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When people make purchases online, they conduct many searches. They use major search engines like Google as well as internal shop search engines on sites like E-bay, Amazon and Etsy. Most potential customers go through three different phases before they actually make their purchase. Those phases are interest, research and purchase.
For the purpose of this blog post, I will use the example of buying a piece of jewelry.
Phase 1: Interest
The first phase of online shopping is "Interest." For this example, we are going to use someone interested in buying some jewelry. They will start off a search with only 1 to 2 keywords. These keywords could be as simple as "jewelry," "handmade jewelry" or "silver jewelry."
This person is most likely not going to buy anything. They will casually look through the results and maybe "favorite" things they like. If you're on a system like Etsy you can see people who have hearted/favorited your shop.
However, in most cases, these people will just move on and not purchase anything. These people don't really know what they want. They are just searching around. Occasionally, someone might buy on impulse during this phase, but in general, they are just poking around.
Phase 2: Research
The next phase is "Research." Let's say our imaginary customer has been playing around on the Internet for a few minutes to even hours and have started to see some items they like. They know they want some handmade silver jewelry. They might type that in, but it will give a lot of results. In general, this person is going to use 2 to 3 keywords.
Once again, this not the phase in the buying process where you want to aim your ads or tags. This person has a much higher potential of buying than someone in the interest phase, but there is still a lot of comparing of different items going on.
This person might be using keywords like "review," "compare" or "blog post." So an example of a search might be "silver earrings compared to silver bracelets." Another one might be "review of large silver cuff's" or "Blog on Cuttlebone Casting." A last example is "Thoughts on buying dinosaur bone."
Although there are more then 2 to 3 words in each one of those sentences, the keyword phrases are still within the 2 to 3 range. Now someone at the beginning of the research phase is not that focused. By the time they get close to the purchase phase the hunt for what they want is generally pretty focused.
Phase 3: Purchase
By the time the "Purchase" phase rolls around, the buyers know what they want. They might type a search query like "Sterling Silver Wire Bracelet with Turquoise for Women." In that search query, there are 4 keywords or keyword phrases.
At this phase, the online shopper will use 3 to 5 keywords or keyword phrases. Online shoppers will often use keywords like "buy," "purchase" or "order." By this point, they are no longer causally surfing the web hoping to find something. The customers completely know what they want and hopefully they will land on your items.
So What Does This Mean?
Now many people might say, "This is too complicated. I will let fate guide people to my shop!"
That is the completely wrong attitude. Keywords, or tags, are potential customers. And the key thing is aiming those keywords, or tags, at the right phase of the online shopping cycle. There is some debate about this topic. Some say only aim at the purchase phase. Others say aim for the research phase.
Personally, I believe in aiming at the late research phase to early purchase phase. That is a grey area where the customer is pretty sure they know what they want but can still be swayed by something similar. I find that later in the purchase phase online shoppers most likely have their minds made up and it is hard to sway them.
So how do you aim for the sweet spot of the land between research and purchase phase? Think long and hard about keywords or keyword phrases that describe your work in detail. Don't just use the word "turquoise." Name the specific kind of turquoise, such as "Mexican Turquoise," "American Turquoise" or "Chinese Turquoise." Don't use general tags like "bracelet." Use "silver bracelet" then make another tag "sterling" so it can be slapped on front when needed.
For many people, selling online seems like it should be easy. The cycle should be: put my stuff up on the web, people find it, they buy it if they like it, and then repeat. Sadly, it does not work that way. Selling is always tough, and if you get annoyed with selling online, remember that craft fairs or trying to sell in brick and mortar shops isn't easy either. Just keep playing with those keywords/tags and think about which stage in the buying cycle you are aiming for. You want people to find your products, and if they like it, they just might buy it.
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Healthcare.gov problems spark federal IT recriminations
Problems with healthcare.gov, the federal website for residents of 36 states whose governments declined to build their own healthcare exchanges, have set off a round of recriminations against federal information technology management and acquisition.
The New York Times, in a Oct. 12 article, says that regulations underpinning healthcare.gov were delayed for political reasons until after the November 2012 election and technical specifications were also slow in coming, meaning that the website's largest contractor, CGI Federal, didn't start writing code until this spring. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services also took on itself the role of system integrator, although some doubted it had the technical capacity to take on that task.
Systemic problems, such as lack of technical expertise, are the stuff of much debate over what went wrong.
"Many agencies are stuck in a technology time warp that affects how projects like the healthcare exchange portal are built," writes Ars Technica's Sean Gallagher, expressing a common opinion that cites as fundamental causes long procurement cycles, slow adoption of new technologies and the problem of a large installed base. Gallagher also notes turnover among top executives, each of whom brings "some marquee project to burnish their résumés," meaning that real change is difficult to implement.
Agencies also measure the wrong things, he says, pointing to IT Dashboard metrics of healthcare.gov, which based on Health and Human Services Department self-evaluation, performed at peak rates in the lead up to the Oct. 1 unveiling of the website. Among the things HHS measured was "percent of system availability during normal business hours," measured per quarter, "before the site was even online to the public."
Good government technology gadfly Clay Johnson assigns great weight to the procurement process in his post-mortem. Government acquisition "leans towards a write-down-all-the-requirements-then-build-to-those-requirements type of methodology."
Federal officials generally have "no idea how much stuff should cost," and agencies don't share company bid pricing data. Johnson acknowledges that companies see their pricing data as confidential, but says there's no reason why it shouldn't be shared internally within the federal government.
Military open source software advocate John Scott, writing on his blog, also faults the acquisition process, but concentrates more on what he says is a lack of technological skills within government. Scott, who has libertarian tendencies, says anybody working in a large bureaucracy is likely to have their technical skills degrade over time and that bureaucracies drive away smart and innovative technologists except for in isolated pockets of excellence, such as cryptography in the National Security Agency.
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Ever since pops of color have adorned wedding dresses via sashes, belts and jewelry, bottoming off your look with shoes that work in tandem with those accessories has been on trend. Imagine going a step further (no pun intended) with footwear blending real individuality into your look.
When Bonnie Gall Manning painted her first pair of dyeable satin shoes to wear to a wedding, she opted for Monet's Water Lillies to match her dress. By the end of the event she literally had a new business.
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In today's Health matters, the whooping cough vaccine appears to fade after about three years.
Researchers found children who completed their vaccinations three or more years ago were 20 times more likely to come down with the disease.
On the other hand, kids who were vaccinated more recently appeared to be better protected.
Medical experts say the findings may help explain why large numbers of fully immunized children got whooping cough in recent outbreaks.
California schools turned away thousands of students this fall who did not have the whooping cough booster shot.
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Thanks , I installed the file, it seems the installation process worked (tmp then script on the box, did reboot) but I cant see the ccam anywhere, its not in the plugins ,the blue button not showing it either. Any idea of where it could be?
Here is what you need to do to start the emu.
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There should be a auto start feature under scripts too.
