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Douglas migrated to New South Wales in 1851 to purchase a pastoral property and experience life and adventure in the colonies. His was a well-worn path for those young aristocrats unfortunate enough to have older brothers and heirs. Life on the colonial frontier was a ticket to wealth, prosperity and assets on a scale that the younger sons of the aristocracy would have been hard-pressed to achieve at home.
Douglas's dreams of owning a pastoral property In New South Wales were eclipsed by momentous events that unfolded there while he was en route to Sydney, for payable gold had been discovered in the central western New South Wales, the first major gold find in any British colony. As it had with the discovery of gold in
California in 1848, this and other finds had profound economic and social impacts on the hitherto agrarian backwaters that were New South Wales and .[1] Gold quickly eclipsed wool as Victoria 's major export, and its discovery led directly to the granting of responsible government and the almost trebling of the population within a decade.[2] This increased population resulted in a much greater workforce, larger markets, an increased demand for public works, and a wider range of schools and churches for the diverse beliefs and needs of the new immigrants. Australia
Among the immigrants was a new class of settler, independent men out to make their fortune. They challenged the power and pretensions of the squatters and officials, for they had no ties or investment in the old convict
.[3] Australia Douglas, despite being considered an impeccable gentleman of aristocratic origin, was sympathetic to this new settler class, and when running for political office in later years would seek and receive their support.
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at a fortuitous time because the remote Australian colony was at a critical juncture in its history. Transportation of convicts had only recently ceased,[4] agriculture was still the backbone of the economy, and it had yet to fully recover from the economic reverses of 1841-43.[5] The discovery of payable gold the same year he arrived in Sydney meant that he would be fully involved in the change from an agrarian penal settlement to that of a vibrant colony, based on the extraction of vast quantities of this precious metal. In the political arena, pressure for electoral reform led, before the decade was out, to an elected and representative parliament in place of one controlled by the governor. New South Wales
Ophir, near
Bathurst, was the main goldfield in , with more than 2,000 people reported at the diggings by New South Wales 1 June 1851.[6] Children of a tenant farmer near Bathurst remarked that they "never thought there were so many people in the world before,"[7] while Thomas Icely, a significant squatter in the area, so feared the miners trudging to the Ophir field that he retreated to Sydney, in the process removing all his 'plate and valuables' from his residence.[8] Employers elsewhere in the colony were concerned that there would be no shearers or other workers available because they had all gone off to the diggings. The colonial government had no laws, policies or procedures to deal with this unprecedented situation, and was forced to come up with workable legislative solutions, because many of the remedies suggested by some settlers, such as proclaiming martial law and barring workmen from digging, proved impossible to implement.[9]
By early 1851, gold fever had gripped the colony to such an extent that the government was forced to issue two proclamations declaring all gold found on crown land to be its property and giving it the power to control mining. A monthly licence fee of 30 shillings was payable to the government through a gold commissioner, the first of whom, J. R. Hardy, was appointed for the Ophir field.[10] From now on, no man could dig without permission. However, the payment of the licence fee and its subsequent issuance entitled the miner to keep the proceeds from the sale of any gold found.
The licence had to be purchased in advance and was only available to those able to prove they "were not improperly absent from hired service."[11] Moreover, the required fee was beyond the means of many labourers, and was introduced in an attempt to ensure that essential labour would be retained in cities and towns, revenue raised, and the pace of the gold rush controlled.[12] The total number of licences issued to the end of October 1851 was 12,186, including 2, 094 issued at Ophir, 8,637 at the Turon and 405 at Araluen.[13]
Gold was next discovered at the
Turon River, north of Bathurst, in June 1851, where the town of sprung up. Numerous other gold discoveries took place in the Sofala and Victorian colonies during this decade, acting as a magnet for those seeking their fortune. [14] As Catherine Spence, a Scottish visitor to New South Wales at the height of the gold fever remarked: Melbourne
Religion is neglected, education despised, the libraries are almost deserted; ... everybody is engrossed in the simple object of making money in a very short time.[15]
Douglas had sailed to
to seek his fortune and purchase a sheep run. However, the discovery of gold during this voyage led him to postpone these plans and so it was to Turon, which had now replaced Ophir as the major goldfield, which he travelled to following his arrival in Australia in August 1851.[16] Sydney
Appointed sub-commissioner of crown lands
After his visit to the Darling Downs, Douglas was appointed sub-commissioner of crown lands for the
southern gold district, stationed at Major's Creek near Araluen.[20] Why New South Wales Douglas took up this post is unclear. Perhaps he welcomed the additional money, or was content for his brother to manage their properties while he became involved in life on the goldfields. Whatever the reason for his interest in the position, securing it would not have been difficult for a man of his background, education and pedigree, because the area was isolated, the work unglamorous, and there would have been few competitors, most aristocratic gentlemen of the day being interested in either a pastoral vocation or a senior government appointment.
This was the first of many government appointments in what would become a lifetime of public and parliamentary service. Gold had been discovered at Araluen, in southern
in October 1851.[21] Araluen was 32 kilometres from Braidwood, in a narrow valley which made access difficult. Three townships sprung up in the valley, with about two hundred diggers working the field.[22] New South Wales Douglas arrived there in early April 1852,[23] and was mainly responsible for collecting the 30-shilling licence fee and ensuring that order on the goldfield was upheld.[24] Living conditions were primitive, especially for a man brought up at Kinmount Estate and . Durham University
Interacting with the miners would also have been a novel experience for a cultured and erudite aristocrat used to the genteel and refined life that made up upper-class society in
. As an earlier emigrant, D. Mackenzie had noted: Great Britain
The people of this colony care not one straw about the emigrant's rank or titles. Neither is this the field for display of great literary talents. The colony is yet too young either to appreciate or reward such intellectual luxuries.[25]
Collecting and supervising miners' licences on the goldfields was no simple or routine task, for, as the historian James Jervis observed,
When the commissioner appeared on the scene the croak of the crow was heard. This was the signal agreed upon to warn diggers who had not paid the fee. The miners acted immediately; one shouldered the cradle and ran to earth like a fox, while his comrades dispersed themselves among the legitimate diggers and assumed the look of spectators.[26]
Another contemporary account described the process thus:
The Commissioner, attended by a policeman, walks along the banks of the river, stopping where any cradles are seen at work, or persons assembled, and demands to know if any wish to take out licences. Much time is lost in discussion, and in weighing out the amount of the fee, which is often paid in gold-dust, its cleanness or freedom from "emery" being sometimes a point of debate, before the licence can be delivered to the individual.
Those who cannot pay are warned off, but of course, with so small a staff it is impossible for the Commissioner to prevent some from working clandestinely when his back is turned.[27]
The fee was unpopular because it was expensive, with many struggling miners unable to afford it. Others considered the fee unjust, as it had to be paid even if no gold was found. Protests against the licence fee resulted in the burning of effigies of William Charles Wentworth[28] at Sofala in 1853, whereupon the fee was reduced to 10 shillings a month.[29]
It is unknown how
Douglas managed the issuing of licences, for he merely noted "it was his duty to see that the miners had their licences" and that "in this occupation he had many varied experiences."[30] However, in later years he remarked that the fee was "a most exorbitant tax" and that "the great objection to the tax was that it was not only heavy, but that it fell unequally, and taxed all diggers alike - whether they were successful or not."[31]
These comments suggest that
Douglas found it difficult to undertake some of the more unsavoury aspects of his duties as a goldfields sub-commissioner. His sense of duty and fair play, combined with his liberal beliefs and attitudes, would have been at odds with his obligation to tax those unable to afford the licence, and was probably a factor in his subsequent resignation in June the following year.
During his seven-month tenure in 1852 as sub-commissioner for the Southern gold district, the number of miners in the district fluctuated from a high of 898 in May to a low of 560 In July.[32] In May of that year,
Douglas was also appointed clerk of petty sessions at Araluen.[33]
His departure from both posts in late October 1852 was most irregular,[34] for while a letter from the colonial secretary approved his "temporary resignation,"[35] two weeks later he was appointed sub-commissioner to the Tuena goldfield, situated at Tuena Creek, north-west of Goulburn.[36] This was unusual because the normal practice would have simply been for him to have been transferred. Later that month
Douglas was appointed a magistrate for the district with responsibilities for police, law and order, and the administration of justice. [37] Fortunately for Douglas, Australian fields were renowned for the good conduct of the diggers, in stark contrast to the lawless state of Californian mining communities.[38]
The Tuena and Mongalo goldfields issued the fewest licences of any goldfield in the southern district, with 81 licences issued in April 1853, 102 in May, and 83 in June. This contrasted with 224 issued at Major's Creek and 594 at
's Creek in April 1853.[39] Thus, compared to his previous position in the Major's Creek district, Bell Douglas had fewer miners to supervise and licences to issue. This was reflected in his complement of men, which comprised himself and two troopers at Tuena, compared with a sergeant, a corporal and four troopers at Araluen.[40]
However, it should be remembered that being a magistrate would have entailed additional duties. Whatever the reason for his 'temporary' resignation and subsequent reappointment to another field, Douglas was not destined to remain here long either - less than eight months.
