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LET us glance first at the conditions of this Retrogressive Movement, and see if its cause be discoverable.
That such a movement has taken place admits of no doubt.
Many of the measures passed have not only shown no tendency to accord with the movement known as Liberal or Progressive in all countries inhabited by Europeans; but they have shown a persistent tendency to page: 10 move in a contrary direction, and even to undo the more advanced and progressive legislative enactments of the past.
While in all civilised countries where representative institutions prevail the tendency is to move without intermission in the direction of a broadened electoral basis, so that in several of the English colonies to-day we find manhood suffrage, or one man one vote, or adult suffrage; and while even the most backward of European countries are rapidly tending year by year towards these page: 11 conditions—we, I believe, alone among civilised people have deliberately, during the last few years, narrowed our basis,¹ and undone the progressive work of the last generation.
So also while in all enlightened countries during the past sixty years public opinion has been steadily advancing in the direction of doing away with the lash as a punishment for minor offences, we in this country have not only, during the last years, possessed certain individuals in our Legislative
¹ The Franchise Act, introduced and voted for unanimously by the last Ministry, Mr. Rhodes being Premier, raised the monetary qualification from £25 to £75 per annum.
page: 12 Councils who have striven to introduce an Act making legal the infliction of corporal punishment for the smallest offences towards master or mistress on the part of household or other servants, and which, if passed would be merely a recurrence to slavery under a new name—but this Act was voted for by three members in the last Ministry, two of them being Englishmen, and one the Premier, Mr. Cecil Rhodes.
Again, while in all civilised countries the tendency, as each country advances, is to consider more and more the welfare of its labouring classes; to remove oppressive restrictions; to en- endeavour page: 13 deavour by every lawful means to increase their wages; and to regard the labourer, not merely as a means for increasing the wealth of other sections of the community, but to legislate for his welfare, and to regard his happiness as one of the pressing considerations of the State—we in this country have, under the Glen Grey Act of last year, brought in and supported by Mr. Cecil Rhodes and his following, an enactment which compels even the self-supporting and industrious native to work for the white man for a certain time every year, whether he will or no; laying himself open to imprisonment or fine page: 14 if he refuse, even though his going out to labour for the white man should entail the neglect of his own cultivated lands.
So again, with regard to land tenure; while in all progressive countries there is a tendency to obtain and retain as large a part as possible of lands, mines, and great public works as the property of, and to be worked for the benefit of, the nation as a whole—we, in this country, are for ever and completely alienating our public lands, our minerals, our precious stones, and even our public works.
And further, not only are we alienating them within our own page: 15 boundaries, and allowing almost without a struggle a small band of Monopolists to gain possession and control of that wealth which should be ours and our children's to employ for the benefit of the nation that shall be, but we are enabling them to grasp adjacent territories still uninhabited by the white man, so that when the mass of civilised men shall enter into occupation there, they will find nothing of value left for themselves in that state which, by their labour, they will have to build up; the alien will already have set his grasp upon all that is fair or rich. For not as in other countries has the Monopolist risen up page: 16 among us, a growth of our own; he comes from a foreign clime, and sweeps bare the virgin land before him like the locust; and, like the locust, leaves nothing for his successors but the barren earth.
While in New Zealand and other advanced colonies every legislative effort is being made to retain the land for the people, we are quietly allowing ourselves to be stripped bare session after session, and are confiding our possession into the hands of the Speculator and Monopolist.
Lastly, while in enlightened countries there is a continually increasing tendency to raise the revenue, not by taxing the page: 17 primary necessaries of life, upon which almost the whole income of the labouring classes is necessarily expended, but to raise it through the taxation of luxuries, whether by means of Excise or Import dues, we in this country find that not only are our necessaries of life already taxed to an appalling extent,¹ but a heavy additional tax on wheat and flour, and an almost prohibitive tax on imported meat,² is being levied upon
¹ For instance, wheat 38 per cent., flour 59 per cent., unrefined sugar 107 per cent., butter 20 per cent., cheese 43 per cent., candles 59 per cent., paraffin 202 per cent.
So also in small matters.
In Australia, where the material welfare of the country largely depends on its wool, it has been clearly seen that to allow the land to be partially ruined by the existence of an easily eradicated disease in the stock was scandalous and immoral; and they have legislated so successfully that in certain Australian colonies the insect which causes the disease has page: 19 been exterminated. It has been felt in those countries that the man who refuses to exterminate scab in his flocks inflicts a merciless wrong and injustice upon his fellows whose flocks his own infect; and the Australians have, by stringent legislation, made such conduct impossible.
It is not necessary to say that in this country all attempts to legislate in defence of the man who endeavours to keep his flocks healthy have been crushed or emasculated.
Many other matters will suggest themselves to every one in which our legislation has shown this retrograde tendency. We have no time now to enter into page: 20 details with regard to such measures as Haarhoff's Bill, which, as introduced, was intended to make it culpable for any aboriginal native, whether a domestic servant, householder, newspaper editor, or clergyman, to be found walking on pavements in our towns; and also to make it punishable for any aboriginal native to be found out of doors within a township after nine o'clock at night unless he or she had been given a pass by the Magistrate or other authorised person—a Bill which also received the support of the existing Government.
On the whole, it is evident that no impartial mind can page: 21 look at the course of our legislation during recent years without realising the fact that while the wheels of legislation in other civilised and Anglo-Saxon communities are tending to propel the car of state forwards, ours are slowly but surely running us backwards.
Now, when we turn to inquire of ourselves what the reason of this Retrogressive Movement may be, I think the superficial reply, given when we glance merely at the surface of our public life, would be this: that the Retrogressive page: 22 Movement of late years has been entirely the work of that organisation known throughout South Africa as the Afrikander Bond; and which has in recent years attained to such influence that it apparently coerces Ministry after Ministry, bending them to its will. But a deeper examination will, I think, show us that the Bond alone would not have been able to produce this movement. Another influence, working into the hands of the Bond, has given it for a moment the power of forcing this retrogression upon the country.
But before we turn to consider this secondary influence, page: 23 let us glance at the Bond itself.
The Afrikander Bond was in its origin one of the most beneficent and desirable institutions that have appeared in South Africa. It banded together, and aroused to healthy interest in the affairs of the State, a large body of men who, hitherto unorganised and isolated, had not taken that share in the government of the State which their numbers would have justified, and who were therefore unduly disregarded and possibly even unjustly dealt with.
Started originally (as was inevitable under the circumstances) as a more or less racial page: 24 organisation, and opposing Boer as Boer to Englishman as Englishman, this tone, nevertheless, as time passed, quickly modified itself. To-day the organisation is merely an organisation which draws together and unites for common purposes a number of the early colonists and others holding certain views on social and political matters, and in no way is it a merely racial organisation. To this extent it forms a healthy and desirable element in our public life. Left to itself, and having no adventitious power given it by an extraneous intervention, I believe that, so far from being an evil, the existence of the page: 25 Bond would awaken and maintain that healthy friction and interaction of opposing views which is necessary to keep pure and healthy the stream of political life.
But what has this extraneous influence been which has acted upon the Bond, removing it from its healthy position, and enabled it to obtain for the moment an undue power of enforcing its retrogressive views and methods upon the whole Cape Colony?
To explain this influence it will be necessary to examine carefully the nature and power of that small band of Monopolists to whom we before referred.page: 26
South Africa is a country of vast resources. In spite of the dryness of much of our climate, the rocky nature of certain tracts of our soil, taking the whole of South Africa together from east to west, I do not hesitate to assert that not many countries equally desirable and suitable for human habitation will be found. More than a compensation for the dryness of our climate is the absence of the numbing cold of extreme northern and southern lands, which for months in the year renders outdoor labour difficult; page: 27 yet more important is the absence of that moist heat which in tropical countries renders exertion almost impossible to the white man, and exhaustive to the dark. A country with temperate, stimulating climate, which favours the health and energy of Europeans, physically and mentally; which is favourable to the constitution of every species of domestic animal, and is adapted to the cultivation of almost every plant of the temperate and tropical zones; which, above all, is one of the richest, if not the richest, country in the world in precious stones and minerals of all kinds, and which was originally peopled page: 28 only by barbarians—this country has always been attractive to Europeans. For 200 years, Boer and Englishman, we have been populating and steadily taking possession of the land, moving steadily northwards. Our progress has not been made by a series of world-striking coups d'état, it has been slow, but it has been the more healthy, the more sure, the more deeply rooted, because of its gradual and natural development.
