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the acme enchanting!
Always like, standing on the corner of the mottled green shade, Mr. Xia wan one cool, see a summer flowers enchanting, feel good time calm. Alone, no one to disturb, quietly enjoy the glebe's old one. Like this, quiet and beautiful, as the days went past, flowers bloom, a kind of charm, for four seasons weathered erosion, and unscathed, like a tree open bright, and like a hint of jasmine, sending out the fragrance, ooze heart into the spleen. That mr.zhou's white, the faint fragrance, grace and elegance, perfection and quietly elegant alexander hera pre wedding.
The world is always lonely. Silence alone on the west building, courtyard deep how much loneliness, wutong drizzle a little sorrow. Always want to live into a flower's, and one individual plant grass QingHuan. Fragrance, I don't need too many people to enjoy, I am strong, don't need to be praised, as long as someone knows, is enough! Silent, it is not deep, without regret and is open to the tea end the acme enchanting!
One night, and keep a quiet wind window, looking round month, or a drunk to hear a shade misty rain, put a soothing music, without the feelings on the safety of pink flowers, only a white lotus in the heart, slowly in full bloom. At one time through the eyes of an unattainable lonely, in the month gathering veils of the night, light dance, spectacular. Ethereal music, as if from ancient through by tonight, imagine thousands of years ago that one of the beautiful and quiet night night, a plain woman, graceful and restrained walking furnace, gradually to the month. QingHuan a person, a person's lonely, such as lotus heart of wen wan into a Que word, composed a song, self-entertainment self-sufficiency happy alexander hera wedding!
Always hate late. Hate too late. If he was born in tang and song dynasty, it would be great! Not have been truly looks, not three thousand pet at a suit, wish one heart person, the hoary head not and separation. Do you only a person of colchicine iraqis, mae in the water, day by day, have you noticed, drink the Yangtze river water. Poplar and willows, oblique micro wind rain, flute morning, intention, and experienced the sails for you, but it will not complain!
Maybe a woman born love dreaming, I was that little woman will never grow up, has a clear, romantic and gentle sadness. Always hope, as a place in the distant, is the heaven of my dream. Where I can enjoy the love, wantonly make public, can laugh, also can conceal sadness. All dream, reality unbearable to exile here, float in the sky. Without the secular disturb, away from the spread rumors, leaf of canoe, fold a green willow, melodious tweedle. Dance to make clear shadow, everything is floating clouds floating, a piece of blue, the wind light cloud light amway
Time QingJian, fast-forward, in decades, idle away one's. Some past, always not forget for a moment, some once, still stay in the heart. The memory of those covered by moss, always in front of the wind after the rain, casual. Cut a year time, half bright and beautiful, half thin cold, some people, drifting away; Some edge, the deep reason shallow, some reading, bigotry; Some love, the wind light cloud light.
A person's life, mountain water cheng a ride, this time, we went through a variety of, also have a lot of moving. Affection, love and friendship, gave us the biggest comfort, we always hope I love the people, will, as always, accompany we go together, but always backfire. Loss of pain and helpless love, can't love! Some people come and go; The some feeling strong and weak. Mountain water far long life, no one can accompany you to the permanent, is doomed to be a person's lonely, a person's maintenance.
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Feeling cool and enjoying it thoroughly before we enter the heat of the desert (where it doesn't cool down at night like it does in N. Cali).
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A dentist student from Denmark decided to pull out his own wisdom tooth and post a video of the procedure online.
Jesper Ryltoft, who studies at the Aarhus School of Dentistry, uploaded the grisly video onto YouTube, with the warning: "Please note: Do not attempt to do anything like this on your own.
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This week – losing your reach in Facebook; targeting in Twitter; and where does my Google search go?
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It's been widely reported that the natural reach of posts to your fans on Facebook has been decreasing. Now Facebook has confirmed that the audience you worked hard to acquire will probably see less and less of your content in the future. Facebook's solution is that you buy media from them to reach more of your fans; not an approach universally welcomed but, as some point out, it doesn't detract from the need to develop 'a strategic and creative approach to content and conversation'.
#2: Twitter and tailored audiences
Last week Twitter introduced a new advertising product, Tailored Audiences. It ties data on user behaviour gathered from outside of Twitter and allows companies to target their Twitter advertising. So, for example, if someone had visited your website you can then target them specifically with an advert on Twitter. There are a fixed number of ad partners to activate this but the tests have shown large increases in engagement and much lower cost per acquisition.
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Yugambeh people
Yugambeh, Ngarangwal, Nganduwal, Mibin/Miban, Danggan Balun(Five Rivers)
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The Yugambeh (Yugambeh: Miban) are a group of Australian Aboriginal clans whose ancestors all spoke one or more dialects of the Yugambeh Language. Their traditional lands are located in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, now within the Logan City, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, and Tweed City regions.
- 1 Name, and etymology
- 2 Language
- 3 Country
- 4 History
- 5 Social organisation
- 6 Yugambeh Museum
- 7 Armed Forces Service
- 8 Native title
- 9 Notable people
- 10 Alternative names
- 11 Some words
- 12 Notes
- 13 Sources
- 14 External links
Name, and etymology[edit]
Their ethnonym in the Yugambeh language derives from their word for "no", namely yukum, reflecting a widespread practice in aboriginal languages to identify a tribe by the word they used for a negative.[1] Language speakers use the word Miban which means "Man", "Human", "Wedge-Tailed Eagle"[a] and is the preferred endonym for the people. The Kombumerri Corporation for Aboriginal Culture prefers not to use the generic umbrella term "Bundjalung", as opposed to Yugambeh, to describe themselves or language.[3] They call their language Mibanah meaning "of man", "of human", "of eagle" (the -Nah suffix forming the genitive of the word "Miban").[citation needed]
The Yugambeh language is also known as the Tweed-Albert language, a dialect cluster of the wider Bandjalangic branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family.[4] At the 2016 Census, 22 people reported being speakers of the language. This was the first census where Yugambeh was included in the Australian Standard Classification of Languages as Yugambeh (8965).[5]
The Tweed-Albert languages are split into three major dialect groups:[citation needed]
- Ngarangwal This was spoken between the Logan River and Point Danger,[6] and divided into a dialect employed between the Coomera and Logan rivers, and another between the Nerang and the Tweed, which had a 75% overlap with Nganduwal.[7] Crowley originally called this dialect Gold Coast, but the term Ngarangwal is often used today. This term was given by informants at Woodenbong in the 40s, who maintained however that it was a dialect of Bundjalung and not mutually intelligible with Yugambeh.[b]
- Yugambeh (Proper)[citation needed]
- Nganduwal/Ngandowul (Livingstone gives this as the name of the dialect spoken on the Tweed, calling it a "sister dialect" of his Minyung which was spoken at Byron Bay and on the Brunswick River [the Tweed people referred to this language as Ngendu]. Norman Tindale also includes Nganduwal as an alternative name of his distinct Minyungbal tribe from Byron Bay.[9][10][11])
The Yugambeh live within the Logan, Albert, Coomera, Nerang, and Tweed River basins.[10] Norman Tindale estimated their territorial reach as extending over roughly 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2), along the Logan River from Rathdowney to its mouth, and running south as far as the vicinity of Southport. Their western frontier lay around Boonah and the slopes of the Great Dividing Range.[12]
The Yuggera are to their west and north, the Quandamooka to their north-east (North Stradbroke and Moreton Island), the Githabul to their south-west, and the Bundjalung to their south.
The Three Brothers[edit]
In Yugambeh tradition, part of a larger story which is conserved among the neighbouring Minyungbal, the people descend from one of three brothers, Yarberri or Jabreen who travelled to the north and established the sacred site of Jebbribillum, the point at which he emerged from the waters onto the land.[13] The Legend of the Three Brothers is used to explain the kinship bonds that extend through the Yugambeh-Bundjalung language groups, one Yugambeh descendant writing:
"These bonds between Bundjalung and Yugambeh people are revealed through geneaology, and are evident in our common language dialects. Our legends unite us."
"Yugambeh people are the descendants of the brother Yarberri who travelled to the north. In Yugambeh legend he is known as Jabreen. Jabreen created his homeland by forming the mountains, the river systems and the flora and fauna. The people grew out of this evironment."