[1] Jan Kociumbas. The Oxford History of Australia, vol 2. 1770-1860, Possessions. Melbourne,
Press, 1992, p. 294 Oxford University
Clark (1955), p. 2
[3] Ronald Laidlaw. Australian History,
, Macmillan, 1991, p. 123 Melbourne
[4] Although the transportation of convicts to
ended in 1840, the British government proposed that ticket-of-leave men still be sent to the colony. However, the New South Wales New South Wales legislative council had resolved, on 1 October 1850, less than a year before Douglas arrived in , that no more convicts would be accepted. (Manning Sydney Clark. A Short History of . Australia , Penguin, 1986, p. 99) Ringwood, Victoria
[5] Kociumbas, p. 295
[6] James Jervis. "Early Discoveries in
." In, Charles Barrett, ed. Gold in New South Wales . Australia , Cassell, 1951, pp. 8-10 London
[7] Kociumbas, p. 303
[8] Ibid., p. 302
[9] Ibid., pp. 302-3
[10] Jervis, p. 9
[11] Kociumbas, p. 303
[12] Ibid.
[13] Thomas Richards. An Epitome of the Official History of New South Wales From the Foundation of the Colony, in 1788, to the Close of the First Session of the Eleventh Parliament Under Responsible Government, in 1883. Sydney, Government Printer, p. 179
[14] Ibid., p. 12
[15] Stuart Macintyre. A Concise History of
. Australia Cambridge, Press, 1999, p. 89 Cambridge University
[16] Cooktown Pilot,
30 July 1904. As Douglas later noted, "the world of was turned upside down and everyone was trooping off to the diggings." (Torres Strait Pilot and New Guinea Gazette, 28 November 1903.) Edward Douglas went straight to Colinton Station in Australia . (Torres Strait Pilot and New Guinea Gazette, 28 November 1903) Moreton Bay
[17] Torres Strait Pilot and
Gazette, New Guinea 28 November 1903. The young Douglas told the august politician "the goldfields might attract a most enterprising population from the old country, and after all, if the worst came to the worst, the sheep would look after themselves for a while." (Douglas (1902), p. 44)
[18] Torres Strait Pilot and
Gazette, New Guinea 28 November 1903
[19] Mason, p. 20. A depasturing licence allowed a pastoralist to run stock on a property. Eve Douglas contends that John Douglas was also involved in purchasing this property (Eve Douglas, p. 4), but while John Douglas himself stated that "he and his brother purchased a property with 15,000 sheep, at three shillings per head," it is unclear whether he is referring to Boree or their subsequent property, Talgai. (Torres Strait Pilot and New Guinea Gazette, 28 November 1903.) In late 1852 Edward Douglas also bought a large sheep run in partnership with W. Hulme from Berwickshire, who lived in
and acted as agent for the joint estate. (Helen C. Mackenzie to John Macarthur, Sydney 2 December 1852. Macarthur Papers, MLA A2923, vol 27. Dixson Library, State Library of ) New South Wales
. Government Gazette vol 1 no 33, New South Wales 26 March 1852, p. 519; New South Wales Blue Book, 1852, p. 306. Douglas commenced on 25 March 1852, with an annual salary of £200.
[21] The Braidwood Araluen Goldfields. Braidwood, Braidwood and District Historical Society, 199-, p. 2; Jervis, p. 12
[22] The townships were Majors Creek,
Bell's Creek and the . Araluen Valley
[23] Mason, p. 21
[24] Jervis, p. 12
[25] F. Mackenzie. Ten Years in
. 4th ed. Australia , 1852, p. 105. Quoted in Nadel, p. 44 London
[26] Jervis, p. 11
[27] John Elphinstone Erskine. "Ophir and the Turon." In Nancy Keesing, ed. History of the Australian Gold Rushes by those who were there. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1971, p. 30
[28] Wentworth, the leader of the
legislative council, was deeply unpopular with the working class at this time. ("Wentworth, William Charles." The Australian Encyclopedia. 5th ed. Sydney, Australian Geographic Society, 1988, vol 8, p. 3027) New South Wales
[29] Laidlaw, p. 117
[30] Torres Strait Pilot and
Gazette, New Guinea 28 November 1903
[31] "Gold Export Duty Bill." Queensland Parliamentary Debates, vol 1, 1864, p. 275
[32] Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, 1853, vol 1. Reproduced in,
Clark (1957), p. 75. The district comprised the fields of Major's Creek, 's Creek, Mongalo, Tuena and Adelong. Bell
[33] New South Wales Government Gazette, vol 1 no 54,
28 May 1852, p. 847
[34] Mason, p. 22
[35] Colonial Secretary Letterbook,
18 October 1852. Archives Ref. 254 16/10. In Mason, p. 23 New South Wales State
Legislative Council. Votes and Proceedings, vol 1, 1853, p. 560 New South Wales
[37] New South Wales Government Gazette, vol 2 no 114,
26 November 1852, p. 1725. Douglas received an additional £100 for these duties, which made his salary £300 per annum. (New South Wales Blue Book, 1853, p. 312; Mason, p. 23)
[38] Jervis, p. 11
Legislative Council. Votes and Proceedings, vol 2, 1854, p. 1433 New South Wales
Legislative Council. Votes and Proceedings, vol 1, 1853, p. 560 New South Wales


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Our speaker is former Assistant United States Attorney and newly-announced gubernatorial candidate.....
- July 10: Travelers Tower (no lunch will be served - please bring your own brown bag or eat lunch on your own before or after the Observation Deck visit)
- July 24: The Goodwin Hotel and Harlan Brasserie
- August 7: Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House
- August 21: Trinity College and Cinestudio - our speaker is President Berger-Sweeney and lunch is at Peter B's
This last meeting we had the wonderful privilege of playing audience to a truly powerful and moving speaker author Ivan Backer. Born in Czechoslovakia, Ivan spent his life working to benefit the poor, the disenfranchised, people whose voices were not heard. He is a Hartford activist and holocaust escapee who wrote a memoir "My Train To Freedom: A Jewish Boy's Journey from Nazi Europe to a Life of Activism" that is inspirational!
We had an especially enjoyable meeting at Infinity Hall this past Monday. Our President Sandra Duffy presented Judith Green with a Paul Harris Plus Two pin – way to go, Judith! As we enjoyed an amazing kale salad and delicious entrée and killer cannoli cake, we were entertained by Connecticut singer and songwriter Gracie Day (http://www.graciedaymusic.
We had great meeting at Hands On Hartford this past Monday, July 11. It was the first meeting with our new President Sandra Duffy and she did an AWESOME JOB! We reviewed some Rotary business, such as:
We also inducted Rick Hersom as our newest member – welcome, Rick! Barbara Shaw gave us a full tour of the building and programs of Hands On Hartford – what a kitchen! We started a new 50/50 raffle, and while Judith Green won the chance to pick a card from a full deck, she failed to pick the ace of spades, so the deck will shrink as the pot grows!
- Date: Saturday, May 16
- Time: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- Location: Keney Clock Tower, North Hartford. Parking is available on Ely Street which is next to the Clock Tower.
- Work to be performed: creating a new flower garden landscape…cutting beds, preparing soil for planting, planting flowers and mulching.
- Breakfast and lunch are provided.
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- Weather: Event will continue in light rain. If event is cancelled due to heavy rain, I will contact you via email.
Come one, come all and join our Governor and the Rotary Club of Hartford in a small group setting to hear an update from our Governor. There will be time for a Q&A and we look forward to seeing you there!
Elected in November 2010, Governor Malloy's top agenda items have included reinventing our economy by growing jobs, improving public education and stabilizing the state's finances.