Those superb pioneers of South Africa, its Boers, have continued to move, as they have always moved, northward: our English colonists have been steadily building up their vil- villages page: 29 lages, founding their educational institutions, and establishing a liberal and progressive Government. We have not exhausted or even yet opened up many of the mineral resources of our country; they are still here for the use of our own and future generations; but so far as the colonists, Dutch and English, have populated the land, our progress, though slow, has been wholesome; and the land as a whole has been kept free from many of those crushing evils which afflict the older civilisations of Europe, and even affect some of the younger dependencies.
There is a sense in which we page: 30 have been a poor people. We have had no mass of surplus wealth wrung from the labour of a working class, but we have been a very rich people, perhaps one of the richest on the earth, in the fact that grinding poverty, and the enormous and superfluous wealth of individuals, were equally unknown among us. Our people as a whole led a simple but comfortable life; our labouring classes were engaged in no unhealthy occupation; starvation and want were unknown among us; we were progressing steadily, if slowly, and keeping our national wealth for the people as a whole, and for all who should labour among us.page: 31
But a new element has burst into South African life.
When diamonds were first discovered here, in the true old South African manner, the find was considered as one for the people at large. For years there flocked to the Diamondfields colonists from every part of the country, and the wealth discovered went back to the homes of the people. That wealth rebuilt many a Colonial homestead; it educated many a Colonial child; it enabled landowners to carry out improvements otherwise impos- impossible page: 32 sible; it saved from insolvency many a Colonial firm which had sent members to dig; it spread throughout the country a glow of well-being, owing to the general diffusion in small sums of the wealth made by South Africa from the diamonds. Something analogous took place in the early days at the Transvaal gold-fields; and gold-digging has never yet become quite so complete a monopoly in the hands of a few as the diamond industry.
Time forbids that I should enter into a detailed account of the way in which these industries passed from their early and healthy condition; the page: 33 facts are well known to you all. There were in South Africa certain men from Europe, of great shrewdness, and with large abilities for speculation, who saw at once the possibilities our natural industries opened out before them. The many small original possessors of the wealth of South Africa were not men of vast means, and were rather hard workers than sharp financial speculators; and the keen-sighted strangers quickly discerned that, could they buy out the small interests one by one and then amalgamate among themselves, slowly but surely the wealth of the country would pass into their hands.page: 34
It needed no vast capital to buy out the original possessors.
To-day a small, resolute, and keen body of men, amalgamated into Rings and Trusts, are quickly and surely setting their hands round the mineral wealth of South Africa. Our diamonds are already a complete monopoly in their hands; our gold, our coal, the richest portions of our soil, and even our public works, are tending to fall into the grasp of our great amalgamators. Not only are these men not South Africans by birth, which would in itself matter nothing, but in the majority of cases they are men who regard South Africa merely page: 35 as a field for the making of wealth and the furthering of their own designs. When they have attained their end they do not feel themselves bound to the spot which has enriched them, but in most cases retire to Europe to expend the wealth of South Africa in the purchase of social distinction and in the luxuries of old-world life, or in further increasing their command over South African resources.
And South Africa grows poorer!
Yet, were this all, we should be inclined to say, What ground have we for complaint? These men are but taking advantage page: 36 of that competitive system which we to-day still uphold. If the men of South Africa are not skilled enough in the methods of gathering together the wealth of a people; and if they have not that fellow-feeling to be able to defeat them, which would enable them to combine, and so retain the land for the people at large; can we blame the men who take advantage of our ignorance and disunion? They are but carrying out their operations on the most approved financial principles! In truth, were this all, we should merely be suffering in a most exaggerated degree from a disease common to many other countries.page: 37
But our evil has not stopped here. Owing to the mental capacity of some of these speculators, and to certain conditions in South African public life, the conception suggested itself to them: that were it possible to obtain complete control of the political machinery in any African State (notably of the Cape Colony), and could they hold the reins of Government in their own hands, their power for increasing their wealth, for resisting taxation upon those industries of which they possessed monopolies, and for ex- extending page: 38 tending their commercial exploitations into adjoining territories, would be immeasurably increased.
This conception has been seized and carried out.
The means of its accomplishment in the Cape Colony has been through the complete control gained by the Monopolists over the only group in South Africa whom they could hope to guide, and whom, in view of their extra-colonial plans, it was necessary to keep pacified and well in hand.
It is this command of the political machinery of the country by the Monopolist, owing to his union with one page: 39 section, which constitutes the real disease from which the Cape Colony is suffering. It is this which lies at the back of our Retrogressive Movement.
For the Monopolist Party, determined to obtain control of the political machinery, could only do so by purchasing the co-operation of some truly South African body. The more shrewd and modern section of South Africans—professional men, merchants, go-ahead newspaper-reading farmers—are, very many of them, unpurchasable; and those who are not would demand a high price in concessions local and personal, and even then could page: 40 not be blindly led. Our working population being mainly native, and very slightly enfranchised, is not at the present day, and will not be for a long time to come, a party powerful enough to make its support a strength to any leader. Then there remained for the Speculatist and Monopolist Party but one body to whom it could turn with any hope that it would place it in power. This body was the Retrogressive Element in the Bond Party. It was purchased, not by the outlay of capital, nor by offers of place and power to its members, but, much more cheaply for the Monopolist, by the simple page: 41 expedient of offering to support those Retrogressive measures which without his aid could never have found a place on our Colonial Statute-book.
The Kafir's back and the poor man's enhanced outlay on the necessaries of life pay the Monopolist's bribe.
On the other hand, the Retrogressive Element, once enabled to pass such measures as lay nearest its heart by the cooperation of the Monopolist with his skill and intelligence, is willing to give him a perfectly free hand, and support him in all measures which do not touch its Retrogressive instincts. We thus have the page: 42 Retrogressive Party supporting the Monopolist in carrying out measures in which he has no interest or concern, and the Monopolist assisting the Retrogressive Party in setting upon the Statute-book measures which are repugnant to his own common sense and shrewd modern outlook. Taking advantage of that childlike simplicity which is at once the weakness and the greatest charm of the Boer, he leads him whither he would and also whither he would not.
It is from this unnatural marriage that are born those evils under which the Colony groans to-day. It is a marriage which must end in rupture page: 43 when the Retrogressive Party discover how, instead of a union of affection, they have been led into one of convenience, and that the bridegroom is quite ready to forsake his bride when she has nothing more to give him.
Nevertheless, to-day it is this coalition which is unpicking the progressive enactments of the past, which is enabling the Monopolist Party to carry out unhampered its financial depredations here and in the Northern Territories. It is this coalition which, by giving political power to enormously wealthy individuals, is corroding our public life, till the principle that every page: 44 man has his price and can be squared, if you can only find his figure, is becoming an established dogma.
Worse than any of those retrogressive measures which the Bondsman, in simplicity and sincerity, desires to see enacted are those measures which he allows others to take, who are neither simple nor sincere.
But I am aware it may be contended: "Granting what has been stated as being exactly true; allowing that the Monopolist has filched away the page: 45 wealth of South Africa; and granting that his party, by coalescing with the extreme Retrogressive Party, has given it for the time being an unhealthy preponderance; granting, further, that to retain control over the Colonial Legislature squaring in all its multiple forms has been, and is, a necessity on the part of the Monopolist Party; granting that this is disastrous to our public and social life—yet is it not worth our while to connive at all these conditions, and to abstain from disturbing them, as long as the Monopolist Party is quietly and persistently moving in a direction which tends to annihilate page: 46 the independence of two adjoining States, which shall ultimately render the Englishman dominant throughout South Africa? At the cost of whatever evils or injustice, is it not well to see extending northward the territory more or less under British rule?"
We are all aware that this is often put forth plainly and in so many words as a reason for abstaining from interference with the Monopolist Party. It is said frequently, "I am for Rhodes, because, whatever he may or may not be, he is slowly but surely undermining the Bond. Rhodes, and he only, will within our lifetime so page: 47 manipulate, that the neighbouring Republics shall fall into our hands, and the English Party in South Africa be dominant. And, after all, is not this extension to the northward a very fine thing for the Colony?"
