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Australia & New Zealand: The imperialist reality behind ANZAC myth (updated 2015)
Film by John Rainford and Peter Ewer
April 24, 2015 -- Green Left TV/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- As the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign approaches, this timely short film (above) cuts through the myth making, and shows with damning facts how lives were used as fodder as strategic and tactical blunders led to the slaughter of so many.
It reveals the context behind the Gallipoli campaign - a war fought because the world had been cut up into colonies by the major powers who were now battling for the spoils.
The film shows exactly why the terrible ANZAC Cove campaign should never be forgotten — and the crimes of the warmongers responsible never forgiven.
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ANZACs pose in front of the Sphinx while on leave during WWI.
By Phil Shannon
What's Wrong With Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History
By Marilyn Lake & Henry Reynolds
UNSW Press, 2010, 183 pages
Green Left Weekly -- On April 25 in Australia, it is not humanly possible to escape the slouch hats, the Dawn Service, the Last Post, the khaki uniforms and the military ceremonies endlessly recycled in the establishment media. The cult of Anzac Day is pervasive, the culture of war unavoidable.
Immensely welcome, then, is What's Wrong with Anzac? by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, which takes a dissenting look at the Anzac Day tradition.
The legend is that the landing by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in 1915, despite ending in defeat, was the supreme test of manhood and nationhood, which Australia passed. Anzac Day is remorselessly promoted as Australia's true national day and celebrated with religious fervour.
The problems with this national creation myth are many, however. Unlike a revolutionary war of independence, the World War I Anzac landing was part of the Dardanelles campaign instigated by British War Minister Winston Churchill, at the request of the autocratic Russian Tsar, to open a new front against Germany.
It was an invasion, undertaken on behalf of the "mother country", with "death and violence inflicted in an imperial cause".
The Anzac cause has been yoked to "defending freedom and democracy" but this is "a marketing slogan" aimed at selling subsequent wars of aggression involving Australia — in Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anzac Day is now depoliticised, reduced to a sentimental story of courage, mateship and the sacrifice of innocent young men rather than a horrendous display of "aggression, conformity and obedience to orders and a capacity to kill people".
A British war correspondent who was at Gallipoli, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, celebrated this latter reality, praising the Anzacs' enthusiasm for bayoneting Turks when their "blood was up".
The Anzac tradition is an "imperialist, masculine, militarist" one but such dissent is regarded as treason and disrespectful of the Australian soldiers who died and of those serving in current wars.
With such reasoning, winning support for new wars is thus made easier, especially when the slouch hats are in the field. The Anzac-focused proliferation of military histories, commemorative days and war memorials has "naturalised war", and has helped to silence debate about current and future wars.
Anzac is all about promoting the "importance of war in the life of the nation", a lesson passed onto our children courtesy of an offensive by recent Australian governments, led by the Department of Veterans' Affairs with its budget for its schools program. School children are now "immersed in nationalist sentiment" rather than historical understanding.
Nationalism is a key Anzac value, the Australian flag an inseparable accessory. War, say the mythologists, will unite the country. The Prussian militarist and historian, Heinrich von Treitschke, said war united boss and worker across class lines in a common national purpose — war, "with all its sternness and roughness, also weaves a bond of love between men, since here all class distinctions vanish, and the risk of death knits man to man".
When the worker lays down with the capitalist, there can only be one winner. Anzac Day helps the rich get richer by blurring competing class identities and interests.
For the approved gospel of Anzac to be effective, certain troublesome elements of Anzac history have had to be excised — those Gallipoli veterans, for example, who returned disgusted with war and who refused to attend Anzac ceremonies. Their voice is rarely heard.
The political division over the unpopular first World War is also rarely acknowledged. Wartime conscription was twice rejected by voters and, in the 1920s, Armistice Day became an occasion for well-attended peace rallies. University students protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s using Anzac Day as a springboard and feminists protested rape in war on the holy day.
In 1973, reflecting the anti-militarist feeling of the time, the Australian Labor Party national conference even discussed a proposal to drop Anzac Day in its current form and replace it with a day of peace (they didn't, of course, and recently deposed Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd intoned that Gallipoli is "part of our national identity" and that he was "absolutely proud of it").
The heightened levels of Anzac obsession marginalise Australia's long anti-war tradition and swamp civil and political values of equality and social justice, which have some claim to have been nation-defining, from early women's suffrage to the welfare state.
Another nation-making event — the dispossession of Aboriginal Australia — is also bulldozed aside by the Anzac myth. Aboriginal blood spilt in the frontier wars is not the right kind to be commemorated.
The historians contributing to the book try to salvage Australia's other histories from the smothering embrace of the military one. Too much history now ties together the commemoration of the war dead with the writing of history, and merges military history with family history, thus encouraging new generations, remote from the horrors of war, to identify with Australia's military past and present.
Some Anzac apologists ritually claim to condemn war, say the authors, but the symbols and rhetoric point in the opposite direction — that war is good for you, as a person and a nation. Wilfred Owen, the anti-war poet, called this "the old lie". Anzac Day is a big part of that old lie.
[This review first appeared in Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading socialist newspaper, on June 26, 2010.]
Tale of the neglected ANZAC hero-turned socialist
The Price of Valour: The Triumph & Tragedy of a Gallipoli Hero, Hugo Throssell, VC
John Hamilton
Pan Macmillan, 2012, 393 pages
March 26, 2013 -- Green Left Weekly -- Captain Hugo Throssell, one of nine Australian soldiers to win a
Victoria Cross for supreme bravery at Gallipoli in 1915, stunned his
home-town audience of patriotic Australians in 1919 with his statement
that "the war has made me a socialist".
The declaration, made on the anniversary of the signing of the Allies' World War I peace treaty with Germany, made headlines. It also made enemies, says John Hamilton in his biography of Throssell.
The civic authorities of the town of Northam in Western Australia listened with increasing disbelief as Northam's own war hero denounced war for enriching armaments makers, war profiteers and rival national capitalist classes in their competition for territory, markets, resources and profits.
Throssell had been a dashing cavalry officer who, in the first flush of battle, wrote how it was "most glorious" to see a bayonet charge and what a "wonderful thing" it was to see men running through an artillery bombardment. But he became war-weary and disillusioned after seeing his mates killed and after suffering severe mental injury.
With what would now be diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder,
Throssell's days were filled with nervousness and headaches due to a
head wound. His nights were tortured into sleeplessness by what he had
seen at Gallipoli and by the death of his brother who had signed up with
Throssell in the belief that war was a thrilling adventure.
Throssell, the privileged son of a conservative state premier, married Katherine Susannah Prichard, the journalist and feminist who went on to fame as a novelist and founder of the Communist Party of Australia.
Prichard's communism, and her profound love for a handsome, vital, selfless man, helped Throssell make sense of his ghastly war experiences.
Reading Engels may not have been easy — "Hell, girl, what the blazes does this mean?" he would holler — but "usually our political discussions ended in love-making," wrote Prichard.
Throssell, without becoming a party member, accepted Prichard's political views as his own.
Australia's political police put Throssell's radicalisation down to "his wife's influence", or "his mind perhaps having been affected" by the cerebro-spinal meningitis he contracted during the war.
Throssell's biographer hedges his bets, saying it is possible that the brain injury Throssell received from a botched, war-time sinus operation made him "more vulnerable and easily influenced".
Socialism, apparently, can only be understood as a psychological disorder, the product of a weakened mind.
Throssell, however, knew his own mind — on the back of his will he wrote "I have never recovered from my 1914-18 experiences", shortly before committing suicide using his army pistol in 1933.
He also added an appeal that "my wife and child get the usual war pension". Owing £10,000 with just £10 in the bank, Throssell's financial disasters during the Great Depression had been exacerbated, writes Hamilton, by his "enemies at work within the government".
These enemies helped ensure his economic projects were costly failures. Conservatives in the Northam Returned Soldiers and Sailors League also got the government to remove Throssell from his job as soldiers' representative on the government's Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Board.
The Repatriation Department added insult to tragedy by disputing the coroner's finding that Throssell's war wounds were the cause of his suicide.
