the harshest and most difficult of international environments.
Our young people will not allow themselves to be distracted by these tactics. They are interested in education and employment prospects, areas where Labour does well to avoid discussion.
A political party base needs to be made up of various different, and differing, elements representing a horizontal cross section of opinions, developed through the various party structures for a party policy to be adopted.
It does not make sense for any one member of the party to feel bigger and cleverer than all the rest and to act like a spoilt child whenever it does not get its own way.
Neither does it make any sense for all the members of the party to toe the party line, always as dictated by the great leader, who tries to gain power by arousing the emotions, passions and prejudices of people.
There is a difference between democracy and demagoguery.
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I booked this hotel because of the great reviews it had! This is just an imazing place. I enjoed every moment of my saty. Staff is very friendly and so helpful. They even parked my car on a safe narrow street (well all the streets are narrow in the Old city which makes it very hard for driving).
Beautiful location of the hotel and very friendly people.. beautiful architecture, excellent breakfast everything was great
The spacious,quiet, cozy and elegant room and passionate nice staff and volunteers there
Friendliness kitchen -being able to help self to tea and coffee ,location ,clean was great On the first night we were just given a sheet -it was a twin room and not cheap -we were freezing and had the worse sleep of all the holiday - i asked in the morning for a blanket and she gave us a cover and a duvet - they should automatically provide these we werent in a dorm but a private en suite room
The old-world charm of the place. It's location in the heart of the old city of Nazareth makes it a winner. We used it as a base for sightseeing around the city and Galilee. Breakfast was basic but good, our room was good, our stay and experience excellent. It should be clearly pointed out that there are no parking facilities within approximately 500 m from the Inn. We had a rental, which had to be parked in the street, and also had some frustration in finding the Inn after dark upon arrival. Still, the place is worth it. We'll go back any time.
the friendly atmosphere, the charme of the place and its location in the old town of Nazareth
Informal and friendly. Staff were excellent. Fantastic very old building with lovely, comfortable rooms. Make sure you take the directions with you!
Truly feeling like you're in Old Nazareth at night. So much atmosphere. Helpful staff as well. It's a bit basic, more backpacker than boutique, but can't beat it for ambiance and location. FYI - when we arrived, they did not have our Booking.Com reservation. Fortunately, they had a room available and were very accommodating, but it could have been ugly. Might want to sort that out.
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The building is a very old and beautiful. It is fun to stay in this hotel.
Breakfast is quite basic. And so is the breakfast hall..Otherwise, some rooms have a nive view upon the city. Parking quite useful. Close from Old City. Breakfast hall
I did not like the hotel because there were no literature about hotel services, no local info, no vending machines to get a snack considering the dining room was closed until late in the afternoon. The hotel was located in what I consider a slum.
nothing everything
Staff are very kind and helpful. Breakfast was great. We tried to get a local map for Nazareth city so we can do our tour, we were disappointed that there was no map at reception.
Good central location Breakfasts were awful, stopped going. Apart from food all tables were designated for tour groups, had to sit at one designated 'staff'
It was all very good. No, nothing at all
close to center town ad usefull for tourits aiming to pass one only night in the city too much pilgrims cackling
Central location. free garage, good quality of the room. You can open the windows. Over all, it feels like a big 3 star hotel in Las Vegas. It's a tour group hotel. There is a central court yard without any green. Many rooms face it.Breakfast is disappointing. No fresh fruit, no decoration, just plain calories. Pilgrims groups are hearded through the huge underground breakfast room. As an individual tourist you have to sit in a dark corner at a big table with all the other individual travellers.
nothing The hotel was full of tours, tables were assigned for the tours and there was no place for us to eat beakfast. The removal of Mezzuzas from doors was left obvious and somewhat disconcerting
Although the room was OK, we felt it had been misrepresented in the pictures we had seen on line previous to booking. The room was clean and large enough. The one night we stayed, we were the only guests in the hotel and the owner went home, so we were alone in the establishment. Nothing happened, but it was something we had never encountered before.In the morning, since we were leaving before the owner came back (8:00 AM) we were told to lock the gate behind us and throw the key over it and the staff would find it when they came back.