To this I would first reply: Is the undermining and breaking up of the Bond, even if this should result from the alliance, worth the continual passing of such measures as we shall have in the future to undo? Is the breaking up of the Bond itself wholly to be desired? And if it were, is splitting the Bond worth causing deep racial unrest and suspicion where none before existed, be- between page: 48 tween ourselves and our native fellow-inhabitants, the labouring class of South Africa, by the passing of laws which seem to express an animus towards them which we do not feel; and which constitute a course which, though for the moment it can work us no practical evil, may in years to come, when too late, be the cause of bitter regret? Is it worth while so vitiating the streams of our public life that we have to look back with regret and almost incredulity at the nature of our public life in years gone by, feeling its tone something almost too high ever to have existed in South Africa? Is page: 49 all this worth paying, even if we are undermining the Bond?
I, for one, hold strongly that it is not. I do not wish to see the Bond broken.
What I wish to see is the Bond holding its own manfully on all subjects, social and political, and exercising that influence upon the Legislature and public life of this colony which is proportionate to its numbers and intelligence; thereby preventing legislation from taking a course which might in any respect be unjust, or opposed to the benefit of an important and respected section of the community.
Is the forced annexation of page: 50 the neighbouring States worth the price we are paying for it? If it be true, which I question, that the union of the South African States can only be attained by keeping at the head of affairs the Monopolist Party, is it worth keeping them there?
I, for one, assert emphatically that it is not. I believe the confederation of the South African States to be a desirable consummation; and I believe further that it is one which will inevitably take place sooner or later. Confederation now might have its advantages, and it would have its disadvantages; but no confederation, however much we desire it, would pay page: 51 us for the internal disintegration we are producing within our own State, through the support of the Monopolist Party. When confederation does take place I believe it will be desirable that it should take place, not as the result of skilful manipulations analogous to those by which one shrewd speculator outspeculates another, but through the gradual growth of a consciousness in the people of South Africa that their interests are one, and that in union lies their strength. Such a confederacy will, I believe, be as healthful, as strong, as beneficent as a union brought about by sleight-of-hand and dis- dissimulation page: 52 simulation will be unstable and pernicious.
Further, and finally: Is it worth while for us, as Cape Colonists, to submit to the dominion of the Monopolist, with all that pertains to it, simply because we believe that that party, in annexing and apportioning the lands north of the Transvaal and the Cape Colony, is thereby extending the territories under the British flag?
I, for one, have not only a cordial affection for my own nation, but also for British rule. I believe that, with all its page: 53 faults, it is often a beneficent and a generous rule; and were it possible to annex to-morrow, without injustice to others, or heavy moral and social loss to ourselves, the whole of Africa, from the Straits of Gibraltar and the Isthmus of Suez to the Cape Colony, and place it under the English rule, I, for one, should cordially welcome that possibility.
But a nation, like an individual, may pay too dearly for desirable objects. It is highly probable that Naboth's vineyard, lying as it did contiguous to the domains of Ahab, formed an exceedingly desirable adjunct to that property. The mistake page: 54 in Jezebel's calculation lay in the fact that the price ultimately to be paid for the annexation somewhat exceeded the value of the land.
I hold, much as I desire to see the extension of the British Empire, that the Colony is in this case paying too dearly for this extension. I hold that no possible accretion of kudos and racial gratification can ever repay us for the heavy price in the demoralisation of our institutions, and the retrogression in our legislation, which the Cape Colony is paying to support the Monopolist Group, and enable it to undertake its annexations.page: 55
Further, leaving this point of view for a moment, and taking the lower and purely monetary standpoint, let us see what the Colony really has to gain commercially by these annexations south of the Zambesi.
It appears to me there is a good deal of misunderstanding upon this point. I cannot see, from this lower standpoint—nor have I ever yet met a man who could explain to me how he saw—that the taking over of Mashonaland and Matabeleland by the Chartered Company would increase the wealth of the men and women of the Cape Colony. It appears to me more than probable, when page: 56 we study the map, and other conditions of the problem, that the opening up of these territories, so far from increasing the wealth and influence of the Cape Colony, will ultimately subtract from both. If Rhodesia and the country north of the Transvaal should become populated and important, I cannot for a moment conceive that they will still continue to draw up their supplies from the very toe of South Africa; that new routes will not be formed, along which trade will make its way to Central and Eastern South Africa, without coming into contact with the extreme south of the Continent.page: 57
Further, we as Cape Colonists have now more land than we require; our need is for men, and I do not see how the annexation of the Chartered Company tends to draw them into the Cape Colony. I take it that, however wire-pullings may avail for a few years, ultimately the traffic both in passengers and in goods to East and Central South Africa will find the shortest and cheapest routes, which will not be through the Cape Colony; and the Cape Colony, denuded to a large extent of its trade and its importance in South Africa, will have to depend solely upon its internal resources, which, page: 58 abundant though they be, are now allowed to lie undeveloped, while the people's eyes follow this northern will-o'-the wisp.
But it may be said, and said very truly: "Granting that the Cape Colony does not gain either directly or indirectly through the possession of Rhodesia by the Chartered Company, and even that it loses heavily in the material sense, there is yet no reason, from the broadest humanitarian standpoint, why it should not support the movement."
Now, I fully allow that it may be right and desirable that a portion of a people should sacrifice itself for the benefit page: 59 of the whole, or that a whole nation should sacrifice itself for the benefit of humanity at large. That this has not yet been done in the history of the world by no means proves that it is undesirable or may not yet be done. But what I most strongly hold is that in this instance sacrifice on the part of the Cape Colony of its internal interests, social and material, if undertaken to enable the Chartered Company to obtain possession of the territories north of the Transvaal, will be sacrifice thrown away.
I know that it will be said, "But think of the terrible con- contingency page: 60 tingency had the Boers entered that country and started a new republic there!"
I believe I shall not be suspected of unreasonable advocacy of Boer rule; but I do contend that South Africa as a whole, and the English-speaking world at large, would have lost less by the civilisation of these countries under the auspices of the Boer flag than under that of the Chartered Company. Boer rule has its evils; the Boer is seldom just and considerate to the aborigines of a country which he annexes page: 61 (though, as a rule, I do not know whether they tend to disappear faster under his rule than under that of other white men); but as far as the European is concerned, the rule in a Boer republic is, in most respects, healthy and natural. The Cape Colonist or foreigner from Europe has never been refused admittance to these republics; and if in the Transvaal the civic franchise has been somewhat injudiciously withheld from certain newcomers, they possess every other privilege and right. As time passes the little racial line between English colonists and their forerunners will pass away page: 62 throughout South Africa; the English language will be universally used by all cultured persons; English manners and customs will prevail (Pretoria is to-day more English than Cape Town!); and in the long run, which in this case will only be a run of thirty or forty years, it will make no difference whether any part of this country was first civilised under the flag of the Boer or the Englishman. The incoming streams of English-speaking men and women will slowly but continuously mingle themselves with the body of earlier settlers, and in forty years' time, whether we wish it or do not, there will page: 63 be no Boer or Englishman as such in South Africa—only the great South African people, speaking the English tongue, following English precedents, and as closely united to England as Australia or Canada.
This process of amalgamation and growth was in progress long before the European speculator arrived among us, and it will go on were the Fates to remove him from us tomorrow.
Had Dutch Voortrekkers taken possession of the regions between the Zambesi and Transvaal there would not, on the whole, have been greater loss of native life, nor more perfidy in page: 64 dealing with them, than under the Chartered Company; and one gigantic evil which is now fixing itself upon those territories would not have come into existence. The Boer tradition, like that of the genuine English settler all over the world, has been this: that, in the new lands they inhabited, the soil and the valuable productions of the land should be apportioned fairly among the men who came personally to dwell and labour on it with their wives and families. Rare minerals have not even as a rule been regarded as the property of the individuals in whose lands they were page: 65 found, but they have been regarded as the property of the community, to any member of which it was open to obtain a share in that property if he were willing to expend his own labour upon it. In States founded in this manner the land and its wealth tended to be distributed with tolerable equality throughout the community. This will never be in Rhodesia. By the time the mass of men from the Colony or Europe enter the country they will find everything of value—mines, fertile lands, town properties—all in the hands of a small knot of men headed by the leaders of the Chartered page: 66 Company, consisting in part of persons who have never seen South Africa, such as the Duke of Fife and others.