"Jabreen created the site known as Jebbribillum when he came out of the water onto the land. As he picked up his fighting waddy, the land and water formed into the shape of a rocky outcrop (Little Burleigh). This was the site where people gathered to learn and to share resources created by Jabreen. The ceremony held at this site became known as the Bora and symbolised the initiation of life. Through the ceremony, people learned to care for the land and their role was to preserve its integrity."[14]
The Great Battle[edit]
The Yugambeh have a tradition of a great battle between the creatures of the sky, land, and sea that took place at the mouth of the Logan river; this battle resulted in the creation of many landforms and rivers across the region. W.E. Hanlon recorded a version of this story in his reminiscences, which he titled "The Genesis of Pimpama Island":
In the old days "plenty long before whiteman bin come-up" (the legend runs), all that part of Moreton Bay, from Doogurrumburrum (Honeycomb), now Rocky Point, at the mouth of the Logan River, to Kanaipa (Ironbark spear) was the theatre of a titanic war between all the denizens of the land, the air, and the water then inhabiting that region. In those times the country bordering on this watery tract was high and dry, not like it is now, all swamps and marshes - and mosquitos. The real reason of this epic conflict is obscure, but it is generally supposed that the three main divisions of animal life - terrestrial, aerial, and aquatic - fought, triangularly, for supremacy; birds, flying foxes, sharks, purooises, "goannas", snakes, etc., all participated in the strife.
Yowgurra, the goanna, was early in the fray, armed with a spear; but, just as he joined in the melee, Boggaban, the sparrow hawk, swooped down and snatched the spear (juan) out of the grasp of Yowgurra. With this in its hands, it flew over the water and drove the spear into the back of a porpoise that just at that moment exposed itself. The porpoise, with a spear sticking it its back, exerted itself to a mighty blast and blew the weapon out; but there ensued such an incessant torrent of mingled blood and water from the spear wound that all the neighbouring territory became inundated, of channels and creeks of that portion of the Bay, and from this cause originated Pimpama Island Tajingpa (the well), Yawulpah (wasp), Wahgumpa (turkey), Coombabah (a pocket of land), etc., all great areas of swampy country.[15]
Pre-European Arrival (Pre-1840)[edit]
Archaeological evidence suggests that Aboriginal people have inhabited the Gold Coast region for about 23,000 years before European settlement and the present. By the early 18th century there were several distinct clan estate groups (previously referred to as tribes) living between the Tweed and Logan Rivers; they are believed to be: the Gugingin, Bullongin, Kombumerri, Tul-gi-gin, Moorang-Mooburra, Cudgenburra, Birinburra, Wangerriburra, Mununjali[16] and Migunberri.[17]
The coastal clans of the area were hunters, gatherers and fishers. The Stradbroke Island blacks had dolphins aid them in the hunting and fishing processes. On sighting a shoal of mullet, they would hit the water with their spears to alert their dolphins, to whom they gave individual names, and the dolphins would then chase the shoal towards the shore, trapping them in the shallows and allowing the men to net and spear the fish. Some modern traditions state that this practice was shared by the Yugameh Kombumerri clan.[18]
The dolphin is known to have played an important role in a myth of the Nerang River Yugambeh, according to which the culture hero Gowonda was transformed into one on his death.[19] Various species were targeted in various seasons, including shellfish including eugaries, (cockles or pipis), oysters and mudcrabs. In winter, large schools of finfish species "running" along the coast in close inshore waters were targeted, those being sea mullet, which were followed by a fish known as tailor. Turtles and dugong were eaten, but the latter only rarely due to their more northerly distribution.
Various species of parrots and lizards were eaten along with bush honey. Echidnas, (an Australian native similar to a porcupine, but a monotreme not a rodent), are still hunted with dogs today and various marsupials including koalas and possums were also consumed. Numerous plants and plant products were included in the diet including macadamias and Bunya nuts and were used for medicinal purposes.[citation needed]
The area around present day Bundall, proximate to the Nerang River and Surfers Paradise, along with various other locations in the region was an established meeting place for tribes visiting from as far away as Grafton and Maryborough. Great corroborees were held there and traces of Aboriginal camps and intact bora rings are still visible in the Gold Coast and Tweed River region today.[citation needed]
After European arrival (1840-1900)[edit]
The earliest mention of the Yugambeh comes from the diary of the Reverend Henry Stobart in 1853, who remarked on the abundance of resources in the area, and noted in particular thriving stands of walking stick palms, endemic to the Numinbah Valley and in Yugambeh called midyim,[20] a resource already being harvested for sale in England.[21] William E. Hanlon's family of English immigrants settled there around 1863. He states that the Yugambeh were friendly from the outstart:-
There were many blacks in the district, but on no occasion did they give us any trouble. On the contrary, we were always glad to see them, for they brought us fish, kangaroo tails, crabs, or honey, to barter for our flour, sugar, tea, or "tumbacca."[22]
As settlers encroached Yugambeh lands were alienated from their traditional users and by the turn of the century they were being forced into reserves such as that created at Deebing Creek.[23] Many Yugambeh remained in their traditional country and found employment with farmers, oyster producers and fishermen, timber cutters and mills constructed for the production of resources like sugar and arrowroot, whilst continuing to varying degrees with Yugambeh cultural practices, laws and customs. Many of them, both men and women (and sometimes children), found employment as servants or staff in the houses of the wealthy squatters and businessmen. Hanlon wrote of the areas rich resources. In a single morning he and 4 friends shot down 200 bronzewing pigeons[24] and large stands of much sought after red cedar, pine and beech were harvested by incoming woodcutters, while stands of the now highly prized tulip wood were burnt off as "useless".[25] Returning to the area in the early 1930s after a half century absence, he wrote:-
I found the rivers denuded of all their old and glorious scrubs, and their whilom denizens were neither to be seen nor heard. The streams themselves seemed to be sullen and sluggish, and polluted, and wore an air of being ashamed of their now-a-days nudity. Utility and ugliness were the dominant notes everywhere. In many places the physical features of the places were changed or entirely obliterated; watercourse and chain of ponds of my day were, nearly all, filled in with the accumulated debris of the past half century or so.[22]
The Yugambeh suffered from violent attacks undertaken by the Australian native police under their colonial leaders. According to the informant John Allen, over 60 years old at the time, and referring to his earliest memories sometime in the 1850s, a group of his tribe were surprised by troopers at Mount Wetheren and fired upon.
The blacks—men, women, and children—were in a dell at the base of a cliff. Suddenly a body of troopers appeared on the top of the cliff and without warning opened fire on the defenceless party below. Bullumm remembers the horror of the time, of being seized by a gin and carried to cover, of cowering under the cliff and hearing the shots ringing overhead, of the rush through the scrub to get away from the sound of the death-dealing guns. In this affair only two were killed, an old man and a gin. Those sheltered under the cliff could hear the talk of the black troopers, who really did not want to kill, but who tried to impress upon the white officer in charge the big number they had slaughtered.[26]
In 1855 an incident caused by a local tribesman sparked off a running spree of killings as troopers sought to kill the culprit. Allen recounted the story thus:
'About 1855. A German woman and her boy were killed at Sandy Creek, Jimboomba, near where is now the McLean Bridge, by a blackfellow known as "Nelson." The murderer was coming back from Brisbane on horseback and met the woman and boy on the road walking to Brisbane. The man was caught soon after committing the crime, but escaped from custody. He was a Coomera black, but sometimes lived with the Albert and Nerang tribes. The black troopers knew this, and were constantly on his tracks but never caught him. They had no scruples in shooting any blacks in the hope that the victim might be the escaped murderer. From 30 to 40 blacks were killed by troopers in this way, but "Nelson" died a natural death in spite of it all, some years after in Beenleigh.'[26]
In 1857, he recalled, again under the direction of Frederick Wheeler, a further massacre took place on the banks of the Nerang River (which may have followed theft on William Duckett White's Murry Jerry run there):[27]
A party of " Alberts," among whom was old blind Nyajum, was there camped on a visit to their friends and neighbours of the Nerang and Tweed. There had been a charge of cattle-killing brought against the local tribes, and someone had to pay. The police heard of this camp, and, under command of Officer Wheeler, cut it off on the land side with a body of troopers. The alarm was given. The male aboriginals plunged into the creek, swam to the other side, and hid in the scrub. The black troopers again were bad marksmen—probably with intent—as the only casualties were one man shot in the leg and one boy drowned. The old blind man had been hidden under a pile of skins in a hut, but was found by the troopers and dragged out by the heels. The gins told the troopers he was blind from birth. The troopers begged the officer not to order the poor fellow to be killed. The gins crowded round Wheeler imploring mercy for the wretched victim; some hung on to the troopers to prevent them firing. But prayers were useless; Wheeler was adamant. The gins were dragged off or knocked off with carbines, and the blind man was then shot by order of the white officer.'[26]
In another incident, which took place in 1860, six Yugambeh youths were kidnapped from camps in the area of the Nerang River area and forcibly transported to Rockhampton where they were to be inducted into, and trained to carry out punitive missions, by Frederick Wheeler, an officer with a notorious record for brutality. On witnessing the murder of one of the trainees, the small group planned their escape and, one night, snuck away to embark on an epic walk of some 550 kilometres back home. Fearing betrayal, they shied clear even of other aboriginal groups of their route which followed the coast on their left. After three months trekking, one youth climbed a tree and cried out Wollumbin! Wollumbin! (Mount Warning), much in the manner of the Greeks in Xenophon's Anabasis. They had made it back home. One of the youths, Keendahn, who was ten years old at the time, was so traumatised by the experience that he would hide in the bush for decades later, whenever word of police in the vicinity reached their camps.[28]
Modern day[edit]
Due to the harshness of the 1897 Act, and the various equally draconian amendments to it in the last century, and with respect to various government administrations, Yugambeh people have to date maintained a relatively low political profile in the region so that they would not be removed from their families, or from their traditional country with which they had (and retain) strong spiritual links.