Governor Malloy has pursued a comprehensive economic development strategy, one that invests in growth industries and creates jobs while at the same time defends the core sectors of our economy and protects the jobs we already have. His three tiered approach makes sure that Connecticut can compete at any level – from large corporations, to small businesses and start-ups. The First Five program has leveraged $1.7 billion in private sector investments across our state's economy; that program and others have brought numerous corporate headquarters to Connecticut from out of state, including NBC Sports, Charter Communications, and Jackson Laboratories. The Small Business Express Programs has invested in more than 700 small businesses across Connecticut, creating and maintaining thousands of jobs. And the four new "Innovation Ecosystems" located throughout the state are connecting entrepreneurs with capitol investors, cultivating the grassroots of our state's ideas economy.
The Governor is also making investments in education at every level. In 2012, he signed into law a school reform bill that has been called a national model. The legislation has provided hundreds of millions of addition money to school districts, in exchange for holistic changes that will prepare students to compete in the 21st century economy. In 2013, Governor Malloy was proud to push for what some have called a transformational investment in the University of Connecticut. Next Generation Connecticut will make sure that Connecticut residents are in position to compete for jobs in emerging fields like bioscience and digital media. Finally, the Governor has also called for and funded the creation of a new Office of Early Childhood to ensure that all our kids have access to a quality early childhood learning experience.
As we grow jobs and improve our schools, the Governor believes we also need to make state government leaner and more efficient. The newly enacted budget builds on the tremendous gains made during the Governor's first two years in office, improvements that continue to fix the state's financial foundation without imposing new taxes. With fewer employees and state agencies than the day he was sworn in and new investments in technology, state government is making the changes necessary to improve the delivery of services without additional costs.
Governor Malloy was proud to sign what some have called the most comprehensive gun violence prevention legislation in the country.
Dannel Patrick Malloy, the youngest of eight children, was born in Stamford, Connecticut on July 21, 1955. Growing up, he struggled to overcome learning and physical disabilities, eventually gaining the skills he needed to go on to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Boston College and continue on to Boston College Law School. In 1982, Governor Malloy married his wife, Cathy, whom he met while at Boston College. They have three sons: Dannel, Ben, and Sam.
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From left to right: Chris Healy, Judith Green, Ted Carroll, Steve Vaughan
Ted Carroll, president of Leadership Greater Hartford spoke at the Hartford Rotary Club. He shared with the group the commonality they share in the "Service Above Self" mission statement that bonds all Rotarians, as a similar creed that he shares at LGH. He explained what it means to be a true leader, and serving the community with projects that help foster civility, that in turn create a positive influence for change in the Hartford area. Developing and implementing leadership through collaborative relationships is what Mr. Carrol explained to the group he likes to see, that brings positive outcomes. As he looked around the room at the members, he saw many familiar faces that have had the opportunity to work/collaborate with Mr. Carrol over the past 30 years.
The Rotary Club of Hartford is affiliated with Rotary International, a worldwide service organization that unites business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build and promote goodwill and peace throughout the world.
Next meeting will be September 8th, at the Hartford Club, 46 Prospect Street, Hartford.
The luncheon meeting starts at 12:00, and there is a 20.00 fee. Public is welcome.
From left to right: Chris Healy, Dr. William Petit, Steve Vaughan
Dr. William Petit visited the Rotary Club of Hartford for fellowship and to talk about all the great things The Petit Family Foundation is working on lately. They have fundraisers that include an Annual Golf Tournament, a 5K Road Race, a motorcycle ride called "Ride For Justice" and an incredible garden project called "Michaela's Garden Project". The money that is raised goes to support three main areas - education, chronic illness, and helping those affected by violence. Grants are awarded to organizations that make the biggest impact in any of these three areas. For more information, please check out there website and support the cause at http://www.petitfamilyfoundation.org/. We would also like to add that the Petit family has a long history being part of the magic of Rotary International.
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Hartford, CT, July 1, 2014: A host of dynamic speakers will address members and guests of the Hartford Rotary Club during its July and August meetings. The club members extend an invitation to all interested parties to fellowship and enjoy lunch at Capital Community College, 950 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Markiewicz Community Room in Hartford, CT. There is a $20 fee, which includes lunch.
Hartford Rotarian Judith Green mobilized a team from the Rotary Club of Hartford to volunteer some time to serve those in need with a healthy meal of salad and pizza!
Rotary Club of Hartford members, Francesco Pagano, Chris Healy, Stephen Vaughan and Rich Roberts participated in a golf tournament to raise funds for an Area 9 project to purchase, install and maintain video cameras for local hospitals here in Connecticut. Rotary is raising money to purchase 75 cameras for multiple hospitals in the area starting with CCMC at the UCONN Medical Center campus!
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is responsible, under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, for appointing the chair and members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The Act requires that Board members be "appointed from among prominent individuals of integrity and reputation who have a demonstrated commitment to the interests of investors and the public, and an understanding of the responsibilities for and nature of the financial disclosures required of issuers under the securities laws and the obligations of accountants with respect to the preparation and issuance of audit reports with respect to such disclosures." Currently, the Commission is seeking a candidate for the Board who is, or has been, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
We are committed to appointing to the Board persons of the highest integrity and dedication to the public good. Below are sample letters that have been sent to seek input, and which describe the minimum qualifications in greater depth.
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A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Caputiati
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CAPUTIATI, a sect in the twelfth century; so called from wearing a singular kind of cap with a leaden image of the Virgin Mary. They declared publicly, that their purpose was to level all distinctions among mankind, and to restore their natural equality.[1]
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When you see someone on roller skates flip over as in the photograph above, you just know that there are injuries a plenty amongst the cast but as Top Ender came to realise in the course of the show sometimes you have to take risks. I think that without even meaning to, the cast taught Tops a life lesson, but then again what do I know? Maybe Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber knew all those years ago that this show would teach little girls and boys all across the world not only that the theatre is exciting, or even if you believe in yourself you will succeed but that sometimes need to take risks and your Mum is always right. If she says you'll enjoy a stage show, then enjoy you will.
Top Ender loved the costumes and the way that each train and carriage had it's own personality. How they each acted differently, some primped themselves and some showed off their strength or aggressions just like how people are in the real world. It also helped Top Ender to realise that there is more to fashion than looking good, each one of the costumes reflected a personality, but was also allowing the cast member to be safe and able to move freely around the stage and racetrack. Maybe her fashion won't be so high end and a little more practical...
If you have a chance to go, the show is at Milton Keynes Theatre until May 4th 2013.
We were given two press tickets to attend.
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Welcome to the first entry in our new series: the Northridge Archives!
Last weekend we completed our third and fourth raids on Milwaukee's notorious Northridge Mall, which has been abandoned and locked-down with minimal access since 2003. Today it is still rather difficult to crack, however we've found an easy-in through airsoft events being hosted at the property twice a year (with much thanks MiR Tactical for putting up with us throughout the morning; and local cat, Nick Pelant, for coordinating everything). With the doors blown-open on this place recently, shooting and serious looting was on the agenda this go-round. We documented much of the mall and its preserved 90s (some older) storefronts on the first two trips, but upon finding a spike in vandalism (damn firebugs) since our first trip: decided the time to rescue anything and everything worth preserving was either now or never.
We were originally going after the usual lootables – signs, blueprints, etc. – but we found one unexpected perk to the vandalism… a couple of locked rooms in the management offices had been broken into. One of which happened to be a storage area housing (among other things) a massive cache of the mall's photo archive — slides, negatives, prints, binders, framed work… you name it.
Oh hell yes, we pillaged it!
Having now weeded out thousands of blurry event and display case photos, we've begun digitizing the keepers which show the mall mostly around the 80s and early-mid 90s. This entry is the first in what will be a series of those images; a collection that illustrates not just Northridge in its prime, but a time when malls were exploding as the new economic, cultural and social gathering places of American suburbia.
This particular batch comes from a box of loose, assorted slides. The focus seems to be on architectural features that were original to the mall's opening in 1972, primarily the fountains and granite features in the center court, as well as the chrome light fixtures that used to hang from the ceiling throughout the mall. These would all disappear in a $6-million renovation project that was completed in time for the 1988 Christmas season. Paired with the mall's short-lived Marshall Field's anchor, and what looks like red Valentine's Day decor draped from the ceiling: I am figuring the bulk of these were taken around February between 1986 and 1987, as part of the design phase for the following year's remodel.
