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Business papers today are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth. But if we are doing so well, many ask, why does it feel like we are working harder for less? Why, despite economic growth, does inequality between rich and poor keep rising? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Thomas Palley pulls together many threads of "new liberal" economic thought to offer detailed answers to these pressing questions. And he proposes a new economic model--structural Keynesianism--that he argues would return America to sustainable, fairly shared prosperity. The key, he writes, is to abandon the myth of a natural competitive economy, which has justified unleashing capital and attacking unions. This has resulted in an economy dominated by business.
Palley's book, which began as a cover article for The Atlantic Monthly in 1996, challenges the economic orthodoxies of the political right and center, popularized by such economists as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman. He marshals a powerful array of economic facts and arguments to show that the interests of working families have gradually been sacrificed to those of corporations. Expanding on traditional Keynesian economics, he argues that, although capitalism is the most productive system ever devised, it also tends to generate deep economic inequalities and encourage the pursuit of profit at the expense of all else. He challenges fatalists who say we can do nothing about this--that economic insecurity and stagnant wages are the inevitable results of irresistible globalization. Palley argues that capitalism comes in a range of forms and that government can and should shape it from a "mean street" system into a "main street" system through monetary, fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies that promote widespread prosperity.
Plenty of Nothing offers a compelling alternative to conventional economic wisdom. The book is clearly and powerfully written and will provoke debate among economists and the general public about the most stubborn problems in the American economy.
"This is a good and useful book. At a time when mediocre economic performance is celebrated as though it were excellent . . . Plenty of Nothing is for people who are tired of being treated like fools. . . . The revolutionary thought that policy does matter, for good or evil, is a prime contribution of this book, though it is a mark of the degraded state of economic discourse that it is needed at all."--James K. Galbraith, Dissent
"Thomas Palley has presented us with a timely book . . . a necessary book. . . . It reminds us that we do not have to accept Wall Street's version of the choices we face."--Robert E. Prasch, Review of Political Economy
"A useful and often insightful treatise on policy debates and recent economic debates in the United States. He ably documents and explains 'the downsizing of the American dream.'"--James Devine, Science & Society
"Thomas I. Palley has written an important book in a clear and persuasive style. He understands the economic plight of working American families. He explains what caused that plight and what can be done about it. . . . His analysis is rigorous. His conclusions are correct. His policies are the right stiff. He discusses the kind of family policy we need for the next millennium."--William M. Dugger, Review of Social Economy
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North Warren Seniors (left to right): Kiera Warner, Amanda Millington and Ashlee Maresca share a joke as they line up prior to graduation ceremonies Saturday June 23.
North Warren Central teacher and coach Poul Carstensen, guest speaker at the school's graduation ceremonies, stepped to the lectern and looked at the graduates-to-be.
"I am the only thing that now stands between you and your diplomas — I haven't felt this much power since keeping you in for recess," he joked.
North Warren's ceremonies Saturday June 23 featured quips and quirks that showcased the innovation, humor and spontaneity of the Class of 2012.
On the last class period of the final day of the school year, the Class of 2012 strolled through the school's hallways and serenaded teachers and undergrads with a song.
At their commencement celebration, there were more surprises in store.
Class Valedictorian Jennifer Paris and Salutatorian Caitlyn Kenney gave a joint graduation speech rather than separate ones as is traditional.
In a back-and-forth dialogue delving in and out of comedy, Paris and Kenney described the attributes, foibles and adventures of the Class of 2012 through the years.
Paris said the class was academically inclined, noting that half of its members were on the school's Honor Roll.
"My classmates have not only aimed high, but they've also achieved their goals," she said. "They're not afraid to work hard."
Complimenting Kenney's notebook doodling that resembled floating jellyfish, Paris said that her classmates' achievements extended beyond academics into the artistic and musical realms.
"The flow of creativity never seems to stop," she said.
School employees, parents and community members all offered vital support and guidance through the years, Paris added.
"Thanks to everyone who's influenced our lives," Paris said.
The duo recalled various highlights in the experiences of the Class of 2012, talking of nazi zombies, fractured fairy tales and school pranks.
For the traditional senior prank, their class had spelled out 2012 on the school's glass entranceway with hundreds of Post-It notes, they observed.
"As we continue to march toward adulthood, I want all of you to remember that we need to be a kid once in a while," Kenney said.
Referring to the class prank, North Warren Principal Theresa Andrew remarked that life's events proceed one after another, like single sheets yanked from the tablets.
"As you pull off your Post-It notes, remember to be honest, work hard, treat people as you want to be treated and remember your roots," she said. "Have a great life journey."
Carstensen also reflected on the progression of life, noting that the Class of 2012 was his first group of students to teach — as fifth graders in 2005 — at North Warren. He noted their academic, athletic, musical and dramatic accomplishments.
"The talents within you are amazing," he said. "You all have much for which to be proud," he said.
Quoting from Ralph Waldo Emerson, he offered an observation on character.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us," he said.
NWCS grads have that inner character required to tackle future challenges, whether it's in college, the military or the workforce, Carstensen added.
"Within you is the confidence to make the right choices and the knowledge to execute your plan," he said. "Success, great success, lies within each one of you. Your drive and determination helped you get to this point, and your passion and resolve will assist you on the rest of your way."
Class advisors Melissa Myers and Eric Bott presented flowers and gifts to the graduates, one by one.
Assisted by Superintendent of Schools Joe Murphy, Principal Theresa Andrew presented the graduation awards. Diplomas were granted by school board president Marion Eagan.
The ceremony concluded with the students tossing their mortarboard hats into the air with abandon, then proceeding out of the school auditorium to the strains of "Send Me On My Way," a song by the band Rusted Root.


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Shipping Items 1864-65 February 1867
Data from the National Library website
Timaru Herald January 1 1891 pg 2
Sailed from Port of Timaru
Dec. 31 - Rotokino, s.s., 1263 tons, Spinks, for Sydney and Brisbane. Passengers (from Dunedin, Bluff, and Timaru)Saloon: Belcher Dr Booth Miss Brenner Miss Fraser Rev. Hobday Miss Kykle Mr McNicoll Mr Peacock Mr and Mrs Owen Mr Sandison Mr Short Mr and Mrs and family (3) Strong Mr and eight steerage
Wednesday 21 January 1891
Lyttelton, Jan. 21
Sailed - Morayshire, for London. Passengers -
Fitchett Mr
Skinner Mr and Mrs and Master Skinner
Nettie, brigantine for Boston
Star, Christchurch 19 January 1891 Shipping -
Jan 18. Doric, R.M.S.S. 4744 tons, Jennings, from London, passengers - Misses Pye, Page, and Potter, Messers Leach, Smith, and
Star, Christchurch 19 January 1891
Lyttelton - Morayshire s.s. 2481 tons Coull, cleared for London via
Rio de Janeiro.
Star, Christchurch -
Thursday 29 January 1891
Shipping - Wellington - R.M.S.S.Tongariro - The Tongariro, from London, via way ports, arrived in the Harbour this morning. she was detained in London until 15 December (4 days late) owing to the fog. The passage was a fine weather one, and uneventful.
She brings 80 passengers for New Zealand.
Passengers for Lyttelton:
First saloon - Hon. and Rev. J. Lascelles, Mr, Mrs & Master Uscombe, Searelle, Miss Patersen, Miss Cardale, Mr, Mrs and Miss Forbes, Second saloon - Messers Powell, Campbell and Orde.
Third saloon - Miss Balls, Messers Owles, Dolan & Chambers.
North Otago Times, 29 January 1891, Page 2
TIMARU. January 28. Sailed� Highland Glen (Dawson), for London, with 5427 bales of wool, 67 of flax, 207 of tallow, and 1270 sacks of oats. Passenger, Mr P. V. Lovegrove.
Timaru Herald Saturday 14 February 1891
Wellington, Feb. 13
Arrived - Arawa, last night, from London. She left London on Dec. 27th, Plymouth 30th, Cape on January 20th, Hobart on 2nd, inst. and experienced fine weather. The health of the passengers was excellent.
Passengers for Timaru - Saloon
Miss Overbury
Second saloon:
Miss Moorcock
Mrs K Hayes, Misses M. Hayes, and A. M. Young.