Prichard angrily defended her husband who "believed he would be ensuring a pension to me and my son by his last act. I consider that his 'grateful country' made it impossible for my husband to live. He thought he had to die to provide for his wife and child."
It was not until 1999 that a "modest memorial the size of a backyard barbecue" was erected to Throssell in Northam by his "grateful country".
During the depression, Throssell had been forced to try to pawn his Victoria Cross but was offered only 10 shillings for it — the "price of valour" for a war hero who had, as his son Ric said later when donating Throssell's medal to People for Nuclear Disarmament, "declared his commitment to peace".
Throssell has not been well served by official history, nor by his biographer. Hamilton's conventional war narrative focuses on Throssell the warrior, not the socialist.Hamiltion's biography includes a disapproval of Throssell's decision to choose a patriotic occasion of military celebration to denounce war. "Not the time nor place," says Hamilton — but what better time or place could there be? It took political courage and Throssell had just as much of that as he had bravery on the battlefield.
The ANZAC role in crushing the 1919 Egypt Revolt
By David Rowlands
Green Left Weekly -- Shortly after the end of World War I, Australian troops bloodily suppressed a popular independence revolution in Egypt. This overlooked episode in Australia's military history has never prompted much national soul-searching — but it should. The war in which some 60,000 Australians died was supposedly fought for liberal democratic values and the right of peoples to pursue national "self-determination".
Episodes like the Egyptian revolt suggest that a squalid imperial reality underlay the noble rhetoric, which is why it has been relegated to obscurity.
Speaking in Cairo in December 2010, foreign minister Kevin Rudd glossed over the darker aspects of Australian involvement in Egypt when he summed up the period with the following statement: "During World War 1 … Australian troops were stationed … at the foot of the Pyramids. For the young Australians, who found themselves in an ancient land, on the edge of a city renowned for its style and culture, it was a time to remember."
Rudd's remarks create the impression that Australian soldiers approached Egypt and the Egyptians with a sense of respect, even reverence. Unfortunately, the reality was very different.
Following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt increasingly fell under British hegemony. By August 1914, when the war began, Europeans controlled more than 90% of the Egyptian economy, despite making up only 2% of the population.
Fearing a recurrence of the nationalist revolts that had shaken Egypt in the early 1880s, Britain diverted tens of thousands of Australian and New Zealand volunteers to Egypt in late 1914.
From the outset, the ANZAC presence in Egypt was about more than
military training. They were there to keep a watchful eye on the general
population, ready to respond if the "darkies", "niggers" and "wogs" (as
ANZAC diarists conditioned by racist ideology often described
Egyptians) got any rebellious ideas.
When the Australians arrived in Egypt, they did so not as sensitive cultural tourists but as a contemptuous force that amounted to an army of occupation.
The ANZAC presence was a godsend to British colonial authorities, whose regular regiments were heavily committed on the Western Front.
As is well known, Australians and New Zealanders "played up", earning a reputation for looting, arson and assault. The riotous behaviour reflected the ANZAC's racist attitude toward a subjugated population. British and Dominion troops drained resources and created runaway inflation. In addition, more than half a million peasants were conscripted into labour and transport units serving the British war effort. For this vital service they were poorly paid and awarded little recognition.
Middle-class unemployment was also a problem. Thousands of well-educated young people had no future in the system that ensured all key public service appointments were held by British personnel.
Egypt's incorporation into the rapacious capitalist imperialist system had not benefited the mass of ordinary Egyptians. It is easy to see why they were seeking an alternative by the end of 1918.
Following the armistice, the Wafd [Delegation] party was formed by the Egyptian nationalist politician Pasha Zaghul. Its adopted flag was a Sunni crescent and Coptic cross set on a green background, symbolising the peaceful unity of Egypt's Muslims and Christians. Wafd leaders demanded the right to negotiate for independence with the British government in London.
The British responded to the Wafd movement by arresting Zaghul on March 8, 1919. He was swiftly deported, an injustice that galvanised the entire country into taking direct action.
All classes took to the streets and squares in protest, shouting Wafdist slogans. There were many notable acts of resistance, such as on March 16, when hundreds of women marched together against the British occupation. This marked the entry of Egyptian feminist activists into politics.
With large crowds of strikers and protesters defying British roadblocks in Cairo, Alexandria and other centres, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops (who constituted the bulk of available forces) were ordered to take decisive action.
Protesters massacred
On March 17, a small detachment opened fire on a 1000-strong crowd at Minet El Qamh. According to the article Keeping the Peace — Egypt 1919 by Canberra-based historian Dr. Michael Tyquin: "Thirty-nine locals were killed and 25 wounded, while 40 men drowned trying to escape across an adjoining canal. The Australians sustained one casualty."
Another attack took place on March 27, when an Australian patrol encountered demonstrating Egyptians tearing up a railway line at Zagazig. "While under no immediate threat to themselves", Tyquin noted, "the troopers immediately opened fire, killing 30 as the crowd fled."
In a secret brief distributed to British and Australian officers on April 1, 1919, the motivation behind the heavy-handed police operation was disclosed. Britain would never withdraw, because "it could not see another power gaining Egypt and incidentally the Suez Canal".
What the British authorities meant by the phrase "another power" is fairly clear: the Egyptian people themselves.
By the summer of 1919, about 800 Egyptians had been killed in clashes with Allied (mainly Australian) troops and twice that number had been wounded. In total, the Australians sustained 20 casualties, including at least one death.
The independence movement had been crushed, though ongoing popular resistance forced the British to grant a measure of independence to Egypt in 1922. The British kept control over the canal, however, and continued to dictate Egyptian policy through a proxy ruler.
Australia has played a key role in suppressing the legitimate democratic aspirations of the Egyptian people. This reactionary policy was reflected in the Wafd massacres of 1919 and, in more recent times, by successive governments' support of the dictatorial and corrupt Mubarak regime.
If the Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard really wants to employ "creative middle-power diplomacy" and foster Egyptian democracy in the wake of the 2011 uprising, it should face up to past crimes committed in the so-called national interest.
[This article first appeared in Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading socialist newspaper on April 18, 2011.]
ANZACs vs Bolsheviks
By Phil Shannon
Green Left Weekly -- "The remedy for Bolshevism is bullets", was the blunt message of the editorial in Britain's establishment newspaper, The Times, in 1919 as military forces from 16 capitalist countries invaded Russia after the 1917 revolution. Among the invaders were about 150 Australian soldiers, as recounted in Michael Challinger's history of the Australian role in the invasion.
ANZACS in Arkhangel: The Untold Story of Australia and the Invasion of Russia 1918-19
By Michael Challinger
Hardie Grant Books, 2010, 285 pages
Nine Australian soldiers were part of a British secret mission (Elope Force) in 1918 whose apparent aim of countering a German foothold in the northern Russian port city of Arkhangel was soon dispensed in favour of the real purpose — to train and organise the counter-revolutionary Russian Army of the north and link up with the other White Russian armies to overthrow the Bolshevik socialist government.
The British-led invaders seized the city, running it as a military dictatorship under a puppet local government. By 1919, reinforcements of 15,000 foreign troops had joined the war against the Sixth Red Army.
Troubling notes were struck from the start, however. One American wrote of the scene on Arkhangel's main wharf as the invasion force sailed in that "people simply went wild with joy".
But, as Challinger notes, "what escaped his notice was that the welcoming crowds were exclusively middle class and that there wasn't a working man among them". The "working masses were at best apathetic and at worst, hostile".
Their Russian allies also posed trouble behind their own lines with a mutiny of the troops of the First Arkhangel Regiment, who, infected by the Bolshevist spirit, were protesting against saluting and officers wearing epaulettes and demanding bigger rations. The British executed 13 mutiny leaders.
Morale within the occupiers' own ranks eroded as the occupation continued past the WWI Armistice. With the war against Germany over, writes Challinger, all sense of purpose evaporated. Bolshevik propaganda appealed to the foreign soldiers not to shoot fellow workers and not to break strikes against the occupation. This resonated in particular with the US soldiers, many of whom were conscripted factory workers. A high number of US soldiers used self-inflicted wounds as their ticket home.