I've included a handful of older slides that were from the same pile, likely additional reference photos pulled and lumped into this batch by management. They show a few minor changes that took place before the rest of these photos were taken.
Grand Court
The mall's original center court featured sunken, carpeted seating areas, planters, a stage, water features, and an information desk capped by a towering, chrome vertical sign. This would actually be the mall's second info desk, with the original being a more temporary structure – shown in the final two images of this batch.
Its centerpiece, fronting the Boston Store anchor, was a 24-foot abstract tower of polished stainless steel rising from a pool, with water cascading onto various bronze shapes jutting from the sides of the tower. Titled, "Fountain of Illusion", the sculpture was crafted by Harold Persico Paris during his late-life venture into metalworking and welding.
All of these features would later be removed and replaced by some of the more-contemporary tastes of the 1980s, as well as an elevator to meet compliance with the upcoming Americans with Disabilities Act.
A couple of things in these last three images, all of which are from around the mall's opening to the late-70s. First we have two views that show the original information desk, which was eventually replaced by the more permanent-looking structure.
This last one shows a couple of children sharing candy in the seating area by the main stage; I believe taken around the mid-late 70s, as it shows additional lighting features in the mall that were absent by the time of the later photos. Red carpeting was also an early feature throughout the mall that was changed to green later on… probably easier to clean.
Sears wing
Sears was an original anchor to the mall, and the third to leave – shuttering in early-2002. Other than a refresh to Sears' storefront and new ceiling lighting, this area largely remained unaltered until the mall closed. It was then disfigured by Sears' demolition and replacement by a new Menard's. The planters, seating, a small stage, and escalator were all removed – dead-ending the mall with a floor-to-ceiling exterior wall for Menard's.
These last two images show a clear shot of the old, space-age mall directory and pay phone kiosks that were at the mall entrances – this one on the lower level was yet to be updated replacing Gimbels with Marshall Field's.
Marshall Field's wing
This area underwent quite a few changes before and after these photos were taken.
The original anchor tenant here – shown in the first two photos taken around the mall's opening – was Gimbels, which was acquired by the retail subsidiary of British-American Tobacco (later BATUS, Inc.) a year after it opened. In 1986, BATUS liquidated the underperforming Gimbels chain, and handed some of the Milwaukee stores over to its Marshall Field's division – including Northridge. Field's was in operation at Northridge by October '86, but apparently found little success here versus its longstanding store at Mayfair, and turned the store over to Wisconsin's H.C. Prange's in early 1989.
Des Moines-based Younker's replaced Prange's following their 1992 bankruptcy, however that chain would fall under the same corporate overlords as fellow-anchor, Boston Store, by the end of the decade. Deemed redundant, the Northridge Younkers was closed in 2000, alongside the underperforming JCPenney, which sent the mall into a death spiral from which it never recovered.
The last image in this set shows the upper level mall entrance in this wing. Save for Shaw's Jewelers, this area would be gutted and completely reconfigured as the mall's food court in 1988.
For more photographs of Northridge during, and following its 1988 renovation: click here for Part II!
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April 9, 1983, Section 1, Page 13Buy Reprints
Art Schlichter, the backup quarterback for the Baltimore Colts, lost almost $400,000 betting on basketball games this year and then, when the gamblers pressed him for payment, helped Federal authorities build a case against them, according to Schlichter and Federal court documents.
According to the documents, the former Ohio State all-American who had a base pay of $140,000 as a Colt rookie, lost $159,000 in a week and then began cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the gamblers threatened to expose him to the Colts if he did not pay his debt. Before suffering the $159,000 loss the first week in March, the papers said, Schlichter had already paid the gamblers $230,000 for bets made since the first of the year, including $10,000 described as one week's interest on his debt.
''We will now conduct our own, independent investigation,'' said Warren Welsh, the director of security for the National Football League, whose rules prohibit players from associating with gamblers. ''Then,'' Welsh continued, ''the commissioner will decide what discipline, if any, will be imposed.''
Under the N.F.L. constitution, a player can be reprimanded, fined or suspended by Commissioner Pete Rozelle for gambling activities and associations.
There was nothing in the documents to suggest that Schlichter had been pressured to affect scores or to provide information on the Colts that could be useful to gamblers. Despite a prominent collegiate career, Schlichter failed to win a starting position with the Colts last fall and played briefly at quarterback in only three games.
Information on the case was pieced together yesterday from affidavits filed in connection with the arrest of four suspected bookmakers on April 1, from a six-count Federal indictment lodged against them in Columbus on Thursday and from Schlichter, who acknowledged through his lawyer yesterday that he was the unidentified witness referred to in the court papers only as ''a citizen of good standing in the community.''
The community was Columbus, where Schlicther had broken most passing records during his four years at Ohio State. It was also in Columbus, the court papers said, that Schlichter went to the F.B.I. on March 15 and told them of his gambling debt and the threats to tell the Colts if he did not pay.
Thereafter, according to the papers, Schlichter cooperated with F.B.I. agents, who monitored his calls to bookmakers in Baltimore. At one point, the papers said, he provided one of the bookmakers a telephone introduction to an F.B.I. agent who pretended to be a friend attempting to work out a settlement of the debt.
As a result of these arrangements, the papers said, Schlichter agreed to pay the debt in three installments beginning with a $65,000 payment at the Port Columbus International Airport on April 1. The money was to be in $50 and $100 bills and placed in a brief case.
According to the papers, three of the suspects were arrested at the airport, and the fourth, described as the leader of the gambling operation, was arrested that day in Maryland.
He was identified as Samuel R. Alascia of Catonsville, Md., a suburb of Baltimore, where he operates Golden Home Meat Service, a frozen locker company. The other suspects were identified as Harold E. Brooks Jr., Joseph A. Serio and Charles T. Swift, all of Baltimore. All four were charged with violating Federal statutes making it illegal to operate a gambling enterprise in interstate commerce.
Law-enforcement officials in Baltimore said yesterday that they knew of no previous charges against the four suspects, who are free on bond pending an arraignment scheduled for April 14.
A statement issued by Schlichter's lawyer, Jack Chester, said that none of the Federal charges ''involve any football game in which Schlichter, or any team of which he was a member, participated.''


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Have you noticed Brazil on the Rise in Orlando? A few years ago there weren't many, if at all any, Brazilian Restaurants much less a Brazilian Bakery. Now there are more Brazilian Steakhouses than you can throw a Brazilian Supermodel at. I am sure you have heard of the mammoth meat feeding at places like Texas de Brazil, Nelore, and Fogo de Chao. But have you ventured to the Brazilian Plaza on International Dr. and walked into Pao Gostoso Bakery?
This semi circular plaza has a one way entrance and exit. It houses a huge Brazilian Grocery store, restaurant, shops, and Pao Gostoso Bakery. There are recent additions of outdoor patio style and sidewalk seating. The interior is airy and voluminous, with brightly painted ceiling air vents. Interior seating caters to sweet indulgences, while take out is an option. The menu features sandwiches, burgers, and Brazilian steak specialties. But the Supermodel here is Brazilian Pastries. These sumptuous goddesses are sweet and salted, baked to a perfect Brazilian tan.
Puff pastry with red dot is filled with Guava and cream cheese, other puffed pastry is filled with dulce de leche, two egg custard tarts and a pumpkin milk cake. Amazing flakiness and textures here, not too over sweet.
Cornmeal and milk cake – good balance of sweetness, amazing corn texture and flavor.
Dulce de leche cake with nuts – creamy and sweet dulce de leche, crumbly cake. Sinful!
Flan – sweet, silky, smooth, velvet sins.
Cashew Fruit Drink – is sold under the Brazilian Gourmet Brand, which carries various other native Brazilian fruit drinks such as Guava, Mango, and Passion. Dubbed as the "most liberal fruit" for its exposed nut (look carefully in the picture), this fruit drink actually taste like a fresh cashew fruit. I am amazed that this drink manages to neutralize the sour taste of cashew fruit and not overpower with sweetness. Yes, I have eaten a fresh cashew fruit.
There are so many different pastries in this bakery that I just can't sample them all in one shot. With Brazil set to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and 2014 FIFA World Cup Soccer we should all eat more Brazilian cuisine and pastry. Don't you think?


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Today: Tom Hanson, retired Foreign Service Officer, the Geopolitics of Climate Change (R. Flaten)
Birthdays: Wayne Abdella (4/17), John Fossum and Dennis Hanson (4/19), Regi Haslett-Marroquin (4/28).