As a result, and since that time, the Yugambeh people have maintained close and generally closed networks of communication amongst themselves regarding their cultural practices and use of language which were not accommodated by the authorities.
Commonwealth Games 2018[edit]
The Yugambeh People were involved with the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) community consultation with Traditional Owners since early 2015 which lead to the establishment of a Yugambeh Elders Advisory Group (YEAG) consisting of nine local aunts and uncles[29] . A Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) was developed for the Commonwealth Games 2018, and endorsed by YEAG, this was the first International Sporting Event and Commonwealth Games to have a RAP.[30]
The Games Mascot was named Borobi, a word from the local Yugambeh language, meaning Koala; it was the first Australian sporting mascot to have an Indigenous name, which one Yugambeh descendant described as:
....a huge credit to our Elders and their work to revive language in everyday use, and it sends a powerful message to the rest of the world that the Commonwealth Games 2018 is serious about including Aboriginal story and culture.[31]
Yugambeh culture was incorporated into the Queens Baton with the use of native Macadamia wood, known in Yugambeh language as Gumburra. A story given by Elder Patricia O'Connor served as the inspiration for the Baton, as Macadamia nuts were often planted by groups travelling through country, to mark the way and provide sustenance to future generations - upon hearing the story, the baton's designers decided to use macadamia wood as a symbol of traditional sustainable practice.
When I was a little girl, probably seven or eight years old, I was cracking Queensland nuts,
My grandmother said "when I was a little girl I planted those nuts as I walked with my father along the Nerang river" and she said "you call them Queensland nuts, I call them Goomburra".
She planted them when she walked with her dad, and as an adult she saw them bearing fruit.
Patricia O'Connor and another Elder, Ted Williams, travelled to London to launch the Queen's Baton Relay- marking the first time Traditional Owners had attended the ceremony.[32] After a 288-day journey, the Queen's Baton was passed from New Zealand to Australia in the Māori Court of the Auckland Museum, where in a traditional farewell ceremony to farewell and handover the baton the Ngāti Whātua elders of Auckland passed the Queen's Baton to representatives of the Yugambeh people. Yugambeh performers were present to respond to the Maori farewell ceremony.[33][34]
Social organisation[edit]
Social divisions[edit]
R. H. Mathews visited the Yugambeh in 1906 and picked up the following information concerning their social divisions, which were fourfold. Mathews also noted specific animals, plants and stars as associated with the divisions.[35]
The Yugambeh People are made of 9 named clan estate groups, each with their own allocated area of country; family groups did not often travel into the country of other Yugambeh family groups without reason. Clans would frequently visit and stay on each other's estates during times of ceremony, dispute resolution, resource exchange, debt settlement and scarcity of resources, but followed strict protocols governing announcing their presence and their use of other's lands.
Each clan has ceremonial responsibilities in their respective countries, like those that ensure that food and medicinal plants grow and that there is a plentiful supply of fish, shellfish, crabs, and other animal food in general.[36] The clan group boundaries tend to follow noticeable geological formations such as river basin systems and mountain ranges.
Eastern Clans / Saltwater[edit]
Etymology: River People
Location: The Coomera River basin.
Alternative names: Balunjali
Etymology: Mudgrove-worm People.[c]
Location: The Nerang River basin.[38]
Alternative names: Chabbooburri, Birinburra
Western Clans / Freshwater[edit]
Etymology: Northern People
Location: The Lower-Logan River Basin.[39]
Alternative names: Guwangin
Etymology: Burnt-Earth People
Location: Beaudesert.[39]
Etymology: Mountain Spike People
Location: Christmas Creek.[39]
Alternative names: Migani, Balgaburri
Etymology: Pretty-Faced Wallaby People
Location: Albert River basin.[39]
Valley clans[edit]
Etymology: Dry-Forest People
Location: The Northern Lower-Tweed River basin.
Alternative names: Tulgiburri
Etymology: Water-Vine People
Location: Upper-Tweed River basin.
Etymology: Red-Ochre People
Location: The Southern Lower-Tweed River Basin.[40][41]
Yugambeh Museum[edit]
The Yugambeh Museum, Language and Heritage Research Centre is located on the corner of Martens Street and Plantation Road in Beenleigh. It was opened in 1995 by Senator Neville Bonner, Australia's first Aboriginal Federal Parliamentarian.
The museum is the main resource for objects and information relating to the ongoing story of the Yugambeh people, their spiritual and cultural history, and their language. The museum organises education programs, exhibitions and events, including traditional ceremonies.[42]
Armed Forces Service[edit]
The Yugambeh, like other Aboriginal Australians, had their efforts to join the armed forces resisted due to official policy that saw them as unsuitable because of their "racial origin". In a few cases however they were successful, with 10 Yugambeh people serving in World War I, then subsequently 47 in World War II, they have fought in every major conflict from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.
The Yugambeh Museum maintains records and research on Yugambeh descendants who served in the armed forces.
After service, their contributions were rarely recognised by historians or brought to the attention of the public.[43]
War memorial[edit]
The Yugambeh, represented by the Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture with the support and assistance from the Gold Coast City Council, erected a War Memorial on the site of the Jebribillum Bora Park Burleigh Heads at Burleigh Heads in 1991.[44][45]
Jebbribillum bora has been chosen as a site most appropriate for the Yugambeh Aboriginal War Memorial because of its spiritual and historical significance. Jebbribillum symbolises the fighting waddy of Jabreen, the maker of boomerangs - the creation spirit who made us human. [46]
The memorial consists of a stone taken from nearby Mt Tamborine, a sacred site to the Yugambeh clans. Sources provide three transcriptions for the inscription, which means "Many Eagles(Yugambeh warriors) Protecting Our Country":
- Mibun Wallal Mundindehla Ŋaliŋah/Njalinjah Dhagun[47]
- mibun wallul mundindehla nalinah dhagun[45]
- Mibunn Wallull Munjindeila Ngullina Jagun[44]
Native title[edit]
The Yugambeh clans filed a Native Title Claim in the Federal Court on 27 June 2017 under the application name 'Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) People'. Their claim was accepted for registration by the Registrar on 14 September 2017.
The claim names nineteen Apical Ancestors and encompasses lands and waters across five Local Government Areas within the State of Queensland.[48]
Previous claims[edit]
The Eastern Clans filed a Native Title Claim in the Federal Court on the 5 September 2006 under the application name 'Gold Coast Native Title Group (Eastern Yugambeh)'. Their claim was accepted for registration by the Registrar on 23 September 2013.