Military endeavour also waned among the French troops who refused to go to the front.One hundred and sixty demoralised French colonial troops had to be taken into military custody. Among the British, the 13th Yorkshires refused to relieve front-line troops and demanded that censorship be lifted so that people back in Britain could know what was really happening in the war.
With the Russian soldiers' readiness to mutiny and go over to the Bolsheviks en masse, it quickly became clear to the foreign soldiers, says Challinger, that they were fighting a lost cause.
None of this was in the script of Winston Churchill (Britain's secretary of state for war). A rabid anti-communist, his solution was more troops.
A foreign office report obliged by spreading faked stories of Bolshevik atrocities (murder, torture, conversion of churches into brothels and other "wildly hysterical propaganda").
War-weariness, however, meant that the new troops had to be deceived into volunteering on the pretext of securing a withdrawal of the besieged troops in Russia who, it was said, would be driven into the sea and massacred. ("There was never a word of truth in it", as one English major confided to his diary).
Recruitment was so sluggish that the British Army also had to scour the 70,000 Australian soldiers still in Britain. They scraped up little more than a hundred, most joining from economic motives (they would receive double what the ordinary soldier was paid, and more than any civilian job would pay) along with the late enlisters who had not seen action and still retained a rosy view of war as glorious adventure.
This "relief force" launched a renewed offensive into the heart of Akhangel province in support of the Russian counter-revolutionary armies. Bombs, bullets, bayonets and poison gas (Churchill's favourite), slaughtered Bolsheviks, Red Army soldiers, Russian mutineers and prisoners of war with brutal efficiency.
It was all to no avail, however. The Red Army under Leon Trotsky (a leader of military "genius", acknowledges Challinger) defeated all the counter-revolutionary and imperialist armies. Despite Challinger's formulaic prejudices against the Bolsheviks ("brutal", "ruthless", the "enemy"), he does recognise that the Bolsheviks, who offered a "new social order", won because they had "the acquiescence, if not support, of most of the population" including that of Arkhangel, which was liberated by the Red Army in 1920.
The adventure left 327 British, 244 US, 2 Australian and countless Russian soldiers dead.
Domestic anti-war opposition in Britain also greatly assisted this outcome. The union movement refused to load ships bound for Russia and even some Royal Navy crews refused to sail.
In Australia, the government was forced to lie about any Australian involvement, knowing, as Challinger notes, that the bulk of Australian working people either supported the Bolsheviks, were interested in the socialist experiment or simply believed the Russians should be left alone to decide how to govern their own country.
As Sergeant John Kelly, a member of the early Elope Force, put it: "None of us had any heart for the Russian campaign … We had no right to be there. Had I known beforehand what the aim and nature of the mission was, I for one, would never have volunteered for the job."
Challinger's book has some valuable insights. However, his primary aim is to enrol the soldiers who fought the Bolsheviks into the ANZAC tradition.
His conventional military history is "simply about the Diggers". Inadvertently, though, there is enough in Challenger's book to show Australian involvement in war crimes, atrocities and routine slaughter and occupation in defence of capitalism.
With the whole episode wrapped in lies from the start, the Australian anti-Bolshevik war indeed fits snugly into the militarist, imperialist ANZAC tradition.
[This review first appeared in Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading socialist newspaper, on May 8, 2010.]
Matt McCarten: ANZAC story a sordid tale of world domination and death
By Matt McCarten
April 29, 2007 -- NZ Herald -- When I was a kid at primary school in the 1960s, the whole school would get called out on Anzac Day and lined up to hear old geezers talking about Gallipoli. It seemed like we stood wilting for hours in the hot sun hearing how "our boys" died for King and Country. I remember thinking uncharitably that when all the old soldiers died of old age we wouldn't have to keep doing this every year. The best part was hearing the bugle which signalled the parade was over and we could troop back to class.
Now, all the Great War veterans are indeed dead but it seems Anzac ceremonies have only got stronger. A lot has been made about the younger generations "taking the torch" from their great-grandparents and taking a day out to remember their sacrifice. Some right-wing politicians have got so swept up in this reverence that they are suggesting we should make Anzac Day our national day.
I suppose the myth of Waitangi Day - celebrating the signing of a treaty between Maori and the British proclaiming partnership and equality for all - doesn't wash as well as it used to. So, having another day to celebrate our nationhood is rather attractive.
But the Anzac Day story is just another myth that makes us feel warm inside. The truth behind Anzac Day is dirty and sordid.
The New Zealand ruling establishment last century couldn't wait to snap to attention to support Imperial Britain. In 1900, in New Zealand's first imperialist adventure, they sent their sons off to South Africa to kill the Boers who were fighting an independence war against Britain. New Zealand troops were part of the invading army which set up concentration camps that caused the deaths of thousands of women and children. When the call came again from Mother England to fight the Germans, we couldn't volunteer our sons fast enough.
Ordinary New Zealanders who declined to slaughter other human beings on behalf of European feudal rulers were imprisoned. Some were even shipped off to war anyway.
The combining of Australian and New Zealand soldiers into the same army corps was a decision made in England. Anzacs were sent to the French trenches to replace the hundreds of thousands of young Europeans already slaughtered there. But on the way there, the British Generals let the colonials in on their true destination - Gallipoli.
Trench warfare in France and Belgium is what most of the world remembers about World War I. The purpose of the war was which European countries would win global domination. The war was fought to get control of the collapsing Ottoman Empire; an empire including most of what we call the Middle East. Why? Because that's where the oil was. It seems nothing much has changed in 100 years. Western meddling in the Middle East has a long and tragic history.
So the British sent the Anzacs, with hundreds of thousands of other allied armies, to invade Turkey. Of course, as we know, it was a complete disaster, and "Little Johnnie Turk" kicked our butt hard. Eventually our soldiers slunk off to France where the incompetent members of the British ruling class continued to send them to pointless deaths. In fact, New Zealanders were among the top casualties per head of population.
When our politicians lay claim to the sacrifice and bravery of our soldiers on Anzac Day, let's not forget most of these men didn't have much choice. New Zealand troops were a conscripted army and our then government allowed British firing squads to execute New Zealanders who wouldn't fight. Many members of the first Labour Cabinet in 1935 actively opposed this war and went to jail for it. Several prominent Maori leaders were also imprisoned because they actively campaigned to stop Maori being conscripted. Much of the bravery shown was by people who refused to join this insanity and suffered mightily for it. It's a reflection of the real mood of New Zealanders when, after the war, they elected these war opponents to Government.
Even the folklore of Gallipoli of Kiwi and Aussie mateship didn't become part of the agreed story until after the war. After all, our political masters needed New Zealanders to think something good had come out of Gallipoli and to feel better about allowing stupid Brits to get us killed invading someone else's country.
In the end, our sacrifice helped our colonial masters come out of the war reasonably well. Britain and France divided the Middle East up between them into specially designed new colonies. New puppet rulers were then imposed on the local inhabitants once they had signed oil deals with the victors. Almost all the current mess between rival communities in the Middle East can be tracked back to this point. The sad thing is, Britain and the US are making the same mistakes that were made 100 years ago.
Don't get me wrong though. Remembering the fallen in pointless wars is a good thing. I recommend a good dose of Wilfred Owens' poems to really honour the dead and the fruitlessness of war rather than scripted platitudes of politicians we get on Anzac Day.
If we really take the Anzac message seriously we should be campaigning to get Western troops, including ours, out of the Middle East now. Ninety years ago we supported an invasion of the Middle East for oil. We still are.
Lest we forget? Get real; we never got the story correct first time.
Fascinating collection of articles
Sensational collection of interesting articles rebutting the Anzac mythology.
Perhaps this series could be printed as a pamphlet? That would be useful to have at our fingertips, particularly in light of the fact that avoiding the slouch-hats, the recycled militarist myths is impossible around the Anzac day.
If you will forgive me, I am going to mix the personal with the political. My father, born in Egypt of Armenian origin, regularly witnessed the injustices of the British occupation as he was growing up in Cairo. Australian soldiers regularly displayed the loutish behaviour which the articles above document. Military police had to be regularly called in to break up street brawls between rival groups of foreign soldiers.