Next Week: Robert Garcia, Cinco de Mayo (Kallestad)
Last Week:
Project Friendship, a home-grown mentoring program that matches local college students with kids grades 2 through 7, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
There will be a special event Saturday, May 7, at Central Park, beginning with a 5K run-walk at 9:30 a.m., a 1K fun run at 10:30 a.m. and family activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sarah Van Sickle, executive director, said Project Friendship has served more than 4,000 children since 1965. The program goals are to improve self-confidence, self-worth and healthy decision-making in the lives of Northfield youth. Students from Carleton and St. Olaf are matched with a student based on similar interests. They meet one-to-one for an hour a week during the academic year and attend three large group activities. Most relationships last on average 2 ½ years. Many grow into lifelong relationships with life-long impact, Sarah said.
Statistics bear out the value of the program. Children who have the benefit of Project Friendship are more likely to assume leadership roles among their peers, more likely to participate in extra-curricular activities, less likely to become involved with alcohol or drugs, and more likely to go to college.
Sarah emphasized that there is mutual benefit in these relationships. The mentors get as much if not more out of the program as the kids. For them it is the multi-generational experience they don't get on campus and a preview of life as a parent.
Project Friendship has 83 matches this year. Northfield Promise, a Healthy Community Initiative program that supports youth development cradle to career, has identified another 336 children who would benefit from having an adult presence in their lives.
The program is leveraging the 50th anniversary to build awareness of the program and to raise funds so the program can remain free to all.
For more information, go to: www.projectfriendshipmentoring.org.
As the Northfield Y closes in on a second anniversary (It opened in September 2014.) Virginia Kaczmarek, executive director, was excited to share some statistics with us. The Y has 5,000 members, 26 percent above projections. Seventy-five percent have a Northfield address. Seventy-five percent sign up as families. The largest demographic is an adult 24-52 with children. During 2015, 3,392 guest passes were issued, and someone crossed the Y threshold 133,000 times during the year. She also mentioned Northfield's Healthy Kids Day is coming up on Saturday, April 30. Lots of fun activities for the kids.
New Members:
Sharon Flaten and Richard Schulte were formally inducted into the club. Sharon, who is married to Robert Flaten, has a background in nursing and educational psychology. Richard is an active community member who serves on the Northfield Planning Commission. Sharon is sponsored by Peg Prowe, Richard by Richard Collman.
Guests: Tom Hanson (R. Flaten), Andrei Sivanich (W. Sivanich), Ramiz Allawala (Cogan) and Gunho Park, former exchange student, now in school in British Columbia, (Brown-Wescott)
Scholarship Enhancement: Chris Weber, a testament to tenacity
The graduation party for our inbound students, Nicole and Carson, will be Wednesday, May 25, 5:30 p.m. at the Estenson Event Center. Details to follow.
On Thursday, May 12, we will be meeting at Community Resource Bank, lower level, for lunch and a performance by the fabulous Troubadours.
Northfield will host the District's farewell party Saturday, June 11, for 60 inbound exchange students. We need chaperones for this overnight party. If you can help between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. let Jean Wakely know.
Charlie Cogan announced to upcoming sporting events to help benefit the Polio Plus campaign. The first is a golf tournament associated with the May 12 and 13 District Conference. The second is a Polio Plus night at the Twins-Yankees game Saturday, June 18.
Here is a list of our outbound students.
- Beimers, Henry – Norway
- Beimers, William – Brazil
- Carlson, Samuel -Argentina
- Estrada, Gabriella – France
- Hahn, Erin – Thailand
- Hodel, Christoph – Indonesia
- Kelley, Caitlin – Chile
- Lunderby, Jack – Brazil
- Mandsager, Erik – Zimbabwe
- Muir, Mason – Taiwan
- Olson, Josiah – Colombia
- Regnier, Eli – Brazil
- Rodriguez-Vazquez, Leslie – Brazil
- Scheffert, Jenna – Italy
- Seitz, Zoe – Denmark
- Washburn Chapman, Ahna Cole – South Africa
- Woitalla, Jessica – Brazil.
Past Northfield Rotary Club meeting videos on YouTube
Coming Up
May 12 — The Fabulous Troubadours and lunch at Community Resource Bank
May 19 — Kim Briske, Classification (Hillmann)
May 26 — Griff Wigley and Marty Larson, CROCT (Heinemann)
June 2 — Wendy Sivanich, Classification (Estenson)
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"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed." Albert Schweitzer


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text: News & Commentary, Visual Arts Jacqui Kenny, the agoraphobic global street photographer By Simon Caterson | September 4, 2017 | There was a time long before the internet when we could only dimly imagine what other parts of the world must look like. Thanks to Jacqui Kenny, a woman who has turned her anxiety about leaving home into a powerful creative force, anyone can appreciate far flung places visually in a meaningful way without going beyond the front door. Kenny, a London-based photographic artist originally from New Zealand who makes images – "portraits" – of often remote and isolated places located through the world using Google Street View which she shares on Instagram with more than 50,000 followers, is a very modern version of the age-old phenomenon in literature and cartography of imaginary travel. In the West the story begins in ancient Greece with Plato, who established the term antipodes. It is a word which is still used, anachronistically, to refer to Australasia, and which for millennia referred to the places on the opposite side of the world which Europeans could not reach while reasoning that they must exist if, as they calculated, the Earth was in fact a sphere. Since no European in Plato's time had the means to circumnavigate the globe, there was no actual experience of the Earth's full extent to draw upon. The first circumnavigation of the earth by Europeans was not completed until Magellan's expedition undertook its epic voyage in 1519, roughly two thousand years after Plato. Kenny's images aestheticise the raw material of Street View, typically finding an astringent formal beauty in isolated towns and buildings that verges on the bleak. Like nature itself, the human imagination abhors a vacuum. Plato reasoned that if the Earth is spherical, each point the surface has by definition an exact opposite point on the other side of the globe: "Indeed, can contrary terms be properly applied to any completely uniform object? For if there were a solid in equipoise at the centre, it would never move towards any of its extreme points because of their complete uniformity; while if anyone moved round its circumference he would repeatedly be standing at his own antipodes and so refer to the same point as both above and below." It was a short imaginative step from the notion that people could exist on the other side of the world, unreachable though it may be, to the idea that they must exist. And there was much speculation as to what other parts of the world were like. Early chronicles presented a world full of weird and wonderful creatures, sometimes fanciful exaggerations of actual traveller's tales. Some, like Gulliver's Travels were satirical narratives, while others were presented as authentic stories. Readers had no way of knowing one way or the other if they were being told the truth about far flung places and people. Though as always there were sceptics who questioned the whole idea there could be people living outside the so-called known world. Perhaps the most influential of these was Saint Augustine, born in 354 in what is now Algeria. Augustine dismissed the notion of antipodes as fanciful. Science, he argued in The City of God, did not support the idea: "As for the fabled 'antipodes', men, that is, who live on the other side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets for us, men who plant their footsteps opposite ours, there is no rational ground for such a belief. The upholders of this notion do not assert that they have discovered it from scientific evidence, they base their conjecture on a kind of a priori reasoning. They argue that the earth is suspended within the sphere of the heavens, so that the lowest point and the middle point of the world are identical; and this leads them to suppose that the other half of the world which lies below this part cannot be devoid of human inhabitants." Not unreasonably for a thinker of his time, Augustine pointed out that the antipodes hypothesis advanced by Plato was far from proven. Moreover, religious doctrine also weighed heavily against the antipodes, Augustine asserted, since Scripture did not support the idea and Scripture for Augustine was the absolute truth. Augustine argued that even if land did exist on the other side of the Earth and such a place was in fact habitable, there was still no way that humans, who according to Genesis are all descended from Adam, could have got there, since "it would be too ridiculous to suggest that some men might have sailed from our side of the earth to the other, arriving there after crossing the vast expanse of ocean, so that the human race should be established there also by the descendants of the one first man." Needless to say, we have moved far beyond the Scripture-restricted horizon envisaged by Saint Augustine. Not only do we have certain knowledge, if not actual personal experience as travellers, of human life in every corner of the globe, but we can each see an actual image of it for ourselves online in an instant. Kenny is the remarkable pioneer of a new kind of stationary yet unbounded travel of which neither Plato nor Augustine could possibly have imagined. Today, the Antipodes Islands literally lie to the south of New Zealand and form part of its territory. The islands were first charted by the British in 1800 and given that name because they are located more or less as the antipode of London. As it happens, London is the city in which today Jacqui Kenny, who was born in New Zealand, lives in a flat she reportedly does not like to leave. Kenny's images aestheticise the raw material of Street View, typically finding an astringent formal beauty in isolated towns and buildings that verges on the bleak. Typically, the colour is drained from the image, and often the picture is framed as if what would otherwise seem random had been carefully composed. The faces of the figures are pixelated, but otherwise there is little to suggest that the images originate with Google. Media-shy Kenny has said little publicly about her work. In one interview, she is quoted as saying she "was diagnosed with agoraphobia about eight years ago but I've lived with extreme anxiety and panic attacks for over 20 years." Feeling trapped at home by her fear of public places, Kenny developed a fascination with Street View: "I really loved the possibilities that comes with selecting and curating from billions of images that have been captured and frozen in time." By remaking images selected from among the countless billions available online to anyone and then posting them online as a body of work, Jacqui Kenny has turned the whole notion of imaginary voyaging on its head, and demonstrated that we can travel anywhere no matter where we are and no matter how restricted we may be in our ability to move around. And in her images Kenny demonstrates that even though the Google camera car may have passed its spider-like lens cluster across much of the world, we can still capture there something new and different to what anyone has seen before. Jacqui Kenny is the remarkable pioneer of a new kind of stationary yet unbounded travel of which neither Plato nor Augustine could possibly have imagined, though Plato at least might have intuited. AS ARTS COVERAGE DECLINES IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA, CONSIDER SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT ARTS MEDIA TO PAY FOR MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE, BY CLICKING HERE [box]Main image by Akiko Chan. Other images from Jacqui Kenny's Instagram[/box] Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Email About the Author: Simon Caterson


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Hello fellow bloggers, followers and friends!