The claim named ten Apical Ancestors and encompassed lands and waters across the Gold Coast Local Government Area within the State of Queensland. It was Dismissed on the 13 September 2014 with a Part Determination that Native Title did not exist on lands granted a prior lease.[49][50]
Notable people[edit]
- Billy Drumley - Indigenous community leader
- Ellen van Neerven - Writer.[51]
Alternative names[edit]
- Jukam
- Yukum
- Yögum
- Yuggum
- Yoocum[52]
- Jugambeir
- Yugambir
- Yugumbir
- Tjipara. (horde near Brisbane)
- Chipara
- Chepara[53][54]
- Tjapera
- Yoocumbah[12]
Some words[edit]
- dagay. (whiteman/ghost)
- ^ the word, referring to the indigenous people, means "Eaglehawk".[2]
- ^ "Regarding Ngaragwal, Woodenbong opinion is agreed in placing it on the coast between Southport and Cape Byron, which would equate it with A&L's Nerang people. Those at Woodenbong can give no information on Ngaragwal and claim it is quite different from Gidabal. Allen appeared to consider this coastal language as a dialect of Bandjalang, yet not mutually intelligible with Yugumbir.".[8]
- ^ According to Germaine Greer, Archibald Meston called people in this area Talgiburri, equivalent to what Margaret Sharpe transcribes as the Dalgaybara, a word meaning "people of the dalgay or dry sclerophyll forest" rather than saltwater people. Greer argues that there is an apparent confusion, asserting that "The Kombumerri called themselves people of the dry forest; Bullum called them mangrove-worm (cobra) eaters, and now they describe themselves as 'saltwater people'."[37]
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 42.
- ^ Prior et al. 1887, p. 213.
- ^ Sharpe 2005b, p. 2.
- ^ Sharpe 2007, pp. 53–55.
- ^ Crowley 1978, p. 145.
- ^ Longhurst 1980, p. 18.
- ^ Cunningham 1969, p. 122 note 34.
- ^ Livingstone 1892, p. 2.
- ^ a b Crowley 1978, p. ?.
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 197.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 171.
- ^ Horsman 1995, p. 53.
- ^ Best & Barlow 1997, pp. 50–51.
- ^ Hanlon 1935, pp. 233–4.
- ^ Holmer 1983, p. ?.
- ^ Allen & Lane 1914, p. ?.
- ^ Best & Barlow 1997, pp. 16–21.
- ^ Longhurst 1980, p. 19.
- ^ Greer 2014, p. 123.
- ^ Best 1994, p. 88.
- ^ a b Hanlon 1935, p. 210.
- ^ Best 1994, p. 90.
- ^ Hanlon 1935, p. 212.
- ^ Hanlon 1935, p. 214.
- ^ a b c Allen & Lane 1914, p. 24.
- ^ Longhurst 1980, p. 20.
- ^ Keendahn.
- ^ GC2018 YouTube 2018.
- ^ Borobi Mascot.
- ^ Mathews 1906, pp. 74–86.
- ^ Best & Barlow 1997, pp. 12–13.
- ^ Greer 2014, pp. 118–119.
- ^ Allen & Lane 1914, p. 36.
- ^ a b c d Horsman 1995, p. 42.
- ^ Bray 1899, p. 93?.
- ^ Tweed Regional Museum.
- ^ O'Connor 1991.
- ^ a b Memorial 2017.
- ^ a b QWMR 2009.
- ^ Best & Barlow 1997, pp. 50.
- ^ Monument.
- ^ Stolz 2006.
- ^ Wheeler & van Neerven 2016, p. 294.
- ^ Meston & Small 1898, p. 46.
- ^ Fison & Howitt 1880, pp. 205,268,327.
- ^ Howitt 1904, pp. 137,318–319,326,354,385,468,578–583,767.
- "Aboriginal Cultural Heritage". Tweed Regional Museum. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- Allen, John; Lane, John (1914). "Grammar, Vocabulary, and Notes of the Wangerriburra Tribe" (PDF). Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aborigines for the year 1913. Brisbane: Anthony James Cumming for the Queensland Government. pp. 23–36.
- Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL), 2016: What has changed. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 28 March 2017.
- Best, Ysola (1994). "An Uneasy Coexistence: An Aboriginal Perspective of Contact History in southeast Queensland" (pdf). Aboriginal History. 18 (1/2): 87–94.
- Best, Ysola; Barlow, Alex (1997). Kombumerri, Saltwater People. Port Melbourne: Heinemann Library Australia. ISBN 978-1-863-91037-8. OCLC 52249982.
- "Borobi the Commonwealth Games Mascot! | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- Bray, Joshua (21 November 1899). "Tweed River. On dialects and place names". Science of Man. 2 (10): 192–194.
- "Burleigh Bora ring to host memorial service for Gold Coast's Yugambeh and Aboriginal servicemen". Gold Coast Sun. 2 November 2017.
- "Burleigh Heads Aboriginal War Memorial". Queensland War Memorial Register. 16 March 2009.
- Crowley, Terry (1978). The middle Clarence dialects of Bandjalang. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
- Cunningham, M. (1969). A Description of the Yugumbir Dialect of Bandjalang (PDF). Volume 1. University of Queensland Papers. pp. 69–122.
- Dixon, Robert M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Volume 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
- Dutton, H. S. (22 March 1904a). "Aboriginal place names". Science of Man. 7 (2): 24–27.
- Dutton, H. S. (27 June 1904b). "Aboriginal dialects and place names (Queensland)". Science of Man. 7 (5): 72–77.
- "Elders take centre stage at Buckingham Palace". NITV. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- "Extract from Schedule of Native Title Applications" (PDF). National Native Title Tribunal.
- "Extract from Schedule of Native Title Applications" (PDF). National Native Title Tribunal. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- Fison, Lorimer; Howitt, Alfred William (1880). Kamilaroi and Kurnai (PDF). Melbourne: G Robinson.
- "GC2018 Reconciliation Action Plan". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via YouTube.
- Greer, Germaine (2014). White Beech: The Rainforest Years. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-408-84671-1.
- Hanlon, William E. (1935). "The early settlement of the Logan and Albert districts" (pdf). Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 2 (5): 208–262.
- Holmer, Nils M. (1983). Linguistic Survey of South-Eastern Queensland. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-858-83295-4.
- Horsman, Margaret Joan (1995). Patterns of Settlement, Development and Land Usage: Currumbin Valley 1852-1915 (PDF). University of Queensland MA Thesis.
- Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
- "The International QBR Journey Ends In New Zealand: Queen's Baton Relay". Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2018 – via YouTube.
- Kidnapped: Keendahn's story. National Museum Australia.
- Livingstone, H. (1892). "Short Grammar and Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken by the Minyung People" (PDF). In Fraser, John. An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba, or lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) being an account of their language, traditions, and customs. Sydney: C. Potter, Govt. Printer. pp. Appendix 2–27.
- Longhurst, Robert I. (1980). "The Gold Coast: Its First Inhabitants" (PDF). John Oxley Journal: a bulletin for historical research in Queensland. John Oxley Library. 1 (2): 15–24.
- Mathews, R. H. (1906). "Notes on the Aborigines of the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland". Queensland Geographical Journal. 22: 74–86.
- Meston, Archibald; Small, John Frederick (21 March 1898). "Customs and traditions of the Clarence River aboriginals". Science of Man. 1 (2): 46–47.
- O'Connor, Rory (1991). Yugambeh in defence of our country - mibun wallul mundindehla ŋaliŋah dhagun. Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture.
- O'Donnell, Dan (1990). "The Ugarapul tribe of the Fassifern Valley" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 14 (4): 149–160.
- Prior, T.de M. M.; Landsborough, W.; White, W.G.; O'Connor, J. (1887). "Between Albert and Tweed Rivers" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 3. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 231–239.
- "Queen's Baton Farewelled in Auckland". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 23 December 2017.
- "RAP GOVERNANCE & ENGAGEMENT | Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- Sharpe, Margaret C. (2005a). Grammar and texts of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung dialect chain in Eastern Australia. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 978-3-895-86784-2.
- Sharpe, Margaret C. (2005b). An Introduction to the Yugambeh-Bundjalung Language and its Dialects (4th ed.). Armidale, NSW: University of New England.
- Sharpe, Margaret C. (2007). "A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung". In Siegel, Jeff; Lynch, John Dominic; Eades, Diana. Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 53–68. ISBN 978-9-027-25252-4.
- Steele, John Gladstone (1984). Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-702-25742-1.
- Stolz, Greg (21 September 2006). "Tribes feud over claim". Courier-Mail. Brisbane.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Jukambe (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
- Wheeler, Belinda; van Neerven, Ellen (December 2016). "An Interview with Heat and Light Author Ellen van Neerven". Antipodes. 30 (2): 294–300. JSTOR 10.13110/antipodes.30.2.0294.
- "Yugambeh Aboriginal War Memorial". Gold Coast Sun.