'Star' Christchurch Thursday 12 February 1891* Page 3
Wellington - Arrival of the "Arawa"
Arrived - Arawa at seven o'clock last night from London, but she was not visited by the health officer till this morning. She left London on December 27th Plymouth on December 30th, the Cape on January 20th and Hobart on February 2nd. --
Passengers for Lyttelton -
Saloon - Mr, Mrs and Miss Decastro, Messers R.T. Turnbull, and S.Brentnall,
Second saloon - Mr F? N. Edwards.
Steerage - Mr Robert Kaye
'Star' Christchurch Thursday 5 February 1891* Page 3
Wellington - Shipping - The DORIC -
The Doric sails at noon for London via Rio.
passengers -
First saloon -
Messers A. Buchanan, White, Haul, Smith, J. Leitch, W. Leitch, G.H. Mitchell, Dr Nedwell, Rev. Mr Field, Major- General Johnston, Misses A. Leech, W. Duncan, Webb (2) and Mrs Ferguson.
Second saloon -
Mr & Mrs Watt and family, Mr & Mrs Thomas, Mrs & Miss Clements, Mrs & Master Bolan, Mr & Master Palmer, Misses Hughson and Harris, Mrs Arthur Rawson, Messers Herbert, and Shaw.
Steerage -
Mesdames Robertson, and Stottingdale, Messrs Aitken, Stottingdale, Handcock, Macarthur, Horman, Jensen, Parry and Knight.
Tuesday 17 March 1891
Wellington, March 16
The Coptic got up to the wharf at 11 a.m. She had unsettled weather, fog, rains and heavy N.E. swell on the way from Hobart. She brings 46 passengers and a full cargo. She is still commanded by Captain Kempson, but Mr Acheson, late second officer, is now chief. Mr Whistler, R.N.R., is third and Mr Northcote fourth, both coming from the Atlantic service. Mr Bell, R.N.R., succeeds Mr Haliburton as chief engineer. There are also other changes.
Thursday 26 March 1891
Wellington, March 25
The Rimutaka arrived this evening. She left Plymouth on February 9th, with 1920 tons of cargo, 48 saloon, 21 second saloon, and 44 steerage passengers, and one of the heaviest mails ever brought by the direct steamers - 252 bags and 21 boxes of parcel post. She landed 17 passengers and 280 tons of cargo at Hobart. C.A. Lovett, able seaman, and W. Fenelow, second cook, died on the voyage.
Auckland, March 25
Arrived - Hauroto from Sydney. Passengers for south:Cummings Miss Edwards Mrs Post Miss Rhodes Miss Ward Hon. and secretary
Friday 3 April 1891
April 2 - Ruthin, barque, 1116 tons, Vissar, for London. The p.s. Mana (Tugmaster Waldon) (Hendry, chief engineer) slipped from her moorings yesterday morning, shortly after 6 o'clock, and steamed out to the barque Ruthin, which was at anchor in the outer roads. The Mana took Captain Vissar off, and some ship's stores. There were also a good many persons on board, including a number of ladies. On arriving alongside the wind was being very variable, he decided to await a favourable slant of wind. This occurring shortly after 2. p.m. the anchor was weighed and sail made. The Ruthin is the third German owned vessel, hailing from Elsfleth, which has loaded at Timaru this year. Mr J. Wilson, a member of the Harbour Board, was among the party on the tug.
Monday 6 April 1891
The flagstaff of Timaru is situated in 171 deg 17.20 min East longitude; and 44 deg 23 min South latitude.
April 4 - Rosamond s.s., 722 tons, Stewart from Dunedin
April 4 - Bayley, s.s., 2607 tons,, Alfred Childs, from London. The Tyser liner Bayley arrived off Timaru yesterday afternoon and was brought in by the p.s. Mana and berthed at the main wharf. The Bayley will take away 17,300 sheep and lamb, the largest cargo of frozen meat which has ever been put on board at this port. The Bayley left London on January 20th. Called in at Melbourne and Sydney and the Bluff.Monday 6 April 1891 Vessels Homeward Bound Vessel Days out Langstone (Captain Bates) 104 Highland Glen (Captain Dawson) 67 Aurora (Captain Zindars) 48 Rialto (Captain Genters) 29 Rathin (Captain Vissar) 4
Wednesday 8 April 1891
The steamer Bayley completed loading yesterday afternoon, and was taken out by the harbourmaster in the teeth of a strong north-east wind and dirty weather outlook. The Bayley anchored in the outer roads for the night, and will go on this morning to Lyttelton to coal for Home. 19,500 carcasses frozen mutton and lamb was put on board by two gangs of men working in about 19 hours, or at the rate of 1000 an hour, 5000 at each hatch. This shipment is noteworthy too for the fact that the Bayley is the first steamer to complete her loading here, the hatches being filled with South Canterbury mutton and ice.
Friday 24 April 1891
Sailed April 23 - Ben Nevis, ship, 1109 tons, Pyke, for London. She was towed out at daylight yesterday morning by the p.s. Mana and picking up a moderate breeze outside soon made a good offing. The Ben Nevis was in excellent trim, and as she is well known as a fast sailer we expect to see her arrive Home in the 'nineties." Her cargo consisted of 13,991 sacks of wheat.
Wednesday 6 May 1891
Arrival of the Tainui
Wellington, May 5
The Tainui, from London via way ports, entered the Heads at 11.30 a.m. The Tainui had an uneventful passage. Her dates are London March 16th, Plymouth 21st, Teneriffe 26th, Capetown April 11th, Hobart 30th. She brings the following passengers for Timaru:-Second saloon: Wood Mr and Mrs and family (4) Third saloon: Dooley Messrs (2) Hughes Misses E. Weathered Mrs Weathered Miss M Wellwood Mr R. and Mrs and family (5)
Tuesday 19 May 1891
Sailed - May 18 - Duke of Buckingham, s.s. 3123 tons, Groombridge, for London via south. The New Zealand's Company's chartered steamer Duke of Buckingham, is the first four-masted and the longest vessel ever in the harbour. The mutton boat is fortunate in having fine weather, the sea being still as as mill pond so far. The steamer will ship 12,000 frozen lambs and a quantity of wool and tallow.
Wednesday 20 May 1891
Wellington, May 19
Arrived, this afternoon - R.M.S. Kaikoura, from London via way ports. She left Plymouth on the 5th April, Teneriffe on the 10th, Capetown on the 25th, and Hobart on the 15th. The time occupied on the voyage was 42 days 21� hours. She brought 12 passengers for Australian ports and 46 for New Zealand.
Sailed - Glenora, barque, Captain Tonkin, for London.
Wednesday 15 July 1891
The new ocean steamer Ruahine now begin built by the Fairfield Shipping Company on the Clyde, to the order of the New Zealand Shipping Company. She will be 6100 tons register, or equal in size to the Orient liner Orreuz. She will have a straight stem, and she will be the same length as the Shaw Saville and Albion Company's fine steamer Arawa, about 440ft, but to get her increased tonnage will have much more beam. The saloon will be amidships, where the vibrations of the screw do not disturb the comfort of the passengers, and where the motion of the vessel is not felt so much as in other areas of the ship. Her triple expansion engines will drive the vessel at the rate of seventeen or eighteen knots per hour. She is expected to leave London in November for New Zealand.
Thursday July 16 1891
Port of Timaru
Arrived. July 15- Morayshire, s.s., 3822 tons, Coull, from Port Chalmers.
The Morayshire, a boat very much like the Nairushire, arrived in the roadstead from Port Chalmers yesterday morning, and was met by the tug and brought in by the harbour master Captain Clarkson. She was fast and receiving cargo by 11 o'clock. The Morayshire took in here 13,000 carcasses of mutton and 75 bales of wool. The Morayshire is one of the handsomest of the Shire liners. She lay at the main wharf "as steady as a rock." Mr Robson, chief officer, (formerly of the Fifeshire); Mr Wallace, second; Mr McKenzie, third; and Mr Mollinson, fourth officer. Mr Small, formerly of the Fifeshire, is chief engineer, and the refrigerating machinery is in charge of Mr Ramsay. Mr Miller, who was here with the Fifeshire about two years ago, is chief steward, and he was very courteous to visitors yesterday, showing them all over the ship, and making them very welcome.