The 1919 revolution was very much the inspiration and example for my father's generation, as they rose up in revolt in the early 1950s, leading to the July 1952 revolution deposing the British-backed monarchy of King Farouk. The union jack symbolised everything that young Egyptians fought against - racism and colonialism, but in Australia the union jack was saluted.
He emigrated to this country in the early 1960s, and he recognised the Anzac support for the reactionary rule of British imperialism. He taught me early on that the Anzac legend was just that; a militarist myth to drum up support for the 'mother country'. He taught me that behind the supposed 'mateship' of the Anzac story, was the underlying servility to the British empire and imperialist wars abroad.
I've never forgotten those lessons. He taught me well; may he rest in peace.
A good read phil although a little one sided.
I do not understand the resurgance of the Anzac myth. The only thing I understand about it is that it became popular with howard and Rudd. When I was at school in the 80's we were taught that the Australian Anzacs were tricked into joining up and that they were basically used as cannon fodder for a british diversion. I guess primary school history wasn't as involved as phils account of the situation but never the less it wasn't pro anzac day either.
Well it was in a sense that we should feel sorry for the men that lost their lives because of british greed.
My great uncle was in the war, he was injured in turkey and spent most of it in a hospital.
I am glad to read phils articles but I fear that although they have a resounding truth to them there are more sides of the story when it comes to the individual soldiers.
No country likes to be occupied and I guess because of the suez canal egypt has been occupied for longer than most.
Anzac sport celebrates a unity that didn't exist
Ian Syson
Published: April 25, 2013 - 3:00AM
To write about sport and war is to risk censure: Why bring sport into it? Why bring war into it? Why combine the two? Moreover, in trying to balance personal attitudes towards war and military institutions with feelings of sympathy for the individuals and families killed and maimed by war, writers invite contradiction and ambiguity into their argument. The writer's taste for one can turn sour because of the lack of appetite for the other. So why bother to struggle with this dilemma?
Like it or not, in contemporary Australia in late April, it becomes necessary, if not mandatory, to contemplate sport and war. Our leading football codes put the connection front and centre.
The AFL and NRL conduct highly publicised and highly popular Anzac Day matches. It's a new tradition to which supporters of both codes have been drawn in large numbers. Since 1995 Collingwood and Essendon have battled for Anzac supremacy at the MCG. St George and the Roosters commemorate the day in the NRL.
In recent years a cross-Tasman NRL game between Melbourne Storm and New Zealand Warriors has also been added to the Anzac Day mix.
And there's something to be said for it. Both codes provided a great number of troops who served at Gallipoli and across Europe, many of whom were never to return. Collingwood lost six players, Essendon seven. So these clubs' own histories add to the solemnity of Anzac commemorations.
Yet something is missing in these memorialisations. Many things in fact. Whole segments of a bloody and divided story are left out of the tale we are usually told.
We were not a nation united in support of Britain's prosecution of the First World War. Many Australians were set against it. The voting patterns in the conscription referendums, first in 1916 (the ''Yes'' vote lost narrowly) and again in 1917 (''Yes'' lost by a wider margin) make it clear that most Australians were against conscription. Many of them would have also been against the war.
Opponents to conscription came from many quarters. Catholics, republicans, the Irish, socialists, unionists and pacifists all had reason to be anti-war and anti-conscription. And they came together as a united force. The ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland website claims:
''One reason why so many opposed conscription was that it provided a focus for a lot of different points of view about the war. Some people opposed the war; others were opposed to conscription as a principle; others were saying that they were hurt by the economic situation of the war, and were protesting against that; still others were voting to protect unionism; others were protesting at the British treatment of the rebels in Ireland. Normally these people might not have agreed with each other on many things, but they all agreed on the conscription question, and the issue gave them all a chance to express their opposition.''
As Melbourne's dominant sporting code, Australian rules football reflected that diversity and opposition. One of the leading figures in the anti-conscription movement, Cardinal Daniel Mannix, happened to be a cultural and spiritual powerbroker within the Irish-Catholic community of Collingwood and his opinions and instructions carried great weight for many supporters of the Collingwood Football Club.
He came increasingly to speak out against the war and conscription, especially after the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. While Mannix's influence was counterbalanced by Collingwood Football Club patron John Wren's support for conscription, this tension underlines the point that there was little collective sense of unity of purpose in relation to the war.
The problem of the contemporary remembering of Anzac is that the narrative it drives is wrong, one of an already united nation forging its identity on a Turkish beach. When we see the Collingwood and Essendon players lining up before the clash we are led to see them in unity, as different factions of one overarching national brotherhood. We are encouraged to believe in a myth.
A mature and sophisticated Anzac Day footy narrative would see the teams as representing divergent positions across the Catholic/Protestant, republican/imperial divides. It would tell stories of both protest and loyalty. We would be asked as viewers/spectators to reflect on how diverse and antagonistic communities came to see themselves as united (or not) through the sacrifices made in war. It might even encourage the radical idea that our presently diverse and divided communities are similarly capable of establishing symbols of unity.
Nowhere does the myth as it stands acknowledge that at the time of the Gallipoli landing many Collingwood supporters (and supporters from many of the Catholic inner-city football clubs in Melbourne and Sydney) would have been very strongly against what they saw as the British imperialist war. Nor does the myth reveal the fact that the Australian Imperial Force was largely made up of Protestant soldiers. The embarkation lists in 1914-15 indicate that a small percentage were Catholic. In the three nominal rolls I looked at, about 12 per cent of the initial enlistments were Catholics. Maybe I got a bad sample. But I don't think so.
Another point lost in the telling of Anzac is that between 20 and 25 per cent of troops in the very first Australian troop ships were British born, many of them recently arrived migrants. (Now revisit a crucial vehicle in the rebuilding of the legend, Peter Weir's Gallipoli and see if the soldiers' accents reflect that statistic.) The first to fall at Gallipoli (from the 11th Battalion) were in about equal measure Australian and non-Australian born.
If it is important to commemorate Anzac Day, then it is important that we remember it well and not just via slick commercialised performances. We should remember it in as much detail as we are able. We need to remember who was there, who wasn't, why they were there and why many refused. Until the commemorations do this they will remain evasive moments of myth-making. We need to remember all, or nothing.
Ian Syson teaches literary studies and professional writing at Victoria University. He is researching the history of the football codes in Australia.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/anzac-sport-celebrates-a-unity-that-didnt-exist-20130424-2iezk.html
World War I will be fought again, starting next year
If you find ANZAC Day galling then you'd better get ready for even worse. Starting in 2014 the federal government is planning spend $150 million to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landing in 2015.
No doubt, if Tony Abbott is PM that figure will be added to.
Between 2014 and 2018 get ready to fight World War I all over again.
ANZAC Day is a mass phenomenon now, having nearly died out a couple of times during the 20th Century. It was the conscious leadership of the Howard government pouring funds into school education projects and marketing that saved the event and built it up.
Fifteen thousand people attended the Dawn Service in Kings Park Perth this year.
Analysing and building an alternative pole of attraction is an important task for the anti-war forces in Australia and New Zealand. Such a project could possibly contribute to building of left unity and cross Tasman links as well.
There are many tales to be told. Many are nation-wide, such as the anti-conscription fight, some are heroic, like the anti-war leadership of the IWW and many are local, regional and individual.
For example, Hugo Throssell refused to march on ANZAC Day. He said that it was organised by those who didn't fight.
In Fremantle, immediately following WWI there was a tremendous strike of wharf labourers, who were largely returned soldiers. The police fired on the strikers and murdered one in the street fighting that followed.
Off shore at the time were hospital ships bringing soldiers back from the War. The night following the street battle a striker used semaphore to communicate with the ships. Those on board signalled that if the strikers asked for it they would mutiny, bring the ships to the wharf and join them.
In succeeding years the WA government opened up the wheat lands of the South West deliberately to get returned soldiers out of Fremantle, away from radical political influences. That was the policy of over-clearing that led directly to the rising salt crisis in the South West today.
Thus the anti-war struggle is linked to the environmental struggle. There are many such linkages that need to be brought to people's attention.