- "Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Research Centre". earthstory.com.au. 2017.


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There will be a soup, sandwich and bake sale on Saturday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Zion Reformed United Church of Christ, 201 N. Potomac St.
There will be ham and bean, vegetable and chicken corn soups available, along with ham sandwiches and a variety of baked goods. You can eat in or carry out.
All proceeds will benefit Holly Place.


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How the pyramids were built
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The stones steps Knaght at Sei Stand in Saqqara This is the oldest intact stone monument in the world, and the first key to unlocking the mystery of the pyramids. Sixty years before King Kufuh the Egyptians first constructed this now familiar shape by laying six great rectangles of stones one on top of the other. This would enable them to create a monument That they believed possessed immense secret power. At the beginning of time, according to egyptian myth There was nothing but watery chaos. From that chaos emerged the first mound of dry land in the shape of a pyramid. It was a shape that symbolised life But some impulse had made the egyptians choose that shape for a tomb, the tomb of their king. Sixty years later, in 2480 B.C. The same impulse had brought the new King, KuFuh, up to the desert with a carefully chosen retinue He was here to witness the first and most important ceremony of his entire reign Contrary to some recent theories, the pyramids weren't built by people from outerspace But they were built by people obssesed with outerspace. The Egyptians measured everything by the stars: Their calendar, the Nile's flood And they did so by noticing that the stars all moved Everything in the night sky was in motion Everything but for one dark, still point. Round that dark, still point, two especially bright stars turned in a constant circle. When one star was directly above the other a plumb line could be held up against them. It now past through that dark, still point with perfect accuracy. The single most important act in the building of the Great Pyramid had taken place before a stone of it was laid but of this, Knagt and his fellow builders knew nothing.
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Mary Poppins – 2016
"Mary Poppins" was our biggest and boldest production to date. With spectacular special effects–including kitchens that broke apart onstage, cakes that transformed onstage, a hat stand that pulled out of a carpet bag, and Mary and Bert FLYING over the stage–audiences were wowed! But in the end, what charmed our audience of over 1,000 people was the heartwarming story as told by a stellar cast. Here's what people were saying about it:
- "You have every reason to be proud. The whole show was super! A truly impressive production. In fact, we are going back tonight."
- "I loved Mary Poppins last night. The set changes were so smooth, the dancing, singing and acting so convincing. We think this is AWIP's best one yet."
- "We REALLY enjoyed the show last night! Kudos to the amazing vocalists and actors! We forgot we were watching young people! Great job!"
- "Excellent, excellent show!👏🏽"
- "We went last night, what a show!!! Those kids are amazingly talented!! Beautiful set design and costumes. You should all be very proud!"
- "Abigail Bradie (Mary Poppins) is FANTASTIC!!"
- "Blown out of the water! What talented kids. Set designs, production numbers, solos, dance, main characters, costumes, stage crew. Wow! Jenn Roca and staff, I salute you."
The Wiz – 2015
This cast of 33 embarked on an exciting and memorable journey down the Yellow Brick Road… culminating in a spectacular performance filled with enthusiastic dance numbers, amazing technical effects, and a heartwarming tale – all set in modern day. Dorothy and her friends learned that you don't need to Meet The Wiz in order to find all that you truly need in this life. What you need is to #believeinhome
Annie – 2014
For our second MainStage production, we doubled in size — in both cast members and audience members!
We sold over 800 tickets and got rave reviews. Check out our YouTube channel for videos of this "just-like-Broadway" production!
Singin' in the Rain- 2013
"Singin' in the Rain" was our first MainStage production and set a high bar for our future productions!
Audiences were wowed by the sheer force of talent within the 15-member cast. Check out our YouTube channel for videos from the energetic performance.


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Pictured are the riders competing in the Corinthian Challenge in Leopardstown tomorrow.
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A TOTAL of 14 riders are preparing for the hugely exciting Corinthian Challenge Series that is taking place at Leopardstown Racecourset omorrow (Sunday, October 22).
The last leg of the series, which raises money for the Irish Injured Jockeys charity, moves to the Southside racetrack following two hotly contested races at the Curragh and Gowran Park in July and September.
The increased field of 14 riders will be competing on Killavullan Stakes Day, one of the course's biggest flat events of the season.
Last year's winner of the third leg of the Corinthian Challenge at Leopardstown was Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, who managed to get a start out of Labaik from Gordon Elliot's yard.
Sheikh Fahad will return once again this year, and this will be his first race in the series after being ruled out of the opening two races thanks to an injury he picked up when falling from a horse in the UK.
Each rider has been tasked with raising €10,000 themselves for Irish Injured Jockeys, which all goes towards the charity in Ireland.
The final leg of the challenge will see 14 riders competing at the famed Leopardstown track.
Kildare rider Lynne McLoughlin is heading into the final leg of the Corinthian Challenge with a seven-point advantage at the top of the leaderboard as she looks to secure the title at Leopardstown.
Lynne, who is a work rider at hugely successful trainer Jessica Harrington's yard, won the opening race of the Corinthian Challenge at the Curragh on Nearly Famous.
She followed that up with a second-place finish at Gowran Park on the same horse.
Having returned from Australia in March, Lynne has been busy riding out for a trainer who she began working for when she was just 15.
"Since I started riding out racehorses I always wanted the chance to ride in a race," Lynne said before the series.
"The Corinthian Challenge has enabled me to not only ride in one race, but three races at three of Ireland's best racetracks.
"Not only will I achieve my goal of being able to race ride, but I will also get to raise funds for Irish Injured Jockeys, an unbelievable charity that means a lot to me as I have many friends who are jockeys and unfortunately they face the inevitability of falls throughout their career."
Coming in second place on 10 points is Cork native Killian McCarthy, who is riding in the Corinthian Challenge series for the second year running.
Killian will have grand designs on winning the final race after picking up a win on board Water Sprite at Gowran Park.
Coming in third in the standings with eight points is Louth jockey Paddy Woods.
Paddy's childhood revolved around horses and he worked as an apprentice jockey at the RACE academy before going on to complete the Stud Management Course at the National Stud in Kildare.
Paddy got his amateur licence after returning to horse riding and has competed in numerous charity races since, including the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race that stretches over 1,000 kilometres of the Mongolian landscape.
Speaking ahead of the finale in Leopardstown, Michael Higgins, General Manager of Irish Injured Jockeys, said: "We have been delighted with the reaction to the Corinthian Challenge once again this year and it has been just as exciting as our first challenge last year.
"Lynne McLoughlin has shown that she has learned plenty from her experiences with Jessica Harrington, while all of the other jockeys have also looked entirely comfortable in the saddle.
"Irish Injured Jockeys is such an important resource for those who are dealing with injuries suffered while competing in the sport."
, and we aim to help each one of them as much as we can. The support the public has given us from the time we were established in 2014 has been immense."


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I hate it when I'm pulled over and have to pretend that I'm as sober as an Amish kid on Sunday. I know my alphabet backwards more than forwards and I have practiced walking a straight line so much that you would think I'm training to be a tightrope walker.
What can I say? I like to party. Well enough people with Mafia ties like to party in New Jersey that now the cops are going to need an interpreter just to pull people over if suspected of driving under the influence.
A new New Jersey law states that if an officer is going to arrest you for drunk driving they must read you your rights in the language that you understand and speak. This is a great idea mainly because… if I'm going to be pulled over I'm just going to pretend that I don't speak English. That way when I get to court the case is thrown out because my rights were read in Polish.
There are over 150 languages spoken by New Jersey drivers but yet everyone understands the middle finger. I think that we need our officers to be effective communicators while tasing a drunken Mexican. We don't want those fuckers on the highways anyhow.
So let's start handing those Rosetta Stones out to the troopers and everyone else start learning new ways to get out of those DWI's. It's not like those worthless pigs are doing any good in Newark, Jersey City, or Union City anyhow…


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Not the last waltz
With the Ayodhya 'pop judgement' revival of extremism and fundamentalism seems to be on the cards
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
Nearly 18 years after Babri Masjid was demolished by rampaging Hindutva mobs in Ayodhya, a three member bench of the Allahabad High Court passed a judgement that is fraught with disturbing possibilities. The first take on the approximately 6,000 page judgement, which unanimously upholds the 'disputed site' as the birthplace of Lord Ram where his idols were sneakily placed in 1949, is that it vindicates the Ram janmbhoomi movement led by LK Advani. Although the judgement is long and detailed, its critics claim that it has not taken into cognisance some of the compelling evidence provided by the Sunni Waqf Board about its claim on ownership of the contentious land.