The owners were so nice and willing to provide more information than we had time to soak in. And for a "light meal" we couldn't finish the portions despite our hunger. We had misunderstood the parking situation, so it took a little more hiking with our luggage than expected. That's the same situation as the other guest houses nearby. If it weren't for the signs we never would've found it.


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Distribution all over India. India is the seventh largest country in the world, bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east with coastline of 7517km. It borders Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east, while. Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia in the Indian Ocean are in close vicinity and provide the country a distinct geographical entity. The country is characterized by its diverse physical units, which includes Himalayan mountain chain; plains of river Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra; peninsular plateau; Western ghats; Eastern ghats and the coastal plains and the Islands. In general four major river systems, the Himalayan, deccan, coastal and rivers of the inland drainage basin are there. The Himalayan rivers are generally snow-fed and flow throughout the year. During rainy and winter seasons Himalaya receives very heavy rainfall and snow fall, respectively, causes frequent floods. Maximum deccan and coastal rivers are non-perennial and generally rain-fed. The rivers of the inland drainage basin are lost somewhere in its own basin. The altitude ranges from coastal region to the highest peak Kanchenjunga (8598m asl). Despite the country's size the entire country has a tropical climate marked with relatively high temperature during summer and dry winters and seasonal rhythm of the monsoon is apparent throughout. Although, much of northern India lies beyond the tropical zone, the north-eastern region receive very heavy rainfall followed by Western Ghats and western Himalaya (>2000mm annually). However, eastern peninsula extending up to the northern plains receives rainfall between 1000 to 2000mm in a year, while the area from Western Deccan up to the Punjab plains receives rainfall between 100-500 mm a year. Parts of Run of Kachchh, Rajasthan and Trans-Himalayan region (Ladakh) have hardly any rainfall. Yearly the country has to face various kinds of natural hazards, viz., droughts, flash floods, wide spread and destructive flooding from seasonal rains, severe thunder and hail storms and earthquakes. Rodgers and Panwar (1988) divided India into 10 biogeographic zone, which were further divided into 25 biogeographic provinces considering the factors such as altitude, moisture, topography and rainfall for the planning of wildlife protected areas in India. At present there are 665 Pas in the country, of which 15.3% National Parks, 77.4% Wildlife Sanctuaries, 6.6% Conservation Reserves and 0.6% Community Reserves. Champion and Seth (1968) classified the forests of India into 6 major ecological classes depending upon their ecological functions, which are as follows: Eco class I: Tropical wet evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests and tropical moist deciduous forests; Eco-class II: littoral and swamp forests; Eco-class III: tropical dry deciduous forests; Eco-class IV: tropical thorn forests and tropical dry evergreen forest; Eco-class V: sub-tropical broadleaved hill forests, sub-tropical pine forest and sub-tropical dry evergreen forests; and Eco-class VI: montane wet temperate forests, Himalayan moist temperate forests, Himalayan dry temperate forests, sub-alpine forests, moist alpine scrub and dry alpine scrub.


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Marilyn Monroe's Typewriter
Marilyn Monroe's Typewriter
Usually I'm in awe of vintage typewriters because they're beautiful and hearken to a romantic bygone era of written letters and carefully taking time to express what you're thinking. Now, however, I'm in hushed awe because of who the typewriter belonged to: This was Marilyn Monroe's.
Part of the collection of photos shot by Mark Anderson after her death, the typewriter is just one of the things she left behind that you can squint at, appraise, and see the essence of the woman they once belonged to. I wonder what she composed on that typewriter, and to whom. . .


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A 14 year old autistic boy dies within hours of arriving at Rose Rock Academy, a psychiatric residential treatment facility in Oklahoma City.