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Editor's Note: Our favorite British TV show is the architecture and design show Grand Designs where they feature a couple trying to build their dream home every week. A few years ago they featured a couple that turned a ruined castle in Yorkshire into a magnificent home and Bed and Breakfast. Our English friends Jane and Simon who own the fabulous Updown Cottage in Shaftesbury, Dorset had a chance to stay there during half-term and have kindly written up this lovely b&b review for us. It's certainly on my bucket list to stay at here one day!
Negotiating the back streets of Leeds is to step far away from our normal green worlds of Hertfordshire and Dorset. The narrow streets of tall, red-brick, terraced houses, with their gated front doors and barred windows, look alarmingly like each other but most house students from the universities and colleges of the city. Having deposited No. 2 daughter with No. 1 daughter, a few minutes' drive brought us to the leafier suburb of Headingley, home of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Rugby – both league and union sides.
Our destination for the next three days was Hellifield but this was to remain a secret from No. 3 who quizzed us occasionally on exactly what our 'B&B' would be like – whether it had a wireless signal and television seemed to be his primary concerns……
The road north-west from Leeds changes quickly from back to back housing to faded refinement to wild moorland and the hour long journey soon passed with panoramic views of snow-capped Ilkley Moor and Wharfedale.
The sun was beginning to set as we arrived at the village of Hellifield but as we drove down the track there was still enough light to see a house nestled in trees at the foot of a hill. As we rounded the corner of the farmhouse (conveniently placed to conceal the surprise until the last second!) a shout went up from the back – Hellifield Peel Castle had been instantly recognised and the look on his face will sustain me for a long time to come!
Architect, Francis Shaw had first set eyes on Hellifield Peel as a teenager when it was in a ruined and perilous state and over the years had become determined to restore it to a family home for himself, his wife, Karen and their two children. The whole story was covered by Channel 4 TV's Grand Designs and was voted the favourite of 2007. Inevitably when dealing with Scheduled Ancient Monuments (the UK's most protected status) budgets will be exceeded and this project was no exception. Happily for us, Karen and Francis now open their home to B&B and self catering guests and we jumped at the chance, when I saw on Twitter that they had a cancellation for the Attic apartment.
Karen met us at the front door and it was lovely to finally chat face to face after exchanging tweets!
The 14th century castle is now pristine and magnificent. Every room has something to exclaim over from the extraordinarily large four poster bed in the Square Room to its ensuite wetroom style bathroom secreted in what was once the spiral staircase tower.
Two of the bathrooms have enormous bespoke granite baths which take 30 minutes to fill. Who could resist a guilt-free soak knowing that the water was drawn from the castle's own bore hole and is heated by a ground source heat pump?!
As we climbed the stairs to our top floor apartment No 3 asked 'Isn't this the place with that glass …….' and sure enough as we emerged into 1000sq ft of light-filled space, a wall of glass opened on to a roof terrace with spectacular views down the valley towards Pendle Hill. Furnished with leather sofas and a 42†flat screen, the contemporary Attic is a complete contrast to the rest of the castle and ensures that Francis has stamped his mark on his restoration. Equipped with a huge bath and separate shower, a modern 4 poster bed and galley kitchen, the Attic is available for both B&B or self catering breaks. We had booked 3 nights self catering but then couldn't resist Karen's cooked breakfasts so ventured down three flights each morning! The home made muesli and beef sausages from the Hellifield Highland cattle are the best we have tasted!
Karen and Francis' hospitality exudes generosity. Guests are welcomed with wine, mineral water, homemade shortbread, a box of chocolates, all sorts of toiletries, tea, coffee and fresh milk in their rooms and of course high quality fluffy towels, robes and bed linen from The White Company.
Each room is decorated with perfect taste – beautiful wall colours, elegant soft furnishings, quirky touches such as lamps made from porcelain cups and antique furniture collected by Francis in the knowledge that eventually it would find its rightful home.
Karen was always on hand to offer advice regarding meals at the many excellent pub restaurants or local places to visit. We wandered through the moors stopping at Malham to explore the Cove and the geographical phenomenon of the limestone pavement, walked up Snare Hill behind the castle, took photograph after photograph and fell in love with the Grade 11 listed 'Brief Encounter' style Hellifield Station. Trains run regularly to Leeds or Carlisle and in the summer steam trains still run on the line. Our next visit will have to coincide with a steam trip and we may just have to try out that bed in Square!
Further details of the history of Peel Castle and staying as guests of Karen and Francis Shaw can be found on their website here.
The Grand Designs TV programme can be viewed at on the Channel 4 On Demand Website here.


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"Dongle incident" proves we live in a world with no room for error
Mar 23rd
Perhaps you have heard by now of the "dongle incident."
Adria Richards of SendGrid attended a tech conference and overheard a private joke between two guys behind her referring to a "big dongle." She was offended by the sexual innuendo, took a picture of the guys, tweeted it, and asked the conference organizers to remove them from the room, which they did.
The man issued an apology, but was fired by his company. A firestorm erupted, criticisizing both parties.
An entire article is available here. I am not going to pass judgment on anybody. I wasn't there and I'm not going to open a can of worms about the behaviors and reactions on either side.
The hivemind speaks
But here is the part that was chilling to me, and it is in black and white.
Someone claiming to know plans of the hacker group Anonymous posted a note saying that it had acquired SendGrid's client list and was going to attack the company's infrastructure and harass its customers if the startup didn't fire Richards.
Adria Richards engaged in malicious conduct to destroy the another individual's professional career due to what she perceived as an affront to her own extremist views from a comment that was not directed at her, not meant for her to hear, and certainly not for her to provide unwarranted input on. As such, she should have her professional career destroyed just like her victim in order for justice to be rendered and balance restored to the universe. The hivemind's judgement is final and there is no appeal. No forgiveness, no forgetting remember?
Later that day, SendGrid acknowledged that they had suffered a denial of service attack. And then, they fired Adria Richards, a move "in the overall best interests of SendGrid, its employees, and our customers."
This is an ugly, ugly episode. But here is the single statement that chilled me to the bone: "The hivemind's judgement is final and there is no appeal. No forgiveness, no forgetting remember?"
An unknown number of anonymous cyber punks speaking for the "hivemind" dictated the actions of companies and helped crush personal careers. What kind of a world is this leading to? The "unforgiving hivemind" is now our judge and jury?
If this new cyber dictatorship can bully a company with 130 employees, can they bully a Fortune 500 company? A government? Perhaps it is already happening behind closed doors and firewalls.
No room for error
What does this mean for those of us who make mistakes … meaning, everybody?
A few years ago, I was at a pre-conference networking event and one of the men who was to be keynoting the next day was very drunk and groping just about anybody that walked by. While this behavior was repugnant and wrong, chances are everybody at some time or another has done something that is repugnant and wrong.
The good news is, since then, this fella has cleaned up his act. In fact, he's stopped drinking and seems to have re-discovered his life. But in that moment of drunken stupor and poor judgment, his life, family, and career could have certainly been ruined via a 10 second smartphone video. Would he have any chance for redemption or recovery? Perhaps the crisis of a humiliating public spectacle would have driven him further to drinking. Maybe it would have driven him over the edge.