Paul Keating made an attempt to use the Fall of Singapore as an alternative, ALP-flavoured nationalist rallying call. It opened up many questions that the ruling class finds diffcult to face, such as the mutiny of the Indian troops in Singapore who went over to the Japanese and formed the Indian National Army.
As soon as any of these Australian war myths get examined these thorny questions emerge.
The Diggers and the IRA
One story that won't be getting any support from the Anzac Centenary Board (ACAB) the body set up within the Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA) to oversee the spending of 120 million dollars for the Gallipoli centenary is the story that Australian and New Zealand WWI soldiers fought against the Empire during the Irish War of Independence. It is outside their "core narrative" which commemorates "the service of men and women in the AIF ... as well as those who served in British Empire forces." Of course, in Ireland, Britain's oldest colony, the Empire was the enemy.
The old notion that Australia fought for "freedom and democracy" has gradually slipped off the rhetoric of Anzac to be replaced solely by the alliterative partnership of "King and Country!" Some Australians of Irish descent did not fight for the king and even changed their names because they would not put their true names to the lie of the Oath of Loyalty to the King every soldier had to sign when enlisting. For many, who were persuaded by the rhetoric and Britain's promise of Home Rule at war's end, WWI was a war for "the freedom of little countries" to which Versailles showed the lie.
Fighting with the irish republican Army, these soldiers of the diaspora who fought for Australia, family and freedom, for the old Aussie notion of a "Fair Go," upheld what we like to think of as the Anzac spirit.


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Uber self-driven to fire Levandowski
Our tech is independent
Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer who has been accused by Google of stealing trade secrets about self-driving cars and giving it to Uber.
Handmaiden's tale
Search engine Google has come up with a truly pitiful reason for treating women employees like second class citizens – it can't search the data.
Google is a daydream believer
More than 10 million daydreamers in 2017
Google is confident that more than 10 million smartphones will support its Daydream platform 2017 – well, someone needs to believe in it.
Daydream standalone VR by Qualcomm
Snapdragon 835 VR
Qualcomm and Google have announced the development of a Daydream standalone VR headset reference design powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 VR platform.
Apple and Google are abusing privileged position
European tech feed up with being told to eat cake
European technology businesses are complaining that Google and Apple are abusing their power and scale.
Google could dump Linux for Magenta
Fuschia takes an ice pick to the penguin
Google's new Fuchsia mobile OS is not based on Linux, unlike Android, but on a new microkernel called Magenta.
Android O Beta program arrives later this month
Notification Channels, Background Limits, Pro Audio and more
Android, the world's most used mobile operating system, is getting an update from Nougat to a new item on the dessert menu labeled "O" for now, with the first public beta arriving for Nexus and Pixel owners later this month.
There's a hardware bloodbath over education
Apple, Google and Microsoft need no education
A hardware war is brewing over the US education market with Apple, Google and Microsoft mud-wrestling for the hearts and minds of educators and school districts.
Italy close to tax deal with Google
Taxman makes an offer Google can't refuse
Italy and Alphabet's Google are close to reaching a deal to settle a tax dispute which will not mean the company has to sleep with the fishes.
Android screws up on security
MediaTek, Qualcomm, Motorola, Nvidia all affected
Google's mobile operating system for hundreds of millions of users is scheduled to receive one of the largest security fixes ever compiled in a single month, according to a Google security bulletin published Monday.

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1. Usually the rate of reaction will be double for increase of temperature –
a) 100C b) 200C c) 300C d) 400C
2. When did scientist kossel give the idea of ionic bond?
a) 1910 b) 1912 c) 1915 d) 1916
3. Which of the metal can not replace hydrogen from acid?
a) Mg b) Zn c) Ag d) Fe.
4. In thermochemical reaction the standard temperature is –
a) O k b) 298 k c) 100 k d) 273 k
5. Which one of the following ion is at the top of the reactivity series?
a) SO42- b) SO32- c) OH- d) Cl-
6. What is the cause of passivation of iron?
a) Zine sulphate b) Copper sulphate
c) Rust d) Tri –iron tetraoxide
7. Which one of the following metal is used for the preparation of fire producing bomb?
a) Ca b) Na c) Pb d) Mg
8. Which one of the following used to produce white fumes in the theatre stage?
a) NH3 b) CO2 c) NO2 d) SO2
9. Which one of the following attacks methyl group in acetic acid?
a) PCl3 b) PCl5 c) Cl2 d) Na
10. Which one of the following has maximum intermolecular force?
a) Kerosene b) Water
c) Common slat d) Nitrogen.
11. Who first introduced the concept of the law of Reciprocal proportions?
a) John Dalton b) Richter
c) Gay Lussac d) Avogadro
12. What in the volume of 16 gm oxygen gas at S.T.P. ?
a) 22.4 L b) 11.2 L c) 224 L d) 448 L.
13. The molecular mass of a compound is 180 and empirical formula is CH2O. What is the molecular formula of the compound?
a) CH4O b) C6H6O
c) C6H12O6 d) H2CO3
14. What is the valency of thio sulphate Radical?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
15. Which one of the following is not stable fundamental particle?
a) Proton b) Neutron c) Electron d) Positron
16. The shape of a molecule of ammonia is-
a) Linear b) Angular
c) Pyramidal d) Tetrahedral.
17. 2, 8, 18 is the electronic configuration of –
a) Argon b) Kripton c) Helium d) Radon
18. Ammonium Cyanate is converted into Urea by
a) Isomerism b) Neutralisation
c) Decomposition d) Polymerisation
19. Which is necessary for the chemical reaction, CH4 + Cl2 = CH3 Cl + HCl?
a) Light b) Electricity
c) Heat d) Pressure.
20. The heat of neutralisation of a strong acid and a strong base is –
a) -57.3 KJ b) 57.3 KJ c) 100 KJ d) 573 KJ
21. Which one of the following is not produced by the electrolysis of a solution of sodium chloride?
a) Iron b) Sodium hydroxide
c) Hydrogen d) Chlorine
22. Which one can show the property of catenation?
a) Na b) H2 c) Cl2 d) C.
23. Which is the formula of gluconic acid?
a) C6H12O7 b) C6 H6
c) C12 H22 O11 d) C6 H12 O6.
24. Which one of the following is used for the preparation of rat Killer?
a) S b) Cl2 c) P d) N2
25. Which one reacts with water catches fire?
a) Calcium b) Magnesium
c) Potassium d) Zinc
26. When heated, some solid substances, are directly converted into vapour. This process is called-
a) Distillation b) Sublimation
c) Evaporation d) Condensation
27. Which one of the following is metalloid?
a) Mercury b) copper
c) Zinc d) Boron.
28. Which of the following element has valency 3 ?
a) S b) Na c) N d) C.
29. What is the percentage of composition of oxygen in perchloric acid?
a) 0.996% b) 32% c) 35.3% d) 63.68%
30. Which one of the two isotopes is not equal?
a) Atomic Number b) Electron
c) Mass Number d) Chemical properties
31. Which one of the following is polar compound?
a) Alcohol b) Ether c) Benzene d) Petrol
32. How many atoms are in a molecule of sulphur?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8
33. Which oxide belongs to the element of group VI ?
a) P2O5 b) Al2O3 c) SO3 d) Cl2 O7
34. What is absolutely necessary for a chemical reaction?
a) Heat b) Light c) Catalyst.
d) contanct between the reactants.
35. Which of the following compound is aromatic?
a) C2H6 b) C2H4 c) CH3Cl d) C6H5 CH3


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Enrolments » International Fee Paying Students
International Fee Paying Students
Melville Senior High School is very proud to have a long-standing association with international students. If you are looking for a school that is reputed to have a huge success with international students then you should look no further.
Melville Senior High School was established in 1960 and has a very proud reputation for providing relevant, marketable and top-quality education in our community. We strongly believe in providing a responsive learning environment for all students by enabling the academic, cultural and sporting development of the student within a safe and caring environment.
We are centrally located on public transport routes on a six hectare site in a quiet and established suburb with easy and convenient access to the city of Perth. We are close to bus and train routes.
Our international program began in 1998, and is very well established. Since then, we have had many students graduate through our school system to go on to do various degrees in their areas of interest. Our international students are given the opportunity to be able to gain educational qualifications recognised worldwide with a valuable cultural experience that is so important and necessary in this fast-paced and ever-changing global world.