Rose Rock Academy is a Sequel Youth and Family Services psychiatric facility that serves children with Autism.
This is why Joseph Winters was there.
Teen Boy with Autism Dies at Treatment Facility
Darryl Winters is trying to make sense of his brother's untimely death.
"It's messed up and I don't even know what to feel to have my brother, my little brother gone," Winters said. "He was strangled and basically he suffocated."
The police report states Joseph was 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds.
The family was told he may have needed to be restrained by staffers and at some point he stopped breathing.
The Medical Examiner's office hasn't determined a cause of death.
Rose Rock is a private facility but the DHS Licensing Unit conducted an investigation of the facility, supervision, staffing and training.
They did not find any non-compliance issues under any of those categories.
"They're not compliant, when you don't have video of him dying," Winters said.
One reason the family enrolled Joseph in the program is because this facility is equipped with cameras at every turn.
According to the family, they didn't help in this situation.
Winters said, "All the other cameras are working but that one camera that shows how my brother passed on is not working. Why?"
Rose Rock released this statement:
"We are all shocked by the unfortunate incident that occurred this past Thursday evening. We have reported the incident to all the appropriate authorities, and are following all appropriate procedures while undergoing thorough investigations by all appropriate authorities. Rose Rock and Sequel staff members acted appropriately and are very saddened by this unfortunate incident and extend our condolences to the family of this young man.
Rose Rock is a Facility of Sequel Youth Services
Having six Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF's) in the United States, Sequel offers two types of programs; Neurodevelopmental and Seriously Emotionally Disturbed.
Rose Rock's facility operates under the Neurodevelopmental program:
Sequel's neurodevelopmental programs (Bernalillo, Norris, Rose Rock, and 1/2 of Northern Illinois Academy) serve residents diagnosed with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or with a non-specified developmental delay. Additional services available for these individuals include Occupational, Speech, and Physical therapies; 1:1 care and the services of certified Applied Behavioral Analysts. The programs are accredited by The Joint Commission and serve a diverse cross-section of exceptional children with a range of complex needs including, but not limited to
- Complex Autism
- Aspergers
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Developmental Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairments
- Physical Impairments
- Significant Psychiatric Impairment with Developmental Disabilities
- Health Impairments
The Troubled Teen Industry Connection
Troubled Teen Industry opponents spotlight cases of psychological abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and the unfortunate deaths of kids who have been placed in (generically and subjectively termed) "Residential Treatment Facilities," "Boot Camps," "Camps for Troubled Teens," or any other evocative term that may conjure up images of a kid getting 'fixed.'
After having been deemed by their parents or thought of as 'disobedient,' 'rebellious' or 'behaviorally unmanageable' sometimes it's a well-intentioned counselor, doctor, OR a financially-motivated paraprofessional receiving kickbacks who might make such a suggestion as to where to send these allegedly 'troubled' kids. Even television shows are profiting off the troubled teen industry.
But Joseph was not 'troubled' in this sense. He was not an average functioning teenager. Joseph had autism; He was there for his autism. He was not (supposed to be in) a subset of the 'troubled teen' category. According to Sequel's website, Rose Rock is not an arm of their Seriously Emotionally Disturbed program:
Sequel's Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) programs (Kingston, Riverside and 1/2 of Northern Illinois Academy) are heavily staffed with medical and clinical teams who address both the mental and behavioral issues presented. Individual Treatment Plans are created under the supervision of psychiatrists. The programs are accredited by The Joint Commission and offer treatment for young people with a range of complex needs including, but not limited to:
- Mood Disorders
- Disruptive Behavior Disorders
- Adjustment Disorders
- Dually diagnosed: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Self-harmful behaviors
- Destructive behaviors
The connection of Joseph's death to the troubled teen industry should be clear: Methods of psychologically questionable to unsafe and harmful - sometimes quite abusive - practices happen; Sometimes the kids are physically harmed. Sometimes the kids are psychologically murdered, resulting in PTSD or suicide. Sometimes the kid 'just dies' while in their care and no one seems to know why or what happened.