The great evil is not that these men possess the country as shareholders and directors in the Chartered Company, nor that they retain the right to levy a tribute of 50 per cent. on all precious stones and minerals found in the entire territory, and that for many years to come they will hold extensive control over the whole government of the country; but, what is immeasurably more disastrous, before the country can be peopled by the ordinary colonist a small knot of men (not page: 67 the body of shareholders as a whole, but that small body in whose interest the Chartered Company was formed, and for whose benefit it is worked) will, either in their own persons or by means of their emissaries, have gone over the whole land, and whatever of real value these lands contain will be their private property. If the Chartered Company were in ten or fifteen years' time, or much sooner, to explode, and as a company to loosen its control over the land and people, it would yet be found that the whole real wealth of the country was appropriated and in the hands of a few private indivi- individuals page: 68 duals forming syndicates and trusts.
The worst social diseases which afflict the old countries of Europe will make their appearance full grown in this virgin African land at the outset of its career. That unequal division of wealth, which bestows vast riches upon some individuals while the majority of the community are in abject poverty, is, in those old countries, the outcome of institutions which are the growth of centuries, and it is often softened by traditions binding the owners of wealth to the land itself, and those who labour on it. In these new territories no tradi- traditions page: 69 tions will bind the owner to the land and soften his relations with the people; the financial possessors of the wealth of the country will exhibit on a colossal scale the worst evils of absentee ownership, or the possession of a country by men who regard land and people merely as a means for acquiring wealth.
The political life in these territories will be diseased. Even in the Cape to-day we have seen how disastrous are the effects of gigantic wealth held in a young country by a few individuals. There may be no deliberate intention to bribe, but the mere possession of wealth page: 70 which is enormous in comparison to the wealth of the whole community (if the possessors be not singularly large and impersonal in their aims, and if they interest themselves at all in politics) throws into their hands a power of conferring benefits or inflicting evils which will inevitably lead to an undue subjection to their will; to the vitiation of representative institutions, and the destruction of independent public life.
The colonist and the stranger from Europe will arrive and settle in these territories, but they will discover that its townships, its valuable mines, its richest lands have already been page: 71 taken possession of. They will find it a cake from which all the plums have been carefully extracted, or like a body when the vultures have visited it, leaving nothing but bare bones.
Is it for colonisation carried out on such lines as these that the Cape Colony is to be asked to sacrifice its internal political and social welfare? Is it to aid and abet a handful of men in gaining this disastrous control over South Africa and its resources that the Cape Colony is to obliterate itself? Is it to submit to any use which may be made of it, so it only affords a stepping-stone, and gives prestige in Europe by allowing page: 72 its public appointments to be held by them?
I think not.
We all know what a bugbear to some even perfectly sincere minds is the conception of the possibility of Boer, Portuguese, German, or French occupation of African territories, and we all know what use is frequently made of this bugbear by those interested in annexations. But I think no practical man who carefully examines the question can really think that the Cape Colonists as such have anything to fear from the annexations page: 73 of other European Powers in Africa. And I would go further. I would say—If all English colonisation had been, or were in the future to be, carried out along the lines and according to the methods of the Chartered Company, that I cannot see wherein South Africa would gain by aiding and abetting such a form of colonisation over that inaugurated by other European nations. Colonisation by the British people is not the same thing as colonisation under the Chartered Company. The first is supposed to have as its object the development of the people it takes under its rule, and the page: 74 planting of a free and untrammelled branch of the Anglo-Saxon race upon the land; the aim of the Chartered Company is to make wealth out of land and people.
But last of all, it may be said (and this criticism appears to me profoundly just): "It is very well to blame the Monopolist, with his ready brains and his quick wit, for the uses which he is making of South Africa; it is very well to blame the Retrogressive Party for playing into his hands, and making possible his monopolies and increasing acquisitions, making him a permanent institution in the land, which the South page: 75 Africa of the future may hopelessly endeavour to rid herself of; it is very well to blame the Monopolist and Retrogressionist—but how did they gain, and how do they maintain, this absolute domination over the land? Do they comprise within themselves all the intelligence, all the determination of South Africa? Are they our only political units?"
I can but say in reply, I believe it is not just to throw the whole blame of our position either upon the Monopolist or the Retrogressionist. The Monopolist is simply the acute business man who has been enabled to carry out his plans page: 76 successfully and on a colossal scale, owing to the possession of tact and foresight, and, perhaps, unusual disregard of collateral issues. The high intellectual capacity shown by many of these men compels admiration and awakens our sympathy; and we can only regret that abilities which in some cases amount to genius should not be employed in a direction more productive of good to humanity. The Monopolist of genius is often like a great body of waters expending itself in causing inundations where it might produce fertility.
For the Retrogressionist there is yet more unlimited excuse. page: 77 He has been somewhat hardly dealt with in the past. That he should desire to make his influence felt when at last the opportunity offers itself, and that he should use his power without full consideration for the rights of others, is not unnatural. He alone among South Africans has, during the last years, shown a capacity for standing resolutely by his principles; and we can only feel regret that so much integrity and manly determination is not expended on our side, but against us.
But there are two other sections of our population upon whom it appears to me un- unlimited page: 78 limited blame rests, and for whom it is difficult to see an excuse.
Firstly. There is that section of the general public which, knowing that we are governed by representative institutions, and that every citizen, however humble, is more or less responsible for the well-being of the State, yet regards public affairs with apathy; and, absorbed in personal interests, is absolutely ungrateful of its citizens' duties.
Secondly (and for this section it appears to me that no reprobation can be too strong). We have a party of men through- throughout page: 79 out South Africa, by education and natural bias, Liberals; by public profession, Progressives; men who on their own showing see clearly the evils of Retrogressive and Monopolist principles, and who constitute part of our so-called Progressive Party. These men, in spite of their profession, are continually found, as public men and leaders, using the subtlest methods of the Monopolist, coquetting with any and every party which appears likely to aid them to office and power. Without the genius of the Monopolist, they sink to his opportunism for the attainment of the smallest ends; as page: 80 private individuals they oppose such progressive measures which would entail inconvenience upon themselves, personally or locally, and connive at certain retrogressive measures when doing so confers benefit upon themselves, without the true Retrogressive's excuse of earnest conviction. It is these men, whether politicians, progressive farmers, or enlightened commercial men, to whom we should naturally look for deliverance from the evils which oppress the Colony; yet it is exactly these men who in some instances have made possible the despotism of the Monopolist, and the triumph of the page: 81 Retrogressionist, by their complete absorption in their own small aims, and their wilful disregard of impersonal obligations. The Monopolist may be organically incapacitated for seeing further; the Retrogressionist, in spite of his sincerity, cannot see further; the so-called Progressive sees further, but refuses to act at any cost to himself. Such men are the bane of the country.
There is, however, yet another section of our community distinct from all those we have noticed. It is to this section, I think, that we must look to inaugurate a truly Progressive movement in Colonial affairs. page: 82 And this brings us back to the question with which we started: HOW IS THE RETROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CAPE COLONY TO BE STAYED?


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Okay, you all know how much I love the little details that go into creating the ins and outs of your wedding decor.
And it's no secret that I love me some craftaliscious gift packaging.
Well, one big component of those obsessions is twine. And for a long time, it didn't matter what kind. You see, I do my best not to discriminate. I don't see type or color in my twine. I'm twine-blind. All twines are created equal, and that's how it should be. Twine, twine, twine.
Recently, I've noticed that I have a thing for baker's twine.
I've developed a slight – a slight – partiality. And here's why.
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It is obnoxiously adorable. In your face pretty. It's just irresistible, and you know what? I won't waste my time fighting off its advances. Why fight, when we can love? Really, everyone, join me. There's enough to go around. It's string.
Baker's twine is awwwwesoomme (I sang that like an opera singer as I wrote it). There are SO many things you can do with baker's twine. About a bazillion things to be exact, and they're pretty much all haute and chic… you know, stylish-like.
But they can be kitschy, if you like kitschy.
And they can be cutesy, if you like cutesy.
So if you want some colorful bursts of inspiration that'll get you into wedding decor production mode tout de suite, well then gaze upon that which ensues. I hope it pleases thee as much as it pleases me.
That above, that's pennant bunting! I love jargon terms. They always have sort of a luscious taste to them as they roll off the tongue.