One of the most interesting talks at SXSW last year was provided by Billy Corgan of the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins. In the talk, Corgan hypothesized that artists take less risks today because of a realization that one embarrassingly human moment will get tweeted and go viral — and possibly kill a career. Before the social web, these moments might be laughed about and become part of band legend, but today it can be career-defining. He wondered aloud about a world where artists would be nothing more than politically-correct robots.
A one-way ticket
There is no going back to an era of redemption, private repentance or second chances. A public speaking gaffe, a stage stumble, an innocent moment of human weakness can end in permanent disaster.
What are the implications?
Will this relentless and unforgiving world actually drive better behavior?
Will it discourage risk-taking and openness?
Will it drive people away from having any sort of public persona at all?
Will it end up in a world that is ruled by the anonymous hivemind that is eager to destroy people who don't conform to their ideals and values?
Are we living in a world where there is no room for error?
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Brian Solis goes bold with the "Future of Business"
Mar 21st
Click here if you cannot see this interview with Brian Solis.
Brian Solis is among the world's most prolific business authors but when you see his new book, What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences, you'll immediately notice a difference. The book is sleek and an unusual dimension. It's filled with full-color pages and cartoons. This is not your father's business book.
Solis was determined to create a book that was an experience and he has achieved it. In this video interview he describes his vision, the design process, how he writes a book, and provides a hint of what to expect next from his prodigious creative output. Hope you enjoy the interview!
My take on the book: Since doing the interview I had a chance to read the book and I think it is Brian's best effort to date. He is an excellent writer and the time just flew by.
Think about this gift — In his consulting practice, Brian gets to observe the inner workings of many of the top brands in the world and now we get to see his cumulative learnings in one place. The book is filled with many thought-provoking gems like "We live in a time when brands are people and people are brands."
I would say that this is a very B2C-centric book. His models may have some applicability to B2B but generally the book is tailored to a world of personal loyalty instead of a world of long-term contracts and annual price negotiations, but there are lessons in here for everybody.
The main take-away for me was his idea to create conversational customer experiences in a proactive, measurable way as part of an overall marketing plan.
Disclosure: The book link is an affiliate link. The book was a provided to me free from the author. Brian wrote a testimony for my book Return On Influence, which was published in the book.
How Siri and Google Now could change the social media landscape
Mar 20th
By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist
On the Internet, the big battle continues to be over "place." Twitter's spat with Instagram and Facebook's continuing restrictions on data use are all about making sure that you use their website and applications — i.e., come to their house –so they can serve you the ads that make them money.
It's critical to these social networks that you come to their owned sites/apps. You, however, probably don't feel the same sense of urgency. I'm betting that you go to these social networks largely because that's where the action is. That's where your friends and family are. That's where the news and updates you care about can be found. That's where the photos and funny videos are served up to you.
But if the conversations and content came directly to you — precisely where and when you needed it — would you ever choose to go to Facebook?
Re-positioning the content source?
Companies like Google and Apple are positioned to shift technology in that direction … and possibly to THEIR direction.
As we shift our online time from using computers to mobile devices, the companies that own the mobile operating systems are introducing technologies aimed at bringing information to you rather than requiring that you go looking for it. Specifically, they've introduced Siri on the iPhone and Google Now on Android devices: intelligent Personal Assistants.
These personal assistants respond to direct queries from the user and Google's Now is taking it a significant step further by leveraging the knowledge that Google has about you and your activities–eventually across all the Google technologies you use daily—to predict what information you might want or need and serve it up without you asking.
Information before you know you need it?
For example, you might go out to your car to head to work. Suddenly your phone pipes up to tell you that there's been an accident on your normal route and you may want to take the alternative route it's mapped out. You didn't ask for the information, but it's an alert you're glad to have.
As it advances, it will cover more scenarios. You might be working later than usual, past dinner time. Your phone notices that you're still at the office and pops up with a suggestion that you order takeout from a nearby restaurant you've previously ordered from and that it knows is having a special on your favorite dish.
When these Personal Assistants can predict what practical information you might need at any given time, they can predict what social information you might want at any given time. They will be able to tell which friends you're most interested in hearing from, which photos you'll like the best, which news or status updates you'd want to see right away, and which ones you might only want to see when you're bored. Eventually, your phone will probably even be able to tell when you're bored and when you want to see those updates.
Is this the time for Google+?
As the technology advances, the only thing stopping Google and Apple from serving up your relevant social updates will be the resistance from the social networks themselves: the barriers Facebook and others put in the way because they want to remain your destination for social news.
Which is where Google+ comes in. G+ may not have displaced Facebook, but it's gained a respectable following. (Its Circles feature also provides some great data about the importance and type of friends you have.) Google's first step will likely be to integrate G+ into Now and begin serving G+ updates—and prompting you to update your status—via the Personal Assistant.
After G+, Google will likely provide apps and tools that allow you to give Now greater control over the other social tools you use (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Tumbler, Pinterest, etc.). If Google's smart, it will provide a user experience that enables people to share using a single method and without having to think much about where they are sharing (whether it's Facebook, Skype, etc.).
The battle will begin. Google will leverage the API of these social networks as much as those APIs allow, and the networks will continue to try to resist becoming a service by placing restrictions on the API. Facebook may even choose to come out with its own phone and adopt the Personal Assistant model on it. The company would face an uphill battle, though, and I don't expect it could win market share with the head start that Android and the iPhone have.
Would Facebook give up on being "the destination?"
Google, being Google, will find a new way to monetize the Now social experience with ads. They may find a way to monetize that gives Facebook and Twitter a cut of the revenue when they are acting as a content/social service. A model that cuts them in would make it easier for the social networks to let go of their existing ad model and give up the battle to be a destination. For instance, Google may pay for the detailed social and behavioral information that Facebook has (or enable advertisers to pay for it) and leverage that information in real-time for ad serving.
Regardless, as the battle plays out, users of Android devices (and perhaps Apple, depending on the strategic alliances it develops) will have a superior experience. They'll get the content they like from the people they care about at the time they want to see it—without ever having to ask. If the experience of G+ users is significantly better than that of Facebook users, people may well begin opting for G+ over Facebook, simply because they socialize primarily from their phone and G+ with Now is a better social experience.
Before long, Personal Assistants will appear on our desktops as well as our mobile devices. The usefulness of the Personal Assistant model will be so compelling that Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks will be forced to capitulate and adapt — rather than being a destination for users, they become a service. And in the not-too-distant future, the only destination that social users will have is the screen that their Personal Assistant serves up to them.
Data when you want it and need it — ALL data, including the social stream. It's about to get interesting. Agree?
Neicole Crepeau is the Senior Marketing Manager at Vizit Corporation, and blogs at Coherent Social Media. She's the creator of CurateXpress, a content curation tool. Connect with Neicole on Twitter at @neicolec
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Professor Donna Cross has been awarded the Future Justice Prize for future justice leadership and initiative, recognising the significant contributions she has made not only to communities today, but future communities.