20th July 1891
Shipments of frozen mutton sent from Waitara by the Morayshire and Rangatira have turned out badly for many shippers. Some shippers only received 7s net for sheep. Another owner only received 4s 10�d net per sheep which would have sold locally for 10s when shipped.
Sir, - Allow me to correct my husband's false reports. He had told several people that him and me are not married. We were married by Mr Woollcombe at his private house in the year Nov. 26th, 1863. My witnesses were Mr Thomas Reid and Mrs Reid, Mr Lewellyn Jones of Timaru. It is not Mrs White which goes to sea in the barque Ganymeade with Alex. White but another women. I advertise this for the sake of myself and family.
Margaret White, Wattle Grove, Timaru, New Zealand.
Timaru Herald 17 October 1881 pg2
A telegram was received on Saturday from Mr A. White, coal and produce merchant of this town, who is now in Adelaide, stating that he had bought the barque Ganymede from Mr H.C. Fletcher, and the port of Timaru is to be congratulated on such a handsome addition to its locally owned fleet. The Ganymede is a clipper built iron vessel, 569 tons register and 950 tons gross tonnage. and is classed AA1 at Lloyd's for 90 years. She is 167ft 6in in length, 29ft 6in in breadth, and 17ft 7 in depth. For some years past she has been principally employed in the trade between Adelaide and the Cape and Mauritius. She will leave Adelaide for Newcastle on Wednesday, where she will carry coal for this port. Captain Morgan, of the Annie Bow, leaves for Newcastle on Tuesday to take charge of her. His place on the Annie Bow will be filled by Captain Hugh Paterson, lately of the Maggie Paterson. We trust the enterprise displayed by Mr White in purchasing the Ganymede will meet with the rich reward which it deserves, and that he will never have reason to regret it.
Saturday 25th July 1891
The Crusader,1038 tons, Perrian, is expected to get away for Callao to-morrow morning. 27th. She cleared Customs on Saturday and the winds suiting sails for Callao this morning. She was towed out. She had on board 850 tons of flour from Atlas, and 250 tons from the Belford mill, and 2075 sacks barley. This vessel has eclipsed all previous records in the loading of a ship at Timaru. She began last Monday morning to put out 300 tons of ballast and take in a full cargo of sacked stuff, and could have been a full ship on Friday night, but had to wait for the last lots till Saturday.
July 24 - Tekapo, s.s., 2433 tons, Allman from Newcastle via northern ports. Sailed July 25 for Sydney via Lyttelton and Wellington
Tuesday July 28 1891
July 27 - Duke of Sutherland, s.s., 3116 tons, Whymper, from Lyttelton. Under charter to the N.Z.S. Company, arrived from Lyttelton Monday morning to fetch 10,000 carcasses of mutton and 300 casks tallow. She will finish early 28th and goes back to Lyttelton and thence to Waitara to finish. This is the first trip of this steamer to the colony. She was built in 1863 for the China trade, and therefore long and narrow to suit the Suez canal and was supplied with first-class passenger accommodation, now but little used. She is now fitted with two refrigerators and had cargo space for 45,000 carcasses. She left Cardiff on May 20th with 3000 tons of coal on board, and landed about half at Lyttelton, the rest bringing her out and taking her Home again. The Duke of Sutherland is a sister ship to the long and narrow "canal walloper," the Duke of Buckingham, which came here a short time ago.
July 29th July
Exports. In the Duke of Sutherland, N.Z.S. Company agents. 297 casks tallow, 24 do pelts, 40 bales wool, 8 bales skin, 20 bags hides, 10,189 carcasses mutton, 50 cases kidneys. Shippers - J.M. Clark, W.H. Clark, C.F.A., Refrigerating Company. She was only about 20 hours in port.
July 31 1891
Arrived July 30 - Pleione, full rigged ship, 1092 tons, Sargent, from London via Nelson. The Mana met her and brought her in during the afternoon, when she made fast to a bouy. The Pleione left Nelson on Monday week, and after clearing the Straits had light winds and calms all the way down, till a strong nor-west breeze brought her from the Peninsula yesterday morning then failing a few miles out. The Pleione is consigned to Miles, Archer and CO., and has 630 tons, of general cargo to land here.
Friday 14th August 1891
Wellington, Aug. 13
The Rimutaka left Plymouth on the 28th June, Teneriffe 3rd July, Cape 20th, and Hobart at 6 pm. on the 9th. The voyage was an uneventful and moderate variable weather was experienced. She has 141 passengers for New Zealand ports, 133 bags mail, and 23 boxes parcels post. Passengers for Timaru - Saloon, Dr C.H. Cayley; second saloon, Mr J. Radcliffe; steerage, Mr W. Owers.
Monday 24th August 1891
The R.M.S. Coptic sails for London to-day. Among her cargo she takes 1000 sacks pf wheat, 250 casks tallow, 700 bales wool, 1200 sacks oaks, 400 sacks peas and beans, 20,000 carcasses of mutton. Passengers - First Saloon W.F. Clayton, J. Matheson, E. King, Robert Hulbert, Rev. W. Beatty, C. Nimmo, Lieut. J. Grant, R.N.; second saloon: E.C. Schiele, Mr and Mrs Hawkes, Dahala, I. McGavin, Mrs Jane Lyons, Miss E. Lewis, Robert Mowe, James Wood, Daniel Whitburn; steerage; James Start, S.H. Hammond and family (4), Mrs Levy and family (5), John Robinson, R. Sergeant, Miss C. Dawson, D. Orr, Mrs Lake, Mrs Parkes and boy, Mrs Forbes and two children.
Thursday 27th August. The ship Pleione had to give up her berth at the main wharf yesterday, to the Maori King, and moved off to a bouy. She has yet to take in 200 or 2500 sacks to complete her load.
The Tyser liner Maori King, arrived yesterday from London via Brisbane at mid-day, and was brought in and berthed at the main wharf by3.30 p.m. The Maori King is purely a cargo boat, and was built last year by Doxford and Sons, of Sutherland. Her gross is 3507tons, under deck 3602, and net 2476 tons. The hull is of iron, and is fitted with every appliance to ensure smart handling of cargo. She is 365 feet long, 44.2 beam, and has a depth of hold of 19.4 feet; and had three tiers of bulkheads. She was engined also by Doxford, the three cylinders being respectively 27, 44, and 72 inch, with a 48 inch stroke. The freezing chamber is well forward.
Friday August 28 1891
Sailed. Aug. 27 - Maori King, s.s., 2476 tons, Prisk, for the Bluff. The Maori King worked all night and finished about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, taking in 8000 carcasses of mutton. She steamed for the Bluff at noon, to load frozen mutton there.
The ship Pleione completed loading on Saturday, and has between 13,000 and 14,000 sacks of wheat on board. She is expected to sail today. Aug. 31 - Pleione, ship, 1092 tons, Sargent, for London. 1st. Sept. She was towed to open sea yesterday afternoon, with a full cargo of wheat, shipped by Friedlander Bros.
Tuesday 1st September 1891
Port of Timaru
Sailed. 31 Aug. - Pleione, ship, 1092 tons, Sargent, for London. She was towed to sea with a full cargo of wheat, shipped by Friedlander Bros.
Wednesday 2nd September 1891
Mr A. White's barque Ganymede, 569 tons, Alleston, for Sydney was towed to sea about 5 p.m. yesterday by the tug Mana, with a full load of produce: 75 tons flour, 1701 sks bran, 680 sks pollard, 2389 sks potatoes, 143 sks wheat, 2027 sks oats, 4 casks beef. Shippers Timaru and Temuka mills, J. Brown, Best, Bruce Christie and Co., Kaiapoi Produce Company, Lintott Skeet and Co, N.Z.L. and M.A. Company, C.F.C.A., Kaye and carter.
Monday 7 Sept. 1981
Arrived Port of Timaru.
Sept. 5 - Omapere, s.s., 352 tons, Lambert, from Dunedin
Sept. 5 -Zealandia, ship, 1115 tons, Bates, from London, via Lyttelton. Brings 600 tons cargo and loads here for Home. Captain Bates, last here in command of the barque Langstone (which left this port for London about the middle of March last), is now in charge of the Zealandia.