Despite ANY 'curriculum' or 'program' - troubled teen or autism assistance - every child [human being] deserves their most basic and fundamental rights preserved DESPITE the methodology of any program; Nutritious food, clean water, sufficient and clean clothing, shelter, sleep, psychological and physical safety, dignity, respect, a certain amount of space to move freely, sunshine, non-infliction of torture and, naturally, the ability to live.
And if the facility cannot HELP them, then at least do not physically harm or damage them, psychologically retard or torture them, or you know, kill them.
According to the news report, Joseph's family chose Rose Rock Academy because they liked that Rose Rock had cameras. But Joseph's brother, Darryl, wants to know why all the other cameras were working except for the one that - had it been working - could have offered evidence as to what Joseph's last few minutes of life looked like; Namely, the specifics of how Joseph died.
How and why did 14 year old autistic Joseph Winters die within only a few hours of arriving for his first day?
"Sequel's [Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities] offer a structured residential environment that is safe for our residents because of the extensive direct-care and clinical staff support available to them."
I wonder if Rose Rock Academy will stand by that.
© 2013, Digits on Newsvine. Please feel free to link, share, or use anything for the furthering of your own edification or for the furthering of anyone else's. Below are links of personal interest that are related to this article's tertiary purpose; The first purpose is to bring awareness that Joseph Winters died at a facility that was supposed to help him with autism. The secondary purpose is a call to action; That his family wants and not only deserves answers, but that the public is served in knowing of this incident. The third purpose is, that because my opinion is that his death bears the suspicion that surrounds facilities typified as being for troubled teens, to showcase that questionable to blatantly harmful methodologies - that the public may be unaware of - is why kids are being harmed.
- The Cult that Kept Me Imprisoned - My story.
- Tortured Kids Surviving Straight, Inc. - Residential 'war on drugs' facility won the acclaim of Nancy Reagan & Princess Diana.
- American Companies Torturing Teens for Profit [Reddit] - From Dr. Phil to Mitt Romney, see how these places gain credibility.
- Josh Shipp and "Teen Trouble" on Lifetime - Not a doctor or a counselor but he seems to play one on Lifetime.
- Judge Rotenberg Shocks Children into Compliance - If you think you can handle it, watch the graphic video.


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For those who travelled to Australia in the nineteenth century, the journey was often long and dangerous. In calm weather a sailing ship might take as long as four months, while a well-run clipper ship with favourable winds could make the journey in a little over half this time. These ships represented the pinnacle of sailing ship technology. With their streamlined hulls and acres of sail designed to catch even the slightest breeze, clippers were built primarily for speed.
By the 1850s it was possible to make the journey by auxiliary steamer, using a combination of steam and sail. However steam technology was still too inefficient to allow a ship to travel all the way to Australia under its own power. With the strong prevailing westerlies on the 'Great Circle' sailing route benefiting the clippers, sail continued to dominate the trade until the end of the 1870s.
Life at sea was uncomfortable and often hazardous, particularly for passengers who travelled cheaply in 'steerage' (the lowest deck and below the water line). Storms were common in the Southern Ocean, but were not the only danger. Hygiene was poor at the best of times and worse in bad weather. 'Batten-down the hatches' meant passengers on the lowest deck were confined without ventilation or light in conditions that were ideal for the spread of disease. The use of candles or oil lanterns was restricted and sometimes forbidden—cramped conditions with timber, straw mattresses, hemp (rope) and tar caulking, meant a fire could spread with terrifying speed. A disaster at sea or shipwreck on the coast left little hope for rescue—few sailors or passengers could swim, and there were rarely enough life-boats for the numbers on board.