The Prize is awarded to Australian individuals or organisations for leadership and initiative in the advancement of future justice, which is concerned with what those living today leave behind for future generations.
Professor Cross is the Foundation Professor at ECU's Child Health Promotion Research Centre (CHPRC). Her research focus includes bullying (including cyber-bullying), smoking cessation, nutrition and mental health.
ECU Vice-Chancellor Professor Kerry Cox congratulated Professor Cross on the award.
"The prize is further recognition of Professor Cross's important contributions to the health of our communities," Professor Cox said.
"The research we conduct at ECU is not just concerned with making a positive impact today, but also contributing to a more prosperous, sustainable society in the years to come."
Professor Cross is the WA Australian of the Year for 2012. She was also previously a finalist in the 2011 WA Citizen of the Year Awards.


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I just joined recently, and I've been having a great time finding new artists, but I've been wondering what kinds of music my other internet chums listen to.
I've been considering adding a recently played list to my comic page, but that seems like: a)it would involve some coding I don't understand, and b) it might be a little tacky. Thoughts?
So I'll post it here, and if anyone else is over there, feel free to add me, http://www.last.fm/user/AeonGoddess
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Drunk duckers on last.fm?
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AQua_ng at 12:53PM, April 30, 2007
Man, I haven't used this for quite a while.
I created a DD usergroup there, boasting a population of two, YES, two users.
We'll take over last.fm.
I created a DD usergroup there, boasting a population of two, YES, two users.
We'll take over last.fm.
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Crazy Dutchman at 2:44AM, May 1, 2007
Yeah, and there already is a topic about it :P But it had not so much replies..
So Bored (Zo verveeld)
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There are 50 days left until the Summer Olympics gets underway in London and organizers are promoting the fact with a hashtag on Twitter (#50DaystoGo) and a list of 50 ways for the public to engage with the Games.
When the party gets started in London, the Opening Ceremonies, which could be watched by about four billion people worldwide, will close out with the performance of man who has already touched more lives than that: Sir Paul McCartney. Who else could more perfectly represent England in probably its biggest PR move on the world stage?
Panasonic is looking to help people show their national spirit on social media. The company, which happens to be a partner for the Games, has developed a "Flag Tag" app that allows users to place a flag onto their social-media profile images. It's face-painting without the muss.
Another nod to the ever-increasing strength of digital came in the announcement from the International Olympic Committee that it "will provide live coverage of the London Olympics to 64 countries in Asia and Africa on YouTube." That means about 2,200 hours will be livestreamed via YouTube. Some of the countries that the content will be aimed at include Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand and Singapore in Asia as well as Angola, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Zambia in Africa.


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Moving toward the exits
Religion | Conservative congregations prepare to leave the troubled Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
An exodus of churches from the troubled 2.3-million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is underway. Actual departures are relatively few so far, but many churches have taken preparatory steps and are poised to head for the exits. It's so serious that top executives of the denomination sent out a general letter last month urging churches not to leave.
"We are better followers of Jesus when we stick together," the letter said.
PCUSA chief executive Clifton Kirkpatrick predicted only a fraction of the denomination's 11,000 congregations will leave. Yet, "it certainly concerns me when we've got this level of dissatisfaction and obvious division," he told reporters.
The latest wave of unrest rose from action taken at last June's PCUSA general assembly. Delegates approved a way for churches and presbyteries to permit ordination of noncelibate homosexuals on conscience grounds, bypassing the PCUSA's constitutional standards that prohibit such ordinations. It was but the latest chapter in a decades-long conflict over biblical authority and the PCUSA's leftward drift theologically.
Two dozen of the PCUSA's 173 regional presbyteries, or governing units, have voted to enforce the constitutional standards, allowing no exceptions. Activists in four of the presbyteries filed charges in church courts, demanding these moves be rescinded.
Conservative PCUSA groups, meanwhile, have been in two camps-the majority who wish to remain in the denomination and work for renewal from within-and those who want to leave. They met together last fall and pledged to maintain unity and respect each other.
Leaders of one conservative alliance in the PCUSA, the 150-congregation New Wineskins Association of Churches, are in negotiations with a smaller denomination, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Their plan is for the Michigan-based EPC, formed in 1981 and with nearly 200 churches and 70,000 members, to create a non-geographic presbytery to receive departing Wineskins churches.
EPC moderator Paul Heidebrecht has signed onto the plan but says it awaits approval of the EPC general assembly later this year. Kirkpatrick asked Heidebrecht to "clarify" the EPC's plans. Heidebrecht, who believes the EPC eventually may receive 100 of the New Wineskins churches, denies having "recruited or approached anyone on our own."
Sometimes it is easier for a church to leave the PCUSA for another Reformed denomination without risking loss of its property in a lawsuit. (As a "connectional" denomination, the PCUSA claims all church property is held in trust for the denomination.) But not always. For example, the small Riverside Presbyterian Church in Linn Grove, Iowa, voted to leave the PCUSA and join the fast-growing 350,000-member Presbyterian Church in America. The local presbytery this month filed a lawsuit seeking the property.
In a fascinating turn of the table, some PCUSA churches that have not declared any intention of leaving and are still supporting the denomination financially have taken their presbyteries to court. They asked for a "stipulated judgment" specifying that they own their properties, not the denomination or any of its entities. With no separation or split to resolve, judges are left with only a simple question: "Who owns the property?" They have little to look at beyond the title deed and articles of incorporation.
So far, judges tend to be ruling in favor of the congregations, and conservative-friendly presbyteries are readily agreeing to the stipulations, though legal battles continue to rage in some presbyteries.
With the property ownership issue settled in advance, a congregation is free to move ahead as it wishes. And its voice on "the issues" is much more likely to be heard and taken seriously by PCUSA officialdom. The PCUSA, suffering from ever-shrinking income, has had to cut its budget and lay off many staff and missions workers. It needs all the churches it can manage to keep.


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Coating & Varnishing Machine
A. Main Circulation Pump independent drive for filling the top tank. (By customer requirement only)
B. Centralized Lubrication System.
C. Table drive belt system (for continuous feeding)
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F. Backless Coating
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Air operated stationary press type sport/projection welders with pneumatic cylinder mounted directly on the upper arm.
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I was recently commissioned to paint a Pacific sunrise piece of the Pan American 'Yankee Clipper' Boeing 314. Even though I've been painting professionally for 8 years I've never received so much positive feedback on a piece, so on my own initiative I painted a companion piece of the Martin M-130. The latter is set before the Manhattan skyline, as in 1935 this aircraft went to New York on its maiden flight before heading to the Pacific for airline service.
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The Keelmen of the River Tyne
and their major strikes of 1819 & 1822
The Keelmen for a long time formed the
largest class of our population. They
were described as a rough and hardy
race of men, exceedingly clannish and
very jealous in support of their
privileges, they were reputed to be the
best paid workers of their time.
Keelboats are pictured in action above,
one loading coal under a 'spout', the
pony drawn coal chaldrons can be seen
in the background coming down to the
loading spout from the coal mines, and
returning after emptying.