Sept. 5- Orowaiti, s.s., 286 tons, Adams from Westport
Sept. 5 - Omapere, s.s., for Lyttelton and Akaroa
Sept. 5- Elderslie,s.s., 2961 tons, Olsen, for Port Chalmers. N.M. and A. Company, agents. 9534 carcasses mutton, 56 boxes kidneys, 68 packages, 400 hares, 228 bales wool. The next mutton boat expected is the Pakeha, to arrive on the 22nd inst. for 20,000 carcasses.
Thursday September 10 1891
Arrived. Sept. 8 Falcon, schooner, 98 tons, Green from the Marlborough Sounds, brought a full load of 54,000 feet of timber from the Black Ball mills, to the order of Mr John Jackson.
The R.M.S. Ruapehu, from London, via the Cape and Hobart, arrived in Wellington at 2.30 ton the Sept. 9th. Her dates are Plymouth 25th July, Teneriffe 30th, Cape August 15th, and she left Hobart at 10 p.m. on the 4th September. After leaving the Cape she experienced heavy gales both from the S.E and the N.W. with high seas; from Hobart fine weather. She has 84 passengers for New Zealand ports, 217 bags of mails and 26 boxes of parcel post and 1300 tons cargo, half of which is for Wellington. Passengers for Timaru - Steerage, Mr Crisp and Miss O'Connor.
Monday 14 Sept. 1891
Arrived. Set. 12 - Hauroto, s.s., 2000 tons, Neville, from Newcastle via way ports. Discharged 250 tons coal. Consignee - Ebenezer Smith
McKeown, London, advised shipment of fireworks per Rakaia, to Lyttelton
Mr B. Gibson, Geraldine, who purchased the wreck of the Duke of Sutherland a few days after the loss. The wreckage is at the breakwater (estimated at �300). Mr Gibson wrote the Timaru Harbour Board could sell or do as they pleased with the wreckage.
Wednesday 23 September 1891
Port of Timaru. Arrived.
Sept. 22 -Brunner, s.s., 340 tons, Waller, from the north. Her principal cargo inward consisted of telegraph and telephone line material.
Sept. 22 - Pakeha, s.s., 4300 tons, Scotland, from Gisborne and Auckland. The Shaw Savill and Albion Company's fine cargo steamer Pakeha arrived on her first visit to this port yesterday morning, to pick up produce for London. The Pakeha is one of the finest boats of her class, with space for 6000 tons of freight, including freezing chambers capable of holding 54,000 carcasses of mutton. Her engines are of the best known type - 500hp. nominal, 3000 hp efficient and it is stated she can be driven fully loaded 10 knots on 22 tons of coal per day. The vessel is fully equipped with patent steam winches and derricks for dealing with cargo, and the hatches are of very large dimensions, so as to be equal to the reception or discharge of the largest or most cumbrous lifts. Her commander, Mr Scotland, has had a good deal of experience in New Zealand waters, in the sailing ships Glenlore, Crusader, Westland, and others. On her present trip the Pakeha has had a full round. Her first port of call was Port Chalmers, then Lyttelton, Wellington, Waitara, Auckland, and Gisborne. From Timaru she goes to Lyttelton, her final port. She was worked all night and will complete her loading here and get away for Lyttelton this evening.
Friday September 25 1891
The Pakeha took away the following cargo: 19 sacks of hides, 135 casks tallow, 90 casks pelts, 16,683 carcasses mutton, 3� cases kidneys, 98 sacks hares, 320 bales wool, 1353 sacks wheat, 3879 sacks oats.
Saturday September 26th 1891
The Union Steamship Company have bought the barque Mikado, of 1850 tons, now lying at Dunedin.
The s.s. Industry, 1179 tons, Marshall, arrived yesterday from Lyttelton to land 300 tons of Newcastle coal. She returned to Lyttelton last night. The Industry has changed her colours since she was here last, she then being under Mr C.W. Turner's flag and orders. She now wears on her funnel the red jacket of the Union Company, to whom she is chartered.
Thursday 15 October 1891. The ship Zealandia arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning and she left Timaru on Sunday last. Among the passengers for New Zealand by the Tongariro before the mail left, were Mr T. Teschmaker, Mr and Mrs Rhodes and Dr and Mrs Lawson, for South Canterbury. Mr G.F. Clulee is on board the Doric, now at Hobart or on her way hither.
Homeward Bound
Pleione (Captain Sargent) 44 days out.
Monday 19 October 1891
Last year two ships, the Marlborough and the Dunedin, left New Zealand and were never heard of again.
Monday 19 October 1891
Wellington, Oct. 18
The Doric arrived from London after an uneventful passage. She brought 119 passengers for New Zealand.
Wednesday 21 October 1891
Oct. 20 - Himalaya, ship, 1100 tons, Hill, from London via Auckland. Captain Hill is well known here and was formerly the chief officer of the May Queen. She has on board 540 tons of her original English cargo and will come to the main wharf to discharge.
Wednesday 4 November 1891
Wellington, Nov. 3
Arrived - Tongariro from London, via the usual ports. Her dates are Plymouth 19th, Sept. Teneriffe 24th, Cape Oct. 10th, and Hobart 30th. She experienced moderate weather throughout, and the passage was uneventful. Passengers for Timaru - Saloon, Dr and Mrs Lawson [previous resident in Timaru, set up a practice with Dr. Thomas, at Dr Thomas' residence Arthur St.]
Second cabin, Mr and Mrs J. Holwell, Master and Miss Robinson; steerage, Mr L. Hyen and C. Frampton.
Wednesday 19 November 1891
Arrived Nov. 17 - Asterion, barque, 526 tons, from London, via Nelson. She will load for Home here.
Friday 20 November 1891
Arrived - Nov. 19 - Mamari, s.s., 3583 tons, Maxwell from London via Wellington. The Shaw Savill and Albion Co.'s fine cargo steamer Mamari, from London via way ports arrived off Timaru yesterday afternoon and steamed inside the moles in charge of the harbourmaster, Captain Clarkson, being berthed at the main wharf by 6.30 p.m. Mr T. Staples is the chief officer, Mr Roberts second and Mr Banks third and the engines are in charge of Mr W.G. Harvey. The Mamari left London on August 21st, her first port of call being Dunedin, where she arrived on the 17th. She will take in 4000 stacks of grain and 1000 bales of wool at this port.
Thursday 3 &4 December 1891
Arrived. Dec. 2 - Ardle, s.s., 1245 tons, Taggart, from Lyttelton. Mr C.W. Turner's newly chartered steamer Ardle arrived from Newcastle via Lyttelton yesterday. She belongs to the north Sea S.S. Company, of Dundee, and was launched from Goorlays' yards at the end of 1888, and has Lloyd's highest class. She is 245ft over all, 34ft, beam, and carries 1500 tons dead weight on a light draught. She is built of steel, with an inner bottom of iron, has all the modern appliances for handling cargo, including an electric light service for night work. She has no passenger accommodation, but the offices have very nicely furnished saloon and cabin. She has triple engines and maintains ten knots on a very light consumption of coal. She has been employed in the Baltic trade. She has 400 tons to discharge here, and she loads for Sydney, for which port she leaves via Bluff this morning with a passenger Mr G.C. Matheson.
Tuesday 8 December 1891
Lost - near Temuka, black waterproof cloak. Finder will be rewarded. Captain Hill, Ship Himalaya.
Thursday 17 December 1891
Cleared. Dec. 16 - Himalaya, N.M. and A.C. agents. Exports. 2138 bales and skins, 2000 sks wheat, 7500 sks oats, 103 sks cocksfoot. Shippers - Land Co. Elworthy, Agents, Rooney, Jonas, C.F.A., Kaiapoi Milling Co, Friedlander Bros. The barque Himalaya was prepared for sea yesterday morning, and even had the Mana's towrope on board, when Captain Hill found he could not go as some of his men who went ashore on Tuesday night might not turn up. He has sent to Dunedin for men to take their places and expects to get to sea this afternoon.
Friday 18 December 1891
Sailed Dec. 17 - Himalaya, barque, 1008 tons, Hill, for London.