Some tags…
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… and a pretty pink package, all from Nice Package. I like that shop name, but for the wrong reasons.
Major red twine love going on here. You can find the twine in these next two pics over at maythird.
Here's a really lovely, simple wrap job to which I feel especially endeared:
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This right here is a personal fave; while it isn't baker's twine, it's AWESOME and I've been dying to post it somewhere, recently:
And a bit more from Nice Package, because you know you want it.

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MLP Funds Are Quite The Cottage Industry In 2013
Pharmaceutical companies aren't alone in their tendency to launch so called "me-too" products. According to a story published today by IndexUniverse.com writer Cinthia Murphy, more than one-fifth of all the exchange-traded products launched so far in 2013 have been focused on master limited partnerships.
It's all about hunting for income. Investors are pouring money into the segment, using it in lieu of U.S. Treasuries blighted by stunted yields and stretched prices. So it's little wonder MLPs have become such a highly active ETF cottage industry, as noted on this very blog by my colleague Brendan Conway last week following news that Barclays had launched its fourth MLP-focused ETF this year.
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Galapagos and AbbVie will discover, develop and commercialize novel potentiator and combination therapies in cystic fibrosis (CF)
Singapore: Europe-based Galapagos and AbbVie entered into a global alliance to discover, develop and commercialize novel potentiator and combination therapies in cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited chronic disease that affects 70,000 people worldwide.
AbbVie and Galapagos will work collaboratively to contribute technologies and resources in order to develop and commercialize oral drugs that address the main mutations in CF patients, including F508del and G551D.
The goal of the collaboration is to identify compounds that correct defects in expression of (corrector) and/or increase the activity (potentiator) of the main mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) protein, including the F508del mutation, which is the most common with 90 percent prevalence among patients with CF.
In the alliance, AbbVie and Galapagos will develop potentiators and correctors discovered by Galapagos and expand the range of molecules, with the aim to initiate phase I clinical studies at the end of 2014. Following successful clinical development and regulatory approval, AbbVie will be responsible for commercial activities, with Galapagos retaining exclusive rights in China and South Korea and co-promotion rights in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Under the terms of the agreement, AbbVie will make an initial upfront payment of $45 million to Galapagos for rights related to the global alliance. Upon successful completion of pre-determined success milestones, AbbVie and Galapagos will share responsibility and funding for phase III clinical development. Galapagos is eligible to receive up to $360 million in total additional payments for developmental and regulatory milestones, sales milestones upon the achievement of minimum annual net sales thresholds and additional double-digit royalty payments on net sales.
"Galapagos is very pleased to join forces with AbbVie in this exciting new area of CF. Our programs in CF show promise. Partnering with AbbVie allows us to ramp up our commitment significantly, share development risk and expertise, and increase our chances of bringing best-in-class therapies to CF patients," said Mr Onno van de Stolpe, CEO, Galapagos.
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Art direction by Nicholas Blechman
Two for the Times were done this past week. The first (above) for the Book Review is an illustration paired with a critical account of the new tome about the history of Goldman Sachs and how they have miraculously, (or more accurately), suspiciously survived and emerged still resilient through the current economic crisis.
Art direction by Aviva Michaelov
This second one was done for an op/ed calling upon Obama to honor members of the military and government who have stood up to policies permitting torture. The authors posit that since Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenet, having both tacitly approved of enhanced interrogation techniques, have both been awarded honors by the previous president and that Obama should stand to honor the opposing voices. Aviva provided me the rare luxury of sending me the article a short while before midnight the evening before the illustration was due, so I had all night to pull my hair out trying to figure out how to solve the problem. The extra time, in this case, truly was a gift.
Also, for those who are deathly curious: 'Lux Veritatis' = 'Light of Truth.'
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By Ben Levisohn
Talk about timing. Just yesterday, shares of JC Penney (JCP) were flirting with all-time lows. Today, they've rallied, after the beaten-down retailer said it's seeing signs of improvement.
The Wall Street Journal has the details:
At stores opened more than a year, sales fell 4% last month, an improvement over the roughly double-digit declines in August and the second quarter.
"Over the last six months, we have made significant strides and are now seeing positive signs in many important areas of the business, in spite of what continues to be a difficult environment for consumers and retailers in general," said Chief Executive Myron E. Ullman.
He acknowledged, though, that the company is "still in the early stages of the turnaround," and Penney suggested challenges remain, such as improving traffic at mall-based stores, weaker profitability because of discounting and fixing its home department.
Belus Capital Advisors' Brian Sozzi compares today's announcement to the one back in August that helped boost shares. He writes:
Back then, we received a wordy press release from JC Penney that in my view, was meant to distract those not doing in-depth research from spotting the seriously degrading fundamentals. We are fully aware as to the series of events that have unfolded since mid-August. So the million dollar question is this: has the pre-announcement of two months of results (though highlighting September performance during peak back to school was the key theme…August performance appeared to be dismal with a -10% comp) and new liquidity set a bottom in JC Penney shares? Is the bear raid done for now, especially as according to CEO Mike Ullman, vendors are showing support for the turnaround (I remain skeptical on that)? Or, is this just another cleverly worded press release designed to mask the truth. Put me in the latter camp…
Citigroup's Deborah Weinswig zeroes in on JC Penney's declining margins:
Gross margins continue to be impacted by lower clearance margins due to the overhang of inventory from the first two quarters of the year, higher levels of clearance units sold during the period, as well as JCP's transition back to a more promotional pricing strategy during 2Q13…We are forecasting gross margin decline of (-350) bps in 3Q13, and improvement of +620 bps in 4Q13 as JCP faces an easy comp driven by high clearance levels last year. However, we expect this year's Holiday season to be a competitive one, in a C.H.E.A.P. consumer environment and with the fewest possible days between Thanksgiving and Christmas (26 days) plus one less weekend YOY. We think the consumer will be shopping very selectively and hunting for value.
Weinswig rates JC Penney a sell with a $7 price target.
Shares of JC Penney have gained 2% to $7.87 today–much smaller than its pre-market gain– while Macy's (M) has fallen 1.3% to $42.45 and Sears (SHLD) has plunged 3.4% to $62.12.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 5:02 PM GMT on June 19, 2006
Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change, and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately. It is based on a slide show on climate Gore has presented to audiences worldwide over 1000 times in the past 15 years, but it is not purely a documentary. Gore's movie is an advocacy piece that is part documentary, part biography, and part campaign ad. I'll discuss all three of these aspects below. In brief, Al Gore has the right idea--climate change is an urgent issue that requires immediate action, and his thoughtful movie is a welcome addition to the usual array of mindless Hollywood summer fare. However, the movie has flaws. The presentation of the science is good, but not great--I rate it B minus. The excessive details on Al Gore's life make the movie too long, and his insistence on using the movie as something of a campaign ad detracts from its message.
An Inconvenient Truth as a biography of Al Gore
The creators of the movie presumably thought that simply presenting Gore's slide show would be too dull, so they decided to give the movie some human interest by interweaving a biography of Al Gore's life. Al Gore has led an interesting life, but "interesting" and "Al Gore" are not words one can often put together. As my daughter noted in her movie review yesterday, Al Gore is boring, and the 20 minutes or so of biography presented in An Inconvenient Truth is too much for a movie that is 1 hour and 36 minutes long. For example, I didn't really need to see the road where Al Gore totaled his car when he was 14 years old, or a replay of his loss in the 2000 election. On the other hand, some details of his past were interesting and relevant, such as the fact that he took college courses in the late 1960s from Harvard's Dr. Roger Revelle. Revelle and Dr. Charles Keeling were the pioneers in measurements of atmospheric CO2, and thus Gore got a very early exposure to the now infamous "Keeling Curve" (Figure 1), showing the build-up of atmospheric CO2. This early exposure to the significant impact humans were having on the atmosphere deeply affected Gore, and in the movie he details efforts he made to call attention to the issue long before most people had heard of it, back in the 1970s and 80s. Gore's slide show appropriately displays many graphs of the Keeling Curve, as it is probably the most important and most famous finding in climate change science.
Figure 1. The Keeling Curve is a record of CO2 measurements taken at he top of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii since 1958.
The science of An Inconvenient Truth
The science presented is mostly good, and at times compelling, but there are a few errors and one major distortion of the truth. Gore does an excellent job focusing on the most important issues, and usually presents them with a minimum of hype and distortion. The only exception to this comes in his treatment of global warming and extreme weather events such as hurricanes.