The word Keel comes from the Anglo
Saxon 'Ceol' and is a small undecked
vessel propelled by oars and at one
time common in the north of England.
The Keel was especially built to carry
coal and was very long and broad,
approximately 40 feet long by 19 to 20
feet wide, but it was built shallow
without depth. Coal was carried in the
open without hatch covers and side
boards were used to hold the heaped
coal on deck. In certain districts of
England any open receptacle made of
wood, like a bucket or milk pail, is
called a keel. The term is now more
usually applied to the lower
longitudinal beam at the bottom of a
ship, answering to the spine. From the
keel the ribs for the framework of the
hull are built up. A false keel is an
extra, weighted keel placed below the
main keel to strengthen the ship and
increase its stability. A sliding or
drop keel frequently fitted to sailing
vessels, consists of a flat board
fitted amidships and extending from the
deck to the bottom of the main keel; it
is held in grooves and is lowered to
prevent a vessel making leeway when
sailing in a beam wind.
The Keel carried eight Newcastle
Chaldrons (coal tubs) which amounted to
21 tons 4cwts., two oars were used to
assist propulsion and the Keel was
steered by the 'swape' oar over the
stern of the boat. Poles called 'puys'
were also used in shallow water and
later a single sail was added, but the
main force of propulsion was by using
the tidal water. The ebbtide to carry
coal to the collier and returning empty
with the tide. In later years Keels
were built with one side slightly
flattened to allow easier docking with
the collier and to aid easier unloading.
Unloading was often done in darkness by
the light of coal fired braziers on the
decks of the Colliers. The coal was
unloaded from the Keel by the crew
shovelling it up onto the dock of the
Collier. Other Keels would be waiting
to unload and the crews had to help
each other. In an agreement of 1827
between Nathaniel Clayton, Hostman of
Newcastle and Keelmen, item four of the
contract states "said Keelmen shall aid
and assist each other in loading the
said Keels, also in casting and
delivering the same, when two or more
Keels are lying alongside of any ship,
vessel or quay".
Some Colliers had removable gates in
their sides so that a Keel could be
unloaded on each side, others
especially built had open rails for
coal to be shovelled through. The
difference in deck heights from Keel
to Collier, the heights from Keel to
Collier, the height which the coal had
to be lifted, could be as great as
eight feet and it required men of great
strength and stamina to shovel up the
Each Keel had a crew of three and a boy
apprentice called a 'Pee-Dee' the
Skipper and two Shovelmen had to pay
the 'Pee-Dee' out of their own wages.
Their working clothes identified their
trade, these consisted of a flannel
suit with short drawers reaching to the
knees, buttoned tight at the side and
wearing blue worsted stockings.
The wealth of our area depended mainly
upon coal, exporting it from the Tyne
to London. The season began in March
and continued until November with five
or six journeys, not many being done in
the winter months due to the exposure
of the North East coast causing many
Keelmen were economically very
important in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, with the demands
for coal for the developing railway
system and the factories of the
Industrial Revolution. This in turn
causing expansion of existing coal
mines, development of new ones and
improvement of the wagonways to
transport coal down to the river.
As an industry there had been Keelmen
on the river for about 500 years. In
the seventeenth century small Colliers
could get up the river to take on coal
but the low arched stone Tyne Bridge
prevented them going further up river.
Keels were used to bring down coal to
Newcastle from the Coal Staithes above
the bridge. Eventually in the
eighteenth century as Colliers were
built larger and because of ballast
dropped in the river, the Keels had to
carry all coals down to Shields at the
mouth of the Tyne because ships could
not get up the river. Coal was brought
to the river by wagonways to their
terminals. Later during the eighteenth
century dredging began which allowed
river access for Colliers up to
Wallsend where coal spouts were built.
These spouts were wooden chutes built
on the river side at a wagonway
terminal and the coal was tipped
directly from the chaldrons (wagons)
down the chutes into the holds of the
Colliers and became a major point in
the Keelmens strike.
The Keelmen were a united community but were divided in their work by the stone Tyne Bridge (pictured above), because of its low arches only small craft could pass through. Coal Owners from collieries above the bridge formed committees and coal owner from collieries below the bridge formed their separate committees.
Keelmen often spent more time on the river than ashore, rarely moving away for any length of time. In an area of Newcastle called Sandgate there lived about 4000 Keelmen and their families. Keelmens wages were generally better than the agricultural labourer of that period and there was also payment in other forms, i.e. fuel and beer. One other payment shown in the accounts for Newcastle Corporation 1837-8 was " to Keelmen, for taking dead bodies out of the river £18.13s.0d ".
Keelmen were a close fraternity of men and it was this fraternity that built the Keelmens Hospital. It was paid for entirely out of weekly subscriptions made by every working Keelman of 1d per tide and collected by appointed Trustees. The hospital was built in 1701 costing £2000 and it had 60 rooms. It was two storeys high built around a quadrangle and was intended for sick Keelmen their children and widows. The hospital was a well cared for, efficiently and strictly run institution funded by Keelmen until the 19th century when subscriptions dropped due to unemployment and eventually the hospital was taken over by Newcastle Corporation at the end of the nineteenth century.
In the year 1704, there were four hundred keels employed on the river Tyne and about sixteen hundred Keelmen, (pictured above is a keel moored at Swalwell). At times the Tyne would freeze over which made the Keelmen's calling a very precarious one. But they had other troubles besides high winds and a frozen river, the Naval Press Gangs often made their appearance in our villages along the Tyne. The practice of 'conscripting' seamen to man the Royal Naval vessels was adopted in every national emergency.
The Keelmen were well known for their strength and endurance and offered a fair field for the inroads of the 'King's Officers'. They would carry off any Keelman they came across, by fair means or foul, drunk or sober, at home or at work.
A terrible affray took place on 30th March 1750 at Swalwell above the bridge, between the members of a Press Gang and the local 'Crowley's Crew', a tough bunch of men often used as strike breakers and sometimes accompanied by Lang Jack the Tyneside Sampson of Whickham. When the King's Officers tried to snatch some local men they received a severe thrashing at the hands of the 'Crowley's Crew'. The Officers departed but returned strongly reinforced and this time armed with cutlasses. Several local were badly wounded and one of them a man named Bell was so badly wounded that he died. No one was brought to trial for causing his death which was surely murder, but of course the 'King's Officers' were above the law.
The Keelmen were a tough, hard drinking, hard swearing community, very patriotic about their river and proud of their heritage. It is not surprising therefore that there are many industrial strikes recorded throughout their history. In particular the strikes of 1709, 1710 and 1750 were called "rebellions of the belly", because the Keelmen were determined to remain on strike to win their case almost to the point of starvation. The strike of 1740 was an example of their determination, when following a bad harvest and a long hard winter conditions were very bad prior to the strike, yet they still fought. In the strike of 1719 striking Keelmen were 'press ganged' into the Navy in an attempt to break their strike.