The tug Mana towed the barque Himalaya to sea yesterday afternoon. As the vessel was moving off the sailors on board the Asterion and the Rakaia (Captain Silba) sent up three hearty cheers to their departing comrades and received answering cheers. The Asterion dipped her Union Jack three times as the Himalaya was passing out through the moles. On getting outside a splendid breeze was picked up.
Timaru Herald, 17 December 1891, Page 2
Dec. 16. The s.s. Coptic, from London via way port, arrived from Hobart shortly before midnight. Her dates are London 29th Oct., Plymouth 3lst Oct., Teneriffe 5th Nov., Capetown 22nd, Hobart 11th Dec. With the exception of an easterly gale after leaving Plymouth floe weather was experienced throughout. The voyage, which was uneventful, occupied 42 days 20 hours 32 min. Her mail is a very small one, consisting of five bags and one packet. She brings 68 saloon and 58 steerage passengers for all ports. Passengers for Timaru, saloon, Mr John Reid, steerage, Miss Morrison, Mrs Morrison, Messrs Morrison (2).
Oamaru, Dec. 17, 1891
Sailed - Chili, barque, Captain McKenzie, for London, with 2489 bales wool and 3289 sacks of oats. Her cargo is valued at �40,602.
Saturday 19 December 1891
Arrived- Dec. 18 - Nairnshire, s.s., 3720 tons, Wallace, from London via Sydney, Bluff and Napier. The well-known Shire Liner Nairnshire arrived from Napier about 2 p.m. yesterday, and was at once berthed at the main wharf. She picks up here 4100 carcasses of mutton, and from 500 to 1000 bales wool, and will probably get away on Monday.
Sailed - Dec. 18 - Rakaia, barque, 1022 tons, Silba, for London.
Tuesday 29 December 1891
Wellington, Dec. 28.
The R.M.S. Rimutaka arrived in harbour at 3 o'clock this afternoon. She left Plymouth on 14th Nov., Teneriffe on the 19th, Capetown on the 5th Dec. and Hobart on the 24th. She brings 95 passengers and 249 bags of mail. Captain Greenstreet who had brought the vessel from London was relieved by Captain E.A. Findlay, of the Ruapehu, Captain Greenstreet remaining to take charge of the New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Ruahine. On the 22nd Nov. three sun spots were seen and two days afterwards some very large waterspouts were passed. The voyage occupied 43 days 9 hours and 34 minutes.
The flagstaff of Timaru is situated in 171 deg 17.20 min. east longitude; and 44 deg 23 min south latitude.
Timaru Herald
Monday 10 April 1900
Lyttelton, April 9
Sailed - Hinemoa, four-masted barque, for London.
Star 7 December 1892, Page 4
Smuggling. A case of petty smuggling was brought before the Bench at Timaru yesterday, a youth named Higginbottom, steward on the barque Ganymede, pleading guilty to a charge of smuggling ashore two pounds of manufactured tobacco. He was caught in the act of trying to sell it to men in the street. He was fined 39s, thrice the value of the parcel, with duty added.
Otago Witness 22 May 1907, Page 18
Captain Brown, of the barque Kassa, told a Timaru Herald reporter a few days ago that Tasmania had just completed the season on for the export of apples. The season had been a very good one 220,000 cases were shipped in one bottom, and Tasmania was flourishing on timber and apples. They are finding out," says Captain Brown, "that wherever a gum tree will grow an apple tree will grow. It does not signify whether the top is rocky or not, so long as there is clay enough below for the roots to dig their way into. The orchardist follows the sawmiller now, and often the same person, as is the case with my owner and shipper."
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|Antec Solo-II Computer Case Enclosure
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Cases
|Written by Dan Ferguson
|Tuesday, 06 September 2011
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Closer Look: ExteriorNothing says elegant, sophisticated and snooty like a grand piano, right? Just teasing, I actually enjoy a classical performance. And the Solo II reminds me of a guy in a tux playing a shiny black grand piano. In a mirror. The classy look maintains consistency with the Antec's Sonata line of cases and represents the needs of it's users. The Solo II is not just a hunk of metal and plastic merely meant to hold more plastic and metal. The Solo II is meant to be used where site and sound are important, or where the absence of such is desired.
The entire exterior is black, but the front panel provides a foil with it's flat black in contrast to the shiny sides, top and bottom. The front is kept unembellished sporting only two 5.25 bays and an unassuming line of ports and buttons. The bezel is anodized aluminum, and in theory this was probably a nice idea to add some accent. But in practice, even a small amount of spotting gives the case a cheap feel. I think this is because fingerprints on the shiny panels are obviously fingerprints on a shiny panel, but fingerprints on the bezel look like staining, wear, or something else. Really this is just a cosmetic nuisance. When the case is clean everything looks sharp!
The backside of the Solo II reveals a few interesting features. There is a top-mounted PSU, black interior finish, 7 expansion ports and a 120 mm fan. With the PSU mounted to the top the motherboard and expansion ports are shifted towards the bottom of the case. In rare instances this means less room for a bulky card, it is an intentional consequence as will be shown later.
In my experience a top-mounted PSU causes the case to feel heavier since it is top-heavy. On top of the case at the back sits an intake just above the PSU. I'm sure this may be helpful for some PSUs, but in my case there's no air flow through this vent and it's mostly a hole for noise to escape.
The bottom of the case has the same piano-black finish as the top and sides. The feet are made of a soft silicone which helps to dampen sound from transferring from the case to the desk. This may not seem very important, but my last case had hard plastic feet which transferred the hard drive clicks to the desk like a sounding board. Soft feet make a huge sound difference!
I did this in the original Antec Solo (the revised version with the same elastic fabric as the Solo II, not the very first one that used poor quality elastic bands), and it works to keep the drive in place. Not fool-proof, but certainly better than not twisting the cord.
Are you having a laugh???
Do you know how many people have there rigs under desks?
So now when I switch from watching a movie to playing a game, I have to get down on my knees & thumble around the back feeling for a switch?
And the worst part, moving this switch to the front probably wouldn't have cost anything more to the manufacturing.
They review the case on a table with 360o access, forgetting that a lot of consumers who actually buy these cases, have them on the floor or under desk.
It just seems so obvious to me, I mean, would you put the start switch on the back? No! , so why put the fan controller on the back???
From what I can see, this Antec Solo II is executed well for a system w/ 500W PSU (aka not for really 1337 gamers), the major problem is the asking price where its only a few dollars less than the Antec P183. Cable management with top mounted cases has always been easier with bottom mounted cases and cables are easily enough tucked away with zip ties/modular PSUs...it doesn't really matter *how* you tuck it away because this case doesn't have a side windows.
I've wondered for some time why PSU manufacturers haven't offered PSUs with various configurations, i.e., having modular cabling that extends from perhaps the "top" of bottom-mounted units. Routing PSU cables has been a "one size fits all" affair for too long. And for quietness? A spray-on bedliner for pickup trucks that reduces noise as well as protects the bed has been around for years. Why not utilize it, or something like it, in computer cases as well.
My two cents. Spend it wisely.
Shame about that cable management though.
Thank for the review, but one question (that's probably pretty stupid), what's with the CPU heatsink orientation?
Must bugger up the ram slots something terrible as well, bad enough with some correctly positioned coolers let alone sticking right over the top.
The thing reminds me of the Antec NSK 4480 II I bought as my very first case. Why they were still selling that dinosaur in late 2009 I don't know. This is better, but the air going into that case is going to hiss through the openings around the back of the face plate.
Well, no one who reads these reviews will be a customer for this case, but I'll say it now: Don't. Get. This. Case.
This looks like it will be a great case for an air-cooled system that don't produce excessive heat. With the new 23- and 25- and 28- nanometer parts coming out (Ivy Bridge, Southern Islands, etc -- which use less power) the Solo II can hold plenty of computer power for most purposes.


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|Particulars of Recruit: Robert Victor Zumstein
Victor attended Dunnville High School taking courses in Physics and Chemistry until he was 16 and able to attend the University of Toronto. While in Toronto he was taken in the army.