The three member bench comprising Justice SU Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and DV Sharma rejected Sunni Waqf Board's petition asserting that it is "time barred" - it was filed 12 years after the idols were placed in the mosque. "If the Sunni Waqf Board's petition has been rejected, then why were they given a piece of land at the site," claimed a Muslim lawyer. Said Ramesh Dixit, a political observer in Lucknow, "The minorities are feeling cheated. The judgement is incomprehensible."
Another member of the Babri Masjid Action Committee claimed that the petition was filed within the stipulated time period and there was no way that the court could declare it time barred.
Judicial experts may have problems about the judgment, but it is custom made for our conflict-ridden times. In a split verdict, the bench suggested dividing up the land into three parts with the site where the idols of Ram Lalla are placed going to Hindus, one portion to Nirmohi Akhara, and one-third to the Sunni Waqf Board to offer their prayers or build a mosque. In a way it is a 'pop judgement' that satisfies the great demand of high-pitched TV anchors who have been claiming that there are no takers for Ayodhya anymore in the country. These noble thoughts in a way give legitimacy to a judgement that would not satisfy most purists.
The runup to the Ayodhya judgement saw hysteric news channels babbling endlessly, often without an iota of factual information, building mass hysteria. So scared were the Muslims in the wake of the judgement that they shut themselves in the houses, many localities remaining awake all night, gripped by the phobia of violence, including in UP and Delhi. Shops were closed in Muslim- dominated areas and peace marches were taken out to ensure that the bloody violence and killings of 1992 (post-demolition) were not unleashed yet again. In UP alone, 1,90,000 security personnel were deployed. Chief Minister Mayawati was fearing a Hindu upper caste backlash if the judgement did not go their way. The Center, too, expected riots and turbulence in Bihar, UP, Karnataka, even in Kashmir.
Initially, there was an attempt to defer the judgement to a later date - after the Commonwealth Games. Efforts were also made to look for a mutual settlement between the petitioners. Such enterprise met with cynicism and finger-pointing. Allegations of the central government using dubious litigants to stall the judicial process were made. The Congress government in Delhi drew flak for this delay. Finally, the Supreme Court stepped in and paved the way for the announcement of the high court verdict.
What are the implications of this judgement? There is near unanimity that the Sunni Waqf Board would petition the Supreme Court against this verdict. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has reportedly been working overtime to contain the fallout of this judgement, has promised status quo till the Supreme Court disposes off this case. Zafaryab Jilani, lawyer from the Muslim side, claimed that it was a "step forward... though we are disappointed".
Hindu leaders were generally ecstatic. Advani claimed it was the beginning of a new politics. RSS leaders displayed magnanimity. They also showed willingness to work towards building amity. Even Congress leaders made conciliatory noises. Most political parties displayed "great relief".
By their declamations, it was apparent that there was convergence among most political parties about containing the 'Ayodhya fallout'. Although no one seemed to know how the judgement is going to pan out, there was a desire in a section of the government that the verdict should not lead to a variant of 'Islamic fundamentalism'. Their fear was that in supposedly 'Islamised neighbourhoods', hot heads could destabilise the civil society. The demolition of the mosque is seen by some experts as the trigger for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the country post 1992. From this standpoint, this could be a bad omen.
There are apprehensions that the lunatic fringe among the Hindutva forces might now try to up the ante and stake their claim on the disputed property in Kashi and Mathura, following the verdict. In other words, the masked or covert sign of another extremist and violent Hindutva revival could be on the cards.
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(One of the only photo's in existence of Lincoln
at Gettysburg before delivering his address.)
I don't know what the name Gettysburg conjures up in your mind, if anything, but in my mind I get an overwhelming sense of sadness at the loss suffered by the Confederacy; for Gettysburg, along with the fall of Vicksburg probably turned the tide, which had been decidedly in favor of the Confederate Army, and eventually led to Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
But it is not the town of Gettysburg, nor the battle which saw over 50,000 men die that I wish to talk about; it is the speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the battle that I wish to discuss. I can't speak for most of the younger generations, whose history teachers have eliminated, or distorted much of our nation's history, but anyone over 40 probably could tell you where the words, 'Four score and seven years ago…' come from; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
History books tell us that Lincoln scribbled of the words to this famous speech while on a train heading to the site of the wars deadliest battle; yet that is not the case. The copies still in existence show that the surface upon which he wrote was firm, and not subject to bounces and vibration as would be the case had he written them while aboard a train. It's also interesting to note that, of the five remaining copies in Lincoln's handwriting, there are slight variations of the text. But all this is just filler material; it is the text of Lincoln's address that I would like to discuss.
I once read somewhere that the best way to tell a lie is to cloak it in partial truths. I think Lincoln did that quite effectively in his Gettysburg Address. Lincoln begins by saying, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
For those of you who don't know what a score is, aside from the total points scored by football teams that is, it represents 20 years. So what Lincoln was actually saying was, 87 years ago our fathers brought forth…which is essentially true. However, when Lincoln says that they brought forth a nation, he is being somewhat misleading.
When our country first gained its independence it was not a nation; not as we know it today anyway. A nation, back then, was considered to be a single entity under one system of government. However, America, at the end of the Revolutionary War was a confederacy of individual nations. There was the nation of Massachusetts, the nation of Virginia, etc; each with their own system of government; fully autonomous and independent from each other. If we were a nation in 1863, when the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, we didn't become one until the constitution was ratified in 1789; not in 1776 as Lincoln claims.
Lincoln, as much as I despise the man, was a masterful speechwriter, and he cloaked his lies in truth very well. He then completes the lie sandwich, as I have taken to calling it, between another truth; '…conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.' Those words are almost directly taken from the Declaration of Independence, a document he was trampling upon with his war against the South; but I'll get to that in more detail in a moment.
Lincoln then states something that is also a bit misleading, or if not that, then at least a bold change of position from comments he made at the onset of this bloody war. Lincoln next states, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
First of all, this was not a civil war as Lincoln claims. Civil wars are typically wars in which one segment of a country rise up and try and overthrow the existing government; replacing it with a government of their own choosing. That is not what happened in 1861! The South seceded from the Union, they DID NOT attempt to overthrow the government of the North, nor did they seek any conquest; they only wanted to be left alone; free to govern themselves in the best manner they saw fit.
But it is the next few words that lead me to believe that Lincoln was slowly changing his position on why this conflict was being fought. Originally he claimed that the war was being fought to preserve the Union; not to end slavery. I have provided ample evidence in previous articles to back that up, so I won't waste your time by providing quotes you have already read.
So what did Lincoln mean when he said, "…testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." Was he talking about the Liberty this country was conceived upon? If he was, why was he trampling upon the liberty of the States who chose to leave the Union? Or, was he subliminally inferring that since slavery still existed in America that all men were NOT considered equal? If he was implying that, then it would be a drastic change of position from his earlier statements on why the war was being fought.
Lincoln's next words are probably basically true, "We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
Lincoln then goes on to say that the men who fought at Gettysburg have already consecrated the ground with their sacrifice. He then goes on to say something which history has proven wrong, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
How many of you can name more than one or two of the commanding generals who faced off against each other at the Battle of Gettysburg? How many can name of few of the key sites which were bravely fought over or defended during that battle? You see, unless you have taken the time to study what happened during those 3 days of fighting, you won't know any of that; which proves that history HAS forgotten what those men did there. But I'll bet that your history books at least mention Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Continuing, Lincoln then says, "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." Well he must have been speaking about those left alive on the Union side of the battle, for he certainly couldn't have been speaking about advancing the cause for which the brave Confederate soldiers fought and died. I wonder if he even gave a damn about those who died for the Confederacy?
Lincoln's final words sound more like a locker room pep talk than they do the dedication to a memorial site for those who had died during the battle, "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
It is the last words, after the double hyphen that I would like to focus the remainder of my discussion on, "… that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Again Lincoln uses the word nation; which I have already discussed. Lincoln's war pretty much obliterated most of what our Founders believed to be the rights of the States, or the people, up to that point in history. Our Declaration of Independence states that "…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Did Lincoln allow the South to do that? Of course not, he raised an army and said, "Rejoin the Union or else!" (My words)
He then said that this 'nation' shall have a new birth of freedom. To what was he referring? Was it to the eventual emancipation of the slaves; which was a complete turnaround for him, or was it for his idea of freedom for all the people of his 'nation'? How can he claim to care about freedom when his war was using military force to compel the South to do something against their will? Is that his definition of freedom? Could Lincoln have actually meant freedom from free will and self governance, replacing it with the freedom to live under a system of government that uses force to coerce the people into obedience?