Basic global warming science
Gore begins the science part of his talk with a very easy to understand presentation on the basics of how the greenhouse effect works. His speech is clear, the graphics top notch, and he spices it up with a hilarious two-minute cartoon depicting roughneck global warming gases preventing poor Mr. Sunbeam from escaping Earth's atmosphere. Gore addresses the argument of skeptics who claim that the Earth is too big for humans to affect by showing Space Shuttle photos of how thin the atmosphere really is compared to the vast bulk of our planet. "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of carbon dioxide," he asserts, which is not correct. The build-up of CO2 has virtually no effect on the density or thickness of Earth's atmosphere. The correct thing to say would have been, "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being made more opaque to the transmission of infrared radiation (heat) by huge quantities of carbon dioxide."
Gore shows an impressive series of "then and now" images documenting the widespread retreat of many glaciers over the past century. Most dramatically, he shows Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro, whose 11,000 year-old glaciers are almost gone. While not all the world's glaciers have retreated in the past century, Gore's presentation is an effective and reasonable way to show how global warming has affected the majority of the world's glaciers. Greenhouse skeptics, including Michael Crichton in his State of Fear book, are fond of bashing those who use Mt. Kilimanjaro as a poster child for demonstrating global warming. They cite scientific research showing that the glacial retreat on Mt. Kilimanjaro is due to drying of the atmosphere, not global warming. However, as discussed at great length in a realclimate.org post, the research which supposedly supports the skeptics' claims has been widely misquoted and misinterpreted, and much of Kilimanjaro's melting can indeed be ascribed to warming of the atmosphere since 1960.
Gore does an excellent job discussing the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. Again, Gore's graphics are superb, and he does a nice job narrating. He shows animations of what a 20-foot rise in sea level would do to Manhattan, Florida, India, and China. A 20-foot sea level rise is what we expect if all of Greenland or all of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt. Such a 20-foot rise is not expected by 2100, and it would have been appropriate for Gore to acknowledge that the consensus of climate scientists--as published in the most recent report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--is that sea level is likely to rise between 4 and 35 inches, with a central value of 19 inches, by 2100. He should have also mentioned that temperatures in Greenland in the 1930s were about as warm as today's temperatures, so the current melting of Greenland's glaciers does have historical precedent. Nevertheless, the risk of a catastrophic melting and break-up of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets is very real, when we consider that sea level before the most recent ice age was 15 feet higher than it is now. Gore is right to draw attention to what might happen if sea level rose 20 feet.
Drought and heat waves
An excellent discussion of the most serious climate change issue our generation is likely to face, the threat of increased drought and reduced water supplies, is presented. Gore makes reference to the extreme heat wave that affected Europe during the summer of 2004, and I was glad to see that he didn't blame the heat wave on global warming--he merely said that more events of this nature will be likely in the future.
Hurricanes and severe weather
The biggest failure in the movie's presentation of science comes in the discussion hurricanes and severe weather events. The devastation wrought by Katrina is used to very dramatic effect to warn of the dangers climate change presents. We are told that Katrina grew "stronger and stronger and stronger" as it passed over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico that were heated up by global warming. We are told that global warming is increasing the intensity of hurricanes, but not provided information on the great amount of uncertainty and vigorous scientific debate on this issue. Graphs showing recent record insurance losses from natural disasters are presented, but no mention is made of how increasing population and insistence on building in vulnerable areas are the predominant factors causing recent high insurance claims from disasters such as Katrina. Gore points to some unprecedented events in 2004 as evidence of increasing severe weather events worldwide--the record 10 typhoons in Japan, the most tornadoes ever in the U.S., and the appearance of Brazil's first hurricane ever. However, examples of this kind are meaningless. No single weather event, or unconnected series of severe weather events such as Gore presents, are indicative of climate change. In particular, the IPCC has not found any evidence that climate change has increased tornado frequency, or is likely to. Gore doesn't mention the unusually quiet tornado season of 2005, when for the first time ever, no tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma in the month of May.
Other science
Gore presents many other important aspects of climate change, including the threat of abrupt climate change leading to a shut-off of the Gulf Stream current, the increase in damaging insect infestations and tropical diseases, loss of coral reefs, loss of ice in the polar ice cap, and melting of permafrost in the Arctic. With the possible exception of his treatment of the spread of tropical diseases, all of these issues were presented with sound science.
An Inconvenient Truth as a campaign ad
Gore has repeatedly said that he has no intention of running for president again, and that this movie was created as part of his life-long passion to protect the environment. Gore undoubtedly does care very deeply about the planet, but this movie very much looks like a campaign ad. We are shown many scenes of Gore being applauded, Gore traveling the globe to present his slide show, and Gore working to uncover evidence of Republican shenanigans to alter or suppress climate change science. Gore is portrayed as a humble and tireless crusader for good, and if the movie is not intended to promote his political ambitions, it is certainly intended to benefit the Democratic Party. All this gets in the way of the movie's central message.
At the end of the movie, we are presented with the same image that Gore started the movie with, that of a beautiful river in the wilderness. Throughout the movie, Gore emphasizes how beautiful and special our planet is, and he does an effective job conveying this. He also makes a powerful case that something can and should be done to protect the planet, and it is worth hearing his message, even if the science is flawed and the messenger does get in the way of the message. Overall, the movie rates 2.5 stars--worth seeing, but you might want to wait until the DVD comes out.
At the end of the movie, Gore presents some tips on how everyone can contribute, and points people to his web site, www.climatecrisis.net. However, I would recommend that people who want to get educated about climate change get their information from web sites not associated with a politician; perhaps the least politicized source of information is the latest scientific summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), a group of over 2000 scientists from 100 countries working under a mandate from the United Nations in the largest peer-reviewed scientific collaboration in history.
Jeff Masters
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Ultimate Mix Tape: Aerosmith's Joe Perry Lists 60 Minutes of Music That's Closest to His Heart
Through the late Sixties and Early Seventies, the great English bands had a virtual monopoly on blues and r&b-based hard rock.
But with the arrival of Aerosmith's self-titled debut in 1973, America finally had a rock band that could equal the Stones and Led Zeppelin.
Interpersonal difficulties and big-time drug problems brought Aerosmith down for a time, but in the mid-Eighties they made one of the most spectacular comebacks in the history of rock, a revival that has continued well into the Nineties. If they've relied a bit much on song doctors and power ballads lately, fear not.
"There's a song on the Armageddon soundtrack we're really proud of," asserts soft spoken guitarist Joe Perry, and he isn't talking about the power ballad, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." "It was originally cut for the last album three years ago, but for some reason it got left off. So we just re-cut it in Miami."
The song alluded to by Perry — "What Kind of love Are You On" — is easily one of the most energetic and innovative guitar-driven rockers they've ever attempted. Listen closely and you'll find traces of every influence Perry sticks on his 60 Minutes tape, from the Stones to Rage Against the Machine.
"Check it out — that's where Aerosmith is heading," Perry adds.
Looks like they really may have nine lives after all.
Stand! (Epic, 1969)
"It's the energy. I just can't sit still when this song comes on. It takes the James Brown funk we were into but makes it more modern. Even in the studio they sounded like an incredible live band, which they were.
"That drive is what we go for when Aerosmith plays. During that era you went out on tour and basically designed stuff to hit 'em over the head — whether they'd heard of you or not. There was no MTV, where they'd seen your video 50 times. That's why there was so much live dynamics and jamming going on — you had to win them over like Sly did."


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Description ADULT Has sandy brown plumage overall, darker above than below. Note the reddish brown cap and largely yellow-buff face, with throat defined by dark lateral line and "necklace" of dark streaklike spots on lower margin; below this, note the dark central spot on upper breast. Undertail coverts are pinkish orange. JUVENILE Recalls adult, but has subtle streaking on underparts and faint buff wing bars; crown is sandy brown.
Dimensions Length: 8-10" (20-25 cm)
Habitat Common resident of arid canyons with dense cover of scrub and brush.
Observation Tips Not unduly shy, but dense nature of favored habitat makes observation tricky. Wait for birds to emerge from cover rather than attempt to track them in brush.
Range California, Texas, Plains, Rocky Mountains, Southwest
Voice Song is a vibrant series of whistles, some with a fluty quality; each note is typically repeated several times; call is a nasal ch'lup.