We have missed you! You must please forgive our lack of blogging we simply have been very busy. One of the things that has kept us so busy has been a ministry called Discovery Weekends. Just think 36 hours with God and no distractions. We just finished a women's weekend and are in the final weeks of the 3 month preparation period for the men's weekend coming up April 12-14th (seats still available if you are interested) If you would like to know more here is the website: http://www.discoveryweekends.org
If you have any questions please feel free to ask!
Now I am going to climb onto my soapbox!
"Mommy, Mommy can I please have a Facebook page? I know it says you are supposed to be thirteen years old but can I mommy pleeeeaaaaase?"
Okay, so right now you have to make a choice. Now, not just any choice, but a choice that could affect your child and how she/he sees and respects authority in their lives.
Just go with me on this one, I have been so upset when I see how many Christian families make decisions to please their kids just because they want their kid to stop nagging them and leave them alone. But I really don't think that any parent that allows their child to break the rules realizes what they are actually doing and showing that child. Here are just a few that our almost 11 year old twins came up with when we asked them what the child of the above question would be teaching their child by saying "YES" to that question. Here are the answers they gave:
1. Teaching kids that the rules/laws don't apply to them
2. That it's okay to lie
3. It's okay to break the rules
4. Rules aren't important
Now, what does God say about these things: Just look at the 10 commandments, how many of those are being broken by allowing this to happen. Well let's see:
Thou shalt not lie
Thou shalt not put any other God before me
So just because all their other friends have a facebook they now need one too so they can be like their friends out there in that world. We are a holy people set apart by God and for God therefore, we are to be different and if waiting for the rules to apply to us then so be it.
If you really truly love Christ, then love your children by being a better example and show them how they can wait with JOY to become the right age and not just give it to them because thats what everyone else is doing.
Let me be perfectly honest here: I have actually had kids younger than 13 send me a friend request and I will decline it every time because they should not be on Facebook yet. I know this is about Facebook but really it's about conforming to this ridiculously broken world we live in. We are not to conform to the patterns of this world any longer. We are supposed to be in the world and NOT of it. If we are doing everything the way the world is doing it how will we ever stand out as different?
Climbing down off my soapbox now…….


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Friday, August 21, 2009
Little T's Crostini....with Vodka
Thank you Little T for the recipe and to Monique for showing it to me when I woke up this morning. I was thinking about making it all day!
I hope you will all visit their beautiful blogs for wonderful recipes and inspiration....
It is so wonderful that the world has become a much smaller place for so many of us...
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It warms my heart to see friends enjoying the food I enjoy. You did BEAUTIFUL! Cheers ... all the way from Singapore! :)ReplyDelete
It seems like I should give them a try... they look great and more golden than nana's ;-)ReplyDelete
It warms my heart this morning to see the Crostini Chain..Linda..you really have a way with food..Like Julia~I can just tell you KNOW it.ReplyDelete
The internet is amazing, isn't it? It makes distance irrelevant and brings us many new friends.ReplyDelete
Yummy nibbles, to be sure.
Now ladies...too bad we can not all meet...bring some nibbles...sit down and have a glass of wine and talk cooking together...how fun would that be!ReplyDelete
Our blogs are the next best thing!
So this evening when I make the rest of them...I will raise a glass to you all!
Love to you
Great idea...Crostini and Wine! A tasty treat!ReplyDelete
Linda, your crostini looks delicious. An antipasto type meal. My favourite.ReplyDelete
Linda ~ Oooh, Vodka sounds an excellent alternative! I'm must make this over the weekend since THREE of my FAVORITE bloggers have recommended them. :)ReplyDelete
Your photos are perfection, lady!! Nice job. Thank you for the inspiration.
And thank you for showing us the way Little Teochew, and also to La T d N! xo
My kind of dinner. Great recipe and photos!ReplyDelete
My this looks so yummy.ReplyDelete
I made those too - didn't photograph them - just enjoyed!ReplyDelete
All the pictures of the recipe look delicious. Thanks to internet that due to that today i am able to read your beautiful blog and know one more great recipe site.I will try this recipe this weekend. I like to taste my new recipe with Cohiba cigars .ReplyDelete


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Matthew Moore, "Rotations: Single Family Residence #5" (2003–2004)
As the national conversation about food grows, new voices are adding great dimension and depth to the discussion. One to watch is Matthew Moore, a fourth-generation farmer and installation artist who has joined his two careers into one.
His earlier work took place on the farm itself, literally in the field. In "Rotations: Single Family Residence," a commentary on his region's rapid development of farmland into suburban housing, Moore grew a 20-acre barley field and carved out of it a geometric design like a modern crop circle; viewed from above, the design reveals itself to be the floor plan of a 3BR/2BA house—just the sort cropping up in the subdivisions nearby. On his website is a great time-lapse video showing the arduous work of hand-hoeing the design.
(I had the great pleasure of hearing Moore speak about his work in New York, and what really struck me—aside from the art itself—was his insightful observation of the many parallels between suburban sprawl and monoculture farming. I hadn't thought of it before, but his slides underscored those common elements of visual repetition, blind focus on maximizing units of production, blandness in the name of efficiency.)
Ever since Moore returned to the family farm after art school, farming has informed his art. But I was intrigued to learn that his artmaking has gradually informed his farming. He continues to grow conventional crops for a wholesale market, but thanks in part to all his artistic reflection on monoculture farming, he and his wife have turned several acres of the farm into an organic vegetable CSA. And that, in turn, has influenced his installation work. One recent project deals with redesigning the supermarket to show how the food for sale was grown, the hope being that it will encourage shoppers to be more thoughtful with their purchases.
More about Moore and his work in this nice interview at Hearsight magazine.
Lisa M. Hamilton is the author of the recent Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Counterpoint).


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FILM REVIEW: La Moustache (2005)
In and of Itself:
La Moustache
by Fred Russell
La Moustache (2005), directed by Emmanuel Carrère and adapted from his own novel, is an intriguing film. Call it surrealistic. But what is surrealism? Is it pure and meaningless fantasy, or is it anchored in reality like the dream? I've seen it a couple of times and it has stayed with me as few films do.
Marc shaves off his mustache, or so it seems, for no one takes any notice of his new look. This is exasperating, but when he confronts his wife she insists he never had one, and his friends claim he hasn't had one for 15 years, though he finds a recent picture of himself wearing the mustache. Marc now finds a message from his father on his answering machine but his wife tells him that his father has been dead for a year. She also insists that she doesn't know who their two best friends are though they had just visited them. Marc then overhears his wife talking to another friend about having Marc committed, for clearly he is delusional, she says. He tries to see his mother but cannot find his childhood home and the familiar telephone number does not exist. Marc now retrieves his passport, which shows him with a mustache, and flies to Hong Kong, where he regrows it after spending some time in a Chinese village. When he returns to his hotel he finds his wife in his room as though they had been vacationing together all the while. She then asks him to shave off the mustache so that she can see what he looks like without it. He does so and she is pleased.