A strong emphasis is placed on the pastoral care needs of our overseas students. We understand that homesickness and cultural change can be difficult for students to manage and it is for this reason that we have employed an International Student Coordinator.
Melville SHS hosts an Intensive English Centre, which has a diverse student population with young people from different countries, cultures and language backgrounds. Students who enrol at the IEC have either minimal or no exposure to English or possess beginning or intermediate English language skills. Newly arrived international students can apply to study English at the IEC prior to being integrated into mainstream classes.
Currently we have students from Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Korea, Switzerland, Iran, Maldives, Chile and Russia.
We also have a strong ESL support in the school for exiting IEC students. International students in mainstream schooling also receive further language and literacy development support through the English as a Second Language, ESL Program.
All international fee paying student enrolments are organised through Education Training International, ETI, the international arm of the Western Australian Government's Department of Education and Training. For more information please visit their website www.eti.wa.edu.au.
If parents arrive in Perth on an education visa to study or work at a TAFE College or a University then the families are allowed to approach the school directly. The dependant students are permitted to enrol at the local school as long as they pay a reduced international fee directly to the school.
If you need more information on Melville SHS's international program ring our International Student Coordinator on 6274 1300.


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Splash's Taz is a French bulldog, and instantly became Kelly's best trail friend; except when the dogfood dishes were present. Taz and Monte each snore at triple digit decible levels....Ya gotta love this face!! and she has a friendly personality at 13months. Taz and Splash hiked to Hope lake with us. Taz could hold her own in any Snoring Competition with Monte Dodge, anytime, anywhere!
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Plenty with claims in an open race. Solar View makes a quick reappearance having won at Catterick on Wednesday but this is tougher. Bollin Felix also carries a penalty for his recent victory at Newcastle but scored by over three lengths and should figure once again. Sohcahtoa was winning for the first time since 2008 when scoring at Musselburgh last time but Byron Blue and Hawkeshead make more appeal on their recent placed efforts. Ampleforth was well beaten by L FRANK BAUM at Ffos Las earlier this month and the latter can go in again here with an apprentice negating a 5lb rise.
Gordonsville 18-1 (8-9) Held up towards rear, hampered 1f out, some headway on outside 3f out, driven 2f out, plugged on, 8th of 20, 16l behind Hurricane Higgins (9-10) at Goodwood 2m 5f hcp 0-95 (2) gd.
L Frank Baum (IRE) 7-1 (9-4) Made all, ridden 2f out, soon pressed, driven and ran on gamely, won at Ffos Las 2m hcp 0-80 (4) sft beating Sugar Hiccup (9-1) by nk, 7 ran.
Zakatal 9-1 (9-8) In rear, pushed along halfway, headway 7f out, switched to center 6f out, ridden over 4f out, hung right and weakened 3f out, last of 8, well behind Danvilla (9-3) at Newmarket 2m hcp 0-90 (3) gd in Aug '11.
Bollin Felix 9-2 (9-5) Mid-division, driven over 3f out, ridden and headway over 2f out, went 2nd over 1f out, stayed on to lead final 110 yards, going away towards finish, won at Newcastle 1m 6f hcp 0-75 (5) sft beating River Dragon (8-10) by 3 1/2l, 9 ran.
Hawkeshead 16-1 (9-4) Soon led, ridden over 2f out, edged left and headed over 1f out, led again inside final furlong, headed post, 2nd of 9, shd behind Daring Indian (9-2) at Haydock 1m 6f hcp 0-80 (4) gd.
Jonny Delta 7-1 (9-0) Awkward leaving stalls, held up in rear, headway when not clear run over 2f out, stayed on, never able to challenge, 5th of 9, 2 1/4l behind Daring Indian (9-2) at Haydock 1m 6f hcp 0-80 (4) gd.
Sohcahtoa (IRE) 9-4 (9-2) Held up off the pace in 5th, headway to 4th over 3f out, chased leader over 1f out, stayed on to lead final stride, won at Musselburgh 2m hcp 0-70 (5) gf beating Royal Bonsai (8-11) by shd, 6 ran.
Ampleforth 9-2 (8-13) Close up, ridden over 4f out, stayed on to go 3rd near finish, not trouble leaders, 3rd of 7, 6l behind L Frank Baum (9-4) at Ffos Las 2m hcp 0-80 (4) sft.
Uncut Stone (IRE) 3-1 (8-7) Raced wide, close up, ridden in 5th over 3f out, weakening when hampered 3f out, last of 9, 21l behind Cotton King (9-12) at Wolverhampton 2m hcp 0-75 (5) pol in Mar.
Byron Blue (IRE) 7-4fav (9-4) Tracked leaders, took keen hold, lost place 9f out, headway over 6f out, chased winner over 2f out, swished tail and edged right entering final furlong, no impression, 2nd of 6, 2 1/4l behind Awesome Pearl (9-4) at Kempton 2m 3yo hcp 0-75 (5) pol.
Solar View (IRE) Evensfav (9-0) Held up towards rear, headway 4f out, went 3rd over 3f out, driven to chase leader entering final 2f, edged left and led 1f out, stayed on well, won at Catterick 2m hcp 0-70 (5) sft beating Finellas Fortune (9-7) by 1 3/4l, 9 ran.


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Simonton Window Parts
A quick learner from Florida says:
October 15, 2013
Simonton Window Parts Not Available - I have several issues, a metal bar sprung from the left side of my window, a small plastic piece is broke from holding it inside the window and the small white plastic piece that goes on top. Also if you look at the top of the window it appears there is a longer white plastic guide at the top of the window which is also broker off.
A quick learner from Florida says:
October 15, 2013
I thought this looked like one of the parts I need from your website?
Channel Balance Top, Winged
Product Code: 19-005
Channel Balance Top, Winged
Product Code: 19-005
Tom from SWISCO responded:
October 16, 2013
Thanks for posting! Yes, the part in the first picture looks a lot like our 19-005. However, that part seems to be more like the victim than the culprit. I think the real problem is with the top sash guide, the white plastic guide that you mentioned. If yours broke, it would let the balance shoot straight up in the window, breaking the 19-005 top attachment on the balance in the first place.
I would be happy to help you find a replacement top sash guide, but I would need to see a few pictures of it removed from the window, along with detailed dimensions. You can also browse through the top sash guide section and see if you can find a replacement there.
As for the broken balance attachment, check out the video below to see how you can put a new one on.


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I was reading on Gizmodo about a flying watercraft. It looks like a hovercraft with wings and instead of riding a cushion of air like hovercraft's do it actually flies above the water at 1.5 meters. However it is still not classified as a flying machine because even though it looks like it is not riding on a cushion of air it really is. It is just a larger cushion.
The inventor is Rudy Heeman, a mechanic from New Zealand who has spent 11 years building the hoverwing. He's taken it on a test flight across the water and it did end in a crash landing. The vehicle is not complete yet and it will be soon. Once it is complete he is going to take a passenger along for the ride. I think he should do a contest to see who would like to ride with him. I'd love to do it.
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We didn't go into our first drive in the new, range-topping 2014 Acura RLX luxury sedan with astronomically high hopes, given the wallflower-like nature of its predecessor, the RL. The old RL was nice enough, but in no way was it revolutionary, sexy, or state of the art. And it certainly wasn't going to blow the mind of its no doubt slightly bored driver, who probably wondered why he didn't get a TL instead.
But after experiencing the game-changing wild child that is the 2014 Acura RLX, we think it's time that Mercedes, Lexus, and even BMW take note of how markedly competitive this new car truly is. This is odd because a GS350, E350 or 5-Series are all rear-wheel-drive, and according to the auto journalism rulebook, RWDs are always superior to front-wheel models like the RLX.
Funny, if we weren't mistaken we would say that Acura engineered the new RLX as a bitchslap to every repetitive traditionalist to show them front-wheel-drive can be fun too. Plus, if you live somewhere that has seasons and weather you would probably prefer a front driver — unless spinning around in circles after hitting black ice patches is your idea of a good time. Frankly, we'd rather go cow tipping, and trust us when we say that is not on our bucket list, much less our lunch pail list.