The 1819 Strike
The Keelmens strike of 1819 began on the 27th September without any prior warnings. In a letter to the Duke of Northumberland dated 28th September, the Lord Mayor of Newcastle said, " Yesterday a strong body of the Keelmen on this river proceeded to prevent and actually managed to prevent the navigation of Keels upon the river. "
The Keelmen issued a Petition ot the 28th September to make their demands of the Coal Owners and Fitters.
First, that the spouts were taking employment away from the Keelmen below bridge. They requested that the Colliers should be allowed to load only six Keels of coal and then return to the mouth of the river at Shields, where the rest of the coal would be loaded by Keel. A Collier is pictured above loading directly from spout, normally it would be loaded from a Keelboat.
Their second request was that a limit of eight Newcastle Chaldrons be loaded into each Keel and that the limit be strictly kept. This amount had often been exceeded in the past and the Keels, which were heavy to control under normal conditions, became very difficult with extra weight, especially in strong tides and stormy weather.
Their third main request concerned the fund for the Keelmen's Hospital. Every Keelman paid 1d per chaldron of coal transported by Keel towards the fund, but the coal transported directly into the holds of Colliers from the spouts paid nothing and the fund began to deteriorate. An article in the Newcastle Courant on the 2nd October 1819 referred to the demand about the spouts " the Coal Owners or Shipowners to substitute an expensive manual labour for a cheap machinery which is already erected and in operation; a demand wholly incompatible with all the acknowledged principals of freedom in trade.
On the sole ground, of the spouts being injurious to the navigation of the river could they be interfered with ".
After a General Meeting of the Coal Owners held on 2nd October, Mr John Buddle Secretary to the coal trade on behalf of the coal owners replied to the Petition from the Keelmen. Mr Buddle stated that they could do nothing about the spouts " any attempt to do so would be a violation of their private property. "
The Coal Owners were therefore rejecting one of the main points of the Keelmen's Petition. On the other points the coal owners were more were more favourable. They were prepared to contribute £300 to the Keelmen's Hospital Fund and they were also in favour of tightening up on the limit of eight Newcastle Chaldrons.
Although the strike continued, its importance was overshadowed by the forthcoming Great Meeting arranged for midday on 11th October by reformers. This meeting grew greater publicity than the strike, following as it did the Peterloo massacre and had been arranged to discuss the meeting of Parliamentary Reformers at St Peter's Field Manchester on August 16th 1818, when as a result of an attack by the military on the crowds a large number lay dead or injured.
The meeting on the 11th October in Newcastle was reported by the Mayor of Newcastle Archibald Reed to Lord Viscount Sidmouth as having been "terminated peaceably."
However on the 12th October Mayor Reed wrote to the Earl of Darlington, Lord Lieutenant of County Durham. " The disturbed state of this part of the country render it necessary that the military should be called upon to aid the civil authority". This letter shows that the Mayor was concerned about the effect the Great Meeting would have on the strikers, especially following the publication of the "Address of the Reformers of Fawdon to their brothers the Pitmen, Keelmen and other Labourers on the Tyne and Wear". One paragraph began,
"You all know that our oppressors agree in abusing us and that the present dispute is between those who have property and those who want to plunder them. But the cunning, bad men, who spread abroad this falsehood know full well that it is a struggle betwixt what is right and what is wrong; betwixt a starving people and a few shameful, hard hearted Employers, who first plunder us, without right or reason and when we complain send the Military, either to murder us or awe us into slavery."
On the 16th October the Newcastle Chronicle reported that the Keelmen had threatened to pull down some of the Staithes and as a consequence the Dragoons had been called. Special Constables were sworn in to guard the Staithes and the Military were guarding various 4places along the river. The Chronicle further reported that on Thursday 14th October the Mayor of Newcastle had gone down river assisted by the Navy to try and open up the river, but after he had gone ashore at North Shields the boats had been stoned by the mob on the river bank. The boat crew opened fire in retaliation and one man, Joseph Cleckson was fatally wounded.
It was generally supposed at the time that the mob consisted mainly of Keelmen, but this was not accurate, as most of the Keelmen lived in Sandgate Newcastle and were unable to get down to Shields due to the Military and Special Constables positioned along the river. Settlement of the strike was finally negotiated by Mr Thomas Clennel, Magistrate at Newcastle Quarter Sessions.
The Keelmen accepted the following revised offer:
The Coal Owners agreed to pay £300 to the Keelmen's Hospital Fund and further agreed that an Act of Parliament should be obtained to enable the Hospital Fund to collect one farthing for every chaldron of coal shipped from the Tyne whether by Keel or direct into Collier.
The Keelmen were to receive pay for the amount of coal carried by Keel above the limit of eight Newcastle chaldrons, this pay for the extra coal carried to be back dated to the beginning of the year.
The eight chaldron limit for each Keel was to be strictly kept and Inspectors at Staithes were responsible for maintaining the limit.
Keelmen were to receive a duplicate of their annual bond so that they would then know exactly the terms of their hiring. They were to be paid 2s 6d per Keel if the Keel had to be loaded by hand and this money was to be paid in cash not in drink or anything else in lieu of cash.
Keelmen were to be paid 1/-d per Keel for casting coal up into the Colliers for every foot the coal port was above the gunwhale or upper edge of the ship's side. This amount was paid by the ship's Captain and became increasingly important as the Colliers increased in size and the coal had to thrown higher.
£1 was to be paid to the Keelmen at Binding time to assist them with their housing rents.
Newcastle Corporation agreed to employ all the unemployed Keelmen on river dredging work.
Finally, procedure was set out to be followed in the event of another strike to try and prevent further strikes.
The Newcastle Chronicle reported on 23rd October, "We are happy to state that the Keelmen on this river returned to their work on Friday morning. The terms which have been arranged between them and their Employers will raise the funds of their Hospital, we understand from £1.800 to about £2.700 a year."
The Keelmen went back to work on the 22nd October, having been on strike only 24 days. Their next strike three years later lasted ten weeks.
The steam locomotive 'Tom & Jerry' used for the first time to tow strike breaking Keelboats.
The 1822 Strike:
The strike of 1822 began in October at the time when the men were 'arled'. Arling was the time when men were informed of the terms by which they would be 'bound' for the next year from Christmas to Christmas and was always carried out three months in advance, usually in October.
A large number of Keelmen joined by local sympathisers or some just out for a fight caused a riot and scenes of disorder took place on a regular scale. A small Royal Naval man-of-war sailed up the Tyne and moored near Newcastle. Soldiers were billeted at the Public Houses in Dunston and Swalwell, they carried out drill practice at Axwell Park. Naturally the local people were very alarmed and frequent conflicts took place between the Soldiers and the Keelmen. Many of the latter were imprisoned and eventually the strike ended having lasted ten weeks.
In a letter from Nathaniel Clayton, Town Clerk of Newcastle to Mr Green, Staithman of Dunston on Tyne dated 2nd October 1822. Mr Clayton said "I heard yesterday that nine keels loaded and ready to sail were yesterday stopped by a great number of men." The Keelmen gathered in great numbers and would not take out the Keels, or allow anyone else to take them out. A Petition was presented to the Mayor of Newcastle on 3rd October, addressed to the Gentlemen Coal Owners and Fitters on the River Tyne.