In June 1914, a seventeen year-old R.Victor Zumstien took to a set of examinations, in Dunnville, called the Upper School Examination for Entrance into the Faculties of Education. The examinations has two parts and Victor took only Part I. He did not submits papers for the Art section. However, he passed with honors on the subject of: English Composition and Rhetoric, English Literature, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Physics, and Medieval History.
This allowed him to graduate from the University. Victor received a gold medallion for having the highest marks in Physics.
According to an Iowa City Newspaper article in 1924, Victor obtained his B.A. in Toronto in 1917. He had wrote a research paper entitled "Regularities in the spectra of lead and tin" published at the University of Toronto in 1918. Papers are often published after degrees are awarded. So the 1918 publishing date after the 1917 graduation date does coincide.
His next instruction relocated him to the United States of America to a small town in the state of Iowa known as Iowa City. He obtained his M.A. in Physics and Math in 1918 at the State University of Iowa.
|1924 Doctorate of Philosophy ~ Robert V. Zumstein
Victor would continue working towards his Masters and teaching Physics at the State University of Iowa. With his career path established, Victor returned to Canada to marry his childhood sweetheart Clementina Comfort on 3 Jul 1920 at Elcho Church in Gainsborough Twp, Lincoln, Ontario. Her engagement ring was said to have cost $100. They were married under a pear tree at the home of her father, Alonzo Comfort.
On their marriage certificate, Victor and Clementina were both listed as teachers. It is known that Victor was teaching in Iowa. Clementina was teaching public school in Smithville, Ontario. They both belonged to the Congregational religion. Their witnesses were Edward Clark and F Almina Comfort. Edward was Victor's cousin. F Almina is believed to be her sister Florence Almina.
They left by train at Attercliffe Station for Iowa State University where he had received a scholarship. They owned only their clothes and the "Old Colony" silverware she had purchased a few pieces at a time while teaching school.


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The economy probably slowed in the third quarter and employers hired fewer workers in October, indicating the U.S. expansion was losing momentum even before the partial government shutdown, economists project reports to show this week.
Gross domestic product grew at a 2 percent annualized rate after a 2.5 percent pace from April through June, according to the median forecast of 69 economists surveyed by Bloomberg before Commerce Department figures due Thursday. Consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, was probably the weakest since 2011.
Payrolls rose by 125,000 workers after a 148,000 gain in September, Labor Department figures may show.
A drop in government output and restrained business and consumer purchases due to the 16-day shutdown last month have prompted economists to trim fourth-quarter growth forecasts, a separate Bloomberg survey showed. Tepid hiring and a jobless rate that's projected to have climbed in October help explain why Federal Reserve policymakers are pressing on with stimulus.
"The economy still has growth, but it's just very moderate," said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, N.C. "Job gains and wage gains remain weak. That's a challenge for consumer spending."
The GDP report may show consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 percent of the economy, grew at a 1.6 percent annualized rate, the smallest gain since the second quarter of 2011, according to the Bloomberg survey median. Purchases advanced 1.8 percent from April through June.
The jobs report may show the unemployment rate, derived from a separate Labor Department survey of households than the payrolls tally, rose to 7.3 percent, according to the Bloomberg survey. It was 7.2 percent in September, the lowest since November 2008. Private employment, which excludes government agencies, climbed 130,000 after rising 126,000, economists projected ahead of the Friday data.
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The Seattle Times (MCT)
In 1975 Paul Theroux published a travel book, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, that pushed him to the front ranks of the London literary scene. He had seven novels under his belt, including his early masterpieces Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack. But while his fiction had won him praise, it hadn't brought in much income.
Railway Bazaar hit the best-seller lists, becoming the first in a series of travel memoirs that readers have lapped up for 30-odd years now. Happy times, yes?
Well, no. The book came at a price that Theroux scarcely hinted at in its pages. His months-long absence from home, he says, put a big crack in his first marriage. He came back to London to find that his wife, resentful of his leaving, had taken a lover.
"I had not been missed," Theroux ruefully remarks in his new book about retracing his old journey. "I had been replaced." Railway Bazaar, he adds, was written "in a fury"—an explanation, perhaps, for its zesty, crackling energy.
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar, by contrast, Theroux is contented on the home front and in transit. Older and happily remarried, he is as curious as ever about the people he meets and the places he visits on his 28,000-mile journey through Eastern Europe, Asia, India, Japan and Siberia.
Still, Ghost Train can be a sobering book. Brightly rendered and endlessly informative, it serves up one sharp, insightful anecdote or historical tidbit after another; and Theroux gamely puts up with delays, crowds, filth and occasional ailments as long as he feels he's getting an unedited glimpse of the countries he's in. Yet what has happened to some of those countries in the three decades since he last saw them is often unsettling.
Dictators have come to power, or held onto it for decades. You may be able to read elsewhere about Lee Kwan Yew's oppressive, one-party micromanagement of Singapore (Theroux has a long history with the place). But Turkmenistan's Saparmyrat Niyazov will probably be news to you, as he was to me.
While in power he banned beards, gold teeth and ballet, renamed the month of January after himself and April after his mother (he also tried to rename bread after her). He siphoned his country's natural-gas revenue into his own pockets and erected gold statues of himself all over the place, demolishing much-needed housing in the process.
Theroux tells us all this while drawing sympathetic quick-sketch portraits of the brave, put-upon souls living under this insane regime. In another vein, his journey through nearby Georgia—still, to Theroux's eyes, establishing a fragile sense of independence after decades of Soviet domination—is more chilling than intended, given the recent headlines.
Then there's the population explosion. Chennai (Madras) in India had a population of two million when Theroux was there in 1973; now it's 11 million. A veteran walker, Theroux tries strolling down one of the city's familiar main drags—and finds it impossible.
Any American traveling these days wants to gauge his country's standing in the world. Theroux finds only two Bush supporters among the hundreds of people he meets. (A veteran of the Soviet Union's failed campaigns in Afghanistan is especially doubtful about what we're doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.)
But Ghost Star isn't all somber. There are lively meetings with authors Haruki Murakami in Tokyo and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul ("one of the most easily negotiated and hospitable cities in the world"). Thailand gives him great pleasure. Vietnam, he writes, is "reborn" after decades of war (even in 1973 he was impressed by its beauty—and is more impressed now by its population's forgiveness toward Americans).
Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, casts a spell on him. A happy reunion with a hotel-running family in northern Myanmar (also known as Burma) is entirely unexpected—although Theroux fully registers the oppressiveness of the military regime there.
Throughout the book, Theroux's fresh phrasing is a treat, whether he's evoking the desolation of rural Turkmenistan ("a landscape like cat litter"), the heat of Jodhpur ("like a glittering hammer") or a massage in Bangkok ("a sort of samba along my spine").
The ghost that haunts this trip is Theroux's younger self, whom he addresses from time to time. But his more urgent focus is on a world that, with few exceptions, is taking a turn for the worse. "Only the old can really see how gracelessly the world is aging and all that we have lost," Theroux writes.
The 33-year gap between his prose snapshots of the countries on his route makes for a telling double exposure.
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You're only $50.00 away from FREE SHIPPING *(USA only)This bunch of individual chromatic, nature-inspired Plump Red Berry Floral Sprays have simple year-round charm with plenty of decorative possibilities!
Lanky light brown hand wrapped wire stems diverge into petite rich red lacquered limbs, producing a playful cluster over a dozen shining scarlet spherical berries. Manipulate their bendable wiry base stems to create the perfect look!
From your coffee table to your mantel, place these collections of berries anywhere in your home that you see fit! Adorn your kitchens, bathrooms, and table settings! Present them with your primitive and rustic-inspired metal stars and bells, alongside candles and other decorative embellishments on your tables, shelves, and counters. It makes a wonderful filler for vases, baskets, canisters and tin buckets.
For Christmastime, place these in poinsettia arrangements, or combine with luxurious, glittery picks. Mix and match with simple green plants and firs, easily attach them to wreaths, or join with bright spherical ornaments, tinsel, and faux snow!
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A BURNLEY waste centre has been labelled 'not fit for purpose' by a county councillor who claims it is attracting rats to nearby houses.
County Coun Margaret Brindle said the Oxford Mill Waste Transfer Station, in Oxford Road, was responsible for an 'obnoxious' smell in surrounding streets and was also causing traffic problems.