No one has really succeeded in deciphering the film. Some have called it symbolic. Some find the theme of identity in it, and there is indeed something to be said for an interpretation that revolves around the idea of the tenuousness and circumstantiality, the fragility, of human identity, which can be lost in an instant. I think, however, that the film is more in the mode of Alain Robbe-Grillet, that is, meaningless outside its own reality and reference points. In effect, it obliterates the time of the world and demonstrates its disjunction vis-à-vis inner time.
For clearly the film plays against the idea of time. Marc and his wife inhabit two different temporal universes, even parallel universes. In Marc's universe he shaves off the mustache that he has always worn and his father is still alive. He inhabits a time that has passed, with a link to the present via the people who surround him. When he communicates with them it is from out of this earlier time. In reality, however, such a condition cannot exist unless someone really is delusional. This is not the film's intention. Marc is not crazy and his wife is not out to drive him crazy. Not being able to find his childhood home underscores the fact that he has stepped out of reality. His time is not really linked to any reality. It is residual in that it bears with it traces of an earlier time but not all of it.
Linear time, however, is not the only time there is. It is the time of the physical and historical world, but it is not the time of the inner world. The mind invokes temporal events in whatever order suits it, or associatively in a subconscious process. This is lateral rather than progressive or chronological time, where all events have equal temporal value. Surrealism never seeks to explain itself. It creates worlds that are extensions of what we consider the real world and follow their own logic. La Moustache is such a film, intriguing only insofar as we wish to know what it means, but in and of itself it is nothing more than a demonstration of how two discordant systems of time are tenuously embedded in human consciousness.
About the reviewer:
Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novel Rafi's World (Fomite Press), dealing with Israel's emerging criminal class, was published in Feb. 2014 and his stories and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Polluto, Fiction on the Web, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ontologica, Unlikely Stories: Episode 4, Gadfly, Cultural Weekly, In Parenthesis, etc. A second novel, The Links in the Chain, a thriller set in New York with an Arab-Israel background, is also due out in 2014.


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Why Raising the Excess on Your Car Insurance Can Cost You
No one blames you for wanting to save every dollar possible when it comes to your car. After all, buying a brand new car easily costs over S$100,000 – and that's not even counting operating expenses such as petrol, maintenance and auto insurance.
Speaking of auto insurance – it happens to be one of the few car-related expenses you can adjust to save money. And of all the different ways to lower your auto insurance premium, raising the excess is the fastest way to reduce your auto insurance substantially.
But before you decide to raise your policy's excess to the max to save yourself a few hundreds, you might want to consider how such a move can end up costing you thousands.
What is your car insurance policy's "excess"?
In short, your auto insurance policy's excess is the amount of money you must pay your insurer before it will cover the rest of your insurance claim.
For example, if your policy's excess is S$500 and you get involved in a minor accident that causes S$2,000 worth of damage to your vehicle, you'd have to pay your insurer S$500 before it would cover the remaining S$1,500 on your insurance claim.
Your auto insurance policy's excess is pretty important because it has a direct effect on the cost of your premiums. Essentially when your excess is increased it saves insurers from having to pay out numerous small claims.
So when you think about your auto insurance policy's excess, think about these two points:
- Higher excess (e.g. S$2,000): You pay a lower premium because you typically bear most of the cost of an accident claim.
- Lower excess (e.g. S$200): You pay a higher premium because your insurer typically bears most of the cost of an accident claim
On average, most insurers offer excess amounts ranging from about S$100 to S$3,000.
Why adjusting your policy's excess can cost you
The easiest way to illustrate just how dangerous it can be to raise your auto insurance policy's excess to the max is to give an example of the cost difference when it comes to filing a claim.
Here's an example of two drivers on both ends of the excess spectrum:
As you can see, saving a few hundred dollars on your annual auto insurance premiums works out well – if you're not involved in an accident.
Types of drivers who shouldn't adjust their policy's excess
Driving in Singapore isn't as crazy as Jakarta or Bangkok – but it can still get quite congested during rush hour. And the truth is, there are some types of drivers out there who shouldn't risk raising their policy's excess.
Those drivers include the following:
- Anyone who just received their licence and are under 26 years of age (due to driving inexperience).*
- Anyone over the age of 60 (due to the likelihood of health issues such as mobility and vision impairment).
- Anyone who travels during rush hour daily (due to high instance of "bumper-to-bumper" traffic and congestion) .
- Anyone who works in 12-hour shifts (due to the reality that fatigue is a contributing factor in many accidents).
- Anyone driving more than 50km daily (due to the likelihood that drivers who commute most of the day are at greater risk for getting into an accident).
*Do note that many insurers require young and inexperienced drivers to carry an excess of S$2,500 to S$3,000.
If you're an incredibly safe driver who doesn't fit into the above categories and have already established an emergency fund to cover contingencies (like having a car accident) – then you're in a better position to adjust your premiums for added savings.
But if you're not, it's probably safer to make no more than a minimal adjustment in your car insurance policy's excess if you really need to save money.
Of course, there are other ways to save money on your car insurance policy that don't involve having an insanely high excess that'll leave you broke in the event you get into an accident. Saving money can be a matter of switching insurers.
Just visit our Auto Insurance Comparison Page to find a policy that's not only more affordable, but provides just the right amount of coverage too.


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Reading the wiki article I get confused about matrix norms. My question, is it true that $$\lVert Mx \rVert \leq C(\sup_{ij}{M_{ij}}) \lVert x \rVert$$ where $M$ is a matrix and $x$ is a vector and $C$ is some constant? What does $C$ depend on?
According to wiki, $\lVert Mx \rVert \leq \rho(M) \lVert x \rVert$ holds where $\rho$ denotes the spectral radius.
But aren't all finite dimensional norms equivalent, so I can write my first formula? thank you.


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Artifact Details
TitleJames Moore removes polaroid film from Univac page recorder
Catalog Number102664186
TypeStill Image
Dimensions10 x 8 in.
FormatPhotographic print
DescriptionThis is a black and white image of James Moore removing polaroid film from the Univac LARC's page recorder. He is wearing a white short sleeve shirt and glasses. This is a side profile shot of him removing the film. Light is coming from the ceiling lights.
The accompanying white sheet reads "James Moore, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's chief engineer for the UNIVAC LARC, removes polaroid film from monitoring camera to check operation of computer's page recorder. In actual operation, LARC results are automatically photographed with a high-speed camera from the face of a cathode ray tube. The process can record up to 9,600 lines of output per minute."


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Graduation from the 8th grade is an important milestone for kids, parents and family members. It marks the long-anticipated entry to high school and being a teen. When planning a graduation party, use ideas that have more teen-oriented than child-centered decorations to celebrate the transition. Use themed decorations and party items that celebrate and honor this event for the 8th grade graduate.
New School Colors
Find out what high school the graduates will be attending for a large party. Make balloon bouquets for tabletops and big balloon arches for graduates to enter through into the main room for the party to symbolize their entry into high school life. If graduates are going to different schools, use the colors of the middle school for the main archway, and use colors of the various high schools for table decorations. For a smaller party hosted at home for family and friends your job will be easier because you can just focus on the colors of the high school the graduate will attend. Get plates and table wear that also bear the new school colors. If the school has a mascot, get stuffed animals or pictures of the mascot to decorate food tables. You can also make a life-size cutout of the mascot for the party room.
High School Sports
If the graduate is an avid sports fan or aspiring sports player, marching band or cheerleader, create a graduation theme around the team of the high school they will attend. Get news clippings and pictures of the sports stars and blow them up to use as table decorations and posters on the walls. Decorate the room in the high school colors decorate tables. If the school does not have a sports team, you can use college or professional teams that the student favors.
Mardi Gras Theme
Host a Mardi Gras theme graduation party to celebrate. Use traditional purple and green colors or choose colors that represent the high school the graduate will attend. Buy beads and feather masks for the guests and place them on tables as decorative items. Add extra glitter to the beads and masks for the guest of honor. Scatter beads on the main food table and serve Creole items such as Cajun chicken, seafood gumbo and jambalaya to complement the New Orleans style Mardi Gras theme.