Thankfully, we packed our superhero lunchboxes and headed off for drives on winding Napa Valley back roads, leading us finally to the Sonoma County Raceway, where we really got to put the RLX and back-to-back E350, GS350 and 535i models to test. Make no mistake, we know how great Acura models are and have been in the past, so why were we somewhat reticent to believe in an Acura flagship that appeals to driver pleasure centers as well as those seeking serene comfort? In this case we simply didn't know how many engineering tricks Acura still has up its sleeve.
The answers to all of our doubts and questions, dear readers, were found behind the wheel of the new RLX, which proved once and for all that you don't need to be a rear-wheel-drive luxury sedan to carve corners with the best of them. In fact, we think that the P-AWS four-wheel steering system (which stands for Precision All-Wheel Steer and is not a reference to kitty cat claws) will convince any luxury sport sedan shopper that the RLX handles like no vehicle they have driven before.
Now, without an engineering degree it might be a bit difficult to understand how Acura worked such miracles with its P-AWS system but as you would expect, it allows you to turn the rear wheels in the optimal direction during various driving scenarios. This optimization of the wheel toe-in or toe-out (i.e. when the wheel is pointed inward or outward) provides extremely predictable and stable cornering, even in bad weather. It may also lengthen the life of your tires — though that claim came from Acura, so don't complain to us if your tires don't last as long as you had hoped.
The point here, people, is that this P-AWS system makes understeer nearly undetectable and gave us a level of confidence on the rainy race track that may or may not have led to a rather long sideways power slide around one long sweeping turn. Not once did we fear losing control of the vehicle, although we do hope no one at Acura saw us do it.
Interior and Exterior Judgments
The 2014 Acura RLX is a naturally pretty and well-balanced design when viewed from the outside, with LED front headlamps giving the face a unique appearance akin to someone with the compound eyes of a spider. The traditional Acura grille holds together the handsome corporate face that not only faithfully screams "upscale" but is also capable of looking like a working professional's car. As for that, the back seat offers best-in-class legroom so this car may be a hit for real estate agents who sell multi-million-dollar homes across the country. Truly, if you take five adults with you for any period of time, then the RLX is your finest choice.
Otherwise, the leather lined interior is quite simply one of Acura's most stunning pieces of handiwork since the original NSX, what with its refined simplicity that the easy-to-figure-out RLX also manages in a smaller dose. Honestly, the RLX has way too many high tech features not to require some more buttons and at least a control knob when compared to the old NSX which (gasp!) didn't even have a navigation system. Oh, how quickly automotive expectations change.
The RLX has an interior that is definitely pushing the boundaries. Audiophiles will be interested to know that the once-vaunted Acura/ELS audio system is no longer the top rated unit: this honor now goes to an awesome sounding Krell system available in upper-level trims. Your ears will never want to hear music anywhere else after experiencing this sound system, trust us. Most especially you won't want to be hearing music at a Justin Bieber concert, since that act renders adult ears deaf from all of the pre-teen shrieking. And his singing.
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I am going to be away for a month on holidays. So will catch up with you when I return. In the meantime, here are two quick updates that you might find interesting. One is on GBP/USD and the other on AUD/USD.
As for India's Sensex, I think we have seen a near term top. Use recoveries to 16,600 plus levels to get out of any stale longs that you still have, as we will likely decline to under 15,000 in the coming days. Early support lies at 15760 area.
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Ken Campbell with an interesting take on the recent Forbes report for team worth, and that its not doing the league any favors in their CBA dispute.
The 700 Level warmly thanks the NHL for the lockout that continues to rip at the heart of hockey fans everywhere. Warning: sarcasm meter needed.
Jeremy Roenick thinks that the lockout was necessary, but JR also thinks theres a deal on the table from the players that the owners should have taken a much greater interest in. Its a common sense approach that could do wonders for a CBA negotiation thats been lacking in them.
Former NHLPA President Trevor Linden compares the current NHL lockout to the work stoppage in 2004-05 that he played a key role in ending. Its fair to say that the two of them are under completely different circumstances, even if the outcome may be the same.
Friday was the anniversary of Joe Thornton getting traded to the San Jose Sharks a day that changed the Boston Bruins franchise for the better.
Interesting column from Roy MacGregor theorizing that the high cost of playing hockey is turning it into an elitist sport.
If theres a playerowner meeting as has been proposed by the NHL, Tampa Bay Lightning forward Marty St. Louis says he wants in on the proceedings.
For something a little different: great video of a couple of Russian youth hockey teams completely gooning it up.


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Hi Jerome, they are all great doors, for some reason the second last speaks to me more than the others - which is really strange because usually I don't go for bright colour! Have a great day! xRépondreSupprimer
Oh Jerome! These are beautiful! I love the fifth and sixth the most! I love teh blue ones too, though I'd repaint them a diff colour! :)RépondreSupprimer
Hello Jérome:RépondreSupprimer
We are devotees of Farrow and Ball paint. The chalky finish is so appealing in our eyes and the depth of colour is truly remarkable. We swear by Lime White and use it prolifically!
The doors you show here are so very attractive, not just for the colours, but also their styles and forms. Your opening picture and the glorious fanlight appeals greatly!!
What a most wondrous group of photographs! Doors are amazing subject matter and like individuals have so much character which is magnified 10 fold when several a displayed together such as you have done. Marvelous post. – gary
Wonderful collection of doors Jérôme. I like number one, but not the brass at the bottom, for me is detracts. I also like the doorway with the delightful little Spaniel dog sitting on guard.RépondreSupprimer
Lovely selection! Of which I like most the door in the third image and the door in the fourth images (No 10) - elegantly timeless....RépondreSupprimer
And - of course - with the Farrow and Ball paint unbeatable!
I like all of them, especially the cream door with the purple wisteria. Lovely. xoRépondreSupprimer
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This year has been pretty amazing in terms of cinematic experiences for geeks and gamers. The Avengers was an epic melee of classic one-liners and superhero action, The Dark Knight Rises was a sound round-out to one of my favorite trilogies to date, and Wreck-It-Ralph plucked at my retro-loving heartstrings in clever, meaningful ways that resonated beautifully with its vibrant animation.
And yet, the most definitive experience this year for me came from an independent, two-person team delivering a deep and raw documentary that has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times and is the winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
The documentary, Indie Game: The Movie, is an exceptional exploration of the struggles small-scale indie developers face, but more than that, it analyses creativity at its very core and examines what people will go through in order to realize their dreams. Indie Game: The Movie is a passion project about passion projects. And the struggle of creating indie games demonstrates that this is the toughest creative medium to commercialize out there.
Like with creating music for a record label or making a movie for a big studio, artists are under a constant and immense pressure. They experience excruciating hours spent in front of a computer, sacrificing their sanities, and the emerging torment of ever-increasing isolation. I can certainly attest to the isolation, but when it comes to creating games, still more pressures are present than just these.
In no other format of creativity is your work criticized so consistently. At every step of the development process — from announcing your game to releasing various demos, gameplay, footage, and screenshots to the final product — you are seen and judged.
Can you imagine releasing 30 seconds of your upcoming song to the public to be evaluated or a 15 minute clip of your new movie to be picked apart by fanboys? Not really. If my favorite band announces a new album, they post singles when they are properly mastered and then finally release the album. It doesn't really happen to the same extent for games, and I think it's a really fascinating phenomenon of the industry. You can actively track a project from the initial stages until the very end.
In Indie Game: The Movie (and some may remember from actually being part of it), we're shown the public's outcry when the game Fez seemed to fall off the face of the Earth due to no news of its progress being announced for months. Death threats were made, and the usual Internet flaming ensued, and, as always, the people of the Internet hid behind anonymity.
But thanks to the documentary, we're able to see the result of these comments. Indie developers can't just space themselves entirely from the public because they are dealing so closely with them, and it's often that connection that makes indie gaming so unique and memorable.
And it's precisely the hardcore gaming fanbase who are tracking games that make indie game creation such a tough job. Any misstep is never overlooked, and I feel that gamers have a particular prowess for reigning over the Internet, which makes their opinions ever more evident and thus unavoidable. You simply cannot hide behind the pixels.