Regardless of the difficulties in getting to Australia, it had become an increasingly popular destination for free settlers. Convicts were no longer the major source of new arrivals to the colonies. With the discovery of gold in 1851 and a booming economy, people were now coming to Victoria and Australia by choice. People came from many countries, the majority from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, America, China and Germany. (For details, see Origins - the First Census.)
However, not all settlers were welcomed equally—for example, from 1855-61 ship's captains had to pay poll taxes of up to £10 per head for each Chinese passenger they landed in Victoria. Word soon spread back home, and many young Chinese seeking their fortunes subsequently disembarked in South Australia and walked overland to the Victorian goldfields.
Chinese immigration remained controversial for many decades. The following verse from a song by Charles Thatcher perhaps encapsulates the attitude of many colonists to the arrival of immigrants from China. (Thatcher became a popular music-hall entertainer on the Victorian goldfields after his arrival in 1878).
You doubtless read the paperAnd, as men of observation,Of course you watch the progress ofChinese immigration.A thousand of these pig-tailed chapsIn Adelaide are landing,And why they let such numbers comeExceeds my understanding!
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When sitting for an interview backstage at the Coke Live Festival, 50 Cent says his new album 'Before I Self Destruct' will not arrive in the market until November.
A month after an official release date for his new album "Before I Self Destruct" was unveiled, 50 Cent came out announcing that the effort has been pushed back. Originally set for September 29 U.S. release, the record is now scheduled to be put out for purchase across the country in early November.
"I was limited [with] time on my other projects, and this one, just because the system was in a state of confusion with things changing - the music business itself changed," he said during an interview backstage at the Coke Live Festival, in Cracow, Poland on August 22. "And it was definitely a time where I felt like I was ready and it wasn't a possibility for me to release the record at that point."
"And then the Eminem train came running down the track and I had to get out the way to let Eminem's record [Relapse] go out. Because he had been off for two years, it made good sense for to let him go out first."
Furthermore, 50 Cent also revealed a film version of "Before I Self Destruct", which marks the rapper's directorial debut and is based on the album's tracks, will be included in the album's packaging. "Because I had additional time, I wrote, produced and directed my own film, 'Before I Self Destruct' and it'll actually be within the album's packaging. So when you buy the record, you'll get the film that I wrote," he stated.


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I spent about half of my day yesterday taking the Iowa pesticide exams so I could be certified to be the guy who sets up the pesticide sprayer in the greenhouse, which is not a huge job necessarily but it's one that is supposed to be mine, and which I haven't been doing since I started, since I don't have the license to do it.
In Iowa, the tests are set up such that you have to take a core test of 50 questions (40 to pass), and then you have to take separate 35-question tests (28 to pass) to certify you for specific types of spraying.
I did just fine on the core test (46/50), and then missed the greenhouse test by four questions, one of which doesn't count, a lot of which had nothing to do with whether I knew the material or not and everything to do with the tests being written really sloppily. E.g., one of the questions I missed was asking about bugs that were resistant to pesticides, but they phrased it in such a way that it was really ambiguous whether they were asking, "Which of these pests is resistant to pesticides in general?" or "Which of these pests quickly becomes resistant to certain classes of pesticide?" The choices were like, mealybugs, spider mites, thrips, and fungus. The booklet one is supposed to study for the test had made a point of mentioning that mealybugs are resistant in general, because of the water-repellent waxy coating (which we've talked about before), but it had also emphasized that spider mites were difficult to get rid of completely because they quickly developed resistance to new pesticides. I went with the mealybugs, then considered changing it to spider mites, but talked myself out of it (everybody knows you're not supposed to second-guess yourself on standardized tests like this), and they wanted spider mites. So I get the question "wrong" not because I don't know the answer, but because they can't write the question specifically enough for me to determine which question they're even asking. This is frustrating.
There was another question like that, that was ambiguous between two answers, and I had the right one and then switched to the wrong one at the last minute. Don't remember what that one was about, though.