However, it is Lincoln's final comments which irritate me the most, "…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." I know most of you don't know the difference between a federal system of government and a national one, but our system was designed primarily to be a federal government; meaning that the States retained their sovereignty and all powers not specifically delegated to the central government by the constitution.
Lincoln's words make no mention of State sovereignty or authority, and along with his use of the word nation again, imply that he didn't give a rat's ass about State sovereignty; that all he cared about was nationalizing the country under one system of government. In fact, the words '… government of the people, by the people, for the people…' can almost define what is meant by a national form of government, as there is no mention of the States in any capacity.
The South did not rebel against the government instituted by our Founders in 1789; they revoked their agreement to be a part of a union in which the government established by our Founders had overstepped its just authority and was making a tyrannical use of its powers to their detriment. Had the government remained true to what the constitution said there would have been no need for secession, and there would have been no Civil War.
You may not be aware, but the Confederate States of America wrote their own constitution after they seceded from the Union. You may also not know that it was basically the same thing as the constitution which established our government in 1789, with a few minor changes that is. They felt that the constitution itself outlined a good system of government, but that it was lacking in sufficient guards against the usurpation of power by the government it outlines. So they modified their constitution to prevent such abuses of power.
Maybe now the quote from Confederate President Jefferson Davis will make a bit more sense to you, "I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it." What he was saying in a roundabout way was that the government of the Union no longer adhered to the limits the constitution imposed upon it, and that he would rather leave the union than remain in it, subjugated and oppressed by its government.
The problem, as I see it, is that you cannot have a rational discussion with people these days regarding the Civil War without most people's minds zeroing in on the subject of slavery. Slavery has been pounded into their heads as the sole cause of the Civil War, and any attempt to get past that with the truth is doomed to fail.
If a person is blind and cannot see the sky, does that change the fact that the sky is blue? Well it's the same way with the truth; simply because people cannot see it, or won't open their eyes to it, doesn't change the fact that the truth remains the truth.
It is your choice as to what you ultimately decide to believe about the Civil War; you can choose to believe the lies you have been taught, or you can seek out the truth. It is out there, just waiting for people to find, and embrace it. All you have to do is get off your ass and go looking for it.


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American Dream Sequence: Left Behind in the Monongahela River Valley
In the Monongahela River Valley, former mill towns exist at a remove from Pittsburgh's current economic renaissance.
How a Childhood at the Museum Influenced One Artist's Future
Steffani Jemison recalls a childhood encounter with art, and how that informed her future work with the museum's Hillman Photography Initiative.
Between Truth and Fiction: Pittsburgh's Burden of Identity
Matthew Newton considers Pittsburgh's industrial past, and how that has legacy has shaped the city's identity over the last four decades.
Appalachian Youth Respond to the Museum as Classroom
The Appalachian youth of this summer's Envisioning Our Future program, a collaboration between CMOA and Appalshop, reflect on their experiences.
In North Braddock, Residents are Reviving a Forgotten Playground
Al Borde, a collective of young architects from Quito, Ecuador, is helping community groups in North Braddock to revive a once-vibrant playground.
Art on Loan: Inside Braddock's Art Lending Collection
With the Art Lending Collection in the Braddock Carnegie Library, Transformazium maintains the community's culture while subverting arts' narrative.
In North Braddock, a Derelict Church Offers Signs of Hope
Caledonia Curry and Tod Seelie report on efforts to resurrect a neighborhood church in the small town of North Braddock, Pennsylvania.
Concrete Ideas and Paper Architecture: Artists Looking for Buildings in the Big City
In search of creative space, friends Joey Behrens and Haylee Ebersole explore Wilkinsburg as a potential home for their art practices.
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You can always read more about ArachnidWorks here, but we'd also like to introduce you to our staff which includes everything from graphic designers to marketers and the "security guard" to our President. If you've recently been to our Frederick advertising office, you've definitely seen our staff posters. Here's a closer look at each member of the AW team!
First off is our President and CEO, Monica Kolbay!
Next up is our problem-solving, Technical Officer, Brian!
Here's Allison, manager of all projects!
Next up is Wes, marketer of the interwebs!
Here's our website design specialist, Irese!
Meet Kaitlen, another one of our great web and graphic designers!
Say hi to Leah, our graphic design specialist!
Meet the newest member of the team, our "Hoodie", Jennifer!
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Today's spotlight is on none other than FarmVille, the latest Facebook application from Zynga, creator of Mafia Wars and all-round professional IP copycat. Zynga corporate strategy seems to be thus: churn out K.C. Munchkin-esq clones of every popular online social game out there. Their Mafia Wars was so identical to Psycho Monkey's popular Mob Wars that the latter developer sued over the coincidence. Their latest coincidence, FarmVille, is a clone of Slashkey's Farm Town, right down to the doofus copycat title. As in Farm Town, users labor to create successful harvests from crops and livestock, which in turn allow them to pimp out their farms. In other words, they both had ripped off the basic elements of the Harvest Moon series, so it, like, all karmically works out.
Unlike Farm Town, however, FarmVille is far more social, viral. FarmVille encourages you to make "neighbors" of your fellow Facebook users, transforming them into players with their own farms of which you can visit (and indeed, my own introduction to FarmVille was through one of M's friends, whom in turn is now playing herself), which in term provides gameplay rewards like expanding your farm plot (which means more neighbors, which means more gameplay opportunities and so on). Add to this a massive online ad push, a design that makes sure you can't so much as fart in your farm, let alone adopt that poor stray black sheep, without FarmVille trying to tell the Facebook universe about it, and it's easy to see how the application has begun to attract over 11 million daily users.
FarmVille is also smart enough to know that Facebook is 2/3rds female; Zynga's app is more social, and has a cutesier, more charming and cleaner look from Farm Town (not sure if I've even seen more adorable videogame cows). It also manages to be even more streamlined than Farm Town is, which means the non-gamer girls that proliferate Facebook have no "global marketplace" or any complicated strategies to familiarize with; just fire it up and start growing those plums and strawberries so you can build pens for the flocks of ducks your friends keep sending you.
These sorts of casual games tend to grate on actual gamers; Harvest Moon fans in particular will likely see FarmVille as a ridiculously basic shill. Beginning players can easily abuse the game design early on for quick gold and experience (ProTip: Buy a frickload of Rest Stands and Hay Bales and you'll be sitting pretty past Level 10 in no time), but you'll otherwise not gain anything cool anytime soon unless you start paying real money. However, it terms of just keeping in touch with your friends via goats and artichokes, it serves that purpose well (and hey, there's always Farm Town if the other one doesn't work out).
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Mother of six children and local shop owner, Mary Cowley, has taken on the challenge of a lifetime and signed up to run The Great North Run for Bakwell charity, Helen's Trust, here's her latest training diary entry...
After the first rush of enthusiasm it's back down to earth with a bump. When I signed up for the Great North Run I think I pictured myself at the finish line with everyone saying "isn't she amazing" as I posed for pictures in my size 10 running kit. I'm now realising just how much hard work I've got ahead of me.
Reality has set in now – and I'm beginning to realise just what a long journey this is going to be. It's a constant juggling act and the biggest challenge is trying to find the time to get to the gym. My husband is really supportive but I don't think I'd be very happy if he left me to put the children to bed every night while he went to the gym!
So I've bought an exercise bike. Problem solved! Now I can fit in the exercise I need to and still be around to make sure the children do their homework and get to bed on time. And I can watch TV at the same time which makes exercise so much more bareable! And it's working - the weight is falling off.
Just to keep things on track I've signed up to run the Thornbridge Hall 10K – that's nothing compared to a half marathon, right!? Thornbridge Hall are putting on a free 10K and fun run on 6th July for supporters of small charities. I'll be making a donation to Helen's Trust in return for my free place. There's also free camping and a BBQ afterwards but I think I'll be heading home to a nice hot bath afterwards! If you want to sign up too and support Helen's Trust – and run alongside me – have a look at their website www.helenstrust.org.uk. If I can do it, so can you!