It is also interesting to have just watched 343 industries' "Making of Halo 4" pieces so recently after having seen Indie Game: The Movie. The videos were adrenaline rather than passion. I felt like I was watching an Egoraptor cartoon rather than the creation of something special. Now, I'm sure the developers spent countless hours in front of computers, pumping out endless lines of code, but I have been given no indication that many at the studio poured any soul into it. Ryan Payton, one of the studio's previous creative directors, left the studio for that exact reason, stating that he was no longer "creatively excited about the project."
Don't get me wrong: I quite often revel in blockbuster video games. Bethesda owned my soul until I decide to get engaged. But Super Meat Boy and Braid have character and an elegant simplicity to them that you cannot help but love and respect. I believe a video game can only really earn this respect when heart is in it, and it may sound tacky, but you can tell when a game was crafted with love.
The video game industry's future is so immensely uncertain. I can't even begin to predict where we will be in five years (Half-Life 3?!), which both excites and terrifies me. One thing I am sure of, though, is that passion and dedication will always find its way into games. We just have to support those who are brave enough to make it happen.


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the close of the Rajasuya, the princes, priests and elders, who had gathered for the
purpose, took leave and returned to their places. Vyasa also came to say farewell.
Dharmaputra rose and received him with due respect and sat by his side.
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"O son of Kunti, you have got the title of
'emperor' which you eminently deserve. May the illustrious Kuru race gain even
greaterglory through you. Give me leave to return to my hermitage."
Yudhishthira touched the feet of his progenitor
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predicted from, portents the happenings of catastrophic events. Has this prediction been
fulfilled by the death of Sisupala or is more to ensue.
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| Katydid43 chapter 1 . 3/2/2010
LOL! After reading Anagram, I just had to see if any of your others were just as good. Well after my extensive research in randomly picking this one. I have come to the conclusion that... yes, your others are just as good! Thanks for sharing!
| Mad Server chapter 1 . 3/28/2009
I missed this!
Hehe, I can just see the look on Dean's face when he finally submits to the eyedrops... cranky and miserable and embarrassed but also, willing to let Sam take a crack at making him feel better now.
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| Master Li chapter 1 . 3/6/2009
hahaha I find this story sweet and hilarious. One of my friends randomly got pink eye awhile ago and it has been a big running joke ever since to ask how her "Conj" or "crusty eye" is every day. This just kinda made that all come together somehow. Nice oneshot
| Soncnica chapter 1 . 3/4/2009
aw Dean you are just this big bowl where we can pour things...'s kind of weird! LOL
| PADavis chapter 1 . 3/3/2009
Like the scootscoot - off the bed.
| FallenAngel218 chapter 1 . 3/2/2009
hah pink eye! That's so perfect! Nice job!
| J.A. Carlton chapter 1 . 3/2/2009
tchihihihi too cute! love the scoot... scoot... scootscoot! I could see it perfectly! :D
| DeansBabyBird chapter 1 . 3/2/2009
Heyb hunny, Gee that took me back to having to virtualy sit on my Dad to get some eye drops into his eyes...i can so see Dean resisting! Sweet! DBB x
| Vampyvii chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
Poor Dean! - Who's he kidding?- We all know deep down he really loves kids... Well done!
| Thru Terry's Eyes chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
| Onyx Moonbeam chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
I love "things we can pour into Dean" so good! Gotta love Mad and Enkidu!
Also love Sam's looks melting Dean, and Dean putting up with the care.
| PlatinumRoseLady chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
Oh, poor Dean!
Pink eye's the WORST, and you so rarely hear of men getting it anyway...
| Twinchy chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
Hehe, very entertaining piece, Miyo.
Your description of Dean trying to get away from Sammy and the medicine was great. I laughed at him (poor guy) when he finally fell off the bed. And I loved Sam's response about getting the job done from up there. *evil grin*
| SciFiRN chapter 1 . 3/1/2009
HA! Poor Dean, yuck I hate eye drops. Nice drabble.
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- 1 medium onion, sliced
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- 4 red apples or 4 yellow apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- 2 teaspoons coarse sea salt
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 2 cups low sodium chicken broth or 2 cups vegetable broth
- 2 1⁄2 cups water, plus more, if needed
- 1 jalapeno chile, thinly sliced for garnish (optional)
- 1 apple, finely diced and tossed in lemon juice (to garnish) (optional)
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook the onion in 1 tablespoon of water, stirring, occasionally, until it begins to soften, about 4 minutes. Add the squash and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 10 minutes.
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I am considering doing a course on Udemy and was wondering if any of my fellow hubbers have done so and if it was an enjoyable and profitable experience for you? Can you make decent sideline money on Udemy?
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Udemy is a good way of earning passive income providing you put the effort into creating a good quality course and take the time to market your course through social media, your website, in any ebooks you have etc.
It is possible to make a decent profit through Udemy. In the past I've helped some of my virtual assistant clients put together Udemy courses. Some of them made £1000+ a month whilst others only made around £50 a month.
The ones earning £1000+ built up an email marketing list first, asking their subscribers and social media followers what they wanted to see in the course and created an eBook on a related topic to sell on Amazon.
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Thanks, I've heard from others there is decent money to be made there. I have some niche hubs that I thought would cross promote a course nicely and the course I want to do hasn't been done to death yet.
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If you have something to show that others wish to learn, I see no reason why there should not be profit, and all parties will benefit.
Personally I have looked into the concept of incorporating Udemy as a platform to showcase my how to videos. I have not begun the process as of yet, but I think it will be a worthwhile cause.
My particular expertise is 'drywall comb textures' and judging by my youtube videos, my video tutorials placed on Udemy, may be worthwhile for others to learn from, also beneficial for myself, as the creator/publisher.
Also, one can keep the cost of showing their video, to a minimum, to encourage more purchasers, as you upload each video only once, and then the rest follows.
It all sounds good to me, and I have carefully watched all of their free 'how to's' on getting started as a vendor.
Christin, if you do go ahead with your Udemy venture, please let me know how you get on (or maybe a good topic for a hub.)
Finally, a little insight; everybody want's to be successful, but not everybody is prepared to put in the work to enable them to get there.
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Sorry I couldn't provide you with user experience, as per your question, but I hope this helps, somewhat.
Regards, Dale
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Also, Christin, there is another paid video host platform at mindbites.com, that you may wish to consider
Thanks. I'll check out the mindbites as well and keep you posted on my Udemy progress as I go along should I do it. I'm definitely a hard worker and a freelancer by trade, so that isn't a problem to put in the effort :)


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So you've got a party going, but it's not necessarily going well. You're just kinda standing around, staring at one-another, not saying anything. Well, sounds like it'd be a good time to break out a party game of some kind. That's just the sort of thing The Dirty Peacock is for. It's a new party card game that's up on Kickstarter.
Don't worry, this isn't another of the "toss cards in and someone judges them" sort of game. Instead, this is a bit more physically involved. Teams of players draw a card from the deck and must complete the challenges therein. There's also Feather cards in the deck. Those are the ones you are trying to earn the most of in order to win.
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We rarely come across instances, wherein small businesses have successfully transformed themselves into large corporations with operations spread across, unless of course they are merged with or acquired by a giant. Rather such occurrences are so rare, that they have been noted down in various journals as important case studies. But, what if this exceptional growth pattern was to become a norm? Why can't an aspiring entrepreneur so often convert the desires into hard-core business?
The key factor has been the lack of strategic planning at the grass root level. Small businesses either think that they are too small to actually undertake diligent strategic planning or if at all they realize the requirement, lack of apt knowledge and guidance does not enable right strategy to be planned let alone implemented.
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Any planning initiative relies heavily upon the basic inputs i. e. extensive internal and external research in terms of your own capabilities and market trends and analysis.
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Tallulah Fontaine's images are striking in their simplicity. She mostly sticks to a palette of muted pastel colours that perfectly matches the minimalist images she creates. Hailing from Toronto, Fontaine creates zines, jewellery and prints whilst running 'Home Zine Collective' with fellow artist Carla McRae.
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