There was also one question where all of the answer options were wrong. And I don't mean just a little wrong, I mean, really wrong. It was something like, "Which of the following statements is ACCURATE about the greenhouse whitefly?" and then the choices were:
a. something really dumb that I don't remember
b. has black, sticky droppings
c. feeds between the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf
d. produces honeydew
Leaving aside my pedantic irritation that none of those are statements, they're sentence fragments, there's also not a true one among the bunch. For B, they're clearly hoping you'll get whitefly confused with caterpillars, for C, they're hoping you'll be confused with leafminers, for D, they're hoping you'll be confusing whitefly with scale, aphids, or mealybugs. But they neglected to put a right answer in. I went with B, figuring, well, I never really paid all that much attention to whitefly droppings before, so maybe they could be black and sticky, who knows, and the answer they wanted was D, produces honeydew. And I'm like, come on, State of Iowa, you're killing me here. So I went and talked to the guy administering the test, and he agreed with me that no, that was wrong, they don't produce honeydew, and none of those answers were correct, and so if I took the test from him again (which it looks like I'm likely to: I think the state only has just so many people doing this at any given time), he'd just give me that one, if it was the difference between passing and failing.
And it's not that terrible of a thing; there's no fee for the test (surprisingly) and the waiting period after you fail is apparently about 18 hours: I could go to Donnellson today and take the test again, but Donnellson is more than halfway across the state and anyway they need me to work 'cause it's Valentine's Week and there are rose bouquets to be assembled. Realistically, my next shot is next Monday, in West Branch.
But -- this doesn't make me feel safe at all. If you can just take the test over and over until you pass, it means you don't have to even read the book. You don't have to know anything: just show up and take the test as often as you can until you happen on a winning combination. And, hell, they let you see which ones you got wrong, and what the right answers were, right after you take it, so sooner or later, you'd see all the test questions anyway.
I dunno. For some reason, I was expecting that there'd be bigger obstacles than this. I mean, this is poison we're talking about: I don't really want it in the hands of any yahoo who was just stubborn enough to show up and take the test until they passed.
So I wind up disappointed twice: I'm disappointed because it's too hard, and disappointed because it's too easy. Also I'd like to take this opportunity to offer my services to the State of Iowa as a test-question writer: I could write questions that weren't ambiguous, where "statements" were actually statements and "questions" were actually questions and where one and only one of the choices for each question was actually correct. Just in case anybody's interested.
Not that I expect Mississippi is going to be mocking our pesticide-exam syntax or anything. But still. I give it two and a half stars. Missable.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.1386 Wednesday, 12 July 2000.
Date: Tuesday, 11 Jul 2000 11:06:17 -0500
Subject: "carving to"
In The White Devil Vittoria Corombona, learning that her husband is
displeased with her, says, "I did nothing to displease him, I carved to
him at supper-time" (1.2.126, Revels ed.). This passage is variously
glossed. It appears that many believe that carving at table contained a
semiotics of erotic content. Lucas, for instance (a widely-read
annotator), glosses the phrase as follows:
"Carving" was the term for a curious Elizabethan manner of making
advances by signalling with the fingers -- a sort of digitary ogle.
He then goes on to cite parallels in Wives (1.3.47), Errors (2.2.121),
LLL (5.2.324), and from Overbury's Character of "A Very Woman":
"Her lightness gets her to swim at top of the table where her wrie
little finger bewraies carving; her neighbors at the latter end know
they are welcome, for that purpose she quencheth her thirst" (cited from
Other editors think various things. Oliver's ed. of Wives cites but
dismisses these as misleading, imaginary, or unhelpful parallels,
concluding, "That there is some kind of association between carving at
table and making guests feel, properly or improperly, at home -- and
that it goes beyond the allotting of the choicest cuts -- does seem
certain." Hibbard refers interestingly (in his note to the LLL passage)
to "mincing speech." Like many editors, though, he regards the meaning
of the term as now unknown. Yet other editors from my shelves do not
footnote the term at all.
Do others have light to shed on this usage?
Frank Whigham