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InStyle Magazine Badass Women List
I have been named as one of fifty in InStyle Magazine's Badass Women, a series celebrating women who show up, speak up and get things done. I believe all of us are "badasses" in our own way, but it is still an unbelievable honor to have been included, alongside so many inspiring women, including Jane [ … ]
WeTransfer's Union of Concerned Photographers
"It's one thing to know the planet is in crisis. It's another to see what that looks like." I am proud to be a member of WeTransfer's Union of Concerned Photographers along with Lucy Pike, Mandy Barker, Frans Lanting, Luca Locatelli, & Joel Redman. We are a group of photographers dedicated to using the power [ … ]
Visual Storytelling through Digital Photography Workshop at Anderson Ranch
Challenge the way you view the world around you by examining your community and your life through the art of visual storytelling. In this workshop, held Aug. 27-Aug. 31, 2018 we examine the art of cohesive storytelling and narrative, and work together to create a storyline and rich understanding of place and culture. With this [ … ]
2018 World Press Photo Nature Stories Nomination
I'm humbled and honored to be among the nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo awards for my National Geographic story "Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them." Thank you to all my friends at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Community United for Elephants for trusting me to share your powerful story, to my editors Alexa [ … ]
Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas – A New Book from Ami Vitale
The giant panda is everyone's favorite bamboo-munching bear. Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs on location in China document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and [ … ]
Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them
I am very excited to share an important and hopeful story in Northern Kenya. At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, the local Samburu community is helping to save what is left of Kenya's wildlife. What's happening here at Reteti, without fanfare, is nothing less than the beginnings of a transformation in the way Samburus relate to [ … ]
How to Save the World's Tallest Animal
The giraffe population has plummeted more than 40 percent over the past 30 years. To make matters worse, scientists know relatively little about giraffe behavior. But a group of scientists and wildlife experts is working to untangle the mystery behind these animals' rapid decline. In early June, I followed a group from the San Diego Zoo [ … ]
The Guardian Warriors of Northern Kenya
Please see my new work in National Geographic Magazine which will be published in the August, 2017 issue of the magazine about an elephant sanctuary in Northern Kenya. What makes it so special is that it is owned and operated by the indigenous Samburu community. It was a privilege to be allowed into this sacred place. In a world [ … ]
National Geographic Live 2018
I am excited to continue touring as one of the featured National Geographic photographers at the National Geographic Live series in Portland, Victoria B.C., Omaha, Ontario, Buffalo, San Jose, and Los Angeles. My talk, titled "Rhinos, Rickshaws & Revolutions," is about my exploration of the world from temples to war zones and rhinos to pandas. Tickets and information [ … ]
Recognition for Pandas Gone Wild
Ami's panda images for National Geographic earned third prize for science and natural history picture story in Pictures of the Year International, second prize for stories in the Nature category in this year's World Press Photo Contest, and are shortlisted for the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. The contests were covered by dozens of media including [ … ]


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4th year is definitely underway! My dissertation is coming along nicely and I'm finding it surprisingly enjoyable, although taking up too much of my time that I would rather be spending in the studio, c'est la vie! With my draft due at the start of December and the final thing to be completed by the end of January that is the area I am trying my hardest to keep my concentration on but studio work is still moving along too. Recently I've been considering my net making within my practice and trying to decide what key elements I would like to concentrate on, I really enjoy the process of the actual making especially the weaving and addictive rhythmic pattern that you get into when hand netting so I decided to try and break that down into its simplest form – Shape.Making a net
The layering of line really interests me and at this stage i am still unsure of which direction my studio work will evolved on to but this idea of shape and pattern is definitely becoming prominent in my work. I am enjoying experimenting and trying out new things in the studio under these themes and producing many studies, small scale paintings and larger drawings is allowing me to really get underway with this.
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LatiNation, LLC, the holding company for the nationally syndicated TV programs American Latino TV (ALTV) and LatiNation, announced today that it has hired Jeff Stern as Director of Distribution. Mr. Stern will lead ALTV's syndication distribution arm as well as assist with parent company LATV's multicast distribution strategy. In addition, Mr. Stern will supplement ALTV's advertising efforts, particularly in Texas.
Flowers Communications Group (FCG), the Chicago-based PR agency specializing in multicultural integrated marketing communications has hired Rashada Whitehead as senior vice president and managing director. Whitehead, returning to FCG after nearly four years with Chicago's GolinHarris agency, was responsible for helping to lead brand strategy and account management for McDonald's Corp.'s global and U.S. business efforts.
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In a Crayon drawing on a white sheet of paper, a kid sits on a stack of green, yellow, red, and blue squares. The kid looks at a square held in his hands. A dump truck with a pile of more multi-colored squares in its bed drives toward the kid sitting on the stack. Above the kid and the truck, several diagonal streaks of yellow sunlight cut through a swath of blue sky. At the top of the paper, in no. 2 pencil is the sentence: I'm thankful for intersting [sic] Books.
I found that picture in a file drawer at my parents' house with my passport and a copy of my birth certificate before my move from Orlando, Florida to attend graduate school in Ames, Iowa. I drew that picture and wrote that sentence in second grade. The year before, in first grade at Academy Elementary School in Buckhannon, West Virginia, I had learned to read. But the year that I drew that picture of sitting on a stack of books, reading a book, and having more books delivered to me; I had learned to write at the American School of Warsaw.
My parents had moved our family to Poland because they were missionaries. Over there, on the trams and in taxis, I remember Mom always had a book with her. In the evenings, she would read to me and had me practice reading to her. By the time my parents moved our family from Poland back to America and settled in Orlando, I was reading fantasy and mystery novels under my desk in public school.
During my sophomore year of college—after I took macroeconomics twice—I switched majors from business to creative writing. I thought if I liked reading so much then I should try writing. At the time I mostly read novels and short story collections that I checked out on my weekly motorcycle rides to the public library. Still, I didn't know what to write about.
First, I took poetry workshops. The professor said to me, "Write about yourself." I took her advice and wrote a poem about my heritage in Buckhannon. The professor praised my poem. I went on to write a narrative poetry collection for an undergraduate Honors thesis about being born in West Virginia, growing up in Poland, and then moving to Florida.
After all that, I didn't feel like a poet. I knew the poems were just scenes from my life. I also took fiction workshops, but I felt my stories' narrators were really just me. And so I switched to nonfiction.
And now, I write about moments I've lived. I enjoy exploring my memories of those moments like one of my first attempts of writing being a celebration of reading. My writing started with a kid sitting on a stack of books to read.


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I have been invited to speak on a panel this Friday that will be exploring diversity in the independent theatre world. It's part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (in which COTE is currently producing "Decadent Acts"). The festival has been a wonderful experience for us so far. If you haven't had the chance to, you should check out some of the exciting work being done. Of course, you should check out Decadent Acts too. We've made quite a lot of changes since our April production and are in great shape. Looking forward to an exciting run.
For more information on the panel, check out Martin's blog. I have copied and pasted the information from there, below. http://nytheatre.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/talking-about-diversity-in-indie-theater/
On Friday, June 18 at 2:00pm, at the Robert Moss Theatre, I will be hosting a panel on diversity in Indie theater. The panel is part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, of which nytheatre.com is a media sponsor.
I've put together a really interesting lineup to join me on the panel:
- LEAH BONVISUTTO is the director of Felipe Ossa's Cake at Planet Connections
- ROI "BUBI" ESCUDERO is the creator/director/designer of 11 Seconds of Ecstasy at Planet Connections
- ASHLEY MARINACCIO is the author/director of Decadent Acts at Planet Connections
- MONTSERRAT MENDEZ is a playwright, director, actor, and a reviewer for nytheatre.com
We'll be talking about the breadth and depth of diversity in the indie theater community–which is certainly exemplified by the panel, which includes three women who direct and two who write plays; one of our panelists is from Argentina and another from Puerto Rico. Diversity will be defined very broadly in this discussion–not just in terms of gender or ethnicity, but also in terms of subject matter, theme, genre, and form. Why is indie theater the platform for so much more exploration in these areas than elsewhere in the NYC theatre world?
We're also going to be talking about why diversity is important–not just for the various groups/ideas that are represented, but more significantly for the audience. Why should theatregoers of every stripe stretch themselves and move out of their comfort zones to experience diverse kinds of theatre?
I expect a fascinating and lively discussion, and I hope you will join us! It's free. Post your thoughts here and I will bring them to the panel!Labels: activism, COTE, decadent acts, planet connections theatre festivity