The Petition began "Humbly Herewith" and made three main requests. It stated that the Keelmen and their families who were out of work were suffering great hardship and could see no improvement in their situation was coal was being loaded directly into the Colliers from the spouts. They therefore requested that "no more than six Keels of coal be put into any ship or vessel by the spout until the employment improves for the Keelmen". There second request concerned the allowances and Binding money.
'Binding' money had been, prior to the 1819 strike, two pounds per Keel and one guinea for the Binding Supper but in 1821 this had stopped completely. Keelmen were requesting that these allowances be resumed as well as the £1 payment which had been negotiated in 1819 to help with house rents.
The third item mentioned in their Petition was the fact that some Fitters were charging rental for the use of the Keels of 1s 6d. per Keel per tide and this was reducing the earnings of every Keelman. They particularly mentioned the plight of the Keelmen employed by the below-bridge Collieries many of whom were already down on the number of journeys made and thus were down on their earnings.
The Petition continued with comments about the Keelmen supporting their own sick and aged in their Hospital who would otherwise be a burden on the Parish and Corporation, but that the Hospital Fund was suffering due to the number of Keelmen being out of work.
On the 12th October the Coal Owners from Collieries below the bridge replied to the Petition stating "For the work required of the Keelmen they have been paid liberally and that they never entertained any idea of making any reduction in their wages.
On the 14th October the Coal Owners from Collieries above bridge replied, "unqualified abhorrence at the ungrateful conduct of the men who have manifested not merely an indifference to the benefits conferred upon them, but also a total disregard to their duty and the interests of their Employer." It is obvious therefore that the Coal Owners were rejecting the requests put forward by the Keelmen.
The Durham Chronicle published an " Address of the Keelmen of the River Tyne " in their paper on 12th October which set out the requests by the Keelmen to the Coal Owners. In their editorial reply they referred to " deluded men " and on the subject of the binding money, " Such is the result of a further stop; then what reason have they to hope they will gain anything by the present ".
The Newcastle Chronicle reported on 12th October that a great number of Keelmen from Collieries below the bridge had prevented Keelmen from Stella and Lemington Collieries above the bridge, had prevented from returning to work after they had come to an agreement with their Coal Owners. The Keelmen from above the low arched bridge had no fears about their own jobs and would have been happy to accept terms and return to work. On 16th October, from the Collieries above bridge, 100 loaded Keels were sent down river. At various points where the river narrows below the bridge, men n the banks stoned the the Keels and some were even pulled ashore.
There was much violence and rioting during the strike and many men were arrested for breaking their " Binding ". In a copy of an agreement of 1827 between Nathaniel Clayton, Hostman and Keelmen, the terms of Binding were set down clearly. Out of eleven points the seventh is particularly relevant:
" The said Keelmen, shall at all times use their best endeavours to forward and dispatch and Work and Orders of the said Nathaniel Clayton his agent or agents and shall not at any time refuse to load or or receive on board their several Keels, the coal appointed to be taken in".
The Keelmen had allies in this strike, the seamen of Shields. The seamen had gone up river and persuaded the crews to come off the Colliers that were being loaded at the spouts. The Mayor objected to this external interference and took some of the Military down river to stop the riot and eventually after having read the " Riot Act " and arrested 32 men, order was restored. This action led to the request to the Admiralty for ships from the Royal Navy to assist the Coal Owners.
In a letter dated 24th October, to the Lords of the Admiralty, Town Clerk Nathaniel Clayton wrote, " The Mayor is now upon the river with some troops in order to resist the riotous attempts of the Keelmen of this Port to put a stop to the trade of the Port. A riotous body of sailors are proceeding up river to prevent he ships which have been loaded with coals from proceeding to sea. I recommend that the force in this area be strengthened by Ship of War with a strong body of Marines on board."
By the beginning of November, after four weeks of strike, some loaded Keels were setting down river to unload at Shields, but these were under heavy guard by the Military. On the 16th November Newcastle Chronicle reported that some ships had that week been brought up to the bridge to be loaded and thus make the journey by Keel much shorter and easier.
During the strike a steam locomotive was taken out of service on the Wylam Colliery wagonway and brought down to the Tyne. It was harnessed to a Keel and paddle and used to tow several Keels down river. The locomotive was one invented by William Hedley and built in 1813, it was nicknamed the 'Tom and Jerry' and was returned to normal work after the Keelmen's strike ended. The sight of this adaptation of steam power working on water drawing Keels down river, should have given the Keelmen food for thought. Here was another great threat to their livelihood, one machine which could do a job normally requiring many men.
On the 22nd November the Civil Authorities of Newcastle issued a declaration to the " deluded Keelmen " because of the continual stone throwing at Keels being operated, this was a caution:
" Peaceable inhabitants, women and children, to keep within their houses during the the time the Keels are passing from the Staithes to Shields. The Marines have orders to open fire on the first man that shall dare throw a stone at them ".
In the week prior to this declaration, rioting had continued to try and prevent Keels working and on one occasion several Keels were smashed to pieces. The Newcastle Chronicle reported these breakages on 23rd November and their comments indicated that the Keelmen were harming their own industry, but not in anyway affecting the Collieries by their action. They quoted, that approximately 50 Keels were working daily from above the bridge Collieries, which they stated was average. The below bridge Collieries were using the spouts for loading so the Keelmen themselves were proving that they were no longer needed. The Chronicle stated that in fact the below bridge Collieries had loaded more coal than in normal times. " The trade of the Tyne may thus to be said to be in full activity without the intervention of the ordinary Keelmen.
On 29th November the Coal Owners and Fitters held a meeting in the Mayor's Chambers to discuss a Petition from the Keelmen which requested:
a) Binding money and binding supper be restored to them.
b) That out of work Keelmen should be employed as coal trimmers at the Staithes.
c) That the Coal Owners an Fitters could use their influence to help the Keelmen imprisoned because of the strike.
The reply to this petition was completely in the negative, it was a sign of the declining power of the Keelmen that their demands were thrown out without further negotiation. Regarding the Binding money and supper the Coal Owners replied that this request had already been turned down in the first Petition and the Keelmen surely did not think it would not be accepted especially due to their recent conduct. The Coal Owners stated that the men who were employed as Trimmers had been good workers and would not therefore be put out of their jobs for Keelmen. To the last request asking for leniency toward men imprisoned, the Coal Owners thought these men had broken the law and must therefore take their punishment, especially those who had been violent.
During the strike the Admiralty had sent five ships to the Tyne, these were the Nimrod, Egeria, Pioneer, Swan and later in the strike the Brisk was sent. During the riots the 'Swan' had come up to the bridge at Newcastle and it was noted that this was the first time a war ship had been upriver to Newcastle since the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.
The men returned to work early in December and the Newcastle Chronicle reported on December 14th that " the trade of the river is again in full activity".