Asian Theme
Use an Asian theme as a basis for inspiration. Decorate the room with colorful lanterns and Asian symbols. Make place mats that with the year's symbol from the Chinese zodiac. Serve Asian foods and decorate the serving table with colors like jade and cinnabar red. Get carryout style containers filled with fortune cookies for party favors. Create a special label with the graduate's name and graduation year. You can also use Asian-style type fonts to create a banner with the graduate's name and wishes of luck and fortune as they enter high school.


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Showing off Dead Space 3's weapon crafting system, Visceral Games held a create-a-gun contest a few months back. The winner's submission, as well as their likeness, would make it into the final version of the game.
Behold the HUN-E1 BADGER. Created by gamer Caleb Mendoza, the gun was constructed using the new crafting system.
The HUN-E1 Badger is capable of firing flaming rivets in a shotgun spread. So, the spikes that are being fired from your shotgun are also on fire? To the assembly line! I want a thousand!
Watch the trailer and let us know what you think of the new crafting system on Twitter.
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A player may be eligible for a fourth option year if he has been optioned in three seasons but does not yet have five full seasons of professional experience. A full season is defined as being on an active pro roster for at least 90 days in a season. (If a player is put on the disabled list after earning 60 or more days of service in a single season, his time on the DL is counted.) The 90-day requirement means short-season leagues (New-York Penn, Northwest, Pioneer, Appalachian, Gulf Coast, Arizona Rookie, Dominican and Venezuelan Summer Leagues) do not count as full seasons for the purposes of determining eligibility for a fourth option.
Rick Porcello, being added to the 40 man roster straight out of High School, is a candidate for this fourth option. As it stands, Porcello has four option years remaining as per the most recent collective bargaining agreement, meaning he doesn't have to reach the big leagues until opening day 2012.
When trying to option a player on waivers, you have to consider three variables:
- How much value will the player being kept provide over the player being put on waivers?
- Can we afford to lose this player on waivers?
- What is the likelihood that this player will be claimed on waivers?
What better way to find the risk of a player being claimed off waivers than looking at their individual waiver history? Several player who are out of options have been for many years and could be exposed to the waiver wires time and time again.
Denny Bautista:
Believe it or not, Denny Bautista has never been on waivers. The Tigers are his fifth organization, and he has been on a 40 man roster since the time the Orioles purchased his contract after the 2003 season.
Yorman Bazardo: Yorman Bazardo has also never been on waivers. He was designated for assignment last offseason, but the Tigers acquired him before he was placed on waivers.
Tim Byrdak: Byrdak epitomizes the term journeyman. His first stint in the big leagues was from 1998 through 2000 with the Royals. During that time, his three option years were used up. Rather than trying to option him after the 2000 season, Kansas City opted to non-tender Byrdak, making him a free agent. Byrdak never sniffed a 40-man roster again until getting his contract purchased by Baltimore in July of 2005. He stayed on Baltimore's roster until August 2006 when he was outrighted (clearing waivers) to Ottawa.
Tim Byrdak is 1/1 in clearing waivers.
Francisco Cruceta: Another journeyman, this is Francisco Cruceta's fifth organization. Unlike Bautista, though, Cruceta has only been traded once. He first used up his options from 2003 through 2005 with the Indians having been slow to develop into the type of pitcher they wanted. They tried to sneak Cruceta off the 40-man roster in August, but Seattle was there to claim him. It appears as if the Mariners were able to slip him through waivers between August and January, when he received a spring invitation. Brought back onto the 40-man in September, 2006, Cruceta was put through waivers again after the season and claimed by Texas. He would not make the Rangers out of spring training, and cleared waivers before being sent to Oklahoma City for the duration of the season.
Francisco Cruceta is 2/4 in clearing waivers.
Jason Grilli: Another hard-throwing bullpen candidate who has bounced from team to team, Grilli is in his fourth organization. A high first round pick by the Giants, traded to the Marlins as part of the Livan Hernandez deal, there was a time when Grilli was a top notch pitching prospect until injuries derailed his status. After 2002, he successfully cleared waivers while recovering from Tommy John surgery. Drafted by the White Sox in the next season's Rule 5 Draft, Grilli again was put on waivers during the Spring of 2004. Aside from not even being claimed, the Marlins rejected the White Sox' mandatory offer of the Rule 5 draftee. The final time Jason Grilli was put through waivers was after the 2004 season when Chicago designated him for assignment and ultimately released him.
Jason Grilli is 3/3 in clearing waivers.
Bobby Seay: Seay ran out of options after the 2003 season, and failed to make the 2004 (Devil) Rays. He then succesfully cleared waivers during spring training. Seay was next placed on waivers as a Colorado Rockie during the 2005 season, again clearing before becoming a free agent after the season. Finally, Seay cleared waivers as a member of the 2006 Tigers.
Bobby Seay is 3/3 in clearing waivers.
Mike Hessman: Hessman has never been on irrevocable waivers. As a player who had made his debut four years before being optioned last year, he did have to clear revocable waivers, but I'm not going to count that in this discussion. It appears as if revocable waivers are very easy to clear.
Brandon Inge: A Tiger his whole life, and on the 40 man roster uninterrupted since the 2000-2001 off-season, Brandon Inge has no waiver experience.
Ramon Santiago: Santiago has only had to clear waivers once, after the 2004 season when the Mariners were making room on the 40-man roster. Twice, though, did he have to clear revocable waivers: in 2006 and 2007 with the Tigers.
Ramon Santiago is 1/1 in clearing waivers.
Freddy Guzman: Speedy outfielder Freddy Guzman is loved by all that seem to believe that Dave Roberts' 2004 ALCS steal embodies all that is right with small ball and justifies giving players who can do nothing but run a roster spot. For Guzman, this would be his first time on waivers, as he is just running out of options.
Marcus Thames: Once among the many highly touted Yankees prospects before being traded to Texas. The Rangers were able to succesfully get Marcus Thames through waivers after the 2003 season. He promptly declared free agency and signed on with the Tigers.
Marcus Thames is 1/1 in clearing waivers.
Timo Perez: I'm not quite sure where Timo Perez stands. He cleared waivers earlier in the offseason, and it is still the same waiver period. Does that mean he has to clear again? Is he even on the 40 man roster? I had thought so yesterday until his name showed up among the spring invites. For Perez, this was his second time on waivers having also been outrighted in 2006 with the Cardinals.
Timo Perez is 2/2 in clearing waivers, but may not have to clear this Spring.
There you have it. Francisco Cruceta is the only player on the roster with a history of being claimed off waivers. Over the course of the next few posts, I'll have to take a look at several potential variables that go into a player's waiver risk. Some that are going to be tested include:
- Prospect Status: Could a player being mentioned among Baseball America's top prospects play a role in their likelihood of being claimed? On top of that, a 2007 top prospect will certainly be claimed before a 2000 top prospect.
- Time of waiver: Roster crunches occur at different times of the year. Certainly, around November and December when players are being protected from the Rule 5 draft, it's probably much easier to clear waivers than mid-season where teams have more room on their reserve roster.
- Recent performance: One would think a player coming off of a fine season would have a harder time making it through waivers.
- Injury status


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Friday, July 29, 2011
Jameson Piedimonte - Rest in Peace
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Slow Death Drums
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Uncut Review of Wildlife
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Pedal to Mental
Friday, July 22, 2011
This version of Golden Rush was recorded about six months before Black Lives was tracked at Sunset Sound. The Icarus Line had just parted ways with V2 for the first time. Don was promoted to guitar but both him and Alvin were sharing Guitar/Bass duties. This is some of Don's best playing in The Icarus Line. Kinda the opposite of what is represented on the disintegration document that Black Lives became. There is actually three fully recorded versions of that record. Hopefully we'll figure out a way of releasing all that material at some point but until then check this out.
IGS Audio - Professional Studio Equipment
To all friends that make records: Check out IGS. Well made, great sounding gear that comes in half the price of the stuff it emulates/recreates. All hand assembled in Poland. A very sick deal on top notch compression for anyone who needs it. I have the SSL style comp and the ONE (La2a) as mentioned below. Both have knocked my socks off so far.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Hot in the Temple of Sounds
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
New gear at VRC!
LA-2A clone by IGS. Feels like the real thing..
Friday, July 8, 2011
Look out !
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
photo by Peter Frankenstein