Representatives from the Environment Agency, which issues licences for the site, visited Burnley Wood last month with concerned residents and are continuing to monitor the mill.
The permit to carry out waste operations at the site currently belongs to Hapton Trading Ltd, which received planning permission to sort and recycle waste there from Lancashire County Council in August 1994.
County Coun Brindle, for Burnley Rural, said that although she respected the rights of the firm to do business, she believed parts of the building were 'in a state of disrepair and possibly dangerous'.
The Liberal Democrat said: "It is wholly unacceptable that people should have to put up with this. There is a school, a children's centre, a medical centre and a chemist within a few yards of Oxford Mill.
"Considerable regeneration has taken place in the area over the last few years with new homes being built close by. Is this the right place for a waste transfer station like the one at Oxford Mill?
"The Environment Agency, Lancashire County Council and Burnley Council should all work together to ensure that people have a clean and safe environment in which to live, and not one blighted by the activities being carried out in this old mill building."
She added that 'numerous' residents had reported rats in their homes and that parents had reported their children feeling sicl when they were near the mill.
An Environment Agency spokesperson said: "We are aware of localised issues resulting from activities at the site, which have been reported to us.
"Currently we are carrying out site inspections and working with the business to ensure it operates within its environmental permit.
"Should the operator fail to adhere to the permit, or it is identified that the current permit does not fully control the activities at the site, there are a number of enforcement options which are open to us."
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Check out a compilation of redneck wedding vows on this Redneck Wedding Extra.
From redneck jousting with soda bottles on a PVC pipe to the groom rapping his wedding vows, these lovebirds have put a twist on every wedding detail.
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Wang Xiaoning, the Chinese dissident jailed for 10 years after he was convicted of state subversion on information provided by US Internet giant Yahoo, has been released, the BBC reported today.
The 62-year-old was freed from a Beijing prison in the early hours of today.
Activist group Human Right in China confirmed Wang had been released.
His wife, Yu Ling, told the Agence France-Presse that Wang was "in a good mental and physical state."
Wang was detained in 2002 after distributing statements online via email and Yahoo forums calling for democratic reform in China and criticizing one-party rule.
He was later convicted after prosecutors presented information to the court that they had received from Yahoo identifying Wang as the author of the statements.
Yahoo, which drew international condemnation for cooperating with Chinese authorities in the investigation of Wang and other dissidents, released a statement today.
The statement did not mention Wang, but it called on democratic governments around the world to lobby for the release of individuals jailed for expressing political opinions.
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TROY – Jimmy Howard called Thursday's sudden turn of events at the NHL labor talks ridiculous, saying it made him sick to his stomach.
Niklas Kronwall was frustrated because he sensed an end to the lockout was imminent. Ian White was stunned. Danny Cleary felt like he had been "duped.''
But, after stepping off the emotional roller coaster, several Detroit Red Wings said Friday that owners and players are not that far apart on a collective bargaining agreement. They believe the existing differences aren't significant enough to lose an entire season.
"We're too close for this to burn up,'' Danny Cleary said after skating with several players at the Troy Sports Center. "I don't believe the season is lost by any means. This process is slow, you have to be patient.
"It's not over. We got to be positive. Cooler heads need to step back and really look at what's on the table.''
No offer is on the table anymore, according to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. But players aren't buying that.
"It's off the table until they talk to us next because obviously we're not going to start from scratch and do this process all over,'' White said.
Added Howard, "Hopefully, it's just one more of Gary's ploys to see if we're going to crack.''
They're not cracking. They're taking a hard look at the issues, and they see the gap between the sides closing.
The league agreed to increase its "Make Whole'' offer to $300 million to cover existing contracts and the union accepted. They agreed on pension plan funding. They agreed to keep key contracting issues such as unrestricted free agency (age 27 or seven years) and salary arbitration eligibility (four years) as they were in the previous CBA.
The NHL wanted a 10-year CBA term with an opt-out clause after eight years. The union wanted an eight-year term with an option to pulled out after six years.
The league remains firm on its demand for a five-year cap on contract lengths (seven years for a team's own restricted and unrestricted free agents) and a maximum five-percent variance on annual salaries of a contract.
The NHLPA wanted an eight-year cap and 25-percent variance.
This appears to be the biggest issue. Players believe the shorter term will create a two-tiered salary system where the middle class, as Cleary put it, will have their pay slashed.
Cleary, who has said several times during this work stoppage that he fears the season will be scrapped, was more optimistic on Friday.
"Our proposal wasn't bad enough to say everything's off the table, there's no more talks scheduled,'' Cleary said. "If you look at how far we've come – they've given, too – the sides are too close for this to happen.''
Kronwall, still the club's union representative, said a lot of things were accomplished this week, despite Thursday's dramatic turn.
"If we're this close, I don't see the reason why we shouldn't keep at it until we have something,'' Kronwall said. "I don't see the reason why we should all of the sudden just step away and get all dramatic. Just stick with it and get this done.''
Kronwall said the union has made enough concessions.
"You hear them talking about how it's all us taking and taking. What have we taken?'' Kronwall said. "Really, if you look at it, it's a lot of giving and giving.''
Cleary believes the league has a date in mind it wants the season to start and doesn't want to agree to a deal beforehand.
"I just feel the time is not right now for them; that might sound crazy, because the time was months ago,'' Cleary said. "I just think they have certain goals in their mind they have to achieve, and so do we. We have to find a way to get off those goals a little bit.''
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It's time for another edition of Gaming in the Real World. This is where we ask developers, web writers and regular gamers to talk about their experiences talking to people about what they do for a living or gaming in general. Today Gone Gold's Bill Harris chimes in with his experiences and our own Fangblackbone offers his own story. Here's the question, you can read on for the answers!
In certain social circumstances do you find it hard to admit you write about/develop and play video games as a hobby? What are some of the most notable reactions you've gotten? A specific story wouldn't hurt if you had one.
Bill Harris
If the person IÂ'm speaking to is under twenty-five, IÂ'll talk about games and weÂ'll have a terrific conversation. If theyÂ're over twenty-five, I donÂ't bother. I donÂ't want to spend an hour talking about Solitaire and Minesweeper. Even worse, games arenÂ't just my hobby. I write about them and theyÂ're a major part of my life. IÂ'm better off telling older people that I do something theyÂ'd find less strange, like dealing drugs or robbing banks.
Of course, I hate Â"˜social circumstances,Â' so I avoid them whenever possible. I consider a party to be four people or less. Anything more is a mob.
- Bill Harris
You can read more of Bill's stuff on Gonegold.com's "Night Call" column three times a week!
I went back east to Wesport Massachussets for a friends wedding. The wife's cousin was a big fan of Sarge's Heroes and I was a designer on the game. He was so awestruck when I said hi to him. How embarrassing is this? He asked me to sign his cartridge! Of course I obliged but it felt really awkward. Also, one other thing to mention is that there is no feeling like walking through a game store and seeing kids pick up your game and feverishly look at the screenshots and read the back cover. The kicker is when they say something like, "Oh man! I didnt know this was out yet!" or "Rad! I gotta get my mom to get this for my birthday!"
Kids still say "rad"? Thanks Fang!
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Kids still say "rad"?
I think Fang forgot to put the part where it was all a dream...
This cat is out of times, Jones. Wiggidy wah!
Hmm... well after seeing that new Opus strip...
Sorry, friends, despite the rousing controversy it would stir if I were lying, its all true. Maybe "rad' wasnt the term they used. On second thought, Im quite sure it was "bitchin!"
Kids still say "rad"?
Hey, the Ninja Turtles are making a come-back!
Damn Bill I'm over 25 and I definately do not talk about minesweeper or solitare. Maybe 35+
35+? Bah..
I'm 44 and can talk (and play) games with the best of them.
Had to come out of lurk mode and reg. here to stand up for geezer gamers everywhere. There are more of us than you might think.. My Dad is 75 and is a fiend for Links and Panzer General...
Nice Joe!
I still can't keep my mom away from any of the Mario games! Put another vote on the imaginary poll for 40+.
I knew a guy who's mother was a master of all games with the word Mario in them. And she's in her sixites.
Bill needs a therapy.