The Magistrates of Newcastle agreed to make a payment to members of the Military who had been of assistance during the strike, as a token of their thanks and the Coal Owners had to face expenses of £1.922.5s. 11/2d.
The men had gone back to work but were dissatisfied having gained very little. They decided that the next course was to take the Coal Owners to court and use the legal system to try and remove the spouts.
Various cases were brought by the Keelmen in 1823 and 1824 at the Newcastle and Northumberland Assizes against the Coal Owners. Some of these were transferred to York to avoid local bias on the part of the jury, but all found in favour of the Coal Owners.
The last case was brought to Carlisle in 1828, it was King v Russel and others, Proprietors of Wallsend Colliery owners. But again the Keelmen lost, the jury favoured the Wallsend Colliery owners. They thought that although the Keelmen were correct in stating that the spouts were a hazard to navigation of the river, they improved the trade. After this last case the spouts were accepted by the Keelmen and in general Keelmen continued to be paid very well. An estimate of 18s.0d to £1.1s.0d. was quoted as an average in 1840 in the 'Penny Magazine'.
(Pictured above on the left an example of loading by lowering chaldron's and opening the bottom. On the right, launched in 1852, the first screw-propelled iron Collier. The normal time for a Collier had taken for a trip to London was one month, the new Collier took just five days, such technological advances along with the eventually opening of the Swing Bridge would eventually mean the end of the Keelboats).
The Keelmen did not immediately lose work as a result of the spouts and Staithes, in fact because of the ever increasing demand for coal, the number of Collieries on the Tyne increased from 37 to 70 in the mid 1820's. Although less Keelmen were necessary at the below the bridge Collieries, many more were needed above the bridge and this compensated for the jobs lost below the bridge.
Some figures quoted for 1827 show that about 700 Keelmen were working from above the bridge Collieries and approximately 150 Keelmen working below the bridge. Exports from the Tyne increased greatly, in 1831 2.2million tons of coal were exported and in 1850 4 million tons were being exported.
Keels continued to play an important part in coal transportation even below the bridge. This was mainly due to the lack of maintenance of the river itself. It was not until1860 that anyone gave serious thought to thorough dredging of the river and in 1831 at the St Laurence Colliery new plans were drawn up for a new Staithes and these included a keel spout.
In 1876 when the new Swing Bridge replaced the old Tyne Bridge with its low stone arches, the whole of the river was open to the Colliers. It was after this that there was a very rapid decline in the number of Keels.
In 1897 there was among the people living in the Keelmen's Hospital, only one Keelman left, his name was Robert Stephenson. He had been born in 1824 and was third generation Keelman working for the Lamb family of Axwell Park as had his father and grandfather before him. From the 1870's he had been forced to work as a Ferryman and blamed the steam ships for taking away the livelihood of the Keelmen.
They will certainly be remembered in Swalwell and surrounding villages by the local Keelmen's Bridge and the songs 'The Keel Row' and 'The Black Cock of Whickham.
Collieries Above the Bridge:
Holywell Main, Walbottle, Wylam, Benwell, Elswick, Garesfield, Lanchester Common, Pontop, Townley Main, Tanfield Moor, South Moor, Urpeth, Team.
Collieries Below the Bridge:
Heaton, Walker, Wallsend, Willington, Killingworth, Backworth, Burradon, Percy Main, Collingwood Main, Fawdon, Coxlodge, Kenton, Gateshead Fell, Gateshead Park, Felling, Jarrow, Hebburn, Manor Wallsend, Usworth Main, Pelaw Main.
The Keelmen by Eric Forster
Coals from Newcastle by Roger Finch
Early Radical Newcastle
The Keelmen by Eric Forster
Decline of the Tyneside Keelmen by D.J.Rowe
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RUGBY league stars will support a new mental health campaign in memory of Wakefield star and ex-Great Britain international Terry Newton, who killed himself at his home last year.
This weekend's round 27 of the Super League will see all 14 clubs and their stars united in supporting the State of Mind campaign.
It was launched in memory of Newton, who was found hanged last September.
Newton had his contract terminated by Wakefield in February last year after being suspended for two years for a positive drug test for human growth hormone.
The father of two young girls played as a hooker for his hometown club Wigan, as well as Leeds and Bradford.
The Rugby Football League says all Super League Round 27 fixtures in the UK will be branded as State of Mind events, reaching out to thousands of fans watching in the stadiums and at home.
Clubs will also hold events highlighting mental health issues and avenues of support available for those who need help.
Wigan Warriors stalwart Ernie Benbow, who founded the State of Mind campaign, said: "Following the loss of Terry Newton, many within the rugby community wanted to do something to tackle the issues of mental well-being for both our players and our supporters.
"Men are three times more likely to take their own lives and it is vital that we open the conversation of mental well-being up to everyone involved in the Sport."
Newton, 31, was found hanged at home in Orrell, Wigan, after he left notes around the house expressing a desire to end his life.


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The above stanza is from Santayana's sonnet 'Love not as do the flesh-imprisoned men', and it expresses well a theme which he pursued throughout his many years of writing on the topic of love: the search for a perfect ideal. In his own writings on love, Irving Singer, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, often quotes Santayana's epigram about Platonic love: "all beauties attract by suggesting the ideal and then fail to satisfy by not fulfilling it." Singer has delivered many lectures and published many papers on Santayana, and he provided the introduction to the critical edition of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan.
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Kaiser Permanente celebrates 10 years in FolsomBy: Laura Newell, Of the Telegraph
FOLSOM, CA - More than 200 physicians and employees of Kaiser Permanente celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Folsom Medical Offices, an outpatient clinic on Iron Point Road.
At the celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 24, staff and guests gathered in a conference room decorated in a rodeo theme enjoying the music by a guitarist and fiddler, watched skits presented by fellow workers, ate vegetarian and beef hamburgers and listened to speeches from leaders and elected officials.
Attendees included City Manager Evert Palmer, Mayor Kerri Howell, Councilman Steve Miklos and Folsom History Museum board president Candy Miller.
The three-story, 116,000-square-foot facility opened Oct. 28, 2002, said Edwin Garcia, Kaiser Permanente media relations specialist.
Nearly 60 physicians and more than 250 support staff work in the building where members receive outpatient services including pediatrics, women's health, adult medicine, optometry, optical sales, radiology, pharmacy and laboratory services.
"I was thrilled when we first approved the building here. I am absolutely thrilled that you are here, and I want to congratulate you on all of your success," said Howell. "I want to thank Kaiser Permanente and all of the people who are so important to our community."
When the building opened, 44,000 members were connected to the facility. Today, about 55,000 members access the building for their primary care medical needs, Garcia said.
During the lunchtime anniversary celebration, Anthony Retodo, MD, the Folsom medical services director, handed dozens of 10-year commemorative certificates to employees and doctors who have worked there for a decade.
"I feel honored and privileged to work in this building with so many talented individuals," Retodo said. "This celebration is important for Kaiser Permanente, and for the city of Folsom, because it recognizes our mission, which is to improve the health of the communities in which we serve."
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The celebration also was a reunion for employees who attended the dedication in 2002.
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