Discussion Formerly considered conspecific with California Towhee, but slimmer and paler. Ranges of two species do not overlap and subtle plumage differences also help with identification. Mainly terrestrial and usually feeds unobtrusively in dense cover. Sexes are similar.


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Police bond with at-risk youths on basketball court
Spokane police have started a new pilot program to reach out to at-risk youths using a new tool: basketball.
The department's Youth Athletic League has off-duty officers coaching youngsters from low-income families on the basketball court.
The Spokane Police Department struck up a business deal with these 32 youngsters in the league: If they put in some time painting over graffiti under Interstate 90, in return the department would give them uniforms for their new basketball teams.
It's a lesson about working hard for something you want and it can never come too early in life. The kids, who range in age from 9 through 16, see the cops in their East Central neighborhood all the time, only on Tuesday the officers were in Liberty Park to have some fun and build some positive relationships.
"The only thing they've seen is when the Police Department came to arrest their dad or someone in their community. Now they're getting a chance to see police officers on a more friendly basis, get in the car with them, turn on the sirens, first name basis and now that's giving them more positive image of our police department," Pastor Shon Davis of Jesus Is The Answer Church said.
Davis, a former Los Angeles gang member turned pastor, hopes programs like the Youth Athletic League will help these kids resist gang recruitment.
"They target this age group, because they're juveniles so that they can sell their drugs or do other activities for them but eventually bring them up into the ranks again of the actual gangs and the violence also," he said.
For the next 10 weeks these youngsters will be coached and mentored by off-duty police officers, providing detectives and patrolmen to get to know the community they are serving and protecting.
"We get down the personal relationships versus it's a police officer in uniform relating to a kid with their jeans down around their legs. People; that's what this is about. People talking to each other," Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub said.
"I think that relationship building, officers getting to know the kids, kids getting to know the officers, we can build trust, we can build relationships and we can end those type of incidents," Straub added.
Spokane Athletic donated the uniforms to this new youth league, Walmart contributed some cash along with the Spokane Police Guild because the guild views the program as a very positive way to reduce crime.
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This page shows how many stroke patients received perfect care* by being given the right medications while in the hospital, timely stroke treatment, stroke education, an assessment for rehabilitation, and the right medications at discharge.
All data current as of 2nd Quarter 2015
There are 8 key factors in what's widely considered to be perfect stroke care:
Patients who had a stroke are at risk for developing blood clots in their legs. These blood clots can be dangerous if they break off and go to the heart and lungs. This indicator measures how often physicians order medications that help prevent complications caused by blood clots.
A serious complication after a patient has a stroke is developing a blood clot. Blood clots can be prevented by prescribing medications that help prevent blood clot formation. This indicator measures how often medications to prevent blood clot formation are prescribed to patients when they are discharge.
Stroke patients with an irregular heartbeat are at high risk for developing blood clots. When these irregular heartbeats are diagnosed it is important to prescribe medications to prevent blood clots from forming. This indicators measures how often stroke patients with an irregular heartbeat are prescribed blood thinner medications at discharge.
A stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is blocked by a blood clot. Medication can be used to break up the blood clot. Quick medical attention is important to prevent further tissue damage to the brain. Certain stroke patients can receive medication to break up the clot. This indicator measures how many patients receive blood clot medication within three hours of symptom onset.
Stroke patients who have a blood clot need a special medication to break up the blood clot. This indicator measures stroke patients who received this medication, that is known to prevent complications caused by the clot, within two days of arriving to the hospital.
Stroke patients may need medications to help lower their cholesterol. This will help to prevent another stroke. This indicator measures how many stroke patients get prescribed medications that lower their cholesterol at discharge.
Education given to patients on stroke care and prevention has been shown to improve outcomes. Information about stroke care at home and how to prevent a stroke is included. This indicator includes how often stroke patients get written stroke education to take home.
Some patients may need to be referred to a rehabilitation hospital, depending on the severity of their stroke. Early rehabilitation can minimize impairments and maximize function. This indicator measures how many stroke patients get an assessment by a trained professional for rehab.
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Gokhan Saki Levels Daniel Ghita, Moves on to Fight Sem Schilt
- Written by Dave Walsh
Today at Glory 6 Istanbul two of the top Heavyweights in the world, Daniel Ghita and Gokhan Saki, stepped into the ring for the second time in a rematch that we've been waiting for since 2010 and did not disappoint. There was a lot riding on this fight as the winner is promised a shot at Semmy Schilt and his GLORY Heavyweight Championship with both men looking to be top contenders.
The fight started out a little rough, as Gokhan Saki caught a kick from Ghita, backed him up and threw him to the mat with a sweep. Usually a sweep is inconsequential, but in this case, Ghita landed hard, looking to be injured. According to Glory's official rules, leg sweeps and trips are illegal moves and should thusly be counted as such. Instead, referee Joop Ubeda counted it as a down as Ghita took a while to get to his feet and Ghita never looked the same after that.
Round two saw Gokhan Saki swarm Ghita, throwing big shots while Ghita was doing a good job of defending and countering. That all changed when Saki found an opening and hit what might have been the most amazing, impressive combination that you could imagine as he landed twelve huge shots to the sturdy head of Daniel Ghita, finally dropping him on the twelfth shot. Ghita fought back to his feet, but a right and left put him down for the count again. It looked like Ghita would stay down, but he once again beat the count only for Saki to land another barrage and Joop Ubeda stepped in, calling the fight.
It was a huge, impressive win for Saki with a lot on the line. We now get to see the rematch from Glory 4 Tokyo and to see if Sem Schilt can hold onto his GLORY Heavyweight Championship. The fight is rumored to go down this summer, possibly in New York. Check out the GIF of the finish, courtesy of ZombieProphet.


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I just saw the pics of the new wave of figures shown at Wizard World 2001 and this is what I think: OH MY GOD
This is the most amazing wave of figures ever made. The imperial officer has great articulation, and looks inique. The rebel trooper is the best of the group. It also has great articulation and its details are superior. FX-7 looks slick. Eoth Koth is perfect. The Queen is beautiful, and I don't care much for female figures! Now I feel like I must go to this convention just to see these for my self! Man I wish I could take them home and play with them!


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Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?
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Can you identify the Code violation(s) in this photo?
I'm not convinced that this is a violation as shown. The area is, obviously, not finished, and quite possibly there's going to be a fixture of some sort mounted when the area is finished. I've seen and done this many times, especially in bathrooms where the canopy, or medicine chest, is going to be installed when it's finished. I always push extra cable cable into the wall to keep the drywallers away. If the canopy or fixture has it's own box there's no need for one here. It's connected together so the circuit can be tested. I think we're seeing yet another example of inspector enthusiasm (i.e., I Found Something!). Now, if this is a finished building that's permanently occupied that's something else. On a lot of these you REALLY need more information to decide the legality.
Thanks for listening,
From the looks of the wall framing, it appears that whoever did the carpentry work didn't know what they were doing, either.
Whether or not the person intended to install a J box or some type of fixture, there isn't enough wire length to allow for 6 inches of wire within the box as required by the NEC.
300.15 states where the wiring methods are conduit, tubing, types mn, mc, mi, or other cables a box or conduit body shall be installed at each splice, junction, or pull point unless otherwise permitted in 300.15 A-C
It looks like he/she widened the doorway, and then had to deal with the nm being too short to make it around the new doorway, or was dealing with some alteration like that. The person was probably an ok carpenter, but they should have put a j box on the wall with a blank cover to make those connections.
can not do that from the wall, the wire have to go straight to a box to make the connections
Black jacket cable connected to White jacket cable (older made longer with newer) happens thousands of times a day wherever tape and wire are sold. Red tape may have been chosen to warn people to stay away? This was done by someone who did not know better or hoped no one else would notice.


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BlackHat 2008 DC Day 2 (Update)
Developments in Cisco IOS Forensics
Felix "FX" Linder
BlackHat 2008 DC
This talk started with explanation on how IP works on networks and what protocols we stack on top of IP (TCP, UDP, ect...). I have to say this was my favorite talk of Day 2 and probably the whole con. I am a core network guy and I really enjoyed a talk in an area I am very comfortable in. The speaker has a lot of experience in the network and router area and his views on issues in the routing side of the network is a refreshing view.