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BASLE (Jul. 3)
The stormiest session the present Zionist Congress has yet witnessed came late today when Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York, speaking as the representative of the American delegation, came out with an excoriating indictment of England for its failure to fulfil the obligations of the Palestine Mandate and a bitter attack on the leadership of Dr. Weizmann. At one point the Congress was thrown into an uproar when Dr. Weizmann left the platform in demonstrative protest against the speaker and the Laborite delegates attempted to shout him down with cries of "demagogue" and appeals to the chairman to forbid the continuance of his speech.
"I indict the present government of England on this tribunal of the Jewish people before the moral conscience of the world as having tragically failed to fulfil its obligations under the Palestine Mandate to the Jewish people", Dr. Wise called out.
"Dr. Weizmann's speech sounded like a statement by the British government", he continued, "but my word will be a statement to the British government. Whether it will be necessary to speak against England depends on whether we shall have a leadership which shall speak to England". Dr. Wise then declared that he offered no indictment against the English people. "How", he asked, "can I indict Lord Balfour, Lloyd George, Lord Plumer and General Smuts? It is these who are representative of the English people and not Lord Passfield, High Commissioner Chancellor and Keith Roach, district commissioner in Palestine".
The three major points for the establishment of the Jewish National Home are security, land and immigration, Dr. Wise said. "Security should not rest on British bayonets but on an end of the will and efforts on the part of British officials in Palestine who incite the Arabs against the Jews. We do not demand safety for our men in Palestine, but we demand that the British government grant security for women, children and old men who were the especially chosen victims of the 1929 riots. Our second demand is free and legal access to the land, and our third is freedom of immigration.
"During the past two years we have had none of these things. We have had bad laws administered by worse officials. We had utter and tragic insecurity. We had restriction, even cancellation of immigration. We are justified in saying that the establishment of the Jewish National Home has been practically annulled by fiat of the British Government."
Characterizing Dr. Weizmann's speech as a personal apologia and not a political address, Dr. Wise emphasized that the Congress "will never accept the MacDonald letter as setting right the White Paper. The letter is not a treaty of peace but red cross relief for those sorely wounded by the Grand Mufti, Lord Passfield and the pogroms.
"All major and minor pogroms in Palestine hurt Great Britain at least as much as they hurt us. Our leadership maintains that the MacDonald letter is a virtual cancellation of the White Paper. However, not the White Paper but immigration permits were cancelled. England's answer to the Mufti-led pogromists was the cancellation of permits. Our leadership's answer was the whittling down of the Jewish National Home into a bi-national state. We have had insults, indignity, shame and degradation from the British Government which learned the art of fifty-fifty from the Jewish Agency, fifty percent for the Arabs and fifty percent against the Jews".
It was at this point of Dr. Wise's speech that the Congress was thrown into an uproar. Dr. Weizmann rose from the platform and in a half demonstrative fashion left the hall while Dr. Wise was speaking. Out in the lobby he explained that he left because he considered Dr. Wise's address unparliamentary and irresponsible.
After Dr. Weizmann left the hall the Laborite delegates, who have been Dr. Weizmann's staunchest supporters, shouted "you are a demagogue" to Dr. Wise and attempted to prevent him from continuing with his address. Jacob Fishman of New York, claiming that he spoke for the American delegates of the group headed by Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared that Dr. Wise did not speak in the name of their group. In the meantime, Dr. M. D. Eder, leader of the British general Zionists, called upon Dr. Leo Motzkin, the chairman, to prevent Dr. Wise from continuing.
Dr. Motzkin, however, found that Dr. Wise had spoken in parliamentary form. "So long as I am chairman", he ruled, "I shall not prevent him from continuing".
The uproar lasted for some time. When it finally quieted down Dr. Wise continued: "If the Balfour Declaration had read 'the aim of His Majesty's Government is to hinder, obstuct and frustrate the establishment of the Jewish National Home', the Declaration would have been abundantly fulfilled. England is responsible for an understanding between the Jews and the Arabs which London and Jerusalem officials have done everything to make impossible notwithstanding the fact that the Jews are willing, nay eager, for such an understanding. There would not have been an Arab problem in Palestine if the Palestine government had not invented it or evolved it".
Asserting that the Zionist Executive had no right to accept the MacDonald letter as a basis for cooperation, Dr. Wise declared that this letter should not have been answered by Dr. Weizmann three months ago, but by the present Congress. "The land development scheme is the best proof that the MacDonald letter offers no basis for cooperation," he charged.
"We have cooperated fully and loyally for ten years and in return we have hurt and reprisal, wrong and murder. The Arabs have not cooperated and they have gotten all they wanted. The Arabs do not even find it worth-while to go to London for the purpose of a conference as we must go. We must speak to England as England likes to be spoken to. No leadership is qualified to speak for us which faces the British government in the spirit of 'you are great and we are small, you are all and we are nothing.' That our leadership has lost faith in the Jewish people is abundantly proved by events before and after the negotiations between the Jewish Agency and the British government.
"A vote for the present leadership," Dr. Wise declared, "is a vote for a present British regime from Lord Passfield down to Keith Roach. If the present leadership is reelected the British government would have the right to say, and would say, that the Zionist leaders were not right in resigning after the issuance of the White Paper.
"It would be an eternal disgrace if the present leadership were to accept reelection. Jewish history would never forgive it. If the British government desires the present leadership to continue, our answer is, we choose our leadership which is not to be chosen for us. We have not freed ourselves under Herzl to be reenslaved under Weizmann by the British government."
A new scandal erupted during this address in which Dr. Wise, Dr. Eder and Jabotinsky engaged in outcries across the platform. Immediately after Dr. Wise ended his address Dr. Eder rose and protested in the name of the English delegation against the introduction of British politics into a Congress debate. Dr. Wise, he claimed, had said that under a Conservative government these pogroms would never have occurred. At this point Dr. Wise interrupted with the cry, "I never said that." Eder shouted, "you liar." Jabotinsky called across to Eder, "Eder, you're talking dangerous nonsense." Meer Grossman, Revisionist leader, and Dr. Robert Stricker, erstwhile Radical, joined in the ensuing turnult.
Dr. Wise then rose on the platform and stated that he had never uttered the sentence quoted by Dr. Eder. He demanded an apology which Dr. Eder refused to give him. Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Palestine Labor leader, sustained Dr. Wise's claim that he had never made the statement attributed to him by Dr. Eder and this brought the incident to a close.
Morris Meyer, an English delegate, asked the Congress presidium why it permitted Dr. Wise to insult the British government with whom relations had not been broken off. But the chairman ruled that Dr. Wise had not insulted Great Britain and furthermore that since an opportunity had been given to offer a defense of the British government, it was not more than right to give free opportunity for criticism to Zionists who in their patriotic ardor had perhaps used sharp words.
Dr. Weizmann returned to the Congress hall immediately after Dr. Wise's address.
The general debate then continued with a discussion of (1) the Weizmann policy as against Jabotinsky's program, (2) Dr. Weizmann's definition of the aims of Zionism, and (3) the proposed rejection of the MacDonald letter. Ben Zion Mossinsohn, general Zionist of Palestine, asked for the rejection of Dr. Weizmann's call for political parity with the Arabs as well as the Revisionists' suggestions and demands. He urged that no Arab problems be discussed but that only practical Palestine work and the fight for Jewish political rights be taken up.
Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff concentrated chieflly on criticism of Revisionism and termed it merely a fighting system which isolates Zionism from international, English and Arab public opinion. The only way to continue is to strengthen the upbuilding work in Palestine and the Jewish community politically and economically, he declared. "It is impossible to close our eyes to changes in international policy since the Balfour Declaration which are now unfavorable to Zionism."
He also contended that in spite of all the occurrences of the last few years there were opportunities for bringing tens of thousands of people in Palestine just as was done after the Churchill White Paper of 1922. In describing the internal Zionist position he claimed that the Revisionists were seeking to destroy the organization and sabotage the Zionist Administration.
As regards England, he said, opinion is divided between those who are pro-Jewish and those who are pro-Arab. The latter, he went on, wished to liquidate Zionism, while those who are pro-Jewish wished to strengthen the movement. The only future for Palestine, he concluded, is equal rights for Jews and Arabs.