Cisco is the core of the internet (yes other routers are out there but Cisco is the largest).
Reason for Cisco's place in the core is due to equipment cost and cost of support to replace the core. If you had to replace the Cisco's you have in place now it would cost a lot and the next vendor may not offer better equipment.
Cisco IOS:
Same basic code from day one with update and platform dependent code but the core IOS is still there.
How do you maintain the code when there are some many different trains and versions with special feature sets.
Too difficult to add security to the RMON due to the fact Cisco uses many different types of Processors and to implement the processors specific security feature you would have even more versions of IOS and this would cause more security holes and software management issues (how many IOS's do you want to look thought to find your version).
ISO security issues:
A signal mistake in the most unimportant piece of code can influence anything else on the system, including kernel, security subsystems, and Cryptographic.
Cost of newer IOS is a hinder to upgrading to fixing security issues and the time to test and verify the new IOS will not break something else on the internet.
Most of your lower end Cisco routers are neglected for IOS upgrades and my pose serious security holes in your network. Remember a hacker only has to find one good hole to stage a full attack on the network.
FX's views on how to find out if your routers are breached was very interesting and the fact there is almost no easy way to see if the router is running rouge processes in the IOS can cause extra worries for network engineers. His methods of dumping the core memory and comparing it to a known good IOS sample is very a intelligent idea to see if your IOS has rouge patches in it. His notes and whitepaper are posted on his company's website www.recurity-labs.com/content/pub/Recur ... ensics.pdf.
I would highly recommend you to visit there site and review some of the documents they have listed.
As I said before I would recommend getting the presenters files from BlackHat once they are posted to see what was discussed.
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I've been editing quite a few fonts recently. The fonts are PS fonts for Mac, but I do the editing using PfaEdit on Linux.
I've surprised myself by contributing several bug fixes for PfaEdit. I'm impressed with PfaEdit, it is certainly a lot better (for PS fonts) than the old copy of Fontmonger we have.
I've noticed that the world of fonts could do with more attention from the free software community. Hardly any fonts are available with a GNU (or even BSD) licence. It would also be good to have some really high quality ttf fonts like Verdana or Tahoma - I guess I'm going to have to learn TrueType programming and get hinting.
Unfortunately, I still largely make my living (or should that read earn my pittance) by making and or selling closed source software. Anyway - today I'm applying for a grant to do some localisation of free software into Maori language. My ultimate goal is a complete desktop and application suit in Maori along with some quality educational software.


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Cultivated dandelion greens are a bit milder than their wild cousins, but they still have some bite—easily tamed with bacon and cheese in this salad.
Nutrition Profile:
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Cutie pie Donald Glover.
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Ryan Kwanten was looking quite chiseled.
Adam Scott is our #1 TV crush.
Cutie pie Donald Glover.
A super skinny Jerry Ferrara.
Douglas Booth? He's a hot model.
Cory Monteith, awww.
Another Gleekster, Mr. Kevin McHale.
Michael K. Williams! (Omar came.)
Office cutie and Crushable crush B.J. Novak.
Taylor Lautner's blank stare was there.
James Franco, you barely made the cut. (Ahem, mustache, ahem.)


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Neon Yellow Candy Jade Faceted Round 6mm
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Candy jade starts off as a hard, white jade and through a complex color enhancing process that penetrates from surface to core, the stone becomes brightly colored . It's because of these bright, happy colors that it has come to be known as candy jade. The color of candy jade may fade a bit over time. In our experience, the color remains vibrant for about 2 years or more, but excessive exposure to sunlight will accelerate its fading. The great thing about candy jade is that it's usually available in fashionably relevant colors that would otherwise be impossible to achieve in a gemstone.
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Have to admit I am puzzled. Recently I read an essay written by a diehard turkey hunter who advised if there is another truck parked in a public hunting area lot; they were there first and you should move on. Am I behind the curve or something? Has this become common and/or expected.
If I am the first one in I do not expect the next hunter or hunters who arrive to leave without hunting. I am not going to be setup on the walk in trail so as they move in they will not disturb me.
If I arrive and other trucks are parked, most likely I am not going to leave unless it is a very small piece of property which is unlikely around here as most public lands are at least 300 acres or much more. So that author expects me and others to leave him with 300 acres of public land all to himself?
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Cats are essential.
I've heard the apartheid comparison before, and it depresses me that people take it seriously. If apartheid in South Africa were repealed, the newly empowered population would take their place in society, and South African people, white and black, would do their best to improve the country for everyone. This is, in fact, largely what happened.
If the Israelis totally free these camps, the newly empowered population would respond by murdering Israelis.
It's not the same situation. Jewish settlers live in homes vacated when the residents fled to Jordan during the War of Independance. They left of their own free will, and when Jordan turned them out, they came back.
Does this mean that Israel manages the refugee camps in the best way possible? No. The Israeli government has the impetus to do something, anything to protect the populace. A governemnt that even appears to fail to do so will be voted out in favor of one that does. This is a risk of Parlimentary democracies, and is in fact the reason a hawk like Sharon is in power. The situation needs to be remedied such that a government that does not counter murder with violence can keep its power. To do the "right" thing, the Israeli government must watch its citizens be murdered and not retaliate as it has recently. It is easy for us to say that from here, but it is not when every night you find someone you knew is dead because they felt like going out to eat.
The black people of South Africa never claimed that they wanted to run the white people out of the country or kill them. They merely wanted equal standing under the law. The situation is not the same, and to compare it belies the murder that has been done in the name of the Palestinian people.
The only possible solution for the Middle East is one that creates an environment where Hamas and the like cannot exist. An environment where Israel, the Palestinian state, and the states around them all persecute such groups. that environment is far off, especially since the current Palestinian leadership supports the actions of such groups.
As long as their charter and there actions read "We will not rest until the state of Israel is destroyed and the Israelis are dead or gone", this will be an untenable situation.
Taxes suck.
I'm bored.
You konw what? I don't weblog. I never weblog. I think it is for the same reason I've slowed down entries in my notebook: I don't want to set down for posterity some of what I am thinking.
It might offend some people. It might reach just the wrong ear. Heck, it might just be too personal. I guess there is a problem with not venting, but quite frankly, I find the alternative even more dangerous.
The XML-RPC interface to Advogato would be more fun if the documentation mentioned how to get a diary object :-)
Ok, duh, but it wasn't clear on first pass that the diary object is server.diary. Don't mind me, just update the doc :-)
I don't understand the IRA.
Why are they giving up their weapons? The Palestinians have proved that if you kill enough innocent people, the UN will give you whatever you want. It would seem to me that the IRA merely needs to blow up more people more often to obtain their goal of a united Ireland.
I have a lot I want to say.
I have a lot of anger. Most of it is directed at those who did the unspeakable, but some reserved for those who would say this country is "reaping what we sow".
I don't want to flame friends and neighbors. I don't have the energy. I can't say what I want to say right now. It's too much.
Instead I will leave a small part of what Dave Barry had to say.
I'm not naive about my country. My country is definitely not always right; my country has at times been terribly wrong. But I know this about Americans: We don't set out to kill innocent people. We don't cheer when innocent people die.
Well, I've turned on all the electrical things I can think of in my apartment. I've seen the light. The use of power is our birthright, and we should feel free to use energy at the level we want to.
Imagine, I'd been stumbling about in the dark before this revelation.
Fecking Useless Bryce
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Chapter 3: Linear Equations
Aside from simplifying algebraic expressions and graphing functions, solving equations is one of the most important concepts in mathematics. To successfully manipulate an equation, you must understand and be able to apply the rules of mathematics.
Mathematical equations are used in many different career fields. Medical researchers use equations to determine the length of time it takes for a drug to circulate throughout the body, botanists use equations to determine the amount of time it takes a Sequoia tree to reach a particular height, and environmental scientists can use equations to approximate the number of years it will take to repopulate the bison species.
In this chapter, you will learn how to manipulate linear equations to solve for a particular variable. You already have some experience solving equations. This chapter is designed to help formalize the mental math you use to answer questions in daily life.
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One-Step Equations
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Two-Step Equations
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Multi-Step Equations
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Equations with Variables on Both Sides
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Ratios and Proportions
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Scale and Indirect Measurement
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Percent Problems
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Problem-Solving Strategies: Use a Formula
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Chapter 3 Review
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Chapter 3 Test